In this project we are supposed to predict the sentiment of a given text, And predict if the text is positive, negative or neutral in nature.

Importing necessary libraries.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.cm as cm
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import rcParams
%matplotlib inline
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

import re
import nltk
import string
import nlp_utils
import collections
import contractions
import nlp_utils as nu
from collections import Counter
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.stem import WordNetLemmatizer
from wordcloud import WordCloud, STOPWORDS
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize,sent_tokenize
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer, LancasterStemmer, SnowballStemmer

from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score

# Loading data. 
with open('TextAnalytics.txt','r') as f:
    text = f.read()

text
### The data is in the form of a text.

'0,"One of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just 1 Oz episode you\'ll be hooked. They are right, as this is exactly what happened with me.<br /><br />The first thing that struck me about Oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence, which set in right from the word GO. Trust me, this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid. This show pulls no punches with regards to drugs, sex or violence. Its is hardcore, in the classic use of the word.<br /><br />It is called OZ as that is the nickname given to the Oswald Maximum Security State Penitentary. It focuses mainly on Emerald City, an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards, so privacy is not high on the agenda. Em City is home to many..Aryans, Muslims, gangstas, Latinos, Christians, Italians, Irish and more....so scuffles, death stares, dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away.<br /><br />I would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn\'t dare. Forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences, forget charm, forget romance...OZ doesn\'t mess around. The first episode I ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal, I couldn\'t say I was ready for it, but as I watched more, I developed a taste for Oz, and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence. Not just violence, but injustice (crooked guards who\'ll be sold out for a nickel, inmates who\'ll kill on order and get away with it, well mannered, middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience) Watching Oz, you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing....thats if you can get in touch with your darker side."\n1,"A wonderful little production. <br /><br />The filming technique is very unassuming- very old-time-BBC fashion and gives a comforting, and sometimes discomforting, sense of realism to the entire piece. <br /><br />The actors are extremely well chosen- Michael Sheen not only ""has got all the polari"" but he has all the voices down pat too! You can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to Williams\' diary entries, not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece. A masterful production about one of the great master\'s of comedy and his life. <br /><br />The realism really comes home with the little things: the fantasy of the guard which, rather than use the traditional \'dream\' techniques remains solid then disappears. It plays on our knowledge and our senses, particularly with the scenes concerning Orton and Halliwell and the sets (particularly of their flat with Halliwell\'s murals decorating every surface) are terribly well done."\n2,"I thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend, sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light-hearted comedy. The plot is simplistic, but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable (even the well bread suspected serial killer). While some may be disappointed when they realize this is not Match Point 2: Risk Addiction, I thought it was proof that Woody Allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love.<br /><br />This was the most I\'d laughed at one of Woody\'s comedies in years (dare I say a decade?). While I\'ve never been impressed with Scarlet Johanson, in this she managed to tone down her ""sexy"" image and jumped right into a average, but spirited young woman.<br /><br />This may not be the crown jewel of his career, but it was wittier than ""Devil Wears Prada"" and more interesting than ""Superman"" a great comedy to go see with friends."\n3,"Basically there\'s a family where a little boy (Jake) thinks there\'s a zombie in his closet & his parents are fighting all the time.<br /><br />This movie is slower than a soap opera... and suddenly, Jake decides to become Rambo and kill the zombie.<br /><br />OK, first of all when you\'re going to make a film you must Decide if its a thriller or a drama! As a drama the movie is watchable. Parents are divorcing & arguing like in real life. And then we have Jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film! I expected to see a BOOGEYMAN similar movie, and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots.<br /><br />3 out of 10 just for the well playing parents & descent dialogs. As for the shots with Jake: just ignore them."\n4,"Petter Mattei\'s ""Love in the Time of Money"" is a visually stunning film to watch. Mr. Mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations. This is a movie that seems to be telling us what money, power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter. <br /><br />This being a variation on the Arthur Schnitzler\'s play about the same theme, the director transfers the action to the present time New York where all these different characters meet and connect. Each one is connected in one way, or another to the next person, but no one seems to know the previous point of contact. Stylishly, the film has a sophisticated luxurious look. We are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat.<br /><br />The only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits. A big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment, as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter.<br /><br />The acting is good under Mr. Mattei\'s direction. Steve Buscemi, Rosario Dawson, Carol Kane, Michael Imperioli, Adrian Grenier, and the rest of the talented cast, make these characters come alive.<br /><br />We wish Mr. Mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work."\n5,"Probably my all-time favorite movie, a story of selflessness, sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause, but it\'s not preachy or boring. It just never gets old, despite my having seen it some 15 or more times in the last 25 years. Paul Lukas\' performance brings tears to my eyes, and Bette Davis, in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles, is a delight. The kids are, as grandma says, more like ""dressed-up midgets"" than children, but that only makes them more fun to watch. And the mother\'s slow awakening to what\'s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling. If I had a dozen thumbs, they\'d all be ""up"" for this movie."\n6,"I sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated Seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me.I grew up on black and white TV and Seahunt with Gunsmoke were my hero\'s every week.You have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt.We need a change of pace in TV and this would work for a world of under water adventure.Oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about TV and the many movies.So any ole way I believe I\'ve got what I wanna say.Would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt.If my rhymes would be 10 lines would you let me submit,or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit,If this is so then I must go so lets do it."\n7,"This show was an amazing, fresh & innovative idea in the 70\'s when it first aired. The first 7 or 8 years were brilliant, but things dropped off after that. By 1990, the show was not really funny anymore, and it\'s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today.<br /><br />It\'s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen. The writing is painfully bad, the performances are almost as bad - if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest-hosts, this show probably wouldn\'t still be on the air. I find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand-selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed. How can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity? I felt I must give 2 stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success. As it is now, the show is just awful. I can\'t believe it\'s still on the air."\n8,"Encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here I was looking forward to watching this film. Bad mistake. I\'ve seen 950+ films and this is truly one of the worst of them - it\'s awful in almost every way: editing, pacing, storyline, \'acting,\' soundtrack (the film\'s only song - a lame country tune - is played no less than four times). The film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme. Rarely have I been so happy to see the end credits of a film. <br /><br />The only thing that prevents me giving this a 1-score is Harvey Keitel - while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort. One for Keitel obsessives only."\n9,"If you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie. If you are young or old then you will love this movie, hell even my mom liked it.<br /><br />Great Camp!!!"\n10,"Phil the Alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines.<br /><br />At first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed I didn\'t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore.<br /><br />Its a low budget film (thats never a problem in itself), there were some pretty interesting characters, but eventually I just lost interest.<br /><br />I imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking.<br /><br />For something similar but better try ""Brother from another planet"""\n11,"I saw this movie when I was about 12 when it came out. I recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air. The horror. The horror.<br /><br />As a young kid going to these cheesy B films on Saturday afternoons, I still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero, a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end. I didn\'t care much for the romantic angle as a 12 year old and the predictable plots. I love them now for the unintentional humor.<br /><br />But, about a year or so later, I saw Psycho when it came out and I loved that the star, Janet Leigh, was bumped off early in the film. I sat up and took notice at that point. Since screenwriters are making up the story, make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well-worn formula. There are no rules."\n12,"So im not a big fan of Boll\'s work but then again not many are. I enjoyed his movie Postal (maybe im the only one). Boll apparently bought the rights to use Far Cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished. <br /><br />People who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned, that this is not Far Cry... This is something Mr Boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks.. Feeling loneley on the set Mr Boll invites three of his countrymen to play with. These players go by the names of Til Schweiger, Udo Kier and Ralf Moeller.<br /><br />Three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz. So the tale goes like this, Jack Carver played by Til Schweiger (yes Carver is German all hail the bratwurst eating dudes!!) However I find that Tils acting in this movie is pretty badass.. People have complained about how he\'s not really staying true to the whole Carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don\'t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a**.. <br /><br />However, the storyline in this film is beyond demented. We see the evil mad scientist Dr. Krieger played by Udo Kier, making Genetically-Mutated-soldiers or GMS as they are called. Performing his top-secret research on an island that reminds me of ""SPOILER"" Vancouver for some reason. Thats right no palm trees here. Instead we got some nice rich lumberjack-woods. We haven\'t even gone FAR before I started to CRY (mehehe) I cannot go on any more.. If you wanna stay true to Bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true Boll experience, meaning most of it will suck.<br /><br />There are some things worth mentioning that would imply that Boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes. Until the whole cromed/albino GMS squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh.. The movie Far Cry reeks of scheisse (that\'s poop for you simpletons) from a fa,r if you wanna take a wiff go ahead.. BTW Carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wanna shoot him the first three minutes he\'s on screen."\n13,"The cast played Shakespeare.<br /><br />Shakespeare lost.<br /><br />I appreciate that this is trying to bring Shakespeare to the masses, but why ruin something so good.<br /><br />Is it because \'The Scottish Play\' is my favorite Shakespeare? I do not know. What I do know is that a certain Rev Bowdler (hence bowdlerization) tried to do something similar in the Victorian era.<br /><br />In other words, you cannot improve perfection.<br /><br />I have no more to write but as I have to write at least ten lines of text (and English composition was never my forte I will just have to keep going and say that this movie, as the saying goes, just does not cut it."\n14,This a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous. One of the actors is george clooney and I\'m not a fan but this roll is not bad. Another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack (The man of constant sorrow). I recommand this movie to everybody. Greetings Bart\n15,"Kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes, only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film I\'ve ever seen. Sort of like a high school film project. What was Rosanna Arquette thinking?? And what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed Midwest town? Pretty hard to get involved with this one. No lessons to be learned from it, no brilliant insights, just stilted and quite ridiculous (but lots of skin, if that intrigues you) videotaped nonsense....What was with the bisexual relationship, out of nowhere, after all the heterosexual encounters. And what was with that absurd dance, with everybody playing their stereotyped roles? Give this one a pass, it\'s like a million other miles of bad, wasted film, money that could have been spent on starving children or Aids in Africa....."\n16,"Some films just simply should not be remade. This is one of them. In and of itself it is not a bad film. But it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the 1963 film of the same title. Liam Neeson was excellent as he always is, and most of the cast holds up, with the exception of Owen Wilson, who just did not bring the right feel to the character of Luke. But the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the Shirley Jackson story in it\'s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects. Again I will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film. But you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more."\n17,"This movie made it into one of my top 10 most awful movies. Horrible. <br /><br />There wasn\'t a continuous minute where there wasn\'t a fight with one monster or another. There was no chance for any character development, they were too busy running from one sword fight to another. I had no emotional attachment (except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them) <br /><br />Scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies, LOTR, Star Wars and Matrix. <br /><br />Examples<br /><br />>The ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old Star Wars with Yoda, Obee One and Vader. <br /><br />>The spider machine in the beginning was exactly like Frodo being attacked by the spider in Return of the Kings. (Elijah Wood is the victim in both films) and wait......it hypnotizes (stings) its victim and wraps them up.....uh hello????<br /><br />>And the whole machine vs. humans theme WAS the Matrix..or Terminator.....<br /><br />There are more examples but why waste the time? And will someone tell me what was with the Nazi\'s?!?! Nazi\'s???? <br /><br />There was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion. The movie could not decide if it was a children\'s movie or an adult movie and wasn\'t much of either. <br /><br />Just awful. A real disappointment to say the least. Save your money."\n18,"I remember this film,it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in 74/75 my Dad took me my brother & sister to Newbury cinema in Newbury Berkshire England. I recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of Grizzly Adams actor Dan Haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies. If anyone knows where to find this on DVD etc please let me know.The cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is 20 miles away, would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it."\n19,"An awful film! It must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the Golden Globe. They\'ve taken the story of the first famous female Renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition. My complaint is not that they\'ve taken liberties with the facts; if the story were good, that would perfectly fine. But it\'s simply bizarre -- by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film, so why did they come up with this dishwater-dull script? I suppose there weren\'t enough naked people in the factual version. It\'s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist\'s life -- we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they\'d favored the rest of the film with same brevity."\n20,"After the success of Die Hard and it\'s sequels it\'s no surprise really that in the 1990s, a glut of \'Die Hard on a .....\' movies cashed in on the wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time concept. That is what they did with Cliffhanger, Die Hard on a mountain just in time to rescue Sly \'Stop or My Mom Will Shoot\' Stallone\'s career.<br /><br />Cliffhanger is one big nit-pickers dream, especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing, base-jumping, aviation, facial expressions, acting skills. All in all it\'s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk. Stallone even managed to get out-acted by a horse! However, if you an forget all the nonsense, it\'s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills, and unintentionally, plenty of laughs.<br /><br />You\'ve got to love John Lithgows sneery evilness, his tick every box band of baddies, and best of all, the permanently harassed and hapless \'turncoat\' agent, Rex Linn as Travers.<br /><br />He may of been Henry in \'Portrait of a Serial Killer\' but Michael Rooker is noteworthy for a cringe-worthy performance as Hal, he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors \'that man never hurt anybody\' And whilst he surely can\'t be, it really does look like Ralph Waite\'s Frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death.<br /><br />Mention too must go to former \'London\'s Burning\' actor Craig Fairbrass as the Brit bad guy, who comes a cropper whilst using Hal as a Human Football, yes, you can\'t help enjoy that bit, Hal needed a good kicking.<br /><br />So forget your better judgement, who cares if \'that could never happen\', lower your acting expectations, turn up the volume and enjoy! And if you\'re looking for Qaulen, he\'s the one wearing the helicopter."\n21,"I had the terrible misfortune of having to view this ""b-movie"" in it\'s entirety.<br /><br />All I have to say is--- save your time and money!!! This has got to be the worst b-movie of all time, it shouldn\'t even be called a b-movie, more like an f-movie! Because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie: the story is not interesting at all, all of the actors are paper-thin and not at all believable, it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it\'s almost funny.......almost.<br /><br />The movie is just packed full of crappy one-liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit.<br /><br />This movie is supposed to be geared towards men, but all the women in it are SO utterly unattractive, especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end. They try to appear sexy in those weird, horrible costumes and they fail miserably!!!<br /><br />Even some of the most ridiculous b-movies will still give you some laughs, but this is just too painful to watch!!"\n22,"What an absolutely stunning movie, if you have 2.5 hrs to kill, watch it, you won\'t regret it, it\'s too much fun! Rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn\'t anything more other than him, I still liked it. The music by A.R.Rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times, you really start liking it."\n23,"First of all, let\'s get a few things straight here: a) I AM an anime fan- always has been as a matter of fact (I used to watch Speed Racer all the time in Preschool). b) I DO like several B-Movies because they\'re hilarious. c) I like the Godzilla movies- a lot.<br /><br />Moving on, when the movie first comes on, it seems like it\'s going to be your usual B-movie, down to the crappy FX, but all a sudden- BOOM! the anime comes on! This is when the movie goes WWWAAAAAYYYYY downhill.<br /><br />The animation is VERY bad & cheap, even worse than what I remember from SPEED RACER, for crissakes! In fact, it\'s so cheap, one of the few scenes from the movie I ""vividly"" remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school... & it\'s the same kids over & over again! The FX are terrible, too; the dinosaurs look worse than Godzilla. In addition, the transition to live action to animation is unorganized, the dialogue & voices(especially the English dub that I viewed) was horrid & I was begging my dad to take the tape out of the DVD/ VHS player; The only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes & comments like the robots & Joel/Mike on MST3K (you pick the season). Honestly, this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie & survive it at the same time.<br /><br />Heck, I\'m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on Halloween for a B-Movie night. Because it\'s stupid, pretty painful to watch & unintentionally hilarious at the same time, I\'m giving this movie a 3/10, an improvement from the 0.5/10 I was originally going to give it.<br /><br />(According to my grading scale: 3/10 means Pretty much both boring & bad. As fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it, then it will become as fun as counting to 15.)"\n24,This was the worst movie I saw at WorldFest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards! I can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film. It\'s great to see J.Beals but she\'s only in the movie for a few minutes. M.Parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for. The rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable. The main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch. There is no real emotional depth to the story. A movie revolving about an actor who can\'t get work doesn\'t feel very original to me. Nor does the development of the cop. It feels like one of many straight-to-video movies I saw back in the 90s ... And not even a good one in those standards.<br /><br />\n25,"The Karen Carpenter Story shows a little more about singer Karen Carpenter\'s complex life. Though it fails in giving accurate facts, and details.<br /><br />Cynthia Gibb (portrays Karen) was not a fine election. She is a good actress , but plays a very naive and sort of dumb Karen Carpenter. I think that the role needed a stronger character. Someone with a stronger personality.<br /><br />Louise Fletcher role as Agnes Carpenter is terrific, she does a great job as Karen\'s mother.<br /><br />It has great songs, which could have been included in a soundtrack album. Unfortunately they weren\'t, though this movie was on the top of the ratings in USA and other several countries"\n26,"""The Cell"" is an exotic masterpiece, a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer, but also into one of a very talented director. This is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations. This is boldness at work, pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent. This is the best movie of the year to date.<br /><br />I\'ve read numerous complaints about this film, anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting. To negatively criticize this film is to miss the point. This movie may be a landmark, a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow. ""The Cell"" has just opened the door to another world of imagination. So can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director Tarsem Singh that we don\'t want any more? Personally, I would more than welcome another movie by Tarsem, and would love to see someone try to challenge him.<br /><br />We\'ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer, and yes, I do agree that the ""genre"" is a bit overworked. The 90s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick; some of them worked, but most failed. But ""The Cell"" does not blaze down the same trail, we are given a new twist, we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied.<br /><br />I like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how Jennifer Lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another. Instead, she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long Twizzlers and jaunted into another entity. ""The Cell"" wants to let you ""see"" what it\'s all about and not ""how"" it\'s all about, and I guess that\'s what some people don\'t like. True, I do like explanations with my movies, but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in.<br /><br />I noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality, maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another. Nonetheless, the set design was simply astonishing. I wouldn\'t be surprised if this film took home a few Oscars in cinematography, best costumes, best director and the like. If it were up to me it\'d at least get nominated for best picture.<br /><br />I\'ve noticed that I\'ve kind of been repeating myself. Not because there\'s nothing else to say, but because I can\'t stress enough how fantastic I thought ""The Cell"" was. If you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye-popping feast then you are assured a good time. I guess this film was just a little too much for some people, writing it off as ""weird"" or ""crazy"". I am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind, so it was right down my alley. Leaving the theater, I heard one audience member say ""Whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs."" If so, I want what he was smoking.<br /><br />**** (out of 4)"\n27,"This film tried to be too many things all at once: stinging political satire, Hollywood blockbuster, sappy romantic comedy, family values promo... the list goes on and on. It failed miserably at all of them, but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end.<br /><br />Although I appreciate the spirit behind WAR, INC., it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort, especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique, rather than simply the poor writing, direction, and production of this particular film.<br /><br />There is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war. But poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening. Reminds me a bit of THREE KINGS, which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern."\n28,"This movie was so frustrating. Everything seemed energetic and I was totally prepared to have a good time. I at least thought I\'d be able to stand it. But, I was wrong. First, the weird looping? It was like watching ""America\'s Funniest Home Videos"". The damn parents. I hated them so much. The stereo-typical Latino family? I need to speak with the person responsible for this. We need to have a talk. That little girl who was always hanging on someone? I just hated her and had to mention it. Now, the final scene transcends, I must say. It\'s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own. What crappy dancing. Horrible and beautiful at once."\n29,"\'War movie\' is a Hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clichéd dialogue, rehashed plot and over-the-top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large-scale combat. Once in a while, however, a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen. The Civil War-era ""Cold Mountain,"" starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger is such a film.<br /><br />Then again, calling Cold Mountain"" a war movie is not entirely accurate. True enough, the film opens with a (quite literally) quick-and-dirty battle sequence that puts ""Glory"" director Edward Zwick shame. However, ""Cold Mountain"" is not so much about the Civil War itself as it is about the period and the people of the times. The story centers around disgruntled Confederate soldier Inman, played by Jude Law, who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of Cold Mountain, North Carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind, Ada Monroe, played by Nicole Kidman. At first glance, this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier\'s tribulations on the battlefield. Indeed, the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived.<br /><br />""Cold Mountain"" soon takes a drastic turn, though, as the intrepid hero Inman turns out to be a deserter (incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the Confederates) and begins a long odyssey homeward. Meanwhile, back at the farm, Ada\'s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields; soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast. Coming to Ada\'s rescue is the course, tough-as-nails Ruby Thewes, played by Renée Zellweger, who helps Ada put the farm back together and, perhaps more importantly, cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon Ada.<br /><br />Within these two settings, a vivid, compelling and, at times, very disturbing portrait of the war-torn South unfolds. The characters with whom Inman and Ada interact are surprisingly complex, enhanced by wonderful performances of Brendan Gleeson as Ruby\'s deadbeat father, Ray Winstone as an unrepentant southern ""lawman,"" and Natalie Portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother. All have been greatly affected and changed by ""the war of Northern aggression,"" mostly for the worse. The dark, pervading anti-war message, accented by an effective, haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of Virginia and North Carolina, is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought. Though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century, it\'s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant.<br /><br />Director Anthony Minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film, but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters. The love story between Inman and Ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film, though the inherently distant, abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot.<br /><br />Make no mistake, ""Cold Mountain"" has neither the traits of a feel-good romance nor an inspiring war drama. It is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether."\n30,"Taut and organically gripping, Edward Dmytryk\'s Crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller, an unlikely ""message"" movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle.<br /><br />Bivouacked in Washington, DC, a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars. Three of them end up at a stranger\'s apartment where Robert Ryan, drunk and belligerent, beats their host (Sam Levene) to death because he happens to be Jewish. Police detective Robert Young investigates with the help of Robert Mitchum, who\'s assigned to Ryan\'s outfit. Suspicion falls on the second of the three (George Cooper), who has vanished. Ryan slays the third buddy (Steve Brodie) to insure his silence before Young closes in.<br /><br />Abetted by a superior script by John Paxton, Dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring Bobs. Ryan, naturally, does his prototypical Angry White Male (and to the hilt), while Mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance (his role, however, is not central); Young may never have been better. Gloria Grahame gives her first fully-fledged rendition of the smart-mouthed, vulnerable tramp, and, as a sad sack who\'s leeched into her life, Paul Kelly haunts us in a small, peripheral role that he makes memorable.<br /><br />The politically engaged Dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing, but it\'s pretty much confined to Young\'s reminiscence of how his Irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier (thus, incidentally, stretching chronology to the limit). At least there\'s no attempt to render an explanation, however glib, of why Ryan hates Jews (and hillbillies and...).<br /><br />Curiously, Crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it -- the novel it\'s based on (Richard Brooks\' The Brick Foxhole) dealt with a gay-bashing murder. But homosexuality in 1947 was still Beyond The Pale. News of the Holocaust had, however, begun to emerge from the ashes of Europe, so Hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti-Semitism (the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer).<br /><br />But while the change from homophobia to anti-Semitism works in general, the specifics don\'t fit so smoothly. The victim\'s chatting up a lonesome, drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd, even though (or especially since) there\'s a girlfriend in tow. It raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip-off to the original engine generating Ryan\'s murderous rage."\n31,"""Ardh Satya"" is one of the finest film ever made in Indian Cinema. Directed by the great director Govind Nihalani, this one is the most successful Hard Hitting Parallel Cinema which also turned out to be a Commercial Success. Even today, Ardh Satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of India.<br /><br />The film tells the Real-life Scenario of Mumbai Police of the 70s. Unlike any Police of other cities in India, Mumbai Police encompasses a Different system altogether. Govind Nihalani creates a very practical Outlay with real life approach of Mumbai Police Environment.<br /><br />Amongst various Police officers & colleagues, the film describes the story of Anand Velankar, a young hot-blooded Cop coming from a poor family. His father is a harsh Police Constable. Anand himself suffers from his father\'s ideologies & incidences of his father\'s Atrocities on his mother. Anand\'s approach towards immediate action against crime, is an inert craving for his own Job satisfaction. The film is here revolved in a Plot wherein Anand\'s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors.This leads to frustrations, as he cannot achieve the desired Job-satisfaction. Resulting from the frustrations, his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms & bars, also turning him to an alcoholic.<br /><br />The Spirit within him is still alive, as he constantly fights the system. He is aware of the system of the Metro, where the Police & Politicians are a inertly associated by far end. His compromise towards unethical practice is negative. Finally he gets suspended.<br /><br />The Direction is a master piece & thoroughly hard core. One of the best memorable scenes is when Anand breaks in the Underworld gangster Rama Shetty\'s house to arrest him, followed by short conversation which is fantastic. At many scenes, the film has Hair-raising moments.<br /><br />The Practical approach of Script is a major Punch. Alcoholism, Corruption, Political Influence, Courage, Deceptions all are integral part of Mumbai police even today. Those aspects are dealt brilliantly.<br /><br />Finally, the films belongs to the One man show, Om Puri portraying Anand Velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly."\n32,"My first exposure to the Templarios & not a good one. I was excited to find this title among the offerings from Anchor Bay Video, which has brought us other cult classics such as ""Spider Baby"". The print quality is excellent, but this alone can\'t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull. There\'s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the Templars (& set the whole thing in motion), but everything else in the movie is slow, ponderous &, ultimately, unfulfilling. Adding insult to injury: the movie was dubbed, not subtitled, as promised on the video jacket."\n33,"One of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist, the mafia middle-man Titta Di Girolamo, a physically non-descript, middle-aged man originally from Salerno in Southern Italy. When we\'re introduced to him at the start of the film, he\'s been living a non-life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the Italian-speaking Canton of Switzerland for the last ten years, conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to. While this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the Swiss bank who normally count Di Girolamo\'s cash tell him that 10,000 dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes. At the news, he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account. Meanwhile he tells us, the spectators, that when you bluff, you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous. He says: you can\'t bluff for a while and then halfway through, tell the truth. Having eventually done this - bluffed only halfway through and told the truth, and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately, love - is exactly the reason behind the beginning of Titta Di Girolamo\'s troubles. <br /><br />This initially unsympathetic character, a scowling, taciturn, curt man on the verge of 50, a man who won\'t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye, becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about. At one point in his non-life, Titta decides to feel concern about appearing ""ridiculous"". The first half of the film may be described as ""slow"" by some. It does indeed reveal Di Girolamo\'s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined, deliberate pace, revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details. However, scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes. The existence of Titta Di Girolamo - the man with no imagination, identity or life, the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would - is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music (one theme by the Scottish band Boards of Canada especially stood out). <br /><br />Never was the contrast between the way Hollywood and Italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore or L\'Imbalsamatore. Another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist\'s insomnia. Not unlike The Machinist (and in a far more explicit way, the Al Pacino film Insomnia), Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that\'s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious, it\'s almost impossible to pin-point its cause (if indeed there is one). <br /><br />The young and sympathetic hotel waitress Sofia (played by Olivia Magnani, grand-daughter of the legendary Anna) and the memory of Titta\'s best friend, a man whom he hasn\'t seen in 20 years, unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that Titta eventually (though tentatively at first) accepts to look through again. Though it\'s never explicitly spelt out, the spectator KNOWS that to a man like Titta, accepting The Consequences of Love will have unimaginable consequences. A film without a single scene of sex or violence, a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator\'s expectations, Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore is a fine representative of that small, quiet, discreet Renaissance that has been taking place in Italian cinema since the decline of CinecittÃ\xa0 during the second half of the 70s. The world is waiting for Italy to produce more Il Postino-like fare, more La Vita è Bella-style films... neglecting to explore fine creations like Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore, L\'Imbalsamatore and others. Your loss, world."\n34,"I watched this film not really expecting much, I got it in a pack of 5 films, all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could I expect? and you know what I was right, they were all terrible, this movie has a few (and a few is stretching it) interesting points, the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch, the drummer is very like a drummer, i.e damned annoying and, well thats about it actually, the problem is that its just so boring, in what I can only assume was an attempt to build tension, a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious (I had my thumb on the fast forward button, ready to press for most of the movie, but gave it a go) and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking, coz they don\'t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot, I thought he looked a bit like a meercat, all this and I haven\'t even mentioned the killer, I\'m not even gonna go into it, its just not worth explaining. Anyway as far as I\'m concerned Star and London are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of London (who was actually quite funny) it wasn\'t because of their acting talent, I\'ve certainly seen a lot worse, but I\'ve also seen a lot better. Best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry."\n35,"I bought this film at Blockbuster for $3.00, because it sounded interesting (a bit Ranma-esque, with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton), because there was a cute girl in a mini-skirt on the back, and because there was a Restricted Viewing sticker on it. I thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge. I was 100% wrong.<br /><br />Having watched it, I have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker, since there is hardly any foul language, little violence, and the closest thing to nudity (Honestly! I don\'t usually go around hoping for it!) is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties (you see her panties a lot in this movie, because no matter what, she\'s wearing a miniskirt of some sort). Even the anti-religious humor is tame (and lame, caricatured, insincere, derivative, unoriginal, and worst of all not funny in the slightest--it would be better just to listen to Ray Stevens\' ""Would Jesus Wear a Rolex on His Television Show""). This would barely qualify as PG-13 (it is Not Rated), but Blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of 17 rent this--as if it was pornographic. Any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of Requiem for a Dream, but they insist that Zack and Reba is worse.<br /><br />It is, but not in that way.<br /><br />In a way, this worries me--the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning. If anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides (not this one, but better ones like The Virgin Suicides), it\'s teenagers. If both of those movies were rated R purely because of the suicide aspect, then I have little chance of turning a story I\'ve been writing into a PG-13 movie (the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve). Suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers (I think it\'s number 2), so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it.<br /><br />Just say no to this movie, though. 2/10."\n36,"The plot is about the death of little children. Hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings. During the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter. In the end the serial killer get caught. That\'s it. But before you find out who dunnit, you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors. It is unbelievable how bad these actors are, including Hopper. I could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time. Just don\'t watch the movie. I\'ve warned you."\n37,"Ever watched a movie that lost the plot? Well, this didn\'t even really have one to begin with.<br /><br />Where to begin? The achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms (that are strangely never actually heard in the house-great double glazing)? The house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away(?) or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable? Or even the beginning which suggests a spate of 20+ killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house? Or the bizarre ritual with the salt & pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction.<br /><br />Add a lead actress who can\'t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty, but not in the way you hope.<br /><br />Given a following simply for being banned in the UK in the 80\'s (mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder) it offers nothing but curiosity value- and one classic \'daft\' murder (don\'t worry-its telegraphed at least ten minutes before).<br /><br />After a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up. Halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe. What do they do? Slide down and run like the rest of us? No, of course not- they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon.<br /><br />It really IS only a movie as they say.."\n38,"Okay, so this series kind of takes the route of \'here we go again!\' Week in, week out David Morse\'s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle - but what\'s wrong with that!? David Morse is one of the greatest character actors out there, and certainly the coolest, and to have him in a series created by David Koepp - a great writer - is heaven!!<br /><br />Due to the lack of love for this show by many, I can\'t see it going to a season series - but you never know? The amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me - let\'s hope something good can make it past a first series!!!"\n39,"After sitting through this pile of dung, my husband and I wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie. It was that listless and formulaic. But the U.S. propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves--disappointingly--that it\'s the work of humans. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but quotes like, ""We have to steal the Declaration of Independence to protect it"" seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of Iraq, etc. The fact that Nicholas Cage spews lines like, ""I would never use the Declaration of Independence as a bargaining chip"" with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took Valium before shooting each scene. The ""reasoning"" behind each plot turn and new ""clue"" is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow. And there\'s also a bonus side plot of misogyny, with Dr. Whatever-Her-Name-Was being chided by all involved for ""never shutting up."" She\'s clearly in the movie only for looks, but they felt the need to slap a ""Dr."" title on her character to give her some gravity. At one point, Cage\'s character says, ""Don\'t you ever shut up?"" and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands, like she\'s a child. Truly grotesque. The only benefit to this movie was that it\'s so astonishingly bad, you do get a few laughs out of it. The really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it. Creepy...."\n40,"It had all the clichés of movies of this type and no substance. The plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie I felt like a sucker for watching it. The production was good; however, the script and acting were B-movie quality. The casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors. The good actors didn\'t hold their own nor did they lift up the others. <br /><br />This movie is not worthy of more words, but I will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines. James Wood and Cuba Gooding, Jr. play caricatures of themselves in other movies. <br /><br />If you are looking for mindless entertainment, I still wouldn\'t recommend this movie."\n41,"This movie is based on the book, ""A Many Splendored Thing"" by Han Suyin and tackles issues of race relations between Asians and Whites, a topic that comes from Han\'s personal experiences as an Eurasian growing up in China. That background, and the beautiful Hong Kong settings, gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time.<br /><br />Other than that, the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself. The beautiful Jennifer Jones looks the part and gives a wonderful, Oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of Communism in mainland China. William Holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world. The acting is top notch, and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined.<br /><br />The cinematography really brings out fifty\'s Hong Kong, especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments. The ending is a real tear-jerker. Some may consider sentimental romances passé, but, for those who enjoy classic Hollywood love stories, this is a shining example."\n42,"Of all the films I have seen, this one, The Rage, has got to be one of the worst yet. The direction, LOGIC, continuity, changes in plot-script and dialog made me cry out in pain. ""How could ANYONE come up with something so crappy""? Gary Busey is know for his ""B"" movies, but this is a sure ""W"" movie. (W=waste).<br /><br />Take for example: about two dozen FBI & local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer. Inside the jeep is MA and is ""confused"" as to why all the cops are about. Within seconds a huge gun battle ensues, MA being killed straight off. The cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them. The cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with Gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet/pellet. MA is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed-damn that guy is tough. Truly a miracle, not since the six-shooter held 300 bullets has there been such a miracle."\n43,"I had heard good things about ""States of Grace"" and came in with an open mind. I thought that ""God\'s Army"" was okay, and I thought that maybe Dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker. The film began with some shaky acting, and I thought, ""well, maybe it will get better."" Unfortunately, it never did. The picture starts out by introducing two elders -- Mormon missionaries -- and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them. Instead, the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries (something that undeniably exists, but rarely on the level that Dutcher portrays) and it becomes almost laughable.<br /><br />Dutcher\'s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience. By unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of Mormon missionaries, Dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly Mormon audience. The film in no way reflects reality. Missions are nothing like what Dutcher shows (having served a Mormon mission myself I can attest to this fact) and gang life in California certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity.<br /><br />The conclusion, which I\'m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all, was both unbelievable (c\'mon, the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home -- and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other!) and cheesy. Next time, Dutcher, try making a movie that SOMEONE can identify with."\n44,"This movie struck home for me. Being 29, I remember the \'80\'s and my father working in a factory. I figured, if I worked hard too, if I had pride and never gave up I too could have the American Dream, the house, a few kids, a car all to call my own. I\'ve noted however, without a degree in something (unlike my father that quit at ninth grade) and a keen sense of greed and laziness, you can\'t get anywhere.<br /><br />I would like to know if anyone has this movie on DVD or VHS. it\'s made for TV, and I just saw it an hour ago. Ic an\'t find it anywhere! I\'d love to show this to my friends, my pseudo friends, family and other relatives, see what they think and remind them that once upon a time, Americans WOULD work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished!! I think the feeling is still there, but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas..."\n45,"As a disclaimer, I\'ve seen the movie 5-6 times in the last 15 years, and I only just saw the musical this week. This allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn\'t in the musical (however, it tainted me when I watched the musical :) ) <br /><br />I actually believe Michael Douglas worked quite well in that role, along with Kasey. I think her \'Let me dance for you scene\' is one of the best parts of the movie, a worthwhile addition compared to the musical. The dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical, as well as the cast which is at least 10 times bigger (easier to do in the movie of course). The decors, lighting, dancing, and singing are also much superior in the movie, which should be expected, and was indeed delivered. <br /><br />The songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie, the new ones are quite good ones, and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion, especially compared to a musical which has few decors. The one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking, and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters, but their dancing is impeccable, and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical"\n46,Protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars Goldie Hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors. The story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an Arab dignitary. The story goes downhill halfway through the movie and Goldie\'s charm just doesn\'t save this movie. Unless you are a Goldie Hawn fan don\'t go out of your way to see this film.\n47,"How this film could be classified as Drama, I have no idea. If I were John Voight and Mary Steenburgen, I would be trying to erase this from my CV. It was as historically accurate as Xena and Hercules. Abraham and Moses got melded into Noah. Lot, Abraham\'s nephew, Lot, turns up thousands of years before he would have been born. Canaanites wandered the earth...really? What were the scriptwriters thinking? Was it just ignorance (""I remember something about Noah and animals, and Lot and Canaanites and all that stuff from Sunday School"") or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible- from Christians, Jews and Muslims, to historians, archaeologists, geologists, psychologists, linguists ...as a matter of fact, did anyone not get offended? Anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one!"\n48,"Preston Sturgis\' THE POWER AND THE GLORY was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late 1990s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television. In the meantime it had gained in notoriety because Pauline Kael\'s THE CITIZEN KANE BOOK had suggested that the Herman Mankiewicz - Orson Welles screenplay for KANE was based on Sturgis\' screenplay here. As is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the IMDb web site, Kael overstated her case.<br /><br />There are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of Charles Foster Kane: the newsreel (representing Ralston - the Henry Luce clone), Thatcher\'s memoirs, Bernstein, Jed Leland, Susan Alexander Kane, and Raymond the butler. Each has his or her different slant on Kane, reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man. And of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of Kane\'s story. This method also leads to frequent overlapping re-tellings of the same incident.<br /><br />This is not the situation in THE POWER AND THE GLORY. Yes, like KANE it is about a legendary business leader - here it is Tom Garner (Spencer Tracy), a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country. But there are only two narrators - they are Garner\'s right hand man Henry (Ralph Morgan) and his wife (Sarah Padden). This restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of Kane in Garner. Henry, when he narrates, is talking about his boss and friend, whom he respected and loved. His wife is like the voice of the skeptical public - she sees only the flaws in Henry.<br /><br />Typical example: Although he worked his way up, Tom becomes more and more anti-labor in his later years. Unions are troublemakers, and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans. Henry describes Tom\'s confrontation with the Union in a major walk-out, and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life. But Henry\'s wife reminds him how Tom used scabs and violence to end the strike (apparently blowing up the Union\'s headquarters - killing many people). So we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black.<br /><br />I\'m not really knocking THE POWER AND THE GLORY for not duplicating KANE\'s success (few films do - including all of Orson Welles\' other films), but I am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one\'s interest to the end. And thanks to the performances of Tracy and Colleen Moore as his wife Sally, the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home.<br /><br />When they marry, Tom wants to do well (in part) to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had. But in America great business success comes at a cost. Tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire (he expands it and improves it constantly). But it takes him away from home too much, and he loses touch with Sally. And he also notices Eve (Helen Vinson), the younger woman who becomes his mistress. When Sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her.<br /><br />Similarly Tom too gets a full shock (which makes him a martyr in the eyes of Henry). Eve marries Tom, and presents him with a son - but it turns out to be Eve\'s son by Tom\'s son Tom Jr. (Philip Trent). The discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes Tom to shoot himself.<br /><br />The film is not a total success - the action jumps at times unconvincingly. Yet it does make the business seem real (note the scene when Tom tells his Board of Directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line, and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans). Sturgis came from a wealthy background, so he could bring in this type of detail. So on the whole it is a first rate film. No CITIZEN KANE perhaps, but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in Depression America."\n49,"Average (and surprisingly tame) Fulci giallo which means it\'s still quite bad by normal standards, but redeemed by its solid build-up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance.<br /><br />The genre\'s well-known weaknesses are in full gear: banal dialogue, wooden acting, illogical plot points. And the finale goes on much too long, while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall I say: limp affair.<br /><br />Fulci\'s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing, though. Yellow clues wherever you look.<br /><br />3 out of 10 limping killers"\n50,"Return to the 36th Chamber is one of those classic Kung-Fu movies which Shaw produces back in the 70s and 80s, whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of Hollywood, and the protagonist Gordon Liu, the counterpart to the western\'s Clint Eastwood. Digitally remastered and a new print made for the Fantastic Film Fest, this is ""Presented in Shaw Scope"", just like the good old days.<br /><br />This film is a simple story of good versus evil, told in 3 acts, which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era.<br /><br />Act One sets up the premise. Workers in a dye-mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot, having their wages cut by 20% by incoming manchu gangsters. They can\'t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters, and their boss. At first they had a minor success in getting Liu to impersonate a highly skilled Shaolin monk (one of the best comedy sequences), but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times.<br /><br />Act Two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob. However, without real martial arts, he embarks on a journey to Shaolin Temple, to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly. After some slapstick moments, he finally gets accepted by the abbot (whom he impersonated!) but is disappointed at the teaching methods - kinda like Mr Miyagi\'s style in Karate Kid, but instead of painting fences, he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple. Nothing can keep a good man down, and he unwittingly builds strength, endurance and learns kung-fu the unorthodox way.<br /><br />Act Three is where the fight fest begins. With cheesy sound effects, each obvious non-contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment. But it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here, with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners, and the use of slow-motion only to showcase stunts in different angles. You may find the speed of fights a tad too slow, with some pause in between moves, but with Yuen Wo Ping and his style being used ad-nausem in Hollywood flicks, they sure don\'t make fight scenes like they used to! Return to the 36th chamber gets a repeat screening on Monday, so, if you\'re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, what are you waiting for?"\n51,"***SPOILERS*** All too, in real life as well as in the movies, familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun, or rifle, in their hands. The case of young and innocent, in never handling or firing a gun, Jimmy Davis, Franchot Tone, has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men, like Jimmy Davis, are forced to take up arms for their country.<br /><br />Jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the US Army but was encouraged to stay, by being belted in the mouth, by his good friend Fred P. Willis, Spencer Tracy, ended up on the front lines in France. With Jimmy\'s unit pinned down by a German machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen German soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple. It was when Jimmy gunned down the last surviving German, who raised his arms in surrender, that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him.<br /><br />Recovering from his wounds at an Army hospital Jimmy fell in love with US Army volunteer nurse Rose Duffy, Gladys George. Rose was really in love with Jimmy\'s good friend the happy go lucky Fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her. It\'s when Fred was lost during the fighting on the Western Front that Rose, thinking that he was killed, fell in love and later married Jimmy. When Fred unexpectedly showed up in the French town where Jimmy, now fully recovered from his wounds, was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and Rose who had already accepted Jimmy\'s proposal of marriage to her!<br /><br />With WWI over and Jimmy marrying Rose left Fred, who\'s still in love with her, a bitter and resentful young man. It was almost by accident that Fred ran into Jimmy on the streets of New York City and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non-violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the European Western Front. Smug and sure of himself, and his ability to shoot a gun, Jimmy had become a top mobster in New York City\'s underworld! Not only that but as Fred later found out his wife Rose had no idea what Jimmy was really involved in with Jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster.<br /><br />Jimmy\'s life of crime came full circle when Rose, after she found out about his secret life, ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a ""Valentine Day"" like massacre, with his gang members dressed as cops, of his rival mobsters. While on trial Jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then, after his three year sentence is up, get his life back together. <br /><br />***SPOILER ALERT*** Hearing rumors from fellow convicts that Rose and his best friend Fred were having an affair behind his back Jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law. It\'s at Fred\'s circus, where he works as both manger and barker, that Jimmy in seeing that Rose as well as Fred were true to him that he, like at his trial, had a sudden change of heart. But the thought of going back to prison, with at least another ten years added on to his sentence, was just too much for Jimmy! It was then that Jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job, that he himself didn\'t have the heart to do, for him!"\n52,"Bela Lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for Monogram Studios in the 1940\'s and The Corpse Vanishes is one of the better ones.<br /><br />Bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young. After a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides\' deaths, the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards.<br /><br />You have got almost everything in this movie: the scientist\'s assistants consist of an old hag, a hunchback and dwarf (her sons), a thunderstorm and spooky passages in Bela\'s house. Bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie.<br /><br />The Corpse Vanishes is worth a look, especially for Bela Lugosi fans. Great fun.<br /><br />Rating: 3 stars out of 5."\n53,"I cannot believe I enjoyed this as much as I did. The anthology stories were better than par, but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me. Alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself ""where I have I seen them before?"" Forget the running time listed on New Line\'s tape, this ain\'t no 103 minutes, according to my VCR timer and IMDB. Space Maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an 8."\n54,"The 33 percent of the nations nitwits that still support W. Bush would do well to see this movie, which shows the aftermath of the French revolution and the terror of 1794 as strikingly similar to the post 9/11 socio-political landscape. Maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a**-whupping they deserve. It\'s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country, those who voted for him can\'t be denied the right to ever vote again. They\'ve clearly shown they have no sense of character.<br /><br />What really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as Robespierre; a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can\'t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism. Execution and murder. Self-defense and patriotism. His legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he\'s helped create. Sound like any belligerent, overprivileged, retarded Yale cheerleaders you know of? <br /><br />Wojciech Pszoniak blows the slovenly Deparidieu off the screen. As sympathetic as Robespierres plight is, it\'s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he\'ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine."\n55,"As someone has already mentioned on this board, it\'s very difficult to make a fake documentary. It requires tremendous skill, pacing, patience, directorial \'distance,\' a plausible premise, a narrative \'flow,\' and REALLY believable acting (aka GREAT acting). <br /><br />Such is not the case with \'Love Machine\'. It starts to show its faux hand about the 20-minute mark (with 60 minutes left to watch), and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in. It\'s downhill from there.<br /><br />Director Gordon Eriksen simply peaked too soon. But to be fair to Eriksen, his problems started early: as he explains in the extras, he began wanting to do a REAL doc, couldn\'t get funding, and settled for a cheaper way of making his film.<br /><br />The premise -- people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website -- was perhaps more interesting in 1997-98, when the film was made. Eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff -- a pushy \'host,\' hand-held cameras, zooms, grainy blacks and whites -- all, I guess, to elicit a sense of authenticity, but it just doesn\'t work. The film is confusing and forced, but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue."\n56,"The Hills Have Eyes II is what you would expect it to be and nothing more. Of course it\'s not going to be an Oscar nominated film, it\'s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for 90 minutes.<br /><br />The plot is basically about a group of National Guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert. It\'s just them fighting back throughout the whole film, which includes a lot of violence (which is basically the whole film) as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing, and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience.<br /><br />I\'d give the Hills Have Eyes II 4 out of 10 for pure entertainment, and that only. Although even then I found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on, as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake. The Hills Have Eyes II is just decent entertainment, something to pass time if you\'re bored, and nothing else.<br /><br />4/10"\n57,"I laughed all the way through this rotten movie. It\'s so unbelievable. A woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage, has a breakdown in front of a real estate office. What happens? The office manager comes outside and offers her a job!!! Hilarious! Next thing you know the two women are going at it. Yep, they\'re lesbians! Nothing rings true in this ""Lifetime for Women with nothing better to do"" movie. Clunky dialogue like ""I don\'t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like I had a chance to be happy and didn\'t take it"" doesn\'t help. There\'s a wealthy, distant mother who disapproves of her daughter\'s new relationship. A sassy black maid - unbelievable that in the year 2003, a film gets made in which there\'s a sassy black maid. Hattie McDaniel must be turning in her grave. The woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids. Sheesh! No cliche is left unturned."\n58,"NO SPOILERS!!<br /><br />After Hitchcock\'s successful first American film, Rebecca based upon Daphne DuMarier\'s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue, he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early British period - mistaken identity and espionage. As the U.S. settled into World War II and the large scale \'war effort\' of civilians building planes, weaponry and other necessary militia, the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes. These thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good, law abiding citizens. Knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre, producer Jack Skirball approached Hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption, war-time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity. The darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven Dorothy Parker (during her brief stint in Hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in NYC) who co-authored the script were a perfect match for Hitchcock\'s sensibilities.<br /><br />This often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate 25 year old Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) who, while at work at a Los Angeles Airplane Factory, meets new employee Frank Frye (Norman Lloydd) and moments later is framed for committing sabotage. Fleeing the authorities who don\'t believe his far-fetched story he meets several characters on his way to Soda City Utah and finally New York City. These memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful \'freaks\' and a popular billboard model Patricia Martin (Priscilla Lane) who, during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security, he falls madly in love with! Of course in the land of Hitchcock, Patricia, kidnapped by the supposed saboteur Barry, falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix.<br /><br />In good form for this outing, Hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies, average Joes, and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals, pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving. It\'s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited, culminates in one of Hitchcock\'s more memorable finales. Look for incredibly life like NYC tourist attractions (all of which were recreated by art directors in Hollywood due to the war-time \'shooting ban\' on public attractions). While Saboteur may not be one of Hitchcock\'s most well known films, it\'s a popular b-movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual - terrific Hitchcock villains. Remember to look for Hitchcock\'s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film. Hitchcock\'s original cameo idea that was shot (him fighting in sign language with his \'deaf\' wife) was axed by the Bureau of Standards and Practices who were afraid of offending the deaf!"\n59,"I just watched The Dresser this evening, having only seen it once before, about a dozen years ago.<br /><br />It\'s not a ""big"" movie, and doesn\'t try to make a big splash, but my God, the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless. Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie.<br /><br />The Dresser is the story of Sir, an aging Shakespearean actor (Finney), and his dresser Norman (Courtenay), sort of a valet, putting on a production of King Lear during the blitz of London in World War II. These are two men, each dependent upon the other: Sir is almost helpless without the aid of Norman to cajole, wheedle, and bully him into getting onstage for his 227th performance of Lear. And Norman lives his life vicariously through Sir; without Sir to need him, he is nothing, or thinks he is, anyway.<br /><br />This is a character-driven film; the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters, and as such, it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life. Finney, only 47 years old, is completely believable as a very old, very sick, petulant, bullying, but brilliant stage actor. He hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they\'re taking their bows! And Courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser, who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer. Employer is really the wrong term to use, though. For although, technically their relationship is that of employer and employee, most of the time Sir and Norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple.<br /><br />Yes, there are others in the cast of this movie, but there is no question that the true stars are Finney, Courtenay, and the marvelous script by Ronald Harwood. That is not to say that there aren\'t other fine performances, most notably Eileen Atkins as the long-suffering stage manager Madge. There is a wonderful scene where Sir and Madge talk about old desires, old regrets, and what might have been.<br /><br />Although it doesn\'t get talked about these days, it is worth remembering that The Dresser was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actor nominations for both Finney and Courtenay, Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Yates), and Best Adapted Screenplay.<br /><br />I had remembered this as being a good movie, but I wasn\'t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as I was from beginning to end. If you want to see an example of what great acting is all about, and be hugely entertained all the while, then I encourage you to see The Dresser."\n60,"What happened? What we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast, but somewhere the movie loses it. Actually, it never really got going. There was a little excitement when we find out that Angie is not really pregnant, then find out that she is after all, but that was it. Steve Martin, who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie, was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie, other than to make it longer. I really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters, Kate and Angie, and maybe try not for a pure comedy, which unfortunately it was not, but maybe a drama with comedic elements. I think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here I can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot."\n61,"I\'ve just watched Fingersmith, and I\'m stunned to see the 8/10 average rating for the show.<br /><br />Not only was the plot was difficult to follow, but it seems character development was randomly applied.<br /><br />The actors were adequate, but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns, their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional. Once this happens, the story really falls flat and becomes tedious.<br /><br />And just in case anyone didn\'t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way, this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film.<br /><br />The end scene is disappointing and phoned in, and anyone who sat back and went ""Ohhh, so they were carpet munchers all along!"", must have been out for the evening.<br /><br />Two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy, none for the rest of it..."\n62,"So let\'s begin!)))<br /><br />The movie itself is as original as Cronenberg\'s movies would usually appear...<br /><br />My intention to see it was certainly JJL being one of my favourite actresses. She is as lovely as usual, this cutie!<br /><br />I would not say it was my favourite movie of hers. Still it\'s quite interesting and entertaining to follow. <br /><br />The rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array. ;)<br /><br />Recommend with confidence!))))"\n63,"Besides being boring, the scenes were oppressive and dark. The movie tried to portray some kind of moral, but fell flat with its message. What were the redeeming qualities?? On top of that, I don\'t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did."\n64,"An unmarried woman named Stella (Bette Midler) gets pregnant by a wealthy man (Stephen Collins). He offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own. Things go OK until the child named Jenny (Trini Alvarado) becomes a teenager and things gradually (and predictably) become worse.<br /><br />I\'ve seen both the silent version and sound version of ""Stella Dallas"". Neither one affected me much (and I cry easily) but they were well-made if dated. Trying to remake this in 1990 was just a stupid idea. I guess Midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of ""Beaches"" to get this made. This (predictably) bombed. The story is laughable and dated by today\'s standards. Even though Midler and Alvarado give good performances this film really drags and I was bored silly by the end. Stephen Collins and Marsha Mason (both good actors) don\'t help in supporting roles. Flimsy and dull. Really--who thought this would work? See the 1937 Stanwyck version instead. I give this a 1."\n65,"DON\'T TORTURE A DUCKLING is one of Fulci\'s earlier (and honestly, in terms of story-line, better...) films - and although not the typical ""bloodbath"" that Fulci is known for - this is still a very unique and enjoyable film.<br /><br />The story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring. Some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations - either as suspects, or those ""helping"" the investigation (or in some cases both) - include the towns police force, a small-time reporter, a beautiful and rich ex-drug addict, a young priest and his mother, An old man who practices witchcraft and his female protégé, a mentally handicapped townsman, and a deaf/mute little girl. All of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns, until the actual killer is revealed...<br /><br />DON\'T TORTURE A DUCKLING is neither a ""classical"" giallo or a typical Fulci gore film. Although it does contain elements of both - it is more of an old-fashioned murder mystery, with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence (although nothing nearly as strong as some of Fulci\'s later works). This is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end. Recommended for giallo/murder-mystery fans, or anyone looking to check out some of Fulci\'s non-splatter films - but don\'t despair, DON\'T TORTURE still has more than it\'s fair share of violence and sleaze. Some may be put off by the subject of the child killings, and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys, which is also kind of disconcerting - but if that type of material doesn\'t bother you, then definitely give this one a look. 8.5/10"\n66,"Busty beauty Stacie Randall plays PVC clad, bad-ass bitch Alexandra, the faithful acolyte of Faust, an evil entity trapped in hell. Determined to free her master, the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success; but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon Faust, the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor, which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive, troll-like creatures called Lite and Dark.<br /><br />Now Alexandra must find a replacement gem, which isn\'t going to be easy: the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex-lover, police detective Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis), who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil Alexandra is capable of. Meanwhile, wise-cracking inter-dimensional half-pints Lite and Dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home.<br /><br />In the warped movie world of Jim Wynorski, all females are big-breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker. Ghoulies IV is no exception: every woman in this film—whether she be a police captain, a curator of antiquities, or a mental patient in an asylum—is hot, hot, hot and wears not a lot, and it\'s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of STV crap just about bearable.<br /><br />But be warned, even though the presence of semi-naked, quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier, there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal: the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful; the black humour (as the DVD blurb describes it) is about as funny as a knee to the knackers, with the comedic banter of Lite and Dark being particularly cringe-worthy; and the special effects are bargain basement, consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier.<br /><br />3/10 solely for the high bimbo quotient."\n67,"I really like Salman Kahn so I was really disappointed when I seen this movie. It didn\'t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing. Salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this DVD. The music was not bad it was quite nice. Usually Indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an Indian film. The American actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series Heroes, Ali Larter. Her acting had a lot to be desired. However she did look good in the Indian dresses that she wore. All the movie had not a lot to be desired and I hope Salman does a lot better on his next movie. Thank you."\n68,"I\'m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies..which it is not. Even though Marques Houston did appear in ""HP3"", he played a totally different character (he was, eight years older) in this film. Okay...so Reid and Martin weren\'t the most talented and couldn\'t carry a film all by themselves..but to trade on the HP franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference (albeit minor) to the earlier movies. I\'m sure everyone who wanted to see it was ""hoodwinked""--into thinking that they were seeing a sequel--not a totally different film with a familiar name. And I\'m sorry...Kym Whitley is not funny, and could not hold a candle to the late Robin Harris, Ketty Lester, or DC Curry in the earlier films. Although Meagen Good and Mari Morrow are a substantial visual diversion...I have to give this a THUMBS DOWN!! Just naming the film ""Down to the Last Minute"" would have been OK. Furthermore, the Hudlin brothers (who produced the first three movies) were not involved in the making of this film."\n69,"This film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen. The writer obviously bought the playbook ""How to write a space disaster movie"" and followed it play by play. In particular, the stereo-typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space - putting on a brave show in the face of disaster - has been done time and time again.<br /><br />Max Q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw $50 million at the project. But, judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects, the producers could only muster $50 thousand. To learn that the film was nominated for a ""Special Visual Effects"" Emmy has me absolutely gob-smacked.<br /><br />I think a handful of high school students with a pass in Media Studies could have created more believable effects!<br /><br />And the plot holes are too numerous to mention. But I will pick one out as an example. Now, I\'m no NASA expert, but surely it\'s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear-shaped with the program. Surely there is someone more experienced at Mission Control who the Program Director would call on rather than a twenty-nine year old who has not been in the control room before.<br /><br />The only saving grace for this film is the work of Bill Campbell. He manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script.<br /><br />I give this film 2 out of 10, with the above-average work of Bill Campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark."\n70,"Caddyshack Two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up. Robert Stack is a horrible replacement for Ted Knight and Jackie Mason, while funny just cant compete with Rodney Dangerfield. Ty Webb is funny, being the only character from the original. Most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original (Henry Wilcoxon for example) except for the hystericly funny lawyer Peter Blunt, being played by Randy Quaid. Every line he says reminds me of the originals humor, especially the scene at his office (I don\'t go in for law suits or motions. I find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f***ing baseball bat, make a bonfire with the chippindale,maybe roast that golden retriever (arff arff arff) then eat it. And then I\'m comin\' upstairs junior, and I\'m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs, and cramming your brand new BMW up your tight a**! Do we have an understanding?). Offsetting his small role however, is Dan Acroyd, who is obviously no replacement for Bill Murray. His voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny, its just stupid. Overall Caddyshack II is a good movie, but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it."\n71,"Honestly - this short film sucks. the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience. the Unearthed DVD is crisp and clear and I haven\'t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it. If the film was a little grainy it might have added some ""creepiness factor"" to what was going on. I have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter - but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like NEKROMANTIK and VISITOR Q among others, are more shocking than in AFTERMATH. All this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull****. This is an expensive, beautifully filmed turd. It\'s not that shocking, it\'s not that disgusting. if you insist on viewing it - rent it. I give it a 3 for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia (there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos ;) - the filming is good and it does have some ""gore"" (if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore...) but other than that - absolutely nothing going for this over-hyped mess. On the other hand - GENESIS - Cerda\'s ""sequel"" to AFTERMATH (now available as a ""double feature"" released by Unearthed films) is an absolute masterpiece of a short film, really showing what a good director Cerda really is when given the right material. Although I don\'t care for AFTERMATH at all, GENESIS is so well made that I will forgive Cerda and Definitely keep an eye out for him in the future..."\n72,"I thought that Mukhsin has been wonderfully written. Its not just about entertainment. There\'s tonnes of subtle messages that i think Yasmin was trying to bring across. And yes, it might be confusing to some of you(especially if you didn\'t watch Sepet and/or Gubra for 76 times).<br /><br />I bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right? Its really ironic how the characters relate. Like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from Gubra. And the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future. <br /><br />And i absolutely love the voice-overs. Its crude yet awakeningly fresh. Like, when they took a shot of the Rumah Tumpangan Gamin signboard, then there was suddenly Mukhsin\'s voice saying \'Bismillahhirrahmannirrahim..\' (the scene when he climbed the tree).<br /><br />It captured Malaysian\'s attitude(and in some mild way, sniggering at how pathetic it is) portrayed in the character. For example, even the kids can be really sharp tongued(complete with the shrill annoying voice) and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long. And how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl, when ur own life isn\'t sorted out. <br /><br />All i can say is, this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it. <br /><br />It kept me glued to the screen, i couldn\'t even take my eyes off it. Not even to make out in the cinema. Ha ha."\n73,"I am not a golf fan by any means. On May 26 about 10:30 PM the movie started with a scene in the late 1800\'s. Old movies I like but not golf however, within the first scene a young boy (Harry Vardon) is awaken by the voices of men. He goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something... So , then I turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on. The movie is excellent. We then see this young boy now a man; professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood. Then we meet the true focus of the movie Francis and the decisions he makes for golf. You meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period. Then there is little Eddie Lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in Francis winning. Don\'t want to give away too much . I was up until 2 A.M. This is super please see the movie."\n74,"Upon viewing Tobe Hooper\'s gem, Crocodile, in 2000, I developed a great interest in the college/crocodile niche of the exploitation/monster genre. I look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness. If only Ed Wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts. With Ed writing the scripts, and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer, all we\'d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with Russ Meyer breasts and Ren Hoek pectoral implants.<br /><br />While Tobe Hooper\'s crocky opus referenced his own movies, Blood Surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies. See if you can look past the Revenge of the Nerds sequel sets to find the allusions/homages?/rip-offs to Jaws, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones\' Last Crusade, The Convent, Godzilla 2000, and any James Bond movie. Also, try to find the ready-for-tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock.<br /><br />I was disappointed the crock didn\'t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism...or crocky appreciation, but the quasi-Captain Ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach. Perhaps, in the coming years, we\'ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset. Or hopefully, a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero-G monkey/midget/crocodile bloodshed.<br /><br />All-in-all, the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me."\n75,"It tries to be the epic adventure of the century. And with a cast like Shô Kasugi, Christopher Lee and John-Rhys Davies it really is the perfect B-adventure of all time. It\'s actually is a pretty fun, swashbuckling adventure that, even with it\'s flaws, captures your interest. It must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it. Even if it\'s made in the 90s, it doesn\'t have a modern feel. It more has the same feeling that a old Errol Flynn movie had. Big adventure movie are again the big thing in Hollywood but I\'m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had. This on the other hand, just has the real feeling. You just can\'t hate it. I think it\'s an okay adventure movie. And I really love the soundtrack. Damn, I want the theme song."\n76,"The Last Hard Men finds James Coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang. Do he and his friends head for the Mexican border from jail and safety. No they don\'t because Coburn has a mission of revenge. To kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman.<br /><br />That peace officer is Charlton Heston who is now retired and he knows what Coburn is after. As he explains it to his daughter, Barbara Hershey, Coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a Waco like standoff. His Indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired. It\'s not something he\'s proud of, she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt.<br /><br />Lest we feel sorry for Coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is. Heston is his usual stalwart hero, but the acting honors in The Last Hard Men go to James Coburn. He blows everyone else off the screen when he\'s on. <br /><br />Coburn gets the bright idea of making sure Heston trails him by kidnapping Hershey and taking her to an Indian reservation where the white authorities can\'t touch him. He knows that Heston has to make it personal then.<br /><br />Coburn\'s gang includes, Morgan Paull, Thalmus Rasulala, John Quade, Larry Wilcox, and Jorge Rivero. Heston has Chris Mitchum along who is his son-in-law to be.<br /><br />The Last Hard Men is one nasty and brutal western. Andrew McLaglen directed it and I\'m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for Sam Peckinpaugh. It sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence. Of which there is a lot. <br /><br />For a little Peckinpaugh lite, The Last Hard Men is your film."\n77,"Maybe it was the title, or the trailer (certainly not the interview on the DVD, which is with the director as he keeps saying ""hi, kids"" into the camera like a buffoon), but I had expectations for Entrails of a Virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal, bloody killings by a weird Japanese penetrator. Turns out it\'s way too sleazy for its own good, or bad, or whatever. There\'s a problem- and one can see this also in the Italian sexploitation flick Porno Holocaust, similar to this in many respects- in not having balance to the sex and violence. Too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno, and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies! And with the killing scenes, there has to be at least a little tack, and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity, in creating the creature/killer/whatever. Entrails of a Virgin has neither. It\'s safe to say it\'s a pretty soulless movie, even if isn\'t one of the very worst ever made- it\'s there just for horn-dog Japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their \'other\' heads.<br /><br />In this case, we\'re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls, nothing too salacious, and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by ""A Murderer"" as he\'s credited. First off, the director Kazuo \'Gaira\' Komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on- we get spliced in (or phoned in, take your pick) clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere. It looks like it\'s from another movie. Then once settled into the house, there\'s a \'wrestling\' scene that\'s poorly choreographed and shot (yeah, we really need to see him \'all\' there), and then on to the rape and killings. First the rape, by the photographers, who promise the girls some jobs for their time. Then the Murderer, who like D\'Amato\'s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial, and who for an unknown reason kills the men and/or rapes the women one by one.<br /><br />Now, the latter of those, taken by themselves, should be considered the highlights of the movie. This is like saying, however, that the croûtons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad. An eye-gouging scene, a spike thrown like an Olympic event (that scene, actually, is kind of cool), and finally the entrailing of the overly sex-crazed girl, whose inconsequential name I can\'t remember. Even *this* becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title! On top of this, the sex scenes, which become tedious through \'Gaira\' and his indulgence in long-takes-without-cutaways where everything by the Japanese censors is blurred anyway, are dubbed over by the actors (you\'d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough, hence the need to let them \'speak\' for themselves). But the overall feeling from Entrails of a Virgin is that of a lumpy one, where it\'s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror (watch as the last girl left alive, the virgin of the picture, tries to stop the murderer from getting to her, which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him!) You just want it to be done with, for the \'I hate women\' mantra to ease up or be rid altogether."\n78,"The few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute Boy Scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes. When Sharif or, please God, Palance try their hand at fiery oratory, they sound like Kurtz swallowing a bug. The displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of Cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean, and a positively Vaudevillian hypothesis on how the Bay of Pigs came to pass. What does that leave us with? One comical dentistry scene; a surfeit of uppity Hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train; and, just for kicks, a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to Castro\'s manic and unremitting cigar-fellatio. Never trust a Medved, but even a busted clock is right twice a day: this is a HISTORICALLY awful movie."\n79,"This film took me by surprise. I make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler. All I knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that IMDb readers gave it a 7.8, Rotten Tomatoes users ranked it at 7.9 and the critics averaged an amazing 8.2! If anything, they UNDERRATED this little gem.<br /><br />Filmmaker Doug Block decided to record his parents ""for posterity"" and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents, outspoken mother Mina, and less than forthcoming dad, Mike. I immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker (Mike & Mina\'s son Doug) was going to take us. As a matter of fact, I doubt that Doug himself knew where he was going with this!<br /><br />Life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey. It is difficult to verbalize just how moved I was with this story and the unique way in which it was told. Absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must-see even if you aren\'t a fan of the documentary genre. This film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten. ""51 Birch Street"" is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you. The best news of all is that HBO had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience, eventually, millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work. BRAVO!!!!!!!!"\n80,"Stephen Hawkings is a genius. He is the king of geniuses. Watching this movie makes me feel dumb. But it\'s a great movie. Not highly entertaining, but very very intriguing. The movie centers around wheelchair bound Stephen Hawkings, a man who makes Einstein look average, and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe, time, the galaxy, and black holes. Everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they\'v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they\'ll write it all down. Well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours. Here is a man who despite suffering from Lou Gehrig\'s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen. Watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes. Awesome. You won\'t be the same after you see it."\n81,"The story is about a psychic woman, Tory, who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past (the death of her childhood friend and abusive father). Tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring. Can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders? <br /><br />You really don\'t need to find out because, Oh My God! This was so so so so bad! I know all the Nora Roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of 10\'s. Then the rest of us will see an IMDb score of 6 and actually think this movie is worth watching. But do not be fooled. The ending was predictable, the acting TERRIBLE (don\'t even get me started about the southern accents *y\'all*) and the story was trite. Just remember....you were warned!"\n82,"Oh God, I must have seen this when I was only 11 or twelve, (don\'t ask how) I may have been young, but I wasn\'t stupid. Anyone could see that this is a bad movie, nasty, gross, unscary and very silly. I\'ve seen more impressive effects at Disneyland, I\'ve seen better performances at a school play, And I\'ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo, where they do nothing but sit in the water, ignoring the children tapping on the glass.<br /><br />The story is set in northern Australia. A handful of ambitious young people, are trying out a new water sport, surfing in shark filled waters. It soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water. After they learn what, they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman, who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family.<br /><br />I think I have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years, the best of which is Lake Placid, and the worse of which is its sequel. Blood Surf would have to be the second worst croc flick I think, with Primeval and Crocodile tailing closely behind.<br /><br />The Australian Saltwater Crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there, resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year. Movies like Blood Surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature, but a good hour and a half of the viewer\'s life. Unless you really want to see it, avoid Blood Surf."\n83,"""Fate"" leads Walter Sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life, all based around the number 23. As the story unfolds in real life and fiction, Sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end.<br /><br />The Number 23 offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution. The film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential. The screenplay was probably the worst part about it. It was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie. It seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea, he just didn\'t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time. The second half of the film was running low on ideas, the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful.<br /><br />Joel Schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with Phone Booth and a few other films but The Number 23 reminds me that he\'s still capable of making a stinker. He has the movie drenched in style but he just can\'t get a good focus. He moves the film at a clunky and slow pace. He switches from reality to what\'s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying. The actual book in the film that\'s titled ""The Number 23"" is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to Carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears. When Carrey is finally done with book, we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery. At this point, the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension. We impatiently wait for the movie to reach it\'s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished.<br /><br />The acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable. Jim Carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn\'t even seem to be trying. He was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden. His narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character. Virginia Madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts. Logan Lerman was pretty bland as was Danny Huston. Overall, The Number 23 was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills. Rating 3/10"\n84,"We brought this film as a joke for a friend, and could of been our worst joke to play. The film is barely watchable, and the acting is dire. The worst child actor ever used and Hasslehoff giving a substandard performance. The plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on. It tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable.<br /><br />Just terrible"\n85,This was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life!! It was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous!! And i have never seen such bad acting in my life! The only good part about the movie were all the hot guys(especially Drew Fuller). I don\'t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie!! I didn\'t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves. I mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn! I would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch! I was very disappointed!! The whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion.\n86,"This is a typical Steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds. I wouldn\'t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a Steele novel knows how they ALL end. If you don\'t want to know much about the plot, don\'t keep reading.<br /><br />Gilbert\'s character, Ophelia, is a woman of French decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident. Gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she, otherwise a good actress, cannot realistically pull off any kind of accent. Brad Johnson, also an excellent actor, is Matt, who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce. He is gentle, convincing and compelling in this role.<br /><br />The two meet on the beach through her daughter, Pip, and initially, Ophelia accuses Matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid. All of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love.<br /><br />The chemistry between the two leads is not great, even though the talent of these two people is not, in my opinion, a question. They did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical. Two people meet, tragedy, bigger tragedy, a secret is revealed, another tragedy, and then they get together. I wish there was more to it than that, but there it is in a nutshell.<br /><br />I wanted mindless entertainment, and I got it with this. In regard to the genre of romantic films, this one fails to be memorable. ""A Secret Affair"" with Janine Turner is far superior (not a Steele book), as are some of Steele\'s earlier books turned into film."\n87,Oh noes one of these attack of the Japanese ghost girl movies... i don\'t even remember how many i\'ve seen. maybe it sells... but not to me. not scary at all. the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these... also the pulling of the kid. i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies. cellphone scene is also nothing new... the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked... i mean it lacked all dramaticness... OK this is for kids 14-16 who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique... we\'ll let me tell you. there\'s a million of you =D this is one of them. 3/10 i\'ve seen worse but you won\'t be missing anything by NOT seeing this!\n88,"Nicholas Walker is Paul, the local town Reverand who\'s married to Martha (Ally Sheedy), but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair, Veronica (Dara Tomanovich). However in so doing, he gets a bout of amnesia (hence the name of the film). Sally Kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good Reverand in a shades of ""Misery"" type of way. It\'s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this. Not the least bit John Savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator. In a film billed as a \'black comedy\', one has to bring BOTH elements into said movie. While this does bring the former in spades, it sadly contains none of the latter. Furthermore you can\'t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus, have absolutely no vested interest in them. Technically not an all-together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one.<br /><br />Eye Candy: Dara Tomanovich gets topless; Sally Kirkland also shows some skin <br /><br />My Grade: C- <br /><br />Where I saw it: Showtime Showcase"\n89,"Hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world. It only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re-invented over and over again. Take superheroes for example, for each X-Man and Spiderman, there are Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider and Hulk. Japanese horror remakes are even worst. It only took The Ring, which was pitch-perfect (mostly because of Mr. Gore Verbinsky), to bring a ton of look-alike creepy-woman based horrors, e.g. The Ring 2, The Eye, Dark Water (which was fine, but pointless), and the grudges.<br /><br />The first Grudge wasn\'t entirely bad. It was scary most of the way, which is what one could expect from it. Plus, the plot had some brains mixing narratives. Grudge 2 is exactly like the previous; this could be a good thing, but hey, what boy Men in Black II? Was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain? For the Grudge 2, the critic goes the same way.<br /><br />Tired scares, bad acting (except for Amber Tamblyn), and clichés all over the place. Three stories take place, on different places and time. There is Aubrey (Tamblyn) investigating what drove her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) to death; Allison (Arielle Kebbel) who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place; and finally, an American family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door. Glad to say (and I mean it) that everything is tied up at the end, but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture, when everything else is simply tiresome and dull.<br /><br />The chills are all over there, a girl alone in the lockers, someone who shouldn\'t enter a house, others that dig too deep. Meanwhile, ghosts keep killing and killing and killing, which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the Ebola epidemic. Hey, doesn\'t that seem just like another bad Japanese remake, something called Pulse? Yeah, day after day it\'s getting easier to hold a grudge... against Hollywood bullshits."\n90,"""Down Periscope"" has been in our library since it first arrived in VHS. Since then, we have acquired the DVD and a digital from Cinema Now.<br /><br />It is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con. It is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters, I am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered.<br /><br />The movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession, even among the very young. I became aware of this while visiting the USS Drum in Mobile, Alabama in 2002. A group of Cub Scouts, my grandson among them, had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board.<br /><br />It is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our Navy and Hollywood... which is rare company.<br /><br />Thanks to Kelsey Grammar, Lauren Holly and Rob Schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie, such great entertainment!"\n91,"If you came here, it\'s because you\'ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it.<br /><br />I feel for you, I *really* do. And I profusely apologize as a Canadian (because that\'s what we do) that this film ever had to cross your eyes, if only for a moment. I hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases.<br /><br />I, like everyone else, rented this movie believing it to be some stupid B-movie ripoff of Blade. I thought, ""sure I could use a good laugh at a stupid movie."" I\'ll give the creators of this film ONE positive comment about their \'creation\': Thanks for removing the REC XX/XX/XX from the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. I can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie.<br /><br />And for the record, I *saw* the movie, but did not watch it. The dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother\'s trailer, I swear to God.<br /><br />You know what? I\'m not writing anymore about this. It\'s just too painful."\n92,"Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey and Barbara Read are ""Three Smart Girls"" in this Universal film from 1936, which introduces Deanna Durbin to film audiences. It also stars Ray Milland, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, John King, Binnie Barnes and Alice Brady. It\'s a sweet story about three young women, now living in Switzerland with their divorced mother, who hear their father (Winninger) is marrying again. Not having seen him in 10 years and knowing their mother still loves him, they board a ship to America, with the help of the housekeeper/nanny, determined to stop the wedding. Realizing that the intended, called ""Precious"" (Barnes) is nothing but a gold-digger aided and abetted by her mother (Brady), they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy Count. This is arranged by their father\'s accountant (King). The man he chooses is a full-time drunk (Auer), but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count (Milland). What a mess.<br /><br />This is a delightful film, not cloying or overly sugary at all, with some nice performances, particularly by Auer, Milland, Barnes and Brady. The young women are pretty and all do good work. The emphasis, of course, is on young Durbin, who is a natural actress and a beautifully-trained singer. In fact, her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult - she has no trouble with the high notes, as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice. She sings a delightful ""Il Bacio"" in a police station.<br /><br />One of the nicest things about the film is to see the father, played by Charles Winninger, not want his children around - until he sees them and gets to know them. Barnes as the gold-digger isn\'t all that young, but the girls\' mother looks way up there, so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger, more glamorous woman. In fact, he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters.<br /><br />Universal gives Durbin the big star buildup here - she has the final shot in the movie. Ray Milland at this point was still paying his dues, and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is.<br /><br />Very entertaining and of course, this led to a sequel and big stardom for Deanna."\n93,"If anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to, with conversation, character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new, better and different, those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing, directing, and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in Italy and England. Other days, other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment, made in 1992 with Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Polly Walker, Josie Lawrence, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, and Michael Kitchens in the major roles. Under the brush stroke direction of Mike Newell, these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter\'s eye. Reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century, this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character, and the viewer, too. An artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us."\n94,"I watched this series out of curiosity,wanting to see if they could possibly and with ALL this modern technology,out do Cecil B. DeMille\'s classic epic of 1956, starring Charleton Heston,Yul Brenner and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Of course, I was let down. Yes, they had all the Biblical characters correct, but they didn\'t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes, that held your interest throughout the first movie. If you going to have a mini-series, you have to have some ""rivoting"" scenes, the ""Burning bush"", Parting the ""RED Sea"",drowning ""Pharohs Armies"", ""building Sethi\'s Pyramids"", could have been done with todays\' technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as ""Lord of the Rings"" or the Matrix. Obviously, they didn\'t want to leave a LASTING impression of ""faith and sacrifice"", which is much needed in these trouble times."\n95,"Daniel Day-Lewis is the most versatile actor alive. English aristocratic snob in A Room With a View, passionate Irish thief in In the Name of the Father, an impudent, violent butcher in Gangs of New York (in a performance ten times stronger than Adrian Brody\'s in the Pianist) and as the outrageous Cristy Brown with cerebral palsy in My Left Foot (just to name a few). His roles all influence eachother, but each is seperate, and utterly unique. He changes completely, with each character he takes on. And I\'m beginning to believe that he can act as anything. Anything.<br /><br />As Cristy Brown he is stunning. He does not ridicule the character, and he does not pity the character. A difficult achievement. And Cristy Brown comes to life. A smart man. An outrageous man. Human.<br /><br />This movie, despite small scene-transition faults and the like, is an inspiration. Yes, it\'s predictable. But is it stupidly sentimental? No. I laughed. I cried. Not a single moment of cheese. Proof that this isn\'t a Hollywood movie.<br /><br />My favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant, when Cristy is discussing painters with Eileen, Peter and her friends. Here\'s where Daniel Day-Lewis reaches an acting climax. ""I\'ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that\'s animated."" ""Wheel out the cripple!"" And his performance never slows down, never falters, and is beautiful. Simply. He has a lot of screen time here. I watch it again again, and I never get tired of Cristy\'s perspicacious eyes, twitching and guttural speeches.<br /><br />A must-see. Fo sho, yo!"\n96,"My guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts, and thus at least a quarter longer, because otherwise how can one explain its confused, abbreviated storyline. I was never completely lost, but I was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation. The movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot.<br /><br />If it were longer, it might make more sense, but it still wouldn\'t be much good. The movie\'s most interesting idea is of the war between Zeus and Hera as being a war between the male and female, but the movie drops the ball on this, making Hera\'s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what Zeus\' followers do or believe. The movie is also interesting because you don\'t see the gods and there\'s no real certainty that they exist. So it\'s got a couple of intriguing ideas, but it doesn\'t do anything useful with them.<br /><br />Bad dialog, cardboard characters, and one interesting scene involving Hercules and his three antagonistic sons. Not unwatchable but also not worth watching."\n97,"Well, I like to watch bad horror B-Movies, cause I think it\'s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie. (I always compare this movies to - for example - some Spielberg\'s works and again-and-again don\'t understand the huge difference in what I see.) I like Ed Wood\'s movies cause it\'s so inept it\'s very funny. But people!!! ""The Chilling"" is not funny and is not even ""interesting"". It\'s EXTREMELY BORING horror movie without ANYTHING what makes even bad movies watchable. There\'s no acting, no screenplay, no direction, no thrills and not even blood. It\'s extremely inept amateurish film. It\'s definitely the WORST movie I had ever seen (and I had seen a lot of ""worst movies"" - believe me). I warned you !!! 1/10"\n98,"This IS the worst movie I have ever seen, as well as, the worst that I will probably EVER see. I see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously, just be forewarned...<br /><br />This IS NOT one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it, its just plain BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD.<br /><br />This movie is the equivalent to having a ""pet rock"" as your friend. You wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen. Unfortunately, it never does. At least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into. Lion\'s Gate completely deceives on this bombshell... No...this is a disaster. After watching this film, you would swear George W. Bush had his hands all over the making of this film... yes its that idiotic.<br /><br />Stay away, unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time. Its probably how Lion\'s Gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe."\n99,"I have been a Mario fan for as long as I can remember, I have very fond memories of playing Super Mario World as a kid, this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new. Super Mario Galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing Mario franchise. There is much very different about this game from any other Mario before it, while still keeping intact the greatest elements of Mario, the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space.<br /><br />The story begins much like any other Mario game, Mario receives a letter from Princess Peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the Mushroom Kingdom. Upon arriving at Peach\'s castle Mario finds Bowser and his son (Bowser Jr.) attacking the castle with their airships. Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach and then lifts her castle up into space. In the midst of the castle being lifted into space Mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet. Mario is found by a talking star named Luma and is taken back to the Luma\'s home, a floating space station, here Mario meets many other Lumas and also meets their leader, a woman named Rosalina. Rosalina tells Mario that Bowser has taken away the space station\'s Power Stars and scattered them across the universe, it is up to Mario to help the Lumas find them and save Peach, thus the adventure begins.<br /><br />The way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies, each galaxy consists of multiple planets that Mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the Power Stars. Mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity, some planets are small and others are big, many planets are similar to classic Mario environments. The best thing about the game are the controls, all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same, but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game. You shake the remote Mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game, and it will as well activate the shooting stars. You can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment. Then there is the graphics, these are by far the best graphics on the Wii, it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks, you could probably almost say it looks as good as some 360 games.<br /><br />My only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to, and also the story is pretty weak. The worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game, no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at 4 lives. Still these minor problems aside it\'s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging. This is the type of game that we\'ve been waiting for on the Wii.<br /><br />A perfect 10 out of 10!"\n100,"This short film that inspired the soon-to-be full length feature - Spatula Madness - is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers. The short film stars Edward the Spatula who after being fired from his job, joins in the fight against the evil spoons. This premise allows for some funny content near the beginning, but is barely present for the remainder of the feature. This film\'s 15-minute running time is absorbed by some odd-ball comedy and a small musical number. Unfortunately not much else lies below it. The plot that is set up doesn\'t really have time to show. But it\'s surely follows it plot better than many high-budget Hollywood films. This film is worth watching at least a few times. Take it for what it is, and don\'t expect a deep story."\n101,"Okay, last night, August 18th, 2004, I had the distinct displeasure of meeting Mr. Van Bebble at a showing of the film The Manson Family at the Three Penny in Chicago as part of the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Here\'s what I have to say about it. First of all, the film is an obvious rip off of every Kenneth Anger, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone and Terry Gilliam movie I\'ve ever seen. Second of all, in a short Q & A session after the show Mr. Van Bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual Manson Family members or Charlie himself, calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them, that the film was based on his (Van Bebble\'s) take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on TV and in the news (and I\'m assuming from the Autobiography and the book Helter Skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative). So I had second dibs on questions, I asked if he was trying to present the outsider, Mtv, sex drugs and rock \'n roll version and not necessarily the true story. This question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting ""f*** you, shut the f*** up, this is the truth! All those other movies are bullsh**!""<br /><br />Well anyway, I didn\'t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when I read the tagline for the film, ""You\'ve heard the laws side of the story...now hear the story as it is told by the Manson Family."" Excuse me, if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn\'t want to have anything to do with, how in God\'s name can he tell the story for them!? This is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard! The film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock \'n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small, dimly lit theatre, and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock \'n roll mind of a man who couldn\'t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of Rocky Horroresque call line to the actors on screen. This film accomplishes little more than warping the public\'s image of actual events (which helped shape the state of America and much of the world today) into some sort of Slasher/Comic Book/Porno/Rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual.<br /><br />The film was definitely very impressive to look at. The soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of Charlie\'s work with the Family off of his Lie album. The editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos. All in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at Mtv than to the Underground Film Festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers. I felt like I was at a midnight Rocky Horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving (probably the best part of the experience). The cast was very good with the exception of Charlie who resembled some sort of stoned Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying. The descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy, throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow, lethargic, and chubby representation that was actually presented.<br /><br />All in all the film basically explains itself as Sadie (or maybe it was Linda) declares at the end, ""You can write a bunch of bullsh** books or make a bunch of bullsh** movies...etc. etc."" Case in point. Even the disclaimer ""Based on a True Story"" is a dead giveaway, signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world. All you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap, or actually, maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead.<br /><br />All I can say is this, when the film ended I got a free beer so I\'m glad I went, but not so glad I spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f*** up for asking the director a question. Peace."\n102,"I bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart. I am glad I did. It was very entertaining listening to Sean Connery and playing the game. I thought the graphics were the best I have ever seen in a movie/game remake. The bonus levels were very hard! The sniper one I think was too hard, it made me so frustrated I didn\'t play the game for a week and a half. There were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it. <br /><br />The only thing I might change was the upgrade system. I didn\'t notice any difference from un-upgraded equipment to the upgraded, such as buying an armor upgrade didn\'t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter. I really liked the Q copter. I think the developers did a good job."\n103,"No, this hilariously horrible 70\'s made-for-TV horror clinker isn\'t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake. Still, this exceptionally awful, yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute, unremitting silliness and atrociousness that\'s quite tasty in a so-execrable-it\'s-downright-awesome sort of way. Richard Crenna, looking haggard and possibly inebriated, and Yvette Mimieux, who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in ""Jackson County Jail,"" sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint, dull, sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute German Shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit. Pretty soon Mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann (the psychic alien moppets from the Disney ""Witch Mountain"" pictures) are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty, ugly canine entity in the den. Boy, now doesn\'t that sound really scary and disturbing? Well, scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain\'t, but it sure is funny, thanks to Curtis (""Night Tide"") Harrington\'s hopelessly weak direction, cartoonish (not so) special effects, an almost painfully risible\'n\'ridiculous plot, and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story (besides the leads, both Martine Beswicke and R.G. Armstrong briefly pop up as members of a Satanic cult and Victor Jory has a nice cameo as a helpful Native American shaman). Favorite scene: the malicious Mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on Crenna, practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade. While stuck-up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock, devout TV trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to Alpo."\n104,"It is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen, and who will die. It is about 4 women and a man who on a vacation. This was made during the end of the ultra Nazi seventies, when blonde women were supposedly ultra American survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death.<br /><br />This movie, like the others of that era, contrives to bring this about, and the viewer knows this. There is no mystery or suspense. The people squabble, but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time, it is laughable.<br /><br />The five people happen upon two savage young characters, and go nuts. Everyone is nuts, so that the director-writer team can justify their Nazi propaganda.<br /><br />For some reason, the guy is attracted to the blonde, who is really not much to look at, and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over. One must remember that in the seventies, movies were meant to appeal to women and not men.<br /><br />Totally crap and totally depressing."\n105,"Marion Davies stars in this remarkable comedy ""Show People"" released by MGM in 1928. Davies plays a hick from Savannah, Georgia, who arrives in Hollywood with her father (Dell Henderson). The jalopy they arrive in is a hoot - as is Davies outrageous southern costume. Davies lands a job in slapstick comedy, not what she wants, but it brings her success. She meets fellow slapstick star William Haines, who is immediately smitten with her. Well, Davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio (""High Art Studios"") and lands a job in stuffy period pieces. A handsome but fake actor (Andre Telefair) shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious Hollywood star. Davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life, but of course learns that is not who she really is. Marion Davies is wonderful throughout, as she - outrageously - runs the gamut of emotions required of a ""serious"" actress. William Haines is his usual wonderful comedic self, and there are cameos by Charles Chaplin, John Gilbert, and other famous stars of the day, including the director of the film, King Vidor. This is a silent film with a few ""sound effects"" as sound pictures were just coming into their own. A treasure of a film."\n106,"The performance of every actor and actress (in the film) are excellently NATURAL which is what movie acting should be; and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that I am never tired of seeing it over and over again. However, I am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors\' and director, Attenborough\'s credits that puzzles me: aren\'t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent, long lasting film for the audience? I am hoping I would get some answers to my puzzles from some one (possibly one of the ""knowledgeable"" personnel (insider) of the film."\n107,"While Star Trek the Motion Picture was mostly boring, Star Trek The Final Frontier is plain bad. In this terrible sequel, the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the Federation that ambassadors representing Earth, Romulus and Kronos (the Klingon home world) have been kidnapped by a renegade Vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier. There, he hopes to find God. Using mysticism and bad writing, he persuades many of the senior officers of the Enterprise to betray Kirk and get a hold of the ship. They do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god-like alien. This one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin. At the core is a good idea that is never really developed. The plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before. It is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco. The action scenes don\'t have the suspense of Wrath of Kahn, the philosophy is boring, and the humor is stale. Now I will focus most of my anger on William Shatner. When he takes the director\'s chair, the ego gets bigger. Most of the focus is on him, Spock, and McCoy, but does not give the others enough to do. Moreover, whereas Shatner is usually guilty of over-acting in previous movies and television spots, he is just plain bad in this one. Now Kirk is reckless, a practical jokers, and silly. One of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song, ""Row Row Row your Boat"" in a round by a campfire. In any case, this is the worst of the Star Trek franchise. I should have given it three out of ten instead of five."\n108,"Despite later claims, this early-talkie melodrama has very little in common with ""Citizen Kane"": It\'s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat, told in flashback but hopping around time. The scriptwriter, Preston Sturges, shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog, and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of ""Kane"" are evident. Still, it\'s very watchable, with a young Spencer Tracy (his old-man makeup makes him look just like, well, an old Spencer Tracy) showing depth and authority, and Colleen Moore -- a little past her prime, and not physically well matched -- playing a multifaceted woman-behind-the-man. There\'s also Helen Vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history, sending the final third into ecstatic soap-opera reverberations. The surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets, and there are some plot holes left open (how would she know whose son it was if she\'s sleeping with both of them?), and the music is awfully hokey. For all that, I was quite fascinated."\n109,"This is the best version (so far) that you will see and the most true to the Bronte work. Dalton is a little tough to imagine as Rochester who Jane Eyre declared ""not handsome"". But his acting overcomes this and Zelah Clark, pretty as she is, is also a complete and believable Jane Eyre. This production is a lengthy watch but well worth it. Nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true \'romance\' in literature, this is the way to see it. I own every copy of this movie and have read and re-read the original. The filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this."\n110,"Apparently, the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so-called ""movie."" They described ""blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence."" I saw no ""intrigue."" I instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie. I saw no ""violence."" At least, I saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with ""impervious"" skin--but here I am perhaps revealing too much of the ""plot."" Furthermore, as a viewer of many and sundry films (some of which include the occasional kung fu movie), I can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable. Whatever you may choose to do, I will always remain<br /><br /> Correct,<br /><br /> Jonathan Tanner <br /><br /> <br /><br />P.S. I was not blinded by the choreography."\n111,"I liked Boyle\'s performance, but that\'s about the only positive thing I can say. Everything was overdone to the point of absurdity. Most of the actors spoke like you would expect your 9-year-old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded, stone-hearted cop, or an ultra-evil villain. The raspy voice-overs seemed amateurish to me. I could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music. And what\'s with the whole 1984ish police torture stuff? It was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story. Cox added a lot of things, in fact, that he apparently thought would be really cool, but had nothing to do with the story. That\'s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes Borges\' stories so good is his minimalism -- they are tightly bound, with no superfluous details. This movie is just the opposite. I stopped watching after the scene where Lonnrot is questioning the guy from the Yidische Zaitung, or thereabouts. I wasted $4 renting this, but at least I can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake."\n112,It\'s terrific when a funny movie doesn\'t make smile you. What a pity!! This film is very boring and so long. It\'s simply painfull. The story is staggering without goal and no fun.<br /><br />You feel better when it\'s finished.\n113,"So well made, no CGI crap. Has anyone else been on the ""Jumping Crocs"" tour of Darwin\'s Adelaide River before? Black Water was WAY realistic; Rogue was a bit cringeworthy.<br /><br />Thought the blonde chick was excellent in it - haven\'t really seen her before. And the other chick is a babe, she is always excellent. <br /><br />V. suspenseful - I would compare it to Jaws over any other man eating animal flick. <br /><br />Got the hole Aussie thing down pat without going OTT with struths and crikeys, as well. <br /><br />Loved it!"\n114,"The Assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character, rather than star turns, the need to stage special effects, obligatory romance, and endless car chases. However, there is a car chase in here, and a dandy it is. Aidan Quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer ""recruited"" to eliminate him. It is rare that a second or third tier actor, such as Quinn, is given an important starring role like this that carries a film. Usually, such a role is given to an A-list actor with box office draw, which is probably why I never heard of this film before I saw it. Donald Sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous, somewhat creepy at times, agent that recruits Quinn. Ben Kingsley is fine also as the Israeli agent. The plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines, which converge in gradual fashion toward the end, and not all at once as we\'re used to seeing. The paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity. The locations are convincing and effective. The soundtrack is nothing special, but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days, without dumb and/or meaningless plot developments; unconvincing star turns; loud, annoying, music video type soundtracks; a villain that hams it up; and repeatedly a cast, costumes, and plot that cater mostly to an audience under 25. This is an outstanding thriller, which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release. ***1/2 of 4 stars."\n115,"this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen....the stark scenery...the isolation...the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion...a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication...the acting is completely natural...but for me as a""foodie\' the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast..i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well...whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don\'t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette\'s menu and choice of wines are authentic...and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be..this is a 10 out of 10 film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it"\n116,"Set in the 1794, the second year of the French republic formed after the execution of Louis XVI, this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders Danton (Gerard Depardieu, at his finest) and Robespierre (a commanding performance by the Polish actor Wojciech Pszoniak). The moderate revolutionary Danton has returned to Paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the Committee of Public Safety in the previous year by Robespierre. He is opposed to ""The Reign Of Terror"" which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens, mainly by guillotine, who are thought to be opposed to the Revolution. Danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade Robespierre to curb the bloodletting. But Robespierre and the Committee are afraid that the popularity of Danton will lead to them being overthrown, and put Danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors. This was the first French language film made by Andrzej Wajda after he had arrived in France from Poland. His Polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the Solidarity trade union, which had opposed the Polish government in the late seventies and early eighties. His previous film ""Man Of Iron"" (1981) had dealt with the Solidarity union and its leader Lech Walesa, and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of Walesa and the Polish leader General Jaruselski, and that between Danton and Robespierre. Danton/Walesa are the voice of reason opposed to Robespierre/Jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent. The film is based on the Polish play ""The Danton Affair"" written by Stanislawa Przybyszewska in the 1930s, and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical. But what the film does is to concentrate on the behind-the-scenes meetings of the Committees and the scenes in the National Assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of Paris."\n117,"Usually I\'m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties & early nineties film featuring now has beens...but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through. Guys dressing up as girls has been done to death - but never so pathetically. Corey Haim\'s performance was abysmal as usual, Nicole Eggert was not much better. This has no redeeming qualities, even if you are a number #1 fan of an actor/actress in this piece of trash - stay away!"\n118,"I have now seen quite a few films by Pedro Almodóvar, but this would have to be the most disappointing so far. This film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films, and the story just never got me interested. Many Almodóvar regulars appear in this film, so it\'s not like there was a lack of on-screen talent, but this film just seemed more serious than his other films. If there was a comedic edge to this movie, I certainly couldn\'t find it, and it made for one surprisingly weak movie."\n119,"I greatly enjoyed Margaret Atwood\'s novel \'The Robber Bride\', and I was thrilled to see there was a movie version. A woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder, and his buddy, an ex-cop journalist, tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman\'s crazy female friends. It\'s fortunate that the movie script fixes Ms. Atwood\'s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men, victims of scheming women...<br /><br />Heh. Okay, you got me. If these guys are mentioned in the book, and I\'m pretty sure they\'re entirely made up for the movie, I\'ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy. Apparently, the three main female characters of the novel aren\'t enough to carry the movie. Zenia\'s manipulations aren\'t interesting unless we see them happen to a man, and a man\'s life is screwed up. Roz, Charis, and Toni tell their stories -- to a man. Because it\'s not important if a man doesn\'t hear them.<br /><br />I liked the characters in the book. It hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man\'s story. I normally do not look for feminist angles on media, and I tried to enjoy the movie as is. If I hadn\'t read the book, I might have enjoyed the movie a lot more. So if you like the cop and the ex-cop, and you want to read more about them, you\'re out of luck. Read the novel, if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot. It\'s the same plot: the movie excavated it, ironed it, and sprinkled it with male angst. It\'s like Zenia\'s revenge on Margaret Atwood."\n120,this movie gets a 10 because there is a lot of gore in it.who cares about the plot or the acting.this is an Italian horror movie people so you know you can\'t expect much from the acting or the plot.everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one.since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn\'t matter to me.the Italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie.this is one of the goriest Italian movies you will ever see.no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection.buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true.\n121,"Ingrid Bergman, playing dentist Walter Matthau\'s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss, is absolutely wonderful in this film. She handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and Goldie Hawn talk in a record booth (Ingrid\'s monologue is a front, but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart). Matthau is an odd choice for the leading man (he\'s too old for Goldie Hawn and too unrefined for Bergman, not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist), but I liked the way he tries hard to please Goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie. Hawn (who won a Supporting Oscar) is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today. This bedroom farce isn\'t terribly sophisticated (and faintly reminds one of ""Any Wednesday"" besides), but it\'s a welcome relief from the noisy, teen-oriented comedies they turn out today. ""Cactus Flower"" is a lovely sigh! *** from ****"\n122,"""A bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend. Learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body, the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing. Unfortunately, the man discovers while he is sleeping, his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage,"" according to the DVD sleeve\'s synopsis.<br /><br />The synopsis isn\'t entirely correct, as it turns out.<br /><br />Anyway, the movie opens with a dizzying ""out-of-body"" example of handsome director Winston Rekert (as Paul Sharpe)\'s newly discovered ""astral body"" experience; it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight. Young Andrew Bednarski (as Matthew Sharpe), being a kid, draws pictures of ""The Blue Man"", as his murder spree begins. Handsome detective John Novak (as Stewart Kaufman) discovers the victims are connected to Mr. Rekert. Mr. Novak\'s investigation leads to the supernatural; a prime example of which is Karen Black (as Janus), with whom Rekert fears he is falling in love.<br /><br />Several in the cast perform well; but, ""The Blue Man"" winds up tying itself up in a knot. Aka ""Eternal Evil"", its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good."\n123,"Ah yes the 1980s , a time of Reaganomics and Sly , Chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies . At the time I couldn`t believe how movies like RAMBO , MISSING IN ACTION and UNCOMMON VALOR ( And who can forget the ridiculous RED DAWN ? ) made money at the box office , they`re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly . TROMA`S WAR is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you`ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place ? Of course not . TROMA`S WAR lacks any sort of sophistication - though it does make the point that there`s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones - and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up . Maybe it is ?"\n124,"This tale based on two Edgar Allen Poe pieces (""The Fall of the House of Usher"", ""Dance of Death"" (poem) ) is actually quite creepy from beginning to end. It is similar to some of the old black-and-white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house (for example, ""The Cat and the Canary"", ""The Old Dark House"", ""Night of Terror"" and so on). Boris Karloff plays a demented inventor of life-size dolls that terrorize the guests. He dies early in the film (or does he ? ) and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences. I won\'t go into too much detail here, but it is definitely a must-see for fans of old dark house mysteries.<br /><br />Watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room.<br /><br />Dan Basinger 8/10"\n125,"I am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie! Jack Frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by A-pix entertainment, and without exception, everything this company deals with is pure crap! First, and this is very important, never ever watch this movie sober! Why would you? Unlike many other entertaingly bad movies, this one I feel was made intentionally bad. I just can\'t get over how fake the snowman is, which is why its always shown only briefly, the way it moves is the best! This movie is Waaaaaaaaaaay better than the Michael Keaton piece of crap, becuz that was made too be a good movie, and that version is as bad as this."\n126,"""Revolt of the Zombies"" proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn\'t necessarily make lightning strike twice.<br /><br />The Halperin brothers, responsible for the horror classic ""White Zombie"", made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close-ups of Lugosi\'s eyes from that previous film. There was a court battle with the ""White Zombie"" film\'s rights owners, who didn\'t want the Halperins to be able to use the word \'zombie\' in this title. That word was the only thing that could help this film, because, as everyone knows, bad films can make much more money simply by having the word \'Zombie\' appear in the title. Knowing what Victor Halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting. It seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle. The zombies here seem not to be true walking dead, but simply hypnotism victims.<br /><br />Wanna create a mind-controlled army of zombies? Be ready to crack a few eggs, including your own.<br /><br />THE LAME PLOT: Man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend, whom she loves, jealous. This sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind-control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn\'t worth spit.<br /><br />This includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments I\'ve ever seen. You\'d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming. The acting isn\'t even good. This movie makes the racially insensitive ""King of the Zombies"" (which appeared on the same double bill DVD I bought) seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic. It makes the atomic age sci-fi alien zombie cheese fest ""Invisible Invaders"" seem like a serious drama. This is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a Korean film fan twitch (South Korean films are often known for their use of melodrama). The credits list the ironically named company Favorite Films. I\'m not sure whose favorite film this would be, but they\'re obviously an idiot.<br /><br />Not recommended for fans of: zombies, romance, or classic films."\n127,"The complaints are valid, to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women. I am okay with these night time soaps, like Grey\'s Anatomy, or Ugly Betty, or West Wing, because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end. However, when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men (Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, and Chris Lowell) into sexual tension and romps, and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so-called little hospital, it seems like General Hospital...or a female counterpart to Baywatch. That was what men wanted and they had it, so if this is what women want so be it, but the idea that this is a high brow show (or something men will watch) is unrealistic."\n128,"This movie was one of the best movies that I have seen this year. I didn\'t see any cameos in the movie, but it is still pretty good. It is similar to Anchorman in the humor department, but I think this is a better put together movie. It actually has a point. If you are going to see a whole bunch of T&A you will be disappointed. Just a well put together movie!!!! If you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor, you will find this to be a really good movie. I definitely think that Ebert and Roeper\'s review of this movie is right on. I mean, I don\'t really like Ebert on most movies, but this is the movie that I will agree about. The movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there. There is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie. Yea, sure, you get laughed at when it is found out about, but it still suggests that you wait. Steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet, it is still funny."\n129,"I remember seeing this film in the mid 80\'s thought it a well paced and well acted piece. I now work quite often in Berkeley Square and the had to get a copy of DVD to remind myself how little the area has changed, although my office is newish it just 30 seconds away from ""the bank"". Even Jack Barclays car dealership is still there selling Bentleys and Rolls Royces.<br /><br />It\'s look like the DVD is due a Region 2 release soon. The region 1 copy I is very poor quality. Let\'s hope they\'ve cleaned it up.<br /><br />Only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but I guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with."\n130,"Two hours ago I was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography. It is quite understandable how it won the prize of Best Camera in Cannes 2000. Close ups predominated it. Close ups of walls, humans and of many other things. The warm colored lighting (which is also usually by the director) gave the movie a warm atmosphere. Only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it. An interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time. Each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie. Silence and slow movements characterize the movie. Some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close-ups. Not only Tony Leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since Maggie Cheung was also so brilliant. I wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes. The story was also connected somehow with the history of Hong Kong and the region the 1960s. This prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end. In short I would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema."\n131,"Luckily for Bill Murray this is such a light-weight project since he pretty much has to carry it. Meatballs is the story of low-rent Camp Northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another. Then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named Camp Mohawk which culminates in a two-day Olympiad competition. Above it all is Bill Murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut.<br /><br />The film is sprinkled with medium-sized laughs, chuckles, and more than a few guffaws along the way. The biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director. Three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he\'s sleeping. Morty, or ""Micky"" as everyone calls him, wakes up along the side of a road, strung up in some trees several feet above the ground, and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake! There are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another, but this is a PG rated film with little in the way of raunchiness.<br /><br />The film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named Rudy who is played by Chris Makepeace. Of course it\'s up to Murray to teach the kid how to open up, and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the Olympiad. The sentimentality of Rudy\'s situation seems tacked on to a great degree. Notice how when Murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him, ""you must be the short depressed kid we ordered."" Makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or Murray was just ad-libbing while the cameras were rolling. In other words, Murray might as well have said to Makepeace, ""you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn\'t fit in."" But before it\'s all over, Murray\'s performance makes this plot device more than bearable. He really seems to have some good chemistry with Makepeace.<br /><br />The film culminates with the games between the two rival camps. Very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable, but ""it just doesn\'t matter"". This is a pretty good film on many levels. Don\'t let the absurd 5.6 rating this film is currently getting scare you off. Murray will keep you laughing throughout. Just be warned..... avoid the sequels!!!! Especially the one with Corey Feldman!! 8 of 10 stars.<br /><br />The Hound."\n132,"""The Danish Bladerunner"" is boldly stated on the box. Are you kidding me?! This film is a complete drag. When I\'m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen, I usually pause the vcr, so I won\'t miss anything. Not this time. I actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge, just so I wouldn\'t have to go back. Why the hell is there not ONE sciencefiction-scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work? It\'s mindboggling. One of the premises of film, is that our hero (who\'s a hacker), has a little computerassistant to help him (the Microsoft Office paperclip finally caught on in the future). When he loses the assistant in the movie, he\'s helpless and can\'t get into any computers. HE\'S A HACKER! It\'s like saying, that you can\'t drive your car, if you don\'t have your lucky ""driving-cap"" on. I won\'t even go into the lightning-effect when he recieves electroshock..."\n133,"This movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off. I know these horrible things happen in the world, but Im watching movies based on the fact that what Im watching is not actually happening on the screen. These live animal clips are not meant to be in movies, they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species.<br /><br />This should be banned and destroyed. I have also contacted Netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market!!<br /><br />This movie should be removed from the public. The person who made this movie needs psychological help."\n134,"Anyone who thinks Kool Moe Dee, Carol Alt, and Corey Feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something I\'d love to try sometime. Where to begin: lousy soundtrack, hammy acting, ""action"" in places. This is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed-up has-been and never-was\'s love to star in. I actually felt embarrassed for the ""stars"" in this ""film"". The only thespian missing to top this turd was Gary Coleman, who if he would have been in the movie, would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad, rather than just plain bad.<br /><br />There was one part in the film where Carol Alt screamed, ""DO YOU THINK I\'M AN IDIOT?!?"" Yes, Carol, I do, your agent does, and PLEASE for the love of all that is decent and holy... GO AWAY and stop degrading yourself like this! This film is something Anna Nicole Smith would take part in.<br /><br />I would tell you what the plot was, but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article, plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway, so I barely paid attention."\n135,"This film could have been a decent re-make, and gosh knows it tried (or Ms. English tried). Assembling talented actors together with a successful & experienced writer/director should be a formula for a decent film. But Ms. English\'s experience - according to her IMDb bio - is exclusively limited to television work, and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film.<br /><br />I am surprised that none of the reviews I have read mention what I found most unlikeable about this film, and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential: it looked and felt like it was made for television. To give some credit to Ms. English, many of the jokes that simply did NOT work on a movie screen would have been terrific on TV (and maybe a laugh track would have helped). So much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on TV but looked awkward or odd on a big screen. If the whole film had been chopped up into a mini-series or a sit-com, I think it could have worked. But this is cinema and sadly Ms. English\'s talents didn\'t translate. I cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors & the writers that I felt like I came out of the theater half shriveled! Meg Ryan is her usual perky, cute self (except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face), but where did she have a chance to use her talent?! She has made films where she doesn\'t recreate her stereo-typed role and done them well... but not here. Annette Bening seemed to simply go through the motions - such a great talent and yet such a poor performance! I enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance, and it was sad to see. What worked in this film in the 1930s doesn\'t translate to the 2000s, and no one helped Ms. English get the changes & updates or subtleties right. If only she (as writer, director AND producer) had reached out for some assistance, I think it could have been good. But it was not.<br /><br />It\'s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone\'s time & money! This New Yorker cartoon I saw yesterday is appropriate: A few movie execs are having a meeting & the caption reads: ""Let\'s remake a classic with worse everything!"""\n136,"I find it very intriguing that Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy\'s sister and the cousin of these women, would encourage the Maysles\' to make ""Big Edie"" and ""Little Edie"" the subject of a film. They certainly could be considered the ""skeletons"" in the family closet. The extra features on the DVD include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women. I\'d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating. (i.e. ""Are they nuts? Or am I missing something?""). This movie is hard to come by. Netflix does not have it. Facets does, though."\n137,"C\'mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode. It\'s just an old 60\'s TV show ! This episode of Star Trek is notable because of the most serious babe (Yeoman Barrow\'s) ever used on Star Trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location. Unlike the TNG and Voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages.<br /><br />This use of an outdoor location (and babe) gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show.<br /><br />Except a few notable exceptions i.e ""The city on the edge of forever"" , ""assignment Earth"" and ""Tomorrow is Yesterday"" The old series of Star Trek needs to be seriously moth-balled and put out of it\'s boring misery. Half a dozen good episodes from 79 is quite a poor batting average.<br /><br />This is typical of the boring stuff Gene Roddenberry produced back then actually, contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on, he actually made a LOT of rubbish! He doesn\'t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Irwin Allen for example.<br /><br />Just look at the set of the bridge of the Enterprise from a modern point of view. They used wobbly plywood for the floor, cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels. You can clearly see the folds in the paper ! Every expense spared or what !"\n138,"I just watched this movie on it\'s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia. I liked (not loved) ""Mork & Mindy"" as a kid, mostly for Robin William\'s zany energetic performance. This movie made me remember why. Was the original show great? Not really, but Robin certainly was. Which brings me to this movie.<br /><br />I was pleasantly surprised, expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show (which in a way it was). But, of course, the real focus was on Robin. It was interesting to see Robin\'s journey from struggling street jester to national t.v star, and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife. And my hat is off to star Chris Diamantopoulos as he portrayed Mr. Williams with integrity, sensitivity, and heart; not just a cute impression, although it was even dead-on. (On an unrelated note, I noticed that Robin\'s struggles were in some ways similar to Andy Kaufman, who was under-appreciated by network t.v. and held back creatively, but that\'s the ""Taxi"" behind the scenes biopic.)<br /><br />All in all, this was a very enjoyable flick, in which I felt I got to know a little more of the man behind the Orkan. The acting was solid by all- never melodramatic like I suspected- and the story moved along well. Performances that were particularly good were by those who played Garry Marshall and John Belushi (the scene in which Belushi heckles Robin was a hoot!). Not a great masterpiece by any means (I would have liked to have seen a tad more about Pam Dawber), but definitely watchable, especially for those Robin Williams and ""Mork & Mindy"" fans out there. Nanoo, nanoo!"\n139,"I caught this film on AZN on cable. It sounded like it would be a good film, a Japanese ""Green Card"". I can\'t say I\'ve ever disliked an Asian film, quite the contrary. Some of the most incredible horror films of all time are Japanese and Korean, and I am a HUGE fan of John Woo\'s Hong Kong films. I an not adverse to a light hearted films, like Tampopo or Chung King Express (two of my favourites), so I thought I would like this. Well, I would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious, badly acted film ever again.<br /><br />I think the director Steven Okazaki must have spiked the water with Quaalude, because no one in this film had a personality. And when any of the characters DID try to act, as opposed to mumbling a line or two, their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake. I honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before...the ONLY person who sounded genuine was Brenda Aoki.. I find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy, because I didn\'t laugh once. Even MORE surprising is that CBS morning news called this ""a refreshing breath of comedy"". It was neither refreshing, nor a breath of comedy. And the ending was very predictable, the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things.<br /><br />AVOID this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting. I actually think that ""Spike of Bensonhurst"" is a better acted film than this...and I walked out half way through that film!"\n140,"Before I begin, let me get something off my chest: I\'m a huge fan of John Eyres\' first film PROJECT: SHADOWCHASER. The film, a B-grade cross of both THE TERMINATOR & DIE HARD, may not be the work of a cinematic genius, but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit (& spawned two sequels & a spin off).<br /><br />Judge and Jury begins with Joseph Meeker, a convicted killer who was sent to Death Row following his capture after the so-called ""Bloody Shootout"" (which seems like a poor name for a killing spree – Meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store), being led to the electric chair. There is an amusing scene where Meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love (who was killed during the shootout), expressing his revenge for the person who killed her – Michael Silvano, a washed-up football star who spends his days watching his son Alex practicing football with his high school team (and ends up harassing his son\'s coach). But once executed, Meeker returns as a revenant (or as Kelly Perine calls ""a hamburger without the fries""), whose sole aim is to get his revenge, which basically means making Silvano\'s life a misery.<br /><br />Let me point out the fact that Judge and Jury is not a true horror film. It is a supernatural action film, with Meeker chasing Silvano, using his ability to change form (which amounts to David Keith dressing up as everything from an Elvis impersonator, a French chef (with an accent as bad as his moustache), a drag queen, a clown & a stand-up comedian), a shotgun which fires explosive rounds & an invulnerability to death (although that doesn\'t stop Martin Kove from shooting Keith with a Desert Eagle), to pay Silvano back for killing Meeker\'s wife.<br /><br />Director John Eyres does not seem interested in characterisations, instead focusing solely on action scenes, which the film has plenty of. But that is the film\'s main flaw, since there\'s nothing to connect the action scenes together. The acting is surprisingly good, with Keith delivering the best performance, supported ably by Kove, as well as Paul Koslo, who plays the washed-up cop quite well. Kelly Perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse."\n141,"Ye Lou\'s film Purple Butterfly pits a secret organization (Purple Butterfly) against the Japanese forces in war torn Shanghai. Ding Hui (Zhang Ziyi) and her ex-lover Hidehiko Itami (Toru Nakamura) find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting.<br /><br />I agree with the reviewer from Paris. The film substitutes a convoluted, semi-historical conflict for a plot, without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes. The sudden time shifting doesn\'t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless. Normally I don\'t mind dark movies, but the absence of light, the bone-jarringly shaky camera footage, and the generally bad film-making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in. I also agree with the viewer from Georgia that this film ""has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography"", but I don\'t think that helps the movie. The backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the 20th Century, and I don\'t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a Michael Bay film. The overly melodramatic moments don\'t add to its watchability.<br /><br />The actors are all suitably melancholy. Zhang Ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films, brooding and looking generally annoyed. However, at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love-making scene since Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton in The Terminator.<br /><br />All in all, a very disappointing film, especially seeing as how it comes from the director of Suzhou He. 2/10"\n142,"After hearing about George Orwell\'s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life, I\'m now 37, but never having read the book, I am totally confused as to what I\'ve just seen.<br /><br />I am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel, as i\'m sure most are, but only through hearsay and quotes. Without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery, and even with it I\'m still no more educated about the story of 1984 than I was before I watched it.<br /><br />On the plus side...<br /><br />The cinematography is amazing, Hurt & Burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate. The prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making.<br /><br />Now for the down sides, and there are plenty...<br /><br />There is a war going on, (at least as far as the propaganda is concerned), but why & with who? Nothing is explained. There are a couple of names bandied about (Eurasia etc), but they mean nothing without explanation.<br /><br />Who is Winston? what does he do? where does he come from? where does he work? why is he changing news reports? why isn\'t he on the front line? Why doesn\'t he eat the food in the canteen? What is that drink he\'s drinking through the entire film? Why is he so weak & ill? Why isn\'t he brainwashed like the rest of them? What\'s the deal with his mother & sister? What happened to his father? A little back story would have been nice, no scrub that, essential for those like myself that haven\'t read the book. Without it, this is just a confusing and hard to follow art-house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on.<br /><br />The soundtrack was dis-jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the Big Brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on. I accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it\'s very annoying all the same.<br /><br />Also, I know this has been mentioned before, but why all the nudity? It just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage.<br /><br />I personally can\'t abide the way Hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days. We are not all brainwashed simpletons, but this is a few steps too far the other way. I can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you\'ve read the book because if this film really is the \'literal translation\' that I\'ve seen many people say, I would find it very hard to understand why 1984 is hailed as the classic it is.<br /><br />There\'s no denying that it was light years ahead of it\'s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date, (maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be?), but many sci-fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline.<br /><br />I guess I have to do what I should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i\'m to make any sense out of this.<br /><br />All in all, very disappointed in something I\'ve waited for years to watch."\n143,"This cute animated short features two comic icons - Betty Boop and Henry.<br /><br />Henry is the bald, slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks.<br /><br />Well here he does speak!<br /><br />He wants to get a puppy from Betty Boop\'s pet store, and when he is left to mind the store - some hilarious hijinks ensue.<br /><br />Betty sings a song about pets, Henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey, but everything works out in the end."\n144,"I just got back from this free screening, and this ""Osama Witch Project"" is the hands-down worst film I\'ve seen this year, worse than even ""Catwoman"" - which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction.<br /><br />In ""September Tapes,"" a ""film crew"" of ""documentary journalists"" heads to Afghanistan - despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip, the conditions and, oh yeah, the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife\'s death on Sept. 11 - to track down Osama bin Laden.<br /><br />They ""made"" eight tapes on their journey, which now ""document"" their travels and, of course, their attempts to kill the terrorist leader. (The eight tapes, thankfully, all end at points significant in the narrative, which is convenient for a ""documentary."")<br /><br />The psychotic, idiotic protagonist - who is given to long, significant speeches that he probably learned watching ""MacGyver"" - cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps. I don\'t know why he didn\'t just wear a sign on his back that said ""Shoot me.""<br /><br />The crew\'s translator, supposedly their sensible voice-of-reason, does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom. <br /><br />You wish they\'d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons.<br /><br />Around ""Tape 4,"" I began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew."\n145,"I remember seeing this film in the theater in 1984 when I was 6 years-old (you do the math). I absolutely loved it. I was Tarzan for the 2 weeks after seeing it (climbing the furniture, jumping around making monkey sounds). It started a fascination with Tarzan and monkeys, but oddly enough a longer lasting love for Christopher Lambert (keep in mind that I saw Highlander very shortly after this). 1984 was the last time I saw that film, until about a month ago. It happened to be on cable as I was getting ready for bed at 3:30 am and even though it was late and I was tired and I had to be at work at 9:00 am, I stayed up to watch this movie that I loved as a kid. <br /><br />Upon viewing it I realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that, that Andie MacDowell\'s voice was dubbed by someone else. Ian Holme was of course solid as usual, and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up, but what was most surprising was how good Lambert was as Tarzan. He was great! The depth he managed to capture in so few lines, his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark, were just amazing.<br /><br />As I stated earlier I am Lambert fan, but I\'m used to Highlander, The Hunted and Fortress. In this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again.<br /><br />So to make a short story way too long, I was a little disappointed that the film was not that good, but I was glad to see that Lambert was good and I do not regret staying up until 6:00am to see it."\n146,"A family is traveling through the mid West. There\'s widower Ben (Charles Bateman), his girlfriend Nicky (Ahna Capri) and Ben\'s little daughter K.T. (Geri Reischl). Then hit a town named Hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely. Their car breaks down and they\'re forced to stay. They soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil.<br /><br />The story is not that good. People just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end. Also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end. The acting is pretty poor too. Bateman and Capri are bland and everybody else is about the same. Only old pros Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones give good performances. Still this movie does work. It forgoes blood and gore (there\'s some but this is PG) and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere. The acting hampers a lot of it but it still works. Martin especially chews the scenery in his role. I can\'t explain exactly why I (sort of) like this movie but it did work on me. It\'s a quiet kind of horror that isn\'t made anymore. Hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered. A 7."\n147,"Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman\'s flight from her husband--and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her. We learn little about this woman\'s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late; she\'s also recently learned she\'s pregnant, which has further complicated her heart (she doesn\'t want to be a complacent wifey, despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone). She meets two men on her journey: a former college football hero who--after an accident during a game--has been left with permanent brain damage, and a sexy, strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life. The clear, clean landscapes (as photographed by the very talented Wilmer Butler) are astutely realized, as are the characters. Shirley Knight, James Caan, and Robert Duvall each deliver strong, gripping performances, most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms. Some scenes (such as Knight\'s first call home from a pay-phone, or her first night alone with Caan where they play \'Simon Says\') are almost too intimate to watch. Coppola toys with reality, turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we\'ve been made privy to. He allows scenes to play out, yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy (there are at least two or three very frisky moments). It\'s a heady endeavor--so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later. Some may shun Coppola\'s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony, however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings. *** from ****"\n148,This movie was not very well directed. they almost totally disregarded the book.I guess they were trying 2 save time. the only upside 2 me was that the actor who played finny was cute. Some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book. Major parts of the book were once again chopped out.You lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely. Also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary. Also i was surprised ( not pleasantly) by a new character that was no where in the book.One of my favorite characters (leper) was poorly interpreted and portrayed. He seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book. Over all disappointing.\n149,"The buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make Kevin Bacon disappear. Sadly, they stopped there. They should have continued to make the script disappear, then the silly set, and finally every visible element of this film. Because, there\'s nothing else there to show.<br /><br />Gary Thompson and Andrew Marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film. I don\'t really think they exist. I think they bought this script at ""Scripts-R-Us"", where you buy a standard blank ""Monster Movie"" script and just fill in the blanks. There\'s a monster stalking us. Let\'s split up. (They actually ""let\'s split up"" in this movie). Hit Alien/Giant-bug/Monster/Invisible-man with crowbar. Not dead yet. Burn Huge-rabbit/Shark/Invisible-man in unsurvivable fire. Not dead yet. You know, the standard stuff. Even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie (IR glasses, spraying with something like paint) were handled badly. <br /><br />What is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie. They psychological issues for the subject, the deterioration of the mind due to the process, treating an invisible subject, and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than 2 seconds and would have been far more interesting. Had there been any desire to save Kevin Bacon in the end, it would have been a much better movie. All in all, it stunk.<br /><br />I would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie, but I don\'t want to do any spoilers. Suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don\'t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than..."\n150,"A young girl becomes a war-time marine\'s pen-pal, and when he visits at war\'s end expecting someone a bit more ""available,"" comic complications ensue. All ultimately works out well, naturally, but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery. Errol Flynn\'s dead-on impression of Humphrey Bogart from ""Casablanca"" is a highlight, as are various send-ups of his own swashbuckling image (the ""jumping"" scene in the kitchen with Forrest Tucker is a riot). It is Tucker, though, who ""tucks"" the movie under his arm, lowers his head and barrels over the goal line. He demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in ""F-Troop"" and imparts a liveliness and energy that Flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance. Eleanor Parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued, and little Patti Brady charms as Tucker\'s actual pen-pal friend. A fine, lightweight ""coming home"" comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining."\n151,"This movie is a perfect adaptation of the English Flick Unfaithful. Ashmit plays the role of Richard Gere, Emran that of Olivier and Malikka the perfect cheating wife role of Lane.They have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the Indian masses. <br /><br />Even then the movie has got the full traces of Unfaithful, though it couldn\'t catch up with the original. It was a cheap soft porn of the Bollywood lovers, where Mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show. Emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer. In the future if the Indian Directors plan to remake a English movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the Indian Censors. Though the film bombed at the box office, the actors got the undue recognition. In future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a Oscar nominated film. <br /><br />All said, this is not a family film, so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family."\n152,"Robert Altman\'s downbeat, new-fangled western from Edmund Naughton\'s book ""McCabe"" was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following. Aside from a completely convincing boom-town scenario, the characters here don\'t merit much interest, and the picture looks (intentionally) brackish and unappealing. Bearded Warren Beatty plays a turn-of-the-century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel; once the profits start coming in, Beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action. Altman creates a solemn, wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place, but the action in this sorry little town is limited--most of the story being made up of vignettes--and Altman\'s pacing is deliberately slow. There\'s hardly a statement being made (just the opposite, in fact) and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds. It\'s a self-defeating picture, and yet, in an Altman-quirky way, it wears defeat proudly. ** from ****"\n153,"What seemed at first just another introverted French flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me, on second viewing, a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation.<br /><br />Spoiler of sorts follows.<br /><br />Poor Cedric; he apparently didn\'t know what hit him. Poor audience; we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch. These two guys just didn\'t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter. As much as Mathieu and Cedric were sexually attracted to each other, the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for Mathieu, an intellectual being, to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach.<br /><br />On a purely technical note, I loved the camera action in this film. Subtitles were totally unnecessary, even though my French is ""presque rien."" I could watch it again without the annoying English translation and enjoy it even more. This was a polished, very professionally made motion picture. Though many scenes seem superfluous, I rate it nine out of ten."\n154,"I don\'t think I\'ve ever gave something a 1/10 rating, but this one easily gets the denomination. I find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes. It\'s not just that the jokes are so bad, but combine that with the fact that Carson Daily has zero charisma, can\'t set up or finish a punchline, and you\'ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach.<br /><br />I have watched the show, never in its entirety, but many times still. It just creeps up on me after Conan. I usually watch a minute or two just to see if Carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever.<br /><br />Actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest, it\'s just that, an interview. I feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that\'s screaming, ""get me the hell away from this freak!"" I do recommend watching the show, not for a laugh, but to ponder, how he got on the air and what he\'s still doing there. Watch as much as you can, I think you will find its complete awkwardness...interesting."\n155,"In the standard view, this is a purely awful movie. However, it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale. I can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as I did watching this movie. Andy Griffith\'s ghost dressed in Native American garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime. I wouldn\'t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it, but if you happen to be laying on the couch at 3 in the morning and it comes on TV, check it out."\n156,"From the film\'s first shot - Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn, thus invoking all the clichés cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong-minded rebellious female character in period drama - I knew I was in for something to make me want to kill myself.<br /><br />Joe Wright seemed not only to have not read the book, but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact Jane Austen\'s subtle, nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling, delicate social interaction in eighteenth century English drawing-rooms, but a sort of U-certificate Wuthering Heights. Thus we were treated to every scene between Elizabeth and Darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason, in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain. Not to mention that Jane Austen, and in particular P & P, is not about passion, sexual tension or love. It\'s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society. Which was completely ignored, so that the Bennets\' house was a rambunctious, chaotic place where everybody shouts at once, runs around, leaves their underwear on chairs, and pigs wander happily through the house; the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a Matrix Reloaded style dance-orgy; and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety.<br /><br />The genius of Jane Austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety, and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap. So both the brilliance of Jane Austen and the very factor that allows her plots - particularly in this film - to function was completely erased. Subtlety in general was nowhere int his film, sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances.<br /><br />It was so obviously trying to be a *serious* film. The humour - which IS Pride & Prejudice, both Austen\'s methodology and her appeal - was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po-faced melodrama, and when it was allowed in, was handled so clumsily. Pride & Prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points, yes, but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour, they are embedded in it. You can\'t lose Jane Austen\'s technique, leaving only the bare bones of the story, and expect the themes to remain. Not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy-handed mystical-numinous fauxbrow cinematography.<br /><br />Elizabeth Bennett is supposed to be a woman, an adult, mature and sensible and clear-sighted. Keira Knightley played the first half of the film like an empty-headed giggling schoolgirl, and the second half like an empty-headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine. Elizabeth\'s wit, her combative verbal exchanges, her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody\'s follies including her own, her strength and composure, and her fantastic clear-sightedness were completely lost and replaced with ... what? A lot of giggling and staring into the distance? Rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs, she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation - and not genuinely raging, either; no, these were petulant hissy fits. And where the great strength of Austen\'s Elizabeth (at least in Austen\'s eyes) was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety, Knightley\'s Elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention. Furthermore, she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong-minded, and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it. An astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance. In which quest for blandness and weakness, she was ably matched by Matthew Macfayden.<br /><br />Donald Sutherland as Mr Bennet seemed weak, ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes Mr Bennet so fascinating and tragic. His special bond with Lizzie, as the only two sensible people in a world of fools, was completely lost, not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools, and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact. Mr Bingley was no longer amiable and well-meaning to the point of folly, but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs, and the woman who was playing Jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all. The script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of Jane Austen - delivered with remarkable clumsiness - and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy.<br /><br />Just get the BBC adaptation on DVD and save yourself the heartache."\n157,"I\'ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is. Life sometimes has boring patches, no real plot, and not necessarily a happy ending. ""A River Runs Through It"" is the perfect name for this film (and Norman Maclean\'s novel). Life ebbs and flows like a river, and it has it\'s rough spots, but it is a wonderful trip.<br /><br />Robert Redford brings a lot to the film. His narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly. As a director, he is restrained and calm, and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes. As for the acting, Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt work surprising well as brothers. I don\'t know quite how to describe Tom Skerritt and Brenda Blethyn\'s performances, except that they truly feel real. ""A River Runs Through It"" is a wonderful film.<br /><br />8.6 out of 10"\n158,"The story is very trustworthy and powerful. The technical side of the movie is quite fine.. even the directing of it. The main problem is with the castings, that turned that movie into almost another local and regular cliché with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression. Beside the small role of the father, Rafael (played impressively by Asi Dayan), all other actors were unfortunately not in their best. The role of the elder Blind girl, played by Taly Sharon, was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role. therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile. There were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie. But after all it\'s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future."\n159,"This movie was not so much promoted here in Greece,even though it got good actors , great script and rather good photograph was not a so called ""blockbuster"" movie in my Country. The movie itself is very powerful,it\'s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home-village after been released from a 5yo prison time(drugs) The end is rather sad.... Mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well... Lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course Hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency... 7 out of 10 because very few Greek movies can make such an impression!"\n160,"MYSTERY MEN has got to be THE stupidest film I\'ve ever seen, but what a film! I thought it was fabulous, excellent and impressive. It was funny, well-done and nice to see ridiculous Super Heroes for a change! And being able to pull it off! This was great! I\'ll definitely watch it again!"\n161,"You know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of Listerine or whatever it is and he\'s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink? That\'s a great metaphor for this movie. I kept watching, even though it was really difficult. But keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling. This movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I should have spit it out when I had the chance.<br /><br />The premise is corny enough to be fun. For the first time in like a thousand years, Gargoyles have returned to Romania, and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead. It\'s up to Michael Pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the Gargoyles run amok. Unfortunately, the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads. The best acting is done by the CG Gargoyles.<br /><br />In the end, this movie feels like a poor man\'s Van Helsing. If you check your brain at the door, this might get you through a dreary Monday night. I gave it 3 out of 10 stars."\n162,"I can\'t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life. i laughed a couple of times. ( probably because of how stupid it was ) If someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn\'t. the plot was so horrible , it made no sense , and the acting was so bad that i couldn\'t even tell if they were trying. that movie was terrible rating: F"\n163,"This is one of a rarity of movies, where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka. To be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man, Mo Ogrodnik, and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film.<br /><br />The cinematic aspect of Wolfgang Something\'s photography seems to have left out both close-ups and breasts. Mo and Wolfgang\'s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses, plastic peens holding passion. There\'s also beetle banging. As Violet would have put it: ""This (plastic peen) goes up your butt"". The rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome. <br /><br />Alright. So if you are still reading, let us explain who we are. Mo Ogrodnik teaches at NYU and we are a group of her students, who, finishing a film class with her, decided to get poop- faced and watch here directorial debut. She also wrote Uptown Girls. I can\'t tell you how much that\'s been hammered into our skulls. So this movie is quite the experience. At the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie. <br /><br />About 13 minutes into this game, none of us could see straight. The sheer amount of Dido\'s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant.There was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a Kurt Cobain lookalike with absolutely no context, save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh-so-naturally reading a local newspaper. Because that\'s what we all do. The heart-shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of Lolita. And something about that provocative scene of the nude chin-up boy suggests the director\'s history of homosexual pornographic experiments. We wish we were kidding.<br /><br />Enough intellectual contemplation. ON TO THE DRINKING GAME! This will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one. It\'s very simple, and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care.<br /><br />The Mo Ogrodnik/Ripe Drinking Game: 1. Every time you see anything related to pornography, take a drink. 2. Every time you see auteur Mo Ogrodnik\'s name appear, take a drink. 3. Sex. 4. (plastic peen) require two drinks. 5. Any time somebody points a gun at another character, take a drink. -At this point you will probably need to refill/pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body.- 6. Any time there is blood (INCLUDING ""LADY BLOOD""), please take a sip! 7. The underused hula-hoop girl requires one drink per second. 8. Gratuitous use of the ""magic black man"" requires one drink. 9. If you can\'t figure out the through-line, KEEP DRINKING, Beyotch. 10. Whenever you are able to predict a line, take a drink. Trust us. It\'s easy. <br /><br />That\'s it, internet! Keep drinking, and try not to get riped.<br /><br />-Hawaiian Smirnoff Punch, Jr."\n164,"Even though I\'m quite young, The Beatles are my ABSOLUTELY FAVOURITE band! I never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since I can remember.<br /><br />It\'s the sort of film that is worth trying the once. I can see why it wasn\'t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the TV. I was flicking through my TV guide and happened to see this film, it didn\'t much details except something like, \'John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet after The Beatles have broken up, Jared Harris Stars\'. I\'d never heard of him (he played John) or Aiden Quinn who played Paul. However they are certainly underestimated actors!<br /><br />The film had a slow start but as it developed, I could see how well Quinn but especially Harris played their characters. As a huge fan, I sort of know what the real Lennon and McCartney are like. The script was brilliant and Harris got Lennon\'s accent, personality and mannerisms spot on! Quinn played McCartney quite well but sometimes went into his Irish accent. THe make-up artists made them look excellent.<br /><br />THIS PARAGRAPH MAY BE COUNTED AS A *SPOILER*:<br /><br />As I mentioned before, it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film. I found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians. As for Lennon\'s rude line in the Italian restaurant, totally unnecessary. The ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever I watch it.<br /><br />It is quite different from the other biographical films I\'ve seen where it\'s about how The Beatles got together and became famous, and those never really did the characters that well. E.g. \'Backbeat\'.<br /><br />In conclusion, I would say, if you\'re a Beatles or John Lennon or Paul McCartney fan, give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise. At only about 95 minutes long, it\'s worth waiting for the film to develop.<br /><br />If anyone does know whether the meeting of 1976 really did happen please send it to the \'comments page\' for this film, I\'d be very interested."\n165,"An American Werewolf in London had some funny parts, but this one isn\'t so good. The computer werewolves are just awful: the perspective is all off, it\'s like seeing them through a distorting mirror. The writers step on the throat of many of their gags. American boy says to Parisian girl, ""Is there a cafe\' around here?"" Instead of just leaving it at that, they have to have the girl sigh and respond, ""This is Paris."""\n166,"Originally I was a Tenacious D fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off The P.O.D. and was rather disappointed. After watching the movie, my view was changed. The movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that KG and Jaybles portray in the movie. <br /><br />Much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies I have seen in the theaters lately. ex. Saw III (dull and dragging), Casino Royale (way to homo-erotic) which in prior installments I have really enjoyed <br /><br />If you enjoyed Borat, you will enjoy the tale of The Greatest Band on Earth"\n167,"This is just one more of those hideous films that you find on Lifetime TV which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner. Along with other such nasty films as ""The Burning Bed,"" ""Enough,"" or ""Monster,"" this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she\'s not such a bad person after all. Give us a break! Here\'s my question to the filmmakers: If LeTourneau were a man, and Vili were a 12 year old girl, would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person? Answer: Hell no.<br /><br />Imagine switching the genders in this film, and then you\'ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage. Were the genders switched, there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal. Instead, we\'d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl, his lascivious behavior landing him in prison, and his brainwashed victim suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. The only reason LeTourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex.<br /><br />Let\'s call a spade a spade. LeTourneau is a pedophile. Plain and simple. No ifs, ands or buts. She\'s a criminal who belongs in prison, and deserves our derision and contempt, but certainly not our pity or empathy."\n168,"The premise of this movie was decent enough, but with sub par acting, it was just bland and dull.<br /><br />SPOILERS The film does not work because of the nature of the death, it was accidental, so although it was a murder it wasn\'t like the guy set out to do it. Also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree. There is no emotion in this film. The first 20 minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister, and hearing her message. It was dull and boring.<br /><br />With some polishing, and better acting it could have been pretty good."\n169,"The Lives of the Saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of London as a bustling city of busy, quaint streets and sunshine. I was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere, but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere.<br /><br />Othello works for big, fat Mr. Karva, his crime-boss step-dad (at least I think that is what he is supposed to be because it\'s never really defined, but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers, so trust me, he\'s a prick) doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand-jobs. One of his colleagues is Runner, a black dude who is always dashing from A to B. Until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running. Runner dumps the lost boy in Othello\'s flat, where he promptly starts granting more wishes. Keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled, Karva has the boy kidnapped. But he isn\'t sure of what would really bring him happiness. Is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand-job? Either way, I don\'t want to see the little boy grant him the second.<br /><br />It just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes. The ending tries to be shocking but since there\'s hardly any back-story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience.<br /><br />Writer Tony Grisoni, a favourite of Terry Gilliam, tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell, ironically. If he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film. As it is, we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy. Who\'s origins are never revealed. That\'s just plain irritating! <br /><br />Aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score, this film has little to recommend."\n170,"I can\'t emphasize it enough, do *NOT* get this movie for the kids.<br /><br />For that matter, you\'d best spare the adults from it as well.<br /><br />All right, perhaps I\'m overexaggerating a little. This isn\'t the worst kids\' movie... no, let me rephrase that. This isn\'t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults FOR dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids (that would be ""Jack"", which I\'ve been meaning to review / gut like a fish).<br /><br />Adults won\'t learn anything surprising (well, if you must, fast-forward to just before the end credits for a Educational Bit about an Interesting Cosmic Phenominon). We don\'t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way. Well, duh, I could have told you that (so can four years of college at an art school, but I degress).<br /><br />I have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie. Most likely it will only upset them (we get to watch the moment when Russ was traumatized at eight years old). There\'s a better movie, ""Kiki\'s Delivery Service"", that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head. And the adults will like it too!<br /><br />By the way, there is a moment in the movie made with amature MST3K-ers in mind, if they think of that OTHER Bruce Willis movie with a sad little kid in it."\n171,"Is nothing else on TV? Are you really bored? Well, then watch Phat Beach. However, don\'t rent it and definitely DO NOT buy it. That would be a big mistake.<br /><br />I watched this on TV and found myself laughing at certain points. I did not laugh long and I did not laugh hard. However, there were subtle jokes and comments I laughed at. If you are looking for an extremely funny ""hood"" movie then watch Friday. If you are looking for a powerful emotional movie (something that this movie tries at..kind of) watch something like hoop dreams or Jason\'s Lyric. If you are lookin for some good black ""booty"" go watch a Dominique Simone porn flick, because the nudity in this movie is nearly non-existent. However, if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable, go ahead and watch it. You will be slightly amused.<br /><br />***3 out of 10***"\n172,"The Elegant Documentary -<br /><br />Don\'t watch this movie ... if you\'re an egotistical know-all student of physics. This much less than one percent (miniscule fraction) of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know.<br /><br />Do watch this movie! - If you\'re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than 99% of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including Relativity, Quantum, String and M-theory.<br /><br />What a brilliantly architected documentary. Starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a Universe of pure magic - and dimensions beyond. I have always had a huge appreciation of Mathematics. This movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you\'re about to fail the grade.<br /><br />The show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini-series split over three shows. It therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented. I found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence.<br /><br />We are all (and everything around us) is vibrational-energy with a natural tendency towards harmony. This movie may blow your mind - or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us (even with the Hubble Telescope) and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high-school. M-theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of \'possibility\'.<br /><br />It just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it\'s very nature move (by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting) out of the realm of Science and into the realm of Philisophy.<br /><br />You do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to God.<br /><br />Bravo Brian Greene. Well done indeed.<br /><br />P.S. If you\'re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the Universe and would like some more insight into the \'possibilities\' Quantum mechanics blended with Spirituality (of all things) can bring then I highly recommend that you also watch ""What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole"". Yes I know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a Shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn\'t seen one before (my eyes process light reflections just fine - I see things everyday that I\'ve never seen before) and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don\'t divide. But if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don\'t like and hang on to those that you do - there is a lot to like about this film.<br /><br />Then watch ""The Secret"" (2006 documentary about The Law of Attraction - search for IMDb title ""tt0846789""). This information just might change your life profoundly - forever. If you search deeper you might even find the Universe is talking to us with thought (if you\'ll listen) - and some are - and that is truly incredible. There is a modern day Jesus/Mohammad/Buddha (those, among others, that history suggests have communicated with the non-physical) alive today and she lives in Texas. I know some of you know what I\'m talking about.<br /><br />I do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but I have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the Universe as I do now."\n173,"In 1993, with the success of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, Warner Brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit-show with producing a feature-length movie, originally slated for Direct-To-Video, but bumped up to theatrical status. It would become known as Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Ten years after Phantasm, we have had an additional three feature-films released from the boys at the WB, Sub-Zero, Return of the Joker, and now, Mystery of the Batwoman joins the family.<br /><br />The plot is basic and in many ways similar to Mask of the Phantasm: A new female vigilante modeling herself after Batman has begun targeting operations run by Gotham mob boss Rupert Thorne and Oswald Cobblepot AKA The Penguin. Now, Batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the Batwoman before she crosses the line.<br /><br />The animation is the sleeker, futuristic style that was utilized for Batman: The Animated Series\' fifth and sixth seasons (AKA The New Batman Adventures). , it\'s quite nicely done, and just as sleek as Return of the Joker\'s animation. There is also some use of CGI, but it\'s minor compared to the overabundance of it in Sub-Zero. The music was alright. Different and exotic and similar to the Justice League score, although the points in the score when the old animated Batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans\' rodent-shaped hearts.<br /><br />Kevin Conroy, as always, does a wonderful job as Bruce Wayne and Batman. It\'s also great to have the old Batman: The Animated Series alumni back; that includes Bob Hastings (Commissioner Gordon), Robert Costanzo (Detective Bullock), Tara Strong (Barbara Gordon/Batgirl; her cameo hints at the romantic-relationship between her and Bruce that was mentioned in Batman Beyond), and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.(Alfred).<br /><br />Villains were also great - especially given that Rupert Thorne, the old mob boss from the original series, appears for the first time since the fourth season.<br /><br />Overall, while not quite reaching the standard set by Mask of the Phantasm ten years ago, MOTB carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated Batman films. And if you have the DVD and are a hardcore fan, you will love the five-minute short Chase Me."\n174,"I think this movie was supposed to be shocking. But the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it\'s been made ...and simply is. It\'s one-and-a-half hour of torment. Even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie (the five girls).<br /><br />Sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way, which is basically fine, since it\'s a horror-movie. And I (usually) like horror-movies. I\'ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se. However all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever. It\'s no spectacle other than that it\'s simply grotesque. It\'s so lame it even gets boring, and really quick too.<br /><br />The worst thing (if the above wasn\'t bad enough for ya) about this movie is that they\'ve tried to copy the Blair Whitch Project, by filming with cheap hand-held-cameras. But (again, this too) serves no end whatsoever. In the ""Blair Which"", sure enough, there\'s an explanation, namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch. In this film, there\'s no other explanation than: ""Hey ya\'ll we wanted this to LOOK LIKE the Blair Whitch!!"" The sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about. The girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can\'t make out what they\'re saying. Also, no effort has been made to make anything any better, sound-wise or other wise.<br /><br />Than finally, there\'s the soundtrack, which is just as bad as the rest, and varies from cheap euro-house to the worst grungy hard-rock...<br /><br />My advise: Don\'t watch this under ANY circumstances."\n175,"Why can\'t a movie be rated a zero? Or even a negative number? Some movies such as ""Plan Nine From Outer Space"" are so bad they\'re fun to watch. THIS IS NOT ONE. ""The Dungeon of Horror"" might be the worst movie I\'ve ever seen (some of anyway. I HAD to fast forward through a lot of it!). Fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age, there may be worse movies I\'ve seen, but thankfully, I can\'t remember them. The sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint. The special effects looked like a fifth grader\'s C+ diorama set in a shoebox. The movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the Marquis shoots and kills his servant. He then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim, who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it, without the gun having been reloaded! This movie was so bad my DVD copy only had name credits. I guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated. Though I guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn\'t needed. This movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as ""The Manipulator"", the worst movie I have ever seen with an actual (one time) Hollywood leading man-Mickey Rooney. The only time I would recommend watching ""The Dungeon of Harrow"" (or ""The Manipulator"" for that matter) would be if someone were to pay you. (I\'m kind of cheap) I\'d have to have $7 or $8 bucks for ""Dungeon"" and at least ten for ""Manipulator"". phil-the never out of the can cinematographer"\n176,"This movie took me by surprise. The opening credit sequence features nicely done animation. After that, we\'re plunged into a semi-cheesy production, betraying its low budget. The characters, typical American teens, are introduced slowly, with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this. By the time the shlitz hits the fan, we know each one of the characters, and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities. It\'s a slow uphill set-up, kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster. Thankfully, once the action kicks in, it\'s full blown old school HORROR! Steve Johnson\'s make-up effects are awesome. Equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films. And the scares are jolting. Kevin Tenney delivers his best movie ever, with heart-stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set-ups. The tongue-in-cheek, sometimes cheesy, humor marks this film as pure 80s horror, as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like ""Night of the Living Dead"" or ""Hills Have Eyes."" But for true horror fans, this one is worth checking out. Play it as the first entry on a double bill with the 1999 remake of ""House on the Haunted Hill."" The set-up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking?"\n177,"Though I\'d heard that ""Cama de Gato"" was the worst Brazilian movie of the decade, I watched it giving it a chance; after all, first-time director/producer/writer Alexandre Stockler managed to make his debut feature (shot in video) for just US$ 4,000 and -- though it looks even cheaper -- I can\'t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it (then as I watched it I realized why). But whatever chances you\'re ready to give to ""Cama de Gato"", they shrink to zero within 10 minutes: it\'s an unbelievably preposterous, verbose, ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray Brazilian upper-middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo-Nazis hooked on bad sex, drugs and violence (and they\'re made to look like closeted gays too), made with no visible trace of talent, imagination, expertise or notion of structure. Visually and aurally, it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on YouTube -- only here it lasts NINETY TWO (count\'em) minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness, and it\'s not even funny-bad.<br /><br />We\'ve all seen the story before: bored young guys want to have fun, go partying, take drugs and everything goes wrong -- there\'s gang-rape, spanking, murder, the accidental death (falling down the staircase!!) of the mother of one of the boys, culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill. Moral and literal garbage, get it? The film is heavily influenced by Larry Clark (especially ""Kids"" and ""Bully""), but Clark\'s films -- though also moralist and sexploitative -- are high-class masterworks compared to this crap.<br /><br />I don\'t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience\'s throat: Stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non-stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion -- you DO get numb-minded with so much babbling, yelling, inept direction, shaky camera and terrible acting going on. Stockler doesn\'t care a bit about technique (the quality of the images, framing, sound recording, soundtrack songs, dialog, sets, editing, etc is uniformly appalling), but he\'s a narcissistic control-freak: he anticipates the criticisms he\'s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie/cutie comments, and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far-fetched and phony it all is (I could relate to THAT). <br /><br />Despite his megalomaniac ambitions, Stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure -- he can\'t even decide if he wants gritty realism (hand-held video camera etc) or stylization (repetition of scenes, use of alternate takes, etc). Damn, he can\'t even decide WHERE to put his camera (there\'s use of subjective camera for the THREE leads)! The dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever; the plot exists simply to justify the director\'s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for. All you see is a filmmaker being hateful, preachy, condemning, moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent (or technique) to go with it.<br /><br />It\'s very disappointing to find Caio Blat in this mess. Certainly one of the most promising young film actors in Brazil, with his sleepy-eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall Sal Mineo\'s, Blat can be highly effective under good direction (as in ""Carandiru"", ""Lavoura Arcaica"", ""Proibido Proibir""). Here, he\'s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under-equipped ""actors"" in recent memory. He also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes (so goddawful they look rather like web-cam porn).<br /><br />The film opens and ends with real interviews with ""typical"" (?) middle-class youth -- Stockler wants us to take those interviews as ""proof"" of what he\'s trying to preach in fiction. But he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees, selecting a highlight of abject, racist, sexist, stupid statements (which only shows assholes exist everywhere). Stockler wants to prove that Brazilian middle-class youths are ALL present or future fascists BECAUSE they\'re middle-class and enjoy recreational drugs (is he saying all neo-fascists are on drugs?? Or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior?? I couldn\'t tell). <br /><br />With its dogmatic self-righteousness, headache-inducing technique and mind-bending boredom, ""Cama de Gato"" is bad for a 1,000 reasons but, above all, it\'s harmful in a very insidious manner: it gives detractors of Brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument. ""Cama de Gato"" is best unwatched, unmentioned, buried and forgotten."\n178,"An unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of The Secret of Nimh and The Land Before Time, this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon. I remember this very well from my childhood, it was funny and sad and very beautiful. Well it starts out a bit dark, a dog who escaped the pound, and gets killed by an old friend, ends up in Heaven, and comes back. But it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals. Some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons, like the dream sequence of Charlie, but everything else was okay,and the songs were fair. A memorable role of Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise, I just love that guy, ahehehe. And Judith Barsi of Jaws The Revenge, may God rest her soul, poor girl, she didn\'t deserve to die, but she is in Heaven now, all good people go to Heaven. Overall this is a very good animated movie, a Don Bluth classic enough to put anime and Disney to shame. Recommended for the whole family. And know this, if you have the original video of this, you\'ll find after the movie, Dom DeLuise has a very important and special message, gotta love that guy, ahehehe."\n179,"This movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general. It was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message, but the message was a cliché, hopeless mess to begin with. This movie falls on shameless environmental point, even making a self-righteous point of destroying an SUV and promoting Animal Planet.<br /><br />In sitting through this, I couldn\'t help but notice that Steve Carell got no more than a single truly funny line. The only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to Wanda Sykes. Her character gets frequent, cringe-worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit.<br /><br />Far from the brilliance of Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty blows its whole record-breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot. The movie spends the first half building up to the construction of Evan\'s ark, but by the end, we learn that the ark was completely meaningless, and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages. The movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark, flood, and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than God. Yes, God was trying to influence politics."\n180,"It is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance. I had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing. If you loved Bulgakov\'s book you would be, understandably, afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art-film project than for actually bringing the story\'s deeper meaning to the screen. There are a couple examples of this with the Master and Margarita. As complex and far-fetched as the story is, the movie leaves out nothing. It is as if the filmmaker read Bulgakov\'s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score--with not a note missed. Why can\'t we find such talent here in the U.S. ? So now my favorite book and movie have the same title."\n181,"This movie is very violent, yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters. It has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life. The movie start off with action star Leo Fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career, when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption, black mail and murder. This is where the killings start. From start finish Fong delivers in this must see action caper. This movie also co-stars Richard Roundtree.<br /><br />I really enjoyed this film as a child but as I got older I realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good. I would not recommend this film and the action is very, very bad."\n182,"The day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of Azumi\'s fate as an assassin, fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga.<br /><br />That\'s as poetical as I\'ll get when talking about Azumi 2: Death or Love, because when I cringed over the heavy sentimentality of House of Flying Daggers and complained about the credibility of Aya Ueto portraying a blood-driven assassin, after watching Azumi 2 I started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before.<br /><br />Not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience. In Azumi 1 we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics (which is their number one priority) as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape. But I won\'t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in Azumi\'s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma. By the way, Chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of Go Go, minus the cool weapon and sense of menace.<br /><br />This brings me to the final blow which is the action, simply disguised in the title as the \'Death\' side of the epic. In the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons. To no one\'s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily. In Azumi 1, the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between Azumi and Bijomaru in comparison to the fights in Azumi 2 was at least climaxed and worthwhile. Some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter. I am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both Azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched.<br /><br />The romance side of Azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution.<br /><br />As a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation, I won\'t lie and I\'ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first Azumi film, but I\'ll step right up and say that after watching Azumi 2, the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece. For what it\'s worth, Azumi 2: Death or Love could have gone straight to video, with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins, doing their best to restore the peace, with an unwavering courage to die trying."\n183,"This has to be the worst piece of garbage I\'ve seen in a while.<br /><br />Heath Ledger is a heartthrob? He looked deformed. I wish I\'d known that he and Naomi Watts are an item in real life because I spent 2 of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him. <br /><br />Orlando Bloom is a heartthrob? With the scraggly beard and deer-in-the-headlights look about him, I can\'t say I agree.<br /><br />Rachel Griffiths was her usual fabulous self, but Geoffrey Rush looked as if he couldn\'t wait to get off the set. <br /><br />I\'m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers? This is a far cry from Butch Cassidy, which actually WAS an entertaining film. This was trite, cliche-ridden and boring. We only stayed because we were convinced it would get better. It didn\'t.<br /><br />The last 10-15 minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious. Heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel, and women and children are dying because of their presence. That\'s not funny. But it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on, because all we could think of was the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I kept waiting for them to say ""I\'ll bite yer leg off!"" We were howling with laughter, as were several other warped members of the audience. When we left, pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was.<br /><br />I may not have paid cash to see this disaster (sneak preview), but it certainly wasn\'t free. It cost me 2 hours of my life that I will never get back."\n184,"A very ordinary made-for-tv product, ""Tyson"" attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect, fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing, and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes Tyson even remotely interesting. A lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans."\n185,"I\'m sure deep in the recesses of Jack Blacks mind the character of Nacho Libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn\'t. You can tell ol Jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy, slimy Mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department.<br /><br />I just sat there through most of the movie thinking ""Is this supposed to be funny"" and ""This is the guy from Tenacious D right?"". The truth is this film has NOTHING to offer. AT ALL! It\'s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction. You\'ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn\'t. I was bored stupid about 10 minutes in but though it would surely pick up. It didn\'t. 90 minutes later I\'d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful.<br /><br />It\'s like, remember years ago when you\'d see anything with your fave actor in it, even some of their really early pap from before they were famous, and you\'d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop. Yeah it\'s like that.<br /><br />I\'ve enjoyed some of Jack Black\'s earlier movies like Shallow Hall and I\'m really looking forward to seeing Pick of Destiny but come on man. If you do this to us again Jack I\'m gonna have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something. At the least give you a serious talking to.<br /><br />I know it\'s a cliché but this is one of the worst movies I\'ve ever seen and for so many reasons...."\n186,"I haven\'t read the Anne Rice novel that this movie was based on, but who knows, maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting QUEEN OF THE DAMNED and is probably better for your health. It isn\'t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health, but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie. You can count the number of pages by Anne Rice that I\'ve read on one hand, but after seeing this movie and Interview with a Vampire, I get the feeling that she writes really good novels. The plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history.<br /><br />Still, Stuart Townsend\'s voice-over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than Brad Pitt\'s vampire narrative ever did, and you can tell that QUEEN OF THE DAMNED\'s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the Anne Rice storyline. While Interview decided to go with lace and elegance, QUEEN relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously. One can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places. The costumes and rock & roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack.<br /><br />However, I\'ll give credit where credit is due. The soundtrack is excellent. Korn and Disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like Butthead.<br /><br />The film opens with a very cool Goth-rock zoom & splice montage, but after the first ten minutes or so, the directing degenerates quickly. It\'s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn\'t enough time and enough money to do an Anne Rice novel justice. What results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects. Unfortunately, QUEEN OF THE DAMNED fails to do the genre justice just as its John Carpenter counterparts fail to impress. Where are the yellow contacts? Where\'s the pale blue make-up? Scene after scene, I shook my head reminiscing about the days of Salem\'s Lot and Fright Night when low budget was done right.<br /><br />There are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage. Props to Aaliyah, and may her soul forever rest in peace. She might have become a renowned actress, had her life not been taken from us so prematurely, for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing. Did I mention that the soundtrack was good? Let\'s see, what else can I say? It wasn\'t too long. The Anne Rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like Francis Ford Coppola got his hands on it. There are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot. But all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second-rate vampire movies out there. The director of this movie went on to direct a new Battlestar Galactica mini series if that tells you anything.<br /><br />JY<br /><br />Jimboduck-dot-com"\n187,"While I count myself as a fan of the Babylon 5 television series, the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start. Although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there, the pace of The Gathering is slow, the makeup somewhat inadequate, and the plot confusing. Worse, the characterization in the premiere episode is poor. Although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems, I remember The Gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series."\n188,"Leonard Maltin gave this film a dreaded BOMB rating in his 1995 Movie and Video Guide. What film was he looking at? Kid Vengeance or God\'s Gun are bombs. This film is a delight. It is fantastic. It is literate. It is well mounted. It is beautiful photographed, making a brilliant use of colors. Right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well-done satire of the whole Spaghetti Western genre. The film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to Douglas Fairbanks, 77 Sunset Strip, and the famous showdown in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Edd Byrnes, George Hilton, and Gilbert Roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work. It is too bad Mr. Maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved. One can only guess as to his reason. I suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be. Kudos belong to everyone involved in this project. This film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire."\n189,"I don\'t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the United States as The 700 Club. They are today\'s equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan of the 20th century. Their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand. Their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of Americans, as well as billions of humans the world over, who don\'t happen to share their bigoted, cruel, monstrous, and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen. The lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth, such as the idea of ""life after death"" or ""god"" or ""sin"" or ""the devil"" is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill, so lost are they in their fantasy. Sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn\'t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy. However, The 700 Club is in a class by itself. They are truly a cult. While I believe in freedom of speech, they way they spread hatred, lies, disinformation, and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits. I hope that one day the American Psychiatric Association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way, people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all. Treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country, as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion. The 700 Club though, is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of \'cult\' but due to The 700 Club\'s vast wealth (conned daily from the millions of Americans locked in their deceitful grip) they are above the law in this country. For those of you who have seen the movie ""The Matrix"" you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth: the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes, and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them.<br /><br />In less civil times, the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with The 700 Club out of town with torches and pitchforks. But in today\'s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them, we have no way to rid ourselves of the 700 Club plague. <br /><br />The television ratings system and the ""V"" chip on TV\'s should also have a rating called ""R"" for religion, so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape, such as presented by The 700 Club every day all over our country, from themselves and their children."\n190,"If you wish to see Shakespeare\'s masterpiece in its entirety, I suggest you find this BBC version. Indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but Jacoby\'s performance as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart\'s as Claudius are well worth the effort.<br /><br />It never ceases to amaze me how clear ""Hamlet"" is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the Bard. Every film version of ""Hamlet"" has tinkered with its structure. Olivier concentrated on Hamlet\'s indecision, Gibson on his passions. Jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of Hamlet\'s character together with the aid of Shakespeare\'s full script.<br /><br />Why does Hamlet not kill Claudius immediately? Hamlet says ""I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious..."" Hamlet is extremely upset, not only for his father\'s death (and suspected murder), or his mother\'s marriage to his uncle, but also, and mostly, because Claudius has usurped the throne belonging to Hamlet. He is furious at his mother for marrying Claudius (marriages between royal kin is not unknown; done for political reasons) but that her marriage solidified Claudius\' claim to the throne before he could return from Wittenburg to claim it for himself. He is, therefore, impotent to do anything about it. And this is true even after he hears his father\'s ghost cry vengeance. He cannot simply kill the King or he will lose the throne in doing so. He must ""out"" the King\'s secret and here is the tragedy! At the moment Hamlet is successful in displaying Claudius\' guilt in public, he has opportunity to kill him and does not. WHY? He wants it ALL! He wants revenge, the throne AND the damnation of Claudius\' soul in hell. Hamlet OVERREACHES himself in classic tragic form. His own HUBRIS is his undoing. He kills Polonius thinking it is Claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius and Hamlet himself."\n191,"The Golden Door is the story of a Sicilian family\'s journey from the Old World (Italy) to the New World (America). Salvatore, a middle-aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life, persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in Sicily, take the arduous journey across the raging seas, and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk. In short, they believe that by risking everything for the New World their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled. The imagery of the New World is optimistic, clever and highly imaginative. Silver coins rain from heaven upon Salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he\'ll be in the New World; carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health, and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the New World will yield. All of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience. The contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the Sicilian people helps provide hope while they\'re aboard the ship to the New World.<br /><br />The voyage to the New World is shot almost in complete darkness, especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within. The dark reality I referred to is the Old World and the journey itself to the New World. The Old World is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive. This is shown as Salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left (donkeys, goats and rabbits) in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the New World. I thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the New World; it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit. The most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the New World. This shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another, depicting the separation between the Old and New Worlds. This shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar, wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise.<br /><br />As later contrasted to how the New World visually looks, the Old World seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy New World. I thought it was particularly interesting that the Statue of Liberty is never shown through the fog at Ellis Island, but is remained hidden. I think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the Statue of Liberty stands for: ""Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry"" seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the New World. Once they arrived in the Americas, they had to go through rather humiliating tests (i.e. delousing, mathematics, puzzles, etc.) in order to prove themselves as fit for the New World. These tests completely changed the perspectives of the Sicilian people. In particular, Salvatore\'s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the New World, feeling more violated than treated with respect. Where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the New World would provide, the reality of what the New World required was disparaging and rude. Salvatore doesn\'t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the New World would be like versus what the New World actually was seemed disappointing to him. This attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him. Their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted.<br /><br />The film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society. Cleanliness, marriage and intelligence are prerequisites. Adhering to these rules is to prevent disease, immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating. Perhaps this is a commentary on how America has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct. Though the rules seemed rigid, they were there to protect and help the people flourish."\n192,"Nifty little episode played mainly for laughs, but with clever dollop of suspense. Somehow a Martian has snuck aboard a broken-down bus on its way to nowhere, but which passenger is it, (talk about your illegal immigrants!). All-star supporting cast, from wild-eyed Jack Elam (hamming it up shamelessly), to sexy Jean Willes (if she\'s the Martian, then I say let\'s open the borders!), to cruel-faced John Hoyt (the most obvious suspect), along with familiar faces John Archer and Barney Phillips (and a nice turn from Bill Kendis as the bus driver). Makes for a very entertaining half-hour even if the action is confined to a single set."\n193,"I had before a feeling of mislike for all Russian films. But, after seeing this film I haven´t. This is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the USSR. He knows the art of film making, and can use it very well. If you find this movie: buy or copy it!"\n194,"I watched mask in the 80\'s and it\'s currently showing on Fox Kids in the UK (very late at night). I remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears. I never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was. It\'s just plain awful! It is no where near in the same league as The Transformers, He-man or Thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made. I only watch it on Fox Kids because Ulysses 31 comes on straight after it (that\'s if mask doesn\'t put me to sleep first). One of the lesser 80\'s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on Fox Kids!"\n195,"Phantasm ....Class. Phantasm II.....awesome. Phantasm III.....erm.....terrible.<br /><br />Even though i would love to stick up for this film, i quite simply can\'t. The movie seems to have ""sold out"". First bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start (something the others did not). Also too many pointless characters, prime examples the kid (who is a crack shot, funny initially but soon you want him dead), the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls (erm not gonna work, or rather shouldn\'t) and the blooming zombies (what the hell are they doing there, there no link to them in the other Phatasms). Also there is a severe lack of midgets running about.<br /><br />The only good bits are the cracking start and, of course, Reggie B.<br /><br />(Possible SPOILER coming Up)<br /><br />To me this film seems like a filler between II and IV as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main 4 in IV.<br /><br />Overall very, VERY disappointing. 3 / 10"\n196,"Ludicrous. Angelic 9-year-old Annakin turns into whiny brat 19-year-old Annakin, who somehow seems appealing to Amidala, 5 years his senior. Now 22-year-old Jedi warrior hero Annakin has a couple of bad dreams, and so takes to slaughtering children, his friends, and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a) his precious wife might really die, and b) only he can prevent this. Ludicrosity squared.<br /><br />I think the people who like this movie are not paying attention. The story is ridiculous. The characters are unbelievable (literally, not the perverted sense of ""fantastic"", ""wonderful"", etc.).<br /><br />Obi-wan Kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series, but in the climax, he hacks off Annakin\'s legs, lets him burn in the lava, and leaves him to suffer. Doesn\'t anyone think that\'s a little out of character? Not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living, as it turns out.<br /><br />I was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations. None of that here. The story could have been written by a 10 year old.<br /><br />Oh yeah, the CGI is pretty cool."\n197,"Scotty (Grant Cramer, who would go on to star in the great B-movie ""Killer Klowns from outer space"") agrees to help three middle-aged guys learn how to \'dialog\' the ladies in this bad \'80\'s comedy. Not bad as in \'80\'s lingo, which meant good. Bad as in bad. With no likable characters, including, but not limited to, a kid who\'s the freakiest looking guy since ""Friday the 13th part 2""\' a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her, and the token fat slob, because after all what would an \'80\'s sex comedy be without a fat slob?? Well this one has two. This movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of \'80\'s sex comedies. And then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel.<br /><br />My Grade:D- <br /><br />Eye Candy: too numerous to count, you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point, think ""Bachlor Party"" but not as funny, and VERY disturbing.<br /><br />Where I saw it: Comcast Moviepass"\n198,"If you keep rigid historical perspective out of it, this film is actually quite entertaining. It\'s got action, adventure and romance, and one of the premiere casting match-ups of the era with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the lead roles. As evident on this board, the picture doesn\'t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling. To get beyond that, one need only put aside the history book, and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction. I know, I know, that\'s hard to do when you consider Custer\'s Last Stand at the Little Big Horn and it\'s prominence in the history of post Civil War America. So I guess there\'s an unresolved quandary with the picture, no matter how you look at it.<br /><br />There\'s a lot to take in here though for the picture\'s two hour plus run time. Custer\'s arrival at West Point is probably the first head scratcher, riding up as he does in full military regalia. The practical joke by Sharp (Arthur Kennedy) putting him up in the Major\'s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble.<br /><br />Ironically, a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy, as in Custer\'s first meeting with Libby Bacon, and subsequent encounters that include tea reader Callie (Hattie McDaniel). I hadn\'t noticed it before in other films, but McDaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the Forties, Mantan Moreland. So much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been Moreland hamming it up in a dress. With that in mind, the owl scene was a hoot too.<br /><br />As for Flynn, it\'s interesting to note that a year earlier, he portrayed J.E.B. Stuart opposite Ronald Reagan\'s depiction of General Custer in ""Santa Fe Trail"", both vying for the attention of none other than Olivia de Havilland. In that film, Reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of Custer that history remembers, while in Flynn\'s portrayal here it\'s more than evident. But it doesn\'t come close to that of Richard Mulligan\'s take on the military hero in 1970\'s ""Little Big Man"". Let\'s just say that one was a bit over the top.<br /><br />The better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which Custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture. That and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story. Most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival Sharp just before riding into the Little Big Horn, in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one\'s point of view. Earlier, a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into Custer\'s character, when he stated - ""You take glory with you when it\'s your time to go""."\n199,"The film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction. The first really bad thing is the guy hijacking Steven Seagal would have been beaten to pulp by Seagal\'s driving, but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie.<br /><br />It seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot, so just plan to enjoy the action, and do not expect a coherent plot. Turn any sense of logic you may have, it will reduce your chance of getting a headache.<br /><br />I does give me some hope that Steven Seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies."\n200,"Interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding Jay Leno\'s replacing Carson as host of the Tonight Show. Film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding Conan O\'Brien and Jay Leno.<br /><br />The film does a good job of sparking viewers\' interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders, particularly of the NBC executives. The portrayal of Ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting, I thought.<br /><br />Still, many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon, and some of the acting seemed perfunctory. Nevertheless, an interesting story."\n201,"Any film about WWII made during WWII by a British production company has no latter-day peer in my opinion, respectfully. The confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in At Dawn We Dive: as a descendant of Admiral Horatio Nelson and student of all aspects of World War Two and particularly naval warfare, I favor depictions of subs and action in the North Atlantic and especially those which include the German side of things. For those unacquainted with target priorities, an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here. The pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the Ealing, Rank and British-Gaumont studios back in the day: frankly I prefer its quieter, more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over-produced Hollywood movie ever could. This reminds me of Powell and Pressburger\'s The 49th Parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive Eric Portman, a favorite of mine. John Mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles, so this is clearly meant to be Mr. Portman\'s film but the whole cast shines. As for the title sequence, am I the only one who is utterly charmed by Gainsborough Production\'s lovely pre-CGI Gainsborough Girl?"\n202,"A brilliant horror film. Utterly gruesome and very scary too. The Thing is a remake from John Carpenter, but please, do not let that put you off this film. It is simply brilliant. The start of the film has the alien\'s spacecraft hurtling towards the Earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film\'s title in amazing shining white and blue stating \'THE THING\'. One of the best opening credits for a horror film ever.<br /><br />The cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their Station in Antartica is visually impressive on DVD widescreen. It must have been great in the cinema. I regret not seeing this on the big screen.<br /><br />Kurt Russell is excellent as Macready, the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base. All the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected. My favourite scene in the whole film has to be when Macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection, it is tense, scary and finally spectacular. I love it because its funny as well.<br /><br />Special mention must go to Rob Bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself. If he didn\'t get an Oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have. This is also debatable as to whether this is John Carpenter\'s greatest film...its certainly a gruesome masterpiece.<br /><br />Wait for a cold winter night. Get some Budweiser from the fridge. Sit down and watch The Thing, a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime.<br /><br />Utterly brilliant.<br /><br />Ten Out Of Ten."\n203,"I absolutely love this film. Everything about it. It almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen. The way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece, very original and creative. I related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some. I\'m really glad I ran across this movie. If only there were more genius\' like justin out there!"\n204,"No one can say I wasn\'t warned as I have read the reviews (both user & external), but like most of us attracted to horror movies... curiosity got this cat. (Come on, we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room, but you know that\'s horror aficionados are always dying to know what\'s in there even if we know it\'ll be bad).<br /><br />The bottom line is that this movie left me angry. Not because it pretends to be real (who cares...gimmicks are allowed), or because the actors and dialogue are so lame (is this an unusual event in horror movies?) or even because the movie is so bad (and I am being polite here). What really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of BWP, but also a half-hearted lazy rip off at that.<br /><br />I don\'t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo BWP then kudos to them, but they didn\'t even try. The movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror (or any) movie!"\n205,"A new way to enjoy Goldsworthy\'s work, Rivers and Tides allows fans to see his work in motion. Watching Goldsworthy build his pieces, one develops an appreciation for every stone, leaf, and thorn that he uses. Goldsworthy describes how the flow of life, the rivers, and the tides inspires and affects his work. Although, I was happy the film covered the majority of Goldsworthy\'s pieces (no snowballs), I do feel it was a bit long. The film makers did a wonderful job of bringing Goldsworthy\'s work to life, and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch."\n206,"If you liked William Hickey in ""Prizzi\'s Honor"", he resurrects his character, as Don Anthony in ""Mob Boss"". This is a very weak ""Godfather"" satire with few laughs. Stuart Whitman looks perplexed as to what he\'s doing in this schlock-fest? Morgan Fairchild\'s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie, and that alone is not a good sign for sure. Eddie Deezen vacillates between ""Three Stooges"" slapstick and a bad Woody Allen imitation. Fatally flawed, ""Mob Boss"" is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases, hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom, and numerous other nonsense. - MERK"\n207,"I have seen most, if not all of the Laurel & Hardy classic films. I have always enjoyed there comical stupidly, even after watching it over and over again. This new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both Laurel & Hardy, however fails miserably for various reasons. One of which is how out of place their cloths are (still early 20th century) however are both portrayed in the 90\'s setting. Some of the former dialogue was brought back, however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series. This film could very well be the worst film I have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever. The real Laurel & Hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation."\n208,"I just started watching The Show around July. I found it by mistake, I was channel surfing during a Vacation. It is a great show, I just wish it wasn\'t on so late at night. It\'s on at 12:30 AM. As a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time.<br /><br />I read some comments. I did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the 60\'s and not believing that this stuff can happen.<br /><br />I grew up in the 60\'s. I\'m Hispanic and I had a ""White"" boyfriend plus we had black friends in High School. I believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color.<br /><br />I can\'t wait till the show goes on DVD so I can buy it. This way I can see it from the beginning."\n209,"This film is well cast, often silly and always funny. Lemmon and Matthau work their tag team magic to perfection. Brent Spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director. From the first ""hare krishna"" to the last ""you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs"", I thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy"\n210,"I have just given a 10 for Thieves Highway, I mention this for two reasons one to prove I\'m not a git who only gives bad reviews but 2 because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night.<br /><br />We all know pretty Woman is a chick flick but you can\'t avoid them all, they\'ll eventually get you. Pretty Woman for me does two things, two terrible horrible ghastly things, firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer, you know with absolutely great friends, leg warmers lots of giggling, borrowing each others make up. You see in the reality of Pretty Woman the prostitute and this is a street walker Prostitute we\'re talking about here, has a great life, she\'s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament. My feeling is this \'happy Hooker\' type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character, which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it? If I make a film about a chef but don\'t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place? By bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have, what a cop out, really really lame. <br /><br />Secondly, \'Pretty Woman\' insults romance itself, Edward Lewis played by Richard Gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this \'lady\' that is without his plastic friend, yep don\'t leave home without it, especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination. 8 out of 10 of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another, even when he first meets her it\'s the Lotus Esprit turbo that does all the work, necklaces here diamonds there limos over there, money money money, where\'s the charm? where\'s the charisma, don\'t mention that attempt at the piano please.<br /><br />Girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most. Guys who like this film will not even have realized that old Eddy has less charm than a calculator, as they probably don\'t either so it wont have registered. More importantly anyone who likes this film will hate \'Thieves Highway\' a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject.<br /><br />I\'ll finish on a song:<br /><br />Pretty woman hangin round the street Pretty woman, the kind I like to treat Pretty woman, I don\'t believe you You\'re not the truth No one could spend as much as you Mercy<br /><br />Pretty woman, wont you pardon me Pretty woman, I couldn\'t help but see Pretty woman, and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me<br /><br />Pretty woman, shop a while Pretty woman, talk a while Pretty woman, sell your smile to me Pretty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah Pretty woman, look my way Pretty woman, say you\'ll stay with me..and I\'ll pay you..I\'ll treat you right"\n211,"This movie was terrible. The plot was terrible and unbelievable. I cannot recommend this movie. Where did this movie come from? This movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including: Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates, Joey Lauren Adams, and Jennifer Tilly."\n212,"I strongly dislike this show. I mean, like, basically everyone at that school is perfect, and rich, and I doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that. And why do they suddenly allow girls into the school? Isn\'t that just a little weird? anyways, Jamie Lynn spears CANNOT act. She always has the same facial expression, which really annoys me. She is basically emotionless, and all the guys seem to like her.<br /><br />and shouldn\'t chase tell her he likes her? its not that hard! really! None of this show is real life, and she isn\'t ""a girl like me"" because majority of the regular girls do NOT go to boarding school, do not have designer clothes, and do NOT live by the beach.<br /><br />fake fake fake."\n213,"Normally I don\'t like series at all. They\'re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast.<br /><br />These series however, are well played, the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one, the story will still be catching your mind.<br /><br />The episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital."\n214,"holy Sh*t this was god awful. i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor Oedipus Rex. dear god. this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff. please save your money, this movie can offer you nothing. unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters. you know, h3ll, bring your girlfriend and make things interesting. you will be the only ones there anyway. F@ck this slide show. <br /><br />Ye Be Warned.<br /><br />I recommend not watching this.<br /><br />hello.<br /><br />how are you?<br /><br />I\'m pretty good.<br /><br />enjoying this day?<br /><br />I am.<br /><br />this comment was one-hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie. this is sad."\n215,"This movie is without a doubt a perfect 10/10.. for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no ""good plot"" or anything like that, thats ridiculous, saying that a Jackie Chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot! you watch Jackie Chan FOR THE FIGHT SCENES, for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that, if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other American films from that era and even later you will realize that Jackie Chan\'s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while American movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what Jackie Chan was doing at the time. Porn is watched for the porn, Jackie Chan is watched for the ACTION, i think you people are rating it bad because there\'s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained. Sure the middle of the movie was boring, VERY BORING, but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that. This did change the way how American action movies were created, they have even stollen scenes from this movie. If you want a true man, a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of Jackie Chan\'s, hes pure in everyway. He literally makes American movies look like a walk in the park, and even in TODAYS movies. American movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more. Police Story and many other Jackie Chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do. a masterpiece"\n216,"I saw this at the London Film Festival last night, apparently the shorter version. James McNally\'s summary of the content of the film is very good. Nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation, homogenisation, the effect of the mass media, the power of capital and the need for diversity.<br /><br />The film is shot on hand-held DV which some might find offputting, but which does enable Nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment.<br /><br />Despite the sprawling feel of the film, the editing is very sharp, not only giving us a parade of the world\'s dogs, but also undercutting a number of interviewees\' comments with somewhat contradictory visual images, and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves. To a degree this evoked Michael Moore\'s recent work (although Nossiter operates in a more subtle way), but probably the roots of the film go back to Marcel Ophuls\' ""The Sorrow and the Pity"", both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of \'salt of the earth\' French peasants as the stars. De Montille pere et fils were present at the LFF screening and answered questions afterwards. We do indeed all need a little disorder - bravo Hubert!<br /><br />Overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people, and organise our world."\n217,"I can\'t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of 6! It is barely watchable and unbelievably boring, certainly one of the worst films I have seen in a long, long time.<br /><br />In a no-budget way, it reminded me of Star Wars Episodes I and II for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck.<br /><br />This film should be avoided at all costs. It\'s one of those ""festival films"" that only please the pseudo-intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it ""different"", therefore good.<br /><br />Bad film-making is not ""different"", it\'s just bad film-making."\n218,"This movie really woke me up, like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber.<br /><br />This guy John (Ben Chaplin) leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial English town, until the stunningly gorgeous, wild, girl-to-die-for Nadia (Nicole Kidman), ordered by email from Russia, enters his life to become his beloved wife, by Johns plan. However a glitch turns up - Nadia does not speak a word of Johns language. Although calm and emotionless on the outside, John becomes so interested in beautiful Nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service, he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process.<br /><br />What happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor John from his slumber of a decently-paid safe-feeling clerk into a decision-making decently thinking action figure, giving the viewer a subliminal message ""you would have probably acted likewise"".<br /><br />Kidman, Cassel & Kassovitz make a great team acting Russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing, ""almost"" only due to the slight accent present in their Russian dialogues, however slight enough to amaze a native Russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right. Nicole Kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles, at least from the cultural background.<br /><br />The pace of the film is fast and captivating, and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear, you rather feel that you\'re in the middle of the plot, and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out.<br /><br />My advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy. To sum it up, it has an unusual plot, great acting, and ideas below the surface. Like the idea of the ""rude awakening"" from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a Society\'s machine, the life which members of the Fight Club were so keen to quit and the machine of which Pink Floyd sings (""Welcome to the machine!""). I bet that in the end, John was rather off with Sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all.<br /><br />Thank you, writers, for the great story, and everyone else for this great movie! Please make a sequel! And you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever, because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the 99.9999 percent of the potential viewers, I am sure of it."\n219,"Ed Wood rides again. The fact that this movie was made should give any young<br /><br />aspiring film maker hope. Any screenplay you might have thought of using to<br /><br />line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad. Do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of Tylenol or Rolaids. Watching this<br /><br />movie made me realize that Boa vs. Python was not that bad after all. It probably would have been better to do this movie in Claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film. It is understandable why this director has so many aliases. There is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips, then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to<br /><br />make your toward your TV set\'s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it."\n220,"This sports a nice, deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk. The first third of this movie was nothing but talk, and more talk. Most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other. <br /><br />The first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it\'s really a ""chick flick"" and little else. This probably plays on the Lifetime network.<br /><br />There was a quick murder scene and then more talk. By halfway through, they had lost me. <br /><br />By the way, Sally Field looked about 15 years old in here."\n221,"I think this movie has got it all. It has really cool music that I can never get out of my head. It has cool looking characters. IS REALLY funny(you know, the kind that you\'ll crack up on the ground and you\'ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks).Despite the bad acting, bad cgi, and bad story(about cops going after a robot), its really cool. Its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch, get together, eat pizza, laugh like crazy, and watch it two more times.<br /><br />There are so many funny parts, like when Kurt was trying to get Edison\'s attention and gave him the finger, and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball. On that part, I kept saying ""Remember, Remember?""to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened. There was also a really funny part when Edision ran into the room and Kurt was there(just before they fought) and Kurt was talking about his ""Strange dream"" and how he was ""Superman"". I LOVED that part, although it has been a while since I saw it, so I don\'t remember that part. Everything the actors said were funny, like how Kurt says, ""I worship you, like a GOD!"" to the robot.<br /><br />Although there was some bad things, in all it was a GREAT movie. Man, I can\'t stop laughing. I wish I had that movie. );"\n222,"Howard (Kevin Kline) teaches English at the high school in a small Indiana city. He is finally getting married to Emily (Joan Cusack), much to his parents delight. The town is abuzz, too, because one of its own, Cameron (Matt Dillon) has been nominated for an acting Oscar. Everyone, including Howard and Emily, is watching the Academy Awards on television as Cameron is declared the winner! In his acceptance speech, Cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man, in part, because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school. You guessed it, its Howard! But, Howard has never ""come out""; in fact, he believes he is straight! With the whole town, and members of the media, waiting and observing the happenings, will Howard and Emily go ahead and get married? Or, is Howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony? This is a wonderful, funny, and humane film about a gay man and his situation. As the man-who-did-not-realize-he-was-gay, Kline is excellent and touching. The rest of the cast is equally fine, with Cusack a stitch as the mixed-up fiancé and Dillon, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, Tom Selleck, and others on hand to delight the audience as well. The costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely Indiana heartland is beautiful. Then, too, the script, the direction, and the production are very, very nice. But, the insightful, humorous, and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film\'s best asset, no doubt. For those who would be offended by a gay-themed film, yes, just skip over this one. But, for everyone who wants to laugh heartily, and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time, this is definitely the best film out there."\n223,"When the opening shot is U.S. Marines seriously disrespecting the U.S. flag, a movie has a tough road ahead, but unfortunately it was downhill from there. There is a military adviser credited, who is also apparently a retired U.S. Marine, making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol, and law, went unnoticed. Even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a Marine is reported KIA, then buried, in very short order, without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body, or if there even was a body. The U.S. government is still finding the missing from WWII, and it takes months to identify the remains. Military shot down remain MIA for months or years and are only declared KIA when the remains have been positively identified, or after years of red tape. Here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks. Maybe this happens in Denmark, but not in the U.S. Clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with, or respect for, the U.S. military.<br /><br />Beyond that, there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere. There must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash. Having a script that worked might have helped, but this one seems to have been made up on the spot, working from Cliffs Notes. There\'s no way to know if the script was this awful originally, or if it was the auteur, or the middle-management kids at the studio who bear responsibility. Either way, this is an awful movie that should have never been made."\n224,"We usually think of the British as the experts at rendering great adventure from the Imperial age, with the likes of The Four Feathers (1939) and Zulu, simply because the Imperial age was, for the most part, British. Here, in The Wind and the Lion, we see a wonderful rendering of America\'s own Imperial age.<br /><br />America\'s projection of power under Teddy Roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who, despite her gentility, is smitten by the rough, manly nobility of her captor, who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn. (Politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of ""native"" peoples or cultures can rest assured, that the way Arabs and Muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage.) What makes this story different are the terrific production values - faultless photography, composition and editing - the terrific casting - the underappreciated Brian Keith playing a bully Teddy - and vivid history.<br /><br />Though The Wind and the Lion is told largely through the eyes of the son, every member of the family can identify with one of the characters, whether it be Sean Connery\'s noble brigand, Candace Bergen\'s feisty heroine, John Huston\'s wily John Hay or Steve Kanaly\'s spiffy, radiant, ruthless can-do lieutenant, Roosevelt\'s ""Big Stick"". There is a transcendent scene at the end, when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing Moor on his white steed. This is high adventure at its best."\n225,"I had been looking forward to seeing Dreamgirls for quite a while...what with all it\'s raving reviews, nominations and media attention. And I must say, the first quarter of the movie was good! It really portrayed the black music scene back then. However, as the movie wore on, me and my whole family were bored out of our wits. The singing just kept coming, one after the other. I mean seriously, just one more music number and it would have broke even with RENT.<br /><br />Furthermore, I noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters; I just didn\'t care what happened to them! Even when Eddie Murphy\'s character died of a drug overdose, I knew I should have been sad, but I just couldn\'t feel any emotion for that character. The characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot, but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in.<br /><br />Finally, the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care, which goes along with the lack of character development. This movie reminded me of a copy-cat movie based on Ray, Chicago, and Rent (Ray and Chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion). Overall I think this movie would best suit someone who doesn\'t really care about an overall story, yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances."\n226,"One of Starewicz\'s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange. The dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold, but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters. With the help of a stuffed cat, the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death. The Mascot features new techniques I have not yet seen in Starewicz\'s films. The addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop-motion animation makes for a new twist on Starewicz\'s old style of puppetry. Live scenes of moving cars and people\'s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh. The honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and Starewicz\'s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat. New puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil\'s club scene. Twigss and newspaper shreds come to life. Skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks. Characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses. A new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene. Overall, Starewicz is able to update his style of film-making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work."\n227,"Nice character development in a pretty cool milieu. Being a male, I\'m probably not qualified to totally understand it, but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive Victorian environment from the start. It isn\'t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher. What makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters. Each has their own ""thing"" that they contend with. Once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs, they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion. What I enjoyed about this movie is that it didn\'t go for cheap comedy when it could have. It didn\'t try to pound a lesson into us. The people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light. I did have a little trouble with the Alfred Molina character having such an epiphany so quickly, but, within this world, it needed to happen. Good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people."\n228,"Prussic gas, a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip, and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish. The inspectors at Scotland Yard, Higgins(IJoachim Fuchsberger)and his superior Sir John(Siegfried Schürenberg)certainly have their hands full with this case. It all seems to center around student Ann Portland(Uschi Glas), who, when she turns 21, is to inherit a great deal of wealth. The girls who are targeted share a room with Ann, but the reason for their murders remains a mystery SY\'s finest must figure out. The staff of the girls\' dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise, talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip. Two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation. It\'s a clever scheme where a driver, Greaves(Günter Meisner)meets the convicts(..who hide in a barrel)who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard. Taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind, he gives them orders on who to kill and how. Uncovering this operation is a top priority for Higgins and Sir John for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening. Under suspicion are girls\' dormitory headmistress, her author brother, a sweaty, incredibly nervous chemistry teacher, a snooping gardener, and the Bannister. Some are red herrings until they are disposed of, throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered. The ending features multiple twists. <br /><br />Out of the Krimi films I\'ve seen, THE COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS is the closest to a giallo with it\'s colorful killer, a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects, & sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory. I think you can also see the influence of James Bond on this particular Krimi film with the villain mastermind\'s secret hideout with an alligator pit(..which isn\'t used), the fake bible/water pistol, when opened, fires the gas into the face of startled victims, the Greaves\' Royles Royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat, and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming. Many might consider Sir John a liability due to his bumbling, buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines Higgins\' abilities to get at the truth(..perhaps poking fun at know-it-all British inspectors who harm a case more than solve it)..I felt he was used as comedy relief, particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims, often misunderstanding what are told to him. Higgins, using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator, instead follows the clues/facts, often avoiding Sir John as much as possible. Capable direction by the reliable Alfred Vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed, and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content..the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect, any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls\' executions. I\'d say this may be one of the best(..if not the best)examples of the Krimi genre, for it keeps you guessing, always one more ace up it\'s sleeve..the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye-opening(..and, you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off)."\n229,"I was very lucky to see this film as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival 2005 only a few days ago. I must admit that I am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life. I also love the majority of Scandinavian cinematic offerings, there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn. Character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth. This is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community. The audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive. I am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and I am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness."\n230,This movie is really bad. Most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement. There\'s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg. There are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth. And the plot is a bunch of post-apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all. The whole thing is just laughable.\n231,"I think this is one hell of a movie...........We can see Steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all Segal movies there\'s a message in it, without the message it would be one of many action/fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special."\n232,"I saw this movie in the theater, and was thoroughly impressed by it. Then again, that was when Claire Danes was a good actress, not the foolish, arrogant, Hollywood-ized bitch she is today. Anyway, this film really struck me as one of the more raw, realistic, beautiful friendship films. How far would you really go for your best friend? I was moved to tears at the end, and still tear up when I watch it now (I own it). I remember as soon as I left the theater, I called my best friend and sobbed to her how much I loved her. This is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend. However be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you\'d do something like that for her...."\n233,"I\'ve seen this film literally over 100 times...it\'s absolutely jam-packed with entertainment!!! Powers Boothe gives a stellar performance. As a fan of actors such as William Shatner (Impulse, 1974) and Ron Liebmann (Up The Academy, 1981)I never thought an actor could capture the ""intensity"" like Shatner and Liebmann in those roles, until I saw Boothe as Jim Jones! As far as I\'m concerned, Powers Boothe IS Jim Jones...this film captures his best performance!!!"\n234,"The three main characters are all hopeless, and yet you only feel sorry for one of them: Ernesto, hopelessly devoted to Mercedes. This was part of the frustration: screaming at Mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no-good Harry, to no avail.<br /><br />Then there\'s the satisfaction: Steve Buscemi has a great part as a transvestite, and Harvey Keitel\'s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap TV movie is incredible. When you least expect it, Quentin Tarintino is doing half a monologue, and Anthony Quinn turns Ernesto into a wealthy man.<br /><br />Time and again great moments appear in the story, but in the end it\'s hard to know what to feel about this movie. It doesn\'t have a happy ending, or even a complete one, but it somehow feels right.<br /><br />This movie is strange, but then so am I; no wonder I liked it."\n235,"Reese Witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one. She appears like a fresh scrubbed face ""tween"" slight and stringy, but undeniably Reese.<br /><br />I have always liked her as an actor, and had no idea she started this young with her career, go figure. I actually gained some respect for Reese to know who she was so early on. I say that because whenever I have watched her perform, the characters thus far, in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character, quite nicely in fact.<br /><br />Anyway, my first film experience with Reese was the Little Red Riding Hood parody Reese did with Kiefer Sutherland, somehow I assumed that was her first time up ""at bat"" Not so, well done Reese"\n236,This game ranks above all so far. I had the honor of playing mine on PS2 so the graphics were really good. The voice acting was above standard. The difficulty level is just right. Wesker has to be the best characters in the RE series in my opinion. The story amazed me and took many different twist that I wasn\'t expecting. The only rating this game deserves is great.\n237,"This movie is not worth anything. I mean, if you want to watch this kind of stuff, flip to Hollywood movies! This totally is a disgrace to the Bollywood name. Neal N Nikki seriously sucked! Never watch this movie. As for the actors, it appears the acting genes skipped a generation. Tanisha couldn\'t have worn less and Uday Chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director\'s spoiled son. (All of that Halla Re was amazingly stupid) The songs are eh, and I hope the director did not spend to much money on it...... Bottom line, I hated the movie. Do not let your kids watch it, and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it! Buy the CD, if you must. (As I said, the songs are eh.) At least it is better then the movie."\n238,"This is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers. It\'s certainly all been done before and since. But The Violent Men is something special.<br /><br />What makes it special is Barbara Stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films. She\'s married to the crippled Edward G. Robinson who\'s the cattle baron here, but Robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent. No matter to Barbara, whose needs are being met by her brother-in-law Brian Keith. That doesn\'t sit well with either Dianne Foster who is Robinson and Stanwyck\'s daughter, nor with Lita Milan who is Keith\'s Mexican girl friend.<br /><br />The infidelity subplot almost takes over the film, but Glenn Ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a Civil War veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here. He\'s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often. I almost expect those famous words from Wild Bill Elliott to come out of Ford\'s mouth, ""I\'m a peaceable man."" Would have been very applicable in The Vioilent Men.<br /><br />The Fifties was the age of the adult western, themes were entering into horse operas that hadn\'t been explored before. The following year Glenn Ford would do another western, Jubal, one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component.<br /><br />There\'s enough traditional western stuff in The Violent Men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well."\n239,"Apparently, The Mutilation Man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self-mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood. I use the word \'apparently\' because without listening to a director Andy Copp\'s commentary (which I didn\'t have available to me) or reading up on the film prior to watching, viewers won\'t have a clue what it is about.<br /><br />Gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching The Mutilation Man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real-life footage, but unless they\'re also fond of pretentious, headache-inducing, experimental art-house cinema, they\'ll find this one a real chore to sit through.<br /><br />82 minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis-chordant sound, terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue, this mind-numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one\'s sanity: if you\'ve still got all your marbles, you\'ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead (I watched the whole thing, but am well aware that I\'m completely barking!)."\n240,"This movie was absolutely pathetic. A pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes. At times I felt like I was watching an episode of Beavis and Butthead. I couldn\'t even sit through the whole movie. Emran Hashmi disappoints, and Hrshitta Bhatt is not impressive at all. Celina Jaitley was not bad. The only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on Anu Malik and his obsession of shayaris. It was pretty hilarious. The songs ""Sini Ne"" and its remix version were really good. You can always count on Emran lip-locking and lip-synching a chartbuster. All in all, it seems Emran doesn\'t have a good script from the Bhatts to back him up this time."\n241,"I Feel the Niiiiiight Heat! I feel your HEEAAAAAAAAAART-beat! Something ain\'t right!"" Theme song written by B.J. Cook from Skylark- David Foster\'s old band and wife. She also wrote the memorable theme from CBC\'s ""Airwaves."" OH Night Heat! What a program! Well-written, well-acted and totally classic. Crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end. I\'d like to think this is really what detectives do/did. Giambone was a real favourite! On a Canadian tip, I learned EVERY Canadian actor\'s name and style from guest spots done on Night Heat. Everyone passed through the Night Heat set and like Law & Order, it was story-driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama."\n242,"This movie fails miserably on every level. I have an idea, let\'s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east. Maybe if we\'re lucky they\'ll all be shot and killed and we won\'t have to ever have our time wasted by them again. Did I mention that I have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life? My god, I can\'t think of anything I\'ve ever seen that was this bad. I\'d rather watch Ishtar 25 times in a row than sit through 10 minutes of this sorry excuse for a film. If I ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film, I\'ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless. That\'s my two cents."\n243,"Yes i\'ll say before i start commenting, this movie is incredibly underrated.<br /><br />Sharon Stone is great in her role of Catherine Trammell as is Morrissey as Dr glass. He is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star. Glass is drawn into a seductive game that Trammel uses to manipulate his mind.<br /><br />The acting was good (apart from Thewlis)<br /><br />Stone really has a talent with this role. She\'s slick, naughty and seductive and doesn\'t look a day older than she did in the first.She really impressed me(like in Casino). Morrisey was also good. He showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it. Thewlis however was lame. He ruined his character and was over-the-top the whole way. He really sucked.<br /><br />Overall, this movie not as good the first but Stone is a hoot to watch. Just ignore Thewlis."\n244,"Based on a Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, AT THE EARTH\'S CORE provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest. A Victorian scientist Dr. Abner Perry(Peter Cushing)invents a giant burrowing machine, which he and his American partner(Doug McClure)use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold. They soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters.<br /><br />Cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying. Instead of being a bold adventurer, he comes across effeminate. On the other hand McClure overacted enough to make himself also laughable. Caroline Munro plays the pretty Princess Dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth. Also in the cast are: Godfrey James, Cy Grant and Michael Crane."\n245,"I have seen this film at least 100 times and I am still excited by it, the acting is perfect and the romance between Joe and Jean keeps me on the edge of my seat, plus I still think Bryan Brown is the tops. Brilliant Film."\n246,"This show makes absolutely no sense. Every week, two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening, and every week without fail, they somehow stumble upon a murder. Because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder, right? But even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder, wouldn\'t the smart thing to do be to tell the police? You know, the people who can actually do something about it... But every week, these two fools go around, polluting evidence, committing crimes of their own, and, in some cases, causing more murders. Once they do miraculously solve the murders, there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted. All the evidence has been sabotaged. And you\'d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two, wouldn\'t you? Yay! We\'ve solved the murder! Now like every other week, let\'s go and confront the murderer ourselves and, with no back-up, tell them that we know about it. There is no way we could get ourselves into any danger, is there? Rosemary and Thyme is one of the worst shows on television, and certainly the most ridiculous."\n247,"This movie was so bad it was funny! For awhile there I thought I was actually watching a parody of a bad movie (a la ""For Your Consideration""). The ""cliffhanger"" scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt. The script was dreadful enough, but coupled with Sean Young\'s terrible acting -- especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail (complete with flashbacks) while dangling off a cliff -- makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching! In fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an Ed Wood movie. I still can\'t believe how this thing got made. First of all, how did such a bad script get the green light? How did star actors get attached? Were they at low points in their careers? Questions, questions."\n248,"Meryl Streep is such a genius. Well, at least as an actress. I know she\'s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents, but she nails the accent every time. Her performance as Lindy Chamberlain was inspiring. Mrs. Chamberlain, as portrayed here, was not particularly likable, nor all that smart. But that just makes Streep\'s work all the more remarkable. I think she is worth all 10 or so of her Oscar nominations. About the film, well, there were a couple of interesting things. I don\'t know much about Australia, but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story. I had largely missed this when I first saw the film some years ago, but it came through loud and clear yesterday. And it seems the Australian press is just as accomplished at misery-inducing pursuit and overkill as their American colleagues. A pretty good film. A bit different. Grade: B"\n249,"\'Airport 4\' is basically a slopped together mess for Universal Studios to try and work a new twist - the Concorde supersonic airliner - into their \'disaster-in-the-sky\' formula.<br /><br />Bogged down with unintentional humor, the best of which is when George Kennedy sticks his hand out of Concorde\'s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat-seeking missile following the aircraft\'s flight path, and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re-boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air. Many stars in this one including Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, Alain Delon, and Martha Raye as a nervous passenger. <br /><br />Not really related to the other \'Airport\' films."\n250,"Supposedly a ""social commentary"" on racism and prison conditions in the rural South of the 1970\'s, ""Nightmare"" is full of bad Southern stereotypes, complete with phoney accents. Not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most American Southerners, this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly-disguised ""babe in prison"" movie--especially in its uncut original version. Nevertheless, acting is generally above average and the late Chuck Connors, in particular, does a good job of making viewers hate him--even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes. There\'s also a change-of-pace role for the late Robert Reed, who appears as the lecherous warden, and Tina Louise (previously Ginger of ""Gilligan\'s Island"") made a rather believable sadistic prison guard. My grade: D. <br /><br />"\n251,"OK, I bought this film from Woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday, because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it.<br /><br />But we decided it to watch it anyway. Just for hilarity purposes.<br /><br />And I\'m sorry, but this has got to be, one of THE worst films in history.<br /><br />It began off alright, and we thought ""Ok this might actually be OK"". But after about 10 minutes, we were sadly mistaken.<br /><br />It began when the ""mysterious paint baller"" turned out to be the most obvious character, the Scouser/Australian (I say that because he had an accent which couldn\'t be identified), who\'s acting might I just say, was abysmal.<br /><br />Then it got to the end, and by that time, we had all lost the will to live. The paint ball finals.<br /><br />The only thing I did like about this plot is that they didn\'t actually win, but annoyingly enough they won by default.<br /><br />And I know this has nothing to do with it, but the name the team were given was just awful. Critical Damage. I mean they could of picked a more awesome name, like ""The Destroyers of the Anti-Christ"" or something. Or that\'s what the film should of been called anyway."\n252,"Insignificant and low-brained (haha!) 80\'s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen, yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind. The special effects are tacky, the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs! ""The Brain"" takes place in a typical quiet-American town setting, where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool-kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet. It is here that a TV-guru named Dr. Blake and his adorable pet-brain begin their quest for nation-wide mind controlling. Under the label of ""independent thinkers"", a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill! How cool is that? Now, it\'s up to the Meadowvale teen-rebel to save the world! The funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where Dr. Blake and his monstrous brain actually come from. There are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that\'s about it. Meh, who needs a background in a movie like this, really? There\'s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the ""evil"" brain looks like an over-sized sock-puppet. The only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie. Director Ed Hunt and writer Barry Pearson are the same men who made ""Bloody Birthday"" (guilty pleasure of mine) and ""Plague"". Both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry. The most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great David Gale, whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in Re-Animator. A girl named Christine Kossak provides the nudity-factor and she\'s obviously a great talentÂ… She has exactly 3 movies on her repertoire of which THIS is her ""masterpiece"". In her debut, she was credited as \'runaway model\' and in ""3 men and a baby"", her character is referred to as \'one of Jack\'s girls\'. I really wonder how she feels about her career as an actressÂ…"\n253,"Does anyone remember the alternative comedy show THE COMIC STRIP PRESENTS . One edition featured Charles Bronson ( Robbie Coltrane ) being interviewed about his new movie GLC :<br /><br />"" It\'s about a man , an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and I have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner "" <br /><br />"" And after GLC what next for Bronson ? "" <br /><br />"" We\'re using a new angle . My family don\'t get wiped out but I go after creeps just the same "" <br /><br />This accurately describes THE EVIL THAT MEN DO . It\'s a Bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn\'t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained <br /><br />Bronson is a retired hit-man who isn\'t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of "" The Doctor "" , not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture . It\'s never really explained why The Doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why The Doctor and his sister have ridiculous English accents <br /><br />As you may guess it\'s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like The Doctor\'s sister being a lesbian so some T&A can be included <br /><br />In many ways it\'s like one of those nasty Chuck Norris vehicles that were being released at the same time , but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ICE COLD IN ALEX and THE GUNS OF NAVERONE two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on Sunday afternoons . Believe me this movie won\'t be shown until well after the watershed"\n254,"Well, here\'s another terrific example of awkward 70\'s film-making! The rudimentary premise of ""What\'s the matter with Helen?"" is quite shocking and disturbing, but it\'s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion! In the hands of any other movie crew, this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale, but with director Curtis Harrington (""Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?"") and scriptwriter Henry Farrell (""HushÂ…HushÂ…Sweet Charlotte"") in charge, it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres. The basic plot of the film is definitely horrific, but there\'s a lot more to experience, like love stories, a swinging 1930\'s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap-dancing! The setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique. We\'re literally catapulted back to the 1930\'s, with a sublime depiction of that era\'s music, religion, theatrical business and wardrobes. Following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life-imprisonment for murder, Adelle (Debbie Reynolds) and Helen (Shelley Winters) flee to California and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls. Particularly Adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment, as she falls in love with a local millionaire, but poor old Helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia. She only listens to the ramblings of a radio-evangelist, fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies. The script, although not entirely without flaws, is well written and the film is adequately paced. There\'s never a dull moment in ""What\'s the matter with Helen"", although the singing, tap-dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot. But the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of Shelley Winters. She\'s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who\'s about to snap any second and, especially during the last ten minutes or so, she looks more petrifying than all the Freddy Kruegers, Jason Voorhees\' and Michael Myers\' combined! There are several terrific supportive characters who are, sadly, a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential, like Michéal MacLiammóir as the cocky elocution teacher, Agnes Moorehead as the creepy priestess and Timothy Carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies\' house. There are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the Grand Guignol fanatics among us, but particularly the set pieces and costume designs (even nominated for an Oscar!) are breathtaking."\n255,"Resnais, wow! The genius who brought us Hiroshima Mon Amour takes on the challenge of making a 1930s French musical in vibrant colour. The opening voice-over with old, embellished inter-titles was a nice touch. Then the camera aperture opens (like the old hand crankers) on a black & white placard. The camera backs off (or rather, up), suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party. This is all in the first 60 seconds.<br /><br />Then the music starts. A rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of 3 girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film (and yes, I speak French, so I can\'t blame it on the subtitles). Those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song. Then they leave, and finally Audrey Tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue 15 minutes into the film.<br /><br />I\'m not sure what Resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time & musical cacophony. But the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out. I endured.<br /><br />It didn\'t get much better. I\'ll tell you why. There is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters. We don\'t even see their faces half the time (as Resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera). People flit on & off stage like moths around a lamp, and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot. It\'s as if you were to take every episode of the Brady Bunch and cram it into a 2 hour movie. With bad songs.<br /><br />The only thing that kept me watching as long as I did (1 hour) was that I was looking at the camera techniques, lighting and scenery which were all, I admit, excellent. But is that enough to hold your attention for 2 hours? Not me. Maybe tomorrow I\'ll try watching the end. Aw, who am I kidding. I have more important things to do. I\'m sure you do, too. Skip this."\n256,"I saw this movie in the middle of the night, when I was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch. It\'s one of those films where you stop to see what it is - just for a moment! - but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can\'t turn it off, no matter how bad it is. One of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it\'s good and so bad it\'s, well, just plain BAD, it\'s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it\'s both! Great middle-of-the-night fare, if only for the fabulous tennis drag. Don\'t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that Chad Lowe is so obviously male, because logic does not apply."\n257,"This movie takes the plot behind the sci-fi flick ""Doppelganger"" (an astronaut from our Earth crashing on a \'counter-Earth\' on the opposite side of the Sun, and the Cold War totalitarian vibes on that world) and tries to turn it into a pilot for a TV series. However, the whole thing sank without a trace, and TV is probably better off for it.<br /><br />Everyone here is perfectly adequate in a \'made for TV\' way. Cameron Mitchell turns in his usual solid performance. So does Glenn Corbett (who seems to be a kind of poor man\'s John Saxon) who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the \'World Order\' on counter Earth.<br /><br />But the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this Sci-Fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad.<br /><br />I\'ll give one example: in the original template for this pilot, (""Doppleganger""), the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm, and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence (it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again). Then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds, only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers.<br /><br />In ""Stranded in Space"", the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound, things start shaking, and the camera blurs into a blackout (and as a friend pointed out, it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats, the director wasn\'t even shaking the camera or the set). I\'ve seen episodes of ""The Twilight Zone"" and ""The Outer Limits"" that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made-for-TV mediocrity.<br /><br />And that, in essence, is what\'s wrong with ""Stranded In Space"". No budget, no time, no imagination...just making the token gestures and hoping the sci-fi Fan Boys\' imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest. Sorry, guys, it didn\'t work. <br /><br />I\'m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away, and never thought of it again, except as a listing on their C.V. And that\'s what you, the viewer will do. You\'ll remember, if pressed, that you once watched a TV movie called ""Stranded In Space"", but it made no lasting impression on you, and you can\'t recall too much about it."\n258,"Black comedy isn\'t always an easy sell. Every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful, like Fargo, for example. But usually they don\'t often find big audiences. People seem to either set their minds for comedy, or for serious mayhem. There doesn\'t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both. Throw Momma From the Train was a fairly decent hit, yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age. Danny DeVito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in 1987.<br /><br />DeVito plays an odd mamma\'s boy named Owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with. The mother is played by Anne Ramsey, who passed away shortly after this was released, and she is quite a caricature. She is loud, ugly, rude, and overbearing. Though Owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself, he wants desperately to have his mother offed. He fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes, but he clearly doesn\'t have the guts to actually do it himself. That\'s where Billy Crystal comes in. Crystal plays Larry Donner, Owen\'s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college. Larry is a paranoid would-be intellectual novelist who claims his ex-wife stole his novel and made millions off it. He is currently trying to write a new one, but cannot even come up with a decent first sentence. ""The night was...."" Owen hears Larry wish his ex-wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria. And borrowing the idea from Strangers on a Train, Owen decides to travel to Hawai\'i and murder Larry\'s ex-wife. Once it appears he has done so, he expects Larry to return the favor and kill his mother. The resulting action is often quite funny, and even poignant. It\'s certainly never dull and often full of surprises.<br /><br />The acting is exceptional, even if Ramsey was a bit over the top. Crystal is as good as he can be, and DeVito has always been undervalued as a performer. The film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works, often painfully so. The film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes, and the off-beat tone is truly refreshing. I have often been critical of the late 1980s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film-making. Throw Momma From the Train takes chances. Both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot. How many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered? The film isn\'t too long, and it is chock full of laughs. Writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public, but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone. 9 of 10 stars.<br /><br />The Hound."\n259,"Back in 1994, I had a really lengthy vacation around the Fourth of July - something like 17 days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation, weekends and the holiday itself. I stayed in town during that time, hanging out at my parents\' house a lot.<br /><br />I didn\'t have a TV in my apartment so I used to watch my parents\' tube. I had just finished watching a segment of the X Files when a program came on called Personal FX. I was hooked instantly. I had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents\' family homes and through inheritances from relatives\' estates, and often wondered about their history, value, etc.<br /><br />After my long vacation, I used to go to my folks\' house on my lunch-hours just to catch Personal FX.<br /><br />I can remember one episode during which co-host Claire Carter announced that the New York apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that Personl FX would return to the air.<br /><br />It never did! Personal FX was the first -and best - of the collectible shows. And it vanished from the air! Almost fifteen years later, I\'m still sore.<br /><br />Way to go, FX."\n260,"Paul Verhoeven\'s predecessor to his breakout hit \'Basic Instinct\' is a stylish and shocking neo-noir thriller. Verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films, both in his native Holland and in America and this film is one of the reasons why. The Fourth Man follows the strange story of Gerard Reve (played by Jeroen Krabbé); a gay, alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to Vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes. While there, he meets the seductive Christine Halsslag (Renée Soutendijk) who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him, even if it kills him.<br /><br />Paul Verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film, and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it. Many of the occurrences in The Fourth Man could be what they appear to be, but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration, and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on. Paul Verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself, and that is one of things I like best about him. This film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards (and that doesn\'t happen very often!). I wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work...but you\'ll see what I mean when you see the film (make sure you get the uncut version!). There is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one I\'ve mentioned, but are lovely nonetheless; a man gets eaten by lions, another one has a pipe sent through his skull, a boat is smashed in half...lovely.<br /><br />The acting in The Fourth Man isn\'t anything to write home about, but it\'s solid throughout. Jeroen Krabbé holds the audience\'s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer. It is Renée Soutendijk that impresses the most, though, as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale. Her performance is what Sharon Stone would imitate nine years later with Basic Instinct, but the original fatale did it best. Paul Verhoeven\'s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view, all of which help to create the mystery of the story. Verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish, but he obviously has talent and it\'s a shame that he doesn\'t put it to better use. Of all the Verhoeven films I\'ve seen, this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across; trust me, it\'s worth the effort."\n261,"I accept that most 50\'s horror aren\'t scary by today\'s standards, but what the hell is this? When you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast. Instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on Earth....yeah which is what the people wanted.<br /><br />The overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast....but the title really kills the movie. Night of the Beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn\'t any blood to speak of.<br /><br />I like how the 50\'s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one. This movie isn\'t the worst i\'ve ever seen but its almost up there.<br /><br />2 out of 10"\n262,"Demon Wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs. It is definitely an awful example of a film. So awful in fact that I don\'t even consider it a movie. I describe it more as a thing ... a monstrous thing. A thing that must be stopped at all costs. My friends and I first discovered this ... thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend\'s house. It was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies (we unfortunately picked this one.) Well, during the 90 minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up. The thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word. It\'s just a cheap, poorly done rip-off of Evil Dead. The whole ""story"" seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces. I have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed. I\'ve seen bad horror movies before (Manos, Troll 2, HOBGOBLINS!!!) (shudder) I would have to say that Demon Wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity. Watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films.<br /><br />Fun fact: This film is like a cockroach on steroids! Much like the ouija board, every time we try to get rid of it, it always seems to mysteriously reappear. Kind of scary huh?"\n263,"There is a difference between a ""film,"" and a ""movie."" A film, regardless of quality, is ready for public consumption. A movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder. In my time as a viewer, I have seen may examples of both.<br /><br />On September 19, I attended a screening of writer/director Jon Satejowski\'s ""Donnybrook."" Now having read the script and having seen two different cuts (a rough cut and the ""finished"" product) of this piece, I can safely say it is a movie. And a student movie, at that. It is, for lack of a better word, competent, which is to say, the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images. The visuals are, for the most part, static and unimpressive, and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots, with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters. I understand that this is a modestly budgeted film, but some visual flair would have been appreciated, and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested.<br /><br />Granted, there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written, engrossing story and some sharp dialog. Steven Soderbergh\'s ""sex, lies, and videotape"" comes immediately to mind. This movie, however, has neither. The main story is weak and unfocused. If the main plot is Davie trying to mend his relationship with his father, then I feel this movie misses the point. What I got out of it is that Davie\'s main aspiration is to ""change the face of rock \'n\' roll."" However, we see very little activity on his part to show this. While there is one dream sequence at the beginning, and an impromptu performance of his at the end, all we seem to get are scenes of Davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar. We are simply told that Davie has played a lot of gigs, but we never see him in full rock out mode. Next time, SHOW don\'t TELL the audience. Anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this. Also, Davie doesn\'t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the 1970\'s; he looks like he\'d be more comfortable in the early days of rock \'n\' roll, posing as James Dean\'s less talented brother. In the meantime, the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather cliché characters, and story threads, that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story, are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency (i.e. the subplot involving Terry\'s father). If I want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction, I will consider watching ""Napolean Dynamite"" again, a film I could barely make it through the first time.<br /><br />As for the above mentioned dialog scenes, I guess I should mention that they are few and extremely far between. Is it too much to ask for characters who do speak? I don\'t think it is. When the characters do speak, it is in short, choppy sentences; collections of oh so insightful questions, angered grunts or wildly over-the-top outbursts. These characters simply do not behave like normal, rational people. Working with material like this, it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film, Al Hudson\'s, and that\'s just because he\'s doing a poor imitation of Sam Elliott for his time on screen. A good director, or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director, would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them. However, with Satejowski being so close to the material, he simply doesn\'t see them, or, if he does, he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it\'ll hurt his creative vision. Being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner, is the mark of a self-indulgent, misguided fool. Just ask Rob Schneider. <br /><br />In the end, we are left with a poor, high-school-set, knock-off of Zach Braff\'s amazing ""Garden State"" combined with the equally amazing ""Velvet Goldmine,"" two films far more worthy of your time.<br /><br />Now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review, allow me to offer this. The best I can do is compliment Mr. Satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see. However, the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur. This is a student movie, nothing more, nothing less. If the movie holds any promise (and let\'s face it, at this point, it isn\'t going to come from the acting, writing, or directing), it is this: If, IF, the people associated with this film are willing, then, please, learn from this movie, file it away, and use the lessons learned on your next attempt; don\'t attack your critics, or have friend or family do it for you. If you are able to do this, maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution, worthy of being called a ""film.""<br /><br />I am your audience, and I am willing to watch."\n264,"please re-watch all 3 series and do not go see this movie, the trailer is completely misleading and the 3 weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out 25min TV episode into the most painful 2hrs of my life, truly an awful film. tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins, micky has 1 line, and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns, also mr briss\'s accent just changes about 5 times in the film tons of badly acted extras, and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for 2 hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god-awful piece of crap..........batman and robin all is forgiven"\n265,"Finally! An Iranian film that is not made by Majidi, Kiarostami or the Makhmalbafs. This is a non-documentary, an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the \'system\' in its ass. It\'s all about football and its funny, its really funny. The director says ""The places are real, the event is real, and so are the characters and the extras. This is why I purposely chose not to use professional actors, as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness."" The non-actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a. your heart is made of stone b. you are blind. Excellently scripted, the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness. It has won the Jury Grand Prize, Berlin, 2006. Dear reader, it\'s near-perfect. WHERE, where can I get hold of it?"\n266,"Sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror. If you can just toe-tap your way through the slow-paced early scenes, sometimes a real gem will present itself... This (unfortunately) was not the case with ""Satan\'s Whip"".<br /><br />Written and directed by Jason Maran, ""Satan\'s Whip"" attempts to drag us along on a boring snore-fest of a film, with no real pay off at the end. I\'m guessing that the black & white (and blue) cinematography must have been for a reason, however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue, and I found this increasingly annoying as the film went on. The story in itself is not that bad, and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic. This, combined with the slow-pacing and lack of any real (red) gore made ""Satan\'s Whip"" one to forget quite quickly. I will give it a ""4"" rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle, but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time."\n267,"Tainted look at kibbutz life<br /><br />This film is less a cultural story about a boy\'s life in a kibbutz, but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general. In the first two minutes of the movie, the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves. And it\'s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical ""kibbutznikim."" Besides the two main characters, a clinically depressed woman and her young son, every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of wellÂ…evil. <br /><br />The story centers on how the kibbutz, like some sort of cult, slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows. There is no happiness, no joy, no laughter in this kibbutz. Every character/situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny, hypocrisy, violence, cultism, repression etc. For example, while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome European looking 12 year old boy – his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his ""jewish"" physical appearance and brutish personality. He cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother. He treats these volunteers like trash. After his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn\'t seen in a long time due to his military service, he orders, Quote – ""Linda, go take shower and I cum in two minutes."" <br /><br />There is one other ""good"" character in this movie – a European foreigner who plays the mother\'s boyfriend. When the animal rapist tries to hit the mother\'s son, the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist\'s arm. He is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for ""violent"" behavior against one of the kibbutz members. More hypocrisy: The indescribably annoying French woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex cannot happen before age 18, or without love and gives an account of the actual act that\'s supposed to be humorous for the audience, but is really just stupid. She of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy\'s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse. <br /><br />The film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult. Children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders. The mother apparently can\'t ""escape"" the kibbutz, although in reality, anyone was/is always free to come and go as they choose. It\'s a mystery how the boy\'s father died, but you can rest assured, the kibbutz ""drove him to it"" and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless, wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son. <br /><br />That\'s the gist of this movie. One dimensional characters, over dramatization, dry performances, and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience\'s head – that kibbutz life was degrading, miserable and even deadly for those who didn\'t ""fit in."" I feel sorry for the guy who made this film – obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz. But I feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs."\n268,"(When will I ever learn-?) The ecstatic reviewer on NPR made me think this turkey was another Citizen Kane. Please allow me to vent my spleen...<br /><br />I will admit: the setting, presumably New York City, has never been so downright ugly and unappealing. I am reminded that the 70\'s was a bad decade for men\'s fashion and automobiles. And all the smoking-! If the plan was to cheapen the characters, it succeeded.<br /><br />For a film to work (at least, in my simple estimation), there has to be at least ONE sympathetic character. Only Ned Beaty came close, and I could not wait for him to finish off Nicky. If a stray shot had struck Mikey, well, it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most.<br /><br />I can\'t remember when I detested a film as strongly. I suppose I\'m a rube who doesn\'t dig ""art"" flicks. Oh, well."\n269,"""Lost"", ""24"", ""Carnivale"", ""Desperate Housewifes""...the list goes on and on. These, and a bunch of other high-quality, shows proves that we\'re in the middle of a golden age in television history. ""Lost"" is pure genius. Incredible layers of personal, and psychologically viable, stories, underscored by sublime cinematography (incredible to use this word, when describing a TV-show), a killer score, great performances and editing. Anyone who isn\'t hooked on this, are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever. It may have its problems, when watching only one episode a week, but the DVD format is actually an incredible way to watch this. Hope they keep it up (as I\'m sure they do)."\n270,"Clifton Webb is one of my favorites. However, Mister Scoutmaster is not one of his best. His patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny. The film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality. In addition, the viewer is presented with numerous ham-handed references to religious faith and U.S. patriotism that come off as over-reverent rather than genuine. Clifton Webb does his best with a poor script. Edmund Gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do. The child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film. His sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog-like low voice unusual for someone of his age. However, once you\'ve heard it, you\'ve heard it and you don\'t need to hear it again. Unfortunately, he is in the majority of the film\'s scenes. I find this child so irritating that I fast forward whenever he shows up. Since he has a lot of scenes in this film, this means that I fast forward through a lot of the film. There were and are so many talented child actors; it\'s a pity this film doesn\'t have any of them in it. Still, Clifton Webb in the traditional broad-brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing."\n271,"This is a must-see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real-life adventure and its sense of morality. Darius Goes West is an amazing roller-coaster of a story. We live the lives of Darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime. Darius has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease which affects all the muscles in his body. He is confined to a wheelchair, and needs round-the-clock attention. So how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a 6,000 mile round-trip to the West Coast and back? Watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure - laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way, and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises!"\n272,"The message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses; the mythical city of Everytown in 1940 represents England in general, but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world. When war finally does arrive, it\'s ravages continue not for another five years, but until 1966 at which time Everytown is completely destroyed. Adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the ""wandering sickness"", a pestilence that continues for another four years.<br /><br />""Things to Come"" balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view, where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization. The ""Wings Over the World"" concept plays out a bit corny, though it\'s spokesman Cabal (Raymond Massey) is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause. If he fails, others will follow. This message is continually reinforced throughout the film, brought home convincingly in Massey\'s end of movie speech. Man\'s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an ""all the universe or nothing"" mindset.<br /><br />The film\'s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film ""Metropolis"". As Everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year 2036, the spectacle of the city\'s rebirth strikes a resonant chord, as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie\'s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition. Where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man\'s first mission to the moon, but in 1936, a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than 1969.<br /><br />""Things to Come"" is one of those rarities in film, a picture that makes you think. Which side will you come down on, the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo? It\'s not a comfortable question, as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes. Those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control."\n273,"Fulci... Does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made? Answer: yes! Cat in the Brain, also known as Nightmare Concert is Fulci\'s last masterpiece. Yes it is, no matter what some people will say about it. There are few facts why this movie is one of the best Fulci\'s movies.<br /><br />Fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one. Lead roll in this movie is no other then Fulci himself, who plays... well horror-splatter-gore director, who thinks he is slowly going insane. It\'s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here. Being Fulci flick, you need to know it\'s gory. How much? Well pretty much. I always loved gore in the movies and I never get enough of it, but Cat in the Brain actually stopped my thirst for gore, and believe me, it\'s a hard to archive. Even the Braindead didn\'t stop it. CITB is all about gore. Almost every scene revolves about Fulci, who after being hypnotized by *khmmm* evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees. Some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey, and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor, which starts to spit some ooze from it\'s wounds. Forget the Beyond or Zombie 2, this IS the goriest Fulci movie! Now I like how Fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie. He is such a brilliant director. Some funny moments and lines happens from time to time, like one where Fulci says ""making gore movies is kind of a sickness"" Ending is very good considering that Fulci (and most of the Italian horror masters) is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes. If you are fun of the Fulci, make sure you check it out. If you have a weak stomach, avoid this and repeat ""Its only a movie"" ps. some of the gore scenes within this movie: Chainsaw dismemberment (full), tongue torn out, eyeballs torn out, maggot infested corpses, zombies, decapitations, face being putted in boiling water, stabs in the shower (to head), throat slit, many parts of the body and organs being toast aside, hammer smashed face..."\n274,"What an incomprehensible mess of a movie. Something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom (and from the size of the jar he\'s been shot about fifty times by now) and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into Mexico. Whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear. And you\'ll never hear another screenplay feature the word ""butthorn"" either. Gary Busey tries out the Mel Gibson role from ""Lethal Weapon"" and while Busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity. William Smith does another turn as a Russian soldier, the same character he played in ""Red Dawn"" a few years earlier. After playing biker heavies for most of the 70s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing Communist heavies. Sadly he\'ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who Clint Eastwood whupped in ""Every Which Way You Can."""\n275,I love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors. I like raptors because they are scary. My favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the Friday the 13th movie with the girl who eats the banana.<br /><br />I really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it\'s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and I think it\'s got a good ending even though I didn\'t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings I figured it out over time and that\'s the important part. The other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you\'re watching it the first time.<br /><br />THIS IS BEST MOVIE.\n276,"WARNING: REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS<br /><br />A couple of years back I managed to see the first five films in this franchise, and was planning to do an overview of the whole Elm St. series. However, just two years on and I find I can\'t remember enough about them in order to do it – I guess they couldn\'t have made much of an impression. From what I do recall, some of the sequels – Dream Warriors in particular – weren\'t as bad as is often made out, though even the original was no classic. Generally, the predictability of the premise (if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams) doesn\'t lend itself to narrative tension. But while I cannot recall much of the first five films, I do know they never plumbed the depths of Freddy\'s Dead.<br /><br />An indication of how sick of Freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character\'s demise. The fact that the movie\'s conclusion is not even hidden, but in fact the entire purpose for the film\'s being goes to illustrate how vacant, soulless and cynical this venture was.<br /><br />Taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain, Robert Englund\'s in-no-way-scary interpretation booms with laughter. I always thought Freddy\'s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe. It\'s like Englund\'s crying out ""we know this is garbage – but you\'re paying to see it, so who\'s the one laughing?"" And I\'m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight. Was Freddy\'s appearance in the films always so rudimentary? All he gets to do here is a few ""haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr – har – har – hars"" and that\'s it. If this was the only Elm St. film you\'d ever seen you wouldn\'t get to know the character at all. Even as the character pre-death in a flashback Englund plays him as a boo-hiss pantomime villain with a slop of Transatlantic (ie. overstated, misplaced and not at all funny) irony.<br /><br />Acting is almost universally poor. Just look at how many times Breckin Meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language. Only Kananga himself, Yaphet Kotto, keeps his dignity. And when Roseanne, Tom Arnold and Alice Cooper show up, you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire. The script, too, is absolutely lousy, almost wholly without merit. Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan) opens a road map, upon which the Noel Coward-like Freddy has wittily written ""you\'re f**ked"". When prompted for the map, Carlos responds ""well the map says we\'re f**ked"". Who wrote the screenplay, Oscar Wilde?<br /><br />Or how about the scene where Carlos is tortured by Freddy, his hearing enhanced to painful levels? So Freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin – a potentially fatal sound, given that all sounds are magnified. Oddly, the fact that Carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect. ""Nice hearing from you, Carlos"", quips Freddy, hoping some better lines will come along. It\'s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn\'t occur instaneously, so being knocked unconscious wouldn\'t allow instant access into Freddy\'s world. Though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a 3-D finale plot logic isn\'t that high on the list of requirements.<br /><br />The teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious, dislikeable group in the whole series. Tracy (Lezlie Deane) is the only one who gets to greet Freddy with ""shut the f**k up, man"" and a kick in the scallops. And was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients? Freddy\'s Dead. No laughs. No scares. No interest. No fun.<br /><br />"\n277,"Some comments here on IMDb have likened Dog Bite Dog to the classic Cat III films of the 90s, but although it is undoubtedly brutal, violent and very downbeat, this film from Pou-Soi Cheang isn\'t really sleazy, lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison. However, it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch, particularly if gritty, hard-edged action is your thing.<br /><br />Edison Chen plays Pang, a Cambodian hit-man who travels to Hong Kong to assassinate the wife of a judge; Sam Lee is Wai, the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down, whatever the cost. With Wai closing in on his target, Pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape—until he meets Yue, a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse.<br /><br />A relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography, amazing sound design, a haunting score, and solid performances from Chen and Lee (as well as newcomer Pei Pei as Pang\'s love interest), Dog Bite Dog is one for fans of hard-hitting Asian hyper-violence (think along the lines of Chan-wook Park\'s Vengeance trilogy). Stabbings, shootings, merciless beatings: all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director Cheang.<br /><br />Of course, this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved, and sure enough, pretty much everyone in this film dies (rather nasty deaths). Unfortunately, there is a fine line between tragedy and (unintentional) comedy, and in its final moments, Dog Bite Dog crosses it: in a laughably over-dramatic final scene, Pang and Wai are locked in battle as a pregnant Yue looks on. Eventually, after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas, a wounded Pang performs a DIY Ceasarean on (a now dead) Yue, delivering their baby moments before he himself dies.<br /><br />Whilst this film might not be a \'classic\' slice of Hong Kong excess, with its deliriously OTT action and stylish visuals, it\'s still worth seeking out."\n278,"I watched this movie for the hot guy--and even he sucked! He was the worst one--well, okay, I have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too, he was even worse. The guy wasn\'t that cute in the end, he had the most terrible accent, and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can\'t stand up to his mom for the one he ""loves"" there\'s ever been. Overall, and if this makes any sense to you, when I go to pick up movies at the video store, I think to myself as I read the back of a movie that looks so/so, ""Well, at least it can\'t be worse than Carolina Moon."" The most terrible movie, and the most terrible writing, acting, plot--everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips. It was THE most horrid movie I will ever see, with Gabriela way up there too. I hated it, and trust me, if there was any number under 1 IMDb had for rating, I\'d choose that in a heartbeat."\n279,"Absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story. Told with unflinching eye and with gripping style. If you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people, this could change your mind. Something for you feds too: A good model for government coverups! If you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you."\n280,"I have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say. Even though this movie did not get the best comments, this movie made my day. It got me thinking. What a false world this is.<br /><br />What do you do when your most loved ones deceive you. It\'s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake, it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance. Same way some people are such that they are never grateful. This movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself. <br /><br />A brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster. The surviving brother decides to take revenge. Through this process, we learn about the futility of this world. Nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone.<br /><br />Amitabh gave the performance of his life. The new actor Aryan gave a good performance. The actress who played the wife of Amitabh stole the show. Her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance. Chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself.<br /><br />A great movie by Raj Kumar Santoshi. His movies always give some message to the audience. His movies are like novels of Nanak Singh (a Punjabi novelist who\'s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil) because they have a real message for the audience. They are entertaining as well as lesson-giving."\n281,"After a very scary, crude opening which gives you that creepy ""Chainsaw massacre""-feeling, everything falls apart.<br /><br />SPOILER ALERT: As soon as the two FBI-officers start jabbing, you know they are the real killers. Anyone who have seen enough of these ""fooled-ya""-movies can figure this out.<br /><br />This movie is mader with one thing in mind: To depict brutal murders. Why, then, is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well? Will this be next for us movie-goers? The torture and abuse of children? Whats wrong with you people? Lynch is truly has a disgusting, ugly mind."\n282,"I can\'t say much about this film. I think it speaks for itself (as do the current ratings on here). I rented this about two years ago and I totally regretted it. I even /tried/ to like it by watching it twice, but I just couldn\'t. I can safely say that I have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever, ever again. And I\'m not one to trash a movie, but I truly believe this was awful. It wasn\'t even funny in the slightest. The only bits I enjoyed were the few scenes with Christopher Walken in them. I think this film ruined both Jack Black and Ben Stiller for me. All I can think of when I see one of their films now-a-days is this terrible movie, and it reminds me not to waste my money. Amy Poehler is so very annoying, too.<br /><br />Overall, well, I think you get my point. The stars are for Walken, by the way."\n283,"I am not so old that I can\'t remember laughing at Bobcat Goldthwait a couple times. But some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells.<br /><br />From the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead. Neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line. Goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better- even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades. <br /><br />If you ever saw Shakes the Clown you know how unfunny Bobcat was 15 years ago...this movie is worse. It was not even funny by accident It is sad, pathetic and a total waste of time. May Goldthwaits\' hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script. Strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene. He is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into Hollywood"\n284,"In New Orleans, an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal Blackie (Walter Jack Palance). He is chased by Blackie and his men Raymond Fitch (Zero Mostel) and Poldi (Guy Thomajan), killed by Blackie and his body is dumped in the sea. During the autopsy, the family man Lieutenant Commander Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) of the U.S. Public Health Service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty-eight hours to avoid an epidemic. The City Mayor assigns the skeptical Captain Tom Warren (Paul Douglas) to help Dr. Clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them.<br /><br />""Panic in the Streets"" discloses a simple story, but it is still effective and with a great villain. The engaging plot has not become dated after fifty-seven years. Jack Palance performs a despicable scum in his debut, and the camera work while he tries to escape with Zero Mostel is still very impressive. My vote is seven.<br /><br />Title (Brazil): ""Pânico nas Ruas"" (""Panic in the Streets"")"\n285,"The box is why I originally picked up this movie and the back is why I rented it. But I soon learned that I had been duped. I had thought this movie would be something like a Road Trip/Eurotrip/American Pie deal. But I was wrong. This movie is one of the dumbest I\'ve seen in a long time. The unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you. The acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy. It appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building. Go out and get Eurotrip or Road Trip instead. I can\'t believe National Lampoon put its name on this. DON\'T BUY IT, DON\'T RENT IT. Don\'t waste 2 hours of your life on this."\n286,"There have been many documentaries that I have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence - The Thin Blue Line and Paradise Lost come to mind first and foremost. But this is the first film that had me seething with anger after I saw it. It seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at Waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the FBI and AFI, and at the very worst an act of murder. Like most people, when the siege at Waco was occurring I assumed that David Koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult. After seeing this, I think that Koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the U.S. government through his eccentric actions. Sure, there were lots of weapons at the Branch Davidian compound. But none of it was illegal. It was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound, all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless. And it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the Waco site, the clueless testimony of Janet Reno, and the partisan defense of the attack on Waco, a defense led by a few of the committee Democrats. Standing out most in my mind was NY representative and current U.S. senator from NY Charles Schumer. I voted for the man when I lived in NY state - I\'m a Democrat, pretty left-leaning too. After seeing his actions on this committee, I wish I could go back in time and vote for D\'Amato instead! For anyone remotely interested in the government, this is a very crucial film, a must see. I even think this should be shown in classes - it\'s that important."\n287,"I saw this movie last night and thought it was decent. It has it\'s moments I guess you would say. Some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool, and some of the location shots were very authentic. I won\'t be putting this movie in my DVD collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting. I guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre. The action is good, the acting is decent, the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion, and the story is pretty interesting. 7 out of ten"\n288,"Yes, I call this a perfect movie. Not one boring second, a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors, a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives I could sympathize with, perfect lighting, crisp black and white photography, a fitting soundtrack, an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works. It\'s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of Hollywood should rest, the mark everyone should endeavor to reach.<br /><br />Barbara Stanwyck is simply stunning. There was nothing this actress couldn\'t do, and she always went easy on the melodramatic side. No hysterical outbursts with this lady - I always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, and this movie confirmed my opinion. Always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments. It is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career, and this one is by far the least interesting.<br /><br />The title fits this movie very well. It is about desires, human desires I think everyone can understand. Actually, no one seems to be scheming in this movie, all characters act on impulse, everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else. The sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which I will not go here.<br /><br />I liked what this movie has to say about youth, about maturing and about the necessity to compromise. The movie I associate most with this one is Alfred Hitchcock\'s Shadow of a Doubt, it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured Small Town America. The story has a certain similarity with Fritz Lang\'s considerably harsher movie Clash by Night, made one year earlier, where Stanywck stars in a similar part. I can also recommend it."\n289,"I would like to know if anyone know how I can get a copy of the movie, ""That\'s the way of the World"". It\'s been about 30 years since I\'ve seen this movie, and I would like to see it again. Earth Wind & Fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes. It was unfortunate that this group didn\'t take off like their counterparts in the early 70\'s, but as previously stated, racial tension existed in the United States which prohibited equalized exposure for the African American musical groups. It is good to see that Earth Wind & Fire continuing their success. I would like to add this movie to my collection. Someone please help me if possible. Thank you for your attention. Milton Shaw"\n290,"I saw the movie ""Hoot"" and then I immediately decided to comment it. The truth is that NATURE needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet. Some people think that if they have money, they can do whatever they want to, which probably is like, but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful! This movie is not just about kids, this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do. When I was twelve, I saw some waterlilies and I knew they are protected by law and didn\'t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law, but fearing that I might harm them actually. (I am currently 15) What so ever, the acting was great, the 3 main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them. I hope you all think about what you saw in that movie!!! and Enjoy!"\n291,"I had some reservations about this movie, I figured it would be the usual bill of fare --- a formula movie about Christmas. Being in the middle of a heat wave in late June, we decided to give it a shot anyway, maybe we would see some snow.<br /><br />This movie turned out to be one laugh after another. Ben Affleck was believable in his character, but the real star of this one is James Gandofini. He delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great ""dad"".<br /><br />If you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours, definitely check this one out."\n292,"When I first saw this film around 6 months ago, I considered it interesting, but little more. But it stuck with me. That interest grew and grew, and I wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual VHS quality rather than the film itself. I purchased the Criterion DVD box set, and it turns out that I was right the second time. Alexander Nevsky is a great film. It is rousing, and I\'m sure it succeeded in its main aim: propaganda against the Germans.<br /><br />That is the most common criticism against this film, and against Eisenstein, that it is merely propagandist and nothing else. It\'s untrue. He is an amazing film artist, one of the most important whoever lived. By now, the world is far enough beyond Joseph Stalin to be able to watch Eisenstein\'s films as art."\n293,"Focus is another great movie starring William H. Macy. I first discovered Macy in Fargo and I\'ve seen a few of his films and he hasn\'t yet deceived me. Macy is the archetypal ""nice guy with something to hide"". In Focus, he plays the role of Lawrence Newman, a loyal and hard-working stiff, who harbours his handicapped mother at home. The scene is set after World War II, at the height of McCarthyism. Newman is the head of Human Resources for a company which is basically, anti-Semite. After he accidentally hires a woman of Jewish descent, he is asked to buy a pair of glasses, to improve his failing eyesight.<br /><br />Unbelievably, the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of Gertrude Hart, his wife (played by a great Laura Dern). As the film unravels, Newman will begin to see a whole different world, where being Jewish is akin to being an animal.<br /><br />The movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal. The chilling thought is that in some places, it probably still is."\n294,"In ""Brave New Girl,"" Holly comes from a small town in Texas, sings ""The Yellow Rose of Texas"" at a local competition, and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in Philadelphia. From there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty. I loved this movie. It was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace. The acting was, of course, wonderful. Virginia Madsen and Lindsey Haun were outstanding, as well as Nick Roth The camera work was really done well and I was very pleased with the end (It seems a sequel could be in the making). Kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production. Quite a gem in the film archives."\n295,"Despite a totally misleading advertising campaign, this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clichéd, sub-par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending. Clue #1 for all considering seeing this turkey: Sam Raimi didn\'t direct it. Although commercials for the movie play up his involvement, in truth he is one of four producers. It\'s too bad that someone as talented as Raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie. I don\'t think he would ever have directed something like this; that task was left to the Pang Brothers.<br /><br />The screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other ""horror"" films, so you\'ll find absolutely zero original content in ""The Messengers."" What we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of ""Pulse,"" a couple that could have come from ""The Birds,"" one or two from ""The Others,"" etc. Nearly every scene, almost every line of dialogue, is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies. The whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the ""surprise ending"" long before it comes.<br /><br />Right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign, centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts, has nothing to do with this movie. In fact, everyone can see the ghosts. The teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them, even quite early in the movie. I\'m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal, which otherwise is entirely absent. Now you know, so don\'t be fooled! Perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors. It simply isn\'t there. All of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted. Coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes (just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened, anyhow? Didn\'t anyone think to maybe arrest him?), it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots: loud noises, visual flashes, and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling ""Boo!"" All we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly-made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house. If there\'s any message that ""The Messengers"" delivers, it\'s ""Don\'t waste your time on this movie."""\n296,"This movie sucks ass. Something about a heatwave in some European country, complete trash. There\'s nothing going for this movie whatsoever. maybe 30 seconds of sex but that\'s it. There is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off. This movie is complete rash and you shouldn\'t subject yourself to watching it. I regret it it\'s very boring. I would rate it zero but i can\'t. No body in their right mind should see this. i\'m sure you\'ll regret it completely i did. How could they think up something this bad. Even Mystery men was better. MYSTERY MEN. That sucks. That movie wasn\'t worth being made. complete waste of time. The characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored."\n297,"I was looking forward to The Guardian, but when I walked into the theater I wasn\'t really in the mood for it at that particular time. It\'s kind of like the Olive Garden - I like it, but I have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it.<br /><br />I\'m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit. The trailers looked good, but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last Kevin Costner movie that dealt with the subject - Waterworld. Plus, despite the promise Ashton Kutcher showed in The Butterfly Effect, I\'m still not completely sold on him. Something about the guy just annoys me. Probably has to do with his simian features.<br /><br />It took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away. The movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission, and I was gripped tighter than Kenny Rogers\' orange face lift. My concerns briefly bristled at Kutcher\'s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious. Sunglasses, a tough guy toothpick in his mouth, and sportin\' a smirk that\'d make George Clooney proud? Yeah, we get it. I was totally ready to hate him.<br /><br />But then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs. <br /><br />Darn you, ape man! Efficiently mixing tense, exciting rescue scenes, drama, humor, and solid acting, The Guardian is easily a film that I dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy. You can quibble about its clichés, predictability, and rare moments of overcooked sappiness, but none of that takes away from the entertainment value.<br /><br />I had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when Costner started training the young guys, but on the contrary, the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen, so I feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under-appreciated group.<br /><br />Do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer? Just think about it -you get to go on dangerous missions in cold, dark, rough water, and then you must fight disorientation, exhaustion, hypothermia, and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded, panicked people who are depending on you for their survival. And if all that isn\'t bad enough, sometimes you can\'t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies.<br /><br />Man, who wants all that responsibility? Not me! I had no idea what it was really like for these guys, and who would have thought I\'d have an Ashton Kutcher/Kevin Costner movie to thank for the education? <br /><br />Not only does The Guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero, but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers.<br /><br />THE GIST <br /><br />Moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it\'s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give The Guardian a chance. I saw it for free, but had I paid I would\'ve felt I had gotten my money\'s worth."\n298,"Going into see Seven Pounds i wasn\'t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about. So within the first 20 min or so you are completely lost in the plot, have no idea what is going on and you think Tim, who claims to be Ben, is just a big asshole. All of this comes to an end when the ""twist"",so to speak, is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie. Basically Tim (will smith) was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives. By this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to.<br /><br />The acting of this film is great, as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress. Rosario Dawson, to me, this is one of her better movies, aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to. She has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film. Other actors, such as woody Harrelson, have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character. Although the casting of the film was still good.<br /><br />This movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped. The movie, however, was still pretty good. Nothing is revealed until the last 5 min of the movie and everything falls into place. Up until then it just seems like a pointless love story. Final thought seven pounds=seven Stars."\n299,"I saw Brother\'s Shadow at the Tribeca Film Festival and loved it! Judd Hirsch and Scott Cohen are great as father and son. The film follows Scott Cohen from parole in Alaska back to his family in Brooklyn. He shows up there because his brother has died, and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother\'s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family. The story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives. Also, the imagery of the woodworking business and the Brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait."\n300,"""MararÃ\xada"" really disappointed me. I can\'t consider it as a bad movie, but the development just seemed too rushed and non-believable for it to evoke any emotions. Dr. FermÃ\xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can\'t really understand where it was born from. I mean, how many times does he ever have a conversation with MararÃ\xada?? Maybe once? Also, MararÃ\xada never appeared to be a real character, instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie (...or else another title was needed?). Some of the best acting came from a role that wasn\'t really important to the story, that of Marcial, the sub-intelligent yet humble drunkard. Of course, the scenery, the cultural tidbits of the Canary Islands, and other ""wow"" moments were interesting, but the movie fell short of a documentary (in case this was its real intention), and most importantly, as a solid drama."\n301,"Serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind. Instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains. The mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems. There is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters. The mad doctor\'s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy. The results are not good. This is a class C film with OK acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors. There isn\'t much zombie action in this one and the effects, while adequate, are nothing special. You can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes. Watch out for some nudity and bad language."\n302,witty. funny. intelligent. awesome. i was flipping channels late one night years ago. came across this and a wildfire started. i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know. a few. like 3 people out of the almost 100 people i made watch this didn\'t think it was as awesome as i did. the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time. please do yourself a favor. run don\'t walk. watch this and enjoy. intelligence and humor. it\'s a win-win situation. i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of....sanechaos.\n303,"It\'s a unique film, as it gives us our only chance to see the young Noel Coward in all his ironic glory. Because he seems so reserved & detached he\'s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter-of-factly uses all those around him. However in the deadly serious (no pun intended) last act, when Coward must make like the Flying Dutchman, he\'s much less comfortable.<br /><br />But his way with an epigram is peerless, and Hecht & Macarthur have given him some gems (Macarthur, really -- he was the wit of the pair).<br /><br />The film is superbly lighted by the great Lee Garmes, but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence. Hecht and Macarthutr cared about one thing -- getting their dialogue on screen. (NOTE: H&M themselves have blink-and-you\'ll-miss-\'em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene).<br /><br />The most notable supporting player is the one and only Alexander Woolcott, notorious Broadway columnist and close friend of both Macarthur and Coward, who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher Coward.<br /><br />Curious that Woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary Algonquin Round Table, of which he was a founder, and Macarthur something of an auxiliary member.<br /><br />The Scoundrel actually won an Oscar for best story, though that victory is probably due more to Coward\'s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot. It\'s Coward, Woolcott, and the dialogue you remember..."\n304,"This is definitely a ""must see"" film. The excellent Director Alain Chabat (also acting as Ceasar) has managed to capture the very essence of the ""Adventures of Astérix"" (the French comic books it\'s based upon) and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy, which is also an homage to the world of animated films. This movie is so funny, so full of jokes (both visual and spoken) that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all, between your bursts of laughter. The only drawback is that a non-French audience (or at least a non-French speaking audience) might not get all the ""private jokes"". There are so many dialogues impossible to translate, so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the French way of life, that the fun might be lessened. However, it\'s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture, the amazing stunts, the music, the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting. All actors are great, but the film would not be the same without Jamel Debouze, Gérard Darmon and Edouard Baer. And please don\'t EVER compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books : ""Astérix et Obélix Contre César"" and directed by Claude Zidi."\n305,"I thought this movie was stunning, with completely outstanding performances by Valentina Cervi (Artemisia Gentileschi).<br /><br />Cervi portrays Artemisia so beautifully, with tentative yet confidant mannerisms, her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place. The passion to which Artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch.<br /><br />Although not each character was overtly beautiful, this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time.<br /><br />Overall i thought this film was fantastic."\n306,"I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling ""Gentleman Jim"" the best boxing movie ever made. That is the Robert Wise/Paul Newman flick ""Somebody Up There Likes Me."" That movie might be number 1, but ""Gentleman Jim"" is a close number 2.<br /><br />The movie doesn\'t just chronicle the rise of James J. Corbett, it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition. In the late 1800s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare-knuckle rules to the more ""gentlemanly"" days of the gloved, Marquis of Queensbury rules. And the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability.<br /><br />""Gentleman Jim"" is not a realistic look at those days. It is romanticized and, yes, even a bit hokey at times. But always delightfully so. Errol Flynn is perfect as the ""Gentleman"" Jim who really isn\'t a ""gentleman"" at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family. Alexis Smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love/hate relationship (and we all know it is, of course, love that will win that match in the end).<br /><br />At the end of ""Gentleman Jim"" the great John L Sullivan (whose famous line was NOT ""I can lick any man in the world"" of course...romanticism again) hands over his belt to Corbett. This is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made. Realistic? No. But wonderful. Hey, if you want realism watch ""Raging Bull"" instead. That is a much more realistic boxing movie. But ""Gentleman Jim"" is a lot more fun."\n307,"That this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that God is truly dead. Am I the only one that really saw (rather sleptwalked) through this ""film""? This is the only movie I\'ve ever seen in the theater that I regret not walking out on and demanding my money back -- it was just that dull. And I even saw ""Highlander 2: The Quickening"" at the local cinema. From beginning to end, Gibson and Downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies, cast together by circumstance, who eventually work together as best buddies. The action (what little there is) is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer. Thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our ""cinema"" that there\'s no chance for an ""Air America 2."""\n308,"Well, there\'s no real plot to speak of, it\'s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex (which can sometimes be fun, too, but it\'s not in this case). What else can I say about this...? The action, when happening, is inventive and there\'s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper (one that has to be several miles high), but overall there\'s not much to recommend ""Kite"". Watch it if you want, but you\'re not missing much if you skip this one..."\n309,"This is the best film the Derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven\'t seen any of the others. There are the usual ingredients: it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts, we can watch Bo disrobing or auditioning for wet T-shirt contests quite frequently, the story is just laughably idiotic, and the film takes itself much too seriously. And then: Orang Utans in Africa?<br /><br />But it has a few things going for it. Bo looks great, the production values (sets, costumes, etc.) are quite good, and this greatly enhances its camp value. In a strange way it is actually quite funny, simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly."\n310,"Some people drift through life, moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye; others latch on to a cause, another person or a principle and remain adamant, committed to whatever it is-- and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it. But we\'re all different, `Made of different clay,\' as one of the characters in this film puts it, which is what makes life so interesting. Some people are just plain crazy, though-- and maybe that\'s the way you have to be to live among the masses. Who knows? Who knows what it takes to make things-- life-- work? Writer/director Lisa Krueger takes a shot at it, using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed-- and how one `gets\' committed-- and obsession, in `Committed,\' starring Heather Graham as a young woman who is adamant, committed, obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy, too. Her name is Joline, and this is her story.<br /><br />\tAdmittedly, Joline has always been a committed person; in work, relationships, in life in general. She\'s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what. And when she marries Carl (Luke Wilson), it\'s forever. The only problem is, someone forgot to tell Carl-- and 597 days into the marriage, he\'s gone; off to `find\' himself and figure it all out. When Joline realizes he\'s not coming back, she refuses to give up on him, or their marriage. Maybe it\'s because of that `clay\' she\'s made of. Regardless, she leaves their home in New York City and sets off to find him, which she does-- in El Paso, Texas, of all places. But once she knows where he is, she keeps her distance, giving him his `space\' and not even letting him know she\'s there. She considers Carl as being in a `spiritual coma,\' and it\'s her job to keep a `spiritual vigil\' over him until he comes to his senses. And while she watches and waits, her life is anything but dull, as she encounters a young woman named Carmen (Patricia Velazquez), a waitress at one of the local eateries; Carmen\'s `Grampy,\' (Alfonso Arau), who is something of a mystic; T-Bo (Mark Ruffalo), a truck driver who has issues concerning Carl; and Neil (Goran Visnjic) an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her. For Joline, it\'s a journey of discovery, during which she learns a lot about Carl, but even more about herself.<br /><br />\tThere\'s a touch of humor, a touch of romance, and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot. And Krueger presents it all extremely well, delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining. Her characters are very real people, with all the wants, needs and imperfections that make up the human condition; a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story. We see it from Joline\'s point-of-view, as Krueger makes us privy to Joline\'s thoughts and therefore her motivations, which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold. That, along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates, makes for a very effective piece of storytelling. There\'s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter, but Krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy-handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that Joline encounters. And the result is a well textured, affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life.<br /><br />\tHeather Graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make Joline a character totally of her own creation. She immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable, adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person, and one that is real. And for this film to work, it was imperative that Joline be viable and believable-- and Graham succeeds on all fronts. Her screen presence has never been more alluring, and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes, is enough to draw you in entirely. it\'s all a part of the character she creates; there\'s an appeal to Joline that exudes from her entire countenance, who she is inside and out. She\'s a likable, agreeable person, and because you\'ve shared her innermost thoughts, you know who she is. It\'s a good job all the way around, beginning with the way the character was written, to the way Graham brings her so vibrantly to life.<br /><br />\tAs Carmen, Patricia Velazquez is totally engaging, as well. Her performance is very natural and straightforward, and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character. She has a charismatic presence, but is less than flamboyant, and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down-to-earth. She is refreshingly open and up-front; you get the impression that Carmen is not one to hold anything back, but is totally honest on all fronts, and that, too, is part of her appeal. And, as with Joline, this character is well written, and Velazquez brings her convincingly to life.<br /><br />\tOverall, there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film, including those of Luke Wilson, Casey Affleck (as Joline\'s brother, Jay), Goran Visnjic, Alfonso Arau and especially Mark Ruffalo as T-Bo, who, with very little actual screen time, manages to create a memorable character.<br /><br />\tThe supporting cast includes Kim Dickens (Jenny), Clea Du Vall (Mimi), Summer Phoenix (Meg), Art Alexakis (New York Car Thief), Dylan Baker (Carl\'s Editor), and Mary Kay Place (Psychiatrist). A film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider The Big Picture-- reflecting upon who we are, where we\'re going and what we really need-- `Committed\' is an enjoyable experience; a ride definitely worth taking. 8/10."\n311,"Ho-hum. An inventor\'s(Horst Buchholz)deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands. Unknowingly his son(Luke Perry)has been working on the antedote all along. Enter CIA agent Olivia d\'Abo and the cat-and-mouse car chases and gunfire begins. Also in the cast are:Tom Conti, Hendrick Haese and an aging Roger Moore. Moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts. Perry fans will be accepting. d\'Abo is wrong for the role, but nice to look at."\n312,"Note to self. Never ever ever again watch a serious movie with Charlie Sheen in it. Great comedian, horrible seal. This movie makes Navy SEALS look like a reckless group of rangers when, in fact, they are the most elite form of military in the world. Charlie Sheen helps destroy the Navy SEAL reputation. Thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies I have ever seen. This is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie, but why Charlie Sheen? There are possibilities for a very passionate story here, but Sheen decides to wreck them with ""funny"" comments."\n313,"This movie is stupid. There\'s no getting around it. But so is Dumb and Dumber. Mind you, Dumb and Dumber is significantly more funny than this. However, I for one love seeing stupid movies (Tail Sting) and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is. Call me callous, but see this movie, and you\'ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it."\n314,"I was looking forward to this so much, being a big fan of the book. However, when it came out I remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time I\'ve ever spent at the cinema.<br /><br />In principle, the acting, the sets and the music were excellent, and are the main reason why I\'m rating this a 4.<br /><br />In this version, Sara is a little too self-sacrificing for my taste. There is no way she would have deliberately lied to Miss Minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls; in the book she makes a point of describing lies as ""not just wicked, but vulgar."" <br /><br />There\'s also far too much of a Disneyfied ending for me; Sara\'s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the Indian sunset. While the book does have a happy (and critics might say equally improbable) ending, it doesn\'t leave you thinking, ""Oh puh-leeze.""<br /><br />About the only things true to the book were:<br /><br />1. Sara\'s father being a soldier 2. The lines between Sara and her father (""Are you learning me by heart?""/""No. I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."") 3. Sara\'s friendship with Becky, and her \'adopting\' Lottie (although this last one wasn\'t developed as much as it could have been) 4. The changing of her room by adding various luxury items. That part was brilliantly done. 5. The basic core - a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly - is there, but that\'s about all that is.<br /><br />People might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience. Possibly. All I can say to that is I have two cousins - aged 7 and 12 respectively - who were big fans of this film until they read the book.<br /><br />If all you want is a \'feel-good\' family film, then this delivers. If you\'re looking for a film that actually tells the story of A Little Princess (in fact, if you\'ve read the book) don\'t waste time with this one. It\'s such a shame; with a cast like this, if they\'d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic.<br /><br />Am I harping on about \'read the book\' this and \'read the book\' that a little too much? Very probably. But if someone attempts to adapt a book - especially such a classic - into a movie, then they should at least have done the same thing. Preferably more than once."\n315,"as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless. TV told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early 1990s and made everyone look bad, and claimed we all made over $100 a day when $20-40 a day was much closer to reality. when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work, and offered me work, i actually went and took the work if i was physically able.and if i would been offered the $100,000 id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least 2 years, and kept most in the bank and still left myself $10-20000 for NL $1-2 and $2-5 cash games at the casinos. i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll. instead i win about $1000 a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all. i was only homeless cause i didn\'t wanna risk spending all my money and going broke, sometimes i had over $1000-2000 in my sock while i slept outside. anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard2003 on yahoo messenger.i admit i was different than most homeless people though, due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs. im no longer homeless, am now in govt housing for $177 a month and getting SSI and spend most of my time winning at online poker. mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me SSI. glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping, worrying about getting caught by security are finally over. had this TV crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner. its a shame how they don\'t better select who they pick."\n316,"i really in enjoyed watching this movie. like most of the people that watched it. i wasn\'t sure that i was getting. Whoopi Goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies; i.e. sister act.<br /><br />however this was not really comedy. it is a drama with comedic moments. so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking.<br /><br />this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood. i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie. this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks, but also about relations with in the black community. i do think that it is worth a chance. if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn\'t for you"\n317,"Having been a Marine, I can tell you that the D.I. is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting Marine Corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men. Jack Webb is excellent as Sgt.Jim Moore, a tough, but fair drill instructor in Paris Island North Carolina. The film centers on one recruit who doesn\'t seem to ""get with the program."" A more recent film, Full Metal Jacket, also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing."\n318,"Every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie. This movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be.<br /><br />The plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what\'s going on and you really want to view it for the second time. But after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be.<br /><br />A word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie. This is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie, in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b**bs and lots of blood.<br /><br />If you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1ch, without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation. And don\'t forget to switch the light off.<br /><br />My points on different aspects:-<br /><br />Direction = 9/10 Acting = 8/10 Atmosphere = 10/10 Sound Effect = 9/10<br /><br />Total = 9/10"\n319,"Ken Burns\' ""Baseball"" is a decent documentary... it presents a clear origin of the game, a great depiction of baseball\'s early years and heroes. There\'s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan... that said, the film has several glaring flaws.<br /><br />18 hours is simply too long for the human attention span. It\'s clear that Burns stretched his film out to fit his ""nine inning"" concept. It\'s not even a tight 18 hours... the pace on every segment is slow, almost morose... the music always nostalgic and wistful. Isn\'t baseball ever exciting and fun? Why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy? Talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak, yakking about baseball as a metaphor, baseball as Americana, the psychology and theology of baseball... enough! This is syrupy, mawkish drivel. Billy Crystal is here to sell us all the Yankee hokum he\'s sold us before. Ken Burns uses the National Anthem as the series\' theme song, and manages to play ""Take Me Out To The Ballgame"" so many times you might vomit. We get it, dude.<br /><br />Clearly Burns is a neo-Hollywood faux-liberal, so he spends probably a third of the film on the Negro leagues... these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open-minded as Kenny is today. For shame! He chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that America was segregated in those times! Burns falls head over heels in love with Buck O\'Neil, a former negro-league player, and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly O\'Neil waxes poetic about his playing days. Nonsense...<br /><br />Burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down. ""Baseball"" winds up as mushy, gushy, civil-rights propaganda disguised as Americana. Its clear that Burns is not a baseball fan... otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering, not weeping and reciting soliloquies... are you listening, Mr. Burns? There\'s no crying in baseball."\n320,"""Quitting"" may be as much about exiting a pre-ordained identity as about drug withdrawal. As a rural guy coming to Beijing, class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents\' acting success. Troubles arise, however, when the new man is too new, when it demands too big a departure from family, history, nature, and personal identity. The ensuing splits, and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other. Hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim.<br /><br />But what an exceptionally convincing particularity, honesty, and sensuousness director Zhang Yang, and his actors, bring to this journey. No clichés, no stereotypes, no rigid gender roles, no requisite sex, romance or violence scenes, no requisite street language and, to boot, no assumed money to float character acts and whims. <br /><br />Hongshen Jia is in his mid-twenties. He\'s a talented actor, impressionable, vain, idealistic, and perhaps emotionally starved. The perfect recipe for his enablers. Soon he\'s the ""cool"" actor, idolized by youth. ""He was hot in the early nineties."" ""He always had to be the most fashionable."" He needs extremes, and goes in for heavy metal, adopts earrings and a scarf. His acting means the arts, friends--and roles, But not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input. And his self-criticism, dulled by the immediacy of success, opens the doors to an irrational self-doubt, self-hatred-- ""I didn\'t know how to act"" ""I felt like a phony""--and to readily available drugs to counter them. He says ""I had to get high to do what director wanted."" So, his shallow identity as an actor becomes, via drugs, an escape from identity. <br /><br />Hongshen\'s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual, intermittent--and doggedly his own. Solitude, space, meditative thinking, speech refusal, replace therapy. The abstract is out. And a great deal of his change occurs outdoors---not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways, bridges, and high-rises of Beijing. The physicality is almost romantic, but is not. The bike rides to Ritan Park, the long spontaneous walks, the drenching sun and rain, grassy picnics, the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific. He drifts in order to arrive, all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity. ""I started to open up"" he says of this period in retrospect. And the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer\'s positioning (clumsy, graceful, humorous, telling) in a current circumstance. If mind or spirit is lacking, his legs can compel him to walk all night. <br /><br />Central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles. To punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity, he smashes his videos and TV, and bangs his head till bloody against his ""John Lennon Forever"" poster. He has let down his iconic anti-establishment artist---but he\'s the only viable guide he knows. He even imagines himself as John\'s son (Yoko Ono), and adopts his ""Mother Mary"" as an intercessor in his ""hour of darkness"" and ""time of trouble."" (the wrenching, shaking pain in the park--hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals) ""Music is so much more real than acting"" he says. And speaks of Lennon\'s influence as ""showing me a new way."" In the mental institute, the life-saving apples (resistance, nourishment) reflect Lennon\'s presence, as does Hongshen\'s need to re-hang his hero\'s poster in his redecorated room.<br /><br />If Lennon\'s influence is spiriting, Hongshen\'s father\'s influence is grounding. Although father and son are both actors and users (drugs and drink), it is Fegsen\'s differences from his son that underwrites his change. For the father is more secure in himself: he accepts that he\'s Chinese, a peasant in a line of peasants, a rural theater director. And he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions. It\'s this recognizable identity that drives Hongshen to treat him like a sounding board, sometimes with anger and rage, sometimes with humor (the blue jeans, Beatles) and passivity. In his most crazed, and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar, and a fake, he exposes more of himself than his father: ""all the acts I acted before were bullshit... life is bullshit."" And to Hongshen\'s emphatic ""you are NOT my father,"" he softly replies, ""why can\'t a peasant be your father?"" <br /><br />Under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother, sister, friends, inmates at the rehab inst., he makes some tangible connection to a real (not whole) self. As the long term drug effects recede, so does his old identity. Indebtedness replaces pride, trust distrust. Integrity banishes his black cloud. All his edges soften. ""You are just a human being"" he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap-down incurred for refusing medicine. Back home, lard peasant soap is fine with him now. And his once ""rare and true friendships"" begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back-to-back fence scene with his musician buddy. Hongshen says of this movie: ""it\'s a good chance to think about my life."" And I might add, become a New Actor, one bound to art and life. Like Lennon, he has gained success without a loss of identity."\n321,"I have watched this movie countless times, and never failed to be charmed by it\'s homely simplicity, sincerity and goodness. Great characterizations by all of the cast, and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role.I confess I fell in love with Roberta in 1970, and she still touches me today. Shown on TV in New Zealand on Christmas day, the nicest present I could have had."\n322,"If only I had read the review by Alex Sander (sic) on here rather than looking at the rating of over 6 from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public I would not have seen this desecration. Alien was a fantastic, dramatic and well made horror/sci-fi. Predator was a great sci-fi/action mess-about. I do really have only myself to blame though as I saw \'Alien versus Predator\'. It too has an average grading of over 6 stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site.<br /><br />STOP READING NOW IF YOU HAVE ANY FEAR OF THIS EVER SO SUSPENSE RIDDEN PLOT BEING RUINED FOR YOU.<br /><br />Right from the beginning this film was ridiculous. No explanation was offered for the Predator ship overrun/not overrun by Aliens. OK so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to Earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an Alien/Predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology? The start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why. From then on it gets really ridiculous. I always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out. I couldn\'t here.<br /><br />A father and son are hunting in the woods. The damaged ship crash lands to (from the view given) I would calculate at the very least 10 odd miles away through thick woodland. The man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged. Even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible, dumb redneck muppet.<br /><br />An edgy, thriller-type scenario is introduced with an ex-con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless, dull now cop friend from the bus. When I say introduced I mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out. A slasher/horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective, crazy, nasty Jock type (American sportsman not a Scottish man). Oh the cute/not cute boy is the ex-con\'s brother by the way. Yes they\'re clever these director brothers whose name I will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again. Then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at PC, Ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child.<br /><br />Guess what happens next? I won\'t tell you much more about the actual (smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films) plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the Alien-ridden universe.<br /><br />The Predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post I read too late. The Aliens are boring. The Predator-Alien is ridiculous. The action is at times exploitative, gratuitous, disgusting nonsense. The hospital scene with the pregnant mothers?!?! Oh I was shocked alright. Shocked at how low some people will go to get what? A scare? Some shock? To titillate the perverse? What? If you really wanted to shock, titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the Alien/Predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them? The characters have no depth and neither does the plot. It\'s filmed and paced badly. It\'s acted by disinterested people not that I can blame them. It further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci-fi characters. This film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it I really have to worry about you. If you haven\'t seen it then well please make your own decision.<br /><br />PS Did I even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about 20 seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout?"\n323,"Even though I saw this film when I was very young, I already knew the story of Wild the Thief-Taker and Shepherd who famously escaped from Newgate prison.<br /><br />Apart from the liberty taken right at the end, the film more or less faithfully follows the true story. The temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so-called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that.<br /><br />Of the performances, There is scarcely a poor performance, and Tommy Steele is ideally cast. Also good is Stanley Baker as the Thief-Taker and Alan Badel is good as always.<br /><br />Because the film sticks to the facts, it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family."\n324,"Gone is the wonderful campiness of the original. In place is a c-grade action no-brainer, wich is not all bad, but pales in comparison to the original. All the meaningless sex and violence is gone, and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers. See it, but don\'t expect the thrills of the first."\n325,"Although most Americans have little knowledge of his work other than Star Wars, Alec Guinness produced an amazing body of work--particularly in the 1940s-1950s--ranging from dramas to quirky comedies. I particularly love his comedies, as they are so well-done and seem so natural and real on the screen--far different from the usual fare from Hollywood.<br /><br />This being said, this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies. It\'s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere--except for Ealing Studios--which had a particular fondness for ""little"" films like this one.<br /><br />Guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company. He wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible, though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work! So, he tends to sneak into labs (either during the day if no one suspects or at night) and try his hand at inventing. Repeatedly, he is caught (such as after he blew up the lab) and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds! Then, despite the importance of the discovery, he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events--and then the fun begins.<br /><br />The film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry, unions, the government and people in general."\n326,"Victor McLaglen\'s performance is one of the finest in film history.<br /><br />I think we can all feel for ""Gypo"" because we\'ve all struggled with what is right and what isn\'t and been wrong. This was one of the first art-house pictures to be released by a major American movie studio (RKO Radio Pictures).<br /><br />Joseph H. August\'s cinematography is at its very best here. However, August\'s stunning portion was mostly overlooked; he didn\'t receive the Oscar nomination he rightly deserved.<br /><br />This is a psychological drama, with thought, philosophy, sadness, all conveyed with as little words as possible."\n327,"How do you take a cast of experienced, well-known actors, and put together such a stupid movie? Nimrod Antel has the answer: Armored. Six co-workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves. But, just as they get to first base with their plans, everything unravels quickly. With a plot like this, you\'d think it couldn\'t be too bad, at least for an action movie. However, in the first 40 minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be 6 normal, everyday kind of guys. They joke, they laugh, have a few drinks together, etc. Then, we suddenly learn they\'re planning to rob their own business. The hero Ty, (Columbus Short), is sucked into the scheme because of the cold, cruel world, even though he\'s a decorated veteran, nice guy, and reliable employee. Oh my, oh my! Then in the last 40 minutes of the film, these former regular guys nearly all turn into money-crazed psychos, willing to butcher each other for cash. In the last scenes Mike, (Matt Dillon), goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend. The viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty. It\'s utterly unbelievable and ""B movie"" is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot. I would say don\'t waste your time--too bad no one gave Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno or Fred Ward the same advice before making this picture."\n328,"The sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn. It\'s peak years were between 1968 and 1972. One of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was Monica Gayle, who had a small but fanatic cult of followers. She was actually able to act, unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks, and her subsequent credits proved it. And her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique.<br /><br />Gary Graver, the director, was also a talent; probably too talented for the sexploitation genre, and his skill, combined with Monica Gayle\'s screen presence, makes Sandra, the Making of a Woman, a pleasantly enjoyable experience. The film never drags and you won\'t have your finger pressed on the fast-forward button."\n329,"What a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be. This is the type of film that I\'ve been looking for ages. Particularly important for me was the fantastic-looking Chicago, which I still keep thinking about. The back cover doesn\'t do this film justice, it\'s superb, and in my top-5 for sure."\n330,"I did not expect much from this film, but boy-o-boy, I did not expect the movie to be this bad. Chris Rock is not showing a good act here, you can\'t get the feeling that his caracter is real, I think the movie would have been a bit better if it\'s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more/better humor was involved. The movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it. In the ""making of"" they don\'t show a single smile. This is a very bad film! I gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me, but I did never laugh!"\n331,"I cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie! I thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen. It my have been b/c i am Mel Brooks biggest fan... I know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them, when it is played on a Family Channel. :) this is one of my favorite movies, so i dont know why any one would disagree! thanks Kristina"\n332,"Flynn, known mostly for his swashbuckling roles (and his bedroom antics!) takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully. Playing real-life boxing champ Jim Corbett, Flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled San Francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist, all the while setting one eye on society deb Smith. He and best pal Carson attend an illegal bare-knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men (and a dog!) including a prominent judge. The next day, he gets a chance, via Smith, to gain entrance to the judge\'s private club. He uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club\'s resident boxer. His unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers, up to and including the world champion John L. Sullivan (Bond.) Flynn is downright magical here. He is the epitome of charm, charisma and appeal in this role. He looks terrific (especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit) and does virtually all of his own stuntwork (impressively!) His line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally. Smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for Flynn. At this stage, he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation (he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time) and she does so admirably. She is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude, yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell. Bond is incredibly burly, brawny and towering, yet tender when the script calls for it. Amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient Carson. Frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as Flynn\'s manager. The rest of the cast is excellent as well including Flynn\'s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy Nob Hill types. The whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed. A few of the sets are amazingly presented. Some of Smith\'s gowns border on the garish, but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well. It\'s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing, but it\'s also so much more. Some of it (like the character traits shown by Flynn) is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes, but a lot of it is authentic (like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes.) One line is particularly memorable: ""I believe you like me more than I like you, but it\'s entirely possible that I love you more than you love me."" It\'s classic romantic dialogue (and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well.)"\n333,"Often laugh out loud funny play on sex, family, and the classes in Beverly Hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it\'s seen since the days of Granny and Jed Clampett. Plot centers on two chauffers who\'ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer (both single or soon to be single ladies, quite sexy -- Bisset and Woronov) first. If Manuel wins, his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang -- if he loses, he must play bottom man to his friend! <br /><br />Lots of raunchy dialogue, fairly sick physical humour, etc. But a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface. Bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy, teenaged niece on a year long ""missionary trip"" to Africa.<br /><br />Hilarious fun."\n334,"Thought provoking, humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war. A small, but altruistic view of one family\'s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in Kentucky. This movie lessens the ""glamor"" of war; showing it\'s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit.<br /><br />A lot of today\'s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the ""hero\'s"" and other glamorous features of war, but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community. This movie attempts this through a retelling of a person\'s memory of those days. This movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events, when in reality, this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds, perhaps thousands of ""actual events"" during the civil war. I highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie."\n335,"Or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by 90\'s flicks?<br /><br />I mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets. Med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost; Flatliners. Bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past, Very Bad Things? Groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies. Sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts.<br /><br />Noble idea totally fubarred in it\'s execution."\n336,"elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies, it has every thing you would want in a film, like great one liners, sexy star and a Outrageous story! if you have not seen it, you are missing out on one of the greatest films made. i can\'t wait till her new movie comes out!"\n337,"I saw this movie on the Hallmark Channel and thought it was wonderful, especially since it was based on a true man. Pierce Brosnan was very good as the loner English man who took on the persona of the half breed Grey Owl. The photography was beautiful.<br /><br />This movie made me do more research into this character Archie Belaney known simple as Grey Owl. I want to read as much as I can about him. At the time I did not know Richard Attenborough had directed it. But I am not surprised. I like all his movies whether he is acting or directing. I gave it the highest rating. However, I would have liked to have seen more in the movie about WHY he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house.<br /><br />You can\'t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes."\n338,"Despite having an absolutely horrid script (more about that later), this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors, Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. Aside from one or two REAL stinkers, I\'d probably watch just about anything with them in the film, as I am a huge fan of Hollywood\'s golden age of the 1930s and 40s. However, no matter how much I love their films, I just can\'t recommend this film.<br /><br />The movie begins with Fonda and Stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort. The two haven\'t yet met, but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which Fonda horribly yodels while skiing. It was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but I stuck it out--especially when Fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling!! In hindsight, perhaps I should have just turned it off then! Fonda is knocked out in the fall and Barbara goes for help. Back at the ski lodge, he seems okay but fortunately she is ALSO a doctor and has him x-rayed and nurses him back to health. He, in turn, becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her. Despite hardly knowing each other, they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy.<br /><br />Once home, however, all isn\'t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy. The film plays it all for laughs, but frankly Fonda\'s behaviors were really creepy--spying on her and her male patients, attacking or threatening ANY man she treats, tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there (men and women) are out to steal away his wife. He comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic, but it\'s all supposed to be for laughs. Considering that he seems like a dangerous nut, you would think that Stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order! But, oddly, she gets mad but just can\'t stay mad at Fonda because he\'s so........? I can\'t think of the right word--\'creepy\' is all that comes to mind!!! Later, out of the blue, multi-millionaire Fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store. Then, through magical thinking, he and Babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past--so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions. When this job falls through, the film ends with Fonda buying his own hospital, giving Barbara a job there and they live happily ever after. They don\'t go any further with the story, but I assume based on Fonda\'s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients.<br /><br />The first portion at the ski lodge and the next did NOT fit well together, nor did the final ""Horatio Alger"" inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world. They were like three separate plots but despite this, the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy! What a creepy little film! Thank goodness neither Fonda nor Stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films."\n339,I find the critique of many IMDb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to GET AWAY from it all.<br /><br />In this case however I have to say it was BAD. I am a SciFi junkie and there was NOTHING in this movie that grabbed me for even one second.<br /><br />There was no proper storyline. I may be an idiot but I still do not know where the GOVERNMENT was that was so worried about these pieces.<br /><br />The pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these 3 pieces is scary. Half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third. A 3 year old kid would have been able to put them together.<br /><br />This movie was BAD.<br /><br />Dominic\n340,"I was debating between this movie and 2012 but chose Inglourious Basterds due to it\'s amazingly high IMDb rating. I must say now, what a disappointment. I expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence, but I also expected a lot of witty dialog. I got a huge dosage of the former, but not nearly enough of the latter. I felt shortchanged. The ratio between violence to plot is very important and I think this movie gets it totally wrong. And the plot? It\'s that believable or really all that entertaining either. Save your time and money. I can\'t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses."\n341,"Bend it like Beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line. It is about a girl called Jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team. there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives. i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve. The song choices are really good, \'hush my child, just move on up...to your destination and you make boundaries and complications.\' Anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review. Bend it like Beckham great flick"\n342,"Directed by Diane Keaton and adapted from a book by Franz Lidz. A young mother Selma Lidz(Andie MacDowell)is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband Sid(John Tururro)is a little lacking in the emotions department. Unhappy with the new home situation, their sensitive son Steven(Nathan Watt)decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles Danny(Michael Richards)and Melvin(Lou Cutell)until his mom is well. Steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle\'s living habits; he even decides he wants to change his name to Franz. Set in the early 60\'s, this drama is a bit comedic...change that to zany. Not being a MacDowell fan, UNSTRUNG HEROES assures my attitude; albeit I enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste."\n343,"Perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is Otto Preminger\'s \'Where the Sidewalks Ends,\' from a really excellent script by Ben Hecht based on the novel \'Night Cry\' by Frank Rosenberg...<br /><br />Dana Andrews is the honest, tough New York policeman, always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong-arm methods as much as he detests crooks... When he hit someone, his knuckles hurt... And the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain (Gary Merrill) who points up the title. \'Why are you always trying to push me in the gutter?\' he asks Andrews. \'I have as much right on the sidewalk as you.\'<br /><br />Dana Andrew\'s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden, painful discovery that he is the son of a thief... His deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them, and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta...<br /><br />By a twist of irony unique to the film itself, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney of \'Laura\' are united once more, and Andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later, but no longer the romantic, beaten down by his job, by the cheap crooks... This time, he goes too far, and accidentally kills a suspect... The killing is accidental, the victim worthless, yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail...<br /><br />Using his knowledge of police procedure, he covers up his part in the crime, plants false clues, and tries to implicate a gang leader, but cannot avoid investigating the case himself... The double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder, is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical, satisfying, and in no way a compromise...<br /><br />The film is one of the best detective films of the 50\'s, with curious moral values, also one of Preminger\'s best... <br /><br />Preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique, projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism..."\n344,"In sum, overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes! The director and co-writer says he wanted to mix genres - in this case drama and comedy. Well, at least here, these two mix like vinegar and oil. To boot, the comedy is not very funny and juvenile. Additionally, the film is not really realistic. Liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing French Citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in French Hospitals. I watched this film on my big screen TV at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on. Eventually toward the end I fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex-lover\'s son. By that time I was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover, marriage of convenience and a nutty ex-lover. At times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them - either Ismael or primarily Nora. To the detriment of the audience, viewpoints keep changing from Nora and Ismael, her ex-lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital. There probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed. The epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub-plots and seems to want the viewer to believe Nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball\'s chance in hell. The actors do their best and are appealing, but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing, editing and lack of focus."\n345,"Incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all Roman emperors who went insane, leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path... I know there are several versions of this, and this is based on the 102 min\' one that I watched - but I can\'t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck!<br /><br />I\'d heard for long about the alleged ""shocking"" content of sex/nudity (which honestly there isn\'t much of here at all - and boring when there is) and blood, but beware - it\'s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here: Everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project! Camera-work is hopelessly inept, full of strange zooms, failed framing and confusing pans (to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage!) complete with a grainy, cheapish photo quality. Lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven - is it day or night? Are they in- or outside? Have they changed scenes? Who is, or is meant to be in the shot? Editing is the final sin here, making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways, continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum, story progression - and involvement. There is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story... but these faults distract so much it\'s tragic.<br /><br />A story with SO many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan, burnt (and Fellini-like) turkey that\'s only good for a few gobble-laughs and Peter O\'Toole, who makes a most memorable Tiberius. Oh yes, which brings us to the big-name actors. I\'d like to line them all up one by one and just ask: Who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this? There, I\'ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time - period!<br /><br />1 out of 10 from Ozjeppe"\n346,"Did anyone edit this film? Or was it only the DVD release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes? It\'s OK though, I fell asleep watching it the first time. Then I fell asleep the second time and the third time. The plot is actually not the worst I\'ve seen, but it\'s close. The acting is not the worst I\'ve seen either...but it\'s close. The production .... well, I can honestly say that it was the worst I had ever seen in my life! Not trying to be spiteful, but Unhinged could have used some more production.<br /><br />Please don\'t think I\'m a hater of horror films, or even that I didn\'t enjoy this film. I just felt I was laughing at the film much more than I felt I was laughing along with it. The gruesome moments were not too poorly done, but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget.<br /><br />Characters seemed awkwardly developed, or ignored all together, twist ending was pretty bad, and the exposition took forever without exposing much.<br /><br />I\'d recommend avoiding this movie.<br /><br />1/10"\n347,"Riding high on the success of ""Rebel Without a Cause"", came a tidal wave of \'teen\' movies. Arguably this is one of the best. A very young McArthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen. The story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency, than any traumatic occurrence. The supporting cast is memorable, Frankenheimer directs like an old pro. Just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously."\n348,"Most of the comments on this movie are positive so I thought I would try and redress the balance. I came out of this movie wondering what was going on. I now know and still consider it to be a poor movie. I intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious. I was glad that I had a free ticket to the movie or I would have asked for my money back. Movie reviewers and critics love this movie, which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film. The 8+ rating this movie has is so misleading. In 20 years time this film will not compare to true greats such as The Godfather. The film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn\'t enough to save the film. (nor are the lesbian scenes!)"\n349,"Pepe le Moko, played by Charles Boyer, is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout Europe, and to stay free he holes himself up in the Casbah, a mysterious part of Algiers where even the police are reluctant to go, until a senior officer is sent from Paris to capture le Moko once and for all. For le Moko, although the Casbah allows him to remain out of police custody, it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time - a place he can\'t leave, because the moment he does, he knows he\'ll be arrested.<br /><br />Boyer\'s performance was good, and I can understand why he was nominated for an Oscar. He captures the essence of such a character - a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time. The movie itself, unfortunately, was quite a letdown. A number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent, of which I\'ll mention two. First was the idea that the police wouldn\'t enter the Casbah. That was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander, and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the Casbah fairly regularly. So, neither the suggestion by Commissioner Janvier that the police wouldn\'t enter, nor the statement by Inspector Slimane (also a decent performance by Joseph Calleia) that they could get into the Casbah but not out seemed to make much sense. I also found it difficult to believe that le Moko - hardened criminal mastermind that he was - could be so quickly swept off his feet by Gaby (Hedy Lamarr) to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the Casbah to find her, essentially giving himself up. I understand the irony of the final few scenes, of course, as Pepe leaves the freedom of his prison (the Casbah) only to find real freedom in his capture (because he\'s shot and killed by the police.) I just found it impossible to believe that someone like le Moko would fall into such a trap.<br /><br />This is worth watching for Boyer, and to a lesser extent Calleia, but the story is disappointing and inconsistent. 3/10"\n350,"Man with the Screaming Brain certainly isn\'t a perfect movie, but I\'m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for Bruce Campbell, meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career: slapstick, sarcasm, cheese, action, and happy endings. Campbell is, as a writer, uneven--there are lots of things in the story that don\'t make a great deal of sense (why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it?), and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other, better incarnations (the scene in the restaurant, where Yegor and William battle for control of William\'s body, is straight out of Evil Dead II). There are, however, lots of little touches and non-sequiturs that feel rather brilliant, such as when William is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue, ""What are you looking at?!"" The movie looks like a Sci-Fi Channel original, probably because it was. The acting is actually pretty good. I particularly enjoyed Tamara Gorski as Tatoya; she was ruthless and cunning, yes, but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored. Ted Raimi handled the standard ""bumbling assistant"" role admirably enough, and Bruce is funny as the arrogant, sardonic, condescending American jerk. (Now that he\'s writing his own films, you\'d think he\'d give himself a role that he hasn\'t been typecast in already.) Man with the Screaming Brain is a bizarre, nonsensical B-movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously."\n351,"You should never ever even consider to watch this movie! It is absolutely awful! This isn\'t an overstatement!! It is so unbelievable and exaggerated, it gets boring. It is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one. They writer hasn\'t been able to pull it off in a good way.<br /><br />If you\'d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you, but still, you should plug your ears and just watch. It\'s not worth listening:p There are so many great movies out there, and if I could choose one, this would be the last movie I would pick. But all in all, it\'s your choice!!! <br /><br />Enjoy!"\n352,"Tell the truth I’m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people, which is also the main reason why I actually decide to see this movie. And after having seen it, I was really a disappointed, and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie.<br /><br />I’m surprise at this movie all completely – it is like a kid’s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing. I’m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account.<br /><br />Synopsis: The story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior. There they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak.<br /><br />Just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all. They are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done. The story is very predictable (though expected) and the humor is lame. And haven’t we already seen the same characters (play by Mc Lovin’) in so many other movies (like Sasquatch Gang?). I think I laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep.<br /><br />Well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay. And the acting is so-so as expected when you’re watching this type of movie. And the direction, what do one expect? This is the same guy who brought us Wet Hot American Summer, and that movie also sucks. But somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie.<br /><br />Anyway I felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time. Only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie. Can’t really see any point why I should recommend this to anyone.<br /><br />Pros: Elizabeth Bank? Two topless scenes.<br /><br />Cons: Not funny, dreadful story, nudity and kids do not mix together.<br /><br />Rating: 3.5/10 (Grade: F)"\n353,"This film held my interest enough to watch it several times. The plot has holes, but the lead performers make it work.<br /><br />Catherine Mary Stewart (Julia Kerbridge), does a great job as a woman of 37 who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician. She worked years to earn the money to go to medical school. She is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Julia\'s sister and brother-in-law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece Amanda (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) to avoid having her become a ward of the state. Amanda is about 7 years old from her appearance. Amanda is so traumatized from her parent\'s murder that she has become mute. Needless to say, Julia\'s 16-hour days get longer caring for Amanda.<br /><br />Rob Lowe plays Kevin Finney, a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of Julia and Amanda. He is always there with a trick or a joke to help Amanda deal with her distress. Amanda really starts to warm up to Kevin as the film progresses, perhaps more than to her aunt. Julia starts to rely on Kevin to take some of the load of caring for Amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination. Kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for Julia.<br /><br />The chemistry between Rob and Catherine Mary was great. You keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film. The chemistry between Rob and Arlen was good as well. Arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words. The plot had Julia and Amanda gradually warming up to each other. You can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses.<br /><br />We discover that Julia\'s sister and brother-in-law (the Meyers) were involved in industrial espionage. They stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer. They had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft. Julia discovers that the Meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities. The plot is unclear whether the Meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed.<br /><br />In any case the Meyers are murdered in their home by 2 of their former associates. The killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the Meyers before killing them. The killers search the home and fail to find their prize. They leave a living witness to their crime, Amanda. The killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from Julia and Amanda who have no idea where the prize is located. Eventually, the killers kidnap Amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip\'s location.<br /><br />Eventually Julia discovers the truth about Kevin. He is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip. After some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue Amanda and dispatch the bad guys. The predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together.<br /><br />What struck me about the plot were major holes. Kevin moves into the same apartment building as Julia and Amanda the day after the murder of the Meyers. How does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers? The killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene, with no concern for concealing their identity. The killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to Amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles. He was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film. There are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention.<br /><br />The film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming. Filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort."\n354,"Like the previous poster, I am from northern Vermont, and I was inclined to like this film. However, not since ""Red Zone Cuba"" have I seen such a confusing plot. The things the people to bootleg make no sense. Two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car. Uhm, why? Then they meet two others, and drive up at night in to the bad guy\'s hideout in a luxury Packard. --Wouldn\'t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense? Then, parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch, the four fall asleep! When they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out, of course they\'re spotted and shot at, losing some of their precious cargo in the process. Then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border. Again, why? I am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area, all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the U.S. Canada Border Patrol, which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now. <br /><br />And don\'t get me started on the last half hour, which made no sense whatsoever.<br /><br />The only good thing I can say about the film is that Kris Kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years."\n355,MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. This movie was the worst movie ever. I couldn\'t even watch it all it was so bad. This film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot. This was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times. Not even the gore in the film was good. The shootings were fake and the acting was worse. Please do yourself a favor and skip this one. If you see it at the rental store then run the other way. There is nothing good about this film at all. If you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch Night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head. If you want to see an OK new cheesy movie then watch Scarecrow. I rate this movie a 0.2 out of 10. That\'s how horrible this film really is. THE WORST MOVIE EVER.\n356,"Watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line, the excellent character development, and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole.<br /><br />Without giving away too much of the plot, it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons. Along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves. <br /><br />The story has a prologue about what dancing in Japan symbolizes sociologically, so it isn\'t exactly as simple to learn to dance in Japan as it is here in the U.S. <br /><br />The film is lighthearted; you\'ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags. Yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe. All of the film\'s characters are taken seriously, as they are, and none are diminished because of their ""imperfections.""<br /><br />I\'ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends. It just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance. Is this synchronous or what? I think so because now I\'m really geeked to give it a try. <br /><br />Watch this wonderful family film (small children might not get it, but teens certainly would) and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again.<br /><br />Why they would make a remake of Shall We Dance is a mystery, as it is perfect as-is."\n357,"Recap: Something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of Antarctica. The mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on Antarctica. Julian Rome, a former SETI-worker, is brought in to decipher the message. Problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his, and the situation quickly turns awkward, especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him. And the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly. Soon the object is in the open. The mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity. It is decided to open the object, but just before that is done, Julian decodes the signal. ""Do not open"". But too late, and the object explodes as it is finally breached, and two things unleashed on earth. The first is an alien, that had been dormant in the object, and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff. And Washington, that is suspiciously updated on this historic event, decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth. So a Russian nuclear submarine, carrying nuclear weapons is sent to Antarctica.<br /><br />Comments: The movie holds a few surprises. One is Carl Lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance, and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful, well worked through and a lot better than expected. Unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own, and this time not in a good way. Actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes. It is never really explained why Washington know so much, why Washington is able to command Russian submarines, why the object is in the Antarctic and has woken up now. It is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable English. Some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to Earth before and knew the language (and obviously chose English, why?). But then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the Earth from the virus, send their ""Do not open"" message encoded! And finally the end is as open as an end can be.<br /><br />The movie is a little entertaining but too much energy (from me) must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot. Therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good.<br /><br />3/10"\n358,"This movie features Charlie Spradling dancing in a strip club. Beyond that, it features a truly bad script with dull, unrealistic dialogue. That it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking."\n359,"Had I checked IMDb BEFORE renting this DVD from Netflix, I\'d have a couple of hours of my life back. I\'m frankly suspicious when I see that a film\'s director also wrote it. In this case, according to the credits, the same guy was ""writter and director"" - unfortunately, an indication of the overall quality of this production. There were a few interesting moments (e.g., Judy Tenuta\'s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting Judy-ism) which led me to rate this two stars rather than one. Those moments, however, were few and far between ... and I almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me, not to mention reprehensible in its violence. I admit I went back to watch that part again to see if I had missed something that would help me figure it out once I\'d seen the whole thing. Nope, though I at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later. The ""spinning camera"" technique was overused and essentially pointless. I found myself talking to the TV screen: ""What?!?"" or ""For goodness sake, get ON with it!"" Not recommended."\n360,"The endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me. This truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard-of population is compelling, well-documented and enraging. As an American, I am constantly humiliated by my country\'s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement. We suck. This is probably the first John Pilger documentary I\'ve seen, but it immediately made me want to see what else he\'s done. My only complaint, and the reason I gave this film only 8 out of 10, is that Pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the US and UK governments, demands that we viewers/citizens are complicit in our own inaction...but makes no suggestion of how to help. I don\'t know about Britain, but America\'s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government\'s doings. A gesture in the right direction might help these islanders\' cause."\n361,"This flick is so bad its beyond belief.Even for an independent low budget film...it just, well, sucks.I can\'t even believe even Troma would put out such crap.I have been a fan of some Troma flicks for years(Toxic Avenger,Squeeze Play,Rockabilly Vampire to name a few).But LLoyd, come on,this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste.It features some of the worst acting imaginable.I think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good...oh,wait, that is what they did.I mean it,these characters have negative charisma.With any luck, the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity.As will the special effects people.But beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects,the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears.The script is full of plot holes the size of Alaska, and there are severe continuity problems.The worst part however, is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way.And this is the most unforgivable sin in film making.But, don\'t take my word for it.Go out and waste four bucks renting it.Just don\'t say I didn\'t warn you."\n362,"This is a very memorable spaghetti western. It has a great storyline, interesting characters, and some very good acting, especially from Rosalba Neri. Her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic. She steals every scene she is in, and expresses so much with her face and eyes, even when she\'s not speaking. Her performance is very believable. She manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top (not that there\'s anything wrong with being over the top). Mark Damon is surprisingly good in this movie too.<br /><br />The music score is excellent, and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie, whether you want it to or not. There are a couple of parts that are very amusing. I especially like the part where Rosalba Neri undresses in front of the parrot. There\'s also lots of slick gun-play that\'s very well done.<br /><br />I would probably have given this movie 8 or 9 stars if it wasn\'t for two things. The first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about 25 minutes into the film. This is one of the most ridiculous looking fights I have ever seen in a movie. It is very poorly choreographed, and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight. One might be able to overlook this if it were a Terence Hill/Bud Spencer comedy, but this is a more serious western, and the brawl really needed to be more realistic. The other thing that annoyed me about this movie was Yuma\'s cowardly Mexican sidekick. I guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something, but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this, and he wasn\'t at all funny. All I can say is where is Tuco when you need him? <br /><br />All that having been said, let me assure everyone reading this that Johnny Yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults I have mentioned, and all fans of the genre need to see this movie."\n363,"The plot: Michael Linnett Connors has done everything in films but direct, and is looking for his 1st big chance. He discovers Molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star. He signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct. The producer agrees and their big time careers are under way. What follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy. And, oh yes, there\'s romance, and a little sadness too. The performances by Don Ameche and Alice Fay are top notch. The music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard. Lots of DVD extras as well in this restored version released in 2008. It must be emphasized that this movie is a story 1st, not just a tribute to silent films. Later years would bring similar films such as, Singin\' in the Rain(1952) & Dick Van Dyke-Carl Reiner\'s, The Comic(1969). What is special about this film, though, is recreating silent movies in 1939. We see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era(although some sound effects are included)in glorious b&w, while the rest of the movie is in pristine color. One of the greatest in the silent era, Buster Keaton, who at this point was on an uphill climb, is used superbly in 2 silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game! It is said that he had some input on his scenes as well. But the real reason to watch the movie, if your a motion picture history fan, is that beyond everything else, Hollywood Cavalcade is Mack Sennett\'s film legacy. It doesn\'t take a genius to realize this movie is a ""positive"" reworking of Mack Sennett\'s and Mabel Normand\'s life. The character Michael ""Linnett"" Connors is Mack Sennett, whose real name was Michael Sinnott. And Molly, of course is Mabel. Sennett had the pie throwings, the bathing beauties and Keystone Cops. He worked with Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin(cameo), Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle(body double) and fell in love with his leading lady. Not only all that, but Sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well. As most film viewers today prefer sound features, those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture. As Mack Sennett fell into that category, it is fortunate that there is Hollywood Cavalcade! Sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies. His career started in 1908 as an actor, then writer, director & producer. He semi retired in 1935 with about 500 films to his credit. He had worked with the best, such as Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Keaton, Harry Langdon, Arbuckle, and even Roy Rogers(in Way Up Thar).As film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career, Mack played it wise & did only selective work for the next 25 years. In 1931 he had receive an academy award in the short subject category, and another in 1937 for a lifetime of work. In the 1940\'s his presence was still felt, e.g. Here Come the Co-Eds(1945)where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in Mack\'s Wandering Willies(1926)is done. In 1947, The Road to Hollywood, used some of Sennett\'s Crosby films. 2 years later brought some nostalgia with the film Down Memory Lane in which he participated. With his knack of always associating with the right people, a guest role with the eternally popular Lawrence Welk & his radio show came about later in the year. 1950 brought a re-release of his greatest triumph, Tillie\'s Punctured Romance(1914) with sound. In 1952 he was honored on TV\'s, This Is Your Life, then his autobiography, The King of Comedy(1954), which is a great companion piece to Hollywood Cavalcade, was published. 1955 brought a more concrete association with Abbott & Costello, as he had a cameo in A&C Meet the Keystone Kops. Finally in 1957, another tribute with the compilation film, The Golden Age of Comedy. So when you watch Hollywood Cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer. In the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table. As we get to the silver haired Mack, he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say, ""here I am!"". When he rises to give a speech a short while later, he is at his most subdued, underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey, ""I know my influence on comedy will never end, but will people forget Mack Sennett the individual. Maybe this movie will help."""\n364,"It got to be a running joke around Bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any Cartwright men. After all Ben Cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage. And any woman who got involved with Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe were going to end up dying because we couldn\'t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic TV western.<br /><br />Perhaps if Bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the Cartwrights. People have relationships, some go good, some not so good, it\'s just life. And we\'re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don\'t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor\'s nobility intact. But that\'s if Bonanza were done today.<br /><br />But we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and Bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from NBC certainly helped, the secret of Bonanza\'s success was the noble patriarch Ben Cartwright and his stalwart sons. Ben Cartwright was THE ideal TV Dad in any genre you want to name. His whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense Ponderosa spread for his three children. The kids were all different in personality, but all came together in a pinch.<br /><br />The Cartwrights became and still are an American institution. I daresay more people cared about this family than the Kennedys. Just the popularity that Bonanza has in syndication testifies to that. <br /><br />Pernell Roberts as oldest son Adam was written out of the show. Rumor has it he didn\'t care for the noble Cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious. Perhaps if it were done now, he\'d have liked it better in the way I describe.<br /><br />This was just the beginning for Michael Landon, how many people get three hit TV shows to their credit. Landon also has Highway to Heaven and Little House On the Prarie where he had creative control. Little Joe was the youngest, most hot headed, but the most romantic of the Cartwrights. <br /><br />When Roberts left. the show kept going with the two younger sons, but when big Dan Blocker left, the heart went out of Bonanza. Other characters had been added on by that time, David Canary, Tim Matheson, and Ben Cartwright adopted young Mitch Vogel. But big, loyal, but a little thick Hoss was easily the most lovable of the Cartwrights. His sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family.<br /><br />So the Cartwrights of the Ponderosa have passed into history. I got a real taste of how America took the Cartwrights to heart when I visited the real Virginia City. It doesn\'t look anything like what you see in Bonanza. But near Lake Tahoe, just about where you see the Ponderosa on the map at the opening credits, is the Cartwright home, the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction. Like 21 Baker Street for Sherlock Holmes fans, the ranchhouse and the Cartwrights are real.<br /><br />And if they weren\'t real, they should have been."\n365,"Years ago, when DARLING LILI played on TV, it was always the pan and scan version, which I hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format. So when I saw an inexpensive DVD of this Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards opus, I decided to purchase and watch it once and for all.<br /><br />Boy, what a terrible film. It\'s so bad and on so many levels that I really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong. Looking at it now, it\'s obvious to any fans of movies that Blake Edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with Andrews in musicals (MARY POPPINS, SOUND OF MUSIC, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, etc) but also because Andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by Julie herself (CAMELOT, MY FAIR LADY, etc) because Hollywood thought she wasn\'t sexy or glamorous enough. So Blake created this stillborn effort, to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story/war movie/romance/slapstick comedy/musical. DARLING LILI suffers from multiple personalities, never knowing who or what it is. Some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole, it just doesn\'t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing.<br /><br />Mind you, the version on the DVD is the ""director\'s cut"", or in this case, ""let\'s salvage whatever we can"" from this notorious box office flop. In releasing the DVD, Edwards cut 19 scenes (19!!!!!!!!) from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version. The film moves along with no idea of what it is. We are 25 minutes into it and we still don\'t know what\'s going on or why we\'re watching what\'s going. What kind of spy is Lili? How powerful is she? Was she ever responsible for someone\'s death? Instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking Rock Hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking Julie Andrews. Things aren\'t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love. Why does Julie fall for Hudson? Why him and not other men she got involved with? There should have been one of her ex hanging around, trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret. This would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action. It would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings. There\'s no catalyst in this story.<br /><br />One only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that Edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by Andrews\' (and Edwards\') previous successes. The best (or worst) example is the scene when Andrews and Hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest. Edwards channeling SOUND OF MUSIC. It\'s no wonder he removed it from the DVD. Back in 1970, that scene might have worked on a certain level but today, that moment reeks of desperation. There are other plot elements directly inspired by Andrews/Edwards other films. The endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better MODERN MILLIE. The musical moment ""I\'ll give you three guesses"" was created just to make fun of Julie\'s MARY POPPINS persona, which is turned ""raunchy"" with Julie doing a striptease in the act. The ending, bird\'s eye view of Julie running towards Hudson\'s plane, is another ""wink"" at SOUND OF MUSIC.<br /><br />The whole thing is confusing. Julie plays a singer, born from a German father and British mother, who lives in England but sings her (English) songs in Paris. You never know exactly where the story takes place. Some moments are just badly edited. Like when Julie and her ""uncle"" are on horseback. They talk and talk and then Julie suddenly sprints off in mid-sentence. I\'m like ""what happened here?""<br /><br />The comedy bits are unfunny and cringe-worthy. Every scene with the French police are pathetic. Where\'s Peter Sellers when you really need him. The action is stupid beyond belief. When Julie and her ""uncle"" are on their way to Germany on that train, Hudson\'s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train, almost killing Lili in the process. Brilliant. What\'s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but Hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning. That\'s one slow moving train there. <br /><br />The musical moments. The beginning is the best part of the entire film (and the reason I gave this film 3 stars) but it\'s effect is diminished considerably because it\'s repeated at the end. Speaking of redundant, did we really need to see a can-can dance, Crepe Suzette stripping scene and Julie stripping too? The ""Girl in no man\'s land"" is OK even if it\'s bleeding obvious, but that moment just doesn\'t make any sense whatsoever because Lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a French hospital, making me wonder: how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying?<br /><br />The whole project is listless and without energy. The romance is 100% unbelievable. Rock Hudson is way too old and tired looking (check out the museum scene). Julie looks dazed, like she\'s on Valium. But what really kills this ill-conceived project is Julie playing a German spy. Edwards desperately wanted to dispel the Mary Poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision. As much as I like Julie, she\'s no Greta Garbo, who pulled it off so beautifully in MATA HARI. Funny enough, even if Julie plays a German spy, she still comes across as cloying and cute.<br /><br />How bad is DARLING LILI? Even after 37 years since its release, Blake Edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its DVD release."\n366,"This series, made for Televisión Española (TVE) is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in 1968, primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son.<br /><br />Based on a background of historical events, such as the May 1968 student uprising in France, the decaying Franco regime, the war in Viet-Nam, the rise of imperialism, and others specifically related to Spanish life at that particular moment, one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment.<br /><br />Generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic, the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times, as, it should be stated, anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things.<br /><br />The best thing that can be said of this series is Ana Duato\'s rôle as mother of three children: she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well, manifesting that peculiar Spanish penchant, especially noticeable among women, of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart, without any resorting to the use of the brain. As we say in Spain, common sense is one of the least common senses. Imanol Arias offers very little, apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series. Indeed, as an actor, he should not be trusted in anything which is not a TV series. His resources are too limited; however, his part as father of the working-class household is not at all bad.<br /><br />Not really recommendable for other audiences, even Spanish-speakers in Latin America: the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary Spanish history, such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references. It is even probable that certain situations which cause a few Spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers."\n367,"I want the 99 minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie. The acting was horrific! I used to be a fan of Cameron Diaz and Vincent D\'Onofrio. I will never look at them the same again. Keanu Reeves and Dan Aykroyd were not a surprise. Everyone knows they never could act. Thankfully, only Dan attempted an accent. His accent was a disaster as expected. I think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from Minnesota. I hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time. The only reason I was able to sit through the whole movie was because I was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read."\n368,"One of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers, an observation which mystifies me. Not only directed by the acclaimed Ang Lee,it had many young actors who were to become major stars, e.g., Tobey Maguire (before Spiderman), Skeet Ulrich (before Jericho), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (before Tudors), James Caviezel, Simon Baker, Mark Ruffalo, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Wilkinson, and Jewel. All of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances, especially Meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing.<br /><br />When the biographies and accomplishments of the director ( even when he won an academy award) and the actors are listed, this film is usually omitted from their past performances. I discovered the film on DVD by accident and it became one of my most often watched films. However, it is seldom every seen on cable. I look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known."\n369,"It\'s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead, this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little cliché you cant help but like it.<br /><br />I think the story was a little rushed at the end, but extending that would have made the story even longer. Superior to other romantic comedies such as 100 days with Mr arrogant, and possibly tied with my tutor friend.<br /><br />It would make an interesting introduction to Korean cinema, not as great as My sassy girl, but still good."\n370,"Of all the movies of the seventies, none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the Sentinel. I mean, yes, there were movies like the Exorcist, and other ones; but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one. If you have time, check this one out. You may not be able to get past the dated devices as such, but this is a story worth getting into.Then there are all the stars and soon-to-be stars. My absolute favorites were Eli Wallach, Sylvia Miles, and Burgess Meredith. Then there are the subtle clues that lead to what\'s going on too. Pay close attention. I had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like \'black and white cat, black and white cake\'. Plus, the books are really good as well. I\'m just sorry that they\'re not going to turn the second book into a film. It\'s so scary that it would outdo this movie."\n371,"This is apparently the second remake of this film, having been filmed before in 1911 and 1918. And, in so many ways it reminds me of the later film, A YANK AT OXFORD. Both films concern a conceited blow-hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both, ultimately, show the blow-hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency. In this film, William Haines is ""Tom Brown"" and his main rival, ""Bob"" is played by Frances X. Bushman. And, in a supporting role is Jack Pickford--always remembered as the brother of Mary. Of these three, Pickford comes off the best, as the sympathetic loser who becomes Tom\'s pal--he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the Big Game! All the standard clichés are there and the movie, because it was done so many times before and since, offers few surprises. However, it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing.<br /><br />In my opinion, for a better silent college film, try Harold Lloyd\'s THE FRESHMAN--it\'s football scenes are frankly more exciting and Harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying Tom Brown. THE FRESHMAN is probably the best college picture you can find from the era. Another reason why BROWN AT HARVARD is a lesser picture is that William Haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again (such as in WESTPOINT and THE SMART SET, among others)--and if you\'ve seen one of these films, you\'ve seen them all. Well made, but certainly NOT original! And, because it is just a rehash of his other films, anyone giving the film a score of 10 is STRONGLY advised to see these other films.<br /><br />4/25/08==I just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on IMDb from the 1920!! Talk about over-rated! There are dozens and dozens of better films--how this film got to be #1 is anyone\'s guess."\n372,"This movie illustrates like no other the state of the Australian film industry and everything that\'s holding it back.<br /><br />Awesome talent, outstanding performances (particularly by Victoria Hill), but a let down in practically every other way.<br /><br />An ""adaptation"" of sorts, it brought nothing new to Macbeth (no, setting it in present-day Australia is not enough), and essentially, completely failed to justify its existence, apart from (let\'s face it, completely unnecessarily) paying homage to the original work. If there\'s one body of work that has been done (and done and done and done), it\'s Shakespeare\'s. So any adaptation, if it\'s not to be a self-indulgent and pointless exercise, needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work.<br /><br />And that\'s what this Macbeth fails to do. As it was done, this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever. It\'s the same piece that we have seen countless (too many!) times before. Except with guns and in different outfits.<br /><br />Apart from the fundamental blunder (no other way to put it) of keeping the original Shakespearian dialogue, one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end, during which I completely tuned out, even though I was looking at the screen. I never thought I had a short attention span, but there you go.<br /><br />I suppose the movie succeeds on its own, very limited terms. But as Australia continues to produce world-class acting talent, its movie-makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms, and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with.<br /><br />A shame. An absolute shame."\n373,"Owen loves his Mamma...only he\'d love her better six feet under in this dark, laugh-out-loud comedy that both stars and is directed by Danny DeVito, with admirable assists from Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey in the title role.<br /><br />""Throw Momma From The Train"" is a terrific comedy, even if it isn\'t a great film. It\'s too shallow in parts, and the ending feels less organic than tacked on. But it\'s a gut-splitting ride most of the way, with Crystal and DeVito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer (DeVito is avid but untalented; Crystal is blocked and bitter).<br /><br />Crystal\'s Professor Donner believes his ex-wife stole his book (the unfortunately titled ""Hot Fire"") and can\'t write more than the opening line of his next book, which doesn\'t come easy. He teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities, including a middle-aged woman who writes Tom Clancy-type fiction but doesn\'t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through; and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life. Mr. Pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs-per-minutes-on-screen, an ascot-wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus: ""100 Girls I\'d Like To Pork.""<br /><br />Then there\'s DeVito\'s Owen Lift, who calls himself Professor Donner\'s ""star pupil"" even though the teacher won\'t read his work in class. Owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie, a man-child in his late 30s who lives with his overbearing mother, Anne Ramsey, who calls him ""lardass"" and other endearing sentiments. In any other movie, we\'d be asked to feel sorry for Owen, but ""Throw Momma From The Train"" piles life\'s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along. That\'s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people.<br /><br />For those of us who enjoy the humor of this character, even identifying with him, and take the rest of what we see here as a lark, it\'s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes, asking us to watch in amusement while Owen enlists Professor Donner\'s help in a plan to kill his mother. Actually, he first goes to Hawaii to kill Donner\'s hated ex, then tells the professor it\'s his turn to kill Mrs. Lift, ""swapping murders"" as seen in Hitchcock\'s ""Strangers On A Train.""<br /><br />As a director, DeVito not only complements his actors\' performances with scene-setting that places the accent on dialogue, he makes some bold visual statements, throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes (and away from taking things too seriously.)<br /><br />Also helping matters is writer Stu Silver, who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter. ""You got rats the size of Oldsmobiles here."" ""She\'s not a woman...She\'s the Terminator."" ""One little murder and I\'m Jack the Ripper."" Those are all Crystal\'s words, but some of the funniest lines, which work only in context but absolutely kill, are DeVito\'s and Ramsey\'s. Apparently Silver never wrote another screenplay after this, according to the IMDb, and that\'s a shame, because he had real talent for it.<br /><br />The best scene in this movie, when Crystal meets Ramsey, was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical \'coming attraction\' presentation, the only time I\'ve seen a movie promoted that way. Owen introduces the professor to his mother as \'Cousin Patty,\' and when Momma says he doesn\'t have a Cousin Patty, panicky Owen loses it. \'You lied to me,\' he yells out, slamming the professor\'s forehead with a pan.<br /><br />Of course, in reality the professor wouldn\'t groan out something witty from the floor, but \'Throw Momma From The Train\' works effectively at such moments, when playing its Looney Tunes vibe for all its worth. DeVito hasn\'t disappeared from films, of course, but it\'s a mystery why he hasn\'t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie. Maybe it\'s because, as \'Throw Momma From The Train\'s lack of mainstream success shows, his kind of vision isn\'t to everyone\'s tastes. That\'s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over, and like it."\n374,"A Compelling Thriller!!, 10 December 2005 Author:littlehammer16787 from United States<br /><br />Just Cause<br /><br />Starring:Sean Connery,Laurence Fishburne, and Blair Underwood.<br /><br />A liberal,though good-hearted Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong is convoked to the Flordia Everglades by unjustly convicted black guy Bobby Earl.Confessing that sadistic,cold-hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl. As he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that Bobby Earl is a victim of discrimination.That the black police detective Lt.Tanny Brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean. When the infamous,psychotic serial killer Blair Sullivan is introduced.He discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl.When Armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of Sullivan\'s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote. Bobby Earl gets a re-trial.Is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment. All seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer Sullivan comes into focus.Armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be Sullivan\'s parents.Whom he immensely detests.Sullivan divulges to Armstrong the truth of Joanie Shriver\'s heinous murder and why he was brought here.It turns out that Bobby Earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill Joanie Shriver.He just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho Sullivan. To get loose so he could kill again for revenge.Upon Armstrong\'s beautiful wife and daughter.Now Sullivan is executed to his death. Armstrong and tough good guy Brown chase the malevolent villain to the Everglades in order to thwart him.When they arrive Armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko Bobby Earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration.But good,virtuous cop Brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie.Is stabbed and eaten by ruthless,man-eating alligators.Paul Armstrong,Tanny Brown,his wife,and daughter survive and live happily ever after. A good thriller that works.Delivers both mystery and subterfuge.How reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen.Sentenced to unfair penalties.Even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent, friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie. Sean Connery is great as the oblivious,holier than thou hero.Laurence Fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean,arrogant,but good guy cop. Underwood and Harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos.Capeshaw is okay.Ruby Dee is great as the tenacious grandmother.The rest of the cast is wonderful as well."\n375,"Filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they\'re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves.<br /><br />This film is set in Glasgow (although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a Scottish accent). The premise, about people who\'s lives are going nowhere, who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs, COULD have made for a really funny, insightful, quirky, cultish film. Instead we have a group of self-obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits I\'m suprised it hasn\'t been banned. X and Y are friends. X is sleeping with Z. Y sleeps with Z as well. Oh you figure it out.<br /><br />A total waste of time. Painful dialogue - it sounded like something that a group of 16 year olds would have written for a GCSE drama project. The female character was completely superfluous - just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it.<br /><br />If you\'re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on Saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it ""a right laff"". Everyone else, run, don\'t walk away from this sorry little misfit.<br /><br />And one question, when the group left the ""boring"" seaside town (Saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film), to go back to Glasgow, WHY did they do it via the Forton motorway services at LANCASTER which is in England?"\n376,"Doctor Mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar, but is totally worthwhile. It really reminds me of the old serials from the 30s and 40s. Which is why I\'d have loved to see follow-up movies... but judging by the rest of Full Moon\'s output there simply weren\'t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience. Unfortunately, thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience - which is unfortunate, because without em\' this could have been a Harry Potter-style magicfest that kids would have eaten up. Both Jeffrey Combs and Yvette Nipar are great - I wasn\'t sure if Ms. Nipar hadn\'t wandered off an A-list picture onto this film, she was very believable. No, seriously! Anyway - it\'s a shame they didn\'t have the bucks to license Dr. Strange, because I think this could have been a total kiddie phenom."\n377,"A truly muddled incomprehensible mess. Most things in the film look more or less like 1987, but then there are futuristic things just thrown in, like the policeman\'s ray gun. And that car! The director seemed to be in love with colored lights. The only really notable performance was the girl who played Valerie, but since there was no cast listing, I don\'t know which actress that was. This one is worth missing. Grade: F"\n378,"It doesn\'t happen very often, but occasionally one man can make a difference -- a big difference.<br /><br />George Crile\'s 2003 best seller, CHARLIE WILSON\'S WAR, is a fascinating and eye-opening account of the most unlikely ""difference maker"" imaginable. A relatively obscure Congressman from the Second District of Texas, ""Good Time Charlie"" was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation. Likable and licentious (even for a politician), Charlie Wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of Lufkin only really wanted two things, their guns and to be left alone. It\'s Easy Street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known, appropriately enough, as Charlie\'s Angels.<br /><br />When asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive, young aides his response is a classic, ""You can teach \'em to type, but you can\'t teach \'em to grow tits."" No argument there.<br /><br />But even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath, and for Charlie Wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in Afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter, humiliating defeat of the Russian military and, possibly, to even help hasten the end of the Cold War as a result. Fat chance, huh?<br /><br />Under the skillful direction of Mike Nichols and a smart, snappy screenplay by Adam Sorkin, CHARLIE WILSON\'S WAR is a sparkling, sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind-the- scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising ""Charlie\'s Team.""<br /><br />The on-screen ""Team,"" is composed of three marvelous actors with four (4) Academy Awards and nine (9) nominations between them. Charlie is beautifully portrayed by Tom Hanks in a solid, slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years. He\'s aided, abetted and abedded by Joanne Herring, a wealthy Houston socialite played by the still-slinky Julia Roberts. Hey, why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this? By all accounts Ms. Roberts looks good and holds her own, but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why Kabul and country is so important to her character. Maybe the two Afghan hounds usually by her side know -- but we as an audience never do. As for the third member of the ""Team,"" Philip Seymour Hoffman steals every scene he appears in as Gust Aurakotos, a smart, street- wise (i.e. non Ivy League graduate) CIA malcontent who knows the score -- both in the Agency\'s boardroom and in Wilson\'s bedroom.<br /><br />For the Mujahideen to succeed, the most important assistance the U.S. can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded MI-21 helicopter gunships which rule the skies. This takes money, lots of money, and eventually ""Charlie\'s Team"" covertly coerces those in Congress to fund the effort to the tune of $1 billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the Afghan rebels. This includes top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices. Nasty, nasty stuff.<br /><br />That this kind of multi-billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind Congressional doors is truly alarming. Every American should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business-as-usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government. Oh momma, I wish it weren\'t so...<br /><br />Even though the initial outcome for ""Team Charlie"" was an unqualified success, the unimaginable, unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the Taliban and others. Since the funding was entirely ""covert,"" the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of Soviet oppression and the end to Russian barbarity was the direct result of American intervention. Yes, once the Russkies left, so did our aid -- zip for schools, zip for infrastructure, zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the Afghan people. As a result, the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster -- it\'s like the forerunner to ""Mission Accomplished.""<br /><br />As Nichol\'s film so pointedly points out, ""The ball you\'ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you\'ve lost interest in it."" Mike Krzyzewski knows this, Eva Longoria Parker knows this, little Lateesha in Lafayette knows this, but the typical American politician doesn\'t. So we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn\'t let the world know we were the good guys. Talk about a Catch-22 (another Mike Nichols film).<br /><br />Perhaps Charlie Wilson said it best, ""We f&%ked up the end game.""<br /><br />Again."\n379,"I\'m a big fan of surrealist art, but this film by Bunuel (with some ideas from Dali) left me cold. Bunuel had a life-long grudge against the Catholic church and delighted in trying to offend Catholics in fairly silly ways. This is one of the silliest; almost like what you\'d expect from a smart-aleck 18-year-old in film class. The last few minutes of the movie, which have nothing to do with anything else, are a final nose-thumbing at religion.<br /><br />If you read the ""scholars"" regarding this slow-paced, occasionally amusing film, it\'s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression. If that is indeed the point, then Bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible. The central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street, and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies. Is this behavior the church\'s fault (for interrupting his lovemaking), or is he just a jerk? I vote for the latter. I think Bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the Catholics as the ones to blame.<br /><br />There are a few moments where you might cry, ""Aha! surrealism!"": a cow in a bed, a giraffe falling out a window (a poor model), a man shredding a feather pillow, a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava (or a mud pit...hard to tell in B/W). The rest is forgettable self-indulgence. Unfortunately, Bunuel was still chasing the same bogey-men through the rest of his career (Viridiana, Discreet Charm...). If you\'re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen, check out Jean Cocteau\'s early work."\n380,"This ludicrous film offers the standard 1970\'s ""hippie mentality"" in a nut shell and bores us in the process. Its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young, innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups. A naive young hippy played by the waif-like ( Kay Lenz ) hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys, and then one day she meets the ridiculous (Holden), already in old age, hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor, and she decides that she is in ""love"" with him. If you think that is superficial, the whole film encapsulates such scenes. She keeps saying how much she ""loves"" him and she only met him, it wears thin and really quick. I couldn\'t help but laugh throughout the film. Its obvious she\'s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place. A disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex, I had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit. A corny offering of music from the 70\'s is also spread through the film. Avoid this if you can. Grade D."\n381,"This film was pretty good. I am not too big a fan of baseball, but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love, determination, heart, etc.<br /><br />Danny Glover, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brenda Fricker, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza, and Milton Davis Jr. are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport. The plot was believable, and I love the message. William Dear and the guys put together a great movie.<br /><br />Most sports films revolve around true stories or events, and they often do not work well. But this film hits a 10 on the perfectness scale, even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there.<br /><br />10/10"\n382,For his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments. In the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film. The ending is superb. The makers of Blaire Witch obviously watched this film it\'s ending wasn\'t an end but a beginning of the end. A great movie and only a piece of Japan\'s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind.\n383,This film contain far too much meaningless violence. Too much shooting and blood. The acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor. The only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars.\n384,"Pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion/philosophy. The two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about Quantum Physics in this mess is just plain wrong.<br /><br />Examples? Quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion. How? Well, in the world of the subatomic, you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time. You can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time. Also, the act of observation seems to affect the event. Solid particles can pass through barriers. All of this, so far, is accurate. But then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall, you could indeed do it. This is complete poppycock. Instead, the theory asserts that at our level, it is possible for you to walk through a wall, but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief. Also you\'d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall, the odds are so astronomically against it.<br /><br />This is but one example of how they misrepresent the science. But much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer, played by Marlee Maitlan. About halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible. Something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self-hate. There may be some truth to that, but Quantum physics has nothing to do with it.<br /><br />Plus, string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays. Instead of wasting your time with this dreck, I suggest you rent The Elegant Universe, an amazing series done for NOVA on PBS that gives you a history of physics from Newton and gravity to Ed Witten and M Theory in only 3 hour-long episodes. Quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation."\n385,"I was truly looking forward to this title. It sounded and looked fun. The idea of someone making a cheesy 50s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs, but instead this title only bores. First off, there is almost no Froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment. I have to sit through 75+ minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the Froggg humping a bare breasted chick. Why? On top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot. I mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads. I wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp, I wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue (Creature from the Black Lagoon stuff), I wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the Froggg going on a killing spree, or it maybe escaping a silly trap. Something exciting! Geez, have fun with it, be creative! Who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick? My advice to the filmmakers: Keep going, your concepts are good, but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired. Have some fun with the creature, put the humor in the action and most important...put more creature in a creature movie!!!"\n386,"One of my sisters friends lent me this game, and it is too damn hard! It carries the appearance of a kids game, but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions, and you have to search seemingly endless levels for 100 notes, to improve your \'score\'! You also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces, that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them! AND I AM ONLY UP TO STAGE THREE!!!!! Maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this, but otherwise keep away! AND IT IS DEFINATELY NOT RECOMMENDED FOR KIDS - THEY WILL PULL THEIR HAIR OUT WITHIN THE HOUR!"\n387,"Chuck Jones\'s \'Rabbit Seasoning\', the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy, is often considered to be the best of the three. While I find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons, I would have to concede that \'Rabbit Seasoning\' is the most finely honed script. Here, the emphasis is placed on language as Bugs and Daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of Abbot and Costello\'s \'Who\'s on next\' routine. As a long term Daffy fan, I have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently Daffy who gets all the best lines (the famous ""Pronoun trouble"" being one of the all time classics) and does most of the work. Bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while Elmer, as always, is the befuddled dupe. Part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that Daffy and Elmer pose so little threat to Bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs. Elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old Daffy who comes off worst, being shot in the face again and again, his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions. It all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration ""You\'re despicable"". As intricate an example of Chuck Jones\'s impeccable timing as you\'ll come across, \'Rabbit Seasoning\' is a true classic."\n388,"A lovely little B picture with all the usual Joe Lewis touches.... people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear. Also, alas, an ending that comes out of nowhere, because, apparently, the auteur has lost interest in the movie, or perhaps because as a B picture it has to fit into a slot."\n389,"""Crossfire"" is a justifiably famous 1947 noir that\'s a murder mystery with a strong message. It stars Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Sam Levene, and Gloria Grahame, and is strongly directed by Edward Dmytryk. We witness the murder in shadow at the beginning, and for the rest of the film, Young, as the detective, Finlay, in charge of the case, seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death, and just as important, why. The victim, Joseph Samuels (Sam Levene) is someone the soldiers meet in a bar; they go up to his apartment to continue their visit, and Samuels winds up dead.<br /><br />I don\'t know about 1947, but seeing ""Crossfire"" today, one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects. I don\'t suppose it was so apparent back then, as these actors were just getting started. Nevertheless, the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting, good direction, violence, and unsparing anti-Semite language.<br /><br />The characterizations are vivid, including that of Gloria Grahame in a smallish role - she\'s a woman who meets Mitchell (George Cooper), one of the suspect soldiers, in a bar and can provide him with an alibi. The big performance in the film belongs to Robert Ryan, but everyone is excellent. Robert Young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective. Mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend Mitchell, a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife.<br /><br />Truly excellent, and a must see."\n390,"AWWWW, I just love this movie to bits. Me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and I am just such a HUGE FAN!!! I hope they bring the TV series out on DVD soon. Come to mention it, I have not see the TV show in a LONG time. Such geart times! Where I come from Australia The Chipmunk Adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don\'t know what there missing.<br /><br />The songs in this film are ace the ones I love the most Boys/girls of rock n\'roll, Diamond Dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry My Mother.<br /><br />This film is sure to excite both young and old GET THE CHIPMUNK ADVENTURE TODAY!!! 10 out of 10, such an excellent movie."\n391,"Skippy from ""Family Ties"" plays Eddie, a wussy \'metal\' nerd who gets picked on. When his favorite wussy \'metal\' singer, Sammi Curr, dies, he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall. But when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead \'metal\' idol. He first gets sucked into ideas of revenge, but then he doesn\'t want to take it as far as Sammi does. Which isn\'t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital. This movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say, ""Rock Star"". OK, maybe a tad more than that piece of junk, but you get my point. And how ANYone can root for a guy played by Skippy from ""Family Ties"" I haven\'t a clue. The cameo by Gene Simmons is OK, and Ozzy Osbourne reaches coherency, I applaud him for that, but otherwise skip this one.<br /><br />My Grade: D <br /><br />Eye Candy:Elise Richards gets topless, an a topless extra at a pool party"\n392,"Of course I would have to give this film 10 out of 10 as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of Once upon a Crime. Rodolfo Sonego wrote screenplays for over 50 years living in Italy. He was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing. So Rodolfo Sonego did. If you check out his biography, you can see the number of movies that have been made in Italy. Alberto Sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories. My uncle visited Australia and my town, in 1968 to check out locations for ""A girl in Australia"" and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war. You can see his humor in all his movies. I found a copy of this movie on DVD recently. GREAT"\n393,"Goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in VG history. Their is no doubt about that. But this game, although quite different, could quite possibly be the modern-day Bond champ, of its time.<br /><br />This was not a bond game based on material from another medium. This was a completely new; scripted game. Which even had its own theme song! (wouldnt be bond without it, haha!) Gameplay was excellent, and if you\'re a fan of the bond games or films alike, you\'ll enjoy it.<br /><br />Unlike some/most games, these cast members portrayed their characters themselves, as opposed to fictional creations for the game. Which gives it that more cinematic feel. With a very \'bond\'-able storyline, you feel like you\'re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie.<br /><br />Enjoyable in all aspects, from start to finish. Even after beating the game there\'s still plenty more to be done. With the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved, as well as its multi-player missions, this is a stand-out game. Despite being quite old now, in video game years. It\'s still a good game that you can pick up & play whenever you feel the need to get a little more Bond in your life. Even now just thinking about it, I\'ve got the theme song stuck in my head. Such a great cast and well-written storyline.<br /><br />The story comes to life on the screen, almost as if the actors were their in front of you, and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself. Superbly done, in true bond fashion. Which can only be named Awesome, Completely Awesome.<br /><br />I\'ve gotta go throw this game on now. If you haven\'t played it yet, you\'re missing out!"\n394,Helena Bonham Carter is the center of this movie. She plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity. Kenneth Branagh was tolerable. The movie itself was good not exceptional. If you are a Helena Bonham Carter fan it is worth seeing.\n395,"I commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a ""thumbs in the middle"" review, remarking that I\'d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode. I\'ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in June 2006. And as a lifelong Batman fanatic, I can say without hesitation: this show is utter crap.<br /><br />Everything\'s wrong with it. Everything. Getting past just the lousy animation and design, the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories.<br /><br />And for God\'s sake...is it just me, or is the Joker in EVERY EPISODE?? Is Gotham that much of a revolving-door justice system? Or, again, is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains (see ""no character development"", above).<br /><br />And to make matters worse, every single Joker tale is the same 3-part formula.<br /><br />1) Joker gasses people.<br /><br />2) Joker sets out to gas the whole city.<br /><br />3) Batman saves the day.<br /><br />Pfeh.<br /><br />There was one episode I saw that wasn\'t a Joker story. The title escapes me, but the villain was that nefarious Cluemaster...the ""Think Thank Thunk"" episode with the quiz show. That was the single-worst Batman story I\'ve ever seen, heard or read. Yes, worse than ""I\'ve Got Batman in My Basement."" <br /><br />I can\'t really say what I feel this show is because it\'s probably against the ToS, but it starts with ""B"" and rhymes with ""fastardization"". Thank goodness for the existence of the Timm/Dini/etc. era of Bat-entertainment, back from the Fox and Kids WB days. Stuff that good, and I should have known this, just couldn\'t possibly have lasted forever, unfortunately."\n396,"Just because someone is under the age of 10 does not mean they are stupid. If your child likes this film you\'d better have him/her tested. I am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad. This ""film"" is a showcase for digital wizardry AND NOTHING ELSE. The writing is horrid. I can\'t remember when I\'ve heard such bad dialogue. The songs are beyond wretched. The acting is sub-par but then the actors were not given much. Who decided to employ Joey Fatone? He cannot sing and he is ugly as sin.<br /><br />The worst thing is the obviousness of it all. It is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible. Great children\'s movies are wicked, smart and full of wit - films like Shrek and Toy Story in recent years, Willie Wonka and The Witches to mention two of the past. But in the continual dumbing-down of American more are flocking to dreck like Finding Nemo (yes, that\'s right), the recent Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and eye-crossing trash like Red Riding Hood."\n397,"""Hey Babu Riba"" is a film about a young woman, Mariana (nicknamed ""Esther"" after a famous American movie star), and four young men, Glenn, Sacha, Kicha, and Pop, all perhaps 15-17 years old in 1953 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The five are committed friends and crazy about jazz, blue jeans, or anything American it seems.<br /><br />The very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant, and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties. In the wake of changing communist politics, they go their separate ways and reunite in 1985 (the year before the film was made).<br /><br />I enjoyed the film with some reservations. The subtitles for one thing were difficult. Especially in the beginning, there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all. Perhaps the conversational pace required it, but I couldn\'t always both read the text and absorb the scene, which caused me to not always understand which character was involved. I watched the movie (a video from our public library) with a friend, and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative.<br /><br />This Yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers\' sense of invulnerability, idealism, and strong and loyal bonds to each other. There is a main flashforward, and it was intriguing, keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis-a-vis the 1953 cast, and what had actually happened.<br /><br />I would rate it 7 out of 10, and would like to see other films by the director, Jovan Acin (1941-1991)."\n398,"After a snowstorm, the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman Jason (Adam Beach) comes to the diner of his friend Fritz (Jurgen Prochnow) and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day. Among the weird strangers, Jason meets his former sweetheart Nancy (Rose McGowan), who has just left her husband in Los Angeles. Along the night, without any communication with his base, Jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients, and finds some corpses, indicating that among them there is a killer.<br /><br />""The Last Stop"" could be an average thriller, but the screenplay is simply awful. Most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed, and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests. My vote is four.<br /><br />Title (Brazil): ""Encurralados"" (""Trapped"")"\n399,"This movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about Murphy\'s Law being applied to home ownership and construction. If a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional. Since it was set in the \'simpler\' forties, we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era. Grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by Loy and Douglas. Their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment, 7/10."\n400,"What can you say about the film White Fire. Amazing? Fantastic? Disturbing? Hilarious? These words are not big enough to describe the event which is White Fire. From wobbly, garbled beginning to profound end, this movie will entertain throughout.<br /><br />Our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world. A family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms. When the father separates from the mother and their childen, you get a real sense of what kind of movie you\'re about to watch. Father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit, and is polite as he gets people\'s attention before he shoots them, but alas, dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised, unsafe stunt. Meanwhile, mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about 5 feet behind them. He too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre ""HALT!"", and then promptly wastes the mother. This action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes Bo and Ingred.<br /><br />So now we fast forward about 20 years (30 if you\'re honest about the hero\'s age) to beautiful Turkey, where Bo and Ingred have settled as professional thieves, or diamond prospectors, or something. Ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods, while Bo (masterfully played by the dynamic Robert Ginty) drives around the desert in his denim outfits. Bo and Ingrid have an interesting relationship. They don\'t seem to have any friends other than each other, and they spend all of their time together. That coupled with the fact that Bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as ""you know its a shame you\'re my sister"" he says to her while she\'s stark naked, make for a very dynamic duo. Bo is then crushed when Ingrid is killed, as he wanders the beaches of Turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf. A renewal of hope occurs when Bo finds a girl who looks like Ingrid, and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like Ingrid. This opens the door for Bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong. Bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas, and he is overjoyed with his new love.<br /><br />So anyway, there\'s a lot of fun action scenes, ridiculous violence, great acting, impossible to follow plot-lines, Fred ""the hammer"" Williamson (for some reason), and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond (which later explodes). All of these things are great, but the Bo and Ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special....really special. So I heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is White Fire. You may be glad you did..or not."\n401,"I am so disappointed. This movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy. Here was the quintessential Woody Allen film all over again: the neurotic upper-class Manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses. Woody, I\'ve seen these characters already, I\'ve seen the storyline from you ten times already. Where did your creativity go??? You need to open your eyes and look around you. The world has changed dramatically since Annie Hall - and you need to change along with it.<br /><br />There are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism - why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again.<br /><br />When I hear that Woody Allen has a new project coming out, it does nothing for me - because now I\'ve come to expect his old standby: the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating. Depressing and same old, same old.<br /><br />If Woody wants to win his fans back, then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated - not insulted."\n402,"This movie is all ultra-lightweight fluff, predictable from beginning to end. As a Don Knotts vehicle, ""The Incredible Mr. Limpet"" was much better, with Knott\'s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant. His performance there was toned down, with none of his trademark goggle-eyed stare, although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish. Knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile, much as Bob Denver did. Neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles, assuming they were simply typecast. It was probably because of the slouch, the wild stare and the high-pitched voice. John Ritter, whom Knotts worked with in ""Three\'s Company,"" was able to transcend his genre, branching out successfully into dramatic roles like ""The Dreamer of Oz,"" but the closest Knotts ever got was a small role in ""Pleasantville."" Even Leslie Nielsen was a bad fit here, uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in ""Airplane!"" and ""Police Squad.""<br /><br />There\'s also no way the then-43 year-old Knotts could pass for a 35 year-old, as his character insisted he was. It was as ludicrously unbelievable as Tom Hanks at 38 playing the college-age Forrest Gump.<br /><br />The film was clearly made on a shoestring budget, very much looking like a hastily-filmed TV episode. It\'s especially evident in the ""exterior"" scenes of the ""town"" where Roy goes after he\'s fired. It\'s unlikely even a pre-schooler would be fooled by the Mayberry-like soundstage artificiality.<br /><br />Even viewing this strictly as a children\'s movie, it\'s very disappointing. It\'s not because it lacks action or special effects, although it does. The pace is much too slow, the situations repetitive. How many times can you watch Roy getting onto a bus? A comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap, with breakneck gags, otherwise you risk boring them (and any adults in the theater as well). Movies, even kid\'s movies, have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades. Even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written. Disney\'s ""The Love Bug,"" for instance, at least had some interesting race action."\n403,"If you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization, there is an excellent book called ""Outlaw Seas"" or ""The Outlaw Sea"", and it describes, in story after story, how these things do happen. The lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons. One, many of the world\'s freighters are of questionable registry (nationality) and it\'s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don\'t have an office in a real country. Two, many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries. The crews are often (like illegal immigrant workers) threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices. Three, there is often a language barrier, not only between the officers and the crew, but also between the crew members themselves. The crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence. Four, once committing an illegal act, the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint. Anyway, it\'s fascinating reading.<br /><br />Horrifying story, excellent movie. Does anyone else notice how HBO seems to make the best and most important movies? Hollywood has trouble releasing enough Oscar worthy movies in any given year, so that several of the top 5 contenders usually come from Britain. Jerry Bruckheimer = the end of quality cinema.<br /><br />I loved the thoroughly evil performance by Sean Pertwee. I also, as usual, loved Omar Epps."\n404,"Gamers: DR is not a fancy made movie, it\'s more like amateur video. Horrible magic effect, really fake fireball, terribly made dungeon, castle, village...... sword, axe, shield, robe, plate..... okok... everything. You will need about 10 minutes to adjust your expecting on visual, then you will get 105 minutes of fun.<br /><br />I\'m from Hongkong and it\'s really hard to find RPers, none of my friends play RPG and I always fancy to be one of the character in the world of D&D. Watching Gamers: DR just show me what would it be like to be a gamer. You see rule books, dices, game set, etc etc etc; You hear terms like ""fighter"", ""wizard"", ""hit point"", ""level"", ""character"", ""flaming hand"", ""Chaotic Evil"".<br /><br />What RPG fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to, not bonded by software RPG. Gamers: DR provide the same element, you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead. The movie goes both gamers\'s real life as well as in the D&D world. You will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action, which make you feel you really participle in the game.<br /><br />I don\'t want to spoil anything, but in short, Gamers: DR is a must watch movie for RPG lovers. For people never play RPG game, I\'m sure you still get many fun from it."\n405,"In all honesty, I haven\'t seen this film for many years, but the few times I have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory, as anyone who has seen it will understand. I first saw it as a child at a YMCA Halloween party in the early Sixties, and it scared the hell out of us kids, in a fun way. I remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze. I can\'t risk giving away the ending, except to say that it was surprising, to say the least. I remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler, followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed. The ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history, and yet oddly moving, in a way. You have to see it for yourself, which is not easy these days. I don\'t know if it\'s available on home video or not, but it would still make a great Halloween feature for both kids and adults."\n406,"This is the only thing I will be able to look back on from the year 2006 and say now that rocked. It rocked hard, and yet it also rocked tasty. Mr.MEATLOAF added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled. Now that tells you something, this filmed rocked even before it STARTED! Now I don\'t want to give to much away or be a ""spoiler"" but this movie ROCKED! If you have heard the new album and thought to yourself ""this seems a bit substandard Tenacious material,it is like I a merely playing badminton with Satan, what gives?"" Then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece. For those who would want it better do not know what they want,because better would no longer be the D. This movie is the D period.!So venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked."\n407,"You\'d think you\'re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel 3000 miles or so from France to Saudi Arabia, going through most of Europe - Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, before arriving in the Middle East. But this is not a tour, and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights.<br /><br />Reda\'s father is in his twilight years, and wishes to do the Haj. However, since walking and taking the mule is out of the question, he chooses to travel to Mecca by car. He can\'t drive, and therefore enlists the help of Reda, to his son\'s protest, to get him there in their broken down vehicle.<br /><br />But Reda doesn\'t see the point of having him go along, when his dad could opt for the plane. He resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn\'t understand. And hence, we set off in this arduous journey with father and son, being not the best of pals.<br /><br />The beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair, the challenges they face, the weird people they meet, having to duke it out in varied weather conditions, and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car. We see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other, the father trying to impose on his son, and the son trying to assert himself as an adult, but circumstances we see, reveal that Reda is quite a fish out of water. Through the many encounters, they actually team up quite well despite their differences.<br /><br />It\'s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with Hari Raya Haji, and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their Haj. The final scene in Mecca is truly a sight to behold, and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as Reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating. The sights of Europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon, so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination.<br /><br />It certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are. Don\'t miss this, and yes, book early - I was pleasantly surprised that this evening\'s session was still a full house."\n408,"I watched this movie based on the good reviews here, and I won\'t make that mistake again.<br /><br />The first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy, but you don\'t see what it is. Flashback 12-hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people, which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen. When the ending is finally reveled, you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn\'t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching. The only connection these people have is that they have all had a ""bad day""--but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom.<br /><br />If this was supposed to be a ""Crash"" clone, it\'s a complete failure."\n409,"A great Bugs Bunny cartoon from the earlier years has Bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store. After he\'s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he\'ll be transferring soon. Bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy...and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals. Animals like say, a certain rabbit. This causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer. I found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early 1940\'s. It still remains as funny nearly 60+ years later. This animated short can be seen on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.<br /><br />My Grade: A-"\n410,"I firmly believe that the best Oscar ceremony in recent years was in 2003 for two reasons: <br /><br />1 ) Host Steve Martin was at his most wittiest: "" I saw the teamsters help Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo "" and "" I\'ll better not mention the gay mafia in case I wake up with a poodle\'s head in my bed "" <br /><br />2 ) Surprise winners: No one had Adrien Brody down for best actor ( Genuine applause ) or Roman Polanski for best director ( Genuine jeers and boos ) but they won <br /><br />Last year\'s award ceremony wasn\'t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and I was happy to see RETURN OF THE KING sweep the awards even if it wasn\'t the best in the trilogy ( FELLOWSHIP was much better )but what let the BBC coverage down was Jonathan Ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but . So when I heard Sky were doing the coverage for British TV I was expecting Barry Norman and Mark Kermode to be doing the links , but instead we ended up with Jamie Theakston and Sharon Osbourne ! Oh gawd if British TV are desperate for film critics ( Obviously they are ) I\'m sure both Bob The Moo and Theo Robertson will happily fly over to LA to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers <br /><br />Chris Rock wasn\'t too bad , but he\'s no Steve Martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in ! Not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion . The main problem I had with the ceremony was the format with the "" minor "" Oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats ! There\'s no such thing as a "" minor "" Oscar and just because the award is for Best Animated Short or Best Costume Design they\'re as well deserved as Best Picture or Best Director . All the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium . What a bunch of arrogant snobs the Academy are becoming and I quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn\'t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history . As for the awards themselves <br /><br />Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett . No great surprise for a competitive category <br /><br />Best Supporting Actor - Morgan Freeman . No real complaints since Freeman is one of America\'s greatest living character actors <br /><br />Best Actor - Jamie Foxx . Most predictable award of the night . Yawn <br /><br />Best Actress - Hilary Swank . Major surprise since everyone thought Annette Benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but Swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night <br /><br />Best Director - Clint Eastwood . Major surprise since everyone thought Scorsese was going to get the award simply because he\'d never won one . Actually I\'m glad about this because if he didn\'t deserve it for TAXI DRIVER , RAGING BULL or GOODFELLAS he didn\'t deserve it for THE AVIATOR <br /><br />Best Film - MILLION DOLLAR BABY . Again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while I thought the Hollywood friendly plot of THE AVIATOR would have made it a dead cert for Best Picture while MDB\'s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off <br /><br />What these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore Oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven\'t done in the past , I mean A BEAUTIFUL MIND beating THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING for gawd\'s sake ! And long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts"\n411,"While in a plane, flicking through the large choice of movies, I came across Live! almost accidentally. oh boy! what a choice.<br /><br />I remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show. Now I can easily say this has been a hell of a ride. I don\'t remember last time I have been so excited, terrified. Not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses, but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can\'t turn away from the screen, literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you\'ve got.<br /><br />You will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show. You will drift from thinking ""how come the human being can be so vicious"" to ""why not after all?"".Ask yourself would you do it. Then learn about the contestants, their motives and start guessing. You will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe.<br /><br />Good acting, good directing, with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more.<br /><br />*Spoilers* couple of things i would have changed:<br /><br />- the casting of the contestants. i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him. The idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid, it felt like you didn\'t care about some of the contestants. Although this might have been done on purpose, i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants. - game rules, a big glitch :<br /><br />what happens if the 5th contestants doesn\'t die when he pulls the trigger. do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself!!! they should have given a chance to all contestants to live, ie: if 5th is a blank too, then no one dies.<br /><br />interestingly I haven\'t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time. just wish i had some popcorn with me!"\n412,"Ah, another movie with motorcycles, hell\'s angels posse and Steve A-Lame-o as the not-so-cool car driver. This movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking, pot smoking, and lots of moronic acts. Steve\'s rendition of a dying cat during his ""I love what I know"" serenade had me vomiting for hours. Bike chick Linda (rrrr) makes out with everyone! Fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds. I also dare you to try to make out what Banjo is saying. ""You messin\' wit private stock."" This is scriptwriting folks.<br /><br />I liked the ending. What better place to have the climax than a lighthouse! You have to see this to detest it.<br /><br />DIE Jeter, DIE!!!"\n413,"A rating of ""1"" does not begin to express how dull, depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is."\n414,"I feel dumber after watching the first 20 min,luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain, people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly,not because of the budget of the film or the special effects, just simply good acting and getting simple things right,and MOst importantly--not being LAME--, but i guess this was produced for those Sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is \'\'A good Movie\'\'don\'t be scared of rating films low,save your under-appreciated high scores for \'\'once in a life time movies\'\'. Keep in mind that many use IMDb for trusted reviews and opinions,don\'t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds Peace & love"\n415,"The most self-indulgent movie I have every had the misfortune to<br /><br />rent. Unwatchable. Much of the movie is obviously improvised,<br /><br />and not well. It looks like Toback took the first take of<br /><br />everything. The movie gets good for a couple of minutes when<br /><br />Robert Downey Jr. shows up, then goes to hell again real<br /><br />quickly."\n416,"This has got to be the worst movie I haver ever seen Nielson in. This movie just does not have what he needs to be funny. I think the reasons that the Naked Gun and the like movies is that they did not require Nielson to be funny. He just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual. But when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny, he isn\'t. The movie had only one good part, and this may be considered a spoiler by some, and that the beginning credits were animated. If the whole movie had been animated, it might have been good. I had no intention of seeing this movie when I saw the ads for it, and the only reason I did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest. This is the first and probably only movie I have ever walked out on. On a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a score of -100."\n417,"I like Ghost stories. Good ghost stories of bumps in the night, voices that cannot be explained. Now I\'ve see many of them. As special efx have a ever more grip on todays films, some times to find a real gem , you gotta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories. Now this one, very rare , pilot episode for the TV series Ghost Story called "" The New House "" was one of the most scariest films I ever saw. It was on once in 1972,...I was only 9,..but nothing since then even compared to it. With all the remake going on in Hollywood, some one should do this one "" as is "" with no more special efx than the original. This episode was down right creepy as hell. I\'m lucky to find it finally on DVD today and very rare and hard to find. The only other 2 Ghost Stories to even come close was the ORIGINAL "" The Haunting "" and George C. Scott in "" The Changling "" . Wish someone would do more ghost stories like these."\n418,"Okay, I\'ve watched this movie twice now, I have researched it heavily on the net, I have asked several people on there opinions. I have even gone to the length of reading the original Sheridan Lafanu Classic \'Carmilla\', a book that this movie is supposed to be based on. I feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it. As the plot of the movie doesn\'t seem to make any sense at all, here is the plot of the book.<br /><br />Laura lives in a castle in Syberia with her Father, Mr De Lafontaine. They carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully. One day they get a letter from the \'General\' a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death. He makes claims of supernatural powers being at work, and explains that he will visit them soon. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the Lafontaines looking after her Daughter, Carmilla, for several months. Soon Laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams, and begins to come down with a strange illness. Who is this mysterious Carmilla? And just what has she to do with Laura\'s condition, and the General?<br /><br />I have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it, and let me know what their results are. I even have a catchy name, and would have a jingle too, but I can\'t be bothered with that. It\'s called the ""this movie doesn\'t make any sense"" game.<br /><br />All you have to do is, whilst watching the movie, try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening. I mean complete, all questions answered, everything makes sense, absolutely complete.<br /><br />It will have to answer such questions as ... <br /><br />* Why can vampires walk around in day light?<br /><br />* Why are they all lesbians?<br /><br />* Why is a girl called Bob? and why does she shoot herself?<br /><br />* When is the movie a dream and when is it real?<br /><br />* Why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn\'t make anyone bat an eyelid?<br /><br />* Why does Travis Fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car, yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car, accept the excuse that she is a zombie too?<br /><br />* And why does he then let a girl, which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire, drive with him in his car?<br /><br />* And then let her drive off, alone with his daughter in a stolen car?<br /><br />What the hell is the asylum scene all about?<br /><br />* What the hell is the green goo all about?<br /><br />* Why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse?<br /><br />* Why are there never any vampires fighting Zombies?<br /><br />* What is the significance of the necklace? what is it made of? why does it kill vampires? and how does Jenna know that?<br /><br />In fact sod it, it\'s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too.<br /><br />I have my plot, and I have to admit it is not quite there, but it is a pretty good effort.<br /><br />In Conclusion<br /><br />\'Vampires vs Zombies\' has no moment in it where there are actually Vampires fighting Zombies. Everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on, yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this. And somehow it is based on a classic 19th century horror novel. How? Why? What the hell is going on?"\n419,"This would\'ve been a *great* silent film. The acting really is good, at least in a Look Ma, I\'m Doing Really Big Acting! sort of way.<br /><br />Everything is HUGE. Every line is PROFOUND! Every scene is SHATTERED BY HUMAN TRAGEDY!<br /><br />Mostly, I felt like gagging. Yet, like any train wreck, I couldn\'t tear my eyes away. This dialogue might\'ve worked on the stage, although I doubt it. On the screen, it was cluttered, haphazard, hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work.<br /><br />If you enjoy your melodrama in huge, heaping doses, you *might* enjoy the movie. Be prepared to wait, however. For all that melodrama, this thing sure plods along at its own pace.<br /><br />This script must\'ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves. It simply doesn\'t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera.<br /><br />IMDB does us a great disservice, at times, when it uses its goofy computer-controlled ""weighted score"". Curse of the Starving Class deserves less than a 1.<br /><br />Character-driven fiction is great, but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution, it isn\'t character development! Your characters must have a motivation. Being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is *not* character development. That\'s a plot contrivance.<br /><br />Stay away from this movie. Or at the very least, watch it muted. Perhaps you\'ll get some amusement from all the arm-waving the characters do.<br /><br />Oh, and word to the wise -- to prove that this is truly an artsy film, you see James Woods in all his dangly male ""look-at-me, I\'m-the-figurative-and-literal-representation-of-the-naked-vulnerability-of- man"" glory.<br /><br />Don\'t say you weren\'t warned."\n420,"This movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward, attended by two orderlies. The unconscious main character is heard in a voice over, saying that the orderlies are gay. The orderlies kiss. I watched this in a DVD version and I have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny – it said „comedy"" on the DVD case, after all and it goes on like that. Had I seen this in a movie theater I probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter, because it is so funny – and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy. While it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn\'t, this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn\'t.<br /><br />Brilliant brains can MAKE anything funny, people like Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder or Mel Brooks have proved that fact. But you have to know the „mechanics"", I suppose. Director and co-scriptwriter Dani Levy does not bother about those mechanics, he thinks that certain things simply ARE funny, the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma, for example. Do not get me wrong, some people can MAKE that funny, Dani Levy can\'t, not for me, anyway.<br /><br />The main problem I have with this movie is that I can\'t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave. I could not understand why the two brothers, one an orthodox Jew from West Germany one a third class carbon copy of Fast Eddie Felson from former East Germany so strongly disliked each other. They are both rather bland characters. Their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other (well, one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin). But even these incestuous relationships – if anything they are embarrassing - just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better.<br /><br />The acting is not bad, Udo Semel I actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor Helmut Kohl (a lighter version) than of a venerable Orthodox Jew. The direction in itself is not really bad either, but maybe Levy should stick to directing movies, leaving the scriptwriting to someone else. Now I heard he did a comedy about Hitler. Oi, Vai!"\n421,"This story about three women is a very sensitive study about: Muriël (Charlotte Van Den Eynde) the youngest, Laura (Els Dottermans) who is about 37 and Martha (Frieda Pittors) the oldest who is the mother of Muriël. They live together in the same building. They have different expectations of life. The vital Laura wants a child. Muriël comes from a village and wants to change her life in Brussels. Martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl. In fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something - for instances an accident - which could dramatize this story. As times goes on, you discover that the director Dorothée Van Den Berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more. This movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case, so one is left with a feeling of emptiness."\n422,"First and foremost, I loved the novel by Ray Bradbury. It\'s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later. It was one of his best books, with, you know, Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine. I as just hoping that this movie would be all right. It had lots of chances, with a great cast, like Jason Robards and Jonathn Pryce. And Bradbury even wrote the script himself. And on top of all that, it has PAM GRIER!<br /><br />How could it fail?<br /><br />There may be spoilers within.<br /><br />First of all, it was dumbed down. Much of the horror from the book was lost as Bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum. All the visuals from the book...gone. Everything that made you squirm...gone.<br /><br />And then there\'s the acting. Like a lot of movies that Disney threw out in the 80s, the kids in this movie cannot act. And, this bugged me a lot, neither of them looked 13 but 9 or 10. Their strong friendship wasn\'t addressed. It was more like they were acquaintaces. <br /><br />You\'d think Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce could pull this off in their roles of Mr. Halloway and Mr. Dark. But here it\'s like they just don\'t care. All they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something. This is far from being some of their best performances. <br /><br />Pam Grier was fine as the witch, but the charecter of the Dust Witch herself wasn\'t well pulled off. She\'s a lot less evil and doesn\'t have the presence as she did in the book. <br /><br />And everything that was left out of the book. The ballon night chase, the marking of Jim\'s house, the real death of Mr. Dark, what happened to Mr. Coogan on the merry-go-round, the fate of the lightening rod salesman, the real death of the witch, and oh so much more. <br /><br />And the special effects were bad, even for the 80s. The merry-go-round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn\'t really creepy, and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything. <br /><br />I could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel, but it makes blood boil. Don\'t see this movie but read the book. It\'s a classic of Bradbury."\n423,"This film is so old I never realized how young looking Ray Milland looked in 1936, I remember him playing in a great film, ""Lost Weekend"". Ray plays the role of Michael Stuart, who is a very rich banker. There are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy. They hire a man to pose as a very rich Count, his name is Count Ariszted, (Misha Auer) who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture. Deanna Durbin, (Penny Craig) surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then Penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice I have every heard, the entire police department and convicts started applauding, which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film. This is Deanna Durbin\'s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with Universal Studios after leaving MGM."\n424,"I had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on DVD at Christmas. Having reserved a special slot for it last night, I sat down to watch it with my daughter (aged 17 and a Film Studies student), with chocolates of course, in eager anticipation. We love Jane Austin.<br /><br />After just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk. The shaky camera shots and angles, general poor cinematography, direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied. Despondent, we viewed on.<br /><br />Anne, played by Sally Hawkins, looked oddly and with no particular purpose, directly at the camera on several occasions, breaking our hard-won \'fantasy of the moment\' and engaging us directly in an almost \'I\'ll find you\' stalking fashion.<br /><br />Poor Rupert Penry-Jones, who played Captain Wentworth, did his best with the script and direction, bless him. I hope they paid him well, however, as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall, drenching him and his co-actor. They were nearly swept out to sea. Health and Safety would have had a field day! Poor Rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line. Presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re-shoot of this scene. Anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place.<br /><br />Other than Mr. Penry-Jones, Alice Krige gave the only convincing performance as Lady Russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of Anthony Head\'s unconvincing portrayal of annoying Sir Walter Elliott.<br /><br />Towards the long-awaited end of the film, Captain Wentworth appeared to oddly grace Anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie. It was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being. In contrast, Anne ran, hyper-ventilating, from pillar to post in search of the good Captain who, in the meantime, had managed to call upon almost the entirety of Bath we are told, in the course of only three or four minutes, without even having worked up a sweat.<br /><br />We experienced none of Anne\'s charms crossing the screen. Indeed, we were left wondering what charismatic Captain Wentworth had ever seen in plain, spineless, opinion-less Anne and why someone, anyone, did not tell mean, winging Sir Walter to just shut the heck up.<br /><br />The crucial kiss, normally our favourite girlie moment, was painfully drawn out. As they moved in closer, Anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met. Eww! <br /><br />The most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been.<br /><br />What a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story, filmed in some of England\'s finest scenery.<br /><br />Sorry Jane."\n425,"If you like Sci-Fi, Monsters, and Ancient Legends, then you will love this movie!! <br /><br />The Special Effects are by far the best I have seen since Juarassic Park hit the big screen years ago. While the acting may have been a little less than desirable, the story line and effects adequately compensated for it.<br /><br />I wish now I had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our 42 inch big screen TV.<br /><br />If you like non-stop action, awesome visuals, and taste for myth and lore....you have to see this movie!!"\n426,"A rather silly little film you just may love.<br /><br />Although rather corny and cliché at times, it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun. Five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest - just for the sheer joy ""knowing yours is the best team.""<br /><br />Notable for several screen debuts including David Naughton\'s first film role after his Dr. Pepper ""Be a Pepper"" commercials and before his major 1981 hit ""American Werewolf in London"". Also features Paul Ruebens in what I believe is his first Pee Wee Herman-esquire roll a year before he became known for it. And last but not least, Mr. Spin City and Alex Keaton himself, Michael J. Fox gets his first film role here. Fans will remember Stephen Furst as Flounder in Animal House. Outside of that, no names, but all funny characters.<br /><br />Doubt it has ever made it to DVD, but there are still probably some VHS copies floating around and you might even catch on a late, late show sometime. If you do, is worth your watch. You may hate it, but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love."\n427,"This is an OK adaptation of the breath taking book of Dan Brown. I can\'t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy. Given the excellent story, the result could have been better though. The movie is pretty long but at the end I was feeling like some things were missing. Sound effects and sound tracks were very good. Acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak. For people who didn\'t read the book, things may look happening too quickly. From my point of view, instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book, they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper. What makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of Vatican. You see neither of it in the movie. Too much rush and using the time not in a good way, these are main problems of the movie. So, it is worth watching but could have been done better."\n428,"I never fell asleep during a movie. Never. This movie did the impossible.<br /><br />While many people claim the superiority of Japanese horror films over their American counterparts, this movie was a lesson in over abundance. As in, the movie was 30 minutes too long. It would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work, but instead, all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement. The acting was absolutely terrible, bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad-lib something called a script. Did these people even get any direction? Were they coaxed to be boring and dull? Either therory wouldn\'t surprise me.<br /><br />What was even worse was the rather unscary make-up involved with the creatures from the other side. Either way, they all stunk. Don\'t watch this film. That\'s all I can say (unless you\'re an insomniac)."\n429,"What can I say? Not as bad as many here have made it out to be. The only reason I even watched this film that I had previously never heard of before, was strictly for IAN McSHANE.<br /><br />I was not disappointed in the least. IAN McSHANE was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role. He\'s always great to watch and for my money... an extremely underused actor.<br /><br />As for the rest of the film.... Every other actor in the movie delivered strong, solid performances. These people certainly weren\'t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation (as this was a fairly low budget film) but this did not mean that any of them ""mailed"" their appearances in. Everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them.<br /><br />I was even pleasantly surprised at ADRIAN PAUL\'s performance though I must admit I have only ever seen him in the HIGHLANDER Television series before this movie.<br /><br />The plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life, not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film. Anybody who expected a clear-cut, by-the-numbers, connect the dots ""conclusion"" or ""answer"" at the end of the movie... CLEARLY wasn\'t watching the film closely enough! This film is not going to tell you what the ""meaning of life"" is! The idea is that after seeing the film, you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee. I certainly did.<br /><br />No car chases... No explosions... No bar room brawls.... (sounds pretty dull, huh?) But the reality is that I was completely absorbed by the film and it\'s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved.<br /><br />****** WARNING...****** If you\'re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous ""question"" as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly...<br /><br />YOU MIGHT NOT ENJOY THIS FILM."\n430,"Originally harped as a sequel to ""The Slumber Party Massacre"" series, this film falls flat on it\'s face with a new title. First off, if you are going to include the word ""massacre"" in your film\'s title, you better deliver. This one certainly does not. There is no gore, no on screen murders and no chainsaw, as the box art would lead you to believe. Instead, we get a paper thin, overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game, only to be offed one by one. Again, this film could have been OK if the gore quotient was upped a bit. Why directors, especially those doing direct-to-video flicks, are afraid to show ANY gore is beyond me. Now, I am not a huge fan of excessive gore, but come on...why else would anyone rent a movie called ""Cheerleader Massacre??"" Besides that problem, the film suffers from a shot-on-a-home-video-camera cheapness. It looks cheap, sounds cheap, and the actors aren\'t all that good. It tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be, but even that fails. The ending ends up being a ridiculous mess. Folks, if you run across this film, walk away and go find the original ""Slumber Party Massacre."" 2 out of 10."\n431,"A killer, cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder. At his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave. This of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look. The two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem, are back on the case. Two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing. Thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection. Sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish.<br /><br />The acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays Dr Vincent van Gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film. The other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out. Now I\'m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible. If it wasn\'t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness I would probably have fallen asleep. There is a bit of gore but it\'s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims. The zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times. There is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll. The doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in a film. It is just a plastic toy on a fishing line.<br /><br />The ending is extremely bad. You would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does. God knows how they made enough money to make a sequel. <br /><br />4/10"\n432,"Days of Heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films I have ever seen. In no way, shape, or form would I recommend it to anyone...unless you\'re trying to put your kids to sleep or, God forbid, give someone an aneurysm. If I could go back in time and do one thing, I would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters. Why? Days of Heaven\'s plot is simple, but extremely vague. Long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film. The characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with. The climax of the story does not touch you: by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone. The only things working are your eyes, and unfortunately, your ears, who must listen to the sound of Linda, the little girl in the story, who talks like a man. I am now dumber for seeing this movie. Don\'t let it happen to you."\n433,"In 1929, director Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their ""Silly Symphonies"" series, ""The Skeleton Dance"". Iwerks and Disney had been collaborating together since the early 20s, in Disney\'s ""Laugh-O-Gram"" cartoon series; however, their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when Iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave Disney and start his own animation studio. That was the birth of Celebrity Productions, where Iwerks continued developing his style and technique (and where he created the character of Flip the Frog). While his work kept the same high quality, it wasn\'t really popular and by 1936 the studio was closed. Later that year, Iwerks was hired by Columbia Pictures, and Iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance, this time in color.<br /><br />1937\'s ""Skeleton Frolics"" is essentially, a remake of the 1929 classic ""The Skeleton Dance"", the movie that borough him fame and fortune. Like that short film, it is set on an abandoned graveyard, where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play. The dead rise from their coffins, ready for the show that\'s about to begin, as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra, and begin to play a happy tune. Now, it\'s not easy to be a musician made of just bones, as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts, however, the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance. A lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra: it\'s hard to dance with loose body parts. Everything ends at dawn, and just when the sun is about to rise again, the skeletons run towards their graves.<br /><br />Directed and animated by Ub Iwerks himself, ""Skeleton Frolics"" follows faithfully the pattern set by ""The Skeleton Dance"" years before, although with a crucial difference: Iwerks did the whole film in Technicolor. The bright tonalities allowed Iwerks to create a more visually appealing film, and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving Disney, creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before. It is certainly a more experimental film than ""The Skeleton Dance"", although sadly, this doesn\'t mean it\'s necessarily a better film. For starters, the film is practically identical to the one he did with Disney, with the only differences being the music (more on that later) and the color effects. It looks beautiful, no doubt about it, but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all.<br /><br />However, it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film (after all, Iwerks executes it in a wonderful way), but the fact that the musical melody created by Joe DeNat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by Carl W. Stalling for ""The Skeleton Dance"". In other words, while DeNat\'s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme, it\'s easy to forget about it rapidly while Stalling\'s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable. Being a musical film, this is of high importance, and so the mediocrity of the music brings down Iwerk\'s flawless work of animation. Personally, I think that with a better musical accompaniment, ""Skeleton Frolics"" would be remembered as fondly as ""The Skeleton Dance despite not being as groundbreaking, as it\'s still a fun film to watch.<br /><br />It\'s kind of sad that most of the work Iwerks did after leaving Disney is now forgotten due to his poor success, however, it must be said that if Iwerks lacked the popularity of Disney or Fleischer (Disney\'s main rival), he did not lack the quality of those companies\' films. It was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to Disney\'s mouse for the first time to face failure out of Disney. Despite its shortcomings, ""Skeleton Frolics"" is a very funny and visually breathtaking film, that while not exactly the most original and fresh film (one just can\'t help but thinking of ""The Skeleton Dance"" while watching it), it definitely reminds us that Iwerk\'s skeletons are still here to haunt us, and inspire us.<br /><br />8/10"\n434,"Yes, indeed, it could have been a good movie. A love biangle, (sorry for the poetical license, but is not a triangle!) an interesting story, unfortunately badly told. The image is sometimes weird, sometimes OK, the picture looks crowded and narrow-sighted. The sound needs more attention (it usually does in Romanian movies), the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen. The soundtrack is short and is not helping the action. About the acting... sorry but the best actress is the landlady. The others are acting immaturely and cannot convince the viewer. The acting is poetical when it should be realistic, and realistic when it should be poetical. It\'s a picture for adults, told by the children. Bother only if extremely curious."\n435,"You wear only the best Italian suits from Armani, hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements. Your automobile is the finest that German engineering has to offer, and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood. You\'re a member of the finest polo clubs, frequently dine at restaurants such as Spago, and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world. Your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive, while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi-automatic .22 caliber gun. You snow ski in the Alps, go deep sea diving in the Caribbean, sky dive over the Andes, and all the while your hair is never, ever, out of place. You are Bond, James Bond, the world\'s most renown spy, favorite son of the good Queen, bad boy of the British SS, and perhaps the most desired man in the world. The character of James Bond was created by Ian Fleming, and is the movie industry\'s longest lasting icon, being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades. The latest man to play the role is Pierce Brosnan, who took over the role of James Bond from Timothy Dalton in 1996, and made his 007 debut in Goldeneye.<br /><br />This is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the Nintendo 64. Goldeneye, developed by Rare for Nintendo, has been on the market for some time. Its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is, and no review library would be complete without it.<br /><br />Let\'s face it -- most of the time movie-licensed games are flops. Although the two seem like a good mix, the results, for the most part, have been horrendous. Games like Cliffhanger, True Lies, Lethal Weapon, and not to mention all the Star Trek flops, are ammunition enough against this mix. And for the record I am not a fan of movie licensed games, especially if I\'ve seen the movie. At least that\'s how I used to think. In the case of Goldeneye, I had more reservations than normal. While not a bad movie, Goldeneye the film didn\'t have that much appeal to it, and I don\'t rank it in the top ten amongst Bond movies. As a game, however, let\'s just say it\'s a completely different story.<br /><br />The game is a first-person shooter, and in order to be successful, you\'ll need at least as much brains as brawn. For those who have seen the movie, which I imagine is most of you reading this, the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation. A plot to control the world\'s most dangerous satellite, Goldeneye, has begun in the USSR, and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured. Your missions will be many, the danger extreme. You will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known. M will brief you as soon as you\'re ready. Good day, James."\n436,"This is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class, their problems, relationships and interactions with each other. It should have managed a wider distribution as it\'s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time.<br /><br />The swimming instructor is an almost-Olympian, reduced to teaching adults basic lessons, and often the target of horndogging from his female students. He attempts, more or less, to fend them off, with varying results.<br /><br />The students characters are mainstream U.S.A; teachers, policemen, college students and retired people, all of whom haven\'t learned to swim for some reason. The movie covers their relationships, including friends, relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class. Several subplots provide amusing fodder, including a teacher going through a divorce, some high school students making a documentary, and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys.<br /><br />This is a good date movie, or just one to watch when you\'re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality."\n437,"This mostly routine fact-based TV drama gets a boost from the fine performance by Cole. This is the story of a highly trained military man, unhappy with his wife and children, fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks. Predictable, but not a bad watch."\n438,"I watched Six of a Kind for W.C. Fields - he\'s only in it for around 10 minutes and has one long scene, the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville, and several other great moments. The reamaining 55 minutes are also delightful, thankfully, mostly due to the hilarious Charlie Ruggles as the bumbling banker J. Pinkham Whinney. He is everyone\'s foil. He stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure. Also, his comedy partner, Mary Boland plays his wife, Flora. Joining in the proceedings are George Burns and Gracie Allen. Boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end, but Gracie and Ruggles use up most of the picture. Gracie\'s funny, quite, but she can also get tiring. And poor George Burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat Gracie all the time. I don\'t remember laughing at him once (although he has one great scene with Ruggles, where Ruggles tries desperately to get George to take Gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while, and one with Fields, where he asks Fields to sell him a sweater; that bit is exclusively Fields\', though). The situation is constantly funny: the Whinneys are going to drive to California, but to help them with expenses, George and Gracie are recruited. 8/10."\n439,"EDMUND LOWE (who reminds me somewhat of Warren William), heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour.<br /><br />Douglas Walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise (hypnotism, anyone?), and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast--everyone from Virginia Bruce, Kent Smith, Frieda Inescourt, Gene Lockhart, Jessie Ralph, Benita Hume, Rosalind Ivan and H.B. Warner. As an added bonus, there\'s Nat Pendleton as a dimwit detective--and furthermore, get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home. Must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film.<br /><br />On the plus side, the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled. It\'s all suddenly clear to detective Philo Vance--and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense.<br /><br />Nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner."\n440,"This movie is lame and not funny at all. The plot doesn\'t even make sense. Some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension (maybe hell???) and his daughter gets sucked through it or something, then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit (I guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her?) The main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she\'s more interested in her new girlfriend, and they stumble upon this witch spell book (they want to be witches or something???) and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently. There is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary, obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie. I\'m sure the topless girls doesn\'t hurt there either. The extra features on the DVD were even more confusing than the rest of the movie, I thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing. Who are these people and what are they doing? Basically this is a go-camping-to-make-out-then-fight-a-monster movie but there are a bunch of things (like the other dimension and book seller) than make it confusing. I didn\'t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal. I don\'t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid, I can\'t think of any part of the movie that was good."\n441,"Although I was hoping that I\'d like it a little more, this was still certainly an impressive film. There were great performances by all the leads, and the story, while not what I\'d call chilling, was still effective and it kept me interested. For me, the best part of this film was the look of the picture, for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well. I also thought that the low budget suited this movie, for I don\'t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim. All things considered, it fell a little short of my expectations, but I\'m still very glad that I finally sat down to watch this movie."\n442,"Imagine this: a high school. Except it\'s boarding school, and the kids don\'t have parents around. Oh, and it\'s in Malibu. And the kids are all thin, white, and gorgeous, with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the ""weird"" outcast. And there aren\'t any reasonable rules, like how they have co-habitation, nuclear weapons in their dorms, coffee stands, a sushi bar, and a complimentary laptop per student.<br /><br />Here\'s the story: A girl, Zoey Brooks, attends PCA, a formerly all-boys school. Absolutely perfect in every possible way, she is smart, pretty, thin, athletic, creative, and everything a perfectionist wants to be. Almost all the boys in school want her, and every girl wants to be her friend. She\'s the one everyone comes to for advice, the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan, and is just wonderful. Too bad none of this makes her likable.<br /><br />Are we supposed to believe that if we don\'t even come close to Zoey\'s perfection, we\'re bad people? In the show, nothing\'s her fault, and if anyone contradicts her, they\'re portrayed as the bad guy(Logan). He may be a jerk, but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time.<br /><br />Her loyal group of blind followers are: Chase, the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her, Michael, the token black guy (and the only decent actor on the set), Lola, a wannabe actress and anorexic, snobby airhead, Quinn, the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff, and Logan, the rich jerk who has a soft side. Yeah, this show basically spews out stereotypes.<br /><br />What ticks me off, though, is that they all try to pretend they\'re normal kids. They complain that Logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves, even though they already go to a too-good-to-be-true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can\'t afford. They drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis, hardly have homework, and suntan almost every day. Wow, they have it hard! Any other problems? I\'m too good-looking, rich, and stress-free! I guess Zoey 101 (what\'s the 101 for, anyway?) is Nick\'s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically. Except they caught a glimpse of reality, didn\'t like it, and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on The Hills.<br /><br />But hey, at least the set\'s pretty."\n443,"I had been amazed by director Antal\'s Kontroll back in 2003. His first American project, Vacancy, was less impressive but a decent start. Armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable, the film never rises above the level of a B movie. <br /><br />It\'s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver. Antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick. Then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn\'t really deliver in that department either. <br /><br />What you are left with is one implausible situation after another, a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money. If you look past the sharp cinematography, cast and the tight music score, you\'re left with what could have been a below average direct-to-video featuring Van Damme or Seagal. <br /><br />This was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time."\n444,"First of all, the reason I\'m giving this film 2 stars instead of 1 is because at least Peter Falk gave his usual fantastic performance as Lieutenant Columbo. He alone can get 10 stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie.<br /><br />I was initially all fired up at reading one poster\'s comment that Andrew Stevens in this movie gave ""the performance of his career."" To me, it was the abysmal performance by Stevens that absolutely ruined this movie, and so I was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment. Then I thought to myself, what else has Stevens done? So I checked and, you know, that person was absolutely right. In the 17 years since this Columbo movie was made, apparently every one of the 33 projects that Stevens has been in since then has been utter crap, so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career.<br /><br />If you like Columbo, see every other of the 69 titles before watching this one. Do yourself a favor and save the worst for last."\n445,"This movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years. Not even woody Harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom.<br /><br />The murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not, nothing is of any interest. The cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful , I just sat in utter amazement during this movie, thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining <br /><br />The producers of this movie were very clever. They made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast. People will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think, Woody Harrison ,Kristin Scott Thomas and Willem Dafoe this must be good and rent this movie.(boy are they in for a horrible time)<br /><br />If you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie, some people actually did enjoyed this movie but I like to watch a movie with meaning"\n446,"Down at the Movie Gallery, I saw a flick I just had to see. It looked like a fun low-budget horror/action/western that I could get into. Yeah, I knew it would suck, but I rented it anyway hoping for laughs. Only a few laughs were to be found. This was an extremely stupid movie. It begins with a bounty hunter, our protagonist, who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film. He looks/acts like he could take on Chuck Norris, but he can\'t. His dialogue sucks too. Anyway, he goes into a village, shoots some zombies. You could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes 3-5 minutes to reload or watch some zombies. At least the zombies look cool. So anyway, some people get shot, some zombies die, and in the end, everyone is dead except our main character, who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people."\n447,"i am finally seeing the El Padrino movie, from what I can see it is an incredible film, and lots of action Damian Chapa is good director, But I must admit I love his acting the Best.<br /><br />Also I saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga, she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit.<br /><br />However the film El Padrino is a pure 10 action epic. Why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is? I am so happy to see someone I know to be a real great actor become a great director also.<br /><br />I am one of those people who love to see artists make it.<br /><br />B.S."\n448,I thrive on cinema....but there is a limit. A NAME isn\'t enough to make A MOVIE!. The beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet. But we remain hungry ( or angry..) till the end . Things are getting so confused that I admit that I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE END or was there an end to this nonesense. The opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed. Next...\n449,"Michael Callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems, nonetheless, to be regarded as a perfect ""catch"" by any woman that runs across him; could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co-produced the film? He\'s a ""hero"" whom it\'s very difficult to empathize with, so the movie is in trouble right from the start. However, it\'s troubles don\'t end there. It has the production values of a TV-movie (check out that head made of clay or something, near the end), and the ending cheats in a way that I can\'t reveal, in case anyone wants to see the movie (highly unlikely). Let\'s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows. (*1/2)"\n450,"I was drawn to ""Friends"" by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous Elton John whom I had see in a club in nearby Houston. I had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make. Recently I was brought back to the movie by a song that Heart did called ""Seasons"", then I found the Elton John song ""Friends"" thinking it was the same song...it\'s been 35 years of so. Anyway, the flood of the emotions of ""Friends"" came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love. I have more recall of the way the movie hit me than I do of the actual details of the production, plot, etc. so forgive me for a rather poor review. I remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary-eyed at the end as I was. I\'m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now. So many movies which seemed so important to me back then (i.e. ""The Graduate"" ""Easy Rider"") now just seem silly and I don\'t want this to fall into the same category. But, I will find it and if it turns out silly, then at least I\'ll be able to turn my wife onto a great...no..outstanding soundtrack. When we met, we went through this with ""Last Tango in Paris"". The youngsters I work with (I\'m 56) respect my opinions but it\'s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little ""aged"" now. I just can\'t figure out if the the aging process is the movies... or me. ""Friends"" is a very special, sensitive and wonderful movie. It will bring back a lot of special feelings I\'m sure. By all means, rent or buy a copy... Indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today."\n451,"During the Clete Roberts preface, I was beginning to think this was an Ed Wood production, however, what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff. The story of crime and corruption in a Southern town is told using a cast culled from Hollywood\'s Poverty Row, and this makes the movie all the more realistic. There are no punches pulled here, and at times the film is reminiscent of ""The Well""(1951). The Black and White texture gives a newsreel-like quality. For certain, younger viewers will be reminded of ""The Blair Witch Project"" but this one IS based on REAL events!"\n452,"I decided to watch this one because it\'s been nominated for Oscar this year. I guess as many folks here I really wanted to like this movie, but ended up bored and disappointed. First scene was OK but the whole rest of the movie in ""shaky hands"" camera mode is really annoying.<br /><br />i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for Oscar is this:<br /><br />American ""military machine"" (people, who makes money on war) urgently need an excuse or justification of war in Iraq by bungling up something (sort of) patriotic.<br /><br />why these ""heroic"" efforts of director and the main character to _inspire_ the audience with an idea of ""loving-war-like-a-drug""?.. Oh, please, come on! what a bore! <br /><br />watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall..."\n453,"Mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called Mom or with the word Mom in the title.<br /><br />This is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there.<br /><br />It is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation.<br /><br />The kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger, who just happens to be a flesh eater, who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie, or ghoul, quite which exactly is not defined.<br /><br />There is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified, attempts to help her by supplying \'food\'. (I shall say no more about that, for fear of inserting a spoiler!) It is one of those \'quiet\' movies as opposed to guns blasting, explosions raging, car chases, etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish, but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans, whilst also inserting sadness into the story, along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so-called \'horror\' movies.<br /><br />There is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film, where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her Christmas tree for company and looks so \'innocent\', but, what she becomes!! Oh my! <br /><br />A gem of a movie and even if not your thing, should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan."\n454,"Empire of Passion starts out deceptively - that is, if you\'re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie. It\'s like a riff on James M. Cain\'s The Postman Always Rings Twice, at first: Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) is a mother of two and a dutiful, hard-working wife to rickshaw driver Gisaburo (Takahiro Tamura). But when he\'s not around, and she\'s at home with the baby, the feisty and aimless young man Toyoji (Tatsuya Fuji) comes around to bring some goodies for Seki... and a little extra. They\'re soon sleeping together, but after he does something to her (let\'s just say a ""shave""), he knows that he\'ll find out, and immediately proposes that they kill Gisaburo. They drink him up, strangle him, and then toss him down a well. Naturally, this will come back to haunt them - but that it\'s literally, at least to them (at first super-terrified Seki and then only later on skeptical Toyoji), changes gears into the \'Kaidan\', a Japanese ghost story.<br /><br />This is a film where the horror comes not simply out of ""oh, ghost, ah"", but out of the total dread that builds for the characters. In a way there\'s the mechanics of a film-noir at work throughout, if only loosely translated by way of a 19th century Japanese village as opposed to an American city or small town (i.e. the snooping cop, the ""evidence"" found possibly by another, word getting around, suspicions aroused, etc). It\'s compelling because Seiko actually was against the plan from the start, manipulated by the lustful but ill-prepared Toyoji, and her reactions to Gisaburo\'s re-appearances are staggering to her. Take the one that comes closest to poetry: Gisaburo\'s ghost, pale-blue face and mostly silent, chilling stare, motions for Seiko to get on the rickshaw. She does, reluctantly, and he pushes her around on a road she doesn\'t know, in the wee hours before dawn, surrounded by smoke. Most Japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric.<br /><br />While it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end, there\'s so much here that director Oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work. After hitting it huge in the international cinema world with In the Realm of the Senses (which, ironically, got banned in his own country), he made something that, he claimed, was even *more* daring that \'Senses\'. Maybe he was right; Empire of Passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor (also starring Tatsuya Fuji, a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range), but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread. You can believe in ghosts in this story, but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would-be lovebirds will go. The snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries: the fate of their very souls is at stake.<br /><br />And Oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp (sadly, it wouldn\'t surprise me if an American remake was already in the works) and crafts shot after gorgeous shot, with repetition working its way into the mis-en-scene (i.e. the shots of Seiko and Toyoji walking on that road, the camera at a dutch angle, the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue) as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after I finish typing this (i.e. Toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion, or how Seiko\'s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind). It\'s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit- not to be confused with the spiritual, though there may be something with that as well- about life and death\'s connections to one another, inextricably. It\'s a classic waiting to be discovered."\n455,"I am not a big music video fan. I think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song.. Any song. In other words , creative thinking goes out the window. Likewise, Personal feelings aside about MJ, toss aside. This was the best music video of alltime. Simply wonderful. It was a movie. Yes folks it was. Brilliant! You had awesome acting, awesome choreography, and awesome singing. This was spectacular. Simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man , but was he a man or something sinister. Vincent Price did his thing adding to the song and video. MJ was MJ , enough said about that. This song was to video , what Jaguars are for cars. Top of the line, PERFECTO. What was even better about this was ,that we got the real MJ without the thousand facelifts. Though ironically enough, there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around. Folks go to Youtube. Take 14 mins. out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is."\n456,"Oh, my goodness. I would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than Domestic Disturbance this soon, but here it is. Armed with rotten plot, terrible editing, stilted acting, and headache-inducing \'style\' (sorry, I have no other words for it), Sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re-evaluate an entire genre; that is, this film is so bad that even the thrillers I condemned as complete failures now seem a little better.<br /><br />Now, not only Sanctimony is a terrible film in itself, it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it. Right from the main titles -- nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from Se7en -- I was under the impression that something didn\'t smell quite right. As soon as the movie started with a series of corny, wanna-be hip quick-cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors, I knew where that smell was coming from.<br /><br />It turns out that two policemen, or rather policeman Jim Renart (Michael Paré) and policewoman Dorothy Smith (Jennifer Rubin), are investigating on a murder spree in Vancouver. A serial killer, known as ""Monkey Killer"" (what a menacing, chilling nickname, uh?) for his working methods, has killed quite a lot of people. You see, this nut apparently works following the proverb ""see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"" and cuts eyes, ears, and tongues out of his victims. So far, six eyes, six ears, and three tongues. In very ingenious fashion, Renart and Smith figure out that the Monkey Killer is probably going to kill other three people... well, because he probably wants to complete the number 666. So suddenly the film focuses on Tom Gerrick (Casper Van Dien), a young, successful, good-looking businessman, with a dreadful temper. And that\'s where the rip-off of American Psycho kicks in.<br /><br />So we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath, none of which is interesting in the least, until they finally meet. Along the way to that, a disco where Renart barely misses Gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory: Renart goes in the back of the disco club, because... well, just because the script tells us it\'s a suspect place; then, with one single punch in the stomach, Renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path, and the guard is never heard of again? Does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic?<br /><br />Anyway, after another murder, Gerrick turns in as a witness, but Smith and especially Renart immediately suspect he might be the killer. In typical Basic Instinct fashion, Smith gets some dates with the young businessman, under the assumption that she might discover his true identity.<br /><br />I won\'t spoil the ending but it is, quite simply, an embarrassment; there are contradictions, some plot holes, issues that never get resolved, and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder, supposed to be shocking and sad, comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that I frankly can\'t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it.<br /><br />At 87 minutes, Sanctimony is really pushing it. You never care about one single character, because they are all so flat (not to mention boring) that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them. You are never pulled into the story, because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place. The acting ranges from average (Van Dien) to downright atrocious (Rubin, and most of the supporting cast); the music is abysmal generic techno, and the photography is one of the worst I have ever seen. Of course, like every fiasco of the genre, we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity.<br /><br />3/10"\n457,"The Man With a Golden Arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction. The other two were Monkey On My Back and A Hatful of Rain. But I think of the three this one is the best.<br /><br />Maybe if Otto Preminger had shot the thing in the real Chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet. Who knows, maybe Preminger couldn\'t get enough money to pay for the location. It\'s the only flaw I find in the film.<br /><br />Frank Sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss Robert Strauss when the game was raided. He took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer. But a whole lot of people are conspiring against him.<br /><br />First Bob Strauss who wants him back dealing, especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town. He uses a few underhanded methods to get Sinatra\'s services back. Secondly Darren McGavin is the local dope dealer who wants Sinatra good and hooked as a customer again. And finally Eleanor Parker his clinging wife who\'s working a con game to beat all, just to keep him around.<br /><br />Frank Sinatra got a nomination for Best Actor for this film, but lost to Ernest Borgnine in Marty. Sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn\'t won for From Here to Eternity in the Supporting Actor category a few years back and that Marty was such an acclaimed film in that year. His scenes going through withdrawal locked up in Kim Novak\'s apartment will leave you shaken.<br /><br />Eleanor Parker does not get enough credit for her role. She\'s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants Sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost. If she had not been nominated that same year for Interrupted Melody, she might have been nominated for this. 1955 marked the high point of her career. <br /><br />Darren McGavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler. His performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl.<br /><br />Elmer Bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak Chicago neighborhood the characters live in. Not a place you\'d want to bring up your family."\n458,"This film was basically set up for failure by the studio. One, Anne Rice (author of the book) offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio. Two, they tried to stuff 2 in depth novels in to a 2hour movie.<br /><br />I maintain the only way for these two books -Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned- to work in a live action form would be through a mini-series. First off the the Vampire Lestat alone takes place from the 1700\'s to the 1980\'s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character, Lestat. The entire book Vampire Lestat sets up the events of the second part Queen of the Damned. Without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed.<br /><br />Lestat was not cruel and vicious to all, he was not wanting to go along with Akasha\'s plans, Marius did not make Lestat, Lestat did not love Jesse or make her, Lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light, Marius was not after David nor the other way around, every character was completely represented wrong, BASICALLY same names different story.<br /><br />If they wanted to make a vampire movie, fine. Even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels, fine. But don\'t piggie back into the theaters off the success of Rice\'s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love.<br /><br />If you haven\'t read the books you won\'t understand the film really, if you have read the books you will be insulted. That being said, I am such a huge fan I had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it. Catch 22, must see it, will hate it."\n459,"Have previously enjoyed Wesley Snipes in several action flicks and I had expected a lot more, even from a score of 5.8 IMDb, the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal, the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a ""worst case scenario"" of playing ""strong"" feelings accompanied by some bad acting... Don\'t waist your time this movie Ã\xadsnt entertaining, if you wanna cry it might suffice though, even though your tears will be wept due to seeing Wesley Snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy...<br /><br />I give this 2/10 it really was awful, if you wanna see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it, its all the good things this movie isn\'t."\n460,"An intense thriller about a mute movie make-up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night. After she tries to get away from the murder scene, she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness. This movie leaves you on the edge of your seat."\n461,"Don\'t listen to most of these people. ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love! Its about Jill Johnson, played by Camilla Belle, who babysits at the Mendrakis\' house and someone breaks in. if you\'re wondering how he got in the house, he went through the garage most likely. so anyway, don\'t listen to, ""the worst acting"". it has amazing acting. with a great story. I think that there are 2 benefits that Jill has. 1. shes a fast runner and is on the track team. 2.she got out alive! lol.<br /><br />it is a cool movie and quite scary. check it out, you will be happy with this masterpiece. don\'t listen to the other people on the site. its very good. trust me, i am good at reviewing movies. I\'m a future movie critic. i totally want to buy this movie. and you will too when you see it. it is amazingly awesome."\n462,"What a frustrating movie. A small Southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces, as anyone who has read anything by Carson McCullers already knows. This does none of that. Instead, the writers settled for cutesy twinkles, cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama. The thing looks like a made-for-TV movie, and was directed with no particular distinction, but it\'s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting.<br /><br />The most frustrating aspect, though, is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast, all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this--well, there\'s no other word for it--drivel. A tragic waste of talent, in particular that of the great Stockard Channing."\n463,"This movie starred a totally forgotten star from the 1930s, Jack Pearl (radio\'s ""Baron Munchausen"") as well as Jimmy Durante. However, 7-1/2 decades later, it\'s being billed as a Three Stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today. Film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful Edna May Oliver as well as Zazu Pitts.<br /><br />As for the Stooges, this is a film from there very early days--before MGM had any idea what to do with the team. At this point, they were known as ""Ted Healy and his Stooges"" as Healy was the front man. Fortunately for the Stooges, they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man (read up on him--you\'ll see what I mean) and the rest is history. Within a year, they were making very successful shorts for Columbia and executives at MGM were soon kicking themselves for losing the team. This sort of thing was a common occurrence at MGM, a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy (such as the films of Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and others). In fact, up until they left for Columbia, MGM put them in a wide variety of odd film roles--including acting with Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in DANCING LADY. And, oddly, in this film they didn\'t act as a team--they just did various supporting roles, such as Larry playing the piano!<br /><br />This particular film begins with Pearl and Durante lost in the African jungle. When they are rescued and brought home, all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show--punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there. As for Pearl, I could really see why he never made a successful transition to films, as he has the personality of a slug (but slightly less welcome). As for Durante, I never knew what the public saw in him--as least as far as his films are concerned--he was loud and...loud! He apparently took time off from helping MGM to ruin Buster Keaton\'s career to make this film. Together, Pearl and Durante rely on lots of verbal humor(?) and Vaudeville-style routines that tend to fall rather flat.<br /><br />In this film, the Stooges they didn\'t yet have the right chemistry. Seeing Healy doing the job that Moe did in their later films is odd. What they did in the film was pretty good, but because all the segments were short, they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines. Stooges fans might be very frustrated at this, though die-hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life-long goal of seeing everything Stooge--even the rotten Joe DeRita and Joe Besser films (oh, and did they got bad after the deaths of Shemp and Curly).<br /><br />Overall, the film is rather dull and disappointing. However, there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess. At about the 13 minute mark, you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing. Look carefully, as this is Walter Brennan in a role you\'d certainly never expect! Another unusual thing to look for in the film is the ""Clean as a Whistle"" song starting at about 22 minutes into the film. This song and dance number is clearly an example of a so-called ""Pre-Code"" scene that never would have been allowed in films after 1934 (when the Production Code was strengthened). Despite the word ""Clean"" in the title, it\'s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh--enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything! It\'s quite shocking when seen today, though such excesses were pretty common in the early 1930s. Finally, at the 63 minute mark, see Jimmy Durante set race relations back a few decades. See the film, you\'ll see that I mean!"\n464,"When Carol (Vanessa Hidalgo) starts looking into her brother\'s death, she begins to suspect something more sinister than ""natural causes"". The closer she gets to the truth, the more of a threat she becomes to her sister-in-law, Fiona (Helga Line), and the rest of the local Satanists. They\'ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways.<br /><br />If you\'re into sleazy, Satanic-themed movies, Black Candles has a lot to offer. The movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft-core sex. One scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, all the sleaze in the world can\'t save Black Candles. Most of the movie is a total bore. Other than the one scene I\'ve already mentioned, the numerous sex scenes aren\'t shocking and certainly aren\'t sexy. The acting is spotty at best. Even genre favorite Helga Line gives a disappointing performance. The plot really doesn\'t matter. Its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together. I\'m only familiar with one other movie directed by Jose Ramon Larraz. Compared with his Daughters of Darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror, Black Candles comes off as amateurish. 3/10 is about the best I can do."\n465,"One of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history. ZODIAC KILLER offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers. The filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer, and anyone who remembers Zodiac will be intrigued. Others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal. Unlike many serial killers, Zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self-promoter. The director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off. The film is constructed as a murder mystery, or a ""cold case""-style thriller. It is an intelligent investigative/procedural-style horror film that will put-off gore-hounds in search of cheap thrills.<br /><br />Some people dislike any movie that is shot on video. This attitude is very old-style and provincial. It is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value. These attitudes are on the way out. ZODIAC KILLER is a low-budget film, no doubt, but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully-crafted gem."\n466,"I\'ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life (eg what it takes to get into music school), Britney Bashing, etc, etc. so let\'s focus on the movie and the message.<br /><br />I have rated this movie 7 out of 10 for the age range 8 to 14 years, and for a family movie. For the average adult male.... 2 out of 10.<br /><br />I like pop/rock music, i\'m 45. I know of Britney Spears but never realised she actually sang Stronger until i read the credits and these reviews. I didn\'t recognise her poster on the wall so I was not worried about any \'self promotion\'.<br /><br />I watch movies to be entertained. i don\'t care about casting, lighting, producers, directors, etc. What is the movie and does it entertain me.<br /><br />I watched this movie for the message. The world\'s greatest epidemic is low self-esteem (which is a whole other story) so watched with the message in mind, as that is an area of interest. The movie is light, bright and breezy, great for kids. I found the Texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up/don\'t give up message, so yeh, it was a bit predictable. Great message though...should be more of them.<br /><br />This movie is a great family movie, but for a bloke watching by himself, get Hannibal."\n467,"I like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema, made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies. It is filled with Super-surfer Greg Noll\'s home movies, and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his 50-year passion. Nevertheless, it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory. It is filled with artistic talent, and athletic talent, however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic. Surfers are not astronauts nor test-pilots. Nor are they surgeons(perhaps) or Ph.d\'s(again, perhaps). It believes in the quest of the surfer. It believes in the beauty of human goofiness. It believes in the great gift of peace, which comes from the cessation of war. Surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an Hawaiian island attacked by Japanese zeroes fifteen years before. It celebrates the down-time of a country which fought a cold war-instead of a hot-war - with the Russian socialists. Surfing is the ultimate narcissism. It is dangerous, but only slightly historical. I suspect Alexander the Great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique. He had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received. This movie has no military heroes. It has no guns. The only beach-head surfers conquer has a beer-stand and and a surfboard shop. This is not a problem. Peace is not desperate. It is the joy of exhalation."\n468,"I had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode. It was dumbed down to such an extent, I doubt if I learned a single thing. The graphics were rudimentary. Any small idea was repeated ad nauseum. Contrast this to the Cosmos series hosted by Carl Sagan. That had a good musical theme. There was NO music coming from these infernal 10-dimensional Strings."\n469,"Although the plot of this film is a bit far-fetched, it is worth seeing just for the performances of Michaels Caine and Gambon. The latter delivers a truly wonderful Dublin accent. Caine hams it up...which is exactly what the character he is playing should do. Entertaining and fun, this is a hour and a half of easy watching."\n470,"This movie was so badly written, directed and acted that it beggars belief. It should be remade with a better script, director and casting service. The worst problem is the acting. You have Jennifer Beals on the one hand who is polished, professional and totally believable, and on the other hand, Ri\'chard, who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece. Peter Gallagher and Jenny Levine are just awful as the slave owning (and keeping) couple, although both normally do fine work. The actors (and director) should not have attempted to do accents at all--they are inconsistent and unbelievable. Much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual English. The casting is ludicrous. Why have children of an ""African"" merchant (thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society ) been cast with very pale skinned actors, while the supposedly socially desirable Marcel, has pronounced African features, including an obviously dyed blond ""fro""? It\'s as if the casting directors cannot be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color. It\'s just so weird! This could be a great movie and should be re-made, but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors. There are plenty of good actors out there, and it would be fun to see how Jennifer Beals, Daniel Sunjata and Gloria Reuben would do with an appropriate cast, good script and decent direction."\n471,"When I was a younger(oh about 2)I watched Barney for the first time, and liked it. BUT, back then I didn\'t exactly have a brain, either. And now I look back and see what a horrible show ""Barney"" really is: First of all, EVERYTHING on that show is creepy. Barney, the main character, is a horrendous 9-foot tall talking, purple dinosaur that teaches 13-year-olds about ""imagination....""(*shudders*) B.J.(I know what your thinking about his name.)Is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be ""supposudly"" cool. But in fact, he is the exact opposite. After watching a few episodes with B.J. dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap, and making a few no-so-funny jokes, I wanted to scream. Baby Bop-oh-oh-god!(*vomits*)oh-oh-OH-anyway Baby Bop is the worst idea of a character EVER. She is a green triceratops(it\'s a dinosaur) that carries a yellow blanket. Her remarks of ""hee-hee-hee"" and Barney\'s praises cries of \'super-deeee-doooper"", make it hard to sit through each episode, as the Seventh graders learn about shapes and manners.<br /><br />And that, my friend, is what makes this show truly horrible."\n472,"Steve McQueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there. He certainly was a charismatic fellow, one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew. But even McQueen can\'t save this turkey of a film, shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in St. Louis.<br /><br />McQueen\'s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang. There\'s more than a broad hint that there\'s a gay relationship going on between young Steve and David Clarke. He\'s not liked at all by the other heist members, mainly because of his lack of criminal resume. <br /><br />Steve also has a girl friend in Molly McCarthy and she suspects something afoot, especially when he starts hanging around with Crahan Denton and James Dukas as well as Clarke, all pretty rough characters. That would certainly get my suspicions aroused.<br /><br />The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery had two directors Charles Guggenheim and John Stix. Guggenheim did mostly documentaries and Stix didn\'t do much of anything. One of those two jokers decided Steve\'s performance was best served by doing a bad Marlon Brando imitation. <br /><br />This film may go down as the worst ever done by Steve McQueen. I\'m willing to bet that Dick Powell and Four Star Productions had already signed him for Wanted Dead or Alive because I can\'t believe they would have if they saw this.<br /><br />Or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey."\n473,"This is a bad film, as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts. As a result, it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film Miss Dunne or Mr. Huston should have been proud of making. However, the film IS worth watching if you are a fan of ""Pre-Code"" films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls DO put out--even if they aren\'t married and even if their partner IS!! <br /><br />The film begins with Miss Dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to Europe for WWI. In the process, she meets a scalawag (Bruce Cabot) who eventually convinces her to sleep with him. She becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman. However, Miss Dunne does NOT want him back, as she realizes he\'s not worth it, but later her baby dies at child birth. While all these very controversial plot elements are used, they are always alluded to--almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way, kids in the audience will be clueless (after all, films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time).<br /><br />Surprisingly, this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and Cabot ends about 1/4 of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to. It was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it--tacking it on to still another film. In this second phase of the film, Miss Dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women\'s prison (though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there). What we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate. And, as a result of all this violence, Miss Dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer.<br /><br />But then, out of the blue, another type of film emerges and the women\'s prison reform business goes by the wayside. Dunne meets a judge (Walter Huston) who is married but he desperately wants her. Now throughout the film, Dunne is portrayed as a very good girl--even though she did have unmarried sex with Cabot (she was more or less tricked into it). But now, single Irene, who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man. He tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only, but she never thinks to investigate if this is true, and with his assurance, off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business! BUT, while she\'s pregnant with his love child, he\'s indicted for being a crooked judge. He assures her he\'s innocent, but he\'s convicted and it sure sounds like he\'s a scoundrel--using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune. Then, in the final moments of the film, Miss Dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until Huston is released. The film then ends.<br /><br />So, we basically have three separate films AND a bizarre early 30s idea of what a nice girl should be like. I gathered that she should be a strong-minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships! This really undoes all the positives about Dunne\'s character and it\'s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film. A strong women\'s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak-minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect! With a decent re-write, this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film, but it couldn\'t make up its mind WHAT it wanted to be and was just another dull Pre-Code film."\n474,"I caught this movie on the Sci-Fi channel recently. It actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as B-list horror/suspense films go. Two guys (one naive and one loud mouthed a**) take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky, make-shift tank/truck hybrid decides to play cat-and-mouse with them. Things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker. What makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie, unlike so many others. The two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase/suspense scenes. Nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror/slasher buff. Definitely worth checking out."\n475,"(Very mild spoilers; a basic plot outline, no real details) <br /><br />IF you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations. I saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in Maryland, and the only reason I agreed to go...was because it was free. I expected a few chuckles, but as I have never been a huge fan of Tenacious D, not much more then that.<br /><br />The first ten minutes of the film are hilarious, as we are given a look at Jack Black\'s humble Christian origins in a Midwest American town. The film then takes us years into the future, to the first meeting between JB and Kyle Gass, the second half of Tenacious D. We see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name. Finally, as the title suggests, the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled ""Pick of Destiny."" Again, the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny, and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face. That said, there were times it felt a bit long; it\'s only 100 minutes, but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter. The story is every bit as absurd as it sounds, and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot. Which is fine, except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss...and when they miss, they miss bad. Same thing with the songs; it is a musical, but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so...then kept going anyway.<br /><br />I will say that the R-rating really saved this movie from bombing; The D\'s humor simply couldn\'t work without cussing, sex, and drug references. But unless you\'re a real fan of the band, or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy, I would recommend you save yourself some money and rent. ""Pick"" will make you giggle a bit...but is it worth 9 bucks? I don\'t think so. I was tempted to rate it a 6, but since I do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres, a 7 seems more appropriate. Just be sure it\'s your style."\n476,"I shall begin with a disclaimer: This movie is NOT recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played FF7 the game before watching. The movie relies on the audience\'s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements. And it does so very subtly. Do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of CG film and I promise it\'ll be that much better.<br /><br />With that in mind, this film has some of the most spectacular CG sequences I have ever witnessed. The whole experience felt like an extra long FMV sequence from the game, on steroids. Yeah. The attention to detail in each scene, especially in the heavy action oriented ones, is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe.<br /><br />I believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music. Again, for those who are familiar with the FF7 story and background, the music should not surprise anyone (although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation).<br /><br />Once again, I myself having only played through FF7 once, thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from Square Enix. And that is the feel in most scenes, choreographed and organized. Like a dance.<br /><br />In short, if you enjoyed the music or the game Final Fantasy 7, this film will blow you out of the water. If you\'re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as FF7 on Playstation or PC, doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience.<br /><br />Finally, I just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film. Characters move with fluidity. Each scene background comes to life and tells its own story. For those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot, I urge you to reexamine the animation. Facial reactions, subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery.<br /><br />Square Enix and the great Tetsuya Nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling. Advent Children has ushered in a new era for CG animations, allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves.<br /><br />Thanks Square Enix. The wait was well worth it."\n477,"This is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made. Everything about it--acting, directing, script, cinematography--is dreadful. The alien (a human in sparkly suit) claims to be from a nearby universe; one assumes the scriptwriter meant ""galaxy"" but didn\'t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms. A better title for the film would be ""It Came From the Planet of Plot Contrivances."" The plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent. The humans are all given magical MacGuffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot. Any thought to the passage of time is ignored. Now it\'s a couple days after meeting the alien, then BAM! all of a sudden there\'s only a couple hours left until zero hour. Do yourself a favor and miss this movie. You will make yourself stupider for having watched it. The ending is particularly silly, and should have been accompanied by someone going ""Ta-Da!!!!"" as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt. I think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you\'ll get cancer watching it. If you can watch the last 10 minutes without crapping yourself (""enemies of freedom""--honestly) laughing, you\'re retarded."\n478,"If you really really REALLY enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt-mirrors, eating non-ants, and conquering the world with a voice-over narrative, then this is the movie for you. Basically, a couple of scientists working out of a bio-dome communicate with highly intelligent ants (the most intelligent actors in this film) in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination. Throughout the movie the two scientists (and a girl they rescued from the ants) use everything at their disposal (computers, green dye, and horrid acting), but to no avail. I guess they just couldn\'t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly.<br /><br />The title of the movie ""Phase IV"" is something of a mystery. This is not a spoiler, but ""Phase I"" starts right after the opening credits whereas you don\'t reach ""Phase IV"" until the end credits roll. Apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed Phases 1 - 3 throughout the movie as a kind of progress report: ""Hang in there buddy! Only 1 more phase until final credits!"" As a MST3K episode, this one wasn\'t very good for two reasons: 1) This one is from the Season 0 on KTMA when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons; and 2) This movie is so bad not even J&TB can lighten it up. There are one or two Gamera references as they had just finished riffing 5 Gamera movies.<br /><br />The movie does have a trick/surprise ending, but I was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me."\n479,"Joseph Brady and Clarence Doolittle are two sailors, who have a four-day shore leave in Hollywood.Joe knows everything about girls and can\'t wait to see Lola, while Clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls.They then run into a little boy, Donald Martin, who has ran away in order to join the navy.They take him home and meet his beautiful aunt Susan, who wants to be a singer.Clarence wants Susie to be his girl, but his shyness gets in the way.But he doesn\'t feel shy with a waitress, who comes from Brooklyn, like he does.Soon Joe notices he\'s in love with Susie.The boys are in a fix when they lie to Susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don\'t even know.As they are in a fix with their feelings.George Sidney\'s Anchors Aweigh (1945) is a great musical comedy.Gene Kelly is top-notch, once again, in his singing and dancing routines.Frank Sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from Brooklyn.Shy isn\'t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Frank Sinatra, but he plays his part well.Kathryn Grayson is fantastic as Susan Abbott.We sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of 88.The 9-year old Dean Stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor.Jose Iturbi does great job performing himself.It\'s magic what he does with the piano.Edgar Kennedy plays Chief of police station.Sara Berner is the voice of Jerry Mouse.There\'s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers.Just look at Kelly and Sinatra performing ""We Hate to Leave"".It\'s so energetic.""If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)"" is quite funny.It\'s a nice moment when Frank sings Brahms\' Lullaby to little Dean Stockwell.It\'s lovely to listen to Grayson singing the tango ""Jealousy"" .The most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world, and there Gene sings and dances with Jerry Mouse.Also Tom Cat is seen there as the butler.They originally asked Mickey Mouse but he refused.The movie was nominated for five Oscars but Georgie Stoll got one for Original Music Score.Anchors Aweigh is some high class entertainment."\n480,"From director Barbet Schroder (Reversal of Fortune), I think I saw a bit of this in my Media Studies class, and I recognised the leading actress, so I tried it, despite the rating by the critics. Basically cool kid Richard Haywood (Half Nelson\'s Ryan Gosling) and Justin Pendleton (Bully\'s Michael Pitt) team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them. Investigating the murder is homicide detective Cassie \'The Hyena\' Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) with new partner Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin), who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene, e.g. non-relating hairs. The plan doesn\'t seem to be completely going well because Cassie and Sam do quite quickly have Richard or Justin as suspects, it is just a question of if they can sway them away. Also starring Agnes Bruckner as Lisa Mills, Chris Penn as Ray Feathers, R.D. Call as Captain Rod Cody and Tom Verica as Asst. D.A. Al Swanson. I can see now the same concept as Sir Alfred Hitchcock\'s Rope with the murdering for a challenge thing, but this film does it in a very silly way, and not even a reasonably good Bullock can save it from being dull and predictable. Adequate!"\n481,"Things to Come is an early Sci-Fi film that shows an imagined world, or ""Everytown"" through 100 years. You can break it up into about 4 different scenes or parts. The film spans from 1940 to 2036 and is mainly about how this ruler or the ""Boss"" wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again, after Everytown was bombed and war broke out.<br /><br />This film only has about 3 faults: it\'s audio is muddy and video had some quirks, the characters aren\'t deep at all, and the overall plot isn\'t altogether solid. The plot is lacking something that I can\'t put my finger on... it just seems a little ""fluffy."" But if you love sci-fi and are interested in what H.G. Wells though might happened in the next hundred years, this is a must see. It\'s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing: a long, drawn-out war, because they were just about to go to war with Germany, and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything.<br /><br />Things to Come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once."\n482,"Weak,stale, tired, cliched; wants to be Basic Instinct, but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives, new insights. Insipid, trite, grotesque, and without the possibly-redeeming value of brevity; oh, wait...it was only 90 minutes long...it must have just *seemed* a lot longer! I\'d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again. I\'m expressing an opinion here: I guess this means I didn\'t like it."\n483,"One word can describe this movie and that is weird. I recorded this movie one day because it was a Japanese animation and it was old so I thought it would be interesting. Well it was, the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge. On the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not. Very strange, if you are a fan of animation/science-fiction you might want to check this out."\n484,"While i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem. I don\'t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right.<br /><br />The story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting. One of the girls is Alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is Deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle. Thrown together by fate, they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on.<br /><br />I just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks. Because wow what a performance by Busy Phillips and Erkia Christensen not to mention the rest of the cast! My only complaint is that the DVD was sorely lacking in special features. Oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring. But all in all a excellent movie."\n485,"this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the British film industry but the talentless hacks at work today. Not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of British actors, so what went wrong? i don\'t know and simply i don\'t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all. be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish. but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot. A nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co-worker out of his father\'s company and thus leads to an encounter with the Russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid, very stupid plot twists/devices. i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience. if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather, what about lock, stock.... thats the peak of the contemporary British crime film....."\n486,"I\'ll not comment a lot, what\'s to??? Stereotype characters, absolute ignorance about Colombia\'s reality, awful mise en scene, poor color choice, NOT funny (it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it\'s beside the nonsense scenes), Very poor actors direction (if you see somewhere those people, I mean the interpreters, you\'ll know they are at least good, but seeing this so call film, it is impossible to guess it), you get tired of the music... this ""comedy"" has no rhythm, the only good rhythm in it, it\'s the rap sing in the final credits....pathetic, doesn\'t it? etc...etc... It has been a long time I haven\'t seen a movie so bad!!"\n487,"This movie is a riot. I cannot remember the last time I had such a great time at the movies. I\'ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny. But this one is wall to wall great lines. I think Best in Show is the last movie that I laughed so hard and so much in. The movie was non-stop until the end when they did the 5 minutes of sentimental plot clean up. Other than that it\'s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations. I\'d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the Zucker movies where you don\'t get all the jokes the first time around. You have to see it two or three times to get it all in.<br /><br />As far as the actual film goes, it could have used a better edit, it\'s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that. All the characters are great. It\'s not like an Adam Sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke. I think I will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable. No victims in this movie. Also, thank God they got a 45 year old actress to play his girlfriend. Catherine Keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film. You just wish that women like her really existed. She\'s not a ""10"" like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than Julia Roberts overdone overbite.<br /><br />If you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it. I assure you, the trailer does not do it justice. They do not give away all the good jokes. Just some of the mediocre ones.<br /><br />Oh and one more thing. I hope critics put this on their top ten list. Many of them complain that comedies don\'t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don\'t put it on their list. This means you Ebert!!!"\n488,"A fey story of a Martian attempt to colonize Earth. (Things must be pretty bad back on Mars.) Two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported UFO crash. Whatever landed is buried under the ice at Tracy\'s Pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner.<br /><br />The diner has had no customers since eleven o\'clock that morning. Now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge. The bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus, although he didn\'t notice who they were. The problem is that there are now SEVEN people waiting for the journey to be resumed. One of them is an alien, but which one? All of them are suspect. There\'s the crazy old man (Jack Elam), of course, who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit. There\'s a blustering businessman who must get to Boston (John Hoyt). A young couple on their honeymoon. (Execrable performance by the husband, Ron Kipling.) Except for the couples, nobody has noticed anyone else. And even the couples are suspicious of each other. Bride to newly minted husband: ""I could have sworn you had a mole on your chin."" The story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way -- the phone rings for no reason, the lights go on and off, the juke box turns itself on -- and none of it is to be taken seriously.<br /><br />It\'s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle. There is no discernible ""depth"" to it. It\'s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens. It\'s not a warning of any kind, just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses.<br /><br />I always enjoy it when it\'s on. It\'s especially interesting to see John Hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman, knowing that in 1954 he was the Roman Senator who masterminded the assassination of Julius Caesar in MGM\'s version of Shakespeare\'s play. And here he is -- with three arms.<br /><br />Oops."\n489,"It\'s rare that I feel a need to write a review on this site, but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created, and how bias its product was.<br /><br />I felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film-makers to display the Palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy. We hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression, yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the Jewish Israeli population. We see no evidence that parallels the position of the Palestinian teenager. We only hear from other Palestinians in prison. I understand restrictions are in place, but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace.<br /><br />I came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence, so to speak. She continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber\'s parents, and her angry and closed-minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control. It is more realistic, in my mind, to see the Israeli mindset to be a root of the problem; ignored pleas for understanding and freedom, ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the Jewish population acquired the land.<br /><br />I have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother, which normally would be admirable in a documentary, however in the light of the lack of impartiality, it all seems exploitative. Also for the poor edits, lack of background in the actual instance, and finally the lack of proper representation of the Palestinian side. Ultimately, it is a poor documentary and a poor film. I acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation, but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart-wrenching and sad subject matter."\n490,"Relentless like one of those loud action movies. The entire cast seems to be on speed. I didn\'t quite get the director\'s intentions if any. I wonder if she\'s ever seen a Stanley Donen, Vincent Minnelli or even a George Sidney musical. Structure, please! This is one hell of a mess and I loved Abba. The costumes the unflattering photography - unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations) The one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of Meryl Streep making a fool of herself. No chemistry with her friends (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters) think of Streep with Lily Tomlyn in the Altman film and you\'ll understand what I was hoping for. I was embarrassed in particular by Pierce Brosnam and Colin Firth. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy it so it probably it\'s just me."\n491,"This movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space. As a history of space flight, it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it. Disney has shown it on ""Vault Disney"" and I wish they would do so again."\n492,"In an alternate 1950s, where an outbreak of the undead (caused by a mysterious \'space-dust\') has been contained through the use of special electronic collars, a young loner, Timmy, finds a friend in Fido (Billy Connelly), his family\'s recently acquired domesticated zombie.<br /><br />Fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to Timmy, whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son (or for his hot-to-trot wife, played by the gorgeous Carrie-Anne Moss) having been psychologically scarred as a child (when he was forced to shoot his own father, who tried to eat him!).<br /><br />Timmy runs into a spot of bother, however, when his putrid pal\'s collar goes on the blink, and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour. With the authorities on Fido\'s trail, trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies, and his mother forming a bond with their undead house-help, will Timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend?<br /><br />A refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick, Fido is a thoroughly entertaining, deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour. Taking the Romero zombie-verse and transplanting it into 1950s small town America is a stroke of genius, and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole \'reanimated dead\' theme that I have seen.<br /><br />Connelly\'s Fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the Undead Movie Hall of Fame, along with Day Of The Dead\'s Bub, and Return Of The Living Dead\'s Tarman; it is not often I feel empathy for a walking corpse, but The Big Yin\'s performance is so fine that I actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus! The rest of the cast also give commendable performances, with young K\'Sun Ray (as Timmy) and Ms.Moss deserving special mentions—Ray, because, for one so young, he puts in a particularly assured turn, and Moss because she is so bloody yummy!<br /><br />This is the third zombie film that I have watched this week (the others being the somewhat disappointing Planet Terror and the rather fun Flight Of The Living Dead), and, to my surprise, it is also the best. Director Andrew Currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future.<br /><br />8.5 out of 10, rounded up to 9 for IMDb."\n493,"An extremely down-to-earth, well made and acted ""Rodeo"" Western. No gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the 60\'s and 70\'s West. But hats off particularly to Slim Pickens for giving what I think was his signature performance, especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life. His role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ""ups and downs"" of the hard-nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style. He and Mr. Coburn teamed up extremely well as partners, not only on the circuit itself, but also in the real world outside the corral. Also, check out Anne Archer as Coburn\'s Native American love interest in the latter part of the movie. Must have been one of her first roles. <br /><br />Not as flashy, perhaps, as ""Junior Bonner"", but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal. Thanks to the Encore Western Channel for showing this true grit of an under-rated movie from time to time."\n494,"Despite some reviews being distinctly Luke-warm, I found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as \'Mills and Boon\', so what? It is good to see a warm, touching story of real love in these cynical times. Many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes. You really believe that the young Victoria and Albert are passionately fond of each other, even though, for political reasons, it was an arranged marriage. I did feel though that Sir John Conroy, who was desperate to control the young Queen, is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain. As it is rumoured that he was in fact, the real father of Victoria (as a result of an affair with her mother The Duchess of Kent) it would have been interesting to explore this theory. Emily Blunt is totally convincing as the young Princess, trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her. She brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made Victoria a great Queen of England, which prospered as never before, under her long reign. I believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie."\n495,"""American Nightmare"" is officially tied, in my opinion, with ""It\'s Pat!"" for the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME.<br /><br />Seven friends (oddly resembling the K-Mart version of the cast of ""Friends"") gather in a coffee shop to listen to American Nightmare, a pirate radio show. It\'s hosted by a guy with a beard. That\'s the most exciting aspect of his show.<br /><br />Chandler, Monica, Joey, and... oh wait, I mean, Wayne, Jessie, and the rest of the bad one-liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded DJ. Unbeknownst to them, a crazed nurse/serial killer is listening...<br /><br />Crazy Nurse then proceeds to torture Ross and Rachel and... wait, sorry again... by making their fears come to life. These fears include such stunners as ""voodoo"" and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures.<br /><br />No. Really.<br /><br />This movie was, in a word, rotten. Crazy Nurse\'s killing spree lacks motivation, there\'s nothing to make the viewer ""jump,"" the ending blows, and--again--voodoo?<br /><br />If you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones, rent ""American Nightmare"" with them.<br /><br />If you care for your loved ones--even a little bit--go to your local Blockbuster, rent all of the copies of ""American Nightmare"" and hide them in your freezer."\n496,"First off, I have to say that I loved the book Animal Farm. I read it with my 9th grade class, and it was great. We also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial. The movie was so disappointing to me. The movie cuts out some characters, and misses a lot of the main points of the book. It skips around a lot, and doesn\'t explain anything in detail. If someone was watching this movie without having first read the book, they would be confused. The most disappointing thing in this movie to me, was the ending. The ending in the book was the most powerful, and in the movie, they changed it! It was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of ""melting"" together, but instead, the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs. To sum up, I don\'t think that this movie captured the real meaning that Orwell portrayed in his book."\n497,"This movie was extremely boring. I only laughed a few times. I decided to rent it when I noticed William Shatner\'s name on the cover. It\'s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates. When wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist, he meets a prostitute. She takes him to a club called the Playground, where he befriends several pimps. When mayor Tony Gold (Shatner) decides to take over the pimp business, Lil\' Pimp must lay down for his homies.<br /><br />The animation isn\'t very good in this. It looks like it was made with Macromedia, which I\'m sure it was. It doesn\'t suck, it\'s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years. The humor in this is not very good, I didn\'t think any of it was funny."\n498,"I was disgusted by this movie. No it wasn\'t because of the graphic sex scenes, it was because it ruined the image of Artemisia Gentileschi. This movie does not hold much truth about her and her art. It shows one piece of art work that she did (Judith Beheading Holofernese) but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first Judith for a year after the trial.<br /><br />I don\'t know if you understood this from the movie, probably not, Tassi was not a noble character. He RAPED Artemisia. It was not love, it was rape. He did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured. According to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew Artemisia (aka had sex with) while she states over and over again ""It\'s true"".<br /><br />I encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real Artemisia and see what she is really about. Don\'t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie. I encourage you to do some research, Artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work.<br /><br />Don\'t see the movie, but find out the true story of Artemisia."\n499,"Such a joyous world has been created for us in Pixar\'s A Bug\'s Life; we\'re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film, but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation. For those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer – when it\'s in the right hands that is – A Bug\'s Life is a warm reminder. We walk out of the film with an equally-warm feeling, and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high-calibre film productions.<br /><br />It is only Pixar\'s second animated feature. The sub-group of Disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in 1995, with their landmark movie Toy Story. It was a movie which defied convention, re-invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence. Now, they return with their sophomore effort which, to be honest, draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film.<br /><br />After all, it\'s a film about ants. Well, all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in A Bug\'s Life, but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film, as humans are the focal point in dramas, romances and so on. How can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie, let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film? Surely they jest. However, we forget that in Toy Story, a bunch of toy-box items were able to become the grandest, most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted. The guys at Pixar manage to pull off the same feat, and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you\'ll probably ever encounter.<br /><br />Not only are they all entirely amiable and likable – there isn\'t an unpleasant character in sight; even the villains are riveting characters – but they\'re colourful, they\'re eclectic, and they\'re idiosyncratic. And the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term, only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto A Bug\'s Life from the beginning. We shall start with our main character, and our hero. His name is Flik (David Foley), and his character is rather generic to say the least. Out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush, beautiful Ant Island, he is the one considered the \'black sheep\' of the clan, as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season\'s harvest with his antics.<br /><br />The problem arises in the fact that the ants\' harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by Hopper (Kevin Spacey), who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants; when they show up to Ant Island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone, they go insane, for lack of a better term. Hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack\'s hands; however, it\'s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil. The cogs and clockwork in Flik\'s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame, and he offers to leave Ant Island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony\'s rescue and fight off Hopper and the grasshoppers.<br /><br />If you think about it, A Bug\'s Life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line\'s of Akira Kurosawa\'s classic Seven Samurai, or the American remake The Magnificent Seven, in which a village of hapless but good-hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies – one lone village-dweller goes in search for help in the big city, finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil. In A Bug\'s Life, the help comes in the form of a down-and-out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by Flik as warriors in a bar-room brawl.<br /><br />Much amusement comes out of these scenes, and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs. Among them are an erudite stick insect (David Hyde Pierce), a side-splitting obese German caterpillar by the name of Heimlich and a quasi-femme fatale ladybug who\'s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug (Dennis Hopper). It\'s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on-screen, as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on-screen, as is the entire movie collectively.<br /><br />As I\'ve said, much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another, which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines, wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie. What makes A Bug\'s Life even better is that the film isn\'t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be, although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film – the clichéd kid-friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we\'d like. However, it\'s easy to ignore this fault, and it\'s incredulously easy to enjoy this film.<br /><br />Although A Bug\'s Life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor, this is still a superb movie, and the start of something promising here. Pixar have proved that they\'re not just a one-hit wonder, but instead a much-gifted and talented group of film artists in Hollywood. They raise the bar endlessly, and when someone always manages to top their standards, it\'s only always by themselves. What more is there to say about A Bug\'s Life other than: see it; it\'s not quite the best which we\'ve seen from the folks at Emeryville, California, but this beats out the lot of its year – and I\'ll be damned if this isn\'t the best animated feature of 1998.<br /><br />8.5/10"\n500,What an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel. I do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original. This version is no different. I felt that the Ralph Fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of Juliette brioche as Kathy has got to be the worst casting decision EVER...anyway back to this version. It aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style. It succeeds in both but high art it is nit. Throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe...The direction was average and the editing abysmal. Worse than the old Quincy. Deepak Verma does a great turn as Hindley and is in fact one of Britains wasted talents. The part of Heath was played with great charm and belief and I think that the casting is the strongest point of this project. Although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had. Its clear that he was a director for hire and didn\'t instill the project with the passion that it deserved.\n501,"My Father The Hero used to be my favorite movie when I was Younger. It\'s about Andre, a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter (katharine heigl} on a vacation, hoping to get a little closer to her. But of course, Nicole isn\'t that easy to get along with, she just started puberty, i\'m guessing. She is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time. One day at the beach, Nicole meets handsome Ben, and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad. The whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie. I would give My Father The Hero 8/10"\n502,"It is surprising that a production like this gets made these days, especially for television. Considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes, not to mention lesbianism, this has been given superb treatment and direction.<br /><br />The sets and costumes are flawless, the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable. There is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes. The protagonist is really a tragic figure, but not devoid of happiness. Also, this production avoids the mistake most films/shows make when dealing with homosexuality/lesbianism. The characters are very human. It seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on TV and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay. Not so with this. In Tipping the Velvet, the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means!<br /><br />The BBC have made some wonderful productions in the past, and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts."\n503,"I just don\'t get some of the big premises of this episode - that Miranda is so remarkable, and that there\'s anything so ugly it would make you insane. Someone here made the remark that maybe it\'s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness. Miranda is just a jerk. The episode is slow, inconsistent and way too talky. I also don\'t quite understand why Kolos is an ambassador - why doesn\'t the Federation just leave the damn Medusans be? There\'s one part I do like, when Kolos is speaking through Spock about the loneliness of the human experience. Overall, I love TOS and even at its lamest, I\'ll always tune in. This episode though - mmm, I wouldn\'t purchase it except for a used copy under $3."\n504,"This is one of my all time favorite movies and I would recommend it to anyone. On my list of favorite movies (mental list, mind) the only ones on par with it are movies such as The Lord of the Rings series, Spirited Away and Fly Away Home.<br /><br />I can really relate to the main character Jess. At the start of the movie she\'s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls. She really sucks you into her life. I also certainly can\'t fault any of the protagonist\'s acting, or anyone else\'s in the film.<br /><br />The soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules. The movie is never boring. The romance is really cute and didn\'t make me blush tooooo hard! One thing that really made it though was the Indian factor. Jess\' parents are Indian and there are many colourful Indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else. The Indian people are also hilarious! Essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it.<br /><br />Feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film. They\'re funny, they\'re refreshing and they make you feel good! ^_~"\n505,"I know that you\'ve already entered this in film festivals (or at least I think you have, I may just be making that up) but I think this should get ""best animated short film"" in every one. Bravo. I can\'t wait for the full film. I realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations, but hear it now and accept it as the truth. Kudos, my friend. Okay, now I\'m just trying to get ten lines of text... Though I still mean it. And here comes yet another -SHOE!- and I cannot stop here yet. This is extremely annoying and yet at the same time I have nothing better to do. In fact, I\'ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic ""Jason Steele Marathon."" I do have a lot of those.<br /><br />-R"\n506,"This is probably the first entry in the ""Lance O\'Leary/Nurse Keat"" detective series; in subsequent O\'Leary films, he was played by much younger actors than Guy Kibbee.<br /><br />A group of relatives (all played by well-known character actors) gathers in an old house (on a rainy nite, of course!) to speak to a wealthy relative, who goes into a coma.<br /><br />While they wait for him to recover, all sorts of mysterious goings-on happen, including a couple of murders.<br /><br />A creepy film; worth seeing!"\n507,"This animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs. evil plot and is all about action. What sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated. It was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around, her movements were done so well. Why don\'t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days? It\'s quite effective.<br /><br />Fire and Ice, in it\'s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women, was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways, her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy. Some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy, others (including plenty of women) will adore it\'s esthetic quality. I for sure did not mind! Bakshi just loves animating lushious, voluptuous babes, as can also be seen in Cool World, and I don\'t think he has to apoligize since it\'s pretty much animation for adults. But I had also enjoyed this animation as a child and I never forgot it.<br /><br />This one was just special, so different from the standard Disney or Anime fare, and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it\'s possibly Bakshi\'s finest. For those who like animations with lushious women: try Space Adventure Cobra as well.<br /><br />I give Fire and Ice 8 out of 10."\n508,"My ratings: Acting - 3/10 Suspense - 2/10 Character Attachment - 1/10 Plot - 2/10 Character Development - 2/10 Overall - 2/10<br /><br />This show sucks very much officially. For me, CSI Miami is the best, CSI NY 2nd and CSI 100th. I don\'t know, in the other CSIs you get into the episode you\'re watching. But in this one, you just can\'t get into the episode, no matter how much you try, so in my opinion, this show is not worth watching. I know people have different opinions, and I respect that, but for me, this CSI ain\'t good enough. So if you like suspense, real acting/performance, good plot, direction, character development/attachment and you an overall good show, I suggest you to watch CSI Miami."\n509,"I am not a Faulkner fan (which is considered sacrilegious, especially since I grew up near the author\'s hometown); however, I think this is an excellent movie. On par with the quality of the movie ""To Kill a Mocking Bird"". If you haven\'t seen it, buy it anyway. It\'s well worth having in your permanent collection. TCM recently played the movie as a part of the Race on Film series. I wish they\'d play it more often. Very moving.<br /><br />On a side note, the folks from Oxford, Mississippi, will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the 1940\'s. The Courthouse, City Hall, etc.: They\'re all on screen. I never knew the movie was filmed there until I noticed the familiarity of the buildings. When I saw the arch in the front of City Hall, I began to get suspicious. Look closely at the pennants on Chick\'s wall: You\'ll see two for Ole Miss !"\n510,"Chinese Ghost Story III is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films. The film delivers the spell-casting special effects that one can expect, but fails painfully on all other fronts. The actors all play extremely silly caricatures. You have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny. The plot is predictable, and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow. Towards the end, the movie begins to resemble old Godzilla films, including shabby larger-than-life special effects and a (well, yet another) ghost with a Godzilla head. Maybe I would have grinned if I was expecting camp.<br /><br />It is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with - in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula. They won\'t be able to do it again: the cash cow is now dead as a dodo."\n511,"I can\'t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with Paris Hilton, and sure it\'s his company. But ""you\'re fired"" or ""you\'re hired"", for how many seasons now? After watching the show I wouldn\'t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and I think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve.<br /><br />I\'d love to hear just one person get up and say ""Donald I quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo"". I see he\'s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling WWE. I hope he gets hurt so I don\'t have to see his pathetic face anymore. It must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it. I\'d give this show a negative mark if I could but it gets a 1 and it doesn\'t deserve that."\n512,"If I had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease-inducing Dogme 95 style, I would never have rented it. Nevertheless, I took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot. I lasted a very, very, very long forty minutes before giving up. It\'s just boring, pretentious twaddle.<br /><br />The last French movie I saw was ""Romance"" and it too was pretty dismal, but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time. I am baffled at the continuing popularity of Dogme 95 overseas -- it\'ll catch on in America about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy. (It\'s called Dogme 95 because that\'s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera.)<br /><br />"\n513,"The story and the show were good, but it was really depressing and I hate depressing movies. Ri\'Chard is great. He really put on a top notch performance, and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous. Seriously, I thought she was Carmen Electra until I saw the IMDb profile. I can\'t say anything bad about Peter Galleghar. He\'s one of my favorite actors. I love Anne Rice. I\'m currently reading the Vampire Chronicles, but I\'m glad I saw the movie before reading the book. This is a little too""real"" for me. I prefer Lestat and Louis\'s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves. Eartha Kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did The movie was ruined for me; I could barely stand to watch the rest of the show. (sorry for the ambiguity, but I don\'t want to give anything away) Sorry, but it\'s just not my type of show."\n514,"First, let me just comment on what I liked about the movie. The special effects were fantastic, and very rarely did I feel like I was watching a video game. There, that is the last nice thing I have to say about this film. In fact, I would just like everyone reading this to take note that I can\'t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing. <br /><br />I have innumerable complaints about the film, but four major complaints jump to mind. My first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the ""plot twist"" (if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away) where Lois\'s 5 year-old son turns out to be the super-powered child of Superman. When the crying super-child throws a piano at Lex\'s henchman to save his mother, I almost got up and left the theater. Singer could have made a much better Superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super-powered illegitimate child. It\'s been 5 days since I saw the movie and I still want to vomit. <br /><br />My next major complaint has to do with the fact that Superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space. It doesn\'t take comic book guy from the Simpsons to point out what\'s wrong with that. I don\'t know how many comic books Brian Singer has read, but when Superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet. Whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any Superman-related projects ever again. The concept is as ridiculous as making a Dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun. Why not just have Superman eat kryptonite? He can eat it and then brush his teeth with it, and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas. That\'s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re-entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground. <br /><br />My third major complaint has to do with the fact that Singer slaps movie-goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie. I have to take issue with his characterization of Superman as the only son of a God-like Jor-el sent to Earth to be a savior. Jor-el wasn\'t all-wise, he was just a scientist. And he didn\'t send his son to earth to be a savior, he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode. I\'ll buy the Christ allegory if Brian Singer can show me the part in the Bible where God sends Christ to Earth because Heaven was about to explode, and then radioactive pieces of Heaven become Christ\'s primary weakness. Furthermore, the ""crucifixion"" scene where Luthor stabs Superman in the side with a kryptonite ""spear"" just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until I\'m too brain-dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future. They might as well rename this movie ""Superman Returns: the Passion of the Christ.""<br /><br />And speaking of Luthor, my last major complaint has to do with Singer\'s depiction of Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor is a shrewd, cold-hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for President (which he does in the comics) than try to destroy the world. The man wants money and power; he wants to be in charge, not wreck everything. Yet the Luthor we see Superman Returns, as well as all the previous Superman movies, is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world. If Singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the (quite awful) previous Superman movies, this film might not be such an unbearable travesty. Maybe Singer\'s next project can be a Batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of Batman from 1960s TV show. ZAM! WHAP! POW!!<br /><br />To summarize, I don\'t know what I hate more, the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you don\'t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong. I sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven\'t already. Don\'t see it, don\'t buy it when it comes out on DVD, don\'t rent it...basically don\'t contribute any money towards it in any way. This movie does not deserve to make any money. In fact, I think that for every person that sees this movie, Bryan Singer should be fined 45 billion dollars. If you\'re a Superman fan and you really want to see this movie, just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you\'ll get the same experience without having to waste 2 hours of your time."\n515,"This is one of the best TV productions of a musical ever. I have heard the Merman cast album, the Angela Lansbury album, I have seen Tyne Daly live, and I\'ve seen the Rosalind Russell movie countless times. I think Bette is if not the best, then tied with the best. She captures not just the bravura, but also the pathos of Mama Rose. I was never a Natalie Wood fan, so I really enjoyed Cynthia Gibb, in what is arguably her best role. Everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful. The three strippers, led by the always-dependable Christine Ebersole are hard to top. There was supposed to be a TV production of Mame a few years back, with Cher, but I think Bette would be the best bet (pun intended) for Auntie Mame."\n516,"I am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad. It reminds me of a c-grade porn movie with one major difference: no porn.<br /><br />The story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul. Maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable. At the very least, the pacing should have been picked up.<br /><br />While I accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had, he should have spent more time on the story or better yet, get someone else to write it. Many of the action scenes were just pointless.<br /><br />It was a complete waste of my time."\n517,"Is it a perfect movie? No. It is a weird adaptation from a sci-fi book and it features vampires from space, naked beauties and the British army efficiency.<br /><br />When I first saw this movie I was rather young and all I can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and Mathilda May. Actually, if it weren\'t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie, I probably wouldn\'t have rated it so high, but given her sheer magnificence, I am now actually considering voting it up!<br /><br />Lucky for me I got reminded of the movie and watched it again now. Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark or Poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci-fi story, but with completely over the top performances. I still enjoyed the movie tremendously (as well as Mathilda May), but it was a mixture of nostalgia, comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended.<br /><br />Bottom line: if you are a sci-fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie. Oh, and did I mention Mathilda May is young, beautiful and naked?"\n518,"Overall I was rather impressed with the pilot. The initial first fifteen minutes were worrying, as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of The O.C but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that I very rarely see television tackle.<br /><br />BSG dealt with themes such as monotheism, existentialism, reality, death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext, there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose. Here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and I personally found myself evoking such works as Ghost In The Shell and The Matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed. I think if you are a fan of the two I just mentioned or other films/television shows, which deal with the subjects I referenced, I think you will find at least something here.<br /><br />In terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in BSG came about I believe they handled it in a very interesting way, I especially liked how they explained where the Cylon\'s belief in one God came from and the creation of Caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers.<br /><br />The only real weak points I noticed were the relationship between the Greystone parents and the actress who plays \'Lacy Rand\'. While I like Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcomson individually, together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry, at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters, but this is something I think needs work. I also found Magda Apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role. This again could be down to experience and time needed to develop, but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident.<br /><br />Based on the pilot I greatly look forward to seeing where \'Caprica\' goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that BSG once did."\n519,"I\'m the type of guy who loves hood movies from New Jack City to Baby Boy to Killa Season, from the b grade to the Hollywood. but this movie was something different. i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable. but some bits were just weird. well the acting wasn\'t to good, compared to Silkk The Shockers performance in Hot Boyz (quite good) and Ice-T in new Jack and SVU (great). the scene where Corrupt (Ice-T) kills the wanna be Jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both Ice-T and the other dude, this kills the Jamaican, however Ice-T is unharmed, very similar to Ice\'s other movie Urban Menace (which stars both of these actors) were Snoops character is supernatural, however after this there is nothing suggested that Corrupt is like a demon. When MJ (Silkk) gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh-WITH OUT BLOOD. and when MJ confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend Benny was weird, Benny isn\'t introduced in this movie and the scene isn\'t in the film. it does hold weight to the fact why Corrupt wants to kill MJ but is still makes u scratch your head. wen Jody writes a letter to Miss Jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn\'t mention what happen 2 other main characters MJ and Lisa. the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto-which plagues the lives of Latinos and Blacks word wide-was a good part of the film, even though the clip of the projects was re-used thousands of times. and the scene where Miles kills the Latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed (not wearing a helmet) and running into my Latino brothers car would of killed him. the movie was similar to the film Urban Menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team. it was OK tho. but me being from poverty i love hood films, however if u don\'t love em like i do Don\'t WATCH IT. only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with 100 dollars, and my love of the genre.<br /><br />Nathaniel Purez"\n520,"I am a huge fan of the Farcry Game, HUGE fan. It still holds a place in my top-10 games list of all time! The story line was new, fresh... A truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on... or so i thought...<br /><br />Farcry the Movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise (see Doom: The Movie, and many more...).<br /><br />The Video Game begins as the player (Jack Carver) awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an RPG from an unknown soldier. Jack then finds a communication device where (Harlan Doyle) guides him across islands, shipwrecks, jungles, installations and VOLCANOES, to find his (lady friend?) (Valerie Constantine), all the wile battling mutated super soldiers, and genetically enhanced animals.<br /><br />The Movie plays out very, very differently: 1: There\'s a needless 30 mins (1/3 of the movie) of ""backstory"" before we even get to the \'boat blowing up\' scene. 2: Jack then walks onto the beach, kills some goons, then drives off... Nothing like the game... 3: There is no communicator with Doyle on the other end... 4: The \'Modified Soldiers\' look like albinos with singlets on... And there was no mutated \'monkey-like\' creatures jumping out of the bushes. A part of the Farcry game i enjoyed allot... 5: There is no sun filled beach scenes, no aircraft carrier, no communications stations on huge cliffs, LITTLE reference to any in-game contents (characters/items/vehicles), in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all. 6: The climactic Volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building. 7: There\'s an Ending scene... where everyone (except Krieger) live happily ever after... WHAT THE!<br /><br />I recommend avoiding this movie at all costs! If you are a Gamer, you will HATE this movie will all your soul. It is a movie clearly intended for males, so girls, stay away... So if your a male, 12-29 years of age, have never played Farcry, and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books/games to the cinema... then this is for you..."\n521,"one of the best ensemble acted films I\'ve ever seen. There isn\'t much to the plot, but the acting- incredible. You see the characters change ever so subtly, undr the influence of the rented villa in Italy, and love. And happiness. The film casts a mesmerizing spell on you, much as the villa does on all the women. Truly ""enchanted""."\n522,"I haven\'t seen this movie in about 5 years, but it still haunts me. <br /><br />When asked about my favorite films, this is the one that I seem to always mention first. There are certain films (works of art like this film, ""Dark City"", and ""Breaking the Waves"") that seem to touch a place within you, a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive, that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer, not unlike a life-changing event, such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend... This film ""shook"" me when I first saw it. It left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days."\n523,"Today, I wrote this review in anger at Uwe Boll and Hollywood.<br /><br />Hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation. 911 changed everything. It changed our perception of security. It changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity. Most importantly and devastatingly , it changed our world.<br /><br />However, I can\'t not stress how utterly repulsed, disillusioned, and angry I am at the careless, blatant ignorance of Hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction. This film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word-of-mouth among moviegoers and critics alike; most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press. Hollywood has sunk to a new low. Even lower than the low-down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty. Behind it all is Uwe Boll. I am very angry at this movie. How dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost? How dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy?!?!? How dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post-911 world?!?!?! How...dare...they? <br /><br />To those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty, I say this with a heavy heart with all my strength: Remember. Think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person. Think back to that day, ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day. Think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones. Think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes. Think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks.<br /><br />Ask yourself if you have a soul.<br /><br />Think. Remember. Respect the memories of the lives lost on 911 by not seeing this film at all."\n524,"You cannot deny that we have an affinity for speed. That\'s why movies like Fast and the Furious, Dhoom, Rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences, especially local ones. We live on a tiny island, and I cannot fathom why, for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system, most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with 100% tax when they reach our shores, and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one. Not only that, the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear, lest they reach the sea.<br /><br />And these movies are relatively easy to make. Hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic. For once, those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long, can\'t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these. Of course there are amongst us (ahem) those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects (otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models, and movies such as these cannot do without a leggy model in a frame), however, they don\'t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen, even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into Park. The guy sitting beside me, I swear he wet his pants every time his dream car(s) appear, and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans.<br /><br />So there we have it, the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie. With the Fast and the Furious franchise, the Japanese models like the Evos and the Skylines take centerstage, as does the GT. Here, the Ford GT takes on an incredibly drool-worthy facade modification, that even I\'m impressed, alongside the latest models like the Ferrari Enzos, Porshe Carerra GTs, Koenigsegg CCXs, and every car out there that has wings for doors. But seriously, my heart goes out to the cars each time they\'re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment. I mean, this are perfectly fine, high performance models that are at the apex of motoring, but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow, they do so because they can,<br /><br />There\'s no story in Redline, just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties (the cars that is) that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible, and with the usual shots of pedals (always the accelerator, mind you, tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy, and earn you no respect), steering wheels, gear shifts (always shifting up and not down), all these while having the actors make pretend that they\'re the baddest asses with an engine, snarling and giving each other dirty looks. Not a very tall order for an actor, and that\'s why we get the most woeful performances ever, with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids.<br /><br />The heroine (yes, it made a statement that girls can drive) Natasha (a very plasticky looking Nadia Bjorlin) is one of those million dollar finds - a girl with model looks who don\'t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil, who has racing pedigree within her, and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable (every line had to do with cars, and when singing about love, just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts, lubricants and going for rides). Introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called Infamous (Eddie Griffin), she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a Leo DiCaprio lookalike Iraq war veteran, and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle. Everything else, well like I said, just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race.<br /><br />And it\'s almost always the same, as there\'s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars, especially when you know the race is rigged (for narrative reasons) and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line. While Fast and Furious had quite charismatic actors, and I will put my head on the chopping block by naming Paul Walker, Sun Kang, and of course, the star it created - Vin Diesel, Redline had none, just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately. It looks like a TV movie in its treatment from the get go, with a very insipid opening sequence where it\'s one man, one car, and a 105 minutes race against time to get to Vegas.<br /><br />If not for the cars, then this movie seriously is a piece of junk, with bad acting, bad lines and bad action. Strictly for the car fans, or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines."\n525,"Im the type of person who always goes 2 to horror section when I\'m picking a film, so i picked five across the eyes, i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it,it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish! i think i could of done better myself. i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch, i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul."\n526,"Seven Ups has been compared to Bullitt for the chase scene, but does not come anywhere near matching Bullitt. Bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds. When McQueen leaves the seedy hotel, gets into his Mustang, which is parked under the Embarcadero Freeway (now torn down) and notices the Charger sitting nearbye, you know you are about to see something spectacular. From that moment on, when McQueen starts that car, begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed. Adding to it is a terrific Lalo Schriffin If I remember correctly sound track. This goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing. That shot of McQueen\'s Mustang suddenly appearing in Bill Hickman\'s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact. Hickman\'s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect. Then of course, San Francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends. Also, Bullitt being filmed in the 60s when cars were still ""Hot"" (Mustang GT and Dodge Charger) made for a better set of wheels then two boring, smog device laden Pontiacs in the 1970s Seven Ups. Bill Hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies. I saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the Univeral lot when I was doing movie reviews for a paper. They gave it a good try in Seven Ups though with the chase scene. Seven ups had a few ""jumps"" over little hills, (Yawn) but of course they were not San Francisco hills. The Seven Ups chase, where they are actually going fast, is longer than the go fast sequence in Bullitt. But the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood OFF of Roy Schieders Pontiac is the height of absurdity. Strictly Hollywood, I would say, except that it was filmed in New York."\n527,"Have you ever heard the saying that people ""telegraph their intentions?"" Well in this movie, the characters\' actions do more than telegraph future plans -- they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head. This could be forgiven if the setting had been used better, or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced. Embeth Davidtz\'s character is not mysterious, just wooden, and Kenneth Branagh doesn\'t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have.<br /><br />The bottom line: obvious plot, one-note performances, unlikeable characters, and grotesque ""Southern"" accents employed by British actors."\n528,"""Night of the Living Homeless"" was a fairly strong finish to the first half of Season 11. Obviously a parody of various zombie movies, most notably Dawn of the Dead, this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead, as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains.<br /><br />Kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he, out of the goodness of his heart, gives a $20 to a homeless man in front of his house. More homeless people begin to infiltrate South Park, until the town is completely overrun with them. This is a very strong Randy Marsh episode, as he assumes the role of the shotgun-wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the Park County Community Center. But before Randy makes it to the community center, he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming ""I don\'t have any change!!"" Unfortunately, the refugees end up losing Gerald Broflofski to the homeless, when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town, and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people. Then he becomes one of them, asking everyone for change.<br /><br />The boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in South Park, and find a man who is a director of homeless studies. They find out that the nearby city of Evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless, so they escape to Evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem. Unfortunately, homeless people break into the man\'s house, and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself. However, he fails several times, as he shoots himself in the jaw, in the eye, in the chest, in the neck, in the shoulder, screaming horribly until he finally dies. This scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in ""Fantastic Easter Special"" two weeks ago.<br /><br />Meanwhile, a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem, the property values have nosedived, thus the bank has foreclosed on his house, making him homeless. Randy immediately turns on him, holding the gun to the man\'s head. When the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out, Randy pulls the trigger.<br /><br />In Evergreen, the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to South Park, and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country. The boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of South Park and takes them all the way to Santa Monica, California.<br /><br />The zombie movie parallels and the great Randy Marsh lines make this one definitely re-watchable. 8/10"\n529,"<br /><br />I\'m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into, but this movie is NOT a horror movie. As for the story, it was fairly interesting, but rather slow. I was especially disappointed with the ending though.<br /><br />**spoiler**<br /><br />Tell me why on Earth does she run over to her uncle\'s(?) home without at least calling the detective or the police first? She knows exactly what\'s going on at that point, plus she has a video tape as proof. Instead, she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying ""I know everything, I have proof! You didn\'t expect proof, did you?!"" Then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he\'s going to harm her. Well DUH! Of course he\'s going to harm you idiot, you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything. What a dumb ending."\n530,I gave this a 1. There are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for. Total mayhem. Everyone gets killed or nearly so. I am tired of cross hairs and changing views. I cannot give the plot away. Convoluted and insane. If I had paid to see this I would demand my money back. I wish reviews were more honest.\n531,Not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is Paula Sage\'s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline. This gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you\'ve seen something special.(7/10)\n532,"I read the book before seeing the movie, and the film is one of the best adaptations out there. Very true and faithful to the book. Sean Penn and Sarandon are amazing. Robbins is a talented filmaker and I wish he would add more to his repetoire. He made the film very haunting and intentionally slow-paced to add depth. An especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end."\n533,"DOCTEUR PETIOT, starring Michel Serrault, is a brutal story about a brutal man. A doctor who heals the sick in occupied France, even if their ability to compensate is not there. Yet, he preys on the weakest amidst the populace. The imagery and cinematography are superb, and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story. He is the perfect psychopath. Seductive and altruistic, intelligent and caring, calculating and murderous. A movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer. Kudos to Mr. Serrault, for his chilling portrayal."\n534,"I just got this video used and I was watching it last night. The acting started out extremely bad (hey------hey------twister) but got very good soon after wards. The tornadoes looked extremely fake, and many of the CGI effects were very dodgy, but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done, and just about on par with movies like Twister. The scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too. The story was very well written, and it\'s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old ""disaster formulas"" movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for 30 years.<br /><br />While this movie had a very weird mix of FX and acting quality, this merits an A in my book."\n535,"This film is really vile. It plays on the urban paranoia of the 70s/80s and puts it into a school context. I\'m not saying that urban crime wasn\'t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren\'t/aren\'t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit. Violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it\'s not a case of social issues but a white, upper-middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol. And of course he knows how to play the system. Does that sound familiar. Yes. This turd is pure violent exploitation, a really nasty piece of work. It\'s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment. This belongs in the same category as trash like Exterminator, Death Wish 2-5 and so on and so on. The only remarkable thing is that Michael Fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this."\n536,"What a horrible, horrible film. The worst collection of cliches I have seen in a long time. Not that I saw much. I left the theatre screaming after about 40 minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves. Meryl Streep was awful as usual. How many hurt and tortured expressions can 1 person have? Aidan Quinn\'s talents were - as so often - totally wasted. And who told Gloria Estefan she could act? Trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes. (Brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school). The kids weren\'t even cute! Just written in to suit the appalling script. Aaargh! Wes Craven really made me cringe for once. real horror this one!"\n537,"Motocrossed was fun, but it wasn\'t that great. I guess I just didn\'t understand a lot of the Motocross racing ""lingo"" (and there was A LOT of that in the film)! The plot wasn\'t what I expected from the Disney Channel previews, so that could account for some of my disappointment."\n538,"Sixth escapade for Freddy Krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in Springwood; now he wants to broaden his horizons and (**SPOILER**) needs a family member in order to do it.<br /><br />A failure as a horror movie because it simply ain\'t scary at all. Works better as a dark, macabre black comedy, to tell you the truth. Freddy Krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer. (Too many wisecracks, that\'s for sure.) The actors aren\'t interesting (save Robert Englund, as always, and an obviously slumming Yaphet Kotto) and there are simply far too many visual effects. The finale is OK but doesn\'t provide as many sparks as I think one might hope.<br /><br />In adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer\'s story, it provides Englund the opportunity to do more non-makeup scenes than ever before.<br /><br />There are cameos worth noting: a joint cameo by then-couple Roseanne and Tom Arnold that is devoid of entertainment value, an appropriate appearance by veteran shock-rocker Alice Cooper, and a funny cameo by Johnny Depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become.<br /><br />Film debut of Breckin Meyer, who plays Spencer.<br /><br />One of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits.<br /><br />4/10"\n539,"OK, I\'m Italian but there aren\'t so many Italian film like this. I think that the plot is very good for 3/4 of the film but the final is too simple, too predictable. But it\'s the only little mistake. The Consequences of Love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack. I\'d like very much the lighting work on it. The best thing on it is a great, great actor. You know, if your name were Al Pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance. But it\'s only a great theater Italian actor called Toni Servillo. Yes, someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it\'s too slow, it\'s so boring, so many silences, but i think that this components its fantastic, its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl, the grand-daughter of the Italian actress Anna Magnani, Olivia and the old mysterious man Toni. One of my favorite Italian films."\n540,"If you only see one Ernest movie in your life, make it this one! This is by far the best in the series, with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages. The other ""Ernest"" flicks were good too, but most people tend to get tired of him quickly (not ME, however.).<br /><br />In this movie, Ernest P. Whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case. The murderer, Nash, just happens to look EXACTLY like our bumbling hero Ernest. Mr. Nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him, and so we get to see how Ernest reacts in the slammer.<br /><br />A great flick! If you haven\'t already seen it, watch it!"\n541,"An idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful. So, no new story lines here. However, the authors managed to create a stupid, disgusting film. If you enjoy watching kids vomiting, or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife\'s teeth out in a bloody horror-type, go see (or rent) the film. If not, move on to something else (MY FAIR LADY, anyone?)"\n542,"The first Cube movie was an art movie. It set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented, and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn\'t understand. It was, on the non-literal level, a ""man vs. cruel nature"" plot, where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end, triumphing to face a new, indefinable world beyond man\'s petty squabbles; a world where there were no more struggle, but peace. I rated Cube a 10 out of 10, and it\'s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels.<br /><br />The second movie, Hypercube was a massive disappointment. Some of the ideas were kind of cool, but in the context of the original movie, both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning. Still, for being fairly entertaining, I rated it a 5 out of 10.<br /><br />The third movie, Cube Zero, while ignoring the second, plays like a vastly inferior commercial B-movie rehash of the first, sans the symbolism. There is no ""homage"" or ""tribute"" here; there is only ripping off. The same kind of plot, with some elements idiotically altered (like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes - an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip-off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say).<br /><br />That we see something from ""behind the scenes"" means nothing, because the watchers are just part of the Big Bad Experiment, the architects of which we hear nothing of. And, in this movie, those who get through to the exit (like Kazan did at the end of the first movie) are just killed - where the *bleep* is the sense in that?! That\'s just flippin\' stupid. I\'m glad I didn\'t pay to see this.<br /><br />The production values and acting in Cube Zero are not too bad, but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of 3 out of 10."\n543,"I have just watched this movie on DVD late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience. In other words - the creators planed to make comedy not drama. Howsoever, at the end I realized that Mr. Tony Giglio was earnest about this movie. It\'s a pity because: the dialogue is ridiculous, the acting is poor and lifeless, the story is a fishy tale! Poor Ryan Phillippe - despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance! What to say for Jason Statham - lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction... For this reasons I vote: 3/10"\n544,"I believe Shakespeare explained what I just read beautifully. Me thinks he (the lady) doth protest too much. The whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself! He sites profane literature (writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible) a number of times however I can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible. Anyone can skew data & prove anything they like but it doesn\'t make it true. Customs change, word definitions change over time (look at English & German where it is very obviously a common root) nothing stays the same, it\'s always growing and changing. The bible has many different translations but the King James version is the one I\'ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research. In the King James version you will notice there are certain words written in italics. These words have been added by the translators and can be dropped & the mean of the entire verse changes. Writings from around the time of Christ were written without spaces, without punctuation, without paragraphs & without numeric verses. These writings look like one long word & the translators added all of the above. For example how would you read this: GODISNOWHERE do you read it as God is nowhere or do you read it as God is now here? Same string of letters two entirely different meanings. This is why many biblical researchers use a \'Lexicon\' to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original Arabic, Greek or Hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written. It\'s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove God exists but you can not prove He doesn\'t exist! In the end I just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty. Talk about ego! Putting soapbox away, God Bless Maegi"\n545,"""I presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry."" - VAL<br /><br />Mike Nelson made me watch this...he mentioned it in his book, ""Movie Megacheese."" I asked myself, ""Why would Mike Nelson steer me wrong?"" I now know why the bots never trusted Mike Nelson.<br /><br />The music is by John Williams, which is probably part of his payment to the Devil. In fact, I\'m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol\' Slewfoot, or is now cursed, from the Executive Director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio. Don\'t watch...for the love of God...don\'t watch!!! Not even making a copy and showing someone else will un-curse you...I\'m doomed now, I understand this. I accept this. But save yourself..."\n546,"This movie was Flippin Awful....I wanted those hours of my life back. For god\'s sake, -stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs. Its not worth mentioning the title, but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this. And where do I begin? The dumb A** kids in the movie.....The zero plot or story?...the garden-variety college/frat boy-esquire scenes of towel slapping? Or the VERY bad acted, teen angst innuendo? $$$#@%@! My god, It NEVER ended!.....I remember thinking I would have rather kissed the movie theater floor, then sit through this one again.<br /><br />But what do you expect? Most people with the brain power to look up reviews, are not going to be the target audience here at all- so GO SEE Pirites 2 again, or the Jet Lee one, -If your debating to yourself. Look, This movie will just cost you your soul, your money, your energy, and your brain cells. HEED THE WARNING."\n547,"This is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it, it has lot\'s of laughs, guns, action, crime,, good one liners, and a decent plot, with an over the top, Donald Sutherland in a rather comedic role as an Assasain. Tia Carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too, Thomas Ian Griffin is great in this as the lead character ""Max"" a DEA agent Diane is the FBI agent, played by Carerra, and John Lithgow from Frazier on TV, plays the bad guy,, ""Livingston"". The plot centers around Max and Diane trying to capture Livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies, throw into the mix the Assassain Sutherland, who pretty much has all the good one liners, this is the perfect crime caper, there is the usual love story,, but played very differently than you would think by Carerra and Griffith. You also have the Russian mafia, Italian Mafia, and Chineese Mafia here thrown into the mix,, the film is shot in Boston,, where you have some great shots , and locals,, great photography and music in this film, this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy,, it has everything that one could ever want. Check out Sutherland\'s toilet in a particular scene,, very unusual. this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard 10 plus for me."\n548,"If you like to see animals being skinned alive, their heads smashed, dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them, then this one is for you! But if you are somewhat normal, and don\'t need to see real footage of animal cruelty, pass this one up. This movie tries to shock the viewer, and it sure does.With the animal snuff at the beginning, and the killing of babies in the movie (fake at least)its was enough to make myself turn it off.I\'ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage (BTK movie) and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie.We watch gore and horror because we know its just make-up, and special effects, so we shouldn\'t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals, its not what we rented the movie for.If anything, there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won;t be surprised by it. As a very hardcore horror fan, this one turned my stomach. The entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked."\n549,"Another Spanish movie about the 1936 Civil War. This time we\'re told about the story of Carol (lovely played by débutant Clara Lago), a little girl which comes to live to a little Spanish village from New York. It is such an initiating trip, and soon she\'ll find about the injustices of the human race, their stupid fights and conflicts, their contradictions.<br /><br />Imanol Uribe makes his best film since ""DÃ\xadas Contados"" (1994) with such a sober pulse, a beautiful photography, and a nice script. He tries not to take part in the conflict, he just shows us some facts and let us decide (ok, the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in) and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple: Clara Lago and Juan José Ballesta.<br /><br />A well cared production.<br /><br />My rate: 7/10"\n550,"A response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed: One person suggested that the closing and destruction of the Ocean View Amusement Park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods. This is simply not true. Prior to the construction of Interstate 64, which bypasses the Ocean View area, the primary route for traffic went through the heart of Ocean View. Once the interstate was completed, Ocean View rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime. This led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park, which also faced new competition from nearby Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. Meanwhile, in the past few years, the City of Norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought-after location for construction of high-end housing.<br /><br />It has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film ""Rollercoaster"". This is also untrue. Footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film, but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to ""Death of Ocean View Park"".<br /><br />As to the film itself, the storyline of a ""supernatural"" force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly, but somewhat typical for B-grade movies of the time. With the cast involved, there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors. I don\'t believe this film was intended to be another ""Citizen Kane""; I believe Playboy was experimenting with a new non-nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into (apparently not!). A strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table, but proved unmanageable in execution. The roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway; ""let\'s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise!"".<br /><br />For the casual movie viewer, this would be a ""see once and forget about it"" film (except for Diana Canova fans); but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park, this movie is like a ""walk down memory lane"" for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown Norfolk, the first ""Harborfest"", and Old Dominion University. Even a limited release of this film on DVD would be welcome."\n551,"I was expecting a lot from Mr.Amitabh Bachan\'s role of SARKAR, but am disappointed. Being a Ram Gopal Verma\'s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie. Sarkar is supposed to be a strong character, but the movie shows that Amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his. There is a movie in Tamil called Nayakan based on the theme of GOD FATHER and Kamala Hassan has played the lead. The movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of Kamala Hassan, not his son. Amitabh Bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things. The movie fails to show the strong impact of God Father."\n552,"A trio of buddies, sergeants all in the British Army, carouse & brawl their way across Imperial India. Intensely loyal to each other, they meet their greatest & most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult & its demented, implacable guru. Now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment, the water carrier GUNGA DIN, to save scores of the Queen\'s soldiers from certain massacre.<br /><br />Based more on The Three Musketeers than Kipling\'s classic poem, this is a wonderful adventure epic - a worthy entry in Hollywood\'s Golden Year of 1939. Filled with suspense & humor, while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum, it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the (sentimental) conclusion.<br /><br />It is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen & Douglas Fairbanks Jr., as they are really all thirds of a single organism - inseparable and, to all intents & purposes, indistinguishable. However, this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time.<br /><br />(It\'s interesting to note, parenthetically, that McLaglen boasted of a distinguished World War One military career; Fairbanks would have a sterling record in World War Two - mostly in clandestine affairs & earning himself no fewer than 4 honorary knighthoods after the conflict; while Grant reportedly worked undercover for British Intelligence, keeping an eye on Hollywood Nazi sympathizers.)<br /><br />The real acting laurels here should go to Sam Jaffe, heartbreaking in the title role. He infuses the humble man with radiant dignity & enormous courage, making the last line of Kipling\'s poem ring true. He is unforgettable.<br /><br />Montague Love is properly stalwart as the regimental major, whilst Eduardo Ciannelli is Evil Incarnate as the Thuggee guru. The rest of the cast, Joan Fontaine, Robert Coote, Lumsden Hare, are effective but have little to do. Movie mavens will recognize Cecil Kellaway in the tiny role of Miss Fontaine\'s father.<br /><br />The film picks its villains well. The demonic Thuggee cult, worshipers of the hideous, blood-soaked Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction, was the bane of Indian life for 6 centuries, ritualistically strangling up to 30,000 victims a year. In 1840 the British military, in cooperation with a number of princely states, succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion. Henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels & nightmares."\n553,"This movie pretty much sucked. I\'m in the Army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible. If your in the Military and you see this movie you\'ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad. It was ridiculous. They acted like a bunch of normal people with Army uniforms on not knowing what to do. It was a pretty gory movie I\'d have to say the least. There was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump. I\'d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent, gory movie. It will be a better movie also if your not in the Military. I also would have to say I liked the first one better than this one."\n554,If you watched Pulp Fiction don\'t see this movie. This movie is NOT funny. This is the worst parody movie ever. This is a poor attempt of parody films.<br /><br />The cast is bad. The film is bad. This is one of the worst pictures ever made.<br /><br />I do not recommend Plump Fiction. I prefer the original Pulp Fiction by the great Quentin Tarantino. This is one of the worst parody films ever made.<br /><br />Plump Fiction is not a good movie. It is not funny. It is so dumb and vulgar.\n555,"I went to see ""Passion of Mind"" because I usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances, i.e. ""Sliding Doors,"" ""Me, Myself, I,"" etc. <br /><br />But this was the worst one I\'ve ever seen! I had to force myself to sit through it. I didn\'t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me.<br /><br />The magical realism was completely missing because Demi Moore was grim and the lovers she was two-timing were guys who usually play villains, though each was kind of sexy and appealing.<br /><br />There was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives, with a distasteful frisson of The Elektra Complex; maybe the magic shouldn\'t be explained for this genre to work.<br /><br />(originally written 5/28/2000)"\n556,"I thought that ROTJ was clearly the best out of the three Star Wars movies. I find it surprising that ROTJ is considered the weakest installment in the Trilogy by many who have voted. To me it seemed like ROTJ was the best because it had the most profound plot, the most suspense, surprises, most emotional,(especially the ending) and definitely the most episodic movie. I personally like the Empire Strikes Back a lot also but I think it is slightly less good than than ROTJ since it was slower-moving, was not as episodic, and I just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as I did with the third movie.<br /><br />It also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for ROTJ being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole. I have heard many strange reasons such as: a) Because Yoda died b) Because Bobba Fett died c) Because small Ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d) Because Darth Vader was revealed<br /><br />I would like to debunk each of these reasons because I believe that they miss the point completely. First off, WHO CARES if Bobba Fett died??? If George Lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die. Don\'t get me wrong I am fan of Bobba Fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not Lucas\' intention to make him a central character in the films that Star Wars fans made him out to be. His name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie... You had to go to the credits to find out Bobba Fett\'s name!!! Judging ROTJ because a minor character died is a bit much I think... Secondly, many fans did not like Yoda dying. Sure, it was a momentous period in the movie. I was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic. All the good guys can\'t stay alive in a realistic movie, you know. Otherwise if ALL the good guys lived and ALL the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon. Another aspect to this point about people not liking Yoda\'s death.. Well, nobody complained when Darth Vader struck down Obi Wan Kenobi in A New Hope. (Many consider A New Hope to be the best of the Trilogy) Why was Obi Wan\'s death okay but Yoda\'s not... hmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Another reason I just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute Ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible. That is utterly ridiculous!! I can not believe this one!! First off, the Ewoks are in their native planet Endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there. If you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the Ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage. (Since you lived in the forest all your life I hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage) They had swinging vines, ropes, logs set up to trip those walkers, and other traps. The stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest. The only thing they had was their blasters. To add, it was not like the Ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves, they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest. I thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the Star Wars heros, the band of rebels, as well as the huge clan of Ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain, that would have been a great upset. Lastly, if this scene was still unbelievable to you.. How about in Empire Strikes Back or in A New Hope where there were SEVERAL scenes of a group consisting of just Han Solo, Chewbacca, and the Princess, being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view!! And not only that, the heroes , of course, always hit the Stormtroopers with their blasters. The troopers must have VERY, VERY bad aim then! At least in Empire Strikes Back, the Battle of Endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not 3 heroes against a legion of stormtroopers. Don\'t believe me? Check out the battle at Cloud City when our heroes were escaping Lando\'s base. Or when our heros were rescuing Princess Leia and being shot at (somehow they missed)as Han Solo and Luke were trying to exit the Death Star.<br /><br />The last reason that I care to discuss (others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here.) is that people did not like Darth Vader being revealed! Well, in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie. Luke was trying to find whether or not Darth Vader was his father, Annakin Skywalker. It would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without Luke getting to see his father\'s face because it made it complete. By Annakin\'s revelation it symbolized the transition Darth Vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side (in his helmet) and to the good person he was Annakin Skywalker (by removing the helmet). The point is that Annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about. In fact, that\'s is what I would have done in that scene too if I were Luke\'s father...Isn\'t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet?<br /><br />On another note, I think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel MUST be worse (even if it is better) that preceding movies is another reason that ROTJ does not get as many accolades as it deserves. I never go into a film with that deception in mind, I always try to go into a film with the attitude that ""Well, it might be better or worse that the original .. But I can not know for sure.. Let\'s see."" That way I go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was.<br /><br />I am not sure who criticizes these movies but, I have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite Star Wars movie and they all tell me (except for one person that said that A New Hope was their favorite) that it is ROTJ. I believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading.<br /><br />Bottom line, the Return of the Jedi was the best of the Trilogy. This movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its 135 minutes. There was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful, exciting, surprising, or all of the above. For example, the emotional light saber battle between Luke and his father in ROTJ was better than the one in the Empire Strikes Back any day!!!<br /><br />Finally, I hope people go see the Phantom Menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky, insignificant details (or see it as ""just another sequel"") to trash the movie such as ""This movie stinks because Luke is not in it!"" then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like ROTJ suffered unfortunately.<br /><br />"\n557,"Crossfire remains one of the best Hollywood message movies because, unlike the admirably intentioned Gentleman\'s Agreement, which it beat to theatres by a few months, it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying ""It\'s because I\'m Jewish, isn\'t it?"" It\'s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical. Somewhat shamefully, the brief featurette on the Warners\' DVD doesn\'t mention that novelist Richard Brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti-Semitic one, but it\'s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is Jewish, there\'s little doubt in Sam Levene\'s performance that the character is in fact also gay – not a mincing caricature, but there\'s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with George Cooper\'s confused soldier. There\'s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is: even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows, the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable, but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point: the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy.<br /><br />There\'s an element of Ealing Films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix (you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for Hue and Cry), but the atmosphere is pure RKO noir. Set over one long sweltering night, the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style (it cut back on lighting time and allowed director Edward Dmytryk more time to work with the actors) and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script: a laid-back but quietly charismatic Robert Mitchum, Robert Young\'s Maigret-like detective, Gloria Grahame\'s tramp and the perpetually creepy Paul Kelly as her compulsive liar admirer, a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties. But the lasting impression is of Robert Ryan\'s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row. A big surprise hit in 1946, as a reward, Dmytryk and producer Adrian Scott found themselves investigated by the HUAC, which itself had a notable tendency to target Jews. So much for crusadingÂ…"\n558,"This movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved. It\'s always interesting to see the story from the \'other\' side for a change. This movie concentrates on a group of German soldiers who after fighting in the North Africa campaign are send to Stalingrad, Russia, where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of WW II is being fought.<br /><br />It\'s interesting to see the other side of this battle, since we mainly just always see the Germans simply as the \'villains\'. In this movie those \'villains\' are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you\'re fighting against. At first it\'s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the German\'s are the evil villains. But of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the Germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care -and be interested in them.<br /><br />The way this story is told isn\'t however the best. It\'s hard to keep track of the story at times, as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other. The movie isn\'t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague. It also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who. It doesn\'t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand, there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one, just not the most coherent one around. In that regard Hollywood movies are always better than European movies.<br /><br />The production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations, though the movie wasn\'t even shot in Russia itself. It helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere.<br /><br />The character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic. But I don\'t know, for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism. It also helps that they\'re being played by well cast actors. All of the actors aren\'t the best known actors around (Thomas Kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor) but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality.<br /><br />All in all not the best or most consistent WW II drama around but definitely worth a look, due to its original approach of the German side of the battle of Stalingrad and its good production values.<br /><br />7/10"\n559,"So I rented this from Netflix because somebody gave me Roger Ebert\'s book ""I hated, hated, hated this movie"" and he gave this one a rare zero-star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review ""Mad Dog Time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor"". So I figured from Ebert saying that I would see if it was really as bad as he said it was. I know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but I could not express how much I hated this piece of junk like Ebert did and never since Ebert\'s review of Rob Reiner\'s ""North"" where he said he hated that movie ten times had I ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review. Here we have Richard Dreyfuss as a gangster which I don\'t think it would be terrible to see Dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well. But above all the other things that were awful about this ""movie"" I can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all. While the movie starts off with Jeff Goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching Dreyfuss\'s girlfriend while Dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits. But after that first 4 or 5 minutes the other 85 minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for 30 seconds then someone gets shot. Then there are a whole bunch of jokes about Dreyfuss being mentally ill. Haha. Not funny. Then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying Frank Sinatra\'s ""My Way"" sang by Gabriel Byrne apparently to insult Dreyfuss. Of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader Dreyfuss shoots Byrne over five times and Byrne just will not die. Are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny? I can certainly tell you I did not care or find that funny. Not only am I disappointed in Dreyfuss (who I admire much as an actor) for producing and starring in this tripe but I am also extremely disappointed in Jeff Goldblum because this was released the same year that ""Independence Day"" was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history. Did Goldblum feel that ""Independence Day"" would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if ""Independence Day"" were a bomb? What did an Oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this? The opening sequence of ""Mad Dog Time"" says that the movie is set on another planet. I only wish now that I have wasted 93 minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of 93 minutes out of my life that I will never get back. Ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough I am afraid. Every copy of ""Mad Dog Time"" should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire. I have yet to top a worst movie I have ever seen because this one has won it\'s honor as the worst movie ever."\n560,"What a boring film! To sum it all up, its was basically just Nana Patekar beating up his daughter-in-law Karisma Kapoor, while she tried to flee from the village, with her son. Can someone say BORING??? The concept wasn\'t too bad, but it was poorly executed. The Canadian locales, and some of the village scenes were nicely shot. However, overall the cinematography came up short. The story could have been great, but the movie just seemed to drag on. There is only so much stupidity a person can take, let alone three bloody hours of it.<br /><br />The best part of the whole movie was the song ""Ishq Kamina"", and that was only five minutes long. Other than that, this movie was a piece of crap."\n561,"{rant start} I didn\'t want to believe them at first, but I guess this is what people are talking about when they say South Korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill. After the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie ""Gwoemul"" (aka ""The Host"") of 2006-- which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a B-movie genre-- successive Korean blockbusters have become more and more generic, even though their budgets (mainly spent on special effects) have become more and more fantastic. Do South Korean movie-makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill, which their industry has built up since the 1999 break-out film ""Shiri/Swiri"", by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland China did? {rant end}<br /><br />The only ""reason"" I can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a Korean/ East Asian-styled dragon I have seen to date, for the final scenes. Now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the 1996 ""Dragonheart"", the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons. Remember ""Dungeons & Dragons"" in 2000? Hasn\'t anyone learnt that the trick is not how MUCH special effects you use, but how WELL you use it? I hope there are more (and better) Korean legends they can use, because they have just killed a lot of international interest in Korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one.<br /><br />In short, I agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how Koreans felt about having their folk anthem ""Arirang"" being played at the very end. As a creature feature, I would have given it at least 5 stars out of 10 if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it, but I\'ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting (just less dragons)."\n562,"As a native Chinese, I can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a \'better world\'. I said \'better world\' because it is a lie that Chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years! <br /><br />I guess most western audience may don\'t know Qin Shihuang(means the first emperor), the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient China. The Tianxia(Chinese word was spoken by the king, means \'the land and the people\') spoken from his mouth is totally lie. From then on, one after another, all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said.<br /><br />Another fact is, Qin Shihuang\'s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people.<br /><br />Well, I do like the beautiful scenes of this movie, but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant."\n563,"This had a great cast with big-name stars like Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Henry Hull and Brian Donlevey and a bunch more lesser-but-known names with shorter roles. It also had Technicolor, one of the few movies made with it in 1939.<br /><br />Now the bad news.......regrettably, I can\'t say much positive for the story. It portrayed the James boys in a totally positive light....and Hollywood has done that ever since. Why these criminals are always shown to be the ""good guys"" is beyond me. This film glamorizes them and made their enemies - the railroad people - into vicious human beings. The latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous. Well, that\'s the film world for you: evil is good; good is bad.<br /><br />Hey Hollywood: here\'s a news flash - The James boys were criminals! Really - look it up!"\n564,"I remember watching this series avidly, every Saturday evening. It was the highlight of the week. I loved everything about it, the location, the costumes, the actors and the wonderful music by Clannad (I still have their Legend album). I loved the way they solved the problem of Michael Praed leaving by creating another Robin, this time the Earl of Huntingdon. I believe there were legends of several Robins in medieval times. Another thing I loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors, I\'m sure Robin and his men would have young, after all people didn\'t live that long in those days. Other Robins always look too old (Kevin Costner with his ridiculous accent looked like Robin\'s granddad). The only sad thing was the ending, it\'s a shame they couldn\'t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending."\n565,"I don\'t normally write reviews, but this ""film"" was special. I couldn\'t turn it off. I don\'t believe I\'ve ever seen a worse movie, but there I sat, watching. It was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway. It was disgusting, but I couldn\'t turn away. Where do I start? The movie seems to think it\'s a sports thriller, but it\'s so utterly ridiculous, it can only be a comedy, but it\'s not funny, not even in a dumb/silly way. It\'s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get-togethers. It\'s painful to watch, but at least it\'s only for a minute or two. Second String went on for over an hour. <br /><br />Whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again. The writing, directing, acting, and everything was just terrible. The problem is I can\'t describe how bad it was; you just had to see it. And I\'m sure this will NEVER be shown again, so unless you saw it, you\'re out of luck. I mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other ""bad"" film I\'ve seen over my lifetime. And for every film I see in the future that I can\'t stand, I will think to myself, well, at least it wasn\'t bad as the Second String."\n566,"Few would argue that master animation director Hayao Miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability.<br /><br />(No. Too many are focused on John Lassiter\'s ""amazing"" ability to steal other movies plots, turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius . . . but i digress.)<br /><br />Miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues (usually ecologically themed), and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance. Still, Miyazaki (almost) never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies- children.<br /><br />That said, I am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability. Where else are you going to have a film where a three year old (my nephew Link) will sit still throughout the move, enthralled, a 7 year old (my niece Amber) loving it all her own (and able to appreciate the ""star power"" of Frankie Jonas and Noah Cyrus, a 12 year old (my nephew Aaron) who\'s review was ""of course it was good! Everything Miyazaki-san does is good!,"" a 32 year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation (er, that would be me), and a 58 year old woman (my mother) able to connect with the mother characters (and I\'m betting the older charas too) and loving the ""cuteness"" of the child characters.<br /><br />And that is what I respect most about Miyazaki-san. He seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker. On the surface, ""Ponyo"" could be seen as a simple story about a little fish-girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there, a little boy names Soske (somewhat like ""The Little Mermaid""), but there is an entire different level at play here. True to form, Miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters Ponyo\'s Mother, Soske\'s mother, the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed.<br /><br />But the girl who takes the cake is Ponyo herself. Once she decides that she likes the human world, she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams. Her father is trying to keep her innocent, and keep her a magical fish, but young Ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination. <br /><br />Once human, she teams up with her friend, Soske, whom she loves very much (although maybe not as much as ham). Soske is asked to be the man of the house (at age five) when his mother Lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by Ponyo on her quest to become human. Frankie Jonas (yes. He\'s related to the Jonas brothers. Can we just get past that please?) gives, perhaps, the best performance in the film as young Soske (which is good since he has the most lines). His character is also strong willed, but also very respectful and friendly- characteristics you\'re not likely to find in a child character on THIS side of the Pacific.<br /><br />In the end, Ponyo\'s father, Fujimoto must cope with his daughter\'s decision and his estranges wife\'s wishes to allow her to be human. He hopes that Ponyo and Soske will ""remember him fondly."" And once again, Miyazaki REFUSES to allow a character to become the stereotypical ""bad guy."" Although Miyazaki has (for some reason) received some criticism for this, it is, honestly, what makes his movies magical and yet relatable. No one in real life is completely a ""bad person."" All humans are various shades of gray. And that is exactly what Miyazaki does with his characters. <br /><br />And then there\'s the animation itself. In a time when CGI would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film, especially the water, Miyazaki has chosen to incorporate NO CGI whatsoever. Certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means, but every film in this was hand-drawn and I, for one, was extremely grateful for that. The character animation was extremely fluid, and there even appeared to be some lip-sync going on (quite unusual for an anime film). The backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience. This is what animation used to look like- and what it SHOULD look like. <br /><br />In the end, I found Ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable. Certainly not Miyazaki\'s best (in my opinion, that honor is still held by Kiki\'s Delivery Service), but still a 10-star fun movie for the ENTIRE family."\n567,"Attractive Marjorie(Farrah Fawcett)lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker. She is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address. As expected, Joe(James Russo), the attacker forces his way into Marjorie\'s home and subjects her to humiliating terror. Bruised and bloody, Marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker, knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat. Hog tied and battered himself, Joe tries to explain himself to Marjorie\'s roommates(Diana Scarwid and Alfrie Woodard) when they get home. There is almost a hint of mercy, but it is not coming from Marjorie. Should she continue to render her own punishment? Violence, sexual abuse and rough language makes for an R rating. Fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career. Kudos to director Robert M. Young."\n568,"I find it sad that just because Edward Norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it, people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance. I really hope Norton did not do this. He is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie.<br /><br />I found it entertaining. It wasn\'t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects, but it was not a bad. It was fun to watch. But yea, definitely not a bad/horrible movie.<br /><br />7/10"\n569,"I watched this movie on TV last night, hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease. I was disappointed, and I think the movie was garbage. It did not seem real to me. Some of the acting was awful, in particular that of the doctor. She was about the worst I\'ve seen. The whole thing played like a CNN \'worst case scenario\'. Even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn\'t seem sincere. I have seen some disaster movies, in particular those weather ones, which are actually so bad they are amusing. This one is almost as bad, but it is not even amusing, it is tedious and boring.Don\'t bother with this one."\n570,"For those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings, who love film, have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny, smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you.<br /><br />For those with a poor attention span, high expectations and no brains.. well.. um.. you may get bored and find things dragging at times.<br /><br />This is a charming, modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles. I chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through..<br /><br />This film is a little gem."\n571,"THE GREAT CARUSO was the biggest hit in the world in 1951 and broke all box office records at Radio City Music Hall in a year when most ""movergoers"" were stay-at-homes watching their new 7"" Motorola televisions. Almost all recent box office figures are false --- because they fail to adjust inflation. Obviously today\'s $10 movies will dominate. In 1951 it cost 90c to $1.60 at Radio City; 44c to 75c first run at Loew\'s Palace in Washington DC, or 35c to 50c in neighborhood runs. What counts is the number of people responding to the picture, not unadjusted box office ""media spin."" The genius of THE GREAT CARUSO was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of Enrico Caruso (really not a great story anyway) and threw it in the trash. Instead, 90% of the movie\'s focus was on the music. Thus MGM gave us the best living opera singer MARIO LANZA doing the music of the best-ever historic opera singer ENRICO CARUSO. The result was a wonderful movie. Too bad LANZA would throw his life and career away on overeating. Too fat to play THE STUDENT PRINCE, Edmund Purdom took his place --- with Lanza\'s voice dubbed in, and with the formerly handsome and not-fat Lanza pictured in the advertising. If you want to see THE GREAT CARUSO, it\'s almost always on eBay for $2.00 or less. Don\'t be put off by the low price, as it reflects only the easy availability of copies, not the quality of the movie."\n572,"I attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher; both have delivered less than memorable performances & films. While the underlying ""general"" storyline is somewhat familiar, this film was excellent. Both Costner and Kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other. The human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both; the scene when Costner confronts Kutcher with the personal reasons why Kutcher joined the Coast Guard rescue elite was the film\'s most unforgettable emotional moment. The ""specific"" storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite Coast Guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job & responsibility...to save lives at sea. The special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and ""wowing""...I haven\'t seen such angry seas since ""The Perfect Storm"". Co-star Clancy Brown (HBO\'s ""Carnivale"" - great to see him again) played the captain of the Coast Guard\'s Kodiak, Alaska base in a strong, convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins. The film wonderfully, and finally, gives long overdue exposure and respect to the Coast Guard; it had the audience applauding at the end."\n573,"1) I am not weapon expert, but even i can see difference between U.S. army riffles in WWI and WWII. In movie we can see privates, armed with ""M1 Garand"" (invented in year 1932!), not authentic ""1903 Springfield"" (aka ""Silent Death""), who privates use until WWII. Difference - M1 can load 1,5 times more ammunition and 3 times more fire rate! M1 was semi - automatic, Springfield requires reloading after every shot. Little difference?! 2) German army uniforms has borrowed from 1940 Year too. Especially - helmets. German helmets until end of WWI have significant pike on top, we cannot see even one in movie. And if we make little additional search in archives - how much truthful is this ""True Story""? I am surprised, how much ""truthful"" can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation."\n574,"Do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made? Stop wondering. I\'m telling you, Michael is it!<br /><br />It is not ""heartwarming,"" ""entertaining,"" or ""Travolta at his best."" It just sucks. If I had kids, I would let them watch Deep Throat before Michael!<br /><br />A sold-out John Travolta, a washed-up and balding William Hurt, and an about to die any time now Jean Stapleton highlight this turd of a film.<br /><br />But wait...you\'ll get to hear Andie McDowell sing! Yeah. Hollywood really s**t all over us with this one!"\n575,"The film began with Wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend. Her aunt (Edna May Oliver--a person too talented for this film) didn\'t like Wheeler--a sentiment I can easily relate to. The aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from Wheeler. They left and Wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king. At about the same time, Woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king. So when Wheeler arrived, it was up to the boys to fight it out, but they refused because they are already friends--which greatly disappointed the people, as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime.<br /><br />I am a huge fan of comedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood--the silent era through the 1940s. I have seen and reviewed hundreds, if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films I have never been able to understand the appeal of Wheeler and Woolsey--the only comedy team that might be as bad as the Ritz Brothers! Despite being very successful in their short careers in Hollywood (cut short due to the early death of Robert Woolsey), I can\'t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better. For example, there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the Marx Brother\'s film, DUCK SOUP, yet CRACKED NUTS never made me laugh and DUCK SOUP was a silly and highly enjoyable romp. At times, Woolsey talked a bit like Groucho, but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny! In fact, he just seemed to prattle pointlessly. His only funny quality was that he looked goofy--surely not enough reason to put him on film. Additionally, Wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese--a piece of cheese that sang very poorly! A missed opportunity was the old Vaudeville routine later popularized by Abbott and Costello as ""who\'s on first"" which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing. In fact, soon after they started their spiel, they just ended the routine--so prematurely that you are left frustrated. I knew that ""who\'s on first"" had been around for many years and used by many teams, but I really wanted to see Wheeler and Woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist.<br /><br />Once again, I have found yet another sub-par film by this duo. While I must admit that I liked a few of their films mildly (such as SILLY BILLIES and THE RAINMAKERS--which I actually gave 6\'s to on IMDb), this one was a major endurance test to complete--something that I find happens all too often when I view the films of Wheeler and Woolsey. Where was all the humor?!"\n576,"I was really hoping that this would be a funny show, given all the hype and the clever preview clips. And talk about hype, I even heard an interview with the show\'s creator on the BBC World Today - a show that is broadcast all over the world.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this show doesn\'t even come close to delivering. All of the jokes are obvious - the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame - and they are not given any new treatment or twist. All of the characters are one-dimensional. The acting is - well - mediocre (I\'m being nice). It\'s the classic CBC recipe - one that always fails.<br /><br />If you\'re Muslim I think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters, and if you\'re white you\'d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted, ignorant, or both. Not that making fun of white people is a problem - most of the better comedies are rooted in that. It\'s only a problem when it isn\'t funny - as in this show.<br /><br />Canada is bursting with funny people - so many that we export them to Hollywood on a regular basis. So how come the producers of this show couldn\'t find any?"\n577,"First of all ""Mexican werewolf in Texas"" is not a werewolf movie. This title is bullcrap. The story is actually about a Chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of Furlough in Texas. I suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something. And I guess it actually works because that\'s the reason why I bought this piece of crap, it sounded so stupid. Anyway the movie isn\'t any good. Actually it\'s bloody awful. But I didn\'t expect anything else when I bought it. It\'s a low budget horror movie with a Chupacabra monster. If you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog, actors and some gore then you should check into this movie. But I must warn you, this movie is really baaaaaaad.<br /><br />This movie has some of the worst acting I have ever seen. The actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous. They almost never say a line in a normal way. They always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say. It\'s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody. It\'s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it. The worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo. She\'s the worst of them all. I have never seen an actor as bad as her (And I\'ve seen Pteradactyl). Even when her boyfriend dies she can\'t stop being a bimbo about it. I hate her.<br /><br />Some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good. The ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project. But most of the movie is shot in the night when the Chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark. The gore scenes are few and short, but really grizzly and violent. The effects are pretty hilarious really, but that\'s the way I like it. The Chupacabra looks pretty messed up, and it\'s easy to see that it\'s a guy in suit.<br /><br />Overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it\'s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death. I recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer."\n578,"This movie is so God-awful that it was literally a chore to watch. I wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room, but kept thinking (foolishly) that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right. ""You lose, we win, yay!"" This movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that Jackie Mason was funny. After that, beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks. And if you\'re even considering renting this turd (or worse yet, have!) I have one thing to ask of you: didn\'t you even look at the cover? I mean, with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is! ""Oy vey!"" This movie sucked."\n579,"The symbolic use of objects, form editing, the position of characters in the scene... these were all used with such joyous abandon by Hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had. The way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses, the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger... while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards, in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken. Even the title has a least four meanings that I can see; the boxing ring, the wedding ring, the bracelet the lover buys, and the love triangle at the heart of the story."\n580,"I found this movie to be very good in all areas. The acting was brilliant from all characters, especially Ms.Stone and Morissey. Tramell\'s Character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute. The plot is interesting even though, this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how Catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels. The setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious,thriller like masterpiece. Go see this film now , it deserves better than what it got from the audience ,which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie(Before it even started).....You won\'t regret it,if you go see it..."\n581,"Rather like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a ""jollies"" project for Robert Redford, as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the Alpine sunshine.<br /><br />The story is as light as powdered snow with Redford\'s small-town boy David Chappellet (what kind of lead name is that?) who with his eyes on the prize of Olympic glory, gets up the nose of, in no particular order, his coach, father and team-mates. Women are a mere side-show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick-up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of, heavens above, a free-thinking, independent woman, played by Camilla Sparv. The ski-ing sequences are fine with some good stunt-work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top TV coverage of skiing events down to the present day. Plus I\'m not convinced that the Winter Olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when Redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel, I couldn\'t really be that excited for him one way or another.<br /><br />Of the actors, Redford, best profile forward, doesn\'t need to do much and indeed doesn\'t, while Gene Hackman does better with equally meagre material. Ms Sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats Redford the way he\'s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way.<br /><br />In truth though, there\'s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don\'t fully compensate and you don\'t care a fig for any of the leading characters. One of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it."\n582,"I would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing, fun-filled, thought-provoking movie. The absence of sex, vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening. I especially enjoyed the Buffalo scene, but that\'s probably because I live a short distance from there. Even so, this film could have been produced in any city; it\'s the theme that\'s so important here. I\'m just grateful that Manna From Heaven dropped down on us. Try it...you\'ll like it!"\n583,"This is an art film that was either made in 1969 or 1972 (the National Film Preservation Foundation says 1969 and IMDb says 1972). Regardless of the exact date, the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period--with some camera-work and pop art stylings that are pure late 60s-early 70s.<br /><br />The film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks. These distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort. This was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art, and like most performance art, it\'s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome. The film, to put it even more bluntly, is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film, their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and ""with it"" to be understood by us mortals."\n584,"I read the book and saw the movie. Both excellent. The movie is diamond among coals during this era. Liebman and Selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw. This film should have made them stars. Shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film. It could have easily been a franchise. Release on DVD is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film. Look for it in your TV guide and if you see it listed, no matter how late, watch it. You won\'t be disappointed. Do yourself another favor - read the book (same title). It\'ll blow you away. Times have changed dramatically since those days, or at least we like to think they have."\n585,"A drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small Wyoming town, leading to all kinds of complications. Cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can\'t escape the title town. Hopper does what he does best, playing a psycho known as ""Lyle from Dallas,"" the real hit man. Walsh as a crooked sheriff and Boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast. The script by brothers John and Rick Dahl contains delicious twists and turns, and John\'s direction creates a terrific ""neo noir"" atmosphere. Witty and very entertaining, it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up."\n586,"I really liked this movie. I have seen several Gene Kelly flicks and this is one of his best. I would actually put it above his more famous American in Paris. Sometimes it seems the story gets lost in Gene Kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers, but not in this movie. It is definitely worth renting."\n587,"Although promoted as one of the most sincere Turkish films with an amateur cast, Ice-cream, I Scream is more like a caricature of sincerity.<br /><br />The plot opens with the dream of Ali, a traveling ice-cream salesman in a Western Anatolia town, in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice-cream companies. He dreams of playing in his product\'s TV commercial with beautiful models in bikinis, dancing around him. As his dream turns into a nightmare, he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife, who rejects to make sex with him for 6 years with no apparent reason. Is it because he is not successful in his job? Apparently, because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice-cream companies. But this is what he says; we actually don\'t see him suffer that much: he still sells good, traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop, selling ice-cream to the people in the town. Ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real ""sahlep"" (powdered roots of mountain orchids). Ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor, and gives ads to a local TV channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect. His wife is not fond of his ways of doing business, they always quarrel, and Ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy.<br /><br />In a very successful day, his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town. In search of his stolen bike, Ali goes to the police, blames the big companies for the theft, but, of course, nobody takes him seriously. Annoyed by the nagging of his wife, Ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk. One of his friends at his table, a wannabe socialist of the town, gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism, and with no real connection, jumps to the subject of global freezing. Ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison. His wife wakes up and prevents him. An old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life. According to him, Ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing. When he returns home, suddenly we see that his wife understood his value, treating him like a hero and praising his manhood. Meanwhile, the thief boys got sick eating too much ice-cream. They confess to the doctor that they stole Ali\'s bike. Ali forgives them and there comes the happy end.<br /><br />Although the plot may look promising in a way, it\'s the story-telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy. First, the director doesn\'t show much of an effort to tell the story visually; everything is based on dialogs. And the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art. Even Ali\'s troubles are not convincing because we don\'t see it, we just understand it from his words. The director markets his film as a righteous fight of Ali against big ice-cream companies, but there is nothing in the film about big companies. We don\'t see their pressure enough. The film actually ridicules Ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft. And when his motorbike is found, it solves every problem: Ali becomes a happy and powerful husband. Not a real criticism of globalism.<br /><br />Second, the film is cheesy because of the crude humor. Maybe the people of that part of Turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life, but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny. I may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and ""clever"" but they are not clever jokes at all, they are just cheesy. Maybe I\'m wrong, maybe American people may like oriental version of American Pie style humor. But American Pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the Oscars, or to have a political message! If you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man\'s big erection in his shorts (and we had to endure this joke twice!) or an old villager woman saying ""f**k you,"" then you may find this film funny."\n588,"Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history, and deservedly so, so I am happy to see any of their films. Ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital, and with nothing else to do, Stan decides to visit him, and take him some boiled eggs and nuts, instead of candy. Chaos begins with Stan curiously pulling Ollie\'s leg cast string, and manages to push The Doctor (Billy Gilbert) out the window, clinging on to it, getting Ollie strung up to the ceiling. When the situation calms down, Stan gets Ollie\'s clothes, as the Doctor wants them both to leave, and he also manages to sit on a syringe, accidentally left by the nurse, filled with a sleeping drug, which comes into effect while he is driving (which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen. Filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad (although repetitive and a little predictable) classic comedy, it isn\'t great, but it\'s a black and white film worth looking at. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were number 7 on The Comedians\' Comedian. Okay!"\n589,"OK I have to admit that I quite enjoyed House of the Dead despite its well documented failings. This however was the worst film I have seen since Demons at the Door. Compared to DATD the effects are vastly superior. However the plot is weak, the acting reminiscent of everyone\'s favourite, the porn film, and the decisions and actions of the ""characters"" consistently verge on the moronic. I feel like trying out Uwe Boll\'s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over HOTD2. I am not suggesting that he is really the cure, more a case of a different disease, but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up. OK there it is. I have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is House of the dead 2."\n590,"I was -Unlike most of the reviewers- not born in the 80\'s. I was born on may 14th 1994. Despite this, my life was very much in the style of the 80\'s. When other kids had playstations, I was playing Zelda on my NES etc. Now, this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only 15 years old at the time of writing this review. I, because of my 80\'s style early Childhood, watched many TV shows and saw Many movies that other kids didn\'t see, and this movie was one of those, and one of the greatest too.<br /><br />It starts off in the Los Angeles home of Alvin Seville, Simon Seville, Theodore Seville and David Seville. David, the Chipmunk\'s adoptive father, is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around Europe. His taxi is almost there and The Chipmunks help him pack. While they are talking, Alvin expresses his will to come with Dave and to see the world (Even though, technically Dave is only going to Europe, so to Alvin, apparently only America and Europe qualify as \'\'The World\'\'). David is leaving the Chipmunks in the care of Miss Miller, much to the displeasure of the boys. Soon Dave is off to the airport and the Chipmunks are left at home with Miss Miller. Later, at a local Café the Chipmunks are playing a game of \'\'Around the World in 30 days\'\' against the Chipettes(Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanore). After losing the game to Brittany after having his Hot air Balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile, Alvin get\'s in an argument with Brittany about who would really win a race around the world. Two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table, Klaus and Claudia Furschtien overhear their argument and, needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world, decide to fool the children into delivering them for them. They set up a race around the world, where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness (Secretely filled with diamonds) at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team\'s likeness (secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds) to \'\'varify that they were there\'\'. The winning team would then receive a 100.000 dollar reward. They do this because they believe that Jamal (An Interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now) would never suspect them because they are just kids (However, this seems to be redundant, because on their travels, the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls, I suspect that neither would Klaus or Claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally.) And so begins a great adventure. This film is a classic and I see no reason why anyone would not like it. It features great animation and top-notch voice acting, not to mention the Kick-ass music (Pardon my french :P). My favorite song is without a shred of doubt \'\'The Girls and Boys of Rock and Roll\'\' An amazing rock song that cannot be topped. It\'s also my favorite moment in the film. Other notable songs include \'\'Getting Lucky\'\'(Kind of Suggestive for a kid\'s film eh?) and \'\'My Mother\'\' as well as \'\'Wooly Bully\'\' and \'\'Off to see the world\'\' Not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra. The scene with \'\'My mother\'\' still brings a tear to my eye. In relation to the song \'\'Getting Lucky\'\' I first didn\'t think anything of it, but when I grew older and learned about life, it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive. That song, along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the Chipettes panties. This is especially apparent in the scene in Egypt when the Chipettes are being chased by the Arabian Prince\'s men, when Eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely. While this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film, it\'s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are 4-feet tall Chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high-pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child. Anyway, A bit after that scene, the Chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the Chipmunks and get home. The Direction of Janice Karman perfects this movie as she and her husband, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. know the characters better than anyone. They even do the voices of the Chipmunks and the Chipettes. Ross doing the voices for Alvin and Simon (as well as Dave) and Janice doing the voices for All the Chipettes and Theodore. Speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses, Nancy Cartwright (The voice of Bart Simpson) makes an appearance in this movie. She plays the part of the Arabian Prince, a very small, but important role. The ending is of course, a happy one. The Crooks have been caught, the loose ends tied and The film ends when the Children, Dave and Miss Miller are driving into the sunset, Alvin complaining about not having gotten his 100.000 dollar reward for winning the race, which annoys Dave until he finally yells \'\'ALVIN!\'\' and the screen fades to black<br /><br />Classic ending, by the way. I hope you found my review of this movie useful, and if you haven\'t seen this flick, give it a watch, It\'s worth the money. This Nostalgic classic from the 80\'s gets a solid 10 out of 10. <br /><br />\'\'Headin\' for the top, Don\'t you know! we never stop believing now\'\'"\n591,"Just when I thought I would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a ""Bomb"" rating, a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night. I feared the worst knowing its reputation, and it was as God-awful as I\'d anticipated. This is a Mexican-made mess, dubbed into English, and produced by K. Gordon Murray. It\'s got terrible sets and effects, and features a rather frightening Santa who doesn\'t operate at the North Pole, but instead from a cloud in outer space, and who doesn\'t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is. The opening sequence, where St. Nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages, seems to go on forever, and with no story. Obviously, THIS Santa Claus doesn\'t observe the child labor laws!<br /><br />Eventually we get some nasty and slinky red-suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to Earth, just to make little kids naughty and turn Santa\'s Christmas Eve rounds into a nightmare. Watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience, and it\'s bound to frighten little children and turn them off Santa Claus and the holidays forever. Oddly, the name of Jesus Christ is mentioned often in this Christmas film, which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on. This easily makes my personal list of the ""Worst Movie I\'ve Ever Seen"", but I\'m sure that\'s nothing unique."\n592,"As is often the case when you attempt to take a 400 plus page book and cram it into a two hour film, a lot is lost. Here director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off. What we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete.<br /><br />There is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic. The cinematography by John Toll (Cinematographer for Braveheart and Legends of the Fall, winning Oscars for both) is splendid. Working with Madden, the choices for locations on the Greek island of Kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful. Madden also uses numerous Greek actors as the townspeople, giving the town an authentic feel. The soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the Italian soldiers are marvelous.<br /><br />Madden does an excellent job of bringing us the Italian occupation and the romance, which take up the greater part of the film. There are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment. However, by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold, there isn\'t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated. While the battle scenes are well done, subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long. By the time we reach the post war scenes, the treatment is merely skeletal. Another negative is that the DVD is particularly sparse on features.<br /><br />Nicholas Cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental Captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight. When fight he must, Cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas.<br /><br />Penelope Cruz, whom the camera loves, gives an uninspired performance as Pelagia. In part this is because Cage so dominates the screen, but Cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic. She allows the character to be objectified as Corelli\'s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right.<br /><br />John Hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor, who knows as much about human nature as medicine. However, Christian Bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as Pelagia\'s fiancé.<br /><br />I rated this film an 8/10. Despite some drawbacks, this is a touching film that is well worth seeing. The photography alone is worth the price of admission."\n593,"My father grew grew up watching George Reeves as Superman and when I was a little kid he had episodes on VHS and let me view them including this movie (passing them down in the family if you will), and I loved it.<br /><br />Clark Kent and Lois Lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it\'s up to Superman to stop this mayhem.<br /><br />It\'s just so wonderful and fun to view. The old style special effects and sound - the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology. George Reeves was my hero when I was a little kid, and I\'m 16 now, it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are."\n594,This unpretentious Horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic. Much much better than 90% of the Scream rip-offs out there! I even hope they come up with a sequel!\n595,"I read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but I felt that it truly transported me to Afghanistan, a culture I know very little about. I had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint. I watched this with someone who didn\'t read the book and he also enjoyed it. They had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film. It leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over. You feel for the characters and their plights. I highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience Afghani culture. There are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch. It is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime."\n596,"Years ago, Sara, a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered, now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments (did I mention she has an imaginary friend?) This film lulls the viewer, not into a sense of tension, mind you, but rather a sense of sleepiness. Deathly boring, I found it hard to sit through as I could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed \'mystery\'. Is Sara going crazy? or is it the paranormal? A better question would be, Who cares? And the answer to that, no one. No one at all. Skip this film, save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks.<br /><br />My Grade: D-"\n597,"In short if you want to watch Burt Reynolds best films than this one must be included. If you don\'t like Burt you may still like this. If you love Burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time! Being from Atlanta it does hit home but it\'s also nice to see a cop/action/drama that takes place somewhere other than NY City, Chicago, Miami, or LA. The film is funny at points with & good plot & good performances from a great supporting cast (every character is real & the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out)A nice offbeat romance in the 2nd half & it has some good old fashion shootouts & fistfights (no CGI thank God REAL ACTION!)<br /><br />If Clint Eastwood did his best impression of a Burt Reynolds movie with ""Every Which Way But Loose"" & ""Any Which Way You Can"" then Burt responded with his best Clint type flick with this, & it comes off great!"\n598,"I have watched Love Jones over thirty times. It is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be African-Americans. The dialogue was realistically written, and delivered with honesty. It was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional African-Americans. This is virtually an untapped market. Love Jones was visually captivating as well. The chemistry between Lorenz Tate and Nia Long will bring memories of past and present love. The feeling of the film is jazz and blues, and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of Kahlua and Butterscotch. If you hadn\'t guessed, I loved it!"\n599,"The basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage-a-trois. Fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this, using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists, invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience.<br /><br />It\'s really rather messy though. Fellowes doesn\'t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat-edged. Rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves.<br /><br />The dialogue is inconsistent, stagey here, vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional cliché-landmine. Though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can\'t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces. There\'s also a very prosaic, dare I say it British feel to the filming. I didn\'t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation, I wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story.<br /><br />Finally it is, in fact, the story which lets the rest down. Just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes, woven as a vehicle for character examination. Wilkinson and Watson support this meta-essay with good performances and John Warnaby\'s ebullient colleague Simon to Wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow-furrowing.<br /><br />I\'m disappointed; not that it\'s bad, but that it could have been much better. 3/10"\n600,"This is absolutely the best movie I have ever watched. At the age of 12 I was up late and ran across the movie. It was on the USA channel, Gilbert Godfrey\'s Up All Night. I will never forget. At the time my friends and I were really struggling with different issues, some sexual. You know 12 is a very rough and weird age. It seems you are stuck in between being a little girl, and being a young lady. This movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me. I now have a daughter that is 12. Have been searching for a couple years for this movie. If it ever does come out on DVD I would be the first to buy. Would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age."\n601,"Holes is an awesome movie. I love it a lot and it\'s one of my favorite films. It\'s one of the few flicks produced by Disney that isn\'t cheesy. Holes is generally a very cool motion picture. I wish Disney would make more pictures like it. Holes is indeed a rare breed of Disney flicker shows that is cool. Don\'t get the wrong idea, I don\'t mean to bad mouth Disney but most of it\'s stuff is aimed towards kids and THAT\'S OKAY. Children deserve to have their entertainment too. But Disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail. But not with Holes. It\'s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it\'s corny. Really, it\'s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to.<br /><br />Holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge. I hope Disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this."\n602,"I cannot hate on the show. When the old (and better) tech TV had to hit the bricks, the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in. ""Attack of the Show"" is the replacement for the Screen Savers, with 3 co-hosts in the beginning. They were Kevin Rose, Kevin Pereira and Sarah Lane. Brendan Moran came to be something of a co-host as well, but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show. Kevin Rose decided to leave the show, and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host, but that didn\'t pan out for some reason.<br /><br />Eventually (I just learned this from this very IMDb messageboard) Sarah Lane and Brendan Moran moved on because (hey, this is what I read) the two got married. That was a big secret to me! Now there is a new female co-host, the not-as-hot (my opinion) Olivia Munn. She\'s hiding something in those tops she wears, while Sarah Lane had a perfect body and she wasn\'t afraid to show it.<br /><br />AHEM! Sorry.<br /><br />""Attack of the Show"" deals with everything young people want to know about. It\'s music, movies, comic books, the internet and television. This is what\'s great about the show. If you don\'t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching MTV, you can get all you want on AOTS. Some segments and bits they do are funny. They have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry, as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names.<br /><br />Even though the hosts aren\'t as geek as I\'d like them to be, I still have found ""Attack of the Show"" to be entertaining, even with its latest lineup."\n603,"Worst DCOM I have seen. Ever. Well, maybe not as bad as Smart House. This was just bad. The acting and story was fine, but the effects SUCKED!<br /><br />They were so fake! The only good fight scene was between the brother and Shen. That was probably the only scene in which I was excited.<br /><br />Overall, I found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly. <br /><br />I will give it a four for Brenda Song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene.<br /><br />4/10"\n604,"its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a movie which has no story,again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times,i think this is to much,pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a Pakistani girl i didn\'t know that there is enough facilities in Pakistan for the Pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities??!! and also i didn\'t know that an Indian can cross the March\'s between both countries,go to Pakistan and start dancing and singing may be Pakistani soldier\'s were sleeping!!!!!!!!!"\n605,"Some people may call ""Cooley High"" the same sort of thing as ""American Graffiti"", but I wouldn\'t. For starters, in ""AG"", everyone was white, whereas in ""CH"" they\'re all black. Moreover, this one has a Motown soundtrack. Specifically, the movie focuses on several working-class African-American students in 1964 Chicago and their antics. The movie deals mainly with home life and relationships. In their apartments, we see that there\'s never any dad around. But these young men always know how to live life to the fullest.<br /><br />One thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible, worrying about missing school. Two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene, and the one white guy in the movie. But overall, the main star is the soundtrack. It is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history (we even have it on vinyl here at home). A classic in the real sense of the word."\n606,"So wonderful, so quirky, so romantic, so Italian. The film is so feather -light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again. A kitchen sink world of bakeries, and hairdressers, and plumbing, but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence. Should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction? Take your pick -- they\'re both faultless. Let me get back to that New York City that lies just beyond the looking glass."\n607,"This film is, quite simply, brilliant. The cinematography is good, the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking. This is the story of Donald Woods, a white South African who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid. Kevin Kline is completely convincing - so much so that when Donald Woods himself appeared on TV some years later, I recognised him from Kline\'s portrayal. Denzel Washington also turns in a masterful performance, as ever.<br /><br />I urge you to watch this. It is long, but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story. Remember, folks, this really happened."\n608,"I have recently seen this production on DVD. It is the first time I have seen it since it was originally broadcast in 1983 and it was just as good as I remembered. At first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and I suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the BBC serials were back then. (I miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on Sunday afternoons back then) But that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been. I am a bit of a ""Jane Eyre"" purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one. I have recently re-read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on. Reading the scene near the end where Rochester questions Jane about what St John was like I noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by Dalton and Clarke and done perfectly. <br /><br />All the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way, some even leave out the ""Rivers"" family and their connection to Jane altogether. I also think this is the only production to include the ""Gypsy"" scene done correctly.<br /><br />The casting is perfect, Zelah Clarke is like Jane is described in the book ""small plain and dark"" and I disagree that she looked too old. Timothy Dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as Rochester, portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off! I agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time, like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted, his expression is fantastically frightening. But then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when Jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another. A love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable. Oh to be loved by a man like that! There were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however, like when Jane climbs in to bed with the dying Helen and also when Rochester takes Jane shopping for her wedding things (I thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks).<br /><br />Finally if you never see another production of Jane Eyre - you simply most see this one it is simply perfection!"\n609,"In a time of bad, if not plain awful, comedies, King of Queens is more than just a breath of fresh air, it\'s a complete oxygen tank! It is in my opinion one of the 5 best comedy shows of all times. Nothing has been this good since Married with Children. Kevin James and Jerry Stiller are comic geniuses! And believe me, it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius. These guys truly understand what is funny. I could watch ten episodes of Seinfeld and wouldn\'t get half the laughs from seeing KOQ just once. Other funny people in this show are Carrie, Janet Heffernan, Spence and Doug Pruzan (Carrie\'s boss). I\'m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem. The show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers. Check it out if you haven\'t!!"\n610,"PREY <br /><br />Aspect ratio: 1.37:1<br /><br />Sound format: Mono<br /><br />A lesbian couple (Sally Faulkner and Glory Annan) living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man (Barry Stokes) who turns out to be a flesh-eating alien, the vanguard of a massive invasion...<br /><br />Despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing, Norman J. Warren\'s follow-up to SATAN\'S SLAVE (1976) amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts, thanks to a surprisingly complex script by Max Cuff (apparently, his only writing credit): Faulkner and Annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the English countryside (rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by Derek V. Browne\'s eye-catching cinematography), though Annan\'s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one (or both) of these doe-eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed, which may explain the absence of their respective families, some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and \'left\' under mysterious circumstances. Stokes\' unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray, partly because Faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because Annan is attracted to him, creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence. There\'s an extraordinary, multi-layered sequence in which Faulkner attempts to \'emasculate\' their clueless visitor by dressing him in women\'s clothing, though Stokes\' alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery.<br /><br />In the early scenes, at least, the relationship between Faulkner and Annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity, but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd-pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude, culminating in an explosion of horror when Annan allows herself to be ravished by Stokes following a violent argument with Faulkner. The closing sequences are (quite literally) gut-wrenching, especially Annan\'s final scene, which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in 1977 and never fully restored (what remains is still pretty vivid, so brace yourselves!). Excellent performances by the three leads, bolstered by Warren\'s unobtrusive direction, which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations, thereby compensating for the film\'s budgetary shortcomings. Originally released in the US as ALIEN PREY."\n611,"The tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of Scotland, winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants, both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead. Michael Gaffikin (James Warwick) a former paratrooper in the British Army, is the local dentist, he\'s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer Fiona Patterson (Celia Imrie) is always being viewed with a little suspicion, not maliciously, but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin. The islands serenity is broken when Gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman. He immediately reports his gruesome find to Insp Inskip(Maurice Roëves) at the islands police station, Inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local GP, Dr Goudry, for closer inspection. A quick search for the killer proves fruitless, as does a search for a missing local woman. Over dinner that night with Michael Gaffikin, Fiona realises that the dead woman might be Sheila Anderson, a woman from the mainland, who lives on the island through the winter months. A quick search at her home Dove Cottage reveals the missing remains of her body, her home proving to be the murder scene, but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods? Suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island, one Colonel Howard (Jonathan Newth)who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together.<br /><br />Goudry asks Gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body, it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength, one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer, another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind. A sheep is found mutilated and then a Canadian ornithologist is found slain. With a heavy fog rolling in, the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help, the radio also doesn\'t work, seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut. Reports of UFO\'s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach. Inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off Gaffikin\'s idea that aliens might be involved, but a rise in radioactive levels on the island, has him doubting himself.<br /><br />The Nightmare Man is based on the novel, Child of the Vodyanoi by David Wiltshire, it is here adapted by Dr Who and Blake\'s 7 scriptwriter Robert Holmes and directed by Douglas Camfield who also had directing experience on both Sci/Fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board. The Nightmare Man though is on the whole, a succinctly better crafted piece, that builds its plot alongside solid character development, even down to the minor characters, time is given to giving them all a firm background. The island setting is perhaps a genre cliché that has been used over and over, but its one that I enjoy very much, the remoteness, the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts. In many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama, but credit to Camfield, he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times. There is an authenticity about proceedings, the characters even speaking Gaelic at times to further this point. If there is one negative about the killer its that, we are given his/her/its POV for the killings, an acceptable cliché on its own, but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens, it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little. Still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer, given the clues presented, but it\'s a fun and very well acted piece. The local Scottish cast are exceptional, the local bobbies Roeves and Cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold. Imrie, never one i\'ve taken to in other works, is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a Hammer production. The outlandish, maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers, it disappointed me in some ways, but taking into account when it was made, its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it, is even more terrifying."\n612,"This review also contains a spoiler of the first movie -- so if you haven\'t seen either movie and want to but don\'t want the spoilers, please don\'t read this review!<br /><br />While this movie is supposed to be about Christian and Kathryn meeting for the first time, the movie is a poor copy of the first Cruel Intentions. The actors that they had portray Ryan Phillippe\'s Christian and Sarah Michelle Gellar\'s Kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed. Neither can pull off the smarmy, snooty rich-kid attitude that the original actors did. It\'s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim -- not so much between Christian and Kathryn, but if you listen closely enough you\'ll recognize it. There are also inconsistencies in the plot - if this were truly the first meeting of Christian and Kathryn, then why is it that Christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie? He supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie (with Reese Witherspoon\'s character).<br /><br />Also, the tie-in with the photography/""You could be a model"" comment at the end was totally lame and didn\'t add anything at all. Overall, this movie was a waste of time. I can\'t believe they made a Cruel Intentions 3."\n613,"This movie is ridiculous. It\'s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible. The whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it\'s a comedy. Truly is bad cinematography. You really have to sit there and watch it to realize there\'s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they\'re all inside jokes amongst themselves. This is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad. It really is a very pointless movie.Their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway. Unless you want to be bored out of your ass, I suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie."\n614,"In dramatising Wilde\'s novel, John Osborne has condensed events, eliminated a number of characters, and generally implied rather than shown Dorian\'s essential wickedness. If you want a more explicit rendering, see the 1945 film. Wilde and Robert Louis Stevenson lived in about the same time frame, but were certainly vastly different men and writers. This story really treats of a theme similar to Stevenson\'s ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", but note that Wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy, whereas RLS took the scientific route. Both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil, with evil winning in the end.<br /><br />The actors in this BBC movie, take a different route, too, from those in the 1945 film. John Gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as George Sanders, in his role really projecting Wilde himself, but with a subtle difference. You\'ll suspect that Sanders really believed what he was saying, but Gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes. Peter Firth, too, shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion, but then we don\'t get to see as many of his escapades as Hurd Hatfield had a chance to display.<br /><br />It\'s a very good production, with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel, if not all of its ramifications."\n615,"It starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other Clark movies like Kids, Bully, etc. But then just as quickly, it unravels into a direction-less mess. Who is the main character? Is this a serious film or some Gregg Araki-esquire over the top goofy film? Is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted? I have no clue. I found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end. I kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came. I cut a good 20 minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes. Yes, it illustrates the changing landscape between the have\'s have not\'s. I got it way back in the beginning. Kids and Bully was done in such a way that I actually felt like I was observing the realities of that group of friends. Wassup felt very staged, poorly constructed and ever worse acting. Teenage Caveman, which Larry didn\'t write but did direct, was terrible. But at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn\'t take itself seriously. Wassup Rockers was just plain bad."\n616,"This is my first Deepa Mehta film. I saw the film on TV in its Hindi version with its ""Sita"" character presented as Nita. I also note that it is Radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not Nita/Sita. Yet what I loved about the film was its screenplay by Ms Mehta, not her direction. The characters, big and small, were well-developed and seemed quixotic towards the end--somewhat like the end of Mazursky\'s ""An Unmarried Woman."" They are brave women surrounded by cardboard men. And one cardboard man (Ashok) seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him---carrying his invalid mother Biji. He seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion. <br /><br />Ms Mehta seems to fumble as a director (however, compared to most Indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant) as she cannot use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the Chinese micro-minority in the social milieu of India. She even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter (not her father!) Yet her Radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field. Compare her to Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Muzaffar Ali and she is dwarfed by these giants--given her competent Canadian production team and financial resources! Mehta\'s film of two bisexual ladies in an Indian middle-class household may be sacrilege to some, but merely captures the atrophy of middle-class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space. Kannada, Malayalam, and Bengali films have touched parallel themes in India but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers.<br /><br />Ms Das, Ms Azmi, Mr Jafri and Mr Kharbanda are credible but not outstanding. Ms Azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors (Mrinal Sen\'s ""Khandar"", Gautam Ghose\'s ""Paar"", Benegal\'s ""Ankur"") a brilliance notably absent in this film. Ms Das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability. All in all, the film\'s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema. I am sure Ms Mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays."\n617,"All the way though i was thinking to myself ""Oh god why!"" At the very beginning i thought ""Right it might be average,"" but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious.<br /><br />Every part in it was so predictable, even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring, it was a half decent movie, but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible. Some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves, Eg. The part were Geller falls off the building had me in stitches. My girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next, and more times than less i was right.<br /><br />Why does going into the house make her come after you, it doesn\'t make sense. It was a poor excuse for a lot of killings, and no really depth was seen at all.<br /><br />You can see everything coming, which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching. Oh shes behind her ... didn\'t see that one coming *yawns*.<br /><br />Surely these people must have thought to... oh i don\'t know, carry a knife round or at least try and fight back, instead of being eaten but someone hair? At best during the movie i was very mildly scared (and i mean mildly), i was just crying out for the credits, as they rolled i exhaled a short ""Oh thank god."" If you haven\'t already, don\'t waste your\' time and money on this; pointless, plot less, sorry excuse for a sequel!"\n618,"At 2:37, a high school student commits suicide. Not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known, time skips back to the start of the day. From here we follow six separate students; Marcus, Melody, Luke, Steven, Sarah and Sean. Each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas, all reaching boiling point, hitting to an end for one.<br /><br />After losing a friend to suicide, and surviving his own suicide attempt, writer/director Murali K. Thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide. Suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows, 2:37 is Thalluri\'s attempt to bring it to light. If you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has, 2:37 becomes all the harder to view.<br /><br />With heavy and hard subject matter, Thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis\'s. Sex, pregnancy, sexual identity, bullying, friendship, Thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner. The factor on Thalluri\'s talent is his subtlety. He respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime. It verges near documentary at times, it has such a painful realism; the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this.<br /><br />2:37 has a distinctive similarity to Gus Van Sants film Elephant. While the core of each film is different, both tackle teen life. Like Sant, Thalluri utilizes long tracking shots, with time skipping back and forth, to show each characters interaction from different perspectives. A defining point to Elephant was its ethereal ambiance. With spare conversation, little development of characters, and the long tracking shots, Sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread. While there resides this dread in 2:37, the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level Sant couldn\'t reach. As time goes by, each characters fragility creeps out, dragging you along their emotional roller-coaster.<br /><br />The real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide, foretold at the very beginning. The hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion. Though many films that have shown suicide, gloss over the act or romanticizes the act. Thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution. With unknowns in the leads and their first major roles; Teresa Palmereach, Frank Sweet, Joel Mackenzie, Marni Spillane, Charles Baird and Sam Harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers.<br /><br />Compelling and revetting, 2:37 is an absolutely unmissable film."\n619,"The quote above just about says it all for ""Slipstream"". I should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour, but decided I ought to be fair and give it a chance. I won\'t watch it again, so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clichéd lines in the movie, I\'m sure it will set a record.<br /><br />Some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker; Mark Hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and Bill Paxton is his quarry. Paxton\'s character has hijacked Hamill\'s prisoner, an android taking his name from the poet Byron (Bob Peck). Tasker (Hamill) shoots Owens (Paxton) with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion Belitski (Kitty Aldridge) can keep tabs on the pair. The real question though is why didn\'t he just fire the device at Byron thereby cutting out the middleman.<br /><br />If you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense, then I suppose you\'ll find something of interest here. But you can\'t convince me that the film makes sense on any level. Scenes of a futuristic Stone Age make way for high society snobbery, but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when Paxton\'s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso. If anyone thinks there\'s some hidden meaning here, you\'re really stretching.<br /><br />Patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming ""The End"" to come into view, alas, even that was denied. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is understanding; this movie had neither. Yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run - an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons. Apparently the film was keeping them afloat."\n620,"Director Edward Sedgwick, an old hand at visual comedy, successfully leads this Hal Roach road show which tenders a fast-moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting, employing a large number of Roach\'s reliable performers. Although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for Patsy Kelly, sunny Jack Haley stars as Joe Jenkins, a young Kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to Hollywood, where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves, star-struck Cecilia (Rosina Lawrence). Sedgwick, who prefers using the entire M-G-M studio as his set, does so here as Cecilia, always ready for an audition, is treated by a would-be paramour, cinema star Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), to behind-the-scenes action of, naturally, a musical comedy, featuring Broadway headliner Lyda Roberti. Laurel and Hardy provide several enjoyable interludes, including their well-known skit involving a tiny harmonica, and we watch fine turns by such as Joyce Compton, Russell Hicks and Walter Long. On balance, one must hand the bays to Mischa Auer, who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star, a role which he largely creates, and to the director for his clever closing homage to Busby Berkeley\'s filmic spectacles."\n621,"The jokes are obvious, the gags are corny, and the characters are walking characatures - but I couldn\'t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie. No matter how many times I see it, I still get a kick out of this one, and I recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment. It contains many quotable moments, and some of the best sight-gags I\'ve seen to this day. If you\'ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle, rent this one on your way home Friday night to give your weekend a good start."\n622,"These slasher pics are past their sell by date, but this one is good fun.<br /><br />The valentine cards themselves are witty, and well thought out.<br /><br />The film has one Peach of a line... ""He\'s no Angel...."" when he in fact IS Angel!!! Watching Buffy reruns will never be the same!<br /><br />The cast is a sizzling display of young talent, but the story does not give them enough real depth. Denise Richards on the DVD extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters. Sorry but NO!<br /><br />The direction is very good, managing to show very little actual gore, and relying on your imaginations implied threat. Much can be said also for the similar manner in which Miss Richards and Heigel do not remove their clothes...:-(<br /><br />Essentially, the main directorial plus, lies within the ""borrowing"" of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks. Psycho\'s shower scene is tributed, along with Halloween\'s ""masking"". <br /><br />Murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as I know!!!<br /><br />Light viewing, not very scary but a few good jump moments. If it was a choice between The Hole and this though, choose The Hole. Slasher movies have had their day, and this is just another slasher. A very good slasher, but nothing groundbreaking!!!"\n623,"The only reason I gave this episode of ""Masters of Horror"" a 2 instead of a 1 is because the two lead actors are good, and it wasn\'t shot on VHS. The story, the dialog, and the plot are ridiculous. <br /><br />Talking / Driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war! Give me a break! What next, zombies who come back to go skydiving? Maybe zombies who come back to host QVC shows? <br /><br />I never supported the Iraq war, but I do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces; and ""Homecoming"" was disrespectful in that it mocks the TRUE horror of war. <br /><br />With zombies being mass produced in today\'s market... this is the SPAM of zombie-related entertainment. How ""Homecoming"" made it onto ""Masters of Horror"" is beyond me."\n624,"Like most, I thought \'another crocodile movie\'. So far we\'ve had Primeval and Rogue in the last 12 months, what can they do that\'s new? Where both those films were about action and violence, this one\'s about fear and tension.<br /><br />The performances aren\'t Oscar-worthy when there\'s nothing going on, but in times of distress or terror, these people suffer so much it\'s like torture. There are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don\'t really behave like this as others have pointed out, but the fear is so effective it\'s a stretch to say you\'ll enjoy this movie. It\'ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as The Passion of the Christ."\n625,"There are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick\'s abundance of clichés throughout -- and I agree completely, both with regard to the characters AND the dialog.<br /><br />I\'d read about Elizabeth Berkly\'s awful performance in the equally-awful ""Showgirls,"" which I\'ve never seen - and her performance here, while not awful, is barely up to the standards of Lifetime\'s worse fare. There was not a hint of depth to her character, but then there probably shouldn\'t have been. If so, it would have placed the film completely out-of-balance, since there wasn\'t a hint of depth or charisma - not a trace - in any one character, performer, or portrayal.<br /><br />The principal\'s handling of Liz\'s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable. Her husband\'s initial reaction and advice were likewise (Forrest Gump, attacking Jenny\'s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic, intelligent action, and, hell, he was mentally-challenged).<br /><br />The smarmy, unctuous lawyer (excuse the redundancy) father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance: he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time, no mean feat. Her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd, also not unknown in the profession.<br /><br />Finally (and frankly, I rather enjoyed this part), the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs, that you\'d rather depend upon Barney Fife, without Andy, to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community. I know that most real-like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness, intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the ""Law and Order"" series\', and the like -- but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on ""Lifetime.""<br /><br />Finally, I found a kind of ""story within a story"" fascination with Josh\'s concoction of his being the ""victim"" of his teacher. This scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story. This was something of an achievement, like going from ""F"" to ""F-minus.""<br /><br />This whole lame situation should have been resolved - in real life - in about 15 minutes, following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities, with husband involved. But then that would have precluded the contrived drama following, and left an hour\'s blank film in the camera. <br /><br />But the writer(s) here, proved with their ending, they could do even worse. When the situation was finally ""resolved"" and ""righted,"" this was accomplished in all of about 45 seconds, with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any ""real world"" context for the perpetrator and his parents, or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption.<br /><br />This one\'s a 2* presentation; the second ""*"" because it does have some mild ""fascination."""\n626,"If you haven\'t seen this yet, you really should, on DVD. I can\'t believe how much I enjoyed it! It is amazingly realistic and believable. True, much of it is speculated, and I would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts (there aren\'t many of them), but it handles everything quite well with a ""Cruel Mother Nature"" theme. It will remind you of the nature programs that you\'ve seen on Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel, only the animals here are Dinosaurs. They act natural; they eat, kill, mate, play, and fight for survival. You will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others.<br /><br />For the most part, the effects are excellent. At times they will look a little too much like CGI\'s, but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic. In some cases, you will actually be convinced that you\'ve seen a dinosaur. My favorites were the Coelophysis, the raptors, the diplodocus, the iguanadons, the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds. I was most disappointed with the T-Rex, however, which looked a little too computer generated at times.<br /><br />In any case, you should definitely see this production. It is educational, well made, and very entertaining. For what it is, its an A!"\n627,"Why is it that Canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre, other then action? I caught Dragon Hunt on TV the other day and it was like a train wreck. I just could not change the channel, it\'s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower. Its pretty telling that the cast IMDb ""credits"" with this monstrosity apparently never worked again.<br /><br />Bad acting, bad writing, bad narration, bad music, bad hair, bad cinematography. It just goes on and on. The movie really has nothing to recommend it. If you\'re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out, there are a tonne of other films that won\'t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards.<br /><br />I hope this film didn\'t get money from the government for financing, otherwise I\'m never paying taxes again."\n628,"Ab Tak Chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in Mumbai, India. Sadhu Agashe is a hard working, hard-edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison. His loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers, Imtiaz, becomes frustrated by Sadhu\'s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status. A new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and Imtiaz is angry when Sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case. Further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of Sadhu\'s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics.<br /><br />I was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from India. The camera work is excellent, the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds. The acting, pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood, sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director, Shimit Amin, has taken liberties with factual accounts. Nevertheless, Ab Tak Chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film-making."\n629,"Let\'s keep it simple: My two kids were glued to this movie. It has its flaws from an adult perspective, but buy some jelly-worms and just enjoy it. <br /><br />And the Pepsi girl was excellent!<br /><br />And Kimberly Williams was pretty gosh-darned hot, although she\'s not in the film very much, so don\'t get too excited there.<br /><br />Not that\'s it\'s really a bad thing, but it is the kind of movie you watch just once. Don\'t buy the DVD.<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br />Did I mention Kimberly Williams? (That was for the dads.)"\n630,"It was 1 a.m. in the morning and I had nothing else to do. Don\'t judge me... please.<br /><br />We\'re back in time during the Spanish settlements. A group have made their way onto an island. It doesn\'t take too long before they encounter a large ""reptile"", which gobbles up their horse. Soon they\'re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the ""reptile gods."" THE CG sucks; it reminds me of the CG of early console video games. The encounters were lame. The only positive thing I have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit. Otherwise it\'s just a middling effort."\n631,"Lackawanna Blues is and excellent movie. The casting was perfect. Every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played. Their chemistry together was amazing. The acting was superb. I felt as if i knew the characters. I could almost \'feel\' them. They reminded me of people that I knew as a child growing up in the 50\'s and 60\'s. Oh, the memories!! My personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see. I have watched this movie so many times, that I can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them. I can\'t even list my favorite part, because I have SO MANY favorite parts. Thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that I never see in this day and age...and that is Black people loving each other, looking out for each other, respecting each other, caring about each other, and doing all we can to help each other. Gotta go now. I have to go watch it again."\n632,"Saturday June 3, 6:30pm The Neptune<br /><br />Monday June 5, 4:30pm The Neptune<br /><br />Few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as Carlos Saura\'s brilliant interpretation of Isaac Albeniz\' masterpiece Iberia Suite. At the approach of its centennial, Saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the Spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland. The twelve ""impressions"" of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings, allowing the power of each performance to explode before Saura\'s camera. Creative use of large flats and mirrors, moved throughout the set, combined with screens, shadows, fire, rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song, dance and instrumental performance. Photographs of Albeniz reappear throughout the program, connecting the passion of the music to its great creator. Saura encompasses all Spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors."\n633,"As most people I am tired of the by the numbers clichéd movies that Hollywood makes. There seems to be no creativity in Hollywood. Companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in.<br /><br />This movie is a welcome change. It could be classified as romantic comedy for it\'s genre but don\'t let that turn you off this movie. This is a very original movie which is not like most things Hollywood produces.<br /><br />If you are reading this, you already know the basic plot so I will not bother going over that. The only movies that come to mind to compare this to are ""Interstate 60"" and ""Art of Travel"" which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the Hollywood garbage.<br /><br />This is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same.<br /><br />Dean"\n634,"Many of the reviews and comments I have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by Clara Bow. Although the story-line was rather typical of Clara\'s later silents, I still find it somewhat heart-stirring and incredibly fun. Clara plays a happy-go-lucky Hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves...never mind that this man is married! Clara\'s lack of modesty was shocking in the day, but I believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie. Though definitely not a brilliant story-line (quite typical, actually), this movie is a nice showcase of Clara\'s ability to make the audience laugh."\n635,"As the number of Video Nasties I\'ve yet to see dwindles, this little pile of garbage popped up on my ""to rent"" list when I saw it was available.<br /><br />The premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots. Some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip, though if he returns with the girl and all the money, he gets a significant cut. He\'s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and, wow, that pilot is one of the worst actors EVER! Granted, they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood. After stealing away into the jungle, we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human King Kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour. Now, this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever, ping-pong balls for eyes and that\'s pretty much it. His growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack, and I found myself muting much of those scenes.<br /><br />Oh, did I forget to mention the almost constant nudity? This is probably the main reason this film was banned, though there is one specific scene, about one second long, where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out, but it\'s not a redeeming factor for gore fans. Also, Jess Franco goes beyond the usual T and A and shows lengthy close-ups of female genitals, and, sadly, male as well. So, if you want ""fair"" in terms of exploitation, you got it.<br /><br />I can\'t recommend this trash to anyone. It\'s not even the good bad movie. It\'s just atrociously padded trash that only a Video Nasty fan will probably view and even then, if you are making your way through the list, leave this for the very last. If you watch it first, you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list, which is certainly not true."\n636,"I rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case. Judge and Jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun, but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on. David Keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent. Judge and Jury was well plain dumb I gave it a 3 should have gave it a 2, I gave it an extra star just because David Keith\'s gun was cool."\n637,"I found out about this film because Jewish Ben Chaplin from Game On was in it. Game On is a funny British sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into Hollywood and star in this film. He failed thank God.<br /><br />The film is a very simple romantic comedy with Janeane Garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour Uma Thurman to date Ben Chaplin because she thinks Ben Chaplin won\'t like her because she\'s ugly. The film is just bad for so many reasons. The plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits: ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit. Those two scenes made me cringe! Janeane\'s character is sickeningly arrogant (and guessing from her role as stand-up ""comedienne"" and arch-feminist is in real life too). She claims that the film is ""anti-feminist"" when in fact it\'s just realistic. Men more often than not go for looks over personality. It\'s interesting to note her hypocrisy too. She\'d been a feminist and ""comedienne"" for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad. I imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film. I mean come on! She acted in it for Heaven\'s sake! What this film was really was anti-men if anything. It portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of Uma Thurman\'s character Noelle.<br /><br />There are other bad things about this film too like Ben Chaplin\'s character being the British man every American girl finds cute and Jamie Foxx being the token black best friend of Chaplin and of course Foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure. Is that the best the script writers could come up with? Blimey they\'ve never done that before except with every Hugh Grant and Dudley Moore film ever made. There\'s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is. The other comments on here all say how Janeane Garofalo isn\'t ugly but is actually beautiful. Erm was I watching the same film as they were? She\'s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one. Although having said that, I fail to see the appeal of Uma Thurman as well: she\'s lanky and gaunt looking.<br /><br />I guarantee three things about this film if you\'ve never watched it:<br /><br />You will know what the ending will be;<br /><br />You will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and;<br /><br />You will be bored after ten minutes.<br /><br />Watch at your own peril."\n638,This movie has everything typical horror movies lack. Although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers. The only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for Jackzilla. Dare i say oscar winner. This is a perfect date movie. I advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person.\n639,"Having just seen Walt Disney\'s The Skeleton Dance on the Saturday Morning Blog as linked from YouTube, I used those same sources to watch a remake done in Technicolor for the Columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man-Ub Iwerks. The colors, compared to the earlier black and white, are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags-like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one\'s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone-are just as funny as the previous short. It does get a little repetitious near the end. Still, Skeleton Frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier Silly Symphony."\n640,"The cast of this film contain some of New Zealander\'s better actors, many of who I have seen in fabulous roles, this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them. The fake American accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong. As another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry, decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot. Most of the cast appear to be from the (great) long running New Zealand soap Shortland Street. It\'s as if this movie was dreamt up at a Shortland Street cast Christmas party, the result of too many gins, and possibly a bit of salmonella. Imagine ""Under Siege"" meets ""The Love Boat"", staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea.<br /><br />If you are an actor, I recommend you see this film, as a study on how to destroy your carer."\n641,"Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson together - what a treat! With Rupert Everett and Linda Bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue. Yet at the heart of it all, each character maintains a streak of decency - moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions. ""Contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life."" How true these words are. Watson\'s Anne Manning is at the core of this intrigue - she\'s the central conscience that the other three latched on. She is the decency undeterred. <br /><br />The circumstances of lies are to each its own: one to defend one\'s professional name; one to hold back due to family/partner pressure; one simply don\'t want to face the consequence; one ironically can\'t believe the truth and lies to save friendship. These are all precarious situations. There lies the intrigue - fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies. Contradictions, indeed. In spite of the seeming dishonor, decency and heart remain strong. <br /><br />The treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity. It\'s not sensational or complex as another film ""Where the Truth Lies"" 2005. Credits due to Fellowes\' writing and the nuanced performances of both Watson and Wilkinson. There is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies. Beneath it all, human frailty not excluded, they meant well. And following along with the story, the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two Manning\'s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship. <br /><br />You might say there\'s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in ""Separate Lies,"" yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention. The deserving production efforts include cinematography by Tony Pierce-Roberts (a veteran to the Merchant-Ivory films) and music by Stanislas Syrewicz, with mood and tone reminiscent of composer Zbignew Priesner (of filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski\'s Trois Couleurs, especially: Bleu 1993.) This is a British film you just might not want to miss. <br /><br />Emily Watson (Anne, the wife): Breaking the Waves 1996 debut; Hilary and Jackie 1998; The Luzhin Defence 2000; Gosford Park 2001; Punch-Drunk Love, Red Dragon, Equilibrium in 2002. <br /><br />Tom Wilkinson (James, the husband): The Full Monty 1997; The Governess, Rush Hour (as villain) in 1998; In the Bedroom 2001, Normal (HBO cable movie) 2003, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004, recently as Father Moore in: The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005 opposite Laura Linney. <br /><br />Rupert Everett (Bill): He is simply delightful in ""My Best Friend\'s Wedding"" 1997 opposite Julia Roberts and marvelous in ""An Ideal Husband"" 1999 d: Oliver Parker, an Oscar Wilde play. Recently as Sherlock Holmes with Ian Hart as Dr. Watson, in PBS Mystery: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stockings 2004 TV. <br /><br />Linda Bassett (Maggie): she was very effective as Ella Khan opposite Om Puri in ""East is East"" 1999."\n642,"I am amazed with some of the reviews of this film. The only place that seems to tell the truth is RottenTomatoes.com. This film is awful. The plot is extremely lazy. It is not scary either. People out there who think that because it stars Sarah Michelle Geller it is somehow like The Grudge should forget about it. This film is more like Dark Water, except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it. I was extremely disappointed with this film. It didn\'t scare me nor interest me either. Let\'s face it , this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e.g. the dead trying to contact the living - Dragonfly, What Lies Beneath, Ghost Story, Dark Water, Darkness, The Changeling etc.etc. It seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the Japanese and the Koreans. The films that are coming out of Hollywood, like this, are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer. They\'re just being churned out"\n643,"Angela (Sandra Bullock) is a computer expert but, being shy and somewhat of a recluse, she does all of her work from the confines of her condo. Just as she is about to take a vacation in Mexico, a co-worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it. Angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Angela heads to Mexico but takes the disc with her. While she is sunning on the beach, a terrific looking gentleman named Jack (Jeremy Northam) makes overtures to her. She falls for them and the two end up on a boat to Cozumel. However, Jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it. Even after Angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the USA, Jack makes things difficult. He changes Angela\'s identity on every computer across the nation, making her lose her condo, her bank account, everything. Can Angela, a computer whiz, beat Jack at his own game? This very exciting movie has many assets. First, Bullock and Northam are two very beautiful, interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation. The script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today\'s world. The costumes, sets, production, and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful. And, despite how it sounds, there is a great deal of exciting action as Angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy. If you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence, this is a great choice. It delivers twists and turns with great frequency, making it possible for the viewer to ""net"" a very good evening of entertainment."\n644,"I rented the DVD in a video store, as an alternative to reading the report. But it\'s pretty much just more terror-tainment.<br /><br />While the film may present some info from the report in the drama, you\'re taking the word of the producers - there\'s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film. Not one.<br /><br />The acting, all around, is pretty bad - pretty much all of the stereotypes of \'hot shot\' bitchy foul mouthed government agents, each thinking they know more than everyone else. There may be some truth to it, but it really has a bad Hollywood stereotype smell to it.<br /><br />IMDb\'s user community ratings & comments tend to be more right than wrong, and I have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever I can.<br /><br />I wish I had on this one."\n645,"Look, this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies. But you must see this just to watch Lisa Erickson as Julie. She is SMOKIN\' hot and a great little actress to boot! These types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and The Power gave us Lisa Erickson! Nothing I enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a Coke and putting in this film. My friends Bob, Bill and Dennis agree.. Lisa is not only brilliant, she is a hottie. The movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard. But as soon as Lisa hits the screen, things really start hopping. The others are clearly not in her league. This is not the Exorcist but as I said, if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress, this is the one to see!"\n646,"It wasn\'t until I looked at the trivia section that I found out that the original producer/star of this movie Tyrone Power died during its making . This no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things , a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic . You know when you\'ve been painting a wall until you\'re completely bored ? Well that\'s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they\'re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner <br /><br />The plot centres on Soloman the King of Israel having an affair with the Queen of Sheeba and his people not being happy about it . You can\'t really blame them since there\'s few things more beautiful in the world than those Israeli moteks , though the Israeli women here all seem to look like Cherie Blair ! Modern day Israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of Israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in European and American accents <br /><br />After much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed ( And no that\'s not praise ) we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered Israelis have to defend themselves against a massed Egyptian army who can\'t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them . This is what I don\'t get - Even though their blinded by the sun the Egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the Israelis never ever realising they\'re charging towards a gaping ravine ! Isn\'t this somewhat illogical ? It\'s also something of a revealing error since the horses , chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures <br /><br />Anyway the film ends with Soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising God for his victory . But who needs Moshe Dayan , Arik Sharon or God when you\'ve got an idiotic enemy who can\'t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall ?"\n647,"I am a huge Woody Allen fan and so when I saw that this was playing at the cinema I couldn\'t help myself. I wanted to see how Allen would follow up his magnificent film Match Point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in G.B. (which is unique among Allen\'s work) along with what seems to be his new muse Scarlett Johanson. Scoop is much lighter than MP and the humor is Scoop\'s most enjoyable aspect. The plot revolves around Johanson\'s character (a journalism student) who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave. She falls in love with a suspected serial killer (Jackman) and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding. Oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by Allen.<br /><br />I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed Johanson\'s performance but I am a bit bias, I could watch a three hour film with Johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted. She plays a ditsy, yappy, bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of Allen\'s stereotypical neurosis stricken character. She adds appropriate body language for comic effect. Needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find Johanson\'s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus.<br /><br />Allen is Allen... He is still playing the same character much like Chaplin and his Little Tramp character. Something that occur in this film makes me wonder if I will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however. He is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late...<br /><br />Jackman is also enjoyable as the suave, millionaire murder suspect. I cannot say that Jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less.<br /><br />In terms of the plot I cannot help but feel that this is fresh... In fact it stinks of Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Johanson and Allen are more detective-like than anything. However I must applaud Allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding Hollywood version of this film. Instead of everything being black and white, things are painted in shades of gray. Being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt. Though the plot seemed old Woody still has a knack for one liners. I did find his allusions to his last film interesting... Come for the humor, laugh and be merry.<br /><br />Needless to say if you enjoy Allen\'s work watch it. If not watch something else..."\n648,"I rented this film because of my interest in American history, and especially the somewhat weird story of the Mormons. This movie attempts to make some sense out of how Joseph Smith could turn his ""vision"" into a major world religion. It first focuses on the troubles the Mormons had in their settlement at Navuoo, Illinois. It portrays the trial of Joseph Smith. Within the course of that trial, Brigham Young stands up to tell of his conversion to Mormonism, and of his belief in the spiritual message of Smith. Then Smith is assassinated, and Young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the Mormons to a new land. Despite his grave doubts, he perseveres, and finally has a vision (that Utah is the place for his colony) that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership. Later, as crops are destroyed by crickets, he again doubts that he has truly been chosen--however, a miracle occurs, which cements his place in history.<br /><br />I found the performances to be moving, and the story to be convincing and interesting. I would love to know whether Mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal. Polygamy is a part of the story, but the reasons why this is central to LDS are not raised. The issue is not emphasized.<br /><br />I\'m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject-matter, but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout."\n649,"1983\'s ""Frightmare"" is an odd little film. The director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic \'30s/\'40s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then-exploding \'80s slasher genre. It isn\'t totally successful (mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints, and the less-than-professional caliber of its cast of young actors) but it still has its moments, mostly due to the classy performance (classier than the movie deserves) by the late German actor Ferdinand Mayne, who plays an aging old time horror movie star (ala Vincent Price) named ""Conrad Ratzoff."" At the beginning of the movie we meet the has-been horror star as he\'s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol\' Conrad is a bit of a hoity-toity, prima donna jerk-off. Just when you think he couldn\'t be any more un-likable, the commercial director berates Conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death. Nice, huh? Conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club, unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die. Still feisty even at Death\'s door, he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself. Conrad is then laid to rest in true Hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket, which will play personal video messages from Conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects.<br /><br />It is at this point that the kids from the college Horror Movie Society decide to pay Conrad\'s grave an after hours visit, breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party. (Not exactly my idea of fun, but hey, these are characters in an \'80s horror film. Logic has no place here.) The college kids spend the evening having dinner with Conrad\'s body seated in a place of honor, posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it, before parking Conrad and his coffin in the attic, planning to return him to his crypt in the morning. In the meantime, Mrs. Ratzoff, distraught over the theft of her husband\'s body, has called in a psychic friend to try and ""reach"" Conrad through a seance. You can pretty much figure out the rest from here. Since Conrad wasn\'t a very nice guy in life, it\'s not much of a stretch to assume that he won\'t be any friendlier in death. Psychic Lady makes contact with Conrad and he re-awakens in predictably ticked off fashion, then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students\' ridiculously huge house, picking off the young grave robbers one by one. This is where the movie falls apart. Endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying ""Hello? Is anyone there?"" are intercut with occasional bursts of violence (we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene, which is the highlight of the movie) before the last two survivors finally figure out (WAY later than any semi-intelligent people would have figured out the same thing...but again, we\'re in an \'80s horror film!) that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get Conrad\'s body back to its crypt where it belongs. The sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music(thunder, moans and groans, howls, etc.) that becomes severely annoying after a while.<br /><br />I can\'t really recommend ""Frightmare"" to anyone who didn\'t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the \'80s. ""Modern Horror"" fans will doubtlessly find ""Frightmare"" incredibly slow moving and goofy. If you came of age in that magical decade, however, you may get a blast of nostalgia from ""Frightmare."" Fans of Jeffrey (""Re-Animator"") Combs may also want to check it out, as the future Dr. West appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students.<br /><br />I will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the EastWestDVD label (paired with Roy Ward\'s ""Vault of Horror"" and sold at dollar stores) because the print quality is terrible. I\'m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at Troma, which seems appropriate. If you\'re a Troma kind of person then ""Frightmare"" will be right up your alley."\n650,"People watch movies for a variety of different reasons. This movie didn\'t have the big budget, there\'s no special effects, no car chases and there\'s no explosions. Actually reality doesn\'t have much of these either. At least not in my life. <br /><br />This is a very real movie about very real people, none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos. I am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology, since I\'m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain.<br /><br />So watch this movie for the characters. It is brim-full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk. <br /><br />Within the first three minutes Kiefer Sutherland enacts Detective Michael Hayden\'s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie. Excellent acting, very believable. <br /><br />Henry Czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his \'Harvey\' and Kiefer\'s \'Mickey\' enhances the oppositeness of their characters.<br /><br />I thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady, \'Mrs Ramsay\', I\'m sure she and my mother-in-law are good friends!!!<br /><br />There\'s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them."\n651,"I think that you can not imagine how these people really work...!! Before I came to the studios to watch the guys work there, I actually thought quite the same as you do. But since I saw and did the work the guys on that TV-show have to do, I have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long. That really is no easy work. And also the actors, which in your eyes may be terribly bad, are really great people and a lot of them really can act! I don\'t think that the material given to them can really show that, as I think this material isn\'t very good. But THEY are truly good! So I don\'t think that you, before you haven\'t seen these guys doing there work, can judge over them! And I shouldn\'t have judged over them as well before I met them, but I did and am now terribly ashamed of it. So please, do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven\'t seen them doing there job."\n652,"As usual, I am making a mad dash to see the movies I haven\'t watched yet in anticipation of the Oscars. I was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley. I can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has. There is no story!! A group of guys meander around Iraq. One day they are here diffusing a bomb. Tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside, by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire. No wait here they are back in Bagdad. There is no cohesive story at all. The three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures. By that I mean, we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying. We have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe. And then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn\'t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little Iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers DVDs. What do you think is going to happen??? Well, do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn\'t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways?? Why yes! Do you think the Iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy? Why yes! There is no story here. The script is juvenile and predictable! The camera is shaken around a lot to make it look ""artsy"". And for all of you who think this is such a great war picture, go rent ""Full Metal Jacket"", ""Deerhunter"" or ""Platoon"". Don\'t waste time or money on this boring movie!"\n653,"A group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere (one had a flat tire, the other\'s Jeep mysteriously won\'t start). One of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him. When the remaining foursome go in search of their friend, they come across nice Mr. Slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down, hermit-like house, which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins. He goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the 3 girls in the house. Before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack; he warns them about ""Davy"", his brother who is lurking about and isn\'t all there. Of course, one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again. Is it Slaussen? Is it Davy? The mannequins?? Tourist Trap has the usual horror requirements (jiggly big boobed girl, goody two shoes girl, curiosity getting the better of people and never working out!), but it stands apart from the rest of the 70\'s genre in it\'s twist of an ending. I started to feel sorry for Slaussen (Chuck Conners is a terrific, creepy, over-the-top performance)at a point in the film, and you almost see the character of Molly doing the same. This is a gem if you can find it; I had taped it off of cable when I was younger, and walking through a used video store I spotted a VHS copy that was totally overpriced, but well worth it. Fans of Tanya Roberts won\'t be disappointed either. Best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup (and crackers!!)<br /><br />I gave it a 7 because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain."\n654,"Most Lorne Michaels films seem to fail because they\'re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five-minute segments. ""Tommy Boy"" is a character right from ""SNL"" - a big fat lovable (in their opinion) goof who doesn\'t know anything.<br /><br />David Spade gets the Thankless Overwhelmed Everyman role. He\'s paired with the Annoying Overweight Slob and they endure Miserable Misfortunes as they travel cross country to Save Daddy\'s Business.<br /><br />The plot, for starters, is really faulty. The whole premise - daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz - can be traced back to just about any movie you want. Like any SNL style film it is reduced to a simple motivation - empty, shallow; just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be ""funny"" together.<br /><br />The movie\'s biggest ""influence"" is the 1987 comedy classic ""Planes, Trains & Automobiles."" That movie is great because the plot isn\'t stale and recycled. It\'s basic, yeah - a guy traveling home for Thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob. But it\'s real, dammit. It makes all the difference. The characters are real, the situations are far more real. ""Tommy Boy"" is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters - we feel nothing for them, and we don\'t care about what\'s happening on-screen. ""PTA"" walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate-able - ""Tommy Boy"" is simply absurd, with jokes like a simple deer-in-the-headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn\'t dead, then awakens and wrecks their car.<br /><br />The whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from ""PTA"" and it\'s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the Steve Martin/John Candy movie.<br /><br />Farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable - I\'ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn\'t changed my mind. Spade\'s given very little to do, serving as the movie\'s most thankless character.<br /><br />Dan Aykroyd is wasted as the Evil Baddie who plans to destroy Daddy\'s Business. The ending is a joke, and not in a ""har-har funny"" way. More like a ""oh god are they serious?!"" way.<br /><br />Some people dig it, that\'s cool. But I just can\'t get into it, nor do I appreciate all the stuff it ""borrows"" from - not just counting ""PT&A"" - without any credit whatsoever."\n655,"Having read during many years about how great this film was, how it established Ruiz among the french critics (specially the snobbish Cahiers crowd), when I finally watched it about a year ago, I found it pretty disappointing (but then, I guess my expectations were sky-high). Shot in saturated black and white, this deliberately cerebral film (made for TV, and mercifully, only an hour long) is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off-screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings (which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants) and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime. (The awful Kate Beckinsale film Uncovered has a similar argument). Borgesian is a word I read a lot in reviews about this movie, but I would say almost any Borges story is more interesting than this film."\n656,"Many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare, however, every so often a movie might come along thats honest, funny, entertaining AND memorable. The Last American Virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients. This film follows three friends (Gary, Rick and David ""The Big Apple"") misadventures into the world of first-time sex and true love. Along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship. We follow hopeless romantic Gary (The main character) on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it\'s ending. If you haven\'t been lucky enough to see this movie yet, by all means take a look...sprinkled with many memorable 80s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace. L.A.V. truly is an original film, a rarity among films of it\'s genre."\n657,"I loved this show from it\'s first airing, and I always looked forward to watching each episode every week. The plot, characters, writing, special affects were outstanding! Then the sci-fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining, well written show. I say bring it back, I know all of the actors would come back. I would suggest buying the DVD\'s, I am. I hope the sci-fi channels executives get word of these comments, and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers. I only watch one show on that channel now, (Ghost Hunters), but I am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too."\n658,"I didn\'t know what to except so I think it was a lot better not having excepted much. Don\'t get my wrong its not a bad short film. Tess Nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so I think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film. You can tell that it has been an act of love for her. The acting (outside of Dominic) is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good. There was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on, though I don\'t feel it greatly detracts for one\'s ability to understand the film. If you love Dominic Monaghan as much as I do, I say go for it. The gag reel was fun, I won\'t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the DVD worth it just so you can watch it over and over. If you like the film then check out The Pink Mirror, a film also done by Jagged Edge. I know fans of Dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven."\n659,"Did the first travesty actually make money? This is another sequel (along the lines of ANOTHER STAKEOUT) that no one asked for. But we\'ve received it anyway. The sequel is like its predecessor, completely brain-dead. It\'s also pretty disgusting (remember the dinner scene?) To think I almost felt sorry for Ritter, Yasbeck, and Warden. Did they need the money that much?"\n660,"I was never so bored in my life. Hours of pretentious, self-obsessed heroin-addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems. It\'s like watching lizards molt. Even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy. If you have insomnia, rent this."\n661,"This movie is awesome on so many levels... and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on.<br /><br />Just remember this: When you\'re watching Shaun of the Dead and other recent zombie movies... be they good or bad... THIS is the formula that they are using. THIS is what makes zombie movies so great.<br /><br />And what makes it BETTER than great is the story behind the movie. A simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know.<br /><br />All in all, it doesn\'t linger. There\'s never a point where you think to yourself ""c\'mon, get on with it""... it moves quick and corners nicely. This is the sporty, little Italian number of zombie flicks.<br /><br />So awful, it\'s wonderful! If your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek... rent it, buy it, love it.<br /><br />As a great trivia note: If you\'re watching it on DVD, you\'ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen, underneath the musical score... Well... that\'s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer... which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop."\n662,"The Ladies Man is laugh out loud funny, with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes (including the funniest love song ever written).<br /><br />Ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role.<br /><br />Tim Meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you\'ll find in any comedy out there.<br /><br />It is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every 6 months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round.<br /><br />I am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre 4.7 /10 and i urge you to vote! <br /><br />And remember kids- ""Theres more motion in the ocean"""\n663,"when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like The Duchess(2008), but when i saw the first 30 minutes of The Young Victoria i knew this wouldn\'t just be a solid movie. Almost everything in this movie is great, the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot.<br /><br />The only thing that really let me down are the performances. Emily Blunt(The Devil Wears Prada) is the star of the film, bringing Victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first Oscar nomination for her performance. Rupert Friend is almost bland as Prince Albert but he has great chemistry with Emily Blunt. Paul Bettany is also solid as Lord Melbourne although i expected more of him. Jim Broadbent and Miranda Richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable.<br /><br />To me the film feels like unfinished. Maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script, i don\'t know but that\'s how i feel about the movie.<br /><br />But overall it\'s a great movie about the early years of Victoria with a Great performance from Emily Blunt."\n664,"A flying saucer manned (literally) by a crew of about 20 male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some 25 years ago on a \'forbidden planet.\' What they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth, a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman, and her father, a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in.<br /><br />On the surface, this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery. Some compare it to Shakespeare\'s Tempest, but this is a stretch, and, in some ways, an insult to the scifi genre. Stripped of what makes it a scifi film, sure, its The Tempest, but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about? <br /><br />Underneath, this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use. Yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like Star Trek.<br /><br />Anne Francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful. The special effects, and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable. If it were not for the goofy retro-art-deco-ness of 1950s sci-fi props, you might think you were watching a 1960s piece.<br /><br />This is a classic of that very special sub-genre of sci fi I like to call 1950s sci-fi, and, though not, in my opinion, the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci-fi film and special effects. The clever plot, now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of Star Trek, Lost in Space, and even Farscape, is worth paying attention to, and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans. Trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of Star Trek\'s original series aired about 12 years later, though they may find themselves disappointed by the (relatively mild) 1950s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration. While I do not mean to nitpick, the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem I had with it. <br /><br />Some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young, good-looking Leslie Nielsen in one of his first starring roles. Unfortunately, Nielsen\'s performance is only average, and at times down-right poor (especially at the climax of the film). Walter Pigeon, though quite excellent in other films, over-acts his role as well. Ms Francis, Earl Holliman, and the amazing Robby the Robot are the stand-out actors in this crowd, though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job. The problems with the featured performances, I think, are as much the fault of the director and the editor, as anything. Though they certainly got most of the film quite right."\n665,"I just saw this film on DVD last night, and decided to check out the reviews this morning. It seems that ""I, Robot"" has polarized the critical viewing community here on IMDb (and given rise to a lot of insults and name-calling, too).<br /><br />I find this somewhat surprising, as this film is not great (or even good), but neither is it terrible (or even really bad). What this film really is, is...depressing. Depressing that the US film-goer population is so ready to lap up insipid, clichéd re-heats, and acclaim them as spectacular new works. This film as ""retread"" written all over it, from the plot line (an uneasy mix of Asimov and modern-day uber-action) to Smith\'s character (a smart-mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium), to the special effects (that borrowed from Matrix and a few others).<br /><br />""I, Robot"" is, sadly, quite possibly the perfect action movie for today\'s audience: superficial plot, insipidly snappy dialog, and lots and lots of adrenaline. Smith is mediocre, but we already knew that (he seems to be Hollywood\'s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black Bruce Willis). The story has lots of holes in it, of all sizes, but I don\'t think most people drawn to this film are critically-minded enough to notice. Perhaps a blockbuster by today\'s standards, but very B-movie compared to true winners."\n666,"This was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects. Just tell a true story about the struggles of two African American women over a turbulent century.<br /><br />This movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people, not white, black, etc.<br /><br />Good movie with a good message."\n667,"I have bought the complete season of Surface. watched it in 3 days! I was so captured by the the plot, theories and basically everything about this show. The actor who plays Miles is great. Mile\'s sister, mother and father acted like real life family would. You could connect on so many levels it\'s fascinating.<br /><br />I find animals are so wonderful, you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child. It would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists.<br /><br />Am sadden, that Surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows. I have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book.<br /><br />Love the show very much. For those who haven\'t watched Surface, if you like sci-fi you need to watch this!!!!!!!!!!!!!"\n668,"This must have been one of the worst movies I have ever seen.<br /><br />I have to disagree with another commenter, who said the special effects were okay. I found them pretty bad: it just wasn\'t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story.<br /><br />Maybe that distraction is the reason that I did not fully understand the story. The archaeologists are looking for ""the set"". They do not bother to tell what set, or what is so special about it. That also makes it unclear why they search for it in California, while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient Egypt.<br /><br />If you\'re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert, take the effort to actually go to the desert. The beginning - the ancient ceremony - looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert.<br /><br />The action-level was constant throughout the movie, no ups and downs, no climax. It made the movie look short, and that\'s certainly a pro for this particular movie."\n669,"Liam Neeson portrays the Scottish legend Robert Roy Macgregor from the early 18th century. He is a true actor. He captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles. Jessica Lange is excellent as his wife Mary. Mary is such a beautiful woman. It\'s her love that makes Rob Roy the legend, but it\'s his passion that makes her love undying. They need each other. Tim Roth as the evil Cunningham is perfect; in one way or another, upon watching the movie, you will find Cunningham disgusting. The Scotland scenery is beautiful. The environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well. If you like history, romance, passion and love, you\'ll enjoy Rob Roy. There is violence and blood, but it\'s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told; no gratuitous violence. And you do have to listen carefully if you\'re not used to a Scottish accent. One important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized; they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes. It\'s their skill as actors that attracts you, they don\'t rely on marquee names, popularity or sex symbol appeal. This is something special."\n670,"When i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world. She has beautiful and charming body. When cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body... i think male have hard to resist....i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes. At least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like Seema biswas to c in bandit queen.I concur with what mallicka.b has said. The movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content. Emotions aren\'t conveyed properly. I guess a couple of not-so-good performances also contributed to its mediocrity. In my view, Tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of Aishwarya Rai. In some of her scenes, she looks a bit lusty, which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed. I also noticed a bit of over-acting in some of her scenes. I\'m a bitter critic of Aishwarya Rai :) Can\'t help it; sorry for that. \'Raincoat\' was a good movie by Rituparno Ghosh. And I saw Choker Bali after seeing Raincoat; I was not at all impressed"\n671,They\'ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in Sweden and I am so very tired of it. The bad acting isn\'t enough... The story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists. I love the original from 1953 so I recommend you to go and rent that one instead. Because this one is such a bore.\n672,"Having seen Carlo Lizzani\'s documentary on Luchino Visconti, I was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by Adam Low. But the viewer like me did get dissatisfied... I faced a need for critical opinion, which I generally don\'t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer. There are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally. But when I read the reviews already written on this title, I also felt a bit confused. People sometimes don\'t know what to criticize. Therefore, to be clear, I\'ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably: the former one about Visconti before his director\'s career and latter one about Visconti the director. <br /><br />The aristocratic background, all the hobbies, the wealth that young Luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented. His effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents\' divorce. We also get a very accurate idea of where Luchino was brought up as a real count of Milano: in riches galore, with nannies, cooks with access to everything, in TRUE ARISTOCRACY. For instance, his father\'s splendid villa at Grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that. There is also an emphasis on Visconti\'s crucial visit in Paris in the 1930s where he met eminent people (""left wingers"") who later had impact on his style and message in art. That clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing (a contrast at first sight). <br /><br />However, the part about his director\'s career, which started with OSSESSIONE during WWII and ended with INNOCENTE just before the director\'s death in 1976, is poorly executed. His movies are not discussed well. Why? Because there are very few people who really have something to say. Franco Zeffirelli, the director, remembers the works on LA TERRA TREMA and that is all right. There are also some interviews with Franco Rosi. But later, such movies like IL GATTOPARDO, LA CADUTA DEI REI, LA MORTE A VENEZIA or LUDWIG are mostly discussed by Helmut Berger. Although I liked the actor in the role of Ludwig, I did not like the interviews of his. Moreover, some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary... There is no mention of significant works of Visconti like CONVERSATION PIECE, there are no interviews with eminent cast Burt Lancaster. A mention about Silvana Mangano and Romy Schneider should also be made. There is one footage interview with Maria Callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit. Franco Zeffirelli, though I appreciate him as a director, makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious. For instance, he mentions the event how Visconti separated from him after years of service. Therefore, I say: simplified and unsatisfactory. <br /><br />What I find a strong point here are footage interviews with Visconti himself. As a result, we may get his own opinion about his works. For instance, I very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself. He also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming LUDWIG.<br /><br />I believe it is better to see LUCHINO VISCONTI (1999) by Carlo Lizzani than this doc. Although it is shorter and condensed as a whole, you will get a better idea of the director. Visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people\'s emotions and viewpoints into stone... 4/10"\n673,"Time is precious. This film isn\'t. I must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like Fargo and this complete waste of time.<br /><br />The theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction: Is this the film the critics are raving about? What a piece of crap!<br /><br />The hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family. Get it?<br /><br />The acting is superb.<br /><br />The production (lighting, sets, editing, sound) is about 2 steps above a 60 minutes story. The characters are shallow and unintelligent. I was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience; the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next.<br /><br />I have had more fun doing the laundry."\n674,"worst. movie. ever made. EVER. I have no words to say about it.. other then it truly had no point, no plot, no... anything. sheer crap!!! I don\'t know how everyone in the movie didn\'t shoot them shelves after watching it.... .... .... ... .. I love vampire flicks and mysteries, and alternate abstract outside the box films, and.... this was non of those. I mean what the crap!!! I cant even tell you what the film was about cuz I still don\'t know, and I just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it... bottom line.. I think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs. thats the only thing I got from this film. please don\'t watch this... I mean for a "" sultry sensual vampire flick"" there wasn\'t even the to be expected nudity you\'d get from a vamp flick. anyway back to my point.... this movie blows. go set yourself on fire instead.... .. .."\n675,"Savage Island (2003) is a lame movie. It\'s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting. Not only that the storyline and script was wretched. I don\'t know why this movie was made. I have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones I really hate are movies that make me angry. This one made my blood boil. The situations were inane at best. If I made a movie like this it would have been a short. Really because those backwood ""idjits"" wouldn\'t have been in the picture.<br /><br />Don\'t be fooled by the cover on the D.V.D. I am an avid watcher of bad cinema. But this movie is virtually unwatchable. I don\'t mind movies being shot on D.V. but if you\'re going to do that make the movie enjoyable, not some tired retread of superior horror films (sans Wrong Turn).<br /><br />I have to not recommend this waste of disk. If you come across this one in the rental store pass on by.<br /><br />Movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic 1."\n676,I have to say this is my favorite movie of all time. I have seen it well over 100 times (actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching) It is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in. I highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again. Buy a copy now it is a classic!!!!\n677,"I saw it at the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City this morning. I\'m going to assume that one\'s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one\'s level of acceptance of Joseph\'s story.<br /><br />However, that aside it was very well made, well acted, and had a nice score. If you get to Salt Lake City, it is a must to see it in the Legacy Theater. I have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality, sound quality and ambiance in my entire life...I wonder if the Church would let me watch Batman Begins there! Being that I\'m LDS and regard Joseph as a prophet, I was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times...which I presume is expected since they handed out tissues BEFORE the movie started! Anyway, I\'m told that this film is available in several LDS Visitor Centers around the globe, if you have 70 minutes check it out because whether you believe Joseph Smith or not, he tells a fascinating story."\n678,"Adenoid Hynkel, a lowly soldier in World War One, rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of Toumania. He creates an aggressive, antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache. Sound like anyone you know?<br /><br />From the safety of Hollywood, Chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort Europe to take up arms and defy Hitler and Mussolini. Given that the United States in 1940 had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it, and no strong desire to embroil itself in Europe\'s civil strife (remember, it was Hitler who declared war on the USA, not the other way round) it is surprising that Chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic.<br /><br />The story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant Hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides, and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly, humane, brave, etc., etc, Chaplin is Hynkel, and he also plays The Jewish Barber, the little hero of the ghetto (The Tramp in all but name). Needless to say, Chaplin writes, directs, stars, composes the music and does the catering.<br /><br />In 1940 the full truth was not yet known about the Third Reich, and Chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight, but even by the standards of the day he gets Hitler badly wrong. A comedian and a sentimentalist, Chaplin tries to ridicule Hitler by making Hynkel silly and hapless. All this does is to humanise him. When Hynkel the not-very-warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside-down aeroplane, he becomes endearing rather than despicable. As dictator, he inspects his subordinates\' technical innovations which don\'t work (the parachute hat, the bulletproof uniform etc.) and these passages are meant to make us think that the real-life Nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside. In fact, Hynkel\'s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery.<br /><br />In truth, Chaplin\'s day had already passed when he made this ill-considered polemic. At heart, he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen (check out the humour, with gags like staggering up and down the street semi-conscious, or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings). The hero Schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of European decency against which Hynkel can be judged, but Schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a Nazi. Is it in any way believable that a Schultz figure (if such had existed) would say to the Fuehrer\'s face, ""your cause is doomed to failure because it\'s built upon the stupid, ruthless persecution of innocent people""? And how does Schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto? If he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt, why does he persist in wearing his Ruritanian uniform? Chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka, but the Nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age. As usual, Chaplin thinks in terms of \'silent\' comedy set-pieces, loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line. There is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers, shaving a man to the accompaniment of Brahms, and the globe ballet (watch for the segment filmed in reverse).<br /><br />Paulette Goddard is the unremittingly perfect Hannah. Just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice, and the jewish haven in Osterlich is ridiculously idyllic, so Hannah is quite literally too good to be true. Brave, defiant, resourceful, hardworking and (of course) beautiful, she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage. ""Gee, ain\'t I cute?"" she asks, after the Barber gives her a make-over. Too cute by far, is the answer. She doesn\'t come close to ringing true, because Chaplin has made her a caricature. The \'wouldn\'t it be wonderful?\' speech which Chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author - too wordy, too emotionally cloying.<br /><br />Jack Oakie is great as Napaloni, the fascist dictator of Bacteria. He brings a whiff of much-needed comic brio to the proceedings, but the film\'s underlying weakness remains. If Napaloni is silly and ineffective, how can we fear him? And anyway, the stuttering stop-start of the back-projected train is a fine Chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth.<br /><br />And where did the Jewish Barber acquire that immaculate Hynkel uniform?"\n679,"""Milo"" is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked.Do we really need more slashers?I for one think we already have more than enough.I guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that\'s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it.A long time ago,he drowned but that didn\'t bother him and he still kills people(""Friday the 13th"",what\'s that?).One day,his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist,Milo comes to pay them a visit.Through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out Milo\'s dull,I mean dark secret.She and her friends have been dying to know.Once discovered,Milo goes on yet another murderous rampage(isn\'t it his bedtime yet?) and the girl,well she screams a lot.The acting is not even bottom of the barrel,the barrel refuses to be associated with it.Milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time I give him that,but some movies just can\'t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity."\n680,"This is one of the best horror / suspense films that Hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades.Even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts, it has everything that a good film in this genre should had CHILL, THRILLS, AND yes a lot of GORE!! HOUSE OF WAX SURE DELIVERS!!! In parts it was sort of far-fetched,the acting was not that great,but my overhaul rating for HOUSE OF WAX is an eight out of ten......if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats, this is just the right movie for you,I have to admit,it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax...... I myself enjoy these museums, but after seeing this film I will now look at them in a whole new different way!"\n681,"Never saw the original movie in the series...I only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the 1980\'s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified. This movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now. Anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie. It was, however, a movie that would make some Walt Disney movies look dark. Really, this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen. The only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm, other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid. The story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water. Not really worth watching I would however like to see the original, granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the 80\'s, but he also made a very good slasher movie in the 70\'s ""The Town the Dreaded Sundown""."\n682,"Created in 1928, and originally named Mortimer before Walt Disney changed his name (because his wife convinced him), Mickey Mouse has become the staple of the Disney brand. I always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature Mickey, it is in fact his third, but it doesn\'t matter, for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable. The story sees Mickey piloting a steamboat until Captain Pete takes him off the bridge, stopping to pick up cargo, and Minnie Mouse missing the boat. Being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them, Mickey helps her crank it\'s tail and play the tune, and getting some other animals to be percussion, until Pete comes along again to stop him, making Mickey peel potatoes. Mickey Mouse was number 53 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons, and he was number 31 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Very good!"\n683,"Highly regarded at release, but since rather neglected. Immense importance in the history of performing arts. A classic use of embedded plots. One of my favourite films. Why hasn\'t the soundtrack been re-released?"\n684,"The perfect murder is foiled when a wife(played by Mary Ellen Trainor, once the wife to director Robert Zemeckis, who helmed this episode), who murders her husband with a poker, has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside..an escaped insane madman dressed in a Santa Claus suit(played by a deviously hideous Larry Drake). She fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband\'s corpse. She decides to use an ax, once she downs the Santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman\'s head, to frame the killer for her husband\'s murder. Santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman\'s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child.<br /><br />This episode of TALES FROM THE CRYPT just recycles tired material involving the old ""Santa kills"" theme while also adding the oft-used(add nauseum)woman-murders-her-husband-for-a-man-she\'s-been-cheating-with routine. It\'s essentially Trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac. There\'s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions. Not one of the show\'s highlights."\n685,"The IMDb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film. It should have read \'Be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the 3rd pew from the back of your family\'s church at 8 years old, listening to the preacher drone on about God\'s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your Lego\'.<br /><br />It starts off well intentioned, building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as Renny\'s \'how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast?\' moment. It then slowly morphs into a Christian jamboree, sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic-induced babble. I believe I counted the use of the word \'pray\' about 53 times in a five minute span near the end. After the 31st, I tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym, \'prey\'. Sadly, this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last 20 minutes. Plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say \'prayer\' (\'preyer\' to me) as it became totally zany. Indeed, even my Catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom, almost to the point of ending up on the floor.<br /><br />For all the salivating Christians who ranked this film 8-10 stars, I suggest sticking with your theology-reinforcing safety standards like Circle Square, The Ten Commandments, anything from Narnia, Jesus Christ Superstar and the like. Stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as Jesus Camp, The God Who Wasn\'t There, What Would Jesus Buy, or the soon-to-be released Religulous.<br /><br />Maybe Robert Whitlow\'s book is better."\n686,"TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY is possibly the best movie of all of Mary Pickford\'s films. At two hours, it was quite long for a 1922 silent film yet continues to hold your interest some 80 years after it was filmed. Mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a ""greatest hits"" performance with bits of Mary the innocent, Mary the little devil, Mary the little mother, Mary the spitfire, Mary the romantic heroine, etc. characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past. The movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character\'s illegitimate child for 1922 and at one point our Little Mary is thought the unwed mother in question! If the Academy Awards had been around in 1922, no doubt the Best Actress Oscar for the year would have been Mary\'s."\n687,"I first saw this movie when I was about 10 years old. My mom bought it at our local Kmart because it was on sale for $5 on VHS. She thought that it would be a nice Christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch. This movie, however, scared the hell out of me. You may be asking yourself, how could a movie about Santa Clause scare anyone? The plot of the movie revolves around Satan sending one his minions, Pitch, to earth in an attempt to kill Santa and ruin Christmas. That\'s right, Satan sends a demon up from hell to kill Santa Clause. Pitch stalks Santa throughout Christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on Christmas day, for if Santa doesn\'t make it back to his home in space, he turns to powder. Don\'t get me wrong, the movie is funny and fairly entertaining, however, the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell (which occurs at the beginning of the movie) is just downright creepy."\n688,"Although there are some snippets in this 4-part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform, these are not very well-developed, in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs.<br /><br />Although this program, as a whole, leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money, and for that it deserves some praise, almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to--very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you, if asked, they think the drug war is designed to solve. For example, while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the 80\'s, at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law, forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business. But instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence, the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame. Inexplicably, alcohol prohibition, the violence that ensued, and the subsequent reversal of prohibition, is totally ignored by this program.<br /><br />This program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users, and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war. The possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on. Use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems, but not all users do their drugs in excess, just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics.<br /><br />If you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government, for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science, has decided to totally prohibit, whose users it has decided to not-so-metaphorically wage war against, just forget about it. None of that is in here.<br /><br />On the other hand, this is hardly in the category of anti-drug propaganda. It is mostly an interesting neutrally-presented history of drugs in 20th century United States like marijuana, LSD, heroin, cocaine, MDMA, and Oxycontin. But there is a significant element of various people\'s points of view with regard to drug laws, and most (but not all) of that is not very thoughtful or well-informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality, especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana. <br /><br />The criminal justice system, along with its often harsh life-ruining penalties, is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem, but unfortunately there\'s an epidemic in this nation of an as-yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs, a lack of compassion for fellow humans, a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally-approved, perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison/policing industry, and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity. It\'s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so, and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason. This is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs, yet this program ignores it.<br /><br />So, in sum, the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining. But when it comes to presenting a rational non-radical point of view with regard to drug policy, and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives, it\'s pretty disappointing."\n689,"Considering this film was released 8 years before I was born, I don\'t feel too bad for over-looking it for such a long time. Back in January of 98 though, I attended the Second Annual Quentin Tarantino film fest held in Austin,Texas. The particular theme of films this night was ""Neglected 70\'s Crime Films"" and boy was her right. ""The Gravy Train(or The Dion Brothers, as it appeared this print)"" was an absolute gem. Wonderful performances, quirky characters, smart plot, hilarious comedy, and just an all around great time. Rarely do you see a Crime film that is so entertaining and fresh. Margot Kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well. I hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it. In the meantime, go to an indie video store and hope they have it."\n690,"The movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group. In their endeavors, the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called Satin, whom Sister goes after because she believes he is the ""big time"" who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life. Though he could be accused of killing her, he really kills only her spirit and will to live, after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose. The story isn\'t about the street life or the Italian mobster who tries to buy Stix off, then threatens him, it\'s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be ""discovered"" back then."\n691,"First, I realize that a ""1"" rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. This movie gets that from me because, as one reviewer points out, it\'s not bad in a self-aware, over-the-top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value. It simply misses its mark on every count. **Contains possible spoilers** The dialog is completely disingenuous. The continuity is so deliberate it\'s painful. Daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love, and with his final word the flamenco dancers start. The mock-shock of what\'s her name (see? I don\'t even remember her character\'s name, let alone the name of the forgettable actress) when her husband (the Baldwin) first tells her that her friend is the bad guy. The car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things. Vegetable carts gone flying. Cars crashing into each other. Motorcycles going down the stairs. People nearly being hit, but remarkably, no one is. Oh, that\'s right... except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times, is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds, and an approaching car apparently didn\'t notice him there. Hmmm. <br /><br />It\'s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made. There is so much pressure in the film industry to make money, you\'d think that someone in Hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing. Now there\'s a novel idea. <br /><br />My suggestion: don\'t see this film. Don\'t rent the DVD. Don\'t watch it on cable. There are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied."\n692,"Picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says ""lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public (also black) in the street and ask him if he is black, then walk away"". The other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode. More laughter. Now if you think the premise is funny, and the show contains many such types of situation, you will enjoy this show. For the rest, use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry. Those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny. Another example of the humor in the show, a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier. Marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers? I could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers, divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all."\n693,"The year 2005 saw no fewer than 3 filmed productions of H. G. Wells\' great novel, ""War of the Worlds"". This is perhaps the least well-known and very probably the best of them. No other version of WotW has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as Wells wrote it, but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place: the last year of the 19th Century, 1900 Â… using Wells\' original setting, in and near Woking, England.<br /><br />IMDb seems unfriendly to what they regard as ""spoilers"". That might apply with some films, where the ending might actually be a surprise, but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world, it seems positively silly. I have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in English literature, so let\'s get right to the chase. The aliens are destroyed through catching an Earth disease, against which they have no immunity. If that\'s a spoiler, so be it; after a book and 3 other films (including the 1953 classic), you ought to know how this ends.<br /><br />This film, which follows Wells\' plot in the main, is also very cleverly presented – in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late 19th/early 20th Century photography. Although filmed in a widescreen aspect, the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity. The general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs (rather than black). Colors are often reminiscent of hand-tinting. At other times, colors are washed out. These variations are typical of early films, which didn\'t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality, even going from black/white to sepia/white to blue/white to reddish/white and so on – as you\'ll see on occasion here. The special effects are deliberately retrograde, of a sort seen even as late as the 1920s – and yet the Martians and their machines are very much as Wells described them and have a more nearly realistic ""feel"". Some of effects are really awkward – such as the destruction of Big Ben. The acting is often more in the style of that period than ours. Some aspects of Victorian dress may appear odd, particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair.<br /><br />This film is the only one that follows with some closeness Wells\' original narrative – as has been noted. Viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story. Wells\' description of the Martians – a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles – is effectively portrayed. When the Martian machines appear, about an hour into the film, they too give a good impression of how Wells described them. Both Wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the Martians from the limited perspective (primarily) of rural England – plus a few scenes in London (involving the Narrator\'s brother). The director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark (Big Ben), but at least doesn\'t dwell unduly on the devastation of London.<br /><br />The victory of the Martians is hardly a surprise, despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines. The Narrator, traveling about to seek escape, sees much of what Wells terms ""the rout of Mankind"". He encounters a curate endowed with the Victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality. They eventually find themselves on the very edge of a Martian nest, where they discover an awful fact: the Martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene. Wells adds that after eating they set up ""a prolonged and cheerful hooting"". The Narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate – who revives just as the Martians drag him off to the larder (cheers from the gallery; British curates are so often utterly insufferable).<br /><br />This film lasts almost 3 hours, going through Wells\' story in welcome detail. It\'s about time the author got his due – in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact. A word about the acting: Don\'t expect award-winning performances. They\'re not bad, however, the actors are earnest and they grow on you. Most of them, however, have had very abbreviated film careers, often only in this film. The Narrator is played by hunky Anthony Piana, in his 2nd film. The Curate is John Kaufman – also in his 2nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing. The Brother (""Henderson"") is played with some conviction by W. Bernard Bauman in his first film. The Artilleryman, the only other sizable part, is played by James Lathrop in his first film.<br /><br />This is overall a splendid film, portraying for the first time the War of the Worlds as Wells wrote it. Despite its slight defects, it is far and away better than any of its hyped-up competitors. If you want to see H. G. Wells\' War of the Worlds – and not some wholly distorted version of it – see this film!"\n694,"Of the elements that make this the best at this point, I have to say #1 is Christine McIntire. Shemp\'s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent. I imagine that, as one poster suggested, Christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene, but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil, to be smiling at Shemp\'s possibly dying.<br /><br />Another character who helps this stand out is the Goon. His look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof-ball. Hardly a character I would choose to meet in a dark alley or, for that matter anywhere. I would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this, but hey, when a short is this good, who\'s going to complain. Not I."\n695,"Okay this is stupid,they say their not making another Nightmare film,that this is the ""last"" one...And what do they do?They go on making another one,not that the next one (part7) was BAD,but why do they play us. Anyway this movie made no sense what-so ever,it was extremelly dull,the characters were highly one dimensional,Freddy was another joker,which is very stupid for such a good series.The plot is very,very bad,and this is even worse than part 2 and 5. I didnt get the movie,its a stupid tale in 3-d,pointless!Id say. I hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film.This is SO different than the prequels,it tries,and tries,but this one tried the hardest,and got slapped back on the face.Again there were hadly any death scenes,although they were different,they sucked bigtime. How can they have gone this far?Didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts 2 and 5?Yet they make this?Its all bout the money,DO NOT SEE THIS SAD EXCUSE FOR A NIGHTMARE SERIES.<br /><br />I GAVE A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET SIX (6) 3 out of 10.<br /><br />GOOD POINTS OF MOVIE: Had potential with plot.<br /><br />BAD POINTS OF FILM: Terrible acting/lack of deaths/Too funny to be classified as horror/very confusing."\n696,"Everyone, my name may sound weird, but there was nothing else! <br /><br />Any way, I haven\'t seen anything like this before so it was crazy! Of course that\'s a good thing. It is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one! Like chicken little,, the fish pretending to be King Kong and Runt the pig saying, ""Twas beauty who killed the beast"", War of the worlds scene and more. Walt Disney company has NOT lost his touch maybe not for this one. Also, how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema. <br /><br />However some parts don\'t fit. Like in the original lion king, weren\'t Timon and Pumbaa with Simba when he beat Scar? In this movie, they are not! they were fighting the hyenas backstage. Ther\'s more, the reason being why Pumbaa isn\'t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also, it\'s just Timon, Timon, Timon. Anybody realise that only Timonn\'s story was told, whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks?<br /><br />But apart from that , IT""S GREAT!"\n697,"Finally was there released a good Modesty Blaise movie, which not only tells a story, but actually tells the ""real"" story. I admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller, but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations. Then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by Peter O\'Donnell. You have a cover story just to tell about how Modesty became the magnificent person which she is. It is not a movie to attract new fans, but a movie to tell the real tale. Some things could have been better, but when you cannot forget the awful movie from \'66 then is this a magnificent movie. So are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make Modesty tell her story."\n698,"By now, the game\'s stale, right?<br /><br />The jokes have been done. Its all over. The creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone, after all.<br /><br />Wrong.<br /><br />The game is still intact, the jokes are here, folks. Sure, they\'re all rehash, but so was Monkey Island 2. And 1, for that matter.<br /><br />The difficulty is well placed, somewhere between the slightly easy 1 and the ridiculously hard 2. The ship fighting sub-game is badly innappropriate, in the tradition of sub-games. And this game has the best joke of the whole series. When asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach, always select ""You don\'t need to see my identification."" Its worth the price of the game by itself."\n699,"I decided to watch this movie because I\'d not seen Carol Lombard before in any movie. I\'m sorry it had to be this one because, quite frankly, this is a dog – and even with Jimmy Stewart and Charles Coburn, both of whom were great actors.<br /><br />The problem with the film is simple: it tries to put too much, too quickly, in to a story about a young lawyer (John Manson played by Stewart) who marries Jane (played by Lombard) within an hour of meeting her. What\'s that cliché? Marry in haste, repent at leisure... <br /><br />In short, the story is a series of episodes that show the couples\' worsening financial status, their troubles with John\'s live-in mother, their struggles to pay the bills, John\'s diminished status at the office, the arrival of their baby son, John Jnr (unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother), the couples\' angst about their marriage, the baby\'s sickness which worsens, thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot (in a fierce storm) to bring a special serum to save the child, and finally John being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm.<br /><br />How many more clichéd situations could the writers include? Maybe Mother dying soon after? There wasn\'t much comedy; the drama was lacklustre, at best; the dialog was painful to hear. Only the acting of the four main players was adequate.<br /><br />This was the period at the end of the Great Depression with the USA coming out of its long downturn – during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie.<br /><br />So, it made sense for Selznick to reaffirm good ol\' home spun American values of family, relationships, heroism, perseverance, and initiative – all against the backdrop of the ""average"" American family. Who better to use than Jimmy Stewart and Carol Lombard? <br /><br />And, it should be noted that the film was released in early 1939; so, it was planned in 1938 – soon after the USA began to get production going for the coming World War II. Hence, this sort of film was a great booster for the general public, at that time, many of who would soon have to join England in war. As many here would know, Hollywood and Washington formed an uneasy alliance before, during and after the war.<br /><br />However, I\'m glad I saw it – as a piece of disguised socio-political propaganda. But, I\'ll have to see other Lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range.<br /><br />As another reviewer noted: see this one just to say that you\'ve seen all of Stewart\'s movies; otherwise, don\'t bother."\n700,"Unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there\'s nothing to spoil about that movie.Even if B. Mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun Eurotrash director. But for the last 10 years he seemed to have lost it.This film is just empty, nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first 10 min.No sex, no blood(it\'s suppose to be about snuff?),no actors, no dialogs, just as bad as an 90\'T.V film.It\'s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics.So Rest in peace Bruno, you will stay in our minds forever anyway, thanks to such unforgettable gems as:Zombi 3, Robowar,Rats, l\'altro inferno,Virus, Cruel jaws and few others.So except if you want to see B Mattei possessed by jess Franco\'s spirit\'s new film, pass on this one.But if you don\'t know this nice artisan\'s career track down his old films and have fun."\n701,"I Enjoyed Watching This Well Acted Movie Very Much!It Was Well Acted,Particularly By Actress Helen Hunt And Actors Steven Weber And Jeff Fahey.It Was A Very Interesting Movie,Filled With Drama And Suspense,From The Beginning To The Very End.I Reccomend That Everyone Take The Time To Watch This Made For Television Movie,It Is Excellent And Has Great Acting!!"\n702,"Hypothetical situations abound, one-time director Harry Ralston gives us the ultimate post-apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead, left in the streets, in the stores, and throughout the landscape, sans in the middle of a forgotten desert. One lone survivor, attempting to rekindle his sanity, takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert. All alone, he hopes for more, but with nobody around, he is left with white underwear, and a passion for a local Indian tribe – until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co-existence. Alan, a man of the book, is left on Earth after an unknown disaster. Thinking he is alone, he begins living life his way – until, Jeri Ryan, appears (like she would in any dream) out of the woods, disheveled, and unhappy to find the final man alive to be ... well ... like Alan. Anyway, they try to co-exist, fail, get drunk, and before creating the ultimate dystopia, they run into Redneck Raphael (played by newcomer – Dan Montgomery Jr). Bonds are torn, confusion sets in, a couple becomes a third wheel, and the battle between physically inept nerd vs. brainless jock. Even with nobody left on the planet, it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise.<br /><br />Using a variable film technique, Ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled ""The Quiet Earth"" (which I will be viewing next) oddly which he never gives any credit towards. With a borrowed story, I guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it. His punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while Ralston tries to find his stride, borrowing yet again from other film director\'s techniques to attempt to find his own. He opens the film interestingly enough, but fails to answer any direct answers. Sure, the final days have arrived, but could there be a concise answer as to ""how"" or better yet ""why"" these select few survived. A spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film. The juxtaposition would have been like ""Shawn of the Dead"", but instead left us feeling like we were watching a ""made-for-TV"" program. Listening to the audio commentary, I have respect for Ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made, and his passion nearly sells the film, but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn\'t as happy with his overall final product. There were mistakes, ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out. While this does make for decent independent film-making, it sometimes feels cheap, and in Ralston\'s case, it was the latter.<br /><br />I must admit, David Arnott\'s portrayal of Alan hooked me. He played that wimpy, school nerd, adult role very well. He was funny to both watch and listen to, and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer. He was a key player in keeping the film together, alas, I cannot say the same for the rest. This was Dan Montgomery\'s first film, and it was obvious – I mean – really really obvious. There were scenes in which I thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him, perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance, but alas, it wasn\'t the case. Then there was Jeri Ryan. She pulled into her character near the end of the film, which to me, was the culmination of the entire piece of art. She goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end. Confused? Again, she fell into her character by the end, giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured. Even as the commentary progressed, all that she contributed was a laugh, giggle, or ""ohhh, look at that color"" moment. While her beauty may sell tickets, one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful. This was her first film, so can I be too harsh? <br /><br />Overall, this film felt like it was missing something. I though the idea was strong – the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the Earth the evil of human nature still exists. Jealousy cannot be killed by bacteria or bombs (maybe because it is consumed by zinc?) and we as a race will always want what we cannot have. Ralston is not a surprising director, his techniques are flawed and pre-used, but he does know how to make a low-budget comedy. I think our idea of ""funny"" is different, so that is why I couldn\'t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found ""hysterical"". His actors provided the level of acting needed for this film, which was lower than average. His film was loose, meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled (i.e. anything with wings survived?!?), which overall harmed the intensity of the film. This was a comedy, but it could have been much darker and much much funnier. For those thinking that Roger Avery was a huge element to this film, as we learn from their commentary, all he was there for was money – the was in essence, the bank for ""The Last Man"". Don\'t get your hopes up for any classic Avery moments.<br /><br />Don\'t expect more from Ralston – and that is how I will end it.<br /><br />Grade: ** out of *****"\n703,"<br /><br />I must admit, I was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of \'Cut\' last night, though was delighted with the unexpected Australian horror gem. I am a true horror fan as true as they come, and found \'Cut\' to not only be the best of the genre Australia has ever produced, but one of the great parody/comedy films of late.<br /><br />My only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements - the film was not overly clever in it\'s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in EVERY possible cliche of the horror genre they could. I am certain this was intended as humour....hoping this was intended as humour.<br /><br />And of course, there was the gore.<br /><br />The use of the \'customised\' garden shears was brilliance - besides the expected stabs and slashes. In short, there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths, enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth.<br /><br />The appearance of both Kylie Minogue (short that her appearance was) and Molly Ringwald was just another reason to see the film - both performances were fantastic, as well as Simon Bossell (\'The Castle\') in a brilliant role as the jokey technician.<br /><br />All in all, I think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years, as well as a beautiful satire/parody - toungue-in-cheek till the very end.<br /><br />Loved it. Go see it!"\n704,"I am so happy not to live in an American small town. Because whenever I\'m shown some small town in the States it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies, evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless. In this movie a former doctor, who\'s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash, directs his steps to the nearest small town - he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns - which happens to be the Purgatory Flats. And, of course, as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose. He meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her. But there is a tiny handicap, she is already married to a very small-time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead. To know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself. I\'ll just tell you that it\'s slightly reminiscent of U Turn by Oliver Stone but is a way down in all artistic properties."\n705,"Like anyone else who bought this, I was duped by the ""20 pieces of extreme gore"" and ""banned in 20 countries"" or whatever it says in the box. I have to admit I am a huge gore fan and I am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it. Tom Savini, Rick Baker and Greg Cannom are some of the best in the business. The revolutionized make-up effects in the 80\'s. Today, you don\'t need them as everything is done on computer. But computers cannot compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up. But I digress.<br /><br />Watching fantastically gory films like Fulci\'s Gates to Hell or even Savini\'s crowning achievement, Friday the 13th the Final Chapter, you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film. You can\'t tell the difference between reality and magic.<br /><br />I can\'t imagine another reason why anyone would see Cannibal Ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film. If that is the reason you seek this film, then you are wasting your money. As many other reviewers in here have noted, most of the gore is an aftermath. You don\'t see the torture, or the bloodshed as it happens, you see whatever it looks like afterwords.<br /><br />The gore? Well, it\'s here, but not as much as one would hope, or expect. A man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts, but other then those two scenes, and one involving a scalping; there is nothing really much else to this film. The scenes of gore even in these three mentioned, are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for. Maybe it\'s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre, but I was expecting a bit more. Call me sick or twisted, but isn\'t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place? I honestly found myself bored in a lot of places.<br /><br />Cannibal Ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film. While Cannibal Holocaust is not exactly a great film, it is much better than this tripe. If you go out of your way to buy this for $20.00, you will feel cheated.<br /><br />3/10"\n706,"I always felt that Ms. Merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills. Familiar to millions as the Lt. on Law and Order, she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases, always in a supporting role. HBO\'s Lackawanna Blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as Nanny, successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration. But the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in Lackawanna, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.<br /><br />The story could be set in any major African-American community of the 50\'s and 60\'s from Atlanta\'s Sweet Auburn to New York\'s Harlem. But the segregation-integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at Nanny\'s boarding house. The story revolves around Nanny\'s relationships with all kinds of people, played by some of the best actors in the business (I purposely did not say black actors--this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black, except for Jimmy Smits, of course) I recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day."\n707,"This will not likely be voted best comedy of the year, a few too many coincidences and plot holes. However we are talking about a movie where a hit-man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn\'t come as too much of a surprise. Brosnan is excellent in this role, gone is the wooden James Bond (a role he was wasted in). If he can maintain this kind of quality I hope he continues to make comedies. Greg Kinnear is also excellent as Brosnan\'s straight man. I\'ve read a few negative comments in here about Hope Davis but I thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within. There are lots of good chuckles as Brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where I nearly died laughing. My father (a consultant) nearly lost it when Julian describes himself as a ""facilitator"". Much like ""Grosse Pointe Blank"", another hit-man comedy, the humour can be very dark. If you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself."\n708,"As a casual listener of the Rolling Stones, I thought this might be interesting. Not so, as this film is very \'of its age\', in the 1960\'s. To me (someone born in the 1980\'s) this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap, but I am sure this film was not made for me, but people who were active during th \'60\'s. I expected drugs galore with th Stones, I was disappointed, it actually showed real life, hard work in the studio, So much so I felt as if I was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film. I have not seen any of the directors other films, but I suspect they follow a similar style of directing, sort of \'amatuerish\' which gave a feeling like the TV show Eurotrash, badly directed, tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value. My only good opinion of this is that I didn\'t waste money on it, it came free with a Sunday paper."\n709,"Watch the Original with the same title from 1944! This made for TV movie, is just god-awful! Although it does use (as far as I can tell) almost the same dialog, it just doesn\'t work! Is it the acting, the poor directing? OK so it\'s made for TV, but why watch a bad copy, when you can get your hands on the superb original? Especially as you\'ll be spoiled to the plot and won\'t enjoy the original as much, as if you\'ve watched it first! <br /><br />There are a few things that are different from the original (it\'s shorter for once), but all are for the worse! The actors playing the parts here, just don\'t fit the bill! You just don\'t believe them and who could top Edward G. Robinsons performance from the original? If you want, only watch it after you\'ve seen the original and even then you\'ll be very brave, if you watch it through! It\'s almost sacrilege!"\n710,"Director Don Siegel really impressed me with this film. It is starkly shot, graphic without being visually graphic, well-acted by all concerned, and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike, almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer. I didn\'t know what to expect sitting down to watch this: a civil war movie or some kind of 70\'s soft-core peddling with Eastwood descending on a school for girls in the South. But really is is neither of those things but rather and examination, exploration, and descent into the soul of men and women - a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized. as one reviewer previously noted, none - none - of the characters are likable by the film\'s end and yet each one is interesting, complex, and enigmatic. Eastwood plays Cpl. McBurney, a Union soldier found by young Pamelyn Ferdin(you\'ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it), a girl at a school for manners headed by Geraldine Page amidst the chaos that was the Civil War - particularly in the South. Soon, Page, teacher Elizabeth Hartman, lovely, young seductress Carol, and even Ferdin(Amy)have emotional/sexual ties to Eastwood - each having their own needs and secrets and problems. Eastwood is not a nice man. he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage. In the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest. The Beguiled, for me, is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front. This might be(except for Invasion of the Body Snatchers) Siegel\'s best film. It certainly is one of Eastwood\'s best REAL performances. page is always so very good and Hartman, Fe5rdin, et al excellent. the Gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic. Some of the sexual-laced scenes disturbing. And what happens to Eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy, eerie, demented film."\n711,"Anyone who lived through the ages of Revenge of the Nerds and Girlpower will appreciate this film. It is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a ""spring break movie"" PLUS it makes fun of the college film genre. It\'s funny, it\'s got a cast to die for (Amy Pohler! Rachel Dratch!, Sophie Monk!, Parker Posey! Jane Lynch! Amber Tamblyn! Missi Pyle!) and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Writer/ actor Rachel Dratch is a comic genius and Sophie Monk is such a great villain. Wilson Phillips! OMG! (I\'m just repeating myself now...) It will live on with girls who like Miranda July but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they\'re dumb."\n712,"Arguably the finest serial ever made(no argument here thus far) about Earthman Flash Gordon, Professor Zarkov, and beautiful Dale Arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet. Along the way, in spellbinding, spectacular, and action-packed chapters Flash and his friends along with new found friends such as Prince Barin, Prince Thun, and the awesome King Vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless Ming of Mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter Priness Aura(now she\'s a car!). This serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot, acting, and budget - it is miles ahead in these areas. Produced by Universal Studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from The Bride of Frankenstein and the Opera House from The Phantom of the Opera just to name a few. The production values across the board are advanced, in my most humble opinion, for 1936. The costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first-rate. We get hawk-men, shark men, lion men, high priests, creatures like dragons, octasacks, orangapoids, and tigrons(oh my!)and many, many other fantastic things. Are all of them believable and first-rate special effects? No way. But for 1936 most are very impressive. The musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well-written, lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter, and expertly scored. Director Frederick Stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for Alex Raymond\'s phenom comic strip. Lastly, the acting is pretty good in this serial. All too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents - here most everyone has some ability. Don\'t get me wrong, this isn\'t a Shakespeare troupe by any means, but Buster Crabbe does a workmanlike, likable job as Flash. He is ably aided by Jean Arden, Priscella Lawson, and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out. But before I get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted, it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the Hayes Office. I see more flesh on Flash and on Jean Rogers and Priscella Lawson than in movies decades later. The shorts Crabbe(and unfortunately for all of us Professor Zarkov((Frank Shannon)) wears are about as form-fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear. The girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful Jean Rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell. Lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful. But for me the two actors that make the serial are Charles Middleton as Ming: officious, sardonic, merciless, and fun. Middleton is a class act. Jack ""Tiny"" Lipson plays King Vultan: boisterous, rousing, hilarious - a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism. Lipson steals each and every scene he is in. The plot meanders here, there, and everywhere - but Flash Gordon is the penultimate serial, space opera, and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow. Excellent!"\n713,"I have to say that the events of 9/11 didn\'t hit me until I saw this documentary. It took me a year to come to grips with the devastation. I was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on TV if there was any talk about the towers. I was sick of hearing about it. When this was aired on TV a year and a day later, I was bawling my eyes out. It was the first time I had cried since the attack. I highly recommend this documentary. I am watching it now on TV, 5 years later, and I am still crying over the tragedies. The fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing. It was an accident, and look where it got them. These two brothers make me want to have been there to help."\n714,"Perfect movies are rare. Even my favorite films tend to have flaws - Rear Window looks a little stagey at times, Chris Elliot\'s character in Groundhog Day doesn\'t work, the music score in Best Years of Our Lives is too cheesy, the beginning of Nights of Cabiria is a little too slow - but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish. <br /><br />The script is brilliant, the acting is superb all around (although Reese Witherspoon and Sam Waterston are amazing, the whole cast shines), the directing and the photography are inspired, and the music score is touching without being intrusive (like some Miramax scores that are too manipulative). Every sad moment is truly moving, every light moment makes me smile. This truly is one of the best films I have ever seen and I wish there were more films like it. <br /><br />I am glad that Reese Witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film, but I am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people, real feelings and real problems. Brilliant! A must-see."\n715,"This has to be one of the 5 worst movies ever made. The plot looked intriguing like that of Passenger 57. But with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better. The plot has been worked out in the worst possible way. Just a few of the awful moments in the movie, A flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying 747 and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the 250 mile per hour winds?!? Thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at 8000 feet, thats impossible even for 747 pilots with thousands of hour experience. When on the runway (perfectly straight of course) she is instructed to pull on the flaps, HUH!! Come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds, when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power! I can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie, but then my reply would become the size of the English dictionary. This is a movie you want to miss, take my word for it!"\n716,"regardless of what anyone says, its a b-movie, and the effects are poorly done.. if you\'re a vampire fanatic, I suppose it would be OK, not 10 out of 10, you others here cant sincerely mean that?. we are to view this as a movie, not read it as a book, so the effects and characters are important, as well as the story. The story are good, but it doesn\'t carry the film, no wonder it has a low rating over all. I write this because I chose to see this movie when I saw some good reviews here on IMDb, but got severely disappointed. don\'t get me wrong, I thought the blade movies was awesome, and loved the underworld movies, but this characters aren\'t close. the make up on the vampires is poorly done, and the effects are worse. this sucks. I might not have gotten so disappointed if I had not read reviews here that told me how great it was. the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something, seriously, if you think this is awesome, you don\'t care about acting or make up. this is better as a book. 3 out of 10 for an OK story.."\n717,"I want very much to believe that the above quote (specifically, the English subtitle translation), which was actually written, not spoken, in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist, was meant to be self-referential in a tongue-in-cheek manner. But if so, director Leos Carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film. They are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that I have to conclude Carax actually takes himself seriously here, or else has so much disdain for everyone, especially the viewing audience, that he can\'t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke.<br /><br />Some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique, bizarre films because they do so with élan and unique personal style (e.g., David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky). Others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story (e.g., Krzysztof Kieslowski, and David Cronenberg\'s later, less bizarre works). In Pola X, Carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it. Well, here it is: the pacing is erratic and choppy, in particular continuity is often dispensed with; superfluous characters abound (e.g., the Gypsy mother and child); most of the performances are overwrought; the lighting is often poor, particularly in the oft-discussed sex scene; unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason; and the list goes on.<br /><br />Not to be completely negative, it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions. I liked the musical score, even the cacophonous industrial-techno music being played in the sprawling, abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film (perhaps a reference to Andy Warhol\'s \'Factory\' of the \'60s?). Much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful, an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings. And, even well into middle-age, Cathering Deneuve shows that she still has \'it\'. Her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn\'t sink into bathos.<br /><br />There was an earlier time when I would regard such films as ""Pola X"" more charitably. Experimentation is admirable, even when the experiment doesn\'t work. But Carax tries nothing new here; the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films, and after several decades of movie-viewing and literally thousands of films later, I simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal, poorly crafted tripe. At this early moment in the 21st century, one is left asking: With the exception of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, are there *any* directors in France who know how to make a watchable movie anymore? Rating: 3/10."\n718,"It\'s hard to praise this film much. The CGI for the dragon was well done, but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow. Also, the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious.<br /><br />I was amazed to see ""Marcus Aurelius"" in the acting credits, wondering what an ex-Emperor of the Roman Empire was doing acting in this film! Like ""Whoopie Goldberg"" it must be an alias, and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker.<br /><br />The story might been interesting, but the acting is flat, and direction is tedious. If you MUST watch this film, go around to your friend\'s house and get drunk while doing so - then it\'ll be enjoyable."\n719,"I remember going to see the movie in the summer of \'78 with my parents, and being pretty into it at the time. Of course, I was seven at the time.<br /><br />Right before the Jackson movies came out, my wife and I rented this movie since she had never seen it and I was feeling nostalgic.<br /><br />Ralph Bakshi ran out of money about mid-way through the animation process for this movie, and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production. Since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping, the animation technique for people on a budget, this is saying something. Much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word. There are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen, with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them.<br /><br />Because of budget constraints, the movie -- already a compression of ""The Fellowship of the Rings"" and part of ""The Two Towers"" -- was pared down even more. What you get is sort of like a film-strip version of the Cliff Notes of the books.<br /><br />Its not all bad, though, the animation brings a warmth to it, that I found lacking in the Jackson movies. Its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding.<br /><br />This movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came. Several years later, a half-hearted half-hour long TV special was aired, which was meant to wrap things up. All I will say about that is that it was a musical."\n720,"Just finished watching 2FTM. The trailers intrigued me so much I actually went to see it on opening weekend, something I never do. Needless to say I was very disappointed. The story has so much potential and it\'s frustrating to see it get screwed up. I really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and Matthew McConaughey. First off I am not a MM hater, I thought he was awesome in both Reign of Fire and Lone Star. I enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off 3-4 times. Yes we all get it that he a good-looking guy with a nice body, but I think most people knew this 10 years ago when he came on the scene in A Time to Kill. Showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman 3-4 times in the movie is totally unnecessary. I think one time would have been sufficient. It wouldn\'t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other, no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling, unless......Enough about that, let\'s get into his role. I feel his acting was very forced and he didn\'t seem very comfortable. I know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner, but his lines were corny and cheesy. It was almost like he was referencing Days and Confused lines a few times! In short, I didn\'t like his character even though I was supposed to. The accent, his shirt off, corny pick up lines, weak sales pitches. His character was just too much of a tool, as Brandon or Jonathan. Pacino and Assante were great, but that\' no surprise. Piven is fun to watch as Arie....oooops I mean Jerry. I just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly. It\'s insulting that they could take a great story, and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success. 1. Cool story that appeals to the male man 2. Hunky Hollywood actor for female women (make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights) 3. Al Pacino with 4 great speech scenes, and 25 great one liners 3. Every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan 4. Jeremy Piven to play the same character he did in Entourage and Old School 4. Throw in Armand Assante to seal the deal 5. Plot, good writing, character development, and intelligent casting are unnecessary<br /><br />This will be good enough for most people, but not me! Anybody who disagrees with me, ask your self this. Would this movie be much better if: A. Directed by Sodeberg B. DeCaprio or Ed Norton as Brandon instead of MM<br /><br />I will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks. I realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of Pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing Russo. The financial success of this movie will ensure one thing. The movie going public gets what the movie going public wants, big budget crapola."\n721,"I was watching the sci-fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on. While not as bad as Wynorski\'s ""Curse of the Komodo"", this still sucks...BAD. Wynorski uses the same island as in ""Curse of the Komodo"", as well as the same actors and house. The effects are top notch (suprising) but thats about it........I don\'t know what else to say about this movie.......oh yeah! As in ""Curse of the Komodo"", the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island! Also....when i saw this part i laughed hysterically...A KOMANBRA!!! (part man, komodo AND cobra!). Overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards. Just remember if Jim Wynorski had anything to do with a movie....steer clear....to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating ""It\'s almost over..it\'s almost over..."". 0 out of 5."\n722,"I only heard about Driving Lessons through the ITV adverts, and to be honest, I didn\'t know how much I would like it. I switched on the TV last night and was totally surprised. Driving Lessons is a modest, simple film which draws you in right from the start. Rupert Grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager Ben brilliantly. He\'s definitely one to look out for in the future. Dame Eve Walton is played by the fabulous Julie Walters. I loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity. The highlight of the film, for me was Evie\'s rather colourful poem. It shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs. In my opinion, watching Driving Lessons is a great way to spend 2 hours. The scenery was also striking, especially the countryside. Anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable, I strongly disagree with"\n723,"For Greta Garbo\'s first talking picture, MGM wisely chose Eugene O\'Neill\'s Pultizer Prize winning 1921 play ANNA Christie. <br /><br />Also wisely, the producers backed Garbo up with not one but two members of the Original Broadway Cast (George Marion as Anna\'s father, Chris, and James T. Mack as Johnny the Priest - transmuted to ""Johnny the Harp"" for films so as not to offend). <br /><br />This little change is interesting. Like too many films accused (by those who want MOVIES to be MOVIES and ignore their origins) of being ""little more than filmed stage plays,"" the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn\'t be more faithful to the property. By diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn\'t offend anyone, or opening it up because they COULD, too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place. <br /><br />Fortunately, the respect the studio had for both O\'Neill and Garbo allowed ANNA Christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in Frances Marion\'s generally sensitive screen adaptation. Wonder of wonders, Marion even allows the POINT of the scene where Garbo\'s Anna reveals her past on ""the farm"" to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact! What the League of Decency must have thought of that! <br /><br />The source play\'s greatest problem has always been that Chris\'s friend Marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that Anna can take stage - the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don\'t always recognize. <br /><br />The perfectly cast Marie Dressler (who had cut her teeth on the Broadway stage as well before going to Hollywood) is the perfect balance for Garbo\'s Anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only 90 minutes, doesn\'t allow us too much time to miss her - one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original - AND screenwriter Marion is wise enough to stray from O\'Neill to bring Dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of Julie Laverne\'s second act appearance in SHOW BOAT. <br /><br />Anna and Marthy\'s early scene together on screen (16 minutes into the film) taking each other\'s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece. Not to be missed. <br /><br />ANNA Christie is great tragic play and a good film drama. It\'s hard to imagine that a latter day remake, which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this 1930 remake (it was first filmed without sound in 1923 - also with George Marion\'s original Broadway Chris) could improve on this excellent filming. <br /><br />The internal scenes hew closest to the play, but the exteriors shouldn\'t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere. While the background screen work is not to modern technical standards, the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set (especially in the New York harbor).<br /><br />Nearly all Garbo\'s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly (only the too often parodied death scene from CAMILLE, 7 years later, will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies), but this ANNA Christie, together with the variety of her 1932 films, MATA HARI and GRAND HOTEL, and the sublime Lubitsch touch on her 1939 comedy, NINOTCHKA (""Garbo laughs!""), surely stand as her best.<br /><br />O\'Neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded ""sea plays,"" should track down the fine World War II shaped film released in the year before the U.S. entered the conflict, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940). It is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from ANNA Christie, and features a youngish John Wayne in one of his rare non-Westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way."\n724,"Let me set the scene. It is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies. I am with my friend deciding what to see. We look for a movie that is starting soon and ""The Grinch"" comes up. We buy tickets not knowing what to expect. What we got was a roller coaster of fun.<br /><br />Jim Carrey (who may I add is my No.1 actor in the whole world) was absolutely magnificent as the Grinch in this Ron Howard\'s best movie (next to Apollo 13). The way that this movie was made, the scenery, the actors, the props and the music was just amazing. It really brought this childhood movie to life.<br /><br />The story is based upon the story of the grinch. As we all know the Grinch is a horrible person who just can\'t stand christmas. He lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk. But one little girl is going to change The Grinch\'s look on life and on others in a drastic way.<br /><br />Cindy Lou Who (played by adorable new actress Taylor Momsem) meets the Grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away. She attempts to break the barrier and to help the Grinch move in and mingle with the towns people.<br /><br />All up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents. A SOLID 10/10. Well done Jim.<br /><br />"\n725,"As a long-time fan of all the Star Trek series,I found this a disappointing episode, and I wonder if the liberal use of ""flashbacks"" featuring Will Riker\'s exploits, both positive (and largely romantic) and negative (lots of pain, and a crewmate\'s death)was a money-saving device, as were many of their ""bottle shows"" (episodes in which all scenes take place on the Enterprise). Diana Muldaur(who also appeared at least twice on the original series) deserved a better final appearance than this for her character, Dr. Kate Pulaski. Loyal viewers (in the Star Trek world, is there any other kind?) also were shortchanged. This was the last episode of second season; thus, the season ended ""not with a bang"" but with ""a whimper."""\n726,"This TV-series was one of the ones I loved when I was a kid. Even though I see it now through the pink-shaded glasses of nostalgia, I can still tell it was a quality show, very educational but still funny. I have not seen the original French version, only the Swedish. I have no idea how good the dubbing was, it was too long ago to remember.<br /><br />The premise of the show was to show you how the body works. I swear, school still hasn\'t taught me half of what I know from this show. It also tied in other things, like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don\'t exercise, with nice examples within the body. Who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you? :D The cartoon looked nice, very kids friendly of course, but done with care. Cells, viruses, electric signals in the brain, antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures, looking pretty much how you\'d expect what they should look like in the animated body.<br /><br />This, and the series about history(especially the environmentally scary finale) were key parts of my childhood. I\'m so happy I found them here."\n727,"Fans of the HBO series ""Tales From the Crypt"" are going to love this MOH episode. Those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic EC comics were based on, will recognize this one right off the bat.<br /><br />Underrated indie favorite Martin Donovan (also an excellent writer - co-author of the screenplays for APARTMENT ZERO and DEATH BECOMES HER) is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way. He could play a really nice if misunderstood guy-next-door, or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness. In the case of RIGHT TO DIE, he takes the latter approach, and it definitely works.<br /><br />Donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist (Robin Sydney), much to the displeasure of his inconsolable, unforgiving spouse, Abbey (Julia Anderson). When the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of ""making up,"" and she\'s horribly burned in a fire, he\'s reluctant to pull the plug on her, not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy (Corbin Bernsen, looking the worse for wear these days.) <br /><br />But Abbey\'s never been one to give up without a fight, and that\'s where the EC-theme of the episode comes in. Cuckolded husbands - and wives - have always been the genre\'s favorite subject matter for some spooky (and OOKY) supernatural shenanigans, and this case is definitely no exception. If anything, the ramped-up quotient of sex and gore must have Bill Gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere.<br /><br />And that\'s not to mention that John Esposito\'s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist. You don\'t realize as you\'re watching that you only know half the story, until close to the end...(think WHAT LIES BENEATH with more guts and gazongas, and you\'re there.)<br /><br />Not a bad effort, but not the best of the lot, either. At least Rob Schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction, especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed! As with most MOH episodes, this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment, so the extremely squeamish need not apply."\n728,"Dirty War is absolutely one of the best political, government, and well written T.V. Drama\'s in the 25 years.<br /><br />The acting is superb, the writing is spectacular.<br /><br />Diry War reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a Nuclear, Biological, and Radiological Terrorist Attack here on American soil.<br /><br />Dirty War should be made into a major motion picture - It\'s that good! I highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth.<br /><br />This T.V. drama reveals how British Intelligence (MI5 & MI6) attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims -because of England\'s involvement in the Iraq War.<br /><br />The scenes of different parts of London, England are also spectacular.<br /><br />Dirty War is a must see!!!"\n729,"Some may go for a film like this but I most assuredly did not. A college professor, David Norwell, suddenly gets a yen for adoption. He pretty much takes the first child offered, a bad choice named Adam. As it turns out Adam doesn\'t have both oars in the water which, almost immediately, causes untold stress and turmoil for Dr. Norwell. This sob story drolly played out with one problem after another, all centered around Adam\'s inabilities and seizures. Why Norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained. Along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out. Personally, I think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack. Bypass this yawner."\n730,"This is the Who at their most powerful. Although before the masterwork Who\'s Next, which would provide anthems like Baba O\'reily and Wont Get Fooled Again. This film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the 70\'s.<br /><br />Daltrey shows what being a front-man is all about, Entwistle steady as ever. <br /><br />Moon is great, check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech, and see him playing ""side saddle"" whilst having a bass drum head replaced!<br /><br />Townsend even looks like he\'s enjoying himself occasionally!<br /><br />Considering they took to the stage at 2am no one in the crowd was asleep! <br /><br />There are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in 36 years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one."\n731,"This filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell -- and did so. Really awful jumble of unlikely/unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line, all without character or clear motivation.<br /><br />We get cliché snapshots instead of characters. One in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss, who projects an overdone ""tough guy"" persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her. Nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase (as in, the smallest from a complete American Tourister set) in a bright, sky blue, without explanation or apology. Otherwise it\'s standard visually -- one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in CT."\n732,"They filmed this movie out on long Island, where I grew up. My brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie. Apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer, (which they told me was colored water, tasted disgusting, and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again, especially in the funnel scenes). Yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form. It never came out in the theaters (obviously) and it, as far as I knew, was never released on video, and I\'m sure wasn\'t released on DVD. Yet it looks like it was seen by some people, albeit it probably very few. So there must be something. I would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother, yet there is no way I can find it anywhere. Does anybody know anything about when/where/how this movie could be purchased? And which format that would be?"\n733,"That\'s how Burt Reynolds describes this film, which happens to be his best ever. He plays Tom Sharky, a vice detective who\'s on the trail of an international mobster (Vittorio Gassman) and the man he\'s financing to be the next governor of Georgia (Earl Holliman). In the novel by William Diehl, the story is more complex because the guy\'s running for president. This is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two. The filming in downtown Atlanta and the Peachtree Plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story. Reynolds doesn\'t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films. He\'s very serious here, especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong. At times though, the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with Burt trying to get close to the mobster\'s woman. Only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax. Just like the great jazz score in DIRTY HARRY by Lalo Schifrin, Sharky\'s Machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including Chet Baker, Julie London, Flora Purim & Buddy De Franco, The Manhattan Transfer, Doc Severinson, Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams. Al Capps handles the score with magic. This movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever. Check it out.<br /><br />Score, 8 out of 10 Stars"\n734,"Human Traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends, it is a fly-on-the-wall view into their lives (and minds) which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other. There are many moments in that every one can relate to, Like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers. The characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie. The situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in, and that is where this film succeeds. The topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other. The story to the film is not all that, but that is not a criticism. This is a film about people. This is a well written film, with a sound track to die for. D.J\'s Pete Tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that I have seen in 1999. After watching this film I felt like I had been out partying all weekend. Fantastic Movie! Jo Brand as the voice of reality - Need I say more!<br /><br />"\n735,"This early Biograph short was so much fun to watch. The second on disc one of D.W. Griffith\'s ""Years of Discovery"" DVD set (highly recommended) it features three excellent performances by the main leads, and interesting to see Henry B. Walthall (The Little Colonel, Birth of a Nation) as a campy musician giving a Countess the eye (and other things).<br /><br />The Countess\' husband goes berserk at his wife\'s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour. It\'s kind of incredible that they wouldn\'t hear the wall going up, but hey, maybe the wine had something to do with it. Here Mr. Johnson (father of silent player Raymond Hackett) gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama, but in an unexpectedly comical way. The best moment comes at the end. As the lady passes out from shock and fear, once she realizes she\'s doomed, Henry picks up his instrument and ""fans"" it over her. The way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy, and I just lost it, and laughed my head off. The expression on his face! From that moment I was charmed by Henry B. Walthall."\n736,"Baba - Rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life. This is the movie which caused his downfall. It was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors. Rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred. Soon after its release, he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably. Its a very bad movie with horrible acting, bad-quality makeup and pathetic screenplay. Throughout the movie, Rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease. I\'m one of the unfortunate souls who saw Baba, first day first show in theatre. The audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission. Sorry, I\'ll not recommend this one to anyone."\n737,"Written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, SCARFACE paints a picture not easily forgotten. Al Pacino turns in a stunning performance as Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in Florida. This gangster flick is harsh, violent, loud, gross, unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word ""f--k"" the most number of times. Almost three hours long, and yes it can get repulsive. A stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord.<br /><br />Also playing interesting characters are Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, F. Murray Abraham and Angel Salazar. Pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation. He manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression. This will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster. Is that powerful enough for you? Crime does not pay for long!"\n738,"First, the CGI in this movie was horrible. I watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the SciFi channel. At the end when the owner of the park gets killed, it\'s probably one of the worst examples of CGI I have even seen. Even Night of the Living Dead had better animation.<br /><br />That said, the movie had almost no plot. Why were they on that island in particular? Well, it wasn\'t stated in the movie. And, why would the people keep coming into the cat\'s area? Makes no sense.<br /><br />One thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting. In what could be called a ""B made for TV movie"" movie, the acting was very good. Parry Shen stood out in particular.<br /><br />If you have absolutely nothing to do on a Saturday, watch this movie. It may be good for some memorable quotes."\n739,"I enjoyed it. There you go, I said it again. I even bought this movie on DVD and enjoyed it a couple of more times. Call me old fashioned but I prefer movies like this to garbage like Die Hard 4 which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving America. Van Damme moves well for a guy of his age(47 I think), delivering kicks that reminds one of Kickboxer. If you like old school action and and explosions, this is the movie to watch. This is one of Van Damme\'s best works.<br /><br />Van Damme and Steven Seagal movies get released theatrically where I live so I never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen."\n740,"What a waste of talent. A very poor, semi-coherent, script cripples this film. Rather unimaginative direction, too. Some VERY faint echoes of _Fargo_ here, but it just doesn\'t come off."\n741,"Although it strays away from the book a little, you can\'t help but love the atmospheric music and settings.<br /><br />The scenes in Bath are just how they should be. Although if you have watched it as many times as I have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene, but that aside, I like the scene where they are in the Hot Baths, but did the men and women really bathe together like that? You could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women. It also seemed strange that they all had their hats on, but perhaps this was the style at the time. The ballroom scenes were very nice, the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful. I especially liked Catherine\'s dress in the first ballroom scene.<br /><br />Northanger Abbey looked suitably imposing, but I enjoyed the Bath scenes better.<br /><br />Schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as Catherine Morland. Googie Withers gives the best performance as Mrs Allen I feel.<br /><br />Ugh Peter Firth as Mr Tilney, he just talks a load of rubbish, and is not a clergyman as he should be, it\'s hard to think of him being in love with Catherine, but then the book never really gave that impression either.<br /><br />General Tilney is played reasonably well by Hardy, and Stuart also gives a sort of good performance as Isabella. Ingrid Lacey did not give a good performance as Elinor Tilney. As for John Thorpe, well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man, perhaps not the character portrayed in the book, but I quite like it.<br /><br />I can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation, but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me. The marchioness! I hate her. She is not part of the Northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy.<br /><br />some of the script is peculiar. When Catherine is asking Elinor Tilney about her Mothers death she asks ""I suppose you saw the body? How did it appear?"" What a silly thing to say! Elinor\'s calm response is stupid too.<br /><br />anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me"\n742,"Mario Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has written a definitive 120-page point-by-point, line-by-line refutation of this mendacious film, which should be titled A CONVENIENT LIE. The website address where his debunking report, which is titled ""A SKEPTIC\'S GUIDE TO AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"" can be found at is :www.cei.org. A shorter 10-page version can be found at: www.cei.org/pdf/5539.pdf Once you read those demolitions, you\'ll realize that alleged ""global warming"" is no more real or dangerous than the Y2K scare of 1999, which Gore also endorsed, as he did the pseudo-scientific film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, which was based on a book written by alleged UFO abductee Whitley Strieber. As James ""The Amazing"" Randi does to psychics, and Philip Klass does to UFOs, and Gerald Posner does to JFK conspir-idiocy theories, so does Mario Lewis does to Al Gore\'s movie and the whole ""global warming"" scam."\n743,"A lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to China. Captures the amazement of film\'s first audiences pretty much as it\'s described to have been worldwide, and uses actual Lumiere films for most of the actualities. I don\'t agree with other people about bad acting on the British fellow\'s part - I thought he was fine, but the Chinese lead really stole the show. In any case, I found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie. People who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in English (which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the Chinese on the DVD)."\n744,"Sigh. I\'m baffled when I see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot. I saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards. It was mildly annoying to see it swiping the Grinch Who Stole Christmas heart gag along with the narration, the set design seen many times before, the whole weak Tim Burton-ish style, and the story that goes nowhere. And we got the ""joke"" about shooting the crows with the 45 the first time, alright?<br /><br />But I guess what\'s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa 1999 called LENORE, THE CUTE LITTLE DEAD GIRL by Roman Dirge! As any quick internet search will reveal. I mean, what is this? This is what they base a Hollywood contract on and opens doors in Canada for a filmmaker? ""Give your head a shake"" as Don Cherry might say."\n745,"Cute idea... salesgirl Linda Smith (Yolande Donlan) inherits a teeny tiny little county of Lampidorra. That country, which wasn\'t even in North America, was made the 49th state... (of course, there were only 48 states at the time, since this was made in 1952...) Linda travels to the country she has inherited, and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people. At one point, she sings a song that she claims is from her people the Navajo, and it gets ever-more sillier from there.... although Yolande Donlan\'s heavy lipstick and omni-present smile never get ruffled or shmeared. There are other songs scattered through-out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess. Filmed in a glorious British version of technicolor, or some such equivalent, about the only big name here is Dirk Bogarde as British subject Tony Craig, cheese vendor. Bogarde made a big splash in the UK film industry after serving in the war, and was even knighted by QE II. Craig and ""the new princess"" keep bumping into each other, and their adventures become more intertwined as Lampidorra\'s financial problems worsen... Fun little farce....along the lines of Marx Brothers film. Also note that Donlan later married Val Guest, the writer and director of our little project, and stayed married for 50 years! Guest was better known for writing and directing his sci-fi flicks, in both the UK & the US."\n746,"Back in 1982 a little film called MAKING LOVE shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men.<br /><br />I have been waiting for years for a good, old-fashioned romance between two men; LATTER DAYS is all that and more.<br /><br />Yes, it is soapy, melodramatic, cliché-ridden, and quite corny. That is what makes it so wonderful. There is nothing like a good romantic movie, and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word.<br /><br />As to the issue of religion, sorry folks, but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now. It is not just the Mormon church that rejects its gay members. Gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection.<br /><br />I loved this movie. It has a perfect blend of a fantasy-romance grounded in the reality of the day-to-day lives of the characters. If I could give it more than ten stars I would. Good love stories never go out of style; great love stories like LATTER DAYS are unforgettable.<br /><br />It\'s about time!"\n747,"The concept of having Laurel & Hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious. It guarantees some funny situations and silly antics, from especially Stan Laurel of course as usual.<br /><br />The movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula. It doesn\'t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending. It\'s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless, so it works for the movie.<br /><br />The supporting cast of the movie is surprising good. Sam Adams is great as the stereotypical butler and Lucien Littlefield goes deliciously over-the-top as the nutty professor.<br /><br />The movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences, which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed. It all helps to make ""Dirty Work"" to be one of the better Laurel & Hardy shorts.<br /><br />8/10"\n748,"This movie came as a huge disappointment. The anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain, but I expected Shamballa to tie up all the loose ends. Unfortunately, it didn\'t. It added more plot holes than it resolved, and confused more than it clarified. The animation and voice acting were great, but with an idiotic plot, dull setting (most of the movie doesn\'t even take place in dull WWII Earth rather than the Alchemy world), and disappointing ending (Ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy, and he ditches Winry?), it was altogether pretty lackluster. Do yourself a favor-- disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie, and read the manga."\n749,"Maybe I loved this movie so much in part because I\'ve been feeling down in the dumps and it\'s such a lovely little fairytale. Whatever the reason, I thought it was pitch perfect. Great, intelligent story, beautiful effects, excellent acting (especially De Niro, who is awesome). This movie made me happier than I\'ve been for a while.<br /><br />It is a very funny and clever movie. The running joke of the kingdom\'s history of prince savagery and the aftermath, the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled. That\'s much of what makes it so good; it\'s an elaborate, special-effects-laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies, yet there is an incredible attention to small things.<br /><br />I feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again."\n750,"I was surprised that "" Forgiving the Franklins "" did not generate more buzz at this years Sundance Film Festival. There were times that the laughter at the screening I saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie. The movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues . You know little issues like Religion, sex and the truth. Lots of comedy\'s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations, many leave you thinking "" I know they ripped this off from some sitcom "" .This film takes off on its own unique direction . I really think that Jay Floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film."\n751,"They must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the Hollywood bus station. They then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived. You know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot, four young boys playing in grainy slow motion, accompanied by voice over narration. Next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion. Once they\'re grown, it\'s easy to spot the writer/director among the four. He\'s the quiet, contemplative, long-haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants. This means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from Hickville to Hollywood. Only there\'s no writing, or directing talent on display here. And if you still can\'t figure out which one he is, here\'s a hint: The auteur and his character have the same middle name. It took over an hour to figure out that these twenty-something men were supposed to still be in high school. What looked like a prison was apparently a high school, the warden turned out to be the principal. Once more, the poor, misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement, murder and pillage, but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father. How about hitting back, kid, like you do everyone else? Numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose. Howlingly bad dialogue. Many scenes badly out of focus. Cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras, drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience. Overacting in the extreme. And if you don\'t quite get the self-important speeches, or the slow-motion scenes, just listen to the overbearing music. It will clue you in and what you\'re supposed to feel. Poor Marisa Ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films. The biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies, run over puppies chained to a tree, rob and steal, all the while complaining about their sad, sorry lives. But if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college. Yeah, that\'s the ticket. Why is it that every twenty-something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important, so interesting, that the world can\'t wait to see it onscreen? If this movie is as autobiographical as it seems, then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants."\n752,"I watched this movie so that you don\'t have to! I have great respect for Kris Kristofferson, but what was he thinking? He did this for scale? <br /><br />At least the film\'s title practices truth in advertising, since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film, adding to the confusion. Kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn\'t sure if Genevieve Bujold\'s character really existed. This does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story!<br /><br />The ""making of"" feature was far more interesting than the movie itself. It explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie, even as the film is being shot.<br /><br />To it\'s credit, this movie is visually pleasing and doesn\'t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over 1M. Too bad the money wasn\'t spent on a better project."\n753,"Just saw this movie on opening night. I read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it... I must say, I was not impressed. I\'m so unimpressed that I feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money.<br /><br />First of all ""The Messengers"" is very predictable, and just not much of a thriller. It might be scary for someone under 13, but it really did nothing for me. The climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie\'s resolution.<br /><br />Furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial. Some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub-par suspense scenes.<br /><br />If you\'ve seen previews for this movie, then you\'ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot. This movie is not worth seeing in the theaters."\n754,"I went to see this movie (actually I went to see Family Portraits, which contains Cutting Moments + 2 other short films by Douglas Buck) at the Mar del Plata festival (Argentina)... I just couldn\'t watch it! I had to cover my eyes after the 1st half of Cutting Moments and take a peek every once in a while. By the time it was over, my stomach was upside down and I felt light headed. I just HAD to leave the cinema a few minutes after the 2nd short begun (BTW, of course I was not the only one who left the room). It was WAAAAY too violent and disgusting for me! I am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it. I just don\'t get how you can love that kind of movies! The shocking and bloody and horrible images I saw got really stuck in my head for like two days!! I also try to analyze the story (my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it) and I just don\'t think it makes any sense. I mean, that amount of violence and stuff, makes no other sense than to try to shock people. And that\'s not a good enough reason, I think. There\'s absolutely nothing in this movie that I can say ""Well, at least \'x\' thing about it was good"". But well, I guess I will never understand that kind of films."\n755,"A well-made run-of-the-mill movie with a tragic ending. Pluses: The way the story moves - begins with Soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he\'s there. The Music. A disinterested look at the life of policemen. Minuses: The violence and the gore, but I guess they add to the realistic effects. Still, having people\'s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided.<br /><br />No complaints - 7/10"\n756,"I don\'t understand the positive comments made about this film. It is cheap and nasty on all levels and I cannot understand how it ever got made.<br /><br />Cartoon characters abound - Sue\'s foul-mouthed, alcoholic, layabout, Irish father being a prime example. None of the characters are remotely sympathetic - except, briefly, for Sue\'s Asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence! As desperately unattractive as they both are, I\'ve no idea why either Rita and/or Sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like Bob - but given that they do, why should I be expected to care what happens to them? So many reviews keep carping on about how ""realistic"" it is. If that is true, it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film.<br /><br />I didn\'t like the film at all."\n757,Steven what have you done you have hit an all new low. It is weird since Steven\'s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash. Shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn\'t even funny Steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway. As for the action well let\'s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes. Seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege 1 and 2 and exit wounds. the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn\'t make scenes sometimes. flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted 5 pounds on this garbage 0 out of ten better luck next time\n758,"A call-girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer\'s next target. Director Brian De Palma is really on a pretentious roll here: his camera swoops around corners in a museum (after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape), divvies up into split screen for arty purposes, practically gives away his plot with a sequence (again in split screen) where two characters are both watching a TV program about transsexuals, and stages his (first) finale during a thunderous rainstorm. ""Dressed To Kill"" is exhausting, primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial. Much of the acting (with the exception of young Keith Gordon) is mediocre and the (second) finale is a rip-off of De Palma\'s own ""Carrie""--not to mention ""Psycho"". The explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of Hitchcock, not an homage. Stylish in a steely cold way, the end results are distinctly half-baked. ** from ****"\n759,"*Flat SPOILERS* <br /><br />Five med students, Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Rachel Mannus (Julia Roberts), Joe Hurley (William Baldwin) & Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt) decide to attempt an experiment; dying for exactly 5 minutes (it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage).<br /><br />Almost everyone does this experiment, Randy being the lone exception, but they begin to have unwelcome visitors; David sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him, Joe sees all the women he has had sex with (and which he videotaped) asking him why from the TV Screen, Rachel relives her father\'s suicide and Nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions.<br /><br />Why are they here? And how will they get rid of them? This tense and interesting movie, set in an hallucinated city and into a Gothic Med School, is quite the experience, both for the story and the characters, played by then-budding stars such as Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin.<br /><br />The director is Joel Schumacher, who had already worked with Sutherland in \'Lost Boys\', and this second cooperation is even better than the first.<br /><br />A must for psychological-thriller-horror buds and metaphor lovers (this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs), this is one of the minor classics from the \'80s that get respect even today, like the mention by Rebecca Gayheart in \'Scream 2\' or the Tru Calling episode which used the movie\'s premise.<br /><br />Flatliners: 9/10."\n760,"One of my favorite shows back in the \'70s. As I recall it went to air on Friday (or possibly Saturday)night on the Nine Network (?) here in Australia. Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland were great together.<br /><br />Each episode usually reached a climax with Kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent. To their credit, the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible.<br /><br />I remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient Indian Chief which/who \'came back\' as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital. The final showdown saw Kolchack trying to short circuit the \'power beast\' amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames. Oh well .... you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea.<br /><br />McGavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best.<br /><br />Definitely deserves a place in TV\'s ""Hall of Fame"". To quote Tony Vincenzo .... \'Kolchack you are ON IT \'... Or, in the case of the Hall of Fame,\'IN it\' !"\n761,"I think my summary says it all. This MTV-ish answer to the classic Candid Camera TV show features a Gen X (or is that Gen Y) type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses, and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations. Example: Kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his ""wedding."" Kennedy is the bride, done up in a full bridal gown and long wig. The ""joke"" is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his ""bits and pieces."" Problem is, this schtick goes on way too long, obviously to fill out time. And Kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun. Candid Camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took Kennedy to get through this one, running around, constantly asking ""Do I look fat?"" I recognize the show was not made for me. It was made for 12-year-old pinheads who think JACKASS is the height of comedy today. So let them laugh. Thank God the show was short-lived."\n762,"Frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time; and just at the moment you realize you shouldn\'t be laughing, you\'ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness; and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide-open mouths and glazen eyes, you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and... well, you get the point.<br /><br />But for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face, Frownland, really is a remarkable piece of work that, after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps, makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time, you feel sickenly sorry for him.<br /><br />It would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of Ronald Bronstein\'s film, but for some insane reason, I felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer. If someone sets you on fire, you typically want to put it out: Stop! Drop! And Roll! But with this film, you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body. You endure the pain--perhaps out of spite, or some unknown masochistic curiosity I can\'t even begin to attempt to explain.<br /><br />Unfortunately, mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you. But if you get a chance to catch it, prepare yourself: bring a doggie bag."\n763,"I saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late-night 80\'s sitcoms on tv one night at 2 in the morning. I must say, I didn\'t expect much, and I didn\'t get much. Although Rose McGowan is hot, her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not Oscar-worthy, to say the least. This movie has its ups and downs, and does have a nice couple of twists at the end, but in all honesty it was awful. Not even a typical slasher movie. No gore, no sex, no nudity, no real violence. Just bad acting. I\'d give it a 3 out of 10."\n764,"I first saw this film when I was about 8 years old on TV in the UK (where it was called ""Laupta: The Flying Island""). I absolutely loved it, and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and I missed it. I was enchanted by the story and characters, but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music. It would have been the original English dubbed version which I saw - sometimes erroneously referred to as the ""Streamline Dub"" (the dub was actually by Ghibli themselves and only distributed by Streamline) which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box-set.<br /><br />Unfortunately I feel that the release has been partly spoiled by Disney. The voice acting is OK but the dialogue doesn\'t have the same raw energy that the ""streamline"" dub or the original Japanese had, and I think James Van Der Beek sounds too old to play the lead. They have made some pointless alterations, such as changing the main character\'s name from ""Pazu"" to ""Patzu"", and added some dialogue. But worst of all I feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music - the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to Disney\'s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking, which I find annoying in many Disney films.<br /><br />This film still blows away most recent animated films, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass-market, homogenized animation."\n765,"This film can\'t make up its mind whether its message is ""humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless"" or ""don\'t ever go in the water again."" A fisherman (Nolan) is out to nab a killer whale, a very bad thing, but when he accidentally (ACCIDENTALLY mark you) hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate, the cow -- and I use the word in all senses -- who is obviously a sick psycho-bitch and the canonical villain of the piece -- throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself. (I doubt it was her first.) When her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self-inflicted wounds, her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt, kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to Nolan. Obviously as among humans, total psychos date other total psychos.<br /><br />The film reeks of half-thought out anti-human message, ""the poor poor whale!! the evil men must suffer and die!"" and yet, it does not succeed in demonizing Nolan at all. It\'s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel, but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and, as the film progresses, he grows more and more compassionate to the whale\'s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale, just to make it feel a little better.<br /><br />The films final journey, in which Nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north, reminds me of Melville\'s eerie man-whale connection, and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion, where these two husbands might connect, understand even respect each other in their own grief, for Nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident. It\'s clear Nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss. However, it never goes there. The whale-character has no compassion or respect for anyone.<br /><br />The final scene loses this focus and becomes Jaws-like where the sea-monster finally kills everybody and Nolan and no-doubt through an oversight, fails to chomp up the whale-hugger (tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier.) I love animals, and I detest whaling, and what is more I love orca whales, but if this film\'s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed. Nolan shows compassion and growth, and feels for others, and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming.<br /><br />The only message one can walk away with is ""If you see an orca whale, ever, anywhere, run the other way cause if you step on his FIN the wrong way, he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you."""\n766,"Why, o\' WHY! ...did I pick this one up? Well... i needed a no-brainer in the summer heat, and the cover looked cool.<br /><br />Of course I should\'ve known better. This is a really, really bad movie. And it gets embarasing when the makers know it\'s bad, and try cover it up by adding some sexy/beautiful women, and some sex-scenes to it. Well, folks... it does\'nt cut it, does it!<br /><br />If you WOULD like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very, very good, well-played and funny: go rent Lake Placid! (that is an order)"\n767,"Only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb; the first difficulty faced by the submarine ""Seaview"" is what appear to be chunks of--rock? falling down through the water and crashing into its hull. But it\'s not rock, they\'re under the North Pole--it is ICE! Everybody, except possibly hitherto mentioned small children (and even some of them) know that ICE FLOATS.<br /><br />Then, disaster strikes--that darn VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT around the Earth catches fire! No one knows how this happened, we are told, which is understandable, because it is utterly impossible for radiation to ""catch fire"", and even if it could, there is NO AIR IN SPACE for it to burn.<br /><br />There is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to 2nd grade school textbooks when making a film; however, Irwin Allen manages to do it again and again; perhaps we are meant to focus on the ""people"" instead, which is pretty easy, as they are CARDBOARD.<br /><br />The cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub-kiddie romp, much like later episodes of his ""Lost in Space"" TV series, the concept of which was swiped outright from writer Ib Melchior and then rushed into production.<br /><br />The sub looks pretty good, though, which is why this one gets a ""2""."\n768,"Our teacher showed us this movie in first grade. I haven\'t seen it since. I just watched the trailer though. Does this look like a first grade movie to you? I don\'t think so. I was so horrified by this movie, I could barely watch it. It was mainly the scene with Shirley McClain cutting that little girl in half, and then there was the boy with ketchup! I was freaked out by this film. Now today, being 20, I probably would not feel that way. I just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn\'t see this movie, even though it\'s PG. Be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids. I don\'t even remember what it was about, once was enough!"\n769,"A plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro-life and the other a destroyer of a demon\'s seed. The horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific, but, instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death, despite the title itself. Being a fan of Masters of Horror since the beginning, this ridiculous plot twist with it\'s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon. I view this episode as being thrown together from the get go, never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to ""The End"".."\n770,"Scott Menville is not Casey Kasem. That is the first, most important, and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re-imagining Scooby-Doo and company.<br /><br />Shaggy\'s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the Scooby shows. They\'ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original.<br /><br />I\'m not sure what they\'re on about yet with the villain angle, but it surely isn\'t following the formula used in any of the previous Scooby shows.<br /><br />And the animation style is very bizarre and distorted. I like it, but it\'s not real Scooby-Doo type animation. But the weird animation used for other WB shows grew on me; this might, too.<br /><br />It\'s worth a glance at -- once -- if you can handle the lack of proper Shaggy voice. That right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly. Besides, I am trying not to be an inflexible, nitpicking fan. Evolve or die, as the saying goes. We\'ll see how it looks after two more episodes -- by then I\'ll have formed a much more solid opinion."\n771,"I often wonder how movies like this even get made, and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them.<br /><br />With Aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along, adding twists and turns when he liked, no matter how ludicrous they were. The script was non existent with inane dialogs such as ""Jo Sheena Roy pehenti hai, wahee fashion hota hai"" and ""Yeh Versace hai Madam"" (yeah right).<br /><br />Every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped. Acting was awful. Constumes (lycra for Udita and awful suits for a stocky Emran), locales (the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a Victorian mansion), screenplay etc etc, just one word- rubbish.<br /><br />For those people who love Hashmi and his movies, watch it. As for me, I\'ll never get those two and a half hours back. The only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent."\n772,This movie is an amazing comedy.. the script is too funny.. if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more. Though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh!! Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have given justice to their roles. After 1994 i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this.\n773,"Even this early in his career, Capra was quite accomplished with his camera-work and his timing. This is a thin story -- and quite predictable at times -- but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately. The first part looks like a Cinderella story, though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that -- the rich \'prince\' will lose his fortune.<br /><br />Nonetheless, because of his good cast and fast pace, it\'s easy to get caught up in the clichés. Then the movie does become more original, as the married couple have to find a way to make a living. The ending is very predictable but satisfying. I also want to compliment the title-writing: very witty and fun."\n774,"Uwe Boll slips back in his film-making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island. An okay cast headed by the excellent Udo Keir is cast adrift by Boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked. The mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked, additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness, however Boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way. Its as if he couldn\'t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away. Additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life, I\'m guessing that Boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had. It really stinks. Clearly Boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he\'s ever learned about film gets flushed. The last film he made that was this bad was Seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films I\'ve ever seen. This isn\'t that bad, but it is close simply because it should have been better. Then again Udo Keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film. I\'d take a pass unless it\'s late at night and you\'re catching it on cable."\n775,"This video is so hilariously funny, it makes everything else<br /><br />by Eddie Murphy seem very disappointing (even Beverly Hills Cop and The Nutty Professor, which just goes to show you how good this really is). To be honest, I don\'t think that I\'ve ever<br /><br />laughed at something as much as this, including Naked Gun and the rarely seen Bargearse. This show is amazing, although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with F that is four letters long (plus its extended version beginning with M) but it didn\'t bother me. See it, the funniest thing I\'ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too."\n776,"This film is dreadful. It has absolutely zero laughs. Hebrew Hammer (Adam Goldberg) sets out to save Hannukah from Evil Santa (Andy Dick). Perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot, in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise. While there are some (far and few) nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent, it is laboured, hackneyed and ultimately, mindlessly boring. This despite the fact that Goldberg, Dick and Greer (Hammer\'s client/love interest) all have quite considerable screen presence. Despite being played for what might be described as whacky over-the-top gags, this film is consistently middle-class middle-of-the-road muck. DO NOT waste 85 minutes of your life on this. (note- the music was good..!)"\n777,"It\'s amazing that such a cliche-ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place. The characters are so weak, and the acting so uninspired, that it\'s impossible to care about any of them-- especially Brooke Shields. The temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible. If you like this genre, you\'d be better off renting ""Singles,"" or ""Bodies, Rest & Motion."""\n778,"I never watched the \'Next Action Hero\' show, and until reading the other comments here, did not know that this movie was the \'prize\' from that competition. I was just flipping channels and came across this, and found myself watching, dare eagerly, all the way to the end.<br /><br />Yes, the plot\'s been done (The Most Dangerous Game, etc.) but I was hoping for, and almost received, the \'gotcha\' - how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end. I think the high-tech was overdone (GPS\'s) and gave me cold-sweat flashbacks of Night Rider, but it nevertheless was not too overdone.<br /><br />The basic problem I had with this movie was the degree of SOD (Suspension of Disbelief) that was required of the viewer. Do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and NO COPS show up to investigate? Could a limousine do countless donuts in a Las Vegas intersection and NO COPS show up? Pleeease. Way too much of that type of thing - fun to watch, but keep it at least plausible, thank you very much.<br /><br />The final solution was good, but the ending was disappointing, with the after taste of a bad Star Trek episode. At least now I understand why the acting was so cheesy - except for Zane, who doesn\'t get near as much work as he deserves IMHO - they were winners from a reality show.<br /><br />Knock me out."\n779,"I am a big fan of old horror movies, and since I am middle aged, old to me is a movie made before 1970 with most being made in the 1920\'s to 1960\'s period. I am not a big fan of more modern horror movies, with one exception being Creepshow 1, which I thought was great. I could reminisce about the stories there but I really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with Hal Holbrook, and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending. All the stories were great though. So why did I like them so much? The characters had some decent development, the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad, the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear, and the funny bits were really funny! This sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent! I am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and I turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on IMDb.com, lol. When George Kennedy and an old Dorothy Lamoure get top billing it\'s telling you something.....4 of 10. Also, Romero\'s expertise is hard to find here, they must had told him to tone it down to a PG standard (I don\'t know what this was rated at but it looks PG to me), and that\'s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on. It\'s shown on the Encore cable channel if your dieing (yuck yuck) to see it."\n780,"I just wanted to say that. I love Gheorghe Muresan, so I automatically loved this movie. Everything else about it was so-so... Billy Crystal is a good actor, even if he is annoying. But the thing that made this movie was- at least, for a basketball fan- seeing Gheorghe Muresan act."\n781,"I thought that this movie was incredible. I absolutely loved it, even though my brothers didn\'t that much. The special effects were outstanding, and this movie is about my favorite sport; golf. The only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row. This movie just absolutely tops everything else I have ever seen. It was everything I would expect out of a movie. I just loved it. Also, it was pretty kid-friendly. This movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it, anything is possible. I would give it a pure 10/10! It was better than The Legend of Baggar Vants, and the two Pirates of the Caribbean movies combined. Absolutely amazing. Loved it."\n782,"This is a funny film and I like it a lot. Cary Elwes plays Robin Hood to a tee. This is, of course, the usual good vs evil with Robin against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. The humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part, but still works well. A comedy for a night when you don\'t want to have to think much, it\'s well worth a rent!"\n783,"Some here have commented that this is the WORST Elvis movie ever made. Well, they are only partly right. For me, this IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE PERIOD! I have never seen anything so basely crude, and insulting, and vile, and against human nature as this film. A true embarrassment to the Motion Picture Industry, this isn\'t even so Bad, its good. There is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of Elvis\' other bad movies like Clambake. This one is so rotten to sit through its painful. Pure Garbage. Native Americans should sue for their poor clichéd and stereotypical treatment here. Actually, perhaps ALL Human Beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole 0 Stars, seriously. Grade: F"\n784,"First of all yes I\'m white, so I try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race... anyway... White People Hating Black people = BAD but Black People Hating White people = OK (because apparently we deserved it!!). where do i start? i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes: the infamous scene were Ice Cube and co. get in a fight with some really big, really strong, really really angry and scary looking Neo-Nazis and win!!! the neo-Nazi where twice the size :), and the chase! the chase is priceless... This is NOT a movie about race, tolerance and understanding, it doesn\'t deliver... this is a racist movie that re-affirm all the cliché stereotypes, the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead...cmon simply awful I do regret ever seeing it.<br /><br />Save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written ,poorly acted, dull and clearly biased picture, if you are into the subject, go and Rent American History X, now thats a movie"\n785,"Donald Pleasance and Peter Cushing united in one horror film; that always sounds like a terrific plan. Two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation, who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like ""The Flesh and the Fiends"" and ""From Beyond the Grave"", pairing up in a mid-70\'s satanic themed exploitation flick. How can this possibly go wrong? Well, unfortunately, it can. To my deepest regret ""Land of the Minotaur"" can hardly even be called mediocre, and that in spite of the cast, the exotic setting, the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise. In a remote little area in Greece, more particularly near an archaeological site, multiple tourists vanish because Baron Peter Cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire-breathing Minotaur statue. Cushing, who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before, owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in Greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns. That is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists. When three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area, Father Roch - the priest of a couple of towns before) - decides to investigate. ""Land of the Minotaur"" is a boring and extremely slow-paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn\'t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details. The titular Minotaur, for example, is an intriguing creature of Greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person, but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance. Instead, the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises. The only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of Donald Pleasance. His portrayal of rude, bossy and old-fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always."\n786,"The three shorts included on this compilation issued in 1959 are timeless Chaplin classics, nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either. Chaplin\'s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done. The problem with this compilation is a minor one, yet annoying. The shorts have been stretch-printed to fit the 24 frame p.s. speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at 20 frames p.s. This results is jerky motion that doesn\'t look very attractive, and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time, it\'s just not excusable that the current DVD version is unrestored, the films look dirty as they did in 1959 and are still stretch printed. There are separate restored versions of these classics available, even on DVD, and it would not be a problem to restore the image, but alas this has not been done.<br /><br />A minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article, but I say again a minor quibble, it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating. The shorts are still worth \'10\'."\n787,"1979\'s Tourist Trap is a clever, unique B thriller that stands out as one of the best of it\'s kind.<br /><br />Travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner\'s mannequins are a little too life-like for comfort.<br /><br />While the film has hints of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tourist Trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of The Twilight Zone. Director David Schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery, that reaches nightmarish proportions. Also, Schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings.<br /><br />Venteran actor Chuck Connors is the best of the film\'s decent cast. Pino Donaggio\'s music score is excellent, having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie. A number of the film\'s sequences are quite memorable.<br /><br />For horror and thriller fans alike, Tourist Trap is an unforgettable must-see film.<br /><br />*** 1/2 out of ****"\n788,"Years ago I saw The Godfather and it made a lasting impression on me, the atmosphere of the movie was first class, the acting memorable and the storyline a classic. Recently I bought the Trilogy and after watching Part 1 again I looked eagerly to viewing Part 2...... I was so pleased to realize early on into Part 2 that here was a fitting follow on to the great Godfather movie, again everything was just about perfect and I could not wait to see Godfather III ........ WRONG!, I wish I\'d stopped at II. The storyline was not good, it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story, the characters were weak especially the daughter. Pacino\'s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in Godfather 1 or 2. Then scenes such as, Corleone being invested with all the trappings of the Catholic Church with full choir, the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset, the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting (where the \'goodies\' get away and everyone else is shot),daughter and 1st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board, the pathetic shooting on the steps ..... Corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes (a man of his intelligence and guile isn\'t ready for an emergency?)... NO it was not good and with the best will in the world I wont be able to watch it again. But I\'ll watch 1 & 2 many times down the years."\n789,"This little two-person movie is actually much bigger than it looks. It has so many layers. I\'ve watched it over and over, and always pick up on something new. I am amazed at the depth of the acting, and I feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that Alan Rickman is a major star"\n790,"UK newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know Toby Young, the journalist on whose real-life experiences this movie is based. The key word here is ""based"". How To Lose Friends is a fictitious romcom.<br /><br />Sidney Young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in New York, where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally Getting It Right and Making It. This involves him selling out, and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity. However, they are not overdone: the main substance remains a comedy which centres around Sidney\'s misadventures. The script has its cake and eats it in that Sidney is a stupid, well-meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart, moderately obnoxious skilled writer. This contradiction is never that much of an issue, because Simon Pegg (as Sidney) projects likability too well.<br /><br />Jeff Bridges underplays Sidney\'s editor a little too effectively, and Kirsten Dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of Sidney\'s affections And, with regard to Megan Fox (who plays an airhead bimbo starlet), I can say only this: just say the word, Miss Fox, and I will leave my wife, sell all my belongings, and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort. Of course, given that I\'m a fat 56-year-old English accountant, you might not find my offer too enticing, but it\'s there on the table anyway. Given how short her career has been so far, one might think it is a little too soon for Megan Fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become: however, she does it sweetly, with some skill, and extremely sexily. This girl will go far.<br /><br />There is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers - Miriam Margolyes and Bill Paterson from the UK, Gillian Anderson and Danny Huston from the US.<br /><br />There are several laugh-out-loud moments, and I smiled most of the way through. As ever, the F-word makes appearances when it really doesn\'t need to, although at least a couple of these are very funny."\n791,"Alien Hunter: 5 out of 10: Is it me or does every movie that starts in Roswell, New Mexico suck. Take Alien mixed with The Thing, mixed with Contact, mixed with of all things On the Beach, The Andromeda Strain, the classroom scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark and a throw in a little Stargate to boot. <br /><br />Derivative doesn\'t even begin to describe this movie. Of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right? Nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease. (James Spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable Leslie Stefanson asks to join him…. he turns her down. AGGH!) <br /><br />In fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it. I mean if your going to have impossibly good-looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an Antarctica research base why not go for broke.<br /><br />With about 30 seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie Alien Hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci-fi adventure. Needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the Alien itself is a horribly clichéd artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title. <br /><br />I also inquired during viewing what is with the Children of the Corn in space motif. (Note that since Jason of Friday the 13th fame, Pinhead from Hellraiser and that Leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield?) The characters in the cornfield dress like Logan\'s Run extras and I was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them.<br /><br />That however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant. The acting is mostly fine as Spader reprises his Stargate role while Stefanson and Janine Eser model the latest in Antarctic beachwear. John Lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it.<br /><br />Alien Hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper Children of The Corn in Space movie."\n792,"I have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was. Once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you. ""You Are Alone"" is that movie (for me). The film is constantly in my head and in my heart. I replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again, as if I am seeing it for the first time.<br /><br />There is nothing I did not like about the movie. Amazing soundtrack!!! The ending was perfect. Very emotionally stirring!!! It was compelling and riveting.<br /><br />I adored Jessica Bohl and her performance was the greatest I have ever witnessed. I admired Brittany\'s strength (what a strong woman).<br /><br />The tag line is ""When your darkest moments come to life"". We never know what we are capable of doing. Everyone says oh I would never do that, when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation. We are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject. The honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part.<br /><br />Thank you Gorman Becherd for a perfect piece of art!!!!"\n793,"I love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie. Not just because I\'m a huge Linnea Quigley-Jill Terashita fan, but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times.<br /><br />The special effects are awesome, especially Linnea\'s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed.<br /><br />Plenty of nudity provided by Linnea and Jill, plenty of humor, cool soundtrack, high body count, etc...By the way, if you have never seen this one, try and buy/watch the Unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing."\n794,"i saw the film and i got screwed, because the film was foolish and boring. i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled ""sholay"". the cast and crew was bad. the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle. amithab bachan\'s acting is poor, i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year,sure. nobody did justice to their work, including Ajay devagan. this film don\'t deserve any audiences. i bet that this film will flop. <br /><br />""FINALLY THIS MOVIE SUCKS"""\n795,"Lorna Green(Janine Reynaud)is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club. She falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon. It\'s quite possible that, through a form of hypnotic suggestion, someone(..a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet)is guiding Lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love-making is about to begin. After the murders within her fantasies are committed, Lorna awakens bewildered, often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality.<br /><br />If someone asked me how to describe this particular work from Franco, I\'d say it\'s elegant & difficult. By now, you\'ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about, since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream. Franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by Godard early in his career, as far as film-making style, and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience. And, as you read from the reaction of the user comments here..some like this decision, others find the style labouring, dull, and bewildering. I\'ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head, but even Franco himself, when quizzed by critics who watched ""Succubus"", admitted that he didn\'t even understand the film and he directed it! Some might say that ""Succubus"" was merely a precursor to his more admired work, ""Venus in Furs"", considered his masterwork by Franco-faithful, because it also adopts the surreal, dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn\'t truly know whether he/she is experiencing something real or imagined. In a sense, like the protagonist, we are experiencing the same type of confusion..certainly, ""Succubus"" is unconventional film-making where we aren\'t given the keys to what is exactly going on. And, a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn\'t help matters. ""Succubus"" is also populated by beatnik types and ""poet-speak"", Corman\'s film, ""A Bucket of Blood"" poked fun at. My personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between Lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party..quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually. Great locations and jazz score..I liked this film myself, although I can understand why it does receive a negative reaction. Loved that one scene at the posh party with Lorna, a wee bit drunk, writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig(..equally wasted)rush her in an embrace of kisses."\n796,"This outing of Knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever, Frank Welker. Welker makes the film. Knotts and Welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty. Knotts works for a small ""no where"" town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials. When things go wrong the city fathers, allow Knotts to take the fall. Frank Welker\'s character befriends Knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and Knott\'s good name. This film shows the usual Knott\'s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film. This may have been Knotts\' last good outing. When you have an extra 90 minutes, get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon, Don Knotts."\n797,"Emma is a horribly flawed film based on Jane Austens classic novel. I have not read the book so I really didn\'t know that much about the plot, and yet I still predicted nearly the entire plot. There were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing. The film is though for some reason very entertaining and I loved it. Of course there were all the scenes I disliked but the majority was well acted and funny. Gwyneth Paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in Emma. The film also stars Toni Collette(Who has okay but has been much better) Ewan Mecgreger(Who has also been better but he is still very good here) Alan Cumming(Who I have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here) and Jeremy Northam(Who\'s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle, even if that was not what it needed) There have been much better adaptations of Jane Austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching."\n798,"Why do I hate this? Let me list the ways:<br /><br />I have nothing against Mary Pickford but a 32 year old woman playing a 12 year old is just stupid.<br /><br />There\'s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it\'s considered funny---and it goes on for 15 minutes <br /><br />Strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt<br /><br />The title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs<br /><br />For a ""family"" film the fights were WAY too violent (loved it when Pickford was punching it out with a little boy!) and the humor was just stupid <br /><br />Seriously, 40 minutes in I gave up and turned it off. The slurs, racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me. Also there was no plot that I could see. The only thing worth seeing in this film was William Haines who was a top leading man in the silent era.<br /><br />Just painful. Avoid."\n799,"Thank God this wasn\'t based on a true story, because what a story it is. Populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds, Before The Devil is a mesmerizing, jaw-dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable (and sometimes is, even with - or perhaps because of - the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout) if it weren\'t carried out with such magnificent, overwhelming conviction by its stars. The excellent script by Kelly Masterson and superb direction by none other than Sidney Lumet doesn\'t hurt either.<br /><br />The main dysfunction here is of a family nature, with the two majorly screwed up brothers (brilliant portrayals from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) deciding to rob their own parents\' jewelry store, an attempt that goes pathetically awry.<br /><br />The story is told with time-shifts (which are noted on screen, such as: ""Charlie: Two Days Before The Robbery"", so no one should be confused); some people have said they didn\'t like this device but I thought it worked perfectly, adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair, considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks - between them you couldn\'t make a decent poker hand to save your life. Throw in these cheesy extra tidbits: one of the brothers is a drug addict, married to Gina (Marisa Tomei, also excellent), who is having an affair with the other brother, toss in some monumental sibling rivalry, along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father (a wrenching performance from Albert Finney), who has apparently caused him serious past pain, and you\'ve got a Shakespearean/Greek tragedy on your hands. Proceed with caution."\n800,"If you want just about everything you want to know about WWII from multiple perspectives, this DVD delivers, you WILL learn new things guaranteed, so much so that you won\'t need any other documentary\'s on the subject. Get this, watch it, learn from it. Good for school use as well. As a bonus, watch this with Tora tora tora, saving private ryan, patton, band of brothers, a bridge too far, the longest day and other WWII epics along with this to make your knowledge of WWII even more complete. Sir Laurence Oliver\'s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this 26 part series. Seriously you won\'t find a better WWII documentary set on the subject. PERFECT 10!!!"\n801,"The movie was gripping from start to finish and its b/w photography of the American heartland is stunning. We feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into Mexico and back to America again. Near the end of the movie, the reflection of the rain on Robert Blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face. In the end, we follow them up the stairway to their final moment. <br /><br />The two criminals, performed by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock could be seen on any street in any town. Hickock is a smiling boy next door and Smith, the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town. This point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else. Evil, even the most vile, is part of the human condition. These two delusional men kill an entire family, looking for a safe that isn\'t there. Once on the run, they start writing bad cheques, carving out a trail for the authorities.<br /><br />There are many fine supporting actors. I like John Forsyth as the detective on the case, Alvin Dewey. Also, Will Geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney.<br /><br />I have often wanted to see this movie all the way through, having only caught it in short snatches; I did finally get to it after buying the DVD. The result is the finest classic crime movie I have ever seen.<br /><br />Don\'t miss this brilliant movie. To me, this is what great film-making is all about."\n802,"This is a great show with total freshness and innovation. That usual chair (couch for a woman) host, that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes, the same old jokes, the same pattern copied from the days of Nebuchadnezzer ....probably the pattern of Johnny Carson, copied by one and all, Latterman, Leno, Conan... Daly, this show does not seem to have any of these.<br /><br />I fell in love with this show within the first 10 minutes and I am going to stick to it. Though it\'s too early to say that, this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project, and I hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest. I hope that this show will last long!<br /><br />Returning back after months, I still love this show, and I love his self-deprecating humor (For example, his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at Saturday midnight and thus, the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys) which, however, does not involve the usual monkeying of Conan O\'Brien, for example (I know it\'s a cardinal sin to be repelled by O\'Brien\'s antics; but I do really dislike his style and repetitiveness). <br /><br />I again watched it the other night with Tom Arnold in it. Ferensen\'s spoof of Trading Spouses (and Nanny 911 in an earlier episode) are hilarious. Idiot paparazzi are fun, especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people\'s pictures, and (if I am not mistaken) they start taking his pictures shouting ""Gary Coleman"".<br /><br />Added on 16th April, 2007: Coming back once again, I am left confused by the neighbor and her dog. I cannot decide if it is a joke or a real thing. Either way, it was funny as hell.<br /><br />I do not expect Spike Feresten to read these pages, but maybe he does. He is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so, I would better write down my suggestion here for him: I would like him to do a full 30 minute show with Crazy Gideon, the star of late night TV commercial. I would like Crazy Gideon to have an interview in Spike\'s talk show, sing a song (and play guitar), do a skit in the line of SNL, and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of Los Angeles (I know, Crazy Gideon may not be aware of this, but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of LA).<br /><br />God willing!<br /><br />Returning back on 14th July, 2007: Someone wrote here that the people who praised Spike\'s talkshow must be bribed by Spike. I confess that Spike really bribed me, but I must also confess that Rockefeller named me in his will and last night I had sex with Cindy Crowford."\n803,"It\'s all about getting what you want when you want it. And the message of Bluebeard\'s Eighth WIfe is to be careful what you wish for, until what you wish for wishes for you.<br /><br />Most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn\'t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue. Misogynistic pirates aside, Cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it, learning only too late that it wasn\'t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty Claudette Colbert. Through a twisted (in soul and in practice) business deal, he ends up marring/buying her with the intent of bedding her, but she will have none of it (literally) and frustrates him at every turn, and corner, and room, and tourist attraction.<br /><br />The film has definite French sensibilities which means it has strong double-entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you\'re not accustomed to (and may not enjoy seeing) in either Cooper or Colbert. The whole reason I watched the film was because they are ""likable"" actors, and the whole point of this movie is that they\'re unlikable people, or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves, they think, from the world. <br /><br />If you can accept it on its own terms you\'ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film...and satisfaction, as we said, is what it\'s all about. Such a movie with such a cast only comes around, after all, once in a...ummm...blue moon."\n804,"Now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly I\'m appalled. For anyone to even think that the Sopranos is not Television then i\'m afraid i don\'t know what the world has come to. Let me tell u something. I started watching many T.V shows like Lost, Prison Break, Dexter, Deadwood and even Invasion. But all of those shows lost their touch after the first season, especially Lost and Prison Break which i refuse to watch because the companies took 2 genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season. Then we have The Sopranos. I can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season, and more importantly all of its episodes. There is no department that this show doesn\'t excel in. Acting- Nothing short of superb. James Gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode, after i heard that HBO wanted Ray Liotta to play Tony i felt that it would\'ve been the better choice, however after watching the first few episodes, i knew that HBO had done a great job in casting James as Tony. The raw emotion he displays is superb. Then we have everyone else, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Lorraine Bracco, Dominic Chianese (whom i remembered as Johnny Ola in the Godfather Part 2) and my personal two favourite characters Tony Sirico and Steve Van Zandt Paulie \'Walnuts\' Gualtieri and Silvio Dante. All of these actors perform to the best quality, and all giving an excellent performance in each episode. Then we have the story, never have i been so sucked into a T.V show before. The story is nothing short of excellent. Each episode is directed superbly and the Score of this show is just fantastic. I feel that The Sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of. Its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence, but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the Television, and I challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show. Not just say its too violent, or they feel that the character of Tony is immoral, i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day, i don\'t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to God. I implore everyone to watch this show because believe me, you\'ll be hooked from the very first episode, i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show, hooked on it. Trust me when i say that this show is a Godsend compared to the crap that comes on T.V. After you\'ve watched the first season, you\'ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates Television, and no T.V show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is The Sopranos."\n805,"I\'d give this a negative rating if I could. I went into this movie not expecting much, but I had an open mind. The whole thing is stupid! The snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson. Oh how original; if I were a 12 year old boy I might laugh at that. I have no idea how this movie became so popular. Seriously,the worst thing I\'ve ever seen. I wasn\'t entertained, it wasn\'t funny,I wasn\'t even bored! I wasn\'t anything. It wasn\'t even so bad it was good, it\'s just bad. Ridiculous actually. Please do not waste your money on this movie. Don\'t even rent this movie. No clue how it\'s getting such a high rating."\n806,"Most people are totally unaware that this movie exists. Fox, which paid Judge to make it, has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it. I guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer. Well, I am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe. Basically, Judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin. Then these stupid are getting more stupid, by basically spending all of their time watching TV and having sex, which produces more stupid people. By 2500, a person of average intelligence today, will appear to be a genius, that talks ""all faggy."" Seriously, is this really that hard to believe. Oh sure, this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid, but still plausible. Luke Wilson is great as the time traveling army guy, hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time. Where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one-liners, like ""can we family style her"" and ""hey man, I\'m \'bating here!"" This is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an American society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure, comfort and stupidity, and I guarantee you that I will be buying this on DVD the first day it comes out and watching it over and over."\n807,"This is a great, ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late 80s\' obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was. I can remember being freaked out by metal teens when I was a kid. It doesn\'t help that I found a desecrated grave in my hometown\'s graveyard when I was ten. Turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan. So maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile, but I love it now, as a 24 year old.<br /><br />I bought this DVD used for 6 bucks and I expected it to suck due to the lame cover, but to my surprise, it ruled. It is all about the extreme demonic power of metal. And you gotta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd. This movie is awesome, if you love 80s metal and bad movies, this one\'s for you. 9/10!"\n808,"While not quite as good as A Murder is Announced, which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book, this is an excellent adaptation. And you know what, it is a huge improvement on the Geraldine McEwan version. Now I don\'t take pride in bad mouthing the Geraldine McEwan adaptations, two or three of them were surprisingly good, but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script, a confusing final solution or both. The Geraldine McEwan version suffered from a plodding pace, and both of the above problems, and I would consider second worst of the ITV adaptations, worst being Sittaford Mystery, which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing. This adaptation of the book Nemesis is a huge improvement, it not only respects the book, despite a few liberties, but it pretty much rectifies the problems the ITV version had. Despite the added character of Lionel coming across as rather irritating, more to do with how he was written than how he was acted, and one or two moments of sluggish pacing, this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book. It is beautifully filmed, with nice photography and period detail, and the music as always is excellent. The performances are wonderful this time around, and make the most of an in general well-done script, with Joan Hickson brilliant as always as Miss Marple, and solid turns from Liz Fraser, Helen Cherry, Joanna Hole and Anna Cropper. Margaret Tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as Clothilde. Overall, well worth watching, better than the recent version in pretty much all departments. 9/10 Bethany Cox"\n809,"Good Lord, what were they THINKING??!!!!!! Here is your spoiler warning, even though I don\'t think it\'ll really matter. You won\'t be seeing this piece of trash anyway.<br /><br />A group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people, who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them, and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies. In other words, the whole thing is really stupid.<br /><br />You KNOW it has to be bad when even Mike and the Bots can\'t save something!! And they didn\'t! I know, some of their lines were funny, like what to add to the sign ""HIT"" and the hand comments, but, geez, this was pretty dang sad.<br /><br />All I can say is DO NOT WATCH THIS PIECE O CRUD. IT IS NOT WORTH YOUR EYES."\n810,"I had heard (and read) so many good things about Weeds that I was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable Series (like Entourage, Sopranos or Mad Men) but that slowly eroded away with each episode I watched from Season One. (didn\'t make it past the first six episodes) <br /><br />The writing was unoriginal, contrived and the portrayal of Blacks embarrassing. The dialog felt forced, like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip . It was a rare moment when I actually emitted an audible laugh.<br /><br />The characters never developed enough for me to care about them, they were selfish and unappealing. I absolutely HATED the addition of the Brother-in-law (who should have been hauled away on To Catch A Predator) and the removal of the Hodes\' daughter Quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in Mexico was so unoriginal and cliché, I had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer\'s loyalty.<br /><br />Episode after episode I liked the characters less and couldn\'t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line.<br /><br />Add to that I heard that Season Two wasn\'t as good, so I lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out.<br /><br />If you\'re a fan of good casting and writing, I suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like, unless of course you\'re stoned and then all bets are off."\n811,"This movie is among my favorite foreign films, some of the others are Amilee and My Life As a Dog. The similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films, is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson. <br /><br />In Japan, a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life, sees a beautiful Japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio. In the instant that it takes his train to pass, he is enthralled by her. But is it only by her beauty, by her faraway glance, or a connection that they will both discover that they share? <br /><br />Shall We Dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance. Breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of Japanese society, they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away. It is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and, in itself, transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be."\n812,"As if the film were not of value in itself, this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it. In the summer of 1968 I saw the film in NYC; that fall in graduate school, I read the book for the first time. Some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film. And for better or worse--and I\'ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades--Milo O\'Shea is still Leopold Bloom."\n813,"This film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural Cuban town the year of the Castro revolution. It is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love. <br /><br />The names CUBA LIBRE and CUBAN BLOOD are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film. DREAMING OF JULIA makes much more sense. It has more in common with European cinema than with RAMBO and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people\'s daily lives and pursuits. That fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in Cuban history.<br /><br />The excessive use of the voice-over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from Hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could.<br /><br />The comparisons to CINEMA PARADISO and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies, but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love. <br /><br />The revolution, like the film JULIE, never seems to have an ending."\n814,"I saw ZP when it was first released and found it a major disappointment. Its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey \'60s. It\'s politics too upfront and ridiculous. And let\'s face it, I was still under a love-spell known as BLOWUP : and I still haven\'t completely shaken it. Now the ""love"" is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and, oh well . . . Good Luck to me!<br /><br />But time marches on and time has been kind to ZP and time has been a teacher to me. I revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age. And ZP is it\'s own ""experience""and is only really linked to BLOWUP through its creator, the late,great Mr. Antonioni.<br /><br />Twelve years ago, I had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print, projected at its correct size (immense), restored by an Italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape. To this day I remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of Death Valley appeared. It was like a thousand volt visual shock Antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness. And indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of ""place"".<br /><br />What is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own.<br /><br />I remember the second time around seeing it --- the early 80s --- I had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards Daria and Mark in particular. Whereas, before these two seemed like a smart-alecky shadow version of Zefferelli\'s Olivia and Leonard (read: Romeo and Juliet)they now were engaging me --- particularly The Girl in her insistent slo-motion-ality. She-took-her-time . . . To Live. Everything, EVERYTHING dies around her.<br /><br />Upon exciting the theater the daylight of Reality quickly began to erase my new found ""enjoyment"". The encroaching shoulder-padded, big haired 80s whispered ""But that\'s a hippie fantasy --- let it go""<br /><br />The force of Antonioni\'s vision had, I had realised, already worked itself inside of me the FIRST time around so I answered ""80s"" with an ""Uh-Huh"" and guarded my ""love"" secretly, possessively and jealously.<br /><br />But, this, then is what good art does it lives inside of you, and, if you wish it has its way and ""loves"" you back: secretly, jealously, and possessively. And you get ""changed"".<br /><br />Was thrilled to see that Turner Classic Movies had decided to show ZP in its March lineup. Undoubtedly, ZP must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment. But, hey, sometimes even a glimpse of the Beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all.<br /><br />Today reality hit, ZP has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of ALICE\'S RESTAURANT.<br /><br />So, it is still too ""difficult"", too ""disturbing"", too ""what""?<br /><br />Maybe it\'s that, as with all good art, it Lives while everything dies around it. <br /><br />Peace."\n815,"Very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story, but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice, gruesome make-up effects. Daniella is a beautiful twenty-something girl, carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of 13. Nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she\'s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf. She kills her brother-in-law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital. She escapes again, however, and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives, doctors and relatives. It\'s all pretty to look at and listen too (really great soundtrack), but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast. Luckily enough, leading lady Annik Borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire. The film is too long, too weird and too forgettable. The biggest surprise comes at the end, when suddenly and out of the blue, director Rino Di Silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts. Yeah, right..."\n816,"This is an interesting, hard to find movie from the early 70\'s starring Jan Michael Vincent as a young man who doesn\'t make the cut as a marine. Dressed in \'baby blue\' outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home, the failed recruits are sent packing. Vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young Richard Gere who has just returned from a tour in the Pacific as a hard-core Marine \'Raider\'. Gere\'s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion, and he takes advantage of Vincent\'s innocence, stealing his \'baby blue\' uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway. Vincent\'s character, whose name is Marion, takes Gere\'s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a Marine \'Raider\'. Marion hitch-hikes his way into Wyoming and stops at a little Norman Rockwell-like little town. In the local café he meets Rose Hudkins, who immediately catches his eye. Staying with Hudkins parents, Marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks. Mr Hudkins suspects Marion and wonders how a Marine \'Raider\' could still be so innocent. The story also brings up the Japanese Internment Camps, as the towns folks go \'hunting\' 3 escapees. Marion is shot accidentally during this hunt. But there\'s still a happy ending, which befuddled me a bit. I would have preferred a little more drama! Anyway, this captures JMV at the peak of his 70\'s performances. BUSTER AND BILLIE, BABY BLUE MARINE and WHITE LINE FEVER in the mid-70\'s were amazingly good JMV performances. He was both an action star and a heart-throb all at the same time!!! He made a lot of quality movies during his career, and continued to do so up into the mid 80\'s with the great TV show Airwolf. He does a very good job in this as \'Hedge\', quietly observing the way people treat him (in his uniform) as he travels across the country. He must have performed some of the stunt work as well- there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie-and it looks like he\'s the guy getting tossed down the river to me! But really, at the height of his popularity, this movie could have done so much more with JMV\'s talent and his looks. Innocence can only be so interesting. Evil, as explored in ""Buster and Billie"", is much more dramatic! Anyway, Glynnis O\'Connor is delightful as Rose. The whole look of the movie is like a Norman Rockwell painting. The outdoor scenes are gorgeous - must have been filmed in Canada."\n817,"Johnny and June Carter Cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the Gospel stories. The music is great, you get a real feel of what the world of Jesus looked like (I\'ve been there too), and June gets into the part of Mary Magdalene with a passion. Cash\'s narration is good too.<br /><br />But....<br /><br />1. The actor who played Jesus was miscast. 2. There is no edge to the story like Cash puts in some of his faith based music. 3. Because it is uncompelling, I doubt we\'ll see this ever widely distributed again.<br /><br />I\'d love to buy the CD.<br /><br />Tom Paine Texas, USA"\n818,"Jäniksen vuosi is one of Jarva\'s most political movies. It takes stance strongly against modern day society\'s authority status in the life of the common man, and how it has estranged men from the nature completely. It challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society.<br /><br />Vatanen (Antti Litja) - smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations - tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern Finland - only to realize that the concept of a \'free country\' isn\'t all that unambiguous, in other words, the society has the common man by the balls.<br /><br />Still the thing that makes Jäniksen vuosi so exceptional - besides the visual and humouristic brilliance - is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in Finland in the 70\'s, as well as the whole identity of Finland as a nation. Vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness. Since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us Finns, the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes Jäniksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving."\n819,"I love Jamie Foxx.<br /><br />And I enjoy 99% of all movies I see.<br /><br />And I walked out of this one.<br /><br />Now, I admit, it may have had something to do with the two middle-aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing (""Oh no, Jamie\'s knocking on a door! HEE HEE HEE!""), but... this was just so incredibly annoying. There could be no sustained camera shot, and no camera shot from a conventional angle... everything had to be in-your-face, loud, and annoying.<br /><br />The bad guy tried to be smooth and Malkovich-like, but at this point, it\'s just old and tired. He brought nothing new or interesting. From all the characters, too many lines you saw coming, too many you\'ve heard before, and too many ""tough guy"" lines... and I don\'t mind that sort of thing, really, as long as there\'s a bit of originality to it. In fact, pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked.<br /><br />I love Jamie Foxx, and I think he\'s really funny, and I thought he was funny in this movie... but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else. <br /><br />This movie needed less shoot-em-up, less annoying camera shots, more emotion, more feeling, and more Jamie Foxx. I gave it a 2."\n820,"After seeing Dick Tracy in the 6.99$ bin at Future Shop I decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of Mafia and Crime movies. I was very surprised to see a very fun, smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout. The movie moves along well, it has of course another solid performance from Warren Beatty, but the real standouts of the film are Al Pacino and Madonna. I was happy to find out that Pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city. Madonna was great as the damsel in distress, she really impressed me and added depth to her performance. If you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun, smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give Dick Tracy a try. I don\'t think you will be disappointed. And Watch for the cameos from Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Kathy Bates and Dustin Hoffman among others."\n821,Send them to the freezer. This is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh. An incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film. The complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile - if you can stand it. Definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive.\n822,"Wow! I picked this off the rental shelf because I loved Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller in \'Trainspotting.\' This is a phenomenal movie; it has action, romance, suspense, intrigue and wit. When I wasn\'t laughing, I was at the edge of my seat. This is definitely a film I would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the 18th century. This film has everything to keep ME happy!"\n823,"I don\'t know why some people criticise that show so much.<br /><br />It is a great, funny show - probably not the right material for mainstream prime-time, but still...<br /><br />The family dynamics are funny, and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows. The supporting characters are absolutely hilarious. The plots of the individual episodes and the frequent Siegfried & Roy jibes are only just above average, but ever so often you have sub-plots or one-liners that make you roll on the floor laughing.<br /><br />This show was well worth the 8 Pounds I paid for it.<br /><br />rating: 8/10"\n824,"Mexican Werewolf in Texas is set in the small border town of Furlough where Anna (Erika Fay) lives, her best friend is Rosie (Martine Hughes) & she has a Mexican boyfriend named Miguel (Gabriel Gutierrez) who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town, killing livestock & several residents including some of their friends. Local Mexican legends speak of the Chupacabra, an evil creature from myth & legend. Erm, I\'m struggling now because not that much else actually happens...<br /><br />Written & directed by Scott Maginnis I won\'t beat about the bush here & simply say that Mexican Werewolf in Texas is awful, period. The script only ever mentions the word Werewolf once & the rest of the time it\'s referred to a Chupacabra, in fact I suspect this wasn\'t really conceived as a Werewolf flick at all. The \'Werewolf\' creature looks mostly hairless & more like some vicious dog, there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon & it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions, there is no transformation scene & at the end when it is killed it doesn\'t change back into anyone either. To be honest apart from the title there\'s nothing here to indicate a Werewolf film at all & even then the title is just a rip-off of the highly popular An American Werewolf in London (1981). This is the type of home made crap that I personally think is killing the horror genre, how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead (1981), Halloween (1978) or Friday the 13th (1980) which were all made on shoe string budgets, maybe The Blair Witch Project (1999) but that\'s it in recent years & crap like Mexican Werewolf in Texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic. The character\'s are awful & things just happen around them, the dialogue is rubbish, the pacing is terrible, the story sucks & virtually sent me to sleep & as a whole this film is just crap, I\'m sorry but I don\'t know how else to describe it.<br /><br />Director Maginnis does nothing to make this watchable, there\'s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache & quick \'blink & you\'ll miss something\' editing which just annoys & irritates in equal measure. It\'s not scary, there\'s no nudity, there\'s no tension or atmosphere & the special effects are awful. The monster really does look poor & it\'s no wonder Maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it. There\'s virtually no colour to the picture either, it\'s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well. The gore consists of some fake guts (blink & you\'ll miss them!), a few bloody wounds & a severed arm, big deal.<br /><br />With a supposed budget of about $300,000 I admit the budget was low but I simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film, there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far. The whole thing has the look of a home movie, it has no style & is throughly bland & dull to look at. The acting sucks too although you probably already knew that.<br /><br />Mexican Werewolf in Texas will probably con a few people into renting/buying/watching it because they might mistakenly think it\'s a sequel to John Landis\' classic which it most certainly isn\'t & it isn\'t even a proper Werewolf flick either. Don\'t be fooled this is awful & I\'m fed up of having to waste time/money on home made amateur crap like this."\n825,"I found this to be a surprisingly light-handed touch at a 1950\'s culture-clash movie. John Wayne would hardly be one\'s first choice as a cultural attache, being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull-run in Harrods. But this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona, and he accomplished his task with style. The Duke was a guy who really could act well. His facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle.<br /><br />Despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time, he failed to dominate this movie. Many of his good intentions came a cropper. He had authority over nobody, and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian.<br /><br />The story of American attempts to curry favour with an isolationist Japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell-for-leather battles. I cannot comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the Oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well. There was a great deal of minutely-choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props. The set pieces were complex and detailed. A lot of money and thought had been applied to it.<br /><br />The fractured romance between Wayne and his geisha added a little extra element, and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag-waving effort. Script was good without being too wordy. There was a great deal of Japanese dialogue, but the lengthy periods of translation didn\'t interfere with the narrative. It was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set. Whether or not they were Japanese, I couldn\'t say. But anyway they looked the part. At least the leads were not played by cross-dressing Caucasians, unlike other efforts such as \'Blood Alley\' (yes, I know they were Chinese) \'The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness\' or even \'The King And I\'.<br /><br />Frankly, I enjoyed this more than any of those other movies. The script was better for a start. I never liked the songs in \'The King And I\', and wasn\'t impressed by the heavy-laden anti-communist subtext of \'Blood Alley\'. I confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of The Duke\'s more popular outings.<br /><br />Recommended."\n826,"I was so glad I came across this short film. I\'m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across, so when I saw this and saw that it was nominated for the Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards, I was so pleased that I actually had a film that I was rooting for.<br /><br />The plot is pretty simple, the director, writer, and star Nacho Vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals. The result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy.<br /><br />It\'s a well made short film, well edited and the actors all do a great job. And the last shot of the film is perfect.<br /><br />I highly recommend this film."\n827,"I thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one, but when i started with it i found it really awful. They said movie is being made in Afghanistan but i think 95% of the movie is shot in India. you can see Indian made cars. you can see lars drinking bisleri(an Indian water brand), Hindi written on the road, you can also see temples in Afghanistan *hahah* its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in Afghanistan. I think one should not waste his/her time watching this movie.. pure time waste.. i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don\'t watch this waste of time"\n828,"Truly appalling waste of space. Me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about 30 minutes from the end. And i can count the films I have switched off before the end on one hand.<br /><br />The script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring. I wouldn\'t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from 1983. For example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone. I mean seriously. The police would be beating his door down in minutes. The scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river. It is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film. The narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters. Oh and what ""characters"" they are. The protagonist played by Rourke is dreadful. He could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed. After 60 or so minutes of the film I had built absolutely zero attachment to this character. He is neither sympathetic nor hateful. Just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene. His motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery. Is he happy? Is he sad? Angry? No idea. Just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh. And the native American theme is just awful and pointless.<br /><br />The good guys are at best unlikeable. A dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex-wife stereotype. Cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy, ""you aren\'t going to shoot me"" that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying.<br /><br />The richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character. Which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated.<br /><br />Roasario Dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from Jackie Brown. You really want me to believe her character was SO attracted to Rourke\'s? Or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves? Realistic female characters FTW! <br /><br />In summary a complete mess of a film. Hopeless characterisations and performances. A leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction. And ultimately extremely dull. Its not even comedy bad either. Laughing at Rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first 15 turgid minutes of the film."\n829,"In this movie, Chávez supporters (either venezuelan and not-venezuelan) just lie about a dramatic situation in our country. <br /><br />They did not say that the conflict started because of Chávez announcement firing a lot of PDVSA best workers just for political issues.<br /><br />They did not say anything about more than 96 TV interruptions transmitted by Chávez during only 3 days in ""CADENA NACIONAL"" (a kind of confiscation o private TV signals). Each one with about 20 minutes of duration.<br /><br />They did not tell us anything about The quiting announcement made by General en Jefe Lucas Rincon Romero, Inspector General of the army forces, who is a traditional supporter of Chávez. Even now, in despite of his announcement, he is the Ministro de Interior y Justicia. After Chávez return he occuped the Charge of Ministro del Defensa (equals to Defense Secretary in US).<br /><br />They did not say anything about Chávez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections.<br /><br />They did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by Chávez Supporters (either civilians and Military official forces).<br /><br />They present some facts in a wrong order, in order to lie.<br /><br />They did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and Chávez actions in order to avoid the elections.<br /><br />That\'s why i tell you.... This movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie."\n830,"One could wish that an idea as good as the ""invisible man"" would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects, but this is not the case. The story, the characters and, finally the entire last 20 minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad-scientist flick from the early 50\'s. There are some great moments, mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets. But alas, soon we\'re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab, which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable, but schematic.<br /><br />There has been a great many remakes of old films or TV shows over the past 10 years, and some of them have their charms. But it\'s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol\' classics under the noses of eager madmen like Verhoeven (who does have his moments) is a very bad one. It is obvious that the money is the key issue here: the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough, and as a result, ""Hollow Man"" is seriously undermined with clichés, sappy characters, predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever.<br /><br />However, the one thing that actually impressed me, beside the special effects, was the swearing. When making this kind of film, modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them. Therefore, the language (and, sometimes, the violence and sex) is very toned down. When the whole world blows up, the good guys go ""Oh darn!"" and ""Oh my God"". ""Hollow Man"" gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them. I\'m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear - but it makes it more believable if SOMEONE actually swears. I think we can thank Verhoeven for that."\n831,"OK, so it owes Pulp Fiction, but in my opinion has it\'s own voice and identity mainly because of the music-video direction style, sketch-like narrative and great performances. Thomas Jane delivers great (the drug-dealer show-down is extraordinary), Aaron Eckhart likewise. James LeGros has a short and effervescent appearance-great humor-""they got the Wong house"". The Porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable, as is Mickey Rourke\'s cameo appearance-""take a peak"".<br /><br />Great Hollywood popcorn B-production with strong performances of A-level aspirants and renegades(Rourke).<br /><br />Well, take a peak, it\'s worth."\n832,"As far as I know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal, I\'d agree with him. This is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy/man with a special body part helping him. Oscar and BAFTA winning, and Golden Globe nominated Daniel Day-Lewis plays Christy Browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor, in a wheelchair and carried by his family. He has a special left foot though, he can write with it, paint with it and hold things with it. He learns to speak later in the film, it is very good for a guy like him. Also starring Home Alone 2\'s Oscar winning, and Golden Globe nominated Brenda Fricker as Mrs. Brown and BAFTA winning Ray McAnally as Mr. Brown. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Director for Jim Sheridan, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and Best Picture, it was nominated the BAFTAs for Best Film, Best Make Up Artist and Best Adapted Screenplay. Daniel Day-Lewis was number 85 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, he was number 20 on The 50 Greatest British Actors, he was number 9 on Britain\'s Finest Actors, and he was number 15 on The World\'s Greatest Actor, and the film was number 28 on The 50 Greatest British Films. Outstanding!"\n833,"All I ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes, and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance, but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better. All the while watching I was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future, and there wasn\'t. I\'ll admit to not finishing the film, I had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man Adam that it was ok to be a whore and get, and I quote, ""More tail than any man in the past time."" I know not finishing it is a bad review on myself, but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested, and they failed. This film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance. Instead it exemplifies what America ran by lesbian natzis would be like,and I\'m not against lesbians. Thank you Mr. Director! Someone please give me a redeeming quality... wait I have it! There\'s no sequel!"\n834,"I do regret that I have bought this series. I expected more action, more objective picture and more consistency. This is just a pure propaganda series, very dark, without any charm, or romanticism, it is just boredom itself. I find the actors work quite weak as well. O\'Donnell might seem charming as Robin (with Batman), but in this picture he lacks any charm. Probably while he becomes older, he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up. It comes as no surprise, that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the UK for 40% of the recommended price and was not even released in the Netherlands."\n835,"The story has been told before. A deadly disease is spreading around... But the extra in this film is Peter Weller, his interpretation of Muller on the run is real. He is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child. This person could be working next to you."\n836,"This film was very well advertised. I am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months. While I was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be, my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it. Then I went and saw it, I was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until I remembered that I had paid for this movie. I made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood I was in, plus I wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie! I always go into a movie with an open mind, not trying to go into them with too many expectations, but this movie was not that funny. Now it wasnt the worst movie I\'ve ever seen, but it is definitely worth waiting for HBO. If you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it, but for true comedy fans Id say pass. Maybe even check out The Kings of Comedy again. Something told me to go see Meet the Parents instead!!!"\n837,"As far as I know this was my first experience with Icelandic movies. It\'s such a relief to see something else than your regular Hollywood motion picture. Too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world. I can only hope that people watch this by accident, by recommendation or other...<br /><br />Because it\'s really worth while. I left the cinema feeling really sad. I couldn\'t get the tragic destiny\'s of the characters out of my head. And it impressed me even more when I thought of the complexity of the film. Not only was it a tragic story, it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack.<br /><br />If you have the opportunity, watch it! It\'s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot.<br /><br />"\n838,"Very typical Almodóvar of the time and, in its own way, no less funny than many of his later works. And why is that? There is nothing to be provoked or shocked about, and I guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional. No, the great humor stems from an underlying, almost surreal, absurdity that is woven into the scenery: The characters\' nearly complete lack of taboo. It\'s the same kind of \'comic suspense\' you find in his later works, though you\'ll find it in a more rough version here. He\'s building up for masterpieces to come, but is not yet there.<br /><br />The sole reviewer who commented on this movie before I did, claimed that it had to be a ""very select"" group of people who\'d find this movie hilarious. I do."\n839,"Once again, Doctor Who delivers the goods by the bucket load. It has humour (""You\'re just making it up as you go along!"" ""Yup, but I do it brilliantly""), action, monsters (in this case still more kick-ass cybermen), tragedy and scare tactics. In short, just what the doctor ordered (pun intended). The way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of ""get on with it"". So, chalk up 3 out of the last 4 episodes that have made you laugh, then made you cry, and made you go ""eek"".<br /><br />In terms of character development, this is clearly the clincher for Noel Clarke\'s Mickey (and Ricky). Being one of the Doctor\'s companions, you know that he will do the right thing, and may even suspect the manner that he does it. However, it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path.<br /><br />While ""The rise of the Cybermen"" had more of the sinister build up to terror, ""The Age of Steel"" is an all out blast. Like ""Alien"" compared to ""Aliens"" - both true classics, but in different ways. Can the series keep it up at this level? Let\'s hope so."\n840,"A Brother\'s Promise is a wonderful family film. This is a biography of Dan Jansen, a champion Olympic speed skater. The movie depicts this athlete\'s life from a young age through full adulthood. The love and support of the family members is evident throughout. How Dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us. The commitment and determination of Dan\'s coach and his teammates, shows what it takes to make a real team. How Dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating. The faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives. This is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age."\n841,"Well...now that I know where Rob Zombie stole the title for his ""House of 1,000 Corpses"" crapfest, I can now rest in peace. Nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in ""The House of Seven Corpses,"" but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot (ha!) anyway, to kill the bloody amateurs making a low-rent horror flick in his former abode! In Hell House (sorry, I don\'t remember the actual name of the residence), a bunch of mysterious, unexplained deaths took place long ago; some, like arthritic Lurch stand-in John Carradine (whose small role provides the film\'s only worthwhile moments), attribute it to the supernatural; bellowing film director John Ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum. The result comes across like ""Satan\'s School for Girls"" (catchy title; made-for-TV production values; intriguing plot) crossed with ""Children Shouldn\'t Play With Dead Things"" (low-rent movie about low-rent movie makers who wake the dead); trouble is, it\'s nowhere near as entertaining or fun. ""The House of Seven Corpses"" is dead at frame one, and spends the rest of its 89 minutes going through rigor mortis, dragging us along for every aching second..."\n842,"Director Sidney Lumet has made some masterpieces,like Network,Dog Day Afternoon or Serpico.But,he was not having too much luck on his most recent works.Gloria (1999) was pathetic and Find Me Guilty was an interesting,but failed experiment.Now,Lumet brings his best film in decades and,by my point of view,a true masterpiece:Before the Devil Knows You\'re Dead.I think this film is like a rebirth for Lumet.This movie has an excellent story which,deeply,has many layers.Also,I think the ending of the movie is perfect.The performances are brilliant.Philip Seymour Hoffman brings,as usual,a magnificent performance and he\'s,no doubt,one of the best actors of our days.Ethan Hawke is also an excellent actor but he\'s underrated by my point of view.His performance in here is great.The rest of the cast is also excellent(specially,the great Albert Finney) but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic Oscars.The film has a good level of intensity,in part thanks to the performances and,in part,thanks to the brilliant screenplay.Before the Devil Knows You\'re Dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction,a great screenplay and excellent performances.We need more movies like this."\n843,"I took my 14 year old to see this movie. We left after 15 or 20 minutes. It was absolutely awful! This movie should be rated R at the least. I am not that strict with movies but, this was just too much. It was a waste of money. I thought it would contain some comedy and I knew the comedy would probably be crude but, this was WAY beyond crude. I was sitting there watching and reading (a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me) and I could not believe how crudely sexual it was. I could not believe that it would be OK for a 13 year old to read and see this content. I don\'t understand how the rating system works.??"\n844,"I loved this film. I thought it would be easy to watch, and easy to forget. I ran out after watching this to buy the DVD, obv not easily forgotten!<br /><br />The script is brilliant, and the casting couldn\'t be more perfect. Each character has their moment, and I laughed hard throughout this film, comedic timing was spot-on.<br /><br />"\n845,"It\'s not easy to find Judas Kiss on VHS (it\'s not available on DVD), but I wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my Alan Rickman movie collection.<br /><br />I can\'t understand how the talented Mr. Rickman gets into these mediocre films? Judas Kiss boasts several wonderful actors, an interesting plot and intriguing twists, but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama. Many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character\'s actions: Why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses? Why did he mistrust the detective he replaced? There were times when I honestly couldn\'t tell if the director meant Judas Kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof. Why else would he toss in a topless/alien/lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes (that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby!)? Did he purposely instruct his two distinguished English actors (Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson) to use such awful New Orlean\'s accents? As an Alan Freak, I confess that I still thought Mr. Rickman was sexy: in a rumpled, weary, ""take-him-home-and-tuck-him-in"" sort of way.<br /><br />Judas Kiss isn\'t a great movie, but it does have some intriguing moments, but I don\'t recommend it unless you\'re trying to immerse yourself in Alan Rickman."\n846,"First of all, I should point out that I really enjoyed watching this documentary. Not only it had great music in it, but the shots and the editing were also wonderful. However, all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist ""East meets West"" cliché that bothers many Turks like myself. Okay, this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary Turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing, something that would show ignorant Europeans and Americans that this country is not just about murdering Armenians and Kurds. However, the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as ""east"" from the eyes of the ""west"". I mean, like one jazz musician says in the film, maybe there is no east and west, maybe it is just a myth, a lie created by the ruling leaders of ""western"" countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and ""keep the cash flowing""? <br /><br />Why don\'t you think about that?"\n847,"STMD! is not a terrible movie, but it IS quite forgettable. The lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest, so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye-strain. Special effects are imaginative, but obvious. The gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there, of course, along with the archetypical teenagers, but the whole movie just doesn\'t gel. What was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue-in-cheek humor.<br /><br />I can\'t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie. I often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor, but these are sadly lacking in this film."\n848,"First off, I have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen. Its not even the low budget SCI-Fi channel movie, its just awful. Me and my friend who love action movies, Independence day, Jurassic Park, LotR, etc. went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a Transformers with dragons, mindless entertainment. All we got was a mindless hour and a half. The CG was not as bad as I was expecting, but the plot is so awful along with the acting, it made up for it. Its basically a Chinese legged of dragons returning every 500 years...Sounds like a good remake of Rain of Fire? No, The plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes, but with magic, and a very small actual war between dragons(rather big snakes) it just gets ridiculous. The director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail. Me and my friend laughed through the whole thing(along with all 5 of the audience), and cant believed we spent money on this. The short trailer on TV makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest. I\'ve seen a lot of B movies like Reptilian, The Cave, Spider, and others, but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour, watch this.<br /><br />Story: 1/10 CG: 5/10 Acting:3/10<br /><br />I don\'t drink...but it would have helped before watching this movie"\n849,"i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie, but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie. the character of gust,played perfectly by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, was one of the most unique, yet entertaining characters in recent memory. this movie informed,yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience. it made me laugh, made me sad, made me feel alive, and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie. it takes no time to understand what is going on, and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine, human emotion. i thought i knew my history, apparently i didn\'t know it at all! i give this move 9 out of 10, and recommend it for all adults, and young adults, and the young at heart, just not the young. but as soon as they are allowed to see ""r"" rated movies, make it a priority."\n850,"I must have seen this a dozen times over the years. I was about fifteen when I first saw it in B & W on the local PBS station.<br /><br />I bought a DVD set for the children to see, and am making them watch it. They don\'t teach history in School, and this explains the most critical event of the 20th Century. It expands their critical thinking.<br /><br />Impartially, with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why, it details what lead up to the war and the actual war.<br /><br />Buy it for your children, along with Alistair Cooke\'s America. Watch it with them, and make them understand. You\'ll be so glad you did."\n851,"Steven Seagal\'s films of late have not exactly been good, but this is by far the worst since The Patriot. The plot makes no sense what so ever; it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are, who works for who or who is double crossing who. The film is completely disjointed, each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward. Even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow. Most of the blame must lie at the director\'s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making, but Seagal does not get off lightly, as one of the producers of this film, he must also share the blame. Oh, and I haven\'t even mentioned how awful the acting is, even by Seagal standards. Even as straight to video fodder, this is not worth a view even for Seagal fans. Give it a wide berth!"\n852,"and I for one think that is a good thing. I\'ve just never been a Rosalind Russell fan although the original was my favorite RR movie. But I love Bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this.<br /><br />As for the rest of the production, I think it was slightly less than the original movie. One of my favorite minor characters in the original was Mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice belting out ""HEY! It takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah!"" and although I missed it, I was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy.<br /><br />I also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage, it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre, not just at the movies.<br /><br />I think the other thing I liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song ""Let me entertain you"", which becomes completely annoying after about the 5th time you hear it."\n853,"So real and surreal, all in one. I remember feeling like Tessa. Heck, I remember being Tessa. This was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending. I especially liked the protesters tangent. It is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it. If you get the chance to see this, take it. It is well worth the 30 minutes."\n854,"Thank God I watched this at a friend\'s place and did not pay for it. The plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a TV show. If you have any knowledge of computers or electronics, watch out. You will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence. <br /><br />Also, actress turned Much Music VJ Amanda Walsh displays the worst acting I have ever seen, excluding porn. She\'s lucky that Matt Lanter is actually decent. He\'s the one that carries the movie. <br /><br />I hate that I wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie! It\'s a shame that they got to call it a sequel, because I was a fan of the original, which was actually pretty good."\n855,"A friend lent me this DVD, which he got from the director at a festival, I think. I went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great. So maybe that colored my judgment but I have to admit that I liked this movie.<br /><br />The standouts where the actors. Youssef Kerkor was really good as Ernie, the main character, kind of pathetic in a likable way. Adam Jones (who also directed) and Justin Lane were excellent as the roommates who drive Ernie mad. The Bill character (Justin Lane), who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda, was by far my favorite; he seemed the least one-dimensional, and reminded me of an old college roommate so much I called the guy after watching the DVD. Really kind of lovable, and very funny. Some of the other acting was good, some was so-so, but none of it was bad. I also really liked the vigilante duo. Ridiculous and funny.<br /><br />I\'m giving this one high marks, even though it has some issues, because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared, and decided to make their movie their way. Well done to Adam Jones and crew."\n856,"Shawshank, Godfather, Pulp Fiction... all good films. Great films. But nothing, and I mean nothing lives up to the greatest Christmas movie of all, Santa Claus.<br /><br />The film is so great and has so many messages, I cried while watching it. Seriously, this is one of those movies you need to watch 10 times. When we see Pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream, we see the sadness in his eyes, and we feel the deep sorrow, and then we wonder... what is so bad about this ice cream? Is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil? Think movie makes you think.<br /><br />This movie has the best rendition of Santa Claus ever. Unlike other Santas, he is a normal person. We see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams, and we wonder; is the Santa we believe in really that good? Also, this Santa actually mentions Christ, the whole meaning behind Christmas.<br /><br />You owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece. We should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic 24/7. Whether it\'s Christmas or not, this movie gets a 500/10. Whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool."\n857,I really cant think of anything good to say about this film...not a single thing. The script is a nightmare.. the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference. You\'d think they would at least get a technical advisor. The performances were bad by most of the cast... although I dont really blame them.. the material really stinks. The editing was equally bad.. I\'ll just stop now.. its all bad 2/10\n858,"Cinema\'s greatest period started in post-War Europe with Italy\'s Neo-Realist movement. During the next 2 or 3 decades that followed, France\'s New Wavers caught everyone\'s attention, and there was always Bergman up there on his desolate Scandinavian island somewhere, making bitter masterpieces. But in 1971, Luchino Visconti brought the art-form to full circle, geographically speaking, with his miraculous work *Death in Venice*, which might as well be called *The Death of Europoean Cinema*. After the Sixties wound down, so did the great European filmmakers, who, with some exceptions, generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new American generation of Movie Brats (Coppola, Scorsese, & Co.). This movie absolutely feels like a grand summing-up, not just of Visconti\'s particular obsessions, but of the general attempt of European filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies. And rest assured, you will find no sterner task-master than the Visconti revealed here. He\'s not playing to the crowd, folks: either you get behind him and follow along, or you get left behind. The pacing is a challenge: slow, but never without emotional weight. ""Incidents"" are few and far between, but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm-und-drang cosmos.<br /><br />We will probably never be in such rarefied company again, in terms of the movies: one of the century\'s great writers who inspired the tale (Thomas Mann), one of the greatest filmmakers directing it (Visconti), one of the greatest actors in the lead role (Dirk Bogarde), and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background, Gustav Mahler\'s 5th Symphony. Taking full advantage of Mahler\'s ability to inspire Romanticism in even the most cynical breast, Visconti changes the main character, Aschenbach, into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer, even making Bogarde up to LOOK like Mahler (geeky mustache, specs, shaggy hair, duck-like walk). Bogarde, by the way, delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies: it\'s a largely silent performance, and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance -- a difficult trick without mugging like Chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse.<br /><br />Cinema just doesn\'t get better than this. I\'ll ignore the complaints from the Ritalin-addicts out there who say that it\'s too slow, but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of Aschenbach\'s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced. The flashbacks fit neatly within the movie\'s thematic concerns (i.e., which is the better path to aesthetic perfection: passion or discipline?), and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers. (Of course, some viewers will sleep through this movie, anyway.) A nonstop stream of Mahler and beautiful, dying Venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture; but this movie is actually about something. And what it\'s mostly about is suffering: Romantic (capital R) suffering, in particular. As a suffering Romantic himself, Visconti knew whereof he spoke.<br /><br />[SPOILER . . . I guess] If for nothing else, see *Death in Venice* for its portentous opening credits . . . and for its unforgettable ending, with Bogarde\'s jet-black hair-dye dripping off of his sweaty, dying head and onto his chalk-white face. Meanwhile, off in the distance, young Tadzio, the object of Bogarde\'s dying desire, stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a Michelangelo sculpture. The climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about: love, lust, beauty, loss, the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life, and cold death in the midst of warm, sunny beauty. *Death in Venice* is a miraculous work of art. <br /><br />[DVD tip: as with the simultaneously released Visconti masterpiece *The Damned*, I recommend that you turn the English subtitles ON while watching this movie. It\'s ostensibly in English, but the DVD\'s sound seems muddy and there\'s a lot of Italian spoken during the film, anyway.] <br /><br />"\n859,"This is a stereotype plot. A young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school. This leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight.<br /><br />The fights are not of high standards. They are way too ""simple"" in a way that 1+1 is simple to every adult. The fighter has trained and enters the ring, but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking. The coach yells do this and do that with no success. And after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once. This results in a turning point in the fight, although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point. Think about the Rocky movies and you\'ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes. The fights are also shot poorly.<br /><br />There final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance. Cheesy music and awkward moments are not what I call entertainment.<br /><br />These guys really could have made some quality entertainment, but the director wasn\'t up to the task. Or the other crew in my opinion. Maybe they had a small budget, I don\'t know, but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of 3 out of 10."\n860,"This production was quite a surprise for me. I absolutely love obscure early 30s movies, but I wasn\'t prepared for the last 25 minutes of this story. If, by any chance, you\'re not convinced in the first half, hang in there for the finale. Of course, you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical. A fascinating viewing experience, but I think THE CAT\'S PAW is not available on video/DVD yet. Watch your PBS listings!"\n861,"It isn\'t TOO bad, but ultimately it lacks the quality that the Australian series has.<br /><br />The jokes are few and far between, the actors are attractive (they shouldn\'t be), the film makers think far too much about the cinematography (it\'s supposed to look like a home video) and it\'s just like a serious version of Kath and Kim... it\'s stupid.<br /><br />It\'s too normal to be Kath and Kim. Kath and Kim are supposed to be two curvy, middle-aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes. There are no ""Look at me Kimmy!"" jokes. The fat friend of Kim is not fat at all and she\'s not even slightly stupid. She\'s a stereotypical black/Latino chick.<br /><br />It\'s just not as stupid or funny as the Australian series. It doesn\'t compare. Nothing is the same. I admit, this show is pretty funny at times, but it is NOT anything like the Aussie series. I was looking forward to an American take on a bogan family. They failed. It\'s supposed to be REALLY stupid and hilarious, but the actors don\'t act stupid! To me, this is just a typical American TV show. It\'s a let down if you want it to be anything like the Aussie show.<br /><br />2 Stars because it is an OKAY show, just nothing like what it should be."\n862,"From the decrepit ranks of the already over-saturated \'Hillybilly Horror\' sub-genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks. Sound familiar? Well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre. There is absolutely new here. The film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clichés (deformed hicks, a peaceful family turned gun-toting killers when push comes to show, the rebellious daughter, the one \'freak\' who\'s good at heart, etcetera...), but does even that half-heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time. This is forgettable dreck, but humorously enough lead J.D. Hart once starred in a movie called ""Films that Suck"" earlier in his career, quite an ironic omen indeed.<br /><br />My Grade: D-"\n863,"As a huge baseball fan, my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears. Dennis Quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher. It is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much ""Disney"" for my taste."\n864,"This film takes you on one family\'s impossible journey, and makes you feel every step of their odyssey. Beautifully acted and photographed, heartbreakingly real. Its last line, with its wistful hope, is one of the more powerful in memory."\n865,"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! I can not stand Ben stiller anymore. How this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me. I can\'t understand how this happens if I performed at work the way he acts in a movie I\'d get fired and I own the company.....I would have to fire myself. GOD! This movie was just a plain, steaming, stinking pile of POO, that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible. Something else I have to say the guideline about 10 lines of text in a comment is idiotic. What is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie? I will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary."\n866,"This show is great for many reasons..The father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age. Its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family. I watched this one time and became hooked.It so great to see a black family on TV worth watching. This show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy, sexy, drugs, bad dates,death etc .The best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way. Great show for the family ..I cant tell you how many times I have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off. Great pg 13 rated show.I loved everybit of this show."\n867,"This film is where the Batman franchise ought to have stopped. Though I will concede that the ideas behind ""Batman Forever"" were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director, as it turned out this was not to be the case.<br /><br />Apparently Warner Brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second Batman film from Tim Burton turned out. Apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from Burton, and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the Sixties TV series, I fail to understand how ""Batman Returns"" can be considered at all disappointing.<br /><br />True, it is not quite the equal of the first film - though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in ""Batman,"" a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of Keaton and Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the first film. Yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film, true to the way the Batman was always meant to be, and highly satisfying.<br /><br />Michael Keaton returns as the Batman and his alter ego Bruce Wayne, tangling with nouveau riche tycoon Max Schreck (Christopher Walken, named in honour of the 1920s German silent actor), his partner-in-crime Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin (Danny DeVito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of Laurence Olivier\'s ""Richard III""), and Selina Kyle, the Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), whom Wayne romances both as himself and as the Batman. The four principals turn in excellent performances, especially Walken and DeVito, while together Keaton and Pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities.<br /><br />There are some intriguing concepts in this film. About the only weakness I can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places, which I think is due mostly to the way this film is a four-cornered fight. There simply isn\'t enough time to properly explore what\'s going on.<br /><br />Nevertheless, this is a damn good film. I highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first, and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under Burton and Keaton."\n868,"The Quick and the Undead is, finally, the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void. It is, essentially, one gigantic plot hole.<br /><br />Aside from that, the acting was quite bad, character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn\'t a single character worth hanging our hat on. The most interesting cast member (who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist) got snuffed halfway through the proceedings.<br /><br />What the Quick and the Undead DOES serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color-timing. It looked excellent, when you take into account budget considerations.<br /><br />Unfortunately, it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns (most notably The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie... ""you know, they have movies where characters do THIS! Does it fit here? No, but who cares! They do it in other movies so I should do it here!"" <br /><br />Maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists (first-year film-schoolers). Otherwise, a must-miss."\n869,"I was stunned by this film. Afterwards, I didn\'t even want to see any films for a long time- any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison.<br /><br />For many, it may be the worst of Antonioni- very slow, without an engaging conventional story line, microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions- and the worst of Wenders- verbose, confused transcendentalism. It is composed of short distinct episodes linked by Wenders\' typical meandering hero\'s stream of consciousness, so it doesn\'t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema.<br /><br />But for fans, the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film. Wenders and Antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things.<br /><br />"\n870,"Am I the only person who thinks that the entire Forensics and Scenes Of Crime community in the USA must detest this almighty slap in their faces. A rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera. By the time he returns (still no senior cops, SOCOs or other assistance for the lovely Jolie - this is New York isn\'t it??) it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence, only after she\'d stood in front of an Amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene.<br /><br />I want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images!! The horror continues:- not in the film itself (pretty ordinary I\'m afraid) but in the Lincoln Rhyme character as played by Mr Washington. This man is a highly dedicated Forensic Crime Scene Examiner with years of experience who, instead of the highly trained but invisible local Crime Scene Examiners, entrusts the work to an untrained cop, a rookie cop, who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making DNA profiling well nigh impossible. Now that was a bright idea eh? I know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable.<br /><br />I have given this film 4/10 for the superb acting of Denzel Washington and for Miss Jolie\'s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended!"\n871,"The one of the most remarkable sci-fi movies of the millennium. Not only a movie but an incredible future vision, this movie establishes a new standard of s/f movies. hail and kill!"\n872,"This is the second Hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second Hitchcock film I\'ve seen in full, the first was Rope, which I really enjoyed. With Saboteur Hitchcock was more room to roam free, whereas Rope took place all in one room. I didn\'t enjoy this one as much as Rope but that\'s not saying this is a bad film, it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more.<br /><br />It seems like a film Hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones. As a thriller, I feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the States. The climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension. The sound design is almost non existent. You can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them, but the important things are missing, the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve, the need of music to amp of the tension, all missing. Intentional no doubt, yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene. Then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside.<br /><br />The film doesn\'t feel like it should either, they are almost globe trotting from place to place, yet it feels more confined. The script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving.<br /><br />The performances are there, but nothing amazing. Everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page. The relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work. The one stand out is Otto Kruger, who has that rich, ego, evil persona down pat.<br /><br />In the end, I wanted more from this one. I understand it\'s one of Hitchcock\'s least exciting films, but I did have a good time watching it. I can recommend it, just not enthusiastically."\n873,"It is always difficult to bring a 450 pages book down to a three hours film. I read the book before, and I found the BBC production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible. The qualities of the book haven\'t been lost: the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in London in the 1860s, the cold and obscene cruelty in which Maud is brought up, the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking, the unexpected and surprising twists of the story, the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from Sue\'s point of view then from Maud\'s one. The main actors do very good, and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed, with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other, because they still love each other.<br /><br />For each of her books the author, Sarah Waters, has thoroughly investigated what life was like in British 19th century. While in Tipping the Velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements, in Affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits, in Fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in London and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research. This is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth. I highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful Victorian atmosphere, vivid emotions, and suspense."\n874,"This is one of my all time favorite cheap, corny, vampire B movies. <br /><br />Calvin Klein underwear model...oh, I mean, Stefan the Good Vampire, returns to Transylvania to ascend the throne of Vampiric Royalty, but Manicure-impaired and eternally drooling half brother Radu has other plans. Having killed their father the Vampire King, Radu now sets his sights on Stefan, Stefan\'s new mortal girlfriend Michelle and her two pretty friends, and the all-powerful Bloodstone.<br /><br />Okay, the scenery is beautiful, and it should be as it was shot on location in Transyl-fricken-vania for gosh sakes. The actresses are no great shakes and Stefan the Heroic Vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker, but who cares? There\'s only one reason to watch this movie, and his name is RADU! He\'s a physical homage to Nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie, all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day. The cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film, as Radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning, slobbering face for the world to see. I found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother. But maybe I\'m just a sicko. Questionable taste in men aside, I highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts. It\'s original, it\'s fun, and Radu is one of the best vampires I\'ve seen in a long time...much more fun than the stiff, tragic, whining Undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days. Radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes. He\'s what a vampire should be."\n875,"Let me first off say that I am a believer of ghosts, and I do indeed know they exist. I have had enough experiences with them to know they are there.<br /><br />What I hate is the people who bring the Bible and Religion into all of this. People forget there is more than one ""Bible"", thousands of religions and beliefs, and different ways to interpret what is said in the Bible. Not everyone believes in God, and not everyone believes in stereo-typical religion. <br /><br />Religion does not make everything fact, one of the things I should mention in the Bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant Bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within....you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time, slavery is OK, and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances. None of this, ""Oh that was the Old testament, and now we have the New Testament."" If the Bible is the word of God, and cannot be changed..there should be no changes, or versions. Religion is full of misinterpretations, mixed facts, and people who so blindly follow it that there, ""Is no other way."" The excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic, or they themselves cannot explain the discrepancies properly, and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their Pastor or teacher. <br /><br />But anyhow, onto the review. I am a decent fan of ""Ghost Hunters"" and when I heard this show was coming soon, I was pretty excited and thought it had some potential. As much as I like watching ""Ghost Hunters"", I do not like some of their members, and I do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted, yet cannot explain anything that is going on. Just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up, does not mean the camera filming the show did not. I am glad they are skeptical, but it\'s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not. If Ghosts were that easy to capture, it would be known as a fact, not a belief. It\'s more of a ""right place at the right time"" kind of thing, as well as if there is something there, what makes you think it\'s going to ""perform"" for you? This show is kind of silly. It\'s usually boring, and there is lots of talk, lots of psychics, yet hardly anything happens. The main guy\'s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to, or is basically not needed.<br /><br />Also, the reliance on psychics is too abundant, as I believe VERY few of them are actually gifted. Silvia Brown is one I definitely believe in, but most are sometimes hard to believe.<br /><br />I really wanted to like this show, but of the few I have seen I have yet to be terribly impressed."\n876,"For a long time, \'The Menagerie\' was my favorite \'Star Trek\' episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by \'City on the Edge of Forever.\' What I used to prefer about \'Menagerie\' was that it\'s more hard-core Star Trek with this fascinating back-story to the then-current Trek storyline. I still think it\'s fairly ingenious the way Gene Roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two-part episode. Though the \'new\' part of the story is largely an excuse for Kirk and a few others (and us) to watch the pilot, the idea of Spock being court-martialed is a clever one. You can poke holes in the plot if you want. For instance, given the Talosians\' mind-control abilities and Captain Pike\'s condition, why is it even necessary to physically bring Pike back to their planet? And there are other confusing questions about Pike and Commodore Mendez... best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy ST\'s only two-parter."\n877,"Coen Brothers-wannabe from writer-director Paul Chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other (better) movies, yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching. Robert Forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist (ha ha) who goes on a killing spree in the desert. The film is unusual, but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience, it becomes alienating and off-putting (with a role for Amanda Plummer that is downright humiliating). An admittedly bravura finale, many quirky bits of business--and Forster looking great in the nude--make this a curiosity item, nothing more. Veteran movie-director Irvin Kershner produced, and maybe should directed as well (could Paul Chart be a pseudonym?). *1/2 from ****"\n878,"When it was released this film caused a sensation. I watched it and was thrilled. Beautiful, usually young, naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director Hamiltons photography. His photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie. Today I saw it again and was bitterly disappointed. The soft core in extremely slow paced scenes, all filmed with some Vaseline on the lenses, actually is all there is. There is no real story, the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies, but they are not real creatures with a soul. Actually nothing happens. It is like Hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills. And this gets so boring after a while. I even didn\'t watch the whole thing the second time, for I fell vast asleep. That is all that remains of this masterpiece: it is a very good sleeping pill. And you will never become addicted to it!<br /><br />Back then 7 out of 10, now 3 out of 10"\n879,"Largely forgettable tale in which mercenary Kerman & employer Agren travel into the jungle in search of Agren\'s missing sister.<br /><br />Despite its connection to the cannibal movie family, this film is more of an extreme version of Rene Cardona\'s ""Guyana - Crime of the Century"". Lenzi clearly aims to exploit the (at that time) topical Jonestown massacre, by depicting a rogue, self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania (played with ruthless intensity by Ivan Rassimov) leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion. With sister in toe, Kerman & Agren attempt to stop the rot, but after several failed coups, they end up fleeing into the ""Green Inferno"", only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites.<br /><br />One in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies/early eighties, where every new addition seemed to engage in a one-upmanship contest with its predecessor, by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures. This inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others, but with much less success.<br /><br />Was it the so called ""Amazonian natives"" who looked like they were Bollywood rejects (this film was made on location in Sri Lanka), or the inept ""decapitation"" and ""castration"" scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in ""Cannibal Holocaust""? You can decide. Without spoiling the conclusion, it appeared as though Lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending, where all loose ends are resolved. Most unsatisfying.<br /><br />As with the others, where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited (thankfully), the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks. Unfortunately, the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk, that deal with the subject matter more convincingly.<br /><br />If there are any redeemable features at all, Kerman is an affable if somewhat one-dimensional leading man, and his bevy of scantily clad co-stars (Agren, Lai and Senatore) provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings."\n880,"Get Smart should be titled Get Stupid. There is not one funny line or gag in the entire film. This film is so bad it makes the Austin Powers films look Shakespearean. A few more films like this and Steve Carell can kiss his career goodbye. As for Anne Hathaway, what is she doing in this film? She\'s a good actress but is just plain terrible.<br /><br />The writing is pathetically lame. There is not one funny, clever, or witty line. There is not one good sight gag.<br /><br />The directing is terrible. Comedy relies on timing. Someone should tell the director that. Every line that is supposed to be funny (and isn\'t) is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing I\'ve ever seen.<br /><br />0 stars"\n881,"Herculis Puaro is, in general, a well established \'hero\' we know well from books and movies. This movie or this story don\'t work and i felt its not Agatha\'s mistake. The cast isn\'t good, the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures, the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything (even Arab clothes) look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama. The actor playing Herculis Puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic. The scenes are, as said before, perfect and looking fake. The story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond 45+ woman in the iraqi desert?! The \'victim\' is not likable."\n882,How can so many blundering decisions can be made. All that waste of resources!Its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse.A loose interpretation? Are you kidding! it diminishes my regard for Voight and Coburn.I hope they were paid well.\n883,"This was by far the worst movie I\'ve ever seen. And thats compared to Alexander, Fortress 2 and The new world.<br /><br />I should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience. For the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen TV because the actors seemed to be out of screen. I didn\'t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age, i was wrong. While typing this message, I\'ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie. A joke present at Xmas. I\'m blaming the Mrs for this one as she picked it, thanks babe.<br /><br />Be warned.......A true shocker all round!!!!!!"\n884,"If you\'ve read Mother Night and enjoyed it so much (as I did) that you just have to see the movie, understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of Vonngut\'s writing - that beyond his story lies Vonnegut himself, and that you can\'t put a human mind on the screen. His whit and humor just cannot be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance. I believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that Vonnegut poses in his book, but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen. Does this mean that the movie misses the mark? Of course not. In my opinion, the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book (this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page). It succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of America\'s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense. I\'ve seen other movie versions of Vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel Vonnegut\'s genius and loses grip on his own craft. I would not place this movie as one of the best I\'ve seen, but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching. By taking Vonnegut\'s ""voice"" out of the movie\'s narration or trying to insert it however it can, Mother Night tells his story brilliantly, and preserves the story\'s fundamental lessons without confusion, distraction, or disappointment."\n885,"This is one of the worst movies, I\'ve ever seen. Not only, that it is a comedy, which isn\'t funny, but it\'s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects.<br /><br />The two ""heroes"" with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot, that they touched each others genitals all the time. But the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal, by referring to German history and to show sensitive aspects of the ""heroes"", which finds its climax in showing how Erkan and Stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their ""joyful"" lifestyle (!). But I hadn\'t expect anything better by director Michael ""Bully"" Herbig, who also made two not funny TV-shows, a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny SF-comedy movie. But Erkan and Stefan had been- just a little- better in some of their stand-up programs. For me the only good thing about the movie is Alexandra Neldel, who is very beautiful to me."\n886,"I sat through this on TV hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time...but dear Gussie, whoever thought this script was worth producing? The basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad, with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes, an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor Rock Hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face. Looks like a bad B movie from the 40\'s..."\n887,"A number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between Stewart and Novak. She was 25 and he was 50 when this movie was released. I think that the difference didn\'t matter for a suspense drama like Vertigo, but it does matter for a romantic comedy. We can easily understand, that is, why his character would be attracted to hers, but it\'s less clear why hers would be attracted to his.<br /><br />Still, the movie works as a light romantic fantasy. The scene where she stares at him across the cat\'s head, with her dark painted-on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring, is true magic. It\'s a little jarring, therefore, when the scene shifts to the top of the Flatiron Building, and we see the age difference very sharply. As he embraces her, she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair, but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee."\n888,"Family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about. Love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about. One man, Daddy, has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity. The kids grow up,one all be it, in the hard way, to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is, the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall. ALL the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances. Yes, I shed a tear along the way knowing I had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent. This true to life is one which every young adult, and parent, would do well to see, although some will not realize it until they too are parents. A must see for those who care about their families."\n889,"The only conceivable flaw of this film is it\'s title!! Please stop comparing it to the first! I did in my previous review only to separate it from the first. If you haven\'t seen the movie and are curious, TOTALLY forget about the first and invent a different name for this. There is nothing alike and has a mood all its own. This is a great exponent of screwy mid-80s comedy. I seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first. Anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus. I maintain, the only reason this is in the IMDB bottom 100 is because of its title. I usually hate movies like these (i.e. adam sandler, will farrell, farrelly bros....), but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically. I dunno, maybe it\'s like a bad relationship I can\'t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure. Either way, this is the single most underrated movie of the 80s behind \'The Stunt Man.\'<br /><br />Robert Stack- WE LOVE YOU!!! (1919-2003)"\n890,"Salva and his pal Bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives. We see them panhandling in a car of the underground, where their pitch to get donations is so lame, no one gives them anything! Salva, who is a hardened petty criminal doesn\'t even have any redeeming qualities, that is, until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next. Religion and show business prove to be a winning combination, something that Salva capitalizes on.<br /><br />He and Bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo. Salva shows he is a natural for the reality show. He transforms himself into a Christ-like figure who is an instant success in the program. Espe, who is a no-nonsense woman who is show\'s producer, can\'t escape from the way Salva pays her unusual attention. Ultimately, Salva is the victim of his own success in the end.<br /><br />Jordi Molla, whose first directorial job this movie is, had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television. Spain, which was vulnerable to these types of programs, has seen its share of the bizarre, which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience.<br /><br />The ensemble cast has some good moments in the film. Mr. Molla, like any actor who decides to direct his first feature, would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera. Candela Pena, a good actress, is one of the best reasons for watching the movie. Juan Carlos Villedo, David Gimenez Cacho, Franco Francescoantonio, Florinda Chico and the rest responded well to the new director."\n891,"These kinda movies just don\'t get the credit they deserve. This is my 2nd all time favorite movie, (Stand By Me being 1st.) The reason I watched this movie was because Wil Wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and I think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did Sean Astin. I just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me. Everything in the movie is very exceptional. The script, the acting, the screenplay. I was on the edge of my seat 80% of the time, and if my mom wasn\'t in the room I would have absolutely balled whenever Joey Trotta (Wil Wheaton) died. I did not see that coming!! At all!! I was real surprised when I heard that it wasn\'t real popular back in the 90\'s. I was born a few years after it came out so, of course, I didn\'t go see it in the theaters, but im sure I would have if I would have been alive. If any of my friends watched this, they would be like, ""uhh okay?"" but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this. If you haven\'t seen this movie, or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb, this is the movie for you to watch."\n892,"As a big-time Prince fan of the last three to four years, I really can\'t believe I\'ve only just got round to watching ""Purple Rain"". The brand new 2-disc anniversary Special Edition led me to buy it. Wow, I was really looking forward to watching it, but I wasn\'t prepared for just how electric it actually is. Prince\'s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding - he REALLY has the moves in this one. I am very familiar (from repeated listens) with the classic ""Purple Rain"" album and all its songs, but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics - like COMPUTER BLUE, THE BEAUTIFUL ONES, WHEN DOVES CRY and PURPLE RAIN itself. There is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where Prince and The Revolution perform. The closing songs BABY I\'M A STAR and I WOULD DIE FOR U show how much energy and sheer talent Prince was brimming with in his mid-20s (he\'s overflowing!), it blew me away. It even makes Michael Jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years.<br /><br />Prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams - drive her to a lake, make her jump in, then drive off - absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight.<br /><br />Some of the scenes are very 1980s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film\'s overall charm. Morris Day is the coolest cat on the block (and hilarious), and when his group The Time perform THE BIRD you get to see Morris Day and Jerome Benton light up the stage Minneapolis funk style - I love their dancing in this bit, and how Benton provides Morris with a mirror mid-performance.<br /><br />I already can\'t wait to watch it again, I really can\'t! Extras are terrific - particularly seeing a young Eddie Murphy pre-Beverly Hills Cop admit he is a ""Prince groupie""."\n893,"A good ol\' boy film is almost required to have moonshine, car chases, a storyline that has a vague resemblance to ""plot"" and at least one very pretty country gal, barefoot with short shorts and a low top. The pretty gal is here (dressed in designer jeans)-- but the redneck prerequisites stop there. Jimmy Dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff, he comes up way short. Big John is big, but he isn\'t convincing with the ""bad"" part of his moniker. Bug-eyed Jack Elam is a hoot as always and Bo Hopkins has been playing this same part for decades; Ned Beatty also does his part in a small role... but there is no STORY. It smells more like an episode of In The Heat Of The Night than a feature film. Cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment. Perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is Charlie Daniels singing the theme. You know the one; it was made famous by... Jimmy Dean."\n894,"After several extremely well ratings to the point of SUPERB, I was extremely pleased with the film. The film was dark, moving, the anger, the pain, the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon.<br /><br />I had initially expected to see many special effects, and like a lover\'s caress, it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it. Brian, I am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects. You will go a long way, my friend. I will definitely be the president of your fan club.<br /><br />Eric Etebari, the best actor award, was the number one choice. You made Jr. Lopez look like a child compared to Kasadya. :) <br /><br />Overall, the acting, story line, the high quality filming and awesome effects, it was fantastic. I just wish it were longer. I am looking forward to The Dreamless with extremely high expectations."\n895,"But it is kinda hilarious, at least if you grew up on Weird Al, like I did. It\'s a mockumentary about his life and career, beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins. It\'s uneven in places, but some of the segments are still very funny, particularly when he goes to Japan. Although it\'s not quite as emotionally textured as Lost in Translation, and he doesn\'t find love however fleeting, he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is Tokyo street life.<br /><br />Perhaps Weird Al isn\'t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is; perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Still, this is a funny movie."\n896,"One of the two Best Films of the year. A well filmed, well written, well put together film with an outstanding cast. Lau Ching Wan and his friends (Dayo Wong Chi Wa, Anthony Wong Chau Sun, Francis Ng Chun Yu, Jordan Chan Siu Chun, Cheung Man Tat) had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances. Theresa Lee plays her comedic role well (Though much like a female version of Michael Wong, her gag seems to be the foreign born Chinese surrounded by native HKers.), and I found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes, something I haven\'t done since 1. the fan boys took over alt.asian-movies and 2. John woo\'s Hardboiled. Sure the ending was expected, but I feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members. Highly enjoyable."\n897,I managed to see this at the New York International Film Festival in November 2005 with my boyfriend. We were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving. It was very well directed with strong imagery. The visual effects were amazing - especially for a short. It had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic: This film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father. There is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard. This leans towards the Gothic feel. I would love to see this as a full feature film. -- Carrie\n898,"Why else would he do this to me?<br /><br />Not that I expect Dean Cain to produce hit movies. Or even decent movies. I saw Lois and Clark, I am aware of just how... ""good"" Dean Cain is.<br /><br />Obviously this is gonna be a cheesey flick, and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head. I will not call these spoilers as you can\'t really spoil this movie any more than it already is.<br /><br />To begin with... why is that a fake helicopter? I mean... why?<br /><br />How come that one scientist is from Chicago and that other scientist is from LA and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried? How hard would it have been to get either an american actor, or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren\'t american?<br /><br />Why are there 2 occasions when the movie gives us a slug line? We get helipad-day and then mess hall-day later on. And then that\'s it, who cares about the timeline. To be honest, who cared about it even when they mentioned it, but I guess that\'s beside the point.<br /><br />Does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens? The answer is no.<br /><br />That dragon sure can walk down that hall..over..and over...and over....and over...<br /><br />Who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history? It was straight out of scooby doo. Oh, the dragon\'s dead now...say, wanna get dinner? Sure, but not at some Chinese place....with Dragon in the name!! AH HA HA HA!! HA HA HA!! HAHA HA! I used to be Superman! AHA HA HA! HA HA!<br /><br />fade to black<br /><br />my god, it made me cringe it was so stupid.<br /><br />But never fear..even though the whole building exploded...and no one was left alive..for some reason there\'s a second untouched, unmanned lab that survived pretty well, so they can make a sequel. Hurray for us all.<br /><br />"\n899,"Minimal script, minimal character development, minimal steady camera. Maximum stretched scenes, maximum headache inducing jerky zooms, maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing. Up until the time flashes on the screen of 12:01pm, you can fast forward and miss nothing, since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing. To be fair, the movie does have some string music that was interesting, so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this. Unfortunately that was not to be, and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief. Forget about ""Trigger Man"", I know I am trying to. - MERK"\n900,"A wonderful film ahead of its time,<br /><br />I think so, In the eighty\'s it was all about winning, Greed is Good ? Remember that one ? I have seen this film more that 20 times, To me this is a real desert island film, I keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that I just love, Jessica Tandy, and Hume Cronin, are simply wonderful,Also Beverly D\'angelo, Beau Bridges come in at a close second, don\'t get me wrong there are many more great performance\'s in this film, and it is also the way it is written that made it for me, and I hope you, a film that you will want to see over and over, I think TV shows like ""Northen Exposure"", and now ""Earl"" owe a lot to this film. but remember it is not a Tom Cruise film."\n901,it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing. The first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go. You shouldn\'t really decide to watch this based on my review or not. I saw so little of it I shouldn\'t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it.<br /><br />Couldn\'t they have just made Earnest does Dallas?\n902,This is one of the more unromantic movies I have ever seen.<br /><br />Casting: Richard Gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore. Diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself. Supporting cast not too memorable.<br /><br />Story: The medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting. The story is weak - not enough happens to make a movie about. There is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here. <br /><br />The setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive. <br /><br />NOT destined to be a great one to remember.\n903,"(Only light spoilers in here)<br /><br />Stealing Sinatra is a half-slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers, dimwit victims, and a few other side-stories thrown in to eat up some time.<br /><br />You will see some poor performances all around in this movie. The drama is forced, and the humor makes no sense. Whether you\'re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won\'t shut up, or a victim\'s father responding to the criminal\'s death threat with ""Care for some tea?"", none of it is believable. This quite comfortably fits into the ""wannabe movie"" category.<br /><br />You will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie. It\'s quite unprofessional, and adds nothing. It\'s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty.<br /><br />However, if you\'re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief, you might be entertained by the adequate storyline.<br /><br />I voted 4/10."\n904,"Yes, this is one of THOSE movies, so terrible, so insipid, so trite, that you will not be able to stop laughing. I have watched comedies, good comedies, and laughed less than my wife and I laughed at this movie. The other comments give the idea well enough. The characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on, the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge, the acting-- oh the acting-- talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses.<br /><br />But the rat, yes, the big rat. Why we didn\'t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me. Often the \'big one\' isn\'t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money. I surmise, however, that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third-world dentistry.<br /><br />The most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene. After figuring out that the rats couldn\'t stand loud noise (migraines from the bad acting?), the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy. If you\'ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser, this film is for you. Really, you need to rent it and see for yourself.<br /><br />But not for more than 99¢, OK?"\n905,"Well where do I begin my story?? I went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the Actors that were in it, and that it was supposed to be a horror movie.<br /><br />Well I figured out within the first 20 minutes, what a poor decision I had made going out seeing this movie. The Plot was crap, and so was the script. The lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically.<br /><br />The cast couldn\'t have been more plastic looking. Even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker...like they dragged on for no particular reason. Very poor editing.<br /><br />All in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money. Boo."\n906,"This is one of my favorites. Betty White and Leslie Neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy. One is a business executive who re-evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year. The other is a playboy who has tired of gold-digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital, mature woman. If you\'ve got silver in your hair and/or romance in your heart, microwave the popcorn, curl up with your honey, and prepare yourself for a treat."\n907,"Following directly from where the story left off in part one, the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man\'s legacy is exactly as such. In direct contrast to the first feature, part two represents a shift from Che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country, to Che—struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties. The change of setting isn\'t just aesthetic; from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature, replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical, battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle. Yet, as Che would go on to say himself—such a struggle is best told exactly as that—a struggle. While Part One certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that, Part Two takes a much more refined, callous and bleak segment of Che\'s life and ambition, and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible, easy to grasp manner.<br /><br />While the movie\'s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from Part One however, there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible. This somewhat distant, cold approach to telling Che\'s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off; indeed, I still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man—if anything, the entirety of Che, taken as a whole, delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man\'s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way. By no means does Soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what Hirschbiegel did with Der Untergang half a decade ago (excuse the ironic contrast); Che is a slow moving, reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who –arguably- conducted the whole thing.<br /><br />Yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of Cuba and retreating to the bleak, decaying backdrop of Bolivia for Part Two, the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn\'t feel too disjointed from its predecessor, but does enough to give it its own reference points. Here, the basic structure of Part One is echoed back—there\'s the initial struggle, the battles, the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them, all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement. Yet, as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know, Part Two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming, and disquieting note. This difference, in combination with the similarities to Part One, make a compelling and memorable whole; by all means, both could be digested one their own (and kudos to Soderbergh for achieving as such) and enjoyed as they are, but taken as one statement, Che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve.<br /><br />Indeed, everything that made Part One the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building, realistically structured combat scenes—the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible, but with a feature such as this, Part Two once again proves that avoiding such elements don\'t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged. In fact, upon writing this review I was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for Part One, and title the review as a whole, yet I felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively.<br /><br />With that said, I cannot rightfully decree whether or not Che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime, but upon viewing both segments I can at least attest to each part\'s ability to do just that. With a reflective, intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie\'s characters without drawing attention to themselves, Che Part Two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor, but this time with a tragic but uplifting, reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film.<br /><br />- A review by Jamie Robert Ward (http://www.invocus.net)"\n908,"Sometimes it\'s hard to be a pirate...............but by golly Miss Jean Peters has a lot of fun trying - and it shows,particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with Blackbeard (Mr Thomas Gomez - eminently hissable)when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face. With fifty years of hindsight Feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male - dominated society but I have serious doubts that either M.Tourneur or Miss Peters had any such concept in their heads at the time. It was an exciting,entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions,hidden meanings or alternative agenda.It was fun. M.Louis Jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest. Mr Herbert Chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor.Mr James Robertson Justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun. But it is Miss Peters who stays in the memory.Wilfully adolescent,illiterate,tough but vulnerable,wonderfully agile,and ultimately,courageous,she is everybody\'s idea of a lady pirate. There was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles - that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret."\n909,"I had never seen a film by John Cassavetes up until two years ago, when I first saw THE KILLING OF A Chinese BOOKIE in a Berlin cinema, which I found interesting, to put it diplomatically, but not so special, I instantly wanted to see more of his work. Since then, I tried - with an emphasis on tried - watching his other work, SHADOWS in particular. I must admit, it took me a a while before I actually enjoyed the film. At first the unpolished, raw and improvised way Cassavetes it was shot, put me off somewhat and I thought of it as an original - absolutely - but flawed and dated experiment. But now, upon reviewing, these little imperfections make it look so fresh, even today.<br /><br />Shot on a minimal budget of $40,000 with a skeleton six person crew, SHADOWS offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an African-American family in which two of the three siblings, Ben (Ben Carruthers) and Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), are light-skinned and able to pass for white. Cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones. Cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing, a reaction against \'seamless\' Hollywood production values. Cassavetes main inspiration - at least in the cinematic style the film was shot - were the Italian neo-realists whilst also professing admiration for Welles\' pioneering spirit. The use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the Italian neo-realist directors, but with his bebop score by Charles Mingus ans Shafi Hadi, the film feels very different, very American, unlike anything made before really. <br /><br />The song with the feathered girls, ""I feel like a lolly-pop"" (or something) feels like light years back to me, ancient history. But no matter how dated it might look, it still makes a delightful time capsule of late Fifties New York today. I think it\'s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film, without Hollywood, improvised and without a real budget. Seymour Cassel, who acted and was involved in SHADOWS, claims it was Jules Dassin\'s THE NAKED CITY (1948) that was the first and inspired them all, but I think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent American filmmakers.<br /><br />Camera Obscura --- 8/10"\n910,"Based on an actual story, John Boorman shows the struggle of an American doctor, whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss. A holiday to Burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all, but when her passport was stolen in Rangoon, she could not leave the country with her sister, and was forced to stay back until she could get I.D. papers from the American embassy. To fill in a day before she could fly out, she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide. ""I tried finding something in those stone statues, but nothing stirred in me. I was stone myself."" <br /><br />Suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt. Just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train, she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot. In a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him, with no thought of herself. Continually her life was in danger. <br /><br />Here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous, selfless charity, risking her life to save another. Patricia Arquette is beautiful, and not just to look at; she has a beautiful heart. This is an unforgettable story. <br /><br />""We are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps."""\n911,"This PM Entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make John Woo say, ""Enough already!"" Of course, it isn\'t nearly as beautiful as Woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in 90 minutes. Eric Phillips (Don Wilson) is an undercover cop in the near future. When his wife is framed for murdering the Governor by a team using a look-a-like cyborg, it is up to Eric to clear her name. Wilson gets to pull Van Damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger. Why the Academy failed to take notice is beyond me. Being a PM production, there are tons of car chases, exploding cars (4 in the first 5 minutes!) and shoot outs. I particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck. My other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in Don\'s simulator. It is merely a chance to show off some cheapo LAWNMOWER MAN effects circa 1995."\n912,"SHALLOW GRAVE begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in PSYCHO. (I\'m leaning toward rip off.) After that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better, almost to the point of being original. Bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story, but the film already surpasses many in the ""Yankee comes down South to get killed by a bunch of rednecks"" genre because it is actually shot in the South.<br /><br />A group of college girls head to Ft. Lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in Georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road. (Note to Yankees: stay on the highway when you go to Florida.) Sue Ellen (Lisa Stahl) has to pee so she heads into the woods. When she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff (Tony March) strangle his mistress (Merry Rozelle) to death. (Note to Yankees: do not wander off into the woods when in the South; not because you might witness a murder, but you may run across a marijuana plantation.) This is the point where the story, not the movie, actually comes close to being good.<br /><br />While Tony March will never have to practice his Oscar speech, his Sheriff Dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do. Tom Law is likable as Deputy Scott and is as authentic a Southern deputy as I\'ve seen since Walton Goggins (Deputy Steve Naish) in HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES.<br /><br />A few scenes in the movie are worth the mention. The girls stop at a BBQ in South Carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out. Sue Ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her.<br /><br />And in the strangest scene, Sheriff Dean makes like he\'s about to rape Patty (Carol Cadby) and tells her to take off her clothes. Dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he\'s about to do. The preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his Bible. His sermon is about how Jezebel is saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. I feel sorry for this preacher\'s flock. Jezebel was in the Old Testament a few thousand years before Christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in Heaven."\n913,"Although this film has had a lot of praise, I personally found it boring. There are some nice Brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable, but the story of how they interrelate, even if very unusual by our standards, is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long. The central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first. As the tolerance of the various men is stretched, we see their characters develop. The story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting. It is a rare glimpse into the Brasilian hinterland, far from the city, but hardly exciting enough to keep one\'s eyes open for."\n914,"No mention if Ann Rivers Siddons adapted the material for ""The House Next Door"" from her 1970s novel of the same title, or someone else did it. This Lifetime-like movie was directed by Canadian director Jeff Woolnough. Having read the book a long time ago, we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television. You know that when the critical moments precede the commercials, which of course, one can\'t find in this version we watched.<br /><br />The film\'s star is Lara Flynn Boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through. From the new eyebrows to other parts of her body, Ms. Boyle is hardly recognizable as Col Kennedy, the character at the center of the mystery. This was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera. That goes for the rest of the mainly Canadian actors that deserved better.<br /><br />The film has a feeling of a cross between ""Desperate Houswives"" with ""The Stepford Wives"" and other better known features, combined with a mild dose of creepiness. The best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting."\n915,"Meticulously constructed and perfectly played, To The Ends Of The Earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age.<br /><br />Based on William Golding\'s trilogy, these three 90-minute films chronicle the journey towards both Australia and experience of youthful aristocrat Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) aboard an aging man o\' war in the early 19th century as he heads for a Government position Down Under.<br /><br />Among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous, bullying captain (Jared Harris), a politically radical philosopher (Sam Neill), a canny 1st lieutenant who\'s worked his way up from the bottom (Jamie Sives) and, fleetingly, the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman (Joanne Page) whose ship literally passes in the night.<br /><br />Quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy, director David Attwood and screenwriters Tony Basgallop and Leigh Jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time, crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the Napoleonic era.<br /><br />Shipboard life is one brutal, monotonous round of seasickness, squalor and danger after another and as Edmund becomes entangled in the loves, hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life\'s hardships, Man\'s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments.<br /><br />Those who enjoyed Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World or Patrick O\'Brian\'s series of novels on which it was based will love this – for everyone else, it\'s a whole new world to discover."\n916,"Wow. This is really not that good. <br /><br />I would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good... it is, but it is nothing special.<br /><br />The movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies.<br /><br />*/****"\n917,"I have to point out, before you read this review, that in no way, is this a statement against Iranian people ... if you really want to read something into it, than hopefully you see, that I\'m against politicians in general ... but if you\'re looking to be offended ... I can\'t help you!<br /><br />Not in Iran as this movie is banned there (see IMDb trivia for this movie). Which is a shame, because the movie is great. Would it not be for ""Grbavica"", this movie would have won at the International Film Festival in Berlin.<br /><br />Rightfully so (it was the runner-up, or second place if you will). Why? Because it is a movie about oppression. It\'s not even that this is a complete women issue. It is about the government trying to keep the people down. An analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie. But by banning it nothing is resolved and/or can they make this movie disappear! <br /><br />Another reviewer had a great summary line: ""Comedy about a tragedy"", that sums it up pretty well!"\n918,"I know little or nothing about astronomy, but nevertheless; I was, at first, a little sceptical about the plot of this movie. It follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion, and thus (naturally) become ruthless serial killers. The plot does sound ridiculous at first, but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out Saturn and, as you know, Saturn is the emotion planet, it all falls into place; makes complete sense and it\'s then that you know you aren\'t simply watching another silly 80\'s slasher with a pea brain plot. Thank god for that! Seriously, though, Bloody Birthday is based on a ridiculous premise, but it more than makes up for that with it\'s originality. Having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema, but when given the choice between this and another dull Friday the 13th clone - I know what I\'d choose.<br /><br />Also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it\'s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it\'s extremely entertaining. Many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore. This film, however, keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids (which harks back to creepy kid classics such as Village of the Damned), a constant stream of sick humour and a small, but impressive for the type of film, dose of suspense and tension. One thing that I liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry. There\'s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again (cough Halloween cough), but that\'s not the case here as Bloody Birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows. There wasn\'t any room for a chainsaw, which is a huge shame, but I suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it."\n919,"After many, many years I saw again this beautiful love story, thinking about how would I, half a century after, react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time, when I was just an male adolescent trying to understand women\'s behaviors, in a small city in Brazil.<br /><br />This time, however, what caught my attention in the film was something very different, namely the insistence with which the physician Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) makes clear to the journalist Mark Elliott (William Holden) her special ethically condition as an Eurasian. In fact, she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship, repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a ""occidental way"", provided that, by doing so, she is not betraying her Chinese side. Its seems to the spectator that Suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture, for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them.<br /><br />Therefore, Suyin\'s attitudes always leave poor Elliott – a determined, brave and extremely practical man – anxious and perplexed, without knowing how much importance to give to her words. For him, whose love for her is plain and simple, the situation is totally clear: if we love each other, let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together. ""Not so fast"", is what she seems, verbally and non-verbally, to answer him all the time.<br /><br />In fact, Suyin\'s Chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism. And, as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself, she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of Chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind, namely the constant ""raids"" on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non-physical world. For Suyin is always alerting Elliott about how dangerous is life, not because of any objective and concrete threat (as would be the perpetuation of the English colonialism or the eminence of a Japanese invasion), but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor, fearful and vulnerable human beings.<br /><br />In fact, it looks like a whole bunch of Chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people\'s life totally miserable. Because of that, mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes, so that they are not taken away by jealous gods; everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away, in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon; peasants are advised that they should shout loudly ""The rice is bad! The rice is bad!"" to protect their crops from being stolen by deities; and, in a funeral, it is recommended that the dead\'s family be isolated from the other people by curtains, so that the gods don\'t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility.<br /><br />In other words, Suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence, as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone\'s daily life.<br /><br />As the story takes place in Hong Kong in 1949, it should be clear that China really was, at that time, almost a semi-feudal society, while the country from which Elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that, launched by the USA after the first oil shock in 1973, took charge of the whole world. Therefore, at least in one aspect, both sides of Suyin\'s Eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today.<br /><br />A lot of History came into being since those old days. As to China, the main fact is that, after several phases of a communist regime, the country finally reached, in the last two decades, the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as State capitalism. And, what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled Suyin in Hong Kong, in 1949, and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned Elliott, under that tree on the hill behind the hospital? It is gone, completely gone! In brief, if that story took place today, Elliott would not find it necessary to go to China to propose to Suyin in the presence of the Third Uncle and her entire family. In fact, both men would now be incomparably closer to one another, in their huge pragmatism, talking business as usual!"\n920,"First and foremost I would like to say, that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual. Someone that cared about others, appreciated others, found no/barely any judgment against other people, and this film has (i think) changed my life or viewpoint dramatically. When i watched it, I didn\'t know particularly what it was about, i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship, but other then that I was clueless, and as I began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters, i was in shock, disbelief, confusion and surprise. The first time i watched it, i was blind. Blind to their love, to their intimacy, to their connection, to their pureness as human beings, to their relationship. I watched it a second time, because i finally figured out how hypocritical I was being, saying to myself and others, ""Oh i accept all types of people, and try not to judge them"" while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story, because of my fear I suppose. The second time I watched this film, I opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time, and really looked, not at the type of taboo relationship part that I\'d heard about all my life, but simply at two human beings in love. And I loved it, i loved the storyline, i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film, i loved the sharing of feelings, and i loved the strong bonds created. It is a really eye opening, beautifully done film that made me cry at times, and I hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually, remember that everyone deserves love, no matter what shape or form it is presented in...."\n921,"""ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ""! If IMDb would allow one-word reviews, that\'s what mine would be. This film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film. The singing, the story, everything is dull and washed out--just like this public domain print. Like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories (such as the awful SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES and the overrated BABES IN TOYLAND), this movie has limited appeal and just doesn\'t age well. Now that I think about it, I seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable! So my advice is DON\'T watch this film. If you MUST watch an Abbott and Costello film, almost any other one of their films (except for A&C GO TO MARS) would be an improvement."\n922,"Once in a while, a movie will sweep along that stuns you, draws you in, awes you, and, in the end, leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form. This is not it. This is an action movie that lacks convincing action. It stinks. Rent something else."\n923,"Hard to imagine this film is based on a true story, and how Christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart-stirring. Daniel Day-Lewis is a chameleon, really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character. Watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience.<br /><br />The movie is not so pessimistic as I thought before, the story is kinda bright and intriguing. Christy is not despised by the normals, his life is also colorful and delightful, although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes.<br /><br />One important factor of Christy\'s success is his mother\'s support which seems to be more touching, and the unknown actress Brenda Fricker also deserves her Oscar award for this role, this fat little middle-aged woman uses her all to make Christy\'s dream come true. So lucky for Christy!And Hugh O\'Conor is also excellent as young Christy, what a performance for a child! The love story of Christy is very well-done, trustful. Christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love, his crush on the beautiful Dr. Eileen Cole (surprisingly played by Fiona Shaw, I am deeply impressed with her role in Harry Potter series, the loathsome Aunt Petunia, so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind, but anyway, any woman has her own youth...) is paranoiac and offensive, I do have sympathy for him, love is a two-edged sword, happiness and agony are just next to each other.<br /><br />Btw, Jim Sheridan\'s works are all good (IN America, THE BOXER etc.) except GET RICH OR DIE Trying\', god knows why he chose to direct that crap! Really a career taint for him, what a pity!"\n924,"I\'m stunned that the reviewers @ IMDb gave this TV film as a high a rating as they did. It\'s an innocuous, sweet, uncomplicated cliché\' of a film that had two big names from the past in it (both of whom did a decent job), but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels. I like a good romance as well as anyone, but as my wife and I were watching this--and before we saw the rating-we said, ""There are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there\'s nothing in it to challenge their brains, their faith, their comfort level or their cultural preferences. It\'s possible to make a good film like that (and Away from Her is an example), but this was amateur hour. There are some quite good films rated much lower than this one. Truly, another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films. Watch The Family Stone. It\'s miles ahead of this schlock."\n925,"Do a title search on Randolph Scott and TRAIL STREET is the one film missing from the list you\'ve seen. One of 4 films Scott made at RKO during his prime (1947) the others are always easy to get. Liberal, Kansas is just southwest of Dodge City and is a powder-keg about to explode between the trail-riders who drive the longhorns into Trail Street, the town\'s main street, and the sod-busters who feed our bellies. It\'ll take a strong man like Bat Masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order. More I won\'t say, except that Scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three. RANDOLPH SCOTT always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor, courage, level-headedness and willingness to do the right thing. Fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a Scott movie with confidence they\'d learn positive values. ROBERT RYAN co-stars in this film, playing a good guy for a change. In real life, RYAN was one of the many WORLD WAR II HEROS who starred in America\'s movies. How sad what we get these days. George Clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers, while Steven Spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the Olympic athletes murdered in 1972 in Munich and the Palestinian terrorists who killed them. Hollywood 2005 derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left. I wonder how all this plays out in Liberal, Kansas. Liberal, after all, was not a dirty word 150 years ago when the city was named."\n926,"I went to see this one with much expectation. Quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest. Even a child can see the missing logic to character\'s behaviors. Today\'s kids need creative stories which would inspire them, which would make them \'daydream\' about the events. That\'s precisely what happened with movies like E.T. and Star Wars a decade ago. (How many kids imagined about becoming Jedi Knights and igniting their own lightsabers?) Seriously don\'t waste your time & money on this one."\n927,"*Sigh* Leave it to us Finns to take a stupid idea, blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool. Lordi is a mediocre band at best, and a single gimmick will get you only so far.<br /><br />To all you marketing idiots out there: this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when Finland tries to export something.<br /><br />Lordi isn\'t scary. Lordi is lame. Lordi is OVER.<br /><br />I want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic-faced idiocy. Sure, they won the Eurovision.<br /><br />No, wait - they won the Eurovision. That\'s it. I rest my case."\n928,After the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that Holness and Adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi. Yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show (on the good episodes) as darkplace. i cant argue that 2 of the episodes really are\'nt that good but the other 4 certainly make up for it. if i had to pick 2 great episodes id go for formula4 driver Steve Pising (pronounced Pissing) and the great Garth Marengi. to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as Dean Learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have\'nt seen much Dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie. His argument with Def Lepord over their name. All in All a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes.\n929,I saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in Pablo CO. I had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital. I consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals. <br /><br />The idiots that put it down on production value don\'t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized. And never worked in one for sure. Billy Jack (same era) was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message.<br /><br />I have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site I have found where it get mentioned.\n930,"I caught this on television one day when I was young and loved it. In the 1970\'s, there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise. It\'s one of the best comedies of the 1970\'s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to Murrary\'s excellent comedic performance, which still stands as one of his greatest. This is the film that really got Ivan Reitman noticed as a director. Reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time. While this film is hilarious and MEATBALLS 2 is so bad that it\'s fun, MEATBALLS 3 and MEATBALLS 4 are absolutely dreadful. Recommended for those who enjoyed STRIPES and GHOSTBUSTERS."\n931,"The film\'s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country (U.S.). We see relationships all over at the university setting for the film. Befittingly, the obvious of student v.s. teacher is present. But what the film adds to its value is its other relationships: male v.s. female, white v.s. black, and the individual v.s. society. But most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v.s. himself. <br /><br />I was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus. Most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other. This film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides. It did not attempt to show how either was right, although I would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive (quite obvious towards the end). The film also discusses sex and rape. It is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together, for a time. Lawrence Fishburne does an over-the-top performance as the sagacious Profesor Phipps. He crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down-trodden with the industrious and positive. Other stars that make this film are Omar Epps, Ice Cube, and Jennifer Connelly. Michael Rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance. Tyra Banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act.<br /><br />Higher Learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper. In fact, I would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other, rather than some dry book, as the real education at a university. It is a life-learning process, not a textual one. I think you\'ll find ""Higher Learning"" is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general. 8/10"\n932,"Is rich, ailing Elizabeth Taylor courting the Angel of Death on her island fortress in the Mediterranean, or is she just overreacting--or more precisely, overacting--as usual? Actually, both are applicable in director Joseph Losey\'s wandering, meandering mess called ""Boom"", appropriately titled since tempers in the lush, luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode. Richard Burton climbs Taylor\'s mountain uninvited; she dresses him in a samurai\'s robe complete with saber. Though great-looking in widescreen, the picture is otherwise quite deadly, a failure even Liz \'n Dick-philes should shun (the stars\' collective ""what the hell!"" attitude to their late-\'60s film careers reached an ego-mad nadir here). Pointless, confused, and maddening, ""Boom"" is a catastrophe--although screenwriter Tennessee Williams, who adapted his own unsuccessful play ""The Milk Train Doesn\'t Stop Here Anymore"", was said to be quite fond of it! * from ****"\n933,"i can\'t even describe it. it\'s the worst movie i\'ve ever seen (i\'m being a nice guy when i call it movie).Just another big-budget-made-to-someone-who-doesn\'t-like-to-think-much.It\'s not even scary. It\'s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this...""thing"" to trick movie fans. I guess big producers make whatever they want.<br /><br />Just get a big producer, hot chicks (allthough horrible actresses) and a ton of horror movie clichés and cook it for a week or so, and you\'ll get ""The Nun"".<br /><br />And I thought Bad Boys 2 was horrible!!!!"\n934,"The screenplay is the worst part of this film, as it lurches from one premise to the next, missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible. (This film is confusing, because the audience doesn\'t know what the story is.) I had no problem with the low-production values and the acting wasn\'t great, but this is telly, so it was fine. I don\'t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take. But having such a non-sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary. Did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash? Avoid this at all costs.<br /><br />The prologue in particular was so poorly written, it needed a voice-over to fill in all the details that had been left out. The prologue was rushed, it wasn\'t clear what was happening, ie. The Russian Revolution was reduced to ""Some riots are happening in Petersburg"", with the next scene being soldiers arresting them. I know the basic history of the Revolution, so I could fill in the details, ""those pesky Communists"". The prologue is best ignored.<br /><br />This could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is. It sets up this premise in the asylum. It could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film. No. Gone. The film assumes she is who she says she is (even though there is still no empirical evidence.) It sets up a melodramatic romance, a love so strong, it\'ll believe anything she says. Okay, a soppy romance. No, because it makes no sense. The love interest seems like a crazed (and incidentally, sleazy) lunatic, bursting out in wild gestures. This also doesn\'t work, because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end. They never got married and she returned to America. The love story collapses. Despite there being plenty of love scenes, I was never convinced of the reason that they were in love. I find rom-com romances more convincing, despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they\'ve even spent any time with each other.<br /><br />It could have been a thriller-type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is, and she struggles to prove her identity. No, the court case is summed up rather than dealt with. The bizarre voice over comes back, again to fill in the details of a better film.<br /><br />The funniest thing to consider is what really happened. Anna Anderson was a loony who went to America and married another loony and they did crazy things together. Throughout her life, she had bouts of lunatic behaviour. None of this in the film either. There\'s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a \'One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Next/\'Twelve Monkeys\'-type informant. Thankfully, she vanishes, having brought nothing to the story."\n935,"Lady and the tramp ii: scamp\'s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better. Lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original, but this time it\'s junior\'s turn, Lady and Tramp\'s youngster (scamp) always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him, following the rules in the house, taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy, scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose. Scamp meets another dog called Angel, they both get along fine and do the things scamp\'s mother and father did, having an italian meal (Spagetthi and Meatballs etc:)Afterwards, Scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal, which is the baby, scamp comes back and Angel is joined in the family. I give this movie 10 out of 10."\n936,"Wow, what\'s this on the video rental store\'s shelf in front of me? Nothing other than a questionable ""sequel"" to 8MM. It wasn\'t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie.<br /><br />Basically, from the plot outline verbatim, an American diplomat, David Huxley, and his fiancée, Tish Harrington, venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute, Risa. The entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city. The mystery is solved when, in the end, Tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and (essentially later on in the story) her fiancée which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end.<br /><br />I didn\'t like how this had nothing to do with the original 8MM at all. The only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was, the fact that David ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film, and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene. Otherwise, its a totally different movie. It made for a lousy love story, even before the end is known, which makes the ending more of a possibility because I didn\'t believe the words coming out of David\'s mouth the whole time. But we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble.<br /><br />There were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the ""shocking"" moments of the film, which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for Tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this ""hellish"" sex debauchery. I counted at least 11 ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown. Even the menu screen on the DVD is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the DVD seem totally provocative.<br /><br />David was no heroic person throughout the film. You could guess he was the main problem long before the end. The actors who played each role were all new to me, which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting ""respect."" There were plot holes (How did David and Richard finally impress Tish\'s father by getting the lease they wanted when David was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute?) There were cheesy technology moments (like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen), and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a Joaquin Phoenix knockoff to play this character. The tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete BS, too, because it wasn\'t even about a last breath. Nobody really dies. But they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere...but that was a good 10 seconds long out of an hour and 3/4 long movie.<br /><br />Go rent (and maybe buy) the original. It\'s one of Joel Schumacher\'s better and more original films. It has everything better about it from this film. I wouldn\'t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges."\n937,"Ok, honestly I dont see why everybody thinks this is so great. Its really not. There were two good things that came out of this movie 1. Jack\'s performance, he was very good I can tip my hat for him. 2. Danny\'s performance, he was good. No other then that it got pretty stupid. And, what was Stanley Kubrick thinking drafting Shelly as the Wendy? She was so bad. She looked the same every time she got scared. The problem with this movie was the ending. I would have had more respect for it if Kubrick would have ended it differently. And, the over all movie was just stupid. The problem with the movie is that the book was so much better. So dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off. 3/10."\n938,"This episode had potential. The basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment (but a phone that constantly rings) is somewhat interesting. And when she explores the noise, there is genuine tension and fear. But stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had.<br /><br />First of all, the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction (e.g. ""It\'s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind;"" ""This door has serious damage to it that wasn\'t here a minute ago;"" ""The door opened by itself, without me touching it;"" etc.). Given these supernatural phenomena, plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room, wouldn\'t she take some precaution before entering it? Maybe she could investigate in the day time. Or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else. Or maybe she could TURN ON THE LIGHTS!!! Also, while in the haunted apartment, she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone, and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide. JUST UNPLUG THE PHONE! The phone company doesn\'t need to be involved. Walk up to the phone and unplug it. Case closed.<br /><br />Finally, showing the phone scamper across the floor like it\'s alive was just comical. If the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card, he could\'ve done it in a way that didn\'t look cartoony. Brave Little Toaster anyone?"\n939,"The quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time. Pam Dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue-chip prospects and make this work of art a must-see. Academy Award winners Brenda Fricker (Home Alone: Lost in New York, A Time to Kill), Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show, Red Dawn), and Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Village) amplify the atmosphere of the movie, drawing in an anxious audience. However, the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster Jay O. Sanders (JFK, The Day After Tomorrow).<br /><br />The story is centralized around a foster child, up-and-coming actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick, The Lookout). Sidekick Milton Davis Jr. delivers a tear-jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents. The two don\'t have much, but what they do have: Angels\' baseball, and what they are seeking: identity. That\'s when 4-time Emmy Nominee Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, Predator 2) comes in to save the day as frustrated Angels Manager, George Knox. In relation, all characters in the story seem to have the same mission: search within themselves to find out who they really are.<br /><br />Depressed over the fact that Roger (JGL) is separated from his father, he wishes to God for reunification if the Angels can take the pennant. Odds are astronomical, but 3-time Emmy winner Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, My Favorite Martian) comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic (pun). Before you know it, Al (Lloyd) is sitting with Roger in the stands, snacking on cracker jacks, and causing some of baseball\'s biggest boners! Dorothy Kingsley and George Wells\' (DK Oscar Nominee GW Oscar Winner) 1951 screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind William Dear (nominated in Directors Guild of America). He includes a touching side story centered around pitcher Mel Clark, played by Tony Danza (4-time Golden Globe nominee, Emmy nominee), who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused Anaheim. Clark has been dubbed a wash-up, a once big-name in Cinci, but he has something to prove to Manager Knox.<br /><br />Spoiling this nail-biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the 18th century. This one is a diamond in the rough, and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace. Did I mention a cameo by Matthew McConaughey (A Time to Kill, We Are Marshall) for all you ladies out there?"\n940,"I kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere. When it ambiguously got there I was very disappointed. I\'m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence. But maybe I won\'t. Maybe I\'ll just imply something will happen. The writers lacked any imagination. This is not even a ""B"" movie - it\'s a made for TV ""B"" movie."\n941,The movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too. It was extremely funny. Angelena Jolie was wonderful as Juliet. The parents are hilarious.They are caterers as well as enemies.The kids play the parts of Romeo and Juliet in the church play.They fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart.(Spoiler Ahead. I think) They sneak off after a party and do it. Surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie. If you don\'t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don\'t watch. If you don\'t mind those you will have a blast watching this one.\n942,"If somebody wants to make a really, REALLY bad movie, ""Wizards of the Lost Kingdom"" really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness.<br /><br />Start with the pseudo-Chewbacca that follows around the main character ... Some poor schmuck in a baggy white ""furry"" costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting. Work your way slowly, painfully, through more not-so-special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief. Add a garden gnome (just for the heck of it).<br /><br />On second thought, skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half."\n943,"A film for mature, educated audiences...<br /><br />I saw ""Random Hearts"" in an advance screening shortly before its North American release. This romantic drama was quite a treat. I\'m sure this story will not be everyone\'s cup of tea, especially considering the film\'s darkly downbeat premise. But the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor.<br /><br />All-time Box Office Draw Harrison Ford (""Star Wars,"" ""Raiders of the Lost Ark,"" ""The Fugitive,"" ""Air Force One,"" ""Patriot Games"") is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate Internal Affairs officer, Dutch. Ford\'s very subdued, nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss & betrayal. This is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for Harrison Ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters. Next year Harrison Ford returns to action, first for director Robert Zemeckis (""Forrest Gump,"" ""Back To The Future"") in his summer 2000 thriller, ""What Lies Beneath,"" and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of Tom Clancy\'s ""The Sum Of All Fears."" \'Fears\' will be Harrison Ford\'s third outing as CIA operative Jack Ryan.<br /><br />Director Sydney Pollack (""Out of Africa,"" ""The Firm,"" ""Tootsie"") has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to Scott-Thomas\' congresswoman. It\'s a very sharp & energetic portrayal for Pollack. Not only is Sydney Pollack a gifted director, he is also one of the most believable, natural and charming actors around (see ""Eyes Wide Shut"" as well).<br /><br />Kristin Scott-Thomas (""The English Patient,"" ""The Horse Whisperer"") shows that you don\'t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy. This is one of her better films, and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite Ford\'s quiet-man toughness.<br /><br />The subplots work wonderfully, especially the subplot involving Ford\'s character\'s investigation into police corruption. Look for a chilling & effective turn by ""Heat"" actor, Dennis Haysbert, who plays Detective George Beaufort, the obstacle to overcome in Dutch\'s investigation into police corruption.<br /><br />The rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight. Charles S. Dutton (whose long overdue for a film leading role) goes to show that he is one of the best character-actors around, and Bonnie Hunt, who I find extremely solid in this production, steals most of her scenes with that wonderful, charming smile as Wendy Judd.<br /><br />The technical side of Pollack\'s thriller is top notched. From Dave Grusin\'s (Pollack\'s ""The Firm"") perfectly surreal-feeling jazzy score, to Philippe Rousselot (""A River Runs Through It"") crisp photography, to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh, despite the film\'s unfortunate downer premise.<br /><br />I highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery, well-paced plot, character-driven stories, and romance all rolled into one. This is a terrific story about betrayal & forgiveness. It also features one of the most surprising, yet poignant, and certain to be controversial endings for a Harrison Ford film in recent times. ""Random Hearts"" is definitely one of the better films of the year.<br /><br />(***1/2 out of ****) or (8.5 out of 10.0)"\n944,"For all of the Has-Beens or Never Was\'s or for the curious, this film is for you....Ever played a sport, or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left..this film explores that and more.<br /><br />Robin Williams(Jack Dundee) is a small town assistant banker in Taft CA., whose life has been plagued, by a miscue in a BIG rival high school football game 13 years ago, when he dropped the pass that would have won over Bakersfield, their Arch-Rival, that takes great pleasure in pounding the Taft Rockets, season after season . Kurt Russell(Reno Hightower) was the Quarterback in that famous game, and is the local legend, that now is a van repair specialist, whose life is fading into lethargy, like the town of Taft itself.<br /><br />Williams gets an idea to remake history, by replaying the GAME ! He meets with skeptical resistance, so he goes on a one man terror spree, and literally paints the town , orange, yellow and black , to raise the ire of the residents to recreate THE game . After succeeding, the players from that 1972 team reunite, and try to get in shape to practice, which is hysterical . The game is on , Bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets, game strategies, and sophisticated training routines . Taft is drawing plays in the mud, with sticks, stones, and bottle caps, what a riot ! Does Taft overcome the odds, does Robin Willians purge the demons from his bowels, does Kurt Russell rise from lethargy, watch ""The Best of Times"" for one of the BEST viewing experiences ever!<br /><br />One of Robin Williams best UNDERSTATED performances, the chemistry between Robin and Russell is magic . And who is Kid Lester ???<br /><br />Holly Palance and Pamela Reed give memorable performances as the wives of Williams and Russell. Succeeds on Many Levels. A 10 !"\n945,"This movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that Perrugorria have done. <br /><br />It looks like a commercial from beginning to end. The ¨director¨spent the whole time on a tripod, it doesn\'t have pace, rhythm. It\'s illogical. what a mess. You can tell what\'s gonna happen since the first 15 minutes, and the ending...Wow<br /><br />------spoiler-------<br /><br />Jesus Christ, how the hell Perrugorria got shot? Are you serious? Worst scene of someone getting shot ever!<br /><br />------end of spoiler-----<br /><br />Bad directing, bad script, bad acting...Really bad overall. I wouldn\'t recommend this movie at all. It\'s a waste of money and time."\n946,"I first remember bumping into this zaniness from the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams, back in the early days at Comedy Central. Back in those days (the 90\'s) their programming consisted of Benny Hill reruns and the original MST3k, complete with bearded host.<br /><br />Capt. Frank Drebin (played by the stone-faced, dead-pan filibuster, Leslie Nielson) is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists (think Dragnet meets Starsky & Hutch the Show), boiled in a flask full of well-known police television show plots and scenarios. This is distilled, 3 times to produce the most pure policeman every made. Forget about Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz (for now. save it for later). Frank Drebin is clueless at most times, a terrible driver, a terrible shot, macho yet sensitive and vulnerable. He is a master of the police investigative methodology (a.k.a - ask Johnny the Leathery Old Shoe-Shine Boy). This does not make him a bad cop. Cops get lucky also. Capt Drebin (notice he\'s a Captain here) has perfected it. Along with his partner, Nordberg, and the rest of force, perfectly parody the police drama over the course of 6 golden episodes.<br /><br />The show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote-ables. Most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly. The magic never came from the sight gags,however. At its core was a nonsensical and straight-faced conversation and activities in the foreground, with crazy things occurring in the background. The movies can best be described as 90 minute compilations of the best gags from this series. Think of Monty Python\'s And Now For Something Completely Different.....<br /><br />If you liked Airplane 1 & 2, Naked Gun 1,2,3, or Top Secret, then you will definitely enjoy this. <br /><br />I always liked the series better than the movies, even though I saw the movies first. Why? 2 words : No O.J."\n947,"A guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus. She refuses him, but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway. And there it starts - a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero. It can\'t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic.<br /><br />In short, a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film. And IMO, it succeeds at being a nice film. It\'s no masterpiece, but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion - the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is, even with the superhero thing going, believable.<br /><br />So. Thin story, but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time.<br /><br />7 out of 10 broken hearts"\n948,i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now WORD FOR WORD the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don\'t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment: this film is amazing love me xxx P.s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops.This film will go down in children\'s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children.\n949,"The film someone had to make.<br /><br />Waco: The Rules of Engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in Waco, Texas that led to the destruction of the Branch Davidian homestead and the alleged government cover-up.<br /><br />The first thing you need to know about this film: you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies. This is not done for shock value, but to illustrate points about the way they died, as if you were present at the coroner\'s inquest.<br /><br />The second thing you should know about this film: at two and a quarter hours, it\'s pretty ponderous - especially if you already followed the events closely at the time. If you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media, or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report, this may be essential viewing. If, on the other hand you want a more concise (albeit unapologetically one sided) version of events, you should see ""Waco: The Big Lie"".<br /><br />In summary, this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event, and is very sobering, but as a work of film-making, could test your patience, especially if you have a short attention span. And it\'s at times superfluous for those who watched the CSPAN hearings and the 60 Minutes reports.<br /><br />Perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story, such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the ATF raid or the psychological warfare tactics the FBI used blasting rock music at the sect, and their charismatic leaders (all rock musicians themselves) picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them."\n950,"What a good movie! At last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock: illusions of fame. Well-known Rockers are getting old and forgotten, not the music. And with a good sense of humour. Have you ever danced on Bill Haley\'s Rock Around the Clock?<br /><br />Anyway, Still Crazy is probably the best movie about rock n\'roll I have ever seen. Far much better than Spinal Tap for instance. Why? Because in Still Crazy, people are mature. They have a different point of view about rock, about love and about life. They want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much. Beyond the story itself, we see characters with their own personality, weaknesses and dreams. Like anyone of us.<br /><br />Spend a good time watching this (listen to the awesome soundtrack! )and finally thinking of your own future.<br /><br />Bye!"\n951,"Had it with the one who raised you since when you were young? You just want her gone from your life? That woman is your mother. You should respect her, you should honor her, whether she\'s in sick or well. But that in times, it can be aggravating. Especially when she becomes very overbearing. That\'s how Owen(Danny DeVito) had to deal with in ""Throw Momma Fron The Train"". His Momma(Anne Ramsey, 1929-88), is one of the worst. He trying his best to be a writer, and she is everything but grateful. Calls him a ""clumsy poop"", a ""larda$$"", and ""fat"" and ""stupid"". For his friend, Larry Donner(Billy Crystal) he has his own woman problems, his ex-wife. She trying to discredit him. So what did Owen do? Push her overboard. What does he do? Help return the favor, get rid of Mrs. Lift! In the kitchen scene, I liked it where Owen called Larry, ""Cousin Patty"". And Momma said, ""You don\'t have a Cousin Patty!"" and Owen shouts ""You Lied To Me!"" and El Cabongs Larry with the frying pan. Then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill Momma Lift. That is thwarted, and she kicks Larry off the train. Well, everything back to normal, the ex-wife lives, but Momma kicked the bucket on her own. Maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways. A fun movie it is, and the cast is great. A classic! 5 stars!"\n952,"Yes, it is a bit cheesy. But it\'s suspenseful and entertaining, and one of my favorites; there are some excellent actors in the film, and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters. It\'s interesting to see David Soul in a \'bad guy\' role; I thought he was quite believable--and rather chilling--as the ever-more-paranoid CO. Robert Conrad is a long-time favorite--I think he brings his character to life very well; and Sam Waterston has been star quality in everything of his I\'ve watched--movies or TV. <br /><br />I watch this movie every so often but our tape (a VHS TV copy I got) is such poor quality it\'s difficult to fully enjoy it. This is a movie I think they should put out on DVD; maybe it wouldn\'t be universally sought after, but I\'m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there WOULD be a market for a DVD version. I\'ll keep hoping!"\n953,"So it isn\'t an epic, but for people experiencing anything similar<br /><br />(sibling suicide) it might be an interesting way of therapy. An<br /><br />imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well<br /><br />spent. For some reason, it hasn\'t really caught on in the audience,<br /><br />something I do believe is a result of the main theme. Why did she<br /><br />commit suicide? Clearly, this is hardly something that US<br /><br />moviegoers will flock to, had it been an European production it<br /><br />probably would have reached its audience in a much greater<br /><br />extent. It is however, a movie that although the realism tainted by a<br /><br />shimmering romanticized glow, gives the viewer a whole hearted<br /><br />impression."\n954,"I absolutely loved this film! I was hesitant to watch it at first because I thought it would be too painful. I remember how hard it was when John was shot. However, watching the ""Two of Us"" took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility. I think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what ""might have been."" Aidan Quinn was adorable as Paul and met the challenge head on. I was impressed with his accent and mannerisms. Jared Harris is also very talented and was quite believable as John. My favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene - which was so poignant. The film left me with both sadness and satisfaction, both of which I feel are appropriate, given the circumstances."\n955,"Previous reviewer Claudio Carvalho gave a much better recap of the film\'s plot details than I could. What I recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful, in every sense - emotionally, visually, editorially - just gorgeous.<br /><br />If you like movies that are wonderful to look at, and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant, I think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art.<br /><br />On a scale of 1 to 10, I\'d give it about an 8.75. The only reason I shy away from 9 is that it is a mood piece. If you are in the mood for a really artistic, very romantic film, then it\'s a 10. I definitely think it\'s a must-see, but none of us can be in that mood all the time, so, overall, 8.75."\n956,"Great premise, poor execution. Cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written, poorly directed, poorly edited, waste of film. Only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food.<br /><br />Joan Chen, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, and Alfre Woodard should fire their agents."\n957,"Have to agree that this movie and it\'s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve. Here\'s hoping that the DVD will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience. The actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent. Perhaps overall the movie is a little long but May Miles Thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary. Good for the actors I am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot. May Miles Thomas deserves more recognition from the Film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors,"\n958,"I had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on Danish television yesterday. First of all, I wanted to see Gina Lollobrigida - and here I wasn\'t disappointed. She looked gorgeous. Second of all, through reading about the film I had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in Philippe de Broca\'s films. On this account, however, I was sadly disappointed. I found the jokes predictable (apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war) and the characters completely one-dimensional. Also, the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion, with no sense of drama at all. I kept watching until the end, but I got bored very quickly and just sat there, waiting for the scenes with Lollobrigida."\n959,"This film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making. The lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all. We have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face. The jokes are all lame I never laughed once it was Saturday night there were 5 of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room. The film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways, ruined the night ! OK so pros and cons. Pros beautiful setting in Hawaii, looks good on bluray. Cons worst acting ever; you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday. Predictable poor plot. Zero character development. Forced jokes which fall flat. Many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma. May all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap."\n960,"This was my first Gaspar Noe movie I\'ve watched and I have to say I was shocked. I don\'t mind gore in generally, but this isn\'t even gore , it\'s real butchering. For some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and I mean really disgusting. Leaving aside these aspects, the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant. When you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given, you can\'t stop and take a minute to think about it. The actors did their job well, representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society. The movie is full of metaphors, but I\'ll let you figure them out. Don\'t watch it if you want to have a lite, relaxing time. I recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema."\n961,"I agree with BigAlC - this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before I went to live in Japan for a year in 1993. Tom Selleck does a fantastic job here, as always, and the movie is greatly humorous and educational. I\'m a big fan of Tom Selleck\'s, and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part, bringing the film to life in a way I can\'t imagine any other actor being able to pull off. <br /><br />This film featured some first-rate Japanese actors, and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with Selleck - I can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie - Japan\'s an awesome place to go, whether you want to party, sight-see or just try to take everything in."\n962,"I laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt. Ben Affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy Jack Black in this role. Gandolfini gives his typical A performance. The entire cast is funny, the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome. I went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why I was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy, can identify with loneliness during the holidays and/or putting up with the relatives. The best part to this film (to me anyway) were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped. Namely, the scene involving the lighting of the Christmas tree. Go see it and have a good laugh!"\n963,"Although I lived in Australia in 1975, I moved overseas not long after, fed up with constant industrial unrest, the general worship of mediocrity - unless one is a sportsman! - and the complacency of so many Australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north. <br /><br />Consequently I missed The Dismissal, along with many other Australian-made TV dramas of the \'80s and \'90s, such as the superb Janus and Phoenix series, which I have since seen, along with Wildside.<br /><br />To me the filmed story of The Dismissal is fair and, as far as I am aware, accurate. However, as to public ""outrage"" it only shows one side of the picture, not how families were riven by the controversy. I know, as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward. <br /><br />But the commentary is, in my view, very one-sided throughout. The inescapable fact is that, notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community, the Australian electorate chose - and chose decisively - in favour of Fraser, as they did again two years later. <br /><br />This apart, a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama."\n964,"I may be a good old boy from Virginia in the Confederate States of America, but this man does it for me. That mustache gets me riled up. I remember when I first saw a video of his. That girl he beat was amazing. The depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity. It reminds me of the granite sculptures of our Mt. Rushmore. If I could ask him one question, it would be,""If you were a hot-dog, would you eat yourself?"" Will Orhan be doing a reunion tour? Take note from the greats like Gordon Lightfoot, true music from the heart never fades away. Vive La John Denver. Gracias my friend, O.F.F.L. (Orhan Fan For Life)"\n965,"I never want to see this movie again!<br /><br />Not only is it dreadfully bad, but I can\'t stand seeing my hero Stan Laurel looking so old and sick.<br /><br />Mostly I can\'t stand watching this terrible movie!<br /><br />Frankly, there is no reason to watch this awful film. The plot is just plain stupid. The actors that surround Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are really really bad and Laurel and Hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films! <br /><br />I warn you don\'t watch it, the images will haunt you for a long while to come!"\n966,"The problem is the role of the characters in the film. Man to Man shows a British anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to Scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself. The problem is the role of the pygmies in the film - two people who are kidnapped, treated like animals, and yet given such a shallow, stereotypical role within the film... The kidnapper (british anthropologist) ends up being the hero of the film because he \'manages\' to relate to the pygmies... No notion of how the two hostages feel, of their point of view, of their ordeal... I find it is a shallow film, with a one sided fundamentally racist view... it never manages to move away from the \'white mans\' view"\n967,"Life Begins - and ends - in a typical 1930\'s maternity / recovery ward, where we view 48 hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women, played by Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell, Clara Blandick (Aunty Em???), Vivienne Osborne, Dorothy Tree, and Gloria Shea, as they await to give birth. While the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted, it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in 1932 was like for our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. I found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving.<br /><br />Oddly enough, the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member, young Eric Linden as Jed Sutton, Grace\'s (Loretta Young) husband. What an actor! As a first time father, Jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table. I felt his every concern keenly. I\'d like to see more of this actor\'s work. He had a very emotional voice, which was used to unforgettable effect in Gone With The Wind. In that film Eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia, who screamed ""Don\'t cut! Don\'t cut!"" as Scarlett fled the hospital in horror. Chilling! Another great performance is from Aline MacMahon, who plays Miss Bowers, the nurse. Her character is a salt of the earth type, the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays, who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession.<br /><br />Loretta Young did another superb acting job here as well, a very authentic and deeply felt performance as Grace. My, she is great in these precodes, I\'ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months.<br /><br />Glenda Farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste (didn\'t anyone know back in 1932 that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies\' health?) but her character redeems herself in the end.<br /><br />Also in the cast was an uncredited Gilbert Roland, silent movie star, as a grieving Italian husband. His screen time was brief, but notable.<br /><br />Life Begins is a must-see precode, try to catch it sometime on TCM, but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into. 9 out of 10."\n968,"This is a great film. Touching and strong. The direction is without question breathless. Good work to the team. I feel so sorry for Marlene, By the grace of God go you or I"\n969,"I think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet-paper. No respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie. For example, the names of some Serbian terrorists (that I remember) are Caradan Maldic, Ivanic Loyvek and Leo Hasse. What kind of names are that? Certainly not Serbian! By the way, Caradan Maldic!!! What a name, I laughed for days thinking about it. Probably an implication on Karadzic and Mladic. Secondly, there have never been any cases of terrorism done by Serbians. A journalist like the main character ought to have known that. Thirdly, the actors playing Serbian terrorists are not even Serbs nor do they speak Serbo-croatian. All this aside, this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper-thin and full of holes. At times it makes no sense whatsoever!!!"\n970,"*Criticism does mention spoilers*<br /><br />I rarely make user comments, but this is one movie I have no problem slandering. This movie stinks, and its mediocre of rating of 6 and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp. The Bone Collector is not at all the same calibre of film that Silence of the Lambs or Seven were, despite what its ad claims. This is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller. The pace of this movie was extremely slow- I actually left for about 10 minutes half-way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression (I refer to you the part where Angelina Jolie\'s character debates Denzel about cutting off a corpse\' hands). The movie is not at all scary, but tries to compensate this with a love-subplot albeit sexy Angelina Jolie\'s character and Denzel Washington\'s. Of course, what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor-student relationship as seen in the brillian epic Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal Lecter and Starling, however, even this lacks all effectiveness and I was personally routing for the villain to kill Denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two. With such a crappy movie, I was half-expecting a plot-twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit- things that mediocre movies like Arlington Road and Scream pulled off. Anybody with a 4th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved ( a situation which mimicks Alfred Hitchcock\'s Rear Window). The cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough, but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen. Esoterically speaking, I even think the murderer\'s intention was completely lost as Denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial \'chess game\' and gets with his pet project, Angelina.<br /><br />If you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts (like I am), you will not appreciate this film. If you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch-up on every single Hollywood cliche ever borne (the late-night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer, the ridiculous serial-killer to prime investigator relationship, the horrible \'woman trying to get by in an all-male dominated workforce aka SOTL) , see this movie....but even then its too slow-paced and you\'d be bored."\n971,"Possible Spoilers, Perhaps. I must say that ""Cinderella II: Dreams Come True"" is one of the worst movies ever made. First of all, the movie was made during the height of Disney\'s sequel rampage. It was created around the same time as ""The Little Mermaid II,"" ""The Jungle Book II,"" and ""Peter Pan II,"" all of which were disservices to their original film classics. (Disney also made ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame II"" and ""Atlantis II,"" but I\'m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place."") Let me go ahead and say that I am an avid supporter of good Disney films, and I absolutely adore the original Disney ""Cinderella."" The sequel to ""Cinderella,"" however, was a waste of time. The character of Cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that I grew up watching. In the original, Cinderella was kind and loving. The new Cinderella had very out-of-character moments with current-era phrasing like, ""I\'m going to do this banquet my way!"" Let me also tell you that new Cinderella (as I have affectionately named her) says, ""Ewww!"" That is the anti-Cinderella. I try to find the best in people, but in the sequel, Anastasia, one of the stepsisters, is good! What the heck? Why? They made it all out to be like Lady Tremaine and Drizella are just horrible family members for poor little Anastasia. My question to the world: did the people at Disney watch the original ""Cinderella"" when making this sequel? Well, it surely doesn\'t seem so. If I remember correctly, Anastasia was just as abusive to Cinderella as Drizella and Lady Tremaine. I am all for redemption and forgiveness, but there was no point of redemption for Anastasia in this movie. In the first one, Anastasia was evil. In the second one, she is good. One just can\'t leave a story like this. I hope Disney realizes that this movie, among other movies, is shaming Walt Disney\'s name. Perhaps now that Michael Eisner is gone, things will start shaping up around the House of Mouse."\n972,"Hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of ""8""s, this movie\'s true score.<br /><br />As mentioned before Chris Rock is The King! Previous to going to see this movie I wasn\'t that over the top about him but now I\'m banging on the doors of Chris Rock\'s website begging him to take me on as his protege. This film is truly funny, if you don\'t find this movie funny you REALLY need therapy and it\'s humour which targets all areas of society including race(predictably), class division, love, wealth, employment, dreams, stand up comedy... the list goes on.<br /><br />There was one slight disappointment for me however. This was that in going into this film I didn\'t realise that it was actually a remake of ""Heaven Can Wait"" another quite good movie made in 1971 with Warren Beatty. As such I was quite surprised when I watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie I had watched on TV a few weeks ago.. Regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that Chris Rock is funnier than Warren Beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any...you get the picture.<br /><br />Well to the actual plot of the film.<br /><br />Don\'t spoil the experience for yourself! Don\'t read the plot! Just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on IMDb so far that have raved mad about it, go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time, go and see it because it\'s a cinema experience that doesn\'t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets. Go see it because it is a good movie!"\n973,"Formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich Chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer (Vargas). It looks very much like a TV movie, not really exciting. The only reason I bothered to see it was because Valentina Vargas was in it. No real surprises here, though it is nice to see Vargas. Great looking Chilenian landscapes on display but Malcolm McDowell\'s part is very small and doesn\'t add much to the movie. Michael Ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts. The chase scenes are standard fare."\n974,"Whatever rating I give BOOM is only because of the superb location photography of Sardinia and Rome. Otherwise, this is only for hardcore addicts of ELIZABETH TAYLOR (her downward phase), and RICHARD BURTON (his miscasting phase). Tennessee Williams wrote ""The Milk Train Doesn\'t Stop Here Anymore"" and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play--but apparently, he was the only one. Taylor reportedly hated it and Burton needed the money.<br /><br />Whatever, it amounts to a hill of beans with Taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner, exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby-talk with no less than NOEL COWARD who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears.<br /><br />It\'s so campy that among Taylor fans it\'s probably considered a ""must see"" kind of thing. But if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand, you\'re way ahead of me. Sadly, this is the film that signified the end of Taylor being taken seriously as a film actress, even after winning two Oscars. For Burton, it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a BOMB. Judge for yourself if you dare."\n975,"VIVA LA BAM This ""Jackass"" spin off focuses on the (obviously scripted) adventures of Bam Margera and his pals (Johnny Knoxville, Brandon Dicamillo, etc). This show, while it has its fair share of gross-out comedy and crazy stunts, focuses mainly on Bam\'s torturing of his parents.<br /><br />I\'m sorry to say this, Bam, but... you\'re in no way as cool as you think you are. This ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny (and yes, I liked Jackass), but also narcissistic beyond belief. The overly stylized intro ends with Bam coolly explaining that he\'s going to do ""whatever the f***"" he wants to. How about you do something that is actually funny? I liked ""Jackass"" for what it was worth. The camera-work was horrible - any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents\' garage - but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy, dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed.<br /><br />Not so with ""Viva la Bam"". We follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives, but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy. The stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining, but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile.<br /><br />""Viva la Bam"" is a poor spin-off of that does little good but feed Margera\'s already too big ego. I don\'t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone."\n976,"I had never heard of Larry Fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing, he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor. Like many others on here, I don\'t know how to categorize this film, it wasn\'t scary or spooky so can\'t be called a horror, the plot was so wafer thin it can\'t be a drama, there was no suspense so it can\'t be a thriller, its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the Blair witch project. People who liked this film used words, like ""ambiguity"" and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn\'t there. Like the Blair witch, people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying. This movie actually started off well with the family ""meeting"" the locals after hitting a deer. It looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next 45 minutes, (well over half the film), nothing happened, the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining. It was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but Essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie. Finally, when something does happen, its not even clear how the father was shot, how he dies, (the nurse said his liver was only grazed), and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with 3rd grade special effects. The film is called Wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way, the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied, i would have bailed out with 15 minutes to go but I wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself. It didn\'t."\n977,"Schlocky \'70s horror films...ya gotta love \'em. In contrast to today\'s boring slasher flicks, these K-tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula.<br /><br />This is a B movie about the making of a B movie...that went horribly wrong. Faith Domergue (This Island Earth) stars as an over-the-hill, B movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home. Her boyfriend/director, who looks and acts like Gordon Jump with an attitude, is filming on location and on a tight schedule. The Ken doll co-star discovers a book of Tibetian chants that they work into the script to add ""realism"". Unfortunately, ""realism"" is something they could have done without.<br /><br />John Carradine, having long since given up looking for the 17th gland (The Unearthly), now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate. He goes about his daily work, but always seems to run afoul of the director.<br /><br />The horror builds slowly; a dead cat here, John Carradine entering a grave there, finally culminating in seven, yes seven murders. (At least there\'s truth in advertising.) It\'s just sad that the ghoul didn\'t understand that there was a movie being made above him. How was poor Faith to know that those darn Tibetian chants would actually work? Face it, you just can\'t go around tugging on Satan\'s coat and expect him to take it lying down.<br /><br />Sterno says perform an autopsy on The House of Seven Corpses."\n978,"I suppose for 1961 this film was supposed to be "" cool "" , but looking back now ( 45 years ) it\'s charm was just as silly as it\'s entertainment value ! Granted , the special effects do well on T.V. with the Series that started in 1964 , but for the BIG screen ?? I once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting ! I must agree about the Octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the Seaview. Obviously not well staged...or trained ! Overall , it\'s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and I still do recommend it - for fun laughs sake. This was probably one of Irwin Allen\'s Biggest films and I think he thought a lot of it . Barabara Eden went on to play "" Genie "" on T.V. Micheal Ansara was her Husband . Now that is a cool part about this film ! I always enjoyed seeing real life Husband and Wife teams star in the same movie . Neat !"\n979,"This is one of the finest films to come out of Hong Kong\'s \'New Wave\' that began with Tsui Hark\'s ""ZU: Warriors of Magic Mountain"". Tsui set a tone for the New Wave\'s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the New Wave (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Wong Jing, Ching Siu Tung, etc.) accepted from then on as a given; namely, the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony, if not outright comedy. ""Burning Paradise"" put a stop to all that, and with a vengeance.<br /><br />It\'s not that there isn\'t humor here; but it is a purely human humor, as with the aged Buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw. But this is just as humans are, not even Buddhist priests can be saints all the time.<br /><br />When irony is at last introduced into the film, it is the nastiest possible, emanating from the \'abbot\' of Red Lotus Temple, who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before. He is the very incarnation of Milton\'s Satan from ""Paradise Lost"": ""Better to rule in Hell than serve in heaven!"" And if he can\'t get to Satan\'s hell soon enough, he\'ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule.<br /><br />That\'s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here: It\'s not that the Abbot just wants to kill people; he wants them to despair, to feel utterly hopeless, to accept his nihilism as all-encompassing reality. Thus there\'s a definite sense pervading the Red Temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the Temple itself - it has become all there is to the universe, and the Abbot, claiming mastery of infinite power, is in charge.<br /><br />Of course, fortunately, the film doesn\'t end there. Though there are losses, the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails. (If you want to know how, see the film!) Yet there is no doubt that, in viewing this film, we visit hell. Hopefully, we do not witness our own afterlives; but we certainly feel chastened by the experience - and somehow better for it over all."\n980,"Now I don\'t hate cheap movies. I just don\'t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad\'s camcorder. If I rent a movie, I want it to be a MOVIE, not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some MiniDV - Tapes.<br /><br />Maybe I hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great, and it wasn\'t. Maybe I hate it because it\'s cheap, has the dumbest plot EVER, the most unrealistic characters EVER and the really, really, really WORST SHOWDOWN in the history of films EVER. Even Tom Savini can\'t save this.<br /><br />Seriously, this one is a complete waste of time."\n981,"A fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do. that being stealing from farms and killing prey. until a trio of farmers decide they\'ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem ""solved"". They are of course ""out foxed"" at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land.<br /><br />The""film"" version ,and I use the term film very loosely, is more of a god awful pastiche of American heist movies particularly the Oceans movies. They they even have George clooney as Mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely. So kudos to them .They\'ll make lots of money and destroy another classic Roald Dahl children book."\n982,"As soon as it hits a screen, it destroys all intelligent life forms around ! But on behalf of its producers I must say it doesn\'t fall into any known movie category, it deserves a brand new denomination of its own ! It\'s a ""Neurological drama"" ! It saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person\'s brain.<br /><br />It\'s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one. It drives you speechless, all you members go numb, your mouth falls open and remains so, and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf.<br /><br />No small feat for such a sort of a ""movie"".<br /><br />The only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is OUTRAGE !!!!!!"\n983,"For a film made in Senegal, based, I guess loosely on Carmen, the book, by Prosper Merimee, this film doesn\'t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films.<br /><br />Ms. Gai as the Karmen of the title is very good to look at. Her fiery dancing smolders the screen, as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film.<br /><br />This is a Karmen that aims to please to all genders, but a real Carmen, she is not!<br /><br />We would like to see Ms. Gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here."\n984,"This is a very noir kind of episode. It begins with Jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend, the recently divorced Karen Mills (Pat Delaney--daughter in law of John Huston, who knew a few things about noir film) and her daughter. When they arrive, Karen goes in the house while Jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room. He then discovers Karen has disappeared without a trace. Of course he calls Dennis and when the police arrive, they see no sign of Karen, but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes. So of course that makes Jim an immediate suspect.<br /><br />This is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by Rocky asking Jim to go over the story once again. Rocky suggests that by Jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn\'t think was important at the time, but now might lead to a clue as to what happened. It\'s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the Rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent. It also goes a long way to show that Rocky isn\'t just some clueless old man either. As he says ""You come to me because I\'m your father. And I\'m smarter than you!"" This is one of those times where we see where Jim got his smarts.<br /><br />This episode also features an appearance by hottie Lara Parker, who played Angelique in the ""Dark Shadows"" series and went on to play Laura Banner, Bruce\'s wife in the ""Incredible Hulk"" series a few years later. She looks terrific here.<br /><br />This episode also marks the first mention of the Minette crime family, a name that would keep popping up on the Rockford Files almost whenever they needed a mob family. This time, its Vincent Minette who Rockford helps apprehend.<br /><br />Lt. Diehl (Tom Atkins) makes his first appearance on the series and Dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police Sargent. I guess they figured it would be better to have Dennis less powerful and add some conflict between Jim and the police. Frankly, they were right, though I prefer the later Lt. Chapman to Lt. Diehl. <br /><br />Not a lot of the typical ""Rockford"" humor in this episode, but a good mystery with a lot of heart."\n985,"The Royal Rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events, and i\'ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now. The other shows may have better matches, but i\'ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement.<br /><br />I\'m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don\'t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review. I will comment on the quality of them though.<br /><br />We have the standard 4 matches, and then the big rumble event. Two from Smackdown and two from Raw.<br /><br />Shawn Michaels and Edge open up for Raw. This proves to be a good match from two talented guys. This is a match i\'d recommend watching. It\'s hard to sum up without giving away the winner.<br /><br />Next we have the usual Undertaker against some big nasty monster, be whoever it is. Giant Gonzales, Yokozuna, Kamala... well this time it\'s Heidenreich. Its also a casket match. Typical Undertaker fare. Watch if you\'re a fan. I have to admit i am, purely for the entertainment factor. It can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match.<br /><br />The next two matches are the title matches. For once Smackdown manages to upstage Raw. Their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable, but with a anti-climax and let down to end it. Raw\'s match is a pretty dull and boring affair, which is a pity as i\'m a fan of both guys involved.<br /><br />Now to the main reason i love the event, the rumble. It\'s a pretty good one this year. Coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win, and it may not prove a big surprise, but hey, its very enjoyable. There are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated. There is the token guy who doesn\'t make it to the ring, the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished, and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant. It has its usual highs and lows, and i loved the ending, in particular the Vince McMahon entrance.<br /><br />I\'d recommend this show. Not the WWE on top form, but its still good. Add it to your collection."\n986,"I remember this in a similar vein to the Young Ones. We\'d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other.<br /><br />We called one of our mates ""Zipmole Watkins"" after the brilliant episode in which Daniel Peacock has a bit of \'restyling\' on his nose by the Back Street Abortionist.<br /><br />Lots of great lines ""Remember at 5:30 in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man. Take it easy guy!"" - Gandhi as a local shopkeeper.<br /><br />Tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching Ralph (Daniel Peacock) to be a barman ""It\'s no good Amanda I\'ll never make it as a bar man"" Helen Lederer teaches him to ask people about the match ""See the match last night? I thought Woodcock played well"" After a string of failed conversations the curly haired Arsenal star was sitting at the bar: ""See the match last night?"" ""Yeah. I thought I played well""<br /><br />We still do odd stupid lines now - ""Reg and Ralph..... or....... Ralph and Reg. Reg, Reg... Reg Reg Reg Reg""<br /><br />Lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the Flatlets - The Back Street Abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line - ""And he\'ll mark your packages \'Return To Sender""<br /><br />Good old Danny Peacock - you added a lot to some young drinkers\' evenings sir.<br /><br />**Update - I found a couple of episodes on tape - I\'m going to upload the Gandhi sketch to Youtube **"\n987,"Destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized. This game deserves all the recognition it deserves. At a time when first-person shooters like Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers, graphic adventures are a dying breed. With great pun and humour, The Curse of Monkey Island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy. Life can only improve after playing The Curse of Monkey Island. *prediction* the sequel Escape from Monkey Island is already destined to be a classic too. I guarantee it."\n988,"Stephane Audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small Danish community towards the end of the last century. Two beautiful and musically talented sisters give-up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look-after their ageing father. One day, a French woman, Babette, comes to work for them. After some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in. Her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast, which changes the lives of all those invited. This is a film about human and cultural interaction, reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from Danish to French, and especially between the dutiful sobriety of Protestant northern Europe and the sensuousness of the Catholic south. It is also about human needs, and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses. A profoundly uplifting film."\n989,"This movie was way over-hyped. A lot of the viewers, who thought this was ""amazing"" must have been into the old school movies, cause the whole movie is set in the past. At first I thought the movie was just showing something from the past, so I was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass, but it just going. Basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past, and the 2 don\'t mix very well in this movie, even with special effects. You could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with. There are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did, so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying ""it\'s the greatest movie ever done"". It\'s just crap on a stick. It also didn\'t help that the story line was sooo crappy. I don\'t understand why Hollywood agreed to have this movie produced, and I also don\'t understand how actors/actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this. It\'s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print...""It will all be done on a computer"". This was a movie that should have been on a movie network, because nothing about this movie was revolutionary. I\'m very upset with myself for paying money to see this. Whatever you do, don\'t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow."\n990,"It is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in 2005. This one came out a day before that other one with Tom Cruise. Didn\'t they do that with Truman Capote the same year, and the Zodiac killer last year? Interesting.<br /><br />Writer/Director David Michael Latt didn\'t have Steven Spielberg\'s budget and C. Thomas Howell is not Tom Cruise. This is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed $588 million worldwide.<br /><br />The action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of Rhett Giles, who played a pastor that was giving up on his god.<br /><br />Gary Busey was creepy as an army LT."\n991,"I dunno sometimes...you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the B thru Z grade movies out there, but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved. ""Bat People"" (which I saw under the title ""It Lives By Night"") is just such a movie. You can\'t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on ""Night Gallery"", and not one of the better ones, either. <br /><br />The movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a Were-Bat who drinks human blood. (Actually, you\'d think if he was turning into a real bat, he\'d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket, but because this is a cheap, lurid horror movie, blood\'s the word.) In spite of the fact that he has grand-mal seizures at the drop of a hat, and black-out episodes almost every night, his friend and fellow physician, Dr. Mustache Aspen-Extreme, insists that he\'s just having an \'allergic reaction\' to the rabies shots. Meanwhile, the world\'s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls (and one wino). Also meanwhile, the doctor\'s wife decides that denial IS a river in Egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction. <br /><br />It\'s not so much that the acting is bad - you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices, and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script, even the guy who plays the sheriff. (Okay, it IS pretty bad, but it\'s bad in a clichéd, wooden, professional way). It\'s just that everything about the acting, the way the scenes are paced, the costumes, the dialog, the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to, well, slap everyone involved.<br /><br />I think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky, unsettling little cult favorite, BUT:<br /><br />1)The director needed to beat Michael Pataki, an experienced character actor, with a chair until Pataki agreed to ACT, and not just channel Dennis Weaver. <br /><br />2)He also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole ""Bat Bites Human, Who Then Turns Into A Bat"" scenario. <br /><br />3) He also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his \'episodes\', instead of resorting to ""Man Has A Seizure"" page from the Little Golden Book of Clichéd Acting Mannerisms. <br /><br />4) He needed to rework the whole \'wife\' character, make her both more intelligent, less shrill and waaaaay more observant. <br /><br />I would never voluntarily watch this film again, except with the help of Mike and the Bots. It\'s bad, but it isn\'t bad in a silly, humorous or interesting way. Still better than ""Battlefield Earth"" or ""Waterworld"", though."\n992,"Big Fat Liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing, great production, and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap. The two stars work great together, and--what can I say? Amanda Bynes shines. Putting ""Irkel"" and Lee Majors in the film were brilliant touches. Watch this film with your kids. If you don\'t laugh throughout it, you must not have been paying attention."\n993,"Tim Robbins and John Cusack are two actors I have appreciated throughout their careers, and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie. Well, all I can say is I totally regretted it! These two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant, unimaginative and kitch to the extreme (not that this is bad on its own)sketches that are supposed to make people laugh, but fail to do so. The only reason I can think is that the director was their friend, and they decided to support his movie by starring in it-I can\'t think of anything else because this movie is SO cheap! Fortunately Tim Robbins and John Cusack haven\'t disappointed me ever since. I would recommend you to avoid this film, unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled."\n994,"On watching this film, I was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity. Karen Carpenter was a carefree, but very unconfident young lady, whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother Richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs. As with all celebrities of today, they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks, styles, etc. THis had a huge effect on Karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight, which eventually caused her death. This heart felt film was not initially something which I would have thought of watching. But on starting to view it, then I was hooked. In the same way that the Tina Turner story does, then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life. The acting was superb and even after nearly 20 years after it was made, then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining.<br /><br />I would recommend this to anyone who hasn\'t yet watched it. It is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged."\n995,"Nothing is sacred. Just ask Ernie Fosselius. These days, everybody has a video camera, and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying, quickly written and shot, and often posted directly to the internet. Spoofs are hot these days, and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don\'t get off on their own self-importance. 25 years ago, when the first Star Wars was made, it was a different world. Filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare. Then God gave us Hardware Wars. It was shot to look cheap (or was it just cheap?) and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact. Does that take away from the experience? HECK NO! That\'s what makes it so great! It was raw and unpolished, and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie. From Fluke Starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber (I did that when I was young!) to Chewchilla the Wookie Monster, to Auggie Ben Doggie\'s ""nah, just a little headache"" remark, this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual Star Wars films. Rent it. Buy it. Borrow it from a friend. And may the Farce be with you. Always."\n996,"I hated it. I hate self-aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art. This film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid. After the first half hour, I fastfowarded through the DVD version, and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over. I became angered that I had spent hard-earned money for sophomoric clap-trap. Tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie, let alone art."\n997,"I usually try to be professional and constructive when I criticize movies, but my GOD!!! This was THE worst movie I have ever seen. Bad acting, bad effects, bad script, bad everything! <br /><br />The plot follows a group of teen cliche\'s on their way to a rave (that takes place in broad daylight) at a remote island. However, when the group arrives, all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes. Determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party-goers, the clan set\'s off on a mission through a zombie-infested forest. During this crusade, they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids. They also meet up with Jonathan Cherry and some other survivors. Basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the ""house of the dead."" This fight came complete with cheesy Hollywood violence, redundant clips from the HOTD video game, and sloppy matrix-esque camera rotations. One of the character\'s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others. Why? Not because he was noble and brave, but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled! I\'m supposed to feel sorry for this guy?!?<br /><br />To sum it all up, there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is. The theater I was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen, and I\'m sure the money I wasted seeing this piece of sh*t could easily cover the costs it took to make it. GRADE: F"\n998,"If you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school, try to convince your teacher to see something else. believe me, anything is better than this movie. it is slow paced, confusing, boring, poorly constructed, gory, gringy, do I need to go on? It\'s message is good, but I have seen them been handled better in several other films. The acting isn\'t even any good. This movie is just even more awkward, as it start off as being funny (not intensional though)because of it\'s surreal story, than at the end, just becomes uncomfortable to watch.<br /><br />I honestly feel like 1 hour and 40 minutes of my life has been robbed. Why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for 10 minutes, than watch them drive through a traffic jam for 20 minutes, listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear, witness a sort of rape, than see the female lead role eat her husband.<br /><br />Honestly this movie deserves nothing but a 1/10. And if your not happy with my preview,seriously I\'m an open minded guy and I like movies that protest through symbolism, but this movie was just awful. make any excuse you can, to avoid this film."\n999,"This is like a zoology textbook, given that its depiction of animals is so accurate. However, here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film:<br /><br />- Handgun bullets never hit giant Komodo dragons. It doesn\'t matter how many times you shoot at the Komodo, bullets just won\'t go near it.<br /><br />- The best way to avoid being eaten by a giant Cobra, or a giant Komodo dragon, is just to stand there. The exception to this rule is if you\'ve been told to stay very still, in which case you should run off, until the Komodo is right next to you, and then you should stand there, expecting defeat.<br /><br />- Minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching.<br /><br />- $5,000 is a memory enhancement tool, and an ample substitute for losing your boating license/getting arrested.<br /><br />- Members of elite army units don\'t see giant Komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over-sized beings. Maybe the computer-generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it.<br /><br />- When filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing, a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need; sound gear, a second camera, microphones etc are all superfluous.<br /><br />- When you hear a loud animal scream, and one person has a gun, he should take it out and point it at the nearest person.<br /><br />- When you take a gun out, the sound of the safety being taken off will be made, even if your finger is nowhere near the safety<br /><br />- Reporters agree to go half-way around the world in order to expose something - without having the faintest idea what they\'re exposing. Background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism.<br /><br />- Handguns hold at least 52 bullets in one clip, and then more than that in the next clip. Despite that, those with guns claim that they will need more ammo.<br /><br />- Expensive cameras (also, remember that the reporter only has one camera) are regularly left behind without even a moment\'s hesitation or regret. These cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves.<br /><br />- The blonde girl really is the stupid one.<br /><br />- The same girl that says not to go into a house because a Komodo dragon can easily run right through it, thus making it unsafe, takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection - and nobody says a word about it.<br /><br />- High-tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets.<br /><br />- Genetically-modified snakes grow from normal size to 100 feet long in a matter of a day, but don\'t grow at all in the weeks either side.<br /><br />- The military routinely destroys entire islands when people don\'t meet contact deadlines.<br /><br />- Men with guns don\'t necessarily change the direction they\'re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them. Instead, they just keep shooting into the air.<br /><br />- The better looking you are, the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures.<br /><br />- Women\'s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds.<br /><br />- Any time you\'re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age.<br /><br />- Animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for \'swearing\' at the same volume.<br /><br />- Old Israeli and Russian planes are regularly used by the US Military."'

Text Normalization

Text normalization is the process of transforming a text into a canonical (standard) form. For example, the word “gooood” and “gud” can be transformed to “good”, its canonical form. Another example is mapping of near identical words such as “stopwords”, “stop-words” and “stop words” to just “stopwords”

# splitting at ( \n ).
text=text.split('\n')
# Separating at new line using '\n'  

# splitting at ( \t ).
corpus = [text]
for sent in text:
    corpus.append(sent.split('\t'))
# Splitting String by tab(\t)    

letters_only = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z]',  
                          " ",          
                          str(corpus))
# Taking only letters

Tokenization

What is Tokenization? Tokenization is the process by which big quantity of text is divided into smaller parts called tokens.

Natural language processing is used for building applications such as Text classification, intelligent chatbot, sentimental analysis, language translation, etc. It becomes vital to understand the pattern in the text to achieve the above-stated purpose. These tokens are very useful for finding such patterns as well as is considered as a base step for stemming and lemmatization.

Sentence tokenization is the process of splitting text into individual sentences. ... It does this by looking for the types of textual constructs that confuse the tokenizer and replacing them with single words.

# converting to lowercase.
letters_only=letters_only.lower()

token=nltk.sent_tokenize(letters_only)
token

['      one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just   oz episode you  ll be hooked  they are right  as this is exactly what happened with me  br    br   the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence  which set in right from the word go  trust me  this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid  this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs  sex or violence  its is hardcore  in the classic use of the word  br    br   it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary  it focuses mainly on emerald city  an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards  so privacy is not high on the agenda  em city is home to many  aryans  muslims  gangstas  latinos  christians  italians  irish and more    so scuffles  death stares  dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away  br    br   i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn  t dare  forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences  forget charm  forget romance   oz doesn  t mess around  the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal  i couldn  t say i was ready for it  but as i watched more  i developed a taste for oz  and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence  not just violence  but injustice  crooked guards who  ll be sold out for a nickel  inmates who  ll kill on order and get away with it  well mannered  middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience  watching oz  you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing    thats if you can get in touch with your darker side         a wonderful little production   br    br   the filming technique is very unassuming  very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting  and sometimes discomforting  sense of realism to the entire piece   br    br   the actors are extremely well chosen  michael sheen not only   has got all the polari   but he has all the voices down pat too  you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams   diary entries  not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece  a masterful production about one of the great master  s of comedy and his life   br    br   the realism really comes home with the little things  the fantasy of the guard which  rather than use the traditional   dream   techniques remains solid then disappears  it plays on our knowledge and our senses  particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets  particularly of their flat with halliwell  s murals decorating every surface  are terribly well done         i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend  sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy  the plot is simplistic  but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable  even the well bread suspected serial killer   while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point    risk addiction  i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love  br    br   this was the most i  d laughed at one of woody  s comedies in years  dare i say a decade    while i  ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson  in this she managed to tone down her   sexy   image and jumped right into a average  but spirited young woman  br    br   this may not be the crown jewel of his career  but it was wittier than   devil wears prada   and more interesting than   superman   a great comedy to go see with friends         basically there  s a family where a little boy  jake  thinks there  s a zombie in his closet   his parents are fighting all the time  br    br   this movie is slower than a soap opera    and suddenly  jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie  br    br   ok  first of all when you  re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama  as a drama the movie is watchable  parents are divorcing   arguing like in real life  and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film  i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie  and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots  br    br     out of    just for the well playing parents   descent dialogs  as for the shots with jake  just ignore them         petter mattei  s   love in the time of money   is a visually stunning film to watch  mr  mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations  this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money  power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter   br    br   this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler  s play about the same theme  the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect  each one is connected in one way  or another to the next person  but no one seems to know the previous point of contact  stylishly  the film has a sophisticated luxurious look  we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat  br    br   the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits  a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment  as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter  br    br   the acting is good under mr  mattei  s direction  steve buscemi  rosario dawson  carol kane  michael imperioli  adrian grenier  and the rest of the talented cast  make these characters come alive  br    br   we wish mr  mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work         probably my all time favorite movie  a story of selflessness  sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause  but it  s not preachy or boring  it just never gets old  despite my having seen it some    or more times in the last    years  paul lukas   performance brings tears to my eyes  and bette davis  in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles  is a delight  the kids are  as grandma says  more like   dressed up midgets   than children  but that only makes them more fun to watch  and the mother  s slow awakening to what  s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling  if i had a dozen thumbs  they  d all be   up   for this movie         i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero  s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i  ve got what i wanna say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be    lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it         this show was an amazing  fresh   innovative idea in the     s when it first aired  the first   or   years were brilliant  but things dropped off after that  by       the show was not really funny anymore  and it  s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today  br    br   it  s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen  the writing is painfully bad  the performances are almost as bad   if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts  this show probably wouldn  t still be on the air  i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed  how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity  i felt i must give   stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success  as it is now  the show is just awful  i can  t believe it  s still on the air         encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film  bad mistake  i  ve seen      films and this is truly one of the worst of them   it  s awful in almost every way  editing  pacing  storyline    acting    soundtrack  the film  s only song   a lame country tune   is played no less than four times   the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme  rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film   br    br   the only thing that prevents me giving this a   score is harvey keitel   while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort  one for keitel obsessives only         if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie  if you are young or old then you will love this movie  hell even my mom liked it  br    br   great camp            phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines  br    br   at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn  t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore  br    br   its a low budget film  thats never a problem in itself   there were some pretty interesting characters  but eventually i just lost interest  br    br   i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking  br    br   for something similar but better try   brother from another planet           i saw this movie when i was about    when it came out  i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air  the horror  the horror  br    br   as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons  i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero  a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end  i didn  t care much for the romantic angle as a    year old and the predictable plots  i love them now for the unintentional humor  br    br   but  about a year or so later  i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star  janet leigh  was bumped off early in the film  i sat up and took notice at that point  since screenwriters are making up the story  make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula  there are no rules          so im not a big fan of boll  s work but then again not many are  i enjoyed his movie postal  maybe im the only one   boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished   br    br   people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned  that this is not far cry    this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks   feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with  these players go by the names of til schweiger  udo kier and ralf moeller  br    br   three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz  so the tale goes like this  jack carver played by til schweiger  yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes    however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass   people have complained about how he  s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don  t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a      br    br   however  the storyline in this film is beyond demented  we see the evil mad scientist dr  krieger played by udo kier  making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called  performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of   spoiler   vancouver for some reason  thats right no palm trees here  instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods  we haven  t even gone far before i started to cry  mehehe  i cannot go on any more   if you wanna stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience  meaning most of it will suck  br    br   there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes  until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh   the movie far cry reeks of scheisse  that  s poop for you simpletons  from a fa r if you wanna take a wiff go ahead   btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wanna shoot him the first three minutes he  s on screen          the cast played shakespeare  br    br   shakespeare lost  br    br   i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses  but why ruin something so good  br    br   is it because   the scottish play   is my favorite shakespeare  i do not know  what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler  hence bowdlerization  tried to do something similar in the victorian era  br    br   in other words  you cannot improve perfection  br    br   i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text  and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie  as the saying goes  just does not cut it         this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous  one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad  another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack  the man of constant sorrow   i recommand this movie to everybody  greetings bart        kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes  only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i  ve ever seen  sort of like a high school film project  what was rosanna arquette thinking   and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town  pretty hard to get involved with this one  no lessons to be learned from it  no brilliant insights  just stilted and quite ridiculous  but lots of skin  if that intrigues you  videotaped nonsense    what was with the bisexual relationship  out of nowhere  after all the heterosexual encounters  and what was with that absurd dance  with everybody playing their stereotyped roles  give this one a pass  it  s like a million other miles of bad  wasted film  money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa              some films just simply should not be remade  this is one of them  in and of itself it is not a bad film  but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the      film of the same title  liam neeson was excellent as he always is  and most of the cast holds up  with the exception of owen wilson  who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke  but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it  s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects  again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film  but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more          this movie made it into one of my top    most awful movies  horrible   br    br   there wasn  t a continuous minute where there wasn  t a fight with one monster or another  there was no chance for any character development  they were too busy running from one sword fight to another  i had no emotional attachment  except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them   br    br   scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies  lotr  star wars and matrix   br    br   examples br    br    the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda  obee one and vader   br    br    the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings   elijah wood is the victim in both films  and wait      it hypnotizes  stings  its victim and wraps them up     uh hello     br    br    and the whole machine vs  humans theme was the matrix  or terminator      br    br   there are more examples but why waste the time  and will someone tell me what was with the nazi  s     nazi  s      br    br   there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion  the movie could not decide if it was a children  s movie or an adult movie and wasn  t much of either   br    br   just awful  a real disappointment to say the least  save your money          i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in       my dad took me my brother   sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england  i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies  if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is    miles away  would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it          an awful film  it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe  they  ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition  my complaint is not that they  ve taken liberties with the facts  if the story were good  that would perfectly fine  but it  s simply bizarre    by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film  so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script  i suppose there weren  t enough naked people in the factual version  it  s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist  s life    we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they  d favored the rest of the film with same brevity          after the success of die hard and it  s sequels it  s no surprise really that in the     s  a glut of   die hard on a         movies cashed in on the wrong guy  wrong place  wrong time concept  that is what they did with cliffhanger  die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly   stop or my mom will shoot   stallone  s career  br    br   cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream  especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing  base jumping  aviation  facial expressions  acting skills  all in all it  s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk  stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse  however  if you an forget all the nonsense  it  s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills  and unintentionally  plenty of laughs  br    br   you  ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness  his tick every box band of baddies  and best of all  the permanently harassed and hapless   turncoat   agent  rex linn as travers  br    br   he may of been henry in   portrait of a serial killer   but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal  he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors   that man never hurt anybody   and whilst he surely can  t be  it really does look like ralph waite  s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death  br    br   mention too must go to former   london  s burning   actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy  who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football  yes  you can  t help enjoy that bit  hal needed a good kicking  br    br   so forget your better judgement  who cares if   that could never happen    lower your acting expectations  turn up the volume and enjoy  and if you  re looking for qaulen  he  s the one wearing the helicopter          i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this   b movie   in it  s entirety  br    br   all i have to say is    save your time and money    this has got to be the worst b movie of all time  it shouldn  t even be called a b movie  more like an f movie  because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie  the story is not interesting at all  all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable  it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it  s almost funny       almost  br    br   the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit  br    br   this movie is supposed to be geared towards men  but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive  especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end  they try to appear sexy in those weird  horrible costumes and they fail miserably    br    br   even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs  but this is just too painful to watch           what an absolutely stunning movie  if you have     hrs to kill  watch it  you won  t regret it  it  s too much fun  rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn  t anything more other than him  i still liked it  the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times  you really start liking it          first of all  let  s get a few things straight here  a  i am an anime fan  always has been as a matter of fact  i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool   b  i do like several b movies because they  re hilarious  c  i like the godzilla movies  a lot  br    br   moving on  when the movie first comes on  it seems like it  s going to be your usual b movie  down to the crappy fx  but all a sudden  boom  the anime comes on  this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill  br    br   the animation is very bad   cheap  even worse than what i remember from speed racer  for crissakes  in fact  it  s so cheap  one of the few scenes from the movie i   vividly   remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school      it  s the same kids over   over again  the fx are terrible  too  the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla  in addition  the transition to live action to animation is unorganized  the dialogue   voices especially the english dub that i viewed  was horrid   i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd  vhs player  the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes   comments like the robots   joel mike on mst k  you pick the season   honestly  this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie   survive it at the same time  br    br   heck  i  m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night  because it  s stupid  pretty painful to watch   unintentionally hilarious at the same time  i  m giving this movie a       an improvement from the        i was originally going to give it  br    br    according to my grading scale       means pretty much both boring   bad  as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it  then it will become as fun as counting to             this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards  i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film  it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes  m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for  the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable  the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch  there is no real emotional depth to the story  a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me  nor does the development of the cop  it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the   s     and not even a good one in those standards  br    br           the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter  s complex life  though it fails in giving accurate facts  and details  br    br   cynthia gibb  portrays karen  was not a fine election  she is a good actress   but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter  i think that the role needed a stronger character  someone with a stronger personality  br    br   louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific  she does a great job as karen  s mother  br    br   it has great songs  which could have been included in a soundtrack album  unfortunately they weren  t  though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries           the cell   is an exotic masterpiece  a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer  but also into one of a very talented director  this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations  this is boldness at work  pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent  this is the best movie of the year to date  br    br   i  ve read numerous complaints about this film  anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting  to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point  this movie may be a landmark  a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow    the cell   has just opened the door to another world of imagination  so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don  t want any more  personally  i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem  and would love to see someone try to challenge him  br    br   we  ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer  and yes  i do agree that the   genre   is a bit overworked  the   s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick  some of them worked  but most failed  but   the cell   does not blaze down the same trail  we are given a new twist  we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied  br    br   i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another  instead  she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity    the cell   wants to let you   see   what it  s all about and not   how   it  s all about  and i guess that  s what some people don  t like  true  i do like explanations with my movies  but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in  br    br   i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality  maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another  nonetheless  the set design was simply astonishing  i wouldn  t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography  best costumes  best director and the like  if it were up to me it  d at least get nominated for best picture  br    br   i  ve noticed that i  ve kind of been repeating myself  not because there  s nothing else to say  but because i can  t stress enough how fantastic i thought   the cell   was  if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time  i guess this film was just a little too much for some people  writing it off as   weird   or   crazy    i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind  so it was right down my alley  leaving the theater  i heard one audience member say   whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs    if so  i want what he was smoking  br    br         out of            this film tried to be too many things all at once  stinging political satire  hollywood blockbuster  sappy romantic comedy  family values promo    the list goes on and on  it failed miserably at all of them  but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end  br    br   although i appreciate the spirit behind war  inc   it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort  especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique  rather than simply the poor writing  direction  and production of this particular film  br    br   there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war  but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening  reminds me a bit of three kings  which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern          this movie was so frustrating  everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time  i at least thought i  d be able to stand it  but  i was wrong  first  the weird looping  it was like watching   america  s funniest home videos    the damn parents  i hated them so much  the stereo typical latino family  i need to speak with the person responsible for this  we need to have a talk  that little girl who was always hanging on someone  i just hated her and had to mention it  now  the final scene transcends  i must say  it  s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own  what crappy dancing  horrible and beautiful at once            war movie   is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich  d dialogue  rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat  once in a while  however  a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen  the civil war era   cold mountain    starring jude law  nicole kidman and ren  e zellweger is such a film  br    br   then again  calling cold mountain   a war movie is not entirely accurate  true enough  the film opens with a  quite literally  quick and dirty battle sequence that puts   glory   director edward zwick shame  however    cold mountain   is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times  the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman  played by jude law  who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain  north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind  ada monroe  played by nicole kidman  at first glance  this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier  s tribulations on the battlefield  indeed  the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived  br    br     cold mountain   soon takes a drastic turn  though  as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter  incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates  and begins a long odyssey homeward  meanwhile  back at the farm  ada  s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields  soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast  coming to ada  s rescue is the course  tough as nails ruby thewes  played by ren  e zellweger  who helps ada put the farm back together and  perhaps more importantly  cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada  br    br   within these two settings  a vivid  compelling and  at times  very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds  the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex  enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby  s deadbeat father  ray winstone as an unrepentant southern   lawman    and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother  all have been greatly affected and changed by   the war of northern aggression    mostly for the worse  the dark  pervading anti war message  accented by an effective  haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina  is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought  though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century  it  s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant  br    br   director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film  but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters  the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film  though the inherently distant  abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot  br    br   make no mistake    cold mountain   has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama  it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether          taut and organically gripping  edward dmytryk  s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller  an unlikely   message   movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle  br    br   bivouacked in washington  dc  a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars  three of them end up at a stranger  s apartment where robert ryan  drunk and belligerent  beats their host  sam levene  to death because he happens to be jewish  police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum  who  s assigned to ryan  s outfit  suspicion falls on the second of the three  george cooper   who has vanished  ryan slays the third buddy  steve brodie  to insure his silence before young closes in  br    br   abetted by a superior script by john paxton  dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs  ryan  naturally  does his prototypical angry white male  and to the hilt   while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance  his role  however  is not central   young may never have been better  gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed  vulnerable tramp  and  as a sad sack who  s leeched into her life  paul kelly haunts us in a small  peripheral role that he makes memorable  br    br   the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing  but it  s pretty much confined to young  s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier  thus  incidentally  stretching chronology to the limit   at least there  s no attempt to render an explanation  however glib  of why ryan hates jews  and hillbillies and      br    br   curiously  crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it    the novel it  s based on  richard brooks   the brick foxhole  dealt with a gay bashing murder  but homosexuality in      was still beyond the pale  news of the holocaust had  however  begun to emerge from the ashes of europe  so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism  the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer   br    br   but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general  the specifics don  t fit so smoothly  the victim  s chatting up a lonesome  drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd  even though  or especially since  there  s a girlfriend in tow  it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan  s murderous rage            ardh satya   is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema  directed by the great director govind nihalani  this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success  even today  ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india  br    br   the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the   s  unlike any police of other cities in india  mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether  govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment  br    br   amongst various police officers   colleagues  the film describes the story of anand velankar  a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family  his father is a harsh police constable  anand himself suffers from his father  s ideologies   incidences of his father  s atrocities on his mother  anand  s approach towards immediate action against crime  is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction  the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand  s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations  as he cannot achieve the desired job satisfaction  resulting from the frustrations  his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms   bars  also turning him to an alcoholic  br    br   the spirit within him is still alive  as he constantly fights the system  he is aware of the system of the metro  where the police   politicians are a inertly associated by far end  his compromise towards unethical practice is negative  finally he gets suspended  br    br   the direction is a master piece   thoroughly hard core  one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty  s house to arrest him  followed by short conversation which is fantastic  at many scenes  the film has hair raising moments  br    br   the practical approach of script is a major punch  alcoholism  corruption  political influence  courage  deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today  those aspects are dealt brilliantly  br    br   finally  the films belongs to the one man show  om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly          my first exposure to the templarios   not a good one  i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video  which has brought us other cult classics such as   spider baby    the print quality is excellent  but this alone can  t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull  there  s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars    set the whole thing in motion   but everything else in the movie is slow  ponderous    ultimately  unfulfilling  adding insult to injury  the movie was dubbed  not subtitled  as promised on the video jacket          one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist  the mafia middle man titta di girolamo  a physically non descript  middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy  when we  re introduced to him at the start of the film  he  s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years  conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to  while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo  s cash tell him that        dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes  at the news  he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account  meanwhile he tells us  the spectators  that when you bluff  you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous  he says  you can  t bluff for a while and then halfway through  tell the truth  having eventually done this   bluffed only halfway through and told the truth  and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately  love   is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo  s troubles   br    br   this initially unsympathetic character  a scowling  taciturn  curt man on the verge of     a man who won  t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye  becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about  at one point in his non life  titta decides to feel concern about appearing   ridiculous    the first half of the film may be described as   slow   by some  it does indeed reveal di girolamo  s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined  deliberate pace  revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details  however  scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes  the existence of titta di girolamo   the man with no imagination  identity or life  the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would   is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music  one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out    br    br   never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell  amore or l  imbalsamatore  another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist  s insomnia  not unlike the machinist  and in a far more explicit way  the al pacino film insomnia   le conseguenze dell  amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that  s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious  it  s almost impossible to pin point its cause  if indeed there is one    br    br   the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia  played by olivia magnani  grand daughter of the legendary anna  and the memory of titta  s best friend  a man whom he hasn  t seen in    years  unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually  though tentatively at first  accepts to look through again  though it  s never explicitly spelt out  the spectator knows that to a man like titta  accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences  a film without a single scene of sex or violence  a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator  s expectations  le conseguenze dell  amore is a fine representative of that small  quiet  discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt  xa  during the second half of the   s  the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare  more la vita    bella style films    neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell  amore  l  imbalsamatore and others  your loss  world          i watched this film not really expecting much  i got it in a pack of   films  all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect  and you know what i was right  they were all terrible  this movie has a few  and a few is stretching it  interesting points  the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch  the drummer is very like a drummer  i e damned annoying and  well thats about it actually  the problem is that its just so boring  in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension  a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious  i had my thumb on the fast forward button  ready to press for most of the movie  but gave it a go  and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking  coz they don  t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot  i thought he looked a bit like a meercat  all this and i haven  t even mentioned the killer  i  m not even gonna go into it  its just not worth explaining  anyway as far as i  m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london  who was actually quite funny  it wasn  t because of their acting talent  i  ve certainly seen a lot worse  but i  ve also seen a lot better  best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry          i bought this film at blockbuster for        because it sounded interesting  a bit ranma esque  with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton   because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back  and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it  i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge  i was      wrong  br    br   having watched it  i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker  since there is hardly any foul language  little violence  and the closest thing to nudity  honestly  i don  t usually go around hoping for it   is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties  you see her panties a lot in this movie  because no matter what  she  s wearing a miniskirt of some sort   even the anti religious humor is tame  and lame  caricatured  insincere  derivative  unoriginal  and worst of all not funny in the slightest  it would be better just to listen to ray stevens     would jesus wear a rolex on his television show     this would barely qualify as pg     it is not rated   but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of    rent this  as if it was pornographic  any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream  but they insist that zack and reba is worse  br    br   it is  but not in that way  br    br   in a way  this worries me  the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning  if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides  not this one  but better ones like the virgin suicides   it  s teenagers  if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect  then i have little chance of turning a story i  ve been writing into a pg    movie  the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve   suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers  i think it  s number     so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it  br    br   just say no to this movie  though                the plot is about the death of little children  hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings  during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter  in the end the serial killer get caught  that  s it  but before you find out who dunnit  you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors  it is unbelievable how bad these actors are  including hopper  i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time  just don  t watch the movie  i  ve warned you          ever watched a movie that lost the plot  well  this didn  t even really have one to begin with  br    br   where to begin  the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms  that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing   the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away    or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable  or even the beginning which suggests a spate of     killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house  or the bizarre ritual with the salt   pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction  br    br   add a lead actress who can  t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty  but not in the way you hope  br    br   given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the     s  mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder  it offers nothing but curiosity value  and one classic   daft   murder  don  t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before   br    br   after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up  halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe  what do they do  slide down and run like the rest of us  no  of course not  they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon  br    br   it really is only a movie as they say           okay  so this series kind of takes the route of   here we go again    week in  week out david morse  s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle   but what  s wrong with that   david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there  and certainly the coolest  and to have him in a series created by david koepp   a great writer   is heaven   br    br   due to the lack of love for this show by many  i can  t see it going to a season series   but you never know  the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me   let  s hope something good can make it past a first series            after sitting through this pile of dung  my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie  it was that listless and formulaic  but the u s  propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves  disappointingly  that it  s the work of humans  call me a conspiracy theorist  but quotes like    we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it   seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq  etc  the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like    i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip   with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene  the   reasoning   behind each plot turn and new   clue   is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow  and there  s also a bonus side plot of misogyny  with dr  whatever her name was being chided by all involved for   never shutting up    she  s clearly in the movie only for looks  but they felt the need to slap a   dr    title on her character to give her some gravity  at one point  cage  s character says    don  t you ever shut up    and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands  like she  s a child  truly grotesque  the only benefit to this movie was that it  s so astonishingly bad  you do get a few laughs out of it  the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it  creepy             it had all the clich  s of movies of this type and no substance  the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it  the production was good  however  the script and acting were b movie quality  the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors  the good actors didn  t hold their own nor did they lift up the others   br    br   this movie is not worthy of more words  but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines  james wood and cuba gooding  jr  play caricatures of themselves in other movies   br    br   if you are looking for mindless entertainment  i still wouldn  t recommend this movie          this movie is based on the book    a many splendored thing   by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites  a topic that comes from han  s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china  that background  and the beautiful hong kong settings  gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time  br    br   other than that  the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself  the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful  oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china  william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world  the acting is top notch  and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined  br    br   the cinematography really brings out fifty  s hong kong  especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments  the ending is a real tear jerker  some may consider sentimental romances pass    but  for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories  this is a shining example          of all the films i have seen  this one  the rage  has got to be one of the worst yet  the direction  logic  continuity  changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain    how could anyone come up with something so crappy    gary busey is know for his   b   movies  but this is a sure   w   movie   w waste   br    br   take for example  about two dozen fbi   local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer  inside the jeep is ma and is   confused   as to why all the cops are about  within seconds a huge gun battle ensues  ma being killed straight off  the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them  the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet  ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough  truly a miracle  not since the six shooter held     bullets has there been such a miracle          i had heard good things about   states of grace   and came in with an open mind  i thought that   god  s army   was okay  and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker  the film began with some shaky acting  and i thought    well  maybe it will get better    unfortunately  it never did  the picture starts out by introducing two elders    mormon missionaries    and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them  instead  the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries  something that undeniably exists  but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays  and it becomes almost laughable  br    br   dutcher  s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience  by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries  dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience  the film in no way reflects reality  missions are nothing like what dutcher shows  having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact  and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity  br    br   the conclusion  which i  m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all  was both unbelievable  c  mon  the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home    and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other   and cheesy  next time  dutcher  try making a movie that someone can identify with          this movie struck home for me  being     i remember the       s and my father working in a factory  i figured  if i worked hard too  if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream  the house  a few kids  a car all to call my own  i  ve noted however  without a degree in something  unlike my father that quit at ninth grade  and a keen sense of greed and laziness  you can  t get anywhere  br    br   i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs  it  s made for tv  and i just saw it an hour ago  ic an  t find it anywhere  i  d love to show this to my friends  my pseudo friends  family and other relatives  see what they think and remind them that once upon a time  americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished   i think the feeling is still there  but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas            as a disclaimer  i  ve seen the movie     times in the last    years  and i only just saw the musical this week  this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn  t in the musical  however  it tainted me when i watched the musical       br    br   i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role  along with kasey  i think her   let me dance for you scene   is one of the best parts of the movie  a worthwhile addition compared to the musical  the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical  as well as the cast which is at least    times bigger  easier to do in the movie of course   the decors  lighting  dancing  and singing are also much superior in the movie  which should be expected  and was indeed delivered   br    br   the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie  the new ones are quite good ones  and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion  especially compared to a musical which has few decors  the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking  and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters  but their dancing is impeccable  and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical        protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors  the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary  the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie  unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film         how this film could be classified as drama  i have no idea  if i were john voight and mary steenburgen  i would be trying to erase this from my cv  it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules  abraham and moses got melded into noah  lot  abraham  s nephew  lot  turns up thousands of years before he would have been born  canaanites wandered the earth   really  what were the scriptwriters thinking  was it just ignorance    i remember something about noah and animals  and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school    or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible  from christians  jews and muslims  to historians  archaeologists  geologists  psychologists  linguists    as a matter of fact  did anyone not get offended  anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one          preston sturgis   the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late     s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television  in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael  s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz   orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis   screenplay here  as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site  kael overstated her case  br    br   there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane  the newsreel  representing ralston   the henry luce clone   thatcher  s memoirs  bernstein  jed leland  susan alexander kane  and raymond the butler  each has his or her different slant on kane  reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man  and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane  s story  this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident  br    br   this is not the situation in the power and the glory  yes  like kane it is about a legendary business leader   here it is tom garner  spencer tracy   a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country  but there are only two narrators   they are garner  s right hand man henry  ralph morgan  and his wife  sarah padden   this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner  henry  when he narrates  is talking about his boss and friend  whom he respected and loved  his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public   she sees only the flaws in henry  br    br   typical example  although he worked his way up  tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years  unions are troublemakers  and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans  henry describes tom  s confrontation with the union in a major walk out  and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life  but henry  s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike  apparently blowing up the union  s headquarters   killing many people   so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black  br    br   i  m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane  s success  few films do   including all of orson welles   other films   but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one  s interest to the end  and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally  the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home  br    br   when they marry  tom wants to do well  in part  to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had  but in america great business success comes at a cost  tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire  he expands it and improves it constantly   but it takes him away from home too much  and he loses touch with sally  and he also notices eve  helen vinson   the younger woman who becomes his mistress  when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her  br    br   similarly tom too gets a full shock  which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry   eve marries tom  and presents him with a son   but it turns out to be eve  s son by tom  s son tom jr   philip trent   the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself  br    br   the film is not a total success   the action jumps at times unconvincingly  yet it does make the business seem real  note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line  and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans   sturgis came from a wealthy background  so he could bring in this type of detail  so on the whole it is a first rate film  no citizen kane perhaps  but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america          average  and surprisingly tame  fulci giallo which means it  s still quite bad by normal standards  but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance  br    br   the genre  s well known weaknesses are in full gear  banal dialogue  wooden acting  illogical plot points  and the finale goes on much too long  while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say  limp affair  br    br   fulci  s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing  though  yellow clues wherever you look  br    br     out of    limping killers         return to the   th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the   s and   s  whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood  and the protagonist gordon liu  the counterpart to the western  s clint eastwood  digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest  this is   presented in shaw scope    just like the good old days  br    br   this film is a simple story of good versus evil  told in   acts  which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era  br    br   act one sets up the premise  workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot  having their wages cut by     by incoming manchu gangsters  they can  t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters  and their boss  at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk  one of the best comedy sequences   but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times  br    br   act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob  however  without real martial arts  he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple  to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly  after some slapstick moments  he finally gets accepted by the abbot  whom he impersonated   but is disappointed at the teaching methods   kinda like mr miyagi  s style in karate kid  but instead of painting fences  he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple  nothing can keep a good man down  and he unwittingly builds strength  endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way  br    br   act three is where the fight fest begins  with cheesy sound effects  each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment  but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here  with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners  and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles  you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow  with some pause in between moves  but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks  they sure don  t make fight scenes like they used to  return to the   th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday  so  if you  re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane  what are you waiting for             spoilers    all too  in real life as well as in the movies  familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun  or rifle  in their hands  the case of young and innocent  in never handling or firing a gun  jimmy davis  franchot tone  has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men  like jimmy davis  are forced to take up arms for their country  br    br   jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay  by being belted in the mouth  by his good friend fred p  willis  spencer tracy  ended up on the front lines in france  with jimmy  s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple  it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german  who raised his arms in surrender  that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him  br    br   recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy  gladys george  rose was really in love with jimmy  s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her  it  s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose  thinking that he was killed  fell in love and later married jimmy  when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy  now fully recovered from his wounds  was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy  s proposal of marriage to her  br    br   with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred  who  s still in love with her  a bitter and resentful young man  it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front  smug and sure of himself  and his ability to shoot a gun  jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city  s underworld  not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster  br    br   jimmy  s life of crime came full circle when rose  after she found out about his secret life  ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a   valentine day   like massacre  with his gang members dressed as cops  of his rival mobsters  while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then  after his three year sentence is up  get his life back together   br    br      spoiler alert    hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law  it  s at fred  s circus  where he works as both manger and barker  that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he  like at his trial  had a sudden change of heart  but the thought of going back to prison  with at least another ten years added on to his sentence  was just too much for jimmy  it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job  that he himself didn  t have the heart to do  for him          bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the       s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones  br    br   bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young  after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides   deaths  the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards  br    br   you have got almost everything in this movie  the scientist  s assistants consist of an old hag  a hunchback and dwarf  her sons   a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela  s house  bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie  br    br   the corpse vanishes is worth a look  especially for bela lugosi fans  great fun  br    br   rating    stars out of            i cannot believe i enjoyed this as much as i did  the anthology stories were better than par  but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me  alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself   where i have i seen them before    forget the running time listed on new line  s tape  this ain  t no     minutes  according to my vcr timer and imdb  space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an            the    percent of the nations nitwits that still support w  bush would do well to see this movie  which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of      as strikingly similar to the post      socio political landscape  maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a   whupping they deserve  it  s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country  those who voted for him can  t be denied the right to ever vote again  they  ve clearly shown they have no sense of character  br    br   what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre  a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can  t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism  execution and murder  self defense and patriotism  his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he  s helped create  sound like any belligerent  overprivileged  retarded yale cheerleaders you know of   br    br   wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen  as sympathetic as robespierres plight is  it  s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he  ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine          as someone has already mentioned on this board  it  s very difficult to make a fake documentary  it requires tremendous skill  pacing  patience  directorial   distance    a plausible premise  a narrative   flow    and really believable acting  aka great acting    br    br   such is not the case with   love machine    it starts to show its faux hand about the    minute mark  with    minutes left to watch   and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in  it  s downhill from there  br    br   director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon  but to be fair to eriksen  his problems started early  as he explains in the extras  he began wanting to do a real doc  couldn  t get funding  and settled for a cheaper way of making his film  br    br   the premise    people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website    was perhaps more interesting in          when the film was made  eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff    a pushy   host    hand held cameras  zooms  grainy blacks and whites    all  i guess  to elicit a sense of authenticity  but it just doesn  t work  the film is confusing and forced  but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue          the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more  of course it  s not going to be an oscar nominated film  it  s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for    minutes  br    br   the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert  it  s just them fighting back throughout the whole film  which includes a lot of violence  which is basically the whole film  as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing  and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience  br    br   i  d give the hills have eyes ii   out of    for pure entertainment  and that only  although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on  as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake  the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment  something to pass time if you  re bored  and nothing else  br    br                i laughed all the way through this rotten movie  it  s so unbelievable  a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage  has a breakdown in front of a real estate office  what happens  the office manager comes outside and offers her a job    hilarious  next thing you know the two women are going at it  yep  they  re lesbians  nothing rings true in this   lifetime for women with nothing better to do   movie  clunky dialogue like   i don  t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn  t take it   doesn  t help  there  s a wealthy  distant mother who disapproves of her daughter  s new relationship  a sassy black maid   unbelievable that in the year       a film gets made in which there  s a sassy black maid  hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave  the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids  sheesh  no cliche is left unturned          no spoilers   br    br   after hitchcock  s successful first american film  rebecca based upon daphne dumarier  s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue  he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period   mistaken identity and espionage  as the u s  settled into world war ii and the large scale   war effort   of civilians building planes  weaponry and other necessary militia  the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes  these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good  law abiding citizens  knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre  producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption  war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity  the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker  during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc  who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock  s sensibilities  br    br   this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate    year old barry kane  robert cummings  who  while at work at a los angeles airplane factory  meets new employee frank frye  norman lloydd  and moments later is framed for committing sabotage  fleeing the authorities who don  t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city  these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful   freaks   and a popular billboard model patricia martin  priscilla lane  who  during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security  he falls madly in love with  of course in the land of hitchcock  patricia  kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry  falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix  br    br   in good form for this outing  hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies  average joes  and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals  pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving  it  s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited  culminates in one of hitchcock  s more memorable finales  look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions  all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time   shooting ban   on public attractions   while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock  s most well known films  it  s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual   terrific hitchcock villains  remember to look for hitchcock  s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film  hitchcock  s original cameo idea that was shot  him fighting in sign language with his   deaf   wife  was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf          i just watched the dresser this evening  having only seen it once before  about a dozen years ago  br    br   it  s not a   big   movie  and doesn  t try to make a big splash  but my god  the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless  albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie  br    br   the dresser is the story of sir  an aging shakespearean actor  finney   and his dresser norman  courtenay   sort of a valet  putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii  these are two men  each dependent upon the other  sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole  wheedle  and bully him into getting onstage for his    th performance of lear  and norman lives his life vicariously through sir  without sir to need him  he is nothing  or thinks he is  anyway  br    br   this is a character driven film  the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters  and as such  it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life  finney  only    years old  is completely believable as a very old  very sick  petulant  bullying  but brilliant stage actor  he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they  re taking their bows  and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser  who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer  employer is really the wrong term to use  though  for although  technically their relationship is that of employer and employee  most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple  br    br   yes  there are others in the cast of this movie  but there is no question that the true stars are finney  courtenay  and the marvelous script by ronald harwood  that is not to say that there aren  t other fine performances  most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge  there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires  old regrets  and what might have been  br    br   although it doesn  t get talked about these days  it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards  best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay  best picture  best director  peter yates   and best adapted screenplay  br    br   i had remembered this as being a good movie  but i wasn  t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end  if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about  and be hugely entertained all the while  then i encourage you to see the dresser          what happened  what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast  but somewhere the movie loses it  actually  it never really got going  there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant  then find out that she is after all  but that was it  steve martin  who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie  was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie  other than to make it longer  i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters  kate and angie  and maybe try not for a pure comedy  which unfortunately it was not  but maybe a drama with comedic elements  i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot          i  ve just watched fingersmith  and i  m stunned to see the      average rating for the show  br    br   not only was the plot was difficult to follow  but it seems character development was randomly applied  br    br   the actors were adequate  but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns  their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional  once this happens  the story really falls flat and becomes tedious  br    br   and just in case anyone didn  t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way  this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film  br    br   the end scene is disappointing and phoned in  and anyone who sat back and went   ohhh  so they were carpet munchers all along     must have been out for the evening  br    br   two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy  none for the rest of it            so let  s begin     br    br   the movie itself is as original as cronenberg  s movies would usually appear    br    br   my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses  she is as lovely as usual  this cutie  br    br   i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers  still it  s quite interesting and entertaining to follow   br    br   the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array     br    br   recommend with confidence              besides being boring  the scenes were oppressive and dark  the movie tried to portray some kind of moral  but fell flat with its message  what were the redeeming qualities   on top of that  i don  t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did          an unmarried woman named stella  bette midler  gets pregnant by a wealthy man  stephen collins   he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own  things go ok until the child named jenny  trini alvarado  becomes a teenager and things gradually  and predictably  become worse  br    br   i  ve seen both the silent version and sound version of   stella dallas    neither one affected me much  and i cry easily  but they were well made if dated  trying to remake this in      was just a stupid idea  i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of   beaches   to get this made  this  predictably  bombed  the story is laughable and dated by today  s standards  even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end  stephen collins and marsha mason  both good actors  don  t help in supporting roles  flimsy and dull  really  who thought this would work  see the      stanwyck version instead  i give this a            don  t torture a duckling is one of fulci  s earlier  and honestly  in terms of story line  better     films   and although not the typical   bloodbath   that fulci is known for   this is still a very unique and enjoyable film  br    br   the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring  some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations   either as suspects  or those   helping   the investigation  or in some cases both    include the towns police force  a small time reporter  a beautiful and rich ex drug addict  a young priest and his mother  an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot  g    a mentally handicapped townsman  and a deaf mute little girl  all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns  until the actual killer is revealed    br    br   don  t torture a duckling is neither a   classical   giallo or a typical fulci gore film  although it does contain elements of both   it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery  with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence  although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci  s later works   this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end  recommended for giallo murder mystery fans  or anyone looking to check out some of fulci  s non splatter films   but don  t despair  don  t torture still has more than it  s fair share of violence and sleaze  some may be put off by the subject of the child killings  and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys  which is also kind of disconcerting   but if that type of material doesn  t bother you  then definitely give this one a look                 busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad  bad ass bitch alexandra  the faithful acolyte of faust  an evil entity trapped in hell  determined to free her master  the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success  but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust  the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor  which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive  troll like creatures called lite and dark  br    br   now alexandra must find a replacement gem  which isn  t going to be easy  the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover  police detective jonathan graves  peter liapis   who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of  meanwhile  wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home  br    br   in the warped movie world of jim wynorski  all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker  ghoulies iv is no exception  every woman in this film  whether she be a police captain  a curator of antiquities  or a mental patient in an asylum  is hot  hot  hot and wears not a lot  and it  s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable  br    br   but be warned  even though the presence of semi naked  quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier  there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal  the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful  the black humour  as the dvd blurb describes it  is about as funny as a knee to the knackers  with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy  and the special effects are bargain basement  consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier  br    br        solely for the high bimbo quotient          i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie  it didn  t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing  salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd  the music was not bad it was quite nice  usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film  the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes  ali larter  her acting had a lot to be desired  however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore  all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie  thank you          i  m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies  which it is not  even though marques houston did appear in   hp     he played a totally different character  he was  eight years older  in this film  okay   so reid and martin weren  t the most talented and couldn  t carry a film all by themselves  but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference  albeit minor  to the earlier movies  i  m sure everyone who wanted to see it was   hoodwinked    into thinking that they were seeing a sequel  not a totally different film with a familiar name  and i  m sorry   kym whitley is not funny  and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris  ketty lester  or dc curry in the earlier films  although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion   i have to give this a thumbs down   just naming the film   down to the last minute   would have been ok  furthermore  the hudlin brothers  who produced the first three movies  were not involved in the making of this film          this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen  the writer obviously bought the playbook   how to write a space disaster movie   and followed it play by play  in particular  the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space   putting on a brave show in the face of disaster   has been done time and time again  br    br   max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw     million at the project  but  judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects  the producers could only muster     thousand  to learn that the film was nominated for a   special visual effects   emmy has me absolutely gob smacked  br    br   i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects  br    br   and the plot holes are too numerous to mention  but i will pick one out as an example  now  i  m no nasa expert  but surely it  s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program  surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before  br    br   the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell  he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script  br    br   i give this film   out of     with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark          caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up  robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason  while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield  ty webb is funny  being the only character from the original  most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original  henry wilcoxon for example  except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt  being played by randy quaid  every line he says reminds me of the originals humor  especially the scene at his office  i don  t go in for law suits or motions  i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f   ing baseball bat  make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever  arff arff arff  then eat it  and then i  m comin   upstairs junior  and i  m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs  and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a    do we have an understanding    offsetting his small role however  is dan acroyd  who is obviously no replacement for bill murray  his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny  its just stupid  overall caddyshack ii is a good movie  but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it          honestly   this short film sucks  the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience  the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven  t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it  if the film was a little grainy it might have added some   creepiness factor   to what was going on  i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter   but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others  are more shocking than in aftermath  all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull      this is an expensive  beautifully filmed turd  it  s not that shocking  it  s not that disgusting  if you insist on viewing it   rent it  i give it a   for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia  there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos      the filming is good and it does have some   gore    if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore     but other than that   absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess  on the other hand   genesis   cerda  s   sequel   to aftermath  now available as a   double feature   released by unearthed films  is an absolute masterpiece of a short film  really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material  although i don  t care for aftermath at all  genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future            i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written  its not just about entertainment  there  s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across  and yes  it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn  t watch sepet and or gubra for    times   br    br   i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right  its really ironic how the characters relate  like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra  and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future   br    br   and i absolutely love the voice overs  its crude yet awakeningly fresh  like  when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard  then there was suddenly mukhsin  s voice saying   bismillahhirrahmannirrahim      the scene when he climbed the tree   br    br   it captured malaysian  s attitude and in some mild way  sniggering at how pathetic it is  portrayed in the character  for example  even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice  and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long  and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl  when ur own life isn  t sorted out   br    br   all i can say is  this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it   br    br   it kept me glued to the screen  i couldn  t even take my eyes off it  not even to make out in the cinema  ha ha          i am not a golf fan by any means  on may    about       pm the movie started with a scene in the late       s  old movies i like but not golf however  within the first scene a young boy  harry vardon  is awaken by the voices of men  he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something    so   then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on  the movie is excellent  we then see this young boy now a man  professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood  then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf  you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period  then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning  don  t want to give away too much   i was up until   a m  this is super please see the movie          upon viewing tobe hooper  s gem  crocodile  in       i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre  i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness  if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts  with ed writing the scripts  and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer  all we  d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants  br    br   while tobe hooper  s crocky opus referenced his own movies  blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies  see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages  rip offs to jaws  temple of doom  indiana jones   last crusade  the convent  godzilla       and any james bond movie  also  try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock  br    br   i was disappointed the crock didn  t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism   or crocky appreciation  but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach  perhaps  in the coming years  we  ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset  or hopefully  a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed  br    br   all in all  the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me          it tries to be the epic adventure of the century  and with a cast like sh   kasugi  christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time  it  s actually is a pretty fun  swashbuckling adventure that  even with it  s flaws  captures your interest  it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it  even if it  s made in the   s  it doesn  t have a modern feel  it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had  big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i  m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had  this on the other hand  just has the real feeling  you just can  t hate it  i think it  s an okay adventure movie  and i really love the soundtrack  damn  i want the theme song          the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang  do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety  no they don  t because coburn has a mission of revenge  to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman  br    br   that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after  as he explains it to his daughter  barbara hershey  coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff  his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired  it  s not something he  s proud of  she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt  br    br   lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is  heston is his usual stalwart hero  but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn  he blows everyone else off the screen when he  s on   br    br   coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can  t touch him  he knows that heston has to make it personal then  br    br   coburn  s gang includes  morgan paull  thalmus rasulala  john quade  larry wilcox  and jorge rivero  heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be  br    br   the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western  andrew mclaglen directed it and i  m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh  it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence  of which there is a lot   br    br   for a little peckinpaugh lite  the last hard men is your film          maybe it was the title  or the trailer  certainly not the interview on the dvd  which is with the director as he keeps saying   hi  kids   into the camera like a buffoon   but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal  bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator  turns out it  s way too sleazy for its own good  or bad  or whatever  there  s a problem  and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust  similar to this in many respects  in not having balance to the sex and violence  too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno  and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies  and with the killing scenes  there has to be at least a little tack  and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity  in creating the creature killer whatever  entrails of a virgin has neither  it  s safe to say it  s a pretty soulless movie  even if isn  t one of the very worst ever made  it  s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their   other   heads  br    br   in this case  we  re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls  nothing too salacious  and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by   a murderer   as he  s credited  first off  the director kazuo   gaira   komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on  we get spliced in  or phoned in  take your pick  clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere  it looks like it  s from another movie  then once settled into the house  there  s a   wrestling   scene that  s poorly choreographed and shot  yeah  we really need to see him   all   there   and then on to the rape and killings  first the rape  by the photographers  who promise the girls some jobs for their time  then the murderer  who like d  amato  s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial  and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one  br    br   now  the latter of those  taken by themselves  should be considered the highlights of the movie  this is like saying  however  that the cro  tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad  an eye gouging scene  a spike thrown like an olympic event  that scene  actually  is kind of cool   and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl  whose inconsequential name i can  t remember  even  this  becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title  on top of this  the sex scenes  which become tedious through   gaira   and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway  are dubbed over by the actors  you  d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough  hence the need to let them   speak   for themselves   but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one  where it  s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror  watch as the last girl left alive  the virgin of the picture  tries to stop the murderer from getting to her  which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him   you just want it to be done with  for the   i hate women   mantra to ease up or be rid altogether          the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes  when sharif or  please god  palance try their hand at fiery oratory  they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug  the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean  and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass  what does that leave us with  one comical dentistry scene  a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train  and  just for kicks  a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro  s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio  never trust a medved  but even a busted clock is right twice a day  this is a historically awful movie          this film took me by surprise  i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler  all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a      rotten tomatoes users ranked it at     and the critics averaged an amazing      if anything  they underrated this little gem  br    br   filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents   for posterity   and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents  outspoken mother mina  and less than forthcoming dad  mike  i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker  mike   mina  s son doug  was going to take us  as a matter of fact  i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this  br    br   life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey  it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told  absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren  t a fan of the documentary genre  this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten       birch street   is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you  the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience  eventually  millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work  bravo                 stephen hawkings is a genius  he is the king of geniuses  watching this movie makes me feel dumb  but it  s a great movie  not highly entertaining  but very very intriguing  the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings  a man who makes einstein look average  and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe  time  the galaxy  and black holes  everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they  v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they  ll write it all down  well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours  here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig  s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen  watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes  awesome  you won  t be the same after you see it          the story is about a psychic woman  tory  who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past  the death of her childhood friend and abusive father   tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring  can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders   br    br   you really don  t need to find out because  oh my god  this was so so so so bad  i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of     s  then the rest of us will see an imdb score of   and actually think this movie is worth watching  but do not be fooled  the ending was predictable  the acting terrible  don  t even get me started about the southern accents  y  all   and the story was trite  just remember    you were warned          oh god  i must have seen this when i was only    or twelve   don  t ask how  i may have been young  but i wasn  t stupid  anyone could see that this is a bad movie  nasty  gross  unscary and very silly  i  ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland  i  ve seen better performances at a school play  and i  ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo  where they do nothing but sit in the water  ignoring the children tapping on the glass  br    br   the story is set in northern australia  a handful of ambitious young people  are trying out a new water sport  surfing in shark filled waters  it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water  after they learn what  they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman  who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family  br    br   i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years  the best of which is lake placid  and the worse of which is its sequel  blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think  with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind  br    br   the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there  resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year  movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature  but a good hour and a half of the viewer  s life  unless you really want to see it  avoid blood surf            fate   leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life  all based around the number     as the story unfolds in real life and fiction  sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end  br    br   the number    offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution  the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential  the screenplay was probably the worst part about it  it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie  it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea  he just didn  t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time  the second half of the film was running low on ideas  the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful  br    br   joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number    reminds me that he  s still capable of making a stinker  he has the movie drenched in style but he just can  t get a good focus  he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace  he switches from reality to what  s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying  the actual book in the film that  s titled   the number      is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears  when carrey is finally done with book  we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery  at this point  the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension  we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it  s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished  br    br   the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable  jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn  t even seem to be trying  he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden  his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character  virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts  logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston  overall  the number    was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills  rating              we brought this film as a joke for a friend  and could of been our worst joke to play  the film is barely watchable  and the acting is dire  the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance  the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on  it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable  br    br   just terrible        this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life   it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous   and i have never seen such bad acting in my life  the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller   i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie   i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves  i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn  i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch  i was very disappointed   the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion         this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds  i wouldn  t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end  if you don  t want to know much about the plot  don  t keep reading  br    br   gilbert  s character  ophelia  is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident  gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she  otherwise a good actress  cannot realistically pull off any kind of accent  brad johnson  also an excellent actor  is matt  who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce  he is gentle  convincing and compelling in this role  br    br   the two meet on the beach through her daughter  pip  and initially  ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid  all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love  br    br   the chemistry between the two leads is not great  even though the talent of these two people is not  in my opinion  a question  they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical  two people meet  tragedy  bigger tragedy  a secret is revealed  another tragedy  and then they get together  i wish there was more to it than that  but there it is in a nutshell  br    br   i wanted mindless entertainment  and i got it with this  in regard to the genre of romantic films  this one fails to be memorable    a secret affair   with janine turner is far superior  not a steele book   as are some of steele  s earlier books turned into film         oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies    i don t even remember how many i ve seen  maybe it sells    but not to me  not scary at all  the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these    also the pulling of the kid  i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies  cellphone scene is also nothing new    the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked    i mean it lacked all dramaticness    ok this is for kids       who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique    we ll let me tell you  there s a million of you  d this is one of them       i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this         nicholas walker is paul  the local town reverand who  s married to martha  ally sheedy   but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair  veronica  dara tomanovich   however in so doing  he gets a bout of amnesia  hence the name of the film   sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of   misery   type of way  it  s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this  not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator  in a film billed as a   black comedy    one has to bring both elements into said movie  while this does bring the former in spades  it sadly contains none of the latter  furthermore you can  t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus  have absolutely no vested interest in them  technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one  br    br   eye candy  dara tomanovich gets topless  sally kirkland also shows some skin  br    br   my grade  c   br    br   where i saw it  showtime showcase         hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world  it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again  take superheroes for example  for each x man and spiderman  there are daredevil  elektra  ghost rider and hulk  japanese horror remakes are even worst  it only took the ring  which was pitch perfect  mostly because of mr  gore verbinsky   to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors  e g  the ring    the eye  dark water  which was fine  but pointless   and the grudges  br    br   the first grudge wasn  t entirely bad  it was scary most of the way  which is what one could expect from it  plus  the plot had some brains mixing narratives  grudge   is exactly like the previous  this could be a good thing  but hey  what boy men in black ii  was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain  for the grudge    the critic goes the same way  br    br   tired scares  bad acting  except for amber tamblyn   and clich  s all over the place  three stories take place  on different places and time  there is aubrey  tamblyn  investigating what drove her sister karen  sarah michelle gellar  to death  allison  arielle kebbel  who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place  and finally  an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door  glad to say  and i mean it  that everything is tied up at the end  but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture  when everything else is simply tiresome and dull  br    br   the chills are all over there  a girl alone in the lockers  someone who shouldn  t enter a house  others that dig too deep  meanwhile  ghosts keep killing and killing and killing  which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic  hey  doesn  t that seem just like another bad japanese remake  something called pulse  yeah  day after day it  s getting easier to hold a grudge    against hollywood bullshits            down periscope   has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs  since then  we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now  br    br   it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con  it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters  i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered  br    br   the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession  even among the very young  i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile  alabama in       a group of cub scouts  my grandson among them  had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board  br    br   it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood    which is rare company  br    br   thanks to kelsey grammar  lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie  such great entertainment          if you came here  it  s because you  ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it  br    br   i feel for you  i  really  do  and i profusely apologize as a canadian  because that  s what we do  that this film ever had to cross your eyes  if only for a moment  i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases  br    br   i  like everyone else  rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade  i thought    sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie    i  ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their   creation    thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen  i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie  br    br   and for the record  i  saw  the movie  but did not watch it  the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother  s trailer  i swear to god  br    br   you know what  i  m not writing anymore about this  it  s just too painful          deanna durbin  nan grey and barbara read are   three smart girls   in this universal film from       which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences  it also stars ray milland  mischa auer  charles winninger  john king  binnie barnes and alice brady  it  s a sweet story about three young women  now living in switzerland with their divorced mother  who hear their father  winninger  is marrying again  not having seen him in    years and knowing their mother still loves him  they board a ship to america  with the help of the housekeeper nanny  determined to stop the wedding  realizing that the intended  called   precious    barnes  is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother  brady   they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count  this is arranged by their father  s accountant  king   the man he chooses is a full time drunk  auer   but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count  milland   what a mess  br    br   this is a delightful film  not cloying or overly sugary at all  with some nice performances  particularly by auer  milland  barnes and brady  the young women are pretty and all do good work  the emphasis  of course  is on young durbin  who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer  in fact  her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult   she has no trouble with the high notes  as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice  she sings a delightful   il bacio   in a police station  br    br   one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father  played by charles winninger  not want his children around   until he sees them and gets to know them  barnes as the gold digger isn  t all that young  but the girls   mother looks way up there  so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger  more glamorous woman  in fact  he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters  br    br   universal gives durbin the big star buildup here   she has the final shot in the movie  ray milland at this point was still paying his dues  and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is  br    br   very entertaining and of course  this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna          if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to  with conversation  character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new  better and different  those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing  directing  and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england  other days  other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment  made in      with alfred molina  joan plowright  polly walker  josie lawrence  jim broadbent  miranda richardson  and michael kitchens in the major roles  under the brush stroke direction of mike newell  these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter  s eye  reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century  this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character  and the viewer  too  an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us          i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b  demille  s classic epic of       starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke  of course  i was let down  yes  they had all the biblical characters correct  but they didn  t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes  that held your interest throughout the first movie  if you going to have a mini series  you have to have some   rivoting   scenes  the   burning bush    parting the   red sea   drowning   pharohs armies      building sethi  s pyramids    could have been done with todays   technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as   lord of the rings   or the matrix  obviously  they didn  t want to leave a lasting impression of   faith and sacrifice    which is much needed in these trouble times          daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive  english aristocratic snob in a room with a view  passionate irish thief in in the name of the father  an impudent  violent butcher in gangs of new york  in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody  s in the pianist  and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot  just to name a few   his roles all influence eachother  but each is seperate  and utterly unique  he changes completely  with each character he takes on  and i  m beginning to believe that he can act as anything  anything  br    br   as cristy brown he is stunning  he does not ridicule the character  and he does not pity the character  a difficult achievement  and cristy brown comes to life  a smart man  an outrageous man  human  br    br   this movie  despite small scene transition faults and the like  is an inspiration  yes  it  s predictable  but is it stupidly sentimental  no  i laughed  i cried  not a single moment of cheese  proof that this isn  t a hollywood movie  br    br   my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant  when cristy is discussing painters with eileen  peter and her friends  here  s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax    i  ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that  s animated      wheel out the cripple    and his performance never slows down  never falters  and is beautiful  simply  he has a lot of screen time here  i watch it again again  and i never get tired of cristy  s perspicacious eyes  twitching and guttural speeches  br    br   a must see  fo sho  yo          my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts  and thus at least a quarter longer  because otherwise how can one explain its confused  abbreviated storyline  i was never completely lost  but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation  the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot  br    br   if it were longer  it might make more sense  but it still wouldn  t be much good  the movie  s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female  but the movie drops the ball on this  making hera  s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus   followers do or believe  the movie is also interesting because you don  t see the gods and there  s no real certainty that they exist  so it  s got a couple of intriguing ideas  but it doesn  t do anything useful with them  br    br   bad dialog  cardboard characters  and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons  not unwatchable but also not worth watching          well  i like to watch bad horror b movies  cause i think it  s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie   i always compare this movies to   for example   some spielberg  s works and again and again don  t understand the huge difference in what i see   i like ed wood  s movies cause it  s so inept it  s very funny  but people      the chilling   is not funny and is not even   interesting    it  s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable  there  s no acting  no screenplay  no direction  no thrills and not even blood  it  s extremely inept amateurish film  it  s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen  and i had seen a lot of   worst movies     believe me   i warned you                  this is the worst movie i have ever seen  as well as  the worst that i will probably ever see  i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously  just be forewarned    br    br   this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it  its just plain bad bad bad bad bad  br    br   this movie is the equivalent to having a   pet rock   as your friend  you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen  unfortunately  it never does  at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into  lion  s gate completely deceives on this bombshell    no   this is a disaster  after watching this film  you would swear george w  bush had his hands all over the making of this film    yes its that idiotic  br    br   stay away  unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time  its probably how lion  s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe          i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember  i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid  this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new  super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise  there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it  while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario  the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space  br    br   the story begins much like any other mario game  mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom  upon arriving at peach  s castle mario finds bowser and his son  bowser jr   attacking the castle with their airships  bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space  in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet  mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma  s home  a floating space station  here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader  a woman named rosalina  rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station  s power stars and scattered them across the universe  it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach  thus the adventure begins  br    br   the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies  each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars  mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity  some planets are small and others are big  many planets are similar to classic mario environments  the best thing about the game are the controls  all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same  but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game  you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game  and it will as well activate the shooting stars  you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment  then there is the graphics  these are by far the best graphics on the wii  it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks  you could probably almost say it looks as good as some     games  br    br   my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to  and also the story is pretty weak  the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game  no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at   lives  still these minor problems aside it  s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging  this is the type of game that we  ve been waiting for on the wii  br    br   a perfect    out of              this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature   spatula madness   is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers  the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job  joins in the fight against the evil spoons  this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning  but is barely present for the remainder of the feature  this film  s    minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number  unfortunately not much else lies below it  the plot that is set up doesn  t really have time to show  but it  s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films  this film is worth watching at least a few times  take it for what it is  and don  t expect a deep story           okay  last night  august   th        i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr  van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival  here  s what i have to say about it  first of all  the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger  roman polanski  oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i  ve ever seen  second of all  in a short q   a session after the show mr  van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself  calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them  that the film was based on his  van bebble  s  take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news  and i  m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative   so i had second dibs on questions  i asked if he was trying to present the outsider  mtv  sex drugs and rock   n roll version and not necessarily the true story  this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting   f    you  shut the f    up  this is the truth  all those other movies are bullsh      br    br   well anyway  i didn  t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film    you  ve heard the laws side of the story   now hear the story as it is told by the manson family    excuse me  if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn  t want to have anything to do with  how in god  s name can he tell the story for them   this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard  the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock   n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small  dimly lit theatre  and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock   n roll mind of a man who couldn  t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen  this film accomplishes little more than warping the public  s image of actual events  which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today  into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual  br    br   the film was definitely very impressive to look at  the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie  s work with the family off of his lie album  the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos  all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers  i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving  probably the best part of the experience   the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying  the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy  throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow  lethargic  and chubby representation that was actually presented  br    br   all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie  or maybe it was linda  declares at the end    you can write a bunch of bullsh   books or make a bunch of bullsh   movies   etc  etc    case in point  even the disclaimer   based on a true story   is a dead giveaway  signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world  all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap  or actually  maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead  br    br   all i can say is this  when the film ended i got a free beer so i  m glad i went  but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f    up for asking the director a question  peace           i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart  i am glad i did  it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game  i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake  the bonus levels were very hard  the sniper one i think was too hard  it made me so frustrated i didn  t play the game for a week and a half  there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it   br    br   the only thing i might change was the upgrade system  i didn  t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded  such as buying an armor upgrade didn  t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter  i really liked the q copter  i think the developers did a good job           no  this hilariously horrible     s made for tv horror clinker isn  t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake  still  this exceptionally awful  yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute  unremitting silliness and atrociousness that  s quite tasty in a so execrable it  s downright awesome sort of way  richard crenna  looking haggard and possibly inebriated  and yvette mimieux  who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in   jackson county jail    sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint  dull  sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit  pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann  the psychic alien moppets from the disney   witch mountain   pictures  are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty  ugly canine entity in the den  boy  now doesn  t that sound really scary and disturbing  well  scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain  t  but it sure is funny  thanks to curtis    night tide    harrington  s hopelessly weak direction  cartoonish  not so  special effects  an almost painfully risible  n  ridiculous plot  and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story  besides the leads  both martine beswicke and r g  armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman   favorite scene  the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna  practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade  while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock  devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo           it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen  and who will die  it is about   women and a man who on a vacation  this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies  when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death  br    br   this movie  like the others of that era  contrives to bring this about  and the viewer knows this  there is no mystery or suspense  the people squabble  but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time  it is laughable  br    br   the five people happen upon two savage young characters  and go nuts  everyone is nuts  so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda  br    br   for some reason  the guy is attracted to the blonde  who is really not much to look at  and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over  one must remember that in the seventies  movies were meant to appeal to women and not men  br    br   totally crap and totally depressing           marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy   show people   released by mgm in       davies plays a hick from savannah  georgia  who arrives in hollywood with her father  dell henderson   the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot   as is davies outrageous southern costume  davies lands a job in slapstick comedy  not what she wants  but it brings her success  she meets fellow slapstick star william haines  who is immediately smitten with her  well  davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio    high art studios    and lands a job in stuffy period pieces  a handsome but fake actor  andre telefair  shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star  davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life  but of course learns that is not who she really is  marion davies is wonderful throughout  as she   outrageously   runs the gamut of emotions required of a   serious   actress  william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self  and there are cameos by charles chaplin  john gilbert  and other famous stars of the day  including the director of the film  king vidor  this is a silent film with a few   sound effects   as sound pictures were just coming into their own  a treasure of a film           the performance of every actor and actress  in the film  are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be  and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again  however  i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors   and director  attenborough  s credits that puzzles me  aren  t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent  long lasting film for the audience  i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one  possibly one of the   knowledgeable   personnel  insider  of the film           while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring  star trek the final frontier is plain bad  in this terrible sequel  the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth  romulus and kronos  the klingon home world  have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier  there  he hopes to find god  using mysticism and bad writing  he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship  they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien  this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin  at the core is a good idea that is never really developed  the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before  it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco  the action scenes don  t have the suspense of wrath of kahn  the philosophy is boring  and the humor is stale  now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner  when he takes the director  s chair  the ego gets bigger  most of the focus is on him  spock  and mccoy  but does not give the others enough to do  moreover  whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots  he is just plain bad in this one  now kirk is reckless  a practical jokers  and silly  one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song    row row row your boat   in a round by a campfire  in any case  this is the worst of the star trek franchise  i should have given it three out of ten instead of five           despite later claims  this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with   citizen kane    it  s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat  told in flashback but hopping around time  the scriptwriter  preston sturges  shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog  and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of   kane   are evident  still  it  s very watchable  with a young spencer tracy  his old man makeup makes him look just like  well  an old spencer tracy  showing depth and authority  and colleen moore    a little past her prime  and not physically well matched    playing a multifaceted woman behind the man  there  s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history  sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations  the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets  and there are some plot holes left open  how would she know whose son it was if she  s sleeping with both of them    and the music is awfully hokey  for all that  i was quite fascinated           this is the best version  so far  that you will see and the most true to the bronte work  dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared   not handsome    but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark  pretty as she is  is also a complete and believable jane eyre  this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it  nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true   romance   in literature  this is the way to see it  i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original  the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this           apparently  the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called   movie    they described   blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence    i saw no   intrigue    i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie  i saw no   violence    at least  i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with   impervious   skin  but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the   plot    furthermore  as a viewer of many and sundry films  some of which include the occasional kung fu movie   i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable  whatever you may choose to do  i will always remain br    br    correct  br    br    jonathan tanner  br    br     br    br   p s  i was not blinded by the choreography           i liked boyle  s performance  but that  s about the only positive thing i can say  everything was overdone to the point of absurdity  most of the actors spoke like you would expect your   year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded  stone hearted cop  or an ultra evil villain  the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me  i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music  and what  s with the whole     ish police torture stuff  it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story  cox added a lot of things  in fact  that he apparently thought would be really cool  but had nothing to do with the story  that  s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges   stories so good is his minimalism    they are tightly bound  with no superfluous details  this movie is just the opposite  i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung  or thereabouts  i wasted    renting this  but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake          it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you  what a pity   this film is very boring and so long  it s simply painfull  the story is staggering without goal and no fun  br    br   you feel better when it s finished          so well made  no cgi crap  has anyone else been on the   jumping crocs   tour of darwin  s adelaide river before  black water was way realistic  rogue was a bit cringeworthy  br    br   thought the blonde chick was excellent in it   haven  t really seen her before  and the other chick is a babe  she is always excellent   br    br   v  suspenseful   i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick   br    br   got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys  as well   br    br   loved it           the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character  rather than star turns  the need to stage special effects  obligatory romance  and endless car chases  however  there is a car chase in here  and a dandy it is  aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer   recruited   to eliminate him  it is rare that a second or third tier actor  such as quinn  is given an important starring role like this that carries a film  usually  such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw  which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it  donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous  somewhat creepy at times  agent that recruits quinn  ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent  the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines  which converge in gradual fashion toward the end  and not all at once as we  re used to seeing  the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity  the locations are convincing and effective  the soundtrack is nothing special  but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days  without dumb and or meaningless plot developments  unconvincing star turns  loud  annoying  music video type soundtracks  a villain that hams it up  and repeatedly a cast  costumes  and plot that cater mostly to an audience under     this is an outstanding thriller  which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release         of   stars           this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen    the stark scenery   the isolation   the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion   a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication   the acting is completely natural   but for me as a  foodie   the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast  i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well   whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don  t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette  s menu and choice of wines are authentic   and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be  this is a    out of    film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it          set in the       the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi  this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton  gerard depardieu  at his finest  and robespierre  a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak   the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre  he is opposed to   the reign of terror   which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens  mainly by guillotine  who are thought to be opposed to the revolution  danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting  but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown  and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors  this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland  his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union  which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties  his previous film   man of iron          had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa  and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski  and that between danton and robespierre  danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent  the film is based on the polish play   the danton affair   written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the     s  and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical  but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris           usually i  m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties   early nineties film featuring now has beens   but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through  guys dressing up as girls has been done to death   but never so pathetically  corey haim  s performance was abysmal as usual  nicole eggert was not much better  this has no redeeming qualities  even if you are a number    fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash   stay away           i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod  var  but this would have to be the most disappointing so far  this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films  and the story just never got me interested  many almod  var regulars appear in this film  so it  s not like there was a lack of on screen talent  but this film just seemed more serious than his other films  if there was a comedic edge to this movie  i certainly couldn  t find it  and it made for one surprisingly weak movie           i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood  s novel   the robber bride    and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version  a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder  and his buddy  an ex cop journalist  tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman  s crazy female friends  it  s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms  atwood  s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men  victims of scheming women    br    br   heh  okay  you got me  if these guys are mentioned in the book  and i  m pretty sure they  re entirely made up for the movie  i  ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy  apparently  the three main female characters of the novel aren  t enough to carry the movie  zenia  s manipulations aren  t interesting unless we see them happen to a man  and a man  s life is screwed up  roz  charis  and toni tell their stories    to a man  because it  s not important if a man doesn  t hear them  br    br   i liked the characters in the book  it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man  s story  i normally do not look for feminist angles on media  and i tried to enjoy the movie as is  if i hadn  t read the book  i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more  so if you like the cop and the ex cop  and you want to read more about them  you  re out of luck  read the novel  if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot  it  s the same plot  the movie excavated it  ironed it  and sprinkled it with male angst  it  s like zenia  s revenge on margaret atwood          this movie gets a    because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true          ingrid bergman  playing dentist walter matthau  s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss  is absolutely wonderful in this film  she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth  ingrid  s monologue is a front  but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart   matthau is an odd choice for the leading man  he  s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman  not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist   but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie  hawn  who won a supporting oscar  is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today  this bedroom farce isn  t terribly sophisticated  and faintly reminds one of   any wednesday   besides   but it  s a welcome relief from the noisy  teen oriented comedies they turn out today    cactus flower   is a lovely sigh      from                 a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend  learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body  the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing  unfortunately  the man discovers while he is sleeping  his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage    according to the dvd sleeve  s synopsis  br    br   the synopsis isn  t entirely correct  as it turns out  br    br   anyway  the movie opens with a dizzying   out of body   example of handsome director winston rekert  as paul sharpe   s newly discovered   astral body   experience  it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight  young andrew bednarski  as matthew sharpe   being a kid  draws pictures of   the blue man    as his murder spree begins  handsome detective john novak  as stewart kaufman  discovers the victims are connected to mr  rekert  mr  novak  s investigation leads to the supernatural  a prime example of which is karen black  as janus   with whom rekert fears he is falling in love  br    br   several in the cast perform well  but    the blue man   winds up tying itself up in a knot  aka   eternal evil    its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good           ah yes the     s   a time of reaganomics and sly   chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies   at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo   missing in action and uncommon valor   and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn     made money at the box office   they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly   troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place   of course not   troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication   though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones   and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up   maybe it is            this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces    the fall of the house of usher      dance of death    poem    is actually quite creepy from beginning to end  it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house  for example    the cat and the canary      the old dark house      night of terror   and so on   boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests  he dies early in the film  or does he     and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences  i won  t go into too much detail here  but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries  br    br   watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room  br    br   dan basinger               i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie  jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment  and without exception  everything this company deals with is pure crap  first  and this is very important  never ever watch this movie sober  why would you  unlike many other entertaingly bad movies  this one i feel was made intentionally bad  i just can  t get over how fake the snowman is  which is why its always shown only briefly  the way it moves is the best  this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap  becuz that was made too be a good movie  and that version is as bad as this             revolt of the zombies   proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn  t necessarily make lightning strike twice  br    br   the halperin brothers  responsible for the horror classic   white zombie    made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi  s eyes from that previous film  there was a court battle with the   white zombie   film  s rights owners  who didn  t want the halperins to be able to use the word   zombie   in this title  that word was the only thing that could help this film  because  as everyone knows  bad films can make much more money simply by having the word   zombie   appear in the title  knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting  it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle  the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead  but simply hypnotism victims  br    br   wanna create a mind controlled army of zombies  be ready to crack a few eggs  including your own  br    br   the lame plot  man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend  whom she loves  jealous  this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn  t worth spit  br    br   this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i  ve ever seen  you  d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming  the acting isn  t even good  this movie makes the racially insensitive   king of the zombies    which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought  seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic  it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest   invisible invaders   seem like a serious drama  this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch  south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama   the credits list the ironically named company favorite films  i  m not sure whose favorite film this would be  but they  re obviously an idiot  br    br   not recommended for fans of  zombies  romance  or classic films           the complaints are valid  to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women  i am okay with these night time soaps  like grey  s anatomy  or ugly betty  or west wing  because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end  however  when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men  taye diggs  tim daly  and chris lowell  into sexual tension and romps  and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital  it seems like general hospital   or a female counterpart to baywatch  that was what men wanted and they had it  so if this is what women want so be it  but the idea that this is a high brow show  or something men will watch  is unrealistic           this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year  i didn  t see any cameos in the movie  but it is still pretty good  it is similar to anchorman in the humor department  but i think this is a better put together movie  it actually has a point  if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed  just a well put together movie     if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor  you will find this to be a really good movie  i definitely think that ebert and roeper  s review of this movie is right on  i mean  i don  t really like ebert on most movies  but this is the movie that i will agree about  the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there  there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie  yea  sure  you get laughed at when it is found out about  but it still suggests that you wait  steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet  it is still funny           i remember seeing this film in the mid     s thought it a well paced and well acted piece  i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed  although my office is newish it just    seconds away from   the bank    even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces  br    br   it  s look like the dvd is due a region   release soon  the region   copy i is very poor quality  let  s hope they  ve cleaned it up  br    br   only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with           two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography  it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes       close ups predominated it  close ups of walls  humans and of many other things  the warm colored lighting  which is also usually by the director  gave the movie a warm atmosphere  only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it  an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time  each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie  silence and slow movements characterize the movie  some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups  not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant  i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes  the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the     s  this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end  in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema           luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it  meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another  then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition  above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut  br    br   the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs  chuckles  and more than a few guffaws along the way  the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director  three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he  s sleeping  morty  or   micky   as everyone calls him  wakes up along the side of a road  strung up in some trees several feet above the ground  and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake  there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another  but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness  br    br   the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace  of course it  s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up  and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad  the sentimentality of rudy  s situation seems tacked on to a great degree  notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him    you must be the short depressed kid we ordered    makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling  in other words  murray might as well have said to makepeace    you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn  t fit in    but before it  s all over  murray  s performance makes this plot device more than bearable  he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace  br    br   the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps  very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable  but   it just doesn  t matter    this is a pretty good film on many levels  don  t let the absurd     rating this film is currently getting scare you off  murray will keep you laughing throughout  just be warned      avoid the sequels     especially the one with corey feldman     of    stars  br    br   the hound             the danish bladerunner   is boldly stated on the box  are you kidding me   this film is a complete drag  when i  m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen  i usually pause the vcr  so i won  t miss anything  not this time  i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge  just so i wouldn  t have to go back  why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work  it  s mindboggling  one of the premises of film  is that our hero  who  s a hacker   has a little computerassistant to help him  the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future   when he loses the assistant in the movie  he  s helpless and can  t get into any computers  he  s a hacker  it  s like saying  that you can  t drive your car  if you don  t have your lucky   driving cap   on  i won  t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock             this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off  i know these horrible things happen in the world  but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen  these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies  they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species  br    br   this should be banned and destroyed  i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market   br    br   this movie should be removed from the public  the person who made this movie needs psychological help           anyone who thinks kool moe dee  carol alt  and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i  d love to try sometime  where to begin  lousy soundtrack  hammy acting    action   in places  this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was  s love to star in  i actually felt embarrassed for the   stars   in this   film    the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman  who if he would have been in the movie  would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad  rather than just plain bad  br    br   there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed    do you think i  m an idiot      yes  carol  i do  your agent does  and please for the love of all that is decent and holy    go away and stop degrading yourself like this  this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in  br    br   i would tell you what the plot was  but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article  plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway  so i barely paid attention           this film could have been a decent re make  and gosh knows it tried  or ms  english tried   assembling talented actors together with a successful   experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film  but ms  english  s experience   according to her imdb bio   is exclusively limited to television work  and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film  br    br   i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film  and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential  it looked and felt like it was made for television  to give some credit to ms  english  many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv  and maybe a laugh track would have helped   so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen  if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com  i think it could have worked  but this is cinema and sadly ms  english  s talents didn  t translate  i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors   the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled  meg ryan is her usual perky  cute self  except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face   but where did she have a chance to use her talent   she has made films where she doesn  t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well    but not here  annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions   such a great talent and yet such a poor performance  i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance  and it was sad to see  what worked in this film in the     s doesn  t translate to the     s  and no one helped ms  english get the changes   updates or subtleties right  if only she  as writer  director and producer  had reached out for some assistance  i think it could have been good  but it was not  br    br   it  s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone  s time   money  this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate  a few movie execs are having a meeting   the caption reads    let  s remake a classic with worse everything             i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill  jackie kennedy  s sister and the cousin of these women  would encourage the maysles   to make   big edie   and   little edie   the subject of a film  they certainly could be considered the   skeletons   in the family closet  the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women  i  d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating   i e    are they nuts  or am i missing something      this movie is hard to come by  netflix does not have it  facets does  though           c  mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode  it  s just an old     s tv show   this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe  yeoman barrow  s  ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location  unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages  br    br   this use of an outdoor location  and babe  gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show  br    br   except a few notable exceptions i e   the city on the edge of forever       assignment earth   and   tomorrow is yesterday   the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it  s boring misery  half a dozen good episodes from    is quite a poor batting average  br    br   this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually  contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on  he actually made a lot of rubbish  he doesn  t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example  br    br   just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view  they used wobbly plywood for the floor  cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels  you can clearly see the folds in the paper   every expense spared or what            i just watched this movie on it  s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia  i liked  not loved    mork   mindy   as a kid  mostly for robin william  s zany energetic performance  this movie made me remember why  was the original show great  not really  but robin certainly was  which brings me to this movie  br    br   i was pleasantly surprised  expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show  which in a way it was   but  of course  the real focus was on robin  it was interesting to see robin  s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star  and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife  and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr  williams with integrity  sensitivity  and heart  not just a cute impression  although it was even dead on   on an unrelated note  i noticed that robin  s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman  who was under appreciated by network t v  and held back creatively  but that  s the   taxi   behind the scenes biopic   br    br   all in all  this was a very enjoyable flick  in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan  the acting was solid by all  never melodramatic like i suspected  and the story moved along well  performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi  the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot    not a great masterpiece by any means  i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber   but definitely watchable  especially for those robin williams and   mork   mindy   fans out there  nanoo  nanoo           i caught this film on azn on cable  it sounded like it would be a good film  a japanese   green card    i can  t say i  ve ever disliked an asian film  quite the contrary  some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean  and i am a huge fan of john woo  s hong kong films  i an not adverse to a light hearted films  like tampopo or chung king express  two of my favourites   so i thought i would like this  well  i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious  badly acted film ever again  br    br   i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude  because no one in this film had a personality  and when any of the characters did try to act  as opposed to mumbling a line or two  their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake  i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before   the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki   i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy  because i didn  t laugh once  even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this   a refreshing breath of comedy    it was neither refreshing  nor a breath of comedy  and the ending was very predictable  the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things  br    br   avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting  i actually think that   spike of bensonhurst   is a better acted film than this   and i walked out half way through that film           before i begin  let me get something off my chest  i  m a huge fan of john eyres   first film project  shadowchaser  the film  a b grade cross of both the terminator   die hard  may not be the work of a cinematic genius  but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit    spawned two sequels   a spin off   br    br   judge and jury begins with joseph meeker  a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called   bloody shootout    which seems like a poor name for a killing spree    meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store   being led to the electric chair  there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love  who was killed during the shootout   expressing his revenge for the person who killed her    michael silvano  a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team  and ends up harassing his son  s coach   but once executed  meeker returns as a revenant  or as kelly perine calls   a hamburger without the fries     whose sole aim is to get his revenge  which basically means making silvano  s life a misery  br    br   let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film  it is a supernatural action film  with meeker chasing silvano  using his ability to change form  which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator  a french chef  with an accent as bad as his moustache   a drag queen  a clown   a stand up comedian   a shotgun which fires explosive rounds   an invulnerability to death  although that doesn  t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle   to pay silvano back for killing meeker  s wife  br    br   director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations  instead focusing solely on action scenes  which the film has plenty of  but that is the film  s main flaw  since there  s nothing to connect the action scenes together  the acting is surprisingly good  with keith delivering the best performance  supported ably by kove  as well as paul koslo  who plays the washed up cop quite well  kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse           ye lou  s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization  purple butterfly  against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai  ding hui  zhang ziyi  and her ex lover hidehiko itami  toru nakamura  find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting  br    br   i agree with the reviewer from paris  the film substitutes a convoluted  semi historical conflict for a plot  without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes  the sudden time shifting doesn  t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless  normally i don  t mind dark movies  but the absence of light  the bone jarringly shaky camera footage  and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in  i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film   has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography    but i don  t think that helps the movie  the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the   th century  and i don  t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film  the overly melodramatic moments don  t add to its watchability  br    br   the actors are all suitably melancholy  zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films  brooding and looking generally annoyed  however  at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator  br    br   all in all  a very disappointing film  especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he                after hearing about george orwell  s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life  i  m now     but never having read the book  i am totally confused as to what i  ve just seen  br    br   i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel  as i  m sure most are  but only through hearsay and quotes  without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery  and even with it i  m still no more educated about the story of      than i was before i watched it  br    br   on the plus side    br    br   the cinematography is amazing  hurt   burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate  the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making  br    br   now for the down sides  and there are plenty    br    br   there is a war going on   at least as far as the propaganda is concerned   but why   with who  nothing is explained  there are a couple of names bandied about  eurasia etc   but they mean nothing without explanation  br    br   who is winston  what does he do  where does he come from  where does he work  why is he changing news reports  why isn  t he on the front line  why doesn  t he eat the food in the canteen  what is that drink he  s drinking through the entire film  why is he so weak   ill  why isn  t he brainwashed like the rest of them  what  s the deal with his mother   sister  what happened to his father  a little back story would have been nice  no scrub that  essential for those like myself that haven  t read the book  without it  this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on  br    br   the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on  i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it  s very annoying all the same  br    br   also  i know this has been mentioned before  but why all the nudity  it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage  br    br   i personally can  t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days  we are not all brainwashed simpletons  but this is a few steps too far the other way  i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you  ve read the book because if this film really is the   literal translation   that i  ve seen many people say  i would find it very hard to understand why      is hailed as the classic it is  br    br   there  s no denying that it was light years ahead of it  s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date   maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be    but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline  br    br   i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i  m to make any sense out of this  br    br   all in all  very disappointed in something i  ve waited for years to watch           this cute animated short features two comic icons   betty boop and henry  br    br   henry is the bald  slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks  br    br   well here he does speak  br    br   he wants to get a puppy from betty boop  s pet store  and when he is left to mind the store   some hilarious hijinks ensue  br    br   betty sings a song about pets  henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey  but everything works out in the end           i just got back from this free screening  and this   osama witch project   is the hands down worst film i  ve seen this year  worse than even   catwoman     which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction  br    br   in   september tapes    a   film crew   of   documentary journalists   heads to afghanistan   despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip  the conditions and  oh yeah  the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife  s death on sept       to track down osama bin laden  br    br   they   made   eight tapes on their journey  which now   document   their travels and  of course  their attempts to kill the terrorist leader   the eight tapes  thankfully  all end at points significant in the narrative  which is convenient for a   documentary     br    br   the psychotic  idiotic protagonist   who is given to long  significant speeches that he probably learned watching   macgyver     cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps  i don  t know why he didn  t just wear a sign on his back that said   shoot me    br    br   the crew  s translator  supposedly their sensible voice of reason  does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom   br    br   you wish they  d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons  br    br   around   tape      i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew           i remember seeing this film in the theater in      when i was   years old  you do the math   i absolutely loved it  i was tarzan for the   weeks after seeing it  climbing the furniture  jumping around making monkey sounds   it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys  but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert  keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this        was the last time i saw that film  until about a month ago  it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at      am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at      am  i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid   br    br   upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that  that andie macdowell  s voice was dubbed by someone else  ian holme was of course solid as usual  and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up  but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan  he was great  the depth he managed to capture in so few lines  his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark  were just amazing  br    br   as i stated earlier i am lambert fan  but i  m used to highlander  the hunted and fortress  in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again  br    br   so to make a short story way too long  i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good  but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until     am to see it           a family is traveling through the mid west  there  s widower ben  charles bateman   his girlfriend nicky  ahna capri  and ben  s little daughter k t   geri reischl   then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely  their car breaks down and they  re forced to stay  they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil  br    br   the story is not that good  people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end  also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end  the acting is pretty poor too  bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same  only old pros strother martin and l q  jones give good performances  still this movie does work  it forgoes blood and gore  there  s some but this is pg  and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere  the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works  martin especially chews the scenery in his role  i can  t explain exactly why i  sort of  like this movie but it did work on me  it  s a quiet kind of horror that isn  t made anymore  hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered  a             francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman  s flight from her husband  and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her  we learn little about this woman  s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late  she  s also recently learned she  s pregnant  which has further complicated her heart  she doesn  t want to be a complacent wifey  despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone   she meets two men on her journey  a former college football hero who  after an accident during a game  has been left with permanent brain damage  and a sexy  strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life  the clear  clean landscapes  as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler  are astutely realized  as are the characters  shirley knight  james caan  and robert duvall each deliver strong  gripping performances  most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms  some scenes  such as knight  s first call home from a pay phone  or her first night alone with caan where they play   simon says    are almost too intimate to watch  coppola toys with reality  turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we  ve been made privy to  he allows scenes to play out  yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy  there are at least two or three very frisky moments   it  s a heady endeavor  so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later  some may shun coppola  s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony  however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings      from              this movie was not very well directed  they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying   save time  the only upside   me was that the actor who played finny was cute  some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book  major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely  also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary  also i was surprised   not pleasantly  by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters  leper  was poorly interpreted and portrayed  he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book  over all disappointing          the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear  sadly  they stopped there  they should have continued to make the script disappear  then the silly set  and finally every visible element of this film  because  there  s nothing else there to show  br    br   gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film  i don  t really think they exist  i think they bought this script at   scripts r us    where you buy a standard blank   monster movie   script and just fill in the blanks  there  s a monster stalking us  let  s split up   they actually   let  s split up   in this movie   hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar  not dead yet  burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire  not dead yet  you know  the standard stuff  even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie  ir glasses  spraying with something like paint  were handled badly   br    br   what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie  they psychological issues for the subject  the deterioration of the mind due to the process  treating an invisible subject  and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than   seconds and would have been far more interesting  had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end  it would have been a much better movie  all in all  it stunk  br    br   i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie  but i don  t want to do any spoilers  suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don  t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than             a young girl becomes a war time marine  s pen pal  and when he visits at war  s end expecting someone a bit more   available    comic complications ensue  all ultimately works out well  naturally  but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery  errol flynn  s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from   casablanca   is a highlight  as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image  the   jumping   scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot   it is tucker  though  who   tucks   the movie under his arm  lowers his head and barrels over the goal line  he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in   f troop   and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance  eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued  and little patti brady charms as tucker  s actual pen pal friend  a fine  lightweight   coming home   comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining           this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful  ashmit plays the role of richard gere  emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses   br    br   even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful  though it couldn  t catch up with the original  it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers  where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show  emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer  in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors  though the film bombed at the box office  the actors got the undue recognition  in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film   br    br   all said  this is not a family film  so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family           robert altman  s downbeat  new fangled western from edmund naughton  s book   mccabe   was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following  aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario  the characters here don  t merit much interest  and the picture looks  intentionally  brackish and unappealing  bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel  once the profits start coming in  beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action  altman creates a solemn  wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place  but the action in this sorry little town is limited  most of the story being made up of vignettes  and altman  s pacing is deliberately slow  there  s hardly a statement being made  just the opposite  in fact  and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds  it  s a self defeating picture  and yet  in an altman quirky way  it wears defeat proudly     from               what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me  on second viewing  a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation  br    br   spoiler of sorts follows  br    br   poor cedric  he apparently didn  t know what hit him  poor audience  we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch  these two guys just didn  t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter  as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other  the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu  an intellectual being  to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach  br    br   on a purely technical note  i loved the camera action in this film  subtitles were totally unnecessary  even though my french is   presque rien    i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more  this was a polished  very professionally made motion picture  though many scenes seem superfluous  i rate it nine out of ten           i don  t think i  ve ever gave something a      rating  but this one easily gets the denomination  i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes  it  s not just that the jokes are so bad  but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma  can  t set up or finish a punchline  and you  ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach  br    br   i have watched the show  never in its entirety  but many times still  it just creeps up on me after conan  i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever  br    br   actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest  it  s just that  an interview  i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that  s screaming    get me the hell away from this freak    i do recommend watching the show  not for a laugh  but to ponder  how he got on the air and what he  s still doing there  watch as much as you can  i think you will find its complete awkwardness   interesting           in the standard view  this is a purely awful movie  however  it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale  i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie  andy griffith  s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime  i wouldn  t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it  but if you happen to be laying on the couch at   in the morning and it comes on tv  check it out           from the film  s first shot   keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn  thus invoking all the clich  s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama   i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself  br    br   joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book  but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen  s subtle  nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling  delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms  but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights  thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason  in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain  not to mention that jane austen  and in particular p   p  is not about passion  sexual tension or love  it  s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society  which was completely ignored  so that the bennets   house was a rambunctious  chaotic place where everybody shouts at once  runs around  leaves their underwear on chairs  and pigs wander happily through the house  the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy  and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety  br    br   the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety  and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap  so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots   particularly in this film   to function was completely erased  subtlety in general was nowhere int his film  sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances  br    br   it was so obviously trying to be a  serious  film  the humour   which is pride   prejudice  both austen  s methodology and her appeal   was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama  and when it was allowed in  was handled so clumsily  pride   prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points  yes  but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour  they are embedded in it  you can  t lose jane austen  s technique  leaving only the bare bones of the story  and expect the themes to remain  not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography  br    br   elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman  an adult  mature and sensible and clear sighted  keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl  and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine  elizabeth  s wit  her combative verbal exchanges  her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody  s follies including her own  her strength and composure  and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with     what  a lot of giggling and staring into the distance  rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs  she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation   and not genuinely raging  either  no  these were petulant hissy fits  and where the great strength of austen  s elizabeth  at least in austen  s eyes  was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety  knightley  s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention  furthermore  she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded  and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it  an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance  in which quest for blandness and weakness  she was ably matched by matthew macfayden  br    br   donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak  ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic  his special bond with lizzie  as the only two sensible people in a world of fools  was completely lost  not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools  and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact  mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly  but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs  and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all  the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen   delivered with remarkable clumsiness   and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy  br    br   just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache           i  ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is  life sometimes has boring patches  no real plot  and not necessarily a happy ending    a river runs through it   is the perfect name for this film  and norman maclean  s novel   life ebbs and flows like a river  and it has it  s rough spots  but it is a wonderful trip  br    br   robert redford brings a lot to the film  his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly  as a director  he is restrained and calm  and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes  as for the acting  craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers  i don  t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn  s performances  except that they truly feel real    a river runs through it   is a wonderful film  br    br       out of             the story is very trustworthy and powerful  the technical side of the movie is quite fine   even the directing of it  the main problem is with the castings  that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich   with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression  beside the small role of the father  rafael  played impressively by asi dayan   all other actors were unfortunately not in their best  the role of the elder blind girl  played by taly sharon  was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role  therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile  there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie  but after all it  s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future           this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors   great script and rather good photograph was not a so called   blockbuster   movie in my country  the movie itself is very powerful it  s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a  yo prison time drugs  the end is rather sad     mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well    lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency      out of    because very few greek movies can make such an impression           mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i  ve ever seen  but what a film  i thought it was fabulous  excellent and impressive  it was funny  well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change  and being able to pull it off  this was great  i  ll definitely watch it again           you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he  s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink  that  s a great metaphor for this movie  i kept watching  even though it was really difficult  but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling  this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth  i should have spit it out when i had the chance  br    br   the premise is corny enough to be fun  for the first time in like a thousand years  gargoyles have returned to romania  and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead  it  s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok  unfortunately  the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads  the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles  br    br   in the end  this movie feels like a poor man  s van helsing  if you check your brain at the door  this might get you through a dreary monday night  i gave it   out of    stars           i can  t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life  i laughed a couple of times    probably because of how stupid it was   if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn  t  the plot was so horrible   it made no sense   and the acting was so bad that i couldn  t even tell if they were trying  that movie was terrible rating  f          this is one of a rarity of movies  where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka  to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man  mo ogrodnik  and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film  br    br   the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something  s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts  mo and wolfgang  s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses  plastic peens holding passion  there  s also beetle banging  as violet would have put it    this  plastic peen  goes up your butt    the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome   br    br   alright  so if you are still reading  let us explain who we are  mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students  who  finishing a film class with her  decided to get poop  faced and watch here directorial debut  she also wrote uptown girls  i can  t tell you how much that  s been hammered into our skulls  so this movie is quite the experience  at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie   br    br   about    minutes into this game  none of us could see straight  the sheer amount of dido  s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context  save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper  because that  s what we all do  the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita  and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director  s history of homosexual pornographic experiments  we wish we were kidding  br    br   enough intellectual contemplation  on to the drinking game  this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one  it  s very simple  and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care  br    br   the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game     every time you see anything related to pornography  take a drink     every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik  s name appear  take a drink     sex      plastic peen  require two drinks     any time somebody points a gun at another character  take a drink   at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body      any time there is blood  including   lady blood     please take a sip     the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second     gratuitous use of the   magic black man   requires one drink     if you can  t figure out the through line  keep drinking  beyotch      whenever you are able to predict a line  take a drink  trust us  it  s easy   br    br   that  s it  internet  keep drinking  and try not to get riped  br    br    hawaiian smirnoff punch  jr           even though i  m quite young  the beatles are my absolutely favourite band  i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember  br    br   it  s the sort of film that is worth trying the once  i can see why it wasn  t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv  i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film  it didn  t much details except something like    john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up  jared harris stars    i  d never heard of him  he played john  or aiden quinn who played paul  however they are certainly underestimated actors  br    br   the film had a slow start but as it developed  i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters  as a huge fan  i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like  the script was brilliant and harris got lennon  s accent  personality and mannerisms spot on  quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent  the make up artists made them look excellent  br    br   this paragraph may be counted as a  spoiler   br    br   as i mentioned before  it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film  i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians  as for lennon  s rude line in the italian restaurant  totally unnecessary  the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it  br    br   it is quite different from the other biographical films i  ve seen where it  s about how the beatles got together and became famous  and those never really did the characters that well  e g    backbeat    br    br   in conclusion  i would say  if you  re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan  give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise  at only about    minutes long  it  s worth waiting for the film to develop  br    br   if anyone does know whether the meeting of      really did happen please send it to the   comments page   for this film  i  d be very interested           an american werewolf in london had some funny parts  but this one isn  t so good  the computer werewolves are just awful  the perspective is all off  it  s like seeing them through a distorting mirror  the writers step on the throat of many of their gags  american boy says to parisian girl    is there a cafe   around here    instead of just leaving it at that  they have to have the girl sigh and respond    this is paris             originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d  and was rather disappointed  after watching the movie  my view was changed  the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie   br    br   much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately  ex  saw iii  dull and dragging   casino royale  way to homo erotic  which in prior installments i have really enjoyed  br    br   if you enjoyed borat  you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth          this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner  along with other such nasty films as   the burning bed      enough    or   monster    this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she  s not such a bad person after all  give us a break  here  s my question to the filmmakers  if letourneau were a man  and vili were a    year old girl  would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person  answer  hell no  br    br   imagine switching the genders in this film  and then you  ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage  were the genders switched  there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal  instead  we  d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl  his lascivious behavior landing him in prison  and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome  the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex  br    br   let  s call a spade a spade  letourneau is a pedophile  plain and simple  no ifs  ands or buts  she  s a criminal who belongs in prison  and deserves our derision and contempt  but certainly not our pity or empathy           the premise of this movie was decent enough  but with sub par acting  it was just bland and dull  br    br   spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death  it was accidental  so although it was a murder it wasn  t like the guy set out to do it  also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree  there is no emotion in this film  the first    minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister  and hearing her message  it was dull and boring  br    br   with some polishing  and better acting it could have been pretty good           the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy  quaint streets and sunshine  i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere  but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere  br    br   othello works for big  fat mr  karva  his crime boss step dad  at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it  s never really defined  but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers  so trust me  he  s a prick  doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs  one of his colleagues is runner  a black dude who is always dashing from a to b  until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running  runner dumps the lost boy in othello  s flat  where he promptly starts granting more wishes  keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled  karva has the boy kidnapped  but he isn  t sure of what would really bring him happiness  is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job  either way  i don  t want to see the little boy grant him the second  br    br   it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes  the ending tries to be shocking but since there  s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience  br    br   writer tony grisoni  a favourite of terry gilliam  tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell  ironically  if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film  as it is  we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy  who  s origins are never revealed  that  s just plain irritating   br    br   aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score  this film has little to recommend           i can  t emphasize it enough  do  not  get this movie for the kids  br    br   for that matter  you  d best spare the adults from it as well  br    br   all right  perhaps i  m overexaggerating a little  this isn  t the worst kids   movie    no  let me rephrase that  this isn  t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids  that would be   jack    which i  ve been meaning to review   gut like a fish   br    br   adults won  t learn anything surprising  well  if you must  fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon   we don  t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way  well  duh  i could have told you that  so can four years of college at an art school  but i degress   br    br   i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie  most likely it will only upset them  we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old   there  s a better movie    kiki  s delivery service    that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head  and the adults will like it too  br    br   by the way  there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind  if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it           is nothing else on tv  are you really bored  well  then watch phat beach  however  don  t rent it and definitely do not buy it  that would be a big mistake  br    br   i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points  i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard  however  there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at  if you are looking for an extremely funny   hood   movie then watch friday  if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie  something that this movie tries at  kind of  watch something like hoop dreams or jason  s lyric  if you are lookin for some good black   booty   go watch a dominique simone porn flick  because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent  however  if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable  go ahead and watch it  you will be slightly amused  br    br        out of                the elegant documentary   br    br   don  t watch this movie     if you  re an egotistical know all student of physics  this much less than one percent  miniscule fraction  of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know  br    br   do watch this movie    if you  re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than     of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity  quantum  string and m theory  br    br   what a brilliantly architected documentary  starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic   and dimensions beyond  i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics  this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you  re about to fail the grade  br    br   the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows  it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented  i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence  br    br   we are all  and everything around us  is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony  this movie may blow your mind   or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us  even with the hubble telescope  and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school  m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of   possibility    br    br   it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it  s very nature move  by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting  out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy  br    br   you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god  br    br   bravo brian greene  well done indeed  br    br   p s  if you  re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the   possibilities   quantum mechanics blended with spirituality  of all things  can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch   what the bleep     down the rabbit hole    yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn  t seen one before  my eyes process light reflections just fine   i see things everyday that i  ve never seen before  and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don  t divide  but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don  t like and hang on to those that you do   there is a lot to like about this film  br    br   then watch   the secret         documentary about the law of attraction   search for imdb title   tt            this information just might change your life profoundly   forever  if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought  if you  ll listen    and some are   and that is truly incredible  there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha  those  among others  that history suggests have communicated with the non physical  alive today and she lives in texas  i know some of you know what i  m talking about  br    br   i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now           in       with the success of the first season of batman  the animated series  warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie  originally slated for direct to video  but bumped up to theatrical status  it would become known as batman  mask of the phantasm  ten years after phantasm  we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb  sub zero  return of the joker  and now  mystery of the batwoman joins the family  br    br   the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm  a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin  now  batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line  br    br   the animation is the sleeker  futuristic style that was utilized for batman  the animated series   fifth and sixth seasons  aka the new batman adventures     it  s quite nicely done  and just as sleek as return of the joker  s animation  there is also some use of cgi  but it  s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero  the music was alright  different and exotic and similar to the justice league score  although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans   rodent shaped hearts  br    br   kevin conroy  as always  does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman  it  s also great to have the old batman  the animated series alumni back  that includes bob hastings  commissioner gordon   robert costanzo  detective bullock   tara strong  barbara gordon batgirl  her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond   and efrem zimbalist jr  alfred   br    br   villains were also great   especially given that rupert thorne  the old mob boss from the original series  appears for the first time since the fourth season  br    br   overall  while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago  motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films  and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan  you will love the five minute short chase me           i think this movie was supposed to be shocking  but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it  s been made    and simply is  it  s one and a half hour of torment  even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie  the five girls   br    br   sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way  which is basically fine  since it  s a horror movie  and i  usually  like horror movies  i  ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se  however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever  it  s no spectacle other than that it  s simply grotesque  it  s so lame it even gets boring  and really quick too  br    br   the worst thing  if the above wasn  t bad enough for ya  about this movie is that they  ve tried to copy the blair whitch project  by filming with cheap hand held cameras  but  again  this too  serves no end whatsoever  in the   blair which    sure enough  there  s an explanation  namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch  in this film  there  s no other explanation than    hey ya  ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch     the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about  the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can  t make out what they  re saying  also  no effort has been made to make anything any better  sound wise or other wise  br    br   than finally  there  s the soundtrack  which is just as bad as the rest  and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock    br    br   my advise  don  t watch this under any circumstances           why can  t a movie be rated a zero  or even a negative number  some movies such as   plan nine from outer space   are so bad they  re fun to watch  this is not one    the dungeon of horror   might be the worst movie i  ve ever seen  some of anyway  i had to fast forward through a lot of it    fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age  there may be worse movies i  ve seen  but thankfully  i can  t remember them  the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint  the special effects looked like a fifth grader  s c  diorama set in a shoebox  the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant  he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim  who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it  without the gun having been reloaded  this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits  i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated  though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn  t needed  this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as   the manipulator    the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual  one time  hollywood leading man mickey rooney  the only time i would recommend watching   the dungeon of harrow    or   the manipulator   for that matter  would be if someone were to pay you   i  m kind of cheap  i  d have to have    or    bucks for   dungeon   and at least ten for   manipulator    phil the never out of the can cinematographer          this movie took me by surprise  the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation  after that  we  re plunged into a semi cheesy production  betraying its low budget  the characters  typical american teens  are introduced slowly  with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this  by the time the shlitz hits the fan  we know each one of the characters  and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities  it  s a slow uphill set up  kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster  thankfully  once the action kicks in  it  s full blown old school horror  steve johnson  s make up effects are awesome  equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films  and the scares are jolting  kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever  with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups  the tongue in cheek  sometimes cheesy  humor marks this film as pure   s horror  as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like   night of the living dead   or   hills have eyes    but for true horror fans  this one is worth checking out  play it as the first entry on a double bill with the      remake of   house on the haunted hill    the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking           though i  d heard that   cama de gato   was the worst brazilian movie of the decade  i watched it giving it a chance  after all  first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature  shot in video  for just us        and    though it looks even cheaper    i can  t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it  then as i watched it i realized why   but whatever chances you  re ready to give to   cama de gato    they shrink to zero within    minutes  it  s an unbelievably preposterous  verbose  ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex  drugs and violence  and they  re made to look like closeted gays too   made with no visible trace of talent  imagination  expertise or notion of structure  visually and aurally  it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube    only here it lasts ninety two  count  em  minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness  and it  s not even funny bad  br    br   we  ve all seen the story before  bored young guys want to have fun  go partying  take drugs and everything goes wrong    there  s gang rape  spanking  murder  the accidental death  falling down the staircase    of the mother of one of the boys  culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill  moral and literal garbage  get it  the film is heavily influenced by larry clark  especially   kids   and   bully     but clark  s films    though also moralist and sexploitative    are high class masterworks compared to this crap  br    br   i don  t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience  s throat  stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion    you do get numb minded with so much babbling  yelling  inept direction  shaky camera and terrible acting going on  stockler doesn  t care a bit about technique  the quality of the images  framing  sound recording  soundtrack songs  dialog  sets  editing  etc is uniformly appalling   but he  s a narcissistic control freak  he anticipates the criticisms he  s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments  and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is  i could relate to that    br    br   despite his megalomaniac ambitions  stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure    he can  t even decide if he wants gritty realism  hand held video camera etc  or stylization  repetition of scenes  use of alternate takes  etc   damn  he can  t even decide where to put his camera  there  s use of subjective camera for the three leads   the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever  the plot exists simply to justify the director  s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for  all you see is a filmmaker being hateful  preachy  condemning  moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent  or technique  to go with it  br    br   it  s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess  certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil  with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo  s  blat can be highly effective under good direction  as in   carandiru      lavoura arcaica      proibido proibir     here  he  s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped   actors   in recent memory  he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes  so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn   br    br   the film opens and ends with real interviews with   typical       middle class youth    stockler wants us to take those interviews as   proof   of what he  s trying to preach in fiction  but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees  selecting a highlight of abject  racist  sexist  stupid statements  which only shows assholes exist everywhere   stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they  re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs  is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs   or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior   i couldn  t tell    br    br   with its dogmatic self righteousness  headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom    cama de gato   is bad for a       reasons but  above all  it  s harmful in a very insidious manner  it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument    cama de gato   is best unwatched  unmentioned  buried and forgotten           an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time  this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon  i remember this very well from my childhood  it was funny and sad and very beautiful  well it starts out a bit dark  a dog who escaped the pound  and gets killed by an old friend  ends up in heaven  and comes back  but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals  some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons  like the dream sequence of charlie  but everything else was okay and the songs were fair  a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise  i just love that guy  ahehehe  and judith barsi of jaws the revenge  may god rest her soul  poor girl  she didn  t deserve to die  but she is in heaven now  all good people go to heaven  overall this is a very good animated movie  a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame  recommended for the whole family  and know this  if you have the original video of this  you  ll find after the movie  dom deluise has a very important and special message  gotta love that guy  ahehehe           this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general  it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message  but the message was a clich    hopeless mess to begin with  this movie falls on shameless environmental point  even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet  br    br   in sitting through this  i couldn  t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line  the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes  her character gets frequent  cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit  br    br   far from the brilliance of bruce almighty  evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot  the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan  s ark  but by the end  we learn that the ark was completely meaningless  and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages  the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark  flood  and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god  yes  god was trying to influence politics           it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance  i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing  if you loved bulgakov  s book you would be  understandably  afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story  s deeper meaning to the screen  there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita  as complex and far fetched as the story is  the movie leaves out nothing  it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov  s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score  with not a note missed  why can  t we find such talent here in the u s    so now my favorite book and movie have the same title           this movie is very violent  yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters  it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life  the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career  when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption  black mail and murder  this is where the killings start  from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper  this movie also co stars richard roundtree  br    br   i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good  i would not recommend this film and the action is very  very bad           the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi  s fate as an assassin  fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga  br    br   that  s as poetical as i  ll get when talking about azumi    death or love  because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin  after watching azumi   i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before  br    br   not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience  in azumi   we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics  which is their number one priority  as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape  but i won  t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi  s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma  by the way  chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go  minus the cool weapon and sense of menace  br    br   this brings me to the final blow which is the action  simply disguised in the title as the   death   side of the epic  in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons  to no one  s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily  in azumi    the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi   was at least climaxed and worthwhile  some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter  i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched  br    br   the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution  br    br   as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation  i won  t lie and i  ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film  but i  ll step right up and say that after watching azumi    the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece  for what it  s worth  azumi    death or love could have gone straight to video  with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins  doing their best to restore the peace  with an unwavering courage to die trying           this has to be the worst piece of garbage i  ve seen in a while  br    br   heath ledger is a heartthrob  he looked deformed  i wish i  d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent   of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him   br    br   orlando bloom is a heartthrob  with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him  i can  t say i agree  br    br   rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self  but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn  t wait to get off the set   br    br   i  m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers  this is a far cry from butch cassidy  which actually was an entertaining film  this was trite  cliche ridden and boring  we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better  it didn  t  br    br   the last       minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious  heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel  and women and children are dying because of their presence  that  s not funny  but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on  because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail  i kept waiting for them to say   i  ll bite yer leg off    we were howling with laughter  as were several other warped members of the audience  when we left  pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was  br    br   i may not have paid cash to see this disaster  sneak preview   but it certainly wasn  t free  it cost me   hours of my life that i will never get back           a very ordinary made for tv product    tyson   attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect  fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing  and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting  a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans           i  m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn  t  you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy  slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department  br    br   i just sat there through most of the movie thinking   is this supposed to be funny   and   this is the guy from tenacious d right     the truth is this film has nothing to offer  at all  it  s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction  you  ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn  t  i was bored stupid about    minutes in but though it would surely pick up  it didn  t     minutes later i  d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful  br    br   it  s like  remember years ago when you  d see anything with your fave actor in it  even some of their really early pap from before they were famous  and you  d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop  yeah it  s like that  br    br   i  ve enjoyed some of jack black  s earlier movies like shallow hall and i  m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man  if you do this to us again jack i  m gonna have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something  at the least give you a serious talking to  br    br   i know it  s a clich   but this is one of the worst movies i  ve ever seen and for so many reasons              i haven  t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on  but who knows  maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health  it isn  t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health  but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie  you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i  ve read on one hand  but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire  i get the feeling that she writes really good novels  the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history  br    br   still  stuart townsend  s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt  s vampire narrative ever did  and you can tell that queen of the damned  s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline  while interview decided to go with lace and elegance  queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously  one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places  the costumes and rock   roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack  br    br   however  i  ll give credit where credit is due  the soundtrack is excellent  korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead  br    br   the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom   splice montage  but after the first ten minutes or so  the directing degenerates quickly  it  s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn  t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice  what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects  unfortunately  queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress  where are the yellow contacts  where  s the pale blue make up  scene after scene  i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem  s lot and fright night when low budget was done right  br    br   there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage  props to aaliyah  and may her soul forever rest in peace  she might have become a renowned actress  had her life not been taken from us so prematurely  for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing  did i mention that the soundtrack was good  let  s see  what else can i say  it wasn  t too long  the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it  there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot  but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there  the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything  br    br   jy br    br   jimboduck dot com          while i count myself as a fan of the babylon   television series  the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start  although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there  the pace of the gathering is slow  the makeup somewhat inadequate  and the plot confusing  worse  the characterization in the premiere episode is poor  although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems  i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series           leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his      movie and video guide  what film was he looking at  kid vengeance or god  s gun are bombs  this film is a delight  it is fantastic  it is literate  it is well mounted  it is beautiful photographed  making a brilliant use of colors  right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre  the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks     sunset strip  and the famous showdown in the good  the bad  and the ugly  edd byrnes  george hilton  and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work  it is too bad mr  maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved  one can only guess as to his reason  i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be  kudos belong to everyone involved in this project  this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire           i don  t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the     club  they are today  s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the   th century  their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand  their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans  as well as billions of humans the world over  who don  t happen to share their bigoted  cruel  monstrous  and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen  the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth  such as the idea of   life after death   or   god   or   sin   or   the devil   is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill  so lost are they in their fantasy  sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn  t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy  however  the     club is in a class by itself  they are truly a cult  while i believe in freedom of speech  they way they spread hatred  lies  disinformation  and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits  i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way  people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all  treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country  as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion  the     club though  is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of   cult   but due to the     club  s vast wealth  conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip  they are above the law in this country  for those of you who have seen the movie   the matrix   you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth  the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes  and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them  br    br   in less civil times  the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the     club out of town with torches and pitchforks  but in today  s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them  we have no way to rid ourselves of the     club plague   br    br   the television ratings system and the   v   chip on tv  s should also have a rating called   r   for religion  so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape  such as presented by the     club every day all over our country  from themselves and their children           if you wish to see shakespeare  s masterpiece in its entirety  i suggest you find this bbc version  indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby  s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart  s as claudius are well worth the effort  br    br   it never ceases to amaze me how clear   hamlet   is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard  every film version of   hamlet   has tinkered with its structure  olivier concentrated on hamlet  s indecision  gibson on his passions  jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet  s character together with the aid of shakespeare  s full script  br    br   why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately  hamlet says   i am very proud  revengeful  ambitious      hamlet is extremely upset  not only for his father  s death  and suspected murder   or his mother  s marriage to his uncle  but also  and mostly  because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet  he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius  marriages between royal kin is not unknown  done for political reasons  but that her marriage solidified claudius   claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself  he is  therefore  impotent to do anything about it  and this is true even after he hears his father  s ghost cry vengeance  he cannot simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so  he must   out   the king  s secret and here is the tragedy  at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius   guilt in public  he has opportunity to kill him and does not  why  he wants it all  he wants revenge  the throne and the damnation of claudius   soul in hell  hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form  his own hubris is his undoing  he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz  guildenstern  ophelia  laertes  gertrude  claudius and hamlet himself           the golden door is the story of a sicilian family  s journey from the old world  italy  to the new world  america   salvatore  a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life  persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily  take the arduous journey across the raging seas  and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk  in short  they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled  the imagery of the new world is optimistic  clever and highly imaginative  silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he  ll be in the new world  carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health  and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield  all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience  the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they  re aboard the ship to the new world  br    br   the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness  especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within  the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world  the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive  this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left  donkeys  goats and rabbits  in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world  i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world  it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit  the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world  this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another  depicting the separation between the old and new worlds  this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar  wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise  br    br   as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks  the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world  i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island  but is remained hidden  i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for    give me your poor  your tired  your hungry   seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world  once they arrived in the americas  they had to go through rather humiliating tests  i e  delousing  mathematics  puzzles  etc   in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world  these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people  in particular  salvatore  s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world  feeling more violated than treated with respect  where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide  the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude  salvatore doesn  t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him  this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him  their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted  br    br   the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society  cleanliness  marriage and intelligence are prerequisites  adhering to these rules is to prevent disease  immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating  perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct  though the rules seemed rigid  they were there to protect and help the people flourish           nifty little episode played mainly for laughs  but with clever dollop of suspense  somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere  but which passenger is it   talk about your illegal immigrants    all star supporting cast  from wild eyed jack elam  hamming it up shamelessly   to sexy jean willes  if she  s the martian  then i say let  s open the borders    to cruel faced john hoyt  the most obvious suspect   along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips  and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver   makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set           i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films  but  after seeing this film i haven  t  this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr  he knows the art of film making  and can use it very well  if you find this movie  buy or copy it           i watched mask in the     s and it  s currently showing on fox kids in the uk  very late at night   i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears  i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was  it  s just plain awful  it is no where near in the same league as the transformers  he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made  i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses    comes on straight after it  that  s if mask doesn  t put me to sleep first   one of the lesser     s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids           phantasm     class  phantasm ii     awesome  phantasm iii     erm     terrible  br    br   even though i would love to stick up for this film  i quite simply can  t  the movie seems to have   sold out    first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start  something the others did not   also too many pointless characters  prime examples the kid  who is a crack shot  funny initially but soon you want him dead   the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls  erm not gonna work  or rather shouldn  t  and the blooming zombies  what the hell are they doing there  there no link to them in the other phatasms   also there is a severe lack of midgets running about  br    br   the only good bits are the cracking start and  of course  reggie b  br    br    possible spoiler coming up  br    br   to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main   in iv  br    br   overall very  very disappointing                  ludicrous  angelic   year old annakin turns into whiny brat    year old annakin  who somehow seems appealing to amidala    years his senior  now    year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams  and so takes to slaughtering children  his friends  and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a  his precious wife might really die  and b  only he can prevent this  ludicrosity squared  br    br   i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention  the story is ridiculous  the characters are unbelievable  literally  not the perverted sense of   fantastic      wonderful    etc    br    br   obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series  but in the climax  he hacks off annakin  s legs  lets him burn in the lava  and leaves him to suffer  doesn  t anyone think that  s a little out of character  not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living  as it turns out  br    br   i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations  none of that here  the story could have been written by a    year old  br    br   oh yeah  the cgi is pretty cool           scotty  grant cramer  who would go on to star in the great b movie   killer klowns from outer space    agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to   dialog   the ladies in this bad       s comedy  not bad as in       s lingo  which meant good  bad as in bad  with no likable characters  including  but not limited to  a kid who  s the freakiest looking guy since   friday the   th part       a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her  and the token fat slob  because after all what would an       s sex comedy be without a fat slob   well this one has two  this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of       s sex comedies  and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel  br    br   my grade d   br    br   eye candy  too numerous to count  you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point  think   bachlor party   but not as funny  and very disturbing  br    br   where i saw it  comcast moviepass          if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it  this film is actually quite entertaining  it  s got action  adventure and romance  and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles  as evident on this board  the picture doesn  t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling  to get beyond that  one need only put aside the history book  and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction  i know  i know  that  s hard to do when you consider custer  s last stand at the little big horn and it  s prominence in the history of post civil war america  so i guess there  s an unresolved quandary with the picture  no matter how you look at it  br    br   there  s a lot to take in here though for the picture  s two hour plus run time  custer  s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher  riding up as he does in full military regalia  the practical joke by sharp  arthur kennedy  putting him up in the major  s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble  br    br   ironically  a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy  as in custer  s first meeting with libby bacon  and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie  hattie mcdaniel   i hadn  t noticed it before in other films  but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties  mantan moreland  so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress  with that in mind  the owl scene was a hoot too  br    br   as for flynn  it  s interesting to note that a year earlier  he portrayed j e b  stuart opposite ronald reagan  s depiction of general custer in   santa fe trail    both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland  in that film  reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers  while in flynn  s portrayal here it  s more than evident  but it doesn  t come close to that of richard mulligan  s take on the military hero in       s   little big man    let  s just say that one was a bit over the top  br    br   the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture  that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story  most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn  in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one  s point of view  earlier  a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer  s character  when he stated     you take glory with you when it  s your time to go             the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction  the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal  s driving  but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie  br    br   it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot  so just plan to enjoy the action  and do not expect a coherent plot  turn any sense of logic you may have  it will reduce your chance of getting a headache  br    br   i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies           interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno  s replacing carson as host of the tonight show  film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o  brien and jay leno  br    br   the film does a good job of sparking viewers   interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders  particularly of the nbc executives  the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting  i thought  br    br   still  many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon  and some of the acting seemed perfunctory  nevertheless  an interesting story           any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion  respectfully  the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive  as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare  i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things  for those unacquainted with target priorities  an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here  the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing  rank and british gaumont studios back in the day  frankly i prefer its quieter  more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could  this reminds me of powell and pressburger  s the   th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman  a favorite of mine  john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles  so this is clearly meant to be mr  portman  s film but the whole cast shines  as for the title sequence  am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production  s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl           a brilliant horror film  utterly gruesome and very scary too  the thing is a remake from john carpenter  but please  do not let that put you off this film  it is simply brilliant  the start of the film has the alien  s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film  s title in amazing shining white and blue stating   the thing    one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever  br    br   the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen  it must have been great in the cinema  i regret not seeing this on the big screen  br    br   kurt russell is excellent as macready  the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base  all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected  my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection  it is tense  scary and finally spectacular  i love it because its funny as well  br    br   special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself  if he didn  t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have  this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter  s greatest film   its certainly a gruesome masterpiece  br    br   wait for a cold winter night  get some budweiser from the fridge  sit down and watch the thing  a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime  br    br   utterly brilliant  br    br   ten out of ten           i absolutely love this film  everything about it  it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen  the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece  very original and creative  i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some  i  m really glad i ran across this movie  if only there were more genius   like justin out there           no one can say i wasn  t warned as i have read the reviews  both user   external   but like most of us attracted to horror movies    curiosity got this cat   come on  we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room  but you know that  s horror aficionados are always dying to know what  s in there even if we know it  ll be bad   br    br   the bottom line is that this movie left me angry  not because it pretends to be real  who cares   gimmicks are allowed   or because the actors and dialogue are so lame  is this an unusual event in horror movies   or even because the movie is so bad  and i am being polite here   what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp  but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that  br    br   i don  t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them  but they didn  t even try  the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror  or any  movie           a new way to enjoy goldsworthy  s work  rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion  watching goldsworthy build his pieces  one develops an appreciation for every stone  leaf  and thorn that he uses  goldsworthy describes how the flow of life  the rivers  and the tides inspires and affects his work  although  i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy  s pieces  no snowballs   i do feel it was a bit long  the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy  s work to life  and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch           if you liked william hickey in   prizzi  s honor    he resurrects his character  as don anthony in   mob boss    this is a very weak   godfather   satire with few laughs  stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he  s doing in this schlock fest  morgan fairchild  s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie  and that alone is not a good sign for sure  eddie deezen vacillates between   three stooges   slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation  fatally flawed    mob boss   is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases  hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom  and numerous other nonsense    merk          i have seen most  if not all of the laurel   hardy classic films  i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly  even after watching it over and over again  this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel   hardy  however fails miserably for various reasons  one of which is how out of place their cloths are  still early   th century  however are both portrayed in the     s setting  some of the former dialogue was brought back  however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series  this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever  the real laurel   hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation           i just started watching the show around july  i found it by mistake  i was channel surfing during a vacation  it is a great show  i just wish it wasn  t on so late at night  it  s on at       am  as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time  br    br   i read some comments  i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the     s and not believing that this stuff can happen  br    br   i grew up in the     s  i  m hispanic and i had a   white   boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school  i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color  br    br   i can  t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it  this way i can see it from the beginning           this film is well cast  often silly and always funny  lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection  brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director  from the first   hare krishna   to the last   you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs    i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy          i have just given a    for thieves highway  i mention this for two reasons one to prove i  m not a git who only gives bad reviews but   because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night  br    br   we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can  t avoid them all  they  ll eventually get you  pretty woman for me does two things  two terrible horrible ghastly things  firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer  you know with absolutely great friends  leg warmers lots of giggling  borrowing each others make up  you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we  re talking about here  has a great life  she  s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament  my feeling is this   happy hooker   type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character  which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it  if i make a film about a chef but don  t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place  by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have  what a cop out  really really lame   br    br   secondly    pretty woman   insults romance itself  edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this   lady   that is without his plastic friend  yep don  t leave home without it  especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination    out of    of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another  even when he first meets her it  s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work  necklaces here diamonds there limos over there  money money money  where  s the charm  where  s the charisma  don  t mention that attempt at the piano please  br    br   girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most  guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator  as they probably don  t either so it wont have registered  more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate   thieves highway   a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject  br    br   i  ll finish on a song  br    br   pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman  the kind i like to treat pretty woman  i don  t believe you you  re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br    br   pretty woman  wont you pardon me pretty woman  i couldn  t help but see pretty woman  and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br    br   pretty woman  shop a while pretty woman  talk a while pretty woman  sell your smile to me pretty woman  yeah  yeah  yeah pretty woman  look my way pretty woman  say you  ll stay with me  and i  ll pay you  i  ll treat you right          this movie was terrible  the plot was terrible and unbelievable  i cannot recommend this movie  where did this movie come from  this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including  gary sinise  kathy bates  joey lauren adams  and jennifer tilly           i strongly dislike this show  i mean  like  basically everyone at that school is perfect  and rich  and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that  and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school  isn  t that just a little weird  anyways  jamie lynn spears cannot act  she always has the same facial expression  which really annoys me  she is basically emotionless  and all the guys seem to like her  br    br   and shouldn  t chase tell her he likes her  its not that hard  really  none of this show is real life  and she isn  t   a girl like me   because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school  do not have designer clothes  and do not live by the beach  br    br   fake fake fake           normally i don  t like series at all  they  re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast  br    br   these series however  are well played  the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one  the story will still be catching your mind  br    br   the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital           holy sh t this was god awful  i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex  dear god  this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff  please save your money  this movie can offer you nothing  unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters  you know  h ll  bring your girlfriend and make things interesting  you will be the only ones there anyway  f ck this slide show   br    br   ye be warned  br    br   i recommend not watching this  br    br   hello  br    br   how are you  br    br   i  m pretty good  br    br   enjoying this day  br    br   i am  br    br   this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie  this is sad           this movie is without a doubt a perfect         for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no   good plot   or anything like that  thats ridiculous  saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot  you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes  for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that  if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan  s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time  porn is watched for the porn  jackie chan is watched for the action  i think you people are rating it bad because there  s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained  sure the middle of the movie was boring  very boring  but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that  this did change the way how american action movies were created  they have even stollen scenes from this movie  if you want a true man  a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan  s  hes pure in everyway  he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park  and even in todays movies  american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more  police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do  a masterpiece          i saw this at the london film festival last night  apparently the shorter version  james mcnally  s summary of the content of the film is very good  nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation  homogenisation  the effect of the mass media  the power of capital and the need for diversity  br    br   the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting  but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment  br    br   despite the sprawling feel of the film  the editing is very sharp  not only giving us a parade of the world  s dogs  but also undercutting a number of interviewees   comments with somewhat contradictory visual images  and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves  to a degree this evoked michael moore  s recent work  although nossiter operates in a more subtle way   but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls     the sorrow and the pity    both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of   salt of the earth   french peasants as the stars  de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards  we do indeed all need a little disorder   bravo hubert  br    br   overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people  and organise our world           i can  t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of    it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring  certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long  long time  br    br   in a no budget way  it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck  br    br   this film should be avoided at all costs  it  s one of those   festival films   that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it   different    therefore good  br    br   bad film making is not   different    it  s just bad film making           this movie really woke me up  like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber  br    br   this guy john  ben chaplin  leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town  until the stunningly gorgeous  wild  girl to die for nadia  nicole kidman   ordered by email from russia  enters his life to become his beloved wife  by johns plan  however a glitch turns up   nadia does not speak a word of johns language  although calm and emotionless on the outside  john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service  he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process  br    br   what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure  giving the viewer a subliminal message   you would have probably acted likewise    br    br   kidman  cassel   kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing    almost   only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues  however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right  nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles  at least from the cultural background  br    br   the pace of the film is fast and captivating  and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear  you rather feel that you  re in the middle of the plot  and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out  br    br   my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy  to sum it up  it has an unusual plot  great acting  and ideas below the surface  like the idea of the   rude awakening   from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society  s machine  the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings    welcome to the machine      i bet that in the end  john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all  br    br   thank you  writers  for the great story  and everyone else for this great movie  please make a sequel  and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever  because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the         percent of the potential viewers  i am sure of it           ed wood rides again  the fact that this movie was made should give any young br    br   aspiring film maker hope  any screenplay you might have thought of using to br    br   line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad  do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids  watching this br    br   movie made me realize that boa vs  python was not that bad after all  it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film  it is understandable why this director has so many aliases  there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips  then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br    br   make your toward your tv set  s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it           this sports a nice  deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk  the first third of this movie was nothing but talk  and more talk  most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other   br    br   the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it  s really a   chick flick   and little else  this probably plays on the lifetime network  br    br   there was a quick murder scene and then more talk  by halfway through  they had lost me   br    br   by the way  sally field looked about    years old in here           i think this movie has got it all  it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head  it has cool looking characters  is really funny you know  the kind that you  ll crack up on the ground and you  ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks  despite the bad acting  bad cgi  and bad story about cops going after a robot   its really cool  its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch  get together  eat pizza  laugh like crazy  and watch it two more times  br    br   there are so many funny parts  like when kurt was trying to get edison  s attention and gave him the finger  and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball  on that part  i kept saying   remember  remember   to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened  there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought  and kurt was talking about his   strange dream   and how he was   superman    i loved that part  although it has been a while since i saw it  so i don  t remember that part  everything the actors said were funny  like how kurt says    i worship you  like a god    to the robot  br    br   although there was some bad things  in all it was a great movie  man  i can  t stop laughing  i wish i had that movie              howard  kevin kline  teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city  he is finally getting married to emily  joan cusack   much to his parents delight  the town is abuzz  too  because one of its own  cameron  matt dillon  has been nominated for an acting oscar  everyone  including howard and emily  is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner  in his acceptance speech  cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man  in part  because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school  you guessed it  its howard  but  howard has never   come out    in fact  he believes he is straight  with the whole town  and members of the media  waiting and observing the happenings  will howard and emily go ahead and get married  or  is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony  this is a wonderful  funny  and humane film about a gay man and his situation  as the man who did not realize he was gay  kline is excellent and touching  the rest of the cast is equally fine  with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc   and dillon  bob newhart  debbie reynolds  tom selleck  and others on hand to delight the audience as well  the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful  then  too  the script  the direction  and the production are very  very nice  but  the insightful  humorous  and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film  s best asset  no doubt  for those who would be offended by a gay themed film  yes  just skip over this one  but  for everyone who wants to laugh heartily  and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time  this is definitely the best film out there           when the opening shot is u s  marines seriously disrespecting the u s  flag  a movie has a tough road ahead  but unfortunately it was downhill from there  there is a military adviser credited  who is also apparently a retired u s  marine  making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol  and law  went unnoticed  even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia  then buried  in very short order  without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body  or if there even was a body  the u s  government is still finding the missing from wwii  and it takes months to identify the remains  military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified  or after years of red tape  here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks  maybe this happens in denmark  but not in the u s  clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with  or respect for  the u s  military  br    br   beyond that  there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere  there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash  having a script that worked might have helped  but this one seems to have been made up on the spot  working from cliffs notes  there  s no way to know if the script was this awful originally  or if it was the auteur  or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility  either way  this is an awful movie that should have never been made           we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age  with the likes of the four feathers        and zulu  simply because the imperial age was  for the most part  british  here  in the wind and the lion  we see a wonderful rendering of america  s own imperial age  br    br   america  s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who  despite her gentility  is smitten by the rough  manly nobility of her captor  who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn   politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of   native   peoples or cultures can rest assured  that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage   what makes this story different are the terrific production values   faultless photography  composition and editing   the terrific casting   the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy   and vivid history  br    br   though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son  every member of the family can identify with one of the characters  whether it be sean connery  s noble brigand  candace bergen  s feisty heroine  john huston  s wily john hay or steve kanaly  s spiffy  radiant  ruthless can do lieutenant  roosevelt  s   big stick    there is a transcendent scene at the end  when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed  this is high adventure at its best           i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while   what with all it  s raving reviews  nominations and media attention  and i must say  the first quarter of the movie was good  it really portrayed the black music scene back then  however  as the movie wore on  me and my whole family were bored out of our wits  the singing just kept coming  one after the other  i mean seriously  just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent  br    br   furthermore  i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters  i just didn  t care what happened to them  even when eddie murphy  s character died of a drug overdose  i knew i should have been sad  but i just couldn  t feel any emotion for that character  the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot  but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in  br    br   finally  the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care  which goes along with the lack of character development  this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray  chicago  and rent  ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion   overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn  t really care about an overall story  yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances           one of starewicz  s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange  the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold  but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters  with the help of a stuffed cat  the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death  the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz  s films  the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz  s old style of puppetry  live scenes of moving cars and people  s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh  the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz  s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat  new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil  s club scene  twigss and newspaper shreds come to life  skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks  characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses  a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene  overall  starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work           nice character development in a pretty cool milieu  being a male  i  m probably not qualified to totally understand it  but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start  it isn  t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher  what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters  each has their own   thing   that they contend with  once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs  they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion  what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn  t go for cheap comedy when it could have  it didn  t try to pound a lesson into us  the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light  i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly  but  within this world  it needed to happen  good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people           prussic gas  a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip  and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish  the inspectors at scotland yard  higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch  renberg certainly have their hands full with this case  it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas   who  when she turns     is to inherit a great deal of wealth  the girls who are targeted share a room with ann  but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy  s finest must figure out  the staff of the girls   dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise  talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip  two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation  it  s a clever scheme where a driver  greaves g  nter meisner meets the convicts   who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard  taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind  he gives them orders on who to kill and how  uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening  under suspicion are girls   dormitory headmistress  her author brother  a sweaty  incredibly nervous chemistry teacher  a snooping gardener  and the bannister  some are red herrings until they are disposed of  throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered  the ending features multiple twists   br    br   out of the krimi films i  ve seen  the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it  s colorful killer  a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects    sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory  i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind  s secret hideout with an alligator pit   which isn  t used   the fake bible water pistol  when opened  fires the gas into the face of startled victims  the greaves   royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat  and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming  many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling  buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins   abilities to get at the truth   perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it   i felt he was used as comedy relief  particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims  often misunderstanding what are told to him  higgins  using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator  instead follows the clues facts  often avoiding sir john as much as possible  capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed  and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content  the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect  any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls   executions  i  d say this may be one of the best   if not the best examples of the krimi genre  for it keeps you guessing  always one more ace up it  s sleeve  the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening   and  you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off            i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival      only a few days ago  i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life  i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings  there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn  character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth  this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community  the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive  i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness          this movie is really bad  most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement  there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg  there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth  and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all  the whole thing is just laughable          i think this is one hell of a movie           we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there  s a message in it  without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special           i saw this movie in the theater  and was thoroughly impressed by it  then again  that was when claire danes was a good actress  not the foolish  arrogant  hollywood ized bitch she is today  anyway  this film really struck me as one of the more raw  realistic  beautiful friendship films  how far would you really go for your best friend  i was moved to tears at the end  and still tear up when i watch it now  i own it   i remember as soon as i left the theater  i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her  this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend  however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you  d do something like that for her              i  ve seen this film literally over     times   it  s absolutely jam packed with entertainment    powers boothe gives a stellar performance  as a fan of actors such as william shatner  impulse        and ron liebmann  up the academy       i never thought an actor could capture the   intensity   like shatner and liebmann in those roles  until i saw boothe as jim jones  as far as i  m concerned  powers boothe is jim jones   this film captures his best performance             the three main characters are all hopeless  and yet you only feel sorry for one of them  ernesto  hopelessly devoted to mercedes  this was part of the frustration  screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry  to no avail  br    br   then there  s the satisfaction  steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite  and harvey keitel  s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible  when you least expect it  quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue  and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man  br    br   time and again great moments appear in the story  but in the end it  s hard to know what to feel about this movie  it doesn  t have a happy ending  or even a complete one  but it somehow feels right  br    br   this movie is strange  but then so am i  no wonder i liked it           reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one  she appears like a fresh scrubbed face   tween   slight and stringy  but undeniably reese  br    br   i have always liked her as an actor  and had no idea she started this young with her career  go figure  i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on  i say that because whenever i have watched her perform  the characters thus far  in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character  quite nicely in fact  br    br   anyway  my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland  somehow i assumed that was her first time up   at bat   not so  well done reese         this game ranks above all so far  i had the honor of playing mine on ps  so the graphics were really good  the voice acting was above standard  the difficulty level is just right  wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion  the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting  the only rating this game deserves is great          this movie is not worth anything  i mean  if you want to watch this kind of stuff  flip to hollywood movies  this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name  neal n nikki seriously sucked  never watch this movie  as for the actors  it appears the acting genes skipped a generation  tanisha couldn  t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director  s spoiled son   all of that halla re was amazingly stupid  the songs are eh  and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it       bottom line  i hated the movie  do not let your kids watch it  and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it  buy the cd  if you must   as i said  the songs are eh   at least it is better then the movie           this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers  it  s certainly all been done before and since  but the violent men is something special  br    br   what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films  she  s married to the crippled edward g  robinson who  s the cattle baron here  but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent  no matter to barbara  whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith  that doesn  t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck  s daughter  nor with lita milan who is keith  s mexican girl friend  br    br   the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film  but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here  he  s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often  i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford  s mouth    i  m a peaceable man    would have been very applicable in the vioilent men  br    br   the fifties was the age of the adult western  themes were entering into horse operas that hadn  t been explored before  the following year glenn ford would do another western  jubal  one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component  br    br   there  s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well           apparently  the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood  i use the word   apparently   because without listening to a director andy copp  s commentary  which i didn  t have available to me  or reading up on the film prior to watching  viewers won  t have a clue what it is about  br    br   gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage  but unless they  re also fond of pretentious  headache inducing  experimental art house cinema  they  ll find this one a real chore to sit through  br    br      minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound  terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue  this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one  s sanity  if you  ve still got all your marbles  you  ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead  i watched the whole thing  but am well aware that i  m completely barking             this movie was absolutely pathetic  a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes  at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead  i couldn  t even sit through the whole movie  emran hashmi disappoints  and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all  celina jaitley was not bad  the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris  it was pretty hilarious  the songs   sini ne   and its remix version were really good  you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster  all in all  it seems emran doesn  t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time           i feel the niiiiiight heat  i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat  something ain  t right    theme song written by b j  cook from skylark  david foster  s old band and wife  she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc  s   airwaves    oh night heat  what a program  well written  well acted and totally classic  crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end  i  d like to think this is really what detectives do did  giambone was a real favourite  on a canadian tip  i learned every canadian actor  s name and style from guest spots done on night heat  everyone passed through the night heat set and like law   order  it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama           this movie fails miserably on every level  i have an idea  let  s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east  maybe if we  re lucky they  ll all be shot and killed and we won  t have to ever have our time wasted by them again  did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life  my god  i can  t think of anything i  ve ever seen that was this bad  i  d rather watch ishtar    times in a row than sit through    minutes of this sorry excuse for a film  if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film  i  ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless  that  s my two cents           yes i  ll say before i start commenting  this movie is incredibly underrated  br    br   sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass  he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star  glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind  br    br   the acting was good  apart from thewlis  br    br   stone really has a talent with this role  she  s slick  naughty and seductive and doesn  t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino   morrisey was also good  he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it  thewlis however was lame  he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way  he really sucked  br    br   overall  this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch  just ignore thewlis           based on a edgar rice burroughs novel  at the earth  s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest  a victorian scientist dr  abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine  which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold  they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters  br    br   cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying  instead of being a bold adventurer  he comes across effeminate  on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable  caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth  also in the cast are  godfrey james  cy grant and michael crane           i have seen this film at least     times and i am still excited by it  the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat  plus i still think bryan brown is the tops  brilliant film           this show makes absolutely no sense  every week  two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening  and every week without fail  they somehow stumble upon a murder  because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder  right  but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder  wouldn  t the smart thing to do be to tell the police  you know  the people who can actually do something about it    but every week  these two fools go around  polluting evidence  committing crimes of their own  and  in some cases  causing more murders  once they do miraculously solve the murders  there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted  all the evidence has been sabotaged  and you  d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two  wouldn  t you  yay  we  ve solved the murder  now like every other week  let  s go and confront the murderer ourselves and  with no back up  tell them that we know about it  there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger  is there  rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television  and certainly the most ridiculous           this movie was so bad it was funny  for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie  a la   for your consideration     the   cliffhanger   scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt  the script was dreadful enough  but coupled with sean young  s terrible acting    especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail  complete with flashbacks  while dangling off a cliff    makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching  in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie  i still can  t believe how this thing got made  first of all  how did such a bad script get the green light  how did star actors get attached  were they at low points in their careers  questions  questions           meryl streep is such a genius  well  at least as an actress  i know she  s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents  but she nails the accent every time  her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring  mrs  chamberlain  as portrayed here  was not particularly likable  nor all that smart  but that just makes streep  s work all the more remarkable  i think she is worth all    or so of her oscar nominations  about the film  well  there were a couple of interesting things  i don  t know much about australia  but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story  i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago  but it came through loud and clear yesterday  and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues  a pretty good film  a bit different  grade  b            airport     is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist   the concorde supersonic airliner   into their   disaster in the sky   formula  br    br   bogged down with unintentional humor  the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde  s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft  s flight path  and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air  many stars in this one including robert wagner  sylvia kristel  alain delon  and martha raye as a nervous passenger   br    br   not really related to the other   airport   films           supposedly a   social commentary   on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the       s    nightmare   is full of bad southern stereotypes  complete with phoney accents  not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners  this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised   babe in prison   movie  especially in its uncut original version  nevertheless  acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors  in particular  does a good job of making viewers hate him  even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes  there  s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed  who appears as the lecherous warden  and tina louise  previously ginger of   gilligan  s island    made a rather believable sadistic prison guard  my grade  d   br    br             ok  i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday  because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it  br    br   but we decided it to watch it anyway  just for hilarity purposes  br    br   and i  m sorry  but this has got to be  one of the worst films in history  br    br   it began off alright  and we thought   ok this might actually be ok    but after about    minutes  we were sadly mistaken  br    br   it began when the   mysterious paint baller   turned out to be the most obvious character  the scouser australian  i say that because he had an accent which couldn  t be identified   who  s acting might i just say  was abysmal  br    br   then it got to the end  and by that time  we had all lost the will to live  the paint ball finals  br    br   the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn  t actually win  but annoyingly enough they won by default  br    br   and i know this has nothing to do with it  but the name the team were given was just awful  critical damage  i mean they could of picked a more awesome name  like   the destroyers of the anti christ   or something  or that  s what the film should of been called anyway           insignificant and low brained  haha       s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen  yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind  the special effects are tacky  the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs    the brain   takes place in a typical quiet american town setting  where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet  it is here that a tv guru named dr  blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling  under the label of   independent thinkers    a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill  how cool is that  now  it  s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world  the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr  blake and his monstrous brain actually come from  there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that  s about it  meh  who needs a background in a movie like this  really  there  s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the   evil   brain looks like an over sized sock puppet  the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie  director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made   bloody birthday    guilty pleasure of mine  and   plague    both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry  the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale  whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator  a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she  s obviously a great talent   she has exactly   movies on her repertoire of which this is her   masterpiece    in her debut  she was credited as   runaway model   and in     men and a baby    her character is referred to as   one of jack  s girls    i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress            does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents   one edition featured charles bronson   robbie coltrane   being interviewed about his new movie glc   br    br      it  s about a man   an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner     br    br      and after glc what next for bronson       br    br      we  re using a new angle   my family don  t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same     br    br   this accurately describes the evil that men do   it  s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn  t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained  br    br   bronson is a retired hit man who isn  t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of    the doctor      not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture   it  s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents  br    br   as you may guess it  s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor  s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included  br    br   in many ways it  s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time   but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons   believe me this movie won  t be shown until well after the watershed          well  here  s another terrific example of awkward     s film making  the rudimentary premise of   what  s the matter with helen    is quite shocking and disturbing  but it  s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion  in the hands of any other movie crew  this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale  but with director curtis harrington    whoever slew auntie roo     and scriptwriter henry farrell    hush  hush  sweet charlotte    in charge  it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres  the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific  but there  s a lot more to experience  like love stories  a swinging       s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing  the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique  we  re literally catapulted back to the       s  with a sublime depiction of that era  s music  religion  theatrical business and wardrobes  following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder  adelle  debbie reynolds  and helen  shelley winters  flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls  particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment  as she falls in love with a local millionaire  but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia  she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist  fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies  the script  although not entirely without flaws  is well written and the film is adequately paced  there  s never a dull moment in   what  s the matter with helen    although the singing  tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot  but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters  she  s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who  s about to snap any second and  especially during the last ten minutes or so  she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers  jason voorhees   and michael myers   combined  there are several terrific supportive characters who are  sadly  a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential  like mich  al macliamm  ir as the cocky elocution teacher  agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies   house  there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us  but particularly the set pieces and costume designs  even nominated for an oscar   are breathtaking           resnais  wow  the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a     s french musical in vibrant colour  the opening voice over with old  embellished inter titles was a nice touch  then the camera aperture opens  like the old hand crankers  on a black   white placard  the camera backs off  or rather  up   suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party  this is all in the first    seconds  br    br   then the music starts  a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of   girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film  and yes  i speak french  so i can  t blame it on the subtitles   those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song  then they leave  and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue    minutes into the film  br    br   i  m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time   musical cacophony  but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out  i endured  br    br   it didn  t get much better  i  ll tell you why  there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters  we don  t even see their faces half the time  as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera   people flit on   off stage like moths around a lamp  and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot  it  s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a   hour movie  with bad songs  br    br   the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did    hour  was that i was looking at the camera techniques  lighting and scenery which were all  i admit  excellent  but is that enough to hold your attention for   hours  not me  maybe tomorrow i  ll try watching the end  aw  who am i kidding  i have more important things to do  i  m sure you do  too  skip this           i saw this movie in the middle of the night  when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch  it  s one of those films where you stop to see what it is   just for a moment    but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can  t turn it off  no matter how bad it is  one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it  s good and so bad it  s  well  just plain bad  it  s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it  s both  great middle of the night fare  if only for the fabulous tennis drag  don  t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male  because logic does not apply           this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick   doppelganger    an astronaut from our earth crashing on a   counter earth   on the opposite side of the sun  and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world  and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series  however  the whole thing sank without a trace  and tv is probably better off for it  br    br   everyone here is perfectly adequate in a   made for tv   way  cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance  so does glenn corbett  who seems to be a kind of poor man  s john saxon  who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the   world order   on counter earth  br    br   but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad  br    br   i  ll give one example  in the original template for this pilot     doppleganger     the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm  and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence  it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again   then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds  only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers  br    br   in   stranded in space    the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound  things start shaking  and the camera blurs into a blackout  and as a friend pointed out  it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats  the director wasn  t even shaking the camera or the set   i  ve seen episodes of   the twilight zone   and   the outer limits   that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity  br    br   and that  in essence  is what  s wrong with   stranded in space    no budget  no time  no imagination   just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys   imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest  sorry  guys  it didn  t work   br    br   i  m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away  and never thought of it again  except as a listing on their c v  and that  s what you  the viewer will do  you  ll remember  if pressed  that you once watched a tv movie called   stranded in space    but it made no lasting impression on you  and you can  t recall too much about it           black comedy isn  t always an easy sell  every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful  like fargo  for example  but usually they don  t often find big audiences  people seem to either set their minds for comedy  or for serious mayhem  there doesn  t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both  throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit  yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age  danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in       br    br   devito plays an odd mamma  s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with  the mother is played by anne ramsey  who passed away shortly after this was released  and she is quite a caricature  she is loud  ugly  rude  and overbearing  though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself  he wants desperately to have his mother offed  he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes  but he clearly doesn  t have the guts to actually do it himself  that  s where billy crystal comes in  crystal plays larry donner  owen  s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college  larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it  he is currently trying to write a new one  but cannot even come up with a decent first sentence    the night was       owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria  and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train  owen decides to travel to hawai  i and murder larry  s ex wife  once it appears he has done so  he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother  the resulting action is often quite funny  and even poignant  it  s certainly never dull and often full of surprises  br    br   the acting is exceptional  even if ramsey was a bit over the top  crystal is as good as he can be  and devito has always been undervalued as a performer  the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works  often painfully so  the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes  and the off beat tone is truly refreshing  i have often been critical of the late     s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making  throw momma from the train takes chances  both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot  how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered  the film isn  t too long  and it is chock full of laughs  writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public  but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone    of    stars  br    br   the hound           back in       i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july   something like    days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation  weekends and the holiday itself  i stayed in town during that time  hanging out at my parents   house a lot  br    br   i didn  t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents   tube  i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx  i was hooked instantly  i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents   family homes and through inheritances from relatives   estates  and often wondered about their history  value  etc  br    br   after my long vacation  i used to go to my folks   house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx  br    br   i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air  br    br   it never did  personal fx was the first  and best   of the collectible shows  and it vanished from the air  almost fifteen years later  i  m still sore  br    br   way to go  fx           paul verhoeven  s predecessor to his breakout hit   basic instinct   is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller  verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films  both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why  the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve  played by jeroen krabb     a gay  alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes  while there  he meets the seductive christine halsslag  ren  e soutendijk  who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him  even if it kills him  br    br   paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film  and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it  many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be  but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration  and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on  paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself  and that is one of things i like best about him  this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards  and that doesn  t happen very often    i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work   but you  ll see what i mean when you see the film  make sure you get the uncut version    there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i  ve mentioned  but are lovely nonetheless  a man gets eaten by lions  another one has a pipe sent through his skull  a boat is smashed in half   lovely  br    br   the acting in the fourth man isn  t anything to write home about  but it  s solid throughout  jeroen krabb   holds the audience  s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer  it is ren  e soutendijk that impresses the most  though  as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale  her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct  but the original fatale did it best  paul verhoeven  s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view  all of which help to create the mystery of the story  verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish  but he obviously has talent and it  s a shame that he doesn  t put it to better use  of all the verhoeven films i  ve seen  this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across  trust me  it  s worth the effort           i accept that most     s horror aren  t scary by today  s standards  but what the hell is this  when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast  instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth    yeah which is what the people wanted  br    br   the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast    but the title really kills the movie  night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn  t any blood to speak of  br    br   i like how the     s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one  this movie isn  t the worst i  ve ever seen but its almost up there  br    br     out of             demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs  it is definitely an awful example of a film  so awful in fact that i don  t even consider it a movie  i describe it more as a thing     a monstrous thing  a thing that must be stopped at all costs  my friends and i first discovered this     thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend  s house  it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies  we unfortunately picked this one   well  during the    minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up  the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word  it  s just a cheap  poorly done rip off of evil dead  the whole   story   seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces  i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed  i  ve seen bad horror movies before  manos  troll    hobgoblins      shudder  i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity  watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films  br    br   fun fact  this film is like a cockroach on steroids  much like the ouija board  every time we try to get rid of it  it always seems to mysteriously reappear  kind of scary huh           there is a difference between a   film    and a   movie    a film  regardless of quality  is ready for public consumption  a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder  in my time as a viewer  i have seen may examples of both  br    br   on september     i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski  s   donnybrook    now having read the script and having seen two different cuts  a rough cut and the   finished   product  of this piece  i can safely say it is a movie  and a student movie  at that  it is  for lack of a better word  competent  which is to say  the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images  the visuals are  for the most part  static and unimpressive  and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots  with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters  i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film  but some visual flair would have been appreciated  and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested  br    br   granted  there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written  engrossing story and some sharp dialog  steven soderbergh  s   sex  lies  and videotape   comes immediately to mind  this movie  however  has neither  the main story is weak and unfocused  if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father  then i feel this movie misses the point  what i got out of it is that davie  s main aspiration is to   change the face of rock   n   roll    however  we see very little activity on his part to show this  while there is one dream sequence at the beginning  and an impromptu performance of his at the end  all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar  we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs  but we never see him in full rock out mode  next time  show don  t tell the audience  anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this  also  davie doesn  t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the       s  he looks like he  d be more comfortable in the early days of rock   n   roll  posing as james dean  s less talented brother  in the meantime  the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich   characters  and story threads  that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story  are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency  i e  the subplot involving terry  s father   if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction  i will consider watching   napolean dynamite   again  a film i could barely make it through the first time  br    br   as for the above mentioned dialog scenes  i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between  is it too much to ask for characters who do speak  i don  t think it is  when the characters do speak  it is in short  choppy sentences  collections of oh so insightful questions  angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts  these characters simply do not behave like normal  rational people  working with material like this  it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film  al hudson  s  and that  s just because he  s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen  a good director  or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director  would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them  however  with satejowski being so close to the material  he simply doesn  t see them  or  if he does  he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it  ll hurt his creative vision  being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner  is the mark of a self indulgent  misguided fool  just ask rob schneider   br    br   in the end  we are left with a poor  high school set  knock off of zach braff  s amazing   garden state   combined with the equally amazing   velvet goldmine    two films far more worthy of your time  br    br   now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review  allow me to offer this  the best i can do is compliment mr  satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see  however  the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur  this is a student movie  nothing more  nothing less  if the movie holds any promise  and let  s face it  at this point  it isn  t going to come from the acting  writing  or directing   it is this  if  if  the people associated with this film are willing  then  please  learn from this movie  file it away  and use the lessons learned on your next attempt  don  t attack your critics  or have friend or family do it for you  if you are able to do this  maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution  worthy of being called a   film    br    br   i am your audience  and i am willing to watch           please re watch all   series and do not go see this movie  the trailer is completely misleading and the   weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out   min tv episode into the most painful  hrs of my life  truly an awful film  tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins  micky has   line  and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns  also mr briss  s accent just changes about   times in the film tons of badly acted extras  and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for   hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap          batman and robin all is forgiven          finally  an iranian film that is not made by majidi  kiarostami or the makhmalbafs  this is a non documentary  an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the   system   in its ass  it  s all about football and its funny  its really funny  the director says   the places are real  the event is real  and so are the characters and the extras  this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors  as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness    the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a  your heart is made of stone b  you are blind  excellently scripted  the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness  it has won the jury grand prize  berlin        dear reader  it  s near perfect  where  where can i get hold of it           sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror  if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes  sometimes a real gem will present itself    this  unfortunately  was not the case with   satan  s whip    br    br   written and directed by jason maran    satan  s whip   attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film  with no real pay off at the end  i  m guessing that the black   white  and blue  cinematography must have been for a reason  however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue  and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on  the story in itself is not that bad  and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic  this  combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real  red  gore made   satan  s whip   one to forget quite quickly  i will give it a       rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle  but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time           tainted look at kibbutz life br    br   this film is less a cultural story about a boy  s life in a kibbutz  but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general  in the first two minutes of the movie  the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves  and it  s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical   kibbutznikim    besides the two main characters  a clinically depressed woman and her young son  every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well  evil   br    br   the story centers on how the kibbutz  like some sort of cult  slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows  there is no happiness  no joy  no laughter in this kibbutz  every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny  hypocrisy  violence  cultism  repression etc  for example  while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking    year old boy    his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his   jewish   physical appearance and brutish personality  he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother  he treats these volunteers like trash  after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn  t seen in a long time due to his military service  he orders  quote      linda  go take shower and i cum in two minutes     br    br   there is one other   good   character in this movie    a european foreigner who plays the mother  s boyfriend  when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother  s son  the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist  s arm  he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for   violent   behavior against one of the kibbutz members  more hypocrisy  the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex cannot happen before age     or without love and gives an account of the actual act that  s supposed to be humorous for the audience  but is really just stupid  she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy  s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse   br    br   the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult  children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders  the mother apparently can  t   escape   the kibbutz  although in reality  anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose  it  s a mystery how the boy  s father died  but you can rest assured  the kibbutz   drove him to it   and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless  wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son   br    br   that  s the gist of this movie  one dimensional characters  over dramatization  dry performances  and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience  s head    that kibbutz life was degrading  miserable and even deadly for those who didn  t   fit in    i feel sorry for the guy who made this film    obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz  but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs            when will i ever learn    the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane  please allow me to vent my spleen    br    br   i will admit  the setting  presumably new york city  has never been so downright ugly and unappealing  i am reminded that the     s was a bad decade for men  s fashion and automobiles  and all the smoking   if the plan was to cheapen the characters  it succeeded  br    br   for a film to work  at least  in my simple estimation   there has to be at least one sympathetic character  only ned beaty came close  and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky  if a stray shot had struck mikey  well  it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most  br    br   i can  t remember when i detested a film as strongly  i suppose i  m a rube who doesn  t dig   art   flicks  oh  well             lost              carnivale      desperate housewifes     the list goes on and on  these  and a bunch of other high quality  shows proves that we  re in the middle of a golden age in television history    lost   is pure genius  incredible layers of personal  and psychologically viable  stories  underscored by sublime cinematography  incredible to use this word  when describing a tv show   a killer score  great performances and editing  anyone who isn  t hooked on this  are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever  it may have its problems  when watching only one episode a week  but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this  hope they keep it up  as i  m sure they do            clifton webb is one of my favorites  however  mister scoutmaster is not one of his best  his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny  the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality  in addition  the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s  patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine  clifton webb does his best with a poor script  edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do  the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film  his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age  however  once you  ve heard it  you  ve heard it and you don  t need to hear it again  unfortunately  he is in the majority of the film  s scenes  i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up  since he has a lot of scenes in this film  this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film  there were and are so many talented child actors  it  s a pity this film doesn  t have any of them in it  still  clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing           this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality  darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story  we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime  darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy  a disease which affects all the muscles in his body  he is confined to a wheelchair  and needs round the clock attention  so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a       mile round trip to the west coast and back  watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure   laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way  and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises           the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses  the mythical city of everytown in      represents england in general  but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world  when war finally does arrive  it  s ravages continue not for another five years  but until      at which time everytown is completely destroyed  adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the   wandering sickness    a pestilence that continues for another four years  br    br     things to come   balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view  where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization  the   wings over the world   concept plays out a bit corny  though it  s spokesman cabal  raymond massey  is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause  if he fails  others will follow  this message is continually reinforced throughout the film  brought home convincingly in massey  s end of movie speech  man  s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an   all the universe or nothing   mindset  br    br   the film  s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film   metropolis    as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year       the spectacle of the city  s rebirth strikes a resonant chord  as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie  s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition  where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man  s first mission to the moon  but in       a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than       br    br     things to come   is one of those rarities in film  a picture that makes you think  which side will you come down on  the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo  it  s not a comfortable question  as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes  those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control           fulci    does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made  answer  yes  cat in the brain  also known as nightmare concert is fulci  s last masterpiece  yes it is  no matter what some people will say about it  there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci  s movies  br    br   fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one  lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself  who plays    well horror splatter gore director  who thinks he is slowly going insane  it  s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here  being fulci flick  you need to know it  s gory  how much  well pretty much  i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it  but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore  and believe me  it  s a hard to archive  even the braindead didn  t stop it  citb is all about gore  almost every scene revolves about fulci  who after being hypnotized by  khmmm  evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees  some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey  and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor  which starts to spit some ooze from it  s wounds  forget the beyond or zombie    this is the goriest fulci movie  now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie  he is such a brilliant director  some funny moments and lines happens from time to time  like one where fulci says   making gore movies is kind of a sickness   ending is very good considering that fulci  and most of the italian horror masters  is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes  if you are fun of the fulci  make sure you check it out  if you have a weak stomach  avoid this and repeat   its only a movie   ps  some of the gore scenes within this movie  chainsaw dismemberment  full   tongue torn out  eyeballs torn out  maggot infested corpses  zombies  decapitations  face being putted in boiling water  stabs in the shower  to head   throat slit  many parts of the body and organs being toast aside  hammer smashed face             what an incomprehensible mess of a movie  something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom  and from the size of the jar he  s been shot about fifty times by now  and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico  whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear  and you  ll never hear another screenplay feature the word   butthorn   either  gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from   lethal weapon   and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity  william smith does another turn as a russian soldier  the same character he played in   red dawn   a few years earlier  after playing biker heavies for most of the   s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies  sadly he  ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in   every which way you can            i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors  i like raptors because they are scary  my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the   th movie with the girl who eats the banana  br    br   i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part  the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time  br    br   this is best movie          warning  review contains mild spoilers br    br   a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise  and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st  series  however  just two years on and i find i can  t remember enough about them in order to do it    i guess they couldn  t have made much of an impression  from what i do recall  some of the sequels    dream warriors in particular    weren  t as bad as is often made out  though even the original was no classic  generally  the predictability of the premise  if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams  doesn  t lend itself to narrative tension  but while i cannot recall much of the first five films  i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy  s dead  br    br   an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character  s demise  the fact that the movie  s conclusion is not even hidden  but in fact the entire purpose for the film  s being goes to illustrate how vacant  soulless and cynical this venture was  br    br   taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain  robert englund  s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter  i always thought freddy  s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe  it  s like englund  s crying out   we know this is garbage    but you  re paying to see it  so who  s the one laughing    and i  m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight  was freddy  s appearance in the films always so rudimentary  all he gets to do here is a few   haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr    har    har    hars   and that  s it  if this was the only elm st  film you  d ever seen you wouldn  t get to know the character at all  even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic  ie  overstated  misplaced and not at all funny  irony  br    br   acting is almost universally poor  just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language  only kananga himself  yaphet kotto  keeps his dignity  and when roseanne  tom arnold and alice cooper show up  you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire  the script  too  is absolutely lousy  almost wholly without merit  carlos  ricky dean logan  opens a road map  upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written   you  re f  ked    when prompted for the map  carlos responds   well the map says we  re f  ked    who wrote the screenplay  oscar wilde  br    br   or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy  his hearing enhanced to painful levels  so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin    a potentially fatal sound  given that all sounds are magnified  oddly  the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect    nice hearing from you  carlos    quips freddy  hoping some better lines will come along  it  s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn  t occur instaneously  so being knocked unconscious wouldn  t allow instant access into freddy  s world  though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a   d finale plot logic isn  t that high on the list of requirements  br    br   the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious  dislikeable group in the whole series  tracy  lezlie deane  is the only one who gets to greet freddy with   shut the f  k up  man   and a kick in the scallops  and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients  freddy  s dead  no laughs  no scares  no interest  no fun  br    br             some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the   s  but although it is undoubtedly brutal  violent and very downbeat  this film from pou soi cheang isn  t really sleazy  lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison  however  it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch  particularly if gritty  hard edged action is your thing  br    br   edison chen plays pang  a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge  sam lee is wai  the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down  whatever the cost  with wai closing in on his target  pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape  until he meets yue  a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse  br    br   a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography  amazing sound design  a haunting score  and solid performances from chen and lee  as well as newcomer pei pei as pang  s love interest   dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence  think along the lines of chan wook park  s vengeance trilogy   stabbings  shootings  merciless beatings  all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang  br    br   of course  this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved  and sure enough  pretty much everyone in this film dies  rather nasty deaths   unfortunately  there is a fine line between tragedy and  unintentional  comedy  and in its final moments  dog bite dog crosses it  in a laughably over dramatic final scene  pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on  eventually  after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas  a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on  a now dead  yue  delivering their baby moments before he himself dies  br    br   whilst this film might not be a   classic   slice of hong kong excess  with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals  it  s still worth seeking out           i watched this movie for the hot guy  and even he sucked  he was the worst one  well  okay  i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too  he was even worse  the guy wasn  t that cute in the end  he had the most terrible accent  and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can  t stand up to his mom for the one he   loves   there  s ever been  overall  and if this makes any sense to you  when i go to pick up movies at the video store  i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so    well  at least it can  t be worse than carolina moon    the most terrible movie  and the most terrible writing  acting  plot  everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips  it was the most horrid movie i will ever see  with gabriela way up there too  i hated it  and trust me  if there was any number under   imdb had for rating  i  d choose that in a heartbeat           absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story  told with unflinching eye and with gripping style  if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people  this could change your mind  something for you feds too  a good model for government coverups  if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you           i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say  even though this movie did not get the best comments  this movie made my day  it got me thinking  what a false world this is  br    br   what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you  it  s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake  it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance  same way some people are such that they are never grateful  this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself   br    br   a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster  the surviving brother decides to take revenge  through this process  we learn about the futility of this world  nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone  br    br   amitabh gave the performance of his life  the new actor aryan gave a good performance  the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show  her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance  chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself  br    br   a great movie by raj kumar santoshi  his movies always give some message to the audience  his movies are like novels of nanak singh  a punjabi novelist who  s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil  because they have a real message for the audience  they are entertaining as well as lesson giving           after a very scary  crude opening which gives you that creepy   chainsaw massacre   feeling  everything falls apart  br    br   spoiler alert  as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing  you know they are the real killers  anyone who have seen enough of these   fooled ya   movies can figure this out  br    br   this movie is mader with one thing in mind  to depict brutal murders  why  then  is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well  will this be next for us movie goers  the torture and abuse of children  whats wrong with you people  lynch is truly has a disgusting  ugly mind           i can  t say much about this film  i think it speaks for itself  as do the current ratings on here   i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it  i even  tried  to like it by watching it twice  but i just couldn  t  i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever  ever again  and i  m not one to trash a movie  but i truly believe this was awful  it wasn  t even funny in the slightest  the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them  i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me  all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie  and it reminds me not to waste my money  amy poehler is so very annoying  too  br    br   overall  well  i think you get my point  the stars are for walken  by the way           i am not so old that i can  t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times  but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells  br    br   from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead  neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line  goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better  even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades   br    br   if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was    years ago   this movie is worse  it was not even funny by accident it is sad  pathetic and a total waste of time  may goldthwaits   hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script  strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene  he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood          in new orleans  an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie  walter jack palance   he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch  zero mostel  and poldi  guy thomajan   killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea  during the autopsy  the family man lieutenant commander dr  clinton reed  richard widmark  of the u s  public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic  the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren  paul douglas  to help dr  clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them  br    br     panic in the streets   discloses a simple story  but it is still effective and with a great villain  the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years  jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut  and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive  my vote is seven  br    br   title  brazil     p  nico nas ruas      panic in the streets             the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it  but i soon learned that i had been duped  i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal  but i was wrong  this movie is one of the dumbest i  ve seen in a long time  the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you  the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy  it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building  go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead  i can  t believe national lampoon put its name on this  don  t buy it  don  t rent it  don  t waste   hours of your life on this           there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence   the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost  but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it  it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi  and at the very worst an act of murder  like most people  when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult  after seeing this  i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s  government through his eccentric actions  sure  there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound  but none of it was illegal  it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound  all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless  and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site  the clueless testimony of janet reno  and the partisan defense of the attack on waco  a defense led by a few of the committee democrats  standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s  senator from ny charles schumer  i voted for the man when i lived in ny state   i  m a democrat  pretty left leaning too  after seeing his actions on this committee  i wish i could go back in time and vote for d  amato instead  for anyone remotely interested in the government  this is a very crucial film  a must see  i even think this should be shown in classes   it  s that important           i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent  it has it  s moments i guess you would say  some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool  and some of the location shots were very authentic  i won  t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting  i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre  the action is good  the acting is decent  the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion  and the story is pretty interesting    out of ten          yes  i call this a perfect movie  not one boring second  a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors  a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with  perfect lighting  crisp black and white photography  a fitting soundtrack  an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works  it  s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest  the mark everyone should endeavor to reach  br    br   barbara stanwyck is simply stunning  there was nothing this actress couldn  t do  and she always went easy on the melodramatic side  no hysterical outbursts with this lady   i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford  and this movie confirmed my opinion  always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments  it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career  and this one is by far the least interesting  br    br   the title fits this movie very well  it is about desires  human desires i think everyone can understand  actually  no one seems to be scheming in this movie  all characters act on impulse  everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else  the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here  br    br   i liked what this movie has to say about youth  about maturing and about the necessity to compromise  the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock  s shadow of a doubt  it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america  the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang  s considerably harsher movie clash by night  made one year earlier  where stanywck stars in a similar part  i can also recommend it           i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie    that  s the way of the world    it  s been about    years since i  ve seen this movie  and i would like to see it again  earth wind   fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes  it was unfortunate that this group didn  t take off like their counterparts in the early     s  but as previously stated  racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups  it is good to see that earth wind   fire continuing their success  i would like to add this movie to my collection  someone please help me if possible  thank you for your attention  milton shaw          i saw the movie   hoot   and then i immediately decided to comment it  the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet  some people think that if they have money  they can do whatever they want to  which probably is like  but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful  this movie is not just about kids  this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do  when i was twelve  i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn  t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law  but fearing that i might harm them actually   i am currently     what so ever  the acting was great  the   main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them  i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie    and enjoy           i had some reservations about this movie  i figured it would be the usual bill of fare     a formula movie about christmas  being in the middle of a heat wave in late june  we decided to give it a shot anyway  maybe we would see some snow  br    br   this movie turned out to be one laugh after another  ben affleck was believable in his character  but the real star of this one is james gandofini  he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great   dad    br    br   if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours  definitely check this one out           when i first saw this film around   months ago  i considered it interesting  but little more  but it stuck with me  that interest grew and grew  and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself  i purchased the criterion dvd box set  and it turns out that i was right the second time  alexander nevsky is a great film  it is rousing  and i  m sure it succeeded in its main aim  propaganda against the germans  br    br   that is the most common criticism against this film  and against eisenstein  that it is merely propagandist and nothing else  it  s untrue  he is an amazing film artist  one of the most important whoever lived  by now  the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein  s films as art           focus is another great movie starring william h  macy  i first discovered macy in fargo and i  ve seen a few of his films and he hasn  t yet deceived me  macy is the archetypal   nice guy with something to hide    in focus  he plays the role of lawrence newman  a loyal and hard working stiff  who harbours his handicapped mother at home  the scene is set after world war ii  at the height of mccarthyism  newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically  anti semite  after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent  he is asked to buy a pair of glasses  to improve his failing eyesight  br    br   unbelievably  the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart  his wife  played by a great laura dern   as the film unravels  newman will begin to see a whole different world  where being jewish is akin to being an animal  br    br   the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal  the chilling thought is that in some places  it probably still is           in   brave new girl    holly comes from a small town in texas  sings   the yellow rose of texas   at a local competition  and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia  from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty  i loved this movie  it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace  the acting was  of course  wonderful  virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding  as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end  it seems a sequel could be in the making   kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production  quite a gem in the film archives           despite a totally misleading advertising campaign  this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich  d  sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending  clue    for all considering seeing this turkey  sam raimi didn  t direct it  although commercials for the movie play up his involvement  in truth he is one of four producers  it  s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie  i don  t think he would ever have directed something like this  that task was left to the pang brothers  br    br   the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other   horror   films  so you  ll find absolutely zero original content in   the messengers    what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of   pulse    a couple that could have come from   the birds    one or two from   the others    etc  nearly every scene  almost every line of dialogue  is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies  the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the   surprise ending   long before it comes  br    br   right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign  centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts  has nothing to do with this movie  in fact  everyone can see the ghosts  the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them  even quite early in the movie  i  m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal  which otherwise is entirely absent  now you know  so don  t be fooled  perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors  it simply isn  t there  all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted  coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes  just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened  anyhow  didn  t anyone think to maybe arrest him    it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots  loud noises  visual flashes  and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling   boo    all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house  if there  s any message that   the messengers   delivers  it  s   don  t waste your time on this movie             this movie sucks ass  something about a heatwave in some european country  complete trash  there  s nothing going for this movie whatsoever  maybe    seconds of sex but that  s it  there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off  this movie is complete rash and you shouldn  t subject yourself to watching it  i regret it it  s very boring  i would rate it zero but i can  t  no body in their right mind should see this  i  m sure you  ll regret it completely i did  how could they think up something this bad  even mystery men was better  mystery men  that sucks  that movie wasn  t worth being made  complete waste of time  the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored           i was looking forward to the guardian  but when i walked into the theater i wasn  t really in the mood for it at that particular time  it  s kind of like the olive garden   i like it  but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it  br    br   i  m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit  the trailers looked good  but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject   waterworld  plus  despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect  i  m still not completely sold on him  something about the guy just annoys me  probably has to do with his simian features  br    br   it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away  the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission  and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers   orange face lift  my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher  s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious  sunglasses  a tough guy toothpick in his mouth  and sportin   a smirk that  d make george clooney proud  yeah  we get it  i was totally ready to hate him  br    br   but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs   br    br   darn you  ape man  efficiently mixing tense  exciting rescue scenes  drama  humor  and solid acting  the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy  you can quibble about its clich  s  predictability  and rare moments of overcooked sappiness  but none of that takes away from the entertainment value  br    br   i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys  but on the contrary  the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film  coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen  so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group  br    br   do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer  just think about it  you get to go on dangerous missions in cold  dark  rough water  and then you must fight disorientation  exhaustion  hypothermia  and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded  panicked people who are depending on you for their survival  and if all that isn  t bad enough  sometimes you can  t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies  br    br   man  who wants all that responsibility  not me  i had no idea what it was really like for these guys  and who would have thought i  d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education   br    br   not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero  but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers  br    br   the gist  br    br   moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it  s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance  i saw it for free  but had i paid i would  ve felt i had gotten my money  s worth           going into see seven pounds i wasn  t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about  so within the first    min or so you are completely lost in the plot  have no idea what is going on and you think tim  who claims to be ben  is just a big asshole  all of this comes to an end when the   twist   so to speak  is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie  basically tim  will smith  was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives  by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to  br    br   the acting of this film is great  as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress  rosario dawson  to me  this is one of her better movies  aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to  she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film  other actors  such as woody harrelson  have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character  although the casting of the film was still good  br    br   this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped  the movie  however  was still pretty good  nothing is revealed until the last   min of the movie and everything falls into place  up until then it just seems like a pointless love story  final thought seven pounds seven stars           i saw brother  s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it  judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son  the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn  he shows up there because his brother has died  and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother  s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family  the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives  also  the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait             marar  xada   really disappointed me  i can  t consider it as a bad movie  but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions  dr  ferm  xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can  t really understand where it was born from  i mean  how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar  xada   maybe once  also  marar  xada never appeared to be a real character  instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie     or else another title was needed    some of the best acting came from a role that wasn  t really important to the story  that of marcial  the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard  of course  the scenery  the cultural tidbits of the canary islands  and other   wow   moments were interesting  but the movie fell short of a documentary  in case this was its real intention   and most importantly  as a solid drama           serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind  instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains  the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems  there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters  the mad doctor  s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy  the results are not good  this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors  there isn  t much zombie action in this one and the effects  while adequate  are nothing special  you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes  watch out for some nudity and bad language          witty  funny  intelligent  awesome  i was flipping channels late one night years ago  came across this and a wildfire started  i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know  a few  like   people out of the almost     people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did  the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time  please do yourself a favor  run don t walk  watch this and enjoy  intelligence and humor  it s a win win situation  i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of    sanechaos          it  s a unique film  as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory  because he seems so reserved   detached he  s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him  however in the deadly serious  no pun intended  last act  when coward must make like the flying dutchman  he  s much less comfortable  br    br   but his way with an epigram is peerless  and hecht   macarthur have given him some gems  macarthur  really    he was the wit of the pair   br    br   the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes  but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence  hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing    getting their dialogue on screen   note  h m themselves have blink and you  ll miss   em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene   br    br   the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott  notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward  who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward  br    br   curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table  of which he was a founder  and macarthur something of an auxiliary member  br    br   the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story  though that victory is probably due more to coward  s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot  it  s coward  woolcott  and the dialogue you remember             this is definitely a   must see   film  the excellent director alain chabat  also acting as ceasar  has managed to capture the very essence of the   adventures of ast  rix    the french comic books it  s based upon  and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy  which is also an homage to the world of animated films  this movie is so funny  so full of jokes  both visual and spoken  that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all  between your bursts of laughter  the only drawback is that a non french audience  or at least a non french speaking audience  might not get all the   private jokes    there are so many dialogues impossible to translate  so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life  that the fun might be lessened  however  it  s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture  the amazing stunts  the music  the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting  all actors are great  but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze  g  rard darmon and edouard baer  and please don  t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books     ast  rix et ob  lix contre c  sar   and directed by claude zidi           i thought this movie was stunning  with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi  artemisia gentileschi   br    br   cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully  with tentative yet confidant mannerisms  her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place  the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch  br    br   although not each character was overtly beautiful  this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time  br    br   overall i thought this film was fantastic           i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling   gentleman jim   the best boxing movie ever made  that is the robert wise paul newman flick   somebody up there likes me    that movie might be number    but   gentleman jim   is a close number    br    br   the movie doesn  t just chronicle the rise of james j  corbett  it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition  in the late     s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more   gentlemanly   days of the gloved  marquis of queensbury rules  and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability  br    br     gentleman jim   is not a realistic look at those days  it is romanticized and  yes  even a bit hokey at times  but always delightfully so  errol flynn is perfect as the   gentleman   jim who really isn  t a   gentleman   at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family  alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship  and we all know it is  of course  love that will win that match in the end   br    br   at the end of   gentleman jim   the great john l sullivan  whose famous line was not   i can lick any man in the world   of course   romanticism again  hands over his belt to corbett  this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made  realistic  no  but wonderful  hey  if you want realism watch   raging bull   instead  that is a much more realistic boxing movie  but   gentleman jim   is a lot more fun           that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead  am i the only one that really saw  rather sleptwalked  through this   film    this is the only movie i  ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back    it was just that dull  and i even saw   highlander    the quickening   at the local cinema  from beginning to end  gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies  cast together by circumstance  who eventually work together as best buddies  the action  what little there is  is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer  thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our   cinema   that there  s no chance for an   air america               well  there  s no real plot to speak of  it  s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex  which can sometimes be fun  too  but it  s not in this case   what else can i say about this     the action  when happening  is inventive and there  s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper  one that has to be several miles high   but overall there  s not much to recommend   kite    watch it if you want  but you  re not missing much if you skip this one             this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven  t seen any of the others  there are the usual ingredients  it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts  we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently  the story is just laughably idiotic  and the film takes itself much too seriously  and then  orang utans in africa  br    br   but it has a few things going for it  bo looks great  the production values  sets  costumes  etc   are quite good  and this greatly enhances its camp value  in a strange way it is actually quite funny  simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly           some people drift through life  moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye  others latch on to a cause  another person or a principle and remain adamant  committed to whatever it is   and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it  but we  re all different   made of different clay    as one of the characters in this film puts it  which is what makes life so interesting  some people are just plain crazy  though   and maybe that  s the way you have to be to live among the masses  who knows  who knows what it takes to make things   life   work  writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it  using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed   and how one  gets   committed   and obsession  in  committed    starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant  committed  obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy  too  her name is joline  and this is her story  br    br    tadmittedly  joline has always been a committed person  in work  relationships  in life in general  she  s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what  and when she marries carl  luke wilson   it  s forever  the only problem is  someone forgot to tell carl   and     days into the marriage  he  s gone  off to  find   himself and figure it all out  when joline realizes he  s not coming back  she refuses to give up on him  or their marriage  maybe it  s because of that  clay   she  s made of  regardless  she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him  which she does   in el paso  texas  of all places  but once she knows where he is  she keeps her distance  giving him his  space   and not even letting him know she  s there  she considers carl as being in a  spiritual coma    and it  s her job to keep a  spiritual vigil   over him until he comes to his senses  and while she watches and waits  her life is anything but dull  as she encounters a young woman named carmen  patricia velazquez   a waitress at one of the local eateries  carmen  s  grampy     alfonso arau   who is something of a mystic  t bo  mark ruffalo   a truck driver who has issues concerning carl  and neil  goran visnjic  an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her  for joline  it  s a journey of discovery  during which she learns a lot about carl  but even more about herself  br    br    tthere  s a touch of humor  a touch of romance  and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot  and krueger presents it all extremely well  delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining  her characters are very real people  with all the wants  needs and imperfections that make up the human condition  a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story  we see it from joline  s point of view  as krueger makes us privy to joline  s thoughts and therefore her motivations  which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold  that  along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates  makes for a very effective piece of storytelling  there  s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter  but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters  and the result is a well textured  affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life  br    br    theather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation  she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable  adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person  and one that is real  and for this film to work  it was imperative that joline be viable and believable   and graham succeeds on all fronts  her screen presence has never been more alluring  and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes  is enough to draw you in entirely  it  s all a part of the character she creates  there  s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance  who she is inside and out  she  s a likable  agreeable person  and because you  ve shared her innermost thoughts  you know who she is  it  s a good job all the way around  beginning with the way the character was written  to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life  br    br    tas carmen  patricia velazquez is totally engaging  as well  her performance is very natural and straightforward  and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character  she has a charismatic presence  but is less than flamboyant  and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth  she is refreshingly open and up front  you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back  but is totally honest on all fronts  and that  too  is part of her appeal  and  as with joline  this character is well written  and velazquez brings her convincingly to life  br    br    toverall  there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film  including those of luke wilson  casey affleck  as joline  s brother  jay   goran visnjic  alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo  who  with very little actual screen time  manages to create a memorable character  br    br    tthe supporting cast includes kim dickens  jenny   clea du vall  mimi   summer phoenix  meg   art alexakis  new york car thief   dylan baker  carl  s editor   and mary kay place  psychiatrist   a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture   reflecting upon who we are  where we  re going and what we really need    committed   is an enjoyable experience  a ride definitely worth taking                 ho hum  an inventor  s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands  unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along  enter cia agent olivia d  abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins  also in the cast are tom conti  hendrick haese and an aging roger moore  moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts  perry fans will be accepting  d  abo is wrong for the role  but nice to look at           note to self  never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it  great comedian  horrible seal  this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when  in fact  they are the most elite form of military in the world  charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation  thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen  this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie  but why charlie sheen  there are possibilities for a very passionate story here  but sheen decides to wreck them with   funny   comments           this movie is stupid  there  s no getting around it  but so is dumb and dumber  mind you  dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this  however  i for one love seeing stupid movies  tail sting  and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is  call me callous  but see this movie  and you  ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it           i was looking forward to this so much  being a big fan of the book  however  when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i  ve ever spent at the cinema  br    br   in principle  the acting  the sets and the music were excellent  and are the main reason why i  m rating this a    br    br   in this version  sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste  there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls  in the book she makes a point of describing lies as   not just wicked  but vulgar     br    br   there  s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me  sara  s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset  while the book does have a happy  and critics might say equally improbable  ending  it doesn  t leave you thinking    oh puh leeze    br    br   about the only things true to the book were  br    br      sara  s father being a soldier    the lines between sara and her father    are you learning me by heart      no  i know you by heart  you are inside my heart        sara  s friendship with becky  and her   adopting   lottie  although this last one wasn  t developed as much as it could have been     the changing of her room by adding various luxury items  that part was brilliantly done     the basic core   a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly   is there  but that  s about all that is  br    br   people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience  possibly  all i can say to that is i have two cousins   aged   and    respectively   who were big fans of this film until they read the book  br    br   if all you want is a   feel good   family film  then this delivers  if you  re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess  in fact  if you  ve read the book  don  t waste time with this one  it  s such a shame  with a cast like this  if they  d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic  br    br   am i harping on about   read the book   this and   read the book   that a little too much  very probably  but if someone attempts to adapt a book   especially such a classic   into a movie  then they should at least have done the same thing  preferably more than once           as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless  tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early     s and made everyone look bad  and claimed we all made over      a day when        a day was much closer to reality  when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work  and offered me work  i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the          id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least   years  and kept most in the bank and still left myself           for nl      and      cash games at the casinos  i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll  instead i win about       a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all  i was only homeless cause i didn  t wanna risk spending all my money and going broke  sometimes i had over            in my sock while i slept outside  anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard     on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though  due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs  im no longer homeless  am now in govt housing for      a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker  mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi  glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping  worrying about getting caught by security are finally over  had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner  its a shame how they don  t better select who they pick           i really in enjoyed watching this movie  like most of the people that watched it  i wasn  t sure that i was getting  whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies  i e  sister act  br    br   however this was not really comedy  it is a drama with comedic moments  so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking  br    br   this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood  i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie  this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks  but also about relations with in the black community  i do think that it is worth a chance  if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn  t for you          having been a marine  i can tell you that the d i  is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men  jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore  a tough  but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina  the film centers on one recruit who doesn  t seem to   get with the program    a more recent film  full metal jacket  also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing           every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie  this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be  br    br   the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what  s going on and you really want to view it for the second time  but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be  br    br   a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie  this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie  in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b  bs and lots of blood  br    br   if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts    ch  without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation  and don  t forget to switch the light off  br    br   my points on different aspects   br    br   direction        acting        atmosphere         sound effect        br    br   total                 ken burns     baseball   is a decent documentary    it presents a clear origin of the game  a great depiction of baseball  s early years and heroes  there  s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan    that said  the film has several glaring flaws  br    br      hours is simply too long for the human attention span  it  s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his   nine inning   concept  it  s not even a tight    hours    the pace on every segment is slow  almost morose    the music always nostalgic and wistful  isn  t baseball ever exciting and fun  why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy  talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak  yakking about baseball as a metaphor  baseball as americana  the psychology and theology of baseball    enough  this is syrupy  mawkish drivel  billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he  s sold us before  ken burns uses the national anthem as the series   theme song  and manages to play   take me out to the ballgame   so many times you might vomit  we get it  dude  br    br   clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal  so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues    these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today  for shame  he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times  burns falls head over heels in love with buck o  neil  a former negro league player  and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o  neil waxes poetic about his playing days  nonsense    br    br   burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down    baseball   winds up as mushy  gushy  civil rights propaganda disguised as americana  its clear that burns is not a baseball fan    otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering  not weeping and reciting soliloquies    are you listening  mr  burns  there  s no crying in baseball             quitting   may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal  as a rural guy coming to beijing  class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents   acting success  troubles arise  however  when the new man is too new  when it demands too big a departure from family  history  nature  and personal identity  the ensuing splits  and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other  hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim  br    br   but what an exceptionally convincing particularity  honesty  and sensuousness director zhang yang  and his actors  bring to this journey  no clich  s  no stereotypes  no rigid gender roles  no requisite sex  romance or violence scenes  no requisite street language and  to boot  no assumed money to float character acts and whims   br    br   hongshen jia is in his mid twenties  he  s a talented actor  impressionable  vain  idealistic  and perhaps emotionally starved  the perfect recipe for his enablers  soon he  s the   cool   actor  idolized by youth    he was hot in the early nineties      he always had to be the most fashionable    he needs extremes  and goes in for heavy metal  adopts earrings and a scarf  his acting means the arts  friends  and roles  but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input  and his self criticism  dulled by the immediacy of success  opens the doors to an irrational self doubt  self hatred     i didn  t know how to act     i felt like a phony    and to readily available drugs to counter them  he says   i had to get high to do what director wanted    so  his shallow identity as an actor becomes  via drugs  an escape from identity   br    br   hongshen  s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual  intermittent  and doggedly his own  solitude  space  meditative thinking  speech refusal  replace therapy  the abstract is out  and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors   not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways  bridges  and high rises of beijing  the physicality is almost romantic  but is not  the bike rides to ritan park  the long spontaneous walks  the drenching sun and rain  grassy picnics  the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific  he drifts in order to arrive  all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity    i started to open up   he says of this period in retrospect  and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer  s positioning  clumsy  graceful  humorous  telling  in a current circumstance  if mind or spirit is lacking  his legs can compel him to walk all night   br    br   central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles  to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity  he smashes his videos and tv  and bangs his head till bloody against his   john lennon forever   poster  he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist   but he  s the only viable guide he knows  he even imagines himself as john  s son  yoko ono   and adopts his   mother mary   as an intercessor in his   hour of darkness   and   time of trouble     the wrenching  shaking pain in the park  hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals    music is so much more real than acting   he says  and speaks of lennon  s influence as   showing me a new way    in the mental institute  the life saving apples  resistance  nourishment  reflect lennon  s presence  as does hongshen  s need to re hang his hero  s poster in his redecorated room  br    br   if lennon  s influence is spiriting  hongshen  s father  s influence is grounding  although father and son are both actors and users  drugs and drink   it is fegsen  s differences from his son that underwrites his change  for the father is more secure in himself  he accepts that he  s chinese  a peasant in a line of peasants  a rural theater director  and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions  it  s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board  sometimes with anger and rage  sometimes with humor  the blue jeans  beatles  and passivity  in his most crazed  and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar  and a fake  he exposes more of himself than his father    all the acts i acted before were bullshit    life is bullshit    and to hongshen  s emphatic   you are not my father    he softly replies    why can  t a peasant be your father     br    br   under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother  sister  friends  inmates at the rehab inst   he makes some tangible connection to a real  not whole  self  as the long term drug effects recede  so does his old identity  indebtedness replaces pride  trust distrust  integrity banishes his black cloud  all his edges soften    you are just a human being   he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine  back home  lard peasant soap is fine with him now  and his once   rare and true friendships   begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy  hongshen says of this movie    it  s a good chance to think about my life    and i might add  become a new actor  one bound to art and life  like lennon  he has gained success without a loss of identity           i have watched this movie countless times  and never failed to be charmed by it  s homely simplicity  sincerity and goodness  great characterizations by all of the cast  and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in       and she still touches me today  shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day  the nicest present i could have had           if only i had read the review by alex sander  sic  on here rather than looking at the rating of over   from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration  alien was a fantastic  dramatic and well made horror sci fi  predator was a great sci fi action mess about  i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw   alien versus predator    it too has an average grading of over   stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site  br    br   stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you  br    br   right from the beginning this film was ridiculous  no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens  ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology  the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why  from then on it gets really ridiculous  i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out  i couldn  t here  br    br   a father and son are hunting in the woods  the damaged ship crash lands to  from the view given  i would calculate at the very least    odd miles away through thick woodland  the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged  even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible  dumb redneck muppet  br    br   an edgy  thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless  dull now cop friend from the bus  when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out  a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective  crazy  nasty jock type  american sportsman not a scottish man   oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con  s brother by the way  yes they  re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again  then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc  ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child  br    br   guess what happens next  i won  t tell you much more about the actual  smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films  plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe  br    br   the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late  the aliens are boring  the predator alien is ridiculous  the action is at times exploitative  gratuitous  disgusting nonsense  the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers     oh i was shocked alright  shocked at how low some people will go to get what  a scare  some shock  to titillate the perverse  what  if you really wanted to shock  titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them  the characters have no depth and neither does the plot  it  s filmed and paced badly  it  s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them  it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters  this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you  if you haven  t seen it then well please make your own decision  br    br   ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about    seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout           even though i saw this film when i was very young  i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison  br    br   apart from the liberty taken right at the end  the film more or less faithfully follows the true story  the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that  br    br   of the performances  there is scarcely a poor performance  and tommy steele is ideally cast  also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always  br    br   because the film sticks to the facts  it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family           gone is the wonderful campiness of the original  in place is a c grade action no brainer  wich is not all bad  but pales in comparison to the original  all the meaningless sex and violence is gone  and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers  see it  but don  t expect the thrills of the first           although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars  alec guinness produced an amazing body of work  particularly in the     s     s  ranging from dramas to quirky comedies  i particularly love his comedies  as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen  far different from the usual fare from hollywood  br    br   this being said  this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies  it  s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere  except for ealing studios  which had a particular fondness for   little   films like this one  br    br   guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company  he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible  though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work  so  he tends to sneak into labs  either during the day if no one suspects or at night  and try his hand at inventing  repeatedly  he is caught  such as after he blew up the lab  and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds  then  despite the importance of the discovery  he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events  and then the fun begins  br    br   the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry  unions  the government and people in general           victor mclaglen  s performance is one of the finest in film history  br    br   i think we can all feel for   gypo   because we  ve all struggled with what is right and what isn  t and been wrong  this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio  rko radio pictures   br    br   joseph h  august  s cinematography is at its very best here  however  august  s stunning portion was mostly overlooked  he didn  t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved  br    br   this is a psychological drama  with thought  philosophy  sadness  all conveyed with as little words as possible           how do you take a cast of experienced  well known actors  and put together such a stupid movie  nimrod antel has the answer  armored  six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves  but  just as they get to first base with their plans  everything unravels quickly  with a plot like this  you  d think it couldn  t be too bad  at least for an action movie  however  in the first    minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be   normal  everyday kind of guys  they joke  they laugh  have a few drinks together  etc  then  we suddenly learn they  re planning to rob their own business  the hero ty   columbus short   is sucked into the scheme because of the cold  cruel world  even though he  s a decorated veteran  nice guy  and reliable employee  oh my  oh my  then in the last    minutes of the film  these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos  willing to butcher each other for cash  in the last scenes mike   matt dillon   goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend  the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty  it  s utterly unbelievable and   b movie   is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot  i would say don  t waste your time  too bad no one gave laurence fishburne  jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture           the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn  it  s peak years were between      and       one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle  who had a small but fanatic cult of followers  she was actually able to act  unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks  and her subsequent credits proved it  and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique  br    br   gary graver  the director  was also a talent  probably too talented for the sexploitation genre  and his skill  combined with monica gayle  s screen presence  makes sandra  the making of a woman  a pleasantly enjoyable experience  the film never drags and you won  t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button           what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be  this is the type of film that i  ve been looking for ages  particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago  which i still keep thinking about  the back cover doesn  t do this film justice  it  s superb  and in my top   for sure           i did not expect much from this film  but boy o boy  i did not expect the movie to be this bad  chris rock is not showing a good act here  you can  t get the feeling that his caracter is real  i think the movie would have been a bit better if it  s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved  the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it  in the   making of   they don  t show a single smile  this is a very bad film  i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me  but i did never laugh           i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie  i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen  it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan    i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them  when it is played on a family channel     this is one of my favorite movies  so i dont know why any one would disagree  thanks kristina          flynn  known mostly for his swashbuckling roles  and his bedroom antics   takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully  playing real life boxing champ jim corbett  flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist  all the while setting one eye on society deb smith  he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men  and a dog   including a prominent judge  the next day  he gets a chance  via smith  to gain entrance to the judge  s private club  he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club  s resident boxer  his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers  up to and including the world champion john l  sullivan  bond   flynn is downright magical here  he is the epitome of charm  charisma and appeal in this role  he looks terrific  especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit  and does virtually all of his own stuntwork  impressively   his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally  smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn  at this stage  he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation  he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time  and she does so admirably  she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude  yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell  bond is incredibly burly  brawny and towering  yet tender when the script calls for it  amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson  frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn  s manager  the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn  s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types  the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed  a few of the sets are amazingly presented  some of smith  s gowns border on the garish  but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well  it  s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing  but it  s also so much more  some of it  like the character traits shown by flynn  is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes  but a lot of it is authentic  like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes   one line is particularly memorable    i believe you like me more than i like you  but it  s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me    it  s classic romantic dialogue  and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well            often laugh out loud funny play on sex  family  and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it  s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett  plot centers on two chauffers who  ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer  both single or soon to be single ladies  quite sexy    bisset and woronov  first  if manuel wins  his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang    if he loses  he must play bottom man to his friend   br    br   lots of raunchy dialogue  fairly sick physical humour  etc  but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface  bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy  teenaged niece on a year long   missionary trip   to africa  br    br   hilarious fun           thought provoking  humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war  a small  but altruistic view of one family  s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky  this movie lessens the   glamor   of war  showing it  s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit  br    br   a lot of today  s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the   hero  s   and other glamorous features of war  but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community  this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person  s memory of those days  this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events  when in reality  this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds  perhaps thousands of   actual events   during the civil war  i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie           or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by     s flicks  br    br   i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets  med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost  flatliners  bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past  very bad things  groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies  sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts  br    br   noble idea totally fubarred in it  s execution           elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies  it has every thing you would want in a film  like great one liners  sexy star and a outrageous story  if you have not seen it  you are missing out on one of the greatest films made  i can  t wait till her new movie comes out           i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful  especially since it was based on a true man  pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl  the photography was beautiful  br    br   this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl  i want to read as much as i can about him  at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it  but i am not surprised  i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing  i gave it the highest rating  however  i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house  br    br   you can  t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes           despite having an absolutely horrid script  more about that later   this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors  barbara stanwyck and henry fonda  aside from one or two real stinkers  i  d probably watch just about anything with them in the film  as i am a huge fan of hollywood  s golden age of the     s and   s  however  no matter how much i love their films  i just can  t recommend this film  br    br   the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort  the two haven  t yet met  but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing  it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out  especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling   in hindsight  perhaps i should have just turned it off then  fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help  back at the ski lodge  he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health  he  in turn  becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her  despite hardly knowing each other  they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy  br    br   once home  however  all isn  t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy  the film plays it all for laughs  but frankly fonda  s behaviors were really creepy  spying on her and her male patients  attacking or threatening any man she treats  tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there  men and women  are out to steal away his wife  he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic  but it  s all supposed to be for laughs  considering that he seems like a dangerous nut  you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order  but  oddly  she gets mad but just can  t stay mad at fonda because he  s so          i can  t think of the right word    creepy   is all that comes to mind    later  out of the blue  multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store  then  through magical thinking  he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past  so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions  when this job falls through  the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital  giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after  they don  t go any further with the story  but i assume based on fonda  s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients  br    br   the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together  nor did the final   horatio alger   inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world  they were like three separate plots but despite this  the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy  what a creepy little film  thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films          i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all  br    br   in this case however i have to say it was bad  i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second  br    br   there was no proper storyline  i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces  br    br   the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these   pieces is scary  half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third  a   year old kid would have been able to put them together  br    br   this movie was bad  br    br   dominic         i was debating between this movie and      but chose inglourious basterds due to it  s amazingly high imdb rating  i must say now  what a disappointment  i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence  but i also expected a lot of witty dialog  i got a huge dosage of the former  but not nearly enough of the latter  i felt shortchanged  the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong  and the plot  it  s that believable or really all that entertaining either  save your time and money  i can  t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses           bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line  it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team  there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives  i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve  the song choices are really good    hush my child  just move on up   to your destination and you make boundaries and complications    anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review  bend it like beckham great flick          directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz  a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department  unhappy with the new home situation  their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well  steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle  s living habits  he even decides he wants to change his name to franz  set in the early     s  this drama is a bit comedic   change that to zany  not being a macdowell fan  unstrung heroes assures my attitude  albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste           perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger  s   where the sidewalks ends    from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel   night cry   by frank rosenberg    br    br   dana andrews is the honest  tough new york policeman  always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks    when he hit someone  his knuckles hurt    and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain  gary merrill  who points up the title    why are you always trying to push me in the gutter    he asks andrews    i have as much right on the sidewalk as you    br    br   dana andrew  s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden  painful discovery that he is the son of a thief    his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them  and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta    br    br   by a twist of irony unique to the film itself  dana andrews and gene tierney of   laura   are united once more  and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later  but no longer the romantic  beaten down by his job  by the cheap crooks    this time  he goes too far  and accidentally kills a suspect    the killing is accidental  the victim worthless  yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail    br    br   using his knowledge of police procedure  he covers up his part in the crime  plants false clues  and tries to implicate a gang leader  but cannot avoid investigating the case himself    the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder  is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical  satisfying  and in no way a compromise    br    br   the film is one of the best detective films of the     s  with curious moral values  also one of preminger  s best     br    br   preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique  projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism             in sum  overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes  the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres   in this case drama and comedy  well  at least here  these two mix like vinegar and oil  to boot  the comedy is not very funny and juvenile  additionally  the film is not really realistic  liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals  i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on  eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover  s son  by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover  marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover  at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them   either ismael or primarily nora  to the detriment of the audience  viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael  her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital  there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed  the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball  s chance in hell  the actors do their best and are appealing  but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing  editing and lack of focus           incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane  leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path    i know there are several versions of this  and this is based on the     min   one that i watched   but i can  t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck  br    br   i  d heard for long about the alleged   shocking   content of sex nudity  which honestly there isn  t much of here at all   and boring when there is  and blood  but beware   it  s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here  everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project  camera work is hopelessly inept  full of strange zooms  failed framing and confusing pans  to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage   complete with a grainy  cheapish photo quality  lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven   is it day or night  are they in  or outside  have they changed scenes  who is  or is meant to be in the shot  editing is the final sin here  making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways  continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum  story progression   and involvement  there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story    but these faults distract so much it  s tragic  br    br   a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan  burnt  and fellini like  turkey that  s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o  toole  who makes a most memorable tiberius  oh yes  which brings us to the big name actors  i  d like to line them all up one by one and just ask  who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this  there  i  ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time   period  br    br     out of    from ozjeppe          did anyone edit this film  or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes  it  s ok though  i fell asleep watching it the first time  then i fell asleep the second time and the third time  the plot is actually not the worst i  ve seen  but it  s close  the acting is not the worst i  ve seen either   but it  s close  the production      well  i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life  not trying to be spiteful  but unhinged could have used some more production  br    br   please don  t think i  m a hater of horror films  or even that i didn  t enjoy this film  i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it  the gruesome moments were not too poorly done  but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget  br    br   characters seemed awkwardly developed  or ignored all together  twist ending was pretty bad  and the exposition took forever without exposing much  br    br   i  d recommend avoiding this movie  br    br                 riding high on the success of   rebel without a cause    came a tidal wave of   teen   movies  arguably this is one of the best  a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen  the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency  than any traumatic occurrence  the supporting cast is memorable  frankenheimer directs like an old pro  just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously           most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance  i came out of this movie wondering what was going on  i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie  i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious  i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back  movie reviewers and critics love this movie  which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film  the    rating this movie has is so misleading  in    years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather  the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn  t enough to save the film   nor are the lesbian scenes            pepe le moko  played by charles boyer  is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe  and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah  a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go  until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all  for le moko  although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody  it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time   a place he can  t leave  because the moment he does  he knows he  ll be arrested  br    br   boyer  s performance was good  and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar  he captures the essence of such a character   a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time  the movie itself  unfortunately  was quite a letdown  a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent  of which i  ll mention two  first was the idea that the police wouldn  t enter the casbah  that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander  and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly  so  neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn  t enter  nor the statement by inspector slimane  also a decent performance by joseph calleia  that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense  i also found it difficult to believe that le moko   hardened criminal mastermind that he was   could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby  hedy lamarr  to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her  essentially giving himself up  i understand the irony of the final few scenes  of course  as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison  the casbah  only to find real freedom in his capture  because he  s shot and killed by the police   i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap  br    br   this is worth watching for boyer  and to a lesser extent calleia  but the story is disappointing and inconsistent                man with the screaming brain certainly isn  t a perfect movie  but i  m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell  meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career  slapstick  sarcasm  cheese  action  and happy endings  campbell is  as a writer  uneven  there are lots of things in the story that don  t make a great deal of sense  why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it    and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other  better incarnations  the scene in the restaurant  where yegor and william battle for control of william  s body  is straight out of evil dead ii   there are  however  lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant  such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue    what are you looking at     the movie looks like a sci fi channel original  probably because it was  the acting is actually pretty good  i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya  she was ruthless and cunning  yes  but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored  ted raimi handled the standard   bumbling assistant   role admirably enough  and bruce is funny as the arrogant  sardonic  condescending american jerk   now that he  s writing his own films  you  d think he  d give himself a role that he hasn  t been typecast in already   man with the screaming brain is a bizarre  nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously           you should never ever even consider to watch this movie  it is absolutely awful  this isn  t an overstatement   it is so unbelievable and exaggerated  it gets boring  it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one  they writer hasn  t been able to pull it off in a good way  br    br   if you  d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you  but still  you should plug your ears and just watch  it  s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there  and if i could choose one  this would be the last movie i would pick  but all in all  it  s your choice     br    br   enjoy           tell the truth i   m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people  which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie  and after having seen it  i was really a disappointed  and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie  br    br   i   m surprise at this movie all completely     it is like a kid   s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing  i   m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account  br    br   synopsis  the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior  there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak  br    br   just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all  they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done  the story is very predictable  though expected  and the humor is lame  and haven   t we already seen the same characters  play by mc lovin     in so many other movies  like sasquatch gang    i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep  br    br   well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay  and the acting is so so as expected when you   re watching this type of movie  and the direction  what do one expect  this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer  and that movie also sucks  but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie  br    br   anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time  only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie  can   t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone  br    br   pros  elizabeth bank  two topless scenes  br    br   cons  not funny  dreadful story  nudity and kids do not mix together  br    br   rating          grade  f           this film held my interest enough to watch it several times  the plot has holes  but the lead performers make it work  br    br   catherine mary stewart  julia kerbridge   does a great job as a woman of    who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician  she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school  she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream  br    br   meanwhile  julia  s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda  arlen aguayo stewart  to avoid having her become a ward of the state  amanda is about   years old from her appearance  amanda is so traumatized from her parent  s murder that she has become mute  needless to say  julia  s    hour days get longer caring for amanda  br    br   rob lowe plays kevin finney  a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda  he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress  amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses  perhaps more than to her aunt  julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination  kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia  br    br   the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great  you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film  the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well  arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words  the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other  you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses  br    br   we discover that julia  s sister and brother in law  the meyers  were involved in industrial espionage  they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer  they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft  julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities  the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed  br    br   in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by   of their former associates  the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them  the killers search the home and fail to find their prize  they leave a living witness to their crime  amanda  the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located  eventually  the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip  s location  br    br   eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin  he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip  after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys  the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together  br    br   what struck me about the plot were major holes  kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers  how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers  the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene  with no concern for concealing their identity  the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles  he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film  there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention  br    br   the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming  filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort           like the previous poster  i am from northern vermont  and i was inclined to like this film  however  not since   red zone cuba   have i seen such a confusing plot  the things the people to bootleg make no sense  two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car  uhm  why  then they meet two others  and drive up at night in to the bad guy  s hideout in a luxury packard    wouldn  t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense  then  parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch  the four fall asleep  when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out  of course they  re spotted and shot at  losing some of their precious cargo in the process  then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border  again  why  i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area  all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s  canada border patrol  which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now   br    br   and don  t get me started on the last half hour  which made no sense whatsoever  br    br   the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years          may contain spoilers  this movie was the worst movie ever  i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad  this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot  this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times  not even the gore in the film was good  the shootings were fake and the acting was worse  please do yourself a favor and skip this one  if you see it at the rental store then run the other way  there is nothing good about this film at all  if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head  if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow  i rate this movie a     out of     that s how horrible this film really is  the worst movie ever          watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line  the excellent character development  and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole  br    br   without giving away too much of the plot  it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons  along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves   br    br   the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically  so it isn  t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s   br    br   the film is lighthearted  you  ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags  yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe  all of the film  s characters are taken seriously  as they are  and none are diminished because of their   imperfections    br    br   i  ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends  it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance  is this synchronous or what  i think so because now i  m really geeked to give it a try   br    br   watch this wonderful family film  small children might not get it  but teens certainly would  and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again  br    br   why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery  as it is perfect as is           recap  something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica  the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica  julian rome  a former seti worker  is brought in to decipher the message  problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his  and the situation quickly turns awkward  especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him  and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly  soon the object is in the open  the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity  it is decided to open the object  but just before that is done  julian decodes the signal    do not open    but too late  and the object explodes as it is finally breached  and two things unleashed on earth  the first is an alien  that had been dormant in the object  and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff  and washington  that is suspiciously updated on this historic event  decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth  so a russian nuclear submarine  carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica  br    br   comments  the movie holds a few surprises  one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance  and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful  well worked through and a lot better than expected  unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own  and this time not in a good way  actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes  it is never really explained why washington know so much  why washington is able to command russian submarines  why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now  it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english  some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language  and obviously chose english  why    but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus  send their   do not open   message encoded  and finally the end is as open as an end can be  br    br   the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy  from me  must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot  therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good  br    br                 this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club  beyond that  it features a truly bad script with dull  unrealistic dialogue  that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking           had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix  i  d have a couple of hours of my life back  i  m frankly suspicious when i see that a film  s director also wrote it  in this case  according to the credits  the same guy was   writter and director     unfortunately  an indication of the overall quality of this production  there were a few interesting moments  e g   judy tenuta  s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism  which led me to rate this two stars rather than one  those moments  however  were few and far between     and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me  not to mention reprehensible in its violence  i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i  d seen the whole thing  nope  though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later  the   spinning camera   technique was overused and essentially pointless  i found myself talking to the tv screen    what      or   for goodness sake  get on with it    not recommended           the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me  this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling  well documented and enraging  as an american  i am constantly humiliated by my country  s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement  we suck  this is probably the first john pilger documentary i  ve seen  but it immediately made me want to see what else he  s done  my only complaint  and the reason i gave this film only   out of     is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments  demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction   but makes no suggestion of how to help  i don  t know about britain  but america  s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government  s doings  a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders   cause           this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film   it just  well  sucks i can  t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few  but lloyd  come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good   oh wait  that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck  the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska  and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however  is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but  don  t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don  t say i didn  t warn you           this is a very memorable spaghetti western  it has a great storyline  interesting characters  and some very good acting  especially from rosalba neri  her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic  she steals every scene she is in  and expresses so much with her face and eyes  even when she  s not speaking  her performance is very believable  she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top  not that there  s anything wrong with being over the top   mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too  br    br   the music score is excellent  and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie  whether you want it to or not  there are a couple of parts that are very amusing  i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot  there  s also lots of slick gun play that  s very well done  br    br   i would probably have given this movie   or   stars if it wasn  t for two things  the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about    minutes into the film  this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie  it is very poorly choreographed  and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight  one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy  but this is a more serious western  and the brawl really needed to be more realistic  the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma  s cowardly mexican sidekick  i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something  but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this  and he wasn  t at all funny  all i can say is where is tuco when you need him   br    br   all that having been said  let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned  and all fans of the genre need to see this movie           the plot  michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct  and is looking for his  st big chance  he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star  he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct  the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way  what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy  and  oh yes  there  s romance  and a little sadness too  the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch  the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard  lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in       it must be emphasized that this movie is a story  st  not just a tribute to silent films  later years would bring similar films such as  singin   in the rain         dick van dyke carl reiner  s  the comic        what is special about this film  though  is recreating silent movies in       we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w  while the rest of the movie is in pristine color  one of the greatest in the silent era  buster keaton  who at this point was on an uphill climb  is used superbly in   silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game  it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well  but the real reason to watch the movie  if your a motion picture history fan  is that beyond everything else  hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett  s film legacy  it doesn  t take a genius to realize this movie is a   positive   reworking of mack sennett  s and mabel normand  s life  the character michael   linnett   connors is mack sennett  whose real name was michael sinnott  and molly  of course is mabel  sennett had the pie throwings  the bathing beauties and keystone cops  he worked with buster keaton  ben turpin cameo   roscoe   fatty   arbuckle body double  and fell in love with his leading lady  not only all that  but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well  as most film viewers today prefer sound features  those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture  as mack sennett fell into that category  it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade  sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies  his career started in      as an actor  then writer  director   producer  he semi retired in      with about     films to his credit  he had worked with the best  such as charlie chaplin  gloria swanson  bing crosby  w c  fields  keaton  harry langdon  arbuckle  and even roy rogers in way up thar  as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career  mack played it wise   did only selective work for the next    years  in      he had receive an academy award in the short subject category  and another in      for a lifetime of work  in the       s his presence was still felt  e g  here come the co eds      where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack  s wandering willies      is done  in       the road to hollywood  used some of sennett  s crosby films    years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated  with his knack of always associating with the right people  a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk   his radio show came about later in the year       brought a re release of his greatest triumph  tillie  s punctured romance       with sound  in      he was honored on tv  s  this is your life  then his autobiography  the king of comedy        which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade  was published       brought a more concrete association with abbott   costello  as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops  finally in       another tribute with the compilation film  the golden age of comedy  so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer  in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table  as we get to the silver haired mack  he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say    here i am     when he rises to give a speech a short while later  he is at his most subdued  underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey    i know my influence on comedy will never end  but will people forget mack sennett the individual  maybe this movie will help             it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men  after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage  and any woman who got involved with adam  hoss  and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn  t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western  br    br   perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights  people have relationships  some go good  some not so good  it  s just life  and we  re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don  t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor  s nobility intact  but that  s if bonanza were done today  br    br   but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped  the secret of bonanza  s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons  ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name  his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children  the kids were all different in personality  but all came together in a pinch  br    br   the cartwrights became and still are an american institution  i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys  just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that   br    br   pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show  rumor has it he didn  t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious  perhaps if it were done now  he  d have liked it better in the way i describe  br    br   this was just the beginning for michael landon  how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit  landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control  little joe was the youngest  most hot headed  but the most romantic of the cartwrights   br    br   when roberts left  the show kept going with the two younger sons  but when big dan blocker left  the heart went out of bonanza  other characters had been added on by that time  david canary  tim matheson  and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel  but big  loyal  but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights  his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family  br    br   so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history  i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city  it doesn  t look anything like what you see in bonanza  but near lake tahoe  just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits  is the cartwright home  the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction  like    baker street for sherlock holmes fans  the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real  br    br   and if they weren  t real  they should have been           years ago  when darling lili played on tv  it was always the pan and scan version  which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format  so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus  i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all  br    br   boy  what a terrible film  it  s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong  looking at it now  it  s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals  mary poppins  sound of music  thoroughly modern millie  etc  but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself  camelot  my fair lady  etc  because hollywood thought she wasn  t sexy or glamorous enough  so blake created this stillborn effort  to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical  darling lili suffers from multiple personalities  never knowing who or what it is  some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole  it just doesn  t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing  br    br   mind you  the version on the dvd is the   director  s cut    or in this case    let  s salvage whatever we can   from this notorious box office flop  in releasing the dvd  edwards cut    scenes              from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version  the film moves along with no idea of what it is  we are    minutes into it and we still don  t know what  s going on or why we  re watching what  s going  what kind of spy is lili  how powerful is she  was she ever responsible for someone  s death  instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews  things aren  t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love  why does julie fall for hudson  why him and not other men she got involved with  there should have been one of her ex hanging around  trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret  this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action  it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings  there  s no catalyst in this story  br    br   one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews    and edwards    previous successes  the best  or worst  example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest  edwards channeling sound of music  it  s no wonder he removed it from the dvd  back in       that scene might have worked on a certain level but today  that moment reeks of desperation  there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films  the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie  the musical moment   i  ll give you three guesses   was created just to make fun of julie  s mary poppins persona  which is turned   raunchy   with julie doing a striptease in the act  the ending  bird  s eye view of julie running towards hudson  s plane  is another   wink   at sound of music  br    br   the whole thing is confusing  julie plays a singer  born from a german father and british mother  who lives in england but sings her  english  songs in paris  you never know exactly where the story takes place  some moments are just badly edited  like when julie and her   uncle   are on horseback  they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence  i  m like   what happened here    br    br   the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy  every scene with the french police are pathetic  where  s peter sellers when you really need him  the action is stupid beyond belief  when julie and her   uncle   are on their way to germany on that train  hudson  s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train  almost killing lili in the process  brilliant  what  s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning  that  s one slow moving train there   br    br   the musical moments  the beginning is the best part of the entire film  and the reason i gave this film   stars  but it  s effect is diminished considerably because it  s repeated at the end  speaking of redundant  did we really need to see a can can dance  crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too  the   girl in no man  s land   is ok even if it  s bleeding obvious  but that moment just doesn  t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital  making me wonder  how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying  br    br   the whole project is listless and without energy  the romance is      unbelievable  rock hudson is way too old and tired looking  check out the museum scene   julie looks dazed  like she  s on valium  but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy  edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision  as much as i like julie  she  s no greta garbo  who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari  funny enough  even if julie plays a german spy  she still comes across as cloying and cute  br    br   how bad is darling lili  even after    years since its release  blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release           this series  made for televisi  n espa  ola  tve  is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in       primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son  br    br   based on a background of historical events  such as the may      student uprising in france  the decaying franco regime  the war in viet nam  the rise of imperialism  and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment  one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment  br    br   generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic  the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times  as  it should be stated  anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things  br    br   the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato  s r  le as mother of three children  she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well  manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant  especially noticeable among women  of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart  without any resorting to the use of the brain  as we say in spain  common sense is one of the least common senses  imanol arias offers very little  apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series  indeed  as an actor  he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series  his resources are too limited  however  his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad  br    br   not really recommendable for other audiences  even spanish speakers in latin america  the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history  such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references  it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers           i want the    minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie  the acting was horrific  i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d  onofrio  i will never look at them the same again  keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise  everyone knows they never could act  thankfully  only dan attempted an accent  his accent was a disaster as expected  i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota  i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time  the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read           one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers  an observation which mystifies me  not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars  e g   tobey maguire  before spiderman   skeet ulrich  before jericho   jonathan rhys meyers  before tudors   james caviezel  simon baker  mark ruffalo  jeffrey wright  tom wilkinson  and jewel  all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances  especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing  br    br   when the biographies and accomplishments of the director   even when he won an academy award  and the actors are listed  this film is usually omitted from their past performances  i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films  however  it is seldom every seen on cable  i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known           it  s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead  this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich   you cant help but like it  br    br   i think the story was a little rushed at the end  but extending that would have made the story even longer  superior to other romantic comedies such as     days with mr arrogant  and possibly tied with my tutor friend  br    br   it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema  not as great as my sassy girl  but still good           of all the movies of the seventies  none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel  i mean  yes  there were movies like the exorcist  and other ones  but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one  if you have time  check this one out  you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such  but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars  my absolute favorites were eli wallach  sylvia miles  and burgess meredith  then there are the subtle clues that lead to what  s going on too  pay close attention  i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like   black and white cat  black and white cake    plus  the books are really good as well  i  m just sorry that they  re not going to turn the second book into a film  it  s so scary that it would outdo this movie           this is apparently the second remake of this film  having been filmed before in      and       and  in so many ways it reminds me of the later film  a yank at oxford  both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both  ultimately  show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency  in this film  william haines is   tom brown   and his main rival    bob   is played by frances x  bushman  and  in a supporting role is jack pickford  always remembered as the brother of mary  of these three  pickford comes off the best  as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom  s pal  he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game  all the standard clich  s are there and the movie  because it was done so many times before and since  offers few surprises  however  it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing  br    br   in my opinion  for a better silent college film  try harold lloyd  s the freshman  it  s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown  the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era  another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again  such as in westpoint and the smart set  among others   and if you  ve seen one of these films  you  ve seen them all  well made  but certainly not original  and  because it is just a rehash of his other films  anyone giving the film a score of    is strongly advised to see these other films  br    br            i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the        talk about over rated  there are dozens and dozens of better films  how this film got to be    is anyone  s guess           this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that  s holding it back  br    br   awesome talent  outstanding performances  particularly by victoria hill   but a let down in practically every other way  br    br   an   adaptation   of sorts  it brought nothing new to macbeth  no  setting it in present day australia is not enough   and essentially  completely failed to justify its existence  apart from  let  s face it  completely unnecessarily  paying homage to the original work  if there  s one body of work that has been done  and done and done and done   it  s shakespeare  s  so any adaptation  if it  s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise  needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work  br    br   and that  s what this macbeth fails to do  as it was done  this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever  it  s the same piece that we have seen countless  too many   times before  except with guns and in different outfits  br    br   apart from the fundamental blunder  no other way to put it  of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue  one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end  during which i completely tuned out  even though i was looking at the screen  i never thought i had a short attention span  but there you go  br    br   i suppose the movie succeeds on its own  very limited terms  but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent  its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms  and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with  br    br   a shame  an absolute shame           owen loves his mamma   only he  d love her better six feet under in this dark  laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito  with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role  br    br     throw momma from the train   is a terrific comedy  even if it isn  t a great film  it  s too shallow in parts  and the ending feels less organic than tacked on  but it  s a gut splitting ride most of the way  with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer  devito is avid but untalented  crystal is blocked and bitter   br    br   crystal  s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book  the unfortunately titled   hot fire    and can  t write more than the opening line of his next book  which doesn  t come easy  he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities  including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn  t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through  and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life  mr  pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen  an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus        girls i  d like to pork    br    br   then there  s devito  s owen lift  who calls himself professor donner  s   star pupil   even though the teacher won  t read his work in class  owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie  a man child in his late   s who lives with his overbearing mother  anne ramsey  who calls him   lardass   and other endearing sentiments  in any other movie  we  d be asked to feel sorry for owen  but   throw momma from the train   piles life  s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along  that  s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people  br    br   for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character  even identifying with him  and take the rest of what we see here as a lark  it  s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes  asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner  s help in a plan to kill his mother  actually  he first goes to hawaii to kill donner  s hated ex  then tells the professor it  s his turn to kill mrs  lift    swapping murders   as seen in hitchcock  s   strangers on a train    br    br   as a director  devito not only complements his actors   performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue  he makes some bold visual statements  throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes  and away from taking things too seriously   br    br   also helping matters is writer stu silver  who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter    you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here      she  s not a woman   she  s the terminator      one little murder and i  m jack the ripper    those are all crystal  s words  but some of the funniest lines  which work only in context but absolutely kill  are devito  s and ramsey  s  apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this  according to the imdb  and that  s a shame  because he had real talent for it  br    br   the best scene in this movie  when crystal meets ramsey  was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical   coming attraction   presentation  the only time i  ve seen a movie promoted that way  owen introduces the professor to his mother as   cousin patty    and when momma says he doesn  t have a cousin patty  panicky owen loses it    you lied to me    he yells out  slamming the professor  s forehead with a pan  br    br   of course  in reality the professor wouldn  t groan out something witty from the floor  but   throw momma from the train   works effectively at such moments  when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth  devito hasn  t disappeared from films  of course  but it  s a mystery why he hasn  t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie  maybe it  s because  as   throw momma from the train  s lack of mainstream success shows  his kind of vision isn  t to everyone  s tastes  that  s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over  and like it           a compelling thriller       december      author littlehammer      from united states br    br   just cause br    br   starring sean connery laurence fishburne  and blair underwood  br    br   a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl  as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean  when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan  s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote  bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment  all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan  s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver  s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan  to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong  s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death  armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after  a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent  friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie  sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop  underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well           filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they  re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves  br    br   this film is set in glasgow  although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent   the premise  about people who  s lives are going nowhere  who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs  could have made for a really funny  insightful  quirky  cultish film  instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i  m suprised it hasn  t been banned  x and y are friends  x is sleeping with z  y sleeps with z as well  oh you figure it out  br    br   a total waste of time  painful dialogue   it sounded like something that a group of    year olds would have written for a gcse drama project  the female character was completely superfluous   just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it  br    br   if you  re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it   a right laff    everyone else  run  don  t walk away from this sorry little misfit  br    br   and one question  when the group left the   boring   seaside town  saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film   to go back to glasgow  why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england           doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar  but is totally worthwhile  it really reminds me of the old serials from the   s and   s  which is why i  d have loved to see follow up movies    but judging by the rest of full moon  s output there simply weren  t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience  unfortunately  thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience   which is unfortunate  because without em   this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up  both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great   i wasn  t sure if ms  nipar hadn  t wandered off an a list picture onto this film  she was very believable  no  seriously  anyway   it  s a shame they didn  t have the bucks to license dr  strange  because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom           a truly muddled incomprehensible mess  most things in the film look more or less like       but then there are futuristic things just thrown in  like the policeman  s ray gun  and that car  the director seemed to be in love with colored lights  the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie  but since there was no cast listing  i don  t know which actress that was  this one is worth missing  grade  f          it doesn  t happen very often  but occasionally one man can make a difference    a big difference  br    br   george crile  s      best seller  charlie wilson  s war  is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely   difference maker   imaginable  a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas    good time charlie   was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation  likable and licentious  even for a politician   charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things  their guns and to be left alone  it  s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known  appropriately enough  as charlie  s angels  br    br   when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive  young aides his response is a classic    you can teach   em to type  but you can  t teach   em to grow tits    no argument there  br    br   but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath  and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter  humiliating defeat of the russian military and  possibly  to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result  fat chance  huh  br    br   under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart  snappy screenplay by adam sorkin  charlie wilson  s war is a sparkling  sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the  scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising   charlie  s team    br    br   the on screen   team    is composed of three marvelous actors with four     academy awards and nine     nominations between them  charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid  slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years  he  s aided  abetted and abedded by joanne herring  a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts  hey  why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this  by all accounts ms  roberts looks good and holds her own  but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character  maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know    but we as an audience never do  as for the third member of the   team    philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos  a smart  street  wise  i e  non ivy league graduate  cia malcontent who knows the score    both in the agency  s boardroom and in wilson  s bedroom  br    br   for the mujahideen to succeed  the most important assistance the u s  can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi    helicopter gunships which rule the skies  this takes money  lots of money  and eventually   charlie  s team   covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of    billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels  this includes top of the line  state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices  nasty  nasty stuff  br    br   that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming  every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government  oh momma  i wish it weren  t so    br    br   even though the initial outcome for   team charlie   was an unqualified success  the unimaginable  unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others  since the funding was entirely   covert    the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention  yes  once the russkies left  so did our aid    zip for schools  zip for infrastructure  zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people  as a result  the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster    it  s like the forerunner to   mission accomplished    br    br   as nichol  s film so pointedly points out    the ball you  ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you  ve lost interest in it    mike krzyzewski knows this  eva longoria parker knows this  little lateesha in lafayette knows this  but the typical american politician doesn  t  so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn  t let the world know we were the good guys  talk about a catch     another mike nichols film   br    br   perhaps charlie wilson said it best    we f  ked up the end game    br    br   again           i  m a big fan of surrealist art  but this film by bunuel  with some ideas from dali  left me cold  bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways  this is one of the silliest  almost like what you  d expect from a smart aleck    year old in film class  the last few minutes of the movie  which have nothing to do with anything else  are a final nose thumbing at religion  br    br   if you read the   scholars   regarding this slow paced  occasionally amusing film  it  s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression  if that is indeed the point  then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible  the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street  and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies  is this behavior the church  s fault  for interrupting his lovemaking   or is he just a jerk  i vote for the latter  i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame  br    br   there are a few moments where you might cry    aha  surrealism     a cow in a bed  a giraffe falling out a window  a poor model   a man shredding a feather pillow  a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava  or a mud pit   hard to tell in b w   the rest is forgettable self indulgence  unfortunately  bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career  viridiana  discreet charm      if you  re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen  check out jean cocteau  s early work           this ludicrous film offers the standard       s   hippie mentality   in a nut shell and bores us in the process  its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young  innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups  a naive young hippy played by the waif like   kay lenz   hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys  and then one day she meets the ridiculous  holden   already in old age  hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor  and she decides that she is in   love   with him  if you think that is superficial  the whole film encapsulates such scenes  she keeps saying how much she   loves   him and she only met him  it wears thin and really quick  i couldn  t help but laugh throughout the film  its obvious she  s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place  a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex  i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit  a corny offering of music from the     s is also spread through the film  avoid this if you can  grade d           this film was pretty good  i am not too big a fan of baseball  but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love  determination  heart  etc  br    br   danny glover  joseph gordon levitt  brenda fricker  christopher lloyd  tony danza  and milton davis jr  are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport  the plot was believable  and i love the message  william dear and the guys put together a great movie  br    br   most sports films revolve around true stories or events  and they often do not work well  but this film hits a    on the perfectness scale  even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there  br    br                 for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments  in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film  the ending is superb  the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end  a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind         this film contain far too much meaningless violence  too much shooting and blood  the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor  the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars          pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy  the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong  br    br   examples  quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion  how  well  in the world of the subatomic  you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time  you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time  also  the act of observation seems to affect the event  solid particles can pass through barriers  all of this  so far  is accurate  but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall  you could indeed do it  this is complete poppycock  instead  the theory asserts that at our level  it is possible for you to walk through a wall  but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief  also you  d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall  the odds are so astronomically against it  br    br   this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science  but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer  played by marlee maitlan  about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible  something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate  there may be some truth to that  but quantum physics has nothing to do with it  br    br   plus  string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays  instead of wasting your time with this dreck  i suggest you rent the elegant universe  an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only   hour long episodes  quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation           i was truly looking forward to this title  it sounded and looked fun  the idea of someone making a cheesy   s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs  but instead this title only bores  first off  there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment  i have to sit through     minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick  why  on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot  i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads  i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp  i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue  creature from the black lagoon stuff   i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree  or it maybe escaping a silly trap  something exciting  geez  have fun with it  be creative  who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick  my advice to the filmmakers  keep going  your concepts are good  but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired  have some fun with the creature  put the humor in the action and most important   put more creature in a creature movie             one of my sisters friends lent me this game  and it is too damn hard  it carries the appearance of a kids game  but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions  and you have to search seemingly endless levels for     notes  to improve your   score    you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces  that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them  and i am only up to stage three      maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this  but otherwise keep away  and it is definately not recommended for kids   they will pull their hair out within the hour           chuck jones  s   rabbit seasoning    the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy  is often considered to be the best of the three  while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons  i would have to concede that   rabbit seasoning   is the most finely honed script  here  the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello  s   who  s on next   routine  as a long term daffy fan  i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines  the famous   pronoun trouble   being one of the all time classics  and does most of the work  bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer  as always  is the befuddled dupe  part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs  elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst  being shot in the face again and again  his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions  it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration   you  re despicable    as intricate an example of chuck jones  s impeccable timing as you  ll come across    rabbit seasoning   is a true classic           a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches     people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear  also  alas  an ending that comes out of nowhere  because  apparently  the auteur has lost interest in the movie  or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot             crossfire   is a justifiably famous      noir that  s a murder mystery with a strong message  it stars robert young  robert mitchum  robert ryan  sam levene  and gloria grahame  and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk  we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning  and for the rest of the film  young  as the detective  finlay  in charge of the case  seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death  and just as important  why  the victim  joseph samuels  sam levene  is someone the soldiers meet in a bar  they go up to his apartment to continue their visit  and samuels winds up dead  br    br   i don  t know about       but seeing   crossfire   today  one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects  i don  t suppose it was so apparent back then  as these actors were just getting started  nevertheless  the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting  good direction  violence  and unsparing anti semite language  br    br   the characterizations are vivid  including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role   she  s a woman who meets mitchell  george cooper   one of the suspect soldiers  in a bar and can provide him with an alibi  the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan  but everyone is excellent  robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective  mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell  a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife  br    br   truly excellent  and a must see           awwww  i just love this movie to bits  me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan    i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon  come to mention it  i have not see the tv show in a long time  such geart times  where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don  t know what there missing  br    br   the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n  roll  diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother  br    br   this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today       out of     such an excellent movie           skippy from   family ties   plays eddie  a wussy   metal   nerd who gets picked on  when his favorite wussy   metal   singer  sammi curr  dies  he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall  but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead   metal   idol  he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge  but then he doesn  t want to take it as far as sammi does  which isn  t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital  this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say    rock star    ok  maybe a tad more than that piece of junk  but you get my point  and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from   family ties   i haven  t a clue  the cameo by gene simmons is ok  and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency  i applaud him for that  but otherwise skip this one  br    br   my grade  d  br    br   eye candy elise richards gets topless  an a topless extra at a pool party          of course i would have to give this film    out of    as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime  rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over    years living in italy  he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing  so rodolfo sonego did  if you check out his biography  you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy  alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories  my uncle visited australia and my town  in      to check out locations for   a girl in australia   and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war  you can see his humor in all his movies  i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently  great          goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history  their is no doubt about that  but this game  although quite different  could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ  of its time  br    br   this was not a bond game based on material from another medium  this was a completely new  scripted game  which even had its own theme song   wouldnt be bond without it  haha   gameplay was excellent  and if you  re a fan of the bond games or films alike  you  ll enjoy it  br    br   unlike some most games  these cast members portrayed their characters themselves  as opposed to fictional creations for the game  which gives it that more cinematic feel  with a very   bond   able storyline  you feel like you  re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie  br    br   enjoyable in all aspects  from start to finish  even after beating the game there  s still plenty more to be done  with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved  as well as its multi player missions  this is a stand out game  despite being quite old now  in video game years  it  s still a good game that you can pick up   play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life  even now just thinking about it  i  ve got the theme song stuck in my head  such a great cast and well written storyline  br    br   the story comes to life on the screen  almost as if the actors were their in front of you  and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself  superbly done  in true bond fashion  which can only be named awesome  completely awesome  br    br   i  ve gotta go throw this game on now  if you haven  t played it yet  you  re missing out          helena bonham carter is the center of this movie  she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity  kenneth branagh was tolerable  the movie itself was good not exceptional  if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing          i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a   thumbs in the middle   review  remarking that i  d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode  i  ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june       and as a lifelong batman fanatic  i can say without hesitation  this show is utter crap  br    br   everything  s wrong with it  everything  getting past just the lousy animation and design  the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories  br    br   and for god  s sake   is it just me  or is the joker in every episode   is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system  or  again  is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains  see   no character development    above   br    br   and to make matters worse  every single joker tale is the same   part formula  br    br      joker gasses people  br    br      joker sets out to gas the whole city  br    br      batman saves the day  br    br   pfeh  br    br   there was one episode i saw that wasn  t a joker story  the title escapes me  but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster   the   think thank thunk   episode with the quiz show  that was the single worst batman story i  ve ever seen  heard or read  yes  worse than   i  ve got batman in my basement     br    br   i can  t really say what i feel this show is because it  s probably against the tos  but it starts with   b   and rhymes with   fastardization    thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc  era of bat entertainment  back from the fox and kids wb days  stuff that good  and i should have known this  just couldn  t possibly have lasted forever  unfortunately           just because someone is under the age of    does not mean they are stupid  if your child likes this film you  d better have him her tested  i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad  this   film   is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else  the writing is horrid  i can  t remember when i  ve heard such bad dialogue  the songs are beyond wretched  the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much  who decided to employ joey fatone  he cannot sing and he is ugly as sin  br    br   the worst thing is the obviousness of it all  it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible  great children  s movies are wicked  smart and full of wit   films like shrek and toy story in recent years  willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past  but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo  yes  that  s right   the recent charlie   the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood             hey babu riba   is a film about a young woman  mariana  nicknamed   esther   after a famous american movie star   and four young men  glenn  sacha  kicha  and pop  all perhaps       years old in      belgrade  yugoslavia  the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz  blue jeans  or anything american it seems  br    br   the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant  and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties  in the wake of changing communist politics  they go their separate ways and reunite in       the year before the film was made   br    br   i enjoyed the film with some reservations  the subtitles for one thing were difficult  especially in the beginning  there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all  perhaps the conversational pace required it  but i couldn  t always both read the text and absorb the scene  which caused me to not always understand which character was involved  i watched the movie  a video from our public library  with a friend  and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative  br    br   this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers   sense of invulnerability  idealism  and strong and loyal bonds to each other  there is a main flashforward  and it was intriguing  keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the      cast  and what had actually happened  br    br   i would rate it   out of     and would like to see other films by the director  jovan acin                       after a snowstorm  the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason  adam beach  comes to the diner of his friend fritz  jurgen prochnow  and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day  among the weird strangers  jason meets his former sweetheart nancy  rose mcgowan   who has just left her husband in los angeles  along the night  without any communication with his base  jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients  and finds some corpses  indicating that among them there is a killer  br    br     the last stop   could be an average thriller  but the screenplay is simply awful  most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed  and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests  my vote is four  br    br   title  brazil     encurralados      trapped             this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy  s law being applied to home ownership and construction  if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional  since it was set in the   simpler   forties  we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era  grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas  their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment                 what can you say about the film white fire  amazing  fantastic  disturbing  hilarious  these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire  from wobbly  garbled beginning to profound end  this movie will entertain throughout  br    br   our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world  a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms  when the father separates from the mother and their childen  you get a real sense of what kind of movie you  re about to watch  father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit  and is polite as he gets people  s attention before he shoots them  but alas  dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised  unsafe stunt  meanwhile  mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about   feet behind them  he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre   halt     and then promptly wastes the mother  this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred  br    br   so now we fast forward about    years     if you  re honest about the hero  s age  to beautiful turkey  where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves  or diamond prospectors  or something  ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods  while bo  masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty  drives around the desert in his denim outfits  bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship  they don  t seem to have any friends other than each other  and they spend all of their time together  that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as   you know its a shame you  re my sister   he says to her while she  s stark naked  make for a very dynamic duo  bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed  as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf  a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid  and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid  this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong  bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas  and he is overjoyed with his new love  br    br   so anyway  there  s a lot of fun action scenes  ridiculous violence  great acting  impossible to follow plot lines  fred   the hammer   williamson  for some reason   and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond  which later explodes   all of these things are great  but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special    really special  so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire  you may be glad you did  or not           i am so disappointed  this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy  here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again  the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses  woody  i  ve seen these characters already  i  ve seen the storyline from you ten times already  where did your creativity go    you need to open your eyes and look around you  the world has changed dramatically since annie hall   and you need to change along with it  br    br   there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism   why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again  br    br   when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out  it does nothing for me   because now i  ve come to expect his old standby  the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating  depressing and same old  same old  br    br   if woody wants to win his fans back  then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated   not insulted           this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff  predictable from beginning to end  as a don knotts vehicle    the incredible mr  limpet   was much better  with knott  s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant  his performance there was toned down  with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare  although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish  knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile  much as bob denver did  neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles  assuming they were simply typecast  it was probably because of the slouch  the wild stare and the high pitched voice  john ritter  whom knotts worked with in   three  s company    was able to transcend his genre  branching out successfully into dramatic roles like   the dreamer of oz    but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in   pleasantville    even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here  uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in   airplane    and   police squad    br    br   there  s also no way the then    year old knotts could pass for a    year old  as his character insisted he was  it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at    playing the college age forrest gump  br    br   the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget  very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode  it  s especially evident in the   exterior   scenes of the   town   where roy goes after he  s fired  it  s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality  br    br   even viewing this strictly as a children  s movie  it  s very disappointing  it  s not because it lacks action or special effects  although it does  the pace is much too slow  the situations repetitive  how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus  a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap  with breakneck gags  otherwise you risk boring them  and any adults in the theater as well   movies  even kid  s movies  have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades  even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written  disney  s   the love bug    for instance  at least had some interesting race action           if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization  there is an excellent book called   outlaw seas   or   the outlaw sea    and it describes  in story after story  how these things do happen  the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons  one  many of the world  s freighters are of questionable registry  nationality  and it  s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don  t have an office in a real country  two  many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries  the crews are often  like illegal immigrant workers  threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices  three  there is often a language barrier  not only between the officers and the crew  but also between the crew members themselves  the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence  four  once committing an illegal act  the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint  anyway  it  s fascinating reading  br    br   horrifying story  excellent movie  does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies  hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year  so that several of the top   contenders usually come from britain  jerry bruckheimer   the end of quality cinema  br    br   i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee  i also  as usual  loved omar epps           gamers  dr is not a fancy made movie  it  s more like amateur video  horrible magic effect  really fake fireball  terribly made dungeon  castle  village       sword  axe  shield  robe  plate      okok    everything  you will need about    minutes to adjust your expecting on visual  then you will get     minutes of fun  br    br   i  m from hongkong and it  s really hard to find rpers  none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d  watching gamers  dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer  you see rule books  dices  game set  etc etc etc  you hear terms like   fighter      wizard      hit point      level      character      flaming hand      chaotic evil    br    br   what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to  not bonded by software rpg  gamers  dr provide the same element  you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead  the movie goes both gamers  s real life as well as in the d d world  you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action  which make you feel you really participle in the game  br    br   i don  t want to spoil anything  but in short  gamers  dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers  for people never play rpg game  i  m sure you still get many fun from it           in all honesty  i haven  t seen this film for many years  but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory  as anyone who has seen it will understand  i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties  and it scared the hell out of us kids  in a fun way  i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze  i can  t risk giving away the ending  except to say that it was surprising  to say the least  i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler  followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed  the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history  and yet oddly moving  in a way  you have to see it for yourself  which is not easy these days  i don  t know if it  s available on home video or not  but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults           this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year      and say now that rocked  it rocked hard  and yet it also rocked tasty  mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled  now that tells you something  this filmed rocked even before it started  now i don  t want to give to much away or be a   spoiler   but this movie rocked  if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself   this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan  what gives    then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece  for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d  this movie is the d period  so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked           you  d think you  re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel      miles or so from france to saudi arabia  going through most of europe   italy  bulgaria  croatia  slovenia  turkey  before arriving in the middle east  but this is not a tour  and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights  br    br   reda  s father is in his twilight years  and wishes to do the haj  however  since walking and taking the mule is out of the question  he chooses to travel to mecca by car  he can  t drive  and therefore enlists the help of reda  to his son  s protest  to get him there in their broken down vehicle  br    br   but reda doesn  t see the point of having him go along  when his dad could opt for the plane  he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn  t understand  and hence  we set off in this arduous journey with father and son  being not the best of pals  br    br   the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair  the challenges they face  the weird people they meet  having to duke it out in varied weather conditions  and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car  we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other  the father trying to impose on his son  and the son trying to assert himself as an adult  but circumstances we see  reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water  through the many encounters  they actually team up quite well despite their differences  br    br   it  s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji  and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj  the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold  and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating  the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon  so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination  br    br   it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are  don  t miss this  and yes  book early   i was pleasantly surprised that this evening  s session was still a full house           i watched this movie based on the good reviews here  and i won  t make that mistake again  br    br   the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy  but you don  t see what it is  flashback    hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people  which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen  when the ending is finally reveled  you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn  t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching  the only connection these people have is that they have all had a   bad day    but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom  br    br   if this was supposed to be a   crash   clone  it  s a complete failure           a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store  after he  s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he  ll be transferring soon  bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy   and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals  animals like say  a certain rabbit  this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer  i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early       s  it still remains as funny nearly     years later  this animated short can be seen on disc   of the looney tunes golden collection volume    br    br   my grade  a           i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in      for two reasons   br    br       host steve martin was at his most wittiest     i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo    and    i  ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle  s head in my bed     br    br       surprise winners  no one had adrien brody down for best actor   genuine applause   or roman polanski for best director   genuine jeers and boos   but they won  br    br   last year  s award ceremony wasn  t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn  t the best in the trilogy   fellowship was much better  but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but   so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links   but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne   oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics   obviously they are   i  m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers  br    br   chris rock wasn  t too bad   but he  s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in   not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion   the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the    minor    oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats   there  s no such thing as a    minor    oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they  re as well deserved as best picture or best director   all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium   what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn  t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history   as for the awards themselves  br    br   best supporting actress   cate blanchett   no great surprise for a competitive category  br    br   best supporting actor   morgan freeman   no real complaints since freeman is one of america  s greatest living character actors  br    br   best actor   jamie foxx   most predictable award of the night   yawn  br    br   best actress   hilary swank   major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night  br    br   best director   clint eastwood   major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he  d never won one   actually i  m glad about this because if he didn  t deserve it for taxi driver   raging bull or goodfellas he didn  t deserve it for the aviator  br    br   best film   million dollar baby   again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb  s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off  br    br   what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven  t done in the past   i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd  s sake   and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts          while in a plane  flicking through the large choice of movies  i came across live  almost accidentally  oh boy  what a choice  br    br   i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show  now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride  i don  t remember last time i have been so excited  terrified  not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses  but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can  t turn away from the screen  literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you  ve got  br    br   you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show  you will drift from thinking   how come the human being can be so vicious   to   why not after all    ask yourself would you do it  then learn about the contestants  their motives and start guessing  you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe  br    br   good acting  good directing  with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more  br    br    spoilers  couple of things i would have changed  br    br     the casting of the contestants  i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him  the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid  it felt like you didn  t care about some of the contestants  although this might have been done on purpose  i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants    game rules  a big glitch   br    br   what happens if the  th contestants doesn  t die when he pulls the trigger  do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself    they should have given a chance to all contestants to live  ie  if  th is a blank too  then no one dies  br    br   interestingly i haven  t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time  just wish i had some popcorn with me           ah  another movie with motorcycles  hell  s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver  this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking  pot smoking  and lots of moronic acts  steve  s rendition of a dying cat during his   i love what i know   serenade had me vomiting for hours  bike chick linda  rrrr  makes out with everyone  fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds  i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying    you messin   wit private stock    this is scriptwriting folks  br    br   i liked the ending  what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse  you have to see this to detest it  br    br   die jeter  die             a rating of       does not begin to express how dull  depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is           i feel dumber after watching the first    min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain  people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects  just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly  not being lame    but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is     a good movie    don  t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for     once in a life time movies      keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don  t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace   love          the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br    br   rent  unwatchable  much of the movie is obviously improvised  br    br   and not well  it looks like toback took the first take of br    br   everything  the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br    br   robert downey jr  shows up  then goes to hell again real br    br   quickly           this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in  this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny  i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny  he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual  but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny  he isn  t  the movie had only one good part  and this may be considered a spoiler by some  and that the beginning credits were animated  if the whole movie had been animated  it might have been good  i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it  and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest  this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on  on a scale of      i give this movie a score of                i like ghost stories  good ghost stories of bumps in the night  voices that cannot be explained  now i  ve see many of them  as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films  some times to find a real gem   you gotta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories  now this one  very rare   pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called    the new house    was one of the most scariest films i ever saw  it was on once in         i was only     but nothing since then even compared to it  with all the remake going on in hollywood  some one should do this one    as is    with no more special efx than the original  this episode was down right creepy as hell  i  m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find  the only other   ghost stories to even come close was the original    the haunting    and george c  scott in    the changling      wish someone would do more ghost stories like these           okay  i  ve watched this movie twice now  i have researched it heavily on the net  i have asked several people on there opinions  i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic   carmilla    a book that this movie is supposed to be based on  i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it  as the plot of the movie doesn  t seem to make any sense at all  here is the plot of the book  br    br   laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father  mr de lafontaine  they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully  one day they get a letter from the   general   a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death  he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work  and explains that he will visit them soon  meanwhile  a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter  carmilla  for several months  soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams  and begins to come down with a strange illness  who is this mysterious carmilla  and just what has she to do with laura  s condition  and the general  br    br   i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it  and let me know what their results are  i even have a catchy name  and would have a jingle too  but i can  t be bothered with that  it  s called the   this movie doesn  t make any sense   game  br    br   all you have to do is  whilst watching the movie  try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening  i mean complete  all questions answered  everything makes sense  absolutely complete  br    br   it will have to answer such questions as      br    br     why can vampires walk around in day light  br    br     why are they all lesbians  br    br     why is a girl called bob  and why does she shoot herself  br    br     when is the movie a dream and when is it real  br    br     why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn  t make anyone bat an eyelid  br    br     why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car  yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car  accept the excuse that she is a zombie too  br    br     and why does he then let a girl  which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire  drive with him in his car  br    br     and then let her drive off  alone with his daughter in a stolen car  br    br   what the hell is the asylum scene all about  br    br     what the hell is the green goo all about  br    br     why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse  br    br     why are there never any vampires fighting zombies  br    br     what is the significance of the necklace  what is it made of  why does it kill vampires  and how does jenna know that  br    br   in fact sod it  it  s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too  br    br   i have my plot  and i have to admit it is not quite there  but it is a pretty good effort  br    br   in conclusion br    br     vampires vs zombies   has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies  everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on  yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this  and somehow it is based on a classic   th century horror novel  how  why  what the hell is going on           this would  ve been a  great  silent film  the acting really is good  at least in a look ma  i  m doing really big acting  sort of way  br    br   everything is huge  every line is profound  every scene is shattered by human tragedy  br    br   mostly  i felt like gagging  yet  like any train wreck  i couldn  t tear my eyes away  this dialogue might  ve worked on the stage  although i doubt it  on the screen  it was cluttered  haphazard  hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work  br    br   if you enjoy your melodrama in huge  heaping doses  you  might  enjoy the movie  be prepared to wait  however  for all that melodrama  this thing sure plods along at its own pace  br    br   this script must  ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves  it simply doesn  t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera  br    br   imdb does us a great disservice  at times  when it uses its goofy computer controlled   weighted score    curse of the starving class deserves less than a    br    br   character driven fiction is great  but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution  it isn  t character development  your characters must have a motivation  being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is  not  character development  that  s a plot contrivance  br    br   stay away from this movie  or at the very least  watch it muted  perhaps you  ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do  br    br   oh  and word to the wise    to prove that this is truly an artsy film  you see james woods in all his dangly male   look at me  i  m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of  man   glory  br    br   don  t say you weren  t warned           this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward  attended by two orderlies  the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over  saying that the orderlies are gay  the orderlies kiss  i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny    it said   comedy   on the dvd case  after all and it goes on like that  had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter  because it is so funny    and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy  while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn  t  this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn  t  br    br   brilliant brains can make anything funny  people like ernst lubitsch  billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact  but you have to know the   mechanics    i suppose  director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics  he thinks that certain things simply are funny  the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma  for example  do not get me wrong  some people can make that funny  dani levy can  t  not for me  anyway  br    br   the main problem i have with this movie is that i can  t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave  i could not understand why the two brothers  one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other  they are both rather bland characters  their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other  well  one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin   but even these incestuous relationships    if anything they are embarrassing   just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better  br    br   the acting is not bad  udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl  a lighter version  than of a venerable orthodox jew  the direction in itself is not really bad either  but maybe levy should stick to directing movies  leaving the scriptwriting to someone else  now i heard he did a comedy about hitler  oi  vai           this story about three women is a very sensitive study about  muri  l  charlotte van den eynde  the youngest  laura  els dottermans  who is about    and martha  frieda pittors  the oldest who is the mother of muri  l  they live together in the same building  they have different expectations of life  the vital laura wants a child  muri  l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels  martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl  in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something   for instances an accident   which could dramatize this story  as times goes on  you discover that the director doroth  e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more  this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case  so one is left with a feeling of emptiness           first and foremost  i loved the novel by ray bradbury  it  s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later  it was one of his best books  with  you know  fahrenheit     and dandelion wine  i as just hoping that this movie would be all right  it had lots of chances  with a great cast  like jason robards and jonathn pryce  and bradbury even wrote the script himself  and on top of all that  it has pam grier  br    br   how could it fail  br    br   there may be spoilers within  br    br   first of all  it was dumbed down  much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum  all the visuals from the book   gone  everything that made you squirm   gone  br    br   and then there  s the acting  like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the   s  the kids in this movie cannot act  and  this bugged me a lot  neither of them looked    but   or     their strong friendship wasn  t addressed  it was more like they were acquaintaces   br    br   you  d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr  halloway and mr  dark  but here it  s like they just don  t care  all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something  this is far from being some of their best performances   br    br   pam grier was fine as the witch  but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn  t well pulled off  she  s a lot less evil and doesn  t have the presence as she did in the book   br    br   and everything that was left out of the book  the ballon night chase  the marking of jim  s house  the real death of mr  dark  what happened to mr  coogan on the merry go round  the fate of the lightening rod salesman  the real death of the witch  and oh so much more   br    br   and the special effects were bad  even for the   s  the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn  t really creepy  and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything   br    br   i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel  but it makes blood boil  don  t see this movie but read the book  it  s a classic of bradbury           this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in       i remember him playing in a great film    lost weekend    ray plays the role of michael stuart  who is a very rich banker  there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy  they hire a man to pose as a very rich count  his name is count ariszted   misha auer  who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture  deanna durbin   penny craig  surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard  the entire police department and convicts started applauding  which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film  this is deanna durbin  s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm           i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas  having reserved a special slot for it last night  i sat down to watch it with my daughter  aged    and a film studies student   with chocolates of course  in eager anticipation  we love jane austin  br    br   after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk  the shaky camera shots and angles  general poor cinematography  direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied  despondent  we viewed on  br    br   anne  played by sally hawkins  looked oddly and with no particular purpose  directly at the camera on several occasions  breaking our hard won   fantasy of the moment   and engaging us directly in an almost   i  ll find you   stalking fashion  br    br   poor rupert penry jones  who played captain wentworth  did his best with the script and direction  bless him  i hope they paid him well  however  as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall  drenching him and his co actor  they were nearly swept out to sea  health and safety would have had a field day  poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line  presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene  anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place  br    br   other than mr  penry jones  alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head  s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott  br    br   towards the long awaited end of the film  captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie  it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being  in contrast  anne ran  hyper ventilating  from pillar to post in search of the good captain who  in the meantime  had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told  in the course of only three or four minutes  without even having worked up a sweat  br    br   we experienced none of anne  s charms crossing the screen  indeed  we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain  spineless  opinion less anne and why someone  anyone  did not tell mean  winging sir walter to just shut the heck up  br    br   the crucial kiss  normally our favourite girlie moment  was painfully drawn out  as they moved in closer  anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met  eww   br    br   the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been  br    br   what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story  filmed in some of england  s finest scenery  br    br   sorry jane           if you like sci fi  monsters  and ancient legends  then you will love this movie    br    br   the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago  while the acting may have been a little less than desirable  the story line and effects adequately compensated for it  br    br   i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our    inch big screen tv  br    br   if you like non stop action  awesome visuals  and taste for myth and lore    you have to see this movie            a rather silly little film you just may love  br    br   although rather corny and clich   at times  it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun  five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest   just for the sheer joy   knowing yours is the best team    br    br   notable for several screen debuts including david naughton  s first film role after his dr  pepper   be a pepper   commercials and before his major      hit   american werewolf in london    also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it  and last but not least  mr  spin city and alex keaton himself  michael j  fox gets his first film role here  fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house  outside of that  no names  but all funny characters  br    br   doubt it has ever made it to dvd  but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late  late show sometime  if you do  is worth your watch  you may hate it  but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love           this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown  i can  t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy  given the excellent story  the result could have been better though  the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing  sound effects and sound tracks were very good  acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak  for people who didn  t read the book  things may look happening too quickly  from my point of view  instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book  they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper  what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican  you see neither of it in the movie  too much rush and using the time not in a good way  these are main problems of the movie  so  it is worth watching but could have been done better           i never fell asleep during a movie  never  this movie did the impossible  br    br   while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts  this movie was a lesson in over abundance  as in  the movie was    minutes too long  it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work  but instead  all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement  the acting was absolutely terrible  bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script  did these people even get any direction  were they coaxed to be boring and dull  either therory wouldn  t surprise me  br    br   what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side  either way  they all stunk  don  t watch this film  that  s all i can say  unless you  re an insomniac            what can i say  not as bad as many here have made it out to be  the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before  was strictly for ian mcshane  br    br   i was not disappointed in the least  ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role  he  s always great to watch and for my money    an extremely underused actor  br    br   as for the rest of the film     every other actor in the movie delivered strong  solid performances  these people certainly weren  t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation  as this was a fairly low budget film  but this did not mean that any of them   mailed   their appearances in  everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them  br    br   i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul  s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie  br    br   the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life  not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film  anybody who expected a clear cut  by the numbers  connect the dots   conclusion   or   answer   at the end of the movie    clearly wasn  t watching the film closely enough  this film is not going to tell you what the   meaning of life   is  the idea is that after seeing the film  you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee  i certainly did  br    br   no car chases    no explosions    no bar room brawls      sounds pretty dull  huh   but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it  s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved  br    br          warning          if you  re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous   question   as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly    br    br   you might not enjoy this film           originally harped as a sequel to   the slumber party massacre   series  this film falls flat on it  s face with a new title  first off  if you are going to include the word   massacre   in your film  s title  you better deliver  this one certainly does not  there is no gore  no on screen murders and no chainsaw  as the box art would lead you to believe  instead  we get a paper thin  overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game  only to be offed one by one  again  this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit  why directors  especially those doing direct to video flicks  are afraid to show any gore is beyond me  now  i am not a huge fan of excessive gore  but come on   why else would anyone rent a movie called   cheerleader massacre     besides that problem  the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness  it looks cheap  sounds cheap  and the actors aren  t all that good  it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be  but even that fails  the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess  folks  if you run across this film  walk away and go find the original   slumber party massacre      out of              a killer  cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder  at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave  this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look  the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem  are back on the case  two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing  thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection  sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish  br    br   the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film  the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out  now i  m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible  if it wasn  t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep  there is a bit of gore but it  s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims  the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times  there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll  the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film  it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line  br    br   the ending is extremely bad  you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does  god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel   br    br                 days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen  in no way  shape  or form would i recommend it to anyone   unless you  re trying to put your kids to sleep or  god forbid  give someone an aneurysm  if i could go back in time and do one thing  i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters  why  days of heaven  s plot is simple  but extremely vague  long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film  the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with  the climax of the story does not touch you  by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone  the only things working are your eyes  and unfortunately  your ears  who must listen to the sound of linda  the little girl in the story  who talks like a man  i am now dumber for seeing this movie  don  t let it happen to you           in       director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their   silly symphonies   series    the skeleton dance    iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early   s  in disney  s   laugh o gram   cartoon series  however  their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio  that was the birth of celebrity productions  where iwerks continued developing his style and technique  and where he created the character of flip the frog   while his work kept the same high quality  it wasn  t really popular and by      the studio was closed  later that year  iwerks was hired by columbia pictures  and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance  this time in color  br    br         s   skeleton frolics   is essentially  a remake of the      classic   the skeleton dance    the movie that borough him fame and fortune  like that short film  it is set on an abandoned graveyard  where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play  the dead rise from their coffins  ready for the show that  s about to begin  as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra  and begin to play a happy tune  now  it  s not easy to be a musician made of just bones  as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts  however  the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance  a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra  it  s hard to dance with loose body parts  everything ends at dawn  and just when the sun is about to rise again  the skeletons run towards their graves  br    br   directed and animated by ub iwerks himself    skeleton frolics   follows faithfully the pattern set by   the skeleton dance   years before  although with a crucial difference  iwerks did the whole film in technicolor  the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film  and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney  creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before  it is certainly a more experimental film than   the skeleton dance    although sadly  this doesn  t mean it  s necessarily a better film  for starters  the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney  with the only differences being the music  more on that later  and the color effects  it looks beautiful  no doubt about it  but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all  br    br   however  it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film  after all  iwerks executes it in a wonderful way   but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w  stalling for   the skeleton dance    in other words  while denat  s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme  it  s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling  s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable  being a musical film  this is of high importance  and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk  s flawless work of animation  personally  i think that with a better musical accompaniment    skeleton frolics   would be remembered as fondly as   the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking  as it  s still a fun film to watch  br    br   it  s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success  however  it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer  disney  s main rival   he did not lack the quality of those companies   films  it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney  s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney  despite its shortcomings    skeleton frolics   is a very funny and visually breathtaking film  that while not exactly the most original and fresh film  one just can  t help but thinking of   the skeleton dance   while watching it   it definitely reminds us that iwerk  s skeletons are still here to haunt us  and inspire us  br    br                 yes  indeed  it could have been a good movie  a love biangle   sorry for the poetical license  but is not a triangle   an interesting story  unfortunately badly told  the image is sometimes weird  sometimes ok  the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted  the sound needs more attention  it usually does in romanian movies   the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen  the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action  about the acting    sorry but the best actress is the landlady  the others are acting immaturely and cannot convince the viewer  the acting is poetical when it should be realistic  and realistic when it should be poetical  it  s a picture for adults  told by the children  bother only if extremely curious           you wear only the best italian suits from armani  hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements  your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer  and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood  you  re a member of the finest polo clubs  frequently dine at restaurants such as spago  and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world  your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive  while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic     caliber gun  you snow ski in the alps  go deep sea diving in the caribbean  sky dive over the andes  and all the while your hair is never  ever  out of place  you are bond  james bond  the world  s most renown spy  favorite son of the good queen  bad boy of the british ss  and perhaps the most desired man in the world  the character of james bond was created by ian fleming  and is the movie industry  s longest lasting icon  being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades  the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan  who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in       and made his     debut in goldeneye  br    br   this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo     goldeneye  developed by rare for nintendo  has been on the market for some time  its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is  and no review library would be complete without it  br    br   let  s face it    most of the time movie licensed games are flops  although the two seem like a good mix  the results  for the most part  have been horrendous  games like cliffhanger  true lies  lethal weapon  and not to mention all the star trek flops  are ammunition enough against this mix  and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games  especially if i  ve seen the movie  at least that  s how i used to think  in the case of goldeneye  i had more reservations than normal  while not a bad movie  goldeneye the film didn  t have that much appeal to it  and i don  t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies  as a game  however  let  s just say it  s a completely different story  br    br   the game is a first person shooter  and in order to be successful  you  ll need at least as much brains as brawn  for those who have seen the movie  which i imagine is most of you reading this  the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation  a plot to control the world  s most dangerous satellite  goldeneye  has begun in the ussr  and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured  your missions will be many  the danger extreme  you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known  m will brief you as soon as you  re ready  good day  james           this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class  their problems  relationships and interactions with each other  it should have managed a wider distribution as it  s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time  br    br   the swimming instructor is an almost olympian  reduced to teaching adults basic lessons  and often the target of horndogging from his female students  he attempts  more or less  to fend them off  with varying results  br    br   the students characters are mainstream u s a  teachers  policemen  college students and retired people  all of whom haven  t learned to swim for some reason  the movie covers their relationships  including friends  relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class  several subplots provide amusing fodder  including a teacher going through a divorce  some high school students making a documentary  and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys  br    br   this is a good date movie  or just one to watch when you  re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality           this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole  this is the story of a highly trained military man  unhappy with his wife and children  fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman  to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks  predictable  but not a bad watch           i watched six of a kind for w c  fields   he  s only in it for around    minutes and has one long scene  the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville  and several other great moments  the reamaining    minutes are also delightful  thankfully  mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j  pinkham whinney  he is everyone  s foil  he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure  also  his comedy partner  mary boland plays his wife  flora  joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen  boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end  but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture  gracie  s funny  quite  but she can also get tiring  and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time  i don  t remember laughing at him once  although he has one great scene with ruggles  where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while  and one with fields  where he asks fields to sell him a sweater  that bit is exclusively fields    though   the situation is constantly funny  the whinneys are going to drive to california  but to help them with expenses  george and gracie are recruited                 edmund lowe  who reminds me somewhat of warren william   heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour  br    br   douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise  hypnotism  anyone    and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast  everyone from virginia bruce  kent smith  frieda inescourt  gene lockhart  jessie ralph  benita hume  rosalind ivan and h b  warner  as an added bonus  there  s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective  and furthermore  get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home  must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film  br    br   on the plus side  the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled  it  s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance  and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense  br    br   nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner           this movie is lame and not funny at all  the plot doesn  t even make sense  some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension  maybe hell     and his daughter gets sucked through it or something  then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit  i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her   the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she  s more interested in her new girlfriend  and they stumble upon this witch spell book  they want to be witches or something     and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently  there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary  obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie  i  m sure the topless girls doesn  t hurt there either  the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie  i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing  who are these people and what are they doing  basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things  like the other dimension and book seller  than make it confusing  i didn  t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal  i don  t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid  i can  t think of any part of the movie that was good           although i was hoping that i  d like it a little more  this was still certainly an impressive film  there were great performances by all the leads  and the story  while not what i  d call chilling  was still effective and it kept me interested  for me  the best part of this film was the look of the picture  for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well  i also thought that the low budget suited this movie  for i don  t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim  all things considered  it fell a little short of my expectations  but i  m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie           imagine this  a high school  except it  s boarding school  and the kids don  t have parents around  oh  and it  s in malibu  and the kids are all thin  white  and gorgeous  with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the   weird   outcast  and there aren  t any reasonable rules  like how they have co habitation  nuclear weapons in their dorms  coffee stands  a sushi bar  and a complimentary laptop per student  br    br   here  s the story  a girl  zoey brooks  attends pca  a formerly all boys school  absolutely perfect in every possible way  she is smart  pretty  thin  athletic  creative  and everything a perfectionist wants to be  almost all the boys in school want her  and every girl wants to be her friend  she  s the one everyone comes to for advice  the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan  and is just wonderful  too bad none of this makes her likable  br    br   are we supposed to believe that if we don  t even come close to zoey  s perfection  we  re bad people  in the show  nothing  s her fault  and if anyone contradicts her  they  re portrayed as the bad guy logan   he may be a jerk  but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time  br    br   her loyal group of blind followers are  chase  the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her  michael  the token black guy  and the only decent actor on the set   lola  a wannabe actress and anorexic  snobby airhead  quinn  the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff  and logan  the rich jerk who has a soft side  yeah  this show basically spews out stereotypes  br    br   what ticks me off  though  is that they all try to pretend they  re normal kids  they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves  even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can  t afford  they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis  hardly have homework  and suntan almost every day  wow  they have it hard  any other problems  i  m too good looking  rich  and stress free  i guess zoey      what  s the     for  anyway   is nick  s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically  except they caught a glimpse of reality  didn  t like it  and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills  br    br   but hey  at least the set  s pretty           i had been amazed by director antal  s kontroll back in       his first american project  vacancy  was less impressive but a decent start  armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable  the film never rises above the level of a b movie   br    br   it  s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver  antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick  then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn  t really deliver in that department either   br    br   what you are left with is one implausible situation after another  a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money  if you look past the sharp cinematography  cast and the tight music score  you  re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal   br    br   this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time           first of all  the reason i  m giving this film   stars instead of   is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo  he alone can get    stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie  br    br   i was initially all fired up at reading one poster  s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave   the performance of his career    to me  it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie  and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment  then i thought to myself  what else has stevens done  so i checked and  you know  that person was absolutely right  in the    years since this columbo movie was made  apparently every one of the    projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap  so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career  br    br   if you like columbo  see every other of the    titles before watching this one  do yourself a favor and save the worst for last           this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years  not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom  br    br   the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not  nothing is of any interest  the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful   i just sat in utter amazement during this movie  thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining  br    br   the producers of this movie were very clever  they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast  people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think  woody harrison  kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie  boy are they in for a horrible time  br    br   if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie  some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning          down at the movie gallery  i saw a flick i just had to see  it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into  yeah  i knew it would suck  but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs  only a few laughs were to be found  this was an extremely stupid movie  it begins with a bounty hunter  our protagonist  who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film  he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris  but he can  t  his dialogue sucks too  anyway  he goes into a village  shoots some zombies  you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes     minutes to reload or watch some zombies  at least the zombies look cool  so anyway  some people get shot  some zombies die  and in the end  everyone is dead except our main character  who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people           i am finally seeing the el padrino movie  from what i can see it is an incredible film  and lots of action damian chapa is good director  but i must admit i love his acting the best  br    br   also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga  she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit  br    br   however the film el padrino is a pure    action epic  why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is  i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also  br    br   i am one of those people who love to see artists make it  br    br   b s          i thrive on cinema    but there is a limit  a name isn t enough to make a movie   the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet  but we remain hungry   or angry    till the end   things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense  the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed  next            michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems  nonetheless  to be regarded as a perfect   catch   by any woman that runs across him  could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film  he  s a   hero   whom it  s very difficult to empathize with  so the movie is in trouble right from the start  however  it  s troubles don  t end there  it has the production values of a tv movie  check out that head made of clay or something  near the end   and the ending cheats in a way that i can  t reveal  in case anyone wants to see the movie  highly unlikely   let  s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows                  i was drawn to   friends   by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston  i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make  recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called   seasons    then i found the elton john song   friends   thinking it was the same song   it  s been    years of so  anyway  the flood of the emotions of   friends   came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love  i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production  plot  etc  so forgive me for a rather poor review  i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was  i  m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now  so many movies which seemed so important to me back then  i e    the graduate     easy rider    now just seem silly and i don  t want this to fall into the same category  but  i will find it and if it turns out silly  then at least i  ll be able to turn my wife onto a great   no  outstanding soundtrack  when we met  we went through this with   last tango in paris    the youngsters i work with  i  m     respect my opinions but it  s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little   aged   now  i just can  t figure out if the the aging process is the movies    or me    friends   is a very special  sensitive and wonderful movie  it will bring back a lot of special feelings i  m sure  by all means  rent or buy a copy    indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today           during the clete roberts preface  i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production  however  what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff  the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood  s poverty row  and this makes the movie all the more realistic  there are no punches pulled here  and at times the film is reminiscent of   the well          the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality  for certain  younger viewers will be reminded of   the blair witch project   but this one is based on real events           i decided to watch this one because it  s been nominated for oscar this year  i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie  but ended up bored and disappointed  first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in   shaky hands   camera mode is really annoying  br    br   i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this  br    br   american   military machine    people  who makes money on war  urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something  sort of  patriotic  br    br   why these   heroic   efforts of director and the main character to  inspire  the audience with an idea of   loving war like a drug      oh  please  come on  what a bore   br    br   watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall             mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title  br    br   this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there  br    br   it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation  br    br   the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger  who just happens to be a flesh eater  who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie  or ghoul  quite which exactly is not defined  br    br   there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified  attempts to help her by supplying   food     i shall say no more about that  for fear of inserting a spoiler   it is one of those   quiet   movies as opposed to guns blasting  explosions raging  car chases  etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish  but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans  whilst also inserting sadness into the story  along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called   horror   movies  br    br   there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film  where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so   innocent    but  what she becomes   oh my   br    br   a gem of a movie and even if not your thing  should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan           empire of passion starts out deceptively   that is  if you  re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie  it  s like a riff on james m  cain  s the postman always rings twice  at first  seki  kazuko yoshiyuki  is a mother of two and a dutiful  hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo  takahiro tamura   but when he  s not around  and she  s at home with the baby  the feisty and aimless young man toyoji  tatsuya fuji  comes around to bring some goodies for seki    and a little extra  they  re soon sleeping together  but after he does something to her  let  s just say a   shave     he knows that he  ll find out  and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo  they drink him up  strangle him  and then toss him down a well  naturally  this will come back to haunt them   but that it  s literally  at least to them  at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji   changes gears into the   kaidan    a japanese ghost story  br    br   this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of   oh  ghost  ah    but out of the total dread that builds for the characters  in a way there  s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout  if only loosely translated by way of a   th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town  i e  the snooping cop  the   evidence   found possibly by another  word getting around  suspicions aroused  etc   it  s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start  manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji  and her reactions to gisaburo  s re appearances are staggering to her  take the one that comes closest to poetry  gisaburo  s ghost  pale blue face and mostly silent  chilling stare  motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw  she does  reluctantly  and he pushes her around on a road she doesn  t know  in the wee hours before dawn  surrounded by smoke  most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric  br    br   while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end  there  s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work  after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses  which  ironically  got banned in his own country   he made something that  he claimed  was even  more  daring that   senses    maybe he was right  empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor  also starring tatsuya fuji  a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range   but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread  you can believe in ghosts in this story  but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go  the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries  the fate of their very souls is at stake  br    br   and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp  sadly  it wouldn  t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works  and crafts shot after gorgeous shot  with repetition working its way into the mis en scene  i e  the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road  the camera at a dutch angle  the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue  as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this  i e  toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion  or how seiko  s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind   it  s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit  not to be confused with the spiritual  though there may be something with that as well  about life and death  s connections to one another  inextricably  it  s a classic waiting to be discovered           i am not a big music video fan  i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song   any song  in other words   creative thinking goes out the window  likewise  personal feelings aside about mj  toss aside  this was the best music video of alltime  simply wonderful  it was a movie  yes folks it was  brilliant  you had awesome acting  awesome choreography  and awesome singing  this was spectacular  simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man   but was he a man or something sinister  vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video  mj was mj   enough said about that  this song was to video   what jaguars are for cars  top of the line  perfecto  what was even better about this was  that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts  though ironically enough  there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around  folks go to youtube  take    mins  out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is           oh  my goodness  i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon  but here it is  armed with rotten plot  terrible editing  stilted acting  and headache inducing   style    sorry  i have no other words for it   sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre  that is  this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better  br    br   now  not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself  it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it  right from the main titles    nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en    i was under the impression that something didn  t smell quite right  as soon as the movie started with a series of corny  wanna be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors  i knew where that smell was coming from  br    br   it turns out that two policemen  or rather policeman jim renart  michael par    and policewoman dorothy smith  jennifer rubin   are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver  a serial killer  known as   monkey killer    what a menacing  chilling nickname  uh   for his working methods  has killed quite a lot of people  you see  this nut apparently works following the proverb   see no evil  hear no evil  speak no evil   and cuts eyes  ears  and tongues out of his victims  so far  six eyes  six ears  and three tongues  in very ingenious fashion  renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people    well  because he probably wants to complete the number      so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick  casper van dien   a young  successful  good looking businessman  with a dreadful temper  and that  s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in  br    br   so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath  none of which is interesting in the least  until they finally meet  along the way to that  a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory  renart goes in the back of the disco club  because    well  just because the script tells us it  s a suspect place  then  with one single punch in the stomach  renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path  and the guard is never heard of again  does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic  br    br   anyway  after another murder  gerrick turns in as a witness  but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer  in typical basic instinct fashion  smith gets some dates with the young businessman  under the assumption that she might discover his true identity  br    br   i won  t spoil the ending but it is  quite simply  an embarrassment  there are contradictions  some plot holes  issues that never get resolved  and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder  supposed to be shocking and sad  comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can  t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it  br    br   at    minutes  sanctimony is really pushing it  you never care about one single character  because they are all so flat  not to mention boring  that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them  you are never pulled into the story  because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place  the acting ranges from average  van dien  to downright atrocious  rubin  and most of the supporting cast   the music is abysmal generic techno  and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen  of course  like every fiasco of the genre  we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity  br    br                 the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction  the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain  but i think of the three this one is the best  br    br   maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet  who knows  maybe preminger couldn  t get enough money to pay for the location  it  s the only flaw i find in the film  br    br   frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided  he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer  but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him  br    br   first bob strauss who wants him back dealing  especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town  he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra  s services back  secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again  and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who  s working a con game to beat all  just to keep him around  br    br   frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film  but lost to ernest borgnine in marty  sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn  t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year  his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak  s apartment will leave you shaken  br    br   eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role  she  s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost  if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody  she might have been nominated for this       marked the high point of her career   br    br   darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler  his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl  br    br   elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in  not a place you  d want to bring up your family           this film was basically set up for failure by the studio  one  anne rice  author of the book  offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio  two  they tried to stuff   in depth novels in to a  hour movie  br    br   i maintain the only way for these two books  vampire lestat and queen of the damned  to work in a live action form would be through a mini series  first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the       s to the       s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character  lestat  the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned  without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed  br    br   lestat was not cruel and vicious to all  he was not wanting to go along with akasha  s plans  marius did not make lestat  lestat did not love jesse or make her  lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light  marius was not after david nor the other way around  every character was completely represented wrong  basically same names different story  br    br   if they wanted to make a vampire movie  fine  even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels  fine  but don  t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice  s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love  br    br   if you haven  t read the books you won  t understand the film really  if you have read the books you will be insulted  that being said  i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it  catch     must see it  will hate it           have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more  even from a score of     imdb  the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal  the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a   worst case scenario   of playing   strong   feelings accompanied by some bad acting    don  t waist your time this movie   xadsnt entertaining  if you wanna cry it might suffice though  even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy    br    br   i give this      it really was awful  if you wanna see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it  its all the good things this movie isn  t           an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night  after she tries to get away from the murder scene  she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness  this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat           don  t listen to most of these people  ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love  its about jill johnson  played by camilla belle  who babysits at the mendrakis   house and someone breaks in  if you  re wondering how he got in the house  he went through the garage most likely  so anyway  don  t listen to    the worst acting    it has amazing acting  with a great story  i think that there are   benefits that jill has     shes a fast runner and is on the track team    she got out alive  lol  br    br   it is a cool movie and quite scary  check it out  you will be happy with this masterpiece  don  t listen to the other people on the site  its very good  trust me  i am good at reviewing movies  i  m a future movie critic  i totally want to buy this movie  and you will too when you see it  it is amazingly awesome           what a frustrating movie  a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces  as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows  this does none of that  instead  the writers settled for cutesy twinkles  cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama  the thing looks like a made for tv movie  and was directed with no particular distinction  but it  s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting  br    br   the most frustrating aspect  though  is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast  all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this  well  there  s no other word for it  drivel  a tragic waste of talent  in particular that of the great stockard channing           this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the     s  jack pearl  radio  s   baron munchausen    as well as jimmy durante  however        decades later  it  s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today  film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts  br    br   as for the stooges  this is a film from there very early days  before mgm had any idea what to do with the team  at this point  they were known as   ted healy and his stooges   as healy was the front man  fortunately for the stooges  they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man  read up on him  you  ll see what i mean  and the rest is history  within a year  they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team  this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm  a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy  such as the films of buster keaton  laurel and hardy  abbott and costello and others   in fact  up until they left for columbia  mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles  including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady  and  oddly  in this film they didn  t act as a team  they just did various supporting roles  such as larry playing the piano  br    br   this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle  when they are rescued and brought home  all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show  punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there  as for pearl  i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films  as he has the personality of a slug  but slightly less welcome   as for durante  i never knew what the public saw in him  as least as far as his films are concerned  he was loud and   loud  he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton  s career to make this film  together  pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor    and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat  br    br   in this film  the stooges they didn  t yet have the right chemistry  seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd  what they did in the film was pretty good  but because all the segments were short  they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines  stooges fans might be very frustrated at this  though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge  even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films  oh  and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly   br    br   overall  the film is rather dull and disappointing  however  there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess  at about the    minute mark  you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing  look carefully  as this is walter brennan in a role you  d certainly never expect  another unusual thing to look for in the film is the   clean as a whistle   song starting at about    minutes into the film  this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called   pre code   scene that never would have been allowed in films after       when the production code was strengthened   despite the word   clean   in the title  it  s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh  enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything  it  s quite shocking when seen today  though such excesses were pretty common in the early     s  finally  at the    minute mark  see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades  see the film  you  ll see that i mean           when carol  vanessa hidalgo  starts looking into her brother  s death  she begins to suspect something more sinister than   natural causes    the closer she gets to the truth  the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law  fiona  helga line   and the rest of the local satanists  they  ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways  br    br   if you  re into sleazy  satanic themed movies  black candles has a lot to offer  the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex  one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed  unfortunately  all the sleaze in the world can  t save black candles  most of the movie is a total bore  other than the one scene i  ve already mentioned  the numerous sex scenes aren  t shocking and certainly aren  t sexy  the acting is spotty at best  even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance  the plot really doesn  t matter  its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together  i  m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz  compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror  black candles comes off as amateurish       is about the best i can do           one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history  zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers  the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer  and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued  others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal  unlike many serial killers  zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter  the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off  the film is constructed as a murder mystery  or a   cold case   style thriller  it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills  br    br   some people dislike any movie that is shot on video  this attitude is very old style and provincial  it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value  these attitudes are on the way out  zodiac killer is a low budget film  no doubt  but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem           i  ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life  eg what it takes to get into music school   britney bashing  etc  etc  so let  s focus on the movie and the message  br    br   i have rated this movie   out of    for the age range   to    years  and for a family movie  for the average adult male       out of     br    br   i like pop rock music  i  m     i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews  i didn  t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any   self promotion    br    br   i watch movies to be entertained  i don  t care about casting  lighting  producers  directors  etc  what is the movie and does it entertain me  br    br   i watched this movie for the message  the world  s greatest epidemic is low self esteem  which is a whole other story  so watched with the message in mind  as that is an area of interest  the movie is light  bright and breezy  great for kids  i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don  t give up message  so yeh  it was a bit predictable  great message though   should be more of them  br    br   this movie is a great family movie  but for a bloke watching by himself  get hannibal           i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema  made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies  it is filled with super surfer greg noll  s home movies  and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his    year passion  nevertheless  it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory  it is filled with artistic talent  and athletic talent  however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic  surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots  nor are they surgeons perhaps  or ph d  s again  perhaps   it believes in the quest of the surfer  it believes in the beauty of human goofiness  it believes in the great gift of peace  which comes from the cessation of war  surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before  it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war   with the russian socialists  surfing is the ultimate narcissism  it is dangerous  but only slightly historical  i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique  he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received  this movie has no military heroes  it has no guns  the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop  this is not a problem  peace is not desperate  it is the joy of exhalation           i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode  it was dumbed down to such an extent  i doubt if i learned a single thing  the graphics were rudimentary  any small idea was repeated ad nauseum  contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan  that had a good musical theme  there was no music coming from these infernal    dimensional strings           although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched  it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon  the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent  caine hams it up   which is exactly what the character he is playing should do  entertaining and fun  this is a hour and a half of easy watching           this movie was so badly written  directed and acted that it beggars belief  it should be remade with a better script  director and casting service  the worst problem is the acting  you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished  professional and totally believable  and on the other hand  ri  chard  who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece  peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning  and keeping  couple  although both normally do fine work  the actors  and director  should not have attempted to do accents at all  they are inconsistent and unbelievable  much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english  the casting is ludicrous  why have children of an   african   merchant  thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society   been cast with very pale skinned actors  while the supposedly socially desirable marcel  has pronounced african features  including an obviously dyed blond   fro    it  s as if the casting directors cannot be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color  it  s just so weird  this could be a great movie and should be re made  but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors  there are plenty of good actors out there  and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals  daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast  good script and decent direction           when i was a younger oh about   i watched barney for the first time  and liked it  but  back then i didn  t exactly have a brain  either  and now i look back and see what a horrible show   barney   really is  first of all  everything on that show is creepy  barney  the main character  is a horrendous   foot tall talking  purple dinosaur that teaches    year olds about   imagination        shudders   b j  i know what your thinking about his name  is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be   supposudly   cool  but in fact  he is the exact opposite  after watching a few episodes with b j  dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap  and making a few no so funny jokes  i wanted to scream  baby bop oh oh god   vomits  oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever  she is a green triceratops it  s a dinosaur  that carries a yellow blanket  her remarks of   hee hee hee   and barney  s praises cries of   super deeee doooper    make it hard to sit through each episode  as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners  br    br   and that  my friend  is what makes this show truly horrible           steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there  he certainly was a charismatic fellow  one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew  but even mcqueen can  t save this turkey of a film  shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st  louis  br    br   mcqueen  s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang  there  s more than a broad hint that there  s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke  he  s not liked at all by the other heist members  mainly because of his lack of criminal resume   br    br   steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot  especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke  all pretty rough characters  that would certainly get my suspicions aroused  br    br   the great st  louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix  guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn  t do much of anything  one of those two jokers decided steve  s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation   br    br   this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen  i  m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can  t believe they would have if they saw this  br    br   or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey           this is a bad film  as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts  as a result  it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr  huston should have been proud of making  however  the film is worth watching if you are a fan of   pre code   films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out  even if they aren  t married and even if their partner is    br    br   the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi  in the process  she meets a scalawag  bruce cabot  who eventually convinces her to sleep with him  she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman  however  miss dunne does not want him back  as she realizes he  s not worth it  but later her baby dies at child birth  while all these very controversial plot elements are used  they are always alluded to  almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way  kids in the audience will be clueless  after all  films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time   br    br   surprisingly  this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about     of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to  it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it  tacking it on to still another film  in this second phase of the film  miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women  s prison  though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there   what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate  and  as a result of all this violence  miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer  br    br   but then  out of the blue  another type of film emerges and the women  s prison reform business goes by the wayside  dunne meets a judge  walter huston  who is married but he desperately wants her  now throughout the film  dunne is portrayed as a very good girl  even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot  she was more or less tricked into it   but now  single irene  who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man  he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only  but she never thinks to investigate if this is true  and with his assurance  off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business  but  while she  s pregnant with his love child  he  s indicted for being a crooked judge  he assures her he  s innocent  but he  s convicted and it sure sounds like he  s a scoundrel  using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune  then  in the final moments of the film  miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released  the film then ends  br    br   so  we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early   s idea of what a nice girl should be like  i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships  this really undoes all the positives about dunne  s character and it  s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film  a strong women  s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect  with a decent re write  this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film  but it couldn  t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film           i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently  it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go  two guys  one naive and one loud mouthed a    take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky  make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them  things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker  what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie  unlike so many others  the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes  nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff  definitely worth checking out            very mild spoilers  a basic plot outline  no real details   br    br   if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations  i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland  and the only reason i agreed to go   was because it was free  i expected a few chuckles  but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d  not much more then that  br    br   the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious  as we are given a look at jack black  s humble christian origins in a midwest american town  the film then takes us years into the future  to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass  the second half of tenacious d  we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name  finally  as the title suggests  the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled   pick of destiny    again  the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny  and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face  that said  there were times it felt a bit long  it  s only     minutes  but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter  the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds  and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot  which is fine  except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss   and when they miss  they miss bad  same thing with the songs  it is a musical  but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so   then kept going anyway  br    br   i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing  the d  s humor simply couldn  t work without cussing  sex  and drug references  but unless you  re a real fan of the band  or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy  i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent    pick   will make you giggle a bit   but is it worth   bucks  i don  t think so  i was tempted to rate it a    but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres  a   seems more appropriate  just be sure it  s your style           i shall begin with a disclaimer  this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff  the game before watching  the movie relies on the audience  s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements  and it does so very subtly  do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it  ll be that much better  br    br   with that in mind  this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed  the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game  on steroids  yeah  the attention to detail in each scene  especially in the heavy action oriented ones  is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe  br    br   i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music  again  for those who are familiar with the ff  story and background  the music should not surprise anyone  although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation   br    br   once again  i myself having only played through ff  once  thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix  and that is the feel in most scenes  choreographed and organized  like a dance  br    br   in short  if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy    this film will blow you out of the water  if you  re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff  on playstation or pc  doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience  br    br   finally  i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film  characters move with fluidity  each scene background comes to life and tells its own story  for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot  i urge you to reexamine the animation  facial reactions  subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery  br    br   square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling  advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations  allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves  br    br   thanks square enix  the wait was well worth it           this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made  everything about it  acting  directing  script  cinematography  is dreadful  the alien  a human in sparkly suit  claims to be from a nearby universe  one assumes the scriptwriter meant   galaxy   but didn  t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms  a better title for the film would be   it came from the planet of plot contrivances    the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent  the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot  any thought to the passage of time is ignored  now it  s a couple days after meeting the alien  then bam  all of a sudden there  s only a couple hours left until zero hour  do yourself a favor and miss this movie  you will make yourself stupider for having watched it  the ending is particularly silly  and should have been accompanied by someone going   ta da       as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt  i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you  ll get cancer watching it  if you can watch the last    minutes without crapping yourself    enemies of freedom    honestly  laughing  you  re retarded           if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors  eating non ants  and conquering the world with a voice over narrative  then this is the movie for you  basically  a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants  the most intelligent actors in this film  in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination  throughout the movie the two scientists  and a girl they rescued from the ants  use everything at their disposal  computers  green dye  and horrid acting   but to no avail  i guess they just couldn  t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly  br    br   the title of the movie   phase iv   is something of a mystery  this is not a spoiler  but   phase i   starts right after the opening credits whereas you don  t reach   phase iv   until the end credits roll  apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases       throughout the movie as a kind of progress report    hang in there buddy  only   more phase until final credits    as a mst k episode  this one wasn  t very good for two reasons     this one is from the season   on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons  and    this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up  there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing   gamera movies  br    br   the movie does have a trick surprise ending  but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me           joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors  who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can  t wait to see lola  while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy  donald martin  who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan  who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl  but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn  t feel shy with a waitress  who comes from brooklyn  like he does soon joe notices he  s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don  t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney  s anchors aweigh        is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch  once again  in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn  t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra  but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of    the   year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it  s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there  s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing   we hate to leave   it  s so energetic   if you knew susie  like i know susie    is quite funny it  s a nice moment when frank sings brahms   lullaby to little dean stockwell it  s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango   jealousy    the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world  and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment           from director barbet schroder  reversal of fortune   i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class  and i recognised the leading actress  so i tried it  despite the rating by the critics  basically cool kid richard haywood  half nelson  s ryan gosling  and justin pendleton  bully  s michael pitt  team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them  investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie   the hyena   mayweather  sandra bullock  with new partner sam kennedy  ben chaplin   who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene  e g  non relating hairs  the plan doesn  t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects  it is just a question of if they can sway them away  also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills  chris penn as ray feathers  r d  call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst  d a  al swanson  i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock  s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing  but this film does it in a very silly way  and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable  adequate           things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world  or   everytown   through     years  you can break it up into about   different scenes or parts  the film spans from      to      and is mainly about how this ruler or the   boss   wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again  after everytown was bombed and war broke out  br    br   this film only has about   faults  it  s audio is muddy and video had some quirks  the characters aren  t deep at all  and the overall plot isn  t altogether solid  the plot is lacking something that i can  t put my finger on    it just seems a little   fluffy    but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g  wells though might happened in the next hundred years  this is a must see  it  s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing  a long  drawn out war  because they were just about to go to war with germany  and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything  br    br   things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once           weak stale  tired  cliched  wants to be basic instinct  but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives  new insights  insipid  trite  grotesque  and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity  oh  wait   it was only    minutes long   it must have just  seemed  a lot longer  i  d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again  i  m expressing an opinion here  i guess this means i didn  t like it           one word can describe this movie and that is weird  i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting  well it was  the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge  on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not  very strange  if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out           while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem  i don  t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right  br    br   the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting  one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle  thrown together by fate  they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on  br    br   i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks  because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast  my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features  oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring  but all in all a excellent movie           this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today  not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors  so what went wrong  i don  t know and simply i don  t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all  be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish  but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot  a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father  s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid  very stupid plot twists devices  i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience  if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather  what about lock  stock     thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film               i  ll not comment a lot  what  s to    stereotype characters  absolute ignorance about colombia  s reality  awful mise en scene  poor color choice  not funny  it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it  s beside the nonsense scenes   very poor actors direction  if you see somewhere those people  i mean the interpreters  you  ll know they are at least good  but seeing this so call film  it is impossible to guess it   you get tired of the music    this   comedy   has no rhythm  the only good rhythm in it  it  s the rap sing in the final credits    pathetic  doesn  t it  etc   etc    it has been a long time i haven  t seen a movie so bad            this movie is a riot  i cannot remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies  i  ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny  but this one is wall to wall great lines  i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in  the movie was non stop until the end when they did the   minutes of sentimental plot clean up  other than that it  s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations  i  d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don  t get all the jokes the first time around  you have to see it two or three times to get it all in  br    br   as far as the actual film goes  it could have used a better edit  it  s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that  all the characters are great  it  s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke  i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable  no victims in this movie  also  thank god they got a    year old actress to play his girlfriend  catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film  you just wish that women like her really existed  she  s not a        like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite  br    br   if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it  i assure you  the trailer does not do it justice  they do not give away all the good jokes  just some of the mediocre ones  br    br   oh and one more thing  i hope critics put this on their top ten list  many of them complain that comedies don  t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don  t put it on their list  this means you ebert             a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth   things must be pretty bad back on mars   two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash  whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy  s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner  br    br   the diner has had no customers since eleven o  clock that morning  now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge  the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus  although he didn  t notice who they were  the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed  one of them is an alien  but which one  all of them are suspect  there  s the crazy old man  jack elam   of course  who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit  there  s a blustering businessman who must get to boston  john hoyt   a young couple on their honeymoon   execrable performance by the husband  ron kipling   except for the couples  nobody has noticed anyone else  and even the couples are suspicious of each other  bride to newly minted husband    i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin    the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way    the phone rings for no reason  the lights go on and off  the juke box turns itself on    and none of it is to be taken seriously  br    br   it  s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle  there is no discernible   depth   to it  it  s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens  it  s not a warning of any kind  just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses  br    br   i always enjoy it when it  s on  it  s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman  knowing that in      he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm  s version of shakespeare  s play  and here he is    with three arms  br    br   oops           it  s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site  but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created  and how bias its product was  br    br   i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy  we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression  yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population  we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager  we only hear from other palestinians in prison  i understand restrictions are in place  but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace  br    br   i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence  so to speak  she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber  s parents  and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control  it is more realistic  in my mind  to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem  ignored pleas for understanding and freedom  ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land  br    br   i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother  which normally would be admirable in a documentary  however in the light of the lack of impartiality  it all seems exploitative  also for the poor edits  lack of background in the actual instance  and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side  ultimately  it is a poor documentary and a poor film  i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation  but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter           relentless like one of those loud action movies  the entire cast seems to be on speed  i didn  t quite get the director  s intentions if any  i wonder if she  s ever seen a stanley donen  vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical  structure  please  this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba  the costumes the unflattering photography   unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations  the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself  no chemistry with her friends  christine baranski and julie walters  think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you  ll understand what i was hoping for  i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth  the audience  however  seemed to enjoy it so it probably it  s just me           this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space  as a history of space flight  it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it  disney has shown it on   vault disney   and i wish they would do so again           in an alternate     s  where an outbreak of the undead  caused by a mysterious   space dust    has been contained through the use of special electronic collars  a young loner  timmy  finds a friend in fido  billy connelly   his family  s recently acquired domesticated zombie  br    br   fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy  whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son  or for his hot to trot wife  played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss  having been psychologically scarred as a child  when he was forced to shoot his own father  who tried to eat him    br    br   timmy runs into a spot of bother  however  when his putrid pal  s collar goes on the blink  and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour  with the authorities on fido  s trail  trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies  and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help  will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend  br    br   a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick  fido is a thoroughly entertaining  deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour  taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into     s small town america is a stroke of genius  and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole   reanimated dead   theme that i have seen  br    br   connelly  s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame  along with day of the dead  s bub  and return of the living dead  s tarman  it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse  but the big yin  s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus  the rest of the cast also give commendable performances  with young k  sun ray  as timmy  and ms moss deserving special mentions  ray  because  for one so young  he puts in a particularly assured turn  and moss because she is so bloody yummy  br    br   this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week  the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead   and  to my surprise  it is also the best  director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future  br    br       out of     rounded up to   for imdb           an extremely down to earth  well made and acted   rodeo   western  no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the     s and     s west  but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance  especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life  his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the   ups and downs   of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style  he and mr  coburn teamed up extremely well as partners  not only on the circuit itself  but also in the real world outside the corral  also  check out anne archer as coburn  s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie  must have been one of her first roles   br    br   not as flashy  perhaps  as   junior bonner    but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal  thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time           despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm  i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as   mills and boon    so what  it is good to see a warm  touching story of real love in these cynical times  many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes  you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other  even though  for political reasons  it was an arranged marriage  i did feel though that sir john conroy  who was desperate to control the young queen  is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain  as it is rumoured that he was in fact  the real father of victoria  as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent  it would have been interesting to explore this theory  emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess  trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her  she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england  which prospered as never before  under her long reign  i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie             american nightmare   is officially tied  in my opinion  with   it  s pat    for the worst movie of all time  br    br   seven friends  oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of   friends    gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare  a pirate radio show  it  s hosted by a guy with a beard  that  s the most exciting aspect of his show  br    br   chandler  monica  joey  and    oh wait  i mean  wayne  jessie  and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj  unbeknownst to them  a crazed nurse serial killer is listening    br    br   crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and    wait  sorry again    by making their fears come to life  these fears include such stunners as   voodoo   and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures  br    br   no  really  br    br   this movie was  in a word  rotten  crazy nurse  s killing spree lacks motivation  there  s nothing to make the viewer   jump    the ending blows  and  again  voodoo  br    br   if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones  rent   american nightmare   with them  br    br   if you care for your loved ones  even a little bit  go to your local blockbuster  rent all of the copies of   american nightmare   and hide them in your freezer           first off  i have to say that i loved the book animal farm  i read it with my  th grade class  and it was great  we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial  the movie was so disappointing to me  the movie cuts out some characters  and misses a lot of the main points of the book  it skips around a lot  and doesn  t explain anything in detail  if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book  they would be confused  the most disappointing thing in this movie to me  was the ending  the ending in the book was the most powerful  and in the movie  they changed it  it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of   melting   together  but instead  the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs  to sum up  i don  t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book           this movie was extremely boring  i only laughed a few times  i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner  s name on the cover  it  s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates  when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist  he meets a prostitute  she takes him to a club called the playground  where he befriends several pimps  when mayor tony gold  shatner  decides to take over the pimp business  lil   pimp must lay down for his homies  br    br   the animation isn  t very good in this  it looks like it was made with macromedia  which i  m sure it was  it doesn  t suck  it  s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years  the humor in this is not very good  i didn  t think any of it was funny           i was disgusted by this movie  no it wasn  t because of the graphic sex scenes  it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi  this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art  it shows one piece of art work that she did  judith beheading holofernese  but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial  br    br   i don  t know if you understood this from the movie  probably not  tassi was not a noble character  he raped artemisia  it was not love  it was rape  he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured  according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia  aka had sex with  while she states over and over again   it  s true    br    br   i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about  don  t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie  i encourage you to do some research  artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work  br    br   don  t see the movie  but find out the true story of artemisia           such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar  s a bug  s life  we  re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film  but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation  for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer    when it  s in the right hands that is    a bug  s life is a warm reminder  we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling  and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions  br    br   it is only pixar  s second animated feature  the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in       with their landmark movie toy story  it was a movie which defied convention  re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence  now  they return with their sophomore effort which  to be honest  draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film  br    br   after all  it  s a film about ants  well  all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug  s life  but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film  as humans are the focal point in dramas  romances and so on  how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie  let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film  surely they jest  however  we forget that in toy story  a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest  most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted  the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat  and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you  ll probably ever encounter  br    br   not only are they all entirely amiable and likable    there isn  t an unpleasant character in sight  even the villains are riveting characters    but they  re colourful  they  re eclectic  and they  re idiosyncratic  and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term  only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug  s life from the beginning  we shall start with our main character  and our hero  his name is flik  david foley   and his character is rather generic to say the least  out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush  beautiful ant island  he is the one considered the   black sheep   of the clan  as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season  s harvest with his antics  br    br   the problem arises in the fact that the ants   harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper  kevin spacey   who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants  when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone  they go insane  for lack of a better term  hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack  s hands  however  it  s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil  the cogs and clockwork in flik  s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame  and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony  s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers  br    br   if you think about it  a bug  s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line  s of akira kurosawa  s classic seven samurai  or the american remake the magnificent seven  in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies    one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city  finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil  in a bug  s life  the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl  br    br   much amusement comes out of these scenes  and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs  among them are an erudite stick insect  david hyde pierce   a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who  s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug  dennis hopper   it  s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen  as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen  as is the entire movie collectively  br    br   as i  ve said  much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another  which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines  wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie  what makes a bug  s life even better is that the film isn  t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be  although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film    the clich  d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we  d like  however  it  s easy to ignore this fault  and it  s incredulously easy to enjoy this film  br    br   although a bug  s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor  this is still a superb movie  and the start of something promising here  pixar have proved that they  re not just a one hit wonder  but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood  they raise the bar endlessly  and when someone always manages to top their standards  it  s only always by themselves  what more is there to say about a bug  s life other than  see it  it  s not quite the best which we  ve seen from the folks at emeryville  california  but this beats out the lot of its year    and i  ll be damned if this isn  t the best animated feature of       br    br                  what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel  i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original  this version is no different  i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever   anyway back to this version  it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style  it succeeds in both but high art it is nit  throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe   the direction was average and the editing abysmal  worse than the old quincy  deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents  the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project  although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had  its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved          my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger  it  s about andre  a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter  katharine heigl  on a vacation  hoping to get a little closer to her  but of course  nicole isn  t that easy to get along with  she just started puberty  i  m guessing  she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time  one day at the beach  nicole meets handsome ben  and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad  the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie  i would give my father the hero               it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days  especially for television  considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes  not to mention lesbianism  this has been given superb treatment and direction  br    br   the sets and costumes are flawless  the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable  there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes  the protagonist is really a tragic figure  but not devoid of happiness  also  this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism  the characters are very human  it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay  not so with this  in tipping the velvet  the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means  br    br   the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past  and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts           i just don  t get some of the big premises of this episode   that miranda is so remarkable  and that there  s anything so ugly it would make you insane  someone here made the remark that maybe it  s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness  miranda is just a jerk  the episode is slow  inconsistent and way too talky  i also don  t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador   why doesn  t the federation just leave the damn medusans be  there  s one part i do like  when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience  overall  i love tos and even at its lamest  i  ll always tune in  this episode though   mmm  i wouldn  t purchase it except for a used copy under              this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone  on my list of favorite movies  mental list  mind  the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series  spirited away and fly away home  br    br   i can really relate to the main character jess  at the start of the movie she  s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls  she really sucks you into her life  i also certainly can  t fault any of the protagonist  s acting  or anyone else  s in the film  br    br   the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules  the movie is never boring  the romance is really cute and didn  t make me blush tooooo hard  one thing that really made it though was the indian factor  jess   parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else  the indian people are also hilarious  essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it  br    br   feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film  they  re funny  they  re refreshing and they make you feel good               i know that you  ve already entered this in film festivals  or at least i think you have  i may just be making that up  but i think this should get   best animated short film   in every one  bravo  i can  t wait for the full film  i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations  but hear it now and accept it as the truth  kudos  my friend  okay  now i  m just trying to get ten lines of text    though i still mean it  and here comes yet another  shoe   and i cannot stop here yet  this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do  in fact  i  ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic   jason steele marathon    i do have a lot of those  br    br    r          this is probably the first entry in the   lance o  leary nurse keat   detective series  in subsequent o  leary films  he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee  br    br   a group of relatives  all played by well known character actors  gathers in an old house  on a rainy nite  of course   to speak to a wealthy relative  who goes into a coma  br    br   while they wait for him to recover  all sorts of mysterious goings on happen  including a couple of murders  br    br   a creepy film  worth seeing           this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs  evil plot and is all about action  what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated  it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around  her movements were done so well  why don  t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days  it  s quite effective  br    br   fire and ice  in it  s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women  was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways  her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy  some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy  others  including plenty of women  will adore it  s esthetic quality  i for sure did not mind  bakshi just loves animating lushious  voluptuous babes  as can also be seen in cool world  and i don  t think he has to apoligize since it  s pretty much animation for adults  but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it  br    br   this one was just special  so different from the standard disney or anime fare  and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it  s possibly bakshi  s finest  for those who like animations with lushious women  try space adventure cobra as well  br    br   i give fire and ice   out of              my ratings  acting        suspense        character attachment        plot        character development        overall        br    br   this show sucks very much officially  for me  csi miami is the best  csi ny  nd and csi    th  i don  t know  in the other csis you get into the episode you  re watching  but in this one  you just can  t get into the episode  no matter how much you try  so in my opinion  this show is not worth watching  i know people have different opinions  and i respect that  but for me  this csi ain  t good enough  so if you like suspense  real acting performance  good plot  direction  character development attachment and you an overall good show  i suggest you to watch csi miami           i am not a faulkner fan  which is considered sacrilegious  especially since i grew up near the author  s hometown   however  i think this is an excellent movie  on par with the quality of the movie   to kill a mocking bird    if you haven  t seen it  buy it anyway  it  s well worth having in your permanent collection  tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series  i wish they  d play it more often  very moving  br    br   on a side note  the folks from oxford  mississippi  will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the       s  the courthouse  city hall  etc   they  re all on screen  i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings  when i saw the arch in the front of city hall  i began to get suspicious  look closely at the pennants on chick  s wall  you  ll see two for ole miss            chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films  the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect  but fails painfully on all other fronts  the actors all play extremely silly caricatures  you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny  the plot is predictable  and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow  towards the end  the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films  including shabby larger than life special effects and a  well  yet another  ghost with a godzilla head  maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp  br    br   it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with   in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula  they won  t be able to do it again  the cash cow is now dead as a dodo           i can  t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton  and sure it  s his company  but   you  re fired   or   you  re hired    for how many seasons now  after watching the show i wouldn  t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve  br    br   i  d love to hear just one person get up and say   donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo    i see he  s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe  i hope he gets hurt so i don  t have to see his pathetic face anymore  it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it  i  d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a   and it doesn  t deserve that           if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme    style  i would never have rented it  nevertheless  i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot  i lasted a very  very  very long forty minutes before giving up  it  s just boring  pretentious twaddle  br    br   the last french movie i saw was   romance   and it too was pretty dismal  but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time  i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme    overseas    it  ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy   it  s called dogme    because that  s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera   br    br             the story and the show were good  but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies  ri  chard is great  he really put on a top notch performance  and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous  seriously  i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile  i can  t say anything bad about peter galleghar  he  s one of my favorite actors  i love anne rice  i  m currently reading the vampire chronicles  but i  m glad i saw the movie before reading the book  this is a little too  real   for me  i prefer lestat and louis  s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves  eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me  i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show   sorry for the ambiguity  but i don  t want to give anything away  sorry  but it  s just not my type of show           first  let me just comment on what i liked about the movie  the special effects were fantastic  and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game  there  that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film  in fact  i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can  t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing   br    br   i have innumerable complaints about the film  but four major complaints jump to mind  my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the   plot twist    if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away  where lois  s   year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman  when the crying super child throws a piano at lex  s henchman to save his mother  i almost got up and left the theater  singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child  it  s been   days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit   br    br   my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space  it doesn  t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what  s wrong with that  i don  t know how many comic books brian singer has read  but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet  whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again  the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun  why not just have superman eat kryptonite  he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it  and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas  that  s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground   br    br   my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie  i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior  jor el wasn  t all wise  he was just a scientist  and he didn  t send his son to earth to be a savior  he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode  i  ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode  and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ  s primary weakness  furthermore  the   crucifixion   scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite   spear   just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i  m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future  they might as well rename this movie   superman returns  the passion of the christ    br    br   and speaking of luthor  my last major complaint has to do with singer  s depiction of lex luthor  lex luthor is a shrewd  cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president  which he does in the comics  than try to destroy the world  the man wants money and power  he wants to be in charge  not wreck everything  yet the luthor we see superman returns  as well as all the previous superman movies  is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world  if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the  quite awful  previous superman movies  this film might not be such an unbearable travesty  maybe singer  s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from     s tv show  zam  whap  pow   br    br   to summarize  i don  t know what i hate more  the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews  everyone is entitled to their opinion  but if you don  t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong  i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven  t already  don  t see it  don  t buy it when it comes out on dvd  don  t rent it   basically don  t contribute any money towards it in any way  this movie does not deserve to make any money  in fact  i think that for every person that sees this movie  bryan singer should be fined    billion dollars  if you  re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie  just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you  ll get the same experience without having to waste   hours of your time           this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever  i have heard the merman cast album  the angela lansbury album  i have seen tyne daly live  and i  ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times  i think bette is if not the best  then tied with the best  she captures not just the bravura  but also the pathos of mama rose  i was never a natalie wood fan  so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb  in what is arguably her best role  everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful  the three strippers  led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top  there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back  with cher  but i think bette would be the best bet  pun intended  for auntie mame           i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad  it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference  no porn  br    br   the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul  maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable  at the very least  the pacing should have been picked up  br    br   while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had  he should have spent more time on the story or better yet  get someone else to write it  many of the action scenes were just pointless  br    br   it was a complete waste of my time           is it a perfect movie  no  it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space  naked beauties and the british army efficiency  br    br   when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may  actually  if it weren  t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie  i probably wouldn  t have rated it so high  but given her sheer magnificence  i am now actually considering voting it up  br    br   lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now  imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story  but with completely over the top performances  i still enjoyed the movie tremendously  as well as mathilda may   but it was a mixture of nostalgia  comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended  br    br   bottom line  if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie  oh  and did i mention mathilda may is young  beautiful and naked           overall i was rather impressed with the pilot  the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying  as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle  br    br   bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism  existentialism  reality  death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext  there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose  here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed  i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows  which deal with the subjects i referenced  i think you will find at least something here  br    br   in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way  i especially liked how they explained where the cylon  s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers  br    br   the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays   lacy rand    while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually  together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry  at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters  but this is something i think needs work  i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role  this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop  but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident  br    br   based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where   caprica   goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did           i  m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season  from the b grade to the hollywood  but this movie was something different  i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable  but some bits were just weird  well the acting wasn  t to good  compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz  quite good  and ice t in new jack and svu  great   the scene where corrupt  ice t  kills the wanna be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude  this kills the jamaican  however ice t is unharmed  very similar to ice  s other movie urban menace  which stars both of these actors  were snoops character is supernatural  however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon  when mj  silkk  gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood  and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird  benny isn  t introduced in this movie and the scene isn  t in the film  it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head  wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn  t mention what happen   other main characters mj and lisa  the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film  even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times  and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed  not wearing a helmet  and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him  the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team  it was ok tho  but me being from poverty i love hood films  however if u don  t love em like i do don  t watch it  only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with     dollars  and my love of the genre  br    br   nathaniel purez          i am a huge fan of the farcry game  huge fan  it still holds a place in my top    games list of all time  the story line was new  fresh    a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on    or so i thought    br    br   farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise  see doom  the movie  and many more      br    br   the video game begins as the player  jack carver  awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier  jack then finds a communication device where  harlan doyle  guides him across islands  shipwrecks  jungles  installations and volcanoes  to find his  lady friend    valerie constantine   all the wile battling mutated super soldiers  and genetically enhanced animals  br    br   the movie plays out very  very differently     there  s a needless    mins      of the movie  of   backstory   before we even get to the   boat blowing up   scene     jack then walks onto the beach  kills some goons  then drives off    nothing like the game       there is no communicator with doyle on the other end       the   modified soldiers   look like albinos with singlets on    and there was no mutated   monkey like   creatures jumping out of the bushes  a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot       there is no sun filled beach scenes  no aircraft carrier  no communications stations on huge cliffs  little reference to any in game contents  characters items vehicles   in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all     the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building     there  s an ending scene    where everyone  except krieger  live happily ever after    what the  br    br   i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs  if you are a gamer  you will hate this movie will all your soul  it is a movie clearly intended for males  so girls  stay away    so if your a male        years of age  have never played farcry  and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema    then this is for you             one of the best ensemble acted films i  ve ever seen  there isn  t much to the plot  but the acting  incredible  you see the characters change ever so subtly  undr the influence of the rented villa in italy  and love  and happiness  the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you  much as the villa does on all the women  truly   enchanted             i haven  t seen this movie in about   years  but it still haunts me   br    br   when asked about my favorite films  this is the one that i seem to always mention first  there are certain films  works of art like this film    dark city    and   breaking the waves    that seem to touch a place within you  a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive  that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer  not unlike a life changing event  such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend    this film   shook   me when i first saw it  it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days           today  i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood  br    br   hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation      changed everything  it changed our perception of security  it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity  most importantly and devastatingly   it changed our world  br    br   however  i can  t not stress how utterly repulsed  disillusioned  and angry i am at the careless  blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction  this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike  most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press  hollywood has sunk to a new low  even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty  behind it all is uwe boll  i am very angry at this movie  how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost  how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy      how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post     world       how   dare   they   br    br   to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty  i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength  remember  think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person  think back to that day  ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day  think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones  think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes  think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks  br    br   ask yourself if you have a soul  br    br   think  remember  respect the memories of the lives lost on     by not seeing this film at all           you cannot deny that we have an affinity for speed  that  s why movies like fast and the furious  dhoom  rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences  especially local ones  we live on a tiny island  and i cannot fathom why  for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system  most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with      tax when they reach our shores  and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one  not only that  the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear  lest they reach the sea  br    br   and these movies are relatively easy to make  hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic  for once  those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long  can  t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these  of course there are amongst us  ahem  those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects  otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models  and movies such as these cannot do without a leggy model in a frame   however  they don  t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen  even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park  the guy sitting beside me  i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s  appear  and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans  br    br   so there we have it  the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie  with the fast and the furious franchise  the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage  as does the gt  here  the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification  that even i  m impressed  alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos  porshe carerra gts  koenigsegg ccxs  and every car out there that has wings for doors  but seriously  my heart goes out to the cars each time they  re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment  i mean  this are perfectly fine  high performance models that are at the apex of motoring  but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow  they do so because they can  br    br   there  s no story in redline  just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties  the cars that is  that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible  and with the usual shots of pedals  always the accelerator  mind you  tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy  and earn you no respect   steering wheels  gear shifts  always shifting up and not down   all these while having the actors make pretend that they  re the baddest asses with an engine  snarling and giving each other dirty looks  not a very tall order for an actor  and that  s why we get the most woeful performances ever  with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids  br    br   the heroine  yes  it made a statement that girls can drive  natasha  a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin  is one of those million dollar finds   a girl with model looks who don  t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil  who has racing pedigree within her  and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable  every line had to do with cars  and when singing about love  just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts  lubricants and going for rides   introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous  eddie griffin   she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran  and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle  everything else  well like i said  just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race  br    br   and it  s almost always the same  as there  s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars  especially when you know the race is rigged  for narrative reasons  and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line  while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors  and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker  sun kang  and of course  the star it created   vin diesel  redline had none  just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately  it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go  with a very insipid opening sequence where it  s one man  one car  and a     minutes race against time to get to vegas  br    br   if not for the cars  then this movie seriously is a piece of junk  with bad acting  bad lines and bad action  strictly for the car fans  or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines           im the type of person who always goes   to horror section when i  m picking a film  so i picked five across the eyes  i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish  i think i could of done better myself  i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch  i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul           seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene  but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt  bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds  when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel  gets into his mustang  which is parked under the embarcadero freeway  now torn down  and notices the charger sitting nearbye  you know you are about to see something spectacular  from that moment on  when mcqueen starts that car  begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed  adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track  this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing  that shot of mcqueen  s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman  s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact  hickman  s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect  then of course  san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends  also  bullitt being filmed in the   s when cars were still   hot    mustang gt and dodge charger  made for a better set of wheels then two boring  smog device laden pontiacs in the     s seven ups  bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies  i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper  they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene  seven ups had a few   jumps   over little hills   yawn  but of course they were not san francisco hills  the seven ups chase  where they are actually going fast  is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt  but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity  strictly hollywood  i would say  except that it was filmed in new york           have you ever heard the saying that people   telegraph their intentions    well in this movie  the characters   actions do more than telegraph future plans    they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head  this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better  or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced  embeth davidtz  s character is not mysterious  just wooden  and kenneth branagh doesn  t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have  br    br   the bottom line  obvious plot  one note performances  unlikeable characters  and grotesque   southern   accents employed by british actors             night of the living homeless   was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season     obviously a parody of various zombie movies  most notably dawn of the dead  this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead  as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains  br    br   kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he  out of the goodness of his heart  gives a     to a homeless man in front of his house  more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park  until the town is completely overrun with them  this is a very strong randy marsh episode  as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center  but before randy makes it to the community center  he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming   i don  t have any change     unfortunately  the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless  when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town  and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people  then he becomes one of them  asking everyone for change  br    br   the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park  and find a man who is a director of homeless studies  they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless  so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem  unfortunately  homeless people break into the man  s house  and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself  however  he fails several times  as he shoots himself in the jaw  in the eye  in the chest  in the neck  in the shoulder  screaming horribly until he finally dies  this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in   fantastic easter special   two weeks ago  br    br   meanwhile  a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem  the property values have nosedived  thus the bank has foreclosed on his house  making him homeless  randy immediately turns on him  holding the gun to the man  s head  when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out  randy pulls the trigger  br    br   in evergreen  the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park  and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country  the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica  california  br    br   the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable                 br    br   i  m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into  but this movie is not a horror movie  as for the story  it was fairly interesting  but rather slow  i was especially disappointed with the ending though  br    br     spoiler   br    br   tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle  s    home without at least calling the detective or the police first  she knows exactly what  s going on at that point  plus she has a video tape as proof  instead  she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying   i know everything  i have proof  you didn  t expect proof  did you     then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he  s going to harm her  well duh  of course he  s going to harm you idiot  you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything  what a dumb ending          i gave this a    there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for  total mayhem  everyone gets killed or nearly so  i am tired of cross hairs and changing views  i cannot give the plot away  convoluted and insane  if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back  i wish reviews were more honest         not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline  this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special                i read the book before seeing the movie  and the film is one of the best adaptations out there  very true and faithful to the book  sean penn and sarandon are amazing  robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire  he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth  an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end           docteur petiot  starring michel serrault  is a brutal story about a brutal man  a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france  even if their ability to compensate is not there  yet  he preys on the weakest amidst the populace  the imagery and cinematography are superb  and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story  he is the perfect psychopath  seductive and altruistic  intelligent and caring  calculating and murderous  a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer  kudos to mr  serrault  for his chilling portrayal           i just got this video used and i was watching it last night  the acting started out extremely bad  hey      hey      twister  but got very good soon after wards  the tornadoes looked extremely fake  and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy  but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done  and just about on par with movies like twister  the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too  the story was very well written  and it  s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old   disaster formulas   movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for    years  br    br   while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality  this merits an a in my book           this film is really vile  it plays on the urban paranoia of the   s   s and puts it into a school context  i  m not saying that urban crime wasn  t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren  t aren  t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit  violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it  s not a case of social issues but a white  upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol  and of course he knows how to play the system  does that sound familiar  yes  this turd is pure violent exploitation  a really nasty piece of work  it  s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment  this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator  death wish     and so on and so on  the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this           what a horrible  horrible film  the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time  not that i saw much  i left the theatre screaming after about    minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves  meryl streep was awful as usual  how many hurt and tortured expressions can   person have  aidan quinn  s talents were   as so often   totally wasted  and who told gloria estefan she could act  trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes   brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school   the kids weren  t even cute  just written in to suit the appalling script  aaargh  wes craven really made me cringe for once  real horror this one           motocrossed was fun  but it wasn  t that great  i guess i just didn  t understand a lot of the motocross racing   lingo    and there was a lot of that in the film   the plot wasn  t what i expected from the disney channel previews  so that could account for some of my disappointment           sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood  now he wants to broaden his horizons and    spoiler    needs a family member in order to do it  br    br   a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain  t scary at all  works better as a dark  macabre black comedy  to tell you the truth  freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer   too many wisecracks  that  s for sure   the actors aren  t interesting  save robert englund  as always  and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto  and there are simply far too many visual effects  the finale is ok but doesn  t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope  br    br   in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer  s story  it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before  br    br   there are cameos worth noting  a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value  an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper  and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become  br    br   film debut of breckin meyer  who plays spencer  br    br   one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits  br    br                 ok  i  m italian but there aren  t so many italian film like this  i think that the plot is very good for     of the film but the final is too simple  too predictable  but it  s the only little mistake  the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack  i  d like very much the lighting work on it  the best thing on it is a great  great actor  you know  if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance  but it  s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo  yes  someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it  s too slow  it  s so boring  so many silences  but i think that this components its fantastic  its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl  the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani  olivia and the old mysterious man toni  one of my favorite italian films           if you only see one ernest movie in your life  make it this one  this is by far the best in the series  with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages  the other   ernest   flicks were good too  but most people tend to get tired of him quickly  not me  however    br    br   in this movie  ernest p  whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case  the murderer  nash  just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest  mr  nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him  and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer  br    br   a great flick  if you haven  t already seen it  watch it           an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful  so  no new story lines here  however  the authors managed to create a stupid  disgusting film  if you enjoy watching kids vomiting  or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife  s teeth out in a bloody horror type  go see  or rent  the film  if not  move on to something else  my fair lady  anyone            the first cube movie was an art movie  it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented  and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn  t understand  it was  on the non literal level  a   man vs  cruel nature   plot  where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end  triumphing to face a new  indefinable world beyond man  s petty squabbles  a world where there were no more struggle  but peace  i rated cube a    out of     and it  s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels  br    br   the second movie  hypercube was a massive disappointment  some of the ideas were kind of cool  but in the context of the original movie  both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning  still  for being fairly entertaining  i rated it a   out of     br    br   the third movie  cube zero  while ignoring the second  plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first  sans the symbolism  there is no   homage   or   tribute   here  there is only ripping off  the same kind of plot  with some elements idiotically altered  like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes   an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say   br    br   that we see something from   behind the scenes   means nothing  because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment  the architects of which we hear nothing of  and  in this movie  those who get through to the exit  like kazan did at the end of the first movie  are just killed   where the  bleep  is the sense in that   that  s just flippin   stupid  i  m glad i didn  t pay to see this  br    br   the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad  but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of   out of              i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience  in other words   the creators planed to make comedy not drama  howsoever  at the end i realized that mr  tony giglio was earnest about this movie  it  s a pity because  the dialogue is ridiculous  the acting is poor and lifeless  the story is a fishy tale  poor ryan phillippe   despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance  what to say for jason statham   lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction    for this reasons i vote                i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully  me thinks he  the lady  doth protest too much  the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself  he sites profane literature  writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible  a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible  anyone can skew data   prove anything they like but it doesn  t make it true  customs change  word definitions change over time  look at english   german where it is very obviously a common root  nothing stays the same  it  s always growing and changing  the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i  ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research  in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics  these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped   the mean of the entire verse changes  writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces  without punctuation  without paragraphs   without numeric verses  these writings look like one long word   the translators added all of the above  for example how would you read this  godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here  same string of letters two entirely different meanings  this is why many biblical researchers use a   lexicon   to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic  greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written  it  s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn  t exist  in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty  talk about ego  putting soapbox away  god bless maegi            i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry      val br    br   mike nelson made me watch this   he mentioned it in his book    movie megacheese    i asked myself    why would mike nelson steer me wrong    i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson  br    br   the music is by john williams  which is probably part of his payment to the devil  in fact  i  m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol   slewfoot  or is now cursed  from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio  don  t watch   for the love of god   don  t watch    not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you   i  m doomed now  i understand this  i accept this  but save yourself             this movie was flippin awful    i wanted those hours of my life back  for god  s sake   stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs  its not worth mentioning the title  but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this  and where do i begin  the dumb a   kids in the movie     the zero plot or story    the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping  or the very bad acted  teen angst innuendo           my god  it never ended      i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor  then sit through this one again  br    br   but what do you expect  most people with the brain power to look up reviews  are not going to be the target audience here at all  so go see pirites   again  or the jet lee one   if your debating to yourself  look  this movie will just cost you your soul  your money  your energy  and your brain cells  heed the warning           this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it  it has lot  s of laughs  guns  action  crime   good one liners  and a decent plot  with an over the top  donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain  tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too  thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character   max   a dea agent diane is the fbi agent  played by carerra  and john lithgow from frazier on tv  plays the bad guy     livingston    the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies  throw into the mix the assassain sutherland  who pretty much has all the good one liners  this is the perfect crime caper  there is the usual love story   but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith  you also have the russian mafia  italian mafia  and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix   the film is shot in boston   where you have some great shots   and locals   great photography and music in this film  this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy   it has everything that one could ever want  check out sutherland  s toilet in a particular scene   very unusual  this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard    plus for me           if you like to see animals being skinned alive  their heads smashed  dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them  then this one is for you  but if you are somewhat normal  and don  t need to see real footage of animal cruelty  pass this one up  this movie tries to shock the viewer  and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning  and the killing of babies in the movie  fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i  ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage  btk movie  and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up  and special effects  so we shouldn  t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals  its not what we rented the movie for if anything  there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it  as a very hardcore horror fan  this one turned my stomach  the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked           another spanish movie about the      civil war  this time we  re told about the story of carol  lovely played by d  butant clara lago   a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york  it is such an initiating trip  and soon she  ll find about the injustices of the human race  their stupid fights and conflicts  their contradictions  br    br   imanol uribe makes his best film since   d  xadas contados          with such a sober pulse  a beautiful photography  and a nice script  he tries not to take part in the conflict  he just shows us some facts and let us decide  ok  the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in  and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple  clara lago and juan jos   ballesta  br    br   a well cared production  br    br   my rate                a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed  one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods  this is simply not true  prior to the construction of interstate     which bypasses the ocean view area  the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view  once the interstate was completed  ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime  this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park  which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg  meanwhile  in the past few years  the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing  br    br   it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film   rollercoaster    this is also untrue  footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film  but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to   death of ocean view park    br    br   as to the film itself  the storyline of a   supernatural   force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly  but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time  with the cast involved  there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors  i don  t believe this film was intended to be another   citizen kane    i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into  apparently not    a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table  but proved unmanageable in execution  the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway    let  s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise     br    br   for the casual movie viewer  this would be a   see once and forget about it   film  except for diana canova fans   but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park  this movie is like a   walk down memory lane   for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk  the first   harborfest    and old dominion university  even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome           i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan  s role of sarkar  but am disappointed  being a ram gopal verma  s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie  sarkar is supposed to be a strong character  but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his  there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead  the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan  not his son  amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things  the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father           a trio of buddies  sergeants all in the british army  carouse   brawl their way across imperial india  intensely loyal to each other  they meet their greatest   most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult   its demented  implacable guru  now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment  the water carrier gunga din  to save scores of the queen  s soldiers from certain massacre  br    br   based more on the three musketeers than kipling  s classic poem  this is a wonderful adventure epic   a worthy entry in hollywood  s golden year of       filled with suspense   humor  while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum  it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the  sentimental  conclusion  br    br   it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars  cary grant  victor mclaglen   douglas fairbanks jr   as they are really all thirds of a single organism   inseparable and  to all intents   purposes  indistinguishable  however  this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time  br    br    it  s interesting to note  parenthetically  that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career  fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two   mostly in clandestine affairs   earning himself no fewer than   honorary knighthoods after the conflict  while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence  keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers   br    br   the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe  heartbreaking in the title role  he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity   enormous courage  making the last line of kipling  s poem ring true  he is unforgettable  br    br   montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major  whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru  the rest of the cast  joan fontaine  robert coote  lumsden hare  are effective but have little to do  movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine  s father  br    br   the film picks its villains well  the demonic thuggee cult  worshipers of the hideous  blood soaked kali  hindu goddess of destruction  was the bane of indian life for   centuries  ritualistically strangling up to        victims a year  in      the british military  in cooperation with a number of princely states  succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion  henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels   nightmares           this movie pretty much sucked  i  m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible  if your in the military and you see this movie you  ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad  it was ridiculous  they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do  it was a pretty gory movie i  d have to say the least  there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump  i  d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent  gory movie  it will be a better movie also if your not in the military  i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one          if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie  this movie is not funny  this is the worst parody movie ever  this is a poor attempt of parody films  br    br   the cast is bad  the film is bad  this is one of the worst pictures ever made  br    br   i do not recommend plump fiction  i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino  this is one of the worst parody films ever made  br    br   plump fiction is not a good movie  it is not funny  it is so dumb and vulgar          i went to see   passion of mind   because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances  i e    sliding doors      me  myself  i    etc   br    br   but this was the worst one i  ve ever seen  i had to force myself to sit through it  i didn  t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me  br    br   the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains  though each was kind of sexy and appealing  br    br   there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives  with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex  maybe the magic shouldn  t be explained for this genre to work  br    br    originally written                     i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies  i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted  to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot  the most suspense  surprises  most emotional  especially the ending  and definitely the most episodic movie  i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving  was not as episodic  and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie  br    br   it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole  i have heard many strange reasons such as  a  because yoda died b  because bobba fett died c  because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d  because darth vader was revealed br    br   i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely  first off  who cares if bobba fett died    if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die  don  t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas   intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be  his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie    you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett  s name    judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think    secondly  many fans did not like yoda dying  sure  it was a momentous period in the movie  i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic  all the good guys can  t stay alive in a realistic movie  you know  otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon  another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda  s death   well  nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope   many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy  why was obi wan  s death okay but yoda  s not    hmmmmmmmmmmmm     another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible  that is utterly ridiculous   i can not believe this one   first off  the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there  if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage   since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage  they had swinging vines  ropes  logs set up to trip those walkers  and other traps  the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest  the only thing they had was their blasters  to add  it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves  they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest  i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros  the band of rebels  as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain  that would have been a great upset  lastly  if this scene was still unbelievable to you   how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo  chewbacca  and the princess  being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view   and not only that  the heroes   of course  always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters  the troopers must have very  very bad aim then  at least in empire strikes back  the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not   heroes against a legion of stormtroopers  don  t believe me  check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando  s base  or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at  somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star  br    br   the last reason that i care to discuss  others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here   is that people did not like darth vader being revealed  well  in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie  luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father  annakin skywalker  it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father  s face because it made it complete  by annakin  s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side  in his helmet  and to the good person he was annakin skywalker  by removing the helmet   the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about  in fact  that  s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke  s father   isn  t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet  br    br   on another note  i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse  even if it is better  that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves  i never go into a film with that deception in mind  i always try to go into a film with the attitude that   well  it might be better or worse that the original    but i can not know for sure   let  s see    that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was  br    br   i am not sure who criticizes these movies but  i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me  except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite  that it is rotj  i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading  br    br   bottom line  the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy  this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its     minutes  there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful  exciting  surprising  or all of the above  for example  the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day    br    br   finally  i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky  insignificant details  or see it as   just another sequel    to trash the movie such as   this movie stinks because luke is not in it    then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately  br    br             crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because  unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman  s agreement  which it beat to theatres by a few months  it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying   it  s because i  m jewish  isn  t it    it  s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical  somewhat shamefully  the brief featurette on the warners   dvd doesn  t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one  but it  s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish  there  s little doubt in sam levene  s performance that the character is in fact also gay    not a mincing caricature  but there  s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper  s confused soldier  there  s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is  even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows  the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable  but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point  the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy  br    br   there  s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix  you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry   but the atmosphere is pure rko noir  set over one long sweltering night  the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style  it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors  and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script  a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum  robert young  s maigret like detective  gloria grahame  s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer  a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties  but the lasting impression is of robert ryan  s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row  a big surprise hit in       as a reward  dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac  which itself had a notable tendency to target jews  so much for crusading            this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved  it  s always interesting to see the story from the   other   side for a change  this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad  russia  where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought  br    br   it  s interesting to see the other side of this battle  since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the   villains    in this movie those   villains   are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you  re fighting against  at first it  s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german  s are the evil villains  but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care  and be interested in them  br    br   the way this story is told isn  t however the best  it  s hard to keep track of the story at times  as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other  the movie isn  t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague  it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who  it doesn  t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand  there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one  just not the most coherent one around  in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies  br    br   the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations  though the movie wasn  t even shot in russia itself  it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere  br    br   the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic  but i don  t know  for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism  it also helps that they  re being played by well cast actors  all of the actors aren  t the best known actors around  thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor  but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality  br    br   all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look  due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values  br    br                 so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert  s book   i hated  hated  hated this movie   and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review   mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor    so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was  i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert  s review of rob reiner  s   north   where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review  here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don  t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well  but above all the other things that were awful about this   movie   i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all  while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss  s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits  but after that first   or   minutes the other    minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for    seconds then someone gets shot  then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill  haha  not funny  then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra  s   my way   sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss  of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die  are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny  i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny  not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss  who i admire much as an actor  for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that   independence day   was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history  did goldblum feel that   independence day   would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if   independence day   were a bomb  what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this  the opening sequence of   mad dog time   says that the movie is set on another planet  i only wish now that i have wasted    minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of    minutes out of my life that i will never get back  ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid  every copy of   mad dog time   should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire  i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it  s honor as the worst movie ever           what a boring film  to sum it all up  its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor  while she tried to flee from the village  with her son  can someone say boring    the concept wasn  t too bad  but it was poorly executed  the canadian locales  and some of the village scenes were nicely shot  however  overall the cinematography came up short  the story could have been great  but the movie just seemed to drag on  there is only so much stupidity a person can take  let alone three bloody hours of it  br    br   the best part of the whole movie was the song   ishq kamina    and that was only five minutes long  other than that  this movie was a piece of crap            rant start  i didn  t want to believe them at first  but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill  after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie   gwoemul    aka   the host    of        which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre   successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic  even though their budgets  mainly spent on special effects  have become more and more fantastic  do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill  which their industry has built up since the      break out film   shiri swiri    by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did   rant end  br    br   the only   reason   i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean  east asian styled dragon i have seen to date  for the final scenes  now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the        dragonheart    the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons  remember   dungeons   dragons   in       hasn  t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use  but how well you use it  i hope there are more  and better  korean legends they can use  because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one  br    br   in short  i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem   arirang   being played at the very end  as a creature feature  i would have given it at least   stars out of    if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it  but i  ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting  just less dragons            as a native chinese  i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a   better world    i said   better world   because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years   br    br   i guess most western audience may don  t know qin shihuang means the first emperor   the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china  the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king  means   the land and the people    spoken from his mouth is totally lie  from then on  one after another  all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said  br    br   another fact is  qin shihuang  s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people  br    br   well  i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie  but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant           this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power  henry fonda  randolph scott  nancy kelly  henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles  it also had technicolor  one of the few movies made with it in       br    br   now the bad news       regrettably  i can  t say much positive for the story  it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light    and hollywood has done that ever since  why these criminals are always shown to be the   good guys   is beyond me  this film glamorizes them and made their enemies   the railroad people   into vicious human beings  the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous  well  that  s the film world for you  evil is good  good is bad  br    br   hey hollywood  here  s a news flash   the james boys were criminals  really   look it up           i remember watching this series avidly  every saturday evening  it was the highlight of the week  i loved everything about it  the location  the costumes  the actors and the wonderful music by clannad  i still have their legend album   i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin  this time the earl of huntingdon  i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times  another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors  i  m sure robin and his men would have young  after all people didn  t live that long in those days  other robins always look too old  kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin  s granddad   the only sad thing was the ending  it  s a shame they couldn  t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending           i don  t normally write reviews  but this   film   was special  i couldn  t turn it off  i don  t believe i  ve ever seen a worse movie  but there i sat  watching  it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway  it was disgusting  but i couldn  t turn away  where do i start  the movie seems to think it  s a sports thriller  but it  s so utterly ridiculous  it can only be a comedy  but it  s not funny  not even in a dumb silly way  it  s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers  it  s painful to watch  but at least it  s only for a minute or two  second string went on for over an hour   br    br   whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again  the writing  directing  acting  and everything was just terrible  the problem is i can  t describe how bad it was  you just had to see it  and i  m sure this will never be shown again  so unless you saw it  you  re out of luck  i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other   bad   film i  ve seen over my lifetime  and for every film i see in the future that i can  t stand  i will think to myself  well  at least it wasn  t bad as the second string           few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability  br    br    no  too many are focused on john lassiter  s   amazing   ability to steal other movies plots  turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius       but i digress   br    br   miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues  usually ecologically themed   and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance  still  miyazaki  almost  never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies  children  br    br   that said  i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability  where else are you going to have a film where a three year old  my nephew link  will sit still throughout the move  enthralled  a   year old  my niece amber  loving it all her own  and able to appreciate the   star power   of frankie jonas and noah cyrus  a    year old  my nephew aaron  who  s review was   of course it was good  everything miyazaki san does is good     a    year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation  er  that would be me   and a    year old woman  my mother  able to connect with the mother characters  and i  m betting the older charas too  and loving the   cuteness   of the child characters  br    br   and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san  he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker  on the surface    ponyo   could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there  a little boy names soske  somewhat like   the little mermaid     but there is an entire different level at play here  true to form  miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo  s mother  soske  s mother  the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed  br    br   but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself  once she decides that she likes the human world  she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams  her father is trying to keep her innocent  and keep her a magical fish  but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination   br    br   once human  she teams up with her friend  soske  whom she loves very much  although maybe not as much as ham   soske is asked to be the man of the house  at age five  when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human  frankie jonas  yes  he  s related to the jonas brothers  can we just get past that please   gives  perhaps  the best performance in the film as young soske  which is good since he has the most lines   his character is also strong willed  but also very respectful and friendly  characteristics you  re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific  br    br   in the end  ponyo  s father  fujimoto must cope with his daughter  s decision and his estranges wife  s wishes to allow her to be human  he hopes that ponyo and soske will   remember him fondly    and once again  miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical   bad guy    although miyazaki has  for some reason  received some criticism for this  it is  honestly  what makes his movies magical and yet relatable  no one in real life is completely a   bad person    all humans are various shades of gray  and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters   br    br   and then there  s the animation itself  in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film  especially the water  miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever  certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means  but every film in this was hand drawn and i  for one  was extremely grateful for that  the character animation was extremely fluid  and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on  quite unusual for an anime film   the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience  this is what animation used to look like  and what it should look like   br    br   in the end  i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable  certainly not miyazaki  s best  in my opinion  that honor is still held by kiki  s delivery service   but still a    star fun movie for the entire family           attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker  she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address  as expected  joe james russo   the attacker forces his way into marjorie  s home and subjects her to humiliating terror  bruised and bloody  marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker  knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat  hog tied and battered himself  joe tries to explain himself to marjorie  s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard  when they get home  there is almost a hint of mercy  but it is not coming from marjorie  should she continue to render her own punishment  violence  sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating  fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career  kudos to director robert m  young           i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it  people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance  i really hope norton did not do this  he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie  br    br   i found it entertaining  it wasn  t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects  but it was not a bad  it was fun to watch  but yea  definitely not a bad horrible movie  br    br                 i watched this movie on tv last night  hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease  i was disappointed  and i think the movie was garbage  it did not seem real to me  some of the acting was awful  in particular that of the doctor  she was about the worst i  ve seen  the whole thing played like a cnn   worst case scenario    even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn  t seem sincere  i have seen some disaster movies  in particular those weather ones  which are actually so bad they are amusing  this one is almost as bad  but it is not even amusing  it is tedious and boring don  t bother with this one           for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings  who love film  have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny  smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you  br    br   for those with a poor attention span  high expectations and no brains   well   um   you may get bored and find things dragging at times  br    br   this is a charming  modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles  i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through   br    br   this film is a little gem           the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in      and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most   movergoers   were stay at homes watching their new     motorola televisions  almost all recent box office figures are false     because they fail to adjust inflation  obviously today  s     movies will dominate  in      it cost   c to       at radio city    c to   c first run at loew  s palace in washington dc  or   c to   c in neighborhood runs  what counts is the number of people responding to the picture  not unadjusted box office   media spin    the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso  really not a great story anyway  and threw it in the trash  instead      of the movie  s focus was on the music  thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso  the result was a wonderful movie  too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating  too fat to play the student prince  edmund purdom took his place     with lanza  s voice dubbed in  and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising  if you want to see the great caruso  it  s almost always on ebay for       or less  don  t be put off by the low price  as it reflects only the easy availability of copies  not the quality of the movie           i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher  both have delivered less than memorable performances   films  while the underlying   general   storyline is somewhat familiar  this film was excellent  both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other  the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both  the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film  s most unforgettable emotional moment  the   specific   storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job   responsibility   to save lives at sea  the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and   wowing     i haven  t seen such angry seas since   the perfect storm    co star clancy brown  hbo  s   carnivale     great to see him again  played the captain of the coast guard  s kodiak  alaska base in a strong  convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins  the film wonderfully  and finally  gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard  it had the audience applauding at the end              i am not weapon expert  but even i can see difference between u s  army riffles in wwi and wwii  in movie we can see privates  armed with   m  garand    invented in year         not authentic        springfield    aka   silent death     who privates use until wwii  difference   m  can load     times more ammunition and   times more fire rate  m  was semi   automatic  springfield requires reloading after every shot  little difference      german army uniforms has borrowed from      year too  especially   helmets  german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top  we cannot see even one in movie  and if we make little additional search in archives   how much truthful is this   true story    i am surprised  how much   truthful   can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation           do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made  stop wondering  i  m telling you  michael is it  br    br   it is not   heartwarming      entertaining    or   travolta at his best    it just sucks  if i had kids  i would let them watch deep throat before michael  br    br   a sold out john travolta  a washed up and balding william hurt  and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film  br    br   but wait   you  ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing  yeah  hollywood really s  t all over us with this one           the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend  her aunt  edna may oliver  a person too talented for this film  didn  t like wheeler  a sentiment i can easily relate to  the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler  they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king  at about the same time  woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king  so when wheeler arrived  it was up to the boys to fight it out  but they refused because they are already friends  which greatly disappointed the people  as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime  br    br   i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood  the silent era through the     s  i have seen and reviewed hundreds  if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey  the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers  despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood  cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey   i can  t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better  for example  there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother  s film  duck soup  yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp  at times  woolsey talked a bit like groucho  but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny  in fact  he just seemed to prattle pointlessly  his only funny quality was that he looked goofy  surely not enough reason to put him on film  additionally  wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese  a piece of cheese that sang very poorly  a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as   who  s on first   which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing  in fact  soon after they started their spiel  they just ended the routine  so prematurely that you are left frustrated  i knew that   who  s on first   had been around for many years and used by many teams  but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist  br    br   once again  i have found yet another sub par film by this duo  while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly  such as silly billies and the rainmakers  which i actually gave    s to on imdb   this one was a major endurance test to complete  something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey  where was all the humor            i was really hoping that this would be a funny show  given all the hype and the clever preview clips  and talk about hype  i even heard an interview with the show  s creator on the bbc world today   a show that is broadcast all over the world  br    br   unfortunately  this show doesn  t even come close to delivering  all of the jokes are obvious   the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame   and they are not given any new treatment or twist  all of the characters are one dimensional  the acting is   well   mediocre  i  m being nice   it  s the classic cbc recipe   one that always fails  br    br   if you  re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters  and if you  re white you  d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted  ignorant  or both  not that making fun of white people is a problem   most of the better comedies are rooted in that  it  s only a problem when it isn  t funny   as in this show  br    br   canada is bursting with funny people   so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis  so how come the producers of this show couldn  t find any           first of all   mexican werewolf in texas   is not a werewolf movie  this title is bullcrap  the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas  i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something  and i guess it actually works because that  s the reason why i bought this piece of crap  it sounded so stupid  anyway the movie isn  t any good  actually it  s bloody awful  but i didn  t expect anything else when i bought it  it  s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster  if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog  actors and some gore then you should check into this movie  but i must warn you  this movie is really baaaaaaad  br    br   this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen  the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous  they almost never say a line in a normal way  they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say  it  s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody  it  s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it  the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo  she  s the worst of them all  i have never seen an actor as bad as her  and i  ve seen pteradactyl   even when her boyfriend dies she can  t stop being a bimbo about it  i hate her  br    br   some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good  the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project  but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark  the gore scenes are few and short  but really grizzly and violent  the effects are pretty hilarious really  but that  s the way i like it  the chupacabra looks pretty messed up  and it  s easy to see that it  s a guy in suit  br    br   overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it  s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death  i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer           this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch  i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room  but kept thinking  foolishly  that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right    you lose  we win  yay    this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny  after that  beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks  and if you  re even considering renting this turd  or worse yet  have   i have one thing to ask of you  didn  t you even look at the cover  i mean  with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is    oy vey    this movie sucked           the symbolic use of objects  form editing  the position of characters in the scene    these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had  the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses  the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger    while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards  in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken  even the title has a least four meanings that i can see  the boxing ring  the wedding ring  the bracelet the lover buys  and the love triangle at the heart of the story           i found this movie to be very good in all areas  the acting was brilliant from all characters  especially ms stone and morissey  tramell  s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute  the plot is interesting even though  this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels  the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece  go see this film now   it deserves better than what it got from the audience  which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started      you won  t regret it if you go see it             rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a   jollies   project for robert redford  as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine  br    br   the story is as light as powdered snow with redford  s small town boy david chappellet  what kind of lead name is that   who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory  gets up the nose of  in no particular order  his coach  father and team mates  women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of  heavens above  a free thinking  independent woman  played by camilla sparv  the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day  plus i  m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel  i couldn  t really be that excited for him one way or another  br    br   of the actors  redford  best profile forward  doesn  t need to do much and indeed doesn  t  while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material  ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he  s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way  br    br   in truth though  there  s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don  t fully compensate and you don  t care a fig for any of the leading characters  one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it           i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing  fun filled  thought provoking movie  the absence of sex  vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening  i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene  but that  s probably because i live a short distance from there  even so  this film could have been produced in any city  it  s the theme that  s so important here  i  m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us  try it   you  ll like it           this is an art film that was either made in      or       the national film preservation foundation says      and imdb says        regardless of the exact date  the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period  with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late   s early   s  br    br   the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks  these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort  this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art  and like most performance art  it  s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome  the film  to put it even more bluntly  is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film  their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and   with it   to be understood by us mortals           i read the book and saw the movie  both excellent  the movie is diamond among coals during this era  liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw  this film should have made them stars  shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film  it could have easily been a franchise  release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film  look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed  no matter how late  watch it  you won  t be disappointed  do yourself another favor   read the book  same title   it  ll blow you away  times have changed dramatically since those days  or at least we like to think they have           a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town  leading to all kinds of complications  cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can  t escape the title town  hopper does what he does best  playing a psycho known as   lyle from dallas    the real hit man  walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast  the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns  and john  s direction creates a terrific   neo noir   atmosphere  witty and very entertaining  it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up           i really liked this movie  i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best  i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris  sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers  but not in this movie  it is definitely worth renting           although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast  ice cream  i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity  br    br   the plot opens with the dream of ali  a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town  in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies  he dreams of playing in his product  s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis  dancing around him  as his dream turns into a nightmare  he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife  who rejects to make sex with him for   years with no apparent reason  is it because he is not successful in his job  apparently  because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies  but this is what he says  we actually don  t see him suffer that much  he still sells good  traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop  selling ice cream to the people in the town  ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real   sahlep    powdered roots of mountain orchids   ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor  and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect  his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business  they always quarrel  and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy  br    br   in a very successful day  his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town  in search of his stolen bike  ali goes to the police  blames the big companies for the theft  but  of course  nobody takes him seriously  annoyed by the nagging of his wife  ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk  one of his friends at his table  a wannabe socialist of the town  gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism  and with no real connection  jumps to the subject of global freezing  ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison  his wife wakes up and prevents him  an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life  according to him  ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing  when he returns home  suddenly we see that his wife understood his value  treating him like a hero and praising his manhood  meanwhile  the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream  they confess to the doctor that they stole ali  s bike  ali forgives them and there comes the happy end  br    br   although the plot may look promising in a way  it  s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy  first  the director doesn  t show much of an effort to tell the story visually  everything is based on dialogs  and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art  even ali  s troubles are not convincing because we don  t see it  we just understand it from his words  the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies  but there is nothing in the film about big companies  we don  t see their pressure enough  the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft  and when his motorbike is found  it solves every problem  ali becomes a happy and powerful husband  not a real criticism of globalism  br    br   second  the film is cheesy because of the crude humor  maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life  but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny  i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and   clever   but they are not clever jokes at all  they are just cheesy  maybe i  m wrong  maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor  but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars  or to have a political message  if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man  s big erection in his shorts  and we had to endure this joke twice   or an old villager woman saying   f  k you    then you may find this film funny           stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history  and deservedly so  so i am happy to see any of their films  ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital  and with nothing else to do  stan decides to visit him  and take him some boiled eggs and nuts  instead of candy  chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie  s leg cast string  and manages to push the doctor  billy gilbert  out the window  clinging on to it  getting ollie strung up to the ceiling  when the situation calms down  stan gets ollie  s clothes  as the doctor wants them both to leave  and he also manages to sit on a syringe  accidentally left by the nurse  filled with a sleeping drug  which comes into effect while he is driving  which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen  filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad  although repetitive and a little predictable  classic comedy  it isn  t great  but it  s a black and white film worth looking at  stan laurel and oliver hardy were number   on the comedians   comedian  okay           ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings  this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door  compared to datd the effects are vastly superior  however the plot is weak  the acting reminiscent of everyone  s favourite  the porn film  and the decisions and actions of the   characters   consistently verge on the moronic  i feel like trying out uwe boll  s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd   i am not suggesting that he is really the cure  more a case of a different disease  but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up  ok there it is  i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead             i was  unlike most of the reviewers  not born in the     s  i was born on may   th       despite this  my life was very much in the style of the     s  when other kids had playstations  i was playing zelda on my nes etc  now  this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only    years old at the time of writing this review  i  because of my     s style early childhood  watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn  t see  and this movie was one of those  and one of the greatest too  br    br   it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville  simon seville  theodore seville and david seville  david  the chipmunk  s adoptive father  is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe  his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack  while they are talking  alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world  even though  technically dave is only going to europe  so to alvin  apparently only america and europe qualify as     the world       david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller  much to the displeasure of the boys  soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller  later  at a local caf   the chipmunks are playing a game of     around the world in    days     against the chipettes brittany  jeanette and eleanore   after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile  alvin get  s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world  two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table  klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and  needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world  decide to fool the children into delivering them for them  they set up a race around the world  where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness  secretely filled with diamonds  at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team  s likeness  secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds  to     varify that they were there      the winning team would then receive a         dollar reward  they do this because they believe that jamal  an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now  would never suspect them because they are just kids  however  this seems to be redundant  because on their travels  the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls  i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally   and so begins a great adventure  this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it  it features great animation and top notch voice acting  not to mention the kick ass music  pardon my french  p   my favorite song is without a shred of doubt     the girls and boys of rock and roll     an amazing rock song that cannot be topped  it  s also my favorite moment in the film  other notable songs include     getting lucky     kind of suggestive for a kid  s film eh   and     my mother     as well as     wooly bully     and     off to see the world     not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra  the scene with     my mother     still brings a tear to my eye  in relation to the song     getting lucky     i first didn  t think anything of it  but when i grew older and learned about life  it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive  that song  along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties  this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince  s men  when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely  while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film  it  s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are   feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child  anyway  a bit after that scene  the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home  the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband  ross bagdasarian jr  know the characters better than anyone  they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes  ross doing the voices for alvin and simon  as well as dave  and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore  speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses  nancy cartwright  the voice of bart simpson  makes an appearance in this movie  she plays the part of the arabian prince  a very small  but important role  the ending is of course  a happy one  the crooks have been caught  the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children  dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset  alvin complaining about not having gotten his         dollar reward for winning the race  which annoys dave until he finally yells     alvin      and the screen fades to black br    br   classic ending  by the way  i hope you found my review of this movie useful  and if you haven  t seen this flick  give it a watch  it  s worth the money  this nostalgic classic from the     s gets a solid    out of      br    br       headin   for the top  don  t you know  we never stop believing now              just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a   bomb   rating  a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night  i feared the worst knowing its reputation  and it was as god awful as i  d anticipated  this is a mexican made mess  dubbed into english  and produced by k  gordon murray  it  s got terrible sets and effects  and features a rather frightening santa who doesn  t operate at the north pole  but instead from a cloud in outer space  and who doesn  t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is  the opening sequence  where st  nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages  seems to go on forever  and with no story  obviously  this santa claus doesn  t observe the child labor laws  br    br   eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth  just to make little kids naughty and turn santa  s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare  watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience  and it  s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever  oddly  the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film  which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on  this easily makes my personal list of the   worst movie i  ve ever seen    but i  m sure that  s nothing unique           as is often the case when you attempt to take a     plus page book and cram it into a two hour film  a lot is lost  here director john madden  shakespeare in love  takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off  what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete  br    br   there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic  the cinematography by john toll  cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall  winning oscars for both  is splendid  working with madden  the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful  madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople  giving the town an authentic feel  the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous  br    br   madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance  which take up the greater part of the film  there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment  however  by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold  there isn  t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated  while the battle scenes are well done  subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long  by the time we reach the post war scenes  the treatment is merely skeletal  another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features  br    br   nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight  when fight he must  cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas  br    br   penelope cruz  whom the camera loves  gives an uninspired performance as pelagia  in part this is because cage so dominates the screen  but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic  she allows the character to be objectified as corelli  s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right  br    br   john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor  who knows as much about human nature as medicine  however  christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia  s fianc    br    br   i rated this film an       despite some drawbacks  this is a touching film that is well worth seeing  the photography alone is worth the price of admission           my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie  passing them down in the family if you will   and i loved it  br    br   clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it  s up to superman to stop this mayhem  br    br   it  s just so wonderful and fun to view  the old style special effects and sound   the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology  george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid  and i  m    now  it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are          this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic  much much better than     of the scream rip offs out there  i even hope they come up with a sequel          i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan  a culture i know very little about  i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint  i watched this with someone who didn  t read the book and he also enjoyed it  they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film  it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over  you feel for the characters and their plights  i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture  there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch  it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime           years ago  sara  a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered  now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments  did i mention she has an imaginary friend   this film lulls the viewer  not into a sense of tension  mind you  but rather a sense of sleepiness  deathly boring  i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed   mystery    is sara going crazy  or is it the paranormal  a better question would be  who cares  and the answer to that  no one  no one at all  skip this film  save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks  br    br   my grade  d           in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included  if you don  t like burt you may still like this  if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time  being from atlanta it does hit home but it  s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city  chicago  miami  or la  the film is funny at points with   good plot   good performances from a great supporting cast  every character is real   the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the  nd half   it has some good old fashion shootouts   fistfights  no cgi thank god real action   br    br   if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with   every which way but loose       any which way you can   then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this    it comes off great           i have watched love jones over thirty times  it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans  the dialogue was realistically written  and delivered with honesty  it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans  this is virtually an untapped market  love jones was visually captivating as well  the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love  the feeling of the film is jazz and blues  and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch  if you hadn  t guessed  i loved it           the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois  fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this  using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists  invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience  br    br   it  s really rather messy though  fellowes doesn  t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged  rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves  br    br   the dialogue is inconsistent  stagey here  vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich   landmine  though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can  t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces  there  s also a very prosaic  dare i say it british feel to the filming  i didn  t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation  i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story  br    br   finally it is  in fact  the story which lets the rest down  just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes  woven as a vehicle for character examination  wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby  s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing  br    br   i  m disappointed  not that it  s bad  but that it could have been much better                this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched  at the age of    i was up late and ran across the movie  it was on the usa channel  gilbert godfrey  s up all night  i will never forget  at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues  some sexual  you know    is a very rough and weird age  it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl  and being a young lady  this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me  i now have a daughter that is     have been searching for a couple years for this movie  if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy  would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age           holes is an awesome movie  i love it a lot and it  s one of my favorite films  it  s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn  t cheesy  holes is generally a very cool motion picture  i wish disney would make more pictures like it  holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool  don  t get the wrong idea  i don  t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it  s stuff is aimed towards kids and that  s okay  children deserve to have their entertainment too  but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail  but not with holes  it  s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it  s corny  really  it  s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to  br    br   holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge  i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this           i cannot hate on the show  when the old  and better  tech tv had to hit the bricks  the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in    attack of the show   is the replacement for the screen savers  with   co hosts in the beginning  they were kevin rose  kevin pereira and sarah lane  brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well  but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show  kevin rose decided to leave the show  and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host  but that didn  t pan out for some reason  br    br   eventually  i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard  sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because  hey  this is what i read  the two got married  that was a big secret to me  now there is a new female co host  the not as hot  my opinion  olivia munn  she  s hiding something in those tops she wears  while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn  t afraid to show it  br    br   ahem  sorry  br    br     attack of the show   deals with everything young people want to know about  it  s music  movies  comic books  the internet and television  this is what  s great about the show  if you don  t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv  you can get all you want on aots  some segments and bits they do are funny  they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry  as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names  br    br   even though the hosts aren  t as geek as i  d like them to be  i still have found   attack of the show   to be entertaining  even with its latest lineup           worst dcom i have seen  ever  well  maybe not as bad as smart house  this was just bad  the acting and story was fine  but the effects sucked  br    br   they were so fake  the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen  that was probably the only scene in which i was excited  br    br   overall  i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly   br    br   i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene  br    br                 its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people                      a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn  t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities     and also i didn  t know that an indian can cross the march  s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier  s were sleeping                   some people may call   cooley high   the same sort of thing as   american graffiti    but i wouldn  t  for starters  in   ag    everyone was white  whereas in   ch   they  re all black  moreover  this one has a motown soundtrack  specifically  the movie focuses on several working class african american students in      chicago and their antics  the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships  in their apartments  we see that there  s never any dad around  but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest  br    br   one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible  worrying about missing school  two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene  and the one white guy in the movie  but overall  the main star is the soundtrack  it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history  we even have it on vinyl here at home   a classic in the real sense of the word           so wonderful  so quirky  so romantic  so italian  the film is so feather  light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again  a kitchen sink world of bakeries  and hairdressers  and plumbing  but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence  should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction  take your pick    they  re both faultless  let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass           this film is  quite simply  brilliant  the cinematography is good  the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking  this is the story of donald woods  a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid  kevin kline is completely convincing   so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later  i recognised him from kline  s portrayal  denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance  as ever  br    br   i urge you to watch this  it is long  but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story  remember  folks  this really happened           i have recently seen this production on dvd  it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in      and it was just as good as i remembered  at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then   i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then  but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been  i am a bit of a   jane eyre   purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one  i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on  reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly   br    br   all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way  some even leave out the   rivers   family and their connection to jane altogether  i also think this is the only production to include the   gypsy   scene done correctly  br    br   the casting is perfect  zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book   small plain and dark   and i disagree that she looked too old  timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester  portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off  i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time  like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted  his expression is fantastically frightening  but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another  a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable  oh to be loved by a man like that  there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however  like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things  i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks   br    br   finally if you never see another production of jane eyre   you simply most see this one it is simply perfection           in a time of bad  if not plain awful  comedies  king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air  it  s a complete oxygen tank  it is in my opinion one of the   best comedy shows of all times  nothing has been this good since married with children  kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses  and believe me  it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius  these guys truly understand what is funny  i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn  t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once  other funny people in this show are carrie  janet heffernan  spence and doug pruzan  carrie  s boss   i  m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem  the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers  check it out if you haven  t            prey  br    br   aspect ratio         br    br   sound format  mono br    br   a lesbian couple  sally faulkner and glory annan  living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man  barry stokes  who turns out to be a flesh eating alien  the vanguard of a massive invasion    br    br   despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing  norman j  warren  s follow up to satan  s slave        amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts  thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff  apparently  his only writing credit   faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside  rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v  browne  s eye catching cinematography   though annan  s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one  or both  of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed  which may explain the absence of their respective families  some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and   left   under mysterious circumstances  stokes   unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray  partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him  creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence  there  s an extraordinary  multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to   emasculate   their clueless visitor by dressing him in women  s clothing  though stokes   alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery  br    br   in the early scenes  at least  the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity  but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude  culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner  the closing sequences are  quite literally  gut wrenching  especially annan  s final scene  which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in      and never fully restored  what remains is still pretty vivid  so brace yourselves    excellent performances by the three leads  bolstered by warren  s unobtrusive direction  which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations  thereby compensating for the film  s budgetary shortcomings  originally released in the us as alien prey           the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland  winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants  both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead  michael gaffikin  james warwick  a former paratrooper in the british army  is the local dentist  he  s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson  celia imrie  is always being viewed with a little suspicion  not maliciously  but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin  the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman  he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro  ves  at the islands police station  inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp  dr goudry  for closer inspection  a quick search for the killer proves fruitless  as does a search for a missing local woman  over dinner that night with michael gaffikin  fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson  a woman from the mainland  who lives on the island through the winter months  a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body  her home proving to be the murder scene  but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods  suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island  one colonel howard  jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together  br    br   goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body  it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength  one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer  another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind  a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain  with a heavy fog rolling in  the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help  the radio also doesn  t work  seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut  reports of ufo  s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach  inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin  s idea that aliens might be involved  but a rise in radioactive levels on the island  has him doubting himself  br    br   the nightmare man is based on the novel  child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire  it is here adapted by dr who and blake  s   scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board  the nightmare man though is on the whole  a succinctly better crafted piece  that builds its plot alongside solid character development  even down to the minor characters  time is given to giving them all a firm background  the island setting is perhaps a genre clich   that has been used over and over  but its one that i enjoy very much  the remoteness  the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts  in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama  but credit to camfield  he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times  there is an authenticity about proceedings  the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point  if there is one negative about the killer its that  we are given his her its pov for the killings  an acceptable clich   on its own  but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens  it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little  still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer  given the clues presented  but it  s a fun and very well acted piece  the local scottish cast are exceptional  the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold  imrie  never one i  ve taken to in other works  is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production  the outlandish  maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers  it disappointed me in some ways  but taking into account when it was made  its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it  is even more terrifying           this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie    so if you haven  t seen either movie and want to but don  t want the spoilers  please don  t read this review  br    br   while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time  the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions  the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe  s christian and sarah michelle gellar  s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed  neither can pull off the smarmy  snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did  it  s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim    not so much between christian and kathryn  but if you listen closely enough you  ll recognize it  there are also inconsistencies in the plot   if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn  then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie  he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie  with reese witherspoon  s character   br    br   also  the tie in with the photography   you could be a model   comment at the end was totally lame and didn  t add anything at all  overall  this movie was a waste of time  i can  t believe they made a cruel intentions             this movie is ridiculous  it  s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible  the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it  s a comedy  truly is bad cinematography  you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there  s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they  re all inside jokes amongst themselves  this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad  it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway  unless you want to be bored out of your ass  i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie           in dramatising wilde  s novel  john osborne has condensed events  eliminated a number of characters  and generally implied rather than shown dorian  s essential wickedness  if you want a more explicit rendering  see the      film  wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame  but were certainly vastly different men and writers  this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson  s   dr  jekyll and mr  hyde    but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy  whereas rls took the scientific route  both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil  with evil winning in the end  br    br   the actors in this bbc movie  take a different route  too  from those in the      film  john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders  in his role really projecting wilde himself  but with a subtle difference  you  ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying  but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes  peter firth  too  shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion  but then we don  t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display  br    br   it  s a very good production  with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel  if not all of its ramifications           it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids  bully  etc  but then just as quickly  it unravels into a direction less mess  who is the main character  is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film  is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted  i have no clue  i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end  i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came  i cut a good    minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes  yes  it illustrates the changing landscape between the have  s have not  s  i got it way back in the beginning  kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends  wassup felt very staged  poorly constructed and ever worse acting  teenage caveman  which larry didn  t write but did direct  was terrible  but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn  t take itself seriously  wassup rockers was just plain bad           this is my first deepa mehta film  i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its   sita   character presented as nita  i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita  yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta  not her direction  the characters  big and small  were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end  somewhat like the end of mazursky  s   an unmarried woman    they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men  and one cardboard man  ashok  seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him   carrying his invalid mother biji  he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion   br    br   ms mehta seems to fumble as a director  however  compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant  as she cannot use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india  she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter  not her father   yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field  compare her to mrinal sen  adoor gopalakrishnan  muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants  given her competent canadian production team and financial resources  mehta  s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some  but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space  kannada  malayalam  and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers  br    br   ms das  ms azmi  mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding  ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors  mrinal sen  s   khandar    gautam ghose  s   paar    benegal  s   ankur    a brilliance notably absent in this film  ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability  all in all  the film  s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema  i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays           all the way though i was thinking to myself   oh god why    at the very beginning i thought   right it might be average    but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious  br    br   every part in it was so predictable  even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring  it was a half decent movie  but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible  some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves  eg  the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches  my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next  and more times than less i was right  br    br   why does going into the house make her come after you  it doesn  t make sense  it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings  and no really depth was seen at all  br    br   you can see everything coming  which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching  oh shes behind her     didn  t see that one coming  yawns   br    br   surely these people must have thought to    oh i don  t know  carry a knife round or at least try and fight back  instead of being eaten but someone hair  at best during the movie i was very mildly scared  and i mean mildly   i was just crying out for the credits  as they rolled i exhaled a short   oh thank god    if you haven  t already  don  t waste your   time and money on this  pointless  plot less  sorry excuse for a sequel           at       a high school student commits suicide  not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known  time skips back to the start of the day  from here we follow six separate students  marcus  melody  luke  steven  sarah and sean  each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas  all reaching boiling point  hitting to an end for one  br    br   after losing a friend to suicide  and surviving his own suicide attempt  writer director murali k  thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide  suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows       is thalluri  s attempt to bring it to light  if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has       becomes all the harder to view  br    br   with heavy and hard subject matter  thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis  s  sex  pregnancy  sexual identity  bullying  friendship  thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner  the factor on thalluri  s talent is his subtlety  he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime  it verges near documentary at times  it has such a painful realism  the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this  br    br        has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant  while the core of each film is different  both tackle teen life  like sant  thalluri utilizes long tracking shots  with time skipping back and forth  to show each characters interaction from different perspectives  a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance  with spare conversation  little development of characters  and the long tracking shots  sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread  while there resides this dread in       the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn  t reach  as time goes by  each characters fragility creeps out  dragging you along their emotional roller coaster  br    br   the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide  foretold at the very beginning  the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion  though many films that have shown suicide  gloss over the act or romanticizes the act  thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution  with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles  teresa palmereach  frank sweet  joel mackenzie  marni spillane  charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers  br    br   compelling and revetting       is an absolutely unmissable film           the quote above just about says it all for   slipstream    i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour  but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance  i won  t watch it again  so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich  d lines in the movie  i  m sure it will set a record  br    br   some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker  mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry  paxton  s character has hijacked hamill  s prisoner  an android taking his name from the poet byron  bob peck   tasker  hamill  shoots owens  paxton  with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski  kitty aldridge  can keep tabs on the pair  the real question though is why didn  t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman  br    br   if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense  then i suppose you  ll find something of interest here  but you can  t convince me that the film makes sense on any level  scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery  but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton  s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso  if anyone thinks there  s some hidden meaning here  you  re really stretching  br    br   patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming   the end   to come into view  alas  even that was denied  if beauty is in the eye of the beholder  then so is understanding  this movie had neither  yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run   an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons  apparently the film was keeping them afloat           director edward sedgwick  an old hand at visual comedy  successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting  employing a large number of roach  s reliable performers  although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly  sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins  a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood  where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves  star struck cecilia  rosina lawrence   sedgwick  who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set  does so here as cecilia  always ready for an audition  is treated by a would be paramour  cinema star rinaldo lopez  mischa auer   to behind the scenes action of  naturally  a musical comedy  featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti  laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes  including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica  and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton  russell hicks and walter long  on balance  one must hand the bays to mischa auer  who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star  a role which he largely creates  and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley  s filmic spectacles           the jokes are obvious  the gags are corny  and the characters are walking characatures   but i couldn  t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie  no matter how many times i see it  i still get a kick out of this one  and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment  it contains many quotable moments  and some of the best sight gags i  ve seen to this day  if you  ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle  rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start           these slasher pics are past their sell by date  but this one is good fun  br    br   the valentine cards themselves are witty  and well thought out  br    br   the film has one peach of a line      he  s no angel       when he in fact is angel    watching buffy reruns will never be the same  br    br   the cast is a sizzling display of young talent  but the story does not give them enough real depth  denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters  sorry but no  br    br   the direction is very good  managing to show very little actual gore  and relying on your imaginations implied threat  much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes       br    br   essentially  the main directorial plus  lies within the   borrowing   of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks  psycho  s shower scene is tributed  along with halloween  s   masking     br    br   murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know    br    br   light viewing  not very scary but a few good jump moments  if it was a choice between the hole and this though  choose the hole  slasher movies have had their day  and this is just another slasher  a very good slasher  but nothing groundbreaking             the only reason i gave this episode of   masters of horror   a   instead of a   is because the two lead actors are good  and it wasn  t shot on vhs  the story  the dialog  and the plot are ridiculous   br    br   talking   driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war  give me a break  what next  zombies who come back to go skydiving  maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows   br    br   i never supported the iraq war  but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces  and   homecoming   was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war   br    br   with zombies being mass produced in today  s market    this is the spam of zombie related entertainment  how   homecoming   made it onto   masters of horror   is beyond me           like most  i thought   another crocodile movie    so far we  ve had primeval and rogue in the last    months  what can they do that  s new  where both those films were about action and violence  this one  s about fear and tension  br    br   the performances aren  t oscar worthy when there  s nothing going on  but in times of distress or terror  these people suffer so much it  s like torture  there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don  t really behave like this as others have pointed out  but the fear is so effective it  s a stretch to say you  ll enjoy this movie  it  ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ           there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick  s abundance of clich  s throughout    and i agree completely  both with regard to the characters and the dialog  br    br   i  d read about elizabeth berkly  s awful performance in the equally awful   showgirls    which i  ve never seen   and her performance here  while not awful  is barely up to the standards of lifetime  s worse fare  there was not a hint of depth to her character  but then there probably shouldn  t have been  if so  it would have placed the film completely out of balance  since there wasn  t a hint of depth or charisma   not a trace   in any one character  performer  or portrayal  br    br   the principal  s handling of liz  s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable  her husband  s initial reaction and advice were likewise  forrest gump  attacking jenny  s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic  intelligent action  and  hell  he was mentally challenged   br    br   the smarmy  unctuous lawyer  excuse the redundancy  father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance  he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time  no mean feat  her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd  also not unknown in the profession  br    br   finally  and frankly  i rather enjoyed this part   the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs  that you  d rather depend upon barney fife  without andy  to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community  i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness  intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the   law and order   series    and the like    but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on   lifetime    br    br   finally  i found a kind of   story within a story   fascination with josh  s concoction of his being the   victim   of his teacher  this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story  this was something of an achievement  like going from   f   to   f minus    br    br   this whole lame situation should have been resolved   in real life   in about    minutes  following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities  with husband involved  but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following  and left an hour  s blank film in the camera   br    br   but the writer s  here  proved with their ending  they could do even worse  when the situation was finally   resolved   and   righted    this was accomplished in all of about    seconds  with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any   real world   context for the perpetrator and his parents  or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption  br    br   this one  s a    presentation  the second       because it does have some mild   fascination             if you haven  t seen this yet  you really should  on dvd  i can  t believe how much i enjoyed it  it is amazingly realistic and believable  true  much of it is speculated  and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts  there aren  t many of them   but it handles everything quite well with a   cruel mother nature   theme  it will remind you of the nature programs that you  ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel  only the animals here are dinosaurs  they act natural  they eat  kill  mate  play  and fight for survival  you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others  br    br   for the most part  the effects are excellent  at times they will look a little too much like cgi  s  but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic  in some cases  you will actually be convinced that you  ve seen a dinosaur  my favorites were the coelophysis  the raptors  the diplodocus  the iguanadons  the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds  i was most disappointed with the t rex  however  which looked a little too computer generated at times  br    br   in any case  you should definitely see this production  it is educational  well made  and very entertaining  for what it is  its an a           why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre  other then action  i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck  i just could not change the channel  it  s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower  its pretty telling that the cast imdb   credits   with this monstrosity apparently never worked again  br    br   bad acting  bad writing  bad narration  bad music  bad hair  bad cinematography  it just goes on and on  the movie really has nothing to recommend it  if you  re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out  there are a tonne of other films that won  t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards  br    br   i hope this film didn  t get money from the government for financing  otherwise i  m never paying taxes again           ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai  india  sadhu agashe is a hard working  hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison  his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers  imtiaz  becomes frustrated by sadhu  s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status  a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case  further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu  s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics  br    br   i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india  the camera work is excellent  the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds  the acting  pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood  sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director  shimit amin  has taken liberties with factual accounts  nevertheless  ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making           let  s keep it simple  my two kids were glued to this movie  it has its flaws from an adult perspective  but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it   br    br   and the pepsi girl was excellent  br    br   and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot  although she  s not in the film very much  so don  t get too excited there  br    br   not that  s it  s really a bad thing  but it is the kind of movie you watch just once  don  t buy the dvd  br    br   enjoy  br    br   did i mention kimberly williams   that was for the dads            it was   a m  in the morning and i had nothing else to do  don  t judge me    please  br    br   we  re back in time during the spanish settlements  a group have made their way onto an island  it doesn  t take too long before they encounter a large   reptile    which gobbles up their horse  soon they  re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the   reptile gods    the cg sucks  it reminds me of the cg of early console video games  the encounters were lame  the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit  otherwise it  s just a middling effort           lackawanna blues is and excellent movie  the casting was perfect  every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played  their chemistry together was amazing  the acting was superb  i felt as if i knew the characters  i could almost   feel   them  they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the     s and     s  oh  the memories   my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see  i have watched this movie so many times  that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them  i can  t even list my favorite part  because i have so many favorite parts  thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age   and that is black people loving each other  looking out for each other  respecting each other  caring about each other  and doing all we can to help each other  gotta go now  i have to go watch it again           saturday june        pm the neptune br    br   monday june        pm the neptune br    br   few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura  s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz   masterpiece iberia suite  at the approach of its centennial  saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland  the twelve   impressions   of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings  allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura  s camera  creative use of large flats and mirrors  moved throughout the set  combined with screens  shadows  fire  rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song  dance and instrumental performance  photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program  connecting the passion of the music to its great creator  saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors           as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich  d movies that hollywood makes  there seems to be no creativity in hollywood  companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in  br    br   this movie is a welcome change  it could be classified as romantic comedy for it  s genre but don  t let that turn you off this movie  this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces  br    br   if you are reading this  you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that  the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are   interstate      and   art of travel   which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage  br    br   this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same  br    br   dean          many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow  although the story line was rather typical of clara  s later silents  i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun  clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves   never mind that this man is married  clara  s lack of modesty was shocking in the day  but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie  though definitely not a brilliant story line  quite typical  actually   this movie is a nice showcase of clara  s ability to make the audience laugh           as the number of video nasties i  ve yet to see dwindles  this little pile of garbage popped up on my   to rent   list when i saw it was available  br    br   the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots  some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip  though if he returns with the girl and all the money  he gets a significant cut  he  s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and  wow  that pilot is one of the worst actors ever  granted  they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood  after stealing away into the jungle  we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour  now  this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever  ping pong balls for eyes and that  s pretty much it  his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack  and i found myself muting much of those scenes  br    br   oh  did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity  this is probably the main reason this film was banned  though there is one specific scene  about one second long  where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out  but it  s not a redeeming factor for gore fans  also  jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals  and  sadly  male as well  so  if you want   fair   in terms of exploitation  you got it  br    br   i can  t recommend this trash to anyone  it  s not even the good bad movie  it  s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then  if you are making your way through the list  leave this for the very last  if you watch it first  you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list  which is certainly not true           i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case  judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun  but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on  david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent  judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a   should have gave it a    i gave it an extra star just because david keith  s gun was cool           i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it  game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film  he failed thank god  br    br   the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won  t like her because she  s ugly  the film is just bad for so many reasons  the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits  ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit  those two scenes made me cringe  janeane  s character is sickeningly arrogant  and guessing from her role as stand up   comedienne   and arch feminist is in real life too   she claims that the film is   anti feminist   when in fact it  s just realistic  men more often than not go for looks over personality  it  s interesting to note her hypocrisy too  she  d been a feminist and   comedienne   for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad  i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film  i mean come on  she acted in it for heaven  s sake  what this film was really was anti men if anything  it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman  s character noelle  br    br   there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin  s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure  is that the best the script writers could come up with  blimey they  ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made  there  s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is  the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn  t ugly but is actually beautiful  erm was i watching the same film as they were  she  s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one  although having said that  i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well  she  s lanky and gaunt looking  br    br   i guarantee three things about this film if you  ve never watched it  br    br   you will know what the ending will be  br    br   you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and  br    br   you will be bored after ten minutes  br    br   watch at your own peril          this movie has everything typical horror movies lack  although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers  the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla  dare i say oscar winner  this is a perfect date movie  i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person          having just seen walt disney  s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube  i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks  the colors  compared to the earlier black and white  are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one  s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short  it does get a little repetitious near the end  still  skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony           the cast of this film contain some of new zealander  s better actors  many of who i have seen in fabulous roles  this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them  the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong  as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry  decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot  most of the cast appear to be from the  great  long running new zealand soap shortland street  it  s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party  the result of too many gins  and possibly a bit of salmonella  imagine   under siege   meets   the love boat    staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea  br    br   if you are an actor  i recommend you see this film  as a study on how to destroy your carer           emily watson and tom wilkinson together   what a treat  with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue  yet at the heart of it all  each character maintains a streak of decency   moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions    contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life    how true these words are  watson  s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue   she  s the central conscience that the other three latched on  she is the decency undeterred   br    br   the circumstances of lies are to each its own  one to defend one  s professional name  one to hold back due to family partner pressure  one simply don  t want to face the consequence  one ironically can  t believe the truth and lies to save friendship  these are all precarious situations  there lies the intrigue   fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies  contradictions  indeed  in spite of the seeming dishonor  decency and heart remain strong   br    br   the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity  it  s not sensational or complex as another film   where the truth lies         credits due to fellowes   writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson  there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies  beneath it all  human frailty not excluded  they meant well  and following along with the story  the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning  s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship   br    br   you might say there  s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in   separate lies    yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention  the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts  a veteran to the merchant ivory films  and music by stanislas syrewicz  with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner  of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski  s trois couleurs  especially  bleu        this is a british film you just might not want to miss   br    br   emily watson  anne  the wife   breaking the waves      debut  hilary and jackie       the luzhin defence       gosford park       punch drunk love  red dragon  equilibrium in        br    br   tom wilkinson  james  the husband   the full monty       the governess  rush hour  as villain  in       in the bedroom       normal  hbo cable movie        eternal sunshine of the spotless mind       recently as father moore in  the exorcism of emily rose      opposite laura linney   br    br   rupert everett  bill   he is simply delightful in   my best friend  s wedding        opposite julia roberts and marvelous in   an ideal husband        d  oliver parker  an oscar wilde play  recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr  watson  in pbs mystery  sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings      tv   br    br   linda bassett  maggie   she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in   east is east                  i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film  the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com  this film is awful  the plot is extremely lazy  it is not scary either  people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it  this film is more like dark water  except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it  i was extremely disappointed with this film  it didn  t scare me nor interest me either  let  s face it   this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g  the dead trying to contact the living   dragonfly  what lies beneath  ghost story  dark water  darkness  the changeling etc etc  it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans  the films that are coming out of hollywood  like this  are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer  they  re just being churned out          angela  sandra bullock  is a computer expert but  being shy and somewhat of a recluse  she does all of her work from the confines of her condo  just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico  a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it  angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash  angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her  while she is sunning on the beach  a terrific looking gentleman named jack  jeremy northam  makes overtures to her  she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel  however  jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it  even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa  jack makes things difficult  he changes angela  s identity on every computer across the nation  making her lose her condo  her bank account  everything  can angela  a computer whiz  beat jack at his own game  this very exciting movie has many assets  first  bullock and northam are two very beautiful  interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation  the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today  s world  the costumes  sets  production  and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful  and  despite how it sounds  there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy  if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence  this is a great choice  it delivers twists and turns with great frequency  making it possible for the viewer to   net   a very good evening of entertainment           i rented the dvd in a video store  as an alternative to reading the report  but it  s pretty much just more terror tainment  br    br   while the film may present some info from the report in the drama  you  re taking the word of the producers   there  s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film  not one  br    br   the acting  all around  is pretty bad   pretty much all of the stereotypes of   hot shot   bitchy foul mouthed government agents  each thinking they know more than everyone else  there may be some truth to it  but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it  br    br   imdb  s user community ratings   comments tend to be more right than wrong  and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can  br    br   i wish i had on this one           look  this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies  but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie  she is smokin   hot and a great little actress to boot  these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson  nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film  my friends bob  bill and dennis agree   lisa is not only brilliant  she is a hottie  the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard  but as soon as lisa hits the screen  things really start hopping  the others are clearly not in her league  this is not the exorcist but as i said  if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress  this is the one to see           it wasn  t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making   this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things   a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic   you know when you  ve been painting a wall until you  re completely bored   well that  s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they  re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner  br    br   the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it   you can  t really blame them since there  s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks   though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair   modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents  br    br   after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed   and no that  s not praise   we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can  t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them   this is what i don  t get   even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they  re charging towards a gaping ravine   isn  t this somewhat illogical   it  s also something of a revealing error since the horses   chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures  br    br   anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory   but who needs moshe dayan   arik sharon or god when you  ve got an idiotic enemy who can  t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall            i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn  t help myself  i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b   which is unique among allen  s work  along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson  scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop  s most enjoyable aspect  the plot revolves around johanson  s character  a journalism student  who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave  she falls in love with a suspected serial killer  jackman  and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding  oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen  br    br   i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson  s performance but i am a bit bias  i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted  she plays a ditsy  yappy  bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen  s stereotypical neurosis stricken character  she adds appropriate body language for comic effect  needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson  s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus  br    br   allen is allen    he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character  something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however  he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late    br    br   jackman is also enjoyable as the suave  millionaire murder suspect  i cannot say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less  br    br   in terms of the plot i cannot help but feel that this is fresh    in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion  johanson and allen are more detective like than anything  however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film  instead of everything being black and white  things are painted in shades of gray  being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt  though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners  i did find his allusions to his last film interesting    come for the humor  laugh and be merry  br    br   needless to say if you enjoy allen  s work watch it  if not watch something else             i rented this film because of my interest in american history  and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons  this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his   vision   into a major world religion  it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo  illinois  it portrays the trial of joseph smith  within the course of that trial  brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism  and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith  then smith is assassinated  and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land  despite his grave doubts  he perseveres  and finally has a vision  that utah is the place for his colony  that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership  later  as crops are destroyed by crickets  he again doubts that he has truly been chosen  however  a miracle occurs  which cements his place in history  br    br   i found the performances to be moving  and the story to be convincing and interesting  i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal  polygamy is a part of the story  but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised  the issue is not emphasized  br    br   i  m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter  but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout                 s   frightmare   is an odd little film  the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic     s     s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding     s slasher genre  it isn  t totally successful  mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints  and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors  but it still has its moments  mostly due to the classy performance  classier than the movie deserves  by the late german actor ferdinand mayne  who plays an aging old time horror movie star  ala vincent price  named   conrad ratzoff    at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he  s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol   conrad is a bit of a hoity toity  prima donna jerk off  just when you think he couldn  t be any more un likable  the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death  nice  huh  conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club  unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die  still feisty even at death  s door  he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself  conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket  which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects  br    br   it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad  s grave an after hours visit  breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party   not exactly my idea of fun  but hey  these are characters in an     s horror film  logic has no place here   the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad  s body seated in a place of honor  posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it  before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic  planning to return him to his crypt in the morning  in the meantime  mrs  ratzoff  distraught over the theft of her husband  s body  has called in a psychic friend to try and   reach   conrad through a seance  you can pretty much figure out the rest from here  since conrad wasn  t a very nice guy in life  it  s not much of a stretch to assume that he won  t be any friendlier in death  psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion  then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students   ridiculously huge house  picking off the young grave robbers one by one  this is where the movie falls apart  endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying   hello  is anyone there    are intercut with occasional bursts of violence  we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene  which is the highlight of the movie  before the last two survivors finally figure out  way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing   but again  we  re in an     s horror film   that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad  s body back to its crypt where it belongs  the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder  moans and groans  howls  etc   that becomes severely annoying after a while  br    br   i can  t really recommend   frightmare   to anyone who didn  t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the     s    modern horror   fans will doubtlessly find   frightmare   incredibly slow moving and goofy  if you came of age in that magical decade  however  you may get a blast of nostalgia from   frightmare    fans of jeffrey    re animator    combs may also want to check it out  as the future dr  west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students  br    br   i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label  paired with roy ward  s   vault of horror   and sold at dollar stores  because the print quality is terrible  i  m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma  which seems appropriate  if you  re a troma kind of person then   frightmare   will be right up your alley           people watch movies for a variety of different reasons  this movie didn  t have the big budget  there  s no special effects  no car chases and there  s no explosions  actually reality doesn  t have much of these either  at least not in my life   br    br   this is a very real movie about very real people  none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos  i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology  since i  m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain  br    br   so watch this movie for the characters  it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk   br    br   within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden  s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie  excellent acting  very believable   br    br   henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his   harvey   and kiefer  s   mickey   enhances the oppositeness of their characters  br    br   i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady    mrs ramsay    i  m sure she and my mother in law are good friends    br    br   there  s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them           i think that you can not imagine how these people really work      before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there  i actually thought quite the same as you do  but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do  i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long  that really is no easy work  and also the actors  which in your eyes may be terribly bad  are really great people and a lot of them really can act  i don  t think that the material given to them can really show that  as i think this material isn  t very good  but they are truly good  so i don  t think that you  before you haven  t seen these guys doing there work  can judge over them  and i shouldn  t have judged over them as well before i met them  but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it  so please  do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven  t seen them doing there job           as usual  i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven  t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars  i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley  i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has  there is no story   a group of guys meander around iraq  one day they are here diffusing a bomb  tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside  by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire  no wait here they are back in bagdad  there is no cohesive story at all  the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures  by that i mean  we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying  we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe  and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn  t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds  what do you think is going to happen    well  do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn  t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways   why yes  do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy  why yes  there is no story here  the script is juvenile and predictable  the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look   artsy    and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture  go rent   full metal jacket      deerhunter   or   platoon    don  t waste time or money on this boring movie           a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere  one had a flat tire  the other  s jeep mysteriously won  t start   one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him  when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend  they come across nice mr  slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down  hermit like house  which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins  he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the   girls in the house  before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack  he warns them about   davy    his brother who is lurking about and isn  t all there  of course  one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again  is it slaussen  is it davy  the mannequins   tourist trap has the usual horror requirements  jiggly big boobed girl  goody two shoes girl  curiosity getting the better of people and never working out    but it stands apart from the rest of the     s genre in it  s twist of an ending  i started to feel sorry for slaussen  chuck conners is a terrific  creepy  over the top performance at a point in the film  and you almost see the character of molly doing the same  this is a gem if you can find it  i had taped it off of cable when i was younger  and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced  but well worth it  fans of tanya roberts won  t be disappointed either  best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup  and crackers    br    br   i gave it a   because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain           most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they  re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments    tommy boy   is a character right from   snl     a big fat lovable  in their opinion  goof who doesn  t know anything  br    br   david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role  he  s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy  s business  br    br   the plot  for starters  is really faulty  the whole premise   daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz   can be traced back to just about any movie you want  like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation   empty  shallow  just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be   funny   together  br    br   the movie  s biggest   influence   is the      comedy classic   planes  trains   automobiles    that movie is great because the plot isn  t stale and recycled  it  s basic  yeah   a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob  but it  s real  dammit  it makes all the difference  the characters are real  the situations are far more real    tommy boy   is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters   we feel nothing for them  and we don  t care about what  s happening on screen    pta   walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able     tommy boy   is simply absurd  with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn  t dead  then awakens and wrecks their car  br    br   the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from   pta   and it  s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie  br    br   farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable   i  ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn  t changed my mind  spade  s given very little to do  serving as the movie  s most thankless character  br    br   dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy  s business  the ending is a joke  and not in a   har har funny   way  more like a   oh god are they serious     way  br    br   some people dig it  that  s cool  but i just can  t get into it  nor do i appreciate all the stuff it   borrows   from   not just counting   pt a     without any credit whatsoever           having read during many years about how great this film was  how it established ruiz among the french critics  specially the snobbish cahiers crowd   when i finally watched it about a year ago  i found it pretty disappointing  but then  i guess my expectations were sky high   shot in saturated black and white  this deliberately cerebral film  made for tv  and mercifully  only an hour long  is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings  which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants  and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime   the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument   borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie  but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film           many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare  however  every so often a movie might come along thats honest  funny  entertaining and memorable  the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients  this film follows three friends  gary  rick and david   the big apple    misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love  along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship  we follow hopeless romantic gary  the main character  on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it  s ending  if you haven  t been lucky enough to see this movie yet  by all means take a look   sprinkled with many memorable   s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace  l a v  truly is an original film  a rarity among films of it  s genre           i loved this show from it  s first airing  and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week  the plot  characters  writing  special affects were outstanding  then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining  well written show  i say bring it back  i know all of the actors would come back  i would suggest buying the dvd  s  i am  i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments  and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers  i only watch one show on that channel now   ghost hunters   but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too           i didn  t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much  don  t get my wrong its not a bad short film  tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film  you can tell that it has been an act of love for her  the acting  outside of dominic  is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good  there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on  though i don  t feel it greatly detracts for one  s ability to understand the film  if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do  i say go for it  the gag reel was fun  i won  t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over  if you like the film then check out the pink mirror  a film also done by jagged edge  i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven           did the first travesty actually make money  this is another sequel  along the lines of another stakeout  that no one asked for  but we  ve received it anyway  the sequel is like its predecessor  completely brain dead  it  s also pretty disgusting  remember the dinner scene   to think i almost felt sorry for ritter  yasbeck  and warden  did they need the money that much           i was never so bored in my life  hours of pretentious  self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems  it  s like watching lizards molt  even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy  if you have insomnia  rent this           this movie is awesome on so many levels    and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on  br    br   just remember this  when you  re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies    be they good or bad    this is the formula that they are using  this is what makes zombie movies so great  br    br   and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie  a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know  br    br   all in all  it doesn  t linger  there  s never a point where you think to yourself   c  mon  get on with it      it moves quick and corners nicely  this is the sporty  little italian number of zombie flicks  br    br   so awful  it  s wonderful  if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek    rent it  buy it  love it  br    br   as a great trivia note  if you  re watching it on dvd  you  ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen  underneath the musical score    well    that  s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer    which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop           the ladies man is laugh out loud funny  with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes  including the funniest love song ever written   br    br   ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role  br    br   tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you  ll find in any comedy out there  br    br   it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every   months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round  br    br   i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre         and i urge you to vote   br    br   and remember kids    theres more motion in the ocean            when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess        but when i saw the first    minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn  t just be a solid movie  almost everything in this movie is great  the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot  br    br   the only thing that really let me down are the performances  emily blunt the devil wears prada  is the star of the film  bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance  rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt  paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him  jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable  br    br   to me the film feels like unfinished  maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script  i don  t know but that  s how i feel about the movie  br    br   but overall it  s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt           a flying saucer manned  literally  by a crew of about    male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some    years ago on a   forbidden planet    what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth  a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman  and her father  a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in  br    br   on the surface  this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery  some compare it to shakespeare  s tempest  but this is a stretch  and  in some ways  an insult to the scifi genre  stripped of what makes it a scifi film  sure  its the tempest  but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about   br    br   underneath  this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use  yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek  br    br   anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful  the special effects  and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable  if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of     s sci fi props  you might think you were watching a     s piece  br    br   this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call     s sci fi  and  though not  in my opinion  the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects  the clever plot  now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek  lost in space  and even farscape  is worth paying attention to  and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans  trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek  s original series aired about    years later  though they may find themselves disappointed by the  relatively mild      s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration  while i do not mean to nitpick  the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it   br    br   some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young  good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles  unfortunately  nielsen  s performance is only average  and at times down right poor  especially at the climax of the film   walter pigeon  though quite excellent in other films  over acts his role as well  ms francis  earl holliman  and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd  though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job  the problems with the featured performances  i think  are as much the fault of the director and the editor  as anything  though they certainly got most of the film quite right           i just saw this film on dvd last night  and decided to check out the reviews this morning  it seems that   i  robot   has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb  and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling  too   br    br   i find this somewhat surprising  as this film is not great  or even good   but neither is it terrible  or even really bad   what this film really is  is   depressing  depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid  clich  d re heats  and acclaim them as spectacular new works  this film as   retread   written all over it  from the plot line  an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action  to smith  s character  a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium   to the special effects  that borrowed from matrix and a few others   br    br     i  robot   is  sadly  quite possibly the perfect action movie for today  s audience  superficial plot  insipidly snappy dialog  and lots and lots of adrenaline  smith is mediocre  but we already knew that  he seems to be hollywood  s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis   the story has lots of holes in it  of all sizes  but i don  t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice  perhaps a blockbuster by today  s standards  but very b movie compared to true winners           this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects  just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century  br    br   this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people  not white  black  etc  br    br   good movie with a good message           i have bought the complete season of surface  watched it in   days  i was so captured by the the plot  theories and basically everything about this show  the actor who plays miles is great  mile  s sister  mother and father acted like real life family would  you could connect on so many levels it  s fascinating  br    br   i find animals are so wonderful  you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child  it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists  br    br   am sadden  that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows  i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book  br    br   love the show very much  for those who haven  t watched surface  if you like sci fi you need to watch this                       this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen  br    br   i have to disagree with another commenter  who said the special effects were okay  i found them pretty bad  it just wasn  t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story  br    br   maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story  the archaeologists are looking for   the set    they do not bother to tell what set  or what is so special about it  that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california  while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt  br    br   if you  re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert  take the effort to actually go to the desert  the beginning   the ancient ceremony   looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert  br    br   the action level was constant throughout the movie  no ups and downs  no climax  it made the movie look short  and that  s certainly a pro for this particular movie           liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early   th century  he is a true actor  he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles  jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary  mary is such a beautiful woman  it  s her love that makes rob roy the legend  but it  s his passion that makes her love undying  they need each other  tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect  in one way or another  upon watching the movie  you will find cunningham disgusting  the scotland scenery is beautiful  the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well  if you like history  romance  passion and love  you  ll enjoy rob roy  there is violence and blood  but it  s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told  no gratuitous violence  and you do have to listen carefully if you  re not used to a scottish accent  one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized  they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes  it  s their skill as actors that attracts you  they don  t rely on marquee names  popularity or sex symbol appeal  this is something special           when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world  she has beautiful and charming body  when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body    i think male have hard to resist    i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes  at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said  the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content  emotions aren  t conveyed properly  i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity  in my view  tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai  in some of her scenes  she looks a bit lusty  which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed  i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes  i  m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai    can  t help it  sorry for that    raincoat   was a good movie by rituparno ghosh  and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat  i was not at all impressed         they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it  the bad acting isn t enough    the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists  i love the original from      so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead  because this one is such a bore          having seen carlo lizzani  s documentary on luchino visconti  i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low  but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied    i faced a need for critical opinion  which i generally don  t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer  there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally  but when i read the reviews already written on this title  i also felt a bit confused  people sometimes don  t know what to criticize  therefore  to be clear  i  ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably  the former one about visconti before his director  s career and latter one about visconti the director   br    br   the aristocratic background  all the hobbies  the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented  his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents   divorce  we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano  in riches galore  with nannies  cooks with access to everything  in true aristocracy  for instance  his father  s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that  there is also an emphasis on visconti  s crucial visit in paris in the     s where he met eminent people    left wingers    who later had impact on his style and message in art  that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing  a contrast at first sight    br    br   however  the part about his director  s career  which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director  s death in       is poorly executed  his movies are not discussed well  why  because there are very few people who really have something to say  franco zeffirelli  the director  remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right  there are also some interviews with franco rosi  but later  such movies like il gattopardo  la caduta dei rei  la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger  although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig  i did not like the interviews of his  moreover  some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary    there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece  there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster  a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made  there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit  franco zeffirelli  though i appreciate him as a director  makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious  for instance  he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service  therefore  i say  simplified and unsatisfactory   br    br   what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself  as a result  we may get his own opinion about his works  for instance  i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself  he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig  br    br   i believe it is better to see luchino visconti        by carlo lizzani than this doc  although it is shorter and condensed as a whole  you will get a better idea of the director  visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people  s emotions and viewpoints into stone                  time is precious  this film isn  t  i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time  br    br   the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction  is this the film the critics are raving about  what a piece of crap  br    br   the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family  get it  br    br   the acting is superb  br    br   the production  lighting  sets  editing  sound  is about   steps above a    minutes story  the characters are shallow and unintelligent  i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience  the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next  br    br   i have had more fun doing the laundry           worst  movie  ever made  ever  i have no words to say about it   other then it truly had no point  no plot  no    anything  sheer crap    i don  t know how everyone in the movie didn  t shoot them shelves after watching it                      i love vampire flicks and mysteries  and alternate abstract outside the box films  and     this was non of those  i mean what the crap    i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don  t know  and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it    bottom line   i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs  thats the only thing i got from this film  please don  t watch this    i mean for a    sultry sensual vampire flick   there wasn  t even the to be expected nudity you  d get from a vamp flick  anyway back to my point     this movie blows  go set yourself on fire instead                    savage island        is a lame movie  it  s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting  not only that the storyline and script was wretched  i don  t know why this movie was made  i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry  this one made my blood boil  the situations were inane at best  if i made a movie like this it would have been a short  really because those backwood   idjits   wouldn  t have been in the picture  br    br   don  t be fooled by the cover on the d v d  i am an avid watcher of bad cinema  but this movie is virtually unwatchable  i don  t mind movies being shot on d v  but if you  re going to do that make the movie enjoyable  not some tired retread of superior horror films  sans wrong turn   br    br   i have to not recommend this waste of disk  if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by  br    br   movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic            i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time  i have seen it well over     times  actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching  it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in  i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again  buy a copy now it is a classic             i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning  i  m going to assume that one  s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one  s level of acceptance of joseph  s story  br    br   however  that aside it was very well made  well acted  and had a nice score  if you get to salt lake city  it is a must to see it in the legacy theater  i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality  sound quality and ambiance in my entire life   i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there  being that i  m lds and regard joseph as a prophet  i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times   which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started  anyway  i  m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe  if you have    minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not  he tells a fascinating story           adenoid hynkel  a lowly soldier in world war one  rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania  he creates an aggressive  antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache  sound like anyone you know  br    br   from the safety of hollywood  chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini  given that the united states in      had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it  and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe  s civil strife  remember  it was hitler who declared war on the usa  not the other way round  it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic  br    br   the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides  and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly  humane  brave  etc   etc  chaplin is hynkel  and he also plays the jewish barber  the little hero of the ghetto  the tramp in all but name   needless to say  chaplin writes  directs  stars  composes the music and does the catering  br    br   in      the full truth was not yet known about the third reich  and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight  but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong  a comedian and a sentimentalist  chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless  all this does is to humanise him  when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane  he becomes endearing rather than despicable  as dictator  he inspects his subordinates   technical innovations which don  t work  the parachute hat  the bulletproof uniform etc   and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside  in fact  hynkel  s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery  br    br   in truth  chaplin  s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic  at heart  he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen  check out the humour  with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious  or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings   the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged  but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi  is it in any way believable that a schultz figure  if such had existed  would say to the fuehrer  s face    your cause is doomed to failure because it  s built upon the stupid  ruthless persecution of innocent people    and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto  if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt  why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform  chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka  but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age  as usual  chaplin thinks in terms of   silent   comedy set pieces  loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line  there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers  shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms  and the globe ballet  watch for the segment filmed in reverse   br    br   paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah  just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice  and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic  so hannah is quite literally too good to be true  brave  defiant  resourceful  hardworking and  of course  beautiful  she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage    gee  ain  t i cute    she asks  after the barber gives her a make over  too cute by far  is the answer  she doesn  t come close to ringing true  because chaplin has made her a caricature  the   wouldn  t it be wonderful    speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author   too wordy  too emotionally cloying  br    br   jack oakie is great as napaloni  the fascist dictator of bacteria  he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings  but the film  s underlying weakness remains  if napaloni is silly and ineffective  how can we fear him  and anyway  the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth  br    br   and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform             milo   is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that  s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn  t bother him and he still kills people   friday the   th   what  s that   one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo  s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn  t it his bedtime yet   and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can  t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity           this is one of the best horror   suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts  it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill  thrills  and yes a lot of gore   house of wax sure delivers    in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten      if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats  this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax       i myself enjoy these museums  but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way           never saw the original movie in the series   i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the       s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified  this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now  anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie  it was  however  a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark  really  this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen  the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm  other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid  the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water  not really worth watching i would however like to see the original  granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the     s  but he also made a very good slasher movie in the     s   the town the dreaded sundown             created in       and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name  because his wife convinced him   mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand  i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey  it is in fact his third  but it doesn  t matter  for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable  the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge  stopping to pick up cargo  and minnie mouse missing the boat  being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them  mickey helps her crank it  s tail and play the tune  and getting some other animals to be percussion  until pete comes along again to stop him  making mickey peel potatoes  mickey mouse was number    on the     greatest pop culture icons  and he was number    on the     greatest cartoons  very good           highly regarded at release  but since rather neglected  immense importance in the history of performing arts  a classic use of embedded plots  one of my favourite films  why hasn  t the soundtrack been re released           the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor  once the wife to director robert zemeckis  who helmed this episode   who murders her husband with a poker  has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside  an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake   she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband  s corpse  she decides to use an ax  once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman  s head  to frame the killer for her husband  s murder  santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman  s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child  br    br   this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old   santa kills   theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she  s been cheating with routine  it  s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac  there  s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions  not one of the show  s highlights           the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film  it should have read   be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the  rd pew from the back of your family  s church at   years old  listening to the preacher drone on about god  s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego    br    br   it starts off well intentioned  building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny  s   how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast    moment  it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree  sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble  i believe i counted the use of the word   pray   about    times in a five minute span near the end  after the   st  i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym    prey    sadly  this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last    minutes  plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say   prayer      preyer   to me  as it became totally zany  indeed  even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom  almost to the point of ending up on the floor  br    br   for all the salivating christians who ranked this film      stars  i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square  the ten commandments  anything from narnia  jesus christ superstar and the like  stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp  the god who wasn  t there  what would jesus buy  or the soon to be released religulous  br    br   maybe robert whitlow  s book is better           tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford  s films  at two hours  it was quite long for a      silent film yet continues to hold your interest some    years after it was filmed  mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a   greatest hits   performance with bits of mary the innocent  mary the little devil  mary the little mother  mary the spitfire  mary the romantic heroine  etc  characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past  the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character  s illegitimate child for      and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question  if the academy awards had been around in       no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary  s           i first saw this movie when i was about    years old  my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for    on vhs  she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch  this movie  however  scared the hell out of me  you may be asking yourself  how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone  the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions  pitch  to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas  that  s right  satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause  pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day  for if santa doesn  t make it back to his home in space  he turns to powder  don  t get me wrong  the movie is funny and fairly entertaining  however  the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell  which occurs at the beginning of the movie  is just downright creepy           although there are some snippets in this   part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform  these are not very well developed  in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs  br    br   although this program  as a whole  leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money  and for that it deserves some praise  almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to  very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you  if asked  they think the drug war is designed to solve  for example  while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the     s  at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law  forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business  but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence  the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame  inexplicably  alcohol prohibition  the violence that ensued  and the subsequent reversal of prohibition  is totally ignored by this program  br    br   this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users  and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war  the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on  use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems  but not all users do their drugs in excess  just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics  br    br   if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government  for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science  has decided to totally prohibit  whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against  just forget about it  none of that is in here  br    br   on the other hand  this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda  it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in   th century united states like marijuana  lsd  heroin  cocaine  mdma  and oxycontin  but there is a significant element of various people  s points of view with regard to drug laws  and most  but not all  of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality  especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana   br    br   the criminal justice system  along with its often harsh life ruining penalties  is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem  but unfortunately there  s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs  a lack of compassion for fellow humans  a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved  perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry  and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity  it  s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so  and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason  this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs  yet this program ignores it  br    br   so  in sum  the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining  but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy  and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives  it  s pretty disappointing           considering this film was released   years before i was born  i don  t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time  back in january of    though  i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas  the particular theme of films this night was   neglected     s crime films   and boy was her right    the gravy train or the dion brothers  as it appeared this print    was an absolute gem  wonderful performances  quirky characters  smart plot  hilarious comedy  and just an all around great time  rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh  margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well  i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it  in the meantime  go to an indie video store and hope they have it           the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group  in their endeavors  the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin  whom sister goes after because she believes he is the   big time   who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life  though he could be accused of killing her  he really kills only her spirit and will to live  after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose  the story isn  t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off  then threatens him  it  s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be   discovered   back then           first  i realize that a       rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst  this movie gets that from me because  as one reviewer points out  it  s not bad in a self aware  over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value  it simply misses its mark on every count    contains possible spoilers   the dialog is completely disingenuous  the continuity is so deliberate it  s painful  daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love  and with his final word the flamenco dancers start  the mock shock of what  s her name  see  i don  t even remember her character  s name  let alone the name of the forgettable actress  when her husband  the baldwin  first tells her that her friend is the bad guy  the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things  vegetable carts gone flying  cars crashing into each other  motorcycles going down the stairs  people nearly being hit  but remarkably  no one is  oh  that  s right    except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times  is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds  and an approaching car apparently didn  t notice him there  hmmm   br    br   it  s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made  there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money  you  d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing  now there  s a novel idea   br    br   my suggestion  don  t see this film  don  t rent the dvd  don  t watch it on cable  there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied           picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says   lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public  also black  in the street and ask him if he is black  then walk away    the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode  more laughter  now if you think the premise is funny  and the show contains many such types of situation  you will enjoy this show  for the rest  use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry  those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny  another example of the humor in the show  a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier  marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers  i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers  divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all           the year      saw no fewer than   filmed productions of h  g  wells   great novel    war of the worlds    this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them  no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it  but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place  the last year of the   th century          using wells   original setting  in and near woking  england  br    br   imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as   spoilers    that might apply with some films  where the ending might actually be a surprise  but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world  it seems positively silly  i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature  so let  s get right to the chase  the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease  against which they have no immunity  if that  s a spoiler  so be it  after a book and   other films  including the      classic   you ought to know how this ends  br    br   this film  which follows wells   plot in the main  is also very cleverly presented    in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late   th early   th century photography  although filmed in a widescreen aspect  the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity  the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs  rather than black   colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting  at other times  colors are washed out  these variations are typical of early films  which didn  t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality  even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on    as you  ll see on occasion here  the special effects are deliberately retrograde  of a sort seen even as late as the     s    and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic   feel    some of effects are really awkward    such as the destruction of big ben  the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours  some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd  particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair  br    br   this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells   original narrative    as has been noted  viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story  wells   description of the martians    a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles    is effectively portrayed  when the martian machines appear  about an hour into the film  they too give a good impression of how wells described them  both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective  primarily  of rural england    plus a few scenes in london  involving the narrator  s brother   the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark  big ben   but at least doesn  t dwell unduly on the devastation of london  br    br   the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise  despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines  the narrator  traveling about to seek escape  sees much of what wells terms   the rout of mankind    he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality  they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest  where they discover an awful fact  the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene  wells adds that after eating they set up   a prolonged and cheerful hooting    the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate    who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder  cheers from the gallery  british curates are so often utterly insufferable   br    br   this film lasts almost   hours  going through wells   story in welcome detail  it  s about time the author got his due    in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact  a word about the acting  don  t expect award winning performances  they  re not bad  however  the actors are earnest and they grow on you  most of them  however  have had very abbreviated film careers  often only in this film  the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana  in his  nd film  the curate is john kaufman    also in his  nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing  the brother    henderson    is played with some conviction by w  bernard bauman in his first film  the artilleryman  the only other sizable part  is played by james lathrop in his first film  br    br   this is overall a splendid film  portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it  despite its slight defects  it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors  if you want to see h  g  wells   war of the worlds    and not some wholly distorted version of it    see this film           of the elements that make this the best at this point  i have to say    is christine mcintire  shemp  s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent  i imagine that  as one poster suggested  christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene  but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil  to be smiling at shemp  s possibly dying  br    br   another character who helps this stand out is the goon  his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball  hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or  for that matter anywhere  i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this  but hey  when a short is this good  who  s going to complain  not i           okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the   last   one   and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one  part   was bad but why do they play us  anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part   and    i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in   d pointless id say  i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime  how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts   and   yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series  br    br   i gave a nightmare on elm street six       out of     br    br   good points of movie  had potential with plot  br    br   bad points of film  terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing           everyone  my name may sound weird  but there was nothing else   br    br   any way  i haven  t seen anything like this before so it was crazy  of course that  s a good thing  it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one  like chicken little   the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying    twas beauty who killed the beast    war of the worlds scene and more  walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one  also  how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema   br    br   however some parts don  t fit  like in the original lion king  weren  t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar  in this movie  they are not  they were fighting the hyenas backstage  ther  s more  the reason being why pumbaa isn  t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also  it  s just timon  timon  timon  anybody realise that only timonn  s story was told  whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks  br    br   but apart from that   it  s great           finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie  which not only tells a story  but actually tells the   real   story  i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller  but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations  then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o  donnell  you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is  it is not a movie to attract new fans  but a movie to tell the real tale  some things could have been better  but when you cannot forget the awful movie from      then is this a magnificent movie  so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story           by now  the game  s stale  right  br    br   the jokes have been done  its all over  the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone  after all  br    br   wrong  br    br   the game is still intact  the jokes are here  folks  sure  they  re all rehash  but so was monkey island    and    for that matter  br    br   the difficulty is well placed  somewhere between the slightly easy   and the ridiculously hard    the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate  in the tradition of sub games  and this game has the best joke of the whole series  when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach  always select   you don  t need to see my identification    its worth the price of the game by itself           i decided to watch this movie because i  d not seen carol lombard before in any movie  i  m sorry it had to be this one because  quite frankly  this is a dog    and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn  both of whom were great actors  br    br   the problem with the film is simple  it tries to put too much  too quickly  in to a story about a young lawyer  john manson played by stewart  who marries jane  played by lombard  within an hour of meeting her  what  s that clich    marry in haste  repent at leisure     br    br   in short  the story is a series of episodes that show the couples   worsening financial status  their troubles with john  s live in mother  their struggles to pay the bills  john  s diminished status at the office  the arrival of their baby son  john jnr  unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother   the couples   angst about their marriage  the baby  s sickness which worsens  thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot  in a fierce storm  to bring a special serum to save the child  and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm  br    br   how many more clich  d situations could the writers include  maybe mother dying soon after  there wasn  t much comedy  the drama was lacklustre  at best  the dialog was painful to hear  only the acting of the four main players was adequate  br    br   this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn    during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie  br    br   so  it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol   home spun american values of family  relationships  heroism  perseverance  and initiative    all against the backdrop of the   average   american family  who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard   br    br   and  it should be noted that the film was released in early       so  it was planned in         soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii  hence  this sort of film was a great booster for the general public  at that time  many of who would soon have to join england in war  as many here would know  hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before  during and after the war  br    br   however  i  m glad i saw it    as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda  but  i  ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range  br    br   as another reviewer noted  see this one just to say that you  ve seen all of stewart  s movies  otherwise  don  t bother           unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there  s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b  mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director  but for the last    years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty  nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first    min no sex  no blood it  s suppose to be about snuff   no actors  no dialogs  just as bad as an     t v film it  s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno  you will stay in our minds forever anyway  thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi    robowar rats  l  altro inferno virus  cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco  s spirit  s new film  pass on this one but if you don  t know this nice artisan  s career track down his old films and have fun           i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting            hypothetical situations abound  one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead  left in the streets  in the stores  and throughout the landscape  sans in the middle of a forgotten desert  one lone survivor  attempting to rekindle his sanity  takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert  all alone  he hopes for more  but with nobody around  he is left with white underwear  and a passion for a local indian tribe    until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence  alan  a man of the book  is left on earth after an unknown disaster  thinking he is alone  he begins living life his way    until  jeri ryan  appears  like she would in any dream  out of the woods  disheveled  and unhappy to find the final man alive to be     well     like alan  anyway  they try to co exist  fail  get drunk  and before creating the ultimate dystopia  they run into redneck raphael  played by newcomer    dan montgomery jr   bonds are torn  confusion sets in  a couple becomes a third wheel  and the battle between physically inept nerd vs  brainless jock  even with nobody left on the planet  it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise  br    br   using a variable film technique  ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled   the quiet earth    which i will be viewing next  oddly which he never gives any credit towards  with a borrowed story  i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it  his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride  borrowing yet again from other film director  s techniques to attempt to find his own  he opens the film interestingly enough  but fails to answer any direct answers  sure  the final days have arrived  but could there be a concise answer as to   how   or better yet   why   these select few survived  a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film  the juxtaposition would have been like   shawn of the dead    but instead left us feeling like we were watching a   made for tv   program  listening to the audio commentary  i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made  and his passion nearly sells the film  but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn  t as happy with his overall final product  there were mistakes  ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out  while this does make for decent independent film making  it sometimes feels cheap  and in ralston  s case  it was the latter  br    br   i must admit  david arnott  s portrayal of alan hooked me  he played that wimpy  school nerd  adult role very well  he was funny to both watch and listen to  and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer  he was a key player in keeping the film together  alas  i cannot say the same for the rest  this was dan montgomery  s first film  and it was obvious    i mean    really really obvious  there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him  perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance  but alas  it wasn  t the case  then there was jeri ryan  she pulled into her character near the end of the film  which to me  was the culmination of the entire piece of art  she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end  confused  again  she fell into her character by the end  giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured  even as the commentary progressed  all that she contributed was a laugh  giggle  or   ohhh  look at that color   moment  while her beauty may sell tickets  one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful  this was her first film  so can i be too harsh   br    br   overall  this film felt like it was missing something  i though the idea was strong    the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists  jealousy cannot be killed by bacteria or bombs  maybe because it is consumed by zinc   and we as a race will always want what we cannot have  ralston is not a surprising director  his techniques are flawed and pre used  but he does know how to make a low budget comedy  i think our idea of   funny   is different  so that is why i couldn  t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found   hysterical    his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film  which was lower than average  his film was loose  meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled  i e  anything with wings survived      which overall harmed the intensity of the film  this was a comedy  but it could have been much darker and much much funnier  for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film  as we learn from their commentary  all he was there for was money    the was in essence  the bank for   the last man    don  t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments  br    br   don  t expect more from ralston    and that is how i will end it  br    br   grade     out of                 br    br   i must admit  i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of   cut   last night  though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem  i am a true horror fan as true as they come  and found   cut   to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced  but one of the great parody comedy films of late  br    br   my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements   the film was not overly clever in it  s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could  i am certain this was intended as humour    hoping this was intended as humour  br    br   and of course  there was the gore  br    br   the use of the   customised   garden shears was brilliance   besides the expected stabs and slashes  in short  there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths  enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth  br    br   the appearance of both kylie minogue  short that her appearance was  and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film   both performances were fantastic  as well as simon bossell    the castle    in a brilliant role as the jokey technician  br    br   all in all  i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years  as well as a beautiful satire parody   toungue in cheek till the very end  br    br   loved it  go see it           i am so happy not to live in an american small town  because whenever i  m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies  evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless  in this movie a former doctor  who  s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash  directs his steps to the nearest small town   he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns   which happens to be the purgatory flats  and  of course  as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose  he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her  but there is a tiny handicap  she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead  to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself  i  ll just tell you that it  s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties           like anyone else who bought this  i was duped by the      pieces of extreme gore   and   banned in    countries   or whatever it says in the box  i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it  tom savini  rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business  the revolutionized make up effects in the     s  today  you don  t need them as everything is done on computer  but computers cannot compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up  but i digress  br    br   watching fantastically gory films like fulci  s gates to hell or even savini  s crowning achievement  friday the   th the final chapter  you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film  you can  t tell the difference between reality and magic  br    br   i can  t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film  if that is the reason you seek this film  then you are wasting your money  as many other reviewers in here have noted  most of the gore is an aftermath  you don  t see the torture  or the bloodshed as it happens  you see whatever it looks like afterwords  br    br   the gore  well  it  s here  but not as much as one would hope  or expect  a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts  but other then those two scenes  and one involving a scalping  there is nothing really much else to this film  the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned  are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for  maybe it  s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre  but i was expecting a bit more  call me sick or twisted  but isn  t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place  i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places  br    br   cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film  while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film  it is much better than this tripe  if you go out of your way to buy this for         you will feel cheated  br    br                 i always felt that ms  merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills  familiar to millions as the lt  on law and order  she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases  always in a supporting role  hbo  s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny  successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration  but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna  new york  a suburb of buffalo  br    br   the story could be set in any major african american community of the     s and     s from atlanta  s sweet auburn to new york  s harlem  but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny  s boarding house  the story revolves around nanny  s relationships with all kinds of people  played by some of the best actors in the business  i purposely did not say black actors  this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black  except for jimmy smits  of course  i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day           this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year  a few too many coincidences and plot holes  however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn  t come as too much of a surprise  brosnan is excellent in this role  gone is the wooden james bond  a role he was wasted in   if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies  greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan  s straight man  i  ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within  there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing  my father  a consultant  nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a   facilitator    much like   grosse pointe blank    another hit man comedy  the humour can be very dark  if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself           as a casual listener of the rolling stones  i thought this might be interesting  not so  as this film is very   of its age    in the       s  to me  someone born in the       s  this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap  but i am sure this film was not made for me  but people who were active during th       s  i expected drugs galore with th stones  i was disappointed  it actually showed real life  hard work in the studio  so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film  i have not seen any of the directors other films  but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing  sort of   amatuerish   which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash  badly directed  tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value  my only good opinion of this is that i didn  t waste money on it  it came free with a sunday paper           watch the original with the same title from       this made for tv movie  is just god awful  although it does use  as far as i can tell  almost the same dialog  it just doesn  t work  is it the acting  the poor directing  ok so it  s made for tv  but why watch a bad copy  when you can get your hands on the superb original  especially as you  ll be spoiled to the plot and won  t enjoy the original as much  as if you  ve watched it first   br    br   there are a few things that are different from the original  it  s shorter for once   but all are for the worse  the actors playing the parts here  just don  t fit the bill  you just don  t believe them and who could top edward g  robinsons performance from the original  if you want  only watch it after you  ve seen the original and even then you  ll be very brave  if you watch it through  it  s almost sacrilege           director don siegel really impressed me with this film  it is starkly shot  graphic without being visually graphic  well acted by all concerned  and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike  almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer  i didn  t know what to expect sitting down to watch this  a civil war movie or some kind of     s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south  but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination  exploration  and descent into the soul of men and women   a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized  as one reviewer previously noted  none   none   of the characters are likable by the film  s end and yet each one is interesting  complex  and enigmatic  eastwood plays cpl  mcburney  a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you  ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it   a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war   particularly in the south  soon  page  teacher elizabeth hartman  lovely  young seductress carol  and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood   each having their own needs and secrets and problems  eastwood is not a nice man  he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage  in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest  the beguiled  for me  is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front  this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers  siegel  s best film  it certainly is one of eastwood  s best real performances  page is always so very good and hartman  fe rdin  et al excellent  the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic  some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing  and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy  eerie  demented film           anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film  it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a   spring break movie   plus it makes fun of the college film genre  it  s funny  it  s got a cast to die for  amy pohler  rachel dratch   sophie monk   parker posey  jane lynch  amber tamblyn  missi pyle   and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud  writer  actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain  wilson phillips  omg   i  m just repeating myself now     it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they  re dumb           arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far  about earthman flash gordon  professor zarkov  and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet  along the way  in spellbinding  spectacular  and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin  prince thun  and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she  s a car    this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot  acting  and budget   it is miles ahead in these areas  produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few  the production values across the board are advanced  in my most humble opinion  for       the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate  we get hawk men  shark men  lion men  high priests  creatures like dragons  octasacks  orangapoids  and tigrons oh my  and many  many other fantastic things  are all of them believable and first rate special effects  no way  but for      most are very impressive  the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written  lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter  and expertly scored  director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond  s phenom comic strip  lastly  the acting is pretty good in this serial  all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents   here most everyone has some ability  don  t get me wrong  this isn  t a shakespeare troupe by any means  but buster crabbe does a workmanlike  likable job as flash  he is ably aided by jean arden  priscella lawson  and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out  but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted  it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office  i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later  the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov  frank shannon   wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear  the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell  lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful  but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming  officious  sardonic  merciless  and fun  middleton is a class act  jack   tiny   lipson plays king vultan  boisterous  rousing  hilarious   a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism  lipson steals each and every scene he is in  the plot meanders here  there  and everywhere   but flash gordon is the penultimate serial  space opera  and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow  excellent           i have to say that the events of      didn  t hit me until i saw this documentary  it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation  i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers  i was sick of hearing about it  when this was aired on tv a year and a day later  i was bawling my eyes out  it was the first time i had cried since the attack  i highly recommend this documentary  i am watching it now on tv    years later  and i am still crying over the tragedies  the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing  it was an accident  and look where it got them  these two brothers make me want to have been there to help           perfect movies are rare  even my favorite films tend to have flaws   rear window looks a little stagey at times  chris elliot  s character in groundhog day doesn  t work  the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy  the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow   but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish   br    br   the script is brilliant  the acting is superb all around  although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing  the whole cast shines   the directing and the photography are inspired  and the music score is touching without being intrusive  like some miramax scores that are too manipulative   every sad moment is truly moving  every light moment makes me smile  this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it   br    br   i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film  but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people  real feelings and real problems  brilliant  a must see           this has to be one of the   worst movies ever made  the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger     but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better  the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way  just a few of the awful moments in the movie  a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying     and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the     mile per hour winds    thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at      feet  thats impossible even for     pilots with thousands of hour experience  when on the runway  perfectly straight of course  she is instructed to pull on the flaps  huh   come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds  when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power  i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie  but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary  this is a movie you want to miss  take my word for it           regardless of what anyone says  its a b movie  and the effects are poorly done   if you  re a vampire fanatic  i suppose it would be ok  not    out of     you others here cant sincerely mean that   we are to view this as a movie  not read it as a book  so the effects and characters are important  as well as the story  the story are good  but it doesn  t carry the film  no wonder it has a low rating over all  i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb  but got severely disappointed  don  t get me wrong  i thought the blade movies was awesome  and loved the underworld movies  but this characters aren  t close  the make up on the vampires is poorly done  and the effects are worse  this sucks  i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was  the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something  seriously  if you think this is awesome  you don  t care about acting or make up  this is better as a book    out of    for an ok story            i want very much to believe that the above quote  specifically  the english subtitle translation   which was actually written  not spoken  in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist  was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner  but if so  director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film  they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here  or else has so much disdain for everyone  especially the viewing audience  that he can  t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke  br    br   some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique  bizarre films because they do so with   lan and unique personal style  e g   david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky   others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story  e g   krzysztof kieslowski  and david cronenberg  s later  less bizarre works   in pola x  carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it  well  here it is  the pacing is erratic and choppy  in particular continuity is often dispensed with  superfluous characters abound  e g   the gypsy mother and child   most of the performances are overwrought  the lighting is often poor  particularly in the oft discussed sex scene  unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason  and the list goes on  br    br   not to be completely negative  it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions  i liked the musical score  even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling  abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film  perhaps a reference to andy warhol  s   factory   of the     s    much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful  an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings  and  even well into middle age  cathering deneuve shows that she still has   it    her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn  t sink into bathos  br    br   there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as   pola x   more charitably  experimentation is admirable  even when the experiment doesn  t work  but carax tries nothing new here  the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films  and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later  i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal  poorly crafted tripe  at this early moment in the   st century  one is left asking  with the exception of jean pierre jeunet  are there  any  directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore  rating                 it  s hard to praise this film much  the cgi for the dragon was well done  but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow  also  the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious  br    br   i was amazed to see   marcus aurelius   in the acting credits  wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film  like   whoopie goldberg   it must be an alias  and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker  br    br   the story might been interesting  but the acting is flat  and direction is tedious  if you must watch this film  go around to your friend  s house and get drunk while doing so   then it  ll be enjoyable           i remember going to see the movie in the summer of      with my parents  and being pretty into it at the time  of course  i was seven at the time  br    br   right before the jackson movies came out  my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic  br    br   ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie  and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production  since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping  the animation technique for people on a budget  this is saying something  much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word  there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen  with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them  br    br   because of budget constraints  the movie    already a compression of   the fellowship of the rings   and part of   the two towers      was pared down even more  what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books  br    br   its not all bad  though  the animation brings a warmth to it  that i found lacking in the jackson movies  its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding  br    br   this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came  several years later  a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired  which was meant to wrap things up  all i will say about that is that it was a musical           just finished watching  ftm  the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend  something i never do  needless to say i was very disappointed  the story has so much potential and it  s frustrating to see it get screwed up  i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey  first off i am not a mm hater  i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star  i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off     times  yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body  but i think most people knew this    years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill  showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman     times in the movie is totally unnecessary  i think one time would have been sufficient  it wouldn  t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other  no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling  unless      enough about that  let  s get into his role  i feel his acting was very forced and he didn  t seem very comfortable  i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner  but his lines were corny and cheesy  it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times  in short  i didn  t like his character even though i was supposed to  the accent  his shirt off  corny pick up lines  weak sales pitches  his character was just too much of a tool  as brandon or jonathan  pacino and assante were great  but that   no surprise  piven is fun to watch as arie    oooops i mean jerry  i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly  it  s insulting that they could take a great story  and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success     cool story that appeals to the male man    hunky hollywood actor for female women  make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights     al pacino with   great speech scenes  and    great one liners    every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan    jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school    throw in armand assante to seal the deal    plot  good writing  character development  and intelligent casting are unnecessary br    br   this will be good enough for most people  but not me  anybody who disagrees with me  ask your self this  would this movie be much better if  a  directed by sodeberg b  decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br    br   i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks  i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo  the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing  the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants  big budget crapola           i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on  while not as bad as wynorski  s   curse of the komodo    this still sucks   bad  wynorski uses the same island as in   curse of the komodo    as well as the same actors and house  the effects are top notch  suprising  but thats about it        i don  t know what else to say about this movie       oh yeah  as in   curse of the komodo    the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island  also    when i saw this part i laughed hysterically   a komanbra     part man  komodo and cobra    overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards  just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie    steer clear    to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating   it  s almost over  it  s almost over         out of             i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts  and to be honest  i didn  t know how much i would like it  i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised  driving lessons is a modest  simple film which draws you in right from the start  rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly  he  s definitely one to look out for in the future  dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters  i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity  the highlight of the film  for me was evie  s rather colourful poem  it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs  in my opinion  watching driving lessons is a great way to spend   hours  the scenery was also striking  especially the countryside  anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable  i strongly disagree with          for greta garbo  s first talking picture  mgm wisely chose eugene o  neill  s pultizer prize winning      play anna christie   br    br   also wisely  the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast  george marion as anna  s father  chris  and james t  mack as johnny the priest   transmuted to   johnny the harp   for films so as not to offend    br    br   this little change is interesting  like too many films accused  by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins  of being   little more than filmed stage plays    the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn  t be more faithful to the property  by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn  t offend anyone  or opening it up because they could  too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place   br    br   fortunately  the respect the studio had for both o  neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion  s generally sensitive screen adaptation  wonder of wonders  marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo  s anna reveals her past on   the farm   to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact  what the league of decency must have thought of that   br    br   the source play  s greatest problem has always been that chris  s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage   the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don  t always recognize   br    br   the perfectly cast marie dressler  who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood  is the perfect balance for garbo  s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only    minutes  doesn  t allow us too much time to miss her   one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original   and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o  neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne  s second act appearance in show boat   br    br   anna and marthy  s early scene together on screen     minutes into the film  taking each other  s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece  not to be missed   br    br   anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama  it  s hard to imagine that a latter day remake  which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this      remake  it was first filmed without sound in        also with george marion  s original broadway chris  could improve on this excellent filming   br    br   the internal scenes hew closest to the play  but the exteriors shouldn  t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere  while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards  the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set  especially in the new york harbor   br    br   nearly all garbo  s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly  only the too often parodied death scene from camille    years later  will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies   but this anna christie  together with the variety of her      films  mata hari and grand hotel  and the sublime lubitsch touch on her      comedy  ninotchka    garbo laughs      surely stand as her best  br    br   o  neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded   sea plays    should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s  entered the conflict  the long voyage home         it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie  and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way           let me set the scene  it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies  i am with my friend deciding what to see  we look for a movie that is starting soon and   the grinch   comes up  we buy tickets not knowing what to expect  what we got was a roller coaster of fun  br    br   jim carrey  who may i add is my no   actor in the whole world  was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard  s best movie  next to apollo      the way that this movie was made  the scenery  the actors  the props and the music was just amazing  it really brought this childhood movie to life  br    br   the story is based upon the story of the grinch  as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can  t stand christmas  he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk  but one little girl is going to change the grinch  s look on life and on others in a drastic way  br    br   cindy lou who  played by adorable new actress taylor momsem  meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away  she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people  br    br   all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents  a solid        well done jim  br    br             as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode  and i wonder if the liberal use of   flashbacks   featuring will riker  s exploits  both positive  and largely romantic  and negative  lots of pain  and a crewmate  s death was a money saving device  as were many of their   bottle shows    episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise   diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series  deserved a better final appearance than this for her character  dr  kate pulaski  loyal viewers  in the star trek world  is there any other kind   also were shortchanged  this was the last episode of second season  thus  the season ended   not with a bang   but with   a whimper             this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid  even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia  i can still tell it was a quality show  very educational but still funny  i have not seen the original french version  only the swedish  i have no idea how good the dubbing was  it was too long ago to remember  br    br   the premise of the show was to show you how the body works  i swear  school still hasn  t taught me half of what i know from this show  it also tied in other things  like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don  t exercise  with nice examples within the body  who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you   d the cartoon looked nice  very kids friendly of course  but done with care  cells  viruses  electric signals in the brain  antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures  looking pretty much how you  d expect what they should look like in the animated body  br    br   this  and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale  were key parts of my childhood  i  m so happy i found them here           fans of the hbo series   tales from the crypt   are going to love this moh episode  those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on  will recognize this one right off the bat  br    br   underrated indie favorite martin donovan  also an excellent writer   co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her  is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way  he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door  or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness  in the case of right to die  he takes the latter approach  and it definitely works  br    br   donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist  robin sydney   much to the displeasure of his inconsolable  unforgiving spouse  abbey  julia anderson   when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of   making up    and she  s horribly burned in a fire  he  s reluctant to pull the plug on her  not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy  corbin bernsen  looking the worse for wear these days    br    br   but abbey  s never been one to give up without a fight  and that  s where the ec theme of the episode comes in  cuckolded husbands   and wives   have always been the genre  s favorite subject matter for some spooky  and ooky  supernatural shenanigans  and this case is definitely no exception  if anything  the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere  br    br   and that  s not to mention that john esposito  s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist  you don  t realize as you  re watching that you only know half the story  until close to the end    think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas  and you  re there   br    br   not a bad effort  but not the best of the lot  either  at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction  especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed  as with most moh episodes  this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment  so the extremely squeamish need not apply           dirty war is absolutely one of the best political  government  and well written t v  drama  s in the    years  br    br   the acting is superb  the writing is spectacular  br    br   diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear  biological  and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil  br    br   dirty war should be made into a major motion picture   it  s that good  i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth  br    br   this t v  drama reveals how british intelligence  mi    mi   attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims  because of england  s involvement in the iraq war  br    br   the scenes of different parts of london  england are also spectacular  br    br   dirty war is a must see             some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not  a college professor  david norwell  suddenly gets a yen for adoption  he pretty much takes the first child offered  a bad choice named adam  as it turns out adam doesn  t have both oars in the water which  almost immediately  causes untold stress and turmoil for dr  norwell  this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another  all centered around adam  s inabilities and seizures  why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained  along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out  personally  i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack  bypass this yawner           this is the who at their most powerful  although before the masterwork who  s next  which would provide anthems like baba o  reily and wont get fooled again  this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the     s  br    br   daltrey shows what being a front man is all about  entwistle steady as ever   br    br   moon is great  check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech  and see him playing   side saddle   whilst having a bass drum head replaced  br    br   townsend even looks like he  s enjoying himself occasionally  br    br   considering they took to the stage at  am no one in the crowd was asleep   br    br   there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in    years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one           this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell    and did so  really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line  all without character or clear motivation  br    br   we get clich   snapshots instead of characters  one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss  who projects an overdone   tough guy   persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her  nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase  as in  the smallest from a complete american tourister set  in a bright  sky blue  without explanation or apology  otherwise it  s standard visually    one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct           they filmed this movie out on long island  where i grew up  my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie  apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer   which they told me was colored water  tasted disgusting  and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again  especially in the funnel scenes   yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form  it never came out in the theaters  obviously  and it  as far as i knew  was never released on video  and i  m sure wasn  t released on dvd  yet it looks like it was seen by some people  albeit it probably very few  so there must be something  i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother  yet there is no way i can find it anywhere  does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased  and which format that would be           that  s how burt reynolds describes this film  which happens to be his best ever  he plays tom sharky  a vice detective who  s on the trail of an international mobster  vittorio gassman  and the man he  s financing to be the next governor of georgia  earl holliman   in the novel by william diehl  the story is more complex because the guy  s running for president  this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two  the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story  reynolds doesn  t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films  he  s very serious here  especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong  at times though  the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster  s woman  only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax  just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin  sharky  s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker  julie london  flora purim   buddy de franco  the manhattan transfer  doc severinson  sarah vaughan and joe williams  al capps handles the score with magic  this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever  check it out  br    br   score    out of    stars          human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends  it is a fly on the wall view into their lives  and minds  which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other  there are many moments in that every one can relate to  like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers  the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie  the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in  and that is where this film succeeds  the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other  the story to the film is not all that  but that is not a criticism  this is a film about people  this is a well written film  with a sound track to die for  d j  s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in       after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend  fantastic movie  jo brand as the voice of reality   need i say more  br    br             this early biograph short was so much fun to watch  the second on disc one of d w  griffith  s   years of discovery   dvd set  highly recommended  it features three excellent performances by the main leads  and interesting to see henry b  walthall  the little colonel  birth of a nation  as a campy musician giving a countess the eye  and other things   br    br   the countess   husband goes berserk at his wife  s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour  it  s kind of incredible that they wouldn  t hear the wall going up  but hey  maybe the wine had something to do with it  here mr  johnson  father of silent player raymond hackett  gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama  but in an unexpectedly comical way  the best moment comes at the end  as the lady passes out from shock and fear  once she realizes she  s doomed  henry picks up his instrument and   fans   it over her  the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy  and i just lost it  and laughed my head off  the expression on his face  from that moment i was charmed by henry b  walthall           baba   rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life  this is the movie which caused his downfall  it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors  rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred  soon after its release  he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably  its a very bad movie with horrible acting  bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay  throughout the movie  rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease  i  m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba  first day first show in theatre  the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission  sorry  i  ll not recommend this one to anyone           written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma  scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten  al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana  a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida  this gangster flick is harsh  violent  loud  gross  unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word   f  k   the most number of times  almost three hours long  and yes it can get repulsive  a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord  br    br   also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer  steven bauer  robert loggia  mary elizabeth mastrantonio  f  murray abraham and angel salazar  pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation  he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression  this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster  is that powerful enough for you  crime does not pay for long           first  the cgi in this movie was horrible  i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel  at the end when the owner of the park gets killed  it  s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen  even night of the living dead had better animation  br    br   that said  the movie had almost no plot  why were they on that island in particular  well  it wasn  t stated in the movie  and  why would the people keep coming into the cat  s area  makes no sense  br    br   one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting  in what could be called a   b made for tv movie   movie  the acting was very good  parry shen stood out in particular  br    br   if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday  watch this movie  it may be good for some memorable quotes           i enjoyed it  there you go  i said it again  i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times  call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard   which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america  van damme moves well for a guy of his age    i think   delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer  if you like old school action and and explosions  this is the movie to watch  this is one of van damme  s best works  br    br   van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen           what a waste of talent  a very poor  semi coherent  script cripples this film  rather unimaginative direction  too  some very faint echoes of  fargo  here  but it just doesn  t come off           although it strays away from the book a little  you can  t help but love the atmospheric music and settings  br    br   the scenes in bath are just how they should be  although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene  but that aside  i like the scene where they are in the hot baths  but did the men and women really bathe together like that  you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women  it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on  but perhaps this was the style at the time  the ballroom scenes were very nice  the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful  i especially liked catherine  s dress in the first ballroom scene  br    br   northanger abbey looked suitably imposing  but i enjoyed the bath scenes better  br    br   schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland  googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel  br    br   ugh peter firth as mr tilney  he just talks a load of rubbish  and is not a clergyman as he should be  it  s hard to think of him being in love with catherine  but then the book never really gave that impression either  br    br   general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy  and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella  ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney  as for john thorpe  well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man  perhaps not the character portrayed in the book  but i quite like it  br    br   i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation  but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me  the marchioness  i hate her  she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy  br    br   some of the script is peculiar  when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks   i suppose you saw the body  how did it appear    what a silly thing to say  elinor  s calm response is stupid too  br    br   anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me          mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive     page point by point  line by line refutation of this mendacious film  which should be titled a convenient lie  the website address where his debunking report  which is titled   a skeptic  s guide to an inconvenient truth   can be found at is  www cei org  a shorter    page version can be found at  www cei org pdf      pdf once you read those demolitions  you  ll realize that alleged   global warming   is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of       which gore also endorsed  as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow  which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber  as james   the amazing   randi does to psychics  and philip klass does to ufos  and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories  so does mario lewis does to al gore  s movie and the whole   global warming   scam           a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china  captures the amazement of film  s first audiences pretty much as it  s described to have been worldwide  and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities  i don  t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow  s part   i thought he was fine  but the chinese lead really stole the show  in any case  i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie  people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english  which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd            sigh  i  m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot  i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards  it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration  the set design seen many times before  the whole weak tim burton ish style  and the story that goes nowhere  and we got the   joke   about shooting the crows with the    the first time  alright  br    br   but i guess what  s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa      called lenore  the cute little dead girl by roman dirge  as any quick internet search will reveal  i mean  what is this  this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker    give your head a shake   as don cherry might say           cute idea    salesgirl linda smith  yolande donlan  inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra  that country  which wasn  t even in north america  was made the   th state     of course  there were only    states at the time  since this was made in          linda travels to the country she has inherited  and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people  at one point  she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo  and it gets ever more sillier from there     although yolande donlan  s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared  there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess  filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor  or some such equivalent  about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig  cheese vendor  bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war  and was even knighted by qe ii  craig and   the new princess   keep bumping into each other  and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra  s financial problems worsen    fun little farce    along the lines of marx brothers film  also note that donlan later married val guest  the writer and director of our little project  and stayed married for    years  guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks  in both the uk   the us           back in      a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men  br    br   i have been waiting for years for a good  old fashioned romance between two men  latter days is all that and more  br    br   yes  it is soapy  melodramatic  clich   ridden  and quite corny  that is what makes it so wonderful  there is nothing like a good romantic movie  and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word  br    br   as to the issue of religion  sorry folks  but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now  it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members  gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection  br    br   i loved this movie  it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters  if i could give it more than ten stars i would  good love stories never go out of style  great love stories like latter days are unforgettable  br    br   it  s about time           the concept of having laurel   hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious  it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics  from especially stan laurel of course as usual  br    br   the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula  it doesn  t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending  it  s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless  so it works for the movie  br    br   the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good  sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor  br    br   the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences  which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed  it all helps to make   dirty work   to be one of the better laurel   hardy shorts  br    br                 this movie came as a huge disappointment  the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain  but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends  unfortunately  it didn  t  it added more plot holes than it resolved  and confused more than it clarified  the animation and voice acting were great  but with an idiotic plot  dull setting  most of the movie doesn  t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world   and disappointing ending  ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy  and he ditches winry    it was altogether pretty lackluster  do yourself a favor   disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie  and read the manga           maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i  ve been feeling down in the dumps and it  s such a lovely little fairytale  whatever the reason  i thought it was pitch perfect  great  intelligent story  beautiful effects  excellent acting  especially de niro  who is awesome   this movie made me happier than i  ve been for a while  br    br   it is a very funny and clever movie  the running joke of the kingdom  s history of prince savagery and the aftermath  the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled  that  s much of what makes it so good  it  s an elaborate  special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies  yet there is an incredible attention to small things  br    br   i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again           i was surprised that    forgiving the franklins    did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival  there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie  the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues   you know little issues like religion  sex and the truth  lots of comedy  s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations  many leave you thinking    i know they ripped this off from some sitcom     this film takes off on its own unique direction   i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film           they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station  they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived  you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot  four young boys playing in grainy slow motion  accompanied by voice over narration  next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion  once they  re grown  it  s easy to spot the writer director among the four  he  s the quiet  contemplative  long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants  this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood  only there  s no writing  or directing talent on display here  and if you still can  t figure out which one he is  here  s a hint  the auteur and his character have the same middle name  it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school  what looked like a prison was apparently a high school  the warden turned out to be the principal  once more  the poor  misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement  murder and pillage  but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father  how about hitting back  kid  like you do everyone else  numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose  howlingly bad dialogue  many scenes badly out of focus  cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras  drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience  overacting in the extreme  and if you don  t quite get the self important speeches  or the slow motion scenes  just listen to the overbearing music  it will clue you in and what you  re supposed to feel  poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films  the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies  run over puppies chained to a tree  rob and steal  all the while complaining about their sad  sorry lives  but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college  yeah  that  s the ticket  why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important  so interesting  that the world can  t wait to see it onscreen  if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems  then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants           i watched this movie so that you don  t have to  i have great respect for kris kristofferson  but what was he thinking  he did this for scale   br    br   at least the film  s title practices truth in advertising  since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film  adding to the confusion  kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn  t sure if genevieve bujold  s character really existed  this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story  br    br   the   making of   feature was far more interesting than the movie itself  it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie  even as the film is being shot  br    br   to it  s credit  this movie is visually pleasing and doesn  t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over  m  too bad the money wasn  t spent on a better project           just saw this movie on opening night  i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it    i must say  i was not impressed  i  m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money  br    br   first of all   the messengers   is very predictable  and just not much of a thriller  it might be scary for someone under     but it really did nothing for me  the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie  s resolution  br    br   furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial  some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes  br    br   if you  ve seen previews for this movie  then you  ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot  this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters           i went to see this movie  actually i went to see family portraits  which contains cutting moments     other short films by douglas buck  at the mar del plata festival  argentina     i just couldn  t watch it  i had to cover my eyes after the  st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while  by the time it was over  my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed  i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the  nd short begun  btw  of course i was not the only one who left the room   it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me  i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it  i just don  t get how you can love that kind of movies  the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days   i also try to analyze the story  my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it  and i just don  t think it makes any sense  i mean  that amount of violence and stuff  makes no other sense than to try to shock people  and that  s not a good enough reason  i think  there  s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say   well  at least   x   thing about it was good    but well  i guess i will never understand that kind of films           a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending  pluses  the way the story moves   begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he  s there  the music  a disinterested look at the life of policemen  minuses  the violence and the gore  but i guess they add to the realistic effects  still  having people  s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided  br    br   no complaints                 i don  t understand the positive comments made about this film  it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i cannot understand how it ever got made  br    br   cartoon characters abound   sue  s foul mouthed  alcoholic  layabout  irish father being a prime example  none of the characters are remotely sympathetic   except  briefly  for sue  s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence  as desperately unattractive as they both are  i  ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob   but given that they do  why should i be expected to care what happens to them  so many reviews keep carping on about how   realistic   it is  if that is true  it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film  br    br   i didn  t like the film at all          steven what have you done you have hit an all new low  it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash  shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway  as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes  seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege   and   and exit wounds  the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes  flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted   pounds on this garbage   out of ten better luck next time         a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer  s next target  director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here  his camera swoops around corners in a museum  after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape   divvies up into split screen for arty purposes  practically gives away his plot with a sequence  again in split screen  where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals  and stages his  first  finale during a thunderous rainstorm    dressed to kill   is exhausting  primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial  much of the acting  with the exception of young keith gordon  is mediocre and the  second  finale is a rip off of de palma  s own   carrie    not to mention   psycho    the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock  not an homage  stylish in a steely cold way  the end results are distinctly half baked     from                flat spoilers   br    br   five med students  nelson  kiefer sutherland   david labraccio  kevin bacon   rachel mannus  julia roberts   joe hurley  william baldwin    randy steckle  oliver platt  decide to attempt an experiment  dying for exactly   minutes  it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage   br    br   almost everyone does this experiment  randy being the lone exception  but they begin to have unwelcome visitors  david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him  joe sees all the women he has had sex with  and which he videotaped  asking him why from the tv screen  rachel relives her father  s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions  br    br   why are they here  and how will they get rid of them  this tense and interesting movie  set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school  is quite the experience  both for the story and the characters  played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland  julia roberts  oliver platt  kevin bacon and william baldwin  br    br   the director is joel schumacher  who had already worked with sutherland in   lost boys    and this second cooperation is even better than the first  br    br   a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers  this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs   this is one of the minor classics from the     s that get respect even today  like the mention by rebecca gayheart in   scream     or the tru calling episode which used the movie  s premise  br    br   flatliners                 one of my favorite shows back in the     s  as i recall it went to air on friday  or possibly saturday night on the nine network     here in australia  darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together  br    br   each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent  to their credit  the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible  br    br   i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who   came back   as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital  the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the   power beast   amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames  oh well      you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea  br    br   mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best  br    br   definitely deserves a place in tv  s   hall of fame    to quote tony vincenzo        kolchack you are on it       or  in the case of the hall of fame   in it              i think my summary says it all  this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x  or is that gen y  type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses  and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations  example  kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his   wedding    kennedy is the bride  done up in a full bridal gown and long wig  the   joke   is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his   bits and pieces    problem is  this schtick goes on way too long  obviously to fill out time  and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun  candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one  running around  constantly asking   do i look fat    i recognize the show was not made for me  it was made for    year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today  so let them laugh  thank god the show was short lived           frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time  and just at the moment you realize you shouldn  t be laughing  you  ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness  and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes  you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and    well  you get the point  br    br   but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face  frownland  really is a remarkable piece of work that  after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps  makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time  you feel sickenly sorry for him  br    br   it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein  s film  but for some insane reason  i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer  if someone sets you on fire  you typically want to put it out  stop  drop  and roll  but with this film  you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body  you endure the pain  perhaps out of spite  or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can  t even begin to attempt to explain  br    br   unfortunately  mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you  but if you get a chance to catch it  prepare yourself  bring a doggie bag           i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night     s sitcoms on tv one night at   in the morning  i must say  i didn  t expect much  and i didn  t get much  although rose mcgowan is hot  her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy  to say the least  this movie has its ups and downs  and does have a nice couple of twists at the end  but in all honesty it was awful  not even a typical slasher movie  no gore  no sex  no nudity  no real violence  just bad acting  i  d give it a   out of              i first saw this film when i was about   years old on tv in the uk  where it was called   laupta  the flying island     i absolutely loved it  and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it  i was enchanted by the story and characters  but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music  it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw   sometimes erroneously referred to as the   streamline dub    the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline  which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set  br    br   unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney  the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn  t have the same raw energy that the   streamline   dub or the original japanese had  and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead  they have made some pointless alterations  such as changing the main character  s name from   pazu   to   patzu    and added some dialogue  but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music   the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney  s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking  which i find annoying in many disney films  br    br   this film still blows away most recent animated films  and i cannot recommend it highly enough  the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market  homogenized animation           this film can  t make up its mind whether its message is   humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless   or   don  t ever go in the water again    a fisherman  nolan  is out to nab a killer whale  a very bad thing  but when he accidentally  accidentally mark you  hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate  the cow    and i use the word in all senses    who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece    throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself   i doubt it was her first   when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds  her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt  kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan  obviously as among humans  total psychos date other total psychos  br    br   the film reeks of half thought out anti human message    the poor poor whale   the evil men must suffer and die    and yet  it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all  it  s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel  but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and  as the film progresses  he grows more and more compassionate to the whale  s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale  just to make it feel a little better  br    br   the films final journey  in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north  reminds me of melville  s eerie man whale connection  and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion  where these two husbands might connect  understand even respect each other in their own grief  for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident  it  s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss  however  it never goes there  the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone  br    br   the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight  fails to chomp up the whale hugger  tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier   i love animals  and i detest whaling  and what is more i love orca whales  but if this film  s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed  nolan shows compassion and growth  and feels for others  and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming  br    br   the only message one can walk away with is   if you see an orca whale  ever  anywhere  run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way  he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you             why  o   why     did i pick this one up  well    i needed a no brainer in the summer heat  and the cover looked cool  br    br   of course i should  ve known better  this is a really  really bad movie  and it gets embarasing when the makers know it  s bad  and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women  and some sex scenes to it  well  folks    it does  nt cut it  does it  br    br   if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very  very good  well played and funny  go rent lake placid   that is an order           only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb  the first difficulty faced by the submarine   seaview   is what appear to be chunks of  rock  falling down through the water and crashing into its hull  but it  s not rock  they  re under the north pole  it is ice  everybody  except possibly hitherto mentioned small children  and even some of them  know that ice floats  br    br   then  disaster strikes  that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire  no one knows how this happened  we are told  which is understandable  because it is utterly impossible for radiation to   catch fire    and even if it could  there is no air in space for it to burn  br    br   there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to  nd grade school textbooks when making a film  however  irwin allen manages to do it again and again  perhaps we are meant to focus on the   people   instead  which is pretty easy  as they are cardboard  br    br   the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp  much like later episodes of his   lost in space   tv series  the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production  br    br   the sub looks pretty good  though  which is why this one gets a                 our teacher showed us this movie in first grade  i haven  t seen it since  i just watched the trailer though  does this look like a first grade movie to you  i don  t think so  i was so horrified by this movie  i could barely watch it  it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half  and then there was the boy with ketchup  i was freaked out by this film  now today  being     i probably would not feel that way  i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn  t see this movie  even though it  s pg  be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids  i don  t even remember what it was about  once was enough           a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon  s seed  the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific  but  instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death  despite the title itself  being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning  this ridiculous plot twist with it  s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon  i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go  never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to   the end              scott menville is not casey kasem  that is the first  most important  and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company  br    br   shaggy  s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows  they  ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original  br    br   i  m not sure what they  re on about yet with the villain angle  but it surely isn  t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows  br    br   and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted  i like it  but it  s not real scooby doo type animation  but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me  this might  too  br    br   it  s worth a glance at    once    if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice  that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly  besides  i am trying not to be an inflexible  nitpicking fan  evolve or die  as the saying goes  we  ll see how it looks after two more episodes    by then i  ll have formed a much more solid opinion           i often wonder how movies like this even get made  and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them  br    br   with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along  adding twists and turns when he liked  no matter how ludicrous they were  the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as   jo sheena roy pehenti hai  wahee fashion hota hai   and   yeh versace hai madam    yeah right   br    br   every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped  acting was awful  constumes  lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran   locales  the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion   screenplay etc etc  just one word  rubbish  br    br   for those people who love hashmi and his movies  watch it  as for me  i  ll never get those two and a half hours back  the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent          this movie is an amazing comedy   the script is too funny   if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more  though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh   salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles  after      i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this          even this early in his career  capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing  this is a thin story    and quite predictable at times    but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately  the first part looks like a cinderella story  though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that    the rich   prince   will lose his fortune  br    br   nonetheless  because of his good cast and fast pace  it  s easy to get caught up in the clich  s  then the movie does become more original  as the married couple have to find a way to make a living  the ending is very predictable but satisfying  i also want to compliment the title writing  very witty and fun           uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island  an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked  the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked  additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness  however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way  its as if he couldn  t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away  additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life  i  m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had  it really stinks  clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he  s ever learned about film gets flushed  the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i  ve ever seen  this isn  t that bad  but it is close simply because it should have been better  then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film  i  d take a pass unless it  s late at night and you  re catching it on cable           this video is so hilariously funny  it makes everything else br    br   by eddie murphy seem very disappointing  even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor  which just goes to show you how good this really is   to be honest  i don  t think that i  ve ever br    br   laughed at something as much as this  including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse  this show is amazing  although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long  plus its extended version beginning with m  but it didn  t bother me  see it  the funniest thing i  ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too           this film is dreadful  it has absolutely zero laughs  hebrew hammer  adam goldberg  sets out to save hannukah from evil santa  andy dick   perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot  in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise  while there are some  far and few  nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent  it is laboured  hackneyed and ultimately  mindlessly boring  this despite the fact that goldberg  dick and greer  hammer  s client love interest  all have quite considerable screen presence  despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags  this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck  do not waste    minutes of your life on this   note  the music was good              it  s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place  the characters are so weak  and the acting so uninspired  that it  s impossible to care about any of them   especially brooke shields  the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible  if you like this genre  you  d be better off renting   singles    or   bodies  rest   motion             i never watched the   next action hero   show  and until reading the other comments here  did not know that this movie was the   prize   from that competition  i was just flipping channels and came across this  and found myself watching  dare eagerly  all the way to the end  br    br   yes  the plot  s been done  the most dangerous game  etc   but i was hoping for  and almost received  the   gotcha     how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end  i think the high tech was overdone  gps  s  and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider  but it nevertheless was not too overdone  br    br   the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod  suspension of disbelief  that was required of the viewer  do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate  could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up  pleeease  way too much of that type of thing   fun to watch  but keep it at least plausible  thank you very much  br    br   the final solution was good  but the ending was disappointing  with the after taste of a bad star trek episode  at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy   except for zane  who doesn  t get near as much work as he deserves imho   they were winners from a reality show  br    br   knock me out           i am a big fan of old horror movies  and since i am middle aged  old to me is a movie made before      with most being made in the       s to       s period  i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies  with one exception being creepshow    which i thought was great  i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook  and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending  all the stories were great though  so why did i like them so much  the characters had some decent development  the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad  the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear  and the funny bits were really funny  this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent  i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com  lol  when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it  s telling you something       of     also  romero  s expertise is hard to find here  they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard  i don  t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me   and that  s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on  it  s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing  yuck yuck  to see it           i just wanted to say that  i love gheorghe muresan  so i automatically loved this movie  everything else about it was so so    billy crystal is a good actor  even if he is annoying  but the thing that made this movie was  at least  for a basketball fan  seeing gheorghe muresan act           i thought that this movie was incredible  i absolutely loved it  even though my brothers didn  t that much  the special effects were outstanding  and this movie is about my favorite sport  golf  the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row  this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen  it was everything i would expect out of a movie  i just loved it  also  it was pretty kid friendly  this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it  anything is possible  i would give it a pure        it was better than the legend of baggar vants  and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined  absolutely amazing  loved it           this is a funny film and i like it a lot  cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee  this is  of course  the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham  the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part  but still works well  a comedy for a night when you don  t want to have to think much  it  s well worth a rent           some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made  well  they are only partly right  for me  this is the worst movie ever made period  i have never seen anything so basely crude  and insulting  and vile  and against human nature as this film  a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry  this isn  t even so bad  its good  there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis   other bad movies like clambake  this one is so rotten to sit through its painful  pure garbage  native americans should sue for their poor clich  d and stereotypical treatment here  actually  perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole   stars  seriously  grade  f          first of all yes i  m white  so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race    anyway    white people hating black people   bad but black people hating white people   ok  because apparently we deserved it     where do i start  i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes  the infamous scene were ice cube and co  get in a fight with some really big  really strong  really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win    the neo nazi where twice the size     and the chase  the chase is priceless    this is not a movie about race  tolerance and understanding  it doesn  t deliver    this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich   stereotypes  the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead   cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it  br    br   save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written  poorly acted  dull and clearly biased picture  if you are into the subject  go and rent american history x  now thats a movie          donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film  that always sounds like a terrific plan  two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation  who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like   the flesh and the fiends   and   from beyond the grave    pairing up in a mid     s satanic themed exploitation flick  how can this possibly go wrong  well  unfortunately  it can  to my deepest regret   land of the minotaur   can hardly even be called mediocre  and that in spite of the cast  the exotic setting  the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise  in a remote little area in greece  more particularly near an archaeological site  multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue  cushing  who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before  owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns  that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists  when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area  father roch   the priest of a couple of towns before    decides to investigate    land of the minotaur   is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn  t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details  the titular minotaur  for example  is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person  but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance  instead  the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises  the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance  his portrayal of rude  bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always           the three shorts included on this compilation issued in      are timeless chaplin classics  nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either  chaplin  s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done  the problem with this compilation is a minor one  yet annoying  the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the    frame p s  speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at    frames p s  this results is jerky motion that doesn  t look very attractive  and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time  it  s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored  the films look dirty as they did in      and are still stretch printed  there are separate restored versions of these classics available  even on dvd  and it would not be a problem to restore the image  but alas this has not been done  br    br   a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article  but i say again a minor quibble  it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating  the shorts are still worth                        s tourist trap is a clever  unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it  s kind  br    br   travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner  s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort  br    br   while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre  tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone  director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery  that reaches nightmarish proportions  also  schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings  br    br   venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film  s decent cast  pino donaggio  s music score is excellent  having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie  a number of the film  s sequences are quite memorable  br    br   for horror and thriller fans alike  tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film  br    br           out of               years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me  the atmosphere of the movie was first class  the acting memorable and the storyline a classic  recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part   again i looked eagerly to viewing part         i was so pleased to realize early on into part   that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie  again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii          wrong   i wish i  d stopped at ii  the storyline was not good  it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story  the characters were weak especially the daughter  pacino  s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather   or    then scenes such as  corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir  the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset  the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting  where the   goodies   get away and everyone else is shot  daughter and  st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board  the pathetic shooting on the steps       corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes  a man of his intelligence and guile isn  t ready for an emergency      no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again  but i  ll watch       many times down the years           this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks  it has so many layers  i  ve watched it over and over  and always pick up on something new  i am amazed at the depth of the acting  and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star          uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young  the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based  the key word here is   based    how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom  br    br   sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york  where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it  this involves him selling out  and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity  however  they are not overdone  the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney  s misadventures  the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid  well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart  moderately obnoxious skilled writer  this contradiction is never that much of an issue  because simon pegg  as sidney  projects likability too well  br    br   jeff bridges underplays sidney  s editor a little too effectively  and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney  s affections and  with regard to megan fox  who plays an airhead bimbo starlet   i can say only this  just say the word  miss fox  and i will leave my wife  sell all my belongings  and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort  of course  given that i  m a fat    year old english accountant  you might not find my offer too enticing  but it  s there on the table anyway  given how short her career has been so far  one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become  however  she does it sweetly  with some skill  and extremely sexily  this girl will go far  br    br   there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers   miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk  gillian anderson and danny huston from the us  br    br   there are several laugh out loud moments  and i smiled most of the way through  as ever  the f word makes appearances when it really doesn  t need to  although at least a couple of these are very funny           alien hunter    out of     is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell  new mexico suck  take alien mixed with the thing  mixed with contact  mixed with of all things on the beach  the andromeda strain  the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot   br    br   derivative doesn  t even begin to describe this movie  of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right  nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease   james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him    he turns her down  aggh    br    br   in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it  i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke  br    br   with about    seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure  needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich  d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title   br    br   i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif   note that since jason of friday the   th fame  pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield   the characters in the cornfield dress like logan  s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them  br    br   that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant  the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear  john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it  br    br   alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie           i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was  once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you    you are alone   is that movie  for me   the film is constantly in my head and in my heart  i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again  as if i am seeing it for the first time  br    br   there is nothing i did not like about the movie  amazing soundtrack    the ending was perfect  very emotionally stirring    it was compelling and riveting  br    br   i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed  i admired brittany  s strength  what a strong woman   br    br   the tag line is   when your darkest moments come to life    we never know what we are capable of doing  everyone says oh i would never do that  when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation  we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject  the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part  br    br   thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art              i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie  not just because i  m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan  but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times  br    br   the special effects are awesome  especially linnea  s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed  br    br   plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill  plenty of humor  cool soundtrack  high body count  etc   by the way  if you have never seen this one  try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing           i saw the film and i got screwed  because the film was foolish and boring  i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled   sholay    the cast and crew was bad  the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle  amithab bachan  s acting is poor  i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure  nobody did justice to their work  including ajay devagan  this film don  t deserve any audiences  i bet that this film will flop   br    br     finally this movie sucks            lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club  she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon  it  s quite possible that  through a form of hypnotic suggestion  someone   a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin  after the murders within her fantasies are committed  lorna awakens bewildered  often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality  br    br   if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco  i  d say it  s elegant   difficult  by now  you  ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about  since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream  franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career  as far as film making style  and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience  and  as you read from the reaction of the user comments here  some like this decision  others find the style labouring  dull  and bewildering  i  ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head  but even franco himself  when quizzed by critics who watched   succubus    admitted that he didn  t even understand the film and he directed it  some might say that   succubus   was merely a precursor to his more admired work    venus in furs    considered his masterwork by franco faithful  because it also adopts the surreal  dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn  t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined  in a sense  like the protagonist  we are experiencing the same type of confusion  certainly    succubus   is unconventional film making where we aren  t given the keys to what is exactly going on  and  a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn  t help matters    succubus   is also populated by beatnik types and   poet speak    corman  s film    a bucket of blood   poked fun at  my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party  quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually  great locations and jazz score  i liked this film myself  although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction  loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna  a wee bit drunk  writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig   equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses           this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever  frank welker  welker makes the film  knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty  knotts works for a small   no where   town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials  when things go wrong the city fathers  allow knotts to take the fall  frank welker  s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott  s good name  this film shows the usual knott  s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film  this may have been knotts   last good outing  when you have an extra    minutes  get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon  don knotts           emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel  i have not read the book so i really didn  t know that much about the plot  and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot  there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing  the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it  of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny  gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma  the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better  ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here  alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here  and jeremy northam who  s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle  even if that was not what it needed  there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching           why do i hate this  let me list the ways  br    br   i have nothing against mary pickford but a    year old woman playing a    year old is just stupid  br    br   there  s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it  s considered funny   and it goes on for    minutes  br    br   strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br    br   the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br    br   for a   family   film the fights were way too violent  loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy   and the humor was just stupid  br    br   seriously     minutes in i gave up and turned it off  the slurs  racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me  also there was no plot that i could see  the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era  br    br   just painful  avoid           thank god this wasn  t based on a true story  because what a story it is  populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds  before the devil is a mesmerizing  jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable  and sometimes is  even with   or perhaps because of   the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout  if it weren  t carried out with such magnificent  overwhelming conviction by its stars  the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn  t hurt either  br    br   the main dysfunction here is of a family nature  with the two majorly screwed up brothers  brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke  deciding to rob their own parents   jewelry store  an attempt that goes pathetically awry  br    br   the story is told with time shifts  which are noted on screen  such as    charlie  two days before the robbery    so no one should be confused   some people have said they didn  t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly  adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair  considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks   between them you couldn  t make a decent poker hand to save your life  throw in these cheesy extra tidbits  one of the brothers is a drug addict  married to gina  marisa tomei  also excellent   who is having an affair with the other brother  toss in some monumental sibling rivalry  along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father  a wrenching performance from albert finney   who has apparently caused him serious past pain  and you  ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands  proceed with caution           if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives  this dvd delivers  you will learn new things guaranteed  so much so that you won  t need any other documentary  s on the subject  get this  watch it  learn from it  good for school use as well  as a bonus  watch this with tora tora tora  saving private ryan  patton  band of brothers  a bridge too far  the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete  sir laurence oliver  s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this    part series  seriously you won  t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject  perfect                the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning  we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again  near the end of the movie  the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face  in the end  we follow them up the stairway to their final moment   br    br   the two criminals  performed by robert blake and scott wilson  as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town  hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith  the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town  this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else  evil  even the most vile  is part of the human condition  these two delusional men kill an entire family  looking for a safe that isn  t there  once on the run  they start writing bad cheques  carving out a trail for the authorities  br    br   there are many fine supporting actors  i like john forsyth as the detective on the case  alvin dewey  also  will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney  br    br   i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through  having only caught it in short snatches  i did finally get to it after buying the dvd  the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen  br    br   don  t miss this brilliant movie  to me  this is what great film making is all about           this is a great show with total freshness and innovation  that usual chair  couch for a woman  host  that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes  the same old jokes  the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer     probably the pattern of johnny carson  copied by one and all  latterman  leno  conan    daly  this show does not seem to have any of these  br    br   i fell in love with this show within the first    minutes and i am going to stick to it  though it  s too early to say that  this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project  and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest  i hope that this show will last long  br    br   returning back after months  i still love this show  and i love his self deprecating humor  for example  his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus  the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys  which  however  does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o  brien  for example  i know it  s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o  brien  s antics  but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness    br    br   i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it  ferensen  s spoof of trading spouses  and nanny     in an earlier episode  are hilarious  idiot paparazzi are fun  especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people  s pictures  and  if i am not mistaken  they start taking his pictures shouting   gary coleman    br    br   added on   th april        coming back once again  i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog  i cannot decide if it is a joke or a real thing  either way  it was funny as hell  br    br   i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages  but maybe he does  he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so  i would better write down my suggestion here for him  i would like him to do a full    minute show with crazy gideon  the star of late night tv commercial  i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike  s talk show  sing a song  and play guitar   do a skit in the line of snl  and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles  i know  crazy gideon may not be aware of this  but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la   br    br   god willing  br    br   returning back on   th july        someone wrote here that the people who praised spike  s talkshow must be bribed by spike  i confess that spike really bribed me  but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford           it  s all about getting what you want when you want it  and the message of bluebeard  s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for  until what you wish for wishes for you  br    br   most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn  t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue  misogynistic pirates aside  cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it  learning only too late that it wasn  t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert  through a twisted  in soul and in practice  business deal  he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her  but she will have none of it  literally  and frustrates him at every turn  and corner  and room  and tourist attraction  br    br   the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you  re not accustomed to  and may not enjoy seeing  in either cooper or colbert  the whole reason i watched the film was because they are   likable   actors  and the whole point of this movie is that they  re unlikable people  or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves  they think  from the world   br    br   if you can accept it on its own terms you  ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film   and satisfaction  as we said  is what it  s all about  such a movie with such a cast only comes around  after all  once in a   ummm   blue moon           now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i  m appalled  for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i  m afraid i don  t know what the world has come to  let me tell u something  i started watching many t v shows like lost  prison break  dexter  deadwood and even invasion  but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season  especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took   genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season  then we have the sopranos  i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season  and more importantly all of its episodes  there is no department that this show doesn  t excel in  acting  nothing short of superb  james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode  after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would  ve been the better choice  however after watching the first few episodes  i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony  the raw emotion he displays is superb  then we have everyone else  edie falco  michael imperioli  lorraine bracco  dominic chianese  whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part    and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie   walnuts   gualtieri and silvio dante  all of these actors perform to the best quality  and all giving an excellent performance in each episode  then we have the story  never have i been so sucked into a t v show before  the story is nothing short of excellent  each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic  i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of  its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence  but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television  and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show  not just say its too violent  or they feel that the character of tony is immoral  i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day  i don  t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god  i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me  you  ll be hooked from the very first episode  i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show  hooked on it  trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v  after you  ve watched the first season  you  ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television  and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos           i  d give this a negative rating if i could  i went into this movie not expecting much  but i had an open mind  the whole thing is stupid  the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson  oh how original  if i were a    year old boy i might laugh at that  i have no idea how this movie became so popular  seriously the worst thing i  ve ever seen  i wasn  t entertained  it wasn  t funny i wasn  t even bored  i wasn  t anything  it wasn  t even so bad it was good  it  s just bad  ridiculous actually  please do not waste your money on this movie  don  t even rent this movie  no clue how it  s getting such a high rating           most people are totally unaware that this movie exists  fox  which paid judge to make it  has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it  i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer  well  i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe  basically  judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin  then these stupid are getting more stupid  by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex  which produces more stupid people  by       a person of average intelligence today  will appear to be a genius  that talks   all faggy    seriously  is this really that hard to believe  oh sure  this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid  but still plausible  luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy  hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time  where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners  like   can we family style her   and   hey man  i  m   bating here    this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure  comfort and stupidity  and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over           this is a great  ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late   s   obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was  i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid  it doesn  t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown  s graveyard when i was ten  turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan  so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile  but i love it now  as a    year old  br    br   i bought this dvd used for   bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover  but to my surprise  it ruled  it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal  and you gotta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd  this movie is awesome  if you love   s metal and bad movies  this one  s for you                 while not quite as good as a murder is announced  which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book  this is an excellent adaptation  and you know what  it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version  now i don  t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations  two or three of them were surprisingly good  but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script  a confusing final solution or both  the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace  and both of the above problems  and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations  worst being sittaford mystery  which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing  this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement  it not only respects the book  despite a few liberties  but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had  despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating  more to do with how he was written than how he was acted  and one or two moments of sluggish pacing  this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book  it is beautifully filmed  with nice photography and period detail  and the music as always is excellent  the performances are wonderful this time around  and make the most of an in general well done script  with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple  and solid turns from liz fraser  helen cherry  joanna hole and anna cropper  margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde  overall  well worth watching  better than the recent version in pretty much all departments       bethany cox          good lord  what were they thinking         here is your spoiler warning  even though i don  t think it  ll really matter  you won  t be seeing this piece of trash anyway  br    br   a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people  who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them  and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies  in other words  the whole thing is really stupid  br    br   you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can  t save something   and they didn  t  i know  some of their lines were funny  like what to add to the sign   hit   and the hand comments  but  geez  this was pretty dang sad  br    br   all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud  it is not worth your eyes           i had heard  and read  so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series  like entourage  sopranos or mad men  but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one   didn  t make it past the first six episodes   br    br   the writing was unoriginal  contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing  the dialog felt forced  like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip   it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh  br    br   the characters never developed enough for me to care about them  they were selfish and unappealing  i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law  who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator  and the removal of the hodes   daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich    i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer  s loyalty  br    br   episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn  t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line  br    br   add to that i heard that season two wasn  t as good  so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out  br    br   if you  re a fan of good casting and writing  i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like  unless of course you  re stoned and then all bets are off           this movie is among my favorite foreign films  some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog  the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films  is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson   br    br   in japan  a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life  sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio  in the instant that it takes his train to pass  he is enthralled by her  but is it only by her beauty  by her faraway glance  or a connection that they will both discover that they share   br    br   shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance  breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society  they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away  it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and  in itself  transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be           as if the film were not of value in itself  this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it  in the summer of      i saw the film in nyc  that fall in graduate school  i read the book for the first time  some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film  and for better or worse  and i  ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades  milo o  shea is still leopold bloom           this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution  it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love   br    br   the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film  dreaming of julia makes much more sense  it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people  s daily lives and pursuits  that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history  br    br   the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could  br    br   the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies  but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love   br    br   the revolution  like the film julie  never seems to have an ending           i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment  its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey     s  it  s politics too upfront and ridiculous  and let  s face it  i was still under a love spell known as blowup   and i still haven  t completely shaken it  now the   love   is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and  oh well       good luck to me  br    br   but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me  i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age  and zp is it  s own   experience  and is only really linked to blowup through its creator  the late great mr  antonioni  br    br   twelve years ago  i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print  projected at its correct size  immense   restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape  to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared  it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness  and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of   place    br    br   what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own  br    br   i remember the second time around seeing it     the early   s     i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular  whereas  before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli  s olivia and leonard  read  romeo and juliet they now were engaging me     particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality  she took her time       to live  everything  everything dies around her  br    br   upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found   enjoyment    the encroaching shoulder padded  big haired   s whispered   but that  s a hippie fantasy     let it go   br    br   the force of antonioni  s vision had  i had realised  already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered     s   with an   uh huh   and guarded my   love   secretly  possessively and jealously  br    br   but  this  then is what good art does it lives inside of you  and  if you wish it has its way and   loves   you back  secretly  jealously  and possessively  and you get   changed    br    br   was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup  undoubtedly  zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment  but  hey  sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all  br    br   today reality hit  zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice  s restaurant  br    br   so  it is still too   difficult    too   disturbing    too   what    br    br   maybe it  s that  as with all good art  it lives while everything dies around it   br    br   peace           very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story  but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice  gruesome make up effects  daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl  carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of     nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she  s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf  she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital  she escapes again  however  and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives  doctors and relatives  it  s all pretty to look at and listen too  really great soundtrack   but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast  luckily enough  leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire  the film is too long  too weird and too forgettable  the biggest surprise comes at the end  when suddenly and out of the blue  director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts  yeah  right             this is an interesting  hard to find movie from the early     s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn  t make the cut as a marine  dressed in   baby blue   outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home  the failed recruits are sent packing  vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine   raider    gere  s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion  and he takes advantage of vincent  s innocence  stealing his   baby blue   uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway  vincent  s character  whose name is marion  takes gere  s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine   raider    marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town  in the local caf   he meets rose hudkins  who immediately catches his eye  staying with hudkins parents  marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks  mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine   raider   could still be so innocent  the story also brings up the japanese internment camps  as the towns folks go   hunting     escapees  marion is shot accidentally during this hunt  but there  s still a happy ending  which befuddled me a bit  i would have preferred a little more drama  anyway  this captures jmv at the peak of his     s performances  buster and billie  baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid     s were amazingly good jmv performances  he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time    he made a lot of quality movies during his career  and continued to do so up into the mid     s with the great tv show airwolf  he does a very good job in this as   hedge    quietly observing the way people treat him  in his uniform  as he travels across the country  he must have performed some of the stunt work as well  there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he  s the guy getting tossed down the river to me  but really  at the height of his popularity  this movie could have done so much more with jmv  s talent and his looks  innocence can only be so interesting  evil  as explored in   buster and billie    is much more dramatic  anyway  glynnis o  connor is delightful as rose  the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting  the outdoor scenes are gorgeous   must have been filmed in canada           johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories  the music is great  you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like  i  ve been there too   and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion  cash  s narration is good too  br    br   but     br    br      the actor who played jesus was miscast     there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music     because it is uncompelling  i doubt we  ll see this ever widely distributed again  br    br   i  d love to buy the cd  br    br   tom paine texas  usa          j  niksen vuosi is one of jarva  s most political movies  it takes stance strongly against modern day society  s authority status in the life of the common man  and how it has estranged men from the nature completely  it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society  br    br   vatanen  antti litja    smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations   tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland   only to realize that the concept of a   free country   isn  t all that unambiguous  in other words  the society has the common man by the balls  br    br   still the thing that makes j  niksen vuosi so exceptional   besides the visual and humouristic brilliance   is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the     s  as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation  vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness  since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns  the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j  niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving           i love jamie foxx  br    br   and i enjoy     of all movies i see  br    br   and i walked out of this one  br    br   now  i admit  it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing    oh no  jamie  s knocking on a door  hee hee hee      but    this was just so incredibly annoying  there could be no sustained camera shot  and no camera shot from a conventional angle    everything had to be in your face  loud  and annoying  br    br   the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like  but at this point  it  s just old and tired  he brought nothing new or interesting  from all the characters  too many lines you saw coming  too many you  ve heard before  and too many   tough guy   lines    and i don  t mind that sort of thing  really  as long as there  s a bit of originality to it  in fact  pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked  br    br   i love jamie foxx  and i think he  s really funny  and i thought he was funny in this movie    but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else   br    br   this movie needed less shoot em up  less annoying camera shots  more emotion  more feeling  and more jamie foxx  i gave it a             after seeing dick tracy in the       bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies  i was very surprised to see a very fun  smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout  the movie moves along well  it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty  but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna  i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city  madonna was great as the damsel in distress  she really impressed me and added depth to her performance  if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun  smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try  i don  t think you will be disappointed  and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino  james caan  kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others          send them to the freezer  this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh  an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film  the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile   if you can stand it  definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive          wow  i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in   trainspotting    this is a phenomenal movie  it has action  romance  suspense  intrigue and wit  when i wasn  t laughing  i was at the edge of my seat  this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the   th century  this film has everything to keep me happy           i don  t know why some people criticise that show so much  br    br   it is a great  funny show   probably not the right material for mainstream prime time  but still    br    br   the family dynamics are funny  and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows  the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious  the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried   roy jibes are only just above average  but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing  br    br   this show was well worth the   pounds i paid for it  br    br   rating                mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna  erika fay  lives  her best friend is rosie  martine hughes    she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel  gabriel gutierrez  who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town  killing livestock   several residents including some of their friends  local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra  an evil creature from myth   legend  erm  i  m struggling now because not that much else actually happens    br    br   written   directed by scott maginnis i won  t beat about the bush here   simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful  period  the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once   the rest of the time it  s referred to a chupacabra  in fact i suspect this wasn  t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all  the   werewolf   creature looks mostly hairless   more like some vicious dog  there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon   it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions  there is no transformation scene   at the end when it is killed it doesn  t change back into anyone either  to be honest apart from the title there  s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all   even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london         this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre  how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead         the evil dead         halloween        or friday the   th        which were all made on shoe string budgets  maybe the blair witch project        but that  s it in recent years   crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic  the character  s are awful   things just happen around them  the dialogue is rubbish  the pacing is terrible  the story sucks   virtually sent me to sleep   as a whole this film is just crap  i  m sorry but i don  t know how else to describe it  br    br   director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable  there  s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache   quick   blink   you  ll miss something   editing which just annoys   irritates in equal measure  it  s not scary  there  s no nudity  there  s no tension or atmosphere   the special effects are awful  the monster really does look poor   it  s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it  there  s virtually no colour to the picture either  it  s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well  the gore consists of some fake guts  blink   you  ll miss them    a few bloody wounds   a severed arm  big deal  br    br   with a supposed budget of about          i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film  there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far  the whole thing has the look of a home movie  it has no style   is throughly bland   dull to look at  the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that  br    br   mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it  s a sequel to john landis   classic which it most certainly isn  t   it isn  t even a proper werewolf flick either  don  t be fooled this is awful   i  m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this           i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a       s culture clash movie  john wayne would hardly be one  s first choice as a cultural attache  being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods  but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona  and he accomplished his task with style  the duke was a guy who really could act well  his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle  br    br   despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time  he failed to dominate this movie  many of his good intentions came a cropper  he had authority over nobody  and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian  br    br   the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles  i cannot comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well  there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props  the set pieces were complex and detailed  a lot of money and thought had been applied to it  br    br   the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element  and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort  script was good without being too wordy  there was a great deal of japanese dialogue  but the lengthy periods of translation didn  t interfere with the narrative  it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set  whether or not they were japanese  i couldn  t say  but anyway they looked the part  at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians  unlike other efforts such as   blood alley    yes  i know they were chinese    the inn of the sixth happiness   or even   the king and i    br    br   frankly  i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies  the script was better for a start  i never liked the songs in   the king and i    and wasn  t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of   blood alley    i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke  s more popular outings  br    br   recommended           i was so glad i came across this short film  i  m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across  so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards  i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for  br    br   the plot is pretty simple  the director  writer  and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals  the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy  br    br   it  s a well made short film  well edited and the actors all do a great job  and the last shot of the film is perfect  br    br   i highly recommend this film           i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one  but when i started with it i found it really awful  they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think     of the movie is shot in india  you can see indian made cars  you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand   hindi written on the road  you can also see temples in afghanistan  hahah  its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan  i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie   pure time waste   i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don  t watch this waste of time          truly appalling waste of space  me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about    minutes from the end  and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand  br    br   the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring  i wouldn  t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from       for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone  i mean seriously  the police would be beating his door down in minutes  the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river  it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film  the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters  oh and what   characters   they are  the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful  he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed  after    or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character  he is neither sympathetic nor hateful  just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene  his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery  is he happy  is he sad  angry  no idea  just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh  and the native american theme is just awful and pointless  br    br   the good guys are at best unlikeable  a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype  cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy    you aren  t going to shoot me   that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying  br    br   the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character  which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated  br    br   roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown  you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke  s  or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves  realistic female characters ftw   br    br   in summary a complete mess of a film  hopeless characterisations and performances  a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction  and ultimately extremely dull  its not even comedy bad either  laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first    turgid minutes of the film           in this movie  ch  vez supporters  either venezuelan and not venezuelan  just lie about a dramatic situation in our country   br    br   they did not say that the conflict started because of ch  vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues  br    br   they did not say anything about more than    tv interruptions transmitted by ch  vez during only   days in   cadena nacional    a kind of confiscation o private tv signals   each one with about    minutes of duration  br    br   they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero  inspector general of the army forces  who is a traditional supporter of ch  vez  even now  in despite of his announcement  he is the ministro de interior y justicia  after ch  vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa  equals to defense secretary in us   br    br   they did not say anything about ch  vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections  br    br   they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch  vez supporters  either civilians and military official forces   br    br   they present some facts in a wrong order  in order to lie  br    br   they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch  vez actions in order to avoid the elections  br    br   that  s why i tell you     this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie           one could wish that an idea as good as the   invisible man   would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects  but this is not the case  the story  the characters and  finally the entire last    minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early     s  there are some great moments  mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets  but alas  soon we  re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab  which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable  but schematic  br    br   there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past    years  and some of them have their charms  but it  s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol   classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven  who does have his moments  is a very bad one  it is obvious that the money is the key issue here  the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough  and as a result    hollow man   is seriously undermined with clich  s  sappy characters  predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever  br    br   however  the one thing that actually impressed me  beside the special effects  was the swearing  when making this kind of film  modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them  therefore  the language  and  sometimes  the violence and sex  is very toned down  when the whole world blows up  the good guys go   oh darn    and   oh my god      hollow man   gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them  i  m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear   but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears  i think we can thank verhoeven for that           ok  so it owes pulp fiction  but in my opinion has it  s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style  sketch like narrative and great performances  thomas jane delivers great  the drug dealer show down is extraordinary   aaron eckhart likewise  james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor   they got the wong house    the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable  as is mickey rourke  s cameo appearance   take a peak    br    br   great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke   br    br   well  take a peak  it  s worth           as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal  i  d agree with him  this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him  oscar and bafta winning  and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor  in a wheelchair and carried by his family  he has a special left foot though  he can write with it  paint with it and hold things with it  he learns to speak later in the film  it is very good for a guy like him  also starring home alone    s oscar winning  and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs  brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr  brown  it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan  best writing  screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture  it was nominated the baftas for best film  best make up artist and best adapted screenplay  daniel day lewis was number    on the     greatest movie stars  he was number    on the    greatest british actors  he was number   on britain  s finest actors  and he was number    on the world  s greatest actor  and the film was number    on the    greatest british films  outstanding           all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes  and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance  but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better  all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future  and there wasn  t  i  ll admit to not finishing the film  i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get  and i quote    more tail than any man in the past time    i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself  but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested  and they failed  this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance  instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i  m not against lesbians  thank you mr  director  someone please give me a redeeming quality    wait i have it  there  s no sequel           i do regret that i have bought this series  i expected more action  more objective picture and more consistency  this is just a pure propaganda series  very dark  without any charm  or romanticism  it is just boredom itself  i find the actors work quite weak as well  o  donnell might seem charming as robin  with batman   but in this picture he lacks any charm  probably while he becomes older  he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up  it comes as no surprise  that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for     of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands           the story has been told before  a deadly disease is spreading around    but the extra in this film is peter weller  his interpretation of muller on the run is real  he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child  this person could be working next to you           this film was very well advertised  i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months  while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be  my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it  then i went and saw it  i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie  i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in  plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie  i always go into a movie with an open mind  not trying to go into them with too many expectations  but this movie was not that funny  now it wasnt the worst movie i  ve ever seen  but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo  if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it  but for true comedy fans id say pass  maybe even check out the kings of comedy again  something told me to go see meet the parents instead             as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies  it  s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture  too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world  i can only hope that people watch this by accident  by recommendation or other    br    br   because it  s really worth while  i left the cinema feeling really sad  i couldn  t get the tragic destiny  s of the characters out of my head  and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film  not only was it a tragic story  it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack  br    br   if you have the opportunity  watch it  it  s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot  br    br             very typical almod  var of the time and  in its own way  no less funny than many of his later works  and why is that  there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about  and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional  no  the great humor stems from an underlying  almost surreal  absurdity that is woven into the scenery  the characters   nearly complete lack of taboo  it  s the same kind of   comic suspense   you find in his later works  though you  ll find it in a more rough version here  he  s building up for masterpieces to come  but is not yet there  br    br   the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did  claimed that it had to be a   very select   group of people who  d find this movie hilarious  i do           once again  doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load  it has humour    you  re just making it up as you go along      yup  but i do it brilliantly     action  monsters  in this case still more kick ass cybermen   tragedy and scare tactics  in short  just what the doctor ordered  pun intended   the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of   get on with it    so  chalk up   out of the last   episodes that have made you laugh  then made you cry  and made you go   eek    br    br   in terms of character development  this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke  s mickey  and ricky   being one of the doctor  s companions  you know that he will do the right thing  and may even suspect the manner that he does it  however  it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path  br    br   while   the rise of the cybermen   had more of the sinister build up to terror    the age of steel   is an all out blast  like   alien   compared to   aliens     both true classics  but in different ways  can the series keep it up at this level  let  s hope so           a brother  s promise is a wonderful family film  this is a biography of dan jansen  a champion olympic speed skater  the movie depicts this athlete  s life from a young age through full adulthood  the love and support of the family members is evident throughout  how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us  the commitment and determination of dan  s coach and his teammates  shows what it takes to make a real team  how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating  the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives  this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age           well   now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his   house of       corpses   crapfest  i can now rest in peace  nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in   the house of seven corpses    but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot  ha   anyway  to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode  in hell house  sorry  i don  t remember the actual name of the residence   a bunch of mysterious  unexplained deaths took place long ago  some  like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine  whose small role provides the film  s only worthwhile moments   attribute it to the supernatural  bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum  the result comes across like   satan  s school for girls    catchy title  made for tv production values  intriguing plot  crossed with   children shouldn  t play with dead things    low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead   trouble is  it  s nowhere near as entertaining or fun    the house of seven corpses   is dead at frame one  and spends the rest of its    minutes going through rigor mortis  dragging us along for every aching second             director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria        was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you  re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he  s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he  s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney  but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you  re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this           i took my    year old to see this movie  we left after    or    minutes  it was absolutely awful  this movie should be rated r at the least  i am not that strict with movies but  this was just too much  it was a waste of money  i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but  this was way beyond crude  i was sitting there watching and reading  a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me  and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was  i could not believe that it would be ok for a    year old to read and see this content  i don  t understand how the rating system works             i loved this film  i thought it would be easy to watch  and easy to forget  i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd  obv not easily forgotten  br    br   the script is brilliant  and the casting couldn  t be more perfect  each character has their moment  and i laughed hard throughout this film  comedic timing was spot on  br    br             it  s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs  it  s not available on dvd   but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection  br    br   i can  t understand how the talented mr  rickman gets into these mediocre films  judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors  an interesting plot and intriguing twists  but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama  many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character  s actions  why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses  why did he mistrust the detective he replaced  there were times when i honestly couldn  t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof  why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes  that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby    did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors  alan rickman and emma thompson  to use such awful new orlean  s accents  as an alan freak  i confess that i still thought mr  rickman was sexy  in a rumpled  weary    take him home and tuck him in   sort of way  br    br   judas kiss isn  t a great movie  but it does have some intriguing moments  but i don  t recommend it unless you  re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman           first of all  i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary  not only it had great music in it  but the shots and the editing were also wonderful  however  all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist   east meets west   clich   that bothers many turks like myself  okay  this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing  something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds  however  the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as   east   from the eyes of the   west    i mean  like one jazz musician says in the film  maybe there is no east and west  maybe it is just a myth  a lie created by the ruling leaders of   western   countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and   keep the cash flowing     br    br   why don  t you think about that           stmd  is not a terrible movie  but it is quite forgettable  the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest  so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain  special effects are imaginative  but obvious  the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there  of course  along with the archetypical teenagers  but the whole movie just doesn  t gel  what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor  br    br   i can  t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie  i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor  but these are sadly lacking in this film           first off  i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen  its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie  its just awful  me and my friend who love action movies  independence day  jurassic park  lotr  etc  went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons  mindless entertainment  all we got was a mindless hour and a half  the cg was not as bad as i was expecting  but the plot is so awful along with the acting  it made up for it  its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every     years   sounds like a good remake of rain of fire  no  the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes  but with magic  and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes  it just gets ridiculous  the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail  me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all   of the audience   and cant believed we spent money on this  the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest  i  ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian  the cave  spider  and others  but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour  watch this  br    br   story       cg       acting      br    br   i don  t drink   but it would have helped before watching this movie          i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie  but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie  the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman  was one of the most unique  yet entertaining characters in recent memory  this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience  it made me laugh  made me sad  made me feel alive  and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie  it takes no time to understand what is going on  and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine  human emotion  i thought i knew my history  apparently i didn  t know it at all  i give this move   out of     and recommend it for all adults  and young adults  and the young at heart  just not the young  but as soon as they are allowed to see   r   rated movies  make it a priority           i must have seen this a dozen times over the years  i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b   w on the local pbs station  br    br   i bought a dvd set for the children to see  and am making them watch it  they don  t teach history in school  and this explains the most critical event of the   th century  it expands their critical thinking  br    br   impartially  with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why  it details what lead up to the war and the actual war  br    br   buy it for your children  along with alistair cooke  s america  watch it with them  and make them understand  you  ll be so glad you did           steven seagal  s films of late have not exactly been good  but this is by far the worst since the patriot  the plot makes no sense what so ever  it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are  who works for who or who is double crossing who  the film is completely disjointed  each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward  even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow  most of the blame must lie at the director  s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making  but seagal does not get off lightly  as one of the producers of this film  he must also share the blame  oh  and i haven  t even mentioned how awful the acting is  even by seagal standards  even as straight to video fodder  this is not worth a view even for seagal fans  give it a wide berth           and i for one think that is a good thing  i  ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie  but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this  br    br   as for the rest of the production  i think it was slightly less than the original movie  one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out   hey  it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah    and although i missed it  i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy  br    br   i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage  it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre  not just at the movies  br    br   i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song   let me entertain you    which becomes completely annoying after about the  th time you hear it           so real and surreal  all in one  i remember feeling like tessa  heck  i remember being tessa  this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending  i especially liked the protesters tangent  it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it  if you get the chance to see this  take it  it is well worth the    minutes           thank god i watched this at a friend  s place and did not pay for it  the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show  if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics  watch out  you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence   br    br   also  actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen  excluding porn  she  s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent  he  s the one that carries the movie   br    br   i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie  it  s a shame that they got to call it a sequel  because i was a fan of the original  which was actually pretty good           a friend lent me this dvd  which he got from the director at a festival  i think  i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great  so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie  br    br   the standouts where the actors  youssef kerkor was really good as ernie  the main character  kind of pathetic in a likable way  adam jones  who also directed  and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad  the bill character  justin lane   who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda  was by far my favorite  he seemed the least one dimensional  and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd  really kind of lovable  and very funny  some of the other acting was good  some was so so  but none of it was bad  i also really liked the vigilante duo  ridiculous and funny  br    br   i  m giving this one high marks  even though it has some issues  because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared  and decided to make their movie their way  well done to adam jones and crew           shawshank  godfather  pulp fiction    all good films  great films  but nothing  and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all  santa claus  br    br   the film is so great and has so many messages  i cried while watching it  seriously  this is one of those movies you need to watch    times  when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream  we see the sadness in his eyes  and we feel the deep sorrow  and then we wonder    what is so bad about this ice cream  is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil  think movie makes you think  br    br   this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever  unlike other santas  he is a normal person  we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams  and we wonder  is the santa we believe in really that good  also  this santa actually mentions christ  the whole meaning behind christmas  br    br   you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece  we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic       whether it  s christmas or not  this movie gets a         whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool          i really cant think of anything good to say about this film   not a single thing  the script is a nightmare   the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference  you d think they would at least get a technical advisor  the performances were bad by most of the cast    although i dont really blame them   the material really stinks  the editing was equally bad   i ll just stop now   its all bad              cinema  s greatest period started in post war europe with italy  s neo realist movement  during the next   or   decades that followed  france  s new wavers caught everyone  s attention  and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere  making bitter masterpieces  but in       luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle  geographically speaking  with his miraculous work  death in venice   which might as well be called  the death of europoean cinema   after the sixties wound down  so did the great european filmmakers  who  with some exceptions  generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats  coppola  scorsese    co    this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up  not just of visconti  s particular obsessions  but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies  and rest assured  you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here  he  s not playing to the crowd  folks  either you get behind him and follow along  or you get left behind  the pacing is a challenge  slow  but never without emotional weight    incidents   are few and far between  but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos  br    br   we will probably never be in such rarefied company again  in terms of the movies  one of the century  s great writers who inspired the tale  thomas mann   one of the greatest filmmakers directing it  visconti   one of the greatest actors in the lead role  dirk bogarde   and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background  gustav mahler  s  th symphony  taking full advantage of mahler  s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast  visconti changes the main character  aschenbach  into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer  even making bogarde up to look like mahler  geeky mustache  specs  shaggy hair  duck like walk   bogarde  by the way  delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies  it  s a largely silent performance  and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance    a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse  br    br   cinema just doesn  t get better than this  i  ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it  s too slow  but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach  s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced  the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie  s thematic concerns  i e   which is the better path to aesthetic perfection  passion or discipline    and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers   of course  some viewers will sleep through this movie  anyway   a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful  dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture  but this movie is actually about something  and what it  s mostly about is suffering  romantic  capital r  suffering  in particular  as a suffering romantic himself  visconti knew whereof he spoke  br    br    spoiler       i guess  if for nothing else  see  death in venice  for its portentous opening credits       and for its unforgettable ending  with bogarde  s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty  dying head and onto his chalk white face  meanwhile  off in the distance  young tadzio  the object of bogarde  s dying desire  stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture  the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about  love  lust  beauty  loss  the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life  and cold death in the midst of warm  sunny beauty   death in venice  is a miraculous work of art   br    br    dvd tip  as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece  the damned   i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie  it  s ostensibly in english  but the dvd  s sound seems muddy and there  s a lot of italian spoken during the film  anyway    br    br             this is a stereotype plot  a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school  this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight  br    br   the fights are not of high standards  they are way too   simple   in a way that     is simple to every adult  the fighter has trained and enters the ring  but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking  the coach yells do this and do that with no success  and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once  this results in a turning point in the fight  although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point  think about the rocky movies and you  ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes  the fights are also shot poorly  br    br   there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance  cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment  br    br   these guys really could have made some quality entertainment  but the director wasn  t up to the task  or the other crew in my opinion  maybe they had a small budget  i don  t know  but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of   out of              this production was quite a surprise for me  i absolutely love obscure early   s movies  but i wasn  t prepared for the last    minutes of this story  if  by any chance  you  re not convinced in the first half  hang in there for the finale  of course  you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical  a fascinating viewing experience  but i think the cat  s paw is not available on video dvd yet  watch your pbs listings           it isn  t too bad  but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has  br    br   the jokes are few and far between  the actors are attractive  they shouldn  t be   the film makers think far too much about the cinematography  it  s supposed to look like a home video  and it  s just like a serious version of kath and kim    it  s stupid  br    br   it  s too normal to be kath and kim  kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy  middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes  there are no   look at me kimmy    jokes  the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she  s not even slightly stupid  she  s a stereotypical black latino chick  br    br   it  s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series  it doesn  t compare  nothing is the same  i admit  this show is pretty funny at times  but it is not anything like the aussie series  i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family  they failed  it  s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious  but the actors don  t act stupid  to me  this is just a typical american tv show  it  s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show  br    br     stars because it is an okay show  just nothing like what it should be           from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated   hillybilly horror   sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks  sound familiar  well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre  there is absolutely new here  the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich  s  deformed hicks  a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show  the rebellious daughter  the one   freak   who  s good at heart  etcetera      but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time  this is forgettable dreck  but humorously enough lead j d  hart once starred in a movie called   films that suck   earlier in his career  quite an ironic omen indeed  br    br   my grade  d           as a huge baseball fan  my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears  dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher  it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much   disney   for my taste           this film takes you on one family  s impossible journey  and makes you feel every step of their odyssey  beautifully acted and photographed  heartbreakingly real  its last line  with its wistful hope  is one of the more powerful in memory           stupid  stupid  stupid  i can not stand ben stiller anymore  how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me  i can  t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i  d get fired and i own the company     i would have to fire myself  god  this movie was just a plain  steaming  stinking pile of poo  that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible  something else i have to say the guideline about    lines of text in a comment is idiotic  what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie  i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary           this show is great for many reasons  the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age  its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family  i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching  this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy  sexy  drugs  bad dates death etc  the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way  great show for the family   i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off  great pg    rated show i loved everybit of this show           this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped  though i will concede that the ideas behind   batman forever   were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director  as it turned out this was not to be the case  br    br   apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out  apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton  and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series  i fail to understand how   batman returns   can be considered at all disappointing  br    br   true  it is not quite the equal of the first film   though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in   batman    a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film  yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film  true to the way the batman was always meant to be  and highly satisfying  br    br   michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne  tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck  christopher walken  named in honour of the     s german silent actor   his partner in crime oswald cobblepot  the penguin  danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier  s   richard iii     and selina kyle  the catwoman  michelle pfeiffer   whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman  the four principals turn in excellent performances  especially walken and devito  while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities  br    br   there are some intriguing concepts in this film  about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places  which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight  there simply isn  t enough time to properly explore what  s going on  br    br   nevertheless  this is a damn good film  i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first  and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton           the quick and the undead is  finally  the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void  it is  essentially  one gigantic plot hole  br    br   aside from that  the acting was quite bad  character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn  t a single character worth hanging our hat on  the most interesting cast member  who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist  got snuffed halfway through the proceedings  br    br   what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing  it looked excellent  when you take into account budget considerations  br    br   unfortunately  it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns  most notably the good  the bad and the ugly  and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie      you know  they have movies where characters do this  does it fit here  no  but who cares  they do it in other movies so i should do it here     br    br   maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists  first year film schoolers   otherwise  a must miss           i was stunned by this film  afterwards  i didn  t even want to see any films for a long time  any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison  br    br   for many  it may be the worst of antonioni  very slow  without an engaging conventional story line  microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions  and the worst of wenders  verbose  confused transcendentalism  it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders   typical meandering hero  s stream of consciousness  so it doesn  t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema  br    br   but for fans  the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film  wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things  br    br             am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces  a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera  by the time he returns  still no senior cops  socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie   this is new york isn  t it    it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence  only after she  d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene  br    br   i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images   the horror continues   not in the film itself  pretty ordinary i  m afraid  but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington  this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who  instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners  entrusts the work to an untrained cop  a rookie cop  who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible  now that was a bright idea eh  i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable  br    br   i have given this film      for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie  s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended           the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium  not only a movie but an incredible future vision  this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies  hail and kill           this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i  ve seen in full  the first was rope  which i really enjoyed  with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free  whereas rope took place all in one room  i didn  t enjoy this one as much as rope but that  s not saying this is a bad film  it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more  br    br   it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones  as a thriller  i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states  the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension  the sound design is almost non existent  you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them  but the important things are missing  the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve  the need of music to amp of the tension  all missing  intentional no doubt  yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene  then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside  br    br   the film doesn  t feel like it should either  they are almost globe trotting from place to place  yet it feels more confined  the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving  br    br   the performances are there  but nothing amazing  everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page  the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work  the one stand out is otto kruger  who has that rich  ego  evil persona down pat  br    br   in the end  i wanted more from this one  i understand it  s one of hitchcock  s least exciting films  but i did have a good time watching it  i can recommend it  just not enthusiastically           it is always difficult to bring a     pages book down to a three hours film  i read the book before  and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible  the qualities of the book haven  t been lost  the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the     s  the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up  the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking  the unexpected and surprising twists of the story  the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue  s point of view then from maud  s one  the main actors do very good  and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed  with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other  because they still love each other  br    br   for each of her books the author  sarah waters  has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british   th century  while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements  in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits  in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research  this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth  i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere  vivid emotions  and suspense           this is one of my all time favorite cheap  corny  vampire b movies   br    br   calvin klein underwear model   oh  i mean  stefan the good vampire  returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty  but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans  having killed their father the vampire king  radu now sets his sights on stefan  stefan  s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends  and the all powerful bloodstone  br    br   okay  the scenery is beautiful  and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes  the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker  but who cares  there  s only one reason to watch this movie  and his name is radu  he  s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie  all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day  the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film  as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning  slobbering face for the world to see  i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother  but maybe i  m just a sicko  questionable taste in men aside  i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts  it  s original  it  s fun  and radu is one of the best vampires i  ve seen in a long time   much more fun than the stiff  tragic  whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days  radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes  he  s what a vampire should be           let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts  and i do indeed know they exist  i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there  br    br   what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this  people forget there is more than one   bible    thousands of religions and beliefs  and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible  not everyone believes in god  and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion   br    br   religion does not make everything fact  one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within    you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time  slavery is ok  and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances  none of this    oh that was the old testament  and now we have the new testament    if the bible is the word of god  and cannot be changed  there should be no changes  or versions  religion is full of misinterpretations  mixed facts  and people who so blindly follow it that there    is no other way    the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic  or they themselves cannot explain the discrepancies properly  and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher   br    br   but anyhow  onto the review  i am a decent fan of   ghost hunters   and when i heard this show was coming soon  i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential  as much as i like watching   ghost hunters    i do not like some of their members  and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted  yet cannot explain anything that is going on  just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up  does not mean the camera filming the show did not  i am glad they are skeptical  but it  s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not  if ghosts were that easy to capture  it would be known as a fact  not a belief  it  s more of a   right place at the right time   kind of thing  as well as if there is something there  what makes you think it  s going to   perform   for you  this show is kind of silly  it  s usually boring  and there is lots of talk  lots of psychics  yet hardly anything happens  the main guy  s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to  or is basically not needed  br    br   also  the reliance on psychics is too abundant  as i believe very few of them are actually gifted  silvia brown is one i definitely believe in  but most are sometimes hard to believe  br    br   i really wanted to like this show  but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed           for a long time    the menagerie   was my favorite   star trek   episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by   city on the edge of forever    what i used to prefer about   menagerie   was that it  s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline  i still think it  s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode  though the   new   part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others  and us  to watch the pilot  the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one  you can poke holes in the plot if you want  for instance  given the talosians   mind control abilities and captain pike  s condition  why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet  and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez    best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st  s only two parter           coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other  better  movies  yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching  robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist  ha ha  who goes on a killing spree in the desert  the film is unusual  but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience  it becomes alienating and off putting  with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating   an admittedly bravura finale  many quirky bits of business  and forster looking great in the nude  make this a curiosity item  nothing more  veteran movie director irvin kershner produced  and maybe should directed as well  could paul chart be a pseudonym         from               when it was released this film caused a sensation  i watched it and was thrilled  beautiful  usually young  naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography  his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie  today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed  the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes  all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses  actually is all there is  there is no real story  the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies  but they are not real creatures with a soul  actually nothing happens  it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills  and this gets so boring after a while  i even didn  t watch the whole thing the second time  for i fell vast asleep  that is all that remains of this masterpiece  it is a very good sleeping pill  and you will never become addicted to it  br    br   back then   out of     now   out of             largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman   employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren  s missing sister  br    br   despite its connection to the cannibal movie family  this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona  s   guyana   crime of the century    lenzi clearly aims to exploit the  at that time  topical jonestown massacre  by depicting a rogue  self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania  played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov  leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion  with sister in toe  kerman   agren attempt to stop the rot  but after several failed coups  they end up fleeing into the   green inferno    only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites  br    br   one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties  where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor  by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures  this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others  but with much less success  br    br   was it the so called   amazonian natives   who looked like they were bollywood rejects  this film was made on location in sri lanka   or the inept   decapitation   and   castration   scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in   cannibal holocaust    you can decide  without spoiling the conclusion  it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending  where all loose ends are resolved  most unsatisfying  br    br   as with the others  where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited  thankfully   the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks  unfortunately  the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk  that deal with the subject matter more convincingly  br    br   if there are any redeemable features at all  kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man  and his bevy of scantily clad co stars  agren  lai and senatore  provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings           get smart should be titled get stupid  there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film  this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean  a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye  as for anne hathaway  what is she doing in this film  she  s a good actress but is just plain terrible  br    br   the writing is pathetically lame  there is not one funny  clever  or witty line  there is not one good sight gag  br    br   the directing is terrible  comedy relies on timing  someone should tell the director that  every line that is supposed to be funny  and isn  t  is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i  ve ever seen  br    br     stars          herculis puaro is  in general  a well established   hero   we know well from books and movies  this movie or this story don  t work and i felt its not agatha  s mistake  the cast isn  t good  the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures  the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything  even arab clothes  look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama  the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic  the scenes are  as said before  perfect and looking fake  the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond     woman in the iraqi desert   the   victim   is not likable          how can so many blundering decisions can be made  all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation  are you kidding  it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well          this was by far the worst movie i  ve ever seen  and thats compared to alexander  fortress   and the new world  br    br   i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience  for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen  i didn  t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age  i was wrong  while typing this message  i  ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie  a joke present at xmas  i  m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it  thanks babe  br    br   be warned       a true shocker all round                if you  ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much  as i did  that you just have to see the movie  understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut  s writing   that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself  and that you can  t put a human mind on the screen  his whit and humor just cannot be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance  i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book  but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen  does this mean that the movie misses the mark  of course not  in my opinion  the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book  this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page   it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america  s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense  i  ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut  s genius and loses grip on his own craft  i would not place this movie as one of the best i  ve seen  but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching  by taking vonnegut  s   voice   out of the movie  s narration or trying to insert it however it can  mother night tells his story brilliantly  and preserves the story  s fundamental lessons without confusion  distraction  or disappointment           this is one of the worst movies  i  ve ever seen  not only  that it is a comedy  which isn  t funny  but it  s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects  br    br   the two   heroes   with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot  that they touched each others genitals all the time  but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal  by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the   heroes    which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their   joyful   lifestyle      but i hadn  t expect anything better by director michael   bully   herbig  who also made two not funny tv shows  a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie  but erkan and stefan had been  just a little  better in some of their stand up programs  for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel  who is very beautiful to me           i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time   but dear gussie  whoever thought this script was worth producing  the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad  with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes  an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face  looks like a bad b movie from the     s             a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak  she was    and he was    when this movie was released  i think that the difference didn  t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo  but it does matter for a romantic comedy  we can easily understand  that is  why his character would be attracted to hers  but it  s less clear why hers would be attracted to his  br    br   still  the movie works as a light romantic fantasy  the scene where she stares at him across the cat  s head  with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring  is true magic  it  s a little jarring  therefore  when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building  and we see the age difference very sharply  as he embraces her  she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair  but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee           family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about  love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about  one man  daddy  has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity  the kids grow up one all be it  in the hard way  to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is  the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall  all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances  yes  i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent  this true to life is one which every young adult  and parent  would do well to see  although some will not realize it until they too are parents  a must see for those who care about their families           the only conceivable flaw of this film is it  s title   please stop comparing it to the first  i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first  if you haven  t seen the movie and are curious  totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this  there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own  this is a great exponent of screwy mid   s comedy  i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first  anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus  i maintain  the only reason this is in the imdb bottom     is because of its title  i usually hate movies like these  i e  adam sandler  will farrell  farrelly bros       but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically  i dunno  maybe it  s like a bad relationship i can  t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure  either way  this is the single most underrated movie of the   s behind   the stunt man    br    br   robert stack  we love you                         salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives  we see them panhandling in a car of the underground  where their pitch to get donations is so lame  no one gives them anything  salva  who is a hardened petty criminal doesn  t even have any redeeming qualities  that is  until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next  religion and show business prove to be a winning combination  something that salva capitalizes on  br    br   he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo  salva shows he is a natural for the reality show  he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program  espe  who is a no nonsense woman who is show  s producer  can  t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention  ultimately  salva is the victim of his own success in the end  br    br   jordi molla  whose first directorial job this movie is  had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television  spain  which was vulnerable to these types of programs  has seen its share of the bizarre  which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience  br    br   the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film  mr  molla  like any actor who decides to direct his first feature  would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera  candela pena  a good actress  is one of the best reasons for watching the movie  juan carlos villedo  david gimenez cacho  franco francescoantonio  florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director           these kinda movies just don  t get the credit they deserve  this is my  nd all time favorite movie   stand by me being  st   the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin  i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me  everything in the movie is very exceptional  the script  the acting  the screenplay  i was on the edge of my seat     of the time  and if my mom wasn  t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta  wil wheaton  died  i did not see that coming   at all   i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn  t real popular back in the     s  i was born a few years after it came out so  of course  i didn  t go see it in the theaters  but im sure i would have if i would have been alive  if any of my friends watched this  they would be like    uhh okay    but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this  if you haven  t seen this movie  or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb  this is the movie for you to watch           as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years  i really can  t believe i  ve only just got round to watching   purple rain    the brand new   disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it  wow  i was really looking forward to watching it  but i wasn  t prepared for just how electric it actually is  prince  s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding   he really has the moves in this one  i am very familiar  from repeated listens  with the classic   purple rain   album and all its songs  but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics   like computer blue  the beautiful ones  when doves cry and purple rain itself  there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform  the closing songs baby i  m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid   s  he  s overflowing    it blew me away  it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years  br    br   prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams   drive her to a lake  make her jump in  then drive off   absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight  br    br   some of the scenes are very     s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film  s overall charm  morris day is the coolest cat on the block  and hilarious   and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style   i love their dancing in this bit  and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance  br    br   i already can  t wait to watch it again  i really can  t  extras are terrific   particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a   prince groupie             a good ol   boy film is almost required to have moonshine  car chases  a storyline that has a vague resemblance to   plot   and at least one very pretty country gal  barefoot with short shorts and a low top  the pretty gal is here  dressed in designer jeans    but the redneck prerequisites stop there  jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff  he comes up way short  big john is big  but he isn  t convincing with the   bad   part of his moniker  bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades  ned beatty also does his part in a small role    but there is no story  it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film  cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment  perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme  you know the one  it was made famous by    jimmy dean           after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb  i was extremely pleased with the film  the film was dark  moving  the anger  the pain  the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon  br    br   i had initially expected to see many special effects  and like a lover  s caress  it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it  brian  i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects  you will go a long way  my friend  i will definitely be the president of your fan club  br    br   eric etebari  the best actor award  was the number one choice  you made jr  lopez look like a child compared to kasadya      br    br   overall  the acting  story line  the high quality filming and awesome effects  it was fantastic  i just wish it were longer  i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations           but it is kinda hilarious  at least if you grew up on weird al  like i did  it  s a mockumentary about his life and career  beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins  it  s uneven in places  but some of the segments are still very funny  particularly when he goes to japan  although it  s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation  and he doesn  t find love however fleeting  he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life  br    br   perhaps weird al isn  t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is  perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet  still  this is a funny movie           one of the two best films of the year  a well filmed  well written  well put together film with an outstanding cast  lau ching wan and his friends  dayo wong chi wa  anthony wong chau sun  francis ng chun yu  jordan chan siu chun  cheung man tat  had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances  theresa lee plays her comedic role well  though much like a female version of michael wong  her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers    and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes  something i haven  t done since    the fan boys took over alt asian movies and    john woo  s hardboiled  sure the ending was expected  but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members  highly enjoyable          i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november      with my boyfriend  we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving  it was very well directed with strong imagery  the visual effects were amazing   especially for a short  it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic  this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father  there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard  this leans towards the gothic feel  i would love to see this as a full feature film     carrie         why else would he do this to me  br    br   not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies  or even decent movies  i saw lois and clark  i am aware of just how      good   dean cain is  br    br   obviously this is gonna be a cheesey flick  and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head  i will not call these spoilers as you can  t really spoil this movie any more than it already is  br    br   to begin with    why is that a fake helicopter  i mean    why  br    br   how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried  how hard would it have been to get either an american actor  or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren  t american  br    br   why are there   occasions when the movie gives us a slug line  we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on  and then that  s it  who cares about the timeline  to be honest  who cared about it even when they mentioned it  but i guess that  s beside the point  br    br   does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens  the answer is no  br    br   that dragon sure can walk down that hall  over  and over   and over    and over    br    br   who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history  it was straight out of scooby doo  oh  the dragon  s dead now   say  wanna get dinner  sure  but not at some chinese place    with dragon in the name   ah ha ha ha   ha ha ha   haha ha  i used to be superman  aha ha ha  ha ha  br    br   fade to black br    br   my god  it made me cringe it was so stupid  br    br   but never fear  even though the whole building exploded   and no one was left alive  for some reason there  s a second untouched  unmanned lab that survived pretty well  so they can make a sequel  hurray for us all  br    br             minimal script  minimal character development  minimal steady camera  maximum stretched scenes  maximum headache inducing jerky zooms  maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing  up until the time flashes on the screen of      pm  you can fast forward and miss nothing  since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing  to be fair  the movie does have some string music that was interesting  so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this  unfortunately that was not to be  and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief  forget about   trigger man    i know i am trying to    merk          a wonderful film ahead of its time  br    br   i think so  in the eighty  s it was all about winning  greed is good   remember that one   i have seen this film more that    times  to me this is a real desert island film  i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love  jessica tandy  and hume cronin  are simply wonderful also beverly d  angelo  beau bridges come in at a close second  don  t get me wrong there are many more great performance  s in this film  and it is also the way it is written that made it for me  and i hope you  a film that you will want to see over and over  i think tv shows like   northen exposure    and now   earl   owe a lot to this film  but remember it is not a tom cruise film          it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing  the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go  you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not  i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it  br    br   couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas         this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen  br    br   casting  richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore  diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself  supporting cast not too memorable  br    br   story  the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting  the story is weak   not enough happens to make a movie about  there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here   br    br   the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive   br    br   not destined to be a great one to remember           only light spoilers in here  br    br   stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers  dimwit victims  and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time  br    br   you will see some poor performances all around in this movie  the drama is forced  and the humor makes no sense  whether you  re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won  t shut up  or a victim  s father responding to the criminal  s death threat with   care for some tea     none of it is believable  this quite comfortably fits into the   wannabe movie   category  br    br   you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie  it  s quite unprofessional  and adds nothing  it  s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty  br    br   however  if you  re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief  you might be entertained by the adequate storyline  br    br   i voted                yes  this is one of those movies  so terrible  so insipid  so trite  that you will not be able to stop laughing  i have watched comedies  good comedies  and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie  the other comments give the idea well enough  the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on  the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge  the acting   oh the acting   talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses  br    br   but the rat  yes  the big rat  why we didn  t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me  often the   big one   isn  t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money  i surmise  however  that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry  br    br   the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene  after figuring out that the rats couldn  t stand loud noise  migraines from the bad acting    the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy  if you  ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser  this film is for you  really  you need to rent it and see for yourself  br    br   but not for more than       ok           well where do i begin my story   i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it  and that it was supposed to be a horror movie  br    br   well i figured out within the first    minutes  what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie  the plot was crap  and so was the script  the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically  br    br   the cast couldn  t have been more plastic looking  even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker   like they dragged on for no particular reason  very poor editing  br    br   all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money  boo           this is one of my favorites  betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy  one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year  the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital  mature woman  if you  ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart  microwave the popcorn  curl up with your honey  and prepare yourself for a treat           following directly from where the story left off in part one  the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man  s legacy is exactly as such  in direct contrast to the first feature  part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country  to che  struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties  the change of setting isn  t just aesthetic  from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature  replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical  battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle  yet  as che would go on to say himself  such a struggle is best told exactly as that  a struggle  while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that  part two takes a much more refined  callous and bleak segment of che  s life and ambition  and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible  easy to grasp manner  br    br   while the movie  s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however  there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible  this somewhat distant  cold approach to telling che  s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off  indeed  i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man  if anything  the entirety of che  taken as a whole  delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man  s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way  by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago  excuse the ironic contrast   che is a slow moving  reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who   arguably  conducted the whole thing  br    br   yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak  decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two  the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn  t feel too disjointed from its predecessor  but does enough to give it its own reference points  here  the basic structure of part one is echoed back  there  s the initial struggle  the battles  the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them  all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement  yet  as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know  part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming  and disquieting note  this difference  in combination with the similarities to part one  make a compelling and memorable whole  by all means  both could be digested one their own  and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such  and enjoyed as they are  but taken as one statement  che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve  br    br   indeed  everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building  realistically structured combat scenes  the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible  but with a feature such as this  part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don  t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged  in fact  upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one  and title the review as a whole  yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively  br    br   with that said  i cannot rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime  but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part  s ability to do just that  with a reflective  intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie  s characters without drawing attention to themselves  che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor  but this time with a tragic but uplifting  reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film  br    br     a review by jamie robert ward  http   www invocus net           sometimes it  s hard to be a pirate               but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying   and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard  mr thomas gomez   eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face  with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male   dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time  it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun  m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest  mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun  but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody  s idea of a lady pirate  there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles   that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret           i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago  when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema  which i found interesting  to put it diplomatically  but not so special  i instantly wanted to see more of his work  since then  i tried   with an emphasis on tried   watching his other work  shadows in particular  i must admit  it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film  at first the unpolished  raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot  put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original   absolutely   but flawed and dated experiment  but now  upon reviewing  these little imperfections make it look so fresh  even today  br    br   shot on a minimal budget of         with a skeleton six person crew  shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings  ben  ben carruthers  and lelia  lelia goldoni   are light skinned and able to pass for white  cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones  cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing  a reaction against   seamless   hollywood production values  cassavetes main inspiration   at least in the cinematic style the film was shot   were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles   pioneering spirit  the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors  but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi  the film feels very different  very american  unlike anything made before really   br    br   the song with the feathered girls    i feel like a lolly pop    or something  feels like light years back to me  ancient history  but no matter how dated it might look  it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today  i think it  s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film  without hollywood  improvised and without a real budget  seymour cassel  who acted and was involved in shadows  claims it was jules dassin  s the naked city        that was the first and inspired them all  but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers  br    br   camera obscura                   based on an actual story  john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor  whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss  a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all  but when her passport was stolen in rangoon  she could not leave the country with her sister  and was forced to stay back until she could get i d  papers from the american embassy  to fill in a day before she could fly out  she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide    i tried finding something in those stone statues  but nothing stirred in me  i was stone myself     br    br   suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt  just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train  she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot  in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him  with no thought of herself  continually her life was in danger   br    br   here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous  selfless charity  risking her life to save another  patricia arquette is beautiful  and not just to look at  she has a beautiful heart  this is an unforgettable story   br    br     we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps             this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say    enough already    of course  it isn  t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in    minutes  eric phillips  don wilson  is an undercover cop in the near future  when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg  it is up to eric to clear her name  wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger  why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me  being a pm production  there are tons of car chases  exploding cars    in the first   minutes   and shoot outs  i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck  my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don  s simulator  it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa                shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho   i  m leaning toward rip off   after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better  almost to the point of being original  bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story  but the film already surpasses many in the   yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks   genre because it is actually shot in the south  br    br   a group of college girls head to ft  lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road   note to yankees  stay on the highway when you go to florida   sue ellen  lisa stahl  has to pee so she heads into the woods  when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff  tony march  strangle his mistress  merry rozelle  to death   note to yankees  do not wander off into the woods when in the south  not because you might witness a murder  but you may run across a marijuana plantation   this is the point where the story  not the movie  actually comes close to being good  br    br   while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech  his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do  tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i  ve seen since walton goggins  deputy steve naish  in house of      corpses  br    br   a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention  the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out  sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her  br    br   and in the strangest scene  sheriff dean makes like he  s about to rape patty  carol cadby  and tells her to take off her clothes  dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he  s about to do  the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible  his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ  i feel sorry for this preacher  s flock  jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven           although this film has had a lot of praise  i personally found it boring  there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable  but the story of how they interrelate  even if very unusual by our standards  is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long  the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first  as the tolerance of the various men is stretched  we see their characters develop  the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting  it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland  far from the city  but hardly exciting enough to keep one  s eyes open for           no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for   the house next door   from her     s novel of the same title  or someone else did it  this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough  having read the book a long time ago  we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television  you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials  which of course  one can  t find in this version we watched  br    br   the film  s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through  from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body  ms  boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy  the character at the center of the mystery  this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera  that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better  br    br   the film has a feeling of a cross between   desperate houswives   with   the stepford wives   and other better known features  combined with a mild dose of creepiness  the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting           meticulously constructed and perfectly played  to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age  br    br   based on william golding  s trilogy  these three    minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot  benedict cumberbatch  aboard an aging man o   war in the early   th century as he heads for a government position down under  br    br   among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous  bullying captain  jared harris   a politically radical philosopher  sam neill   a canny  st lieutenant who  s worked his way up from the bottom  jamie sives  and  fleetingly  the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman  joanne page  whose ship literally passes in the night  br    br   quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy  director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time  crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era  br    br   shipboard life is one brutal  monotonous round of seasickness  squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves  hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life  s hardships  man  s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments  br    br   those who enjoyed master and commander  the far side of the world or patrick o  brian  s series of novels on which it was based will love this    for everyone else  it  s a whole new world to discover           wow  this is really not that good   br    br   i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good    it is  but it is nothing special  br    br   the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies  br    br                   i have to point out  before you read this review  that in no way  is this a statement against iranian people     if you really want to read something into it  than hopefully you see  that i  m against politicians in general     but if you  re looking to be offended     i can  t help you  br    br   not in iran as this movie is banned there  see imdb trivia for this movie   which is a shame  because the movie is great  would it not be for   grbavica    this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin  br    br   rightfully so  it was the runner up  or second place if you will   why  because it is a movie about oppression  it  s not even that this is a complete women issue  it is about the government trying to keep the people down  an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie  but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear   br    br   another reviewer had a great summary line    comedy about a tragedy    that sums it up pretty well           i know little or nothing about astronomy  but nevertheless  i was  at first  a little sceptical about the plot of this movie  it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion  and thus  naturally  become ruthless serial killers  the plot does sound ridiculous at first  but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and  as you know  saturn is the emotion planet  it all falls into place  makes complete sense and it  s then that you know you aren  t simply watching another silly     s slasher with a pea brain plot  thank god for that  seriously  though  bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise  but it more than makes up for that with it  s originality  having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema  but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the   th clone   i know what i  d choose  br    br   also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it  s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it  s extremely entertaining  many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore  this film  however  keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids  which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned   a constant stream of sick humour and a small  but impressive for the type of film  dose of suspense and tension  one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry  there  s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again  cough halloween cough   but that  s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows  there wasn  t any room for a chainsaw  which is a huge shame  but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it           after many  many years i saw again this beautiful love story  thinking about how would i  half a century after  react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time  when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women  s behaviors  in a small city in brazil  br    br   this time  however  what caught my attention in the film was something very different  namely the insistence with which the physician dr  han suyin  jennifer jones  makes clear to the journalist mark elliott  william holden  her special ethically condition as an eurasian  in fact  she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship  repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a   occidental way    provided that  by doing so  she is not betraying her chinese side  its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture  for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them  br    br   therefore  suyin  s attitudes always leave poor elliott    a determined  brave and extremely practical man    anxious and perplexed  without knowing how much importance to give to her words  for him  whose love for her is plain and simple  the situation is totally clear  if we love each other  let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together    not so fast    is what she seems  verbally and non verbally  to answer him all the time  br    br   in fact  suyin  s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism  and  as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself  she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind  namely the constant   raids   on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world  for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life  not because of any objective and concrete threat  as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion   but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor  fearful and vulnerable human beings  br    br   in fact  it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people  s life totally miserable  because of that  mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes  so that they are not taken away by jealous gods  everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away  in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon  peasants are advised that they should shout loudly   the rice is bad  the rice is bad    to protect their crops from being stolen by deities  and  in a funeral  it is recommended that the dead  s family be isolated from the other people by curtains  so that the gods don  t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility  br    br   in other words  suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence  as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone  s daily life  br    br   as the story takes place in hong kong in       it should be clear that china really was  at that time  almost a semi feudal society  while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that  launched by the usa after the first oil shock in       took charge of the whole world  therefore  at least in one aspect  both sides of suyin  s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today  br    br   a lot of history came into being since those old days  as to china  the main fact is that  after several phases of a communist regime  the country finally reached  in the last two decades  the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism  and  what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong  in       and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott  under that tree on the hill behind the hospital  it is gone  completely gone  in brief  if that story took place today  elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family  in fact  both men would now be incomparably closer to one another  in their huge pragmatism  talking business as usual           first and foremost i would like to say  that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual  someone that cared about others  appreciated others  found no barely any judgment against other people  and this film has  i think  changed my life or viewpoint dramatically  when i watched it  i didn  t know particularly what it was about  i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship  but other then that i was clueless  and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters  i was in shock  disbelief  confusion and surprise  the first time i watched it  i was blind  blind to their love  to their intimacy  to their connection  to their pureness as human beings  to their relationship  i watched it a second time  because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being  saying to myself and others    oh i accept all types of people  and try not to judge them   while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story  because of my fear i suppose  the second time i watched this film  i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time  and really looked  not at the type of taboo relationship part that i  d heard about all my life  but simply at two human beings in love  and i loved it  i loved the storyline  i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film  i loved the sharing of feelings  and i loved the strong bonds created  it is a really eye opening  beautifully done film that made me cry at times  and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually  remember that everyone deserves love  no matter what shape or form it is presented in                zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz    if imdb would allow one word reviews  that  s what mine would be  this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film  the singing  the story  everything is dull and washed out  just like this public domain print  like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories  such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland   this movie has limited appeal and just doesn  t age well  now that i think about it  i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable  so my advice is don  t watch this film  if you must watch an abbott and costello film  almost any other one of their films  except for a c go to mars  would be an improvement           once in a while  a movie will sweep along that stuns you  draws you in  awes you  and  in the end  leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form  this is not it  this is an action movie that lacks convincing action  it stinks  rent something else           hard to imagine this film is based on a true story  and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring  daniel day lewis is a chameleon  really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character  watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience  br    br   the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before  the story is kinda bright and intriguing  christy is not despised by the normals  his life is also colorful and delightful  although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes  br    br   one important factor of christy  s success is his mother  s support which seems to be more touching  and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role  this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy  s dream come true  so lucky for christy and hugh o  conor is also excellent as young christy  what a performance for a child  the love story of christy is very well done  trustful  christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love  his crush on the beautiful dr  eileen cole  surprisingly played by fiona shaw  i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series  the loathsome aunt petunia  so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind  but anyway  any woman has her own youth     is paranoiac and offensive  i do have sympathy for him  love is a two edged sword  happiness and agony are just next to each other  br    br   btw  jim sheridan  s works are all good  in america  the boxer etc   except get rich or die trying    god knows why he chose to direct that crap  really a career taint for him  what a pity           i  m stunned that the reviewers   imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did  it  s an innocuous  sweet  uncomplicated clich     of a film that had two big names from the past in it  both of whom did a decent job   but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels  i like a good romance as well as anyone  but as my wife and i were watching this  and before we saw the rating we said    there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there  s nothing in it to challenge their brains  their faith  their comfort level or their cultural preferences  it  s possible to make a good film like that  and away from her is an example   but this was amateur hour  there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one  truly  another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films  watch the family stone  it  s miles ahead of this schlock           do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you  ve seen  one of   films scott made at rko during his prime        the others are always easy to get  liberal  kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street  the town  s main street  and the sod busters who feed our bellies  it  ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order  more i won  t say  except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three  randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor  courage  level headedness and willingness to do the right thing  fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they  d learn positive values  robert ryan co stars in this film  playing a good guy for a change  in real life  ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america  s movies  how sad what we get these days  george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers  while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in      in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them  hollywood      derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left  i wonder how all this plays out in liberal  kansas  liberal  after all  was not a dirty word     years ago when the city was named           i went to see this one with much expectation  quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest  even a child can see the missing logic to character  s behaviors  today  s kids need creative stories which would inspire them  which would make them   daydream   about the events  that  s precisely what happened with movies like e t  and star wars a decade ago   how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers   seriously don  t waste your time   money on this one            sigh  leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea  blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool  lordi is a mediocre band at best  and a single gimmick will get you only so far  br    br   to all you marketing idiots out there  this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something  br    br   lordi isn  t scary  lordi is lame  lordi is over  br    br   i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy  sure  they won the eurovision  br    br   no  wait   they won the eurovision  that  s it  i rest my case          after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi  yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show  on the good episodes  as darkplace  i cant argue that   of the episodes really are nt that good but the other   certainly make up for it  if i had to pick   great episodes id go for formula  driver steve pising  pronounced pissing  and the great garth marengi  to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie  his argument with def lepord over their name  all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes         i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co  i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital  i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals   br    br   the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized  and never worked in one for sure  billy jack  same era  was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message  br    br   i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned          i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it  in the       s  there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise  it  s one of the best comedies of the       s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary  s excellent comedic performance  which still stands as one of his greatest  this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director  reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time  while this film is hilarious and meatballs   is so bad that it  s fun  meatballs   and meatballs   are absolutely dreadful  recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters           the film  s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country  u s    we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film  befittingly  the obvious of student v s  teacher is present  but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships  male v s  female  white v s  black  and the individual v s  society  but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s  himself   br    br   i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus  most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other  this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides  it did not attempt to show how either was right  although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive  quite obvious towards the end   the film also discusses sex and rape  it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together  for a time  lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps  he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive  other stars that make this film are omar epps  ice cube  and jennifer connelly  michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance  tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act  br    br   higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper  in fact  i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other  rather than some dry book  as the real education at a university  it is a life learning process  not a textual one  i think you  ll find   higher learning   is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general                is rich  ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean  or is she just overreacting  or more precisely  overacting  as usual  actually  both are applicable in director joseph losey  s wandering  meandering mess called   boom    appropriately titled since tempers in the lush  luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode  richard burton climbs taylor  s mountain uninvited  she dresses him in a samurai  s robe complete with saber  though great looking in widescreen  the picture is otherwise quite deadly  a failure even liz   n dick philes should shun  the stars   collective   what the hell    attitude to their late     s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here   pointless  confused  and maddening    boom   is a catastrophe  although screenwriter tennessee williams  who adapted his own unsuccessful play   the milk train doesn  t stop here anymore    was said to be quite fond of it    from               i can  t even describe it  it  s the worst movie i  ve ever seen  i  m being a nice guy when i call it movie  just another big budget made to someone who doesn  t like to think much it  s not even scary  it  s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this     thing   to trick movie fans  i guess big producers make whatever they want  br    br   just get a big producer  hot chicks  allthough horrible actresses  and a ton of horror movie clich  s and cook it for a week or so  and you  ll get   the nun    br    br   and i thought bad boys   was horrible              the screenplay is the worst part of this film  as it lurches from one premise to the next  missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible   this film is confusing  because the audience doesn  t know what the story is   i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn  t great  but this is telly  so it was fine  i don  t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take  but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary  did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash  avoid this at all costs  br    br   the prologue in particular was so poorly written  it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out  the prologue was rushed  it wasn  t clear what was happening  ie  the russian revolution was reduced to   some riots are happening in petersburg    with the next scene being soldiers arresting them  i know the basic history of the revolution  so i could fill in the details    those pesky communists    the prologue is best ignored  br    br   this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is  it sets up this premise in the asylum  it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film  no  gone  the film assumes she is who she says she is  even though there is still no empirical evidence   it sets up a melodramatic romance  a love so strong  it  ll believe anything she says  okay  a soppy romance  no  because it makes no sense  the love interest seems like a crazed  and incidentally  sleazy  lunatic  bursting out in wild gestures  this also doesn  t work  because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end  they never got married and she returned to america  the love story collapses  despite there being plenty of love scenes  i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love  i find rom com romances more convincing  despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they  ve even spent any time with each other  br    br   it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is  and she struggles to prove her identity  no  the court case is summed up rather than dealt with  the bizarre voice over comes back  again to fill in the details of a better film  br    br   the funniest thing to consider is what really happened  anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together  throughout her life  she had bouts of lunatic behaviour  none of this in the film either  there  s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a   one flew over the cuckoo  s next   twelve monkeys   type informant  thankfully  she vanishes  having brought nothing to the story           lady and the tramp ii  scamp  s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better  lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original  but this time it  s junior  s turn  lady and tramp  s youngster  scamp  always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him  following the rules in the house  taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy  scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose  scamp meets another dog called angel  they both get along fine and do the things scamp  s mother and father did  having an italian meal  spagetthi and meatballs etc  afterwards  scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal  which is the baby  scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family  i give this movie    out of              wow  what  s this on the video rental store  s shelf in front of me  nothing other than a questionable   sequel   to  mm  it wasn  t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie  br    br   basically  from the plot outline verbatim  an american diplomat  david huxley  and his fianc  e  tish harrington  venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest  hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute  risa  the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city  the mystery is solved when  in the end  tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and  essentially later on in the story  her fianc  e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end  br    br   i didn  t like how this had nothing to do with the original  mm at all  the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was  the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film  and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene  otherwise  its a totally different movie  it made for a lousy love story  even before the end is known  which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn  t believe the words coming out of david  s mouth the whole time  but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble  br    br   there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the   shocking   moments of the film  which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this   hellish   sex debauchery  i counted at least    ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown  even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative  br    br   david was no heroic person throughout the film  you could guess he was the main problem long before the end  the actors who played each role were all new to me  which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting   respect    there were plot holes  how did david and richard finally impress tish  s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute   there were cheesy technology moments  like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen   and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character  the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs  too  because it wasn  t even about a last breath  nobody really dies  but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere   but that was a good    seconds long out of an hour and     long movie  br    br   go rent  and maybe buy  the original  it  s one of joel schumacher  s better and more original films  it has everything better about it from this film  i wouldn  t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges           ok  honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great  its really not  there were two good things that came out of this movie    jack  s performance  he was very good i can tip my hat for him     danny  s performance  he was good  no other then that it got pretty stupid  and  what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy  she was so bad  she looked the same every time she got scared  the problem with this movie was the ending  i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently  and  the over all movie was just stupid  the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better  so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off                 this episode had potential  the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment  but a phone that constantly rings  is somewhat interesting  and when she explores the noise  there is genuine tension and fear  but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had  br    br   first of all  the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction  e g    it  s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind      this door has serious damage to it that wasn  t here a minute ago      the door opened by itself  without me touching it    etc    given these supernatural phenomena  plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room  wouldn  t she take some precaution before entering it  maybe she could investigate in the day time  or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else  or maybe she could turn on the lights    also  while in the haunted apartment  she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone  and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide  just unplug the phone  the phone company doesn  t need to be involved  walk up to the phone and unplug it  case closed  br    br   finally  showing the phone scamper across the floor like it  s alive was just comical  if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card  he could  ve done it in a way that didn  t look cartoony  brave little toaster anyone           the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time  pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see  academy award winners brenda fricker  home alone  lost in new york  a time to kill   ben johnson  the last picture show  red dawn   and adrien brody  the pianist  the village  amplify the atmosphere of the movie  drawing in an anxious audience  however  the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o  sanders  jfk  the day after tomorrow   br    br   the story is centralized around a foster child  up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt  brick  the lookout   sidekick milton davis jr  delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents  the two don  t have much  but what they do have  angels   baseball  and what they are seeking  identity  that  s when   time emmy nominee danny glover  lethal weapon  predator    comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager  george knox  in relation  all characters in the story seem to have the same mission  search within themselves to find out who they really are  br    br   depressed over the fact that roger  jgl  is separated from his father  he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant  odds are astronomical  but   time emmy winner christopher lloyd  back to the future  my favorite martian  comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic  pun   before you know it  al  lloyd  is sitting with roger in the stands  snacking on cracker jacks  and causing some of baseball  s biggest boners  dorothy kingsley and george wells    dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner       screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear  nominated in directors guild of america   he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark  played by tony danza    time golden globe nominee  emmy nominee   who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim  clark has been dubbed a wash up  a once big name in cinci  but he has something to prove to manager knox  br    br   spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the   th century  this one is a diamond in the rough  and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace  did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey  a time to kill  we are marshall  for all you ladies out there           i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere  when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed  i  m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence  but maybe i won  t  maybe i  ll just imply something will happen  the writers lacked any imagination  this is not even a   b   movie   it  s a made for tv   b   movie          the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too  it was extremely funny  angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet  the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart  spoiler ahead  i think  they sneak off after a party and do it  surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie  if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch  if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one          if somebody wants to make a really  really bad movie    wizards of the lost kingdom   really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness  br    br   start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character     some poor schmuck in a baggy white   furry   costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting  work your way slowly  painfully  through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief  add a garden gnome  just for the heck of it   br    br   on second thought  skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half           a film for mature  educated audiences    br    br   i saw   random hearts   in an advance screening shortly before its north american release  this romantic drama was quite a treat  i  m sure this story will not be everyone  s cup of tea  especially considering the film  s darkly downbeat premise  but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor  br    br   all time box office draw harrison ford    star wars      raiders of the lost ark      the fugitive      air force one      patriot games    is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer  dutch  ford  s very subdued  nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss   betrayal  this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters  next year harrison ford returns to action  first for director robert zemeckis    forrest gump      back to the future    in his summer      thriller    what lies beneath    and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy  s   the sum of all fears      fears   will be harrison ford  s third outing as cia operative jack ryan  br    br   director sydney pollack    out of africa      the firm      tootsie    has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas   congresswoman  it  s a very sharp   energetic portrayal for pollack  not only is sydney pollack a gifted director  he is also one of the most believable  natural and charming actors around  see   eyes wide shut   as well   br    br   kristin scott thomas    the english patient      the horse whisperer    shows that you don  t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy  this is one of her better films  and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford  s quiet man toughness  br    br   the subplots work wonderfully  especially the subplot involving ford  s character  s investigation into police corruption  look for a chilling   effective turn by   heat   actor  dennis haysbert  who plays detective george beaufort  the obstacle to overcome in dutch  s investigation into police corruption  br    br   the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight  charles s  dutton  whose long overdue for a film leading role  goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around  and bonnie hunt  who i find extremely solid in this production  steals most of her scenes with that wonderful  charming smile as wendy judd  br    br   the technical side of pollack  s thriller is top notched  from dave grusin  s  pollack  s   the firm    perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score  to philippe rousselot    a river runs through it    crisp photography  to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh  despite the film  s unfortunate downer premise  br    br   i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery  well paced plot  character driven stories  and romance all rolled into one  this is a terrific story about betrayal   forgiveness  it also features one of the most surprising  yet poignant  and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times    random hearts   is definitely one of the better films of the year  br    br           out of       or      out of                for all of the has beens or never was  s or for the curious  this film is for you    ever played a sport  or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left  this film explores that and more  br    br   robin williams jack dundee  is a small town assistant banker in taft ca   whose life has been plagued  by a miscue in a big rival high school football game    years ago  when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield  their arch rival  that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets  season after season   kurt russell reno hightower  was the quarterback in that famous game  and is the local legend  that now is a van repair specialist  whose life is fading into lethargy  like the town of taft itself  br    br   williams gets an idea to remake history  by replaying the game   he meets with skeptical resistance  so he goes on a one man terror spree  and literally paints the town   orange  yellow and black   to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game   after succeeding  the players from that      team reunite  and try to get in shape to practice  which is hysterical   the game is on   bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets  game strategies  and sophisticated training routines   taft is drawing plays in the mud  with sticks  stones  and bottle caps  what a riot   does taft overcome the odds  does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels  does kurt russell rise from lethargy  watch   the best of times   for one of the best viewing experiences ever  br    br   one of robin williams best understated performances  the chemistry between robin and russell is magic   and who is kid lester     br    br   holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell  succeeds on many levels  a               this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done   br    br   it looks like a commercial from beginning to end  the   director  spent the whole time on a tripod  it doesn  t have pace  rhythm  it  s illogical  what a mess  you can tell what  s gonna happen since the first    minutes  and the ending   wow br    br         spoiler        br    br   jesus christ  how the hell perrugorria got shot  are you serious  worst scene of someone getting shot ever  br    br         end of spoiler      br    br   bad directing  bad script  bad acting   really bad overall  i wouldn  t recommend this movie at all  it  s a waste of money and time           i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams  back in the early days at comedy central  back in those days  the     s  their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k  complete with bearded host  br    br   capt  frank drebin  played by the stone faced  dead pan filibuster  leslie nielson  is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists  think dragnet meets starsky   hutch the show   boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios  this is distilled    times to produce the most pure policeman every made  forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz  for now  save it for later   frank drebin is clueless at most times  a terrible driver  a terrible shot  macho yet sensitive and vulnerable  he is a master of the police investigative methodology  a k a   ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy   this does not make him a bad cop  cops get lucky also  capt drebin  notice he  s a captain here  has perfected it  along with his partner  nordberg  and the rest of force  perfectly parody the police drama over the course of   golden episodes  br    br   the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables  most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly  the magic never came from the sight gags however  at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground  with crazy things occurring in the background  the movies can best be described as    minute compilations of the best gags from this series  think of monty python  s and now for something completely different      br    br   if you liked airplane        naked gun        or top secret  then you will definitely enjoy this   br    br   i always liked the series better than the movies  even though i saw the movies first  why    words   no o j           a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus  she refuses him  but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway  and there it starts   a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero  it can  t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic  br    br   in short  a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film  and imo  it succeeds at being a nice film  it  s no masterpiece  but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion   the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is  even with the superhero thing going  believable  br    br   so  thin story  but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time  br    br     out of    broken hearts         i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment  this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children          the film someone had to make  br    br   waco  the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco  texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up  br    br   the first thing you need to know about this film  you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies  this is not done for shock value  but to illustrate points about the way they died  as if you were present at the coroner  s inquest  br    br   the second thing you should know about this film  at two and a quarter hours  it  s pretty ponderous   especially if you already followed the events closely at the time  if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media  or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report  this may be essential viewing  if  on the other hand you want a more concise  albeit unapologetically one sided  version of events  you should see   waco  the big lie    br    br   in summary  this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event  and is very sobering  but as a work of film making  could test your patience  especially if you have a short attention span  and it  s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the    minutes reports  br    br   perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story  such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect  and their charismatic leaders  all rock musicians themselves  picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them           what a good movie  at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock  illusions of fame  well known rockers are getting old and forgotten  not the music  and with a good sense of humour  have you ever danced on bill haley  s rock around the clock  br    br   anyway  still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n  roll i have ever seen  far much better than spinal tap for instance  why  because in still crazy  people are mature  they have a different point of view about rock  about love and about life  they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much  beyond the story itself  we see characters with their own personality  weaknesses and dreams  like anyone of us  br    br   spend a good time watching this  listen to the awesome soundtrack   and finally thinking of your own future  br    br   bye           had it with the one who raised you since when you were young  you just want her gone from your life  that woman is your mother  you should respect her  you should honor her  whether she  s in sick or well  but that in times  it can be aggravating  especially when she becomes very overbearing  that  s how owen danny devito  had to deal with in   throw momma fron the train    his momma anne ramsey            is one of the worst  he trying his best to be a writer  and she is everything but grateful  calls him a   clumsy poop    a   larda      and   fat   and   stupid    for his friend  larry donner billy crystal  he has his own woman problems  his ex wife  she trying to discredit him  so what did owen do  push her overboard  what does he do  help return the favor  get rid of mrs  lift  in the kitchen scene  i liked it where owen called larry    cousin patty    and momma said    you don  t have a cousin patty    and owen shouts   you lied to me    and el cabongs larry with the frying pan  then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift  that is thwarted  and she kicks larry off the train  well  everything back to normal  the ex wife lives  but momma kicked the bucket on her own  maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways  a fun movie it is  and the cast is great  a classic    stars           yes  it is a bit cheesy  but it  s suspenseful and entertaining  and one of my favorites  there are some excellent actors in the film  and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters  it  s interesting to see david soul in a   bad guy   role  i thought he was quite believable  and rather chilling  as the ever more paranoid co  robert conrad is a long time favorite  i think he brings his character to life very well  and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i  ve watched  movies or tv   br    br   i watch this movie every so often but our tape  a vhs tv copy i got  is such poor quality it  s difficult to fully enjoy it  this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd  maybe it wouldn  t be universally sought after  but i  m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version  i  ll keep hoping           so it isn  t an epic  but for people experiencing anything similar br    br    sibling suicide  it might be an interesting way of therapy  an br    br   imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br    br   spent  for some reason  it hasn  t really caught on in the audience  br    br   something i do believe is a result of the main theme  why did she br    br   commit suicide  clearly  this is hardly something that us br    br   moviegoers will flock to  had it been an european production it br    br   probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br    br   extent  it is however  a movie that although the realism tainted by a br    br   shimmering romanticized glow  gives the viewer a whole hearted br    br   impression           i absolutely loved this film  i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful  i remember how hard it was when john was shot  however  watching the   two of us   took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility  i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what   might have been    aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on  i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms  jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john  my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene   which was so poignant  the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction  both of which i feel are appropriate  given the circumstances           previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film  s plot details than i could  what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful  in every sense   emotionally  visually  editorially   just gorgeous  br    br   if you like movies that are wonderful to look at  and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant  i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art  br    br   on a scale of   to     i  d give it about an       the only reason i shy away from   is that it is a mood piece  if you are in the mood for a really artistic  very romantic film  then it  s a     i definitely think it  s a must see  but none of us can be in that mood all the time  so  overall                 great premise  poor execution  cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written  poorly directed  poorly edited  waste of film  only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food  br    br   joan chen  mercedes ruehl  kyra sedgwick  and alfre woodard should fire their agents           have to agree that this movie and it  s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve  here  s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience  the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent  perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary  good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot  may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors           i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday  first of all  i wanted to see gina lollobrigida   and here i wasn  t disappointed  she looked gorgeous  second of all  through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca  s films  on this account  however  i was sadly disappointed  i found the jokes predictable  apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war  and the characters completely one dimensional  also  the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion  with no sense of drama at all  i kept watching until the end  but i got bored very quickly and just sat there  waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida           this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making  the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all  we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face  the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were   of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room  the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways  ruined the night   ok so pros and cons  pros beautiful setting in hawaii  looks good on bluray  cons worst acting ever  you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday  predictable poor plot  zero character development  forced jokes which fall flat  many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma  may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap           this was my first gaspar noe movie i  ve watched and i have to say i was shocked  i don  t mind gore in generally  but this isn  t even gore   it  s real butchering  for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting  leaving aside these aspects  the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant  when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given  you can  t stop and take a minute to think about it  the actors did their job well  representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society  the movie is full of metaphors  but i  ll let you figure them out  don  t watch it if you want to have a lite  relaxing time  i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema           i agree with bigalc   this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in       tom selleck does a fantastic job here  as always  and the movie is greatly humorous and educational  i  m a big fan of tom selleck  s  and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part  bringing the film to life in a way i can  t imagine any other actor being able to pull off   br    br   this film featured some first rate japanese actors  and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck   i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie   japan  s an awesome place to go  whether you want to party  sight see or just try to take everything in           i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt  ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role  gandolfini gives his typical a performance  the entire cast is funny  the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome  i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted  i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy  can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives  the best part to this film  to me anyway  were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped  namely  the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree  go see it and have a good laugh           although i lived in australia in       i moved overseas not long after  fed up with constant industrial unrest  the general worship of mediocrity   unless one is a sportsman    and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north   br    br   consequently i missed the dismissal  along with many other australian made tv dramas of the     s and     s  such as the superb janus and phoenix series  which i have since seen  along with wildside  br    br   to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and  as far as i am aware  accurate  however  as to public   outrage   it only shows one side of the picture  not how families were riven by the controversy  i know  as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward   br    br   but the commentary is  in my view  very one sided throughout  the inescapable fact is that  notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community  the australian electorate chose   and chose decisively   in favour of fraser  as they did again two years later   br    br   this apart  a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama           i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america  but this man does it for me  that mustache gets me riled up  i remember when i first saw a video of his  that girl he beat was amazing  the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity  it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt  rushmore  if i could ask him one question  it would be   if you were a hot dog  would you eat yourself    will orhan be doing a reunion tour  take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot  true music from the heart never fades away  vive la john denver  gracias my friend  o f f l   orhan fan for life           i never want to see this movie again  br    br   not only is it dreadfully bad  but i can  t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick  br    br   mostly i can  t stand watching this terrible movie  br    br   frankly  there is no reason to watch this awful film  the plot is just plain stupid  the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films   br    br   i warn you don  t watch it  the images will haunt you for a long while to come           the problem is the role of the characters in the film  man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself  the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film   two people who are kidnapped  treated like animals  and yet given such a shallow  stereotypical role within the film    the kidnapper  british anthropologist  ends up being the hero of the film because he   manages   to relate to the pygmies    no notion of how the two hostages feel  of their point of view  of their ordeal    i find it is a shallow film  with a one sided fundamentally racist view    it never manages to move away from the   white mans   view          life begins   and ends   in a typical       s maternity   recovery ward  where we view    hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women  played by loretta young  glenda farrell  clara blandick  aunty em      vivienne osborne  dorothy tree  and gloria shea  as they await to give birth  while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted  it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in      was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers  i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving  br    br   oddly enough  the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member  young eric linden as jed sutton  grace  s  loretta young  husband  what an actor  as a first time father  jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table  i felt his every concern keenly  i  d like to see more of this actor  s work  he had a very emotional voice  which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind  in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia  who screamed   don  t cut  don  t cut    as scarlett fled the hospital in horror  chilling  another great performance is from aline macmahon  who plays miss bowers  the nurse  her character is a salt of the earth type  the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays  who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession  br    br   loretta young did another superb acting job here as well  a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace  my  she is great in these precodes  i  ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months  br    br   glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste  didn  t anyone know back in      that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies   health   but her character redeems herself in the end  br    br   also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland  silent movie star  as a grieving italian husband  his screen time was brief  but notable  br    br   life begins is a must see precode  try to catch it sometime on tcm  but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into    out of              this is a great film  touching and strong  the direction is without question breathless  good work to the team  i feel so sorry for marlene  by the grace of god go you or i          i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper  no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie  for example  the names of some serbian terrorists  that i remember  are caradan maldic  ivanic loyvek and leo hasse  what kind of names are that  certainly not serbian  by the way  caradan maldic    what a name  i laughed for days thinking about it  probably an implication on karadzic and mladic  secondly  there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians  a journalist like the main character ought to have known that  thirdly  the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian  all this aside  this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes  at times it makes no sense whatsoever              criticism does mention spoilers  br    br   i rarely make user comments  but this is one movie i have no problem slandering  this movie stinks  and its mediocre of rating of   and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp  the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were  despite what its ad claims  this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller  the pace of this movie was extremely slow  i actually left for about    minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression  i refer to you the part where angelina jolie  s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse   hands   the movie is not at all scary  but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie  s character and denzel washington  s  of course  what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling  however  even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two  with such a crappy movie  i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit  things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off  anybody with a  th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved   a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock  s rear window   the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough  but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen  esoterically speaking  i even think the murderer  s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial   chess game   and gets with his pet project  angelina  br    br   if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts  like i am   you will not appreciate this film  if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne  the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer  the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship  the horrible   woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl    see this movie    but even then its too slow paced and you  d be bored           possible spoilers  perhaps  i must say that   cinderella ii  dreams come true   is one of the worst movies ever made  first of all  the movie was made during the height of disney  s sequel rampage  it was created around the same time as   the little mermaid ii      the jungle book ii    and   peter pan ii    all of which were disservices to their original film classics   disney also made   the hunchback of notre dame ii   and   atlantis ii    but i  m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place     let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films  and i absolutely adore the original disney   cinderella    the sequel to   cinderella    however  was a waste of time  the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching  in the original  cinderella was kind and loving  the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like    i  m going to do this banquet my way    let me also tell you that new cinderella  as i have affectionately named her  says    ewww    that is the anti cinderella  i try to find the best in people  but in the sequel  anastasia  one of the stepsisters  is good  what the heck  why  they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia  my question to the world  did the people at disney watch the original   cinderella   when making this sequel  well  it surely doesn  t seem so  if i remember correctly  anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine  i am all for redemption and forgiveness  but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie  in the first one  anastasia was evil  in the second one  she is good  one just can  t leave a story like this  i hope disney realizes that this movie  among other movies  is shaming walt disney  s name  perhaps now that michael eisner is gone  things will start shaping up around the house of mouse           hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of      s  this movie  s true score  br    br   as mentioned before chris rock is the king  previous to going to see this movie i wasn  t that over the top about him but now i  m banging on the doors of chris rock  s website begging him to take me on as his protege  this film is truly funny  if you don  t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it  s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably   class division  love  wealth  employment  dreams  stand up comedy    the list goes on  br    br   there was one slight disappointment for me however  this was that in going into this film i didn  t realise that it was actually a remake of   heaven can wait   another quite good movie made in      with warren beatty  as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago   regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any   you get the picture  br    br   well to the actual plot of the film  br    br   don  t spoil the experience for yourself  don  t read the plot  just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it  go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time  go and see it because it  s a cinema experience that doesn  t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets  go see it because it is a good movie           formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer  vargas   it looks very much like a tv movie  not really exciting  the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it  no real surprises here  though it is nice to see vargas  great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell  s part is very small and doesn  t add much to the movie  michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts  the chase scenes are standard fare           whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome  otherwise  this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor  her downward phase   and richard burton  his miscasting phase   tennessee williams wrote   the milk train doesn  t stop here anymore   and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play  but apparently  he was the only one  taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money  br    br   whatever  it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner  exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears  br    br   it  s so campy that among taylor fans it  s probably considered a   must see   kind of thing  but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand  you  re way ahead of me  sadly  this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress  even after winning two oscars  for burton  it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb  judge for yourself if you dare           viva la bam this   jackass   spin off focuses on the  obviously scripted  adventures of bam margera and his pals  johnny knoxville  brandon dicamillo  etc   this show  while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts  focuses mainly on bam  s torturing of his parents  br    br   i  m sorry to say this  bam  but    you  re in no way as cool as you think you are  this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny  and yes  i liked jackass   but also narcissistic beyond belief  the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he  s going to do   whatever the f      he wants to  how about you do something that is actually funny  i liked   jackass   for what it was worth  the camera work was horrible   any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents   garage   but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy  dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed  br    br   not so with   viva la bam    we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives  but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy  the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining  but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile  br    br     viva la bam   is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera  s already too big ego  i don  t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone           i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing  he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor  like many others on here  i don  t know how to categorize this film  it wasn  t scary or spooky so can  t be called a horror  the plot was so wafer thin it can  t be a drama  there was no suspense so it can  t be a thriller  its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project  people who liked this film used words  like   ambiguity   and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn  t there  like the blair witch  people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying  this movie actually started off well with the family   meeting   the locals after hitting a deer  it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next    minutes   well over half the film   nothing happened  the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining  it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie  finally  when something does happen  its not even clear how the father was shot  how he dies   the nurse said his liver was only grazed   and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with  rd grade special effects  the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way  the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied  i would have bailed out with    minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself  it didn  t           schlocky     s horror films   ya gotta love   em  in contrast to today  s boring slasher flicks  these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula  br    br   this is a b movie about the making of a b movie   that went horribly wrong  faith domergue  this island earth  stars as an over the hill  b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home  her boyfriend director  who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude  is filming on location and on a tight schedule  the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add   realism    unfortunately    realism   is something they could have done without  br    br   john carradine  having long since given up looking for the   th gland  the unearthly   now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate  he goes about his daily work  but always seems to run afoul of the director  br    br   the horror builds slowly  a dead cat here  john carradine entering a grave there  finally culminating in seven  yes seven murders   at least there  s truth in advertising   it  s just sad that the ghoul didn  t understand that there was a movie being made above him  how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work  face it  you just can  t go around tugging on satan  s coat and expect him to take it lying down  br    br   sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses           i suppose for      this film was supposed to be    cool      but looking back now      years   it  s charm was just as silly as it  s entertainment value   granted   the special effects do well on t v  with the series that started in        but for the big screen    i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting   i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview  obviously not well staged   or trained   overall   it  s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it   for fun laughs sake  this was probably one of irwin allen  s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it   barabara eden went on to play    genie    on t v  micheal ansara was her husband   now that is a cool part about this film   i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie   neat            this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong  s   new wave   that began with tsui hark  s   zu  warriors of magic mountain    tsui set a tone for the new wave  s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave  jackie chan  sammo hung  wong jing  ching siu tung  etc   accepted from then on as a given  namely  the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony  if not outright comedy    burning paradise   put a stop to all that  and with a vengeance  br    br   it  s not that there isn  t humor here  but it is a purely human humor  as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw  but this is just as humans are  not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time  br    br   when irony is at last introduced into the film  it is the nastiest possible  emanating from the   abbot   of red lotus temple  who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before  he is the very incarnation of milton  s satan from   paradise lost      better to rule in hell than serve in heaven    and if he can  t get to satan  s hell soon enough  he  ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule  br    br   that  s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here  it  s not that the abbot just wants to kill people  he wants them to despair  to feel utterly hopeless  to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality  thus there  s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself   it has become all there is to the universe  and the abbot  claiming mastery of infinite power  is in charge  br    br   of course  fortunately  the film doesn  t end there  though there are losses  the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails   if you want to know how  see the film   yet there is no doubt that  in viewing this film  we visit hell  hopefully  we do not witness our own afterlives  but we certainly feel chastened by the experience   and somehow better for it over all           now i don  t hate cheap movies  i just don  t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad  s camcorder  if i rent a movie  i want it to be a movie  not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv   tapes  br    br   maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great  and it wasn  t  maybe i hate it because it  s cheap  has the dumbest plot ever  the most unrealistic characters ever and the really  really  really worst showdown in the history of films ever  even tom savini can  t save this  br    br   seriously  this one is a complete waste of time           a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do  that being stealing from farms and killing prey  until a trio of farmers decide they  ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem   solved    they are of course   out foxed   at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land  br    br   the  film   version  and i use the term film very loosely  is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies  they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely  so kudos to them  they  ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book           as soon as it hits a screen  it destroys all intelligent life forms around   but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn  t fall into any known movie category  it deserves a brand new denomination of its own   it  s a   neurological drama     it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person  s brain  br    br   it  s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one  it drives you speechless  all you members go numb  your mouth falls open and remains so  and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf  br    br   no small feat for such a sort of a   movie    br    br   the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage                 for a film made in senegal  based  i guess loosely on carmen  the book  by prosper merimee  this film doesn  t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films  br    br   ms  gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at  her fiery dancing smolders the screen  as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film  br    br   this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders  but a real carmen  she is not  br    br   we would like to see ms  gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here           this is a very noir kind of episode  it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend  the recently divorced karen mills  pat delaney  daughter in law of john huston  who knew a few things about noir film  and her daughter  when they arrive  karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room  he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace  of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive  they see no sign of karen  but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes  so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect  br    br   this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again  rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn  t think was important at the time  but now might lead to a clue as to what happened  it  s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent  it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn  t just some clueless old man either  as he says   you come to me because i  m your father  and i  m smarter than you    this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts  br    br   this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker  who played angelique in the   dark shadows   series and went on to play laura banner  bruce  s wife in the   incredible hulk   series a few years later  she looks terrific here  br    br   this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family  a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family  this time  its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend  br    br   lt  diehl  tom atkins  makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent  i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police  frankly  they were right  though i prefer the later lt  chapman to lt  diehl   br    br   not a lot of the typical   rockford   humor in this episode  but a good mystery with a lot of heart           the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events  and i  ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now  the other shows may have better matches  but i  ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement  br    br   i  m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don  t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review  i will comment on the quality of them though  br    br   we have the standard   matches  and then the big rumble event  two from smackdown and two from raw  br    br   shawn michaels and edge open up for raw  this proves to be a good match from two talented guys  this is a match i  d recommend watching  it  s hard to sum up without giving away the winner  br    br   next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster  be whoever it is  giant gonzales  yokozuna  kamala    well this time it  s heidenreich  its also a casket match  typical undertaker fare  watch if you  re a fan  i have to admit i am  purely for the entertainment factor  it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match  br    br   the next two matches are the title matches  for once smackdown manages to upstage raw  their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable  but with a anti climax and let down to end it  raw  s match is a pretty dull and boring affair  which is a pity as i  m a fan of both guys involved  br    br   now to the main reason i love the event  the rumble  it  s a pretty good one this year  coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win  and it may not prove a big surprise  but hey  its very enjoyable  there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated  there is the token guy who doesn  t make it to the ring  the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished  and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant  it has its usual highs and lows  and i loved the ending  in particular the vince mcmahon entrance  br    br   i  d recommend this show  not the wwe on top form  but its still good  add it to your collection           i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones  we  d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other  br    br   we called one of our mates   zipmole watkins   after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of   restyling   on his nose by the back street abortionist  br    br   lots of great lines   remember at      in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man  take it easy guy      gandhi as a local shopkeeper  br    br   tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph  daniel peacock  to be a barman   it  s no good amanda i  ll never make it as a bar man   helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match   see the match last night  i thought woodcock played well   after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar    see the match last night      yeah  i thought i played well   br    br   we still do odd stupid lines now     reg and ralph      or        ralph and reg  reg  reg    reg reg reg reg   br    br   lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets   the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line     and he  ll mark your packages   return to sender   br    br   good old danny peacock   you added a lot to some young drinkers   evenings sir  br    br     update   i found a couple of episodes on tape   i  m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube             destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized  this game deserves all the recognition it deserves  at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers  graphic adventures are a dying breed  with great pun and humour  the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy  life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island   prediction  the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too  i guarantee it           stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century  two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father  one day  a french woman  babette  comes to work for them  after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in  her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast  which changes the lives of all those invited  this is a film about human and cultural interaction  reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french  and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south  it is also about human needs  and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses  a profoundly uplifting film           this movie was way over hyped  a lot of the viewers  who thought this was   amazing   must have been into the old school movies  cause the whole movie is set in the past  at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past  so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass  but it just going  basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past  and the   don  t mix very well in this movie  even with special effects  you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with  there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did  so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying   it  s the greatest movie ever done    it  s just crap on a stick  it also didn  t help that the story line was sooo crappy  i don  t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced  and i also don  t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this  it  s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print     it will all be done on a computer    this was a movie that should have been on a movie network  because nothing about this movie was revolutionary  i  m very upset with myself for paying money to see this  whatever you do  don  t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow           it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in       this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise  didn  t they do that with truman capote the same year  and the zodiac killer last year  interesting  br    br   writer director david michael latt didn  t have steven spielberg  s budget and c  thomas howell is not tom cruise  this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed      million worldwide  br    br   the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles  who played a pastor that was giving up on his god  br    br   gary busey was creepy as an army lt           i dunno sometimes   you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there  but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved    bat people    which i saw under the title   it lives by night    is just such a movie  you can  t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on   night gallery    and not one of the better ones  either   br    br   the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood   actually  you  d think if he was turning into a real bat  he  d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket  but because this is a cheap  lurid horror movie  blood  s the word   in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat  and black out episodes almost every night  his friend and fellow physician  dr  mustache aspen extreme  insists that he  s just having an   allergic reaction   to the rabies shots  meanwhile  the world  s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls  and one wino   also meanwhile  the doctor  s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction   br    br   it  s not so much that the acting is bad   you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices  and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script  even the guy who plays the sheriff   okay  it is pretty bad  but it  s bad in a clich  d  wooden  professional way   it  s just that everything about the acting  the way the scenes are paced  the costumes  the dialog  the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to  well  slap everyone involved  br    br   i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky  unsettling little cult favorite  but  br    br     the director needed to beat michael pataki  an experienced character actor  with a chair until pataki agreed to act  and not just channel dennis weaver   br    br     he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole   bat bites human  who then turns into a bat   scenario   br    br      he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his   episodes    instead of resorting to   man has a seizure   page from the little golden book of clich  d acting mannerisms   br    br      he needed to rework the whole   wife   character  make her both more intelligent  less shrill and waaaaay more observant   br    br   i would never voluntarily watch this film again  except with the help of mike and the bots  it  s bad  but it isn  t bad in a silly  humorous or interesting way  still better than   battlefield earth   or   waterworld    though           big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing  great production  and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap  the two stars work great together  and  what can i say  amanda bynes shines  putting   irkel   and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches  watch this film with your kids  if you don  t laugh throughout it  you must not have been paying attention           tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers  and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie  well  all i can say is i totally regretted it  these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant  unimaginative and kitch to the extreme  not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh  but fail to do so  the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend  and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can  t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap  fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven  t disappointed me ever since  i would recommend you to avoid this film  unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled           on watching this film  i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity  karen carpenter was a carefree  but very unconfident young lady  whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs  as with all celebrities of today  they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks  styles  etc  this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight  which eventually caused her death  this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching  but on starting to view it  then i was hooked  in the same way that the tina turner story does  then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life  the acting was superb and even after nearly    years after it was made  then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining  br    br   i would recommend this to anyone who hasn  t yet watched it  it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged           nothing is sacred  just ask ernie fosselius  these days  everybody has a video camera  and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying  quickly written and shot  and often posted directly to the internet  spoofs are hot these days  and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don  t get off on their own self importance     years ago  when the first star wars was made  it was a different world  filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare  then god gave us hardware wars  it was shot to look cheap  or was it just cheap   and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact  does that take away from the experience  heck no  that  s what makes it so great  it was raw and unpolished  and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie  from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber  i did that when i was young   to chewchilla the wookie monster  to auggie ben doggie  s   nah  just a little headache   remark  this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films  rent it  buy it  borrow it from a friend  and may the farce be with you  always           i hated it  i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art  this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid  after the first half hour  i fastfowarded through the dvd version  and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over  i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap  tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie  let alone art           i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies  but my god    this was the worst movie i have ever seen  bad acting  bad effects  bad script  bad everything   br    br   the plot follows a group of teen cliche  s on their way to a rave  that takes place in broad daylight  at a remote island  however  when the group arrives  all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes  determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers  the clan set  s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest  during this crusade  they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids  they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors  basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the   house of the dead    this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence  redundant clips from the hotd video game  and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations  one of the character  s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others  why  not because he was noble and brave  but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled  i  m supposed to feel sorry for this guy    br    br   to sum it all up  there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is  the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen  and i  m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it  grade  f          if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school  try to convince your teacher to see something else  believe me  anything is better than this movie  it is slow paced  confusing  boring  poorly constructed  gory  gringy  do i need to go on  it  s message is good  but i have seen them been handled better in several other films  the acting isn  t even any good  this movie is just even more awkward  as it start off as being funny  not intensional though because of it  s surreal story  than at the end  just becomes uncomfortable to watch  br    br   i honestly feel like   hour and    minutes of my life has been robbed  why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for    minutes  than watch them drive through a traffic jam for    minutes  listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear  witness a sort of rape  than see the female lead role eat her husband  br    br   honestly this movie deserves nothing but a       and if your not happy with my preview seriously i  m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism  but this movie was just awful  make any excuse you can  to avoid this film           this is like a zoology textbook  given that its depiction of animals is so accurate  however  here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film  br    br     handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons  it doesn  t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo  bullets just won  t go near it  br    br     the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra  or a giant komodo dragon  is just to stand there  the exception to this rule is if you  ve been told to stay very still  in which case you should run off  until the komodo is right next to you  and then you should stand there  expecting defeat  br    br     minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching  br    br            is a memory enhancement tool  and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested  br    br     members of elite army units don  t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings  maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it  br    br     when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing  a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need  sound gear  a second camera  microphones etc are all superfluous  br    br     when you hear a loud animal scream  and one person has a gun  he should take it out and point it at the nearest person  br    br     when you take a gun out  the sound of the safety being taken off will be made  even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br    br     reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something   without having the faintest idea what they  re exposing  background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism  br    br     handguns hold at least    bullets in one clip  and then more than that in the next clip  despite that  those with guns claim that they will need more ammo  br    br     expensive cameras  also  remember that the reporter only has one camera  are regularly left behind without even a moment  s hesitation or regret  these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves  br    br     the blonde girl really is the stupid one  br    br     the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it  thus making it unsafe  takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection   and nobody says a word about it  br    br     high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets  br    br     genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to     feet long in a matter of a day  but don  t grow at all in the weeks either side  br    br     the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don  t meet contact deadlines  br    br     men with guns don  t necessarily change the direction they  re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them  instead  they just keep shooting into the air  br    br     the better looking you are  the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures  br    br     women  s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds  br    br     any time you  re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age  br    br     animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for   swearing   at the same volume  br    br     old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military           one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just   oz episode you  ll be hooked  they are right  as this is exactly what happened with me  br    br   the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence  which set in right from the word go  trust me  this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid  this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs  sex or violence  its is hardcore  in the classic use of the word  br    br   it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary  it focuses mainly on emerald city  an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards  so privacy is not high on the agenda  em city is home to many  aryans  muslims  gangstas  latinos  christians  italians  irish and more    so scuffles  death stares  dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away  br    br   i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn  t dare  forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences  forget charm  forget romance   oz doesn  t mess around  the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal  i couldn  t say i was ready for it  but as i watched more  i developed a taste for oz  and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence  not just violence  but injustice  crooked guards who  ll be sold out for a nickel  inmates who  ll kill on order and get away with it  well mannered  middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience  watching oz  you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing    thats if you can get in touch with your darker side           a wonderful little production   br    br   the filming technique is very unassuming  very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting  and sometimes discomforting  sense of realism to the entire piece   br    br   the actors are extremely well chosen  michael sheen not only   has got all the polari   but he has all the voices down pat too  you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams   diary entries  not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece  a masterful production about one of the great master  s of comedy and his life   br    br   the realism really comes home with the little things  the fantasy of the guard which  rather than use the traditional   dream   techniques remains solid then disappears  it plays on our knowledge and our senses  particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets  particularly of their flat with halliwell  s murals decorating every surface  are terribly well done           i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend  sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy  the plot is simplistic  but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable  even the well bread suspected serial killer   while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point    risk addiction  i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love  br    br   this was the most i  d laughed at one of woody  s comedies in years  dare i say a decade    while i  ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson  in this she managed to tone down her   sexy   image and jumped right into a average  but spirited young woman  br    br   this may not be the crown jewel of his career  but it was wittier than   devil wears prada   and more interesting than   superman   a great comedy to go see with friends           basically there  s a family where a little boy  jake  thinks there  s a zombie in his closet   his parents are fighting all the time  br    br   this movie is slower than a soap opera    and suddenly  jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie  br    br   ok  first of all when you  re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama  as a drama the movie is watchable  parents are divorcing   arguing like in real life  and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film  i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie  and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots  br    br     out of    just for the well playing parents   descent dialogs  as for the shots with jake  just ignore them           petter mattei  s   love in the time of money   is a visually stunning film to watch  mr  mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations  this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money  power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter   br    br   this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler  s play about the same theme  the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect  each one is connected in one way  or another to the next person  but no one seems to know the previous point of contact  stylishly  the film has a sophisticated luxurious look  we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat  br    br   the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits  a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment  as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter  br    br   the acting is good under mr  mattei  s direction  steve buscemi  rosario dawson  carol kane  michael imperioli  adrian grenier  and the rest of the talented cast  make these characters come alive  br    br   we wish mr  mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work           probably my all time favorite movie  a story of selflessness  sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause  but it  s not preachy or boring  it just never gets old  despite my having seen it some    or more times in the last    years  paul lukas   performance brings tears to my eyes  and bette davis  in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles  is a delight  the kids are  as grandma says  more like   dressed up midgets   than children  but that only makes them more fun to watch  and the mother  s slow awakening to what  s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling  if i had a dozen thumbs  they  d all be   up   for this movie           i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero  s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i  ve got what i wanna say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be    lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it           this show was an amazing  fresh   innovative idea in the     s when it first aired  the first   or   years were brilliant  but things dropped off after that  by       the show was not really funny anymore  and it  s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today  br    br   it  s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen  the writing is painfully bad  the performances are almost as bad   if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts  this show probably wouldn  t still be on the air  i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed  how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity  i felt i must give   stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success  as it is now  the show is just awful  i can  t believe it  s still on the air           encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film  bad mistake  i  ve seen      films and this is truly one of the worst of them   it  s awful in almost every way  editing  pacing  storyline    acting    soundtrack  the film  s only song   a lame country tune   is played no less than four times   the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme  rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film   br    br   the only thing that prevents me giving this a   score is harvey keitel   while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort  one for keitel obsessives only           if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie  if you are young or old then you will love this movie  hell even my mom liked it  br    br   great camp              phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines  br    br   at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn  t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore  br    br   its a low budget film  thats never a problem in itself   there were some pretty interesting characters  but eventually i just lost interest  br    br   i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking  br    br   for something similar but better try   brother from another planet             i saw this movie when i was about    when it came out  i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air  the horror  the horror  br    br   as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons  i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero  a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end  i didn  t care much for the romantic angle as a    year old and the predictable plots  i love them now for the unintentional humor  br    br   but  about a year or so later  i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star  janet leigh  was bumped off early in the film  i sat up and took notice at that point  since screenwriters are making up the story  make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula  there are no rules            so im not a big fan of boll  s work but then again not many are  i enjoyed his movie postal  maybe im the only one   boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished   br    br   people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned  that this is not far cry    this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks   feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with  these players go by the names of til schweiger  udo kier and ralf moeller  br    br   three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz  so the tale goes like this  jack carver played by til schweiger  yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes    however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass   people have complained about how he  s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don  t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a      br    br   however  the storyline in this film is beyond demented  we see the evil mad scientist dr  krieger played by udo kier  making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called  performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of   spoiler   vancouver for some reason  thats right no palm trees here  instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods  we haven  t even gone far before i started to cry  mehehe  i cannot go on any more   if you wanna stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience  meaning most of it will suck  br    br   there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes  until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh   the movie far cry reeks of scheisse  that  s poop for you simpletons  from a fa r if you wanna take a wiff go ahead   btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wanna shoot him the first three minutes he  s on screen            the cast played shakespeare  br    br   shakespeare lost  br    br   i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses  but why ruin something so good  br    br   is it because   the scottish play   is my favorite shakespeare  i do not know  what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler  hence bowdlerization  tried to do something similar in the victorian era  br    br   in other words  you cannot improve perfection  br    br   i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text  and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie  as the saying goes  just does not cut it           this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous  one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad  another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack  the man of constant sorrow   i recommand this movie to everybody  greetings bart          kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes  only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i  ve ever seen  sort of like a high school film project  what was rosanna arquette thinking   and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town  pretty hard to get involved with this one  no lessons to be learned from it  no brilliant insights  just stilted and quite ridiculous  but lots of skin  if that intrigues you  videotaped nonsense    what was with the bisexual relationship  out of nowhere  after all the heterosexual encounters  and what was with that absurd dance  with everybody playing their stereotyped roles  give this one a pass  it  s like a million other miles of bad  wasted film  money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa                some films just simply should not be remade  this is one of them  in and of itself it is not a bad film  but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the      film of the same title  liam neeson was excellent as he always is  and most of the cast holds up  with the exception of owen wilson  who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke  but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it  s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects  again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film  but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more            this movie made it into one of my top    most awful movies  horrible   br    br   there wasn  t a continuous minute where there wasn  t a fight with one monster or another  there was no chance for any character development  they were too busy running from one sword fight to another  i had no emotional attachment  except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them   br    br   scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies  lotr  star wars and matrix   br    br   examples br    br    the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda  obee one and vader   br    br    the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings   elijah wood is the victim in both films  and wait      it hypnotizes  stings  its victim and wraps them up     uh hello     br    br    and the whole machine vs  humans theme was the matrix  or terminator      br    br   there are more examples but why waste the time  and will someone tell me what was with the nazi  s     nazi  s      br    br   there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion  the movie could not decide if it was a children  s movie or an adult movie and wasn  t much of either   br    br   just awful  a real disappointment to say the least  save your money            i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in       my dad took me my brother   sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england  i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies  if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is    miles away  would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it            an awful film  it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe  they  ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition  my complaint is not that they  ve taken liberties with the facts  if the story were good  that would perfectly fine  but it  s simply bizarre    by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film  so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script  i suppose there weren  t enough naked people in the factual version  it  s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist  s life    we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they  d favored the rest of the film with same brevity            after the success of die hard and it  s sequels it  s no surprise really that in the     s  a glut of   die hard on a         movies cashed in on the wrong guy  wrong place  wrong time concept  that is what they did with cliffhanger  die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly   stop or my mom will shoot   stallone  s career  br    br   cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream  especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing  base jumping  aviation  facial expressions  acting skills  all in all it  s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk  stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse  however  if you an forget all the nonsense  it  s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills  and unintentionally  plenty of laughs  br    br   you  ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness  his tick every box band of baddies  and best of all  the permanently harassed and hapless   turncoat   agent  rex linn as travers  br    br   he may of been henry in   portrait of a serial killer   but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal  he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors   that man never hurt anybody   and whilst he surely can  t be  it really does look like ralph waite  s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death  br    br   mention too must go to former   london  s burning   actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy  who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football  yes  you can  t help enjoy that bit  hal needed a good kicking  br    br   so forget your better judgement  who cares if   that could never happen    lower your acting expectations  turn up the volume and enjoy  and if you  re looking for qaulen  he  s the one wearing the helicopter            i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this   b movie   in it  s entirety  br    br   all i have to say is    save your time and money    this has got to be the worst b movie of all time  it shouldn  t even be called a b movie  more like an f movie  because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie  the story is not interesting at all  all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable  it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it  s almost funny       almost  br    br   the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit  br    br   this movie is supposed to be geared towards men  but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive  especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end  they try to appear sexy in those weird  horrible costumes and they fail miserably    br    br   even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs  but this is just too painful to watch             what an absolutely stunning movie  if you have     hrs to kill  watch it  you won  t regret it  it  s too much fun  rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn  t anything more other than him  i still liked it  the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times  you really start liking it            first of all  let  s get a few things straight here  a  i am an anime fan  always has been as a matter of fact  i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool   b  i do like several b movies because they  re hilarious  c  i like the godzilla movies  a lot  br    br   moving on  when the movie first comes on  it seems like it  s going to be your usual b movie  down to the crappy fx  but all a sudden  boom  the anime comes on  this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill  br    br   the animation is very bad   cheap  even worse than what i remember from speed racer  for crissakes  in fact  it  s so cheap  one of the few scenes from the movie i   vividly   remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school      it  s the same kids over   over again  the fx are terrible  too  the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla  in addition  the transition to live action to animation is unorganized  the dialogue   voices especially the english dub that i viewed  was horrid   i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd  vhs player  the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes   comments like the robots   joel mike on mst k  you pick the season   honestly  this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie   survive it at the same time  br    br   heck  i  m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night  because it  s stupid  pretty painful to watch   unintentionally hilarious at the same time  i  m giving this movie a       an improvement from the        i was originally going to give it  br    br    according to my grading scale       means pretty much both boring   bad  as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it  then it will become as fun as counting to               this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards  i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film  it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes  m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for  the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable  the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch  there is no real emotional depth to the story  a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me  nor does the development of the cop  it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the   s     and not even a good one in those standards  br    br             the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter  s complex life  though it fails in giving accurate facts  and details  br    br   cynthia gibb  portrays karen  was not a fine election  she is a good actress   but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter  i think that the role needed a stronger character  someone with a stronger personality  br    br   louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific  she does a great job as karen  s mother  br    br   it has great songs  which could have been included in a soundtrack album  unfortunately they weren  t  though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries             the cell   is an exotic masterpiece  a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer  but also into one of a very talented director  this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations  this is boldness at work  pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent  this is the best movie of the year to date  br    br   i  ve read numerous complaints about this film  anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting  to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point  this movie may be a landmark  a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow    the cell   has just opened the door to another world of imagination  so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don  t want any more  personally  i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem  and would love to see someone try to challenge him  br    br   we  ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer  and yes  i do agree that the   genre   is a bit overworked  the   s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick  some of them worked  but most failed  but   the cell   does not blaze down the same trail  we are given a new twist  we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied  br    br   i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another  instead  she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity    the cell   wants to let you   see   what it  s all about and not   how   it  s all about  and i guess that  s what some people don  t like  true  i do like explanations with my movies  but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in  br    br   i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality  maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another  nonetheless  the set design was simply astonishing  i wouldn  t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography  best costumes  best director and the like  if it were up to me it  d at least get nominated for best picture  br    br   i  ve noticed that i  ve kind of been repeating myself  not because there  s nothing else to say  but because i can  t stress enough how fantastic i thought   the cell   was  if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time  i guess this film was just a little too much for some people  writing it off as   weird   or   crazy    i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind  so it was right down my alley  leaving the theater  i heard one audience member say   whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs    if so  i want what he was smoking  br    br         out of              this film tried to be too many things all at once  stinging political satire  hollywood blockbuster  sappy romantic comedy  family values promo    the list goes on and on  it failed miserably at all of them  but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end  br    br   although i appreciate the spirit behind war  inc   it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort  especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique  rather than simply the poor writing  direction  and production of this particular film  br    br   there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war  but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening  reminds me a bit of three kings  which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern            this movie was so frustrating  everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time  i at least thought i  d be able to stand it  but  i was wrong  first  the weird looping  it was like watching   america  s funniest home videos    the damn parents  i hated them so much  the stereo typical latino family  i need to speak with the person responsible for this  we need to have a talk  that little girl who was always hanging on someone  i just hated her and had to mention it  now  the final scene transcends  i must say  it  s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own  what crappy dancing  horrible and beautiful at once              war movie   is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich  d dialogue  rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat  once in a while  however  a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen  the civil war era   cold mountain    starring jude law  nicole kidman and ren  e zellweger is such a film  br    br   then again  calling cold mountain   a war movie is not entirely accurate  true enough  the film opens with a  quite literally  quick and dirty battle sequence that puts   glory   director edward zwick shame  however    cold mountain   is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times  the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman  played by jude law  who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain  north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind  ada monroe  played by nicole kidman  at first glance  this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier  s tribulations on the battlefield  indeed  the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived  br    br     cold mountain   soon takes a drastic turn  though  as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter  incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates  and begins a long odyssey homeward  meanwhile  back at the farm  ada  s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields  soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast  coming to ada  s rescue is the course  tough as nails ruby thewes  played by ren  e zellweger  who helps ada put the farm back together and  perhaps more importantly  cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada  br    br   within these two settings  a vivid  compelling and  at times  very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds  the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex  enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby  s deadbeat father  ray winstone as an unrepentant southern   lawman    and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother  all have been greatly affected and changed by   the war of northern aggression    mostly for the worse  the dark  pervading anti war message  accented by an effective  haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina  is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought  though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century  it  s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant  br    br   director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film  but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters  the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film  though the inherently distant  abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot  br    br   make no mistake    cold mountain   has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama  it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether            taut and organically gripping  edward dmytryk  s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller  an unlikely   message   movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle  br    br   bivouacked in washington  dc  a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars  three of them end up at a stranger  s apartment where robert ryan  drunk and belligerent  beats their host  sam levene  to death because he happens to be jewish  police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum  who  s assigned to ryan  s outfit  suspicion falls on the second of the three  george cooper   who has vanished  ryan slays the third buddy  steve brodie  to insure his silence before young closes in  br    br   abetted by a superior script by john paxton  dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs  ryan  naturally  does his prototypical angry white male  and to the hilt   while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance  his role  however  is not central   young may never have been better  gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed  vulnerable tramp  and  as a sad sack who  s leeched into her life  paul kelly haunts us in a small  peripheral role that he makes memorable  br    br   the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing  but it  s pretty much confined to young  s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier  thus  incidentally  stretching chronology to the limit   at least there  s no attempt to render an explanation  however glib  of why ryan hates jews  and hillbillies and      br    br   curiously  crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it    the novel it  s based on  richard brooks   the brick foxhole  dealt with a gay bashing murder  but homosexuality in      was still beyond the pale  news of the holocaust had  however  begun to emerge from the ashes of europe  so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism  the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer   br    br   but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general  the specifics don  t fit so smoothly  the victim  s chatting up a lonesome  drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd  even though  or especially since  there  s a girlfriend in tow  it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan  s murderous rage              ardh satya   is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema  directed by the great director govind nihalani  this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success  even today  ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india  br    br   the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the   s  unlike any police of other cities in india  mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether  govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment  br    br   amongst various police officers   colleagues  the film describes the story of anand velankar  a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family  his father is a harsh police constable  anand himself suffers from his father  s ideologies   incidences of his father  s atrocities on his mother  anand  s approach towards immediate action against crime  is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction  the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand  s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations  as he cannot achieve the desired job satisfaction  resulting from the frustrations  his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms   bars  also turning him to an alcoholic  br    br   the spirit within him is still alive  as he constantly fights the system  he is aware of the system of the metro  where the police   politicians are a inertly associated by far end  his compromise towards unethical practice is negative  finally he gets suspended  br    br   the direction is a master piece   thoroughly hard core  one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty  s house to arrest him  followed by short conversation which is fantastic  at many scenes  the film has hair raising moments  br    br   the practical approach of script is a major punch  alcoholism  corruption  political influence  courage  deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today  those aspects are dealt brilliantly  br    br   finally  the films belongs to the one man show  om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly            my first exposure to the templarios   not a good one  i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video  which has brought us other cult classics such as   spider baby    the print quality is excellent  but this alone can  t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull  there  s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars    set the whole thing in motion   but everything else in the movie is slow  ponderous    ultimately  unfulfilling  adding insult to injury  the movie was dubbed  not subtitled  as promised on the video jacket            one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist  the mafia middle man titta di girolamo  a physically non descript  middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy  when we  re introduced to him at the start of the film  he  s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years  conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to  while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo  s cash tell him that        dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes  at the news  he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account  meanwhile he tells us  the spectators  that when you bluff  you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous  he says  you can  t bluff for a while and then halfway through  tell the truth  having eventually done this   bluffed only halfway through and told the truth  and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately  love   is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo  s troubles   br    br   this initially unsympathetic character  a scowling  taciturn  curt man on the verge of     a man who won  t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye  becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about  at one point in his non life  titta decides to feel concern about appearing   ridiculous    the first half of the film may be described as   slow   by some  it does indeed reveal di girolamo  s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined  deliberate pace  revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details  however  scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes  the existence of titta di girolamo   the man with no imagination  identity or life  the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would   is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music  one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out    br    br   never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell  amore or l  imbalsamatore  another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist  s insomnia  not unlike the machinist  and in a far more explicit way  the al pacino film insomnia   le conseguenze dell  amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that  s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious  it  s almost impossible to pin point its cause  if indeed there is one    br    br   the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia  played by olivia magnani  grand daughter of the legendary anna  and the memory of titta  s best friend  a man whom he hasn  t seen in    years  unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually  though tentatively at first  accepts to look through again  though it  s never explicitly spelt out  the spectator knows that to a man like titta  accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences  a film without a single scene of sex or violence  a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator  s expectations  le conseguenze dell  amore is a fine representative of that small  quiet  discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt  xa  during the second half of the   s  the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare  more la vita    bella style films    neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell  amore  l  imbalsamatore and others  your loss  world            i watched this film not really expecting much  i got it in a pack of   films  all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect  and you know what i was right  they were all terrible  this movie has a few  and a few is stretching it  interesting points  the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch  the drummer is very like a drummer  i e damned annoying and  well thats about it actually  the problem is that its just so boring  in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension  a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious  i had my thumb on the fast forward button  ready to press for most of the movie  but gave it a go  and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking  coz they don  t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot  i thought he looked a bit like a meercat  all this and i haven  t even mentioned the killer  i  m not even gonna go into it  its just not worth explaining  anyway as far as i  m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london  who was actually quite funny  it wasn  t because of their acting talent  i  ve certainly seen a lot worse  but i  ve also seen a lot better  best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry            i bought this film at blockbuster for        because it sounded interesting  a bit ranma esque  with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton   because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back  and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it  i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge  i was      wrong  br    br   having watched it  i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker  since there is hardly any foul language  little violence  and the closest thing to nudity  honestly  i don  t usually go around hoping for it   is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties  you see her panties a lot in this movie  because no matter what  she  s wearing a miniskirt of some sort   even the anti religious humor is tame  and lame  caricatured  insincere  derivative  unoriginal  and worst of all not funny in the slightest  it would be better just to listen to ray stevens     would jesus wear a rolex on his television show     this would barely qualify as pg     it is not rated   but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of    rent this  as if it was pornographic  any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream  but they insist that zack and reba is worse  br    br   it is  but not in that way  br    br   in a way  this worries me  the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning  if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides  not this one  but better ones like the virgin suicides   it  s teenagers  if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect  then i have little chance of turning a story i  ve been writing into a pg    movie  the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve   suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers  i think it  s number     so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it  br    br   just say no to this movie  though                  the plot is about the death of little children  hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings  during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter  in the end the serial killer get caught  that  s it  but before you find out who dunnit  you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors  it is unbelievable how bad these actors are  including hopper  i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time  just don  t watch the movie  i  ve warned you            ever watched a movie that lost the plot  well  this didn  t even really have one to begin with  br    br   where to begin  the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms  that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing   the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away    or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable  or even the beginning which suggests a spate of     killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house  or the bizarre ritual with the salt   pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction  br    br   add a lead actress who can  t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty  but not in the way you hope  br    br   given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the     s  mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder  it offers nothing but curiosity value  and one classic   daft   murder  don  t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before   br    br   after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up  halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe  what do they do  slide down and run like the rest of us  no  of course not  they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon  br    br   it really is only a movie as they say             okay  so this series kind of takes the route of   here we go again    week in  week out david morse  s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle   but what  s wrong with that   david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there  and certainly the coolest  and to have him in a series created by david koepp   a great writer   is heaven   br    br   due to the lack of love for this show by many  i can  t see it going to a season series   but you never know  the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me   let  s hope something good can make it past a first series              after sitting through this pile of dung  my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie  it was that listless and formulaic  but the u s  propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves  disappointingly  that it  s the work of humans  call me a conspiracy theorist  but quotes like    we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it   seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq  etc  the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like    i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip   with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene  the   reasoning   behind each plot turn and new   clue   is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow  and there  s also a bonus side plot of misogyny  with dr  whatever her name was being chided by all involved for   never shutting up    she  s clearly in the movie only for looks  but they felt the need to slap a   dr    title on her character to give her some gravity  at one point  cage  s character says    don  t you ever shut up    and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands  like she  s a child  truly grotesque  the only benefit to this movie was that it  s so astonishingly bad  you do get a few laughs out of it  the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it  creepy               it had all the clich  s of movies of this type and no substance  the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it  the production was good  however  the script and acting were b movie quality  the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors  the good actors didn  t hold their own nor did they lift up the others   br    br   this movie is not worthy of more words  but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines  james wood and cuba gooding  jr  play caricatures of themselves in other movies   br    br   if you are looking for mindless entertainment  i still wouldn  t recommend this movie            this movie is based on the book    a many splendored thing   by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites  a topic that comes from han  s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china  that background  and the beautiful hong kong settings  gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time  br    br   other than that  the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself  the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful  oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china  william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world  the acting is top notch  and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined  br    br   the cinematography really brings out fifty  s hong kong  especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments  the ending is a real tear jerker  some may consider sentimental romances pass    but  for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories  this is a shining example            of all the films i have seen  this one  the rage  has got to be one of the worst yet  the direction  logic  continuity  changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain    how could anyone come up with something so crappy    gary busey is know for his   b   movies  but this is a sure   w   movie   w waste   br    br   take for example  about two dozen fbi   local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer  inside the jeep is ma and is   confused   as to why all the cops are about  within seconds a huge gun battle ensues  ma being killed straight off  the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them  the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet  ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough  truly a miracle  not since the six shooter held     bullets has there been such a miracle            i had heard good things about   states of grace   and came in with an open mind  i thought that   god  s army   was okay  and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker  the film began with some shaky acting  and i thought    well  maybe it will get better    unfortunately  it never did  the picture starts out by introducing two elders    mormon missionaries    and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them  instead  the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries  something that undeniably exists  but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays  and it becomes almost laughable  br    br   dutcher  s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience  by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries  dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience  the film in no way reflects reality  missions are nothing like what dutcher shows  having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact  and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity  br    br   the conclusion  which i  m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all  was both unbelievable  c  mon  the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home    and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other   and cheesy  next time  dutcher  try making a movie that someone can identify with            this movie struck home for me  being     i remember the       s and my father working in a factory  i figured  if i worked hard too  if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream  the house  a few kids  a car all to call my own  i  ve noted however  without a degree in something  unlike my father that quit at ninth grade  and a keen sense of greed and laziness  you can  t get anywhere  br    br   i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs  it  s made for tv  and i just saw it an hour ago  ic an  t find it anywhere  i  d love to show this to my friends  my pseudo friends  family and other relatives  see what they think and remind them that once upon a time  americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished   i think the feeling is still there  but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas              as a disclaimer  i  ve seen the movie     times in the last    years  and i only just saw the musical this week  this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn  t in the musical  however  it tainted me when i watched the musical       br    br   i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role  along with kasey  i think her   let me dance for you scene   is one of the best parts of the movie  a worthwhile addition compared to the musical  the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical  as well as the cast which is at least    times bigger  easier to do in the movie of course   the decors  lighting  dancing  and singing are also much superior in the movie  which should be expected  and was indeed delivered   br    br   the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie  the new ones are quite good ones  and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion  especially compared to a musical which has few decors  the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking  and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters  but their dancing is impeccable  and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical          protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors  the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary  the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie  unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film           how this film could be classified as drama  i have no idea  if i were john voight and mary steenburgen  i would be trying to erase this from my cv  it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules  abraham and moses got melded into noah  lot  abraham  s nephew  lot  turns up thousands of years before he would have been born  canaanites wandered the earth   really  what were the scriptwriters thinking  was it just ignorance    i remember something about noah and animals  and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school    or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible  from christians  jews and muslims  to historians  archaeologists  geologists  psychologists  linguists    as a matter of fact  did anyone not get offended  anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one            preston sturgis   the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late     s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television  in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael  s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz   orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis   screenplay here  as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site  kael overstated her case  br    br   there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane  the newsreel  representing ralston   the henry luce clone   thatcher  s memoirs  bernstein  jed leland  susan alexander kane  and raymond the butler  each has his or her different slant on kane  reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man  and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane  s story  this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident  br    br   this is not the situation in the power and the glory  yes  like kane it is about a legendary business leader   here it is tom garner  spencer tracy   a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country  but there are only two narrators   they are garner  s right hand man henry  ralph morgan  and his wife  sarah padden   this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner  henry  when he narrates  is talking about his boss and friend  whom he respected and loved  his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public   she sees only the flaws in henry  br    br   typical example  although he worked his way up  tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years  unions are troublemakers  and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans  henry describes tom  s confrontation with the union in a major walk out  and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life  but henry  s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike  apparently blowing up the union  s headquarters   killing many people   so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black  br    br   i  m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane  s success  few films do   including all of orson welles   other films   but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one  s interest to the end  and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally  the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home  br    br   when they marry  tom wants to do well  in part  to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had  but in america great business success comes at a cost  tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire  he expands it and improves it constantly   but it takes him away from home too much  and he loses touch with sally  and he also notices eve  helen vinson   the younger woman who becomes his mistress  when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her  br    br   similarly tom too gets a full shock  which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry   eve marries tom  and presents him with a son   but it turns out to be eve  s son by tom  s son tom jr   philip trent   the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself  br    br   the film is not a total success   the action jumps at times unconvincingly  yet it does make the business seem real  note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line  and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans   sturgis came from a wealthy background  so he could bring in this type of detail  so on the whole it is a first rate film  no citizen kane perhaps  but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america            average  and surprisingly tame  fulci giallo which means it  s still quite bad by normal standards  but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance  br    br   the genre  s well known weaknesses are in full gear  banal dialogue  wooden acting  illogical plot points  and the finale goes on much too long  while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say  limp affair  br    br   fulci  s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing  though  yellow clues wherever you look  br    br     out of    limping killers           return to the   th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the   s and   s  whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood  and the protagonist gordon liu  the counterpart to the western  s clint eastwood  digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest  this is   presented in shaw scope    just like the good old days  br    br   this film is a simple story of good versus evil  told in   acts  which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era  br    br   act one sets up the premise  workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot  having their wages cut by     by incoming manchu gangsters  they can  t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters  and their boss  at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk  one of the best comedy sequences   but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times  br    br   act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob  however  without real martial arts  he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple  to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly  after some slapstick moments  he finally gets accepted by the abbot  whom he impersonated   but is disappointed at the teaching methods   kinda like mr miyagi  s style in karate kid  but instead of painting fences  he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple  nothing can keep a good man down  and he unwittingly builds strength  endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way  br    br   act three is where the fight fest begins  with cheesy sound effects  each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment  but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here  with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners  and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles  you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow  with some pause in between moves  but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks  they sure don  t make fight scenes like they used to  return to the   th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday  so  if you  re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane  what are you waiting for               spoilers    all too  in real life as well as in the movies  familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun  or rifle  in their hands  the case of young and innocent  in never handling or firing a gun  jimmy davis  franchot tone  has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men  like jimmy davis  are forced to take up arms for their country  br    br   jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay  by being belted in the mouth  by his good friend fred p  willis  spencer tracy  ended up on the front lines in france  with jimmy  s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple  it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german  who raised his arms in surrender  that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him  br    br   recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy  gladys george  rose was really in love with jimmy  s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her  it  s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose  thinking that he was killed  fell in love and later married jimmy  when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy  now fully recovered from his wounds  was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy  s proposal of marriage to her  br    br   with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred  who  s still in love with her  a bitter and resentful young man  it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front  smug and sure of himself  and his ability to shoot a gun  jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city  s underworld  not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster  br    br   jimmy  s life of crime came full circle when rose  after she found out about his secret life  ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a   valentine day   like massacre  with his gang members dressed as cops  of his rival mobsters  while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then  after his three year sentence is up  get his life back together   br    br      spoiler alert    hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law  it  s at fred  s circus  where he works as both manger and barker  that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he  like at his trial  had a sudden change of heart  but the thought of going back to prison  with at least another ten years added on to his sentence  was just too much for jimmy  it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job  that he himself didn  t have the heart to do  for him            bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the       s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones  br    br   bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young  after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides   deaths  the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards  br    br   you have got almost everything in this movie  the scientist  s assistants consist of an old hag  a hunchback and dwarf  her sons   a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela  s house  bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie  br    br   the corpse vanishes is worth a look  especially for bela lugosi fans  great fun  br    br   rating    stars out of              i cannot believe i enjoyed this as much as i did  the anthology stories were better than par  but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me  alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself   where i have i seen them before    forget the running time listed on new line  s tape  this ain  t no     minutes  according to my vcr timer and imdb  space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an              the    percent of the nations nitwits that still support w  bush would do well to see this movie  which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of      as strikingly similar to the post      socio political landscape  maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a   whupping they deserve  it  s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country  those who voted for him can  t be denied the right to ever vote again  they  ve clearly shown they have no sense of character  br    br   what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre  a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can  t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism  execution and murder  self defense and patriotism  his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he  s helped create  sound like any belligerent  overprivileged  retarded yale cheerleaders you know of   br    br   wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen  as sympathetic as robespierres plight is  it  s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he  ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine            as someone has already mentioned on this board  it  s very difficult to make a fake documentary  it requires tremendous skill  pacing  patience  directorial   distance    a plausible premise  a narrative   flow    and really believable acting  aka great acting    br    br   such is not the case with   love machine    it starts to show its faux hand about the    minute mark  with    minutes left to watch   and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in  it  s downhill from there  br    br   director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon  but to be fair to eriksen  his problems started early  as he explains in the extras  he began wanting to do a real doc  couldn  t get funding  and settled for a cheaper way of making his film  br    br   the premise    people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website    was perhaps more interesting in          when the film was made  eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff    a pushy   host    hand held cameras  zooms  grainy blacks and whites    all  i guess  to elicit a sense of authenticity  but it just doesn  t work  the film is confusing and forced  but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue            the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more  of course it  s not going to be an oscar nominated film  it  s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for    minutes  br    br   the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert  it  s just them fighting back throughout the whole film  which includes a lot of violence  which is basically the whole film  as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing  and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience  br    br   i  d give the hills have eyes ii   out of    for pure entertainment  and that only  although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on  as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake  the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment  something to pass time if you  re bored  and nothing else  br    br                  i laughed all the way through this rotten movie  it  s so unbelievable  a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage  has a breakdown in front of a real estate office  what happens  the office manager comes outside and offers her a job    hilarious  next thing you know the two women are going at it  yep  they  re lesbians  nothing rings true in this   lifetime for women with nothing better to do   movie  clunky dialogue like   i don  t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn  t take it   doesn  t help  there  s a wealthy  distant mother who disapproves of her daughter  s new relationship  a sassy black maid   unbelievable that in the year       a film gets made in which there  s a sassy black maid  hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave  the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids  sheesh  no cliche is left unturned            no spoilers   br    br   after hitchcock  s successful first american film  rebecca based upon daphne dumarier  s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue  he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period   mistaken identity and espionage  as the u s  settled into world war ii and the large scale   war effort   of civilians building planes  weaponry and other necessary militia  the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes  these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good  law abiding citizens  knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre  producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption  war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity  the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker  during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc  who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock  s sensibilities  br    br   this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate    year old barry kane  robert cummings  who  while at work at a los angeles airplane factory  meets new employee frank frye  norman lloydd  and moments later is framed for committing sabotage  fleeing the authorities who don  t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city  these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful   freaks   and a popular billboard model patricia martin  priscilla lane  who  during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security  he falls madly in love with  of course in the land of hitchcock  patricia  kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry  falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix  br    br   in good form for this outing  hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies  average joes  and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals  pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving  it  s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited  culminates in one of hitchcock  s more memorable finales  look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions  all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time   shooting ban   on public attractions   while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock  s most well known films  it  s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual   terrific hitchcock villains  remember to look for hitchcock  s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film  hitchcock  s original cameo idea that was shot  him fighting in sign language with his   deaf   wife  was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf            i just watched the dresser this evening  having only seen it once before  about a dozen years ago  br    br   it  s not a   big   movie  and doesn  t try to make a big splash  but my god  the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless  albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie  br    br   the dresser is the story of sir  an aging shakespearean actor  finney   and his dresser norman  courtenay   sort of a valet  putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii  these are two men  each dependent upon the other  sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole  wheedle  and bully him into getting onstage for his    th performance of lear  and norman lives his life vicariously through sir  without sir to need him  he is nothing  or thinks he is  anyway  br    br   this is a character driven film  the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters  and as such  it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life  finney  only    years old  is completely believable as a very old  very sick  petulant  bullying  but brilliant stage actor  he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they  re taking their bows  and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser  who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer  employer is really the wrong term to use  though  for although  technically their relationship is that of employer and employee  most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple  br    br   yes  there are others in the cast of this movie  but there is no question that the true stars are finney  courtenay  and the marvelous script by ronald harwood  that is not to say that there aren  t other fine performances  most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge  there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires  old regrets  and what might have been  br    br   although it doesn  t get talked about these days  it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards  best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay  best picture  best director  peter yates   and best adapted screenplay  br    br   i had remembered this as being a good movie  but i wasn  t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end  if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about  and be hugely entertained all the while  then i encourage you to see the dresser            what happened  what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast  but somewhere the movie loses it  actually  it never really got going  there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant  then find out that she is after all  but that was it  steve martin  who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie  was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie  other than to make it longer  i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters  kate and angie  and maybe try not for a pure comedy  which unfortunately it was not  but maybe a drama with comedic elements  i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot            i  ve just watched fingersmith  and i  m stunned to see the      average rating for the show  br    br   not only was the plot was difficult to follow  but it seems character development was randomly applied  br    br   the actors were adequate  but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns  their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional  once this happens  the story really falls flat and becomes tedious  br    br   and just in case anyone didn  t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way  this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film  br    br   the end scene is disappointing and phoned in  and anyone who sat back and went   ohhh  so they were carpet munchers all along     must have been out for the evening  br    br   two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy  none for the rest of it              so let  s begin     br    br   the movie itself is as original as cronenberg  s movies would usually appear    br    br   my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses  she is as lovely as usual  this cutie  br    br   i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers  still it  s quite interesting and entertaining to follow   br    br   the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array     br    br   recommend with confidence                besides being boring  the scenes were oppressive and dark  the movie tried to portray some kind of moral  but fell flat with its message  what were the redeeming qualities   on top of that  i don  t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did            an unmarried woman named stella  bette midler  gets pregnant by a wealthy man  stephen collins   he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own  things go ok until the child named jenny  trini alvarado  becomes a teenager and things gradually  and predictably  become worse  br    br   i  ve seen both the silent version and sound version of   stella dallas    neither one affected me much  and i cry easily  but they were well made if dated  trying to remake this in      was just a stupid idea  i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of   beaches   to get this made  this  predictably  bombed  the story is laughable and dated by today  s standards  even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end  stephen collins and marsha mason  both good actors  don  t help in supporting roles  flimsy and dull  really  who thought this would work  see the      stanwyck version instead  i give this a              don  t torture a duckling is one of fulci  s earlier  and honestly  in terms of story line  better     films   and although not the typical   bloodbath   that fulci is known for   this is still a very unique and enjoyable film  br    br   the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring  some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations   either as suspects  or those   helping   the investigation  or in some cases both    include the towns police force  a small time reporter  a beautiful and rich ex drug addict  a young priest and his mother  an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot  g    a mentally handicapped townsman  and a deaf mute little girl  all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns  until the actual killer is revealed    br    br   don  t torture a duckling is neither a   classical   giallo or a typical fulci gore film  although it does contain elements of both   it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery  with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence  although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci  s later works   this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end  recommended for giallo murder mystery fans  or anyone looking to check out some of fulci  s non splatter films   but don  t despair  don  t torture still has more than it  s fair share of violence and sleaze  some may be put off by the subject of the child killings  and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys  which is also kind of disconcerting   but if that type of material doesn  t bother you  then definitely give this one a look                   busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad  bad ass bitch alexandra  the faithful acolyte of faust  an evil entity trapped in hell  determined to free her master  the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success  but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust  the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor  which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive  troll like creatures called lite and dark  br    br   now alexandra must find a replacement gem  which isn  t going to be easy  the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover  police detective jonathan graves  peter liapis   who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of  meanwhile  wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home  br    br   in the warped movie world of jim wynorski  all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker  ghoulies iv is no exception  every woman in this film  whether she be a police captain  a curator of antiquities  or a mental patient in an asylum  is hot  hot  hot and wears not a lot  and it  s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable  br    br   but be warned  even though the presence of semi naked  quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier  there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal  the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful  the black humour  as the dvd blurb describes it  is about as funny as a knee to the knackers  with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy  and the special effects are bargain basement  consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier  br    br        solely for the high bimbo quotient            i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie  it didn  t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing  salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd  the music was not bad it was quite nice  usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film  the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes  ali larter  her acting had a lot to be desired  however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore  all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie  thank you            i  m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies  which it is not  even though marques houston did appear in   hp     he played a totally different character  he was  eight years older  in this film  okay   so reid and martin weren  t the most talented and couldn  t carry a film all by themselves  but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference  albeit minor  to the earlier movies  i  m sure everyone who wanted to see it was   hoodwinked    into thinking that they were seeing a sequel  not a totally different film with a familiar name  and i  m sorry   kym whitley is not funny  and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris  ketty lester  or dc curry in the earlier films  although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion   i have to give this a thumbs down   just naming the film   down to the last minute   would have been ok  furthermore  the hudlin brothers  who produced the first three movies  were not involved in the making of this film            this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen  the writer obviously bought the playbook   how to write a space disaster movie   and followed it play by play  in particular  the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space   putting on a brave show in the face of disaster   has been done time and time again  br    br   max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw     million at the project  but  judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects  the producers could only muster     thousand  to learn that the film was nominated for a   special visual effects   emmy has me absolutely gob smacked  br    br   i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects  br    br   and the plot holes are too numerous to mention  but i will pick one out as an example  now  i  m no nasa expert  but surely it  s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program  surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before  br    br   the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell  he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script  br    br   i give this film   out of     with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark            caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up  robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason  while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield  ty webb is funny  being the only character from the original  most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original  henry wilcoxon for example  except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt  being played by randy quaid  every line he says reminds me of the originals humor  especially the scene at his office  i don  t go in for law suits or motions  i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f   ing baseball bat  make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever  arff arff arff  then eat it  and then i  m comin   upstairs junior  and i  m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs  and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a    do we have an understanding    offsetting his small role however  is dan acroyd  who is obviously no replacement for bill murray  his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny  its just stupid  overall caddyshack ii is a good movie  but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it            honestly   this short film sucks  the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience  the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven  t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it  if the film was a little grainy it might have added some   creepiness factor   to what was going on  i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter   but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others  are more shocking than in aftermath  all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull      this is an expensive  beautifully filmed turd  it  s not that shocking  it  s not that disgusting  if you insist on viewing it   rent it  i give it a   for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia  there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos      the filming is good and it does have some   gore    if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore     but other than that   absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess  on the other hand   genesis   cerda  s   sequel   to aftermath  now available as a   double feature   released by unearthed films  is an absolute masterpiece of a short film  really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material  although i don  t care for aftermath at all  genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future              i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written  its not just about entertainment  there  s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across  and yes  it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn  t watch sepet and or gubra for    times   br    br   i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right  its really ironic how the characters relate  like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra  and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future   br    br   and i absolutely love the voice overs  its crude yet awakeningly fresh  like  when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard  then there was suddenly mukhsin  s voice saying   bismillahhirrahmannirrahim      the scene when he climbed the tree   br    br   it captured malaysian  s attitude and in some mild way  sniggering at how pathetic it is  portrayed in the character  for example  even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice  and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long  and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl  when ur own life isn  t sorted out   br    br   all i can say is  this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it   br    br   it kept me glued to the screen  i couldn  t even take my eyes off it  not even to make out in the cinema  ha ha            i am not a golf fan by any means  on may    about       pm the movie started with a scene in the late       s  old movies i like but not golf however  within the first scene a young boy  harry vardon  is awaken by the voices of men  he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something    so   then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on  the movie is excellent  we then see this young boy now a man  professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood  then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf  you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period  then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning  don  t want to give away too much   i was up until   a m  this is super please see the movie            upon viewing tobe hooper  s gem  crocodile  in       i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre  i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness  if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts  with ed writing the scripts  and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer  all we  d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants  br    br   while tobe hooper  s crocky opus referenced his own movies  blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies  see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages  rip offs to jaws  temple of doom  indiana jones   last crusade  the convent  godzilla       and any james bond movie  also  try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock  br    br   i was disappointed the crock didn  t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism   or crocky appreciation  but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach  perhaps  in the coming years  we  ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset  or hopefully  a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed  br    br   all in all  the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me            it tries to be the epic adventure of the century  and with a cast like sh   kasugi  christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time  it  s actually is a pretty fun  swashbuckling adventure that  even with it  s flaws  captures your interest  it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it  even if it  s made in the   s  it doesn  t have a modern feel  it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had  big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i  m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had  this on the other hand  just has the real feeling  you just can  t hate it  i think it  s an okay adventure movie  and i really love the soundtrack  damn  i want the theme song            the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang  do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety  no they don  t because coburn has a mission of revenge  to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman  br    br   that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after  as he explains it to his daughter  barbara hershey  coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff  his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired  it  s not something he  s proud of  she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt  br    br   lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is  heston is his usual stalwart hero  but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn  he blows everyone else off the screen when he  s on   br    br   coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can  t touch him  he knows that heston has to make it personal then  br    br   coburn  s gang includes  morgan paull  thalmus rasulala  john quade  larry wilcox  and jorge rivero  heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be  br    br   the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western  andrew mclaglen directed it and i  m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh  it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence  of which there is a lot   br    br   for a little peckinpaugh lite  the last hard men is your film            maybe it was the title  or the trailer  certainly not the interview on the dvd  which is with the director as he keeps saying   hi  kids   into the camera like a buffoon   but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal  bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator  turns out it  s way too sleazy for its own good  or bad  or whatever  there  s a problem  and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust  similar to this in many respects  in not having balance to the sex and violence  too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno  and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies  and with the killing scenes  there has to be at least a little tack  and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity  in creating the creature killer whatever  entrails of a virgin has neither  it  s safe to say it  s a pretty soulless movie  even if isn  t one of the very worst ever made  it  s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their   other   heads  br    br   in this case  we  re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls  nothing too salacious  and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by   a murderer   as he  s credited  first off  the director kazuo   gaira   komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on  we get spliced in  or phoned in  take your pick  clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere  it looks like it  s from another movie  then once settled into the house  there  s a   wrestling   scene that  s poorly choreographed and shot  yeah  we really need to see him   all   there   and then on to the rape and killings  first the rape  by the photographers  who promise the girls some jobs for their time  then the murderer  who like d  amato  s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial  and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one  br    br   now  the latter of those  taken by themselves  should be considered the highlights of the movie  this is like saying  however  that the cro  tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad  an eye gouging scene  a spike thrown like an olympic event  that scene  actually  is kind of cool   and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl  whose inconsequential name i can  t remember  even  this  becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title  on top of this  the sex scenes  which become tedious through   gaira   and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway  are dubbed over by the actors  you  d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough  hence the need to let them   speak   for themselves   but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one  where it  s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror  watch as the last girl left alive  the virgin of the picture  tries to stop the murderer from getting to her  which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him   you just want it to be done with  for the   i hate women   mantra to ease up or be rid altogether            the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes  when sharif or  please god  palance try their hand at fiery oratory  they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug  the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean  and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass  what does that leave us with  one comical dentistry scene  a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train  and  just for kicks  a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro  s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio  never trust a medved  but even a busted clock is right twice a day  this is a historically awful movie            this film took me by surprise  i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler  all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a      rotten tomatoes users ranked it at     and the critics averaged an amazing      if anything  they underrated this little gem  br    br   filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents   for posterity   and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents  outspoken mother mina  and less than forthcoming dad  mike  i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker  mike   mina  s son doug  was going to take us  as a matter of fact  i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this  br    br   life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey  it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told  absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren  t a fan of the documentary genre  this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten       birch street   is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you  the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience  eventually  millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work  bravo                   stephen hawkings is a genius  he is the king of geniuses  watching this movie makes me feel dumb  but it  s a great movie  not highly entertaining  but very very intriguing  the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings  a man who makes einstein look average  and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe  time  the galaxy  and black holes  everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they  v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they  ll write it all down  well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours  here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig  s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen  watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes  awesome  you won  t be the same after you see it            the story is about a psychic woman  tory  who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past  the death of her childhood friend and abusive father   tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring  can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders   br    br   you really don  t need to find out because  oh my god  this was so so so so bad  i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of     s  then the rest of us will see an imdb score of   and actually think this movie is worth watching  but do not be fooled  the ending was predictable  the acting terrible  don  t even get me started about the southern accents  y  all   and the story was trite  just remember    you were warned            oh god  i must have seen this when i was only    or twelve   don  t ask how  i may have been young  but i wasn  t stupid  anyone could see that this is a bad movie  nasty  gross  unscary and very silly  i  ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland  i  ve seen better performances at a school play  and i  ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo  where they do nothing but sit in the water  ignoring the children tapping on the glass  br    br   the story is set in northern australia  a handful of ambitious young people  are trying out a new water sport  surfing in shark filled waters  it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water  after they learn what  they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman  who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family  br    br   i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years  the best of which is lake placid  and the worse of which is its sequel  blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think  with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind  br    br   the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there  resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year  movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature  but a good hour and a half of the viewer  s life  unless you really want to see it  avoid blood surf              fate   leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life  all based around the number     as the story unfolds in real life and fiction  sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end  br    br   the number    offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution  the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential  the screenplay was probably the worst part about it  it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie  it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea  he just didn  t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time  the second half of the film was running low on ideas  the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful  br    br   joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number    reminds me that he  s still capable of making a stinker  he has the movie drenched in style but he just can  t get a good focus  he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace  he switches from reality to what  s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying  the actual book in the film that  s titled   the number      is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears  when carrey is finally done with book  we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery  at this point  the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension  we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it  s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished  br    br   the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable  jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn  t even seem to be trying  he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden  his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character  virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts  logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston  overall  the number    was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills  rating                we brought this film as a joke for a friend  and could of been our worst joke to play  the film is barely watchable  and the acting is dire  the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance  the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on  it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable  br    br   just terrible          this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life   it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous   and i have never seen such bad acting in my life  the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller   i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie   i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves  i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn  i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch  i was very disappointed   the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion           this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds  i wouldn  t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end  if you don  t want to know much about the plot  don  t keep reading  br    br   gilbert  s character  ophelia  is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident  gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she  otherwise a good actress  cannot realistically pull off any kind of accent  brad johnson  also an excellent actor  is matt  who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce  he is gentle  convincing and compelling in this role  br    br   the two meet on the beach through her daughter  pip  and initially  ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid  all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love  br    br   the chemistry between the two leads is not great  even though the talent of these two people is not  in my opinion  a question  they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical  two people meet  tragedy  bigger tragedy  a secret is revealed  another tragedy  and then they get together  i wish there was more to it than that  but there it is in a nutshell  br    br   i wanted mindless entertainment  and i got it with this  in regard to the genre of romantic films  this one fails to be memorable    a secret affair   with janine turner is far superior  not a steele book   as are some of steele  s earlier books turned into film           oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies    i don t even remember how many i ve seen  maybe it sells    but not to me  not scary at all  the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these    also the pulling of the kid  i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies  cellphone scene is also nothing new    the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked    i mean it lacked all dramaticness    ok this is for kids       who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique    we ll let me tell you  there s a million of you  d this is one of them       i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this           nicholas walker is paul  the local town reverand who  s married to martha  ally sheedy   but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair  veronica  dara tomanovich   however in so doing  he gets a bout of amnesia  hence the name of the film   sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of   misery   type of way  it  s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this  not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator  in a film billed as a   black comedy    one has to bring both elements into said movie  while this does bring the former in spades  it sadly contains none of the latter  furthermore you can  t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus  have absolutely no vested interest in them  technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one  br    br   eye candy  dara tomanovich gets topless  sally kirkland also shows some skin  br    br   my grade  c   br    br   where i saw it  showtime showcase           hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world  it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again  take superheroes for example  for each x man and spiderman  there are daredevil  elektra  ghost rider and hulk  japanese horror remakes are even worst  it only took the ring  which was pitch perfect  mostly because of mr  gore verbinsky   to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors  e g  the ring    the eye  dark water  which was fine  but pointless   and the grudges  br    br   the first grudge wasn  t entirely bad  it was scary most of the way  which is what one could expect from it  plus  the plot had some brains mixing narratives  grudge   is exactly like the previous  this could be a good thing  but hey  what boy men in black ii  was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain  for the grudge    the critic goes the same way  br    br   tired scares  bad acting  except for amber tamblyn   and clich  s all over the place  three stories take place  on different places and time  there is aubrey  tamblyn  investigating what drove her sister karen  sarah michelle gellar  to death  allison  arielle kebbel  who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place  and finally  an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door  glad to say  and i mean it  that everything is tied up at the end  but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture  when everything else is simply tiresome and dull  br    br   the chills are all over there  a girl alone in the lockers  someone who shouldn  t enter a house  others that dig too deep  meanwhile  ghosts keep killing and killing and killing  which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic  hey  doesn  t that seem just like another bad japanese remake  something called pulse  yeah  day after day it  s getting easier to hold a grudge    against hollywood bullshits              down periscope   has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs  since then  we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now  br    br   it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con  it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters  i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered  br    br   the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession  even among the very young  i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile  alabama in       a group of cub scouts  my grandson among them  had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board  br    br   it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood    which is rare company  br    br   thanks to kelsey grammar  lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie  such great entertainment            if you came here  it  s because you  ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it  br    br   i feel for you  i  really  do  and i profusely apologize as a canadian  because that  s what we do  that this film ever had to cross your eyes  if only for a moment  i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases  br    br   i  like everyone else  rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade  i thought    sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie    i  ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their   creation    thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen  i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie  br    br   and for the record  i  saw  the movie  but did not watch it  the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother  s trailer  i swear to god  br    br   you know what  i  m not writing anymore about this  it  s just too painful            deanna durbin  nan grey and barbara read are   three smart girls   in this universal film from       which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences  it also stars ray milland  mischa auer  charles winninger  john king  binnie barnes and alice brady  it  s a sweet story about three young women  now living in switzerland with their divorced mother  who hear their father  winninger  is marrying again  not having seen him in    years and knowing their mother still loves him  they board a ship to america  with the help of the housekeeper nanny  determined to stop the wedding  realizing that the intended  called   precious    barnes  is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother  brady   they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count  this is arranged by their father  s accountant  king   the man he chooses is a full time drunk  auer   but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count  milland   what a mess  br    br   this is a delightful film  not cloying or overly sugary at all  with some nice performances  particularly by auer  milland  barnes and brady  the young women are pretty and all do good work  the emphasis  of course  is on young durbin  who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer  in fact  her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult   she has no trouble with the high notes  as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice  she sings a delightful   il bacio   in a police station  br    br   one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father  played by charles winninger  not want his children around   until he sees them and gets to know them  barnes as the gold digger isn  t all that young  but the girls   mother looks way up there  so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger  more glamorous woman  in fact  he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters  br    br   universal gives durbin the big star buildup here   she has the final shot in the movie  ray milland at this point was still paying his dues  and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is  br    br   very entertaining and of course  this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna            if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to  with conversation  character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new  better and different  those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing  directing  and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england  other days  other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment  made in      with alfred molina  joan plowright  polly walker  josie lawrence  jim broadbent  miranda richardson  and michael kitchens in the major roles  under the brush stroke direction of mike newell  these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter  s eye  reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century  this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character  and the viewer  too  an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us            i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b  demille  s classic epic of       starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke  of course  i was let down  yes  they had all the biblical characters correct  but they didn  t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes  that held your interest throughout the first movie  if you going to have a mini series  you have to have some   rivoting   scenes  the   burning bush    parting the   red sea   drowning   pharohs armies      building sethi  s pyramids    could have been done with todays   technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as   lord of the rings   or the matrix  obviously  they didn  t want to leave a lasting impression of   faith and sacrifice    which is much needed in these trouble times            daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive  english aristocratic snob in a room with a view  passionate irish thief in in the name of the father  an impudent  violent butcher in gangs of new york  in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody  s in the pianist  and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot  just to name a few   his roles all influence eachother  but each is seperate  and utterly unique  he changes completely  with each character he takes on  and i  m beginning to believe that he can act as anything  anything  br    br   as cristy brown he is stunning  he does not ridicule the character  and he does not pity the character  a difficult achievement  and cristy brown comes to life  a smart man  an outrageous man  human  br    br   this movie  despite small scene transition faults and the like  is an inspiration  yes  it  s predictable  but is it stupidly sentimental  no  i laughed  i cried  not a single moment of cheese  proof that this isn  t a hollywood movie  br    br   my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant  when cristy is discussing painters with eileen  peter and her friends  here  s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax    i  ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that  s animated      wheel out the cripple    and his performance never slows down  never falters  and is beautiful  simply  he has a lot of screen time here  i watch it again again  and i never get tired of cristy  s perspicacious eyes  twitching and guttural speeches  br    br   a must see  fo sho  yo            my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts  and thus at least a quarter longer  because otherwise how can one explain its confused  abbreviated storyline  i was never completely lost  but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation  the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot  br    br   if it were longer  it might make more sense  but it still wouldn  t be much good  the movie  s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female  but the movie drops the ball on this  making hera  s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus   followers do or believe  the movie is also interesting because you don  t see the gods and there  s no real certainty that they exist  so it  s got a couple of intriguing ideas  but it doesn  t do anything useful with them  br    br   bad dialog  cardboard characters  and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons  not unwatchable but also not worth watching            well  i like to watch bad horror b movies  cause i think it  s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie   i always compare this movies to   for example   some spielberg  s works and again and again don  t understand the huge difference in what i see   i like ed wood  s movies cause it  s so inept it  s very funny  but people      the chilling   is not funny and is not even   interesting    it  s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable  there  s no acting  no screenplay  no direction  no thrills and not even blood  it  s extremely inept amateurish film  it  s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen  and i had seen a lot of   worst movies     believe me   i warned you                    this is the worst movie i have ever seen  as well as  the worst that i will probably ever see  i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously  just be forewarned    br    br   this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it  its just plain bad bad bad bad bad  br    br   this movie is the equivalent to having a   pet rock   as your friend  you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen  unfortunately  it never does  at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into  lion  s gate completely deceives on this bombshell    no   this is a disaster  after watching this film  you would swear george w  bush had his hands all over the making of this film    yes its that idiotic  br    br   stay away  unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time  its probably how lion  s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe            i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember  i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid  this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new  super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise  there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it  while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario  the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space  br    br   the story begins much like any other mario game  mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom  upon arriving at peach  s castle mario finds bowser and his son  bowser jr   attacking the castle with their airships  bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space  in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet  mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma  s home  a floating space station  here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader  a woman named rosalina  rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station  s power stars and scattered them across the universe  it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach  thus the adventure begins  br    br   the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies  each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars  mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity  some planets are small and others are big  many planets are similar to classic mario environments  the best thing about the game are the controls  all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same  but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game  you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game  and it will as well activate the shooting stars  you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment  then there is the graphics  these are by far the best graphics on the wii  it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks  you could probably almost say it looks as good as some     games  br    br   my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to  and also the story is pretty weak  the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game  no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at   lives  still these minor problems aside it  s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging  this is the type of game that we  ve been waiting for on the wii  br    br   a perfect    out of                this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature   spatula madness   is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers  the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job  joins in the fight against the evil spoons  this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning  but is barely present for the remainder of the feature  this film  s    minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number  unfortunately not much else lies below it  the plot that is set up doesn  t really have time to show  but it  s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films  this film is worth watching at least a few times  take it for what it is  and don  t expect a deep story             okay  last night  august   th        i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr  van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival  here  s what i have to say about it  first of all  the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger  roman polanski  oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i  ve ever seen  second of all  in a short q   a session after the show mr  van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself  calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them  that the film was based on his  van bebble  s  take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news  and i  m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative   so i had second dibs on questions  i asked if he was trying to present the outsider  mtv  sex drugs and rock   n roll version and not necessarily the true story  this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting   f    you  shut the f    up  this is the truth  all those other movies are bullsh      br    br   well anyway  i didn  t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film    you  ve heard the laws side of the story   now hear the story as it is told by the manson family    excuse me  if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn  t want to have anything to do with  how in god  s name can he tell the story for them   this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard  the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock   n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small  dimly lit theatre  and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock   n roll mind of a man who couldn  t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen  this film accomplishes little more than warping the public  s image of actual events  which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today  into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual  br    br   the film was definitely very impressive to look at  the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie  s work with the family off of his lie album  the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos  all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers  i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving  probably the best part of the experience   the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying  the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy  throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow  lethargic  and chubby representation that was actually presented  br    br   all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie  or maybe it was linda  declares at the end    you can write a bunch of bullsh   books or make a bunch of bullsh   movies   etc  etc    case in point  even the disclaimer   based on a true story   is a dead giveaway  signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world  all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap  or actually  maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead  br    br   all i can say is this  when the film ended i got a free beer so i  m glad i went  but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f    up for asking the director a question  peace             i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart  i am glad i did  it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game  i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake  the bonus levels were very hard  the sniper one i think was too hard  it made me so frustrated i didn  t play the game for a week and a half  there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it   br    br   the only thing i might change was the upgrade system  i didn  t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded  such as buying an armor upgrade didn  t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter  i really liked the q copter  i think the developers did a good job             no  this hilariously horrible     s made for tv horror clinker isn  t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake  still  this exceptionally awful  yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute  unremitting silliness and atrociousness that  s quite tasty in a so execrable it  s downright awesome sort of way  richard crenna  looking haggard and possibly inebriated  and yvette mimieux  who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in   jackson county jail    sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint  dull  sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit  pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann  the psychic alien moppets from the disney   witch mountain   pictures  are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty  ugly canine entity in the den  boy  now doesn  t that sound really scary and disturbing  well  scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain  t  but it sure is funny  thanks to curtis    night tide    harrington  s hopelessly weak direction  cartoonish  not so  special effects  an almost painfully risible  n  ridiculous plot  and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story  besides the leads  both martine beswicke and r g  armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman   favorite scene  the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna  practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade  while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock  devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo             it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen  and who will die  it is about   women and a man who on a vacation  this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies  when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death  br    br   this movie  like the others of that era  contrives to bring this about  and the viewer knows this  there is no mystery or suspense  the people squabble  but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time  it is laughable  br    br   the five people happen upon two savage young characters  and go nuts  everyone is nuts  so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda  br    br   for some reason  the guy is attracted to the blonde  who is really not much to look at  and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over  one must remember that in the seventies  movies were meant to appeal to women and not men  br    br   totally crap and totally depressing             marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy   show people   released by mgm in       davies plays a hick from savannah  georgia  who arrives in hollywood with her father  dell henderson   the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot   as is davies outrageous southern costume  davies lands a job in slapstick comedy  not what she wants  but it brings her success  she meets fellow slapstick star william haines  who is immediately smitten with her  well  davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio    high art studios    and lands a job in stuffy period pieces  a handsome but fake actor  andre telefair  shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star  davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life  but of course learns that is not who she really is  marion davies is wonderful throughout  as she   outrageously   runs the gamut of emotions required of a   serious   actress  william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self  and there are cameos by charles chaplin  john gilbert  and other famous stars of the day  including the director of the film  king vidor  this is a silent film with a few   sound effects   as sound pictures were just coming into their own  a treasure of a film             the performance of every actor and actress  in the film  are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be  and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again  however  i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors   and director  attenborough  s credits that puzzles me  aren  t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent  long lasting film for the audience  i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one  possibly one of the   knowledgeable   personnel  insider  of the film             while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring  star trek the final frontier is plain bad  in this terrible sequel  the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth  romulus and kronos  the klingon home world  have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier  there  he hopes to find god  using mysticism and bad writing  he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship  they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien  this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin  at the core is a good idea that is never really developed  the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before  it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco  the action scenes don  t have the suspense of wrath of kahn  the philosophy is boring  and the humor is stale  now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner  when he takes the director  s chair  the ego gets bigger  most of the focus is on him  spock  and mccoy  but does not give the others enough to do  moreover  whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots  he is just plain bad in this one  now kirk is reckless  a practical jokers  and silly  one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song    row row row your boat   in a round by a campfire  in any case  this is the worst of the star trek franchise  i should have given it three out of ten instead of five             despite later claims  this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with   citizen kane    it  s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat  told in flashback but hopping around time  the scriptwriter  preston sturges  shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog  and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of   kane   are evident  still  it  s very watchable  with a young spencer tracy  his old man makeup makes him look just like  well  an old spencer tracy  showing depth and authority  and colleen moore    a little past her prime  and not physically well matched    playing a multifaceted woman behind the man  there  s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history  sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations  the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets  and there are some plot holes left open  how would she know whose son it was if she  s sleeping with both of them    and the music is awfully hokey  for all that  i was quite fascinated             this is the best version  so far  that you will see and the most true to the bronte work  dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared   not handsome    but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark  pretty as she is  is also a complete and believable jane eyre  this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it  nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true   romance   in literature  this is the way to see it  i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original  the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this             apparently  the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called   movie    they described   blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence    i saw no   intrigue    i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie  i saw no   violence    at least  i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with   impervious   skin  but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the   plot    furthermore  as a viewer of many and sundry films  some of which include the occasional kung fu movie   i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable  whatever you may choose to do  i will always remain br    br    correct  br    br    jonathan tanner  br    br     br    br   p s  i was not blinded by the choreography             i liked boyle  s performance  but that  s about the only positive thing i can say  everything was overdone to the point of absurdity  most of the actors spoke like you would expect your   year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded  stone hearted cop  or an ultra evil villain  the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me  i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music  and what  s with the whole     ish police torture stuff  it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story  cox added a lot of things  in fact  that he apparently thought would be really cool  but had nothing to do with the story  that  s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges   stories so good is his minimalism    they are tightly bound  with no superfluous details  this movie is just the opposite  i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung  or thereabouts  i wasted    renting this  but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake            it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you  what a pity   this film is very boring and so long  it s simply painfull  the story is staggering without goal and no fun  br    br   you feel better when it s finished            so well made  no cgi crap  has anyone else been on the   jumping crocs   tour of darwin  s adelaide river before  black water was way realistic  rogue was a bit cringeworthy  br    br   thought the blonde chick was excellent in it   haven  t really seen her before  and the other chick is a babe  she is always excellent   br    br   v  suspenseful   i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick   br    br   got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys  as well   br    br   loved it             the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character  rather than star turns  the need to stage special effects  obligatory romance  and endless car chases  however  there is a car chase in here  and a dandy it is  aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer   recruited   to eliminate him  it is rare that a second or third tier actor  such as quinn  is given an important starring role like this that carries a film  usually  such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw  which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it  donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous  somewhat creepy at times  agent that recruits quinn  ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent  the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines  which converge in gradual fashion toward the end  and not all at once as we  re used to seeing  the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity  the locations are convincing and effective  the soundtrack is nothing special  but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days  without dumb and or meaningless plot developments  unconvincing star turns  loud  annoying  music video type soundtracks  a villain that hams it up  and repeatedly a cast  costumes  and plot that cater mostly to an audience under     this is an outstanding thriller  which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release         of   stars             this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen    the stark scenery   the isolation   the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion   a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication   the acting is completely natural   but for me as a  foodie   the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast  i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well   whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don  t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette  s menu and choice of wines are authentic   and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be  this is a    out of    film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it            set in the       the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi  this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton  gerard depardieu  at his finest  and robespierre  a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak   the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre  he is opposed to   the reign of terror   which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens  mainly by guillotine  who are thought to be opposed to the revolution  danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting  but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown  and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors  this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland  his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union  which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties  his previous film   man of iron          had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa  and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski  and that between danton and robespierre  danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent  the film is based on the polish play   the danton affair   written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the     s  and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical  but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris             usually i  m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties   early nineties film featuring now has beens   but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through  guys dressing up as girls has been done to death   but never so pathetically  corey haim  s performance was abysmal as usual  nicole eggert was not much better  this has no redeeming qualities  even if you are a number    fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash   stay away             i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod  var  but this would have to be the most disappointing so far  this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films  and the story just never got me interested  many almod  var regulars appear in this film  so it  s not like there was a lack of on screen talent  but this film just seemed more serious than his other films  if there was a comedic edge to this movie  i certainly couldn  t find it  and it made for one surprisingly weak movie             i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood  s novel   the robber bride    and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version  a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder  and his buddy  an ex cop journalist  tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman  s crazy female friends  it  s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms  atwood  s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men  victims of scheming women    br    br   heh  okay  you got me  if these guys are mentioned in the book  and i  m pretty sure they  re entirely made up for the movie  i  ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy  apparently  the three main female characters of the novel aren  t enough to carry the movie  zenia  s manipulations aren  t interesting unless we see them happen to a man  and a man  s life is screwed up  roz  charis  and toni tell their stories    to a man  because it  s not important if a man doesn  t hear them  br    br   i liked the characters in the book  it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man  s story  i normally do not look for feminist angles on media  and i tried to enjoy the movie as is  if i hadn  t read the book  i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more  so if you like the cop and the ex cop  and you want to read more about them  you  re out of luck  read the novel  if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot  it  s the same plot  the movie excavated it  ironed it  and sprinkled it with male angst  it  s like zenia  s revenge on margaret atwood            this movie gets a    because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true            ingrid bergman  playing dentist walter matthau  s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss  is absolutely wonderful in this film  she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth  ingrid  s monologue is a front  but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart   matthau is an odd choice for the leading man  he  s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman  not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist   but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie  hawn  who won a supporting oscar  is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today  this bedroom farce isn  t terribly sophisticated  and faintly reminds one of   any wednesday   besides   but it  s a welcome relief from the noisy  teen oriented comedies they turn out today    cactus flower   is a lovely sigh      from                   a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend  learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body  the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing  unfortunately  the man discovers while he is sleeping  his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage    according to the dvd sleeve  s synopsis  br    br   the synopsis isn  t entirely correct  as it turns out  br    br   anyway  the movie opens with a dizzying   out of body   example of handsome director winston rekert  as paul sharpe   s newly discovered   astral body   experience  it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight  young andrew bednarski  as matthew sharpe   being a kid  draws pictures of   the blue man    as his murder spree begins  handsome detective john novak  as stewart kaufman  discovers the victims are connected to mr  rekert  mr  novak  s investigation leads to the supernatural  a prime example of which is karen black  as janus   with whom rekert fears he is falling in love  br    br   several in the cast perform well  but    the blue man   winds up tying itself up in a knot  aka   eternal evil    its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good             ah yes the     s   a time of reaganomics and sly   chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies   at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo   missing in action and uncommon valor   and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn     made money at the box office   they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly   troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place   of course not   troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication   though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones   and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up   maybe it is              this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces    the fall of the house of usher      dance of death    poem    is actually quite creepy from beginning to end  it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house  for example    the cat and the canary      the old dark house      night of terror   and so on   boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests  he dies early in the film  or does he     and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences  i won  t go into too much detail here  but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries  br    br   watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room  br    br   dan basinger                 i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie  jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment  and without exception  everything this company deals with is pure crap  first  and this is very important  never ever watch this movie sober  why would you  unlike many other entertaingly bad movies  this one i feel was made intentionally bad  i just can  t get over how fake the snowman is  which is why its always shown only briefly  the way it moves is the best  this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap  becuz that was made too be a good movie  and that version is as bad as this               revolt of the zombies   proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn  t necessarily make lightning strike twice  br    br   the halperin brothers  responsible for the horror classic   white zombie    made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi  s eyes from that previous film  there was a court battle with the   white zombie   film  s rights owners  who didn  t want the halperins to be able to use the word   zombie   in this title  that word was the only thing that could help this film  because  as everyone knows  bad films can make much more money simply by having the word   zombie   appear in the title  knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting  it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle  the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead  but simply hypnotism victims  br    br   wanna create a mind controlled army of zombies  be ready to crack a few eggs  including your own  br    br   the lame plot  man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend  whom she loves  jealous  this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn  t worth spit  br    br   this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i  ve ever seen  you  d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming  the acting isn  t even good  this movie makes the racially insensitive   king of the zombies    which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought  seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic  it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest   invisible invaders   seem like a serious drama  this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch  south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama   the credits list the ironically named company favorite films  i  m not sure whose favorite film this would be  but they  re obviously an idiot  br    br   not recommended for fans of  zombies  romance  or classic films             the complaints are valid  to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women  i am okay with these night time soaps  like grey  s anatomy  or ugly betty  or west wing  because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end  however  when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men  taye diggs  tim daly  and chris lowell  into sexual tension and romps  and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital  it seems like general hospital   or a female counterpart to baywatch  that was what men wanted and they had it  so if this is what women want so be it  but the idea that this is a high brow show  or something men will watch  is unrealistic             this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year  i didn  t see any cameos in the movie  but it is still pretty good  it is similar to anchorman in the humor department  but i think this is a better put together movie  it actually has a point  if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed  just a well put together movie     if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor  you will find this to be a really good movie  i definitely think that ebert and roeper  s review of this movie is right on  i mean  i don  t really like ebert on most movies  but this is the movie that i will agree about  the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there  there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie  yea  sure  you get laughed at when it is found out about  but it still suggests that you wait  steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet  it is still funny             i remember seeing this film in the mid     s thought it a well paced and well acted piece  i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed  although my office is newish it just    seconds away from   the bank    even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces  br    br   it  s look like the dvd is due a region   release soon  the region   copy i is very poor quality  let  s hope they  ve cleaned it up  br    br   only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with             two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography  it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes       close ups predominated it  close ups of walls  humans and of many other things  the warm colored lighting  which is also usually by the director  gave the movie a warm atmosphere  only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it  an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time  each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie  silence and slow movements characterize the movie  some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups  not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant  i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes  the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the     s  this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end  in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema             luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it  meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another  then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition  above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut  br    br   the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs  chuckles  and more than a few guffaws along the way  the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director  three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he  s sleeping  morty  or   micky   as everyone calls him  wakes up along the side of a road  strung up in some trees several feet above the ground  and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake  there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another  but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness  br    br   the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace  of course it  s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up  and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad  the sentimentality of rudy  s situation seems tacked on to a great degree  notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him    you must be the short depressed kid we ordered    makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling  in other words  murray might as well have said to makepeace    you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn  t fit in    but before it  s all over  murray  s performance makes this plot device more than bearable  he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace  br    br   the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps  very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable  but   it just doesn  t matter    this is a pretty good film on many levels  don  t let the absurd     rating this film is currently getting scare you off  murray will keep you laughing throughout  just be warned      avoid the sequels     especially the one with corey feldman     of    stars  br    br   the hound               the danish bladerunner   is boldly stated on the box  are you kidding me   this film is a complete drag  when i  m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen  i usually pause the vcr  so i won  t miss anything  not this time  i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge  just so i wouldn  t have to go back  why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work  it  s mindboggling  one of the premises of film  is that our hero  who  s a hacker   has a little computerassistant to help him  the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future   when he loses the assistant in the movie  he  s helpless and can  t get into any computers  he  s a hacker  it  s like saying  that you can  t drive your car  if you don  t have your lucky   driving cap   on  i won  t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock               this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off  i know these horrible things happen in the world  but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen  these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies  they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species  br    br   this should be banned and destroyed  i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market   br    br   this movie should be removed from the public  the person who made this movie needs psychological help             anyone who thinks kool moe dee  carol alt  and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i  d love to try sometime  where to begin  lousy soundtrack  hammy acting    action   in places  this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was  s love to star in  i actually felt embarrassed for the   stars   in this   film    the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman  who if he would have been in the movie  would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad  rather than just plain bad  br    br   there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed    do you think i  m an idiot      yes  carol  i do  your agent does  and please for the love of all that is decent and holy    go away and stop degrading yourself like this  this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in  br    br   i would tell you what the plot was  but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article  plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway  so i barely paid attention             this film could have been a decent re make  and gosh knows it tried  or ms  english tried   assembling talented actors together with a successful   experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film  but ms  english  s experience   according to her imdb bio   is exclusively limited to television work  and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film  br    br   i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film  and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential  it looked and felt like it was made for television  to give some credit to ms  english  many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv  and maybe a laugh track would have helped   so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen  if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com  i think it could have worked  but this is cinema and sadly ms  english  s talents didn  t translate  i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors   the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled  meg ryan is her usual perky  cute self  except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face   but where did she have a chance to use her talent   she has made films where she doesn  t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well    but not here  annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions   such a great talent and yet such a poor performance  i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance  and it was sad to see  what worked in this film in the     s doesn  t translate to the     s  and no one helped ms  english get the changes   updates or subtleties right  if only she  as writer  director and producer  had reached out for some assistance  i think it could have been good  but it was not  br    br   it  s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone  s time   money  this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate  a few movie execs are having a meeting   the caption reads    let  s remake a classic with worse everything               i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill  jackie kennedy  s sister and the cousin of these women  would encourage the maysles   to make   big edie   and   little edie   the subject of a film  they certainly could be considered the   skeletons   in the family closet  the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women  i  d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating   i e    are they nuts  or am i missing something      this movie is hard to come by  netflix does not have it  facets does  though             c  mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode  it  s just an old     s tv show   this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe  yeoman barrow  s  ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location  unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages  br    br   this use of an outdoor location  and babe  gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show  br    br   except a few notable exceptions i e   the city on the edge of forever       assignment earth   and   tomorrow is yesterday   the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it  s boring misery  half a dozen good episodes from    is quite a poor batting average  br    br   this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually  contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on  he actually made a lot of rubbish  he doesn  t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example  br    br   just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view  they used wobbly plywood for the floor  cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels  you can clearly see the folds in the paper   every expense spared or what              i just watched this movie on it  s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia  i liked  not loved    mork   mindy   as a kid  mostly for robin william  s zany energetic performance  this movie made me remember why  was the original show great  not really  but robin certainly was  which brings me to this movie  br    br   i was pleasantly surprised  expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show  which in a way it was   but  of course  the real focus was on robin  it was interesting to see robin  s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star  and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife  and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr  williams with integrity  sensitivity  and heart  not just a cute impression  although it was even dead on   on an unrelated note  i noticed that robin  s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman  who was under appreciated by network t v  and held back creatively  but that  s the   taxi   behind the scenes biopic   br    br   all in all  this was a very enjoyable flick  in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan  the acting was solid by all  never melodramatic like i suspected  and the story moved along well  performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi  the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot    not a great masterpiece by any means  i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber   but definitely watchable  especially for those robin williams and   mork   mindy   fans out there  nanoo  nanoo             i caught this film on azn on cable  it sounded like it would be a good film  a japanese   green card    i can  t say i  ve ever disliked an asian film  quite the contrary  some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean  and i am a huge fan of john woo  s hong kong films  i an not adverse to a light hearted films  like tampopo or chung king express  two of my favourites   so i thought i would like this  well  i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious  badly acted film ever again  br    br   i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude  because no one in this film had a personality  and when any of the characters did try to act  as opposed to mumbling a line or two  their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake  i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before   the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki   i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy  because i didn  t laugh once  even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this   a refreshing breath of comedy    it was neither refreshing  nor a breath of comedy  and the ending was very predictable  the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things  br    br   avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting  i actually think that   spike of bensonhurst   is a better acted film than this   and i walked out half way through that film             before i begin  let me get something off my chest  i  m a huge fan of john eyres   first film project  shadowchaser  the film  a b grade cross of both the terminator   die hard  may not be the work of a cinematic genius  but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit    spawned two sequels   a spin off   br    br   judge and jury begins with joseph meeker  a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called   bloody shootout    which seems like a poor name for a killing spree    meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store   being led to the electric chair  there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love  who was killed during the shootout   expressing his revenge for the person who killed her    michael silvano  a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team  and ends up harassing his son  s coach   but once executed  meeker returns as a revenant  or as kelly perine calls   a hamburger without the fries     whose sole aim is to get his revenge  which basically means making silvano  s life a misery  br    br   let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film  it is a supernatural action film  with meeker chasing silvano  using his ability to change form  which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator  a french chef  with an accent as bad as his moustache   a drag queen  a clown   a stand up comedian   a shotgun which fires explosive rounds   an invulnerability to death  although that doesn  t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle   to pay silvano back for killing meeker  s wife  br    br   director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations  instead focusing solely on action scenes  which the film has plenty of  but that is the film  s main flaw  since there  s nothing to connect the action scenes together  the acting is surprisingly good  with keith delivering the best performance  supported ably by kove  as well as paul koslo  who plays the washed up cop quite well  kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse             ye lou  s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization  purple butterfly  against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai  ding hui  zhang ziyi  and her ex lover hidehiko itami  toru nakamura  find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting  br    br   i agree with the reviewer from paris  the film substitutes a convoluted  semi historical conflict for a plot  without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes  the sudden time shifting doesn  t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless  normally i don  t mind dark movies  but the absence of light  the bone jarringly shaky camera footage  and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in  i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film   has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography    but i don  t think that helps the movie  the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the   th century  and i don  t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film  the overly melodramatic moments don  t add to its watchability  br    br   the actors are all suitably melancholy  zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films  brooding and looking generally annoyed  however  at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator  br    br   all in all  a very disappointing film  especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he                  after hearing about george orwell  s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life  i  m now     but never having read the book  i am totally confused as to what i  ve just seen  br    br   i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel  as i  m sure most are  but only through hearsay and quotes  without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery  and even with it i  m still no more educated about the story of      than i was before i watched it  br    br   on the plus side    br    br   the cinematography is amazing  hurt   burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate  the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making  br    br   now for the down sides  and there are plenty    br    br   there is a war going on   at least as far as the propaganda is concerned   but why   with who  nothing is explained  there are a couple of names bandied about  eurasia etc   but they mean nothing without explanation  br    br   who is winston  what does he do  where does he come from  where does he work  why is he changing news reports  why isn  t he on the front line  why doesn  t he eat the food in the canteen  what is that drink he  s drinking through the entire film  why is he so weak   ill  why isn  t he brainwashed like the rest of them  what  s the deal with his mother   sister  what happened to his father  a little back story would have been nice  no scrub that  essential for those like myself that haven  t read the book  without it  this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on  br    br   the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on  i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it  s very annoying all the same  br    br   also  i know this has been mentioned before  but why all the nudity  it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage  br    br   i personally can  t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days  we are not all brainwashed simpletons  but this is a few steps too far the other way  i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you  ve read the book because if this film really is the   literal translation   that i  ve seen many people say  i would find it very hard to understand why      is hailed as the classic it is  br    br   there  s no denying that it was light years ahead of it  s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date   maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be    but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline  br    br   i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i  m to make any sense out of this  br    br   all in all  very disappointed in something i  ve waited for years to watch             this cute animated short features two comic icons   betty boop and henry  br    br   henry is the bald  slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks  br    br   well here he does speak  br    br   he wants to get a puppy from betty boop  s pet store  and when he is left to mind the store   some hilarious hijinks ensue  br    br   betty sings a song about pets  henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey  but everything works out in the end             i just got back from this free screening  and this   osama witch project   is the hands down worst film i  ve seen this year  worse than even   catwoman     which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction  br    br   in   september tapes    a   film crew   of   documentary journalists   heads to afghanistan   despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip  the conditions and  oh yeah  the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife  s death on sept       to track down osama bin laden  br    br   they   made   eight tapes on their journey  which now   document   their travels and  of course  their attempts to kill the terrorist leader   the eight tapes  thankfully  all end at points significant in the narrative  which is convenient for a   documentary     br    br   the psychotic  idiotic protagonist   who is given to long  significant speeches that he probably learned watching   macgyver     cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps  i don  t know why he didn  t just wear a sign on his back that said   shoot me    br    br   the crew  s translator  supposedly their sensible voice of reason  does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom   br    br   you wish they  d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons  br    br   around   tape      i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew             i remember seeing this film in the theater in      when i was   years old  you do the math   i absolutely loved it  i was tarzan for the   weeks after seeing it  climbing the furniture  jumping around making monkey sounds   it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys  but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert  keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this        was the last time i saw that film  until about a month ago  it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at      am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at      am  i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid   br    br   upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that  that andie macdowell  s voice was dubbed by someone else  ian holme was of course solid as usual  and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up  but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan  he was great  the depth he managed to capture in so few lines  his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark  were just amazing  br    br   as i stated earlier i am lambert fan  but i  m used to highlander  the hunted and fortress  in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again  br    br   so to make a short story way too long  i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good  but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until     am to see it             a family is traveling through the mid west  there  s widower ben  charles bateman   his girlfriend nicky  ahna capri  and ben  s little daughter k t   geri reischl   then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely  their car breaks down and they  re forced to stay  they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil  br    br   the story is not that good  people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end  also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end  the acting is pretty poor too  bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same  only old pros strother martin and l q  jones give good performances  still this movie does work  it forgoes blood and gore  there  s some but this is pg  and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere  the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works  martin especially chews the scenery in his role  i can  t explain exactly why i  sort of  like this movie but it did work on me  it  s a quiet kind of horror that isn  t made anymore  hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered  a               francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman  s flight from her husband  and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her  we learn little about this woman  s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late  she  s also recently learned she  s pregnant  which has further complicated her heart  she doesn  t want to be a complacent wifey  despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone   she meets two men on her journey  a former college football hero who  after an accident during a game  has been left with permanent brain damage  and a sexy  strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life  the clear  clean landscapes  as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler  are astutely realized  as are the characters  shirley knight  james caan  and robert duvall each deliver strong  gripping performances  most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms  some scenes  such as knight  s first call home from a pay phone  or her first night alone with caan where they play   simon says    are almost too intimate to watch  coppola toys with reality  turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we  ve been made privy to  he allows scenes to play out  yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy  there are at least two or three very frisky moments   it  s a heady endeavor  so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later  some may shun coppola  s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony  however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings      from                this movie was not very well directed  they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying   save time  the only upside   me was that the actor who played finny was cute  some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book  major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely  also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary  also i was surprised   not pleasantly  by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters  leper  was poorly interpreted and portrayed  he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book  over all disappointing            the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear  sadly  they stopped there  they should have continued to make the script disappear  then the silly set  and finally every visible element of this film  because  there  s nothing else there to show  br    br   gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film  i don  t really think they exist  i think they bought this script at   scripts r us    where you buy a standard blank   monster movie   script and just fill in the blanks  there  s a monster stalking us  let  s split up   they actually   let  s split up   in this movie   hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar  not dead yet  burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire  not dead yet  you know  the standard stuff  even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie  ir glasses  spraying with something like paint  were handled badly   br    br   what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie  they psychological issues for the subject  the deterioration of the mind due to the process  treating an invisible subject  and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than   seconds and would have been far more interesting  had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end  it would have been a much better movie  all in all  it stunk  br    br   i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie  but i don  t want to do any spoilers  suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don  t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than               a young girl becomes a war time marine  s pen pal  and when he visits at war  s end expecting someone a bit more   available    comic complications ensue  all ultimately works out well  naturally  but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery  errol flynn  s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from   casablanca   is a highlight  as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image  the   jumping   scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot   it is tucker  though  who   tucks   the movie under his arm  lowers his head and barrels over the goal line  he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in   f troop   and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance  eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued  and little patti brady charms as tucker  s actual pen pal friend  a fine  lightweight   coming home   comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining             this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful  ashmit plays the role of richard gere  emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses   br    br   even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful  though it couldn  t catch up with the original  it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers  where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show  emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer  in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors  though the film bombed at the box office  the actors got the undue recognition  in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film   br    br   all said  this is not a family film  so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family             robert altman  s downbeat  new fangled western from edmund naughton  s book   mccabe   was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following  aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario  the characters here don  t merit much interest  and the picture looks  intentionally  brackish and unappealing  bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel  once the profits start coming in  beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action  altman creates a solemn  wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place  but the action in this sorry little town is limited  most of the story being made up of vignettes  and altman  s pacing is deliberately slow  there  s hardly a statement being made  just the opposite  in fact  and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds  it  s a self defeating picture  and yet  in an altman quirky way  it wears defeat proudly     from                 what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me  on second viewing  a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation  br    br   spoiler of sorts follows  br    br   poor cedric  he apparently didn  t know what hit him  poor audience  we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch  these two guys just didn  t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter  as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other  the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu  an intellectual being  to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach  br    br   on a purely technical note  i loved the camera action in this film  subtitles were totally unnecessary  even though my french is   presque rien    i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more  this was a polished  very professionally made motion picture  though many scenes seem superfluous  i rate it nine out of ten             i don  t think i  ve ever gave something a      rating  but this one easily gets the denomination  i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes  it  s not just that the jokes are so bad  but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma  can  t set up or finish a punchline  and you  ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach  br    br   i have watched the show  never in its entirety  but many times still  it just creeps up on me after conan  i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever  br    br   actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest  it  s just that  an interview  i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that  s screaming    get me the hell away from this freak    i do recommend watching the show  not for a laugh  but to ponder  how he got on the air and what he  s still doing there  watch as much as you can  i think you will find its complete awkwardness   interesting             in the standard view  this is a purely awful movie  however  it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale  i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie  andy griffith  s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime  i wouldn  t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it  but if you happen to be laying on the couch at   in the morning and it comes on tv  check it out             from the film  s first shot   keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn  thus invoking all the clich  s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama   i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself  br    br   joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book  but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen  s subtle  nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling  delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms  but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights  thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason  in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain  not to mention that jane austen  and in particular p   p  is not about passion  sexual tension or love  it  s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society  which was completely ignored  so that the bennets   house was a rambunctious  chaotic place where everybody shouts at once  runs around  leaves their underwear on chairs  and pigs wander happily through the house  the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy  and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety  br    br   the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety  and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap  so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots   particularly in this film   to function was completely erased  subtlety in general was nowhere int his film  sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances  br    br   it was so obviously trying to be a  serious  film  the humour   which is pride   prejudice  both austen  s methodology and her appeal   was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama  and when it was allowed in  was handled so clumsily  pride   prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points  yes  but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour  they are embedded in it  you can  t lose jane austen  s technique  leaving only the bare bones of the story  and expect the themes to remain  not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography  br    br   elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman  an adult  mature and sensible and clear sighted  keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl  and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine  elizabeth  s wit  her combative verbal exchanges  her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody  s follies including her own  her strength and composure  and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with     what  a lot of giggling and staring into the distance  rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs  she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation   and not genuinely raging  either  no  these were petulant hissy fits  and where the great strength of austen  s elizabeth  at least in austen  s eyes  was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety  knightley  s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention  furthermore  she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded  and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it  an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance  in which quest for blandness and weakness  she was ably matched by matthew macfayden  br    br   donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak  ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic  his special bond with lizzie  as the only two sensible people in a world of fools  was completely lost  not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools  and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact  mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly  but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs  and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all  the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen   delivered with remarkable clumsiness   and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy  br    br   just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache             i  ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is  life sometimes has boring patches  no real plot  and not necessarily a happy ending    a river runs through it   is the perfect name for this film  and norman maclean  s novel   life ebbs and flows like a river  and it has it  s rough spots  but it is a wonderful trip  br    br   robert redford brings a lot to the film  his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly  as a director  he is restrained and calm  and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes  as for the acting  craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers  i don  t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn  s performances  except that they truly feel real    a river runs through it   is a wonderful film  br    br       out of               the story is very trustworthy and powerful  the technical side of the movie is quite fine   even the directing of it  the main problem is with the castings  that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich   with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression  beside the small role of the father  rafael  played impressively by asi dayan   all other actors were unfortunately not in their best  the role of the elder blind girl  played by taly sharon  was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role  therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile  there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie  but after all it  s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future             this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors   great script and rather good photograph was not a so called   blockbuster   movie in my country  the movie itself is very powerful it  s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a  yo prison time drugs  the end is rather sad     mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well    lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency      out of    because very few greek movies can make such an impression             mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i  ve ever seen  but what a film  i thought it was fabulous  excellent and impressive  it was funny  well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change  and being able to pull it off  this was great  i  ll definitely watch it again             you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he  s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink  that  s a great metaphor for this movie  i kept watching  even though it was really difficult  but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling  this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth  i should have spit it out when i had the chance  br    br   the premise is corny enough to be fun  for the first time in like a thousand years  gargoyles have returned to romania  and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead  it  s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok  unfortunately  the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads  the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles  br    br   in the end  this movie feels like a poor man  s van helsing  if you check your brain at the door  this might get you through a dreary monday night  i gave it   out of    stars             i can  t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life  i laughed a couple of times    probably because of how stupid it was   if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn  t  the plot was so horrible   it made no sense   and the acting was so bad that i couldn  t even tell if they were trying  that movie was terrible rating  f            this is one of a rarity of movies  where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka  to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man  mo ogrodnik  and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film  br    br   the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something  s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts  mo and wolfgang  s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses  plastic peens holding passion  there  s also beetle banging  as violet would have put it    this  plastic peen  goes up your butt    the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome   br    br   alright  so if you are still reading  let us explain who we are  mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students  who  finishing a film class with her  decided to get poop  faced and watch here directorial debut  she also wrote uptown girls  i can  t tell you how much that  s been hammered into our skulls  so this movie is quite the experience  at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie   br    br   about    minutes into this game  none of us could see straight  the sheer amount of dido  s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context  save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper  because that  s what we all do  the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita  and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director  s history of homosexual pornographic experiments  we wish we were kidding  br    br   enough intellectual contemplation  on to the drinking game  this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one  it  s very simple  and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care  br    br   the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game     every time you see anything related to pornography  take a drink     every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik  s name appear  take a drink     sex      plastic peen  require two drinks     any time somebody points a gun at another character  take a drink   at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body      any time there is blood  including   lady blood     please take a sip     the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second     gratuitous use of the   magic black man   requires one drink     if you can  t figure out the through line  keep drinking  beyotch      whenever you are able to predict a line  take a drink  trust us  it  s easy   br    br   that  s it  internet  keep drinking  and try not to get riped  br    br    hawaiian smirnoff punch  jr             even though i  m quite young  the beatles are my absolutely favourite band  i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember  br    br   it  s the sort of film that is worth trying the once  i can see why it wasn  t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv  i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film  it didn  t much details except something like    john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up  jared harris stars    i  d never heard of him  he played john  or aiden quinn who played paul  however they are certainly underestimated actors  br    br   the film had a slow start but as it developed  i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters  as a huge fan  i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like  the script was brilliant and harris got lennon  s accent  personality and mannerisms spot on  quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent  the make up artists made them look excellent  br    br   this paragraph may be counted as a  spoiler   br    br   as i mentioned before  it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film  i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians  as for lennon  s rude line in the italian restaurant  totally unnecessary  the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it  br    br   it is quite different from the other biographical films i  ve seen where it  s about how the beatles got together and became famous  and those never really did the characters that well  e g    backbeat    br    br   in conclusion  i would say  if you  re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan  give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise  at only about    minutes long  it  s worth waiting for the film to develop  br    br   if anyone does know whether the meeting of      really did happen please send it to the   comments page   for this film  i  d be very interested             an american werewolf in london had some funny parts  but this one isn  t so good  the computer werewolves are just awful  the perspective is all off  it  s like seeing them through a distorting mirror  the writers step on the throat of many of their gags  american boy says to parisian girl    is there a cafe   around here    instead of just leaving it at that  they have to have the girl sigh and respond    this is paris               originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d  and was rather disappointed  after watching the movie  my view was changed  the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie   br    br   much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately  ex  saw iii  dull and dragging   casino royale  way to homo erotic  which in prior installments i have really enjoyed  br    br   if you enjoyed borat  you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth            this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner  along with other such nasty films as   the burning bed      enough    or   monster    this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she  s not such a bad person after all  give us a break  here  s my question to the filmmakers  if letourneau were a man  and vili were a    year old girl  would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person  answer  hell no  br    br   imagine switching the genders in this film  and then you  ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage  were the genders switched  there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal  instead  we  d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl  his lascivious behavior landing him in prison  and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome  the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex  br    br   let  s call a spade a spade  letourneau is a pedophile  plain and simple  no ifs  ands or buts  she  s a criminal who belongs in prison  and deserves our derision and contempt  but certainly not our pity or empathy             the premise of this movie was decent enough  but with sub par acting  it was just bland and dull  br    br   spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death  it was accidental  so although it was a murder it wasn  t like the guy set out to do it  also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree  there is no emotion in this film  the first    minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister  and hearing her message  it was dull and boring  br    br   with some polishing  and better acting it could have been pretty good             the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy  quaint streets and sunshine  i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere  but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere  br    br   othello works for big  fat mr  karva  his crime boss step dad  at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it  s never really defined  but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers  so trust me  he  s a prick  doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs  one of his colleagues is runner  a black dude who is always dashing from a to b  until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running  runner dumps the lost boy in othello  s flat  where he promptly starts granting more wishes  keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled  karva has the boy kidnapped  but he isn  t sure of what would really bring him happiness  is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job  either way  i don  t want to see the little boy grant him the second  br    br   it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes  the ending tries to be shocking but since there  s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience  br    br   writer tony grisoni  a favourite of terry gilliam  tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell  ironically  if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film  as it is  we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy  who  s origins are never revealed  that  s just plain irritating   br    br   aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score  this film has little to recommend             i can  t emphasize it enough  do  not  get this movie for the kids  br    br   for that matter  you  d best spare the adults from it as well  br    br   all right  perhaps i  m overexaggerating a little  this isn  t the worst kids   movie    no  let me rephrase that  this isn  t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids  that would be   jack    which i  ve been meaning to review   gut like a fish   br    br   adults won  t learn anything surprising  well  if you must  fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon   we don  t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way  well  duh  i could have told you that  so can four years of college at an art school  but i degress   br    br   i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie  most likely it will only upset them  we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old   there  s a better movie    kiki  s delivery service    that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head  and the adults will like it too  br    br   by the way  there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind  if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it             is nothing else on tv  are you really bored  well  then watch phat beach  however  don  t rent it and definitely do not buy it  that would be a big mistake  br    br   i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points  i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard  however  there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at  if you are looking for an extremely funny   hood   movie then watch friday  if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie  something that this movie tries at  kind of  watch something like hoop dreams or jason  s lyric  if you are lookin for some good black   booty   go watch a dominique simone porn flick  because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent  however  if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable  go ahead and watch it  you will be slightly amused  br    br        out of                  the elegant documentary   br    br   don  t watch this movie     if you  re an egotistical know all student of physics  this much less than one percent  miniscule fraction  of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know  br    br   do watch this movie    if you  re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than     of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity  quantum  string and m theory  br    br   what a brilliantly architected documentary  starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic   and dimensions beyond  i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics  this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you  re about to fail the grade  br    br   the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows  it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented  i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence  br    br   we are all  and everything around us  is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony  this movie may blow your mind   or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us  even with the hubble telescope  and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school  m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of   possibility    br    br   it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it  s very nature move  by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting  out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy  br    br   you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god  br    br   bravo brian greene  well done indeed  br    br   p s  if you  re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the   possibilities   quantum mechanics blended with spirituality  of all things  can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch   what the bleep     down the rabbit hole    yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn  t seen one before  my eyes process light reflections just fine   i see things everyday that i  ve never seen before  and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don  t divide  but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don  t like and hang on to those that you do   there is a lot to like about this film  br    br   then watch   the secret         documentary about the law of attraction   search for imdb title   tt            this information just might change your life profoundly   forever  if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought  if you  ll listen    and some are   and that is truly incredible  there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha  those  among others  that history suggests have communicated with the non physical  alive today and she lives in texas  i know some of you know what i  m talking about  br    br   i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now             in       with the success of the first season of batman  the animated series  warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie  originally slated for direct to video  but bumped up to theatrical status  it would become known as batman  mask of the phantasm  ten years after phantasm  we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb  sub zero  return of the joker  and now  mystery of the batwoman joins the family  br    br   the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm  a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin  now  batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line  br    br   the animation is the sleeker  futuristic style that was utilized for batman  the animated series   fifth and sixth seasons  aka the new batman adventures     it  s quite nicely done  and just as sleek as return of the joker  s animation  there is also some use of cgi  but it  s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero  the music was alright  different and exotic and similar to the justice league score  although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans   rodent shaped hearts  br    br   kevin conroy  as always  does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman  it  s also great to have the old batman  the animated series alumni back  that includes bob hastings  commissioner gordon   robert costanzo  detective bullock   tara strong  barbara gordon batgirl  her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond   and efrem zimbalist jr  alfred   br    br   villains were also great   especially given that rupert thorne  the old mob boss from the original series  appears for the first time since the fourth season  br    br   overall  while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago  motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films  and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan  you will love the five minute short chase me             i think this movie was supposed to be shocking  but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it  s been made    and simply is  it  s one and a half hour of torment  even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie  the five girls   br    br   sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way  which is basically fine  since it  s a horror movie  and i  usually  like horror movies  i  ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se  however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever  it  s no spectacle other than that it  s simply grotesque  it  s so lame it even gets boring  and really quick too  br    br   the worst thing  if the above wasn  t bad enough for ya  about this movie is that they  ve tried to copy the blair whitch project  by filming with cheap hand held cameras  but  again  this too  serves no end whatsoever  in the   blair which    sure enough  there  s an explanation  namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch  in this film  there  s no other explanation than    hey ya  ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch     the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about  the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can  t make out what they  re saying  also  no effort has been made to make anything any better  sound wise or other wise  br    br   than finally  there  s the soundtrack  which is just as bad as the rest  and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock    br    br   my advise  don  t watch this under any circumstances             why can  t a movie be rated a zero  or even a negative number  some movies such as   plan nine from outer space   are so bad they  re fun to watch  this is not one    the dungeon of horror   might be the worst movie i  ve ever seen  some of anyway  i had to fast forward through a lot of it    fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age  there may be worse movies i  ve seen  but thankfully  i can  t remember them  the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint  the special effects looked like a fifth grader  s c  diorama set in a shoebox  the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant  he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim  who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it  without the gun having been reloaded  this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits  i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated  though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn  t needed  this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as   the manipulator    the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual  one time  hollywood leading man mickey rooney  the only time i would recommend watching   the dungeon of harrow    or   the manipulator   for that matter  would be if someone were to pay you   i  m kind of cheap  i  d have to have    or    bucks for   dungeon   and at least ten for   manipulator    phil the never out of the can cinematographer            this movie took me by surprise  the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation  after that  we  re plunged into a semi cheesy production  betraying its low budget  the characters  typical american teens  are introduced slowly  with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this  by the time the shlitz hits the fan  we know each one of the characters  and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities  it  s a slow uphill set up  kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster  thankfully  once the action kicks in  it  s full blown old school horror  steve johnson  s make up effects are awesome  equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films  and the scares are jolting  kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever  with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups  the tongue in cheek  sometimes cheesy  humor marks this film as pure   s horror  as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like   night of the living dead   or   hills have eyes    but for true horror fans  this one is worth checking out  play it as the first entry on a double bill with the      remake of   house on the haunted hill    the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking             though i  d heard that   cama de gato   was the worst brazilian movie of the decade  i watched it giving it a chance  after all  first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature  shot in video  for just us        and    though it looks even cheaper    i can  t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it  then as i watched it i realized why   but whatever chances you  re ready to give to   cama de gato    they shrink to zero within    minutes  it  s an unbelievably preposterous  verbose  ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex  drugs and violence  and they  re made to look like closeted gays too   made with no visible trace of talent  imagination  expertise or notion of structure  visually and aurally  it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube    only here it lasts ninety two  count  em  minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness  and it  s not even funny bad  br    br   we  ve all seen the story before  bored young guys want to have fun  go partying  take drugs and everything goes wrong    there  s gang rape  spanking  murder  the accidental death  falling down the staircase    of the mother of one of the boys  culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill  moral and literal garbage  get it  the film is heavily influenced by larry clark  especially   kids   and   bully     but clark  s films    though also moralist and sexploitative    are high class masterworks compared to this crap  br    br   i don  t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience  s throat  stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion    you do get numb minded with so much babbling  yelling  inept direction  shaky camera and terrible acting going on  stockler doesn  t care a bit about technique  the quality of the images  framing  sound recording  soundtrack songs  dialog  sets  editing  etc is uniformly appalling   but he  s a narcissistic control freak  he anticipates the criticisms he  s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments  and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is  i could relate to that    br    br   despite his megalomaniac ambitions  stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure    he can  t even decide if he wants gritty realism  hand held video camera etc  or stylization  repetition of scenes  use of alternate takes  etc   damn  he can  t even decide where to put his camera  there  s use of subjective camera for the three leads   the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever  the plot exists simply to justify the director  s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for  all you see is a filmmaker being hateful  preachy  condemning  moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent  or technique  to go with it  br    br   it  s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess  certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil  with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo  s  blat can be highly effective under good direction  as in   carandiru      lavoura arcaica      proibido proibir     here  he  s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped   actors   in recent memory  he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes  so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn   br    br   the film opens and ends with real interviews with   typical       middle class youth    stockler wants us to take those interviews as   proof   of what he  s trying to preach in fiction  but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees  selecting a highlight of abject  racist  sexist  stupid statements  which only shows assholes exist everywhere   stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they  re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs  is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs   or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior   i couldn  t tell    br    br   with its dogmatic self righteousness  headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom    cama de gato   is bad for a       reasons but  above all  it  s harmful in a very insidious manner  it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument    cama de gato   is best unwatched  unmentioned  buried and forgotten             an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time  this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon  i remember this very well from my childhood  it was funny and sad and very beautiful  well it starts out a bit dark  a dog who escaped the pound  and gets killed by an old friend  ends up in heaven  and comes back  but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals  some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons  like the dream sequence of charlie  but everything else was okay and the songs were fair  a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise  i just love that guy  ahehehe  and judith barsi of jaws the revenge  may god rest her soul  poor girl  she didn  t deserve to die  but she is in heaven now  all good people go to heaven  overall this is a very good animated movie  a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame  recommended for the whole family  and know this  if you have the original video of this  you  ll find after the movie  dom deluise has a very important and special message  gotta love that guy  ahehehe             this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general  it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message  but the message was a clich    hopeless mess to begin with  this movie falls on shameless environmental point  even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet  br    br   in sitting through this  i couldn  t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line  the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes  her character gets frequent  cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit  br    br   far from the brilliance of bruce almighty  evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot  the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan  s ark  but by the end  we learn that the ark was completely meaningless  and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages  the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark  flood  and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god  yes  god was trying to influence politics             it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance  i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing  if you loved bulgakov  s book you would be  understandably  afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story  s deeper meaning to the screen  there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita  as complex and far fetched as the story is  the movie leaves out nothing  it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov  s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score  with not a note missed  why can  t we find such talent here in the u s    so now my favorite book and movie have the same title             this movie is very violent  yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters  it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life  the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career  when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption  black mail and murder  this is where the killings start  from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper  this movie also co stars richard roundtree  br    br   i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good  i would not recommend this film and the action is very  very bad             the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi  s fate as an assassin  fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga  br    br   that  s as poetical as i  ll get when talking about azumi    death or love  because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin  after watching azumi   i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before  br    br   not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience  in azumi   we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics  which is their number one priority  as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape  but i won  t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi  s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma  by the way  chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go  minus the cool weapon and sense of menace  br    br   this brings me to the final blow which is the action  simply disguised in the title as the   death   side of the epic  in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons  to no one  s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily  in azumi    the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi   was at least climaxed and worthwhile  some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter  i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched  br    br   the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution  br    br   as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation  i won  t lie and i  ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film  but i  ll step right up and say that after watching azumi    the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece  for what it  s worth  azumi    death or love could have gone straight to video  with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins  doing their best to restore the peace  with an unwavering courage to die trying             this has to be the worst piece of garbage i  ve seen in a while  br    br   heath ledger is a heartthrob  he looked deformed  i wish i  d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent   of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him   br    br   orlando bloom is a heartthrob  with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him  i can  t say i agree  br    br   rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self  but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn  t wait to get off the set   br    br   i  m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers  this is a far cry from butch cassidy  which actually was an entertaining film  this was trite  cliche ridden and boring  we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better  it didn  t  br    br   the last       minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious  heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel  and women and children are dying because of their presence  that  s not funny  but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on  because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail  i kept waiting for them to say   i  ll bite yer leg off    we were howling with laughter  as were several other warped members of the audience  when we left  pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was  br    br   i may not have paid cash to see this disaster  sneak preview   but it certainly wasn  t free  it cost me   hours of my life that i will never get back             a very ordinary made for tv product    tyson   attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect  fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing  and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting  a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans             i  m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn  t  you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy  slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department  br    br   i just sat there through most of the movie thinking   is this supposed to be funny   and   this is the guy from tenacious d right     the truth is this film has nothing to offer  at all  it  s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction  you  ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn  t  i was bored stupid about    minutes in but though it would surely pick up  it didn  t     minutes later i  d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful  br    br   it  s like  remember years ago when you  d see anything with your fave actor in it  even some of their really early pap from before they were famous  and you  d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop  yeah it  s like that  br    br   i  ve enjoyed some of jack black  s earlier movies like shallow hall and i  m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man  if you do this to us again jack i  m gonna have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something  at the least give you a serious talking to  br    br   i know it  s a clich   but this is one of the worst movies i  ve ever seen and for so many reasons                i haven  t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on  but who knows  maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health  it isn  t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health  but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie  you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i  ve read on one hand  but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire  i get the feeling that she writes really good novels  the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history  br    br   still  stuart townsend  s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt  s vampire narrative ever did  and you can tell that queen of the damned  s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline  while interview decided to go with lace and elegance  queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously  one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places  the costumes and rock   roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack  br    br   however  i  ll give credit where credit is due  the soundtrack is excellent  korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead  br    br   the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom   splice montage  but after the first ten minutes or so  the directing degenerates quickly  it  s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn  t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice  what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects  unfortunately  queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress  where are the yellow contacts  where  s the pale blue make up  scene after scene  i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem  s lot and fright night when low budget was done right  br    br   there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage  props to aaliyah  and may her soul forever rest in peace  she might have become a renowned actress  had her life not been taken from us so prematurely  for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing  did i mention that the soundtrack was good  let  s see  what else can i say  it wasn  t too long  the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it  there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot  but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there  the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything  br    br   jy br    br   jimboduck dot com            while i count myself as a fan of the babylon   television series  the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start  although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there  the pace of the gathering is slow  the makeup somewhat inadequate  and the plot confusing  worse  the characterization in the premiere episode is poor  although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems  i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series             leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his      movie and video guide  what film was he looking at  kid vengeance or god  s gun are bombs  this film is a delight  it is fantastic  it is literate  it is well mounted  it is beautiful photographed  making a brilliant use of colors  right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre  the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks     sunset strip  and the famous showdown in the good  the bad  and the ugly  edd byrnes  george hilton  and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work  it is too bad mr  maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved  one can only guess as to his reason  i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be  kudos belong to everyone involved in this project  this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire             i don  t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the     club  they are today  s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the   th century  their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand  their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans  as well as billions of humans the world over  who don  t happen to share their bigoted  cruel  monstrous  and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen  the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth  such as the idea of   life after death   or   god   or   sin   or   the devil   is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill  so lost are they in their fantasy  sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn  t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy  however  the     club is in a class by itself  they are truly a cult  while i believe in freedom of speech  they way they spread hatred  lies  disinformation  and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits  i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way  people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all  treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country  as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion  the     club though  is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of   cult   but due to the     club  s vast wealth  conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip  they are above the law in this country  for those of you who have seen the movie   the matrix   you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth  the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes  and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them  br    br   in less civil times  the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the     club out of town with torches and pitchforks  but in today  s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them  we have no way to rid ourselves of the     club plague   br    br   the television ratings system and the   v   chip on tv  s should also have a rating called   r   for religion  so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape  such as presented by the     club every day all over our country  from themselves and their children             if you wish to see shakespeare  s masterpiece in its entirety  i suggest you find this bbc version  indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby  s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart  s as claudius are well worth the effort  br    br   it never ceases to amaze me how clear   hamlet   is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard  every film version of   hamlet   has tinkered with its structure  olivier concentrated on hamlet  s indecision  gibson on his passions  jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet  s character together with the aid of shakespeare  s full script  br    br   why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately  hamlet says   i am very proud  revengeful  ambitious      hamlet is extremely upset  not only for his father  s death  and suspected murder   or his mother  s marriage to his uncle  but also  and mostly  because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet  he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius  marriages between royal kin is not unknown  done for political reasons  but that her marriage solidified claudius   claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself  he is  therefore  impotent to do anything about it  and this is true even after he hears his father  s ghost cry vengeance  he cannot simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so  he must   out   the king  s secret and here is the tragedy  at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius   guilt in public  he has opportunity to kill him and does not  why  he wants it all  he wants revenge  the throne and the damnation of claudius   soul in hell  hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form  his own hubris is his undoing  he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz  guildenstern  ophelia  laertes  gertrude  claudius and hamlet himself             the golden door is the story of a sicilian family  s journey from the old world  italy  to the new world  america   salvatore  a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life  persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily  take the arduous journey across the raging seas  and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk  in short  they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled  the imagery of the new world is optimistic  clever and highly imaginative  silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he  ll be in the new world  carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health  and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield  all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience  the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they  re aboard the ship to the new world  br    br   the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness  especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within  the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world  the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive  this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left  donkeys  goats and rabbits  in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world  i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world  it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit  the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world  this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another  depicting the separation between the old and new worlds  this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar  wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise  br    br   as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks  the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world  i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island  but is remained hidden  i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for    give me your poor  your tired  your hungry   seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world  once they arrived in the americas  they had to go through rather humiliating tests  i e  delousing  mathematics  puzzles  etc   in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world  these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people  in particular  salvatore  s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world  feeling more violated than treated with respect  where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide  the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude  salvatore doesn  t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him  this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him  their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted  br    br   the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society  cleanliness  marriage and intelligence are prerequisites  adhering to these rules is to prevent disease  immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating  perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct  though the rules seemed rigid  they were there to protect and help the people flourish             nifty little episode played mainly for laughs  but with clever dollop of suspense  somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere  but which passenger is it   talk about your illegal immigrants    all star supporting cast  from wild eyed jack elam  hamming it up shamelessly   to sexy jean willes  if she  s the martian  then i say let  s open the borders    to cruel faced john hoyt  the most obvious suspect   along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips  and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver   makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set             i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films  but  after seeing this film i haven  t  this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr  he knows the art of film making  and can use it very well  if you find this movie  buy or copy it             i watched mask in the     s and it  s currently showing on fox kids in the uk  very late at night   i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears  i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was  it  s just plain awful  it is no where near in the same league as the transformers  he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made  i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses    comes on straight after it  that  s if mask doesn  t put me to sleep first   one of the lesser     s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids             phantasm     class  phantasm ii     awesome  phantasm iii     erm     terrible  br    br   even though i would love to stick up for this film  i quite simply can  t  the movie seems to have   sold out    first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start  something the others did not   also too many pointless characters  prime examples the kid  who is a crack shot  funny initially but soon you want him dead   the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls  erm not gonna work  or rather shouldn  t  and the blooming zombies  what the hell are they doing there  there no link to them in the other phatasms   also there is a severe lack of midgets running about  br    br   the only good bits are the cracking start and  of course  reggie b  br    br    possible spoiler coming up  br    br   to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main   in iv  br    br   overall very  very disappointing                    ludicrous  angelic   year old annakin turns into whiny brat    year old annakin  who somehow seems appealing to amidala    years his senior  now    year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams  and so takes to slaughtering children  his friends  and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a  his precious wife might really die  and b  only he can prevent this  ludicrosity squared  br    br   i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention  the story is ridiculous  the characters are unbelievable  literally  not the perverted sense of   fantastic      wonderful    etc    br    br   obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series  but in the climax  he hacks off annakin  s legs  lets him burn in the lava  and leaves him to suffer  doesn  t anyone think that  s a little out of character  not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living  as it turns out  br    br   i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations  none of that here  the story could have been written by a    year old  br    br   oh yeah  the cgi is pretty cool             scotty  grant cramer  who would go on to star in the great b movie   killer klowns from outer space    agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to   dialog   the ladies in this bad       s comedy  not bad as in       s lingo  which meant good  bad as in bad  with no likable characters  including  but not limited to  a kid who  s the freakiest looking guy since   friday the   th part       a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her  and the token fat slob  because after all what would an       s sex comedy be without a fat slob   well this one has two  this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of       s sex comedies  and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel  br    br   my grade d   br    br   eye candy  too numerous to count  you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point  think   bachlor party   but not as funny  and very disturbing  br    br   where i saw it  comcast moviepass            if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it  this film is actually quite entertaining  it  s got action  adventure and romance  and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles  as evident on this board  the picture doesn  t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling  to get beyond that  one need only put aside the history book  and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction  i know  i know  that  s hard to do when you consider custer  s last stand at the little big horn and it  s prominence in the history of post civil war america  so i guess there  s an unresolved quandary with the picture  no matter how you look at it  br    br   there  s a lot to take in here though for the picture  s two hour plus run time  custer  s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher  riding up as he does in full military regalia  the practical joke by sharp  arthur kennedy  putting him up in the major  s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble  br    br   ironically  a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy  as in custer  s first meeting with libby bacon  and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie  hattie mcdaniel   i hadn  t noticed it before in other films  but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties  mantan moreland  so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress  with that in mind  the owl scene was a hoot too  br    br   as for flynn  it  s interesting to note that a year earlier  he portrayed j e b  stuart opposite ronald reagan  s depiction of general custer in   santa fe trail    both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland  in that film  reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers  while in flynn  s portrayal here it  s more than evident  but it doesn  t come close to that of richard mulligan  s take on the military hero in       s   little big man    let  s just say that one was a bit over the top  br    br   the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture  that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story  most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn  in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one  s point of view  earlier  a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer  s character  when he stated     you take glory with you when it  s your time to go               the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction  the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal  s driving  but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie  br    br   it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot  so just plan to enjoy the action  and do not expect a coherent plot  turn any sense of logic you may have  it will reduce your chance of getting a headache  br    br   i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies             interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno  s replacing carson as host of the tonight show  film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o  brien and jay leno  br    br   the film does a good job of sparking viewers   interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders  particularly of the nbc executives  the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting  i thought  br    br   still  many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon  and some of the acting seemed perfunctory  nevertheless  an interesting story             any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion  respectfully  the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive  as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare  i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things  for those unacquainted with target priorities  an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here  the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing  rank and british gaumont studios back in the day  frankly i prefer its quieter  more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could  this reminds me of powell and pressburger  s the   th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman  a favorite of mine  john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles  so this is clearly meant to be mr  portman  s film but the whole cast shines  as for the title sequence  am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production  s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl             a brilliant horror film  utterly gruesome and very scary too  the thing is a remake from john carpenter  but please  do not let that put you off this film  it is simply brilliant  the start of the film has the alien  s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film  s title in amazing shining white and blue stating   the thing    one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever  br    br   the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen  it must have been great in the cinema  i regret not seeing this on the big screen  br    br   kurt russell is excellent as macready  the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base  all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected  my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection  it is tense  scary and finally spectacular  i love it because its funny as well  br    br   special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself  if he didn  t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have  this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter  s greatest film   its certainly a gruesome masterpiece  br    br   wait for a cold winter night  get some budweiser from the fridge  sit down and watch the thing  a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime  br    br   utterly brilliant  br    br   ten out of ten             i absolutely love this film  everything about it  it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen  the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece  very original and creative  i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some  i  m really glad i ran across this movie  if only there were more genius   like justin out there             no one can say i wasn  t warned as i have read the reviews  both user   external   but like most of us attracted to horror movies    curiosity got this cat   come on  we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room  but you know that  s horror aficionados are always dying to know what  s in there even if we know it  ll be bad   br    br   the bottom line is that this movie left me angry  not because it pretends to be real  who cares   gimmicks are allowed   or because the actors and dialogue are so lame  is this an unusual event in horror movies   or even because the movie is so bad  and i am being polite here   what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp  but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that  br    br   i don  t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them  but they didn  t even try  the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror  or any  movie             a new way to enjoy goldsworthy  s work  rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion  watching goldsworthy build his pieces  one develops an appreciation for every stone  leaf  and thorn that he uses  goldsworthy describes how the flow of life  the rivers  and the tides inspires and affects his work  although  i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy  s pieces  no snowballs   i do feel it was a bit long  the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy  s work to life  and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch             if you liked william hickey in   prizzi  s honor    he resurrects his character  as don anthony in   mob boss    this is a very weak   godfather   satire with few laughs  stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he  s doing in this schlock fest  morgan fairchild  s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie  and that alone is not a good sign for sure  eddie deezen vacillates between   three stooges   slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation  fatally flawed    mob boss   is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases  hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom  and numerous other nonsense    merk            i have seen most  if not all of the laurel   hardy classic films  i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly  even after watching it over and over again  this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel   hardy  however fails miserably for various reasons  one of which is how out of place their cloths are  still early   th century  however are both portrayed in the     s setting  some of the former dialogue was brought back  however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series  this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever  the real laurel   hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation             i just started watching the show around july  i found it by mistake  i was channel surfing during a vacation  it is a great show  i just wish it wasn  t on so late at night  it  s on at       am  as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time  br    br   i read some comments  i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the     s and not believing that this stuff can happen  br    br   i grew up in the     s  i  m hispanic and i had a   white   boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school  i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color  br    br   i can  t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it  this way i can see it from the beginning             this film is well cast  often silly and always funny  lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection  brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director  from the first   hare krishna   to the last   you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs    i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy            i have just given a    for thieves highway  i mention this for two reasons one to prove i  m not a git who only gives bad reviews but   because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night  br    br   we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can  t avoid them all  they  ll eventually get you  pretty woman for me does two things  two terrible horrible ghastly things  firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer  you know with absolutely great friends  leg warmers lots of giggling  borrowing each others make up  you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we  re talking about here  has a great life  she  s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament  my feeling is this   happy hooker   type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character  which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it  if i make a film about a chef but don  t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place  by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have  what a cop out  really really lame   br    br   secondly    pretty woman   insults romance itself  edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this   lady   that is without his plastic friend  yep don  t leave home without it  especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination    out of    of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another  even when he first meets her it  s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work  necklaces here diamonds there limos over there  money money money  where  s the charm  where  s the charisma  don  t mention that attempt at the piano please  br    br   girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most  guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator  as they probably don  t either so it wont have registered  more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate   thieves highway   a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject  br    br   i  ll finish on a song  br    br   pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman  the kind i like to treat pretty woman  i don  t believe you you  re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br    br   pretty woman  wont you pardon me pretty woman  i couldn  t help but see pretty woman  and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br    br   pretty woman  shop a while pretty woman  talk a while pretty woman  sell your smile to me pretty woman  yeah  yeah  yeah pretty woman  look my way pretty woman  say you  ll stay with me  and i  ll pay you  i  ll treat you right            this movie was terrible  the plot was terrible and unbelievable  i cannot recommend this movie  where did this movie come from  this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including  gary sinise  kathy bates  joey lauren adams  and jennifer tilly             i strongly dislike this show  i mean  like  basically everyone at that school is perfect  and rich  and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that  and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school  isn  t that just a little weird  anyways  jamie lynn spears cannot act  she always has the same facial expression  which really annoys me  she is basically emotionless  and all the guys seem to like her  br    br   and shouldn  t chase tell her he likes her  its not that hard  really  none of this show is real life  and she isn  t   a girl like me   because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school  do not have designer clothes  and do not live by the beach  br    br   fake fake fake             normally i don  t like series at all  they  re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast  br    br   these series however  are well played  the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one  the story will still be catching your mind  br    br   the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital             holy sh t this was god awful  i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex  dear god  this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff  please save your money  this movie can offer you nothing  unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters  you know  h ll  bring your girlfriend and make things interesting  you will be the only ones there anyway  f ck this slide show   br    br   ye be warned  br    br   i recommend not watching this  br    br   hello  br    br   how are you  br    br   i  m pretty good  br    br   enjoying this day  br    br   i am  br    br   this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie  this is sad             this movie is without a doubt a perfect         for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no   good plot   or anything like that  thats ridiculous  saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot  you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes  for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that  if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan  s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time  porn is watched for the porn  jackie chan is watched for the action  i think you people are rating it bad because there  s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained  sure the middle of the movie was boring  very boring  but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that  this did change the way how american action movies were created  they have even stollen scenes from this movie  if you want a true man  a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan  s  hes pure in everyway  he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park  and even in todays movies  american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more  police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do  a masterpiece            i saw this at the london film festival last night  apparently the shorter version  james mcnally  s summary of the content of the film is very good  nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation  homogenisation  the effect of the mass media  the power of capital and the need for diversity  br    br   the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting  but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment  br    br   despite the sprawling feel of the film  the editing is very sharp  not only giving us a parade of the world  s dogs  but also undercutting a number of interviewees   comments with somewhat contradictory visual images  and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves  to a degree this evoked michael moore  s recent work  although nossiter operates in a more subtle way   but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls     the sorrow and the pity    both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of   salt of the earth   french peasants as the stars  de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards  we do indeed all need a little disorder   bravo hubert  br    br   overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people  and organise our world             i can  t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of    it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring  certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long  long time  br    br   in a no budget way  it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck  br    br   this film should be avoided at all costs  it  s one of those   festival films   that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it   different    therefore good  br    br   bad film making is not   different    it  s just bad film making             this movie really woke me up  like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber  br    br   this guy john  ben chaplin  leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town  until the stunningly gorgeous  wild  girl to die for nadia  nicole kidman   ordered by email from russia  enters his life to become his beloved wife  by johns plan  however a glitch turns up   nadia does not speak a word of johns language  although calm and emotionless on the outside  john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service  he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process  br    br   what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure  giving the viewer a subliminal message   you would have probably acted likewise    br    br   kidman  cassel   kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing    almost   only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues  however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right  nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles  at least from the cultural background  br    br   the pace of the film is fast and captivating  and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear  you rather feel that you  re in the middle of the plot  and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out  br    br   my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy  to sum it up  it has an unusual plot  great acting  and ideas below the surface  like the idea of the   rude awakening   from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society  s machine  the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings    welcome to the machine      i bet that in the end  john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all  br    br   thank you  writers  for the great story  and everyone else for this great movie  please make a sequel  and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever  because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the         percent of the potential viewers  i am sure of it             ed wood rides again  the fact that this movie was made should give any young br    br   aspiring film maker hope  any screenplay you might have thought of using to br    br   line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad  do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids  watching this br    br   movie made me realize that boa vs  python was not that bad after all  it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film  it is understandable why this director has so many aliases  there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips  then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br    br   make your toward your tv set  s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it             this sports a nice  deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk  the first third of this movie was nothing but talk  and more talk  most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other   br    br   the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it  s really a   chick flick   and little else  this probably plays on the lifetime network  br    br   there was a quick murder scene and then more talk  by halfway through  they had lost me   br    br   by the way  sally field looked about    years old in here             i think this movie has got it all  it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head  it has cool looking characters  is really funny you know  the kind that you  ll crack up on the ground and you  ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks  despite the bad acting  bad cgi  and bad story about cops going after a robot   its really cool  its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch  get together  eat pizza  laugh like crazy  and watch it two more times  br    br   there are so many funny parts  like when kurt was trying to get edison  s attention and gave him the finger  and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball  on that part  i kept saying   remember  remember   to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened  there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought  and kurt was talking about his   strange dream   and how he was   superman    i loved that part  although it has been a while since i saw it  so i don  t remember that part  everything the actors said were funny  like how kurt says    i worship you  like a god    to the robot  br    br   although there was some bad things  in all it was a great movie  man  i can  t stop laughing  i wish i had that movie                howard  kevin kline  teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city  he is finally getting married to emily  joan cusack   much to his parents delight  the town is abuzz  too  because one of its own  cameron  matt dillon  has been nominated for an acting oscar  everyone  including howard and emily  is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner  in his acceptance speech  cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man  in part  because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school  you guessed it  its howard  but  howard has never   come out    in fact  he believes he is straight  with the whole town  and members of the media  waiting and observing the happenings  will howard and emily go ahead and get married  or  is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony  this is a wonderful  funny  and humane film about a gay man and his situation  as the man who did not realize he was gay  kline is excellent and touching  the rest of the cast is equally fine  with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc   and dillon  bob newhart  debbie reynolds  tom selleck  and others on hand to delight the audience as well  the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful  then  too  the script  the direction  and the production are very  very nice  but  the insightful  humorous  and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film  s best asset  no doubt  for those who would be offended by a gay themed film  yes  just skip over this one  but  for everyone who wants to laugh heartily  and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time  this is definitely the best film out there             when the opening shot is u s  marines seriously disrespecting the u s  flag  a movie has a tough road ahead  but unfortunately it was downhill from there  there is a military adviser credited  who is also apparently a retired u s  marine  making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol  and law  went unnoticed  even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia  then buried  in very short order  without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body  or if there even was a body  the u s  government is still finding the missing from wwii  and it takes months to identify the remains  military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified  or after years of red tape  here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks  maybe this happens in denmark  but not in the u s  clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with  or respect for  the u s  military  br    br   beyond that  there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere  there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash  having a script that worked might have helped  but this one seems to have been made up on the spot  working from cliffs notes  there  s no way to know if the script was this awful originally  or if it was the auteur  or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility  either way  this is an awful movie that should have never been made             we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age  with the likes of the four feathers        and zulu  simply because the imperial age was  for the most part  british  here  in the wind and the lion  we see a wonderful rendering of america  s own imperial age  br    br   america  s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who  despite her gentility  is smitten by the rough  manly nobility of her captor  who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn   politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of   native   peoples or cultures can rest assured  that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage   what makes this story different are the terrific production values   faultless photography  composition and editing   the terrific casting   the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy   and vivid history  br    br   though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son  every member of the family can identify with one of the characters  whether it be sean connery  s noble brigand  candace bergen  s feisty heroine  john huston  s wily john hay or steve kanaly  s spiffy  radiant  ruthless can do lieutenant  roosevelt  s   big stick    there is a transcendent scene at the end  when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed  this is high adventure at its best             i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while   what with all it  s raving reviews  nominations and media attention  and i must say  the first quarter of the movie was good  it really portrayed the black music scene back then  however  as the movie wore on  me and my whole family were bored out of our wits  the singing just kept coming  one after the other  i mean seriously  just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent  br    br   furthermore  i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters  i just didn  t care what happened to them  even when eddie murphy  s character died of a drug overdose  i knew i should have been sad  but i just couldn  t feel any emotion for that character  the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot  but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in  br    br   finally  the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care  which goes along with the lack of character development  this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray  chicago  and rent  ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion   overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn  t really care about an overall story  yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances             one of starewicz  s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange  the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold  but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters  with the help of a stuffed cat  the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death  the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz  s films  the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz  s old style of puppetry  live scenes of moving cars and people  s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh  the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz  s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat  new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil  s club scene  twigss and newspaper shreds come to life  skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks  characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses  a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene  overall  starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work             nice character development in a pretty cool milieu  being a male  i  m probably not qualified to totally understand it  but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start  it isn  t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher  what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters  each has their own   thing   that they contend with  once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs  they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion  what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn  t go for cheap comedy when it could have  it didn  t try to pound a lesson into us  the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light  i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly  but  within this world  it needed to happen  good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people             prussic gas  a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip  and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish  the inspectors at scotland yard  higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch  renberg certainly have their hands full with this case  it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas   who  when she turns     is to inherit a great deal of wealth  the girls who are targeted share a room with ann  but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy  s finest must figure out  the staff of the girls   dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise  talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip  two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation  it  s a clever scheme where a driver  greaves g  nter meisner meets the convicts   who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard  taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind  he gives them orders on who to kill and how  uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening  under suspicion are girls   dormitory headmistress  her author brother  a sweaty  incredibly nervous chemistry teacher  a snooping gardener  and the bannister  some are red herrings until they are disposed of  throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered  the ending features multiple twists   br    br   out of the krimi films i  ve seen  the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it  s colorful killer  a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects    sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory  i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind  s secret hideout with an alligator pit   which isn  t used   the fake bible water pistol  when opened  fires the gas into the face of startled victims  the greaves   royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat  and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming  many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling  buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins   abilities to get at the truth   perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it   i felt he was used as comedy relief  particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims  often misunderstanding what are told to him  higgins  using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator  instead follows the clues facts  often avoiding sir john as much as possible  capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed  and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content  the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect  any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls   executions  i  d say this may be one of the best   if not the best examples of the krimi genre  for it keeps you guessing  always one more ace up it  s sleeve  the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening   and  you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off              i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival      only a few days ago  i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life  i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings  there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn  character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth  this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community  the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive  i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness            this movie is really bad  most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement  there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg  there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth  and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all  the whole thing is just laughable            i think this is one hell of a movie           we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there  s a message in it  without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special             i saw this movie in the theater  and was thoroughly impressed by it  then again  that was when claire danes was a good actress  not the foolish  arrogant  hollywood ized bitch she is today  anyway  this film really struck me as one of the more raw  realistic  beautiful friendship films  how far would you really go for your best friend  i was moved to tears at the end  and still tear up when i watch it now  i own it   i remember as soon as i left the theater  i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her  this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend  however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you  d do something like that for her                i  ve seen this film literally over     times   it  s absolutely jam packed with entertainment    powers boothe gives a stellar performance  as a fan of actors such as william shatner  impulse        and ron liebmann  up the academy       i never thought an actor could capture the   intensity   like shatner and liebmann in those roles  until i saw boothe as jim jones  as far as i  m concerned  powers boothe is jim jones   this film captures his best performance               the three main characters are all hopeless  and yet you only feel sorry for one of them  ernesto  hopelessly devoted to mercedes  this was part of the frustration  screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry  to no avail  br    br   then there  s the satisfaction  steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite  and harvey keitel  s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible  when you least expect it  quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue  and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man  br    br   time and again great moments appear in the story  but in the end it  s hard to know what to feel about this movie  it doesn  t have a happy ending  or even a complete one  but it somehow feels right  br    br   this movie is strange  but then so am i  no wonder i liked it             reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one  she appears like a fresh scrubbed face   tween   slight and stringy  but undeniably reese  br    br   i have always liked her as an actor  and had no idea she started this young with her career  go figure  i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on  i say that because whenever i have watched her perform  the characters thus far  in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character  quite nicely in fact  br    br   anyway  my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland  somehow i assumed that was her first time up   at bat   not so  well done reese           this game ranks above all so far  i had the honor of playing mine on ps  so the graphics were really good  the voice acting was above standard  the difficulty level is just right  wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion  the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting  the only rating this game deserves is great            this movie is not worth anything  i mean  if you want to watch this kind of stuff  flip to hollywood movies  this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name  neal n nikki seriously sucked  never watch this movie  as for the actors  it appears the acting genes skipped a generation  tanisha couldn  t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director  s spoiled son   all of that halla re was amazingly stupid  the songs are eh  and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it       bottom line  i hated the movie  do not let your kids watch it  and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it  buy the cd  if you must   as i said  the songs are eh   at least it is better then the movie             this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers  it  s certainly all been done before and since  but the violent men is something special  br    br   what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films  she  s married to the crippled edward g  robinson who  s the cattle baron here  but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent  no matter to barbara  whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith  that doesn  t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck  s daughter  nor with lita milan who is keith  s mexican girl friend  br    br   the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film  but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here  he  s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often  i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford  s mouth    i  m a peaceable man    would have been very applicable in the vioilent men  br    br   the fifties was the age of the adult western  themes were entering into horse operas that hadn  t been explored before  the following year glenn ford would do another western  jubal  one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component  br    br   there  s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well             apparently  the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood  i use the word   apparently   because without listening to a director andy copp  s commentary  which i didn  t have available to me  or reading up on the film prior to watching  viewers won  t have a clue what it is about  br    br   gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage  but unless they  re also fond of pretentious  headache inducing  experimental art house cinema  they  ll find this one a real chore to sit through  br    br      minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound  terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue  this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one  s sanity  if you  ve still got all your marbles  you  ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead  i watched the whole thing  but am well aware that i  m completely barking               this movie was absolutely pathetic  a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes  at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead  i couldn  t even sit through the whole movie  emran hashmi disappoints  and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all  celina jaitley was not bad  the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris  it was pretty hilarious  the songs   sini ne   and its remix version were really good  you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster  all in all  it seems emran doesn  t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time             i feel the niiiiiight heat  i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat  something ain  t right    theme song written by b j  cook from skylark  david foster  s old band and wife  she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc  s   airwaves    oh night heat  what a program  well written  well acted and totally classic  crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end  i  d like to think this is really what detectives do did  giambone was a real favourite  on a canadian tip  i learned every canadian actor  s name and style from guest spots done on night heat  everyone passed through the night heat set and like law   order  it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama             this movie fails miserably on every level  i have an idea  let  s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east  maybe if we  re lucky they  ll all be shot and killed and we won  t have to ever have our time wasted by them again  did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life  my god  i can  t think of anything i  ve ever seen that was this bad  i  d rather watch ishtar    times in a row than sit through    minutes of this sorry excuse for a film  if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film  i  ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless  that  s my two cents             yes i  ll say before i start commenting  this movie is incredibly underrated  br    br   sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass  he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star  glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind  br    br   the acting was good  apart from thewlis  br    br   stone really has a talent with this role  she  s slick  naughty and seductive and doesn  t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino   morrisey was also good  he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it  thewlis however was lame  he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way  he really sucked  br    br   overall  this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch  just ignore thewlis             based on a edgar rice burroughs novel  at the earth  s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest  a victorian scientist dr  abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine  which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold  they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters  br    br   cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying  instead of being a bold adventurer  he comes across effeminate  on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable  caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth  also in the cast are  godfrey james  cy grant and michael crane             i have seen this film at least     times and i am still excited by it  the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat  plus i still think bryan brown is the tops  brilliant film             this show makes absolutely no sense  every week  two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening  and every week without fail  they somehow stumble upon a murder  because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder  right  but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder  wouldn  t the smart thing to do be to tell the police  you know  the people who can actually do something about it    but every week  these two fools go around  polluting evidence  committing crimes of their own  and  in some cases  causing more murders  once they do miraculously solve the murders  there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted  all the evidence has been sabotaged  and you  d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two  wouldn  t you  yay  we  ve solved the murder  now like every other week  let  s go and confront the murderer ourselves and  with no back up  tell them that we know about it  there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger  is there  rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television  and certainly the most ridiculous             this movie was so bad it was funny  for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie  a la   for your consideration     the   cliffhanger   scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt  the script was dreadful enough  but coupled with sean young  s terrible acting    especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail  complete with flashbacks  while dangling off a cliff    makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching  in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie  i still can  t believe how this thing got made  first of all  how did such a bad script get the green light  how did star actors get attached  were they at low points in their careers  questions  questions             meryl streep is such a genius  well  at least as an actress  i know she  s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents  but she nails the accent every time  her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring  mrs  chamberlain  as portrayed here  was not particularly likable  nor all that smart  but that just makes streep  s work all the more remarkable  i think she is worth all    or so of her oscar nominations  about the film  well  there were a couple of interesting things  i don  t know much about australia  but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story  i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago  but it came through loud and clear yesterday  and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues  a pretty good film  a bit different  grade  b              airport     is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist   the concorde supersonic airliner   into their   disaster in the sky   formula  br    br   bogged down with unintentional humor  the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde  s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft  s flight path  and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air  many stars in this one including robert wagner  sylvia kristel  alain delon  and martha raye as a nervous passenger   br    br   not really related to the other   airport   films             supposedly a   social commentary   on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the       s    nightmare   is full of bad southern stereotypes  complete with phoney accents  not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners  this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised   babe in prison   movie  especially in its uncut original version  nevertheless  acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors  in particular  does a good job of making viewers hate him  even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes  there  s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed  who appears as the lecherous warden  and tina louise  previously ginger of   gilligan  s island    made a rather believable sadistic prison guard  my grade  d   br    br               ok  i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday  because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it  br    br   but we decided it to watch it anyway  just for hilarity purposes  br    br   and i  m sorry  but this has got to be  one of the worst films in history  br    br   it began off alright  and we thought   ok this might actually be ok    but after about    minutes  we were sadly mistaken  br    br   it began when the   mysterious paint baller   turned out to be the most obvious character  the scouser australian  i say that because he had an accent which couldn  t be identified   who  s acting might i just say  was abysmal  br    br   then it got to the end  and by that time  we had all lost the will to live  the paint ball finals  br    br   the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn  t actually win  but annoyingly enough they won by default  br    br   and i know this has nothing to do with it  but the name the team were given was just awful  critical damage  i mean they could of picked a more awesome name  like   the destroyers of the anti christ   or something  or that  s what the film should of been called anyway             insignificant and low brained  haha       s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen  yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind  the special effects are tacky  the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs    the brain   takes place in a typical quiet american town setting  where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet  it is here that a tv guru named dr  blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling  under the label of   independent thinkers    a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill  how cool is that  now  it  s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world  the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr  blake and his monstrous brain actually come from  there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that  s about it  meh  who needs a background in a movie like this  really  there  s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the   evil   brain looks like an over sized sock puppet  the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie  director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made   bloody birthday    guilty pleasure of mine  and   plague    both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry  the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale  whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator  a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she  s obviously a great talent   she has exactly   movies on her repertoire of which this is her   masterpiece    in her debut  she was credited as   runaway model   and in     men and a baby    her character is referred to as   one of jack  s girls    i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress              does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents   one edition featured charles bronson   robbie coltrane   being interviewed about his new movie glc   br    br      it  s about a man   an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner     br    br      and after glc what next for bronson       br    br      we  re using a new angle   my family don  t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same     br    br   this accurately describes the evil that men do   it  s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn  t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained  br    br   bronson is a retired hit man who isn  t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of    the doctor      not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture   it  s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents  br    br   as you may guess it  s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor  s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included  br    br   in many ways it  s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time   but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons   believe me this movie won  t be shown until well after the watershed            well  here  s another terrific example of awkward     s film making  the rudimentary premise of   what  s the matter with helen    is quite shocking and disturbing  but it  s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion  in the hands of any other movie crew  this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale  but with director curtis harrington    whoever slew auntie roo     and scriptwriter henry farrell    hush  hush  sweet charlotte    in charge  it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres  the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific  but there  s a lot more to experience  like love stories  a swinging       s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing  the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique  we  re literally catapulted back to the       s  with a sublime depiction of that era  s music  religion  theatrical business and wardrobes  following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder  adelle  debbie reynolds  and helen  shelley winters  flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls  particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment  as she falls in love with a local millionaire  but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia  she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist  fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies  the script  although not entirely without flaws  is well written and the film is adequately paced  there  s never a dull moment in   what  s the matter with helen    although the singing  tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot  but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters  she  s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who  s about to snap any second and  especially during the last ten minutes or so  she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers  jason voorhees   and michael myers   combined  there are several terrific supportive characters who are  sadly  a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential  like mich  al macliamm  ir as the cocky elocution teacher  agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies   house  there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us  but particularly the set pieces and costume designs  even nominated for an oscar   are breathtaking             resnais  wow  the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a     s french musical in vibrant colour  the opening voice over with old  embellished inter titles was a nice touch  then the camera aperture opens  like the old hand crankers  on a black   white placard  the camera backs off  or rather  up   suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party  this is all in the first    seconds  br    br   then the music starts  a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of   girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film  and yes  i speak french  so i can  t blame it on the subtitles   those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song  then they leave  and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue    minutes into the film  br    br   i  m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time   musical cacophony  but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out  i endured  br    br   it didn  t get much better  i  ll tell you why  there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters  we don  t even see their faces half the time  as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera   people flit on   off stage like moths around a lamp  and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot  it  s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a   hour movie  with bad songs  br    br   the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did    hour  was that i was looking at the camera techniques  lighting and scenery which were all  i admit  excellent  but is that enough to hold your attention for   hours  not me  maybe tomorrow i  ll try watching the end  aw  who am i kidding  i have more important things to do  i  m sure you do  too  skip this             i saw this movie in the middle of the night  when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch  it  s one of those films where you stop to see what it is   just for a moment    but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can  t turn it off  no matter how bad it is  one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it  s good and so bad it  s  well  just plain bad  it  s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it  s both  great middle of the night fare  if only for the fabulous tennis drag  don  t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male  because logic does not apply             this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick   doppelganger    an astronaut from our earth crashing on a   counter earth   on the opposite side of the sun  and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world  and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series  however  the whole thing sank without a trace  and tv is probably better off for it  br    br   everyone here is perfectly adequate in a   made for tv   way  cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance  so does glenn corbett  who seems to be a kind of poor man  s john saxon  who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the   world order   on counter earth  br    br   but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad  br    br   i  ll give one example  in the original template for this pilot     doppleganger     the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm  and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence  it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again   then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds  only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers  br    br   in   stranded in space    the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound  things start shaking  and the camera blurs into a blackout  and as a friend pointed out  it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats  the director wasn  t even shaking the camera or the set   i  ve seen episodes of   the twilight zone   and   the outer limits   that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity  br    br   and that  in essence  is what  s wrong with   stranded in space    no budget  no time  no imagination   just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys   imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest  sorry  guys  it didn  t work   br    br   i  m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away  and never thought of it again  except as a listing on their c v  and that  s what you  the viewer will do  you  ll remember  if pressed  that you once watched a tv movie called   stranded in space    but it made no lasting impression on you  and you can  t recall too much about it             black comedy isn  t always an easy sell  every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful  like fargo  for example  but usually they don  t often find big audiences  people seem to either set their minds for comedy  or for serious mayhem  there doesn  t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both  throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit  yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age  danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in       br    br   devito plays an odd mamma  s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with  the mother is played by anne ramsey  who passed away shortly after this was released  and she is quite a caricature  she is loud  ugly  rude  and overbearing  though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself  he wants desperately to have his mother offed  he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes  but he clearly doesn  t have the guts to actually do it himself  that  s where billy crystal comes in  crystal plays larry donner  owen  s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college  larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it  he is currently trying to write a new one  but cannot even come up with a decent first sentence    the night was       owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria  and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train  owen decides to travel to hawai  i and murder larry  s ex wife  once it appears he has done so  he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother  the resulting action is often quite funny  and even poignant  it  s certainly never dull and often full of surprises  br    br   the acting is exceptional  even if ramsey was a bit over the top  crystal is as good as he can be  and devito has always been undervalued as a performer  the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works  often painfully so  the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes  and the off beat tone is truly refreshing  i have often been critical of the late     s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making  throw momma from the train takes chances  both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot  how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered  the film isn  t too long  and it is chock full of laughs  writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public  but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone    of    stars  br    br   the hound             back in       i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july   something like    days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation  weekends and the holiday itself  i stayed in town during that time  hanging out at my parents   house a lot  br    br   i didn  t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents   tube  i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx  i was hooked instantly  i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents   family homes and through inheritances from relatives   estates  and often wondered about their history  value  etc  br    br   after my long vacation  i used to go to my folks   house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx  br    br   i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air  br    br   it never did  personal fx was the first  and best   of the collectible shows  and it vanished from the air  almost fifteen years later  i  m still sore  br    br   way to go  fx             paul verhoeven  s predecessor to his breakout hit   basic instinct   is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller  verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films  both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why  the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve  played by jeroen krabb     a gay  alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes  while there  he meets the seductive christine halsslag  ren  e soutendijk  who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him  even if it kills him  br    br   paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film  and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it  many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be  but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration  and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on  paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself  and that is one of things i like best about him  this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards  and that doesn  t happen very often    i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work   but you  ll see what i mean when you see the film  make sure you get the uncut version    there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i  ve mentioned  but are lovely nonetheless  a man gets eaten by lions  another one has a pipe sent through his skull  a boat is smashed in half   lovely  br    br   the acting in the fourth man isn  t anything to write home about  but it  s solid throughout  jeroen krabb   holds the audience  s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer  it is ren  e soutendijk that impresses the most  though  as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale  her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct  but the original fatale did it best  paul verhoeven  s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view  all of which help to create the mystery of the story  verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish  but he obviously has talent and it  s a shame that he doesn  t put it to better use  of all the verhoeven films i  ve seen  this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across  trust me  it  s worth the effort             i accept that most     s horror aren  t scary by today  s standards  but what the hell is this  when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast  instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth    yeah which is what the people wanted  br    br   the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast    but the title really kills the movie  night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn  t any blood to speak of  br    br   i like how the     s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one  this movie isn  t the worst i  ve ever seen but its almost up there  br    br     out of               demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs  it is definitely an awful example of a film  so awful in fact that i don  t even consider it a movie  i describe it more as a thing     a monstrous thing  a thing that must be stopped at all costs  my friends and i first discovered this     thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend  s house  it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies  we unfortunately picked this one   well  during the    minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up  the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word  it  s just a cheap  poorly done rip off of evil dead  the whole   story   seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces  i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed  i  ve seen bad horror movies before  manos  troll    hobgoblins      shudder  i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity  watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films  br    br   fun fact  this film is like a cockroach on steroids  much like the ouija board  every time we try to get rid of it  it always seems to mysteriously reappear  kind of scary huh             there is a difference between a   film    and a   movie    a film  regardless of quality  is ready for public consumption  a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder  in my time as a viewer  i have seen may examples of both  br    br   on september     i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski  s   donnybrook    now having read the script and having seen two different cuts  a rough cut and the   finished   product  of this piece  i can safely say it is a movie  and a student movie  at that  it is  for lack of a better word  competent  which is to say  the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images  the visuals are  for the most part  static and unimpressive  and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots  with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters  i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film  but some visual flair would have been appreciated  and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested  br    br   granted  there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written  engrossing story and some sharp dialog  steven soderbergh  s   sex  lies  and videotape   comes immediately to mind  this movie  however  has neither  the main story is weak and unfocused  if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father  then i feel this movie misses the point  what i got out of it is that davie  s main aspiration is to   change the face of rock   n   roll    however  we see very little activity on his part to show this  while there is one dream sequence at the beginning  and an impromptu performance of his at the end  all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar  we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs  but we never see him in full rock out mode  next time  show don  t tell the audience  anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this  also  davie doesn  t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the       s  he looks like he  d be more comfortable in the early days of rock   n   roll  posing as james dean  s less talented brother  in the meantime  the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich   characters  and story threads  that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story  are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency  i e  the subplot involving terry  s father   if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction  i will consider watching   napolean dynamite   again  a film i could barely make it through the first time  br    br   as for the above mentioned dialog scenes  i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between  is it too much to ask for characters who do speak  i don  t think it is  when the characters do speak  it is in short  choppy sentences  collections of oh so insightful questions  angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts  these characters simply do not behave like normal  rational people  working with material like this  it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film  al hudson  s  and that  s just because he  s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen  a good director  or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director  would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them  however  with satejowski being so close to the material  he simply doesn  t see them  or  if he does  he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it  ll hurt his creative vision  being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner  is the mark of a self indulgent  misguided fool  just ask rob schneider   br    br   in the end  we are left with a poor  high school set  knock off of zach braff  s amazing   garden state   combined with the equally amazing   velvet goldmine    two films far more worthy of your time  br    br   now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review  allow me to offer this  the best i can do is compliment mr  satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see  however  the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur  this is a student movie  nothing more  nothing less  if the movie holds any promise  and let  s face it  at this point  it isn  t going to come from the acting  writing  or directing   it is this  if  if  the people associated with this film are willing  then  please  learn from this movie  file it away  and use the lessons learned on your next attempt  don  t attack your critics  or have friend or family do it for you  if you are able to do this  maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution  worthy of being called a   film    br    br   i am your audience  and i am willing to watch             please re watch all   series and do not go see this movie  the trailer is completely misleading and the   weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out   min tv episode into the most painful  hrs of my life  truly an awful film  tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins  micky has   line  and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns  also mr briss  s accent just changes about   times in the film tons of badly acted extras  and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for   hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap          batman and robin all is forgiven            finally  an iranian film that is not made by majidi  kiarostami or the makhmalbafs  this is a non documentary  an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the   system   in its ass  it  s all about football and its funny  its really funny  the director says   the places are real  the event is real  and so are the characters and the extras  this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors  as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness    the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a  your heart is made of stone b  you are blind  excellently scripted  the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness  it has won the jury grand prize  berlin        dear reader  it  s near perfect  where  where can i get hold of it             sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror  if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes  sometimes a real gem will present itself    this  unfortunately  was not the case with   satan  s whip    br    br   written and directed by jason maran    satan  s whip   attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film  with no real pay off at the end  i  m guessing that the black   white  and blue  cinematography must have been for a reason  however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue  and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on  the story in itself is not that bad  and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic  this  combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real  red  gore made   satan  s whip   one to forget quite quickly  i will give it a       rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle  but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time             tainted look at kibbutz life br    br   this film is less a cultural story about a boy  s life in a kibbutz  but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general  in the first two minutes of the movie  the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves  and it  s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical   kibbutznikim    besides the two main characters  a clinically depressed woman and her young son  every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well  evil   br    br   the story centers on how the kibbutz  like some sort of cult  slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows  there is no happiness  no joy  no laughter in this kibbutz  every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny  hypocrisy  violence  cultism  repression etc  for example  while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking    year old boy    his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his   jewish   physical appearance and brutish personality  he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother  he treats these volunteers like trash  after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn  t seen in a long time due to his military service  he orders  quote      linda  go take shower and i cum in two minutes     br    br   there is one other   good   character in this movie    a european foreigner who plays the mother  s boyfriend  when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother  s son  the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist  s arm  he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for   violent   behavior against one of the kibbutz members  more hypocrisy  the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex cannot happen before age     or without love and gives an account of the actual act that  s supposed to be humorous for the audience  but is really just stupid  she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy  s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse   br    br   the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult  children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders  the mother apparently can  t   escape   the kibbutz  although in reality  anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose  it  s a mystery how the boy  s father died  but you can rest assured  the kibbutz   drove him to it   and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless  wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son   br    br   that  s the gist of this movie  one dimensional characters  over dramatization  dry performances  and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience  s head    that kibbutz life was degrading  miserable and even deadly for those who didn  t   fit in    i feel sorry for the guy who made this film    obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz  but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs              when will i ever learn    the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane  please allow me to vent my spleen    br    br   i will admit  the setting  presumably new york city  has never been so downright ugly and unappealing  i am reminded that the     s was a bad decade for men  s fashion and automobiles  and all the smoking   if the plan was to cheapen the characters  it succeeded  br    br   for a film to work  at least  in my simple estimation   there has to be at least one sympathetic character  only ned beaty came close  and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky  if a stray shot had struck mikey  well  it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most  br    br   i can  t remember when i detested a film as strongly  i suppose i  m a rube who doesn  t dig   art   flicks  oh  well               lost              carnivale      desperate housewifes     the list goes on and on  these  and a bunch of other high quality  shows proves that we  re in the middle of a golden age in television history    lost   is pure genius  incredible layers of personal  and psychologically viable  stories  underscored by sublime cinematography  incredible to use this word  when describing a tv show   a killer score  great performances and editing  anyone who isn  t hooked on this  are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever  it may have its problems  when watching only one episode a week  but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this  hope they keep it up  as i  m sure they do              clifton webb is one of my favorites  however  mister scoutmaster is not one of his best  his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny  the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality  in addition  the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s  patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine  clifton webb does his best with a poor script  edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do  the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film  his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age  however  once you  ve heard it  you  ve heard it and you don  t need to hear it again  unfortunately  he is in the majority of the film  s scenes  i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up  since he has a lot of scenes in this film  this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film  there were and are so many talented child actors  it  s a pity this film doesn  t have any of them in it  still  clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing             this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality  darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story  we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime  darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy  a disease which affects all the muscles in his body  he is confined to a wheelchair  and needs round the clock attention  so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a       mile round trip to the west coast and back  watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure   laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way  and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises             the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses  the mythical city of everytown in      represents england in general  but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world  when war finally does arrive  it  s ravages continue not for another five years  but until      at which time everytown is completely destroyed  adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the   wandering sickness    a pestilence that continues for another four years  br    br     things to come   balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view  where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization  the   wings over the world   concept plays out a bit corny  though it  s spokesman cabal  raymond massey  is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause  if he fails  others will follow  this message is continually reinforced throughout the film  brought home convincingly in massey  s end of movie speech  man  s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an   all the universe or nothing   mindset  br    br   the film  s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film   metropolis    as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year       the spectacle of the city  s rebirth strikes a resonant chord  as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie  s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition  where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man  s first mission to the moon  but in       a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than       br    br     things to come   is one of those rarities in film  a picture that makes you think  which side will you come down on  the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo  it  s not a comfortable question  as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes  those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control             fulci    does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made  answer  yes  cat in the brain  also known as nightmare concert is fulci  s last masterpiece  yes it is  no matter what some people will say about it  there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci  s movies  br    br   fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one  lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself  who plays    well horror splatter gore director  who thinks he is slowly going insane  it  s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here  being fulci flick  you need to know it  s gory  how much  well pretty much  i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it  but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore  and believe me  it  s a hard to archive  even the braindead didn  t stop it  citb is all about gore  almost every scene revolves about fulci  who after being hypnotized by  khmmm  evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees  some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey  and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor  which starts to spit some ooze from it  s wounds  forget the beyond or zombie    this is the goriest fulci movie  now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie  he is such a brilliant director  some funny moments and lines happens from time to time  like one where fulci says   making gore movies is kind of a sickness   ending is very good considering that fulci  and most of the italian horror masters  is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes  if you are fun of the fulci  make sure you check it out  if you have a weak stomach  avoid this and repeat   its only a movie   ps  some of the gore scenes within this movie  chainsaw dismemberment  full   tongue torn out  eyeballs torn out  maggot infested corpses  zombies  decapitations  face being putted in boiling water  stabs in the shower  to head   throat slit  many parts of the body and organs being toast aside  hammer smashed face               what an incomprehensible mess of a movie  something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom  and from the size of the jar he  s been shot about fifty times by now  and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico  whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear  and you  ll never hear another screenplay feature the word   butthorn   either  gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from   lethal weapon   and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity  william smith does another turn as a russian soldier  the same character he played in   red dawn   a few years earlier  after playing biker heavies for most of the   s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies  sadly he  ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in   every which way you can              i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors  i like raptors because they are scary  my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the   th movie with the girl who eats the banana  br    br   i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part  the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time  br    br   this is best movie            warning  review contains mild spoilers br    br   a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise  and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st  series  however  just two years on and i find i can  t remember enough about them in order to do it    i guess they couldn  t have made much of an impression  from what i do recall  some of the sequels    dream warriors in particular    weren  t as bad as is often made out  though even the original was no classic  generally  the predictability of the premise  if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams  doesn  t lend itself to narrative tension  but while i cannot recall much of the first five films  i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy  s dead  br    br   an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character  s demise  the fact that the movie  s conclusion is not even hidden  but in fact the entire purpose for the film  s being goes to illustrate how vacant  soulless and cynical this venture was  br    br   taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain  robert englund  s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter  i always thought freddy  s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe  it  s like englund  s crying out   we know this is garbage    but you  re paying to see it  so who  s the one laughing    and i  m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight  was freddy  s appearance in the films always so rudimentary  all he gets to do here is a few   haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr    har    har    hars   and that  s it  if this was the only elm st  film you  d ever seen you wouldn  t get to know the character at all  even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic  ie  overstated  misplaced and not at all funny  irony  br    br   acting is almost universally poor  just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language  only kananga himself  yaphet kotto  keeps his dignity  and when roseanne  tom arnold and alice cooper show up  you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire  the script  too  is absolutely lousy  almost wholly without merit  carlos  ricky dean logan  opens a road map  upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written   you  re f  ked    when prompted for the map  carlos responds   well the map says we  re f  ked    who wrote the screenplay  oscar wilde  br    br   or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy  his hearing enhanced to painful levels  so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin    a potentially fatal sound  given that all sounds are magnified  oddly  the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect    nice hearing from you  carlos    quips freddy  hoping some better lines will come along  it  s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn  t occur instaneously  so being knocked unconscious wouldn  t allow instant access into freddy  s world  though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a   d finale plot logic isn  t that high on the list of requirements  br    br   the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious  dislikeable group in the whole series  tracy  lezlie deane  is the only one who gets to greet freddy with   shut the f  k up  man   and a kick in the scallops  and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients  freddy  s dead  no laughs  no scares  no interest  no fun  br    br               some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the   s  but although it is undoubtedly brutal  violent and very downbeat  this film from pou soi cheang isn  t really sleazy  lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison  however  it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch  particularly if gritty  hard edged action is your thing  br    br   edison chen plays pang  a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge  sam lee is wai  the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down  whatever the cost  with wai closing in on his target  pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape  until he meets yue  a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse  br    br   a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography  amazing sound design  a haunting score  and solid performances from chen and lee  as well as newcomer pei pei as pang  s love interest   dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence  think along the lines of chan wook park  s vengeance trilogy   stabbings  shootings  merciless beatings  all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang  br    br   of course  this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved  and sure enough  pretty much everyone in this film dies  rather nasty deaths   unfortunately  there is a fine line between tragedy and  unintentional  comedy  and in its final moments  dog bite dog crosses it  in a laughably over dramatic final scene  pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on  eventually  after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas  a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on  a now dead  yue  delivering their baby moments before he himself dies  br    br   whilst this film might not be a   classic   slice of hong kong excess  with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals  it  s still worth seeking out             i watched this movie for the hot guy  and even he sucked  he was the worst one  well  okay  i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too  he was even worse  the guy wasn  t that cute in the end  he had the most terrible accent  and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can  t stand up to his mom for the one he   loves   there  s ever been  overall  and if this makes any sense to you  when i go to pick up movies at the video store  i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so    well  at least it can  t be worse than carolina moon    the most terrible movie  and the most terrible writing  acting  plot  everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips  it was the most horrid movie i will ever see  with gabriela way up there too  i hated it  and trust me  if there was any number under   imdb had for rating  i  d choose that in a heartbeat             absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story  told with unflinching eye and with gripping style  if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people  this could change your mind  something for you feds too  a good model for government coverups  if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you             i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say  even though this movie did not get the best comments  this movie made my day  it got me thinking  what a false world this is  br    br   what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you  it  s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake  it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance  same way some people are such that they are never grateful  this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself   br    br   a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster  the surviving brother decides to take revenge  through this process  we learn about the futility of this world  nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone  br    br   amitabh gave the performance of his life  the new actor aryan gave a good performance  the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show  her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance  chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself  br    br   a great movie by raj kumar santoshi  his movies always give some message to the audience  his movies are like novels of nanak singh  a punjabi novelist who  s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil  because they have a real message for the audience  they are entertaining as well as lesson giving             after a very scary  crude opening which gives you that creepy   chainsaw massacre   feeling  everything falls apart  br    br   spoiler alert  as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing  you know they are the real killers  anyone who have seen enough of these   fooled ya   movies can figure this out  br    br   this movie is mader with one thing in mind  to depict brutal murders  why  then  is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well  will this be next for us movie goers  the torture and abuse of children  whats wrong with you people  lynch is truly has a disgusting  ugly mind             i can  t say much about this film  i think it speaks for itself  as do the current ratings on here   i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it  i even  tried  to like it by watching it twice  but i just couldn  t  i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever  ever again  and i  m not one to trash a movie  but i truly believe this was awful  it wasn  t even funny in the slightest  the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them  i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me  all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie  and it reminds me not to waste my money  amy poehler is so very annoying  too  br    br   overall  well  i think you get my point  the stars are for walken  by the way             i am not so old that i can  t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times  but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells  br    br   from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead  neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line  goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better  even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades   br    br   if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was    years ago   this movie is worse  it was not even funny by accident it is sad  pathetic and a total waste of time  may goldthwaits   hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script  strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene  he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood            in new orleans  an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie  walter jack palance   he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch  zero mostel  and poldi  guy thomajan   killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea  during the autopsy  the family man lieutenant commander dr  clinton reed  richard widmark  of the u s  public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic  the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren  paul douglas  to help dr  clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them  br    br     panic in the streets   discloses a simple story  but it is still effective and with a great villain  the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years  jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut  and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive  my vote is seven  br    br   title  brazil     p  nico nas ruas      panic in the streets               the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it  but i soon learned that i had been duped  i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal  but i was wrong  this movie is one of the dumbest i  ve seen in a long time  the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you  the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy  it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building  go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead  i can  t believe national lampoon put its name on this  don  t buy it  don  t rent it  don  t waste   hours of your life on this             there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence   the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost  but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it  it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi  and at the very worst an act of murder  like most people  when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult  after seeing this  i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s  government through his eccentric actions  sure  there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound  but none of it was illegal  it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound  all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless  and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site  the clueless testimony of janet reno  and the partisan defense of the attack on waco  a defense led by a few of the committee democrats  standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s  senator from ny charles schumer  i voted for the man when i lived in ny state   i  m a democrat  pretty left leaning too  after seeing his actions on this committee  i wish i could go back in time and vote for d  amato instead  for anyone remotely interested in the government  this is a very crucial film  a must see  i even think this should be shown in classes   it  s that important             i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent  it has it  s moments i guess you would say  some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool  and some of the location shots were very authentic  i won  t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting  i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre  the action is good  the acting is decent  the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion  and the story is pretty interesting    out of ten            yes  i call this a perfect movie  not one boring second  a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors  a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with  perfect lighting  crisp black and white photography  a fitting soundtrack  an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works  it  s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest  the mark everyone should endeavor to reach  br    br   barbara stanwyck is simply stunning  there was nothing this actress couldn  t do  and she always went easy on the melodramatic side  no hysterical outbursts with this lady   i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford  and this movie confirmed my opinion  always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments  it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career  and this one is by far the least interesting  br    br   the title fits this movie very well  it is about desires  human desires i think everyone can understand  actually  no one seems to be scheming in this movie  all characters act on impulse  everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else  the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here  br    br   i liked what this movie has to say about youth  about maturing and about the necessity to compromise  the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock  s shadow of a doubt  it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america  the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang  s considerably harsher movie clash by night  made one year earlier  where stanywck stars in a similar part  i can also recommend it             i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie    that  s the way of the world    it  s been about    years since i  ve seen this movie  and i would like to see it again  earth wind   fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes  it was unfortunate that this group didn  t take off like their counterparts in the early     s  but as previously stated  racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups  it is good to see that earth wind   fire continuing their success  i would like to add this movie to my collection  someone please help me if possible  thank you for your attention  milton shaw            i saw the movie   hoot   and then i immediately decided to comment it  the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet  some people think that if they have money  they can do whatever they want to  which probably is like  but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful  this movie is not just about kids  this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do  when i was twelve  i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn  t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law  but fearing that i might harm them actually   i am currently     what so ever  the acting was great  the   main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them  i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie    and enjoy             i had some reservations about this movie  i figured it would be the usual bill of fare     a formula movie about christmas  being in the middle of a heat wave in late june  we decided to give it a shot anyway  maybe we would see some snow  br    br   this movie turned out to be one laugh after another  ben affleck was believable in his character  but the real star of this one is james gandofini  he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great   dad    br    br   if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours  definitely check this one out             when i first saw this film around   months ago  i considered it interesting  but little more  but it stuck with me  that interest grew and grew  and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself  i purchased the criterion dvd box set  and it turns out that i was right the second time  alexander nevsky is a great film  it is rousing  and i  m sure it succeeded in its main aim  propaganda against the germans  br    br   that is the most common criticism against this film  and against eisenstein  that it is merely propagandist and nothing else  it  s untrue  he is an amazing film artist  one of the most important whoever lived  by now  the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein  s films as art             focus is another great movie starring william h  macy  i first discovered macy in fargo and i  ve seen a few of his films and he hasn  t yet deceived me  macy is the archetypal   nice guy with something to hide    in focus  he plays the role of lawrence newman  a loyal and hard working stiff  who harbours his handicapped mother at home  the scene is set after world war ii  at the height of mccarthyism  newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically  anti semite  after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent  he is asked to buy a pair of glasses  to improve his failing eyesight  br    br   unbelievably  the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart  his wife  played by a great laura dern   as the film unravels  newman will begin to see a whole different world  where being jewish is akin to being an animal  br    br   the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal  the chilling thought is that in some places  it probably still is             in   brave new girl    holly comes from a small town in texas  sings   the yellow rose of texas   at a local competition  and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia  from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty  i loved this movie  it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace  the acting was  of course  wonderful  virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding  as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end  it seems a sequel could be in the making   kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production  quite a gem in the film archives             despite a totally misleading advertising campaign  this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich  d  sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending  clue    for all considering seeing this turkey  sam raimi didn  t direct it  although commercials for the movie play up his involvement  in truth he is one of four producers  it  s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie  i don  t think he would ever have directed something like this  that task was left to the pang brothers  br    br   the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other   horror   films  so you  ll find absolutely zero original content in   the messengers    what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of   pulse    a couple that could have come from   the birds    one or two from   the others    etc  nearly every scene  almost every line of dialogue  is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies  the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the   surprise ending   long before it comes  br    br   right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign  centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts  has nothing to do with this movie  in fact  everyone can see the ghosts  the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them  even quite early in the movie  i  m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal  which otherwise is entirely absent  now you know  so don  t be fooled  perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors  it simply isn  t there  all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted  coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes  just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened  anyhow  didn  t anyone think to maybe arrest him    it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots  loud noises  visual flashes  and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling   boo    all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house  if there  s any message that   the messengers   delivers  it  s   don  t waste your time on this movie               this movie sucks ass  something about a heatwave in some european country  complete trash  there  s nothing going for this movie whatsoever  maybe    seconds of sex but that  s it  there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off  this movie is complete rash and you shouldn  t subject yourself to watching it  i regret it it  s very boring  i would rate it zero but i can  t  no body in their right mind should see this  i  m sure you  ll regret it completely i did  how could they think up something this bad  even mystery men was better  mystery men  that sucks  that movie wasn  t worth being made  complete waste of time  the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored             i was looking forward to the guardian  but when i walked into the theater i wasn  t really in the mood for it at that particular time  it  s kind of like the olive garden   i like it  but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it  br    br   i  m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit  the trailers looked good  but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject   waterworld  plus  despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect  i  m still not completely sold on him  something about the guy just annoys me  probably has to do with his simian features  br    br   it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away  the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission  and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers   orange face lift  my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher  s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious  sunglasses  a tough guy toothpick in his mouth  and sportin   a smirk that  d make george clooney proud  yeah  we get it  i was totally ready to hate him  br    br   but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs   br    br   darn you  ape man  efficiently mixing tense  exciting rescue scenes  drama  humor  and solid acting  the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy  you can quibble about its clich  s  predictability  and rare moments of overcooked sappiness  but none of that takes away from the entertainment value  br    br   i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys  but on the contrary  the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film  coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen  so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group  br    br   do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer  just think about it  you get to go on dangerous missions in cold  dark  rough water  and then you must fight disorientation  exhaustion  hypothermia  and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded  panicked people who are depending on you for their survival  and if all that isn  t bad enough  sometimes you can  t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies  br    br   man  who wants all that responsibility  not me  i had no idea what it was really like for these guys  and who would have thought i  d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education   br    br   not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero  but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers  br    br   the gist  br    br   moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it  s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance  i saw it for free  but had i paid i would  ve felt i had gotten my money  s worth             going into see seven pounds i wasn  t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about  so within the first    min or so you are completely lost in the plot  have no idea what is going on and you think tim  who claims to be ben  is just a big asshole  all of this comes to an end when the   twist   so to speak  is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie  basically tim  will smith  was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives  by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to  br    br   the acting of this film is great  as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress  rosario dawson  to me  this is one of her better movies  aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to  she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film  other actors  such as woody harrelson  have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character  although the casting of the film was still good  br    br   this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped  the movie  however  was still pretty good  nothing is revealed until the last   min of the movie and everything falls into place  up until then it just seems like a pointless love story  final thought seven pounds seven stars             i saw brother  s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it  judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son  the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn  he shows up there because his brother has died  and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother  s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family  the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives  also  the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait               marar  xada   really disappointed me  i can  t consider it as a bad movie  but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions  dr  ferm  xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can  t really understand where it was born from  i mean  how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar  xada   maybe once  also  marar  xada never appeared to be a real character  instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie     or else another title was needed    some of the best acting came from a role that wasn  t really important to the story  that of marcial  the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard  of course  the scenery  the cultural tidbits of the canary islands  and other   wow   moments were interesting  but the movie fell short of a documentary  in case this was its real intention   and most importantly  as a solid drama             serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind  instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains  the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems  there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters  the mad doctor  s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy  the results are not good  this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors  there isn  t much zombie action in this one and the effects  while adequate  are nothing special  you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes  watch out for some nudity and bad language            witty  funny  intelligent  awesome  i was flipping channels late one night years ago  came across this and a wildfire started  i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know  a few  like   people out of the almost     people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did  the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time  please do yourself a favor  run don t walk  watch this and enjoy  intelligence and humor  it s a win win situation  i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of    sanechaos            it  s a unique film  as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory  because he seems so reserved   detached he  s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him  however in the deadly serious  no pun intended  last act  when coward must make like the flying dutchman  he  s much less comfortable  br    br   but his way with an epigram is peerless  and hecht   macarthur have given him some gems  macarthur  really    he was the wit of the pair   br    br   the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes  but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence  hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing    getting their dialogue on screen   note  h m themselves have blink and you  ll miss   em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene   br    br   the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott  notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward  who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward  br    br   curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table  of which he was a founder  and macarthur something of an auxiliary member  br    br   the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story  though that victory is probably due more to coward  s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot  it  s coward  woolcott  and the dialogue you remember               this is definitely a   must see   film  the excellent director alain chabat  also acting as ceasar  has managed to capture the very essence of the   adventures of ast  rix    the french comic books it  s based upon  and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy  which is also an homage to the world of animated films  this movie is so funny  so full of jokes  both visual and spoken  that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all  between your bursts of laughter  the only drawback is that a non french audience  or at least a non french speaking audience  might not get all the   private jokes    there are so many dialogues impossible to translate  so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life  that the fun might be lessened  however  it  s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture  the amazing stunts  the music  the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting  all actors are great  but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze  g  rard darmon and edouard baer  and please don  t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books     ast  rix et ob  lix contre c  sar   and directed by claude zidi             i thought this movie was stunning  with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi  artemisia gentileschi   br    br   cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully  with tentative yet confidant mannerisms  her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place  the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch  br    br   although not each character was overtly beautiful  this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time  br    br   overall i thought this film was fantastic             i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling   gentleman jim   the best boxing movie ever made  that is the robert wise paul newman flick   somebody up there likes me    that movie might be number    but   gentleman jim   is a close number    br    br   the movie doesn  t just chronicle the rise of james j  corbett  it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition  in the late     s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more   gentlemanly   days of the gloved  marquis of queensbury rules  and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability  br    br     gentleman jim   is not a realistic look at those days  it is romanticized and  yes  even a bit hokey at times  but always delightfully so  errol flynn is perfect as the   gentleman   jim who really isn  t a   gentleman   at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family  alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship  and we all know it is  of course  love that will win that match in the end   br    br   at the end of   gentleman jim   the great john l sullivan  whose famous line was not   i can lick any man in the world   of course   romanticism again  hands over his belt to corbett  this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made  realistic  no  but wonderful  hey  if you want realism watch   raging bull   instead  that is a much more realistic boxing movie  but   gentleman jim   is a lot more fun             that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead  am i the only one that really saw  rather sleptwalked  through this   film    this is the only movie i  ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back    it was just that dull  and i even saw   highlander    the quickening   at the local cinema  from beginning to end  gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies  cast together by circumstance  who eventually work together as best buddies  the action  what little there is  is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer  thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our   cinema   that there  s no chance for an   air america                 well  there  s no real plot to speak of  it  s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex  which can sometimes be fun  too  but it  s not in this case   what else can i say about this     the action  when happening  is inventive and there  s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper  one that has to be several miles high   but overall there  s not much to recommend   kite    watch it if you want  but you  re not missing much if you skip this one               this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven  t seen any of the others  there are the usual ingredients  it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts  we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently  the story is just laughably idiotic  and the film takes itself much too seriously  and then  orang utans in africa  br    br   but it has a few things going for it  bo looks great  the production values  sets  costumes  etc   are quite good  and this greatly enhances its camp value  in a strange way it is actually quite funny  simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly             some people drift through life  moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye  others latch on to a cause  another person or a principle and remain adamant  committed to whatever it is   and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it  but we  re all different   made of different clay    as one of the characters in this film puts it  which is what makes life so interesting  some people are just plain crazy  though   and maybe that  s the way you have to be to live among the masses  who knows  who knows what it takes to make things   life   work  writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it  using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed   and how one  gets   committed   and obsession  in  committed    starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant  committed  obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy  too  her name is joline  and this is her story  br    br       admittedly  joline has always been a committed person  in work  relationships  in life in general  she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what  and when she marries carl  luke wilson   it s forever  the only problem is  someone forgot to tell carl   and     days into the marriage  he s gone  off to  find  himself and figure it all out  when joline realizes he s not coming back  she refuses to give up on him  or their marriage  maybe it s because of that  clay  she s made of  regardless  she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him  which she does   in el paso  texas  of all places  but once she knows where he is  she keeps her distance  giving him his  space  and not even letting him know she s there  she considers carl as being in a  spiritual coma   and it s her job to keep a  spiritual vigil  over him until he comes to his senses  and while she watches and waits  her life is anything but dull  as she encounters a young woman named carmen  patricia velazquez   a waitress at one of the local eateries  carmen s  grampy    alfonso arau   who is something of a mystic  t bo  mark ruffalo   a truck driver who has issues concerning carl  and neil  goran visnjic  an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her  for joline  it s a journey of discovery  during which she learns a lot about carl  but even more about herself  br    br       there s a touch of humor  a touch of romance  and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot  and krueger presents it all extremely well  delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining  her characters are very real people  with all the wants  needs and imperfections that make up the human condition  a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story  we see it from joline s point of view  as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations  which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold  that  along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates  makes for a very effective piece of storytelling  there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter  but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters  and the result is a well textured  affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life  br    br       heather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation  she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable  adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person  and one that is real  and for this film to work  it was imperative that joline be viable and believable   and graham succeeds on all fronts  her screen presence has never been more alluring  and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes  is enough to draw you in entirely  it s all a part of the character she creates  there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance  who she is inside and out  she s a likable  agreeable person  and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts  you know who she is  it s a good job all the way around  beginning with the way the character was written  to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life  br    br       as carmen  patricia velazquez is totally engaging  as well  her performance is very natural and straightforward  and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character  she has a charismatic presence  but is less than flamboyant  and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth  she is refreshingly open and up front  you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back  but is totally honest on all fronts  and that  too  is part of her appeal  and  as with joline  this character is well written  and velazquez brings her convincingly to life  br    br       overall  there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film  including those of luke wilson  casey affleck  as joline s brother  jay   goran visnjic  alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo  who  with very little actual screen time  manages to create a memorable character  br    br       the supporting cast includes kim dickens  jenny   clea du vall  mimi   summer phoenix  meg   art alexakis  new york car thief   dylan baker  carl  s editor   and mary kay place  psychiatrist   a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture   reflecting upon who we are  where we  re going and what we really need    committed   is an enjoyable experience  a ride definitely worth taking                   ho hum  an inventor  s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands  unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along  enter cia agent olivia d  abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins  also in the cast are tom conti  hendrick haese and an aging roger moore  moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts  perry fans will be accepting  d  abo is wrong for the role  but nice to look at             note to self  never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it  great comedian  horrible seal  this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when  in fact  they are the most elite form of military in the world  charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation  thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen  this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie  but why charlie sheen  there are possibilities for a very passionate story here  but sheen decides to wreck them with   funny   comments             this movie is stupid  there  s no getting around it  but so is dumb and dumber  mind you  dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this  however  i for one love seeing stupid movies  tail sting  and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is  call me callous  but see this movie  and you  ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it             i was looking forward to this so much  being a big fan of the book  however  when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i  ve ever spent at the cinema  br    br   in principle  the acting  the sets and the music were excellent  and are the main reason why i  m rating this a    br    br   in this version  sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste  there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls  in the book she makes a point of describing lies as   not just wicked  but vulgar     br    br   there  s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me  sara  s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset  while the book does have a happy  and critics might say equally improbable  ending  it doesn  t leave you thinking    oh puh leeze    br    br   about the only things true to the book were  br    br      sara  s father being a soldier    the lines between sara and her father    are you learning me by heart      no  i know you by heart  you are inside my heart        sara  s friendship with becky  and her   adopting   lottie  although this last one wasn  t developed as much as it could have been     the changing of her room by adding various luxury items  that part was brilliantly done     the basic core   a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly   is there  but that  s about all that is  br    br   people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience  possibly  all i can say to that is i have two cousins   aged   and    respectively   who were big fans of this film until they read the book  br    br   if all you want is a   feel good   family film  then this delivers  if you  re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess  in fact  if you  ve read the book  don  t waste time with this one  it  s such a shame  with a cast like this  if they  d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic  br    br   am i harping on about   read the book   this and   read the book   that a little too much  very probably  but if someone attempts to adapt a book   especially such a classic   into a movie  then they should at least have done the same thing  preferably more than once             as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless  tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early     s and made everyone look bad  and claimed we all made over      a day when        a day was much closer to reality  when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work  and offered me work  i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the          id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least   years  and kept most in the bank and still left myself           for nl      and      cash games at the casinos  i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll  instead i win about       a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all  i was only homeless cause i didn  t wanna risk spending all my money and going broke  sometimes i had over            in my sock while i slept outside  anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard     on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though  due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs  im no longer homeless  am now in govt housing for      a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker  mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi  glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping  worrying about getting caught by security are finally over  had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner  its a shame how they don  t better select who they pick             i really in enjoyed watching this movie  like most of the people that watched it  i wasn  t sure that i was getting  whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies  i e  sister act  br    br   however this was not really comedy  it is a drama with comedic moments  so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking  br    br   this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood  i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie  this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks  but also about relations with in the black community  i do think that it is worth a chance  if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn  t for you            having been a marine  i can tell you that the d i  is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men  jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore  a tough  but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina  the film centers on one recruit who doesn  t seem to   get with the program    a more recent film  full metal jacket  also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing             every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie  this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be  br    br   the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what  s going on and you really want to view it for the second time  but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be  br    br   a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie  this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie  in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b  bs and lots of blood  br    br   if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts    ch  without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation  and don  t forget to switch the light off  br    br   my points on different aspects   br    br   direction        acting        atmosphere         sound effect        br    br   total                   ken burns     baseball   is a decent documentary    it presents a clear origin of the game  a great depiction of baseball  s early years and heroes  there  s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan    that said  the film has several glaring flaws  br    br      hours is simply too long for the human attention span  it  s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his   nine inning   concept  it  s not even a tight    hours    the pace on every segment is slow  almost morose    the music always nostalgic and wistful  isn  t baseball ever exciting and fun  why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy  talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak  yakking about baseball as a metaphor  baseball as americana  the psychology and theology of baseball    enough  this is syrupy  mawkish drivel  billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he  s sold us before  ken burns uses the national anthem as the series   theme song  and manages to play   take me out to the ballgame   so many times you might vomit  we get it  dude  br    br   clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal  so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues    these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today  for shame  he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times  burns falls head over heels in love with buck o  neil  a former negro league player  and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o  neil waxes poetic about his playing days  nonsense    br    br   burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down    baseball   winds up as mushy  gushy  civil rights propaganda disguised as americana  its clear that burns is not a baseball fan    otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering  not weeping and reciting soliloquies    are you listening  mr  burns  there  s no crying in baseball               quitting   may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal  as a rural guy coming to beijing  class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents   acting success  troubles arise  however  when the new man is too new  when it demands too big a departure from family  history  nature  and personal identity  the ensuing splits  and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other  hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim  br    br   but what an exceptionally convincing particularity  honesty  and sensuousness director zhang yang  and his actors  bring to this journey  no clich  s  no stereotypes  no rigid gender roles  no requisite sex  romance or violence scenes  no requisite street language and  to boot  no assumed money to float character acts and whims   br    br   hongshen jia is in his mid twenties  he  s a talented actor  impressionable  vain  idealistic  and perhaps emotionally starved  the perfect recipe for his enablers  soon he  s the   cool   actor  idolized by youth    he was hot in the early nineties      he always had to be the most fashionable    he needs extremes  and goes in for heavy metal  adopts earrings and a scarf  his acting means the arts  friends  and roles  but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input  and his self criticism  dulled by the immediacy of success  opens the doors to an irrational self doubt  self hatred     i didn  t know how to act     i felt like a phony    and to readily available drugs to counter them  he says   i had to get high to do what director wanted    so  his shallow identity as an actor becomes  via drugs  an escape from identity   br    br   hongshen  s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual  intermittent  and doggedly his own  solitude  space  meditative thinking  speech refusal  replace therapy  the abstract is out  and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors   not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways  bridges  and high rises of beijing  the physicality is almost romantic  but is not  the bike rides to ritan park  the long spontaneous walks  the drenching sun and rain  grassy picnics  the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific  he drifts in order to arrive  all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity    i started to open up   he says of this period in retrospect  and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer  s positioning  clumsy  graceful  humorous  telling  in a current circumstance  if mind or spirit is lacking  his legs can compel him to walk all night   br    br   central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles  to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity  he smashes his videos and tv  and bangs his head till bloody against his   john lennon forever   poster  he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist   but he  s the only viable guide he knows  he even imagines himself as john  s son  yoko ono   and adopts his   mother mary   as an intercessor in his   hour of darkness   and   time of trouble     the wrenching  shaking pain in the park  hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals    music is so much more real than acting   he says  and speaks of lennon  s influence as   showing me a new way    in the mental institute  the life saving apples  resistance  nourishment  reflect lennon  s presence  as does hongshen  s need to re hang his hero  s poster in his redecorated room  br    br   if lennon  s influence is spiriting  hongshen  s father  s influence is grounding  although father and son are both actors and users  drugs and drink   it is fegsen  s differences from his son that underwrites his change  for the father is more secure in himself  he accepts that he  s chinese  a peasant in a line of peasants  a rural theater director  and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions  it  s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board  sometimes with anger and rage  sometimes with humor  the blue jeans  beatles  and passivity  in his most crazed  and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar  and a fake  he exposes more of himself than his father    all the acts i acted before were bullshit    life is bullshit    and to hongshen  s emphatic   you are not my father    he softly replies    why can  t a peasant be your father     br    br   under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother  sister  friends  inmates at the rehab inst   he makes some tangible connection to a real  not whole  self  as the long term drug effects recede  so does his old identity  indebtedness replaces pride  trust distrust  integrity banishes his black cloud  all his edges soften    you are just a human being   he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine  back home  lard peasant soap is fine with him now  and his once   rare and true friendships   begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy  hongshen says of this movie    it  s a good chance to think about my life    and i might add  become a new actor  one bound to art and life  like lennon  he has gained success without a loss of identity             i have watched this movie countless times  and never failed to be charmed by it  s homely simplicity  sincerity and goodness  great characterizations by all of the cast  and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in       and she still touches me today  shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day  the nicest present i could have had             if only i had read the review by alex sander  sic  on here rather than looking at the rating of over   from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration  alien was a fantastic  dramatic and well made horror sci fi  predator was a great sci fi action mess about  i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw   alien versus predator    it too has an average grading of over   stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site  br    br   stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you  br    br   right from the beginning this film was ridiculous  no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens  ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology  the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why  from then on it gets really ridiculous  i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out  i couldn  t here  br    br   a father and son are hunting in the woods  the damaged ship crash lands to  from the view given  i would calculate at the very least    odd miles away through thick woodland  the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged  even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible  dumb redneck muppet  br    br   an edgy  thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless  dull now cop friend from the bus  when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out  a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective  crazy  nasty jock type  american sportsman not a scottish man   oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con  s brother by the way  yes they  re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again  then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc  ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child  br    br   guess what happens next  i won  t tell you much more about the actual  smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films  plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe  br    br   the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late  the aliens are boring  the predator alien is ridiculous  the action is at times exploitative  gratuitous  disgusting nonsense  the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers     oh i was shocked alright  shocked at how low some people will go to get what  a scare  some shock  to titillate the perverse  what  if you really wanted to shock  titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them  the characters have no depth and neither does the plot  it  s filmed and paced badly  it  s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them  it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters  this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you  if you haven  t seen it then well please make your own decision  br    br   ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about    seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout             even though i saw this film when i was very young  i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison  br    br   apart from the liberty taken right at the end  the film more or less faithfully follows the true story  the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that  br    br   of the performances  there is scarcely a poor performance  and tommy steele is ideally cast  also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always  br    br   because the film sticks to the facts  it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family             gone is the wonderful campiness of the original  in place is a c grade action no brainer  wich is not all bad  but pales in comparison to the original  all the meaningless sex and violence is gone  and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers  see it  but don  t expect the thrills of the first             although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars  alec guinness produced an amazing body of work  particularly in the     s     s  ranging from dramas to quirky comedies  i particularly love his comedies  as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen  far different from the usual fare from hollywood  br    br   this being said  this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies  it  s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere  except for ealing studios  which had a particular fondness for   little   films like this one  br    br   guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company  he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible  though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work  so  he tends to sneak into labs  either during the day if no one suspects or at night  and try his hand at inventing  repeatedly  he is caught  such as after he blew up the lab  and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds  then  despite the importance of the discovery  he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events  and then the fun begins  br    br   the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry  unions  the government and people in general             victor mclaglen  s performance is one of the finest in film history  br    br   i think we can all feel for   gypo   because we  ve all struggled with what is right and what isn  t and been wrong  this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio  rko radio pictures   br    br   joseph h  august  s cinematography is at its very best here  however  august  s stunning portion was mostly overlooked  he didn  t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved  br    br   this is a psychological drama  with thought  philosophy  sadness  all conveyed with as little words as possible             how do you take a cast of experienced  well known actors  and put together such a stupid movie  nimrod antel has the answer  armored  six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves  but  just as they get to first base with their plans  everything unravels quickly  with a plot like this  you  d think it couldn  t be too bad  at least for an action movie  however  in the first    minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be   normal  everyday kind of guys  they joke  they laugh  have a few drinks together  etc  then  we suddenly learn they  re planning to rob their own business  the hero ty   columbus short   is sucked into the scheme because of the cold  cruel world  even though he  s a decorated veteran  nice guy  and reliable employee  oh my  oh my  then in the last    minutes of the film  these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos  willing to butcher each other for cash  in the last scenes mike   matt dillon   goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend  the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty  it  s utterly unbelievable and   b movie   is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot  i would say don  t waste your time  too bad no one gave laurence fishburne  jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture             the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn  it  s peak years were between      and       one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle  who had a small but fanatic cult of followers  she was actually able to act  unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks  and her subsequent credits proved it  and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique  br    br   gary graver  the director  was also a talent  probably too talented for the sexploitation genre  and his skill  combined with monica gayle  s screen presence  makes sandra  the making of a woman  a pleasantly enjoyable experience  the film never drags and you won  t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button             what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be  this is the type of film that i  ve been looking for ages  particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago  which i still keep thinking about  the back cover doesn  t do this film justice  it  s superb  and in my top   for sure             i did not expect much from this film  but boy o boy  i did not expect the movie to be this bad  chris rock is not showing a good act here  you can  t get the feeling that his caracter is real  i think the movie would have been a bit better if it  s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved  the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it  in the   making of   they don  t show a single smile  this is a very bad film  i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me  but i did never laugh             i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie  i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen  it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan    i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them  when it is played on a family channel     this is one of my favorite movies  so i dont know why any one would disagree  thanks kristina            flynn  known mostly for his swashbuckling roles  and his bedroom antics   takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully  playing real life boxing champ jim corbett  flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist  all the while setting one eye on society deb smith  he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men  and a dog   including a prominent judge  the next day  he gets a chance  via smith  to gain entrance to the judge  s private club  he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club  s resident boxer  his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers  up to and including the world champion john l  sullivan  bond   flynn is downright magical here  he is the epitome of charm  charisma and appeal in this role  he looks terrific  especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit  and does virtually all of his own stuntwork  impressively   his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally  smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn  at this stage  he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation  he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time  and she does so admirably  she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude  yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell  bond is incredibly burly  brawny and towering  yet tender when the script calls for it  amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson  frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn  s manager  the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn  s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types  the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed  a few of the sets are amazingly presented  some of smith  s gowns border on the garish  but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well  it  s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing  but it  s also so much more  some of it  like the character traits shown by flynn  is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes  but a lot of it is authentic  like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes   one line is particularly memorable    i believe you like me more than i like you  but it  s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me    it  s classic romantic dialogue  and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well              often laugh out loud funny play on sex  family  and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it  s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett  plot centers on two chauffers who  ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer  both single or soon to be single ladies  quite sexy    bisset and woronov  first  if manuel wins  his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang    if he loses  he must play bottom man to his friend   br    br   lots of raunchy dialogue  fairly sick physical humour  etc  but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface  bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy  teenaged niece on a year long   missionary trip   to africa  br    br   hilarious fun             thought provoking  humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war  a small  but altruistic view of one family  s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky  this movie lessens the   glamor   of war  showing it  s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit  br    br   a lot of today  s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the   hero  s   and other glamorous features of war  but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community  this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person  s memory of those days  this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events  when in reality  this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds  perhaps thousands of   actual events   during the civil war  i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie             or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by     s flicks  br    br   i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets  med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost  flatliners  bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past  very bad things  groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies  sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts  br    br   noble idea totally fubarred in it  s execution             elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies  it has every thing you would want in a film  like great one liners  sexy star and a outrageous story  if you have not seen it  you are missing out on one of the greatest films made  i can  t wait till her new movie comes out             i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful  especially since it was based on a true man  pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl  the photography was beautiful  br    br   this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl  i want to read as much as i can about him  at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it  but i am not surprised  i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing  i gave it the highest rating  however  i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house  br    br   you can  t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes             despite having an absolutely horrid script  more about that later   this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors  barbara stanwyck and henry fonda  aside from one or two real stinkers  i  d probably watch just about anything with them in the film  as i am a huge fan of hollywood  s golden age of the     s and   s  however  no matter how much i love their films  i just can  t recommend this film  br    br   the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort  the two haven  t yet met  but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing  it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out  especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling   in hindsight  perhaps i should have just turned it off then  fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help  back at the ski lodge  he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health  he  in turn  becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her  despite hardly knowing each other  they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy  br    br   once home  however  all isn  t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy  the film plays it all for laughs  but frankly fonda  s behaviors were really creepy  spying on her and her male patients  attacking or threatening any man she treats  tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there  men and women  are out to steal away his wife  he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic  but it  s all supposed to be for laughs  considering that he seems like a dangerous nut  you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order  but  oddly  she gets mad but just can  t stay mad at fonda because he  s so          i can  t think of the right word    creepy   is all that comes to mind    later  out of the blue  multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store  then  through magical thinking  he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past  so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions  when this job falls through  the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital  giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after  they don  t go any further with the story  but i assume based on fonda  s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients  br    br   the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together  nor did the final   horatio alger   inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world  they were like three separate plots but despite this  the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy  what a creepy little film  thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films            i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all  br    br   in this case however i have to say it was bad  i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second  br    br   there was no proper storyline  i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces  br    br   the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these   pieces is scary  half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third  a   year old kid would have been able to put them together  br    br   this movie was bad  br    br   dominic           i was debating between this movie and      but chose inglourious basterds due to it  s amazingly high imdb rating  i must say now  what a disappointment  i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence  but i also expected a lot of witty dialog  i got a huge dosage of the former  but not nearly enough of the latter  i felt shortchanged  the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong  and the plot  it  s that believable or really all that entertaining either  save your time and money  i can  t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses             bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line  it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team  there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives  i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve  the song choices are really good    hush my child  just move on up   to your destination and you make boundaries and complications    anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review  bend it like beckham great flick            directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz  a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department  unhappy with the new home situation  their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well  steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle  s living habits  he even decides he wants to change his name to franz  set in the early     s  this drama is a bit comedic   change that to zany  not being a macdowell fan  unstrung heroes assures my attitude  albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste             perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger  s   where the sidewalks ends    from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel   night cry   by frank rosenberg    br    br   dana andrews is the honest  tough new york policeman  always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks    when he hit someone  his knuckles hurt    and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain  gary merrill  who points up the title    why are you always trying to push me in the gutter    he asks andrews    i have as much right on the sidewalk as you    br    br   dana andrew  s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden  painful discovery that he is the son of a thief    his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them  and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta    br    br   by a twist of irony unique to the film itself  dana andrews and gene tierney of   laura   are united once more  and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later  but no longer the romantic  beaten down by his job  by the cheap crooks    this time  he goes too far  and accidentally kills a suspect    the killing is accidental  the victim worthless  yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail    br    br   using his knowledge of police procedure  he covers up his part in the crime  plants false clues  and tries to implicate a gang leader  but cannot avoid investigating the case himself    the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder  is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical  satisfying  and in no way a compromise    br    br   the film is one of the best detective films of the     s  with curious moral values  also one of preminger  s best     br    br   preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique  projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism               in sum  overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes  the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres   in this case drama and comedy  well  at least here  these two mix like vinegar and oil  to boot  the comedy is not very funny and juvenile  additionally  the film is not really realistic  liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals  i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on  eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover  s son  by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover  marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover  at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them   either ismael or primarily nora  to the detriment of the audience  viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael  her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital  there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed  the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball  s chance in hell  the actors do their best and are appealing  but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing  editing and lack of focus             incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane  leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path    i know there are several versions of this  and this is based on the     min   one that i watched   but i can  t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck  br    br   i  d heard for long about the alleged   shocking   content of sex nudity  which honestly there isn  t much of here at all   and boring when there is  and blood  but beware   it  s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here  everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project  camera work is hopelessly inept  full of strange zooms  failed framing and confusing pans  to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage   complete with a grainy  cheapish photo quality  lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven   is it day or night  are they in  or outside  have they changed scenes  who is  or is meant to be in the shot  editing is the final sin here  making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways  continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum  story progression   and involvement  there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story    but these faults distract so much it  s tragic  br    br   a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan  burnt  and fellini like  turkey that  s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o  toole  who makes a most memorable tiberius  oh yes  which brings us to the big name actors  i  d like to line them all up one by one and just ask  who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this  there  i  ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time   period  br    br     out of    from ozjeppe            did anyone edit this film  or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes  it  s ok though  i fell asleep watching it the first time  then i fell asleep the second time and the third time  the plot is actually not the worst i  ve seen  but it  s close  the acting is not the worst i  ve seen either   but it  s close  the production      well  i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life  not trying to be spiteful  but unhinged could have used some more production  br    br   please don  t think i  m a hater of horror films  or even that i didn  t enjoy this film  i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it  the gruesome moments were not too poorly done  but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget  br    br   characters seemed awkwardly developed  or ignored all together  twist ending was pretty bad  and the exposition took forever without exposing much  br    br   i  d recommend avoiding this movie  br    br                   riding high on the success of   rebel without a cause    came a tidal wave of   teen   movies  arguably this is one of the best  a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen  the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency  than any traumatic occurrence  the supporting cast is memorable  frankenheimer directs like an old pro  just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously             most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance  i came out of this movie wondering what was going on  i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie  i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious  i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back  movie reviewers and critics love this movie  which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film  the    rating this movie has is so misleading  in    years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather  the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn  t enough to save the film   nor are the lesbian scenes              pepe le moko  played by charles boyer  is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe  and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah  a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go  until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all  for le moko  although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody  it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time   a place he can  t leave  because the moment he does  he knows he  ll be arrested  br    br   boyer  s performance was good  and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar  he captures the essence of such a character   a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time  the movie itself  unfortunately  was quite a letdown  a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent  of which i  ll mention two  first was the idea that the police wouldn  t enter the casbah  that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander  and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly  so  neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn  t enter  nor the statement by inspector slimane  also a decent performance by joseph calleia  that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense  i also found it difficult to believe that le moko   hardened criminal mastermind that he was   could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby  hedy lamarr  to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her  essentially giving himself up  i understand the irony of the final few scenes  of course  as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison  the casbah  only to find real freedom in his capture  because he  s shot and killed by the police   i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap  br    br   this is worth watching for boyer  and to a lesser extent calleia  but the story is disappointing and inconsistent                  man with the screaming brain certainly isn  t a perfect movie  but i  m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell  meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career  slapstick  sarcasm  cheese  action  and happy endings  campbell is  as a writer  uneven  there are lots of things in the story that don  t make a great deal of sense  why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it    and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other  better incarnations  the scene in the restaurant  where yegor and william battle for control of william  s body  is straight out of evil dead ii   there are  however  lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant  such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue    what are you looking at     the movie looks like a sci fi channel original  probably because it was  the acting is actually pretty good  i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya  she was ruthless and cunning  yes  but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored  ted raimi handled the standard   bumbling assistant   role admirably enough  and bruce is funny as the arrogant  sardonic  condescending american jerk   now that he  s writing his own films  you  d think he  d give himself a role that he hasn  t been typecast in already   man with the screaming brain is a bizarre  nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously             you should never ever even consider to watch this movie  it is absolutely awful  this isn  t an overstatement   it is so unbelievable and exaggerated  it gets boring  it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one  they writer hasn  t been able to pull it off in a good way  br    br   if you  d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you  but still  you should plug your ears and just watch  it  s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there  and if i could choose one  this would be the last movie i would pick  but all in all  it  s your choice     br    br   enjoy             tell the truth i   m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people  which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie  and after having seen it  i was really a disappointed  and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie  br    br   i   m surprise at this movie all completely     it is like a kid   s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing  i   m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account  br    br   synopsis  the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior  there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak  br    br   just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all  they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done  the story is very predictable  though expected  and the humor is lame  and haven   t we already seen the same characters  play by mc lovin     in so many other movies  like sasquatch gang    i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep  br    br   well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay  and the acting is so so as expected when you   re watching this type of movie  and the direction  what do one expect  this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer  and that movie also sucks  but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie  br    br   anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time  only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie  can   t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone  br    br   pros  elizabeth bank  two topless scenes  br    br   cons  not funny  dreadful story  nudity and kids do not mix together  br    br   rating          grade  f             this film held my interest enough to watch it several times  the plot has holes  but the lead performers make it work  br    br   catherine mary stewart  julia kerbridge   does a great job as a woman of    who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician  she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school  she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream  br    br   meanwhile  julia  s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda  arlen aguayo stewart  to avoid having her become a ward of the state  amanda is about   years old from her appearance  amanda is so traumatized from her parent  s murder that she has become mute  needless to say  julia  s    hour days get longer caring for amanda  br    br   rob lowe plays kevin finney  a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda  he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress  amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses  perhaps more than to her aunt  julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination  kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia  br    br   the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great  you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film  the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well  arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words  the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other  you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses  br    br   we discover that julia  s sister and brother in law  the meyers  were involved in industrial espionage  they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer  they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft  julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities  the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed  br    br   in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by   of their former associates  the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them  the killers search the home and fail to find their prize  they leave a living witness to their crime  amanda  the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located  eventually  the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip  s location  br    br   eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin  he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip  after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys  the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together  br    br   what struck me about the plot were major holes  kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers  how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers  the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene  with no concern for concealing their identity  the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles  he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film  there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention  br    br   the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming  filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort             like the previous poster  i am from northern vermont  and i was inclined to like this film  however  not since   red zone cuba   have i seen such a confusing plot  the things the people to bootleg make no sense  two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car  uhm  why  then they meet two others  and drive up at night in to the bad guy  s hideout in a luxury packard    wouldn  t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense  then  parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch  the four fall asleep  when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out  of course they  re spotted and shot at  losing some of their precious cargo in the process  then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border  again  why  i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area  all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s  canada border patrol  which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now   br    br   and don  t get me started on the last half hour  which made no sense whatsoever  br    br   the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years            may contain spoilers  this movie was the worst movie ever  i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad  this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot  this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times  not even the gore in the film was good  the shootings were fake and the acting was worse  please do yourself a favor and skip this one  if you see it at the rental store then run the other way  there is nothing good about this film at all  if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head  if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow  i rate this movie a     out of     that s how horrible this film really is  the worst movie ever            watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line  the excellent character development  and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole  br    br   without giving away too much of the plot  it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons  along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves   br    br   the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically  so it isn  t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s   br    br   the film is lighthearted  you  ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags  yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe  all of the film  s characters are taken seriously  as they are  and none are diminished because of their   imperfections    br    br   i  ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends  it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance  is this synchronous or what  i think so because now i  m really geeked to give it a try   br    br   watch this wonderful family film  small children might not get it  but teens certainly would  and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again  br    br   why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery  as it is perfect as is             recap  something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica  the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica  julian rome  a former seti worker  is brought in to decipher the message  problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his  and the situation quickly turns awkward  especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him  and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly  soon the object is in the open  the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity  it is decided to open the object  but just before that is done  julian decodes the signal    do not open    but too late  and the object explodes as it is finally breached  and two things unleashed on earth  the first is an alien  that had been dormant in the object  and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff  and washington  that is suspiciously updated on this historic event  decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth  so a russian nuclear submarine  carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica  br    br   comments  the movie holds a few surprises  one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance  and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful  well worked through and a lot better than expected  unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own  and this time not in a good way  actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes  it is never really explained why washington know so much  why washington is able to command russian submarines  why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now  it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english  some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language  and obviously chose english  why    but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus  send their   do not open   message encoded  and finally the end is as open as an end can be  br    br   the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy  from me  must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot  therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good  br    br                   this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club  beyond that  it features a truly bad script with dull  unrealistic dialogue  that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking             had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix  i  d have a couple of hours of my life back  i  m frankly suspicious when i see that a film  s director also wrote it  in this case  according to the credits  the same guy was   writter and director     unfortunately  an indication of the overall quality of this production  there were a few interesting moments  e g   judy tenuta  s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism  which led me to rate this two stars rather than one  those moments  however  were few and far between     and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me  not to mention reprehensible in its violence  i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i  d seen the whole thing  nope  though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later  the   spinning camera   technique was overused and essentially pointless  i found myself talking to the tv screen    what      or   for goodness sake  get on with it    not recommended             the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me  this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling  well documented and enraging  as an american  i am constantly humiliated by my country  s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement  we suck  this is probably the first john pilger documentary i  ve seen  but it immediately made me want to see what else he  s done  my only complaint  and the reason i gave this film only   out of     is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments  demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction   but makes no suggestion of how to help  i don  t know about britain  but america  s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government  s doings  a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders   cause             this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film   it just  well  sucks i can  t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few  but lloyd  come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good   oh wait  that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck  the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska  and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however  is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but  don  t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don  t say i didn  t warn you             this is a very memorable spaghetti western  it has a great storyline  interesting characters  and some very good acting  especially from rosalba neri  her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic  she steals every scene she is in  and expresses so much with her face and eyes  even when she  s not speaking  her performance is very believable  she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top  not that there  s anything wrong with being over the top   mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too  br    br   the music score is excellent  and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie  whether you want it to or not  there are a couple of parts that are very amusing  i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot  there  s also lots of slick gun play that  s very well done  br    br   i would probably have given this movie   or   stars if it wasn  t for two things  the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about    minutes into the film  this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie  it is very poorly choreographed  and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight  one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy  but this is a more serious western  and the brawl really needed to be more realistic  the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma  s cowardly mexican sidekick  i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something  but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this  and he wasn  t at all funny  all i can say is where is tuco when you need him   br    br   all that having been said  let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned  and all fans of the genre need to see this movie             the plot  michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct  and is looking for his  st big chance  he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star  he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct  the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way  what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy  and  oh yes  there  s romance  and a little sadness too  the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch  the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard  lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in       it must be emphasized that this movie is a story  st  not just a tribute to silent films  later years would bring similar films such as  singin   in the rain         dick van dyke carl reiner  s  the comic        what is special about this film  though  is recreating silent movies in       we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w  while the rest of the movie is in pristine color  one of the greatest in the silent era  buster keaton  who at this point was on an uphill climb  is used superbly in   silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game  it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well  but the real reason to watch the movie  if your a motion picture history fan  is that beyond everything else  hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett  s film legacy  it doesn  t take a genius to realize this movie is a   positive   reworking of mack sennett  s and mabel normand  s life  the character michael   linnett   connors is mack sennett  whose real name was michael sinnott  and molly  of course is mabel  sennett had the pie throwings  the bathing beauties and keystone cops  he worked with buster keaton  ben turpin cameo   roscoe   fatty   arbuckle body double  and fell in love with his leading lady  not only all that  but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well  as most film viewers today prefer sound features  those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture  as mack sennett fell into that category  it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade  sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies  his career started in      as an actor  then writer  director   producer  he semi retired in      with about     films to his credit  he had worked with the best  such as charlie chaplin  gloria swanson  bing crosby  w c  fields  keaton  harry langdon  arbuckle  and even roy rogers in way up thar  as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career  mack played it wise   did only selective work for the next    years  in      he had receive an academy award in the short subject category  and another in      for a lifetime of work  in the       s his presence was still felt  e g  here come the co eds      where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack  s wandering willies      is done  in       the road to hollywood  used some of sennett  s crosby films    years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated  with his knack of always associating with the right people  a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk   his radio show came about later in the year       brought a re release of his greatest triumph  tillie  s punctured romance       with sound  in      he was honored on tv  s  this is your life  then his autobiography  the king of comedy        which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade  was published       brought a more concrete association with abbott   costello  as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops  finally in       another tribute with the compilation film  the golden age of comedy  so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer  in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table  as we get to the silver haired mack  he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say    here i am     when he rises to give a speech a short while later  he is at his most subdued  underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey    i know my influence on comedy will never end  but will people forget mack sennett the individual  maybe this movie will help               it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men  after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage  and any woman who got involved with adam  hoss  and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn  t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western  br    br   perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights  people have relationships  some go good  some not so good  it  s just life  and we  re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don  t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor  s nobility intact  but that  s if bonanza were done today  br    br   but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped  the secret of bonanza  s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons  ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name  his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children  the kids were all different in personality  but all came together in a pinch  br    br   the cartwrights became and still are an american institution  i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys  just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that   br    br   pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show  rumor has it he didn  t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious  perhaps if it were done now  he  d have liked it better in the way i describe  br    br   this was just the beginning for michael landon  how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit  landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control  little joe was the youngest  most hot headed  but the most romantic of the cartwrights   br    br   when roberts left  the show kept going with the two younger sons  but when big dan blocker left  the heart went out of bonanza  other characters had been added on by that time  david canary  tim matheson  and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel  but big  loyal  but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights  his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family  br    br   so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history  i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city  it doesn  t look anything like what you see in bonanza  but near lake tahoe  just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits  is the cartwright home  the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction  like    baker street for sherlock holmes fans  the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real  br    br   and if they weren  t real  they should have been             years ago  when darling lili played on tv  it was always the pan and scan version  which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format  so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus  i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all  br    br   boy  what a terrible film  it  s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong  looking at it now  it  s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals  mary poppins  sound of music  thoroughly modern millie  etc  but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself  camelot  my fair lady  etc  because hollywood thought she wasn  t sexy or glamorous enough  so blake created this stillborn effort  to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical  darling lili suffers from multiple personalities  never knowing who or what it is  some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole  it just doesn  t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing  br    br   mind you  the version on the dvd is the   director  s cut    or in this case    let  s salvage whatever we can   from this notorious box office flop  in releasing the dvd  edwards cut    scenes              from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version  the film moves along with no idea of what it is  we are    minutes into it and we still don  t know what  s going on or why we  re watching what  s going  what kind of spy is lili  how powerful is she  was she ever responsible for someone  s death  instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews  things aren  t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love  why does julie fall for hudson  why him and not other men she got involved with  there should have been one of her ex hanging around  trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret  this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action  it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings  there  s no catalyst in this story  br    br   one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews    and edwards    previous successes  the best  or worst  example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest  edwards channeling sound of music  it  s no wonder he removed it from the dvd  back in       that scene might have worked on a certain level but today  that moment reeks of desperation  there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films  the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie  the musical moment   i  ll give you three guesses   was created just to make fun of julie  s mary poppins persona  which is turned   raunchy   with julie doing a striptease in the act  the ending  bird  s eye view of julie running towards hudson  s plane  is another   wink   at sound of music  br    br   the whole thing is confusing  julie plays a singer  born from a german father and british mother  who lives in england but sings her  english  songs in paris  you never know exactly where the story takes place  some moments are just badly edited  like when julie and her   uncle   are on horseback  they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence  i  m like   what happened here    br    br   the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy  every scene with the french police are pathetic  where  s peter sellers when you really need him  the action is stupid beyond belief  when julie and her   uncle   are on their way to germany on that train  hudson  s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train  almost killing lili in the process  brilliant  what  s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning  that  s one slow moving train there   br    br   the musical moments  the beginning is the best part of the entire film  and the reason i gave this film   stars  but it  s effect is diminished considerably because it  s repeated at the end  speaking of redundant  did we really need to see a can can dance  crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too  the   girl in no man  s land   is ok even if it  s bleeding obvious  but that moment just doesn  t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital  making me wonder  how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying  br    br   the whole project is listless and without energy  the romance is      unbelievable  rock hudson is way too old and tired looking  check out the museum scene   julie looks dazed  like she  s on valium  but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy  edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision  as much as i like julie  she  s no greta garbo  who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari  funny enough  even if julie plays a german spy  she still comes across as cloying and cute  br    br   how bad is darling lili  even after    years since its release  blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release             this series  made for televisi  n espa  ola  tve  is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in       primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son  br    br   based on a background of historical events  such as the may      student uprising in france  the decaying franco regime  the war in viet nam  the rise of imperialism  and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment  one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment  br    br   generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic  the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times  as  it should be stated  anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things  br    br   the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato  s r  le as mother of three children  she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well  manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant  especially noticeable among women  of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart  without any resorting to the use of the brain  as we say in spain  common sense is one of the least common senses  imanol arias offers very little  apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series  indeed  as an actor  he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series  his resources are too limited  however  his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad  br    br   not really recommendable for other audiences  even spanish speakers in latin america  the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history  such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references  it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers             i want the    minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie  the acting was horrific  i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d  onofrio  i will never look at them the same again  keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise  everyone knows they never could act  thankfully  only dan attempted an accent  his accent was a disaster as expected  i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota  i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time  the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read             one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers  an observation which mystifies me  not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars  e g   tobey maguire  before spiderman   skeet ulrich  before jericho   jonathan rhys meyers  before tudors   james caviezel  simon baker  mark ruffalo  jeffrey wright  tom wilkinson  and jewel  all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances  especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing  br    br   when the biographies and accomplishments of the director   even when he won an academy award  and the actors are listed  this film is usually omitted from their past performances  i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films  however  it is seldom every seen on cable  i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known             it  s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead  this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich   you cant help but like it  br    br   i think the story was a little rushed at the end  but extending that would have made the story even longer  superior to other romantic comedies such as     days with mr arrogant  and possibly tied with my tutor friend  br    br   it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema  not as great as my sassy girl  but still good             of all the movies of the seventies  none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel  i mean  yes  there were movies like the exorcist  and other ones  but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one  if you have time  check this one out  you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such  but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars  my absolute favorites were eli wallach  sylvia miles  and burgess meredith  then there are the subtle clues that lead to what  s going on too  pay close attention  i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like   black and white cat  black and white cake    plus  the books are really good as well  i  m just sorry that they  re not going to turn the second book into a film  it  s so scary that it would outdo this movie             this is apparently the second remake of this film  having been filmed before in      and       and  in so many ways it reminds me of the later film  a yank at oxford  both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both  ultimately  show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency  in this film  william haines is   tom brown   and his main rival    bob   is played by frances x  bushman  and  in a supporting role is jack pickford  always remembered as the brother of mary  of these three  pickford comes off the best  as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom  s pal  he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game  all the standard clich  s are there and the movie  because it was done so many times before and since  offers few surprises  however  it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing  br    br   in my opinion  for a better silent college film  try harold lloyd  s the freshman  it  s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown  the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era  another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again  such as in westpoint and the smart set  among others   and if you  ve seen one of these films  you  ve seen them all  well made  but certainly not original  and  because it is just a rehash of his other films  anyone giving the film a score of    is strongly advised to see these other films  br    br            i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the        talk about over rated  there are dozens and dozens of better films  how this film got to be    is anyone  s guess             this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that  s holding it back  br    br   awesome talent  outstanding performances  particularly by victoria hill   but a let down in practically every other way  br    br   an   adaptation   of sorts  it brought nothing new to macbeth  no  setting it in present day australia is not enough   and essentially  completely failed to justify its existence  apart from  let  s face it  completely unnecessarily  paying homage to the original work  if there  s one body of work that has been done  and done and done and done   it  s shakespeare  s  so any adaptation  if it  s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise  needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work  br    br   and that  s what this macbeth fails to do  as it was done  this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever  it  s the same piece that we have seen countless  too many   times before  except with guns and in different outfits  br    br   apart from the fundamental blunder  no other way to put it  of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue  one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end  during which i completely tuned out  even though i was looking at the screen  i never thought i had a short attention span  but there you go  br    br   i suppose the movie succeeds on its own  very limited terms  but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent  its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms  and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with  br    br   a shame  an absolute shame             owen loves his mamma   only he  d love her better six feet under in this dark  laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito  with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role  br    br     throw momma from the train   is a terrific comedy  even if it isn  t a great film  it  s too shallow in parts  and the ending feels less organic than tacked on  but it  s a gut splitting ride most of the way  with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer  devito is avid but untalented  crystal is blocked and bitter   br    br   crystal  s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book  the unfortunately titled   hot fire    and can  t write more than the opening line of his next book  which doesn  t come easy  he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities  including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn  t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through  and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life  mr  pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen  an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus        girls i  d like to pork    br    br   then there  s devito  s owen lift  who calls himself professor donner  s   star pupil   even though the teacher won  t read his work in class  owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie  a man child in his late   s who lives with his overbearing mother  anne ramsey  who calls him   lardass   and other endearing sentiments  in any other movie  we  d be asked to feel sorry for owen  but   throw momma from the train   piles life  s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along  that  s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people  br    br   for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character  even identifying with him  and take the rest of what we see here as a lark  it  s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes  asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner  s help in a plan to kill his mother  actually  he first goes to hawaii to kill donner  s hated ex  then tells the professor it  s his turn to kill mrs  lift    swapping murders   as seen in hitchcock  s   strangers on a train    br    br   as a director  devito not only complements his actors   performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue  he makes some bold visual statements  throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes  and away from taking things too seriously   br    br   also helping matters is writer stu silver  who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter    you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here      she  s not a woman   she  s the terminator      one little murder and i  m jack the ripper    those are all crystal  s words  but some of the funniest lines  which work only in context but absolutely kill  are devito  s and ramsey  s  apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this  according to the imdb  and that  s a shame  because he had real talent for it  br    br   the best scene in this movie  when crystal meets ramsey  was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical   coming attraction   presentation  the only time i  ve seen a movie promoted that way  owen introduces the professor to his mother as   cousin patty    and when momma says he doesn  t have a cousin patty  panicky owen loses it    you lied to me    he yells out  slamming the professor  s forehead with a pan  br    br   of course  in reality the professor wouldn  t groan out something witty from the floor  but   throw momma from the train   works effectively at such moments  when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth  devito hasn  t disappeared from films  of course  but it  s a mystery why he hasn  t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie  maybe it  s because  as   throw momma from the train  s lack of mainstream success shows  his kind of vision isn  t to everyone  s tastes  that  s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over  and like it             a compelling thriller       december      author littlehammer      from united states br    br   just cause br    br   starring sean connery laurence fishburne  and blair underwood  br    br   a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl  as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean  when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan  s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote  bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment  all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan  s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver  s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan  to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong  s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death  armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after  a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent  friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie  sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop  underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well             filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they  re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves  br    br   this film is set in glasgow  although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent   the premise  about people who  s lives are going nowhere  who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs  could have made for a really funny  insightful  quirky  cultish film  instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i  m suprised it hasn  t been banned  x and y are friends  x is sleeping with z  y sleeps with z as well  oh you figure it out  br    br   a total waste of time  painful dialogue   it sounded like something that a group of    year olds would have written for a gcse drama project  the female character was completely superfluous   just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it  br    br   if you  re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it   a right laff    everyone else  run  don  t walk away from this sorry little misfit  br    br   and one question  when the group left the   boring   seaside town  saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film   to go back to glasgow  why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england             doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar  but is totally worthwhile  it really reminds me of the old serials from the   s and   s  which is why i  d have loved to see follow up movies    but judging by the rest of full moon  s output there simply weren  t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience  unfortunately  thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience   which is unfortunate  because without em   this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up  both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great   i wasn  t sure if ms  nipar hadn  t wandered off an a list picture onto this film  she was very believable  no  seriously  anyway   it  s a shame they didn  t have the bucks to license dr  strange  because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom             a truly muddled incomprehensible mess  most things in the film look more or less like       but then there are futuristic things just thrown in  like the policeman  s ray gun  and that car  the director seemed to be in love with colored lights  the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie  but since there was no cast listing  i don  t know which actress that was  this one is worth missing  grade  f            it doesn  t happen very often  but occasionally one man can make a difference    a big difference  br    br   george crile  s      best seller  charlie wilson  s war  is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely   difference maker   imaginable  a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas    good time charlie   was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation  likable and licentious  even for a politician   charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things  their guns and to be left alone  it  s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known  appropriately enough  as charlie  s angels  br    br   when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive  young aides his response is a classic    you can teach   em to type  but you can  t teach   em to grow tits    no argument there  br    br   but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath  and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter  humiliating defeat of the russian military and  possibly  to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result  fat chance  huh  br    br   under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart  snappy screenplay by adam sorkin  charlie wilson  s war is a sparkling  sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the  scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising   charlie  s team    br    br   the on screen   team    is composed of three marvelous actors with four     academy awards and nine     nominations between them  charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid  slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years  he  s aided  abetted and abedded by joanne herring  a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts  hey  why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this  by all accounts ms  roberts looks good and holds her own  but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character  maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know    but we as an audience never do  as for the third member of the   team    philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos  a smart  street  wise  i e  non ivy league graduate  cia malcontent who knows the score    both in the agency  s boardroom and in wilson  s bedroom  br    br   for the mujahideen to succeed  the most important assistance the u s  can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi    helicopter gunships which rule the skies  this takes money  lots of money  and eventually   charlie  s team   covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of    billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels  this includes top of the line  state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices  nasty  nasty stuff  br    br   that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming  every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government  oh momma  i wish it weren  t so    br    br   even though the initial outcome for   team charlie   was an unqualified success  the unimaginable  unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others  since the funding was entirely   covert    the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention  yes  once the russkies left  so did our aid    zip for schools  zip for infrastructure  zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people  as a result  the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster    it  s like the forerunner to   mission accomplished    br    br   as nichol  s film so pointedly points out    the ball you  ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you  ve lost interest in it    mike krzyzewski knows this  eva longoria parker knows this  little lateesha in lafayette knows this  but the typical american politician doesn  t  so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn  t let the world know we were the good guys  talk about a catch     another mike nichols film   br    br   perhaps charlie wilson said it best    we f  ked up the end game    br    br   again             i  m a big fan of surrealist art  but this film by bunuel  with some ideas from dali  left me cold  bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways  this is one of the silliest  almost like what you  d expect from a smart aleck    year old in film class  the last few minutes of the movie  which have nothing to do with anything else  are a final nose thumbing at religion  br    br   if you read the   scholars   regarding this slow paced  occasionally amusing film  it  s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression  if that is indeed the point  then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible  the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street  and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies  is this behavior the church  s fault  for interrupting his lovemaking   or is he just a jerk  i vote for the latter  i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame  br    br   there are a few moments where you might cry    aha  surrealism     a cow in a bed  a giraffe falling out a window  a poor model   a man shredding a feather pillow  a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava  or a mud pit   hard to tell in b w   the rest is forgettable self indulgence  unfortunately  bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career  viridiana  discreet charm      if you  re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen  check out jean cocteau  s early work             this ludicrous film offers the standard       s   hippie mentality   in a nut shell and bores us in the process  its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young  innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups  a naive young hippy played by the waif like   kay lenz   hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys  and then one day she meets the ridiculous  holden   already in old age  hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor  and she decides that she is in   love   with him  if you think that is superficial  the whole film encapsulates such scenes  she keeps saying how much she   loves   him and she only met him  it wears thin and really quick  i couldn  t help but laugh throughout the film  its obvious she  s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place  a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex  i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit  a corny offering of music from the     s is also spread through the film  avoid this if you can  grade d             this film was pretty good  i am not too big a fan of baseball  but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love  determination  heart  etc  br    br   danny glover  joseph gordon levitt  brenda fricker  christopher lloyd  tony danza  and milton davis jr  are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport  the plot was believable  and i love the message  william dear and the guys put together a great movie  br    br   most sports films revolve around true stories or events  and they often do not work well  but this film hits a    on the perfectness scale  even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there  br    br                   for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments  in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film  the ending is superb  the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end  a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind           this film contain far too much meaningless violence  too much shooting and blood  the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor  the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars            pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy  the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong  br    br   examples  quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion  how  well  in the world of the subatomic  you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time  you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time  also  the act of observation seems to affect the event  solid particles can pass through barriers  all of this  so far  is accurate  but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall  you could indeed do it  this is complete poppycock  instead  the theory asserts that at our level  it is possible for you to walk through a wall  but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief  also you  d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall  the odds are so astronomically against it  br    br   this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science  but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer  played by marlee maitlan  about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible  something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate  there may be some truth to that  but quantum physics has nothing to do with it  br    br   plus  string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays  instead of wasting your time with this dreck  i suggest you rent the elegant universe  an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only   hour long episodes  quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation             i was truly looking forward to this title  it sounded and looked fun  the idea of someone making a cheesy   s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs  but instead this title only bores  first off  there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment  i have to sit through     minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick  why  on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot  i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads  i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp  i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue  creature from the black lagoon stuff   i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree  or it maybe escaping a silly trap  something exciting  geez  have fun with it  be creative  who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick  my advice to the filmmakers  keep going  your concepts are good  but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired  have some fun with the creature  put the humor in the action and most important   put more creature in a creature movie               one of my sisters friends lent me this game  and it is too damn hard  it carries the appearance of a kids game  but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions  and you have to search seemingly endless levels for     notes  to improve your   score    you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces  that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them  and i am only up to stage three      maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this  but otherwise keep away  and it is definately not recommended for kids   they will pull their hair out within the hour             chuck jones  s   rabbit seasoning    the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy  is often considered to be the best of the three  while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons  i would have to concede that   rabbit seasoning   is the most finely honed script  here  the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello  s   who  s on next   routine  as a long term daffy fan  i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines  the famous   pronoun trouble   being one of the all time classics  and does most of the work  bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer  as always  is the befuddled dupe  part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs  elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst  being shot in the face again and again  his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions  it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration   you  re despicable    as intricate an example of chuck jones  s impeccable timing as you  ll come across    rabbit seasoning   is a true classic             a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches     people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear  also  alas  an ending that comes out of nowhere  because  apparently  the auteur has lost interest in the movie  or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot               crossfire   is a justifiably famous      noir that  s a murder mystery with a strong message  it stars robert young  robert mitchum  robert ryan  sam levene  and gloria grahame  and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk  we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning  and for the rest of the film  young  as the detective  finlay  in charge of the case  seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death  and just as important  why  the victim  joseph samuels  sam levene  is someone the soldiers meet in a bar  they go up to his apartment to continue their visit  and samuels winds up dead  br    br   i don  t know about       but seeing   crossfire   today  one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects  i don  t suppose it was so apparent back then  as these actors were just getting started  nevertheless  the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting  good direction  violence  and unsparing anti semite language  br    br   the characterizations are vivid  including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role   she  s a woman who meets mitchell  george cooper   one of the suspect soldiers  in a bar and can provide him with an alibi  the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan  but everyone is excellent  robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective  mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell  a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife  br    br   truly excellent  and a must see             awwww  i just love this movie to bits  me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan    i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon  come to mention it  i have not see the tv show in a long time  such geart times  where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don  t know what there missing  br    br   the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n  roll  diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother  br    br   this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today       out of     such an excellent movie             skippy from   family ties   plays eddie  a wussy   metal   nerd who gets picked on  when his favorite wussy   metal   singer  sammi curr  dies  he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall  but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead   metal   idol  he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge  but then he doesn  t want to take it as far as sammi does  which isn  t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital  this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say    rock star    ok  maybe a tad more than that piece of junk  but you get my point  and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from   family ties   i haven  t a clue  the cameo by gene simmons is ok  and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency  i applaud him for that  but otherwise skip this one  br    br   my grade  d  br    br   eye candy elise richards gets topless  an a topless extra at a pool party            of course i would have to give this film    out of    as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime  rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over    years living in italy  he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing  so rodolfo sonego did  if you check out his biography  you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy  alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories  my uncle visited australia and my town  in      to check out locations for   a girl in australia   and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war  you can see his humor in all his movies  i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently  great            goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history  their is no doubt about that  but this game  although quite different  could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ  of its time  br    br   this was not a bond game based on material from another medium  this was a completely new  scripted game  which even had its own theme song   wouldnt be bond without it  haha   gameplay was excellent  and if you  re a fan of the bond games or films alike  you  ll enjoy it  br    br   unlike some most games  these cast members portrayed their characters themselves  as opposed to fictional creations for the game  which gives it that more cinematic feel  with a very   bond   able storyline  you feel like you  re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie  br    br   enjoyable in all aspects  from start to finish  even after beating the game there  s still plenty more to be done  with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved  as well as its multi player missions  this is a stand out game  despite being quite old now  in video game years  it  s still a good game that you can pick up   play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life  even now just thinking about it  i  ve got the theme song stuck in my head  such a great cast and well written storyline  br    br   the story comes to life on the screen  almost as if the actors were their in front of you  and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself  superbly done  in true bond fashion  which can only be named awesome  completely awesome  br    br   i  ve gotta go throw this game on now  if you haven  t played it yet  you  re missing out            helena bonham carter is the center of this movie  she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity  kenneth branagh was tolerable  the movie itself was good not exceptional  if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing            i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a   thumbs in the middle   review  remarking that i  d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode  i  ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june       and as a lifelong batman fanatic  i can say without hesitation  this show is utter crap  br    br   everything  s wrong with it  everything  getting past just the lousy animation and design  the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories  br    br   and for god  s sake   is it just me  or is the joker in every episode   is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system  or  again  is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains  see   no character development    above   br    br   and to make matters worse  every single joker tale is the same   part formula  br    br      joker gasses people  br    br      joker sets out to gas the whole city  br    br      batman saves the day  br    br   pfeh  br    br   there was one episode i saw that wasn  t a joker story  the title escapes me  but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster   the   think thank thunk   episode with the quiz show  that was the single worst batman story i  ve ever seen  heard or read  yes  worse than   i  ve got batman in my basement     br    br   i can  t really say what i feel this show is because it  s probably against the tos  but it starts with   b   and rhymes with   fastardization    thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc  era of bat entertainment  back from the fox and kids wb days  stuff that good  and i should have known this  just couldn  t possibly have lasted forever  unfortunately             just because someone is under the age of    does not mean they are stupid  if your child likes this film you  d better have him her tested  i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad  this   film   is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else  the writing is horrid  i can  t remember when i  ve heard such bad dialogue  the songs are beyond wretched  the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much  who decided to employ joey fatone  he cannot sing and he is ugly as sin  br    br   the worst thing is the obviousness of it all  it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible  great children  s movies are wicked  smart and full of wit   films like shrek and toy story in recent years  willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past  but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo  yes  that  s right   the recent charlie   the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood               hey babu riba   is a film about a young woman  mariana  nicknamed   esther   after a famous american movie star   and four young men  glenn  sacha  kicha  and pop  all perhaps       years old in      belgrade  yugoslavia  the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz  blue jeans  or anything american it seems  br    br   the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant  and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties  in the wake of changing communist politics  they go their separate ways and reunite in       the year before the film was made   br    br   i enjoyed the film with some reservations  the subtitles for one thing were difficult  especially in the beginning  there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all  perhaps the conversational pace required it  but i couldn  t always both read the text and absorb the scene  which caused me to not always understand which character was involved  i watched the movie  a video from our public library  with a friend  and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative  br    br   this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers   sense of invulnerability  idealism  and strong and loyal bonds to each other  there is a main flashforward  and it was intriguing  keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the      cast  and what had actually happened  br    br   i would rate it   out of     and would like to see other films by the director  jovan acin                         after a snowstorm  the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason  adam beach  comes to the diner of his friend fritz  jurgen prochnow  and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day  among the weird strangers  jason meets his former sweetheart nancy  rose mcgowan   who has just left her husband in los angeles  along the night  without any communication with his base  jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients  and finds some corpses  indicating that among them there is a killer  br    br     the last stop   could be an average thriller  but the screenplay is simply awful  most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed  and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests  my vote is four  br    br   title  brazil     encurralados      trapped               this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy  s law being applied to home ownership and construction  if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional  since it was set in the   simpler   forties  we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era  grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas  their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment                   what can you say about the film white fire  amazing  fantastic  disturbing  hilarious  these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire  from wobbly  garbled beginning to profound end  this movie will entertain throughout  br    br   our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world  a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms  when the father separates from the mother and their childen  you get a real sense of what kind of movie you  re about to watch  father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit  and is polite as he gets people  s attention before he shoots them  but alas  dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised  unsafe stunt  meanwhile  mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about   feet behind them  he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre   halt     and then promptly wastes the mother  this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred  br    br   so now we fast forward about    years     if you  re honest about the hero  s age  to beautiful turkey  where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves  or diamond prospectors  or something  ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods  while bo  masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty  drives around the desert in his denim outfits  bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship  they don  t seem to have any friends other than each other  and they spend all of their time together  that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as   you know its a shame you  re my sister   he says to her while she  s stark naked  make for a very dynamic duo  bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed  as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf  a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid  and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid  this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong  bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas  and he is overjoyed with his new love  br    br   so anyway  there  s a lot of fun action scenes  ridiculous violence  great acting  impossible to follow plot lines  fred   the hammer   williamson  for some reason   and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond  which later explodes   all of these things are great  but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special    really special  so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire  you may be glad you did  or not             i am so disappointed  this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy  here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again  the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses  woody  i  ve seen these characters already  i  ve seen the storyline from you ten times already  where did your creativity go    you need to open your eyes and look around you  the world has changed dramatically since annie hall   and you need to change along with it  br    br   there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism   why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again  br    br   when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out  it does nothing for me   because now i  ve come to expect his old standby  the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating  depressing and same old  same old  br    br   if woody wants to win his fans back  then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated   not insulted             this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff  predictable from beginning to end  as a don knotts vehicle    the incredible mr  limpet   was much better  with knott  s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant  his performance there was toned down  with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare  although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish  knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile  much as bob denver did  neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles  assuming they were simply typecast  it was probably because of the slouch  the wild stare and the high pitched voice  john ritter  whom knotts worked with in   three  s company    was able to transcend his genre  branching out successfully into dramatic roles like   the dreamer of oz    but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in   pleasantville    even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here  uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in   airplane    and   police squad    br    br   there  s also no way the then    year old knotts could pass for a    year old  as his character insisted he was  it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at    playing the college age forrest gump  br    br   the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget  very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode  it  s especially evident in the   exterior   scenes of the   town   where roy goes after he  s fired  it  s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality  br    br   even viewing this strictly as a children  s movie  it  s very disappointing  it  s not because it lacks action or special effects  although it does  the pace is much too slow  the situations repetitive  how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus  a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap  with breakneck gags  otherwise you risk boring them  and any adults in the theater as well   movies  even kid  s movies  have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades  even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written  disney  s   the love bug    for instance  at least had some interesting race action             if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization  there is an excellent book called   outlaw seas   or   the outlaw sea    and it describes  in story after story  how these things do happen  the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons  one  many of the world  s freighters are of questionable registry  nationality  and it  s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don  t have an office in a real country  two  many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries  the crews are often  like illegal immigrant workers  threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices  three  there is often a language barrier  not only between the officers and the crew  but also between the crew members themselves  the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence  four  once committing an illegal act  the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint  anyway  it  s fascinating reading  br    br   horrifying story  excellent movie  does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies  hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year  so that several of the top   contenders usually come from britain  jerry bruckheimer   the end of quality cinema  br    br   i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee  i also  as usual  loved omar epps             gamers  dr is not a fancy made movie  it  s more like amateur video  horrible magic effect  really fake fireball  terribly made dungeon  castle  village       sword  axe  shield  robe  plate      okok    everything  you will need about    minutes to adjust your expecting on visual  then you will get     minutes of fun  br    br   i  m from hongkong and it  s really hard to find rpers  none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d  watching gamers  dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer  you see rule books  dices  game set  etc etc etc  you hear terms like   fighter      wizard      hit point      level      character      flaming hand      chaotic evil    br    br   what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to  not bonded by software rpg  gamers  dr provide the same element  you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead  the movie goes both gamers  s real life as well as in the d d world  you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action  which make you feel you really participle in the game  br    br   i don  t want to spoil anything  but in short  gamers  dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers  for people never play rpg game  i  m sure you still get many fun from it             in all honesty  i haven  t seen this film for many years  but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory  as anyone who has seen it will understand  i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties  and it scared the hell out of us kids  in a fun way  i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze  i can  t risk giving away the ending  except to say that it was surprising  to say the least  i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler  followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed  the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history  and yet oddly moving  in a way  you have to see it for yourself  which is not easy these days  i don  t know if it  s available on home video or not  but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults             this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year      and say now that rocked  it rocked hard  and yet it also rocked tasty  mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled  now that tells you something  this filmed rocked even before it started  now i don  t want to give to much away or be a   spoiler   but this movie rocked  if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself   this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan  what gives    then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece  for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d  this movie is the d period  so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked             you  d think you  re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel      miles or so from france to saudi arabia  going through most of europe   italy  bulgaria  croatia  slovenia  turkey  before arriving in the middle east  but this is not a tour  and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights  br    br   reda  s father is in his twilight years  and wishes to do the haj  however  since walking and taking the mule is out of the question  he chooses to travel to mecca by car  he can  t drive  and therefore enlists the help of reda  to his son  s protest  to get him there in their broken down vehicle  br    br   but reda doesn  t see the point of having him go along  when his dad could opt for the plane  he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn  t understand  and hence  we set off in this arduous journey with father and son  being not the best of pals  br    br   the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair  the challenges they face  the weird people they meet  having to duke it out in varied weather conditions  and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car  we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other  the father trying to impose on his son  and the son trying to assert himself as an adult  but circumstances we see  reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water  through the many encounters  they actually team up quite well despite their differences  br    br   it  s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji  and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj  the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold  and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating  the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon  so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination  br    br   it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are  don  t miss this  and yes  book early   i was pleasantly surprised that this evening  s session was still a full house             i watched this movie based on the good reviews here  and i won  t make that mistake again  br    br   the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy  but you don  t see what it is  flashback    hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people  which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen  when the ending is finally reveled  you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn  t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching  the only connection these people have is that they have all had a   bad day    but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom  br    br   if this was supposed to be a   crash   clone  it  s a complete failure             a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store  after he  s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he  ll be transferring soon  bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy   and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals  animals like say  a certain rabbit  this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer  i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early       s  it still remains as funny nearly     years later  this animated short can be seen on disc   of the looney tunes golden collection volume    br    br   my grade  a             i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in      for two reasons   br    br       host steve martin was at his most wittiest     i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo    and    i  ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle  s head in my bed     br    br       surprise winners  no one had adrien brody down for best actor   genuine applause   or roman polanski for best director   genuine jeers and boos   but they won  br    br   last year  s award ceremony wasn  t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn  t the best in the trilogy   fellowship was much better  but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but   so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links   but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne   oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics   obviously they are   i  m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers  br    br   chris rock wasn  t too bad   but he  s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in   not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion   the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the    minor    oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats   there  s no such thing as a    minor    oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they  re as well deserved as best picture or best director   all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium   what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn  t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history   as for the awards themselves  br    br   best supporting actress   cate blanchett   no great surprise for a competitive category  br    br   best supporting actor   morgan freeman   no real complaints since freeman is one of america  s greatest living character actors  br    br   best actor   jamie foxx   most predictable award of the night   yawn  br    br   best actress   hilary swank   major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night  br    br   best director   clint eastwood   major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he  d never won one   actually i  m glad about this because if he didn  t deserve it for taxi driver   raging bull or goodfellas he didn  t deserve it for the aviator  br    br   best film   million dollar baby   again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb  s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off  br    br   what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven  t done in the past   i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd  s sake   and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts            while in a plane  flicking through the large choice of movies  i came across live  almost accidentally  oh boy  what a choice  br    br   i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show  now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride  i don  t remember last time i have been so excited  terrified  not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses  but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can  t turn away from the screen  literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you  ve got  br    br   you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show  you will drift from thinking   how come the human being can be so vicious   to   why not after all    ask yourself would you do it  then learn about the contestants  their motives and start guessing  you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe  br    br   good acting  good directing  with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more  br    br    spoilers  couple of things i would have changed  br    br     the casting of the contestants  i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him  the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid  it felt like you didn  t care about some of the contestants  although this might have been done on purpose  i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants    game rules  a big glitch   br    br   what happens if the  th contestants doesn  t die when he pulls the trigger  do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself    they should have given a chance to all contestants to live  ie  if  th is a blank too  then no one dies  br    br   interestingly i haven  t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time  just wish i had some popcorn with me             ah  another movie with motorcycles  hell  s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver  this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking  pot smoking  and lots of moronic acts  steve  s rendition of a dying cat during his   i love what i know   serenade had me vomiting for hours  bike chick linda  rrrr  makes out with everyone  fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds  i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying    you messin   wit private stock    this is scriptwriting folks  br    br   i liked the ending  what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse  you have to see this to detest it  br    br   die jeter  die               a rating of       does not begin to express how dull  depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is             i feel dumber after watching the first    min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain  people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects  just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly  not being lame    but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is     a good movie    don  t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for     once in a life time movies      keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don  t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace   love            the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br    br   rent  unwatchable  much of the movie is obviously improvised  br    br   and not well  it looks like toback took the first take of br    br   everything  the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br    br   robert downey jr  shows up  then goes to hell again real br    br   quickly             this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in  this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny  i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny  he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual  but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny  he isn  t  the movie had only one good part  and this may be considered a spoiler by some  and that the beginning credits were animated  if the whole movie had been animated  it might have been good  i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it  and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest  this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on  on a scale of      i give this movie a score of                  i like ghost stories  good ghost stories of bumps in the night  voices that cannot be explained  now i  ve see many of them  as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films  some times to find a real gem   you gotta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories  now this one  very rare   pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called    the new house    was one of the most scariest films i ever saw  it was on once in         i was only     but nothing since then even compared to it  with all the remake going on in hollywood  some one should do this one    as is    with no more special efx than the original  this episode was down right creepy as hell  i  m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find  the only other   ghost stories to even come close was the original    the haunting    and george c  scott in    the changling      wish someone would do more ghost stories like these             okay  i  ve watched this movie twice now  i have researched it heavily on the net  i have asked several people on there opinions  i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic   carmilla    a book that this movie is supposed to be based on  i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it  as the plot of the movie doesn  t seem to make any sense at all  here is the plot of the book  br    br   laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father  mr de lafontaine  they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully  one day they get a letter from the   general   a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death  he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work  and explains that he will visit them soon  meanwhile  a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter  carmilla  for several months  soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams  and begins to come down with a strange illness  who is this mysterious carmilla  and just what has she to do with laura  s condition  and the general  br    br   i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it  and let me know what their results are  i even have a catchy name  and would have a jingle too  but i can  t be bothered with that  it  s called the   this movie doesn  t make any sense   game  br    br   all you have to do is  whilst watching the movie  try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening  i mean complete  all questions answered  everything makes sense  absolutely complete  br    br   it will have to answer such questions as      br    br     why can vampires walk around in day light  br    br     why are they all lesbians  br    br     why is a girl called bob  and why does she shoot herself  br    br     when is the movie a dream and when is it real  br    br     why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn  t make anyone bat an eyelid  br    br     why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car  yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car  accept the excuse that she is a zombie too  br    br     and why does he then let a girl  which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire  drive with him in his car  br    br     and then let her drive off  alone with his daughter in a stolen car  br    br   what the hell is the asylum scene all about  br    br     what the hell is the green goo all about  br    br     why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse  br    br     why are there never any vampires fighting zombies  br    br     what is the significance of the necklace  what is it made of  why does it kill vampires  and how does jenna know that  br    br   in fact sod it  it  s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too  br    br   i have my plot  and i have to admit it is not quite there  but it is a pretty good effort  br    br   in conclusion br    br     vampires vs zombies   has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies  everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on  yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this  and somehow it is based on a classic   th century horror novel  how  why  what the hell is going on             this would  ve been a  great  silent film  the acting really is good  at least in a look ma  i  m doing really big acting  sort of way  br    br   everything is huge  every line is profound  every scene is shattered by human tragedy  br    br   mostly  i felt like gagging  yet  like any train wreck  i couldn  t tear my eyes away  this dialogue might  ve worked on the stage  although i doubt it  on the screen  it was cluttered  haphazard  hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work  br    br   if you enjoy your melodrama in huge  heaping doses  you  might  enjoy the movie  be prepared to wait  however  for all that melodrama  this thing sure plods along at its own pace  br    br   this script must  ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves  it simply doesn  t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera  br    br   imdb does us a great disservice  at times  when it uses its goofy computer controlled   weighted score    curse of the starving class deserves less than a    br    br   character driven fiction is great  but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution  it isn  t character development  your characters must have a motivation  being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is  not  character development  that  s a plot contrivance  br    br   stay away from this movie  or at the very least  watch it muted  perhaps you  ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do  br    br   oh  and word to the wise    to prove that this is truly an artsy film  you see james woods in all his dangly male   look at me  i  m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of  man   glory  br    br   don  t say you weren  t warned             this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward  attended by two orderlies  the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over  saying that the orderlies are gay  the orderlies kiss  i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny    it said   comedy   on the dvd case  after all and it goes on like that  had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter  because it is so funny    and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy  while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn  t  this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn  t  br    br   brilliant brains can make anything funny  people like ernst lubitsch  billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact  but you have to know the   mechanics    i suppose  director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics  he thinks that certain things simply are funny  the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma  for example  do not get me wrong  some people can make that funny  dani levy can  t  not for me  anyway  br    br   the main problem i have with this movie is that i can  t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave  i could not understand why the two brothers  one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other  they are both rather bland characters  their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other  well  one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin   but even these incestuous relationships    if anything they are embarrassing   just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better  br    br   the acting is not bad  udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl  a lighter version  than of a venerable orthodox jew  the direction in itself is not really bad either  but maybe levy should stick to directing movies  leaving the scriptwriting to someone else  now i heard he did a comedy about hitler  oi  vai             this story about three women is a very sensitive study about  muri  l  charlotte van den eynde  the youngest  laura  els dottermans  who is about    and martha  frieda pittors  the oldest who is the mother of muri  l  they live together in the same building  they have different expectations of life  the vital laura wants a child  muri  l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels  martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl  in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something   for instances an accident   which could dramatize this story  as times goes on  you discover that the director doroth  e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more  this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case  so one is left with a feeling of emptiness             first and foremost  i loved the novel by ray bradbury  it  s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later  it was one of his best books  with  you know  fahrenheit     and dandelion wine  i as just hoping that this movie would be all right  it had lots of chances  with a great cast  like jason robards and jonathn pryce  and bradbury even wrote the script himself  and on top of all that  it has pam grier  br    br   how could it fail  br    br   there may be spoilers within  br    br   first of all  it was dumbed down  much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum  all the visuals from the book   gone  everything that made you squirm   gone  br    br   and then there  s the acting  like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the   s  the kids in this movie cannot act  and  this bugged me a lot  neither of them looked    but   or     their strong friendship wasn  t addressed  it was more like they were acquaintaces   br    br   you  d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr  halloway and mr  dark  but here it  s like they just don  t care  all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something  this is far from being some of their best performances   br    br   pam grier was fine as the witch  but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn  t well pulled off  she  s a lot less evil and doesn  t have the presence as she did in the book   br    br   and everything that was left out of the book  the ballon night chase  the marking of jim  s house  the real death of mr  dark  what happened to mr  coogan on the merry go round  the fate of the lightening rod salesman  the real death of the witch  and oh so much more   br    br   and the special effects were bad  even for the   s  the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn  t really creepy  and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything   br    br   i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel  but it makes blood boil  don  t see this movie but read the book  it  s a classic of bradbury             this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in       i remember him playing in a great film    lost weekend    ray plays the role of michael stuart  who is a very rich banker  there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy  they hire a man to pose as a very rich count  his name is count ariszted   misha auer  who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture  deanna durbin   penny craig  surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard  the entire police department and convicts started applauding  which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film  this is deanna durbin  s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm             i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas  having reserved a special slot for it last night  i sat down to watch it with my daughter  aged    and a film studies student   with chocolates of course  in eager anticipation  we love jane austin  br    br   after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk  the shaky camera shots and angles  general poor cinematography  direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied  despondent  we viewed on  br    br   anne  played by sally hawkins  looked oddly and with no particular purpose  directly at the camera on several occasions  breaking our hard won   fantasy of the moment   and engaging us directly in an almost   i  ll find you   stalking fashion  br    br   poor rupert penry jones  who played captain wentworth  did his best with the script and direction  bless him  i hope they paid him well  however  as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall  drenching him and his co actor  they were nearly swept out to sea  health and safety would have had a field day  poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line  presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene  anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place  br    br   other than mr  penry jones  alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head  s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott  br    br   towards the long awaited end of the film  captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie  it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being  in contrast  anne ran  hyper ventilating  from pillar to post in search of the good captain who  in the meantime  had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told  in the course of only three or four minutes  without even having worked up a sweat  br    br   we experienced none of anne  s charms crossing the screen  indeed  we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain  spineless  opinion less anne and why someone  anyone  did not tell mean  winging sir walter to just shut the heck up  br    br   the crucial kiss  normally our favourite girlie moment  was painfully drawn out  as they moved in closer  anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met  eww   br    br   the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been  br    br   what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story  filmed in some of england  s finest scenery  br    br   sorry jane             if you like sci fi  monsters  and ancient legends  then you will love this movie    br    br   the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago  while the acting may have been a little less than desirable  the story line and effects adequately compensated for it  br    br   i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our    inch big screen tv  br    br   if you like non stop action  awesome visuals  and taste for myth and lore    you have to see this movie              a rather silly little film you just may love  br    br   although rather corny and clich   at times  it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun  five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest   just for the sheer joy   knowing yours is the best team    br    br   notable for several screen debuts including david naughton  s first film role after his dr  pepper   be a pepper   commercials and before his major      hit   american werewolf in london    also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it  and last but not least  mr  spin city and alex keaton himself  michael j  fox gets his first film role here  fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house  outside of that  no names  but all funny characters  br    br   doubt it has ever made it to dvd  but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late  late show sometime  if you do  is worth your watch  you may hate it  but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love             this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown  i can  t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy  given the excellent story  the result could have been better though  the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing  sound effects and sound tracks were very good  acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak  for people who didn  t read the book  things may look happening too quickly  from my point of view  instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book  they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper  what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican  you see neither of it in the movie  too much rush and using the time not in a good way  these are main problems of the movie  so  it is worth watching but could have been done better             i never fell asleep during a movie  never  this movie did the impossible  br    br   while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts  this movie was a lesson in over abundance  as in  the movie was    minutes too long  it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work  but instead  all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement  the acting was absolutely terrible  bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script  did these people even get any direction  were they coaxed to be boring and dull  either therory wouldn  t surprise me  br    br   what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side  either way  they all stunk  don  t watch this film  that  s all i can say  unless you  re an insomniac              what can i say  not as bad as many here have made it out to be  the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before  was strictly for ian mcshane  br    br   i was not disappointed in the least  ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role  he  s always great to watch and for my money    an extremely underused actor  br    br   as for the rest of the film     every other actor in the movie delivered strong  solid performances  these people certainly weren  t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation  as this was a fairly low budget film  but this did not mean that any of them   mailed   their appearances in  everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them  br    br   i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul  s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie  br    br   the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life  not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film  anybody who expected a clear cut  by the numbers  connect the dots   conclusion   or   answer   at the end of the movie    clearly wasn  t watching the film closely enough  this film is not going to tell you what the   meaning of life   is  the idea is that after seeing the film  you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee  i certainly did  br    br   no car chases    no explosions    no bar room brawls      sounds pretty dull  huh   but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it  s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved  br    br          warning          if you  re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous   question   as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly    br    br   you might not enjoy this film             originally harped as a sequel to   the slumber party massacre   series  this film falls flat on it  s face with a new title  first off  if you are going to include the word   massacre   in your film  s title  you better deliver  this one certainly does not  there is no gore  no on screen murders and no chainsaw  as the box art would lead you to believe  instead  we get a paper thin  overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game  only to be offed one by one  again  this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit  why directors  especially those doing direct to video flicks  are afraid to show any gore is beyond me  now  i am not a huge fan of excessive gore  but come on   why else would anyone rent a movie called   cheerleader massacre     besides that problem  the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness  it looks cheap  sounds cheap  and the actors aren  t all that good  it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be  but even that fails  the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess  folks  if you run across this film  walk away and go find the original   slumber party massacre      out of                a killer  cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder  at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave  this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look  the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem  are back on the case  two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing  thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection  sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish  br    br   the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film  the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out  now i  m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible  if it wasn  t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep  there is a bit of gore but it  s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims  the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times  there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll  the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film  it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line  br    br   the ending is extremely bad  you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does  god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel   br    br                   days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen  in no way  shape  or form would i recommend it to anyone   unless you  re trying to put your kids to sleep or  god forbid  give someone an aneurysm  if i could go back in time and do one thing  i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters  why  days of heaven  s plot is simple  but extremely vague  long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film  the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with  the climax of the story does not touch you  by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone  the only things working are your eyes  and unfortunately  your ears  who must listen to the sound of linda  the little girl in the story  who talks like a man  i am now dumber for seeing this movie  don  t let it happen to you             in       director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their   silly symphonies   series    the skeleton dance    iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early   s  in disney  s   laugh o gram   cartoon series  however  their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio  that was the birth of celebrity productions  where iwerks continued developing his style and technique  and where he created the character of flip the frog   while his work kept the same high quality  it wasn  t really popular and by      the studio was closed  later that year  iwerks was hired by columbia pictures  and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance  this time in color  br    br         s   skeleton frolics   is essentially  a remake of the      classic   the skeleton dance    the movie that borough him fame and fortune  like that short film  it is set on an abandoned graveyard  where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play  the dead rise from their coffins  ready for the show that  s about to begin  as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra  and begin to play a happy tune  now  it  s not easy to be a musician made of just bones  as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts  however  the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance  a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra  it  s hard to dance with loose body parts  everything ends at dawn  and just when the sun is about to rise again  the skeletons run towards their graves  br    br   directed and animated by ub iwerks himself    skeleton frolics   follows faithfully the pattern set by   the skeleton dance   years before  although with a crucial difference  iwerks did the whole film in technicolor  the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film  and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney  creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before  it is certainly a more experimental film than   the skeleton dance    although sadly  this doesn  t mean it  s necessarily a better film  for starters  the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney  with the only differences being the music  more on that later  and the color effects  it looks beautiful  no doubt about it  but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all  br    br   however  it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film  after all  iwerks executes it in a wonderful way   but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w  stalling for   the skeleton dance    in other words  while denat  s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme  it  s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling  s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable  being a musical film  this is of high importance  and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk  s flawless work of animation  personally  i think that with a better musical accompaniment    skeleton frolics   would be remembered as fondly as   the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking  as it  s still a fun film to watch  br    br   it  s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success  however  it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer  disney  s main rival   he did not lack the quality of those companies   films  it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney  s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney  despite its shortcomings    skeleton frolics   is a very funny and visually breathtaking film  that while not exactly the most original and fresh film  one just can  t help but thinking of   the skeleton dance   while watching it   it definitely reminds us that iwerk  s skeletons are still here to haunt us  and inspire us  br    br                   yes  indeed  it could have been a good movie  a love biangle   sorry for the poetical license  but is not a triangle   an interesting story  unfortunately badly told  the image is sometimes weird  sometimes ok  the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted  the sound needs more attention  it usually does in romanian movies   the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen  the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action  about the acting    sorry but the best actress is the landlady  the others are acting immaturely and cannot convince the viewer  the acting is poetical when it should be realistic  and realistic when it should be poetical  it  s a picture for adults  told by the children  bother only if extremely curious             you wear only the best italian suits from armani  hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements  your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer  and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood  you  re a member of the finest polo clubs  frequently dine at restaurants such as spago  and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world  your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive  while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic     caliber gun  you snow ski in the alps  go deep sea diving in the caribbean  sky dive over the andes  and all the while your hair is never  ever  out of place  you are bond  james bond  the world  s most renown spy  favorite son of the good queen  bad boy of the british ss  and perhaps the most desired man in the world  the character of james bond was created by ian fleming  and is the movie industry  s longest lasting icon  being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades  the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan  who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in       and made his     debut in goldeneye  br    br   this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo     goldeneye  developed by rare for nintendo  has been on the market for some time  its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is  and no review library would be complete without it  br    br   let  s face it    most of the time movie licensed games are flops  although the two seem like a good mix  the results  for the most part  have been horrendous  games like cliffhanger  true lies  lethal weapon  and not to mention all the star trek flops  are ammunition enough against this mix  and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games  especially if i  ve seen the movie  at least that  s how i used to think  in the case of goldeneye  i had more reservations than normal  while not a bad movie  goldeneye the film didn  t have that much appeal to it  and i don  t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies  as a game  however  let  s just say it  s a completely different story  br    br   the game is a first person shooter  and in order to be successful  you  ll need at least as much brains as brawn  for those who have seen the movie  which i imagine is most of you reading this  the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation  a plot to control the world  s most dangerous satellite  goldeneye  has begun in the ussr  and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured  your missions will be many  the danger extreme  you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known  m will brief you as soon as you  re ready  good day  james             this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class  their problems  relationships and interactions with each other  it should have managed a wider distribution as it  s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time  br    br   the swimming instructor is an almost olympian  reduced to teaching adults basic lessons  and often the target of horndogging from his female students  he attempts  more or less  to fend them off  with varying results  br    br   the students characters are mainstream u s a  teachers  policemen  college students and retired people  all of whom haven  t learned to swim for some reason  the movie covers their relationships  including friends  relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class  several subplots provide amusing fodder  including a teacher going through a divorce  some high school students making a documentary  and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys  br    br   this is a good date movie  or just one to watch when you  re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality             this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole  this is the story of a highly trained military man  unhappy with his wife and children  fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman  to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks  predictable  but not a bad watch             i watched six of a kind for w c  fields   he  s only in it for around    minutes and has one long scene  the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville  and several other great moments  the reamaining    minutes are also delightful  thankfully  mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j  pinkham whinney  he is everyone  s foil  he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure  also  his comedy partner  mary boland plays his wife  flora  joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen  boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end  but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture  gracie  s funny  quite  but she can also get tiring  and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time  i don  t remember laughing at him once  although he has one great scene with ruggles  where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while  and one with fields  where he asks fields to sell him a sweater  that bit is exclusively fields    though   the situation is constantly funny  the whinneys are going to drive to california  but to help them with expenses  george and gracie are recruited                   edmund lowe  who reminds me somewhat of warren william   heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour  br    br   douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise  hypnotism  anyone    and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast  everyone from virginia bruce  kent smith  frieda inescourt  gene lockhart  jessie ralph  benita hume  rosalind ivan and h b  warner  as an added bonus  there  s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective  and furthermore  get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home  must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film  br    br   on the plus side  the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled  it  s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance  and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense  br    br   nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner             this movie is lame and not funny at all  the plot doesn  t even make sense  some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension  maybe hell     and his daughter gets sucked through it or something  then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit  i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her   the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she  s more interested in her new girlfriend  and they stumble upon this witch spell book  they want to be witches or something     and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently  there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary  obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie  i  m sure the topless girls doesn  t hurt there either  the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie  i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing  who are these people and what are they doing  basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things  like the other dimension and book seller  than make it confusing  i didn  t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal  i don  t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid  i can  t think of any part of the movie that was good             although i was hoping that i  d like it a little more  this was still certainly an impressive film  there were great performances by all the leads  and the story  while not what i  d call chilling  was still effective and it kept me interested  for me  the best part of this film was the look of the picture  for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well  i also thought that the low budget suited this movie  for i don  t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim  all things considered  it fell a little short of my expectations  but i  m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie             imagine this  a high school  except it  s boarding school  and the kids don  t have parents around  oh  and it  s in malibu  and the kids are all thin  white  and gorgeous  with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the   weird   outcast  and there aren  t any reasonable rules  like how they have co habitation  nuclear weapons in their dorms  coffee stands  a sushi bar  and a complimentary laptop per student  br    br   here  s the story  a girl  zoey brooks  attends pca  a formerly all boys school  absolutely perfect in every possible way  she is smart  pretty  thin  athletic  creative  and everything a perfectionist wants to be  almost all the boys in school want her  and every girl wants to be her friend  she  s the one everyone comes to for advice  the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan  and is just wonderful  too bad none of this makes her likable  br    br   are we supposed to believe that if we don  t even come close to zoey  s perfection  we  re bad people  in the show  nothing  s her fault  and if anyone contradicts her  they  re portrayed as the bad guy logan   he may be a jerk  but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time  br    br   her loyal group of blind followers are  chase  the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her  michael  the token black guy  and the only decent actor on the set   lola  a wannabe actress and anorexic  snobby airhead  quinn  the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff  and logan  the rich jerk who has a soft side  yeah  this show basically spews out stereotypes  br    br   what ticks me off  though  is that they all try to pretend they  re normal kids  they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves  even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can  t afford  they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis  hardly have homework  and suntan almost every day  wow  they have it hard  any other problems  i  m too good looking  rich  and stress free  i guess zoey      what  s the     for  anyway   is nick  s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically  except they caught a glimpse of reality  didn  t like it  and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills  br    br   but hey  at least the set  s pretty             i had been amazed by director antal  s kontroll back in       his first american project  vacancy  was less impressive but a decent start  armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable  the film never rises above the level of a b movie   br    br   it  s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver  antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick  then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn  t really deliver in that department either   br    br   what you are left with is one implausible situation after another  a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money  if you look past the sharp cinematography  cast and the tight music score  you  re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal   br    br   this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time             first of all  the reason i  m giving this film   stars instead of   is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo  he alone can get    stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie  br    br   i was initially all fired up at reading one poster  s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave   the performance of his career    to me  it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie  and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment  then i thought to myself  what else has stevens done  so i checked and  you know  that person was absolutely right  in the    years since this columbo movie was made  apparently every one of the    projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap  so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career  br    br   if you like columbo  see every other of the    titles before watching this one  do yourself a favor and save the worst for last             this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years  not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom  br    br   the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not  nothing is of any interest  the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful   i just sat in utter amazement during this movie  thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining  br    br   the producers of this movie were very clever  they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast  people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think  woody harrison  kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie  boy are they in for a horrible time  br    br   if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie  some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning            down at the movie gallery  i saw a flick i just had to see  it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into  yeah  i knew it would suck  but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs  only a few laughs were to be found  this was an extremely stupid movie  it begins with a bounty hunter  our protagonist  who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film  he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris  but he can  t  his dialogue sucks too  anyway  he goes into a village  shoots some zombies  you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes     minutes to reload or watch some zombies  at least the zombies look cool  so anyway  some people get shot  some zombies die  and in the end  everyone is dead except our main character  who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people             i am finally seeing the el padrino movie  from what i can see it is an incredible film  and lots of action damian chapa is good director  but i must admit i love his acting the best  br    br   also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga  she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit  br    br   however the film el padrino is a pure    action epic  why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is  i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also  br    br   i am one of those people who love to see artists make it  br    br   b s            i thrive on cinema    but there is a limit  a name isn t enough to make a movie   the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet  but we remain hungry   or angry    till the end   things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense  the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed  next              michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems  nonetheless  to be regarded as a perfect   catch   by any woman that runs across him  could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film  he  s a   hero   whom it  s very difficult to empathize with  so the movie is in trouble right from the start  however  it  s troubles don  t end there  it has the production values of a tv movie  check out that head made of clay or something  near the end   and the ending cheats in a way that i can  t reveal  in case anyone wants to see the movie  highly unlikely   let  s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows                    i was drawn to   friends   by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston  i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make  recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called   seasons    then i found the elton john song   friends   thinking it was the same song   it  s been    years of so  anyway  the flood of the emotions of   friends   came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love  i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production  plot  etc  so forgive me for a rather poor review  i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was  i  m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now  so many movies which seemed so important to me back then  i e    the graduate     easy rider    now just seem silly and i don  t want this to fall into the same category  but  i will find it and if it turns out silly  then at least i  ll be able to turn my wife onto a great   no  outstanding soundtrack  when we met  we went through this with   last tango in paris    the youngsters i work with  i  m     respect my opinions but it  s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little   aged   now  i just can  t figure out if the the aging process is the movies    or me    friends   is a very special  sensitive and wonderful movie  it will bring back a lot of special feelings i  m sure  by all means  rent or buy a copy    indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today             during the clete roberts preface  i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production  however  what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff  the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood  s poverty row  and this makes the movie all the more realistic  there are no punches pulled here  and at times the film is reminiscent of   the well          the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality  for certain  younger viewers will be reminded of   the blair witch project   but this one is based on real events             i decided to watch this one because it  s been nominated for oscar this year  i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie  but ended up bored and disappointed  first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in   shaky hands   camera mode is really annoying  br    br   i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this  br    br   american   military machine    people  who makes money on war  urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something  sort of  patriotic  br    br   why these   heroic   efforts of director and the main character to  inspire  the audience with an idea of   loving war like a drug      oh  please  come on  what a bore   br    br   watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall               mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title  br    br   this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there  br    br   it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation  br    br   the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger  who just happens to be a flesh eater  who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie  or ghoul  quite which exactly is not defined  br    br   there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified  attempts to help her by supplying   food     i shall say no more about that  for fear of inserting a spoiler   it is one of those   quiet   movies as opposed to guns blasting  explosions raging  car chases  etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish  but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans  whilst also inserting sadness into the story  along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called   horror   movies  br    br   there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film  where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so   innocent    but  what she becomes   oh my   br    br   a gem of a movie and even if not your thing  should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan             empire of passion starts out deceptively   that is  if you  re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie  it  s like a riff on james m  cain  s the postman always rings twice  at first  seki  kazuko yoshiyuki  is a mother of two and a dutiful  hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo  takahiro tamura   but when he  s not around  and she  s at home with the baby  the feisty and aimless young man toyoji  tatsuya fuji  comes around to bring some goodies for seki    and a little extra  they  re soon sleeping together  but after he does something to her  let  s just say a   shave     he knows that he  ll find out  and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo  they drink him up  strangle him  and then toss him down a well  naturally  this will come back to haunt them   but that it  s literally  at least to them  at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji   changes gears into the   kaidan    a japanese ghost story  br    br   this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of   oh  ghost  ah    but out of the total dread that builds for the characters  in a way there  s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout  if only loosely translated by way of a   th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town  i e  the snooping cop  the   evidence   found possibly by another  word getting around  suspicions aroused  etc   it  s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start  manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji  and her reactions to gisaburo  s re appearances are staggering to her  take the one that comes closest to poetry  gisaburo  s ghost  pale blue face and mostly silent  chilling stare  motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw  she does  reluctantly  and he pushes her around on a road she doesn  t know  in the wee hours before dawn  surrounded by smoke  most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric  br    br   while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end  there  s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work  after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses  which  ironically  got banned in his own country   he made something that  he claimed  was even  more  daring that   senses    maybe he was right  empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor  also starring tatsuya fuji  a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range   but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread  you can believe in ghosts in this story  but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go  the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries  the fate of their very souls is at stake  br    br   and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp  sadly  it wouldn  t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works  and crafts shot after gorgeous shot  with repetition working its way into the mis en scene  i e  the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road  the camera at a dutch angle  the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue  as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this  i e  toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion  or how seiko  s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind   it  s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit  not to be confused with the spiritual  though there may be something with that as well  about life and death  s connections to one another  inextricably  it  s a classic waiting to be discovered             i am not a big music video fan  i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song   any song  in other words   creative thinking goes out the window  likewise  personal feelings aside about mj  toss aside  this was the best music video of alltime  simply wonderful  it was a movie  yes folks it was  brilliant  you had awesome acting  awesome choreography  and awesome singing  this was spectacular  simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man   but was he a man or something sinister  vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video  mj was mj   enough said about that  this song was to video   what jaguars are for cars  top of the line  perfecto  what was even better about this was  that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts  though ironically enough  there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around  folks go to youtube  take    mins  out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is             oh  my goodness  i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon  but here it is  armed with rotten plot  terrible editing  stilted acting  and headache inducing   style    sorry  i have no other words for it   sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre  that is  this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better  br    br   now  not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself  it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it  right from the main titles    nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en    i was under the impression that something didn  t smell quite right  as soon as the movie started with a series of corny  wanna be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors  i knew where that smell was coming from  br    br   it turns out that two policemen  or rather policeman jim renart  michael par    and policewoman dorothy smith  jennifer rubin   are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver  a serial killer  known as   monkey killer    what a menacing  chilling nickname  uh   for his working methods  has killed quite a lot of people  you see  this nut apparently works following the proverb   see no evil  hear no evil  speak no evil   and cuts eyes  ears  and tongues out of his victims  so far  six eyes  six ears  and three tongues  in very ingenious fashion  renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people    well  because he probably wants to complete the number      so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick  casper van dien   a young  successful  good looking businessman  with a dreadful temper  and that  s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in  br    br   so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath  none of which is interesting in the least  until they finally meet  along the way to that  a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory  renart goes in the back of the disco club  because    well  just because the script tells us it  s a suspect place  then  with one single punch in the stomach  renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path  and the guard is never heard of again  does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic  br    br   anyway  after another murder  gerrick turns in as a witness  but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer  in typical basic instinct fashion  smith gets some dates with the young businessman  under the assumption that she might discover his true identity  br    br   i won  t spoil the ending but it is  quite simply  an embarrassment  there are contradictions  some plot holes  issues that never get resolved  and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder  supposed to be shocking and sad  comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can  t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it  br    br   at    minutes  sanctimony is really pushing it  you never care about one single character  because they are all so flat  not to mention boring  that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them  you are never pulled into the story  because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place  the acting ranges from average  van dien  to downright atrocious  rubin  and most of the supporting cast   the music is abysmal generic techno  and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen  of course  like every fiasco of the genre  we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity  br    br                   the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction  the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain  but i think of the three this one is the best  br    br   maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet  who knows  maybe preminger couldn  t get enough money to pay for the location  it  s the only flaw i find in the film  br    br   frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided  he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer  but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him  br    br   first bob strauss who wants him back dealing  especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town  he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra  s services back  secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again  and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who  s working a con game to beat all  just to keep him around  br    br   frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film  but lost to ernest borgnine in marty  sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn  t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year  his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak  s apartment will leave you shaken  br    br   eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role  she  s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost  if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody  she might have been nominated for this       marked the high point of her career   br    br   darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler  his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl  br    br   elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in  not a place you  d want to bring up your family             this film was basically set up for failure by the studio  one  anne rice  author of the book  offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio  two  they tried to stuff   in depth novels in to a  hour movie  br    br   i maintain the only way for these two books  vampire lestat and queen of the damned  to work in a live action form would be through a mini series  first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the       s to the       s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character  lestat  the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned  without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed  br    br   lestat was not cruel and vicious to all  he was not wanting to go along with akasha  s plans  marius did not make lestat  lestat did not love jesse or make her  lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light  marius was not after david nor the other way around  every character was completely represented wrong  basically same names different story  br    br   if they wanted to make a vampire movie  fine  even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels  fine  but don  t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice  s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love  br    br   if you haven  t read the books you won  t understand the film really  if you have read the books you will be insulted  that being said  i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it  catch     must see it  will hate it             have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more  even from a score of     imdb  the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal  the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a   worst case scenario   of playing   strong   feelings accompanied by some bad acting    don  t waist your time this movie   xadsnt entertaining  if you wanna cry it might suffice though  even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy    br    br   i give this      it really was awful  if you wanna see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it  its all the good things this movie isn  t             an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night  after she tries to get away from the murder scene  she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness  this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat             don  t listen to most of these people  ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love  its about jill johnson  played by camilla belle  who babysits at the mendrakis   house and someone breaks in  if you  re wondering how he got in the house  he went through the garage most likely  so anyway  don  t listen to    the worst acting    it has amazing acting  with a great story  i think that there are   benefits that jill has     shes a fast runner and is on the track team    she got out alive  lol  br    br   it is a cool movie and quite scary  check it out  you will be happy with this masterpiece  don  t listen to the other people on the site  its very good  trust me  i am good at reviewing movies  i  m a future movie critic  i totally want to buy this movie  and you will too when you see it  it is amazingly awesome             what a frustrating movie  a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces  as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows  this does none of that  instead  the writers settled for cutesy twinkles  cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama  the thing looks like a made for tv movie  and was directed with no particular distinction  but it  s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting  br    br   the most frustrating aspect  though  is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast  all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this  well  there  s no other word for it  drivel  a tragic waste of talent  in particular that of the great stockard channing             this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the     s  jack pearl  radio  s   baron munchausen    as well as jimmy durante  however        decades later  it  s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today  film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts  br    br   as for the stooges  this is a film from there very early days  before mgm had any idea what to do with the team  at this point  they were known as   ted healy and his stooges   as healy was the front man  fortunately for the stooges  they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man  read up on him  you  ll see what i mean  and the rest is history  within a year  they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team  this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm  a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy  such as the films of buster keaton  laurel and hardy  abbott and costello and others   in fact  up until they left for columbia  mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles  including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady  and  oddly  in this film they didn  t act as a team  they just did various supporting roles  such as larry playing the piano  br    br   this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle  when they are rescued and brought home  all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show  punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there  as for pearl  i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films  as he has the personality of a slug  but slightly less welcome   as for durante  i never knew what the public saw in him  as least as far as his films are concerned  he was loud and   loud  he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton  s career to make this film  together  pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor    and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat  br    br   in this film  the stooges they didn  t yet have the right chemistry  seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd  what they did in the film was pretty good  but because all the segments were short  they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines  stooges fans might be very frustrated at this  though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge  even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films  oh  and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly   br    br   overall  the film is rather dull and disappointing  however  there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess  at about the    minute mark  you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing  look carefully  as this is walter brennan in a role you  d certainly never expect  another unusual thing to look for in the film is the   clean as a whistle   song starting at about    minutes into the film  this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called   pre code   scene that never would have been allowed in films after       when the production code was strengthened   despite the word   clean   in the title  it  s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh  enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything  it  s quite shocking when seen today  though such excesses were pretty common in the early     s  finally  at the    minute mark  see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades  see the film  you  ll see that i mean             when carol  vanessa hidalgo  starts looking into her brother  s death  she begins to suspect something more sinister than   natural causes    the closer she gets to the truth  the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law  fiona  helga line   and the rest of the local satanists  they  ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways  br    br   if you  re into sleazy  satanic themed movies  black candles has a lot to offer  the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex  one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed  unfortunately  all the sleaze in the world can  t save black candles  most of the movie is a total bore  other than the one scene i  ve already mentioned  the numerous sex scenes aren  t shocking and certainly aren  t sexy  the acting is spotty at best  even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance  the plot really doesn  t matter  its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together  i  m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz  compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror  black candles comes off as amateurish       is about the best i can do             one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history  zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers  the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer  and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued  others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal  unlike many serial killers  zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter  the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off  the film is constructed as a murder mystery  or a   cold case   style thriller  it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills  br    br   some people dislike any movie that is shot on video  this attitude is very old style and provincial  it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value  these attitudes are on the way out  zodiac killer is a low budget film  no doubt  but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem             i  ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life  eg what it takes to get into music school   britney bashing  etc  etc  so let  s focus on the movie and the message  br    br   i have rated this movie   out of    for the age range   to    years  and for a family movie  for the average adult male       out of     br    br   i like pop rock music  i  m     i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews  i didn  t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any   self promotion    br    br   i watch movies to be entertained  i don  t care about casting  lighting  producers  directors  etc  what is the movie and does it entertain me  br    br   i watched this movie for the message  the world  s greatest epidemic is low self esteem  which is a whole other story  so watched with the message in mind  as that is an area of interest  the movie is light  bright and breezy  great for kids  i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don  t give up message  so yeh  it was a bit predictable  great message though   should be more of them  br    br   this movie is a great family movie  but for a bloke watching by himself  get hannibal             i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema  made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies  it is filled with super surfer greg noll  s home movies  and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his    year passion  nevertheless  it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory  it is filled with artistic talent  and athletic talent  however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic  surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots  nor are they surgeons perhaps  or ph d  s again  perhaps   it believes in the quest of the surfer  it believes in the beauty of human goofiness  it believes in the great gift of peace  which comes from the cessation of war  surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before  it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war   with the russian socialists  surfing is the ultimate narcissism  it is dangerous  but only slightly historical  i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique  he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received  this movie has no military heroes  it has no guns  the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop  this is not a problem  peace is not desperate  it is the joy of exhalation             i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode  it was dumbed down to such an extent  i doubt if i learned a single thing  the graphics were rudimentary  any small idea was repeated ad nauseum  contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan  that had a good musical theme  there was no music coming from these infernal    dimensional strings             although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched  it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon  the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent  caine hams it up   which is exactly what the character he is playing should do  entertaining and fun  this is a hour and a half of easy watching             this movie was so badly written  directed and acted that it beggars belief  it should be remade with a better script  director and casting service  the worst problem is the acting  you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished  professional and totally believable  and on the other hand  ri  chard  who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece  peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning  and keeping  couple  although both normally do fine work  the actors  and director  should not have attempted to do accents at all  they are inconsistent and unbelievable  much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english  the casting is ludicrous  why have children of an   african   merchant  thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society   been cast with very pale skinned actors  while the supposedly socially desirable marcel  has pronounced african features  including an obviously dyed blond   fro    it  s as if the casting directors cannot be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color  it  s just so weird  this could be a great movie and should be re made  but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors  there are plenty of good actors out there  and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals  daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast  good script and decent direction             when i was a younger oh about   i watched barney for the first time  and liked it  but  back then i didn  t exactly have a brain  either  and now i look back and see what a horrible show   barney   really is  first of all  everything on that show is creepy  barney  the main character  is a horrendous   foot tall talking  purple dinosaur that teaches    year olds about   imagination        shudders   b j  i know what your thinking about his name  is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be   supposudly   cool  but in fact  he is the exact opposite  after watching a few episodes with b j  dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap  and making a few no so funny jokes  i wanted to scream  baby bop oh oh god   vomits  oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever  she is a green triceratops it  s a dinosaur  that carries a yellow blanket  her remarks of   hee hee hee   and barney  s praises cries of   super deeee doooper    make it hard to sit through each episode  as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners  br    br   and that  my friend  is what makes this show truly horrible             steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there  he certainly was a charismatic fellow  one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew  but even mcqueen can  t save this turkey of a film  shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st  louis  br    br   mcqueen  s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang  there  s more than a broad hint that there  s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke  he  s not liked at all by the other heist members  mainly because of his lack of criminal resume   br    br   steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot  especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke  all pretty rough characters  that would certainly get my suspicions aroused  br    br   the great st  louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix  guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn  t do much of anything  one of those two jokers decided steve  s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation   br    br   this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen  i  m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can  t believe they would have if they saw this  br    br   or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey             this is a bad film  as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts  as a result  it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr  huston should have been proud of making  however  the film is worth watching if you are a fan of   pre code   films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out  even if they aren  t married and even if their partner is    br    br   the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi  in the process  she meets a scalawag  bruce cabot  who eventually convinces her to sleep with him  she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman  however  miss dunne does not want him back  as she realizes he  s not worth it  but later her baby dies at child birth  while all these very controversial plot elements are used  they are always alluded to  almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way  kids in the audience will be clueless  after all  films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time   br    br   surprisingly  this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about     of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to  it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it  tacking it on to still another film  in this second phase of the film  miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women  s prison  though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there   what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate  and  as a result of all this violence  miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer  br    br   but then  out of the blue  another type of film emerges and the women  s prison reform business goes by the wayside  dunne meets a judge  walter huston  who is married but he desperately wants her  now throughout the film  dunne is portrayed as a very good girl  even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot  she was more or less tricked into it   but now  single irene  who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man  he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only  but she never thinks to investigate if this is true  and with his assurance  off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business  but  while she  s pregnant with his love child  he  s indicted for being a crooked judge  he assures her he  s innocent  but he  s convicted and it sure sounds like he  s a scoundrel  using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune  then  in the final moments of the film  miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released  the film then ends  br    br   so  we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early   s idea of what a nice girl should be like  i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships  this really undoes all the positives about dunne  s character and it  s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film  a strong women  s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect  with a decent re write  this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film  but it couldn  t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film             i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently  it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go  two guys  one naive and one loud mouthed a    take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky  make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them  things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker  what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie  unlike so many others  the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes  nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff  definitely worth checking out              very mild spoilers  a basic plot outline  no real details   br    br   if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations  i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland  and the only reason i agreed to go   was because it was free  i expected a few chuckles  but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d  not much more then that  br    br   the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious  as we are given a look at jack black  s humble christian origins in a midwest american town  the film then takes us years into the future  to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass  the second half of tenacious d  we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name  finally  as the title suggests  the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled   pick of destiny    again  the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny  and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face  that said  there were times it felt a bit long  it  s only     minutes  but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter  the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds  and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot  which is fine  except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss   and when they miss  they miss bad  same thing with the songs  it is a musical  but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so   then kept going anyway  br    br   i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing  the d  s humor simply couldn  t work without cussing  sex  and drug references  but unless you  re a real fan of the band  or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy  i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent    pick   will make you giggle a bit   but is it worth   bucks  i don  t think so  i was tempted to rate it a    but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres  a   seems more appropriate  just be sure it  s your style             i shall begin with a disclaimer  this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff  the game before watching  the movie relies on the audience  s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements  and it does so very subtly  do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it  ll be that much better  br    br   with that in mind  this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed  the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game  on steroids  yeah  the attention to detail in each scene  especially in the heavy action oriented ones  is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe  br    br   i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music  again  for those who are familiar with the ff  story and background  the music should not surprise anyone  although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation   br    br   once again  i myself having only played through ff  once  thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix  and that is the feel in most scenes  choreographed and organized  like a dance  br    br   in short  if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy    this film will blow you out of the water  if you  re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff  on playstation or pc  doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience  br    br   finally  i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film  characters move with fluidity  each scene background comes to life and tells its own story  for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot  i urge you to reexamine the animation  facial reactions  subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery  br    br   square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling  advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations  allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves  br    br   thanks square enix  the wait was well worth it             this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made  everything about it  acting  directing  script  cinematography  is dreadful  the alien  a human in sparkly suit  claims to be from a nearby universe  one assumes the scriptwriter meant   galaxy   but didn  t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms  a better title for the film would be   it came from the planet of plot contrivances    the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent  the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot  any thought to the passage of time is ignored  now it  s a couple days after meeting the alien  then bam  all of a sudden there  s only a couple hours left until zero hour  do yourself a favor and miss this movie  you will make yourself stupider for having watched it  the ending is particularly silly  and should have been accompanied by someone going   ta da       as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt  i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you  ll get cancer watching it  if you can watch the last    minutes without crapping yourself    enemies of freedom    honestly  laughing  you  re retarded             if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors  eating non ants  and conquering the world with a voice over narrative  then this is the movie for you  basically  a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants  the most intelligent actors in this film  in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination  throughout the movie the two scientists  and a girl they rescued from the ants  use everything at their disposal  computers  green dye  and horrid acting   but to no avail  i guess they just couldn  t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly  br    br   the title of the movie   phase iv   is something of a mystery  this is not a spoiler  but   phase i   starts right after the opening credits whereas you don  t reach   phase iv   until the end credits roll  apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases       throughout the movie as a kind of progress report    hang in there buddy  only   more phase until final credits    as a mst k episode  this one wasn  t very good for two reasons     this one is from the season   on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons  and    this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up  there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing   gamera movies  br    br   the movie does have a trick surprise ending  but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me             joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors  who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can  t wait to see lola  while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy  donald martin  who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan  who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl  but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn  t feel shy with a waitress  who comes from brooklyn  like he does soon joe notices he  s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don  t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney  s anchors aweigh        is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch  once again  in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn  t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra  but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of    the   year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it  s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there  s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing   we hate to leave   it  s so energetic   if you knew susie  like i know susie    is quite funny it  s a nice moment when frank sings brahms   lullaby to little dean stockwell it  s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango   jealousy    the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world  and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment             from director barbet schroder  reversal of fortune   i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class  and i recognised the leading actress  so i tried it  despite the rating by the critics  basically cool kid richard haywood  half nelson  s ryan gosling  and justin pendleton  bully  s michael pitt  team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them  investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie   the hyena   mayweather  sandra bullock  with new partner sam kennedy  ben chaplin   who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene  e g  non relating hairs  the plan doesn  t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects  it is just a question of if they can sway them away  also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills  chris penn as ray feathers  r d  call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst  d a  al swanson  i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock  s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing  but this film does it in a very silly way  and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable  adequate             things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world  or   everytown   through     years  you can break it up into about   different scenes or parts  the film spans from      to      and is mainly about how this ruler or the   boss   wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again  after everytown was bombed and war broke out  br    br   this film only has about   faults  it  s audio is muddy and video had some quirks  the characters aren  t deep at all  and the overall plot isn  t altogether solid  the plot is lacking something that i can  t put my finger on    it just seems a little   fluffy    but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g  wells though might happened in the next hundred years  this is a must see  it  s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing  a long  drawn out war  because they were just about to go to war with germany  and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything  br    br   things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once             weak stale  tired  cliched  wants to be basic instinct  but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives  new insights  insipid  trite  grotesque  and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity  oh  wait   it was only    minutes long   it must have just  seemed  a lot longer  i  d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again  i  m expressing an opinion here  i guess this means i didn  t like it             one word can describe this movie and that is weird  i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting  well it was  the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge  on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not  very strange  if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out             while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem  i don  t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right  br    br   the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting  one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle  thrown together by fate  they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on  br    br   i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks  because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast  my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features  oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring  but all in all a excellent movie             this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today  not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors  so what went wrong  i don  t know and simply i don  t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all  be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish  but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot  a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father  s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid  very stupid plot twists devices  i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience  if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather  what about lock  stock     thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film                 i  ll not comment a lot  what  s to    stereotype characters  absolute ignorance about colombia  s reality  awful mise en scene  poor color choice  not funny  it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it  s beside the nonsense scenes   very poor actors direction  if you see somewhere those people  i mean the interpreters  you  ll know they are at least good  but seeing this so call film  it is impossible to guess it   you get tired of the music    this   comedy   has no rhythm  the only good rhythm in it  it  s the rap sing in the final credits    pathetic  doesn  t it  etc   etc    it has been a long time i haven  t seen a movie so bad              this movie is a riot  i cannot remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies  i  ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny  but this one is wall to wall great lines  i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in  the movie was non stop until the end when they did the   minutes of sentimental plot clean up  other than that it  s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations  i  d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don  t get all the jokes the first time around  you have to see it two or three times to get it all in  br    br   as far as the actual film goes  it could have used a better edit  it  s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that  all the characters are great  it  s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke  i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable  no victims in this movie  also  thank god they got a    year old actress to play his girlfriend  catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film  you just wish that women like her really existed  she  s not a        like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite  br    br   if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it  i assure you  the trailer does not do it justice  they do not give away all the good jokes  just some of the mediocre ones  br    br   oh and one more thing  i hope critics put this on their top ten list  many of them complain that comedies don  t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don  t put it on their list  this means you ebert               a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth   things must be pretty bad back on mars   two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash  whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy  s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner  br    br   the diner has had no customers since eleven o  clock that morning  now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge  the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus  although he didn  t notice who they were  the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed  one of them is an alien  but which one  all of them are suspect  there  s the crazy old man  jack elam   of course  who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit  there  s a blustering businessman who must get to boston  john hoyt   a young couple on their honeymoon   execrable performance by the husband  ron kipling   except for the couples  nobody has noticed anyone else  and even the couples are suspicious of each other  bride to newly minted husband    i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin    the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way    the phone rings for no reason  the lights go on and off  the juke box turns itself on    and none of it is to be taken seriously  br    br   it  s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle  there is no discernible   depth   to it  it  s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens  it  s not a warning of any kind  just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses  br    br   i always enjoy it when it  s on  it  s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman  knowing that in      he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm  s version of shakespeare  s play  and here he is    with three arms  br    br   oops             it  s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site  but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created  and how bias its product was  br    br   i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy  we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression  yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population  we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager  we only hear from other palestinians in prison  i understand restrictions are in place  but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace  br    br   i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence  so to speak  she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber  s parents  and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control  it is more realistic  in my mind  to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem  ignored pleas for understanding and freedom  ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land  br    br   i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother  which normally would be admirable in a documentary  however in the light of the lack of impartiality  it all seems exploitative  also for the poor edits  lack of background in the actual instance  and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side  ultimately  it is a poor documentary and a poor film  i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation  but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter             relentless like one of those loud action movies  the entire cast seems to be on speed  i didn  t quite get the director  s intentions if any  i wonder if she  s ever seen a stanley donen  vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical  structure  please  this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba  the costumes the unflattering photography   unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations  the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself  no chemistry with her friends  christine baranski and julie walters  think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you  ll understand what i was hoping for  i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth  the audience  however  seemed to enjoy it so it probably it  s just me             this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space  as a history of space flight  it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it  disney has shown it on   vault disney   and i wish they would do so again             in an alternate     s  where an outbreak of the undead  caused by a mysterious   space dust    has been contained through the use of special electronic collars  a young loner  timmy  finds a friend in fido  billy connelly   his family  s recently acquired domesticated zombie  br    br   fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy  whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son  or for his hot to trot wife  played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss  having been psychologically scarred as a child  when he was forced to shoot his own father  who tried to eat him    br    br   timmy runs into a spot of bother  however  when his putrid pal  s collar goes on the blink  and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour  with the authorities on fido  s trail  trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies  and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help  will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend  br    br   a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick  fido is a thoroughly entertaining  deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour  taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into     s small town america is a stroke of genius  and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole   reanimated dead   theme that i have seen  br    br   connelly  s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame  along with day of the dead  s bub  and return of the living dead  s tarman  it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse  but the big yin  s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus  the rest of the cast also give commendable performances  with young k  sun ray  as timmy  and ms moss deserving special mentions  ray  because  for one so young  he puts in a particularly assured turn  and moss because she is so bloody yummy  br    br   this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week  the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead   and  to my surprise  it is also the best  director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future  br    br       out of     rounded up to   for imdb             an extremely down to earth  well made and acted   rodeo   western  no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the     s and     s west  but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance  especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life  his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the   ups and downs   of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style  he and mr  coburn teamed up extremely well as partners  not only on the circuit itself  but also in the real world outside the corral  also  check out anne archer as coburn  s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie  must have been one of her first roles   br    br   not as flashy  perhaps  as   junior bonner    but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal  thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time             despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm  i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as   mills and boon    so what  it is good to see a warm  touching story of real love in these cynical times  many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes  you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other  even though  for political reasons  it was an arranged marriage  i did feel though that sir john conroy  who was desperate to control the young queen  is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain  as it is rumoured that he was in fact  the real father of victoria  as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent  it would have been interesting to explore this theory  emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess  trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her  she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england  which prospered as never before  under her long reign  i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie               american nightmare   is officially tied  in my opinion  with   it  s pat    for the worst movie of all time  br    br   seven friends  oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of   friends    gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare  a pirate radio show  it  s hosted by a guy with a beard  that  s the most exciting aspect of his show  br    br   chandler  monica  joey  and    oh wait  i mean  wayne  jessie  and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj  unbeknownst to them  a crazed nurse serial killer is listening    br    br   crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and    wait  sorry again    by making their fears come to life  these fears include such stunners as   voodoo   and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures  br    br   no  really  br    br   this movie was  in a word  rotten  crazy nurse  s killing spree lacks motivation  there  s nothing to make the viewer   jump    the ending blows  and  again  voodoo  br    br   if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones  rent   american nightmare   with them  br    br   if you care for your loved ones  even a little bit  go to your local blockbuster  rent all of the copies of   american nightmare   and hide them in your freezer             first off  i have to say that i loved the book animal farm  i read it with my  th grade class  and it was great  we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial  the movie was so disappointing to me  the movie cuts out some characters  and misses a lot of the main points of the book  it skips around a lot  and doesn  t explain anything in detail  if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book  they would be confused  the most disappointing thing in this movie to me  was the ending  the ending in the book was the most powerful  and in the movie  they changed it  it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of   melting   together  but instead  the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs  to sum up  i don  t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book             this movie was extremely boring  i only laughed a few times  i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner  s name on the cover  it  s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates  when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist  he meets a prostitute  she takes him to a club called the playground  where he befriends several pimps  when mayor tony gold  shatner  decides to take over the pimp business  lil   pimp must lay down for his homies  br    br   the animation isn  t very good in this  it looks like it was made with macromedia  which i  m sure it was  it doesn  t suck  it  s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years  the humor in this is not very good  i didn  t think any of it was funny             i was disgusted by this movie  no it wasn  t because of the graphic sex scenes  it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi  this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art  it shows one piece of art work that she did  judith beheading holofernese  but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial  br    br   i don  t know if you understood this from the movie  probably not  tassi was not a noble character  he raped artemisia  it was not love  it was rape  he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured  according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia  aka had sex with  while she states over and over again   it  s true    br    br   i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about  don  t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie  i encourage you to do some research  artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work  br    br   don  t see the movie  but find out the true story of artemisia             such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar  s a bug  s life  we  re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film  but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation  for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer    when it  s in the right hands that is    a bug  s life is a warm reminder  we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling  and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions  br    br   it is only pixar  s second animated feature  the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in       with their landmark movie toy story  it was a movie which defied convention  re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence  now  they return with their sophomore effort which  to be honest  draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film  br    br   after all  it  s a film about ants  well  all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug  s life  but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film  as humans are the focal point in dramas  romances and so on  how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie  let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film  surely they jest  however  we forget that in toy story  a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest  most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted  the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat  and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you  ll probably ever encounter  br    br   not only are they all entirely amiable and likable    there isn  t an unpleasant character in sight  even the villains are riveting characters    but they  re colourful  they  re eclectic  and they  re idiosyncratic  and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term  only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug  s life from the beginning  we shall start with our main character  and our hero  his name is flik  david foley   and his character is rather generic to say the least  out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush  beautiful ant island  he is the one considered the   black sheep   of the clan  as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season  s harvest with his antics  br    br   the problem arises in the fact that the ants   harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper  kevin spacey   who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants  when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone  they go insane  for lack of a better term  hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack  s hands  however  it  s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil  the cogs and clockwork in flik  s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame  and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony  s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers  br    br   if you think about it  a bug  s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line  s of akira kurosawa  s classic seven samurai  or the american remake the magnificent seven  in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies    one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city  finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil  in a bug  s life  the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl  br    br   much amusement comes out of these scenes  and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs  among them are an erudite stick insect  david hyde pierce   a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who  s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug  dennis hopper   it  s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen  as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen  as is the entire movie collectively  br    br   as i  ve said  much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another  which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines  wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie  what makes a bug  s life even better is that the film isn  t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be  although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film    the clich  d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we  d like  however  it  s easy to ignore this fault  and it  s incredulously easy to enjoy this film  br    br   although a bug  s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor  this is still a superb movie  and the start of something promising here  pixar have proved that they  re not just a one hit wonder  but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood  they raise the bar endlessly  and when someone always manages to top their standards  it  s only always by themselves  what more is there to say about a bug  s life other than  see it  it  s not quite the best which we  ve seen from the folks at emeryville  california  but this beats out the lot of its year    and i  ll be damned if this isn  t the best animated feature of       br    br                    what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel  i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original  this version is no different  i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever   anyway back to this version  it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style  it succeeds in both but high art it is nit  throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe   the direction was average and the editing abysmal  worse than the old quincy  deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents  the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project  although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had  its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved            my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger  it  s about andre  a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter  katharine heigl  on a vacation  hoping to get a little closer to her  but of course  nicole isn  t that easy to get along with  she just started puberty  i  m guessing  she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time  one day at the beach  nicole meets handsome ben  and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad  the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie  i would give my father the hero                 it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days  especially for television  considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes  not to mention lesbianism  this has been given superb treatment and direction  br    br   the sets and costumes are flawless  the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable  there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes  the protagonist is really a tragic figure  but not devoid of happiness  also  this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism  the characters are very human  it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay  not so with this  in tipping the velvet  the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means  br    br   the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past  and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts             i just don  t get some of the big premises of this episode   that miranda is so remarkable  and that there  s anything so ugly it would make you insane  someone here made the remark that maybe it  s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness  miranda is just a jerk  the episode is slow  inconsistent and way too talky  i also don  t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador   why doesn  t the federation just leave the damn medusans be  there  s one part i do like  when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience  overall  i love tos and even at its lamest  i  ll always tune in  this episode though   mmm  i wouldn  t purchase it except for a used copy under                this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone  on my list of favorite movies  mental list  mind  the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series  spirited away and fly away home  br    br   i can really relate to the main character jess  at the start of the movie she  s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls  she really sucks you into her life  i also certainly can  t fault any of the protagonist  s acting  or anyone else  s in the film  br    br   the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules  the movie is never boring  the romance is really cute and didn  t make me blush tooooo hard  one thing that really made it though was the indian factor  jess   parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else  the indian people are also hilarious  essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it  br    br   feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film  they  re funny  they  re refreshing and they make you feel good                 i know that you  ve already entered this in film festivals  or at least i think you have  i may just be making that up  but i think this should get   best animated short film   in every one  bravo  i can  t wait for the full film  i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations  but hear it now and accept it as the truth  kudos  my friend  okay  now i  m just trying to get ten lines of text    though i still mean it  and here comes yet another  shoe   and i cannot stop here yet  this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do  in fact  i  ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic   jason steele marathon    i do have a lot of those  br    br    r            this is probably the first entry in the   lance o  leary nurse keat   detective series  in subsequent o  leary films  he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee  br    br   a group of relatives  all played by well known character actors  gathers in an old house  on a rainy nite  of course   to speak to a wealthy relative  who goes into a coma  br    br   while they wait for him to recover  all sorts of mysterious goings on happen  including a couple of murders  br    br   a creepy film  worth seeing             this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs  evil plot and is all about action  what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated  it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around  her movements were done so well  why don  t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days  it  s quite effective  br    br   fire and ice  in it  s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women  was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways  her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy  some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy  others  including plenty of women  will adore it  s esthetic quality  i for sure did not mind  bakshi just loves animating lushious  voluptuous babes  as can also be seen in cool world  and i don  t think he has to apoligize since it  s pretty much animation for adults  but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it  br    br   this one was just special  so different from the standard disney or anime fare  and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it  s possibly bakshi  s finest  for those who like animations with lushious women  try space adventure cobra as well  br    br   i give fire and ice   out of                my ratings  acting        suspense        character attachment        plot        character development        overall        br    br   this show sucks very much officially  for me  csi miami is the best  csi ny  nd and csi    th  i don  t know  in the other csis you get into the episode you  re watching  but in this one  you just can  t get into the episode  no matter how much you try  so in my opinion  this show is not worth watching  i know people have different opinions  and i respect that  but for me  this csi ain  t good enough  so if you like suspense  real acting performance  good plot  direction  character development attachment and you an overall good show  i suggest you to watch csi miami             i am not a faulkner fan  which is considered sacrilegious  especially since i grew up near the author  s hometown   however  i think this is an excellent movie  on par with the quality of the movie   to kill a mocking bird    if you haven  t seen it  buy it anyway  it  s well worth having in your permanent collection  tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series  i wish they  d play it more often  very moving  br    br   on a side note  the folks from oxford  mississippi  will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the       s  the courthouse  city hall  etc   they  re all on screen  i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings  when i saw the arch in the front of city hall  i began to get suspicious  look closely at the pennants on chick  s wall  you  ll see two for ole miss              chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films  the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect  but fails painfully on all other fronts  the actors all play extremely silly caricatures  you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny  the plot is predictable  and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow  towards the end  the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films  including shabby larger than life special effects and a  well  yet another  ghost with a godzilla head  maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp  br    br   it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with   in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula  they won  t be able to do it again  the cash cow is now dead as a dodo             i can  t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton  and sure it  s his company  but   you  re fired   or   you  re hired    for how many seasons now  after watching the show i wouldn  t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve  br    br   i  d love to hear just one person get up and say   donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo    i see he  s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe  i hope he gets hurt so i don  t have to see his pathetic face anymore  it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it  i  d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a   and it doesn  t deserve that             if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme    style  i would never have rented it  nevertheless  i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot  i lasted a very  very  very long forty minutes before giving up  it  s just boring  pretentious twaddle  br    br   the last french movie i saw was   romance   and it too was pretty dismal  but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time  i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme    overseas    it  ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy   it  s called dogme    because that  s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera   br    br               the story and the show were good  but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies  ri  chard is great  he really put on a top notch performance  and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous  seriously  i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile  i can  t say anything bad about peter galleghar  he  s one of my favorite actors  i love anne rice  i  m currently reading the vampire chronicles  but i  m glad i saw the movie before reading the book  this is a little too  real   for me  i prefer lestat and louis  s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves  eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me  i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show   sorry for the ambiguity  but i don  t want to give anything away  sorry  but it  s just not my type of show             first  let me just comment on what i liked about the movie  the special effects were fantastic  and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game  there  that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film  in fact  i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can  t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing   br    br   i have innumerable complaints about the film  but four major complaints jump to mind  my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the   plot twist    if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away  where lois  s   year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman  when the crying super child throws a piano at lex  s henchman to save his mother  i almost got up and left the theater  singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child  it  s been   days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit   br    br   my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space  it doesn  t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what  s wrong with that  i don  t know how many comic books brian singer has read  but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet  whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again  the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun  why not just have superman eat kryptonite  he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it  and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas  that  s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground   br    br   my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie  i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior  jor el wasn  t all wise  he was just a scientist  and he didn  t send his son to earth to be a savior  he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode  i  ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode  and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ  s primary weakness  furthermore  the   crucifixion   scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite   spear   just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i  m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future  they might as well rename this movie   superman returns  the passion of the christ    br    br   and speaking of luthor  my last major complaint has to do with singer  s depiction of lex luthor  lex luthor is a shrewd  cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president  which he does in the comics  than try to destroy the world  the man wants money and power  he wants to be in charge  not wreck everything  yet the luthor we see superman returns  as well as all the previous superman movies  is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world  if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the  quite awful  previous superman movies  this film might not be such an unbearable travesty  maybe singer  s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from     s tv show  zam  whap  pow   br    br   to summarize  i don  t know what i hate more  the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews  everyone is entitled to their opinion  but if you don  t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong  i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven  t already  don  t see it  don  t buy it when it comes out on dvd  don  t rent it   basically don  t contribute any money towards it in any way  this movie does not deserve to make any money  in fact  i think that for every person that sees this movie  bryan singer should be fined    billion dollars  if you  re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie  just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you  ll get the same experience without having to waste   hours of your time             this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever  i have heard the merman cast album  the angela lansbury album  i have seen tyne daly live  and i  ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times  i think bette is if not the best  then tied with the best  she captures not just the bravura  but also the pathos of mama rose  i was never a natalie wood fan  so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb  in what is arguably her best role  everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful  the three strippers  led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top  there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back  with cher  but i think bette would be the best bet  pun intended  for auntie mame             i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad  it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference  no porn  br    br   the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul  maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable  at the very least  the pacing should have been picked up  br    br   while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had  he should have spent more time on the story or better yet  get someone else to write it  many of the action scenes were just pointless  br    br   it was a complete waste of my time             is it a perfect movie  no  it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space  naked beauties and the british army efficiency  br    br   when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may  actually  if it weren  t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie  i probably wouldn  t have rated it so high  but given her sheer magnificence  i am now actually considering voting it up  br    br   lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now  imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story  but with completely over the top performances  i still enjoyed the movie tremendously  as well as mathilda may   but it was a mixture of nostalgia  comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended  br    br   bottom line  if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie  oh  and did i mention mathilda may is young  beautiful and naked             overall i was rather impressed with the pilot  the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying  as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle  br    br   bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism  existentialism  reality  death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext  there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose  here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed  i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows  which deal with the subjects i referenced  i think you will find at least something here  br    br   in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way  i especially liked how they explained where the cylon  s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers  br    br   the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays   lacy rand    while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually  together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry  at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters  but this is something i think needs work  i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role  this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop  but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident  br    br   based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where   caprica   goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did             i  m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season  from the b grade to the hollywood  but this movie was something different  i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable  but some bits were just weird  well the acting wasn  t to good  compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz  quite good  and ice t in new jack and svu  great   the scene where corrupt  ice t  kills the wanna be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude  this kills the jamaican  however ice t is unharmed  very similar to ice  s other movie urban menace  which stars both of these actors  were snoops character is supernatural  however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon  when mj  silkk  gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood  and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird  benny isn  t introduced in this movie and the scene isn  t in the film  it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head  wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn  t mention what happen   other main characters mj and lisa  the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film  even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times  and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed  not wearing a helmet  and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him  the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team  it was ok tho  but me being from poverty i love hood films  however if u don  t love em like i do don  t watch it  only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with     dollars  and my love of the genre  br    br   nathaniel purez            i am a huge fan of the farcry game  huge fan  it still holds a place in my top    games list of all time  the story line was new  fresh    a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on    or so i thought    br    br   farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise  see doom  the movie  and many more      br    br   the video game begins as the player  jack carver  awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier  jack then finds a communication device where  harlan doyle  guides him across islands  shipwrecks  jungles  installations and volcanoes  to find his  lady friend    valerie constantine   all the wile battling mutated super soldiers  and genetically enhanced animals  br    br   the movie plays out very  very differently     there  s a needless    mins      of the movie  of   backstory   before we even get to the   boat blowing up   scene     jack then walks onto the beach  kills some goons  then drives off    nothing like the game       there is no communicator with doyle on the other end       the   modified soldiers   look like albinos with singlets on    and there was no mutated   monkey like   creatures jumping out of the bushes  a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot       there is no sun filled beach scenes  no aircraft carrier  no communications stations on huge cliffs  little reference to any in game contents  characters items vehicles   in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all     the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building     there  s an ending scene    where everyone  except krieger  live happily ever after    what the  br    br   i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs  if you are a gamer  you will hate this movie will all your soul  it is a movie clearly intended for males  so girls  stay away    so if your a male        years of age  have never played farcry  and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema    then this is for you               one of the best ensemble acted films i  ve ever seen  there isn  t much to the plot  but the acting  incredible  you see the characters change ever so subtly  undr the influence of the rented villa in italy  and love  and happiness  the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you  much as the villa does on all the women  truly   enchanted               i haven  t seen this movie in about   years  but it still haunts me   br    br   when asked about my favorite films  this is the one that i seem to always mention first  there are certain films  works of art like this film    dark city    and   breaking the waves    that seem to touch a place within you  a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive  that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer  not unlike a life changing event  such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend    this film   shook   me when i first saw it  it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days             today  i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood  br    br   hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation      changed everything  it changed our perception of security  it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity  most importantly and devastatingly   it changed our world  br    br   however  i can  t not stress how utterly repulsed  disillusioned  and angry i am at the careless  blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction  this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike  most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press  hollywood has sunk to a new low  even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty  behind it all is uwe boll  i am very angry at this movie  how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost  how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy      how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post     world       how   dare   they   br    br   to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty  i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength  remember  think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person  think back to that day  ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day  think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones  think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes  think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks  br    br   ask yourself if you have a soul  br    br   think  remember  respect the memories of the lives lost on     by not seeing this film at all             you cannot deny that we have an affinity for speed  that  s why movies like fast and the furious  dhoom  rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences  especially local ones  we live on a tiny island  and i cannot fathom why  for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system  most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with      tax when they reach our shores  and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one  not only that  the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear  lest they reach the sea  br    br   and these movies are relatively easy to make  hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic  for once  those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long  can  t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these  of course there are amongst us  ahem  those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects  otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models  and movies such as these cannot do without a leggy model in a frame   however  they don  t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen  even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park  the guy sitting beside me  i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s  appear  and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans  br    br   so there we have it  the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie  with the fast and the furious franchise  the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage  as does the gt  here  the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification  that even i  m impressed  alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos  porshe carerra gts  koenigsegg ccxs  and every car out there that has wings for doors  but seriously  my heart goes out to the cars each time they  re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment  i mean  this are perfectly fine  high performance models that are at the apex of motoring  but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow  they do so because they can  br    br   there  s no story in redline  just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties  the cars that is  that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible  and with the usual shots of pedals  always the accelerator  mind you  tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy  and earn you no respect   steering wheels  gear shifts  always shifting up and not down   all these while having the actors make pretend that they  re the baddest asses with an engine  snarling and giving each other dirty looks  not a very tall order for an actor  and that  s why we get the most woeful performances ever  with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids  br    br   the heroine  yes  it made a statement that girls can drive  natasha  a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin  is one of those million dollar finds   a girl with model looks who don  t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil  who has racing pedigree within her  and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable  every line had to do with cars  and when singing about love  just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts  lubricants and going for rides   introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous  eddie griffin   she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran  and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle  everything else  well like i said  just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race  br    br   and it  s almost always the same  as there  s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars  especially when you know the race is rigged  for narrative reasons  and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line  while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors  and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker  sun kang  and of course  the star it created   vin diesel  redline had none  just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately  it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go  with a very insipid opening sequence where it  s one man  one car  and a     minutes race against time to get to vegas  br    br   if not for the cars  then this movie seriously is a piece of junk  with bad acting  bad lines and bad action  strictly for the car fans  or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines             im the type of person who always goes   to horror section when i  m picking a film  so i picked five across the eyes  i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish  i think i could of done better myself  i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch  i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul             seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene  but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt  bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds  when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel  gets into his mustang  which is parked under the embarcadero freeway  now torn down  and notices the charger sitting nearbye  you know you are about to see something spectacular  from that moment on  when mcqueen starts that car  begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed  adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track  this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing  that shot of mcqueen  s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman  s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact  hickman  s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect  then of course  san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends  also  bullitt being filmed in the   s when cars were still   hot    mustang gt and dodge charger  made for a better set of wheels then two boring  smog device laden pontiacs in the     s seven ups  bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies  i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper  they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene  seven ups had a few   jumps   over little hills   yawn  but of course they were not san francisco hills  the seven ups chase  where they are actually going fast  is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt  but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity  strictly hollywood  i would say  except that it was filmed in new york             have you ever heard the saying that people   telegraph their intentions    well in this movie  the characters   actions do more than telegraph future plans    they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head  this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better  or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced  embeth davidtz  s character is not mysterious  just wooden  and kenneth branagh doesn  t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have  br    br   the bottom line  obvious plot  one note performances  unlikeable characters  and grotesque   southern   accents employed by british actors               night of the living homeless   was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season     obviously a parody of various zombie movies  most notably dawn of the dead  this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead  as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains  br    br   kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he  out of the goodness of his heart  gives a     to a homeless man in front of his house  more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park  until the town is completely overrun with them  this is a very strong randy marsh episode  as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center  but before randy makes it to the community center  he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming   i don  t have any change     unfortunately  the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless  when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town  and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people  then he becomes one of them  asking everyone for change  br    br   the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park  and find a man who is a director of homeless studies  they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless  so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem  unfortunately  homeless people break into the man  s house  and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself  however  he fails several times  as he shoots himself in the jaw  in the eye  in the chest  in the neck  in the shoulder  screaming horribly until he finally dies  this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in   fantastic easter special   two weeks ago  br    br   meanwhile  a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem  the property values have nosedived  thus the bank has foreclosed on his house  making him homeless  randy immediately turns on him  holding the gun to the man  s head  when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out  randy pulls the trigger  br    br   in evergreen  the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park  and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country  the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica  california  br    br   the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable                   br    br   i  m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into  but this movie is not a horror movie  as for the story  it was fairly interesting  but rather slow  i was especially disappointed with the ending though  br    br     spoiler   br    br   tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle  s    home without at least calling the detective or the police first  she knows exactly what  s going on at that point  plus she has a video tape as proof  instead  she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying   i know everything  i have proof  you didn  t expect proof  did you     then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he  s going to harm her  well duh  of course he  s going to harm you idiot  you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything  what a dumb ending            i gave this a    there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for  total mayhem  everyone gets killed or nearly so  i am tired of cross hairs and changing views  i cannot give the plot away  convoluted and insane  if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back  i wish reviews were more honest           not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline  this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special                  i read the book before seeing the movie  and the film is one of the best adaptations out there  very true and faithful to the book  sean penn and sarandon are amazing  robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire  he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth  an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end             docteur petiot  starring michel serrault  is a brutal story about a brutal man  a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france  even if their ability to compensate is not there  yet  he preys on the weakest amidst the populace  the imagery and cinematography are superb  and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story  he is the perfect psychopath  seductive and altruistic  intelligent and caring  calculating and murderous  a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer  kudos to mr  serrault  for his chilling portrayal             i just got this video used and i was watching it last night  the acting started out extremely bad  hey      hey      twister  but got very good soon after wards  the tornadoes looked extremely fake  and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy  but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done  and just about on par with movies like twister  the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too  the story was very well written  and it  s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old   disaster formulas   movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for    years  br    br   while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality  this merits an a in my book             this film is really vile  it plays on the urban paranoia of the   s   s and puts it into a school context  i  m not saying that urban crime wasn  t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren  t aren  t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit  violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it  s not a case of social issues but a white  upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol  and of course he knows how to play the system  does that sound familiar  yes  this turd is pure violent exploitation  a really nasty piece of work  it  s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment  this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator  death wish     and so on and so on  the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this             what a horrible  horrible film  the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time  not that i saw much  i left the theatre screaming after about    minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves  meryl streep was awful as usual  how many hurt and tortured expressions can   person have  aidan quinn  s talents were   as so often   totally wasted  and who told gloria estefan she could act  trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes   brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school   the kids weren  t even cute  just written in to suit the appalling script  aaargh  wes craven really made me cringe for once  real horror this one             motocrossed was fun  but it wasn  t that great  i guess i just didn  t understand a lot of the motocross racing   lingo    and there was a lot of that in the film   the plot wasn  t what i expected from the disney channel previews  so that could account for some of my disappointment             sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood  now he wants to broaden his horizons and    spoiler    needs a family member in order to do it  br    br   a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain  t scary at all  works better as a dark  macabre black comedy  to tell you the truth  freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer   too many wisecracks  that  s for sure   the actors aren  t interesting  save robert englund  as always  and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto  and there are simply far too many visual effects  the finale is ok but doesn  t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope  br    br   in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer  s story  it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before  br    br   there are cameos worth noting  a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value  an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper  and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become  br    br   film debut of breckin meyer  who plays spencer  br    br   one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits  br    br                   ok  i  m italian but there aren  t so many italian film like this  i think that the plot is very good for     of the film but the final is too simple  too predictable  but it  s the only little mistake  the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack  i  d like very much the lighting work on it  the best thing on it is a great  great actor  you know  if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance  but it  s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo  yes  someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it  s too slow  it  s so boring  so many silences  but i think that this components its fantastic  its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl  the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani  olivia and the old mysterious man toni  one of my favorite italian films             if you only see one ernest movie in your life  make it this one  this is by far the best in the series  with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages  the other   ernest   flicks were good too  but most people tend to get tired of him quickly  not me  however    br    br   in this movie  ernest p  whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case  the murderer  nash  just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest  mr  nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him  and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer  br    br   a great flick  if you haven  t already seen it  watch it             an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful  so  no new story lines here  however  the authors managed to create a stupid  disgusting film  if you enjoy watching kids vomiting  or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife  s teeth out in a bloody horror type  go see  or rent  the film  if not  move on to something else  my fair lady  anyone              the first cube movie was an art movie  it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented  and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn  t understand  it was  on the non literal level  a   man vs  cruel nature   plot  where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end  triumphing to face a new  indefinable world beyond man  s petty squabbles  a world where there were no more struggle  but peace  i rated cube a    out of     and it  s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels  br    br   the second movie  hypercube was a massive disappointment  some of the ideas were kind of cool  but in the context of the original movie  both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning  still  for being fairly entertaining  i rated it a   out of     br    br   the third movie  cube zero  while ignoring the second  plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first  sans the symbolism  there is no   homage   or   tribute   here  there is only ripping off  the same kind of plot  with some elements idiotically altered  like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes   an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say   br    br   that we see something from   behind the scenes   means nothing  because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment  the architects of which we hear nothing of  and  in this movie  those who get through to the exit  like kazan did at the end of the first movie  are just killed   where the  bleep  is the sense in that   that  s just flippin   stupid  i  m glad i didn  t pay to see this  br    br   the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad  but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of   out of                i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience  in other words   the creators planed to make comedy not drama  howsoever  at the end i realized that mr  tony giglio was earnest about this movie  it  s a pity because  the dialogue is ridiculous  the acting is poor and lifeless  the story is a fishy tale  poor ryan phillippe   despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance  what to say for jason statham   lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction    for this reasons i vote                  i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully  me thinks he  the lady  doth protest too much  the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself  he sites profane literature  writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible  a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible  anyone can skew data   prove anything they like but it doesn  t make it true  customs change  word definitions change over time  look at english   german where it is very obviously a common root  nothing stays the same  it  s always growing and changing  the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i  ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research  in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics  these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped   the mean of the entire verse changes  writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces  without punctuation  without paragraphs   without numeric verses  these writings look like one long word   the translators added all of the above  for example how would you read this  godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here  same string of letters two entirely different meanings  this is why many biblical researchers use a   lexicon   to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic  greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written  it  s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn  t exist  in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty  talk about ego  putting soapbox away  god bless maegi              i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry      val br    br   mike nelson made me watch this   he mentioned it in his book    movie megacheese    i asked myself    why would mike nelson steer me wrong    i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson  br    br   the music is by john williams  which is probably part of his payment to the devil  in fact  i  m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol   slewfoot  or is now cursed  from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio  don  t watch   for the love of god   don  t watch    not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you   i  m doomed now  i understand this  i accept this  but save yourself               this movie was flippin awful    i wanted those hours of my life back  for god  s sake   stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs  its not worth mentioning the title  but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this  and where do i begin  the dumb a   kids in the movie     the zero plot or story    the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping  or the very bad acted  teen angst innuendo           my god  it never ended      i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor  then sit through this one again  br    br   but what do you expect  most people with the brain power to look up reviews  are not going to be the target audience here at all  so go see pirites   again  or the jet lee one   if your debating to yourself  look  this movie will just cost you your soul  your money  your energy  and your brain cells  heed the warning             this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it  it has lot  s of laughs  guns  action  crime   good one liners  and a decent plot  with an over the top  donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain  tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too  thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character   max   a dea agent diane is the fbi agent  played by carerra  and john lithgow from frazier on tv  plays the bad guy     livingston    the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies  throw into the mix the assassain sutherland  who pretty much has all the good one liners  this is the perfect crime caper  there is the usual love story   but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith  you also have the russian mafia  italian mafia  and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix   the film is shot in boston   where you have some great shots   and locals   great photography and music in this film  this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy   it has everything that one could ever want  check out sutherland  s toilet in a particular scene   very unusual  this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard    plus for me             if you like to see animals being skinned alive  their heads smashed  dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them  then this one is for you  but if you are somewhat normal  and don  t need to see real footage of animal cruelty  pass this one up  this movie tries to shock the viewer  and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning  and the killing of babies in the movie  fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i  ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage  btk movie  and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up  and special effects  so we shouldn  t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals  its not what we rented the movie for if anything  there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it  as a very hardcore horror fan  this one turned my stomach  the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked             another spanish movie about the      civil war  this time we  re told about the story of carol  lovely played by d  butant clara lago   a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york  it is such an initiating trip  and soon she  ll find about the injustices of the human race  their stupid fights and conflicts  their contradictions  br    br   imanol uribe makes his best film since   d  xadas contados          with such a sober pulse  a beautiful photography  and a nice script  he tries not to take part in the conflict  he just shows us some facts and let us decide  ok  the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in  and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple  clara lago and juan jos   ballesta  br    br   a well cared production  br    br   my rate                  a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed  one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods  this is simply not true  prior to the construction of interstate     which bypasses the ocean view area  the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view  once the interstate was completed  ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime  this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park  which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg  meanwhile  in the past few years  the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing  br    br   it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film   rollercoaster    this is also untrue  footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film  but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to   death of ocean view park    br    br   as to the film itself  the storyline of a   supernatural   force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly  but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time  with the cast involved  there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors  i don  t believe this film was intended to be another   citizen kane    i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into  apparently not    a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table  but proved unmanageable in execution  the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway    let  s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise     br    br   for the casual movie viewer  this would be a   see once and forget about it   film  except for diana canova fans   but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park  this movie is like a   walk down memory lane   for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk  the first   harborfest    and old dominion university  even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome             i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan  s role of sarkar  but am disappointed  being a ram gopal verma  s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie  sarkar is supposed to be a strong character  but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his  there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead  the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan  not his son  amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things  the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father             a trio of buddies  sergeants all in the british army  carouse   brawl their way across imperial india  intensely loyal to each other  they meet their greatest   most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult   its demented  implacable guru  now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment  the water carrier gunga din  to save scores of the queen  s soldiers from certain massacre  br    br   based more on the three musketeers than kipling  s classic poem  this is a wonderful adventure epic   a worthy entry in hollywood  s golden year of       filled with suspense   humor  while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum  it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the  sentimental  conclusion  br    br   it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars  cary grant  victor mclaglen   douglas fairbanks jr   as they are really all thirds of a single organism   inseparable and  to all intents   purposes  indistinguishable  however  this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time  br    br    it  s interesting to note  parenthetically  that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career  fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two   mostly in clandestine affairs   earning himself no fewer than   honorary knighthoods after the conflict  while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence  keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers   br    br   the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe  heartbreaking in the title role  he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity   enormous courage  making the last line of kipling  s poem ring true  he is unforgettable  br    br   montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major  whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru  the rest of the cast  joan fontaine  robert coote  lumsden hare  are effective but have little to do  movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine  s father  br    br   the film picks its villains well  the demonic thuggee cult  worshipers of the hideous  blood soaked kali  hindu goddess of destruction  was the bane of indian life for   centuries  ritualistically strangling up to        victims a year  in      the british military  in cooperation with a number of princely states  succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion  henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels   nightmares             this movie pretty much sucked  i  m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible  if your in the military and you see this movie you  ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad  it was ridiculous  they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do  it was a pretty gory movie i  d have to say the least  there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump  i  d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent  gory movie  it will be a better movie also if your not in the military  i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one            if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie  this movie is not funny  this is the worst parody movie ever  this is a poor attempt of parody films  br    br   the cast is bad  the film is bad  this is one of the worst pictures ever made  br    br   i do not recommend plump fiction  i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino  this is one of the worst parody films ever made  br    br   plump fiction is not a good movie  it is not funny  it is so dumb and vulgar            i went to see   passion of mind   because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances  i e    sliding doors      me  myself  i    etc   br    br   but this was the worst one i  ve ever seen  i had to force myself to sit through it  i didn  t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me  br    br   the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains  though each was kind of sexy and appealing  br    br   there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives  with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex  maybe the magic shouldn  t be explained for this genre to work  br    br    originally written                       i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies  i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted  to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot  the most suspense  surprises  most emotional  especially the ending  and definitely the most episodic movie  i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving  was not as episodic  and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie  br    br   it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole  i have heard many strange reasons such as  a  because yoda died b  because bobba fett died c  because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d  because darth vader was revealed br    br   i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely  first off  who cares if bobba fett died    if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die  don  t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas   intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be  his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie    you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett  s name    judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think    secondly  many fans did not like yoda dying  sure  it was a momentous period in the movie  i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic  all the good guys can  t stay alive in a realistic movie  you know  otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon  another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda  s death   well  nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope   many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy  why was obi wan  s death okay but yoda  s not    hmmmmmmmmmmmm     another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible  that is utterly ridiculous   i can not believe this one   first off  the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there  if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage   since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage  they had swinging vines  ropes  logs set up to trip those walkers  and other traps  the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest  the only thing they had was their blasters  to add  it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves  they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest  i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros  the band of rebels  as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain  that would have been a great upset  lastly  if this scene was still unbelievable to you   how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo  chewbacca  and the princess  being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view   and not only that  the heroes   of course  always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters  the troopers must have very  very bad aim then  at least in empire strikes back  the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not   heroes against a legion of stormtroopers  don  t believe me  check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando  s base  or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at  somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star  br    br   the last reason that i care to discuss  others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here   is that people did not like darth vader being revealed  well  in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie  luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father  annakin skywalker  it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father  s face because it made it complete  by annakin  s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side  in his helmet  and to the good person he was annakin skywalker  by removing the helmet   the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about  in fact  that  s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke  s father   isn  t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet  br    br   on another note  i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse  even if it is better  that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves  i never go into a film with that deception in mind  i always try to go into a film with the attitude that   well  it might be better or worse that the original    but i can not know for sure   let  s see    that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was  br    br   i am not sure who criticizes these movies but  i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me  except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite  that it is rotj  i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading  br    br   bottom line  the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy  this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its     minutes  there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful  exciting  surprising  or all of the above  for example  the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day    br    br   finally  i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky  insignificant details  or see it as   just another sequel    to trash the movie such as   this movie stinks because luke is not in it    then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately  br    br               crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because  unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman  s agreement  which it beat to theatres by a few months  it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying   it  s because i  m jewish  isn  t it    it  s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical  somewhat shamefully  the brief featurette on the warners   dvd doesn  t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one  but it  s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish  there  s little doubt in sam levene  s performance that the character is in fact also gay    not a mincing caricature  but there  s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper  s confused soldier  there  s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is  even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows  the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable  but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point  the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy  br    br   there  s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix  you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry   but the atmosphere is pure rko noir  set over one long sweltering night  the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style  it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors  and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script  a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum  robert young  s maigret like detective  gloria grahame  s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer  a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties  but the lasting impression is of robert ryan  s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row  a big surprise hit in       as a reward  dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac  which itself had a notable tendency to target jews  so much for crusading              this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved  it  s always interesting to see the story from the   other   side for a change  this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad  russia  where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought  br    br   it  s interesting to see the other side of this battle  since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the   villains    in this movie those   villains   are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you  re fighting against  at first it  s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german  s are the evil villains  but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care  and be interested in them  br    br   the way this story is told isn  t however the best  it  s hard to keep track of the story at times  as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other  the movie isn  t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague  it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who  it doesn  t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand  there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one  just not the most coherent one around  in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies  br    br   the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations  though the movie wasn  t even shot in russia itself  it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere  br    br   the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic  but i don  t know  for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism  it also helps that they  re being played by well cast actors  all of the actors aren  t the best known actors around  thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor  but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality  br    br   all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look  due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values  br    br                   so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert  s book   i hated  hated  hated this movie   and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review   mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor    so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was  i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert  s review of rob reiner  s   north   where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review  here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don  t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well  but above all the other things that were awful about this   movie   i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all  while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss  s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits  but after that first   or   minutes the other    minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for    seconds then someone gets shot  then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill  haha  not funny  then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra  s   my way   sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss  of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die  are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny  i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny  not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss  who i admire much as an actor  for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that   independence day   was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history  did goldblum feel that   independence day   would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if   independence day   were a bomb  what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this  the opening sequence of   mad dog time   says that the movie is set on another planet  i only wish now that i have wasted    minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of    minutes out of my life that i will never get back  ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid  every copy of   mad dog time   should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire  i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it  s honor as the worst movie ever             what a boring film  to sum it all up  its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor  while she tried to flee from the village  with her son  can someone say boring    the concept wasn  t too bad  but it was poorly executed  the canadian locales  and some of the village scenes were nicely shot  however  overall the cinematography came up short  the story could have been great  but the movie just seemed to drag on  there is only so much stupidity a person can take  let alone three bloody hours of it  br    br   the best part of the whole movie was the song   ishq kamina    and that was only five minutes long  other than that  this movie was a piece of crap              rant start  i didn  t want to believe them at first  but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill  after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie   gwoemul    aka   the host    of        which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre   successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic  even though their budgets  mainly spent on special effects  have become more and more fantastic  do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill  which their industry has built up since the      break out film   shiri swiri    by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did   rant end  br    br   the only   reason   i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean  east asian styled dragon i have seen to date  for the final scenes  now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the        dragonheart    the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons  remember   dungeons   dragons   in       hasn  t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use  but how well you use it  i hope there are more  and better  korean legends they can use  because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one  br    br   in short  i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem   arirang   being played at the very end  as a creature feature  i would have given it at least   stars out of    if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it  but i  ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting  just less dragons              as a native chinese  i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a   better world    i said   better world   because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years   br    br   i guess most western audience may don  t know qin shihuang means the first emperor   the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china  the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king  means   the land and the people    spoken from his mouth is totally lie  from then on  one after another  all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said  br    br   another fact is  qin shihuang  s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people  br    br   well  i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie  but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant             this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power  henry fonda  randolph scott  nancy kelly  henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles  it also had technicolor  one of the few movies made with it in       br    br   now the bad news       regrettably  i can  t say much positive for the story  it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light    and hollywood has done that ever since  why these criminals are always shown to be the   good guys   is beyond me  this film glamorizes them and made their enemies   the railroad people   into vicious human beings  the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous  well  that  s the film world for you  evil is good  good is bad  br    br   hey hollywood  here  s a news flash   the james boys were criminals  really   look it up             i remember watching this series avidly  every saturday evening  it was the highlight of the week  i loved everything about it  the location  the costumes  the actors and the wonderful music by clannad  i still have their legend album   i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin  this time the earl of huntingdon  i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times  another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors  i  m sure robin and his men would have young  after all people didn  t live that long in those days  other robins always look too old  kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin  s granddad   the only sad thing was the ending  it  s a shame they couldn  t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending             i don  t normally write reviews  but this   film   was special  i couldn  t turn it off  i don  t believe i  ve ever seen a worse movie  but there i sat  watching  it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway  it was disgusting  but i couldn  t turn away  where do i start  the movie seems to think it  s a sports thriller  but it  s so utterly ridiculous  it can only be a comedy  but it  s not funny  not even in a dumb silly way  it  s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers  it  s painful to watch  but at least it  s only for a minute or two  second string went on for over an hour   br    br   whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again  the writing  directing  acting  and everything was just terrible  the problem is i can  t describe how bad it was  you just had to see it  and i  m sure this will never be shown again  so unless you saw it  you  re out of luck  i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other   bad   film i  ve seen over my lifetime  and for every film i see in the future that i can  t stand  i will think to myself  well  at least it wasn  t bad as the second string             few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability  br    br    no  too many are focused on john lassiter  s   amazing   ability to steal other movies plots  turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius       but i digress   br    br   miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues  usually ecologically themed   and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance  still  miyazaki  almost  never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies  children  br    br   that said  i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability  where else are you going to have a film where a three year old  my nephew link  will sit still throughout the move  enthralled  a   year old  my niece amber  loving it all her own  and able to appreciate the   star power   of frankie jonas and noah cyrus  a    year old  my nephew aaron  who  s review was   of course it was good  everything miyazaki san does is good     a    year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation  er  that would be me   and a    year old woman  my mother  able to connect with the mother characters  and i  m betting the older charas too  and loving the   cuteness   of the child characters  br    br   and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san  he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker  on the surface    ponyo   could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there  a little boy names soske  somewhat like   the little mermaid     but there is an entire different level at play here  true to form  miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo  s mother  soske  s mother  the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed  br    br   but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself  once she decides that she likes the human world  she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams  her father is trying to keep her innocent  and keep her a magical fish  but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination   br    br   once human  she teams up with her friend  soske  whom she loves very much  although maybe not as much as ham   soske is asked to be the man of the house  at age five  when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human  frankie jonas  yes  he  s related to the jonas brothers  can we just get past that please   gives  perhaps  the best performance in the film as young soske  which is good since he has the most lines   his character is also strong willed  but also very respectful and friendly  characteristics you  re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific  br    br   in the end  ponyo  s father  fujimoto must cope with his daughter  s decision and his estranges wife  s wishes to allow her to be human  he hopes that ponyo and soske will   remember him fondly    and once again  miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical   bad guy    although miyazaki has  for some reason  received some criticism for this  it is  honestly  what makes his movies magical and yet relatable  no one in real life is completely a   bad person    all humans are various shades of gray  and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters   br    br   and then there  s the animation itself  in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film  especially the water  miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever  certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means  but every film in this was hand drawn and i  for one  was extremely grateful for that  the character animation was extremely fluid  and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on  quite unusual for an anime film   the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience  this is what animation used to look like  and what it should look like   br    br   in the end  i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable  certainly not miyazaki  s best  in my opinion  that honor is still held by kiki  s delivery service   but still a    star fun movie for the entire family             attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker  she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address  as expected  joe james russo   the attacker forces his way into marjorie  s home and subjects her to humiliating terror  bruised and bloody  marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker  knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat  hog tied and battered himself  joe tries to explain himself to marjorie  s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard  when they get home  there is almost a hint of mercy  but it is not coming from marjorie  should she continue to render her own punishment  violence  sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating  fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career  kudos to director robert m  young             i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it  people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance  i really hope norton did not do this  he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie  br    br   i found it entertaining  it wasn  t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects  but it was not a bad  it was fun to watch  but yea  definitely not a bad horrible movie  br    br                   i watched this movie on tv last night  hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease  i was disappointed  and i think the movie was garbage  it did not seem real to me  some of the acting was awful  in particular that of the doctor  she was about the worst i  ve seen  the whole thing played like a cnn   worst case scenario    even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn  t seem sincere  i have seen some disaster movies  in particular those weather ones  which are actually so bad they are amusing  this one is almost as bad  but it is not even amusing  it is tedious and boring don  t bother with this one             for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings  who love film  have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny  smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you  br    br   for those with a poor attention span  high expectations and no brains   well   um   you may get bored and find things dragging at times  br    br   this is a charming  modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles  i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through   br    br   this film is a little gem             the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in      and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most   movergoers   were stay at homes watching their new     motorola televisions  almost all recent box office figures are false     because they fail to adjust inflation  obviously today  s     movies will dominate  in      it cost   c to       at radio city    c to   c first run at loew  s palace in washington dc  or   c to   c in neighborhood runs  what counts is the number of people responding to the picture  not unadjusted box office   media spin    the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso  really not a great story anyway  and threw it in the trash  instead      of the movie  s focus was on the music  thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso  the result was a wonderful movie  too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating  too fat to play the student prince  edmund purdom took his place     with lanza  s voice dubbed in  and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising  if you want to see the great caruso  it  s almost always on ebay for       or less  don  t be put off by the low price  as it reflects only the easy availability of copies  not the quality of the movie             i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher  both have delivered less than memorable performances   films  while the underlying   general   storyline is somewhat familiar  this film was excellent  both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other  the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both  the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film  s most unforgettable emotional moment  the   specific   storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job   responsibility   to save lives at sea  the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and   wowing     i haven  t seen such angry seas since   the perfect storm    co star clancy brown  hbo  s   carnivale     great to see him again  played the captain of the coast guard  s kodiak  alaska base in a strong  convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins  the film wonderfully  and finally  gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard  it had the audience applauding at the end                i am not weapon expert  but even i can see difference between u s  army riffles in wwi and wwii  in movie we can see privates  armed with   m  garand    invented in year         not authentic        springfield    aka   silent death     who privates use until wwii  difference   m  can load     times more ammunition and   times more fire rate  m  was semi   automatic  springfield requires reloading after every shot  little difference      german army uniforms has borrowed from      year too  especially   helmets  german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top  we cannot see even one in movie  and if we make little additional search in archives   how much truthful is this   true story    i am surprised  how much   truthful   can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation             do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made  stop wondering  i  m telling you  michael is it  br    br   it is not   heartwarming      entertaining    or   travolta at his best    it just sucks  if i had kids  i would let them watch deep throat before michael  br    br   a sold out john travolta  a washed up and balding william hurt  and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film  br    br   but wait   you  ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing  yeah  hollywood really s  t all over us with this one             the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend  her aunt  edna may oliver  a person too talented for this film  didn  t like wheeler  a sentiment i can easily relate to  the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler  they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king  at about the same time  woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king  so when wheeler arrived  it was up to the boys to fight it out  but they refused because they are already friends  which greatly disappointed the people  as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime  br    br   i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood  the silent era through the     s  i have seen and reviewed hundreds  if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey  the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers  despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood  cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey   i can  t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better  for example  there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother  s film  duck soup  yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp  at times  woolsey talked a bit like groucho  but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny  in fact  he just seemed to prattle pointlessly  his only funny quality was that he looked goofy  surely not enough reason to put him on film  additionally  wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese  a piece of cheese that sang very poorly  a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as   who  s on first   which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing  in fact  soon after they started their spiel  they just ended the routine  so prematurely that you are left frustrated  i knew that   who  s on first   had been around for many years and used by many teams  but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist  br    br   once again  i have found yet another sub par film by this duo  while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly  such as silly billies and the rainmakers  which i actually gave    s to on imdb   this one was a major endurance test to complete  something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey  where was all the humor              i was really hoping that this would be a funny show  given all the hype and the clever preview clips  and talk about hype  i even heard an interview with the show  s creator on the bbc world today   a show that is broadcast all over the world  br    br   unfortunately  this show doesn  t even come close to delivering  all of the jokes are obvious   the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame   and they are not given any new treatment or twist  all of the characters are one dimensional  the acting is   well   mediocre  i  m being nice   it  s the classic cbc recipe   one that always fails  br    br   if you  re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters  and if you  re white you  d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted  ignorant  or both  not that making fun of white people is a problem   most of the better comedies are rooted in that  it  s only a problem when it isn  t funny   as in this show  br    br   canada is bursting with funny people   so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis  so how come the producers of this show couldn  t find any             first of all   mexican werewolf in texas   is not a werewolf movie  this title is bullcrap  the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas  i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something  and i guess it actually works because that  s the reason why i bought this piece of crap  it sounded so stupid  anyway the movie isn  t any good  actually it  s bloody awful  but i didn  t expect anything else when i bought it  it  s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster  if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog  actors and some gore then you should check into this movie  but i must warn you  this movie is really baaaaaaad  br    br   this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen  the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous  they almost never say a line in a normal way  they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say  it  s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody  it  s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it  the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo  she  s the worst of them all  i have never seen an actor as bad as her  and i  ve seen pteradactyl   even when her boyfriend dies she can  t stop being a bimbo about it  i hate her  br    br   some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good  the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project  but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark  the gore scenes are few and short  but really grizzly and violent  the effects are pretty hilarious really  but that  s the way i like it  the chupacabra looks pretty messed up  and it  s easy to see that it  s a guy in suit  br    br   overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it  s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death  i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer             this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch  i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room  but kept thinking  foolishly  that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right    you lose  we win  yay    this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny  after that  beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks  and if you  re even considering renting this turd  or worse yet  have   i have one thing to ask of you  didn  t you even look at the cover  i mean  with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is    oy vey    this movie sucked             the symbolic use of objects  form editing  the position of characters in the scene    these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had  the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses  the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger    while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards  in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken  even the title has a least four meanings that i can see  the boxing ring  the wedding ring  the bracelet the lover buys  and the love triangle at the heart of the story             i found this movie to be very good in all areas  the acting was brilliant from all characters  especially ms stone and morissey  tramell  s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute  the plot is interesting even though  this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels  the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece  go see this film now   it deserves better than what it got from the audience  which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started      you won  t regret it if you go see it               rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a   jollies   project for robert redford  as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine  br    br   the story is as light as powdered snow with redford  s small town boy david chappellet  what kind of lead name is that   who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory  gets up the nose of  in no particular order  his coach  father and team mates  women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of  heavens above  a free thinking  independent woman  played by camilla sparv  the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day  plus i  m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel  i couldn  t really be that excited for him one way or another  br    br   of the actors  redford  best profile forward  doesn  t need to do much and indeed doesn  t  while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material  ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he  s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way  br    br   in truth though  there  s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don  t fully compensate and you don  t care a fig for any of the leading characters  one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it             i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing  fun filled  thought provoking movie  the absence of sex  vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening  i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene  but that  s probably because i live a short distance from there  even so  this film could have been produced in any city  it  s the theme that  s so important here  i  m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us  try it   you  ll like it             this is an art film that was either made in      or       the national film preservation foundation says      and imdb says        regardless of the exact date  the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period  with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late   s early   s  br    br   the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks  these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort  this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art  and like most performance art  it  s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome  the film  to put it even more bluntly  is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film  their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and   with it   to be understood by us mortals             i read the book and saw the movie  both excellent  the movie is diamond among coals during this era  liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw  this film should have made them stars  shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film  it could have easily been a franchise  release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film  look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed  no matter how late  watch it  you won  t be disappointed  do yourself another favor   read the book  same title   it  ll blow you away  times have changed dramatically since those days  or at least we like to think they have             a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town  leading to all kinds of complications  cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can  t escape the title town  hopper does what he does best  playing a psycho known as   lyle from dallas    the real hit man  walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast  the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns  and john  s direction creates a terrific   neo noir   atmosphere  witty and very entertaining  it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up             i really liked this movie  i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best  i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris  sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers  but not in this movie  it is definitely worth renting             although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast  ice cream  i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity  br    br   the plot opens with the dream of ali  a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town  in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies  he dreams of playing in his product  s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis  dancing around him  as his dream turns into a nightmare  he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife  who rejects to make sex with him for   years with no apparent reason  is it because he is not successful in his job  apparently  because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies  but this is what he says  we actually don  t see him suffer that much  he still sells good  traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop  selling ice cream to the people in the town  ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real   sahlep    powdered roots of mountain orchids   ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor  and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect  his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business  they always quarrel  and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy  br    br   in a very successful day  his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town  in search of his stolen bike  ali goes to the police  blames the big companies for the theft  but  of course  nobody takes him seriously  annoyed by the nagging of his wife  ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk  one of his friends at his table  a wannabe socialist of the town  gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism  and with no real connection  jumps to the subject of global freezing  ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison  his wife wakes up and prevents him  an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life  according to him  ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing  when he returns home  suddenly we see that his wife understood his value  treating him like a hero and praising his manhood  meanwhile  the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream  they confess to the doctor that they stole ali  s bike  ali forgives them and there comes the happy end  br    br   although the plot may look promising in a way  it  s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy  first  the director doesn  t show much of an effort to tell the story visually  everything is based on dialogs  and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art  even ali  s troubles are not convincing because we don  t see it  we just understand it from his words  the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies  but there is nothing in the film about big companies  we don  t see their pressure enough  the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft  and when his motorbike is found  it solves every problem  ali becomes a happy and powerful husband  not a real criticism of globalism  br    br   second  the film is cheesy because of the crude humor  maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life  but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny  i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and   clever   but they are not clever jokes at all  they are just cheesy  maybe i  m wrong  maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor  but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars  or to have a political message  if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man  s big erection in his shorts  and we had to endure this joke twice   or an old villager woman saying   f  k you    then you may find this film funny             stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history  and deservedly so  so i am happy to see any of their films  ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital  and with nothing else to do  stan decides to visit him  and take him some boiled eggs and nuts  instead of candy  chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie  s leg cast string  and manages to push the doctor  billy gilbert  out the window  clinging on to it  getting ollie strung up to the ceiling  when the situation calms down  stan gets ollie  s clothes  as the doctor wants them both to leave  and he also manages to sit on a syringe  accidentally left by the nurse  filled with a sleeping drug  which comes into effect while he is driving  which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen  filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad  although repetitive and a little predictable  classic comedy  it isn  t great  but it  s a black and white film worth looking at  stan laurel and oliver hardy were number   on the comedians   comedian  okay             ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings  this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door  compared to datd the effects are vastly superior  however the plot is weak  the acting reminiscent of everyone  s favourite  the porn film  and the decisions and actions of the   characters   consistently verge on the moronic  i feel like trying out uwe boll  s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd   i am not suggesting that he is really the cure  more a case of a different disease  but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up  ok there it is  i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead               i was  unlike most of the reviewers  not born in the     s  i was born on may   th       despite this  my life was very much in the style of the     s  when other kids had playstations  i was playing zelda on my nes etc  now  this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only    years old at the time of writing this review  i  because of my     s style early childhood  watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn  t see  and this movie was one of those  and one of the greatest too  br    br   it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville  simon seville  theodore seville and david seville  david  the chipmunk  s adoptive father  is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe  his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack  while they are talking  alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world  even though  technically dave is only going to europe  so to alvin  apparently only america and europe qualify as     the world       david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller  much to the displeasure of the boys  soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller  later  at a local caf   the chipmunks are playing a game of     around the world in    days     against the chipettes brittany  jeanette and eleanore   after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile  alvin get  s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world  two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table  klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and  needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world  decide to fool the children into delivering them for them  they set up a race around the world  where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness  secretely filled with diamonds  at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team  s likeness  secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds  to     varify that they were there      the winning team would then receive a         dollar reward  they do this because they believe that jamal  an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now  would never suspect them because they are just kids  however  this seems to be redundant  because on their travels  the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls  i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally   and so begins a great adventure  this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it  it features great animation and top notch voice acting  not to mention the kick ass music  pardon my french  p   my favorite song is without a shred of doubt     the girls and boys of rock and roll     an amazing rock song that cannot be topped  it  s also my favorite moment in the film  other notable songs include     getting lucky     kind of suggestive for a kid  s film eh   and     my mother     as well as     wooly bully     and     off to see the world     not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra  the scene with     my mother     still brings a tear to my eye  in relation to the song     getting lucky     i first didn  t think anything of it  but when i grew older and learned about life  it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive  that song  along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties  this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince  s men  when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely  while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film  it  s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are   feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child  anyway  a bit after that scene  the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home  the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband  ross bagdasarian jr  know the characters better than anyone  they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes  ross doing the voices for alvin and simon  as well as dave  and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore  speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses  nancy cartwright  the voice of bart simpson  makes an appearance in this movie  she plays the part of the arabian prince  a very small  but important role  the ending is of course  a happy one  the crooks have been caught  the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children  dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset  alvin complaining about not having gotten his         dollar reward for winning the race  which annoys dave until he finally yells     alvin      and the screen fades to black br    br   classic ending  by the way  i hope you found my review of this movie useful  and if you haven  t seen this flick  give it a watch  it  s worth the money  this nostalgic classic from the     s gets a solid    out of      br    br       headin   for the top  don  t you know  we never stop believing now                just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a   bomb   rating  a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night  i feared the worst knowing its reputation  and it was as god awful as i  d anticipated  this is a mexican made mess  dubbed into english  and produced by k  gordon murray  it  s got terrible sets and effects  and features a rather frightening santa who doesn  t operate at the north pole  but instead from a cloud in outer space  and who doesn  t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is  the opening sequence  where st  nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages  seems to go on forever  and with no story  obviously  this santa claus doesn  t observe the child labor laws  br    br   eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth  just to make little kids naughty and turn santa  s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare  watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience  and it  s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever  oddly  the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film  which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on  this easily makes my personal list of the   worst movie i  ve ever seen    but i  m sure that  s nothing unique             as is often the case when you attempt to take a     plus page book and cram it into a two hour film  a lot is lost  here director john madden  shakespeare in love  takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off  what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete  br    br   there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic  the cinematography by john toll  cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall  winning oscars for both  is splendid  working with madden  the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful  madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople  giving the town an authentic feel  the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous  br    br   madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance  which take up the greater part of the film  there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment  however  by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold  there isn  t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated  while the battle scenes are well done  subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long  by the time we reach the post war scenes  the treatment is merely skeletal  another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features  br    br   nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight  when fight he must  cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas  br    br   penelope cruz  whom the camera loves  gives an uninspired performance as pelagia  in part this is because cage so dominates the screen  but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic  she allows the character to be objectified as corelli  s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right  br    br   john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor  who knows as much about human nature as medicine  however  christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia  s fianc    br    br   i rated this film an       despite some drawbacks  this is a touching film that is well worth seeing  the photography alone is worth the price of admission             my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie  passing them down in the family if you will   and i loved it  br    br   clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it  s up to superman to stop this mayhem  br    br   it  s just so wonderful and fun to view  the old style special effects and sound   the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology  george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid  and i  m    now  it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are            this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic  much much better than     of the scream rip offs out there  i even hope they come up with a sequel            i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan  a culture i know very little about  i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint  i watched this with someone who didn  t read the book and he also enjoyed it  they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film  it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over  you feel for the characters and their plights  i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture  there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch  it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime             years ago  sara  a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered  now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments  did i mention she has an imaginary friend   this film lulls the viewer  not into a sense of tension  mind you  but rather a sense of sleepiness  deathly boring  i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed   mystery    is sara going crazy  or is it the paranormal  a better question would be  who cares  and the answer to that  no one  no one at all  skip this film  save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks  br    br   my grade  d             in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included  if you don  t like burt you may still like this  if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time  being from atlanta it does hit home but it  s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city  chicago  miami  or la  the film is funny at points with   good plot   good performances from a great supporting cast  every character is real   the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the  nd half   it has some good old fashion shootouts   fistfights  no cgi thank god real action   br    br   if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with   every which way but loose       any which way you can   then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this    it comes off great             i have watched love jones over thirty times  it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans  the dialogue was realistically written  and delivered with honesty  it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans  this is virtually an untapped market  love jones was visually captivating as well  the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love  the feeling of the film is jazz and blues  and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch  if you hadn  t guessed  i loved it             the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois  fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this  using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists  invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience  br    br   it  s really rather messy though  fellowes doesn  t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged  rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves  br    br   the dialogue is inconsistent  stagey here  vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich   landmine  though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can  t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces  there  s also a very prosaic  dare i say it british feel to the filming  i didn  t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation  i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story  br    br   finally it is  in fact  the story which lets the rest down  just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes  woven as a vehicle for character examination  wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby  s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing  br    br   i  m disappointed  not that it  s bad  but that it could have been much better                  this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched  at the age of    i was up late and ran across the movie  it was on the usa channel  gilbert godfrey  s up all night  i will never forget  at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues  some sexual  you know    is a very rough and weird age  it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl  and being a young lady  this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me  i now have a daughter that is     have been searching for a couple years for this movie  if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy  would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age             holes is an awesome movie  i love it a lot and it  s one of my favorite films  it  s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn  t cheesy  holes is generally a very cool motion picture  i wish disney would make more pictures like it  holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool  don  t get the wrong idea  i don  t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it  s stuff is aimed towards kids and that  s okay  children deserve to have their entertainment too  but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail  but not with holes  it  s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it  s corny  really  it  s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to  br    br   holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge  i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this             i cannot hate on the show  when the old  and better  tech tv had to hit the bricks  the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in    attack of the show   is the replacement for the screen savers  with   co hosts in the beginning  they were kevin rose  kevin pereira and sarah lane  brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well  but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show  kevin rose decided to leave the show  and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host  but that didn  t pan out for some reason  br    br   eventually  i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard  sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because  hey  this is what i read  the two got married  that was a big secret to me  now there is a new female co host  the not as hot  my opinion  olivia munn  she  s hiding something in those tops she wears  while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn  t afraid to show it  br    br   ahem  sorry  br    br     attack of the show   deals with everything young people want to know about  it  s music  movies  comic books  the internet and television  this is what  s great about the show  if you don  t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv  you can get all you want on aots  some segments and bits they do are funny  they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry  as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names  br    br   even though the hosts aren  t as geek as i  d like them to be  i still have found   attack of the show   to be entertaining  even with its latest lineup             worst dcom i have seen  ever  well  maybe not as bad as smart house  this was just bad  the acting and story was fine  but the effects sucked  br    br   they were so fake  the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen  that was probably the only scene in which i was excited  br    br   overall  i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly   br    br   i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene  br    br                   its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people                      a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn  t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities     and also i didn  t know that an indian can cross the march  s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier  s were sleeping                     some people may call   cooley high   the same sort of thing as   american graffiti    but i wouldn  t  for starters  in   ag    everyone was white  whereas in   ch   they  re all black  moreover  this one has a motown soundtrack  specifically  the movie focuses on several working class african american students in      chicago and their antics  the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships  in their apartments  we see that there  s never any dad around  but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest  br    br   one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible  worrying about missing school  two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene  and the one white guy in the movie  but overall  the main star is the soundtrack  it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history  we even have it on vinyl here at home   a classic in the real sense of the word             so wonderful  so quirky  so romantic  so italian  the film is so feather  light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again  a kitchen sink world of bakeries  and hairdressers  and plumbing  but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence  should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction  take your pick    they  re both faultless  let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass             this film is  quite simply  brilliant  the cinematography is good  the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking  this is the story of donald woods  a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid  kevin kline is completely convincing   so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later  i recognised him from kline  s portrayal  denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance  as ever  br    br   i urge you to watch this  it is long  but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story  remember  folks  this really happened             i have recently seen this production on dvd  it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in      and it was just as good as i remembered  at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then   i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then  but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been  i am a bit of a   jane eyre   purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one  i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on  reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly   br    br   all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way  some even leave out the   rivers   family and their connection to jane altogether  i also think this is the only production to include the   gypsy   scene done correctly  br    br   the casting is perfect  zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book   small plain and dark   and i disagree that she looked too old  timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester  portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off  i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time  like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted  his expression is fantastically frightening  but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another  a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable  oh to be loved by a man like that  there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however  like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things  i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks   br    br   finally if you never see another production of jane eyre   you simply most see this one it is simply perfection             in a time of bad  if not plain awful  comedies  king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air  it  s a complete oxygen tank  it is in my opinion one of the   best comedy shows of all times  nothing has been this good since married with children  kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses  and believe me  it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius  these guys truly understand what is funny  i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn  t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once  other funny people in this show are carrie  janet heffernan  spence and doug pruzan  carrie  s boss   i  m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem  the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers  check it out if you haven  t              prey  br    br   aspect ratio         br    br   sound format  mono br    br   a lesbian couple  sally faulkner and glory annan  living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man  barry stokes  who turns out to be a flesh eating alien  the vanguard of a massive invasion    br    br   despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing  norman j  warren  s follow up to satan  s slave        amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts  thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff  apparently  his only writing credit   faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside  rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v  browne  s eye catching cinematography   though annan  s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one  or both  of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed  which may explain the absence of their respective families  some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and   left   under mysterious circumstances  stokes   unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray  partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him  creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence  there  s an extraordinary  multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to   emasculate   their clueless visitor by dressing him in women  s clothing  though stokes   alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery  br    br   in the early scenes  at least  the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity  but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude  culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner  the closing sequences are  quite literally  gut wrenching  especially annan  s final scene  which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in      and never fully restored  what remains is still pretty vivid  so brace yourselves    excellent performances by the three leads  bolstered by warren  s unobtrusive direction  which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations  thereby compensating for the film  s budgetary shortcomings  originally released in the us as alien prey             the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland  winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants  both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead  michael gaffikin  james warwick  a former paratrooper in the british army  is the local dentist  he  s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson  celia imrie  is always being viewed with a little suspicion  not maliciously  but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin  the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman  he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro  ves  at the islands police station  inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp  dr goudry  for closer inspection  a quick search for the killer proves fruitless  as does a search for a missing local woman  over dinner that night with michael gaffikin  fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson  a woman from the mainland  who lives on the island through the winter months  a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body  her home proving to be the murder scene  but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods  suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island  one colonel howard  jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together  br    br   goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body  it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength  one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer  another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind  a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain  with a heavy fog rolling in  the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help  the radio also doesn  t work  seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut  reports of ufo  s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach  inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin  s idea that aliens might be involved  but a rise in radioactive levels on the island  has him doubting himself  br    br   the nightmare man is based on the novel  child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire  it is here adapted by dr who and blake  s   scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board  the nightmare man though is on the whole  a succinctly better crafted piece  that builds its plot alongside solid character development  even down to the minor characters  time is given to giving them all a firm background  the island setting is perhaps a genre clich   that has been used over and over  but its one that i enjoy very much  the remoteness  the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts  in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama  but credit to camfield  he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times  there is an authenticity about proceedings  the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point  if there is one negative about the killer its that  we are given his her its pov for the killings  an acceptable clich   on its own  but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens  it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little  still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer  given the clues presented  but it  s a fun and very well acted piece  the local scottish cast are exceptional  the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold  imrie  never one i  ve taken to in other works  is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production  the outlandish  maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers  it disappointed me in some ways  but taking into account when it was made  its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it  is even more terrifying             this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie    so if you haven  t seen either movie and want to but don  t want the spoilers  please don  t read this review  br    br   while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time  the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions  the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe  s christian and sarah michelle gellar  s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed  neither can pull off the smarmy  snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did  it  s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim    not so much between christian and kathryn  but if you listen closely enough you  ll recognize it  there are also inconsistencies in the plot   if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn  then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie  he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie  with reese witherspoon  s character   br    br   also  the tie in with the photography   you could be a model   comment at the end was totally lame and didn  t add anything at all  overall  this movie was a waste of time  i can  t believe they made a cruel intentions               this movie is ridiculous  it  s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible  the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it  s a comedy  truly is bad cinematography  you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there  s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they  re all inside jokes amongst themselves  this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad  it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway  unless you want to be bored out of your ass  i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie             in dramatising wilde  s novel  john osborne has condensed events  eliminated a number of characters  and generally implied rather than shown dorian  s essential wickedness  if you want a more explicit rendering  see the      film  wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame  but were certainly vastly different men and writers  this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson  s   dr  jekyll and mr  hyde    but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy  whereas rls took the scientific route  both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil  with evil winning in the end  br    br   the actors in this bbc movie  take a different route  too  from those in the      film  john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders  in his role really projecting wilde himself  but with a subtle difference  you  ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying  but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes  peter firth  too  shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion  but then we don  t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display  br    br   it  s a very good production  with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel  if not all of its ramifications             it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids  bully  etc  but then just as quickly  it unravels into a direction less mess  who is the main character  is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film  is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted  i have no clue  i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end  i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came  i cut a good    minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes  yes  it illustrates the changing landscape between the have  s have not  s  i got it way back in the beginning  kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends  wassup felt very staged  poorly constructed and ever worse acting  teenage caveman  which larry didn  t write but did direct  was terrible  but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn  t take itself seriously  wassup rockers was just plain bad             this is my first deepa mehta film  i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its   sita   character presented as nita  i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita  yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta  not her direction  the characters  big and small  were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end  somewhat like the end of mazursky  s   an unmarried woman    they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men  and one cardboard man  ashok  seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him   carrying his invalid mother biji  he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion   br    br   ms mehta seems to fumble as a director  however  compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant  as she cannot use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india  she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter  not her father   yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field  compare her to mrinal sen  adoor gopalakrishnan  muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants  given her competent canadian production team and financial resources  mehta  s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some  but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space  kannada  malayalam  and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers  br    br   ms das  ms azmi  mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding  ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors  mrinal sen  s   khandar    gautam ghose  s   paar    benegal  s   ankur    a brilliance notably absent in this film  ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability  all in all  the film  s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema  i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays             all the way though i was thinking to myself   oh god why    at the very beginning i thought   right it might be average    but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious  br    br   every part in it was so predictable  even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring  it was a half decent movie  but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible  some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves  eg  the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches  my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next  and more times than less i was right  br    br   why does going into the house make her come after you  it doesn  t make sense  it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings  and no really depth was seen at all  br    br   you can see everything coming  which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching  oh shes behind her     didn  t see that one coming  yawns   br    br   surely these people must have thought to    oh i don  t know  carry a knife round or at least try and fight back  instead of being eaten but someone hair  at best during the movie i was very mildly scared  and i mean mildly   i was just crying out for the credits  as they rolled i exhaled a short   oh thank god    if you haven  t already  don  t waste your   time and money on this  pointless  plot less  sorry excuse for a sequel             at       a high school student commits suicide  not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known  time skips back to the start of the day  from here we follow six separate students  marcus  melody  luke  steven  sarah and sean  each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas  all reaching boiling point  hitting to an end for one  br    br   after losing a friend to suicide  and surviving his own suicide attempt  writer director murali k  thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide  suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows       is thalluri  s attempt to bring it to light  if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has       becomes all the harder to view  br    br   with heavy and hard subject matter  thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis  s  sex  pregnancy  sexual identity  bullying  friendship  thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner  the factor on thalluri  s talent is his subtlety  he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime  it verges near documentary at times  it has such a painful realism  the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this  br    br        has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant  while the core of each film is different  both tackle teen life  like sant  thalluri utilizes long tracking shots  with time skipping back and forth  to show each characters interaction from different perspectives  a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance  with spare conversation  little development of characters  and the long tracking shots  sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread  while there resides this dread in       the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn  t reach  as time goes by  each characters fragility creeps out  dragging you along their emotional roller coaster  br    br   the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide  foretold at the very beginning  the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion  though many films that have shown suicide  gloss over the act or romanticizes the act  thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution  with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles  teresa palmereach  frank sweet  joel mackenzie  marni spillane  charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers  br    br   compelling and revetting       is an absolutely unmissable film             the quote above just about says it all for   slipstream    i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour  but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance  i won  t watch it again  so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich  d lines in the movie  i  m sure it will set a record  br    br   some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker  mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry  paxton  s character has hijacked hamill  s prisoner  an android taking his name from the poet byron  bob peck   tasker  hamill  shoots owens  paxton  with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski  kitty aldridge  can keep tabs on the pair  the real question though is why didn  t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman  br    br   if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense  then i suppose you  ll find something of interest here  but you can  t convince me that the film makes sense on any level  scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery  but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton  s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso  if anyone thinks there  s some hidden meaning here  you  re really stretching  br    br   patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming   the end   to come into view  alas  even that was denied  if beauty is in the eye of the beholder  then so is understanding  this movie had neither  yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run   an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons  apparently the film was keeping them afloat             director edward sedgwick  an old hand at visual comedy  successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting  employing a large number of roach  s reliable performers  although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly  sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins  a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood  where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves  star struck cecilia  rosina lawrence   sedgwick  who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set  does so here as cecilia  always ready for an audition  is treated by a would be paramour  cinema star rinaldo lopez  mischa auer   to behind the scenes action of  naturally  a musical comedy  featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti  laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes  including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica  and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton  russell hicks and walter long  on balance  one must hand the bays to mischa auer  who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star  a role which he largely creates  and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley  s filmic spectacles             the jokes are obvious  the gags are corny  and the characters are walking characatures   but i couldn  t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie  no matter how many times i see it  i still get a kick out of this one  and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment  it contains many quotable moments  and some of the best sight gags i  ve seen to this day  if you  ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle  rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start             these slasher pics are past their sell by date  but this one is good fun  br    br   the valentine cards themselves are witty  and well thought out  br    br   the film has one peach of a line      he  s no angel       when he in fact is angel    watching buffy reruns will never be the same  br    br   the cast is a sizzling display of young talent  but the story does not give them enough real depth  denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters  sorry but no  br    br   the direction is very good  managing to show very little actual gore  and relying on your imaginations implied threat  much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes       br    br   essentially  the main directorial plus  lies within the   borrowing   of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks  psycho  s shower scene is tributed  along with halloween  s   masking     br    br   murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know    br    br   light viewing  not very scary but a few good jump moments  if it was a choice between the hole and this though  choose the hole  slasher movies have had their day  and this is just another slasher  a very good slasher  but nothing groundbreaking               the only reason i gave this episode of   masters of horror   a   instead of a   is because the two lead actors are good  and it wasn  t shot on vhs  the story  the dialog  and the plot are ridiculous   br    br   talking   driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war  give me a break  what next  zombies who come back to go skydiving  maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows   br    br   i never supported the iraq war  but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces  and   homecoming   was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war   br    br   with zombies being mass produced in today  s market    this is the spam of zombie related entertainment  how   homecoming   made it onto   masters of horror   is beyond me             like most  i thought   another crocodile movie    so far we  ve had primeval and rogue in the last    months  what can they do that  s new  where both those films were about action and violence  this one  s about fear and tension  br    br   the performances aren  t oscar worthy when there  s nothing going on  but in times of distress or terror  these people suffer so much it  s like torture  there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don  t really behave like this as others have pointed out  but the fear is so effective it  s a stretch to say you  ll enjoy this movie  it  ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ             there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick  s abundance of clich  s throughout    and i agree completely  both with regard to the characters and the dialog  br    br   i  d read about elizabeth berkly  s awful performance in the equally awful   showgirls    which i  ve never seen   and her performance here  while not awful  is barely up to the standards of lifetime  s worse fare  there was not a hint of depth to her character  but then there probably shouldn  t have been  if so  it would have placed the film completely out of balance  since there wasn  t a hint of depth or charisma   not a trace   in any one character  performer  or portrayal  br    br   the principal  s handling of liz  s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable  her husband  s initial reaction and advice were likewise  forrest gump  attacking jenny  s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic  intelligent action  and  hell  he was mentally challenged   br    br   the smarmy  unctuous lawyer  excuse the redundancy  father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance  he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time  no mean feat  her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd  also not unknown in the profession  br    br   finally  and frankly  i rather enjoyed this part   the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs  that you  d rather depend upon barney fife  without andy  to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community  i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness  intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the   law and order   series    and the like    but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on   lifetime    br    br   finally  i found a kind of   story within a story   fascination with josh  s concoction of his being the   victim   of his teacher  this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story  this was something of an achievement  like going from   f   to   f minus    br    br   this whole lame situation should have been resolved   in real life   in about    minutes  following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities  with husband involved  but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following  and left an hour  s blank film in the camera   br    br   but the writer s  here  proved with their ending  they could do even worse  when the situation was finally   resolved   and   righted    this was accomplished in all of about    seconds  with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any   real world   context for the perpetrator and his parents  or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption  br    br   this one  s a    presentation  the second       because it does have some mild   fascination               if you haven  t seen this yet  you really should  on dvd  i can  t believe how much i enjoyed it  it is amazingly realistic and believable  true  much of it is speculated  and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts  there aren  t many of them   but it handles everything quite well with a   cruel mother nature   theme  it will remind you of the nature programs that you  ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel  only the animals here are dinosaurs  they act natural  they eat  kill  mate  play  and fight for survival  you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others  br    br   for the most part  the effects are excellent  at times they will look a little too much like cgi  s  but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic  in some cases  you will actually be convinced that you  ve seen a dinosaur  my favorites were the coelophysis  the raptors  the diplodocus  the iguanadons  the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds  i was most disappointed with the t rex  however  which looked a little too computer generated at times  br    br   in any case  you should definitely see this production  it is educational  well made  and very entertaining  for what it is  its an a             why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre  other then action  i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck  i just could not change the channel  it  s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower  its pretty telling that the cast imdb   credits   with this monstrosity apparently never worked again  br    br   bad acting  bad writing  bad narration  bad music  bad hair  bad cinematography  it just goes on and on  the movie really has nothing to recommend it  if you  re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out  there are a tonne of other films that won  t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards  br    br   i hope this film didn  t get money from the government for financing  otherwise i  m never paying taxes again             ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai  india  sadhu agashe is a hard working  hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison  his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers  imtiaz  becomes frustrated by sadhu  s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status  a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case  further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu  s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics  br    br   i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india  the camera work is excellent  the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds  the acting  pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood  sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director  shimit amin  has taken liberties with factual accounts  nevertheless  ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making             let  s keep it simple  my two kids were glued to this movie  it has its flaws from an adult perspective  but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it   br    br   and the pepsi girl was excellent  br    br   and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot  although she  s not in the film very much  so don  t get too excited there  br    br   not that  s it  s really a bad thing  but it is the kind of movie you watch just once  don  t buy the dvd  br    br   enjoy  br    br   did i mention kimberly williams   that was for the dads              it was   a m  in the morning and i had nothing else to do  don  t judge me    please  br    br   we  re back in time during the spanish settlements  a group have made their way onto an island  it doesn  t take too long before they encounter a large   reptile    which gobbles up their horse  soon they  re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the   reptile gods    the cg sucks  it reminds me of the cg of early console video games  the encounters were lame  the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit  otherwise it  s just a middling effort             lackawanna blues is and excellent movie  the casting was perfect  every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played  their chemistry together was amazing  the acting was superb  i felt as if i knew the characters  i could almost   feel   them  they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the     s and     s  oh  the memories   my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see  i have watched this movie so many times  that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them  i can  t even list my favorite part  because i have so many favorite parts  thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age   and that is black people loving each other  looking out for each other  respecting each other  caring about each other  and doing all we can to help each other  gotta go now  i have to go watch it again             saturday june        pm the neptune br    br   monday june        pm the neptune br    br   few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura  s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz   masterpiece iberia suite  at the approach of its centennial  saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland  the twelve   impressions   of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings  allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura  s camera  creative use of large flats and mirrors  moved throughout the set  combined with screens  shadows  fire  rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song  dance and instrumental performance  photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program  connecting the passion of the music to its great creator  saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors             as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich  d movies that hollywood makes  there seems to be no creativity in hollywood  companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in  br    br   this movie is a welcome change  it could be classified as romantic comedy for it  s genre but don  t let that turn you off this movie  this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces  br    br   if you are reading this  you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that  the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are   interstate      and   art of travel   which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage  br    br   this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same  br    br   dean            many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow  although the story line was rather typical of clara  s later silents  i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun  clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves   never mind that this man is married  clara  s lack of modesty was shocking in the day  but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie  though definitely not a brilliant story line  quite typical  actually   this movie is a nice showcase of clara  s ability to make the audience laugh             as the number of video nasties i  ve yet to see dwindles  this little pile of garbage popped up on my   to rent   list when i saw it was available  br    br   the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots  some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip  though if he returns with the girl and all the money  he gets a significant cut  he  s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and  wow  that pilot is one of the worst actors ever  granted  they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood  after stealing away into the jungle  we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour  now  this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever  ping pong balls for eyes and that  s pretty much it  his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack  and i found myself muting much of those scenes  br    br   oh  did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity  this is probably the main reason this film was banned  though there is one specific scene  about one second long  where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out  but it  s not a redeeming factor for gore fans  also  jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals  and  sadly  male as well  so  if you want   fair   in terms of exploitation  you got it  br    br   i can  t recommend this trash to anyone  it  s not even the good bad movie  it  s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then  if you are making your way through the list  leave this for the very last  if you watch it first  you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list  which is certainly not true             i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case  judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun  but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on  david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent  judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a   should have gave it a    i gave it an extra star just because david keith  s gun was cool             i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it  game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film  he failed thank god  br    br   the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won  t like her because she  s ugly  the film is just bad for so many reasons  the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits  ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit  those two scenes made me cringe  janeane  s character is sickeningly arrogant  and guessing from her role as stand up   comedienne   and arch feminist is in real life too   she claims that the film is   anti feminist   when in fact it  s just realistic  men more often than not go for looks over personality  it  s interesting to note her hypocrisy too  she  d been a feminist and   comedienne   for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad  i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film  i mean come on  she acted in it for heaven  s sake  what this film was really was anti men if anything  it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman  s character noelle  br    br   there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin  s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure  is that the best the script writers could come up with  blimey they  ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made  there  s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is  the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn  t ugly but is actually beautiful  erm was i watching the same film as they were  she  s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one  although having said that  i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well  she  s lanky and gaunt looking  br    br   i guarantee three things about this film if you  ve never watched it  br    br   you will know what the ending will be  br    br   you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and  br    br   you will be bored after ten minutes  br    br   watch at your own peril            this movie has everything typical horror movies lack  although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers  the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla  dare i say oscar winner  this is a perfect date movie  i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person            having just seen walt disney  s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube  i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks  the colors  compared to the earlier black and white  are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one  s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short  it does get a little repetitious near the end  still  skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony             the cast of this film contain some of new zealander  s better actors  many of who i have seen in fabulous roles  this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them  the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong  as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry  decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot  most of the cast appear to be from the  great  long running new zealand soap shortland street  it  s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party  the result of too many gins  and possibly a bit of salmonella  imagine   under siege   meets   the love boat    staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea  br    br   if you are an actor  i recommend you see this film  as a study on how to destroy your carer             emily watson and tom wilkinson together   what a treat  with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue  yet at the heart of it all  each character maintains a streak of decency   moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions    contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life    how true these words are  watson  s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue   she  s the central conscience that the other three latched on  she is the decency undeterred   br    br   the circumstances of lies are to each its own  one to defend one  s professional name  one to hold back due to family partner pressure  one simply don  t want to face the consequence  one ironically can  t believe the truth and lies to save friendship  these are all precarious situations  there lies the intrigue   fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies  contradictions  indeed  in spite of the seeming dishonor  decency and heart remain strong   br    br   the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity  it  s not sensational or complex as another film   where the truth lies         credits due to fellowes   writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson  there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies  beneath it all  human frailty not excluded  they meant well  and following along with the story  the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning  s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship   br    br   you might say there  s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in   separate lies    yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention  the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts  a veteran to the merchant ivory films  and music by stanislas syrewicz  with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner  of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski  s trois couleurs  especially  bleu        this is a british film you just might not want to miss   br    br   emily watson  anne  the wife   breaking the waves      debut  hilary and jackie       the luzhin defence       gosford park       punch drunk love  red dragon  equilibrium in        br    br   tom wilkinson  james  the husband   the full monty       the governess  rush hour  as villain  in       in the bedroom       normal  hbo cable movie        eternal sunshine of the spotless mind       recently as father moore in  the exorcism of emily rose      opposite laura linney   br    br   rupert everett  bill   he is simply delightful in   my best friend  s wedding        opposite julia roberts and marvelous in   an ideal husband        d  oliver parker  an oscar wilde play  recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr  watson  in pbs mystery  sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings      tv   br    br   linda bassett  maggie   she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in   east is east                    i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film  the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com  this film is awful  the plot is extremely lazy  it is not scary either  people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it  this film is more like dark water  except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it  i was extremely disappointed with this film  it didn  t scare me nor interest me either  let  s face it   this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g  the dead trying to contact the living   dragonfly  what lies beneath  ghost story  dark water  darkness  the changeling etc etc  it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans  the films that are coming out of hollywood  like this  are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer  they  re just being churned out            angela  sandra bullock  is a computer expert but  being shy and somewhat of a recluse  she does all of her work from the confines of her condo  just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico  a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it  angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash  angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her  while she is sunning on the beach  a terrific looking gentleman named jack  jeremy northam  makes overtures to her  she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel  however  jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it  even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa  jack makes things difficult  he changes angela  s identity on every computer across the nation  making her lose her condo  her bank account  everything  can angela  a computer whiz  beat jack at his own game  this very exciting movie has many assets  first  bullock and northam are two very beautiful  interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation  the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today  s world  the costumes  sets  production  and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful  and  despite how it sounds  there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy  if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence  this is a great choice  it delivers twists and turns with great frequency  making it possible for the viewer to   net   a very good evening of entertainment             i rented the dvd in a video store  as an alternative to reading the report  but it  s pretty much just more terror tainment  br    br   while the film may present some info from the report in the drama  you  re taking the word of the producers   there  s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film  not one  br    br   the acting  all around  is pretty bad   pretty much all of the stereotypes of   hot shot   bitchy foul mouthed government agents  each thinking they know more than everyone else  there may be some truth to it  but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it  br    br   imdb  s user community ratings   comments tend to be more right than wrong  and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can  br    br   i wish i had on this one             look  this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies  but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie  she is smokin   hot and a great little actress to boot  these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson  nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film  my friends bob  bill and dennis agree   lisa is not only brilliant  she is a hottie  the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard  but as soon as lisa hits the screen  things really start hopping  the others are clearly not in her league  this is not the exorcist but as i said  if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress  this is the one to see             it wasn  t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making   this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things   a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic   you know when you  ve been painting a wall until you  re completely bored   well that  s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they  re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner  br    br   the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it   you can  t really blame them since there  s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks   though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair   modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents  br    br   after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed   and no that  s not praise   we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can  t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them   this is what i don  t get   even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they  re charging towards a gaping ravine   isn  t this somewhat illogical   it  s also something of a revealing error since the horses   chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures  br    br   anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory   but who needs moshe dayan   arik sharon or god when you  ve got an idiotic enemy who can  t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall              i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn  t help myself  i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b   which is unique among allen  s work  along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson  scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop  s most enjoyable aspect  the plot revolves around johanson  s character  a journalism student  who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave  she falls in love with a suspected serial killer  jackman  and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding  oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen  br    br   i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson  s performance but i am a bit bias  i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted  she plays a ditsy  yappy  bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen  s stereotypical neurosis stricken character  she adds appropriate body language for comic effect  needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson  s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus  br    br   allen is allen    he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character  something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however  he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late    br    br   jackman is also enjoyable as the suave  millionaire murder suspect  i cannot say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less  br    br   in terms of the plot i cannot help but feel that this is fresh    in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion  johanson and allen are more detective like than anything  however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film  instead of everything being black and white  things are painted in shades of gray  being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt  though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners  i did find his allusions to his last film interesting    come for the humor  laugh and be merry  br    br   needless to say if you enjoy allen  s work watch it  if not watch something else               i rented this film because of my interest in american history  and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons  this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his   vision   into a major world religion  it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo  illinois  it portrays the trial of joseph smith  within the course of that trial  brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism  and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith  then smith is assassinated  and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land  despite his grave doubts  he perseveres  and finally has a vision  that utah is the place for his colony  that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership  later  as crops are destroyed by crickets  he again doubts that he has truly been chosen  however  a miracle occurs  which cements his place in history  br    br   i found the performances to be moving  and the story to be convincing and interesting  i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal  polygamy is a part of the story  but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised  the issue is not emphasized  br    br   i  m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter  but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout                   s   frightmare   is an odd little film  the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic     s     s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding     s slasher genre  it isn  t totally successful  mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints  and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors  but it still has its moments  mostly due to the classy performance  classier than the movie deserves  by the late german actor ferdinand mayne  who plays an aging old time horror movie star  ala vincent price  named   conrad ratzoff    at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he  s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol   conrad is a bit of a hoity toity  prima donna jerk off  just when you think he couldn  t be any more un likable  the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death  nice  huh  conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club  unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die  still feisty even at death  s door  he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself  conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket  which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects  br    br   it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad  s grave an after hours visit  breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party   not exactly my idea of fun  but hey  these are characters in an     s horror film  logic has no place here   the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad  s body seated in a place of honor  posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it  before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic  planning to return him to his crypt in the morning  in the meantime  mrs  ratzoff  distraught over the theft of her husband  s body  has called in a psychic friend to try and   reach   conrad through a seance  you can pretty much figure out the rest from here  since conrad wasn  t a very nice guy in life  it  s not much of a stretch to assume that he won  t be any friendlier in death  psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion  then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students   ridiculously huge house  picking off the young grave robbers one by one  this is where the movie falls apart  endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying   hello  is anyone there    are intercut with occasional bursts of violence  we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene  which is the highlight of the movie  before the last two survivors finally figure out  way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing   but again  we  re in an     s horror film   that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad  s body back to its crypt where it belongs  the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder  moans and groans  howls  etc   that becomes severely annoying after a while  br    br   i can  t really recommend   frightmare   to anyone who didn  t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the     s    modern horror   fans will doubtlessly find   frightmare   incredibly slow moving and goofy  if you came of age in that magical decade  however  you may get a blast of nostalgia from   frightmare    fans of jeffrey    re animator    combs may also want to check it out  as the future dr  west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students  br    br   i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label  paired with roy ward  s   vault of horror   and sold at dollar stores  because the print quality is terrible  i  m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma  which seems appropriate  if you  re a troma kind of person then   frightmare   will be right up your alley             people watch movies for a variety of different reasons  this movie didn  t have the big budget  there  s no special effects  no car chases and there  s no explosions  actually reality doesn  t have much of these either  at least not in my life   br    br   this is a very real movie about very real people  none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos  i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology  since i  m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain  br    br   so watch this movie for the characters  it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk   br    br   within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden  s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie  excellent acting  very believable   br    br   henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his   harvey   and kiefer  s   mickey   enhances the oppositeness of their characters  br    br   i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady    mrs ramsay    i  m sure she and my mother in law are good friends    br    br   there  s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them             i think that you can not imagine how these people really work      before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there  i actually thought quite the same as you do  but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do  i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long  that really is no easy work  and also the actors  which in your eyes may be terribly bad  are really great people and a lot of them really can act  i don  t think that the material given to them can really show that  as i think this material isn  t very good  but they are truly good  so i don  t think that you  before you haven  t seen these guys doing there work  can judge over them  and i shouldn  t have judged over them as well before i met them  but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it  so please  do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven  t seen them doing there job             as usual  i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven  t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars  i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley  i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has  there is no story   a group of guys meander around iraq  one day they are here diffusing a bomb  tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside  by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire  no wait here they are back in bagdad  there is no cohesive story at all  the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures  by that i mean  we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying  we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe  and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn  t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds  what do you think is going to happen    well  do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn  t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways   why yes  do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy  why yes  there is no story here  the script is juvenile and predictable  the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look   artsy    and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture  go rent   full metal jacket      deerhunter   or   platoon    don  t waste time or money on this boring movie             a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere  one had a flat tire  the other  s jeep mysteriously won  t start   one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him  when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend  they come across nice mr  slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down  hermit like house  which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins  he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the   girls in the house  before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack  he warns them about   davy    his brother who is lurking about and isn  t all there  of course  one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again  is it slaussen  is it davy  the mannequins   tourist trap has the usual horror requirements  jiggly big boobed girl  goody two shoes girl  curiosity getting the better of people and never working out    but it stands apart from the rest of the     s genre in it  s twist of an ending  i started to feel sorry for slaussen  chuck conners is a terrific  creepy  over the top performance at a point in the film  and you almost see the character of molly doing the same  this is a gem if you can find it  i had taped it off of cable when i was younger  and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced  but well worth it  fans of tanya roberts won  t be disappointed either  best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup  and crackers    br    br   i gave it a   because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain             most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they  re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments    tommy boy   is a character right from   snl     a big fat lovable  in their opinion  goof who doesn  t know anything  br    br   david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role  he  s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy  s business  br    br   the plot  for starters  is really faulty  the whole premise   daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz   can be traced back to just about any movie you want  like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation   empty  shallow  just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be   funny   together  br    br   the movie  s biggest   influence   is the      comedy classic   planes  trains   automobiles    that movie is great because the plot isn  t stale and recycled  it  s basic  yeah   a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob  but it  s real  dammit  it makes all the difference  the characters are real  the situations are far more real    tommy boy   is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters   we feel nothing for them  and we don  t care about what  s happening on screen    pta   walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able     tommy boy   is simply absurd  with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn  t dead  then awakens and wrecks their car  br    br   the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from   pta   and it  s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie  br    br   farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable   i  ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn  t changed my mind  spade  s given very little to do  serving as the movie  s most thankless character  br    br   dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy  s business  the ending is a joke  and not in a   har har funny   way  more like a   oh god are they serious     way  br    br   some people dig it  that  s cool  but i just can  t get into it  nor do i appreciate all the stuff it   borrows   from   not just counting   pt a     without any credit whatsoever             having read during many years about how great this film was  how it established ruiz among the french critics  specially the snobbish cahiers crowd   when i finally watched it about a year ago  i found it pretty disappointing  but then  i guess my expectations were sky high   shot in saturated black and white  this deliberately cerebral film  made for tv  and mercifully  only an hour long  is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings  which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants  and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime   the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument   borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie  but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film             many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare  however  every so often a movie might come along thats honest  funny  entertaining and memorable  the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients  this film follows three friends  gary  rick and david   the big apple    misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love  along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship  we follow hopeless romantic gary  the main character  on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it  s ending  if you haven  t been lucky enough to see this movie yet  by all means take a look   sprinkled with many memorable   s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace  l a v  truly is an original film  a rarity among films of it  s genre             i loved this show from it  s first airing  and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week  the plot  characters  writing  special affects were outstanding  then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining  well written show  i say bring it back  i know all of the actors would come back  i would suggest buying the dvd  s  i am  i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments  and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers  i only watch one show on that channel now   ghost hunters   but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too             i didn  t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much  don  t get my wrong its not a bad short film  tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film  you can tell that it has been an act of love for her  the acting  outside of dominic  is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good  there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on  though i don  t feel it greatly detracts for one  s ability to understand the film  if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do  i say go for it  the gag reel was fun  i won  t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over  if you like the film then check out the pink mirror  a film also done by jagged edge  i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven             did the first travesty actually make money  this is another sequel  along the lines of another stakeout  that no one asked for  but we  ve received it anyway  the sequel is like its predecessor  completely brain dead  it  s also pretty disgusting  remember the dinner scene   to think i almost felt sorry for ritter  yasbeck  and warden  did they need the money that much             i was never so bored in my life  hours of pretentious  self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems  it  s like watching lizards molt  even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy  if you have insomnia  rent this             this movie is awesome on so many levels    and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on  br    br   just remember this  when you  re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies    be they good or bad    this is the formula that they are using  this is what makes zombie movies so great  br    br   and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie  a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know  br    br   all in all  it doesn  t linger  there  s never a point where you think to yourself   c  mon  get on with it      it moves quick and corners nicely  this is the sporty  little italian number of zombie flicks  br    br   so awful  it  s wonderful  if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek    rent it  buy it  love it  br    br   as a great trivia note  if you  re watching it on dvd  you  ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen  underneath the musical score    well    that  s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer    which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop             the ladies man is laugh out loud funny  with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes  including the funniest love song ever written   br    br   ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role  br    br   tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you  ll find in any comedy out there  br    br   it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every   months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round  br    br   i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre         and i urge you to vote   br    br   and remember kids    theres more motion in the ocean              when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess        but when i saw the first    minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn  t just be a solid movie  almost everything in this movie is great  the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot  br    br   the only thing that really let me down are the performances  emily blunt the devil wears prada  is the star of the film  bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance  rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt  paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him  jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable  br    br   to me the film feels like unfinished  maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script  i don  t know but that  s how i feel about the movie  br    br   but overall it  s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt             a flying saucer manned  literally  by a crew of about    male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some    years ago on a   forbidden planet    what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth  a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman  and her father  a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in  br    br   on the surface  this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery  some compare it to shakespeare  s tempest  but this is a stretch  and  in some ways  an insult to the scifi genre  stripped of what makes it a scifi film  sure  its the tempest  but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about   br    br   underneath  this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use  yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek  br    br   anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful  the special effects  and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable  if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of     s sci fi props  you might think you were watching a     s piece  br    br   this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call     s sci fi  and  though not  in my opinion  the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects  the clever plot  now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek  lost in space  and even farscape  is worth paying attention to  and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans  trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek  s original series aired about    years later  though they may find themselves disappointed by the  relatively mild      s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration  while i do not mean to nitpick  the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it   br    br   some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young  good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles  unfortunately  nielsen  s performance is only average  and at times down right poor  especially at the climax of the film   walter pigeon  though quite excellent in other films  over acts his role as well  ms francis  earl holliman  and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd  though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job  the problems with the featured performances  i think  are as much the fault of the director and the editor  as anything  though they certainly got most of the film quite right             i just saw this film on dvd last night  and decided to check out the reviews this morning  it seems that   i  robot   has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb  and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling  too   br    br   i find this somewhat surprising  as this film is not great  or even good   but neither is it terrible  or even really bad   what this film really is  is   depressing  depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid  clich  d re heats  and acclaim them as spectacular new works  this film as   retread   written all over it  from the plot line  an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action  to smith  s character  a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium   to the special effects  that borrowed from matrix and a few others   br    br     i  robot   is  sadly  quite possibly the perfect action movie for today  s audience  superficial plot  insipidly snappy dialog  and lots and lots of adrenaline  smith is mediocre  but we already knew that  he seems to be hollywood  s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis   the story has lots of holes in it  of all sizes  but i don  t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice  perhaps a blockbuster by today  s standards  but very b movie compared to true winners             this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects  just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century  br    br   this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people  not white  black  etc  br    br   good movie with a good message             i have bought the complete season of surface  watched it in   days  i was so captured by the the plot  theories and basically everything about this show  the actor who plays miles is great  mile  s sister  mother and father acted like real life family would  you could connect on so many levels it  s fascinating  br    br   i find animals are so wonderful  you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child  it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists  br    br   am sadden  that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows  i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book  br    br   love the show very much  for those who haven  t watched surface  if you like sci fi you need to watch this                         this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen  br    br   i have to disagree with another commenter  who said the special effects were okay  i found them pretty bad  it just wasn  t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story  br    br   maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story  the archaeologists are looking for   the set    they do not bother to tell what set  or what is so special about it  that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california  while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt  br    br   if you  re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert  take the effort to actually go to the desert  the beginning   the ancient ceremony   looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert  br    br   the action level was constant throughout the movie  no ups and downs  no climax  it made the movie look short  and that  s certainly a pro for this particular movie             liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early   th century  he is a true actor  he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles  jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary  mary is such a beautiful woman  it  s her love that makes rob roy the legend  but it  s his passion that makes her love undying  they need each other  tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect  in one way or another  upon watching the movie  you will find cunningham disgusting  the scotland scenery is beautiful  the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well  if you like history  romance  passion and love  you  ll enjoy rob roy  there is violence and blood  but it  s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told  no gratuitous violence  and you do have to listen carefully if you  re not used to a scottish accent  one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized  they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes  it  s their skill as actors that attracts you  they don  t rely on marquee names  popularity or sex symbol appeal  this is something special             when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world  she has beautiful and charming body  when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body    i think male have hard to resist    i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes  at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said  the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content  emotions aren  t conveyed properly  i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity  in my view  tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai  in some of her scenes  she looks a bit lusty  which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed  i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes  i  m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai    can  t help it  sorry for that    raincoat   was a good movie by rituparno ghosh  and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat  i was not at all impressed           they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it  the bad acting isn t enough    the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists  i love the original from      so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead  because this one is such a bore            having seen carlo lizzani  s documentary on luchino visconti  i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low  but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied    i faced a need for critical opinion  which i generally don  t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer  there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally  but when i read the reviews already written on this title  i also felt a bit confused  people sometimes don  t know what to criticize  therefore  to be clear  i  ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably  the former one about visconti before his director  s career and latter one about visconti the director   br    br   the aristocratic background  all the hobbies  the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented  his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents   divorce  we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano  in riches galore  with nannies  cooks with access to everything  in true aristocracy  for instance  his father  s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that  there is also an emphasis on visconti  s crucial visit in paris in the     s where he met eminent people    left wingers    who later had impact on his style and message in art  that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing  a contrast at first sight    br    br   however  the part about his director  s career  which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director  s death in       is poorly executed  his movies are not discussed well  why  because there are very few people who really have something to say  franco zeffirelli  the director  remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right  there are also some interviews with franco rosi  but later  such movies like il gattopardo  la caduta dei rei  la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger  although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig  i did not like the interviews of his  moreover  some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary    there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece  there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster  a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made  there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit  franco zeffirelli  though i appreciate him as a director  makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious  for instance  he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service  therefore  i say  simplified and unsatisfactory   br    br   what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself  as a result  we may get his own opinion about his works  for instance  i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself  he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig  br    br   i believe it is better to see luchino visconti        by carlo lizzani than this doc  although it is shorter and condensed as a whole  you will get a better idea of the director  visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people  s emotions and viewpoints into stone                    time is precious  this film isn  t  i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time  br    br   the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction  is this the film the critics are raving about  what a piece of crap  br    br   the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family  get it  br    br   the acting is superb  br    br   the production  lighting  sets  editing  sound  is about   steps above a    minutes story  the characters are shallow and unintelligent  i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience  the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next  br    br   i have had more fun doing the laundry             worst  movie  ever made  ever  i have no words to say about it   other then it truly had no point  no plot  no    anything  sheer crap    i don  t know how everyone in the movie didn  t shoot them shelves after watching it                      i love vampire flicks and mysteries  and alternate abstract outside the box films  and     this was non of those  i mean what the crap    i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don  t know  and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it    bottom line   i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs  thats the only thing i got from this film  please don  t watch this    i mean for a    sultry sensual vampire flick   there wasn  t even the to be expected nudity you  d get from a vamp flick  anyway back to my point     this movie blows  go set yourself on fire instead                      savage island        is a lame movie  it  s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting  not only that the storyline and script was wretched  i don  t know why this movie was made  i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry  this one made my blood boil  the situations were inane at best  if i made a movie like this it would have been a short  really because those backwood   idjits   wouldn  t have been in the picture  br    br   don  t be fooled by the cover on the d v d  i am an avid watcher of bad cinema  but this movie is virtually unwatchable  i don  t mind movies being shot on d v  but if you  re going to do that make the movie enjoyable  not some tired retread of superior horror films  sans wrong turn   br    br   i have to not recommend this waste of disk  if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by  br    br   movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic              i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time  i have seen it well over     times  actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching  it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in  i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again  buy a copy now it is a classic               i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning  i  m going to assume that one  s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one  s level of acceptance of joseph  s story  br    br   however  that aside it was very well made  well acted  and had a nice score  if you get to salt lake city  it is a must to see it in the legacy theater  i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality  sound quality and ambiance in my entire life   i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there  being that i  m lds and regard joseph as a prophet  i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times   which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started  anyway  i  m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe  if you have    minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not  he tells a fascinating story             adenoid hynkel  a lowly soldier in world war one  rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania  he creates an aggressive  antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache  sound like anyone you know  br    br   from the safety of hollywood  chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini  given that the united states in      had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it  and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe  s civil strife  remember  it was hitler who declared war on the usa  not the other way round  it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic  br    br   the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides  and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly  humane  brave  etc   etc  chaplin is hynkel  and he also plays the jewish barber  the little hero of the ghetto  the tramp in all but name   needless to say  chaplin writes  directs  stars  composes the music and does the catering  br    br   in      the full truth was not yet known about the third reich  and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight  but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong  a comedian and a sentimentalist  chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless  all this does is to humanise him  when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane  he becomes endearing rather than despicable  as dictator  he inspects his subordinates   technical innovations which don  t work  the parachute hat  the bulletproof uniform etc   and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside  in fact  hynkel  s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery  br    br   in truth  chaplin  s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic  at heart  he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen  check out the humour  with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious  or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings   the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged  but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi  is it in any way believable that a schultz figure  if such had existed  would say to the fuehrer  s face    your cause is doomed to failure because it  s built upon the stupid  ruthless persecution of innocent people    and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto  if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt  why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform  chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka  but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age  as usual  chaplin thinks in terms of   silent   comedy set pieces  loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line  there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers  shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms  and the globe ballet  watch for the segment filmed in reverse   br    br   paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah  just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice  and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic  so hannah is quite literally too good to be true  brave  defiant  resourceful  hardworking and  of course  beautiful  she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage    gee  ain  t i cute    she asks  after the barber gives her a make over  too cute by far  is the answer  she doesn  t come close to ringing true  because chaplin has made her a caricature  the   wouldn  t it be wonderful    speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author   too wordy  too emotionally cloying  br    br   jack oakie is great as napaloni  the fascist dictator of bacteria  he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings  but the film  s underlying weakness remains  if napaloni is silly and ineffective  how can we fear him  and anyway  the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth  br    br   and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform               milo   is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that  s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn  t bother him and he still kills people   friday the   th   what  s that   one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo  s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn  t it his bedtime yet   and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can  t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity             this is one of the best horror   suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts  it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill  thrills  and yes a lot of gore   house of wax sure delivers    in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten      if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats  this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax       i myself enjoy these museums  but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way             never saw the original movie in the series   i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the       s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified  this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now  anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie  it was  however  a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark  really  this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen  the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm  other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid  the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water  not really worth watching i would however like to see the original  granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the     s  but he also made a very good slasher movie in the     s   the town the dreaded sundown               created in       and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name  because his wife convinced him   mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand  i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey  it is in fact his third  but it doesn  t matter  for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable  the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge  stopping to pick up cargo  and minnie mouse missing the boat  being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them  mickey helps her crank it  s tail and play the tune  and getting some other animals to be percussion  until pete comes along again to stop him  making mickey peel potatoes  mickey mouse was number    on the     greatest pop culture icons  and he was number    on the     greatest cartoons  very good             highly regarded at release  but since rather neglected  immense importance in the history of performing arts  a classic use of embedded plots  one of my favourite films  why hasn  t the soundtrack been re released             the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor  once the wife to director robert zemeckis  who helmed this episode   who murders her husband with a poker  has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside  an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake   she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband  s corpse  she decides to use an ax  once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman  s head  to frame the killer for her husband  s murder  santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman  s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child  br    br   this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old   santa kills   theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she  s been cheating with routine  it  s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac  there  s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions  not one of the show  s highlights             the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film  it should have read   be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the  rd pew from the back of your family  s church at   years old  listening to the preacher drone on about god  s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego    br    br   it starts off well intentioned  building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny  s   how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast    moment  it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree  sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble  i believe i counted the use of the word   pray   about    times in a five minute span near the end  after the   st  i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym    prey    sadly  this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last    minutes  plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say   prayer      preyer   to me  as it became totally zany  indeed  even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom  almost to the point of ending up on the floor  br    br   for all the salivating christians who ranked this film      stars  i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square  the ten commandments  anything from narnia  jesus christ superstar and the like  stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp  the god who wasn  t there  what would jesus buy  or the soon to be released religulous  br    br   maybe robert whitlow  s book is better             tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford  s films  at two hours  it was quite long for a      silent film yet continues to hold your interest some    years after it was filmed  mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a   greatest hits   performance with bits of mary the innocent  mary the little devil  mary the little mother  mary the spitfire  mary the romantic heroine  etc  characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past  the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character  s illegitimate child for      and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question  if the academy awards had been around in       no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary  s             i first saw this movie when i was about    years old  my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for    on vhs  she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch  this movie  however  scared the hell out of me  you may be asking yourself  how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone  the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions  pitch  to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas  that  s right  satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause  pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day  for if santa doesn  t make it back to his home in space  he turns to powder  don  t get me wrong  the movie is funny and fairly entertaining  however  the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell  which occurs at the beginning of the movie  is just downright creepy             although there are some snippets in this   part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform  these are not very well developed  in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs  br    br   although this program  as a whole  leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money  and for that it deserves some praise  almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to  very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you  if asked  they think the drug war is designed to solve  for example  while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the     s  at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law  forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business  but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence  the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame  inexplicably  alcohol prohibition  the violence that ensued  and the subsequent reversal of prohibition  is totally ignored by this program  br    br   this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users  and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war  the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on  use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems  but not all users do their drugs in excess  just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics  br    br   if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government  for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science  has decided to totally prohibit  whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against  just forget about it  none of that is in here  br    br   on the other hand  this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda  it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in   th century united states like marijuana  lsd  heroin  cocaine  mdma  and oxycontin  but there is a significant element of various people  s points of view with regard to drug laws  and most  but not all  of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality  especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana   br    br   the criminal justice system  along with its often harsh life ruining penalties  is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem  but unfortunately there  s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs  a lack of compassion for fellow humans  a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved  perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry  and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity  it  s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so  and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason  this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs  yet this program ignores it  br    br   so  in sum  the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining  but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy  and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives  it  s pretty disappointing             considering this film was released   years before i was born  i don  t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time  back in january of    though  i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas  the particular theme of films this night was   neglected     s crime films   and boy was her right    the gravy train or the dion brothers  as it appeared this print    was an absolute gem  wonderful performances  quirky characters  smart plot  hilarious comedy  and just an all around great time  rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh  margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well  i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it  in the meantime  go to an indie video store and hope they have it             the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group  in their endeavors  the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin  whom sister goes after because she believes he is the   big time   who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life  though he could be accused of killing her  he really kills only her spirit and will to live  after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose  the story isn  t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off  then threatens him  it  s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be   discovered   back then             first  i realize that a       rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst  this movie gets that from me because  as one reviewer points out  it  s not bad in a self aware  over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value  it simply misses its mark on every count    contains possible spoilers   the dialog is completely disingenuous  the continuity is so deliberate it  s painful  daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love  and with his final word the flamenco dancers start  the mock shock of what  s her name  see  i don  t even remember her character  s name  let alone the name of the forgettable actress  when her husband  the baldwin  first tells her that her friend is the bad guy  the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things  vegetable carts gone flying  cars crashing into each other  motorcycles going down the stairs  people nearly being hit  but remarkably  no one is  oh  that  s right    except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times  is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds  and an approaching car apparently didn  t notice him there  hmmm   br    br   it  s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made  there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money  you  d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing  now there  s a novel idea   br    br   my suggestion  don  t see this film  don  t rent the dvd  don  t watch it on cable  there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied             picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says   lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public  also black  in the street and ask him if he is black  then walk away    the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode  more laughter  now if you think the premise is funny  and the show contains many such types of situation  you will enjoy this show  for the rest  use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry  those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny  another example of the humor in the show  a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier  marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers  i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers  divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all             the year      saw no fewer than   filmed productions of h  g  wells   great novel    war of the worlds    this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them  no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it  but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place  the last year of the   th century          using wells   original setting  in and near woking  england  br    br   imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as   spoilers    that might apply with some films  where the ending might actually be a surprise  but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world  it seems positively silly  i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature  so let  s get right to the chase  the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease  against which they have no immunity  if that  s a spoiler  so be it  after a book and   other films  including the      classic   you ought to know how this ends  br    br   this film  which follows wells   plot in the main  is also very cleverly presented    in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late   th early   th century photography  although filmed in a widescreen aspect  the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity  the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs  rather than black   colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting  at other times  colors are washed out  these variations are typical of early films  which didn  t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality  even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on    as you  ll see on occasion here  the special effects are deliberately retrograde  of a sort seen even as late as the     s    and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic   feel    some of effects are really awkward    such as the destruction of big ben  the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours  some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd  particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair  br    br   this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells   original narrative    as has been noted  viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story  wells   description of the martians    a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles    is effectively portrayed  when the martian machines appear  about an hour into the film  they too give a good impression of how wells described them  both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective  primarily  of rural england    plus a few scenes in london  involving the narrator  s brother   the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark  big ben   but at least doesn  t dwell unduly on the devastation of london  br    br   the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise  despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines  the narrator  traveling about to seek escape  sees much of what wells terms   the rout of mankind    he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality  they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest  where they discover an awful fact  the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene  wells adds that after eating they set up   a prolonged and cheerful hooting    the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate    who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder  cheers from the gallery  british curates are so often utterly insufferable   br    br   this film lasts almost   hours  going through wells   story in welcome detail  it  s about time the author got his due    in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact  a word about the acting  don  t expect award winning performances  they  re not bad  however  the actors are earnest and they grow on you  most of them  however  have had very abbreviated film careers  often only in this film  the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana  in his  nd film  the curate is john kaufman    also in his  nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing  the brother    henderson    is played with some conviction by w  bernard bauman in his first film  the artilleryman  the only other sizable part  is played by james lathrop in his first film  br    br   this is overall a splendid film  portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it  despite its slight defects  it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors  if you want to see h  g  wells   war of the worlds    and not some wholly distorted version of it    see this film             of the elements that make this the best at this point  i have to say    is christine mcintire  shemp  s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent  i imagine that  as one poster suggested  christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene  but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil  to be smiling at shemp  s possibly dying  br    br   another character who helps this stand out is the goon  his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball  hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or  for that matter anywhere  i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this  but hey  when a short is this good  who  s going to complain  not i             okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the   last   one   and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one  part   was bad but why do they play us  anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part   and    i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in   d pointless id say  i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime  how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts   and   yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series  br    br   i gave a nightmare on elm street six       out of     br    br   good points of movie  had potential with plot  br    br   bad points of film  terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing             everyone  my name may sound weird  but there was nothing else   br    br   any way  i haven  t seen anything like this before so it was crazy  of course that  s a good thing  it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one  like chicken little   the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying    twas beauty who killed the beast    war of the worlds scene and more  walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one  also  how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema   br    br   however some parts don  t fit  like in the original lion king  weren  t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar  in this movie  they are not  they were fighting the hyenas backstage  ther  s more  the reason being why pumbaa isn  t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also  it  s just timon  timon  timon  anybody realise that only timonn  s story was told  whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks  br    br   but apart from that   it  s great             finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie  which not only tells a story  but actually tells the   real   story  i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller  but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations  then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o  donnell  you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is  it is not a movie to attract new fans  but a movie to tell the real tale  some things could have been better  but when you cannot forget the awful movie from      then is this a magnificent movie  so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story             by now  the game  s stale  right  br    br   the jokes have been done  its all over  the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone  after all  br    br   wrong  br    br   the game is still intact  the jokes are here  folks  sure  they  re all rehash  but so was monkey island    and    for that matter  br    br   the difficulty is well placed  somewhere between the slightly easy   and the ridiculously hard    the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate  in the tradition of sub games  and this game has the best joke of the whole series  when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach  always select   you don  t need to see my identification    its worth the price of the game by itself             i decided to watch this movie because i  d not seen carol lombard before in any movie  i  m sorry it had to be this one because  quite frankly  this is a dog    and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn  both of whom were great actors  br    br   the problem with the film is simple  it tries to put too much  too quickly  in to a story about a young lawyer  john manson played by stewart  who marries jane  played by lombard  within an hour of meeting her  what  s that clich    marry in haste  repent at leisure     br    br   in short  the story is a series of episodes that show the couples   worsening financial status  their troubles with john  s live in mother  their struggles to pay the bills  john  s diminished status at the office  the arrival of their baby son  john jnr  unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother   the couples   angst about their marriage  the baby  s sickness which worsens  thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot  in a fierce storm  to bring a special serum to save the child  and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm  br    br   how many more clich  d situations could the writers include  maybe mother dying soon after  there wasn  t much comedy  the drama was lacklustre  at best  the dialog was painful to hear  only the acting of the four main players was adequate  br    br   this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn    during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie  br    br   so  it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol   home spun american values of family  relationships  heroism  perseverance  and initiative    all against the backdrop of the   average   american family  who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard   br    br   and  it should be noted that the film was released in early       so  it was planned in         soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii  hence  this sort of film was a great booster for the general public  at that time  many of who would soon have to join england in war  as many here would know  hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before  during and after the war  br    br   however  i  m glad i saw it    as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda  but  i  ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range  br    br   as another reviewer noted  see this one just to say that you  ve seen all of stewart  s movies  otherwise  don  t bother             unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there  s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b  mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director  but for the last    years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty  nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first    min no sex  no blood it  s suppose to be about snuff   no actors  no dialogs  just as bad as an     t v film it  s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno  you will stay in our minds forever anyway  thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi    robowar rats  l  altro inferno virus  cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco  s spirit  s new film  pass on this one but if you don  t know this nice artisan  s career track down his old films and have fun             i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting              hypothetical situations abound  one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead  left in the streets  in the stores  and throughout the landscape  sans in the middle of a forgotten desert  one lone survivor  attempting to rekindle his sanity  takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert  all alone  he hopes for more  but with nobody around  he is left with white underwear  and a passion for a local indian tribe    until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence  alan  a man of the book  is left on earth after an unknown disaster  thinking he is alone  he begins living life his way    until  jeri ryan  appears  like she would in any dream  out of the woods  disheveled  and unhappy to find the final man alive to be     well     like alan  anyway  they try to co exist  fail  get drunk  and before creating the ultimate dystopia  they run into redneck raphael  played by newcomer    dan montgomery jr   bonds are torn  confusion sets in  a couple becomes a third wheel  and the battle between physically inept nerd vs  brainless jock  even with nobody left on the planet  it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise  br    br   using a variable film technique  ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled   the quiet earth    which i will be viewing next  oddly which he never gives any credit towards  with a borrowed story  i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it  his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride  borrowing yet again from other film director  s techniques to attempt to find his own  he opens the film interestingly enough  but fails to answer any direct answers  sure  the final days have arrived  but could there be a concise answer as to   how   or better yet   why   these select few survived  a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film  the juxtaposition would have been like   shawn of the dead    but instead left us feeling like we were watching a   made for tv   program  listening to the audio commentary  i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made  and his passion nearly sells the film  but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn  t as happy with his overall final product  there were mistakes  ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out  while this does make for decent independent film making  it sometimes feels cheap  and in ralston  s case  it was the latter  br    br   i must admit  david arnott  s portrayal of alan hooked me  he played that wimpy  school nerd  adult role very well  he was funny to both watch and listen to  and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer  he was a key player in keeping the film together  alas  i cannot say the same for the rest  this was dan montgomery  s first film  and it was obvious    i mean    really really obvious  there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him  perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance  but alas  it wasn  t the case  then there was jeri ryan  she pulled into her character near the end of the film  which to me  was the culmination of the entire piece of art  she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end  confused  again  she fell into her character by the end  giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured  even as the commentary progressed  all that she contributed was a laugh  giggle  or   ohhh  look at that color   moment  while her beauty may sell tickets  one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful  this was her first film  so can i be too harsh   br    br   overall  this film felt like it was missing something  i though the idea was strong    the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists  jealousy cannot be killed by bacteria or bombs  maybe because it is consumed by zinc   and we as a race will always want what we cannot have  ralston is not a surprising director  his techniques are flawed and pre used  but he does know how to make a low budget comedy  i think our idea of   funny   is different  so that is why i couldn  t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found   hysterical    his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film  which was lower than average  his film was loose  meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled  i e  anything with wings survived      which overall harmed the intensity of the film  this was a comedy  but it could have been much darker and much much funnier  for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film  as we learn from their commentary  all he was there for was money    the was in essence  the bank for   the last man    don  t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments  br    br   don  t expect more from ralston    and that is how i will end it  br    br   grade     out of                   br    br   i must admit  i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of   cut   last night  though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem  i am a true horror fan as true as they come  and found   cut   to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced  but one of the great parody comedy films of late  br    br   my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements   the film was not overly clever in it  s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could  i am certain this was intended as humour    hoping this was intended as humour  br    br   and of course  there was the gore  br    br   the use of the   customised   garden shears was brilliance   besides the expected stabs and slashes  in short  there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths  enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth  br    br   the appearance of both kylie minogue  short that her appearance was  and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film   both performances were fantastic  as well as simon bossell    the castle    in a brilliant role as the jokey technician  br    br   all in all  i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years  as well as a beautiful satire parody   toungue in cheek till the very end  br    br   loved it  go see it             i am so happy not to live in an american small town  because whenever i  m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies  evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless  in this movie a former doctor  who  s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash  directs his steps to the nearest small town   he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns   which happens to be the purgatory flats  and  of course  as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose  he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her  but there is a tiny handicap  she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead  to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself  i  ll just tell you that it  s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties             like anyone else who bought this  i was duped by the      pieces of extreme gore   and   banned in    countries   or whatever it says in the box  i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it  tom savini  rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business  the revolutionized make up effects in the     s  today  you don  t need them as everything is done on computer  but computers cannot compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up  but i digress  br    br   watching fantastically gory films like fulci  s gates to hell or even savini  s crowning achievement  friday the   th the final chapter  you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film  you can  t tell the difference between reality and magic  br    br   i can  t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film  if that is the reason you seek this film  then you are wasting your money  as many other reviewers in here have noted  most of the gore is an aftermath  you don  t see the torture  or the bloodshed as it happens  you see whatever it looks like afterwords  br    br   the gore  well  it  s here  but not as much as one would hope  or expect  a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts  but other then those two scenes  and one involving a scalping  there is nothing really much else to this film  the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned  are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for  maybe it  s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre  but i was expecting a bit more  call me sick or twisted  but isn  t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place  i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places  br    br   cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film  while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film  it is much better than this tripe  if you go out of your way to buy this for         you will feel cheated  br    br                   i always felt that ms  merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills  familiar to millions as the lt  on law and order  she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases  always in a supporting role  hbo  s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny  successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration  but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna  new york  a suburb of buffalo  br    br   the story could be set in any major african american community of the     s and     s from atlanta  s sweet auburn to new york  s harlem  but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny  s boarding house  the story revolves around nanny  s relationships with all kinds of people  played by some of the best actors in the business  i purposely did not say black actors  this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black  except for jimmy smits  of course  i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day             this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year  a few too many coincidences and plot holes  however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn  t come as too much of a surprise  brosnan is excellent in this role  gone is the wooden james bond  a role he was wasted in   if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies  greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan  s straight man  i  ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within  there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing  my father  a consultant  nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a   facilitator    much like   grosse pointe blank    another hit man comedy  the humour can be very dark  if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself             as a casual listener of the rolling stones  i thought this might be interesting  not so  as this film is very   of its age    in the       s  to me  someone born in the       s  this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap  but i am sure this film was not made for me  but people who were active during th       s  i expected drugs galore with th stones  i was disappointed  it actually showed real life  hard work in the studio  so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film  i have not seen any of the directors other films  but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing  sort of   amatuerish   which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash  badly directed  tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value  my only good opinion of this is that i didn  t waste money on it  it came free with a sunday paper             watch the original with the same title from       this made for tv movie  is just god awful  although it does use  as far as i can tell  almost the same dialog  it just doesn  t work  is it the acting  the poor directing  ok so it  s made for tv  but why watch a bad copy  when you can get your hands on the superb original  especially as you  ll be spoiled to the plot and won  t enjoy the original as much  as if you  ve watched it first   br    br   there are a few things that are different from the original  it  s shorter for once   but all are for the worse  the actors playing the parts here  just don  t fit the bill  you just don  t believe them and who could top edward g  robinsons performance from the original  if you want  only watch it after you  ve seen the original and even then you  ll be very brave  if you watch it through  it  s almost sacrilege             director don siegel really impressed me with this film  it is starkly shot  graphic without being visually graphic  well acted by all concerned  and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike  almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer  i didn  t know what to expect sitting down to watch this  a civil war movie or some kind of     s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south  but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination  exploration  and descent into the soul of men and women   a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized  as one reviewer previously noted  none   none   of the characters are likable by the film  s end and yet each one is interesting  complex  and enigmatic  eastwood plays cpl  mcburney  a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you  ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it   a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war   particularly in the south  soon  page  teacher elizabeth hartman  lovely  young seductress carol  and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood   each having their own needs and secrets and problems  eastwood is not a nice man  he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage  in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest  the beguiled  for me  is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front  this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers  siegel  s best film  it certainly is one of eastwood  s best real performances  page is always so very good and hartman  fe rdin  et al excellent  the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic  some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing  and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy  eerie  demented film             anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film  it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a   spring break movie   plus it makes fun of the college film genre  it  s funny  it  s got a cast to die for  amy pohler  rachel dratch   sophie monk   parker posey  jane lynch  amber tamblyn  missi pyle   and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud  writer  actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain  wilson phillips  omg   i  m just repeating myself now     it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they  re dumb             arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far  about earthman flash gordon  professor zarkov  and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet  along the way  in spellbinding  spectacular  and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin  prince thun  and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she  s a car    this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot  acting  and budget   it is miles ahead in these areas  produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few  the production values across the board are advanced  in my most humble opinion  for       the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate  we get hawk men  shark men  lion men  high priests  creatures like dragons  octasacks  orangapoids  and tigrons oh my  and many  many other fantastic things  are all of them believable and first rate special effects  no way  but for      most are very impressive  the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written  lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter  and expertly scored  director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond  s phenom comic strip  lastly  the acting is pretty good in this serial  all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents   here most everyone has some ability  don  t get me wrong  this isn  t a shakespeare troupe by any means  but buster crabbe does a workmanlike  likable job as flash  he is ably aided by jean arden  priscella lawson  and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out  but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted  it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office  i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later  the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov  frank shannon   wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear  the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell  lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful  but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming  officious  sardonic  merciless  and fun  middleton is a class act  jack   tiny   lipson plays king vultan  boisterous  rousing  hilarious   a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism  lipson steals each and every scene he is in  the plot meanders here  there  and everywhere   but flash gordon is the penultimate serial  space opera  and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow  excellent             i have to say that the events of      didn  t hit me until i saw this documentary  it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation  i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers  i was sick of hearing about it  when this was aired on tv a year and a day later  i was bawling my eyes out  it was the first time i had cried since the attack  i highly recommend this documentary  i am watching it now on tv    years later  and i am still crying over the tragedies  the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing  it was an accident  and look where it got them  these two brothers make me want to have been there to help             perfect movies are rare  even my favorite films tend to have flaws   rear window looks a little stagey at times  chris elliot  s character in groundhog day doesn  t work  the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy  the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow   but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish   br    br   the script is brilliant  the acting is superb all around  although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing  the whole cast shines   the directing and the photography are inspired  and the music score is touching without being intrusive  like some miramax scores that are too manipulative   every sad moment is truly moving  every light moment makes me smile  this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it   br    br   i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film  but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people  real feelings and real problems  brilliant  a must see             this has to be one of the   worst movies ever made  the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger     but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better  the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way  just a few of the awful moments in the movie  a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying     and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the     mile per hour winds    thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at      feet  thats impossible even for     pilots with thousands of hour experience  when on the runway  perfectly straight of course  she is instructed to pull on the flaps  huh   come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds  when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power  i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie  but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary  this is a movie you want to miss  take my word for it             regardless of what anyone says  its a b movie  and the effects are poorly done   if you  re a vampire fanatic  i suppose it would be ok  not    out of     you others here cant sincerely mean that   we are to view this as a movie  not read it as a book  so the effects and characters are important  as well as the story  the story are good  but it doesn  t carry the film  no wonder it has a low rating over all  i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb  but got severely disappointed  don  t get me wrong  i thought the blade movies was awesome  and loved the underworld movies  but this characters aren  t close  the make up on the vampires is poorly done  and the effects are worse  this sucks  i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was  the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something  seriously  if you think this is awesome  you don  t care about acting or make up  this is better as a book    out of    for an ok story              i want very much to believe that the above quote  specifically  the english subtitle translation   which was actually written  not spoken  in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist  was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner  but if so  director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film  they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here  or else has so much disdain for everyone  especially the viewing audience  that he can  t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke  br    br   some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique  bizarre films because they do so with   lan and unique personal style  e g   david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky   others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story  e g   krzysztof kieslowski  and david cronenberg  s later  less bizarre works   in pola x  carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it  well  here it is  the pacing is erratic and choppy  in particular continuity is often dispensed with  superfluous characters abound  e g   the gypsy mother and child   most of the performances are overwrought  the lighting is often poor  particularly in the oft discussed sex scene  unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason  and the list goes on  br    br   not to be completely negative  it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions  i liked the musical score  even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling  abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film  perhaps a reference to andy warhol  s   factory   of the     s    much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful  an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings  and  even well into middle age  cathering deneuve shows that she still has   it    her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn  t sink into bathos  br    br   there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as   pola x   more charitably  experimentation is admirable  even when the experiment doesn  t work  but carax tries nothing new here  the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films  and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later  i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal  poorly crafted tripe  at this early moment in the   st century  one is left asking  with the exception of jean pierre jeunet  are there  any  directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore  rating                   it  s hard to praise this film much  the cgi for the dragon was well done  but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow  also  the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious  br    br   i was amazed to see   marcus aurelius   in the acting credits  wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film  like   whoopie goldberg   it must be an alias  and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker  br    br   the story might been interesting  but the acting is flat  and direction is tedious  if you must watch this film  go around to your friend  s house and get drunk while doing so   then it  ll be enjoyable             i remember going to see the movie in the summer of      with my parents  and being pretty into it at the time  of course  i was seven at the time  br    br   right before the jackson movies came out  my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic  br    br   ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie  and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production  since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping  the animation technique for people on a budget  this is saying something  much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word  there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen  with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them  br    br   because of budget constraints  the movie    already a compression of   the fellowship of the rings   and part of   the two towers      was pared down even more  what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books  br    br   its not all bad  though  the animation brings a warmth to it  that i found lacking in the jackson movies  its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding  br    br   this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came  several years later  a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired  which was meant to wrap things up  all i will say about that is that it was a musical             just finished watching  ftm  the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend  something i never do  needless to say i was very disappointed  the story has so much potential and it  s frustrating to see it get screwed up  i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey  first off i am not a mm hater  i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star  i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off     times  yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body  but i think most people knew this    years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill  showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman     times in the movie is totally unnecessary  i think one time would have been sufficient  it wouldn  t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other  no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling  unless      enough about that  let  s get into his role  i feel his acting was very forced and he didn  t seem very comfortable  i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner  but his lines were corny and cheesy  it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times  in short  i didn  t like his character even though i was supposed to  the accent  his shirt off  corny pick up lines  weak sales pitches  his character was just too much of a tool  as brandon or jonathan  pacino and assante were great  but that   no surprise  piven is fun to watch as arie    oooops i mean jerry  i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly  it  s insulting that they could take a great story  and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success     cool story that appeals to the male man    hunky hollywood actor for female women  make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights     al pacino with   great speech scenes  and    great one liners    every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan    jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school    throw in armand assante to seal the deal    plot  good writing  character development  and intelligent casting are unnecessary br    br   this will be good enough for most people  but not me  anybody who disagrees with me  ask your self this  would this movie be much better if  a  directed by sodeberg b  decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br    br   i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks  i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo  the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing  the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants  big budget crapola             i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on  while not as bad as wynorski  s   curse of the komodo    this still sucks   bad  wynorski uses the same island as in   curse of the komodo    as well as the same actors and house  the effects are top notch  suprising  but thats about it        i don  t know what else to say about this movie       oh yeah  as in   curse of the komodo    the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island  also    when i saw this part i laughed hysterically   a komanbra     part man  komodo and cobra    overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards  just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie    steer clear    to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating   it  s almost over  it  s almost over         out of               i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts  and to be honest  i didn  t know how much i would like it  i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised  driving lessons is a modest  simple film which draws you in right from the start  rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly  he  s definitely one to look out for in the future  dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters  i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity  the highlight of the film  for me was evie  s rather colourful poem  it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs  in my opinion  watching driving lessons is a great way to spend   hours  the scenery was also striking  especially the countryside  anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable  i strongly disagree with            for greta garbo  s first talking picture  mgm wisely chose eugene o  neill  s pultizer prize winning      play anna christie   br    br   also wisely  the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast  george marion as anna  s father  chris  and james t  mack as johnny the priest   transmuted to   johnny the harp   for films so as not to offend    br    br   this little change is interesting  like too many films accused  by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins  of being   little more than filmed stage plays    the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn  t be more faithful to the property  by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn  t offend anyone  or opening it up because they could  too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place   br    br   fortunately  the respect the studio had for both o  neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion  s generally sensitive screen adaptation  wonder of wonders  marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo  s anna reveals her past on   the farm   to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact  what the league of decency must have thought of that   br    br   the source play  s greatest problem has always been that chris  s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage   the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don  t always recognize   br    br   the perfectly cast marie dressler  who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood  is the perfect balance for garbo  s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only    minutes  doesn  t allow us too much time to miss her   one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original   and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o  neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne  s second act appearance in show boat   br    br   anna and marthy  s early scene together on screen     minutes into the film  taking each other  s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece  not to be missed   br    br   anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama  it  s hard to imagine that a latter day remake  which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this      remake  it was first filmed without sound in        also with george marion  s original broadway chris  could improve on this excellent filming   br    br   the internal scenes hew closest to the play  but the exteriors shouldn  t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere  while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards  the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set  especially in the new york harbor   br    br   nearly all garbo  s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly  only the too often parodied death scene from camille    years later  will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies   but this anna christie  together with the variety of her      films  mata hari and grand hotel  and the sublime lubitsch touch on her      comedy  ninotchka    garbo laughs      surely stand as her best  br    br   o  neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded   sea plays    should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s  entered the conflict  the long voyage home         it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie  and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way             let me set the scene  it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies  i am with my friend deciding what to see  we look for a movie that is starting soon and   the grinch   comes up  we buy tickets not knowing what to expect  what we got was a roller coaster of fun  br    br   jim carrey  who may i add is my no   actor in the whole world  was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard  s best movie  next to apollo      the way that this movie was made  the scenery  the actors  the props and the music was just amazing  it really brought this childhood movie to life  br    br   the story is based upon the story of the grinch  as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can  t stand christmas  he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk  but one little girl is going to change the grinch  s look on life and on others in a drastic way  br    br   cindy lou who  played by adorable new actress taylor momsem  meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away  she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people  br    br   all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents  a solid        well done jim  br    br               as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode  and i wonder if the liberal use of   flashbacks   featuring will riker  s exploits  both positive  and largely romantic  and negative  lots of pain  and a crewmate  s death was a money saving device  as were many of their   bottle shows    episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise   diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series  deserved a better final appearance than this for her character  dr  kate pulaski  loyal viewers  in the star trek world  is there any other kind   also were shortchanged  this was the last episode of second season  thus  the season ended   not with a bang   but with   a whimper               this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid  even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia  i can still tell it was a quality show  very educational but still funny  i have not seen the original french version  only the swedish  i have no idea how good the dubbing was  it was too long ago to remember  br    br   the premise of the show was to show you how the body works  i swear  school still hasn  t taught me half of what i know from this show  it also tied in other things  like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don  t exercise  with nice examples within the body  who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you   d the cartoon looked nice  very kids friendly of course  but done with care  cells  viruses  electric signals in the brain  antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures  looking pretty much how you  d expect what they should look like in the animated body  br    br   this  and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale  were key parts of my childhood  i  m so happy i found them here             fans of the hbo series   tales from the crypt   are going to love this moh episode  those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on  will recognize this one right off the bat  br    br   underrated indie favorite martin donovan  also an excellent writer   co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her  is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way  he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door  or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness  in the case of right to die  he takes the latter approach  and it definitely works  br    br   donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist  robin sydney   much to the displeasure of his inconsolable  unforgiving spouse  abbey  julia anderson   when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of   making up    and she  s horribly burned in a fire  he  s reluctant to pull the plug on her  not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy  corbin bernsen  looking the worse for wear these days    br    br   but abbey  s never been one to give up without a fight  and that  s where the ec theme of the episode comes in  cuckolded husbands   and wives   have always been the genre  s favorite subject matter for some spooky  and ooky  supernatural shenanigans  and this case is definitely no exception  if anything  the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere  br    br   and that  s not to mention that john esposito  s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist  you don  t realize as you  re watching that you only know half the story  until close to the end    think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas  and you  re there   br    br   not a bad effort  but not the best of the lot  either  at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction  especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed  as with most moh episodes  this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment  so the extremely squeamish need not apply             dirty war is absolutely one of the best political  government  and well written t v  drama  s in the    years  br    br   the acting is superb  the writing is spectacular  br    br   diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear  biological  and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil  br    br   dirty war should be made into a major motion picture   it  s that good  i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth  br    br   this t v  drama reveals how british intelligence  mi    mi   attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims  because of england  s involvement in the iraq war  br    br   the scenes of different parts of london  england are also spectacular  br    br   dirty war is a must see               some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not  a college professor  david norwell  suddenly gets a yen for adoption  he pretty much takes the first child offered  a bad choice named adam  as it turns out adam doesn  t have both oars in the water which  almost immediately  causes untold stress and turmoil for dr  norwell  this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another  all centered around adam  s inabilities and seizures  why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained  along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out  personally  i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack  bypass this yawner             this is the who at their most powerful  although before the masterwork who  s next  which would provide anthems like baba o  reily and wont get fooled again  this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the     s  br    br   daltrey shows what being a front man is all about  entwistle steady as ever   br    br   moon is great  check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech  and see him playing   side saddle   whilst having a bass drum head replaced  br    br   townsend even looks like he  s enjoying himself occasionally  br    br   considering they took to the stage at  am no one in the crowd was asleep   br    br   there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in    years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one             this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell    and did so  really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line  all without character or clear motivation  br    br   we get clich   snapshots instead of characters  one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss  who projects an overdone   tough guy   persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her  nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase  as in  the smallest from a complete american tourister set  in a bright  sky blue  without explanation or apology  otherwise it  s standard visually    one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct             they filmed this movie out on long island  where i grew up  my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie  apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer   which they told me was colored water  tasted disgusting  and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again  especially in the funnel scenes   yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form  it never came out in the theaters  obviously  and it  as far as i knew  was never released on video  and i  m sure wasn  t released on dvd  yet it looks like it was seen by some people  albeit it probably very few  so there must be something  i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother  yet there is no way i can find it anywhere  does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased  and which format that would be             that  s how burt reynolds describes this film  which happens to be his best ever  he plays tom sharky  a vice detective who  s on the trail of an international mobster  vittorio gassman  and the man he  s financing to be the next governor of georgia  earl holliman   in the novel by william diehl  the story is more complex because the guy  s running for president  this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two  the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story  reynolds doesn  t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films  he  s very serious here  especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong  at times though  the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster  s woman  only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax  just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin  sharky  s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker  julie london  flora purim   buddy de franco  the manhattan transfer  doc severinson  sarah vaughan and joe williams  al capps handles the score with magic  this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever  check it out  br    br   score    out of    stars            human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends  it is a fly on the wall view into their lives  and minds  which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other  there are many moments in that every one can relate to  like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers  the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie  the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in  and that is where this film succeeds  the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other  the story to the film is not all that  but that is not a criticism  this is a film about people  this is a well written film  with a sound track to die for  d j  s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in       after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend  fantastic movie  jo brand as the voice of reality   need i say more  br    br               this early biograph short was so much fun to watch  the second on disc one of d w  griffith  s   years of discovery   dvd set  highly recommended  it features three excellent performances by the main leads  and interesting to see henry b  walthall  the little colonel  birth of a nation  as a campy musician giving a countess the eye  and other things   br    br   the countess   husband goes berserk at his wife  s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour  it  s kind of incredible that they wouldn  t hear the wall going up  but hey  maybe the wine had something to do with it  here mr  johnson  father of silent player raymond hackett  gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama  but in an unexpectedly comical way  the best moment comes at the end  as the lady passes out from shock and fear  once she realizes she  s doomed  henry picks up his instrument and   fans   it over her  the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy  and i just lost it  and laughed my head off  the expression on his face  from that moment i was charmed by henry b  walthall             baba   rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life  this is the movie which caused his downfall  it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors  rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred  soon after its release  he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably  its a very bad movie with horrible acting  bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay  throughout the movie  rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease  i  m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba  first day first show in theatre  the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission  sorry  i  ll not recommend this one to anyone             written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma  scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten  al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana  a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida  this gangster flick is harsh  violent  loud  gross  unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word   f  k   the most number of times  almost three hours long  and yes it can get repulsive  a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord  br    br   also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer  steven bauer  robert loggia  mary elizabeth mastrantonio  f  murray abraham and angel salazar  pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation  he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression  this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster  is that powerful enough for you  crime does not pay for long             first  the cgi in this movie was horrible  i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel  at the end when the owner of the park gets killed  it  s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen  even night of the living dead had better animation  br    br   that said  the movie had almost no plot  why were they on that island in particular  well  it wasn  t stated in the movie  and  why would the people keep coming into the cat  s area  makes no sense  br    br   one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting  in what could be called a   b made for tv movie   movie  the acting was very good  parry shen stood out in particular  br    br   if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday  watch this movie  it may be good for some memorable quotes             i enjoyed it  there you go  i said it again  i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times  call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard   which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america  van damme moves well for a guy of his age    i think   delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer  if you like old school action and and explosions  this is the movie to watch  this is one of van damme  s best works  br    br   van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen             what a waste of talent  a very poor  semi coherent  script cripples this film  rather unimaginative direction  too  some very faint echoes of  fargo  here  but it just doesn  t come off             although it strays away from the book a little  you can  t help but love the atmospheric music and settings  br    br   the scenes in bath are just how they should be  although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene  but that aside  i like the scene where they are in the hot baths  but did the men and women really bathe together like that  you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women  it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on  but perhaps this was the style at the time  the ballroom scenes were very nice  the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful  i especially liked catherine  s dress in the first ballroom scene  br    br   northanger abbey looked suitably imposing  but i enjoyed the bath scenes better  br    br   schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland  googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel  br    br   ugh peter firth as mr tilney  he just talks a load of rubbish  and is not a clergyman as he should be  it  s hard to think of him being in love with catherine  but then the book never really gave that impression either  br    br   general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy  and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella  ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney  as for john thorpe  well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man  perhaps not the character portrayed in the book  but i quite like it  br    br   i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation  but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me  the marchioness  i hate her  she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy  br    br   some of the script is peculiar  when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks   i suppose you saw the body  how did it appear    what a silly thing to say  elinor  s calm response is stupid too  br    br   anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me            mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive     page point by point  line by line refutation of this mendacious film  which should be titled a convenient lie  the website address where his debunking report  which is titled   a skeptic  s guide to an inconvenient truth   can be found at is  www cei org  a shorter    page version can be found at  www cei org pdf      pdf once you read those demolitions  you  ll realize that alleged   global warming   is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of       which gore also endorsed  as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow  which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber  as james   the amazing   randi does to psychics  and philip klass does to ufos  and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories  so does mario lewis does to al gore  s movie and the whole   global warming   scam             a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china  captures the amazement of film  s first audiences pretty much as it  s described to have been worldwide  and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities  i don  t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow  s part   i thought he was fine  but the chinese lead really stole the show  in any case  i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie  people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english  which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd              sigh  i  m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot  i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards  it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration  the set design seen many times before  the whole weak tim burton ish style  and the story that goes nowhere  and we got the   joke   about shooting the crows with the    the first time  alright  br    br   but i guess what  s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa      called lenore  the cute little dead girl by roman dirge  as any quick internet search will reveal  i mean  what is this  this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker    give your head a shake   as don cherry might say             cute idea    salesgirl linda smith  yolande donlan  inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra  that country  which wasn  t even in north america  was made the   th state     of course  there were only    states at the time  since this was made in          linda travels to the country she has inherited  and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people  at one point  she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo  and it gets ever more sillier from there     although yolande donlan  s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared  there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess  filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor  or some such equivalent  about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig  cheese vendor  bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war  and was even knighted by qe ii  craig and   the new princess   keep bumping into each other  and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra  s financial problems worsen    fun little farce    along the lines of marx brothers film  also note that donlan later married val guest  the writer and director of our little project  and stayed married for    years  guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks  in both the uk   the us             back in      a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men  br    br   i have been waiting for years for a good  old fashioned romance between two men  latter days is all that and more  br    br   yes  it is soapy  melodramatic  clich   ridden  and quite corny  that is what makes it so wonderful  there is nothing like a good romantic movie  and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word  br    br   as to the issue of religion  sorry folks  but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now  it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members  gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection  br    br   i loved this movie  it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters  if i could give it more than ten stars i would  good love stories never go out of style  great love stories like latter days are unforgettable  br    br   it  s about time             the concept of having laurel   hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious  it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics  from especially stan laurel of course as usual  br    br   the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula  it doesn  t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending  it  s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless  so it works for the movie  br    br   the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good  sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor  br    br   the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences  which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed  it all helps to make   dirty work   to be one of the better laurel   hardy shorts  br    br                   this movie came as a huge disappointment  the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain  but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends  unfortunately  it didn  t  it added more plot holes than it resolved  and confused more than it clarified  the animation and voice acting were great  but with an idiotic plot  dull setting  most of the movie doesn  t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world   and disappointing ending  ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy  and he ditches winry    it was altogether pretty lackluster  do yourself a favor   disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie  and read the manga             maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i  ve been feeling down in the dumps and it  s such a lovely little fairytale  whatever the reason  i thought it was pitch perfect  great  intelligent story  beautiful effects  excellent acting  especially de niro  who is awesome   this movie made me happier than i  ve been for a while  br    br   it is a very funny and clever movie  the running joke of the kingdom  s history of prince savagery and the aftermath  the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled  that  s much of what makes it so good  it  s an elaborate  special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies  yet there is an incredible attention to small things  br    br   i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again             i was surprised that    forgiving the franklins    did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival  there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie  the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues   you know little issues like religion  sex and the truth  lots of comedy  s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations  many leave you thinking    i know they ripped this off from some sitcom     this film takes off on its own unique direction   i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film             they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station  they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived  you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot  four young boys playing in grainy slow motion  accompanied by voice over narration  next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion  once they  re grown  it  s easy to spot the writer director among the four  he  s the quiet  contemplative  long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants  this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood  only there  s no writing  or directing talent on display here  and if you still can  t figure out which one he is  here  s a hint  the auteur and his character have the same middle name  it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school  what looked like a prison was apparently a high school  the warden turned out to be the principal  once more  the poor  misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement  murder and pillage  but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father  how about hitting back  kid  like you do everyone else  numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose  howlingly bad dialogue  many scenes badly out of focus  cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras  drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience  overacting in the extreme  and if you don  t quite get the self important speeches  or the slow motion scenes  just listen to the overbearing music  it will clue you in and what you  re supposed to feel  poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films  the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies  run over puppies chained to a tree  rob and steal  all the while complaining about their sad  sorry lives  but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college  yeah  that  s the ticket  why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important  so interesting  that the world can  t wait to see it onscreen  if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems  then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants             i watched this movie so that you don  t have to  i have great respect for kris kristofferson  but what was he thinking  he did this for scale   br    br   at least the film  s title practices truth in advertising  since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film  adding to the confusion  kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn  t sure if genevieve bujold  s character really existed  this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story  br    br   the   making of   feature was far more interesting than the movie itself  it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie  even as the film is being shot  br    br   to it  s credit  this movie is visually pleasing and doesn  t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over  m  too bad the money wasn  t spent on a better project             just saw this movie on opening night  i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it    i must say  i was not impressed  i  m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money  br    br   first of all   the messengers   is very predictable  and just not much of a thriller  it might be scary for someone under     but it really did nothing for me  the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie  s resolution  br    br   furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial  some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes  br    br   if you  ve seen previews for this movie  then you  ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot  this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters             i went to see this movie  actually i went to see family portraits  which contains cutting moments     other short films by douglas buck  at the mar del plata festival  argentina     i just couldn  t watch it  i had to cover my eyes after the  st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while  by the time it was over  my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed  i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the  nd short begun  btw  of course i was not the only one who left the room   it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me  i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it  i just don  t get how you can love that kind of movies  the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days   i also try to analyze the story  my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it  and i just don  t think it makes any sense  i mean  that amount of violence and stuff  makes no other sense than to try to shock people  and that  s not a good enough reason  i think  there  s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say   well  at least   x   thing about it was good    but well  i guess i will never understand that kind of films             a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending  pluses  the way the story moves   begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he  s there  the music  a disinterested look at the life of policemen  minuses  the violence and the gore  but i guess they add to the realistic effects  still  having people  s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided  br    br   no complaints                   i don  t understand the positive comments made about this film  it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i cannot understand how it ever got made  br    br   cartoon characters abound   sue  s foul mouthed  alcoholic  layabout  irish father being a prime example  none of the characters are remotely sympathetic   except  briefly  for sue  s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence  as desperately unattractive as they both are  i  ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob   but given that they do  why should i be expected to care what happens to them  so many reviews keep carping on about how   realistic   it is  if that is true  it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film  br    br   i didn  t like the film at all            steven what have you done you have hit an all new low  it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash  shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway  as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes  seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege   and   and exit wounds  the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes  flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted   pounds on this garbage   out of ten better luck next time           a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer  s next target  director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here  his camera swoops around corners in a museum  after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape   divvies up into split screen for arty purposes  practically gives away his plot with a sequence  again in split screen  where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals  and stages his  first  finale during a thunderous rainstorm    dressed to kill   is exhausting  primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial  much of the acting  with the exception of young keith gordon  is mediocre and the  second  finale is a rip off of de palma  s own   carrie    not to mention   psycho    the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock  not an homage  stylish in a steely cold way  the end results are distinctly half baked     from                  flat spoilers   br    br   five med students  nelson  kiefer sutherland   david labraccio  kevin bacon   rachel mannus  julia roberts   joe hurley  william baldwin    randy steckle  oliver platt  decide to attempt an experiment  dying for exactly   minutes  it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage   br    br   almost everyone does this experiment  randy being the lone exception  but they begin to have unwelcome visitors  david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him  joe sees all the women he has had sex with  and which he videotaped  asking him why from the tv screen  rachel relives her father  s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions  br    br   why are they here  and how will they get rid of them  this tense and interesting movie  set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school  is quite the experience  both for the story and the characters  played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland  julia roberts  oliver platt  kevin bacon and william baldwin  br    br   the director is joel schumacher  who had already worked with sutherland in   lost boys    and this second cooperation is even better than the first  br    br   a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers  this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs   this is one of the minor classics from the     s that get respect even today  like the mention by rebecca gayheart in   scream     or the tru calling episode which used the movie  s premise  br    br   flatliners                   one of my favorite shows back in the     s  as i recall it went to air on friday  or possibly saturday night on the nine network     here in australia  darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together  br    br   each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent  to their credit  the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible  br    br   i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who   came back   as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital  the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the   power beast   amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames  oh well      you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea  br    br   mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best  br    br   definitely deserves a place in tv  s   hall of fame    to quote tony vincenzo        kolchack you are on it       or  in the case of the hall of fame   in it                i think my summary says it all  this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x  or is that gen y  type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses  and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations  example  kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his   wedding    kennedy is the bride  done up in a full bridal gown and long wig  the   joke   is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his   bits and pieces    problem is  this schtick goes on way too long  obviously to fill out time  and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun  candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one  running around  constantly asking   do i look fat    i recognize the show was not made for me  it was made for    year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today  so let them laugh  thank god the show was short lived             frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time  and just at the moment you realize you shouldn  t be laughing  you  ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness  and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes  you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and    well  you get the point  br    br   but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face  frownland  really is a remarkable piece of work that  after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps  makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time  you feel sickenly sorry for him  br    br   it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein  s film  but for some insane reason  i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer  if someone sets you on fire  you typically want to put it out  stop  drop  and roll  but with this film  you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body  you endure the pain  perhaps out of spite  or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can  t even begin to attempt to explain  br    br   unfortunately  mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you  but if you get a chance to catch it  prepare yourself  bring a doggie bag             i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night     s sitcoms on tv one night at   in the morning  i must say  i didn  t expect much  and i didn  t get much  although rose mcgowan is hot  her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy  to say the least  this movie has its ups and downs  and does have a nice couple of twists at the end  but in all honesty it was awful  not even a typical slasher movie  no gore  no sex  no nudity  no real violence  just bad acting  i  d give it a   out of                i first saw this film when i was about   years old on tv in the uk  where it was called   laupta  the flying island     i absolutely loved it  and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it  i was enchanted by the story and characters  but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music  it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw   sometimes erroneously referred to as the   streamline dub    the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline  which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set  br    br   unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney  the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn  t have the same raw energy that the   streamline   dub or the original japanese had  and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead  they have made some pointless alterations  such as changing the main character  s name from   pazu   to   patzu    and added some dialogue  but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music   the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney  s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking  which i find annoying in many disney films  br    br   this film still blows away most recent animated films  and i cannot recommend it highly enough  the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market  homogenized animation             this film can  t make up its mind whether its message is   humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless   or   don  t ever go in the water again    a fisherman  nolan  is out to nab a killer whale  a very bad thing  but when he accidentally  accidentally mark you  hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate  the cow    and i use the word in all senses    who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece    throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself   i doubt it was her first   when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds  her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt  kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan  obviously as among humans  total psychos date other total psychos  br    br   the film reeks of half thought out anti human message    the poor poor whale   the evil men must suffer and die    and yet  it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all  it  s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel  but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and  as the film progresses  he grows more and more compassionate to the whale  s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale  just to make it feel a little better  br    br   the films final journey  in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north  reminds me of melville  s eerie man whale connection  and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion  where these two husbands might connect  understand even respect each other in their own grief  for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident  it  s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss  however  it never goes there  the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone  br    br   the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight  fails to chomp up the whale hugger  tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier   i love animals  and i detest whaling  and what is more i love orca whales  but if this film  s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed  nolan shows compassion and growth  and feels for others  and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming  br    br   the only message one can walk away with is   if you see an orca whale  ever  anywhere  run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way  he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you               why  o   why     did i pick this one up  well    i needed a no brainer in the summer heat  and the cover looked cool  br    br   of course i should  ve known better  this is a really  really bad movie  and it gets embarasing when the makers know it  s bad  and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women  and some sex scenes to it  well  folks    it does  nt cut it  does it  br    br   if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very  very good  well played and funny  go rent lake placid   that is an order             only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb  the first difficulty faced by the submarine   seaview   is what appear to be chunks of  rock  falling down through the water and crashing into its hull  but it  s not rock  they  re under the north pole  it is ice  everybody  except possibly hitherto mentioned small children  and even some of them  know that ice floats  br    br   then  disaster strikes  that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire  no one knows how this happened  we are told  which is understandable  because it is utterly impossible for radiation to   catch fire    and even if it could  there is no air in space for it to burn  br    br   there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to  nd grade school textbooks when making a film  however  irwin allen manages to do it again and again  perhaps we are meant to focus on the   people   instead  which is pretty easy  as they are cardboard  br    br   the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp  much like later episodes of his   lost in space   tv series  the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production  br    br   the sub looks pretty good  though  which is why this one gets a                   our teacher showed us this movie in first grade  i haven  t seen it since  i just watched the trailer though  does this look like a first grade movie to you  i don  t think so  i was so horrified by this movie  i could barely watch it  it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half  and then there was the boy with ketchup  i was freaked out by this film  now today  being     i probably would not feel that way  i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn  t see this movie  even though it  s pg  be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids  i don  t even remember what it was about  once was enough             a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon  s seed  the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific  but  instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death  despite the title itself  being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning  this ridiculous plot twist with it  s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon  i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go  never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to   the end                scott menville is not casey kasem  that is the first  most important  and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company  br    br   shaggy  s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows  they  ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original  br    br   i  m not sure what they  re on about yet with the villain angle  but it surely isn  t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows  br    br   and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted  i like it  but it  s not real scooby doo type animation  but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me  this might  too  br    br   it  s worth a glance at    once    if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice  that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly  besides  i am trying not to be an inflexible  nitpicking fan  evolve or die  as the saying goes  we  ll see how it looks after two more episodes    by then i  ll have formed a much more solid opinion             i often wonder how movies like this even get made  and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them  br    br   with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along  adding twists and turns when he liked  no matter how ludicrous they were  the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as   jo sheena roy pehenti hai  wahee fashion hota hai   and   yeh versace hai madam    yeah right   br    br   every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped  acting was awful  constumes  lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran   locales  the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion   screenplay etc etc  just one word  rubbish  br    br   for those people who love hashmi and his movies  watch it  as for me  i  ll never get those two and a half hours back  the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent            this movie is an amazing comedy   the script is too funny   if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more  though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh   salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles  after      i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this            even this early in his career  capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing  this is a thin story    and quite predictable at times    but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately  the first part looks like a cinderella story  though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that    the rich   prince   will lose his fortune  br    br   nonetheless  because of his good cast and fast pace  it  s easy to get caught up in the clich  s  then the movie does become more original  as the married couple have to find a way to make a living  the ending is very predictable but satisfying  i also want to compliment the title writing  very witty and fun             uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island  an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked  the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked  additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness  however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way  its as if he couldn  t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away  additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life  i  m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had  it really stinks  clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he  s ever learned about film gets flushed  the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i  ve ever seen  this isn  t that bad  but it is close simply because it should have been better  then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film  i  d take a pass unless it  s late at night and you  re catching it on cable             this video is so hilariously funny  it makes everything else br    br   by eddie murphy seem very disappointing  even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor  which just goes to show you how good this really is   to be honest  i don  t think that i  ve ever br    br   laughed at something as much as this  including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse  this show is amazing  although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long  plus its extended version beginning with m  but it didn  t bother me  see it  the funniest thing i  ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too             this film is dreadful  it has absolutely zero laughs  hebrew hammer  adam goldberg  sets out to save hannukah from evil santa  andy dick   perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot  in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise  while there are some  far and few  nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent  it is laboured  hackneyed and ultimately  mindlessly boring  this despite the fact that goldberg  dick and greer  hammer  s client love interest  all have quite considerable screen presence  despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags  this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck  do not waste    minutes of your life on this   note  the music was good                it  s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place  the characters are so weak  and the acting so uninspired  that it  s impossible to care about any of them   especially brooke shields  the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible  if you like this genre  you  d be better off renting   singles    or   bodies  rest   motion               i never watched the   next action hero   show  and until reading the other comments here  did not know that this movie was the   prize   from that competition  i was just flipping channels and came across this  and found myself watching  dare eagerly  all the way to the end  br    br   yes  the plot  s been done  the most dangerous game  etc   but i was hoping for  and almost received  the   gotcha     how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end  i think the high tech was overdone  gps  s  and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider  but it nevertheless was not too overdone  br    br   the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod  suspension of disbelief  that was required of the viewer  do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate  could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up  pleeease  way too much of that type of thing   fun to watch  but keep it at least plausible  thank you very much  br    br   the final solution was good  but the ending was disappointing  with the after taste of a bad star trek episode  at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy   except for zane  who doesn  t get near as much work as he deserves imho   they were winners from a reality show  br    br   knock me out             i am a big fan of old horror movies  and since i am middle aged  old to me is a movie made before      with most being made in the       s to       s period  i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies  with one exception being creepshow    which i thought was great  i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook  and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending  all the stories were great though  so why did i like them so much  the characters had some decent development  the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad  the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear  and the funny bits were really funny  this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent  i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com  lol  when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it  s telling you something       of     also  romero  s expertise is hard to find here  they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard  i don  t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me   and that  s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on  it  s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing  yuck yuck  to see it             i just wanted to say that  i love gheorghe muresan  so i automatically loved this movie  everything else about it was so so    billy crystal is a good actor  even if he is annoying  but the thing that made this movie was  at least  for a basketball fan  seeing gheorghe muresan act             i thought that this movie was incredible  i absolutely loved it  even though my brothers didn  t that much  the special effects were outstanding  and this movie is about my favorite sport  golf  the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row  this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen  it was everything i would expect out of a movie  i just loved it  also  it was pretty kid friendly  this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it  anything is possible  i would give it a pure        it was better than the legend of baggar vants  and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined  absolutely amazing  loved it             this is a funny film and i like it a lot  cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee  this is  of course  the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham  the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part  but still works well  a comedy for a night when you don  t want to have to think much  it  s well worth a rent             some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made  well  they are only partly right  for me  this is the worst movie ever made period  i have never seen anything so basely crude  and insulting  and vile  and against human nature as this film  a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry  this isn  t even so bad  its good  there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis   other bad movies like clambake  this one is so rotten to sit through its painful  pure garbage  native americans should sue for their poor clich  d and stereotypical treatment here  actually  perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole   stars  seriously  grade  f            first of all yes i  m white  so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race    anyway    white people hating black people   bad but black people hating white people   ok  because apparently we deserved it     where do i start  i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes  the infamous scene were ice cube and co  get in a fight with some really big  really strong  really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win    the neo nazi where twice the size     and the chase  the chase is priceless    this is not a movie about race  tolerance and understanding  it doesn  t deliver    this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich   stereotypes  the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead   cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it  br    br   save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written  poorly acted  dull and clearly biased picture  if you are into the subject  go and rent american history x  now thats a movie            donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film  that always sounds like a terrific plan  two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation  who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like   the flesh and the fiends   and   from beyond the grave    pairing up in a mid     s satanic themed exploitation flick  how can this possibly go wrong  well  unfortunately  it can  to my deepest regret   land of the minotaur   can hardly even be called mediocre  and that in spite of the cast  the exotic setting  the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise  in a remote little area in greece  more particularly near an archaeological site  multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue  cushing  who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before  owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns  that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists  when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area  father roch   the priest of a couple of towns before    decides to investigate    land of the minotaur   is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn  t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details  the titular minotaur  for example  is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person  but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance  instead  the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises  the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance  his portrayal of rude  bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always             the three shorts included on this compilation issued in      are timeless chaplin classics  nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either  chaplin  s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done  the problem with this compilation is a minor one  yet annoying  the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the    frame p s  speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at    frames p s  this results is jerky motion that doesn  t look very attractive  and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time  it  s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored  the films look dirty as they did in      and are still stretch printed  there are separate restored versions of these classics available  even on dvd  and it would not be a problem to restore the image  but alas this has not been done  br    br   a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article  but i say again a minor quibble  it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating  the shorts are still worth                          s tourist trap is a clever  unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it  s kind  br    br   travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner  s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort  br    br   while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre  tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone  director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery  that reaches nightmarish proportions  also  schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings  br    br   venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film  s decent cast  pino donaggio  s music score is excellent  having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie  a number of the film  s sequences are quite memorable  br    br   for horror and thriller fans alike  tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film  br    br           out of                 years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me  the atmosphere of the movie was first class  the acting memorable and the storyline a classic  recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part   again i looked eagerly to viewing part         i was so pleased to realize early on into part   that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie  again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii          wrong   i wish i  d stopped at ii  the storyline was not good  it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story  the characters were weak especially the daughter  pacino  s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather   or    then scenes such as  corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir  the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset  the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting  where the   goodies   get away and everyone else is shot  daughter and  st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board  the pathetic shooting on the steps       corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes  a man of his intelligence and guile isn  t ready for an emergency      no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again  but i  ll watch       many times down the years             this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks  it has so many layers  i  ve watched it over and over  and always pick up on something new  i am amazed at the depth of the acting  and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star            uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young  the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based  the key word here is   based    how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom  br    br   sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york  where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it  this involves him selling out  and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity  however  they are not overdone  the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney  s misadventures  the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid  well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart  moderately obnoxious skilled writer  this contradiction is never that much of an issue  because simon pegg  as sidney  projects likability too well  br    br   jeff bridges underplays sidney  s editor a little too effectively  and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney  s affections and  with regard to megan fox  who plays an airhead bimbo starlet   i can say only this  just say the word  miss fox  and i will leave my wife  sell all my belongings  and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort  of course  given that i  m a fat    year old english accountant  you might not find my offer too enticing  but it  s there on the table anyway  given how short her career has been so far  one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become  however  she does it sweetly  with some skill  and extremely sexily  this girl will go far  br    br   there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers   miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk  gillian anderson and danny huston from the us  br    br   there are several laugh out loud moments  and i smiled most of the way through  as ever  the f word makes appearances when it really doesn  t need to  although at least a couple of these are very funny             alien hunter    out of     is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell  new mexico suck  take alien mixed with the thing  mixed with contact  mixed with of all things on the beach  the andromeda strain  the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot   br    br   derivative doesn  t even begin to describe this movie  of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right  nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease   james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him    he turns her down  aggh    br    br   in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it  i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke  br    br   with about    seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure  needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich  d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title   br    br   i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif   note that since jason of friday the   th fame  pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield   the characters in the cornfield dress like logan  s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them  br    br   that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant  the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear  john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it  br    br   alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie             i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was  once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you    you are alone   is that movie  for me   the film is constantly in my head and in my heart  i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again  as if i am seeing it for the first time  br    br   there is nothing i did not like about the movie  amazing soundtrack    the ending was perfect  very emotionally stirring    it was compelling and riveting  br    br   i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed  i admired brittany  s strength  what a strong woman   br    br   the tag line is   when your darkest moments come to life    we never know what we are capable of doing  everyone says oh i would never do that  when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation  we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject  the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part  br    br   thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art                i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie  not just because i  m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan  but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times  br    br   the special effects are awesome  especially linnea  s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed  br    br   plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill  plenty of humor  cool soundtrack  high body count  etc   by the way  if you have never seen this one  try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing             i saw the film and i got screwed  because the film was foolish and boring  i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled   sholay    the cast and crew was bad  the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle  amithab bachan  s acting is poor  i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure  nobody did justice to their work  including ajay devagan  this film don  t deserve any audiences  i bet that this film will flop   br    br     finally this movie sucks              lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club  she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon  it  s quite possible that  through a form of hypnotic suggestion  someone   a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin  after the murders within her fantasies are committed  lorna awakens bewildered  often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality  br    br   if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco  i  d say it  s elegant   difficult  by now  you  ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about  since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream  franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career  as far as film making style  and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience  and  as you read from the reaction of the user comments here  some like this decision  others find the style labouring  dull  and bewildering  i  ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head  but even franco himself  when quizzed by critics who watched   succubus    admitted that he didn  t even understand the film and he directed it  some might say that   succubus   was merely a precursor to his more admired work    venus in furs    considered his masterwork by franco faithful  because it also adopts the surreal  dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn  t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined  in a sense  like the protagonist  we are experiencing the same type of confusion  certainly    succubus   is unconventional film making where we aren  t given the keys to what is exactly going on  and  a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn  t help matters    succubus   is also populated by beatnik types and   poet speak    corman  s film    a bucket of blood   poked fun at  my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party  quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually  great locations and jazz score  i liked this film myself  although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction  loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna  a wee bit drunk  writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig   equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses             this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever  frank welker  welker makes the film  knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty  knotts works for a small   no where   town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials  when things go wrong the city fathers  allow knotts to take the fall  frank welker  s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott  s good name  this film shows the usual knott  s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film  this may have been knotts   last good outing  when you have an extra    minutes  get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon  don knotts             emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel  i have not read the book so i really didn  t know that much about the plot  and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot  there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing  the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it  of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny  gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma  the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better  ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here  alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here  and jeremy northam who  s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle  even if that was not what it needed  there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching             why do i hate this  let me list the ways  br    br   i have nothing against mary pickford but a    year old woman playing a    year old is just stupid  br    br   there  s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it  s considered funny   and it goes on for    minutes  br    br   strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br    br   the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br    br   for a   family   film the fights were way too violent  loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy   and the humor was just stupid  br    br   seriously     minutes in i gave up and turned it off  the slurs  racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me  also there was no plot that i could see  the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era  br    br   just painful  avoid             thank god this wasn  t based on a true story  because what a story it is  populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds  before the devil is a mesmerizing  jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable  and sometimes is  even with   or perhaps because of   the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout  if it weren  t carried out with such magnificent  overwhelming conviction by its stars  the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn  t hurt either  br    br   the main dysfunction here is of a family nature  with the two majorly screwed up brothers  brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke  deciding to rob their own parents   jewelry store  an attempt that goes pathetically awry  br    br   the story is told with time shifts  which are noted on screen  such as    charlie  two days before the robbery    so no one should be confused   some people have said they didn  t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly  adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair  considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks   between them you couldn  t make a decent poker hand to save your life  throw in these cheesy extra tidbits  one of the brothers is a drug addict  married to gina  marisa tomei  also excellent   who is having an affair with the other brother  toss in some monumental sibling rivalry  along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father  a wrenching performance from albert finney   who has apparently caused him serious past pain  and you  ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands  proceed with caution             if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives  this dvd delivers  you will learn new things guaranteed  so much so that you won  t need any other documentary  s on the subject  get this  watch it  learn from it  good for school use as well  as a bonus  watch this with tora tora tora  saving private ryan  patton  band of brothers  a bridge too far  the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete  sir laurence oliver  s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this    part series  seriously you won  t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject  perfect                  the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning  we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again  near the end of the movie  the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face  in the end  we follow them up the stairway to their final moment   br    br   the two criminals  performed by robert blake and scott wilson  as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town  hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith  the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town  this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else  evil  even the most vile  is part of the human condition  these two delusional men kill an entire family  looking for a safe that isn  t there  once on the run  they start writing bad cheques  carving out a trail for the authorities  br    br   there are many fine supporting actors  i like john forsyth as the detective on the case  alvin dewey  also  will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney  br    br   i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through  having only caught it in short snatches  i did finally get to it after buying the dvd  the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen  br    br   don  t miss this brilliant movie  to me  this is what great film making is all about             this is a great show with total freshness and innovation  that usual chair  couch for a woman  host  that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes  the same old jokes  the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer     probably the pattern of johnny carson  copied by one and all  latterman  leno  conan    daly  this show does not seem to have any of these  br    br   i fell in love with this show within the first    minutes and i am going to stick to it  though it  s too early to say that  this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project  and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest  i hope that this show will last long  br    br   returning back after months  i still love this show  and i love his self deprecating humor  for example  his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus  the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys  which  however  does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o  brien  for example  i know it  s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o  brien  s antics  but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness    br    br   i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it  ferensen  s spoof of trading spouses  and nanny     in an earlier episode  are hilarious  idiot paparazzi are fun  especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people  s pictures  and  if i am not mistaken  they start taking his pictures shouting   gary coleman    br    br   added on   th april        coming back once again  i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog  i cannot decide if it is a joke or a real thing  either way  it was funny as hell  br    br   i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages  but maybe he does  he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so  i would better write down my suggestion here for him  i would like him to do a full    minute show with crazy gideon  the star of late night tv commercial  i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike  s talk show  sing a song  and play guitar   do a skit in the line of snl  and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles  i know  crazy gideon may not be aware of this  but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la   br    br   god willing  br    br   returning back on   th july        someone wrote here that the people who praised spike  s talkshow must be bribed by spike  i confess that spike really bribed me  but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford             it  s all about getting what you want when you want it  and the message of bluebeard  s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for  until what you wish for wishes for you  br    br   most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn  t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue  misogynistic pirates aside  cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it  learning only too late that it wasn  t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert  through a twisted  in soul and in practice  business deal  he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her  but she will have none of it  literally  and frustrates him at every turn  and corner  and room  and tourist attraction  br    br   the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you  re not accustomed to  and may not enjoy seeing  in either cooper or colbert  the whole reason i watched the film was because they are   likable   actors  and the whole point of this movie is that they  re unlikable people  or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves  they think  from the world   br    br   if you can accept it on its own terms you  ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film   and satisfaction  as we said  is what it  s all about  such a movie with such a cast only comes around  after all  once in a   ummm   blue moon             now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i  m appalled  for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i  m afraid i don  t know what the world has come to  let me tell u something  i started watching many t v shows like lost  prison break  dexter  deadwood and even invasion  but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season  especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took   genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season  then we have the sopranos  i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season  and more importantly all of its episodes  there is no department that this show doesn  t excel in  acting  nothing short of superb  james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode  after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would  ve been the better choice  however after watching the first few episodes  i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony  the raw emotion he displays is superb  then we have everyone else  edie falco  michael imperioli  lorraine bracco  dominic chianese  whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part    and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie   walnuts   gualtieri and silvio dante  all of these actors perform to the best quality  and all giving an excellent performance in each episode  then we have the story  never have i been so sucked into a t v show before  the story is nothing short of excellent  each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic  i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of  its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence  but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television  and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show  not just say its too violent  or they feel that the character of tony is immoral  i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day  i don  t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god  i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me  you  ll be hooked from the very first episode  i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show  hooked on it  trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v  after you  ve watched the first season  you  ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television  and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos             i  d give this a negative rating if i could  i went into this movie not expecting much  but i had an open mind  the whole thing is stupid  the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson  oh how original  if i were a    year old boy i might laugh at that  i have no idea how this movie became so popular  seriously the worst thing i  ve ever seen  i wasn  t entertained  it wasn  t funny i wasn  t even bored  i wasn  t anything  it wasn  t even so bad it was good  it  s just bad  ridiculous actually  please do not waste your money on this movie  don  t even rent this movie  no clue how it  s getting such a high rating             most people are totally unaware that this movie exists  fox  which paid judge to make it  has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it  i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer  well  i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe  basically  judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin  then these stupid are getting more stupid  by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex  which produces more stupid people  by       a person of average intelligence today  will appear to be a genius  that talks   all faggy    seriously  is this really that hard to believe  oh sure  this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid  but still plausible  luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy  hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time  where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners  like   can we family style her   and   hey man  i  m   bating here    this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure  comfort and stupidity  and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over             this is a great  ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late   s   obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was  i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid  it doesn  t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown  s graveyard when i was ten  turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan  so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile  but i love it now  as a    year old  br    br   i bought this dvd used for   bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover  but to my surprise  it ruled  it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal  and you gotta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd  this movie is awesome  if you love   s metal and bad movies  this one  s for you                   while not quite as good as a murder is announced  which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book  this is an excellent adaptation  and you know what  it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version  now i don  t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations  two or three of them were surprisingly good  but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script  a confusing final solution or both  the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace  and both of the above problems  and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations  worst being sittaford mystery  which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing  this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement  it not only respects the book  despite a few liberties  but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had  despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating  more to do with how he was written than how he was acted  and one or two moments of sluggish pacing  this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book  it is beautifully filmed  with nice photography and period detail  and the music as always is excellent  the performances are wonderful this time around  and make the most of an in general well done script  with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple  and solid turns from liz fraser  helen cherry  joanna hole and anna cropper  margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde  overall  well worth watching  better than the recent version in pretty much all departments       bethany cox            good lord  what were they thinking         here is your spoiler warning  even though i don  t think it  ll really matter  you won  t be seeing this piece of trash anyway  br    br   a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people  who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them  and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies  in other words  the whole thing is really stupid  br    br   you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can  t save something   and they didn  t  i know  some of their lines were funny  like what to add to the sign   hit   and the hand comments  but  geez  this was pretty dang sad  br    br   all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud  it is not worth your eyes             i had heard  and read  so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series  like entourage  sopranos or mad men  but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one   didn  t make it past the first six episodes   br    br   the writing was unoriginal  contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing  the dialog felt forced  like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip   it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh  br    br   the characters never developed enough for me to care about them  they were selfish and unappealing  i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law  who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator  and the removal of the hodes   daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich    i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer  s loyalty  br    br   episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn  t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line  br    br   add to that i heard that season two wasn  t as good  so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out  br    br   if you  re a fan of good casting and writing  i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like  unless of course you  re stoned and then all bets are off             this movie is among my favorite foreign films  some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog  the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films  is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson   br    br   in japan  a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life  sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio  in the instant that it takes his train to pass  he is enthralled by her  but is it only by her beauty  by her faraway glance  or a connection that they will both discover that they share   br    br   shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance  breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society  they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away  it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and  in itself  transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be             as if the film were not of value in itself  this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it  in the summer of      i saw the film in nyc  that fall in graduate school  i read the book for the first time  some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film  and for better or worse  and i  ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades  milo o  shea is still leopold bloom             this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution  it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love   br    br   the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film  dreaming of julia makes much more sense  it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people  s daily lives and pursuits  that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history  br    br   the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could  br    br   the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies  but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love   br    br   the revolution  like the film julie  never seems to have an ending             i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment  its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey     s  it  s politics too upfront and ridiculous  and let  s face it  i was still under a love spell known as blowup   and i still haven  t completely shaken it  now the   love   is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and  oh well       good luck to me  br    br   but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me  i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age  and zp is it  s own   experience  and is only really linked to blowup through its creator  the late great mr  antonioni  br    br   twelve years ago  i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print  projected at its correct size  immense   restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape  to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared  it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness  and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of   place    br    br   what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own  br    br   i remember the second time around seeing it     the early   s     i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular  whereas  before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli  s olivia and leonard  read  romeo and juliet they now were engaging me     particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality  she took her time       to live  everything  everything dies around her  br    br   upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found   enjoyment    the encroaching shoulder padded  big haired   s whispered   but that  s a hippie fantasy     let it go   br    br   the force of antonioni  s vision had  i had realised  already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered     s   with an   uh huh   and guarded my   love   secretly  possessively and jealously  br    br   but  this  then is what good art does it lives inside of you  and  if you wish it has its way and   loves   you back  secretly  jealously  and possessively  and you get   changed    br    br   was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup  undoubtedly  zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment  but  hey  sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all  br    br   today reality hit  zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice  s restaurant  br    br   so  it is still too   difficult    too   disturbing    too   what    br    br   maybe it  s that  as with all good art  it lives while everything dies around it   br    br   peace             very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story  but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice  gruesome make up effects  daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl  carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of     nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she  s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf  she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital  she escapes again  however  and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives  doctors and relatives  it  s all pretty to look at and listen too  really great soundtrack   but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast  luckily enough  leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire  the film is too long  too weird and too forgettable  the biggest surprise comes at the end  when suddenly and out of the blue  director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts  yeah  right               this is an interesting  hard to find movie from the early     s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn  t make the cut as a marine  dressed in   baby blue   outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home  the failed recruits are sent packing  vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine   raider    gere  s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion  and he takes advantage of vincent  s innocence  stealing his   baby blue   uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway  vincent  s character  whose name is marion  takes gere  s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine   raider    marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town  in the local caf   he meets rose hudkins  who immediately catches his eye  staying with hudkins parents  marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks  mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine   raider   could still be so innocent  the story also brings up the japanese internment camps  as the towns folks go   hunting     escapees  marion is shot accidentally during this hunt  but there  s still a happy ending  which befuddled me a bit  i would have preferred a little more drama  anyway  this captures jmv at the peak of his     s performances  buster and billie  baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid     s were amazingly good jmv performances  he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time    he made a lot of quality movies during his career  and continued to do so up into the mid     s with the great tv show airwolf  he does a very good job in this as   hedge    quietly observing the way people treat him  in his uniform  as he travels across the country  he must have performed some of the stunt work as well  there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he  s the guy getting tossed down the river to me  but really  at the height of his popularity  this movie could have done so much more with jmv  s talent and his looks  innocence can only be so interesting  evil  as explored in   buster and billie    is much more dramatic  anyway  glynnis o  connor is delightful as rose  the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting  the outdoor scenes are gorgeous   must have been filmed in canada             johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories  the music is great  you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like  i  ve been there too   and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion  cash  s narration is good too  br    br   but     br    br      the actor who played jesus was miscast     there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music     because it is uncompelling  i doubt we  ll see this ever widely distributed again  br    br   i  d love to buy the cd  br    br   tom paine texas  usa            j  niksen vuosi is one of jarva  s most political movies  it takes stance strongly against modern day society  s authority status in the life of the common man  and how it has estranged men from the nature completely  it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society  br    br   vatanen  antti litja    smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations   tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland   only to realize that the concept of a   free country   isn  t all that unambiguous  in other words  the society has the common man by the balls  br    br   still the thing that makes j  niksen vuosi so exceptional   besides the visual and humouristic brilliance   is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the     s  as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation  vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness  since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns  the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j  niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving             i love jamie foxx  br    br   and i enjoy     of all movies i see  br    br   and i walked out of this one  br    br   now  i admit  it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing    oh no  jamie  s knocking on a door  hee hee hee      but    this was just so incredibly annoying  there could be no sustained camera shot  and no camera shot from a conventional angle    everything had to be in your face  loud  and annoying  br    br   the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like  but at this point  it  s just old and tired  he brought nothing new or interesting  from all the characters  too many lines you saw coming  too many you  ve heard before  and too many   tough guy   lines    and i don  t mind that sort of thing  really  as long as there  s a bit of originality to it  in fact  pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked  br    br   i love jamie foxx  and i think he  s really funny  and i thought he was funny in this movie    but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else   br    br   this movie needed less shoot em up  less annoying camera shots  more emotion  more feeling  and more jamie foxx  i gave it a               after seeing dick tracy in the       bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies  i was very surprised to see a very fun  smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout  the movie moves along well  it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty  but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna  i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city  madonna was great as the damsel in distress  she really impressed me and added depth to her performance  if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun  smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try  i don  t think you will be disappointed  and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino  james caan  kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others            send them to the freezer  this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh  an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film  the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile   if you can stand it  definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive            wow  i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in   trainspotting    this is a phenomenal movie  it has action  romance  suspense  intrigue and wit  when i wasn  t laughing  i was at the edge of my seat  this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the   th century  this film has everything to keep me happy             i don  t know why some people criticise that show so much  br    br   it is a great  funny show   probably not the right material for mainstream prime time  but still    br    br   the family dynamics are funny  and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows  the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious  the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried   roy jibes are only just above average  but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing  br    br   this show was well worth the   pounds i paid for it  br    br   rating                  mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna  erika fay  lives  her best friend is rosie  martine hughes    she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel  gabriel gutierrez  who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town  killing livestock   several residents including some of their friends  local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra  an evil creature from myth   legend  erm  i  m struggling now because not that much else actually happens    br    br   written   directed by scott maginnis i won  t beat about the bush here   simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful  period  the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once   the rest of the time it  s referred to a chupacabra  in fact i suspect this wasn  t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all  the   werewolf   creature looks mostly hairless   more like some vicious dog  there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon   it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions  there is no transformation scene   at the end when it is killed it doesn  t change back into anyone either  to be honest apart from the title there  s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all   even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london         this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre  how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead         the evil dead         halloween        or friday the   th        which were all made on shoe string budgets  maybe the blair witch project        but that  s it in recent years   crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic  the character  s are awful   things just happen around them  the dialogue is rubbish  the pacing is terrible  the story sucks   virtually sent me to sleep   as a whole this film is just crap  i  m sorry but i don  t know how else to describe it  br    br   director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable  there  s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache   quick   blink   you  ll miss something   editing which just annoys   irritates in equal measure  it  s not scary  there  s no nudity  there  s no tension or atmosphere   the special effects are awful  the monster really does look poor   it  s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it  there  s virtually no colour to the picture either  it  s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well  the gore consists of some fake guts  blink   you  ll miss them    a few bloody wounds   a severed arm  big deal  br    br   with a supposed budget of about          i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film  there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far  the whole thing has the look of a home movie  it has no style   is throughly bland   dull to look at  the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that  br    br   mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it  s a sequel to john landis   classic which it most certainly isn  t   it isn  t even a proper werewolf flick either  don  t be fooled this is awful   i  m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this             i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a       s culture clash movie  john wayne would hardly be one  s first choice as a cultural attache  being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods  but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona  and he accomplished his task with style  the duke was a guy who really could act well  his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle  br    br   despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time  he failed to dominate this movie  many of his good intentions came a cropper  he had authority over nobody  and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian  br    br   the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles  i cannot comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well  there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props  the set pieces were complex and detailed  a lot of money and thought had been applied to it  br    br   the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element  and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort  script was good without being too wordy  there was a great deal of japanese dialogue  but the lengthy periods of translation didn  t interfere with the narrative  it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set  whether or not they were japanese  i couldn  t say  but anyway they looked the part  at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians  unlike other efforts such as   blood alley    yes  i know they were chinese    the inn of the sixth happiness   or even   the king and i    br    br   frankly  i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies  the script was better for a start  i never liked the songs in   the king and i    and wasn  t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of   blood alley    i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke  s more popular outings  br    br   recommended             i was so glad i came across this short film  i  m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across  so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards  i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for  br    br   the plot is pretty simple  the director  writer  and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals  the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy  br    br   it  s a well made short film  well edited and the actors all do a great job  and the last shot of the film is perfect  br    br   i highly recommend this film             i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one  but when i started with it i found it really awful  they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think     of the movie is shot in india  you can see indian made cars  you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand   hindi written on the road  you can also see temples in afghanistan  hahah  its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan  i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie   pure time waste   i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don  t watch this waste of time            truly appalling waste of space  me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about    minutes from the end  and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand  br    br   the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring  i wouldn  t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from       for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone  i mean seriously  the police would be beating his door down in minutes  the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river  it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film  the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters  oh and what   characters   they are  the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful  he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed  after    or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character  he is neither sympathetic nor hateful  just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene  his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery  is he happy  is he sad  angry  no idea  just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh  and the native american theme is just awful and pointless  br    br   the good guys are at best unlikeable  a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype  cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy    you aren  t going to shoot me   that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying  br    br   the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character  which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated  br    br   roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown  you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke  s  or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves  realistic female characters ftw   br    br   in summary a complete mess of a film  hopeless characterisations and performances  a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction  and ultimately extremely dull  its not even comedy bad either  laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first    turgid minutes of the film             in this movie  ch  vez supporters  either venezuelan and not venezuelan  just lie about a dramatic situation in our country   br    br   they did not say that the conflict started because of ch  vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues  br    br   they did not say anything about more than    tv interruptions transmitted by ch  vez during only   days in   cadena nacional    a kind of confiscation o private tv signals   each one with about    minutes of duration  br    br   they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero  inspector general of the army forces  who is a traditional supporter of ch  vez  even now  in despite of his announcement  he is the ministro de interior y justicia  after ch  vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa  equals to defense secretary in us   br    br   they did not say anything about ch  vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections  br    br   they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch  vez supporters  either civilians and military official forces   br    br   they present some facts in a wrong order  in order to lie  br    br   they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch  vez actions in order to avoid the elections  br    br   that  s why i tell you     this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie             one could wish that an idea as good as the   invisible man   would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects  but this is not the case  the story  the characters and  finally the entire last    minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early     s  there are some great moments  mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets  but alas  soon we  re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab  which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable  but schematic  br    br   there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past    years  and some of them have their charms  but it  s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol   classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven  who does have his moments  is a very bad one  it is obvious that the money is the key issue here  the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough  and as a result    hollow man   is seriously undermined with clich  s  sappy characters  predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever  br    br   however  the one thing that actually impressed me  beside the special effects  was the swearing  when making this kind of film  modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them  therefore  the language  and  sometimes  the violence and sex  is very toned down  when the whole world blows up  the good guys go   oh darn    and   oh my god      hollow man   gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them  i  m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear   but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears  i think we can thank verhoeven for that             ok  so it owes pulp fiction  but in my opinion has it  s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style  sketch like narrative and great performances  thomas jane delivers great  the drug dealer show down is extraordinary   aaron eckhart likewise  james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor   they got the wong house    the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable  as is mickey rourke  s cameo appearance   take a peak    br    br   great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke   br    br   well  take a peak  it  s worth             as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal  i  d agree with him  this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him  oscar and bafta winning  and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor  in a wheelchair and carried by his family  he has a special left foot though  he can write with it  paint with it and hold things with it  he learns to speak later in the film  it is very good for a guy like him  also starring home alone    s oscar winning  and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs  brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr  brown  it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan  best writing  screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture  it was nominated the baftas for best film  best make up artist and best adapted screenplay  daniel day lewis was number    on the     greatest movie stars  he was number    on the    greatest british actors  he was number   on britain  s finest actors  and he was number    on the world  s greatest actor  and the film was number    on the    greatest british films  outstanding             all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes  and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance  but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better  all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future  and there wasn  t  i  ll admit to not finishing the film  i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get  and i quote    more tail than any man in the past time    i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself  but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested  and they failed  this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance  instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i  m not against lesbians  thank you mr  director  someone please give me a redeeming quality    wait i have it  there  s no sequel             i do regret that i have bought this series  i expected more action  more objective picture and more consistency  this is just a pure propaganda series  very dark  without any charm  or romanticism  it is just boredom itself  i find the actors work quite weak as well  o  donnell might seem charming as robin  with batman   but in this picture he lacks any charm  probably while he becomes older  he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up  it comes as no surprise  that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for     of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands             the story has been told before  a deadly disease is spreading around    but the extra in this film is peter weller  his interpretation of muller on the run is real  he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child  this person could be working next to you             this film was very well advertised  i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months  while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be  my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it  then i went and saw it  i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie  i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in  plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie  i always go into a movie with an open mind  not trying to go into them with too many expectations  but this movie was not that funny  now it wasnt the worst movie i  ve ever seen  but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo  if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it  but for true comedy fans id say pass  maybe even check out the kings of comedy again  something told me to go see meet the parents instead               as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies  it  s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture  too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world  i can only hope that people watch this by accident  by recommendation or other    br    br   because it  s really worth while  i left the cinema feeling really sad  i couldn  t get the tragic destiny  s of the characters out of my head  and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film  not only was it a tragic story  it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack  br    br   if you have the opportunity  watch it  it  s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot  br    br               very typical almod  var of the time and  in its own way  no less funny than many of his later works  and why is that  there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about  and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional  no  the great humor stems from an underlying  almost surreal  absurdity that is woven into the scenery  the characters   nearly complete lack of taboo  it  s the same kind of   comic suspense   you find in his later works  though you  ll find it in a more rough version here  he  s building up for masterpieces to come  but is not yet there  br    br   the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did  claimed that it had to be a   very select   group of people who  d find this movie hilarious  i do             once again  doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load  it has humour    you  re just making it up as you go along      yup  but i do it brilliantly     action  monsters  in this case still more kick ass cybermen   tragedy and scare tactics  in short  just what the doctor ordered  pun intended   the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of   get on with it    so  chalk up   out of the last   episodes that have made you laugh  then made you cry  and made you go   eek    br    br   in terms of character development  this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke  s mickey  and ricky   being one of the doctor  s companions  you know that he will do the right thing  and may even suspect the manner that he does it  however  it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path  br    br   while   the rise of the cybermen   had more of the sinister build up to terror    the age of steel   is an all out blast  like   alien   compared to   aliens     both true classics  but in different ways  can the series keep it up at this level  let  s hope so             a brother  s promise is a wonderful family film  this is a biography of dan jansen  a champion olympic speed skater  the movie depicts this athlete  s life from a young age through full adulthood  the love and support of the family members is evident throughout  how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us  the commitment and determination of dan  s coach and his teammates  shows what it takes to make a real team  how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating  the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives  this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age             well   now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his   house of       corpses   crapfest  i can now rest in peace  nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in   the house of seven corpses    but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot  ha   anyway  to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode  in hell house  sorry  i don  t remember the actual name of the residence   a bunch of mysterious  unexplained deaths took place long ago  some  like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine  whose small role provides the film  s only worthwhile moments   attribute it to the supernatural  bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum  the result comes across like   satan  s school for girls    catchy title  made for tv production values  intriguing plot  crossed with   children shouldn  t play with dead things    low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead   trouble is  it  s nowhere near as entertaining or fun    the house of seven corpses   is dead at frame one  and spends the rest of its    minutes going through rigor mortis  dragging us along for every aching second               director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria        was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you  re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he  s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he  s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney  but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you  re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this             i took my    year old to see this movie  we left after    or    minutes  it was absolutely awful  this movie should be rated r at the least  i am not that strict with movies but  this was just too much  it was a waste of money  i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but  this was way beyond crude  i was sitting there watching and reading  a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me  and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was  i could not believe that it would be ok for a    year old to read and see this content  i don  t understand how the rating system works               i loved this film  i thought it would be easy to watch  and easy to forget  i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd  obv not easily forgotten  br    br   the script is brilliant  and the casting couldn  t be more perfect  each character has their moment  and i laughed hard throughout this film  comedic timing was spot on  br    br               it  s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs  it  s not available on dvd   but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection  br    br   i can  t understand how the talented mr  rickman gets into these mediocre films  judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors  an interesting plot and intriguing twists  but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama  many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character  s actions  why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses  why did he mistrust the detective he replaced  there were times when i honestly couldn  t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof  why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes  that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby    did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors  alan rickman and emma thompson  to use such awful new orlean  s accents  as an alan freak  i confess that i still thought mr  rickman was sexy  in a rumpled  weary    take him home and tuck him in   sort of way  br    br   judas kiss isn  t a great movie  but it does have some intriguing moments  but i don  t recommend it unless you  re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman             first of all  i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary  not only it had great music in it  but the shots and the editing were also wonderful  however  all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist   east meets west   clich   that bothers many turks like myself  okay  this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing  something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds  however  the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as   east   from the eyes of the   west    i mean  like one jazz musician says in the film  maybe there is no east and west  maybe it is just a myth  a lie created by the ruling leaders of   western   countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and   keep the cash flowing     br    br   why don  t you think about that             stmd  is not a terrible movie  but it is quite forgettable  the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest  so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain  special effects are imaginative  but obvious  the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there  of course  along with the archetypical teenagers  but the whole movie just doesn  t gel  what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor  br    br   i can  t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie  i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor  but these are sadly lacking in this film             first off  i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen  its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie  its just awful  me and my friend who love action movies  independence day  jurassic park  lotr  etc  went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons  mindless entertainment  all we got was a mindless hour and a half  the cg was not as bad as i was expecting  but the plot is so awful along with the acting  it made up for it  its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every     years   sounds like a good remake of rain of fire  no  the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes  but with magic  and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes  it just gets ridiculous  the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail  me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all   of the audience   and cant believed we spent money on this  the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest  i  ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian  the cave  spider  and others  but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour  watch this  br    br   story       cg       acting      br    br   i don  t drink   but it would have helped before watching this movie            i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie  but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie  the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman  was one of the most unique  yet entertaining characters in recent memory  this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience  it made me laugh  made me sad  made me feel alive  and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie  it takes no time to understand what is going on  and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine  human emotion  i thought i knew my history  apparently i didn  t know it at all  i give this move   out of     and recommend it for all adults  and young adults  and the young at heart  just not the young  but as soon as they are allowed to see   r   rated movies  make it a priority             i must have seen this a dozen times over the years  i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b   w on the local pbs station  br    br   i bought a dvd set for the children to see  and am making them watch it  they don  t teach history in school  and this explains the most critical event of the   th century  it expands their critical thinking  br    br   impartially  with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why  it details what lead up to the war and the actual war  br    br   buy it for your children  along with alistair cooke  s america  watch it with them  and make them understand  you  ll be so glad you did             steven seagal  s films of late have not exactly been good  but this is by far the worst since the patriot  the plot makes no sense what so ever  it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are  who works for who or who is double crossing who  the film is completely disjointed  each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward  even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow  most of the blame must lie at the director  s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making  but seagal does not get off lightly  as one of the producers of this film  he must also share the blame  oh  and i haven  t even mentioned how awful the acting is  even by seagal standards  even as straight to video fodder  this is not worth a view even for seagal fans  give it a wide berth             and i for one think that is a good thing  i  ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie  but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this  br    br   as for the rest of the production  i think it was slightly less than the original movie  one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out   hey  it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah    and although i missed it  i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy  br    br   i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage  it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre  not just at the movies  br    br   i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song   let me entertain you    which becomes completely annoying after about the  th time you hear it             so real and surreal  all in one  i remember feeling like tessa  heck  i remember being tessa  this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending  i especially liked the protesters tangent  it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it  if you get the chance to see this  take it  it is well worth the    minutes             thank god i watched this at a friend  s place and did not pay for it  the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show  if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics  watch out  you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence   br    br   also  actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen  excluding porn  she  s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent  he  s the one that carries the movie   br    br   i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie  it  s a shame that they got to call it a sequel  because i was a fan of the original  which was actually pretty good             a friend lent me this dvd  which he got from the director at a festival  i think  i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great  so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie  br    br   the standouts where the actors  youssef kerkor was really good as ernie  the main character  kind of pathetic in a likable way  adam jones  who also directed  and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad  the bill character  justin lane   who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda  was by far my favorite  he seemed the least one dimensional  and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd  really kind of lovable  and very funny  some of the other acting was good  some was so so  but none of it was bad  i also really liked the vigilante duo  ridiculous and funny  br    br   i  m giving this one high marks  even though it has some issues  because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared  and decided to make their movie their way  well done to adam jones and crew             shawshank  godfather  pulp fiction    all good films  great films  but nothing  and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all  santa claus  br    br   the film is so great and has so many messages  i cried while watching it  seriously  this is one of those movies you need to watch    times  when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream  we see the sadness in his eyes  and we feel the deep sorrow  and then we wonder    what is so bad about this ice cream  is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil  think movie makes you think  br    br   this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever  unlike other santas  he is a normal person  we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams  and we wonder  is the santa we believe in really that good  also  this santa actually mentions christ  the whole meaning behind christmas  br    br   you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece  we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic       whether it  s christmas or not  this movie gets a         whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool            i really cant think of anything good to say about this film   not a single thing  the script is a nightmare   the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference  you d think they would at least get a technical advisor  the performances were bad by most of the cast    although i dont really blame them   the material really stinks  the editing was equally bad   i ll just stop now   its all bad                cinema  s greatest period started in post war europe with italy  s neo realist movement  during the next   or   decades that followed  france  s new wavers caught everyone  s attention  and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere  making bitter masterpieces  but in       luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle  geographically speaking  with his miraculous work  death in venice   which might as well be called  the death of europoean cinema   after the sixties wound down  so did the great european filmmakers  who  with some exceptions  generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats  coppola  scorsese    co    this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up  not just of visconti  s particular obsessions  but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies  and rest assured  you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here  he  s not playing to the crowd  folks  either you get behind him and follow along  or you get left behind  the pacing is a challenge  slow  but never without emotional weight    incidents   are few and far between  but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos  br    br   we will probably never be in such rarefied company again  in terms of the movies  one of the century  s great writers who inspired the tale  thomas mann   one of the greatest filmmakers directing it  visconti   one of the greatest actors in the lead role  dirk bogarde   and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background  gustav mahler  s  th symphony  taking full advantage of mahler  s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast  visconti changes the main character  aschenbach  into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer  even making bogarde up to look like mahler  geeky mustache  specs  shaggy hair  duck like walk   bogarde  by the way  delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies  it  s a largely silent performance  and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance    a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse  br    br   cinema just doesn  t get better than this  i  ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it  s too slow  but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach  s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced  the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie  s thematic concerns  i e   which is the better path to aesthetic perfection  passion or discipline    and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers   of course  some viewers will sleep through this movie  anyway   a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful  dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture  but this movie is actually about something  and what it  s mostly about is suffering  romantic  capital r  suffering  in particular  as a suffering romantic himself  visconti knew whereof he spoke  br    br    spoiler       i guess  if for nothing else  see  death in venice  for its portentous opening credits       and for its unforgettable ending  with bogarde  s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty  dying head and onto his chalk white face  meanwhile  off in the distance  young tadzio  the object of bogarde  s dying desire  stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture  the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about  love  lust  beauty  loss  the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life  and cold death in the midst of warm  sunny beauty   death in venice  is a miraculous work of art   br    br    dvd tip  as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece  the damned   i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie  it  s ostensibly in english  but the dvd  s sound seems muddy and there  s a lot of italian spoken during the film  anyway    br    br               this is a stereotype plot  a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school  this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight  br    br   the fights are not of high standards  they are way too   simple   in a way that     is simple to every adult  the fighter has trained and enters the ring  but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking  the coach yells do this and do that with no success  and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once  this results in a turning point in the fight  although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point  think about the rocky movies and you  ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes  the fights are also shot poorly  br    br   there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance  cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment  br    br   these guys really could have made some quality entertainment  but the director wasn  t up to the task  or the other crew in my opinion  maybe they had a small budget  i don  t know  but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of   out of                this production was quite a surprise for me  i absolutely love obscure early   s movies  but i wasn  t prepared for the last    minutes of this story  if  by any chance  you  re not convinced in the first half  hang in there for the finale  of course  you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical  a fascinating viewing experience  but i think the cat  s paw is not available on video dvd yet  watch your pbs listings             it isn  t too bad  but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has  br    br   the jokes are few and far between  the actors are attractive  they shouldn  t be   the film makers think far too much about the cinematography  it  s supposed to look like a home video  and it  s just like a serious version of kath and kim    it  s stupid  br    br   it  s too normal to be kath and kim  kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy  middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes  there are no   look at me kimmy    jokes  the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she  s not even slightly stupid  she  s a stereotypical black latino chick  br    br   it  s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series  it doesn  t compare  nothing is the same  i admit  this show is pretty funny at times  but it is not anything like the aussie series  i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family  they failed  it  s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious  but the actors don  t act stupid  to me  this is just a typical american tv show  it  s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show  br    br     stars because it is an okay show  just nothing like what it should be             from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated   hillybilly horror   sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks  sound familiar  well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre  there is absolutely new here  the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich  s  deformed hicks  a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show  the rebellious daughter  the one   freak   who  s good at heart  etcetera      but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time  this is forgettable dreck  but humorously enough lead j d  hart once starred in a movie called   films that suck   earlier in his career  quite an ironic omen indeed  br    br   my grade  d             as a huge baseball fan  my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears  dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher  it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much   disney   for my taste             this film takes you on one family  s impossible journey  and makes you feel every step of their odyssey  beautifully acted and photographed  heartbreakingly real  its last line  with its wistful hope  is one of the more powerful in memory             stupid  stupid  stupid  i can not stand ben stiller anymore  how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me  i can  t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i  d get fired and i own the company     i would have to fire myself  god  this movie was just a plain  steaming  stinking pile of poo  that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible  something else i have to say the guideline about    lines of text in a comment is idiotic  what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie  i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary             this show is great for many reasons  the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age  its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family  i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching  this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy  sexy  drugs  bad dates death etc  the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way  great show for the family   i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off  great pg    rated show i loved everybit of this show             this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped  though i will concede that the ideas behind   batman forever   were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director  as it turned out this was not to be the case  br    br   apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out  apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton  and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series  i fail to understand how   batman returns   can be considered at all disappointing  br    br   true  it is not quite the equal of the first film   though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in   batman    a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film  yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film  true to the way the batman was always meant to be  and highly satisfying  br    br   michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne  tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck  christopher walken  named in honour of the     s german silent actor   his partner in crime oswald cobblepot  the penguin  danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier  s   richard iii     and selina kyle  the catwoman  michelle pfeiffer   whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman  the four principals turn in excellent performances  especially walken and devito  while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities  br    br   there are some intriguing concepts in this film  about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places  which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight  there simply isn  t enough time to properly explore what  s going on  br    br   nevertheless  this is a damn good film  i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first  and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton             the quick and the undead is  finally  the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void  it is  essentially  one gigantic plot hole  br    br   aside from that  the acting was quite bad  character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn  t a single character worth hanging our hat on  the most interesting cast member  who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist  got snuffed halfway through the proceedings  br    br   what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing  it looked excellent  when you take into account budget considerations  br    br   unfortunately  it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns  most notably the good  the bad and the ugly  and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie      you know  they have movies where characters do this  does it fit here  no  but who cares  they do it in other movies so i should do it here     br    br   maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists  first year film schoolers   otherwise  a must miss             i was stunned by this film  afterwards  i didn  t even want to see any films for a long time  any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison  br    br   for many  it may be the worst of antonioni  very slow  without an engaging conventional story line  microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions  and the worst of wenders  verbose  confused transcendentalism  it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders   typical meandering hero  s stream of consciousness  so it doesn  t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema  br    br   but for fans  the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film  wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things  br    br               am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces  a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera  by the time he returns  still no senior cops  socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie   this is new york isn  t it    it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence  only after she  d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene  br    br   i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images   the horror continues   not in the film itself  pretty ordinary i  m afraid  but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington  this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who  instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners  entrusts the work to an untrained cop  a rookie cop  who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible  now that was a bright idea eh  i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable  br    br   i have given this film      for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie  s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended             the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium  not only a movie but an incredible future vision  this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies  hail and kill             this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i  ve seen in full  the first was rope  which i really enjoyed  with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free  whereas rope took place all in one room  i didn  t enjoy this one as much as rope but that  s not saying this is a bad film  it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more  br    br   it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones  as a thriller  i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states  the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension  the sound design is almost non existent  you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them  but the important things are missing  the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve  the need of music to amp of the tension  all missing  intentional no doubt  yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene  then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside  br    br   the film doesn  t feel like it should either  they are almost globe trotting from place to place  yet it feels more confined  the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving  br    br   the performances are there  but nothing amazing  everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page  the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work  the one stand out is otto kruger  who has that rich  ego  evil persona down pat  br    br   in the end  i wanted more from this one  i understand it  s one of hitchcock  s least exciting films  but i did have a good time watching it  i can recommend it  just not enthusiastically             it is always difficult to bring a     pages book down to a three hours film  i read the book before  and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible  the qualities of the book haven  t been lost  the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the     s  the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up  the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking  the unexpected and surprising twists of the story  the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue  s point of view then from maud  s one  the main actors do very good  and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed  with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other  because they still love each other  br    br   for each of her books the author  sarah waters  has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british   th century  while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements  in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits  in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research  this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth  i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere  vivid emotions  and suspense             this is one of my all time favorite cheap  corny  vampire b movies   br    br   calvin klein underwear model   oh  i mean  stefan the good vampire  returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty  but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans  having killed their father the vampire king  radu now sets his sights on stefan  stefan  s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends  and the all powerful bloodstone  br    br   okay  the scenery is beautiful  and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes  the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker  but who cares  there  s only one reason to watch this movie  and his name is radu  he  s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie  all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day  the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film  as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning  slobbering face for the world to see  i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother  but maybe i  m just a sicko  questionable taste in men aside  i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts  it  s original  it  s fun  and radu is one of the best vampires i  ve seen in a long time   much more fun than the stiff  tragic  whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days  radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes  he  s what a vampire should be             let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts  and i do indeed know they exist  i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there  br    br   what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this  people forget there is more than one   bible    thousands of religions and beliefs  and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible  not everyone believes in god  and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion   br    br   religion does not make everything fact  one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within    you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time  slavery is ok  and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances  none of this    oh that was the old testament  and now we have the new testament    if the bible is the word of god  and cannot be changed  there should be no changes  or versions  religion is full of misinterpretations  mixed facts  and people who so blindly follow it that there    is no other way    the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic  or they themselves cannot explain the discrepancies properly  and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher   br    br   but anyhow  onto the review  i am a decent fan of   ghost hunters   and when i heard this show was coming soon  i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential  as much as i like watching   ghost hunters    i do not like some of their members  and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted  yet cannot explain anything that is going on  just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up  does not mean the camera filming the show did not  i am glad they are skeptical  but it  s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not  if ghosts were that easy to capture  it would be known as a fact  not a belief  it  s more of a   right place at the right time   kind of thing  as well as if there is something there  what makes you think it  s going to   perform   for you  this show is kind of silly  it  s usually boring  and there is lots of talk  lots of psychics  yet hardly anything happens  the main guy  s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to  or is basically not needed  br    br   also  the reliance on psychics is too abundant  as i believe very few of them are actually gifted  silvia brown is one i definitely believe in  but most are sometimes hard to believe  br    br   i really wanted to like this show  but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed             for a long time    the menagerie   was my favorite   star trek   episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by   city on the edge of forever    what i used to prefer about   menagerie   was that it  s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline  i still think it  s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode  though the   new   part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others  and us  to watch the pilot  the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one  you can poke holes in the plot if you want  for instance  given the talosians   mind control abilities and captain pike  s condition  why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet  and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez    best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st  s only two parter             coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other  better  movies  yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching  robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist  ha ha  who goes on a killing spree in the desert  the film is unusual  but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience  it becomes alienating and off putting  with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating   an admittedly bravura finale  many quirky bits of business  and forster looking great in the nude  make this a curiosity item  nothing more  veteran movie director irvin kershner produced  and maybe should directed as well  could paul chart be a pseudonym         from                 when it was released this film caused a sensation  i watched it and was thrilled  beautiful  usually young  naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography  his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie  today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed  the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes  all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses  actually is all there is  there is no real story  the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies  but they are not real creatures with a soul  actually nothing happens  it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills  and this gets so boring after a while  i even didn  t watch the whole thing the second time  for i fell vast asleep  that is all that remains of this masterpiece  it is a very good sleeping pill  and you will never become addicted to it  br    br   back then   out of     now   out of               largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman   employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren  s missing sister  br    br   despite its connection to the cannibal movie family  this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona  s   guyana   crime of the century    lenzi clearly aims to exploit the  at that time  topical jonestown massacre  by depicting a rogue  self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania  played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov  leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion  with sister in toe  kerman   agren attempt to stop the rot  but after several failed coups  they end up fleeing into the   green inferno    only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites  br    br   one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties  where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor  by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures  this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others  but with much less success  br    br   was it the so called   amazonian natives   who looked like they were bollywood rejects  this film was made on location in sri lanka   or the inept   decapitation   and   castration   scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in   cannibal holocaust    you can decide  without spoiling the conclusion  it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending  where all loose ends are resolved  most unsatisfying  br    br   as with the others  where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited  thankfully   the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks  unfortunately  the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk  that deal with the subject matter more convincingly  br    br   if there are any redeemable features at all  kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man  and his bevy of scantily clad co stars  agren  lai and senatore  provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings             get smart should be titled get stupid  there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film  this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean  a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye  as for anne hathaway  what is she doing in this film  she  s a good actress but is just plain terrible  br    br   the writing is pathetically lame  there is not one funny  clever  or witty line  there is not one good sight gag  br    br   the directing is terrible  comedy relies on timing  someone should tell the director that  every line that is supposed to be funny  and isn  t  is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i  ve ever seen  br    br     stars            herculis puaro is  in general  a well established   hero   we know well from books and movies  this movie or this story don  t work and i felt its not agatha  s mistake  the cast isn  t good  the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures  the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything  even arab clothes  look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama  the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic  the scenes are  as said before  perfect and looking fake  the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond     woman in the iraqi desert   the   victim   is not likable            how can so many blundering decisions can be made  all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation  are you kidding  it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well            this was by far the worst movie i  ve ever seen  and thats compared to alexander  fortress   and the new world  br    br   i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience  for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen  i didn  t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age  i was wrong  while typing this message  i  ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie  a joke present at xmas  i  m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it  thanks babe  br    br   be warned       a true shocker all round                  if you  ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much  as i did  that you just have to see the movie  understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut  s writing   that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself  and that you can  t put a human mind on the screen  his whit and humor just cannot be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance  i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book  but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen  does this mean that the movie misses the mark  of course not  in my opinion  the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book  this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page   it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america  s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense  i  ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut  s genius and loses grip on his own craft  i would not place this movie as one of the best i  ve seen  but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching  by taking vonnegut  s   voice   out of the movie  s narration or trying to insert it however it can  mother night tells his story brilliantly  and preserves the story  s fundamental lessons without confusion  distraction  or disappointment             this is one of the worst movies  i  ve ever seen  not only  that it is a comedy  which isn  t funny  but it  s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects  br    br   the two   heroes   with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot  that they touched each others genitals all the time  but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal  by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the   heroes    which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their   joyful   lifestyle      but i hadn  t expect anything better by director michael   bully   herbig  who also made two not funny tv shows  a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie  but erkan and stefan had been  just a little  better in some of their stand up programs  for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel  who is very beautiful to me             i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time   but dear gussie  whoever thought this script was worth producing  the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad  with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes  an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face  looks like a bad b movie from the     s               a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak  she was    and he was    when this movie was released  i think that the difference didn  t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo  but it does matter for a romantic comedy  we can easily understand  that is  why his character would be attracted to hers  but it  s less clear why hers would be attracted to his  br    br   still  the movie works as a light romantic fantasy  the scene where she stares at him across the cat  s head  with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring  is true magic  it  s a little jarring  therefore  when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building  and we see the age difference very sharply  as he embraces her  she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair  but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee             family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about  love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about  one man  daddy  has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity  the kids grow up one all be it  in the hard way  to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is  the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall  all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances  yes  i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent  this true to life is one which every young adult  and parent  would do well to see  although some will not realize it until they too are parents  a must see for those who care about their families             the only conceivable flaw of this film is it  s title   please stop comparing it to the first  i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first  if you haven  t seen the movie and are curious  totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this  there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own  this is a great exponent of screwy mid   s comedy  i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first  anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus  i maintain  the only reason this is in the imdb bottom     is because of its title  i usually hate movies like these  i e  adam sandler  will farrell  farrelly bros       but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically  i dunno  maybe it  s like a bad relationship i can  t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure  either way  this is the single most underrated movie of the   s behind   the stunt man    br    br   robert stack  we love you                           salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives  we see them panhandling in a car of the underground  where their pitch to get donations is so lame  no one gives them anything  salva  who is a hardened petty criminal doesn  t even have any redeeming qualities  that is  until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next  religion and show business prove to be a winning combination  something that salva capitalizes on  br    br   he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo  salva shows he is a natural for the reality show  he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program  espe  who is a no nonsense woman who is show  s producer  can  t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention  ultimately  salva is the victim of his own success in the end  br    br   jordi molla  whose first directorial job this movie is  had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television  spain  which was vulnerable to these types of programs  has seen its share of the bizarre  which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience  br    br   the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film  mr  molla  like any actor who decides to direct his first feature  would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera  candela pena  a good actress  is one of the best reasons for watching the movie  juan carlos villedo  david gimenez cacho  franco francescoantonio  florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director             these kinda movies just don  t get the credit they deserve  this is my  nd all time favorite movie   stand by me being  st   the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin  i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me  everything in the movie is very exceptional  the script  the acting  the screenplay  i was on the edge of my seat     of the time  and if my mom wasn  t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta  wil wheaton  died  i did not see that coming   at all   i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn  t real popular back in the     s  i was born a few years after it came out so  of course  i didn  t go see it in the theaters  but im sure i would have if i would have been alive  if any of my friends watched this  they would be like    uhh okay    but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this  if you haven  t seen this movie  or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb  this is the movie for you to watch             as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years  i really can  t believe i  ve only just got round to watching   purple rain    the brand new   disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it  wow  i was really looking forward to watching it  but i wasn  t prepared for just how electric it actually is  prince  s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding   he really has the moves in this one  i am very familiar  from repeated listens  with the classic   purple rain   album and all its songs  but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics   like computer blue  the beautiful ones  when doves cry and purple rain itself  there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform  the closing songs baby i  m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid   s  he  s overflowing    it blew me away  it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years  br    br   prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams   drive her to a lake  make her jump in  then drive off   absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight  br    br   some of the scenes are very     s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film  s overall charm  morris day is the coolest cat on the block  and hilarious   and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style   i love their dancing in this bit  and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance  br    br   i already can  t wait to watch it again  i really can  t  extras are terrific   particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a   prince groupie               a good ol   boy film is almost required to have moonshine  car chases  a storyline that has a vague resemblance to   plot   and at least one very pretty country gal  barefoot with short shorts and a low top  the pretty gal is here  dressed in designer jeans    but the redneck prerequisites stop there  jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff  he comes up way short  big john is big  but he isn  t convincing with the   bad   part of his moniker  bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades  ned beatty also does his part in a small role    but there is no story  it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film  cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment  perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme  you know the one  it was made famous by    jimmy dean             after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb  i was extremely pleased with the film  the film was dark  moving  the anger  the pain  the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon  br    br   i had initially expected to see many special effects  and like a lover  s caress  it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it  brian  i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects  you will go a long way  my friend  i will definitely be the president of your fan club  br    br   eric etebari  the best actor award  was the number one choice  you made jr  lopez look like a child compared to kasadya      br    br   overall  the acting  story line  the high quality filming and awesome effects  it was fantastic  i just wish it were longer  i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations             but it is kinda hilarious  at least if you grew up on weird al  like i did  it  s a mockumentary about his life and career  beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins  it  s uneven in places  but some of the segments are still very funny  particularly when he goes to japan  although it  s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation  and he doesn  t find love however fleeting  he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life  br    br   perhaps weird al isn  t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is  perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet  still  this is a funny movie             one of the two best films of the year  a well filmed  well written  well put together film with an outstanding cast  lau ching wan and his friends  dayo wong chi wa  anthony wong chau sun  francis ng chun yu  jordan chan siu chun  cheung man tat  had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances  theresa lee plays her comedic role well  though much like a female version of michael wong  her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers    and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes  something i haven  t done since    the fan boys took over alt asian movies and    john woo  s hardboiled  sure the ending was expected  but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members  highly enjoyable            i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november      with my boyfriend  we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving  it was very well directed with strong imagery  the visual effects were amazing   especially for a short  it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic  this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father  there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard  this leans towards the gothic feel  i would love to see this as a full feature film     carrie           why else would he do this to me  br    br   not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies  or even decent movies  i saw lois and clark  i am aware of just how      good   dean cain is  br    br   obviously this is gonna be a cheesey flick  and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head  i will not call these spoilers as you can  t really spoil this movie any more than it already is  br    br   to begin with    why is that a fake helicopter  i mean    why  br    br   how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried  how hard would it have been to get either an american actor  or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren  t american  br    br   why are there   occasions when the movie gives us a slug line  we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on  and then that  s it  who cares about the timeline  to be honest  who cared about it even when they mentioned it  but i guess that  s beside the point  br    br   does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens  the answer is no  br    br   that dragon sure can walk down that hall  over  and over   and over    and over    br    br   who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history  it was straight out of scooby doo  oh  the dragon  s dead now   say  wanna get dinner  sure  but not at some chinese place    with dragon in the name   ah ha ha ha   ha ha ha   haha ha  i used to be superman  aha ha ha  ha ha  br    br   fade to black br    br   my god  it made me cringe it was so stupid  br    br   but never fear  even though the whole building exploded   and no one was left alive  for some reason there  s a second untouched  unmanned lab that survived pretty well  so they can make a sequel  hurray for us all  br    br               minimal script  minimal character development  minimal steady camera  maximum stretched scenes  maximum headache inducing jerky zooms  maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing  up until the time flashes on the screen of      pm  you can fast forward and miss nothing  since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing  to be fair  the movie does have some string music that was interesting  so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this  unfortunately that was not to be  and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief  forget about   trigger man    i know i am trying to    merk            a wonderful film ahead of its time  br    br   i think so  in the eighty  s it was all about winning  greed is good   remember that one   i have seen this film more that    times  to me this is a real desert island film  i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love  jessica tandy  and hume cronin  are simply wonderful also beverly d  angelo  beau bridges come in at a close second  don  t get me wrong there are many more great performance  s in this film  and it is also the way it is written that made it for me  and i hope you  a film that you will want to see over and over  i think tv shows like   northen exposure    and now   earl   owe a lot to this film  but remember it is not a tom cruise film            it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing  the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go  you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not  i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it  br    br   couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas           this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen  br    br   casting  richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore  diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself  supporting cast not too memorable  br    br   story  the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting  the story is weak   not enough happens to make a movie about  there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here   br    br   the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive   br    br   not destined to be a great one to remember             only light spoilers in here  br    br   stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers  dimwit victims  and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time  br    br   you will see some poor performances all around in this movie  the drama is forced  and the humor makes no sense  whether you  re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won  t shut up  or a victim  s father responding to the criminal  s death threat with   care for some tea     none of it is believable  this quite comfortably fits into the   wannabe movie   category  br    br   you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie  it  s quite unprofessional  and adds nothing  it  s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty  br    br   however  if you  re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief  you might be entertained by the adequate storyline  br    br   i voted                  yes  this is one of those movies  so terrible  so insipid  so trite  that you will not be able to stop laughing  i have watched comedies  good comedies  and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie  the other comments give the idea well enough  the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on  the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge  the acting   oh the acting   talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses  br    br   but the rat  yes  the big rat  why we didn  t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me  often the   big one   isn  t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money  i surmise  however  that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry  br    br   the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene  after figuring out that the rats couldn  t stand loud noise  migraines from the bad acting    the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy  if you  ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser  this film is for you  really  you need to rent it and see for yourself  br    br   but not for more than       ok             well where do i begin my story   i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it  and that it was supposed to be a horror movie  br    br   well i figured out within the first    minutes  what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie  the plot was crap  and so was the script  the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically  br    br   the cast couldn  t have been more plastic looking  even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker   like they dragged on for no particular reason  very poor editing  br    br   all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money  boo             this is one of my favorites  betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy  one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year  the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital  mature woman  if you  ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart  microwave the popcorn  curl up with your honey  and prepare yourself for a treat             following directly from where the story left off in part one  the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man  s legacy is exactly as such  in direct contrast to the first feature  part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country  to che  struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties  the change of setting isn  t just aesthetic  from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature  replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical  battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle  yet  as che would go on to say himself  such a struggle is best told exactly as that  a struggle  while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that  part two takes a much more refined  callous and bleak segment of che  s life and ambition  and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible  easy to grasp manner  br    br   while the movie  s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however  there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible  this somewhat distant  cold approach to telling che  s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off  indeed  i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man  if anything  the entirety of che  taken as a whole  delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man  s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way  by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago  excuse the ironic contrast   che is a slow moving  reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who   arguably  conducted the whole thing  br    br   yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak  decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two  the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn  t feel too disjointed from its predecessor  but does enough to give it its own reference points  here  the basic structure of part one is echoed back  there  s the initial struggle  the battles  the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them  all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement  yet  as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know  part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming  and disquieting note  this difference  in combination with the similarities to part one  make a compelling and memorable whole  by all means  both could be digested one their own  and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such  and enjoyed as they are  but taken as one statement  che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve  br    br   indeed  everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building  realistically structured combat scenes  the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible  but with a feature such as this  part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don  t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged  in fact  upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one  and title the review as a whole  yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively  br    br   with that said  i cannot rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime  but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part  s ability to do just that  with a reflective  intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie  s characters without drawing attention to themselves  che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor  but this time with a tragic but uplifting  reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film  br    br     a review by jamie robert ward  http   www invocus net             sometimes it  s hard to be a pirate               but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying   and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard  mr thomas gomez   eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face  with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male   dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time  it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun  m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest  mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun  but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody  s idea of a lady pirate  there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles   that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret             i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago  when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema  which i found interesting  to put it diplomatically  but not so special  i instantly wanted to see more of his work  since then  i tried   with an emphasis on tried   watching his other work  shadows in particular  i must admit  it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film  at first the unpolished  raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot  put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original   absolutely   but flawed and dated experiment  but now  upon reviewing  these little imperfections make it look so fresh  even today  br    br   shot on a minimal budget of         with a skeleton six person crew  shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings  ben  ben carruthers  and lelia  lelia goldoni   are light skinned and able to pass for white  cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones  cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing  a reaction against   seamless   hollywood production values  cassavetes main inspiration   at least in the cinematic style the film was shot   were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles   pioneering spirit  the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors  but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi  the film feels very different  very american  unlike anything made before really   br    br   the song with the feathered girls    i feel like a lolly pop    or something  feels like light years back to me  ancient history  but no matter how dated it might look  it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today  i think it  s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film  without hollywood  improvised and without a real budget  seymour cassel  who acted and was involved in shadows  claims it was jules dassin  s the naked city        that was the first and inspired them all  but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers  br    br   camera obscura                     based on an actual story  john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor  whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss  a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all  but when her passport was stolen in rangoon  she could not leave the country with her sister  and was forced to stay back until she could get i d  papers from the american embassy  to fill in a day before she could fly out  she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide    i tried finding something in those stone statues  but nothing stirred in me  i was stone myself     br    br   suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt  just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train  she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot  in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him  with no thought of herself  continually her life was in danger   br    br   here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous  selfless charity  risking her life to save another  patricia arquette is beautiful  and not just to look at  she has a beautiful heart  this is an unforgettable story   br    br     we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps               this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say    enough already    of course  it isn  t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in    minutes  eric phillips  don wilson  is an undercover cop in the near future  when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg  it is up to eric to clear her name  wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger  why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me  being a pm production  there are tons of car chases  exploding cars    in the first   minutes   and shoot outs  i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck  my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don  s simulator  it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa                  shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho   i  m leaning toward rip off   after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better  almost to the point of being original  bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story  but the film already surpasses many in the   yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks   genre because it is actually shot in the south  br    br   a group of college girls head to ft  lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road   note to yankees  stay on the highway when you go to florida   sue ellen  lisa stahl  has to pee so she heads into the woods  when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff  tony march  strangle his mistress  merry rozelle  to death   note to yankees  do not wander off into the woods when in the south  not because you might witness a murder  but you may run across a marijuana plantation   this is the point where the story  not the movie  actually comes close to being good  br    br   while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech  his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do  tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i  ve seen since walton goggins  deputy steve naish  in house of      corpses  br    br   a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention  the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out  sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her  br    br   and in the strangest scene  sheriff dean makes like he  s about to rape patty  carol cadby  and tells her to take off her clothes  dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he  s about to do  the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible  his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ  i feel sorry for this preacher  s flock  jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven             although this film has had a lot of praise  i personally found it boring  there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable  but the story of how they interrelate  even if very unusual by our standards  is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long  the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first  as the tolerance of the various men is stretched  we see their characters develop  the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting  it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland  far from the city  but hardly exciting enough to keep one  s eyes open for             no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for   the house next door   from her     s novel of the same title  or someone else did it  this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough  having read the book a long time ago  we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television  you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials  which of course  one can  t find in this version we watched  br    br   the film  s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through  from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body  ms  boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy  the character at the center of the mystery  this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera  that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better  br    br   the film has a feeling of a cross between   desperate houswives   with   the stepford wives   and other better known features  combined with a mild dose of creepiness  the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting             meticulously constructed and perfectly played  to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age  br    br   based on william golding  s trilogy  these three    minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot  benedict cumberbatch  aboard an aging man o   war in the early   th century as he heads for a government position down under  br    br   among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous  bullying captain  jared harris   a politically radical philosopher  sam neill   a canny  st lieutenant who  s worked his way up from the bottom  jamie sives  and  fleetingly  the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman  joanne page  whose ship literally passes in the night  br    br   quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy  director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time  crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era  br    br   shipboard life is one brutal  monotonous round of seasickness  squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves  hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life  s hardships  man  s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments  br    br   those who enjoyed master and commander  the far side of the world or patrick o  brian  s series of novels on which it was based will love this    for everyone else  it  s a whole new world to discover             wow  this is really not that good   br    br   i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good    it is  but it is nothing special  br    br   the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies  br    br                     i have to point out  before you read this review  that in no way  is this a statement against iranian people     if you really want to read something into it  than hopefully you see  that i  m against politicians in general     but if you  re looking to be offended     i can  t help you  br    br   not in iran as this movie is banned there  see imdb trivia for this movie   which is a shame  because the movie is great  would it not be for   grbavica    this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin  br    br   rightfully so  it was the runner up  or second place if you will   why  because it is a movie about oppression  it  s not even that this is a complete women issue  it is about the government trying to keep the people down  an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie  but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear   br    br   another reviewer had a great summary line    comedy about a tragedy    that sums it up pretty well             i know little or nothing about astronomy  but nevertheless  i was  at first  a little sceptical about the plot of this movie  it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion  and thus  naturally  become ruthless serial killers  the plot does sound ridiculous at first  but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and  as you know  saturn is the emotion planet  it all falls into place  makes complete sense and it  s then that you know you aren  t simply watching another silly     s slasher with a pea brain plot  thank god for that  seriously  though  bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise  but it more than makes up for that with it  s originality  having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema  but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the   th clone   i know what i  d choose  br    br   also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it  s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it  s extremely entertaining  many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore  this film  however  keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids  which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned   a constant stream of sick humour and a small  but impressive for the type of film  dose of suspense and tension  one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry  there  s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again  cough halloween cough   but that  s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows  there wasn  t any room for a chainsaw  which is a huge shame  but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it             after many  many years i saw again this beautiful love story  thinking about how would i  half a century after  react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time  when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women  s behaviors  in a small city in brazil  br    br   this time  however  what caught my attention in the film was something very different  namely the insistence with which the physician dr  han suyin  jennifer jones  makes clear to the journalist mark elliott  william holden  her special ethically condition as an eurasian  in fact  she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship  repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a   occidental way    provided that  by doing so  she is not betraying her chinese side  its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture  for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them  br    br   therefore  suyin  s attitudes always leave poor elliott    a determined  brave and extremely practical man    anxious and perplexed  without knowing how much importance to give to her words  for him  whose love for her is plain and simple  the situation is totally clear  if we love each other  let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together    not so fast    is what she seems  verbally and non verbally  to answer him all the time  br    br   in fact  suyin  s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism  and  as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself  she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind  namely the constant   raids   on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world  for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life  not because of any objective and concrete threat  as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion   but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor  fearful and vulnerable human beings  br    br   in fact  it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people  s life totally miserable  because of that  mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes  so that they are not taken away by jealous gods  everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away  in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon  peasants are advised that they should shout loudly   the rice is bad  the rice is bad    to protect their crops from being stolen by deities  and  in a funeral  it is recommended that the dead  s family be isolated from the other people by curtains  so that the gods don  t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility  br    br   in other words  suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence  as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone  s daily life  br    br   as the story takes place in hong kong in       it should be clear that china really was  at that time  almost a semi feudal society  while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that  launched by the usa after the first oil shock in       took charge of the whole world  therefore  at least in one aspect  both sides of suyin  s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today  br    br   a lot of history came into being since those old days  as to china  the main fact is that  after several phases of a communist regime  the country finally reached  in the last two decades  the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism  and  what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong  in       and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott  under that tree on the hill behind the hospital  it is gone  completely gone  in brief  if that story took place today  elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family  in fact  both men would now be incomparably closer to one another  in their huge pragmatism  talking business as usual             first and foremost i would like to say  that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual  someone that cared about others  appreciated others  found no barely any judgment against other people  and this film has  i think  changed my life or viewpoint dramatically  when i watched it  i didn  t know particularly what it was about  i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship  but other then that i was clueless  and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters  i was in shock  disbelief  confusion and surprise  the first time i watched it  i was blind  blind to their love  to their intimacy  to their connection  to their pureness as human beings  to their relationship  i watched it a second time  because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being  saying to myself and others    oh i accept all types of people  and try not to judge them   while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story  because of my fear i suppose  the second time i watched this film  i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time  and really looked  not at the type of taboo relationship part that i  d heard about all my life  but simply at two human beings in love  and i loved it  i loved the storyline  i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film  i loved the sharing of feelings  and i loved the strong bonds created  it is a really eye opening  beautifully done film that made me cry at times  and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually  remember that everyone deserves love  no matter what shape or form it is presented in                  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz    if imdb would allow one word reviews  that  s what mine would be  this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film  the singing  the story  everything is dull and washed out  just like this public domain print  like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories  such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland   this movie has limited appeal and just doesn  t age well  now that i think about it  i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable  so my advice is don  t watch this film  if you must watch an abbott and costello film  almost any other one of their films  except for a c go to mars  would be an improvement             once in a while  a movie will sweep along that stuns you  draws you in  awes you  and  in the end  leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form  this is not it  this is an action movie that lacks convincing action  it stinks  rent something else             hard to imagine this film is based on a true story  and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring  daniel day lewis is a chameleon  really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character  watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience  br    br   the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before  the story is kinda bright and intriguing  christy is not despised by the normals  his life is also colorful and delightful  although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes  br    br   one important factor of christy  s success is his mother  s support which seems to be more touching  and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role  this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy  s dream come true  so lucky for christy and hugh o  conor is also excellent as young christy  what a performance for a child  the love story of christy is very well done  trustful  christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love  his crush on the beautiful dr  eileen cole  surprisingly played by fiona shaw  i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series  the loathsome aunt petunia  so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind  but anyway  any woman has her own youth     is paranoiac and offensive  i do have sympathy for him  love is a two edged sword  happiness and agony are just next to each other  br    br   btw  jim sheridan  s works are all good  in america  the boxer etc   except get rich or die trying    god knows why he chose to direct that crap  really a career taint for him  what a pity             i  m stunned that the reviewers   imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did  it  s an innocuous  sweet  uncomplicated clich     of a film that had two big names from the past in it  both of whom did a decent job   but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels  i like a good romance as well as anyone  but as my wife and i were watching this  and before we saw the rating we said    there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there  s nothing in it to challenge their brains  their faith  their comfort level or their cultural preferences  it  s possible to make a good film like that  and away from her is an example   but this was amateur hour  there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one  truly  another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films  watch the family stone  it  s miles ahead of this schlock             do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you  ve seen  one of   films scott made at rko during his prime        the others are always easy to get  liberal  kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street  the town  s main street  and the sod busters who feed our bellies  it  ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order  more i won  t say  except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three  randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor  courage  level headedness and willingness to do the right thing  fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they  d learn positive values  robert ryan co stars in this film  playing a good guy for a change  in real life  ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america  s movies  how sad what we get these days  george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers  while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in      in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them  hollywood      derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left  i wonder how all this plays out in liberal  kansas  liberal  after all  was not a dirty word     years ago when the city was named             i went to see this one with much expectation  quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest  even a child can see the missing logic to character  s behaviors  today  s kids need creative stories which would inspire them  which would make them   daydream   about the events  that  s precisely what happened with movies like e t  and star wars a decade ago   how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers   seriously don  t waste your time   money on this one              sigh  leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea  blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool  lordi is a mediocre band at best  and a single gimmick will get you only so far  br    br   to all you marketing idiots out there  this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something  br    br   lordi isn  t scary  lordi is lame  lordi is over  br    br   i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy  sure  they won the eurovision  br    br   no  wait   they won the eurovision  that  s it  i rest my case            after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi  yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show  on the good episodes  as darkplace  i cant argue that   of the episodes really are nt that good but the other   certainly make up for it  if i had to pick   great episodes id go for formula  driver steve pising  pronounced pissing  and the great garth marengi  to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie  his argument with def lepord over their name  all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes           i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co  i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital  i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals   br    br   the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized  and never worked in one for sure  billy jack  same era  was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message  br    br   i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned            i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it  in the       s  there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise  it  s one of the best comedies of the       s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary  s excellent comedic performance  which still stands as one of his greatest  this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director  reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time  while this film is hilarious and meatballs   is so bad that it  s fun  meatballs   and meatballs   are absolutely dreadful  recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters             the film  s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country  u s    we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film  befittingly  the obvious of student v s  teacher is present  but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships  male v s  female  white v s  black  and the individual v s  society  but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s  himself   br    br   i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus  most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other  this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides  it did not attempt to show how either was right  although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive  quite obvious towards the end   the film also discusses sex and rape  it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together  for a time  lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps  he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive  other stars that make this film are omar epps  ice cube  and jennifer connelly  michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance  tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act  br    br   higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper  in fact  i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other  rather than some dry book  as the real education at a university  it is a life learning process  not a textual one  i think you  ll find   higher learning   is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general                  is rich  ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean  or is she just overreacting  or more precisely  overacting  as usual  actually  both are applicable in director joseph losey  s wandering  meandering mess called   boom    appropriately titled since tempers in the lush  luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode  richard burton climbs taylor  s mountain uninvited  she dresses him in a samurai  s robe complete with saber  though great looking in widescreen  the picture is otherwise quite deadly  a failure even liz   n dick philes should shun  the stars   collective   what the hell    attitude to their late     s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here   pointless  confused  and maddening    boom   is a catastrophe  although screenwriter tennessee williams  who adapted his own unsuccessful play   the milk train doesn  t stop here anymore    was said to be quite fond of it    from                 i can  t even describe it  it  s the worst movie i  ve ever seen  i  m being a nice guy when i call it movie  just another big budget made to someone who doesn  t like to think much it  s not even scary  it  s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this     thing   to trick movie fans  i guess big producers make whatever they want  br    br   just get a big producer  hot chicks  allthough horrible actresses  and a ton of horror movie clich  s and cook it for a week or so  and you  ll get   the nun    br    br   and i thought bad boys   was horrible                the screenplay is the worst part of this film  as it lurches from one premise to the next  missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible   this film is confusing  because the audience doesn  t know what the story is   i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn  t great  but this is telly  so it was fine  i don  t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take  but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary  did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash  avoid this at all costs  br    br   the prologue in particular was so poorly written  it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out  the prologue was rushed  it wasn  t clear what was happening  ie  the russian revolution was reduced to   some riots are happening in petersburg    with the next scene being soldiers arresting them  i know the basic history of the revolution  so i could fill in the details    those pesky communists    the prologue is best ignored  br    br   this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is  it sets up this premise in the asylum  it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film  no  gone  the film assumes she is who she says she is  even though there is still no empirical evidence   it sets up a melodramatic romance  a love so strong  it  ll believe anything she says  okay  a soppy romance  no  because it makes no sense  the love interest seems like a crazed  and incidentally  sleazy  lunatic  bursting out in wild gestures  this also doesn  t work  because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end  they never got married and she returned to america  the love story collapses  despite there being plenty of love scenes  i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love  i find rom com romances more convincing  despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they  ve even spent any time with each other  br    br   it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is  and she struggles to prove her identity  no  the court case is summed up rather than dealt with  the bizarre voice over comes back  again to fill in the details of a better film  br    br   the funniest thing to consider is what really happened  anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together  throughout her life  she had bouts of lunatic behaviour  none of this in the film either  there  s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a   one flew over the cuckoo  s next   twelve monkeys   type informant  thankfully  she vanishes  having brought nothing to the story             lady and the tramp ii  scamp  s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better  lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original  but this time it  s junior  s turn  lady and tramp  s youngster  scamp  always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him  following the rules in the house  taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy  scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose  scamp meets another dog called angel  they both get along fine and do the things scamp  s mother and father did  having an italian meal  spagetthi and meatballs etc  afterwards  scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal  which is the baby  scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family  i give this movie    out of                wow  what  s this on the video rental store  s shelf in front of me  nothing other than a questionable   sequel   to  mm  it wasn  t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie  br    br   basically  from the plot outline verbatim  an american diplomat  david huxley  and his fianc  e  tish harrington  venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest  hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute  risa  the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city  the mystery is solved when  in the end  tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and  essentially later on in the story  her fianc  e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end  br    br   i didn  t like how this had nothing to do with the original  mm at all  the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was  the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film  and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene  otherwise  its a totally different movie  it made for a lousy love story  even before the end is known  which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn  t believe the words coming out of david  s mouth the whole time  but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble  br    br   there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the   shocking   moments of the film  which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this   hellish   sex debauchery  i counted at least    ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown  even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative  br    br   david was no heroic person throughout the film  you could guess he was the main problem long before the end  the actors who played each role were all new to me  which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting   respect    there were plot holes  how did david and richard finally impress tish  s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute   there were cheesy technology moments  like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen   and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character  the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs  too  because it wasn  t even about a last breath  nobody really dies  but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere   but that was a good    seconds long out of an hour and     long movie  br    br   go rent  and maybe buy  the original  it  s one of joel schumacher  s better and more original films  it has everything better about it from this film  i wouldn  t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges             ok  honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great  its really not  there were two good things that came out of this movie    jack  s performance  he was very good i can tip my hat for him     danny  s performance  he was good  no other then that it got pretty stupid  and  what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy  she was so bad  she looked the same every time she got scared  the problem with this movie was the ending  i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently  and  the over all movie was just stupid  the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better  so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off                   this episode had potential  the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment  but a phone that constantly rings  is somewhat interesting  and when she explores the noise  there is genuine tension and fear  but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had  br    br   first of all  the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction  e g    it  s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind      this door has serious damage to it that wasn  t here a minute ago      the door opened by itself  without me touching it    etc    given these supernatural phenomena  plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room  wouldn  t she take some precaution before entering it  maybe she could investigate in the day time  or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else  or maybe she could turn on the lights    also  while in the haunted apartment  she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone  and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide  just unplug the phone  the phone company doesn  t need to be involved  walk up to the phone and unplug it  case closed  br    br   finally  showing the phone scamper across the floor like it  s alive was just comical  if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card  he could  ve done it in a way that didn  t look cartoony  brave little toaster anyone             the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time  pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see  academy award winners brenda fricker  home alone  lost in new york  a time to kill   ben johnson  the last picture show  red dawn   and adrien brody  the pianist  the village  amplify the atmosphere of the movie  drawing in an anxious audience  however  the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o  sanders  jfk  the day after tomorrow   br    br   the story is centralized around a foster child  up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt  brick  the lookout   sidekick milton davis jr  delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents  the two don  t have much  but what they do have  angels   baseball  and what they are seeking  identity  that  s when   time emmy nominee danny glover  lethal weapon  predator    comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager  george knox  in relation  all characters in the story seem to have the same mission  search within themselves to find out who they really are  br    br   depressed over the fact that roger  jgl  is separated from his father  he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant  odds are astronomical  but   time emmy winner christopher lloyd  back to the future  my favorite martian  comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic  pun   before you know it  al  lloyd  is sitting with roger in the stands  snacking on cracker jacks  and causing some of baseball  s biggest boners  dorothy kingsley and george wells    dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner       screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear  nominated in directors guild of america   he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark  played by tony danza    time golden globe nominee  emmy nominee   who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim  clark has been dubbed a wash up  a once big name in cinci  but he has something to prove to manager knox  br    br   spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the   th century  this one is a diamond in the rough  and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace  did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey  a time to kill  we are marshall  for all you ladies out there             i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere  when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed  i  m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence  but maybe i won  t  maybe i  ll just imply something will happen  the writers lacked any imagination  this is not even a   b   movie   it  s a made for tv   b   movie            the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too  it was extremely funny  angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet  the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart  spoiler ahead  i think  they sneak off after a party and do it  surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie  if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch  if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one            if somebody wants to make a really  really bad movie    wizards of the lost kingdom   really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness  br    br   start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character     some poor schmuck in a baggy white   furry   costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting  work your way slowly  painfully  through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief  add a garden gnome  just for the heck of it   br    br   on second thought  skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half             a film for mature  educated audiences    br    br   i saw   random hearts   in an advance screening shortly before its north american release  this romantic drama was quite a treat  i  m sure this story will not be everyone  s cup of tea  especially considering the film  s darkly downbeat premise  but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor  br    br   all time box office draw harrison ford    star wars      raiders of the lost ark      the fugitive      air force one      patriot games    is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer  dutch  ford  s very subdued  nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss   betrayal  this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters  next year harrison ford returns to action  first for director robert zemeckis    forrest gump      back to the future    in his summer      thriller    what lies beneath    and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy  s   the sum of all fears      fears   will be harrison ford  s third outing as cia operative jack ryan  br    br   director sydney pollack    out of africa      the firm      tootsie    has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas   congresswoman  it  s a very sharp   energetic portrayal for pollack  not only is sydney pollack a gifted director  he is also one of the most believable  natural and charming actors around  see   eyes wide shut   as well   br    br   kristin scott thomas    the english patient      the horse whisperer    shows that you don  t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy  this is one of her better films  and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford  s quiet man toughness  br    br   the subplots work wonderfully  especially the subplot involving ford  s character  s investigation into police corruption  look for a chilling   effective turn by   heat   actor  dennis haysbert  who plays detective george beaufort  the obstacle to overcome in dutch  s investigation into police corruption  br    br   the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight  charles s  dutton  whose long overdue for a film leading role  goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around  and bonnie hunt  who i find extremely solid in this production  steals most of her scenes with that wonderful  charming smile as wendy judd  br    br   the technical side of pollack  s thriller is top notched  from dave grusin  s  pollack  s   the firm    perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score  to philippe rousselot    a river runs through it    crisp photography  to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh  despite the film  s unfortunate downer premise  br    br   i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery  well paced plot  character driven stories  and romance all rolled into one  this is a terrific story about betrayal   forgiveness  it also features one of the most surprising  yet poignant  and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times    random hearts   is definitely one of the better films of the year  br    br           out of       or      out of                  for all of the has beens or never was  s or for the curious  this film is for you    ever played a sport  or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left  this film explores that and more  br    br   robin williams jack dundee  is a small town assistant banker in taft ca   whose life has been plagued  by a miscue in a big rival high school football game    years ago  when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield  their arch rival  that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets  season after season   kurt russell reno hightower  was the quarterback in that famous game  and is the local legend  that now is a van repair specialist  whose life is fading into lethargy  like the town of taft itself  br    br   williams gets an idea to remake history  by replaying the game   he meets with skeptical resistance  so he goes on a one man terror spree  and literally paints the town   orange  yellow and black   to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game   after succeeding  the players from that      team reunite  and try to get in shape to practice  which is hysterical   the game is on   bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets  game strategies  and sophisticated training routines   taft is drawing plays in the mud  with sticks  stones  and bottle caps  what a riot   does taft overcome the odds  does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels  does kurt russell rise from lethargy  watch   the best of times   for one of the best viewing experiences ever  br    br   one of robin williams best understated performances  the chemistry between robin and russell is magic   and who is kid lester     br    br   holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell  succeeds on many levels  a                 this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done   br    br   it looks like a commercial from beginning to end  the   director  spent the whole time on a tripod  it doesn  t have pace  rhythm  it  s illogical  what a mess  you can tell what  s gonna happen since the first    minutes  and the ending   wow br    br         spoiler        br    br   jesus christ  how the hell perrugorria got shot  are you serious  worst scene of someone getting shot ever  br    br         end of spoiler      br    br   bad directing  bad script  bad acting   really bad overall  i wouldn  t recommend this movie at all  it  s a waste of money and time             i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams  back in the early days at comedy central  back in those days  the     s  their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k  complete with bearded host  br    br   capt  frank drebin  played by the stone faced  dead pan filibuster  leslie nielson  is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists  think dragnet meets starsky   hutch the show   boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios  this is distilled    times to produce the most pure policeman every made  forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz  for now  save it for later   frank drebin is clueless at most times  a terrible driver  a terrible shot  macho yet sensitive and vulnerable  he is a master of the police investigative methodology  a k a   ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy   this does not make him a bad cop  cops get lucky also  capt drebin  notice he  s a captain here  has perfected it  along with his partner  nordberg  and the rest of force  perfectly parody the police drama over the course of   golden episodes  br    br   the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables  most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly  the magic never came from the sight gags however  at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground  with crazy things occurring in the background  the movies can best be described as    minute compilations of the best gags from this series  think of monty python  s and now for something completely different      br    br   if you liked airplane        naked gun        or top secret  then you will definitely enjoy this   br    br   i always liked the series better than the movies  even though i saw the movies first  why    words   no o j             a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus  she refuses him  but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway  and there it starts   a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero  it can  t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic  br    br   in short  a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film  and imo  it succeeds at being a nice film  it  s no masterpiece  but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion   the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is  even with the superhero thing going  believable  br    br   so  thin story  but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time  br    br     out of    broken hearts           i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment  this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children            the film someone had to make  br    br   waco  the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco  texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up  br    br   the first thing you need to know about this film  you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies  this is not done for shock value  but to illustrate points about the way they died  as if you were present at the coroner  s inquest  br    br   the second thing you should know about this film  at two and a quarter hours  it  s pretty ponderous   especially if you already followed the events closely at the time  if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media  or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report  this may be essential viewing  if  on the other hand you want a more concise  albeit unapologetically one sided  version of events  you should see   waco  the big lie    br    br   in summary  this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event  and is very sobering  but as a work of film making  could test your patience  especially if you have a short attention span  and it  s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the    minutes reports  br    br   perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story  such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect  and their charismatic leaders  all rock musicians themselves  picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them             what a good movie  at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock  illusions of fame  well known rockers are getting old and forgotten  not the music  and with a good sense of humour  have you ever danced on bill haley  s rock around the clock  br    br   anyway  still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n  roll i have ever seen  far much better than spinal tap for instance  why  because in still crazy  people are mature  they have a different point of view about rock  about love and about life  they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much  beyond the story itself  we see characters with their own personality  weaknesses and dreams  like anyone of us  br    br   spend a good time watching this  listen to the awesome soundtrack   and finally thinking of your own future  br    br   bye             had it with the one who raised you since when you were young  you just want her gone from your life  that woman is your mother  you should respect her  you should honor her  whether she  s in sick or well  but that in times  it can be aggravating  especially when she becomes very overbearing  that  s how owen danny devito  had to deal with in   throw momma fron the train    his momma anne ramsey            is one of the worst  he trying his best to be a writer  and she is everything but grateful  calls him a   clumsy poop    a   larda      and   fat   and   stupid    for his friend  larry donner billy crystal  he has his own woman problems  his ex wife  she trying to discredit him  so what did owen do  push her overboard  what does he do  help return the favor  get rid of mrs  lift  in the kitchen scene  i liked it where owen called larry    cousin patty    and momma said    you don  t have a cousin patty    and owen shouts   you lied to me    and el cabongs larry with the frying pan  then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift  that is thwarted  and she kicks larry off the train  well  everything back to normal  the ex wife lives  but momma kicked the bucket on her own  maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways  a fun movie it is  and the cast is great  a classic    stars             yes  it is a bit cheesy  but it  s suspenseful and entertaining  and one of my favorites  there are some excellent actors in the film  and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters  it  s interesting to see david soul in a   bad guy   role  i thought he was quite believable  and rather chilling  as the ever more paranoid co  robert conrad is a long time favorite  i think he brings his character to life very well  and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i  ve watched  movies or tv   br    br   i watch this movie every so often but our tape  a vhs tv copy i got  is such poor quality it  s difficult to fully enjoy it  this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd  maybe it wouldn  t be universally sought after  but i  m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version  i  ll keep hoping             so it isn  t an epic  but for people experiencing anything similar br    br    sibling suicide  it might be an interesting way of therapy  an br    br   imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br    br   spent  for some reason  it hasn  t really caught on in the audience  br    br   something i do believe is a result of the main theme  why did she br    br   commit suicide  clearly  this is hardly something that us br    br   moviegoers will flock to  had it been an european production it br    br   probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br    br   extent  it is however  a movie that although the realism tainted by a br    br   shimmering romanticized glow  gives the viewer a whole hearted br    br   impression             i absolutely loved this film  i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful  i remember how hard it was when john was shot  however  watching the   two of us   took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility  i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what   might have been    aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on  i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms  jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john  my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene   which was so poignant  the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction  both of which i feel are appropriate  given the circumstances             previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film  s plot details than i could  what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful  in every sense   emotionally  visually  editorially   just gorgeous  br    br   if you like movies that are wonderful to look at  and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant  i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art  br    br   on a scale of   to     i  d give it about an       the only reason i shy away from   is that it is a mood piece  if you are in the mood for a really artistic  very romantic film  then it  s a     i definitely think it  s a must see  but none of us can be in that mood all the time  so  overall                   great premise  poor execution  cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written  poorly directed  poorly edited  waste of film  only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food  br    br   joan chen  mercedes ruehl  kyra sedgwick  and alfre woodard should fire their agents             have to agree that this movie and it  s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve  here  s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience  the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent  perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary  good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot  may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors             i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday  first of all  i wanted to see gina lollobrigida   and here i wasn  t disappointed  she looked gorgeous  second of all  through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca  s films  on this account  however  i was sadly disappointed  i found the jokes predictable  apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war  and the characters completely one dimensional  also  the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion  with no sense of drama at all  i kept watching until the end  but i got bored very quickly and just sat there  waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida             this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making  the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all  we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face  the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were   of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room  the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways  ruined the night   ok so pros and cons  pros beautiful setting in hawaii  looks good on bluray  cons worst acting ever  you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday  predictable poor plot  zero character development  forced jokes which fall flat  many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma  may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap             this was my first gaspar noe movie i  ve watched and i have to say i was shocked  i don  t mind gore in generally  but this isn  t even gore   it  s real butchering  for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting  leaving aside these aspects  the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant  when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given  you can  t stop and take a minute to think about it  the actors did their job well  representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society  the movie is full of metaphors  but i  ll let you figure them out  don  t watch it if you want to have a lite  relaxing time  i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema             i agree with bigalc   this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in       tom selleck does a fantastic job here  as always  and the movie is greatly humorous and educational  i  m a big fan of tom selleck  s  and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part  bringing the film to life in a way i can  t imagine any other actor being able to pull off   br    br   this film featured some first rate japanese actors  and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck   i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie   japan  s an awesome place to go  whether you want to party  sight see or just try to take everything in             i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt  ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role  gandolfini gives his typical a performance  the entire cast is funny  the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome  i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted  i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy  can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives  the best part to this film  to me anyway  were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped  namely  the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree  go see it and have a good laugh             although i lived in australia in       i moved overseas not long after  fed up with constant industrial unrest  the general worship of mediocrity   unless one is a sportsman    and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north   br    br   consequently i missed the dismissal  along with many other australian made tv dramas of the     s and     s  such as the superb janus and phoenix series  which i have since seen  along with wildside  br    br   to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and  as far as i am aware  accurate  however  as to public   outrage   it only shows one side of the picture  not how families were riven by the controversy  i know  as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward   br    br   but the commentary is  in my view  very one sided throughout  the inescapable fact is that  notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community  the australian electorate chose   and chose decisively   in favour of fraser  as they did again two years later   br    br   this apart  a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama             i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america  but this man does it for me  that mustache gets me riled up  i remember when i first saw a video of his  that girl he beat was amazing  the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity  it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt  rushmore  if i could ask him one question  it would be   if you were a hot dog  would you eat yourself    will orhan be doing a reunion tour  take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot  true music from the heart never fades away  vive la john denver  gracias my friend  o f f l   orhan fan for life             i never want to see this movie again  br    br   not only is it dreadfully bad  but i can  t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick  br    br   mostly i can  t stand watching this terrible movie  br    br   frankly  there is no reason to watch this awful film  the plot is just plain stupid  the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films   br    br   i warn you don  t watch it  the images will haunt you for a long while to come             the problem is the role of the characters in the film  man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself  the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film   two people who are kidnapped  treated like animals  and yet given such a shallow  stereotypical role within the film    the kidnapper  british anthropologist  ends up being the hero of the film because he   manages   to relate to the pygmies    no notion of how the two hostages feel  of their point of view  of their ordeal    i find it is a shallow film  with a one sided fundamentally racist view    it never manages to move away from the   white mans   view            life begins   and ends   in a typical       s maternity   recovery ward  where we view    hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women  played by loretta young  glenda farrell  clara blandick  aunty em      vivienne osborne  dorothy tree  and gloria shea  as they await to give birth  while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted  it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in      was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers  i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving  br    br   oddly enough  the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member  young eric linden as jed sutton  grace  s  loretta young  husband  what an actor  as a first time father  jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table  i felt his every concern keenly  i  d like to see more of this actor  s work  he had a very emotional voice  which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind  in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia  who screamed   don  t cut  don  t cut    as scarlett fled the hospital in horror  chilling  another great performance is from aline macmahon  who plays miss bowers  the nurse  her character is a salt of the earth type  the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays  who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession  br    br   loretta young did another superb acting job here as well  a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace  my  she is great in these precodes  i  ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months  br    br   glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste  didn  t anyone know back in      that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies   health   but her character redeems herself in the end  br    br   also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland  silent movie star  as a grieving italian husband  his screen time was brief  but notable  br    br   life begins is a must see precode  try to catch it sometime on tcm  but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into    out of                this is a great film  touching and strong  the direction is without question breathless  good work to the team  i feel so sorry for marlene  by the grace of god go you or i            i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper  no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie  for example  the names of some serbian terrorists  that i remember  are caradan maldic  ivanic loyvek and leo hasse  what kind of names are that  certainly not serbian  by the way  caradan maldic    what a name  i laughed for days thinking about it  probably an implication on karadzic and mladic  secondly  there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians  a journalist like the main character ought to have known that  thirdly  the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian  all this aside  this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes  at times it makes no sense whatsoever                criticism does mention spoilers  br    br   i rarely make user comments  but this is one movie i have no problem slandering  this movie stinks  and its mediocre of rating of   and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp  the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were  despite what its ad claims  this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller  the pace of this movie was extremely slow  i actually left for about    minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression  i refer to you the part where angelina jolie  s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse   hands   the movie is not at all scary  but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie  s character and denzel washington  s  of course  what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling  however  even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two  with such a crappy movie  i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit  things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off  anybody with a  th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved   a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock  s rear window   the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough  but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen  esoterically speaking  i even think the murderer  s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial   chess game   and gets with his pet project  angelina  br    br   if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts  like i am   you will not appreciate this film  if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne  the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer  the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship  the horrible   woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl    see this movie    but even then its too slow paced and you  d be bored             possible spoilers  perhaps  i must say that   cinderella ii  dreams come true   is one of the worst movies ever made  first of all  the movie was made during the height of disney  s sequel rampage  it was created around the same time as   the little mermaid ii      the jungle book ii    and   peter pan ii    all of which were disservices to their original film classics   disney also made   the hunchback of notre dame ii   and   atlantis ii    but i  m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place     let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films  and i absolutely adore the original disney   cinderella    the sequel to   cinderella    however  was a waste of time  the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching  in the original  cinderella was kind and loving  the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like    i  m going to do this banquet my way    let me also tell you that new cinderella  as i have affectionately named her  says    ewww    that is the anti cinderella  i try to find the best in people  but in the sequel  anastasia  one of the stepsisters  is good  what the heck  why  they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia  my question to the world  did the people at disney watch the original   cinderella   when making this sequel  well  it surely doesn  t seem so  if i remember correctly  anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine  i am all for redemption and forgiveness  but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie  in the first one  anastasia was evil  in the second one  she is good  one just can  t leave a story like this  i hope disney realizes that this movie  among other movies  is shaming walt disney  s name  perhaps now that michael eisner is gone  things will start shaping up around the house of mouse             hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of      s  this movie  s true score  br    br   as mentioned before chris rock is the king  previous to going to see this movie i wasn  t that over the top about him but now i  m banging on the doors of chris rock  s website begging him to take me on as his protege  this film is truly funny  if you don  t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it  s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably   class division  love  wealth  employment  dreams  stand up comedy    the list goes on  br    br   there was one slight disappointment for me however  this was that in going into this film i didn  t realise that it was actually a remake of   heaven can wait   another quite good movie made in      with warren beatty  as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago   regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any   you get the picture  br    br   well to the actual plot of the film  br    br   don  t spoil the experience for yourself  don  t read the plot  just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it  go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time  go and see it because it  s a cinema experience that doesn  t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets  go see it because it is a good movie             formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer  vargas   it looks very much like a tv movie  not really exciting  the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it  no real surprises here  though it is nice to see vargas  great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell  s part is very small and doesn  t add much to the movie  michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts  the chase scenes are standard fare             whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome  otherwise  this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor  her downward phase   and richard burton  his miscasting phase   tennessee williams wrote   the milk train doesn  t stop here anymore   and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play  but apparently  he was the only one  taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money  br    br   whatever  it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner  exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears  br    br   it  s so campy that among taylor fans it  s probably considered a   must see   kind of thing  but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand  you  re way ahead of me  sadly  this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress  even after winning two oscars  for burton  it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb  judge for yourself if you dare             viva la bam this   jackass   spin off focuses on the  obviously scripted  adventures of bam margera and his pals  johnny knoxville  brandon dicamillo  etc   this show  while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts  focuses mainly on bam  s torturing of his parents  br    br   i  m sorry to say this  bam  but    you  re in no way as cool as you think you are  this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny  and yes  i liked jackass   but also narcissistic beyond belief  the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he  s going to do   whatever the f      he wants to  how about you do something that is actually funny  i liked   jackass   for what it was worth  the camera work was horrible   any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents   garage   but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy  dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed  br    br   not so with   viva la bam    we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives  but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy  the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining  but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile  br    br     viva la bam   is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera  s already too big ego  i don  t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone             i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing  he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor  like many others on here  i don  t know how to categorize this film  it wasn  t scary or spooky so can  t be called a horror  the plot was so wafer thin it can  t be a drama  there was no suspense so it can  t be a thriller  its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project  people who liked this film used words  like   ambiguity   and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn  t there  like the blair witch  people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying  this movie actually started off well with the family   meeting   the locals after hitting a deer  it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next    minutes   well over half the film   nothing happened  the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining  it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie  finally  when something does happen  its not even clear how the father was shot  how he dies   the nurse said his liver was only grazed   and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with  rd grade special effects  the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way  the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied  i would have bailed out with    minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself  it didn  t             schlocky     s horror films   ya gotta love   em  in contrast to today  s boring slasher flicks  these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula  br    br   this is a b movie about the making of a b movie   that went horribly wrong  faith domergue  this island earth  stars as an over the hill  b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home  her boyfriend director  who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude  is filming on location and on a tight schedule  the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add   realism    unfortunately    realism   is something they could have done without  br    br   john carradine  having long since given up looking for the   th gland  the unearthly   now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate  he goes about his daily work  but always seems to run afoul of the director  br    br   the horror builds slowly  a dead cat here  john carradine entering a grave there  finally culminating in seven  yes seven murders   at least there  s truth in advertising   it  s just sad that the ghoul didn  t understand that there was a movie being made above him  how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work  face it  you just can  t go around tugging on satan  s coat and expect him to take it lying down  br    br   sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses             i suppose for      this film was supposed to be    cool      but looking back now      years   it  s charm was just as silly as it  s entertainment value   granted   the special effects do well on t v  with the series that started in        but for the big screen    i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting   i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview  obviously not well staged   or trained   overall   it  s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it   for fun laughs sake  this was probably one of irwin allen  s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it   barabara eden went on to play    genie    on t v  micheal ansara was her husband   now that is a cool part about this film   i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie   neat              this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong  s   new wave   that began with tsui hark  s   zu  warriors of magic mountain    tsui set a tone for the new wave  s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave  jackie chan  sammo hung  wong jing  ching siu tung  etc   accepted from then on as a given  namely  the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony  if not outright comedy    burning paradise   put a stop to all that  and with a vengeance  br    br   it  s not that there isn  t humor here  but it is a purely human humor  as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw  but this is just as humans are  not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time  br    br   when irony is at last introduced into the film  it is the nastiest possible  emanating from the   abbot   of red lotus temple  who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before  he is the very incarnation of milton  s satan from   paradise lost      better to rule in hell than serve in heaven    and if he can  t get to satan  s hell soon enough  he  ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule  br    br   that  s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here  it  s not that the abbot just wants to kill people  he wants them to despair  to feel utterly hopeless  to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality  thus there  s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself   it has become all there is to the universe  and the abbot  claiming mastery of infinite power  is in charge  br    br   of course  fortunately  the film doesn  t end there  though there are losses  the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails   if you want to know how  see the film   yet there is no doubt that  in viewing this film  we visit hell  hopefully  we do not witness our own afterlives  but we certainly feel chastened by the experience   and somehow better for it over all             now i don  t hate cheap movies  i just don  t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad  s camcorder  if i rent a movie  i want it to be a movie  not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv   tapes  br    br   maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great  and it wasn  t  maybe i hate it because it  s cheap  has the dumbest plot ever  the most unrealistic characters ever and the really  really  really worst showdown in the history of films ever  even tom savini can  t save this  br    br   seriously  this one is a complete waste of time             a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do  that being stealing from farms and killing prey  until a trio of farmers decide they  ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem   solved    they are of course   out foxed   at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land  br    br   the  film   version  and i use the term film very loosely  is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies  they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely  so kudos to them  they  ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book             as soon as it hits a screen  it destroys all intelligent life forms around   but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn  t fall into any known movie category  it deserves a brand new denomination of its own   it  s a   neurological drama     it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person  s brain  br    br   it  s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one  it drives you speechless  all you members go numb  your mouth falls open and remains so  and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf  br    br   no small feat for such a sort of a   movie    br    br   the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage                   for a film made in senegal  based  i guess loosely on carmen  the book  by prosper merimee  this film doesn  t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films  br    br   ms  gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at  her fiery dancing smolders the screen  as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film  br    br   this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders  but a real carmen  she is not  br    br   we would like to see ms  gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here             this is a very noir kind of episode  it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend  the recently divorced karen mills  pat delaney  daughter in law of john huston  who knew a few things about noir film  and her daughter  when they arrive  karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room  he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace  of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive  they see no sign of karen  but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes  so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect  br    br   this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again  rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn  t think was important at the time  but now might lead to a clue as to what happened  it  s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent  it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn  t just some clueless old man either  as he says   you come to me because i  m your father  and i  m smarter than you    this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts  br    br   this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker  who played angelique in the   dark shadows   series and went on to play laura banner  bruce  s wife in the   incredible hulk   series a few years later  she looks terrific here  br    br   this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family  a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family  this time  its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend  br    br   lt  diehl  tom atkins  makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent  i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police  frankly  they were right  though i prefer the later lt  chapman to lt  diehl   br    br   not a lot of the typical   rockford   humor in this episode  but a good mystery with a lot of heart             the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events  and i  ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now  the other shows may have better matches  but i  ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement  br    br   i  m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don  t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review  i will comment on the quality of them though  br    br   we have the standard   matches  and then the big rumble event  two from smackdown and two from raw  br    br   shawn michaels and edge open up for raw  this proves to be a good match from two talented guys  this is a match i  d recommend watching  it  s hard to sum up without giving away the winner  br    br   next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster  be whoever it is  giant gonzales  yokozuna  kamala    well this time it  s heidenreich  its also a casket match  typical undertaker fare  watch if you  re a fan  i have to admit i am  purely for the entertainment factor  it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match  br    br   the next two matches are the title matches  for once smackdown manages to upstage raw  their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable  but with a anti climax and let down to end it  raw  s match is a pretty dull and boring affair  which is a pity as i  m a fan of both guys involved  br    br   now to the main reason i love the event  the rumble  it  s a pretty good one this year  coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win  and it may not prove a big surprise  but hey  its very enjoyable  there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated  there is the token guy who doesn  t make it to the ring  the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished  and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant  it has its usual highs and lows  and i loved the ending  in particular the vince mcmahon entrance  br    br   i  d recommend this show  not the wwe on top form  but its still good  add it to your collection             i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones  we  d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other  br    br   we called one of our mates   zipmole watkins   after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of   restyling   on his nose by the back street abortionist  br    br   lots of great lines   remember at      in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man  take it easy guy      gandhi as a local shopkeeper  br    br   tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph  daniel peacock  to be a barman   it  s no good amanda i  ll never make it as a bar man   helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match   see the match last night  i thought woodcock played well   after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar    see the match last night      yeah  i thought i played well   br    br   we still do odd stupid lines now     reg and ralph      or        ralph and reg  reg  reg    reg reg reg reg   br    br   lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets   the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line     and he  ll mark your packages   return to sender   br    br   good old danny peacock   you added a lot to some young drinkers   evenings sir  br    br     update   i found a couple of episodes on tape   i  m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube               destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized  this game deserves all the recognition it deserves  at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers  graphic adventures are a dying breed  with great pun and humour  the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy  life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island   prediction  the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too  i guarantee it             stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century  two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father  one day  a french woman  babette  comes to work for them  after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in  her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast  which changes the lives of all those invited  this is a film about human and cultural interaction  reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french  and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south  it is also about human needs  and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses  a profoundly uplifting film             this movie was way over hyped  a lot of the viewers  who thought this was   amazing   must have been into the old school movies  cause the whole movie is set in the past  at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past  so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass  but it just going  basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past  and the   don  t mix very well in this movie  even with special effects  you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with  there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did  so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying   it  s the greatest movie ever done    it  s just crap on a stick  it also didn  t help that the story line was sooo crappy  i don  t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced  and i also don  t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this  it  s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print     it will all be done on a computer    this was a movie that should have been on a movie network  because nothing about this movie was revolutionary  i  m very upset with myself for paying money to see this  whatever you do  don  t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow             it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in       this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise  didn  t they do that with truman capote the same year  and the zodiac killer last year  interesting  br    br   writer director david michael latt didn  t have steven spielberg  s budget and c  thomas howell is not tom cruise  this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed      million worldwide  br    br   the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles  who played a pastor that was giving up on his god  br    br   gary busey was creepy as an army lt             i dunno sometimes   you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there  but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved    bat people    which i saw under the title   it lives by night    is just such a movie  you can  t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on   night gallery    and not one of the better ones  either   br    br   the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood   actually  you  d think if he was turning into a real bat  he  d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket  but because this is a cheap  lurid horror movie  blood  s the word   in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat  and black out episodes almost every night  his friend and fellow physician  dr  mustache aspen extreme  insists that he  s just having an   allergic reaction   to the rabies shots  meanwhile  the world  s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls  and one wino   also meanwhile  the doctor  s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction   br    br   it  s not so much that the acting is bad   you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices  and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script  even the guy who plays the sheriff   okay  it is pretty bad  but it  s bad in a clich  d  wooden  professional way   it  s just that everything about the acting  the way the scenes are paced  the costumes  the dialog  the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to  well  slap everyone involved  br    br   i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky  unsettling little cult favorite  but  br    br     the director needed to beat michael pataki  an experienced character actor  with a chair until pataki agreed to act  and not just channel dennis weaver   br    br     he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole   bat bites human  who then turns into a bat   scenario   br    br      he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his   episodes    instead of resorting to   man has a seizure   page from the little golden book of clich  d acting mannerisms   br    br      he needed to rework the whole   wife   character  make her both more intelligent  less shrill and waaaaay more observant   br    br   i would never voluntarily watch this film again  except with the help of mike and the bots  it  s bad  but it isn  t bad in a silly  humorous or interesting way  still better than   battlefield earth   or   waterworld    though             big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing  great production  and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap  the two stars work great together  and  what can i say  amanda bynes shines  putting   irkel   and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches  watch this film with your kids  if you don  t laugh throughout it  you must not have been paying attention             tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers  and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie  well  all i can say is i totally regretted it  these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant  unimaginative and kitch to the extreme  not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh  but fail to do so  the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend  and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can  t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap  fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven  t disappointed me ever since  i would recommend you to avoid this film  unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled             on watching this film  i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity  karen carpenter was a carefree  but very unconfident young lady  whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs  as with all celebrities of today  they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks  styles  etc  this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight  which eventually caused her death  this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching  but on starting to view it  then i was hooked  in the same way that the tina turner story does  then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life  the acting was superb and even after nearly    years after it was made  then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining  br    br   i would recommend this to anyone who hasn  t yet watched it  it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged             nothing is sacred  just ask ernie fosselius  these days  everybody has a video camera  and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying  quickly written and shot  and often posted directly to the internet  spoofs are hot these days  and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don  t get off on their own self importance     years ago  when the first star wars was made  it was a different world  filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare  then god gave us hardware wars  it was shot to look cheap  or was it just cheap   and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact  does that take away from the experience  heck no  that  s what makes it so great  it was raw and unpolished  and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie  from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber  i did that when i was young   to chewchilla the wookie monster  to auggie ben doggie  s   nah  just a little headache   remark  this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films  rent it  buy it  borrow it from a friend  and may the farce be with you  always             i hated it  i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art  this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid  after the first half hour  i fastfowarded through the dvd version  and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over  i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap  tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie  let alone art             i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies  but my god    this was the worst movie i have ever seen  bad acting  bad effects  bad script  bad everything   br    br   the plot follows a group of teen cliche  s on their way to a rave  that takes place in broad daylight  at a remote island  however  when the group arrives  all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes  determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers  the clan set  s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest  during this crusade  they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids  they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors  basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the   house of the dead    this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence  redundant clips from the hotd video game  and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations  one of the character  s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others  why  not because he was noble and brave  but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled  i  m supposed to feel sorry for this guy    br    br   to sum it all up  there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is  the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen  and i  m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it  grade  f            if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school  try to convince your teacher to see something else  believe me  anything is better than this movie  it is slow paced  confusing  boring  poorly constructed  gory  gringy  do i need to go on  it  s message is good  but i have seen them been handled better in several other films  the acting isn  t even any good  this movie is just even more awkward  as it start off as being funny  not intensional though because of it  s surreal story  than at the end  just becomes uncomfortable to watch  br    br   i honestly feel like   hour and    minutes of my life has been robbed  why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for    minutes  than watch them drive through a traffic jam for    minutes  listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear  witness a sort of rape  than see the female lead role eat her husband  br    br   honestly this movie deserves nothing but a       and if your not happy with my preview seriously i  m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism  but this movie was just awful  make any excuse you can  to avoid this film             this is like a zoology textbook  given that its depiction of animals is so accurate  however  here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film  br    br     handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons  it doesn  t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo  bullets just won  t go near it  br    br     the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra  or a giant komodo dragon  is just to stand there  the exception to this rule is if you  ve been told to stay very still  in which case you should run off  until the komodo is right next to you  and then you should stand there  expecting defeat  br    br     minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching  br    br            is a memory enhancement tool  and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested  br    br     members of elite army units don  t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings  maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it  br    br     when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing  a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need  sound gear  a second camera  microphones etc are all superfluous  br    br     when you hear a loud animal scream  and one person has a gun  he should take it out and point it at the nearest person  br    br     when you take a gun out  the sound of the safety being taken off will be made  even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br    br     reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something   without having the faintest idea what they  re exposing  background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism  br    br     handguns hold at least    bullets in one clip  and then more than that in the next clip  despite that  those with guns claim that they will need more ammo  br    br     expensive cameras  also  remember that the reporter only has one camera  are regularly left behind without even a moment  s hesitation or regret  these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves  br    br     the blonde girl really is the stupid one  br    br     the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it  thus making it unsafe  takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection   and nobody says a word about it  br    br     high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets  br    br     genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to     feet long in a matter of a day  but don  t grow at all in the weeks either side  br    br     the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don  t meet contact deadlines  br    br     men with guns don  t necessarily change the direction they  re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them  instead  they just keep shooting into the air  br    br     the better looking you are  the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures  br    br     women  s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds  br    br     any time you  re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age  br    br     animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for   swearing   at the same volume  br    br     old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military']

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['one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just oz episode you ll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn t dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn t mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn t say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who ll be sold out for a nickel inmates who ll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the polari but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master s of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with halliwell s murals decorating every surface are terribly well done i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy the plot is simplistic but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable even the well bread suspected serial killer while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point risk addiction i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love br br this was the most i d laughed at one of woody s comedies in years dare i say a decade while i ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson in this she managed to tone down her sexy image and jumped right into a average but spirited young woman br br this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it was wittier than devil wears prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friends basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time br br this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie br br ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots br br out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them petter mattei s love in the time of money is a visually stunning film to watch mr mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter br br this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler s play about the same theme the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect each one is connected in one way or another to the next person but no one seems to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film has a sophisticated luxurious look we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat br br the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter br br the acting is good under mr mattei s direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these characters come alive br br we wish mr mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work probably my all time favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it s not preachy or boring it just never gets old despite my having seen it some or more times in the last years paul lukas performance brings tears to my eyes and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles is a delight the kids are as grandma says more like dressed up midgets than children but that only makes them more fun to watch and the mother s slow awakening to what s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling if i had a dozen thumbs they d all be up for this movie i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i ve got what i wan na say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first aired the first or years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by the show was not really funny anymore and it s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn t still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can t believe it s still on the air encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film bad mistake i ve seen films and this is truly one of the worst of them it s awful in almost every way editing pacing storyline acting soundtrack the film s only song a lame country tune is played no less than four times the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film br br the only thing that prevents me giving this a score is harvey keitel while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessives only if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie if you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked it br br great camp phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines br br at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore br br its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there were some pretty interesting characters but eventually i just lost interest br br i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking br br for something similar but better try brother from another planet i saw this movie when i was about when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn t care much for the romantic angle as a year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules so im not a big fan of boll s work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller br br three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr krieger played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven t even gone far before i started to cry mehehe i can not go on any more if you wan na stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of scheisse that s poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wan na take a wiff go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wan na shoot him the first three minutes he s on screen the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because the scottish play is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you can not improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i ve ever seen sort of like a high school film project what was rosanna arquette thinking and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town pretty hard to get involved with this one no lessons to be learned from it no brilliant insights just stilted and quite ridiculous but lots of skin if that intrigues you videotaped nonsense what was with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounters and what was with that absurd dance with everybody playing their stereotyped roles give this one a pass it s like a million other miles of bad wasted film money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa some films just simply should not be remade this is one of them in and of itself it is not a bad film but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson was excellent as he always is and most of the cast holds up with the exception of owen wilson who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more this movie made it into one of my top most awful movies horrible br br there wasn t a continuous minute where there wasn t a fight with one monster or another there was no chance for any character development they were too busy running from one sword fight to another i had no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them br br scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies lotr star wars and matrix br br examples br br the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda obee one and vader br br the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings elijah wood is the victim in both films and wait it hypnotizes stings its victim and wraps them up uh hello br br and the whole machine vs humans theme was the matrix or terminator br br there are more examples but why waste the time and will someone tell me what was with the nazi s nazi s br br there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it was a children s movie or an adult movie and wasn t much of either br br just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in my dad took me my brother sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it an awful film it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe they ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition my complaint is not that they ve taken liberties with the facts if the story were good that would perfectly fine but it s simply bizarre by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script i suppose there weren t enough naked people in the factual version it s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist s life we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they d favored the rest of the film with same brevity after the success of die hard and it s sequels it s no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a movies cashed in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that is what they did with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallone s career br br cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing base jumping aviation facial expressions acting skills all in all it s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills and unintentionally plenty of laughs br br you ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddies and best of all the permanently harassed and hapless turncoat agent rex linn as travers br br he may of been henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely can t be it really does look like ralph waite s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death br br mention too must go to former london s burning actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football yes you can t help enjoy that bit hal needed a good kicking br br so forget your better judgement who cares if that could never happen lower your acting expectations turn up the volume and enjoy and if you re looking for qaulen he s the one wearing the helicopter i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it s entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn t even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it s almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you won t regret it it s too much fun rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn t anything more other than him i still liked it the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times you really start liking it first of all let s get a few things straight here a i am an anime fan always has been as a matter of fact i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several b movies because they re hilarious c i like the godzilla movies a lot br br moving on when the movie first comes on it seems like it s going to be your usual b movie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime comes on this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill br br the animation is very bad cheap even worse than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it s so cheap one of the few scenes from the movie i vividly remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school it s the same kids over over again the fx are terrible too the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation is unorganized the dialogue voices especially the english dub that i viewed was horrid i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd vhs player the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes comments like the robots joel mike on mst k you pick the season honestly this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time br br heck i m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night because it s stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time i m giving this movie a an improvement from the i was originally going to give it br br according to my grading scale means pretty much both boring bad as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun as counting to this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there is no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me nor does the development of the cop it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the s and not even a good one in those standards br br the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter s complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia gibb portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen s mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren t though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i ve read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don t want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it s all about and not how it s all about and i guess that s what some people don t like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it d at least get nominated for best picture br br i ve noticed that i ve kind of been repeating myself not because there s nothing else to say but because i can t stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of this film tried to be too many things all at once stinging political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family values promo the list goes on and on it failed miserably at all of them but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end br br although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film br br there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening reminds me a bit of three kings which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i d be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america s funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once war movie is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich d dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and ren e zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier s tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast coming to ada s rescue is the course tough as nails ruby thewes played by ren e zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby s deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant br br director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether taut and organically gripping edward dmytryk s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger s apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who s assigned to ryan s outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who s leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it s pretty much confined to young s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there s no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it s based on richard brooks the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don t fit so smoothly the victim s chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there s a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan s murderous rage ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he can not achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video which has brought us other cult classics such as spider baby the print quality is excellent but this alone can t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull there s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie is slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling adding insult to injury the movie was dubbed not subtitled as promised on the video jacket one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man titta di girolamo a physically non descript middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy when we re introduced to him at the start of the film he s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo s cash tell him that dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes at the news he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can t bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this bluffed only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo s troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who won t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life titta decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di girolamo s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell amore or l imbalsamatore another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist s insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dell amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it s almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of titta s best friend a man whom he hasn t seen in years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it s never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like titta accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator s expectations le conseguenze dell amore is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt xa during the second half of the s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell amore l imbalsamatore and others your loss world i watched this film not really expecting much i got it in a pack of films all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i was right they were all terrible this movie has a few and a few is stretching it interesting points the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch the drummer is very like a drummer i e damned annoying and well thats about it actually the problem is that its just so boring in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious i had my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but gave it a go and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking coz they don t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot i thought he looked a bit like a meercat all this and i haven t even mentioned the killer i m not even gon na go into it its just not worth explaining anyway as far as i m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who was actually quite funny it wasn t because of their acting talent i ve certainly seen a lot worse but i ve also seen a lot better best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry i bought this film at blockbuster for because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don t usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she s wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it s teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i ve been writing into a pg movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it s number so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though the plot is about the death of little children hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter in the end the serial killer get caught that s it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors it is unbelievable how bad these actors are including hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just don t watch the movie i ve warned you ever watched a movie that lost the plot well this didn t even really have one to begin with br br where to begin the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable or even the beginning which suggests a spate of killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction br br add a lead actress who can t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty but not in the way you hope br br given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offers nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder don t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before br br after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of us no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon br br it really is only a movie as they say okay so this series kind of takes the route of here we go again week in week out david morse s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what s wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david koepp a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can t see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let s hope something good can make it past a first series after sitting through this pile of dung my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it was that listless and formulaic but the u s propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves disappointingly that it s the work of humans call me a conspiracy theorist but quotes like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there s also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr whatever her name was being chided by all involved for never shutting up she s clearly in the movie only for looks but they felt the need to slap a dr title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage s character says don t you ever shut up and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands like she s a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie was that it s so astonishingly bad you do get a few laughs out of it the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it creepy it had all the clich s of movies of this type and no substance the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it the production was good however the script and acting were b movie quality the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors the good actors didn t hold their own nor did they lift up the others br br this movie is not worthy of more words but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines james wood and cuba gooding jr play caricatures of themselves in other movies br br if you are looking for mindless entertainment i still wouldn t recommend this movie this movie is based on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out fifty s hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances pass but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held bullets has there been such a miracle i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god s army was okay and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br dutcher s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what dutcher shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time dutcher try making a movie that someone can identify with this movie struck home for me being i remember the s and my father working in a factory i figured if i worked hard too if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream the house a few kids a car all to call my own i ve noted however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you can t get anywhere br br i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs it s made for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic an t find it anywhere i d love to show this to my friends my pseudo friends family and other relatives see what they think and remind them that once upon a time americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished i think the feeling is still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas as a disclaimer i ve seen the movie times in the last years and i only just saw the musical this week this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn t in the musical however it tainted me when i watched the musical br br i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene is one of the best parts of the movie a worthwhile addition compared to the musical the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical as well as the cast which is at least times bigger easier to do in the movie of course the decors lighting dancing and singing are also much superior in the movie which should be expected and was indeed delivered br br the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie the new ones are quite good ones and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion especially compared to a musical which has few decors the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters but their dancing is impeccable and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham s nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born canaanites wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists linguists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one preston sturgis the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry luce clone thatcher s memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane s story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner s right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom s confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union s headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane s success few films do including all of orson welles other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one s interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve s son by tom s son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans sturgis came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers return to the th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the s and s whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western s clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest this is presented in shaw scope just like the good old days br br this film is a simple story of good versus evil told in acts which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era br br act one sets up the premise workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot having their wages cut by by incoming manchu gangsters they can t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters and their boss at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequences but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times br br act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob however without real martial arts he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly after some slapstick moments he finally gets accepted by the abbot whom he impersonated but is disappointed at the teaching methods kinda like mr miyagi s style in karate kid but instead of painting fences he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly builds strength endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way br br act three is where the fight fest begins with cheesy sound effects each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow with some pause in between moves but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks they sure don t make fight scenes like they used to return to the th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday so if you re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what are you waiting for spoilers all too in real life as well as in the movies familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hands the case of young and innocent in never handling or firing a gun jimmy davis franchot tone has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men like jimmy davis are forced to take up arms for their country br br jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay by being belted in the mouth by his good friend fred p willis spencer tracy ended up on the front lines in france with jimmy s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german who raised his arms in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him br br recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy gladys george rose was really in love with jimmy s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her it s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose thinking that he was killed fell in love and later married jimmy when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy now fully recovered from his wounds was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy s proposal of marriage to her br br with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred who s still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city s underworld not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster br br jimmy s life of crime came full circle when rose after she found out about his secret life ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a valentine day like massacre with his gang members dressed as cops of his rival mobsters while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence is up get his life back together br br spoiler alert hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law it s at fred s circus where he works as both manger and barker that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he like at his trial had a sudden change of heart but the thought of going back to prison with at least another ten years added on to his sentence was just too much for jimmy it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job that he himself didn t have the heart to do for him bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones br br bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides deaths the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards br br you have got almost everything in this movie the scientist s assistants consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her sons a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela s house bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie br br the corpse vanishes is worth a look especially for bela lugosi fans great fun br br rating stars out of i can not believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line s tape this ain t no minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an the percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of as strikingly similar to the post socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a whupping they deserve it s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can t be denied the right to ever vote again they ve clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he s helped create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic as robespierres plight is it s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine as someone has already mentioned on this board it s very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with love machine it starts to show its faux hand about the minute mark with minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it s downhill from there br br director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn t get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in when the film was made eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn t work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it s not going to be an oscar nominated film it s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes br br the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert it s just them fighting back throughout the whole film which includes a lot of violence which is basically the whole film as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience br br i d give the hills have eyes ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment something to pass time if you re bored and nothing else br br i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned no spoilers br br after hitchcock s successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne dumarier s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock s sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freaks and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock s more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time shooting ban on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock s most well known films it s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock s original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his deaf wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it s not a big movie and doesn t try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his th performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they re taking their bows and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren t other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn t get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser what happened what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie loses it actually it never really got going there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant then find out that she is after all but that was it steve martin who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie other than to make it longer i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it was not but maybe a drama with comedic elements i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot i ve just watched fingersmith and i m stunned to see the average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it so let s begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg s movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it s quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence besides being boring the scenes were oppressive and dark the movie tried to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with its message what were the redeeming qualities on top of that i don t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did an unmarried woman named stella bette midler gets pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own things go ok until the child named jenny trini alvarado becomes a teenager and things gradually and predictably become worse br br i ve seen both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affected me much and i cry easily but they were well made if dated trying to remake this in was just a stupid idea i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of beaches to get this made this predictably bombed the story is laughable and dated by today s standards even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actors don t help in supporting roles flimsy and dull really who thought this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a don t torture a duckling is one of fulci s earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot g a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don t torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci s later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci s non splatter films but don t despair don t torture still has more than it s fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn t bother you then definitely give this one a look busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn t going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter liapis who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this film whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an asylum is hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br solely for the high bimbo quotient i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali larter her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you i m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though marques houston did appear in hp he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren t the most talented and couldn t carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i m sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i m sorry kym whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the hudlin brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i m no nasa expert but surely it s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film out of with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don t go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then i m comin upstairs junior and i m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offsetting his small role however is dan acroyd who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it s not that shocking it s not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis cerda s sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material although i don t care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written its not just about entertainment there s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across and yes it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn t watch sepet and or gubra for times br br i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right its really ironic how the characters relate like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future br br and i absolutely love the voice overs its crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there was suddenly mukhsin s voice saying bismillahhirrahmannirrahim the scene when he climbed the tree br br it captured malaysian s attitude and in some mild way sniggering at how pathetic it is portrayed in the character for example even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isn t sorted out br br all i can say is this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it br br it kept me glued to the screen i couldn t even take my eyes off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha i am not a golf fan by any means on may about pm the movie started with a scene in the late s old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don t want to give away too much i was up until a m this is super please see the movie upon viewing tobe hooper s gem crocodile in i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts with ed writing the scripts and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer all we d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants br br while tobe hooper s crocky opus referenced his own movies blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages rip offs to jaws temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock br br i was disappointed the crock didn t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism or crocky appreciation but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach perhaps in the coming years we ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed br br all in all the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me it tries to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like sh kasugi christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time it s actually is a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it s flaws captures your interest it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it even if it s made in the s it doesn t have a modern feel it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had this on the other hand just has the real feeling you just can t hate it i think it s an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they don t because coburn has a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman br br that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after as he explains it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired it s not something he s proud of she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt br br lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is heston is his usual stalwart hero but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn he blows everyone else off the screen when he s on br br coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can t touch him he knows that heston has to make it personal then br br coburn s gang includes morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be br br the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western andrew mclaglen directed it and i m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there is a lot br br for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men is your film maybe it was the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which is with the director as he keeps saying hi kids into the camera like a buffoon but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator turns out it s way too sleazy for its own good or bad or whatever there s a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respects in not having balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies and with the killing scenes there has to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in creating the creature killer whatever entrails of a virgin has neither it s safe to say it s a pretty soulless movie even if isn t one of the very worst ever made it s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their other heads br br in this case we re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by a murderer as he s credited first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on we get spliced in or phoned in take your pick clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere it looks like it s from another movie then once settled into the house there s a wrestling scene that s poorly choreographed and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killings first the rape by the photographers who promise the girls some jobs for their time then the murderer who like d amato s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one br br now the latter of those taken by themselves should be considered the highlights of the movie this is like saying however that the cro tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eye gouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually is kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl whose inconsequential name i can t remember even this becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title on top of this the sex scenes which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway are dubbed over by the actors you d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one where it s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch as the last girl left alive the virgin of the picture tries to stop the murderer from getting to her which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him you just want it to be done with for the i hate women mantra to ease up or be rid altogether the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a rotten tomatoes users ranked it at and the critics averaged an amazing if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike mina s son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren t a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo stephen hawkings is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it s a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they ll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won t be the same after you see it the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don t need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of s then the rest of us will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don t even get me started about the southern accents y all and the story was trite just remember you were warned oh god i must have seen this when i was only or twelve don t ask how i may have been young but i wasn t stupid anyone could see that this is a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly i ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland i ve seen better performances at a school play and i ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignoring the children tapping on the glass br br the story is set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people are trying out a new water sport surfing in shark filled waters it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family br br i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years the best of which is lake placid and the worse of which is its sequel blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind br br the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer s life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number reminds me that he s still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can t get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that s titled the number is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn t even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous and i have never seen such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i was very disappointed the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldn t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end if you don t want to know much about the plot don t keep reading br br gilbert s character ophelia is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor is matt who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce he is gentle convincing and compelling in this role br br the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love br br the chemistry between the two leads is not great even though the talent of these two people is not in my opinion a question they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical two people meet tragedy bigger tragedy a secret is revealed another tragedy and then they get together i wish there was more to it than that but there it is in a nutshell br br i wanted mindless entertainment and i got it with this in regard to the genre of romantic films this one fails to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner is far superior not a steele book as are some of steele s earlier books turned into film oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don t even remember how many i ve seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all dramaticness ok this is for kids who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we ll let me tell you there s a million of you d this is one of them i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this nicholas walker is paul the local town reverand who s married to martha ally sheedy but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so doing he gets a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of misery type of way it s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator in a film billed as a black comedy one has to bring both elements into said movie while this does bring the former in spades it sadly contains none of the latter furthermore you can t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one br br eye candy dara tomanovich gets topless sally kirkland also shows some skin br br my grade c br br where i saw it showtime showcase hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore verbinsky to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn t entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clich s all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn t enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn t that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it s getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood bullshits down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment if you came here it s because you ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that s what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother s trailer i swear to god br br you know what i m not writing anymore about this it s just too painful deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read are three smart girls in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences it also stars ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it s a sweet story about three young women now living in switzerland with their divorced mother who hear their father winninger is marrying again not having seen him in years and knowing their mother still loves him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper nanny determined to stop the wedding realizing that the intended called precious barnes is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count this is arranged by their father s accountant king the man he chooses is a full time drunk auer but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess br br this is a delightful film not cloying or overly sugary at all with some nice performances particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young women are pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course is on young durbin who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer in fact her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult she has no trouble with the high notes as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sings a delightful il bacio in a police station br br one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father played by charles winninger not want his children around until he sees them and gets to know them barnes as the gold digger isn t all that young but the girls mother looks way up there so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger more glamorous woman in fact he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters br br universal gives durbin the big star buildup here she has the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point was still paying his dues and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is br br very entertaining and of course this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new better and different those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing directing and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england other days other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment made in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchens in the major roles under the brush stroke direction of mike newell these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter s eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille s classic epic of starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some rivoting scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning pharohs armies building sethi s pyramids could have been done with todays technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn t want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gangs of new york in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody s in the pianist and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot just to name a few his roles all influence eachother but each is seperate and utterly unique he changes completely with each character he takes on and i m beginning to believe that he can act as anything anything br br as cristy brown he is stunning he does not ridicule the character and he does not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown comes to life a smart man an outrageous man human br br this movie despite small scene transition faults and the like is an inspiration yes it s predictable but is it stupidly sentimental no i laughed i cried not a single moment of cheese proof that this isn t a hollywood movie br br my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant when cristy is discussing painters with eileen peter and her friends here s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax i ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that s animated wheel out the cripple and his performance never slows down never falters and is beautiful simply he has a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tired of cristy s perspicacious eyes twitching and guttural speeches br br a must see fo sho yo my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn t be much good the movie s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making hera s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don t see the gods and there s no real certainty that they exist so it s got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn t do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg s works and again and again don t understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood s movies cause it s so inept it s very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there s no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it s extremely inept amateurish film it s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion s gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach s castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma s home a floating space station here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station s power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at lives still these minor problems aside it s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we ve been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect out of this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature spatula madness is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job joins in the fight against the evil spoons this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning but is barely present for the remainder of the feature this film s minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lies below it the plot that is set up doesn t really have time to show but it s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films this film is worth watching at least a few times take it for what it is and don t expect a deep story okay last night august th i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here s what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i ve ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van bebble s take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second dibs on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you ve heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn t want to have anything to do with how in god s name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock n roll mind of a man who couldn t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public s image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie s work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i m glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart i am glad i did it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake the bonus levels were very hard the sniper one i think was too hard it made me so frustrated i didn t play the game for a week and a half there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it br br the only thing i might change was the upgrade system i didn t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded such as buying an armor upgrade didn t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter i really liked the q copter i think the developers did a good job no this hilariously horrible s made for tv horror clinker isn t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness that s quite tasty in a so execrable it s downright awesome sort of way richard crenna looking haggard and possibly inebriated and yvette mimieux who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppets from the disney witch mountain pictures are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesn t that sound really scary and disturbing well scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain t but it sure is funny thanks to curtis night tide harrington s hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effects an almost painfully risible n ridiculous plot and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story besides the leads both martine beswicke and r g armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy show people released by mgm in davies plays a hick from savannah georgia who arrives in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot as is davies outrageous southern costume davies lands a job in slapstick comedy not what she wants but it brings her success she meets fellow slapstick star william haines who is immediately smitten with her well davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio high art studios and lands a job in stuffy period pieces a handsome but fake actor andre telefair shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that is not who she really is marion davies is wonderful throughout as she outrageously runs the gamut of emotions required of a serious actress william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self and there are cameos by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous stars of the day including the director of the film king vidor this is a silent film with a few sound effects as sound pictures were just coming into their own a treasure of a film the performance of every actor and actress in the film are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again however i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors and director attenborough s credits that puzzles me aren t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent long lasting film for the audience i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don t have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director s chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it s very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she s sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated this is the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared not handsome but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark pretty as she is is also a complete and believable jane eyre this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this is the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this apparently the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called movie they described blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skin but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the plot furthermore as a viewer of many and sundry films some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain br br correct br br jonathan tanner br br br br p s i was not blinded by the choreography i liked boyle s performance but that s about the only positive thing i can say everything was overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actors spoke like you would expect your year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded stone hearted cop or an ultra evil villain the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music and what s with the whole ish police torture stuff it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story cox added a lot of things in fact that he apparently thought would be really cool but had nothing to do with the story that s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges stories so good is his minimalism they are tightly bound with no superfluous details this movie is just the opposite i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i wasted renting this but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you what a pity this film is very boring and so long it s simply painfull the story is staggering without goal and no fun br br you feel better when it s finished so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin s adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven t really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys as well br br loved it the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we re used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release of stars this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a foodie the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette s menu and choice of wines are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a out of film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it set in the the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the danton affair written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris usually i m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties early nineties film featuring now has beens but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through guys dressing up as girls has been done to death but never so pathetically corey haim s performance was abysmal as usual nicole eggert was not much better this has no redeeming qualities even if you are a number fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash stay away i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almod var regulars appear in this film so it s not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn t find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood s novel the robber bride and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an ex cop journalist tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman s crazy female friends it s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms atwood s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men victims of scheming women br br heh okay you got me if these guys are mentioned in the book and i m pretty sure they re entirely made up for the movie i ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female characters of the novel aren t enough to carry the movie zenia s manipulations aren t interesting unless we see them happen to a man and a man s life is screwed up roz charis and toni tell their stories to a man because it s not important if a man doesn t hear them br br i liked the characters in the book it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man s story i normally do not look for feminist angles on media and i tried to enjoy the movie as is if i hadn t read the book i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the ex cop and you want to read more about them you re out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot it s the same plot the movie excavated it ironed it and sprinkled it with male angst it s like zenia s revenge on margaret atwood this movie gets a because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid s monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn t terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it s a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br the synopsis isn t entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston rekert as paul sharpe s newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr rekert mr novak s investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom rekert fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo missing in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn made money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place of course not troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it is this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this revolt of the zombies proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn t necessarily make lightning strike twice br br the halperin brothers responsible for the horror classic white zombie made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi s eyes from that previous film there was a court battle with the white zombie film s rights owners who didn t want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word was the only thing that could help this film because as everyone knows bad films can make much more money simply by having the word zombie appear in the title knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead but simply hypnotism victims br br wan na create a mind controlled army of zombies be ready to crack a few eggs including your own br br the lame plot man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend whom she loves jealous this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn t worth spit br br this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i ve ever seen you d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming the acting isn t even good this movie makes the racially insensitive king of the zombies which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invaders seem like a serious drama this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama the credits list the ironically named company favorite films i m not sure whose favorite film this would be but they re obviously an idiot br br not recommended for fans of zombies romance or classic films the complaints are valid to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women i am okay with these night time soaps like grey s anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end however when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romps and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital it seems like general hospital or a female counterpart to baywatch that was what men wanted and they had it so if this is what women want so be it but the idea that this is a high brow show or something men will watch is unrealistic this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year i didn t see any cameos in the movie but it is still pretty good it is similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this is a better put together movie it actually has a point if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roeper s review of this movie is right on i mean i don t really like ebert on most movies but this is the movie that i will agree about the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laughed at when it is found out about but it still suggests that you wait steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet it is still funny i remember seeing this film in the mid s thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is newish it just seconds away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces br br it s look like the dvd is due a region release soon the region copy i is very poor quality let s hope they ve cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominated it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he s sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudy s situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn t fit in but before it s all over murray s performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn t matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don t let the absurd rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman of stars br br the hound the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won t miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn t have to go back why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it s mindboggling one of the premises of film is that our hero who s a hacker has a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he s helpless and can t get into any computers he s a hacker it s like saying that you can t drive your car if you don t have your lucky driving cap on i won t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off i know these horrible things happen in the world but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species br br this should be banned and destroyed i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market br br this movie should be removed from the public the person who made this movie needs psychological help anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i d love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was s love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i m an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english s experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english s talents didn t translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the s doesn t translate to the s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone s time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let s remake a classic with worse everything i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill jackie kennedy s sister and the cousin of these women would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be considered the skeletons in the family closet the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women i d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating i e are they nuts or am i missing something this movie is hard to come by netflix does not have it facets does though c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages br br this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show br br except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average br br this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example br br just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what i just watched this movie on it s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william s zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that s the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there nanoo nanoo i caught this film on azn on cable it sounded like it would be a good film a japanese green card i can t say i ve ever disliked an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean and i am a huge fan of john woo s hong kong films i an not adverse to a light hearted films like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourites so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly acted film ever again br br i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude because no one in this film had a personality and when any of the characters did try to act as opposed to mumbling a line or two their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy because i didn t laugh once even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this a refreshing breath of comedy it was neither refreshing nor a breath of comedy and the ending was very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things br br avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst is a better acted film than this and i walked out half way through that film before i begin let me get something off my chest i m a huge fan of john eyres first film project shadowchaser the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son s coach but once executed meeker returns as a revenant or as kelly perine calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making silvano s life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker s wife br br director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film s main flaw since there s nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse ye lou s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her ex lover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting br br i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitutes a convoluted semi historical conflict for a plot without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes the sudden time shifting doesn t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless normally i don t mind dark movies but the absence of light the bone jarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i don t think that helps the movie the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the th century and i don t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moments don t add to its watchability br br the actors are all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films brooding and looking generally annoyed however at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator br br all in all a very disappointing film especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he after hearing about george orwell s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life i m now but never having read the book i am totally confused as to what i ve just seen br br i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel as i m sure most are but only through hearsay and quotes without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery and even with it i m still no more educated about the story of than i was before i watched it br br on the plus side br br the cinematography is amazing hurt burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making br br now for the down sides and there are plenty br br there is a war going on at least as far as the propaganda is concerned but why with who nothing is explained there are a couple of names bandied about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation br br who is winston what does he do where does he come from where does he work why is he changing news reports why isn t he on the front line why doesn t he eat the food in the canteen what is that drink he s drinking through the entire film why is he so weak ill why isn t he brainwashed like the rest of them what s the deal with his mother sister what happened to his father a little back story would have been nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that haven t read the book without it this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on br br the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it s very annoying all the same br br also i know this has been mentioned before but why all the nudity it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage br br i personally can t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days we are not all brainwashed simpletons but this is a few steps too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you ve read the book because if this film really is the literal translation that i ve seen many people say i would find it very hard to understand why is hailed as the classic it is br br there s no denying that it was light years ahead of it s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline br br i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i m to make any sense out of this br br all in all very disappointed in something i ve waited for years to watch this cute animated short features two comic icons betty boop and henry br br henry is the bald slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks br br well here he does speak br br he wants to get a puppy from betty boop s pet store and when he is left to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue br br betty sings a song about pets henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey but everything works out in the end i just got back from this free screening and this osama witch project is the hands down worst film i ve seen this year worse than even catwoman which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction br br in september tapes a film crew of documentary journalists heads to afghanistan despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip the conditions and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife s death on sept to track down osama bin laden br br they made eight tapes on their journey which now document their travels and of course their attempts to kill the terrorist leader the eight tapes thankfully all end at points significant in the narrative which is convenient for a documentary br br the psychotic idiotic protagonist who is given to long significant speeches that he probably learned watching macgyver cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps i don t know why he didn t just wear a sign on his back that said shoot me br br the crew s translator supposedly their sensible voice of reason does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom br br you wish they d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons br br around tape i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew i remember seeing this film in the theater in when i was years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell s voice was dubbed by someone else ian holme was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i m used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until am to see it a family is traveling through the mid west there s widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and ben s little daughter k t geri reischl then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they re forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros strother martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there s some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can t explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it s a quiet kind of horror that isn t made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman s flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she s also recently learned she s pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn t want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight s first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon says are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we ve been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it s a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying save time the only upside me was that the actor who played finny was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stopped there they should have continued to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there s nothing else there to show br br gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film i don t really think they exist i think they bought this script at scripts r us where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blanks there s a monster stalking us let s split up they actually let s split up in this movie hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar not dead yet burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie ir glasses spraying with something like paint were handled badly br br what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issues for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treating an invisible subject and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than seconds and would have been far more interesting had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have been a much better movie all in all it stunk br br i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie but i don t want to do any spoilers suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than a young girl becomes a war time marine s pen pal and when he visits at war s end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who tucks the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker s actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit plays the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses br br even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful though it couldn t catch up with the original it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors though the film bombed at the box office the actors got the undue recognition in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film br br all said this is not a family film so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family robert altman s downbeat new fangled western from edmund naughton s book mccabe was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario the characters here don t merit much interest and the picture looks intentionally brackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel once the profits start coming in beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action altman creates a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town is limited most of the story being made up of vignettes and altman s pacing is deliberately slow there s hardly a statement being made just the opposite in fact and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds it s a self defeating picture and yet in an altman quirky way it wears defeat proudly from what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me on second viewing a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation br br spoiler of sorts follows br br poor cedric he apparently didn t know what hit him poor audience we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guys just didn t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu an intellectual being to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach br br on a purely technical note i loved the camera action in this film subtitles were totally unnecessary even though my french is presque rien i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more this was a polished very professionally made motion picture though many scenes seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten i don t think i ve ever gave something a rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it s not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can t set up or finish a punchline and you ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it s just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that s screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he s still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out from the film s first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clich s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen s subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen s methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can t lose jane austen s technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth s wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody s follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen s elizabeth at least in austen s eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety knightley s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew macfayden br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache i ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is life sometimes has boring patches no real plot and not necessarily a happy ending a river runs through it is the perfect name for this film and norman maclean s novel life ebbs and flows like a river and it has it s rough spots but it is a wonderful trip br br robert redford brings a lot to the film his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly as a director he is restrained and calm and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes as for the acting craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers i don t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn s performances except that they truly feel real a river runs through it is a wonderful film br br out of the story is very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie is quite fine even the directing of it the main problem is with the castings that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael played impressively by asi dayan all other actors were unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl played by taly sharon was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors great script and rather good photograph was not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself is very powerful it s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a yo prison time drugs the end is rather sad mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency out of because very few greek movies can make such an impression mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i ve ever seen but what a film i thought it was fabulous excellent and impressive it was funny well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change and being able to pull it off this was great i ll definitely watch it again you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that s a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man s van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it out of stars i can t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i laughed a couple of times probably because of how stupid it was if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn t the plot was so horrible it made no sense and the acting was so bad that i couldn t even tell if they were trying that movie was terrible rating f this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic peens holding passion there s also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can t tell you how much that s been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of dido s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that s what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director s history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it s very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik s name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drinks any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink if you can t figure out the through line keep drinking beyotch whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it s easy br br that s it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian smirnoff punch jr even though i m quite young the beatles are my absolutely favourite band i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember br br it s the sort of film that is worth trying the once i can see why it wasn t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film it didn t much details except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up jared harris stars i d never heard of him he played john or aiden quinn who played paul however they are certainly underestimated actors br br the film had a slow start but as it developed i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters as a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like the script was brilliant and harris got lennon s accent personality and mannerisms spot on quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent the make up artists made them look excellent br br this paragraph may be counted as a spoiler br br as i mentioned before it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians as for lennon s rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it br br it is quite different from the other biographical films i ve seen where it s about how the beatles got together and became famous and those never really did the characters that well e g backbeat br br in conclusion i would say if you re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minutes long it s worth waiting for the film to develop br br if anyone does know whether the meeting of really did happen please send it to the comments page for this film i d be very interested an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn t so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it s like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a cafe around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty films as the burning bed enough or monster this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she s not such a bad person after all give us a break here s my question to the filmmakers if letourneau were a man and vili were a year old girl would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person answer hell no br br imagine switching the genders in this film and then you ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage were the genders switched there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead we d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl his lascivious behavior landing him in prison and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex br br let s call a spade a spade letourneau is a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts she s a criminal who belongs in prison and deserves our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy the premise of this movie was decent enough but with sub par acting it was just bland and dull br br spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death it was accidental so although it was a murder it wasn t like the guy set out to do it also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree there is no emotion in this film the first minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister and hearing her message it was dull and boring br br with some polishing and better acting it could have been pretty good the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy quaint streets and sunshine i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere br br othello works for big fat mr karva his crime boss step dad at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it s never really defined but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers so trust me he s a prick doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs one of his colleagues is runner a black dude who is always dashing from a to b until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running runner dumps the lost boy in othello s flat where he promptly starts granting more wishes keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled karva has the boy kidnapped but he isn t sure of what would really bring him happiness is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job either way i don t want to see the little boy grant him the second br br it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes the ending tries to be shocking but since there s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience br br writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell ironically if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film as it is we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy who s origins are never revealed that s just plain irritating br br aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score this film has little to recommend i can t emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you d best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i m overexaggerating a little this isn t the worst kids movie no let me rephrase that this isn t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i ve been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won t learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we don t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i degress br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there s a better movie kiki s delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it is nothing else on tv are you really bored well then watch phat beach however don t rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake br br i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard however there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at if you are looking for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie tries at kind of watch something like hoop dreams or jason s lyric if you are lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent however if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amused br br out of the elegant documentary br br don t watch this movie if you re an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you re about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the hubble telescope and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of possibility br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it s very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibilities quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn t seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i ve never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don t divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don t like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you ll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i m talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie originally slated for direct to video but bumped up to theatrical status it would become known as batman mask of the phantasm ten years after phantasm we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb sub zero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman joins the family br br the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line br br the animation is the sleeker futuristic style that was utilized for batman the animated series fifth and sixth seasons aka the new batman adventures it s quite nicely done and just as sleek as return of the joker s animation there is also some use of cgi but it s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero the music was alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans rodent shaped hearts br br kevin conroy as always does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman it s also great to have the old batman the animated series alumni back that includes bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon batgirl her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr alfred br br villains were also great especially given that rupert thorne the old mob boss from the original series appears for the first time since the fourth season br br overall while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan you will love the five minute short chase me i think this movie was supposed to be shocking but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it s been made and simply is it s one and a half hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie the five girls br br sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way which is basically fine since it s a horror movie and i usually like horror movies i ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever it s no spectacle other than that it s simply grotesque it s so lame it even gets boring and really quick too br br the worst thing if the above wasn t bad enough for ya about this movie is that they ve tried to copy the blair whitch project by filming with cheap hand held cameras but again this too serves no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough there s an explanation namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch in this film there s no other explanation than hey ya ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can t make out what they re saying also no effort has been made to make anything any better sound wise or other wise br br than finally there s the soundtrack which is just as bad as the rest and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock br br my advise don t watch this under any circumstances why can t a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they re fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i ve ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i ve seen but thankfully i can t remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader s c diorama set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn t needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i m kind of cheap i d have to have or bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we re plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the shlitz hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it s a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it s full blown old school horror steve johnson s make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking though i d heard that cama de gato was the worst brazilian movie of the decade i watched it giving it a chance after all first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature shot in video for just us and though it looks even cheaper i can t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it then as i watched it i realized why but whatever chances you re ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minutes it s an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex drugs and violence and they re made to look like closeted gays too made with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it lasts ninety two count em minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it s not even funny bad br br we ve all seen the story before bored young guys want to have fun go partying take drugs and everything goes wrong there s gang rape spanking murder the accidental death falling down the staircase of the mother of one of the boys culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film is heavily influenced by larry clark especially kids and bully but clark s films though also moralist and sexploitative are high class masterworks compared to this crap br br i don t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience s throat stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb minded with so much babbling yelling inept direction shaky camera and terrible acting going on stockler doesn t care a bit about technique the quality of the images framing sound recording soundtrack songs dialog sets editing etc is uniformly appalling but he s a narcissistic control freak he anticipates the criticisms he s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is i could relate to that br br despite his megalomaniac ambitions stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can t even decide if he wants gritty realism hand held video camera etc or stylization repetition of scenes use of alternate takes etc damn he can t even decide where to put his camera there s use of subjective camera for the three leads the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exists simply to justify the director s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for all you see is a filmmaker being hateful preachy condemning moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it br br it s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo s blat can be highly effective under good direction as in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here he s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped actors in recent memory he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn br br the film opens and ends with real interviews with typical middle class youth stockler wants us to take those interviews as proof of what he s trying to preach in fiction but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees selecting a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statements which only shows assholes exist everywhere stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior i couldn t tell br br with its dogmatic self righteousness headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom cama de gato is bad for a reasons but above all it s harmful in a very insidious manner it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato is best unwatched unmentioned buried and forgotten an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it was funny and sad and very beautiful well it starts out a bit dark a dog who escaped the pound and gets killed by an old friend ends up in heaven and comes back but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else was okay and the songs were fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaws the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didn t deserve to die but she is in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this is a very good animated movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommended for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this you ll find after the movie dom deluise has a very important and special message got ta love that guy ahehehe this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a clich hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan s ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing if you loved bulgakov s book you would be understandably afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story s deeper meaning to the screen there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita as complex and far fetched as the story is the movie leaves out nothing it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score with not a note missed why can t we find such talent here in the u s so now my favorite book and movie have the same title this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga br br that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before br br not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace br br this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched br br the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution br br as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying this has to be the worst piece of garbage i ve seen in a while br br heath ledger is a heartthrob he looked deformed i wish i d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him br br orlando bloom is a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him i can t say i agree br br rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn t wait to get off the set br br i m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers this is a far cry from butch cassidy which actually was an entertaining film this was trite cliche ridden and boring we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better it didn t br br the last minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel and women and children are dying because of their presence that s not funny but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i kept waiting for them to say i ll bite yer leg off we were howling with laughter as were several other warped members of the audience when we left pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was br br i may not have paid cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasn t free it cost me hours of my life that i will never get back a very ordinary made for tv product tyson attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans i m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn t you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department br br i just sat there through most of the movie thinking is this supposed to be funny and this is the guy from tenacious d right the truth is this film has nothing to offer at all it s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction you ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn t i was bored stupid about minutes in but though it would surely pick up it didn t minutes later i d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful br br it s like remember years ago when you d see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they were famous and you d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop yeah it s like that br br i ve enjoyed some of jack black s earlier movies like shallow hall and i m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to us again jack i m gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something at the least give you a serious talking to br br i know it s a clich but this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen and for so many reasons i haven t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i ve read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt s vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the damned s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i ll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where s the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem s lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let s see what else can i say it wasn t too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br jy br br jimboduck dot com while i count myself as a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there the pace of the gathering is slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confusing worse the characterization in the premiere episode is poor although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god s gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire i don t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the club they are today s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans as well as billions of humans the world over who don t happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth such as the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lost are they in their fantasy sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy however the club is in a class by itself they are truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lies disinformation and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion the club though is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of cult but due to the club s vast wealth conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip they are above the law in this country for those of you who have seen the movie the matrix you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them br br in less civil times the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the club out of town with torches and pitchforks but in today s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague br br the television ratings system and the v chip on tv s should also have a rating called r for religion so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape such as presented by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their children if you wish to see shakespeare s masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart s as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet s indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet s character together with the aid of shakespeare s full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud revengeful ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father s death and suspected murder or his mother s marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father s ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king s secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself the golden door is the story of a sicilian family s journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he ll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they re aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e delousing mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular salvatore s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish nifty little episode played mainly for laughs but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere but which passenger is it talk about your illegal immigrants all star supporting cast from wild eyed jack elam hamming it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if she s the martian then i say let s open the borders to cruel faced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it i watched mask in the s and it s currently showing on fox kids in the uk very late at night i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was it s just plain awful it is no where near in the same league as the transformers he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses comes on straight after it that s if mask doesn t put me to sleep first one of the lesser s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids phantasm class phantasm ii awesome phantasm iii erm terrible br br even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply can t the movie seems to have sold out first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start something the others did not also too many pointless characters prime examples the kid who is a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls erm not gon na work or rather shouldn t and the blooming zombies what the hell are they doing there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there is a severe lack of midgets running about br br the only good bits are the cracking start and of course reggie b br br possible spoiler coming up br br to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv br br overall very very disappointing ludicrous angelic year old annakin turns into whiny brat year old annakin who somehow seems appealing to amidala years his senior now year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams and so takes to slaughtering children his friends and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared br br i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention the story is ridiculous the characters are unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc br br obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hacks off annakin s legs lets him burn in the lava and leaves him to suffer doesn t anyone think that s a little out of character not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living as it turns out br br i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations none of that here the story could have been written by a year old br br oh yeah the cgi is pretty cool scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great b movie killer klowns from outer space agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to dialog the ladies in this bad s comedy not bad as in s lingo which meant good bad as in bad with no likable characters including but not limited to a kid who s the freakiest looking guy since friday the th part a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one has two this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedies and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel br br my grade d br br eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point think bachlor party but not as funny and very disturbing br br where i saw it comcast moviepass if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it s got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that s hard to do when you consider custer s last stand at the little big horn and it s prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there s an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there s a lot to take in here though for the picture s two hour plus run time custer s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the major s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer s first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadn t noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it s interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan s depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn s portrayal here it s more than evident but it doesn t come close to that of richard mulligan s take on the military hero in s little big man let s just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one s point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer s character when he stated you take glory with you when it s your time to go the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal s driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno s replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british gaumont studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger s the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman s film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film s title in amazing shining white and blue stating the thing one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter s greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i m really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius like justin out there no one can say i wasn t warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that s horror aficionados are always dying to know what s in there even if we know it ll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn t even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie a new way to enjoy goldsworthy s work rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion watching goldsworthy build his pieces one develops an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he uses goldsworthy describes how the flow of life the rivers and the tides inspires and affects his work although i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy s pieces no snowballs i do feel it was a bit long the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy s work to life and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch if you liked william hickey in prizzi s honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he s doing in this schlock fest morgan fairchild s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk i have seen most if not all of the laurel hardy classic films i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly even after watching it over and over again this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel hardy however fails miserably for various reasons one of which is how out of place their cloths are still early th century however are both portrayed in the s setting some of the former dialogue was brought back however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever the real laurel hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn t on so late at night it s on at am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the s and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the s i m hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy i have just given a for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i m not a git who only gives bad reviews but because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can t avoid them all they ll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we re talking about here has a great life she s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this happy hooker type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly pretty woman insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that is without his plastic friend yep don t leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination out of of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where s the charm where s the charisma don t mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don t either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate thieves highway a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i ll finish on a song br br pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don t believe you you re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn t help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you ll stay with me and i ll pay you i ll treat you right this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn t that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears can not act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn t chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn t a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake normally i don t like series at all they re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast br br these series however are well played the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one the story will still be catching your mind br br the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital holy sh t this was god awful i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters you know h ll bring your girlfriend and make things interesting you will be the only ones there anyway f ck this slide show br br ye be warned br br i recommend not watching this br br hello br br how are you br br i m pretty good br br enjoying this day br br i am br br this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie this is sad this movie is without a doubt a perfect for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time porn is watched for the porn jackie chan is watched for the action i think you people are rating it bad because there s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie was boring very boring but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that this did change the way how american action movies were created they have even stollen scenes from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan s hes pure in everyway he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park and even in todays movies american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do a masterpiece i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james mcnally s summary of the content of the film is very good nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world s dogs but also undercutting a number of interviewees comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore s recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasants as the stars de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making this movie really woke me up like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber br br this guy john ben chaplin leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girl to die for nadia nicole kidman ordered by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by johns plan however a glitch turns up nadia does not speak a word of johns language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process br br what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure giving the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably acted likewise br br kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles at least from the cultural background br br the pace of the film is fast and captivating and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear you rather feel that you re in the middle of the plot and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out br br my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it has an unusual plot great acting and ideas below the surface like the idea of the rude awakening from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society s machine the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all br br thank you writers for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewers i am sure of it ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it this sports a nice deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk the first third of this movie was nothing but talk and more talk most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other br br the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it s really a chick flick and little else this probably plays on the lifetime network br br there was a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they had lost me br br by the way sally field looked about years old in here i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you ll crack up on the ground and you ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison s attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don t remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can t stop laughing i wish i had that movie howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film s best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there s no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america s own imperial age br br america s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery s noble brigand candace bergen s feisty heroine john huston s wily john hay or steve kanaly s spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt s big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while what with all it s raving reviews nominations and media attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie was good it really portrayed the black music scene back then however as the movie wore on me and my whole family were bored out of our wits the singing just kept coming one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent br br furthermore i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters i just didn t care what happened to them even when eddie murphy s character died of a drug overdose i knew i should have been sad but i just couldn t feel any emotion for that character the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in br br finally the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which goes along with the lack of character development this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn t really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances one of starewicz s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz s films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz s old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil s club scene twigss and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work nice character development in a pretty cool milieu being a male i m probably not qualified to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isn t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters each has their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn t go for cheap comedy when it could have it didn t try to pound a lesson into us the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it needed to happen good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people prussic gas a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish the inspectors at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch renberg certainly have their hands full with this case it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turns is to inherit a great deal of wealth the girls who are targeted share a room with ann but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy s finest must figure out the staff of the girls dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation it s a clever scheme where a driver greaves g nter meisner meets the convicts who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind he gives them orders on who to kill and how uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening under suspicion are girls dormitory headmistress her author brother a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some are red herrings until they are disposed of throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered the ending features multiple twists br br out of the krimi films i ve seen the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it s colorful killer a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind s secret hideout with an alligator pit which isn t used the fake bible water pistol when opened fires the gas into the face of startled victims the greaves royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins abilities to get at the truth perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it i felt he was used as comedy relief particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims often misunderstanding what are told to him higgins using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator instead follows the clues facts often avoiding sir john as much as possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls executions i d say this may be one of the best if not the best examples of the krimi genre for it keeps you guessing always one more ace up it s sleeve the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there s a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special i saw this movie in the theater and was thoroughly impressed by it then again that was when claire danes was a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywood ized bitch she is today anyway this film really struck me as one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship films how far would you really go for your best friend i was moved to tears at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon as i left the theater i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you d do something like that for her i ve seen this film literally over times it s absolutely jam packed with entertainment powers boothe gives a stellar performance as a fan of actors such as william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never thought an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those roles until i saw boothe as jim jones as far as i m concerned powers boothe is jim jones this film captures his best performance the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there s the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it s hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn t have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one she appears like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese br br i have always liked her as an actor and had no idea she started this young with her career go figure i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on i say that because whenever i have watched her perform the characters thus far in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character quite nicely in fact br br anyway my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland somehow i assumed that was her first time up at bat not so well done reese this game ranks above all so far i had the honor of playing mine on ps so the graphics were really good the voice acting was above standard the difficulty level is just right wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting the only rating this game deserves is great this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation tanisha couldn t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director s spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it s certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she s married to the crippled edward g robinson who s the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck s daughter nor with lita milan who is keith s mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford s mouth i m a peaceable man would have been very applicable in the vioilent men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn t been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well apparently the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listening to a director andy copp s commentary which i didn t have available to me or reading up on the film prior to watching viewers won t have a clue what it is about br br gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage but unless they re also fond of pretentious headache inducing experimental art house cinema they ll find this one a real chore to sit through br br minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one s sanity if you ve still got all your marbles you ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watched the whole thing but am well aware that i m completely barking this movie was absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead i couldn t even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all celina jaitley was not bad the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it was pretty hilarious the songs sini ne and its remix version were really good you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster all in all it seems emran doesn t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat something ain t right theme song written by b j cook from skylark david foster s old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc s airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i d like to think this is really what detectives do did giambone was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor s name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama this movie fails miserably on every level i have an idea let s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if we re lucky they ll all be shot and killed and we won t have to ever have our time wasted by them again did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i can t think of anything i ve ever seen that was this bad i d rather watch ishtar times in a row than sit through minutes of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film i ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless that s my two cents yes i ll say before i start commenting this movie is incredibly underrated br br sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind br br the acting was good apart from thewlis br br stone really has a talent with this role she s slick naughty and seductive and doesn t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino morrisey was also good he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it thewlis however was lame he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way he really sucked br br overall this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james cy grant and michael crane i have seen this film at least times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn t the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn t you yay we ve solved the murder now like every other week let s go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young s terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can t believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b airport is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disaster in the sky formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft s flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other airport films supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the s nightmare is full of bad southern stereotypes complete with phoney accents not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised babe in prison movie especially in its uncut original version nevertheless acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular does a good job of making viewers hate him even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes there s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed who appears as the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligan s island made a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d br br ok i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it br br but we decided it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes br br and i m sorry but this has got to be one of the worst films in history br br it began off alright and we thought ok this might actually be ok but after about minutes we were sadly mistaken br br it began when the mysterious paint baller turned out to be the most obvious character the scouser australian i say that because he had an accent which couldn t be identified who s acting might i just say was abysmal br br then it got to the end and by that time we had all lost the will to live the paint ball finals br br the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn t actually win but annoyingly enough they won by default br br and i know this has nothing to do with it but the name the team were given was just awful critical damage i mean they could of picked a more awesome name like the destroyers of the anti christ or something or that s what the film should of been called anyway insignificant and low brained haha s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effects are tacky the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs the brain takes place in a typical quiet american town setting where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet it is here that a tv guru named dr blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling under the label of independent thinkers a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill how cool is that now it s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr blake and his monstrous brain actually come from there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that s about it meh who needs a background in a movie like this really there s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil brain looks like an over sized sock puppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she s obviously a great talent she has exactly movies on her repertoire of which this is her masterpiece in her debut she was credited as runaway model and in men and a baby her character is referred to as one of jack s girls i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie glc br br it s about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after glc what next for bronson br br we re using a new angle my family don t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won t be shown until well after the watershed well here s another terrific example of awkward s film making the rudimentary premise of what s the matter with helen is quite shocking and disturbing but it s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hush hush sweet charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but there s a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique we re literally catapulted back to the s with a sublime depiction of that era s music religion theatrical business and wardrobes following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winters flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies the script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced there s never a dull moment in what s the matter with helen although the singing tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters she s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who s about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combined there are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like mich al macliamm ir as the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an oscar are breathtaking resnais wow the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a s french musical in vibrant colour the opening voice over with old embellished inter titles was a nice touch then the camera aperture opens like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera backs off or rather up suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party this is all in the first seconds br br then the music starts a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i can t blame it on the subtitles those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minutes into the film br br i m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out i endured br br it didn t get much better i ll tell you why there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters we don t even see their faces half the time as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moths around a lamp and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot it s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs br br the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did hour was that i was looking at the camera techniques lighting and scenery which were all i admit excellent but is that enough to hold your attention for hours not me maybe tomorrow i ll try watching the end aw who am i kidding i have more important things to do i m sure you do too skip this i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch it s one of those films where you stop to see what it is just for a moment but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can t turn it off no matter how bad it is one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it s good and so bad it s well just plain bad it s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it s both great middle of the night fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag don t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male because logic does not apply this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a counter earth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a made for tv way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man s john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i ll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn t even shaking the camera or the set i ve seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what s wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn t work br br i m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that s what you the viewer will do you ll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can t recall too much about it black comedy isn t always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don t often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in br br devito plays an odd mamma s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn t have the guts to actually do it himself that s where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai i and murder larry s ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it s certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn t too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone of stars br br the hound back in i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation weekends and the holiday itself i stayed in town during that time hanging out at my parents house a lot br br i didn t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents tube i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx i was hooked instantly i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents family homes and through inheritances from relatives estates and often wondered about their history value etc br br after my long vacation i used to go to my folks house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx br br i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air br br it never did personal fx was the first and best of the collectible shows and it vanished from the air almost fifteen years later i m still sore br br way to go fx paul verhoeven s predecessor to his breakout hit basic instinct is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve played by jeroen krabb a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes while there he meets the seductive christine halsslag ren e soutendijk who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kills him br br paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself and that is one of things i like best about him this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards and that doesn t happen very often i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work but you ll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i ve mentioned but are lovely nonetheless a man gets eaten by lions another one has a pipe sent through his skull a boat is smashed in half lovely br br the acting in the fourth man isn t anything to write home about but it s solid throughout jeroen krabb holds the audience s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer it is ren e soutendijk that impresses the most though as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct but the original fatale did it best paul verhoeven s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish but he obviously has talent and it s a shame that he doesn t put it to better use of all the verhoeven films i ve seen this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it s worth the effort i accept that most s horror aren t scary by today s standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn t any blood to speak of br br i like how the s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn t the worst i ve ever seen but its almost up there br br out of demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don t even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend s house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it s just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i ve seen bad horror movies before manos troll hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski s donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh s sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that davie s main aspiration is to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don t tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also davie doesn t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the s he looks like he d be more comfortable in the early days of rock n roll posing as james dean s less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry s father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don t think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson s and that s just because he s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski being so close to the material he simply doesn t see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it ll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach braff s amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let s face it at this point it isn t going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don t attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch please re watch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out min tv episode into the most painful hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has line and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss s accent just changes about times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven finally an iranian film that is not made by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this is a non documentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the system in its ass it s all about football and its funny its really funny the director says the places are real the event is real and so are the characters and the extras this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a your heart is made of stone b you are blind excellently scripted the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it has won the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it s near perfect where where can i get hold of it sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan s whip br br written and directed by jason maran satan s whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i m guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan s whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time tainted look at kibbutz life br br this film is less a cultural story about a boy s life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minutes of the movie the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves and it s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical kibbutznikim besides the two main characters a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well evil br br the story centers on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows there is no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking year old boy his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and brutish personality he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother he treats these volunteers like trash after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn t seen in a long time due to his military service he orders quote linda go take shower and i cum in two minutes br br there is one other good character in this movie a european foreigner who plays the mother s boyfriend when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother s son the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist s arm he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz members more hypocrisy the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and gives an account of the actual act that s supposed to be humorous for the audience but is really just stupid she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse br br the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently can t escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose it s a mystery how the boy s father died but you can rest assured the kibbutz drove him to it and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son br br that s the gist of this movie one dimensional characters over dramatization dry performances and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience s head that kibbutz life was degrading miserable and even deadly for those who didn t fit in i feel sorry for the guy who made this film obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen br br i will admit the setting presumably new york city has never been so downright ugly and unappealing i am reminded that the s was a bad decade for men s fashion and automobiles and all the smoking if the plan was to cheapen the characters it succeeded br br for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there has to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty came close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot had struck mikey well it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most br br i can t remember when i detested a film as strongly i suppose i m a rube who doesn t dig art flicks oh well lost carnivale desperate housewifes the list goes on and on these and a bunch of other high quality shows proves that we re in the middle of a golden age in television history lost is pure genius incredible layers of personal and psychologically viable stories underscored by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describing a tv show a killer score great performances and editing anyone who isn t hooked on this are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever it may have its problems when watching only one episode a week but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up as i m sure they do clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister scoutmaster is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you ve heard it you ve heard it and you don t need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film s scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it s a pity this film doesn t have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affects all the muscles in his body he is confined to a wheelchair and needs round the clock attention so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a mile round trip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses the mythical city of everytown in represents england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally does arrive it s ravages continue not for another five years but until at which time everytown is completely destroyed adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the wandering sickness a pestilence that continues for another four years br br things to come balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization the wings over the world concept plays out a bit corny though it s spokesman cabal raymond massey is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause if he fails others will follow this message is continually reinforced throughout the film brought home convincingly in massey s end of movie speech man s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an all the universe or nothing mindset br br the film s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year the spectacle of the city s rebirth strikes a resonant chord as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man s first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than br br things to come is one of those rarities in film a picture that makes you think which side will you come down on the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it s not a comfortable question as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci s last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci s movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it s gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it s a hard to archive even the braindead didn t stop it citb is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by khmmm evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it s wounds forget the beyond or zombie this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being putted in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar he s been shot about fifty times by now and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear and you ll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity william smith does another turn as a russian soldier the same character he played in red dawn a few years earlier after playing biker heavies for most of the s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies sadly he ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors i like raptors because they are scary my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eats the banana br br i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time br br this is best movie warning review contains mild spoilers br br a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st series however just two years on and i find i can t remember enough about them in order to do it i guess they couldn t have made much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequels dream warriors in particular weren t as bad as is often made out though even the original was no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams doesn t lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five films i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy s dead br br an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character s demise the fact that the movie s conclusion is not even hidden but in fact the entire purpose for the film s being goes to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was br br taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain robert englund s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter i always thought freddy s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it s like englund s crying out we know this is garbage but you re paying to see it so who s the one laughing and i m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight was freddy s appearance in the films always so rudimentary all he gets to do here is a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr har har hars and that s it if this was the only elm st film you d ever seen you wouldn t get to know the character at all even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstated misplaced and not at all funny irony br br acting is almost universally poor just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keeps his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire the script too is absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan opens a road map upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written you re f ked when prompted for the map carlos responds well the map says we re f ked who wrote the screenplay oscar wilde br br or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy his hearing enhanced to painful levels so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin a potentially fatal sound given that all sounds are magnified oddly the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect nice hearing from you carlos quips freddy hoping some better lines will come along it s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn t occur instaneously so being knocked unconscious wouldn t allow instant access into freddy s world though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isn t that high on the list of requirements br br the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane is the only one who gets to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallops and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients freddy s dead no laughs no scares no interest no fun br br some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the s but although it is undoubtedly brutal violent and very downbeat this film from pou soi cheang isn t really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch particularly if gritty hard edged action is your thing br br edison chen plays pang a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee is wai the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape until he meets yue a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse br br a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amazing sound design a haunting score and solid performances from chen and lee as well as newcomer pei pei as pang s love interest dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence think along the lines of chan wook park s vengeance trilogy stabbings shootings merciless beatings all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang br br of course this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film dies rather nasty deaths unfortunately there is a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in its final moments dog bite dog crosses it in a laughably over dramatic final scene pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on eventually after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue delivering their baby moments before he himself dies br br whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it s still worth seeking out i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn t that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can t stand up to his mom for the one he loves there s ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can t be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with gabriela way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under imdb had for rating i d choose that in a heartbeat absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say even though this movie did not get the best comments this movie made my day it got me thinking what a false world this is br br what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you it s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance same way some people are such that they are never grateful this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself br br a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster the surviving brother decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone br br amitabh gave the performance of his life the new actor aryan gave a good performance the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself br br a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movies always give some message to the audience his movies are like novels of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they are entertaining as well as lesson giving after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is mader with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind i can t say much about this film i think it speaks for itself as do the current ratings on here i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it i even tried to like it by watching it twice but i just couldn t i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and i m not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this was awful it wasn t even funny in the slightest the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie and it reminds me not to waste my money amy poehler is so very annoying too br br overall well i think you get my point the stars are for walken by the way i am not so old that i can t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood in new orleans an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr clinton reed richard widmark of the u s public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them br br panic in the streets discloses a simple story but it is still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive my vote is seven br br title brazil p nico nas ruas panic in the streets the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i can t believe national lampoon put its name on this don t buy it don t rent it don t waste hours of your life on this there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles schumer i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i m a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it s that important i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it s moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting out of ten yes i call this a perfect movie not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works it s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach br br barbara stanwyck is simply stunning there was nothing this actress couldn t do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outbursts with this lady i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interesting br br the title fits this movie very well it is about desires human desires i think everyone can understand actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here br br i liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock s shadow of a doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang s considerably harsher movie clash by night made one year earlier where stanywck stars in a similar part i can also recommend it i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that s the way of the world it s been about years since i ve seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn t take off like their counterparts in the early s but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently what so ever the acting was great the main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy i had some reservations about this movie i figured it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas being in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decided to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow br br this movie turned out to be one laugh after another ben affleck was believable in his character but the real star of this one is james gandofini he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great dad br br if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours definitely check this one out when i first saw this film around months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i m sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it s untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein s films as art focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i ve seen a few of his films and he hasn t yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is in brave new girl holly comes from a small town in texas sings the yellow rose of texas at a local competition and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i loved this movie it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace the acting was of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end it seems a sequel could be in the making kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production quite a gem in the film archives despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich d sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn t direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don t think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you ll find absolutely zero original content in the messengers what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don t be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn t there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn t anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there s any message that the messengers delivers it s don t waste your time on this movie this movie sucks ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there s nothing going for this movie whatsoever maybe seconds of sex but that s it there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off this movie is complete rash and you shouldn t subject yourself to watching it i regret it it s very boring i would rate it zero but i can t no body in their right mind should see this i m sure you ll regret it completely i did how could they think up something this bad even mystery men was better mystery men that sucks that movie wasn t worth being made complete waste of time the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn t really in the mood for it at that particular time it s kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i m still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers orange face lift my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk that d make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clich s predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn t bad enough sometimes you can t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would ve felt i had gotten my money s worth going into see seven pounds i wasn t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about so within the first min or so you are completely lost in the plot have no idea what is going on and you think tim who claims to be ben is just a big asshole all of this comes to an end when the twist so to speak is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to br br the acting of this film is great as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress rosario dawson to me this is one of her better movies aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film other actors such as woody harrelson have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film was still good br br this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped the movie however was still pretty good nothing is revealed until the last min of the movie and everything falls into place up until then it just seems like a pointless love story final thought seven pounds seven stars i saw brother s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he shows up there because his brother has died and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait marar xada really disappointed me i can t consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr ferm xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can t really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar xada maybe once also marar xada never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn t really important to the story that of marcial the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters the mad doctor s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy the results are not good this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors there isn t much zombie action in this one and the effects while adequate are nothing special you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes watch out for some nudity and bad language witty funny intelligent awesome i was flipping channels late one night years ago came across this and a wildfire started i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time please do yourself a favor run don t walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it s a win win situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of sanechaos it s a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he s much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you ll miss em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it s coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of ast rix the french comic books it s based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze g rard darmon and edouard baer and please don t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books ast rix et ob lix contre c sar and directed by claude zidi i thought this movie was stunning with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi br br cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerisms her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch br br although not each character was overtly beautiful this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time br br overall i thought this film was fantastic i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever made that is the robert wise paul newman flick somebody up there likes me that movie might be number but gentleman jim is a close number br br the movie doesn t just chronicle the rise of james j corbett it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more gentlemanly days of the gloved marquis of queensbury rules and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability br br gentleman jim is not a realistic look at those days it is romanticized and yes even a bit hokey at times but always delightfully so errol flynn is perfect as the gentleman jim who really isn t a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship and we all know it is of course love that will win that match in the end br br at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line was not i can lick any man in the world of course romanticism again hands over his belt to corbett this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch raging bull instead that is a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim is a lot more fun that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this is the only movie i ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander the quickening at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our cinema that there s no chance for an air america well there s no real plot to speak of it s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it s not in this case what else can i say about this the action when happening is inventive and there s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper one that has to be several miles high but overall there s not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but you re not missing much if you skip this one this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven t seen any of the others there are the usual ingredients it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently the story is just laughably idiotic and the film takes itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa br br but it has a few things going for it bo looks great the production values sets costumes etc are quite good and this greatly enhances its camp value in a strange way it is actually quite funny simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we re all different made of different clay as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that s the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one gets committed and obsession in committed starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is joline and this is her story br br tadmittedly joline has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it s forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he s gone off to find himself and figure it all out when joline realizes he s not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it s because of that clay she s made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space and not even letting him know she s there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma and it s her job to keep a spiritual vigil over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local eateries carmen s grampy alfonso arau who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her for joline it s a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br tthere s a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from joline s point of view as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br theather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that joline be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it s all a part of the character she creates there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she s a likable agreeable person and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it s a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life br br tas carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with joline this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br toverall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as joline s brother jay goran visnjic alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br tthe supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art alexakis new york car thief dylan baker carl s editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we re going and what we really need committed is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast are tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments this movie is stupid there s no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i ve ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i m rating this a br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn t leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br sara s father being a soldier the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart sara s friendship with becky and her adopting lottie although this last one wasn t developed as much as it could have been the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that s about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged and respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a feel good family film then this delivers if you re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you ve read the book don t waste time with this one it s such a shame with a cast like this if they d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early s and made everyone look bad and claimed we all made over a day when a day was much closer to reality when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work and offered me work i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least years and kept most in the bank and still left myself for nl and cash games at the casinos i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll instead i win about a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all i was only homeless cause i didn t wan na risk spending all my money and going broke sometimes i had over in my sock while i slept outside anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs im no longer homeless am now in govt housing for a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping worrying about getting caught by security are finally over had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner its a shame how they don t better select who they pick i really in enjoyed watching this movie like most of the people that watched it i wasn t sure that i was getting whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies i e sister act br br however this was not really comedy it is a drama with comedic moments so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking br br this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks but also about relations with in the black community i do think that it is worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn t for you having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn t seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what s going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts ch without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don t forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction acting atmosphere sound effect br br total ken burns baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball s early years and heroes there s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br hours is simply too long for the human attention span it s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it s not even a tight hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn t baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he s sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there s no crying in baseball quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clich s no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br hongshen jia is in his mid twenties he s a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he s the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn t know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br hongshen s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to ritan park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain grassy picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer s positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he s the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john s son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon s influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon s presence as does hongshen s need to re hang his hero s poster in his redecorated room br br if lennon s influence is spiriting hongshen s father s influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is fegsen s differences from his son that underwrites his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he s chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to hongshen s emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can t a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab inst he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects recede so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banishes his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen says of this movie it s a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it s homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw alien versus predator it too has an average grading of over stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn t here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con s brother by the way yes they re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won t tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it s filmed and paced badly it s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven t seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don t expect the thrills of the first although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars alec guinness produced an amazing body of work particularly in the s s ranging from dramas to quirky comedies i particularly love his comedies as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen far different from the usual fare from hollywood br br this being said this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies it s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere except for ealing studios which had a particular fondness for little films like this one br br guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work so he tends to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspects or at night and try his hand at inventing repeatedly he is caught such as after he blew up the lab and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds then despite the importance of the discovery he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events and then the fun begins br br the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry unions the government and people in general victor mclaglen s performance is one of the finest in film history br br i think we can all feel for gypo because we ve all struggled with what is right and what isn t and been wrong this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio rko radio pictures br br joseph h august s cinematography is at its very best here however august s stunning portion was mostly overlooked he didn t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved br br this is a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all conveyed with as little words as possible how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you d think it couldn t be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they re planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he s a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it s utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don t waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn it s peak years were between and one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle who had a small but fanatic cult of followers she was actually able to act unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks and her subsequent credits proved it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique br br gary graver the director was also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combined with monica gayle s screen presence makes sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drags and you won t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be this is the type of film that i ve been looking for ages particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago which i still keep thinking about the back cover doesn t do this film justice it s superb and in my top for sure i did not expect much from this film but boy o boy i did not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock is not showing a good act here you can t get the feeling that his caracter is real i think the movie would have been a bit better if it s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it in the making of they don t show a single smile this is a very bad film i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me but i did never laugh i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina flynn known mostly for his swashbuckling roles and his bedroom antics takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully playing real life boxing champ jim corbett flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist all the while setting one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men and a dog including a prominent judge the next day he gets a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge s private club he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club s resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers up to and including the world champion john l sullivan bond flynn is downright magical here he is the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he looks terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit and does virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn at this stage he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time and she does so admirably she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell bond is incredibly burly brawny and towering yet tender when the script calls for it amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn s manager the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed a few of the sets are amazingly presented some of smith s gowns border on the garish but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well it s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing but it s also so much more some of it like the character traits shown by flynn is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes but a lot of it is authentic like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes one line is particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it s classic romantic dialogue and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett plot centers on two chauffers who ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single ladies quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel wins his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he loses he must play bottom man to his friend br br lots of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa br br hilarious fun thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero s and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person s memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by s flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost flatliners bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally fubarred in it s execution elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies it has every thing you would want in a film like great one liners sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not seen it you are missing out on one of the greatest films made i can t wait till her new movie comes out i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful especially since it was based on a true man pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl the photography was beautiful br br this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl i want to read as much as i can about him at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it but i am not surprised i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing i gave it the highest rating however i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house br br you can t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i d probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood s golden age of the s and s however no matter how much i love their films i just can t recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven t yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda s behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it s all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can t stay mad at fonda because he s so i can t think of the right word creepy is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don t go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic i was debating between this movie and but chose inglourious basterds due to it s amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it s that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve the song choices are really good hush my child just move on up to your destination and you make boundaries and complications anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review bend it like beckham great flick directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle s living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger s where the sidewalks ends from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg br br dana andrews is the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks when he hit someone his knuckles hurt and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain gary merrill who points up the title why are you always trying to push me in the gutter he asks andrews i have as much right on the sidewalk as you br br dana andrew s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden painful discovery that he is the son of a thief his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta br br by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrews and gene tierney of laura are united once more and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crooks this time he goes too far and accidentally kills a suspect the killing is accidental the victim worthless yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail br br using his knowledge of police procedure he covers up his part in the crime plants false clues and tries to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigating the case himself the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise br br the film is one of the best detective films of the s with curious moral values also one of preminger s best br br preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism in sum overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy is not very funny and juvenile additionally the film is not really realistic liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover s son by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball s chance in hell the actors do their best and are appealing but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing editing and lack of focus incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the min one that i watched but i can t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i d heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn t much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it s tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o toole who makes a most memorable tiberius oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i d like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br out of from ozjeppe did anyone edit this film or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes it s ok though i fell asleep watching it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot is actually not the worst i ve seen but it s close the acting is not the worst i ve seen either but it s close the production well i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life not trying to be spiteful but unhinged could have used some more production br br please don t think i m a hater of horror films or even that i didn t enjoy this film i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it the gruesome moments were not too poorly done but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget br br characters seemed awkwardly developed or ignored all together twist ending was pretty bad and the exposition took forever without exposing much br br i d recommend avoiding this movie br br riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of teen movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie has is so misleading in years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn t enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can t leave because the moment he does he knows he ll be arrested br br boyer s performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i ll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn t enter the casbah that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn t enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he s shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent man with the screaming brain certainly isn t a perfect movie but i m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don t make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of william s body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he s writing his own films you d think he d give himself a role that he hasn t been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn t an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn t been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it s your choice br br enjoy tell the truth i m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after having seen it i was really a disappointed and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie br br i m surprise at this movie all completely it is like a kid s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing i m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account br br synopsis the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak br br just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done the story is very predictable though expected and the humor is lame and haven t we already seen the same characters play by mc lovin in so many other movies like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep br br well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay and the acting is so so as expected when you re watching this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer and that movie also sucks but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie br br anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie can t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone br br pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes br br cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kids do not mix together br br rating grade f this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia kerbridge does a great job as a woman of who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayo stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent s murder that she has become mute needless to say julia s hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia s sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip s location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy s hideout in a luxury packard wouldn t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they re spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don t get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of that s how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole br br without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically so it isn t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s br br the film is lighthearted you ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe all of the film s characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfections br br i ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance is this synchronous or what i think so because now i m really geeked to give it a try br br watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again br br why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery as it is perfect as is recap something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former seti worker is brought in to decipher the message problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turns awkward especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly soon the object is in the open the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity it is decided to open the object but just before that is done julian decodes the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes as it is finally breached and two things unleashed on earth the first is an alien that had been dormant in the object and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff and washington that is suspiciously updated on this historic event decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica br br comments the movie holds a few surprises one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful well worked through and a lot better than expected unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own and this time not in a good way actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes it is never really explained why washington know so much why washington is able to command russian submarines why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language and obviously chose english why but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encoded and finally the end is as open as an end can be br br the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good br br this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it features a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix i d have a couple of hours of my life back i m frankly suspicious when i see that a film s director also wrote it in this case according to the credits the same guy was writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there were a few interesting moments e g judy tenuta s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism which led me to rate this two stars rather than one those moments however were few and far between and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in its violence i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i d seen the whole thing nope though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later the spinning camera technique was overused and essentially pointless i found myself talking to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommended the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling well documented and enraging as an american i am constantly humiliated by my country s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this is probably the first john pilger documentary i ve seen but it immediately made me want to see what else he s done my only complaint and the reason i gave this film only out of is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction but makes no suggestion of how to help i don t know about britain but america s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government s doings a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders cause this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don t say i didn t warn you this is a very memorable spaghetti western it has a great storyline interesting characters and some very good acting especially from rosalba neri her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic she steals every scene she is in and expresses so much with her face and eyes even when she s not speaking her performance is very believable she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top not that there s anything wrong with being over the top mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too br br the music score is excellent and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie whether you want it to or not there are a couple of parts that are very amusing i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot there s also lots of slick gun play that s very well done br br i would probably have given this movie or stars if it wasn t for two things the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about minutes into the film this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie it is very poorly choreographed and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy but this is a more serious western and the brawl really needed to be more realistic the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma s cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasn t at all funny all i can say is where is tuco when you need him br br all that having been said let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned and all fans of the genre need to see this movie the plot michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there s romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in it must be emphasized that this movie is a story st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin in the rain dick van dyke carl reiner s the comic what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett s film legacy it doesn t take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett s and mabel normand s life the character michael linnett connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael sinnott and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie throwings the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in with about films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next years in he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack s wandering willies is done in the road to hollywood used some of sennett s crosby films years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie s punctured romance with sound in he was honored on tv s this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who got involved with adam hoss and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western br br perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights people have relationships some go good some not so good it s just life and we re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor s nobility intact but that s if bonanza were done today br br but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped the secret of bonanza s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children the kids were all different in personality but all came together in a pinch br br the cartwrights became and still are an american institution i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that br br pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show rumor has it he didn t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious perhaps if it were done now he d have liked it better in the way i describe br br this was just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control little joe was the youngest most hot headed but the most romantic of the cartwrights br br when roberts left the show kept going with the two younger sons but when big dan blocker left the heart went out of bonanza other characters had been added on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family br br so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city it doesn t look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits is the cartwright home the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fans the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real br br and if they weren t real they should have been years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn t sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director s cut or in this case let s salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut scenes from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are minutes into it and we still don t know what s going on or why we re watching what s going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone s death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there s no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews and edwards previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it s no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i ll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie s mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird s eye view of julie running towards hudson s plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence i m like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where s peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that s one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film stars but it s effect is diminished considerably because it s repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man s land is ok even if it s bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she s on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she s no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release this series made for televisi n espa ola tve is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato s r le as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers i want the minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers an observation which mystifies me not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars e g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudors james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing br br when the biographies and accomplishments of the director even when he won an academy award and the actors are listed this film is usually omitted from their past performances i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films however it is seldom every seen on cable i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known it s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good of all the movies of the seventies none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel i mean yes there were movies like the exorcist and other ones but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars my absolute favorites were eli wallach sylvia miles and burgess meredith then there are the subtle clues that lead to what s going on too pay close attention i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like black and white cat black and white cake plus the books are really good as well i m just sorry that they re not going to turn the second book into a film it s so scary that it would outdo this movie this is apparently the second remake of this film having been filmed before in and and in so many ways it reminds me of the later film a yank at oxford both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both ultimately show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency in this film william haines is tom brown and his main rival bob is played by frances x bushman and in a supporting role is jack pickford always remembered as the brother of mary of these three pickford comes off the best as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom s pal he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clich s are there and the movie because it was done so many times before and since offers few surprises however it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing br br in my opinion for a better silent college film try harold lloyd s the freshman it s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such as in westpoint and the smart set among others and if you ve seen one of these films you ve seen them all well made but certainly not original and because it is just a rehash of his other films anyone giving the film a score of is strongly advised to see these other films br br i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the talk about over rated there are dozens and dozens of better films how this film got to be is anyone s guess this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that s holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let s face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there s one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it s shakespeare s so any adaptation if it s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that s what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it s the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame owen loves his mamma only he d love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn t a great film it s too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it s a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can t write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn t come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus girls i d like to pork br br then there s devito s owen lift who calls himself professor donner s star pupil even though the teacher won t read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we d be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner s help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner s hated ex then tells the professor it s his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock s strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here she s not a woman she s the terminator one little murder and i m jack the ripper those are all crystal s words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito s and ramsey s apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that s a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation the only time i ve seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and when momma says he doesn t have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it you lied to me he yells out slamming the professor s forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn t groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn t disappeared from films of course but it s a mystery why he hasn t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it s because as throw momma from the train s lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn t to everyone s tastes that s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united states br br just cause br br starring sean connery laurence fishburne and blair underwood br br a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves br br this film is set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent the premise about people who s lives are going nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs could have made for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i m suprised it hasn t been banned x and y are friends x is sleeping with z y sleeps with z as well oh you figure it out br br a total waste of time painful dialogue it sounded like something that a group of year olds would have written for a gcse drama project the female character was completely superfluous just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it br br if you re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run don t walk away from this sorry little misfit br br and one question when the group left the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film to go back to glasgow why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar but is totally worthwhile it really reminds me of the old serials from the s and s which is why i d have loved to see follow up movies but judging by the rest of full moon s output there simply weren t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which is unfortunate because without em this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great i wasn t sure if ms nipar hadn t wandered off an a list picture onto this film she was very believable no seriously anyway it s a shame they didn t have the bucks to license dr strange because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom a truly muddled incomprehensible mess most things in the film look more or less like but then there are futuristic things just thrown in like the policeman s ray gun and that car the director seemed to be in love with colored lights the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie but since there was no cast listing i don t know which actress that was this one is worth missing grade f it doesn t happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george crile s best seller charlie wilson s war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie s angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach em to type but you can t teach em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson s war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie s team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four academy awards and nine nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he s aided abetted and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency s boardroom and in wilson s bedroom br br for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie s team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren t so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it s like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as nichol s film so pointedly points out the ball you ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you ve lost interest in it mike krzyzewski knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn t so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn t let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again i m a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you d expect from a smart aleck year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church s fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm if you re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau s early work this ludicrous film offers the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bores us in the process its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups a naive young hippy played by the waif like kay lenz hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys and then one day she meets the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor and she decides that she is in love with him if you think that is superficial the whole film encapsulates such scenes she keeps saying how much she loves him and she only met him it wears thin and really quick i couldn t help but laugh throughout the film its obvious she s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s is also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d this film was pretty good i am not too big a fan of baseball but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc br br danny glover joseph gordon levitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport the plot was believable and i love the message william dear and the guys put together a great movie br br most sports films revolve around true stories or events and they often do not work well but this film hits a on the perfectness scale even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there br br for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film the ending is superb the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong br br examples quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seems to affect the event solid particles can pass through barriers all of this so far is accurate but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this is complete poppycock instead the theory asserts that at our level it is possible for you to walk through a wall but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief also you d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall the odds are so astronomically against it br br this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer played by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate there may be some truth to that but quantum physics has nothing to do with it br br plus string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays instead of wasting your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hour long episodes quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie one of my sisters friends lent me this game and it is too damn hard it carries the appearance of a kids game but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions and you have to search seemingly endless levels for notes to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them and i am only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it is definately not recommended for kids they will pull their hair out within the hour chuck jones s rabbit seasoning the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello s who s on next routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you re despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones s impeccable timing as you ll come across rabbit seasoning is a true classic a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear also alas an ending that comes out of nowhere because apparently the auteur has lost interest in the movie or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot crossfire is a justifiably famous noir that s a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph samuels sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuels winds up dead br br i don t know about but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don t suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role she s a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don t know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie skippy from family ties plays eddie a wussy metal nerd who gets picked on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr dies he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead metal idol he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge but then he doesn t want to take it as far as sammi does which isn t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from family ties i haven t a clue the cameo by gene simmons is ok and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one br br my grade d br br eye candy elise richards gets topless an a topless extra at a pool party of course i would have to give this film out of as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over years living in italy he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing so rodolfo sonego did if you check out his biography you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories my uncle visited australia and my town in to check out locations for a girl in australia and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movies i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently great goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history their is no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ of its time br br this was not a bond game based on material from another medium this was a completely new scripted game which even had its own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay was excellent and if you re a fan of the bond games or films alike you ll enjoy it br br unlike some most games these cast members portrayed their characters themselves as opposed to fictional creations for the game which gives it that more cinematic feel with a very bond able storyline you feel like you re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie br br enjoyable in all aspects from start to finish even after beating the game there s still plenty more to be done with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved as well as its multi player missions this is a stand out game despite being quite old now in video game years it s still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just thinking about it i ve got the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and well written storyline br br the story comes to life on the screen almost as if the actors were their in front of you and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself superbly done in true bond fashion which can only be named awesome completely awesome br br i ve got ta go throw this game on now if you haven t played it yet you re missing out helena bonham carter is the center of this movie she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh was tolerable the movie itself was good not exceptional if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a thumbs in the middle review remarking that i d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode i ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june and as a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show is utter crap br br everything s wrong with it everything getting past just the lousy animation and design the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories br br and for god s sake is it just me or is the joker in every episode is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system or again is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains see no character development above br br and to make matters worse every single joker tale is the same part formula br br joker gasses people br br joker sets out to gas the whole city br br batman saves the day br br pfeh br br there was one episode i saw that wasn t a joker story the title escapes me but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that was the single worst batman story i ve ever seen heard or read yes worse than i ve got batman in my basement br br i can t really say what i feel this show is because it s probably against the tos but it starts with b and rhymes with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc era of bat entertainment back from the fox and kids wb days stuff that good and i should have known this just couldn t possibly have lasted forever unfortunately just because someone is under the age of does not mean they are stupid if your child likes this film you d better have him her tested i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad this film is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing is horrid i can t remember when i ve heard such bad dialogue the songs are beyond wretched the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much who decided to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he is ugly as sin br br the worst thing is the obviousness of it all it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible great children s movies are wicked smart and full of wit films like shrek and toy story in recent years willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo yes that s right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood hey babu riba is a film about a young woman mariana nicknamed esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps years old in belgrade yugoslavia the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz blue jeans or anything american it seems br br the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties in the wake of changing communist politics they go their separate ways and reunite in the year before the film was made br br i enjoyed the film with some reservations the subtitles for one thing were difficult especially in the beginning there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all perhaps the conversational pace required it but i couldn t always both read the text and absorb the scene which caused me to not always understand which character was involved i watched the movie a video from our public library with a friend and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative br br this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bonds to each other there is a main flashforward and it was intriguing keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the cast and what had actually happened br br i would rate it out of and would like to see other films by the director jovan acin after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose mcgowan who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil encurralados trapped this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy s law being applied to home ownership and construction if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it was set in the simpler forties we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturbing hilarious these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire from wobbly garbled beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout br br our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms when the father separates from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie you re about to watch father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit and is polite as he gets people s attention before he shoots them but alas dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about feet behind them he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly wastes the mother this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred br br so now we fast forward about years if you re honest about the hero s age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves or diamond prospectors or something ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods while bo masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty drives around the desert in his denim outfits bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they don t seem to have any friends other than each other and they spend all of their time together that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as you know its a shame you re my sister he says to her while she s stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas and he is overjoyed with his new love br br so anyway there s a lot of fun action scenes ridiculous violence great acting impossible to follow plot lines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond which later explodes all of these things are great but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire you may be glad you did or not i am so disappointed this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses woody i ve seen these characters already i ve seen the storyline from you ten times already where did your creativity go you need to open your eyes and look around you the world has changed dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it br br there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again br br when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out it does nothing for me because now i ve come to expect his old standby the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating depressing and same old same old br br if woody wants to win his fans back then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated not insulted this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff predictable from beginning to end as a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr limpet was much better with knott s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant his performance there was toned down with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile much as bob denver did neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles assuming they were simply typecast it was probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the high pitched voice john ritter whom knotts worked with in three s company was able to transcend his genre branching out successfully into dramatic roles like the dreamer of oz but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in airplane and police squad br br there s also no way the then year old knotts could pass for a year old as his character insisted he was it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at playing the college age forrest gump br br the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode it s especially evident in the exterior scenes of the town where roy goes after he s fired it s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality br br even viewing this strictly as a children s movie it s very disappointing it s not because it lacks action or special effects although it does the pace is much too slow the situations repetitive how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap with breakneck gags otherwise you risk boring them and any adults in the theater as well movies even kid s movies have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written disney s the love bug for instance at least had some interesting race action if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world s freighters are of questionable registry nationality and it s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don t have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it s fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it s more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate okok everything you will need about minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get minutes of fun br br i m from hongkong and it s really hard to find rpers none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books dices game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both gamers s real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game br br i don t want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i m sure you still get many fun from it in all honesty i haven t seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can t risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don t know if it s available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don t want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked you d think you re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel miles or so from france to saudi arabia going through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arriving in the middle east but this is not a tour and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights br br reda s father is in his twilight years and wishes to do the haj however since walking and taking the mule is out of the question he chooses to travel to mecca by car he can t drive and therefore enlists the help of reda to his son s protest to get him there in their broken down vehicle br br but reda doesn t see the point of having him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn t understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son being not the best of pals br br the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenges they face the weird people they meet having to duke it out in varied weather conditions and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other the father trying to impose on his son and the son trying to assert himself as an adult but circumstances we see reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water through the many encounters they actually team up quite well despite their differences br br it s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination br br it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are don t miss this and yes book early i was pleasantly surprised that this evening s session was still a full house i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won t make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don t see what it is flashback hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it s a complete failure a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store after he s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he ll be transferring soon bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals animals like say a certain rabbit this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early s it still remains as funny nearly years later this animated short can be seen on disc of the looney tunes golden collection volume br br my grade a i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in for two reasons br br host steve martin was at his most wittiest i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and i ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle s head in my bed br br surprise winners no one had adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeers and boos but they won br br last year s award ceremony wasn t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn t the best in the trilogy fellowship was much better but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics obviously they are i m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers br br chris rock wasn t too bad but he s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the minor oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats there s no such thing as a minor oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they re as well deserved as best picture or best director all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history as for the awards themselves br br best supporting actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category br br best supporting actor morgan freeman no real complaints since freeman is one of america s greatest living character actors br br best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn br br best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night br br best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he d never won one actually i m glad about this because if he didn t deserve it for taxi driver raging bull or goodfellas he didn t deserve it for the aviator br br best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off br br what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven t done in the past i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd s sake and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts while in a plane flicking through the large choice of movies i came across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice br br i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride i don t remember last time i have been so excited terrified not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can t turn away from the screen literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you ve got br br you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from thinking how come the human being can be so vicious to why not after all ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestants their motives and start guessing you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe br br good acting good directing with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more br br spoilers couple of things i would have changed br br the casting of the contestants i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid it felt like you didn t care about some of the contestants although this might have been done on purpose i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants game rules a big glitch br br what happens if the th contestants doesn t die when he pulls the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have given a chance to all contestants to live ie if th is a blank too then no one dies br br interestingly i haven t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time just wish i had some popcorn with me ah another movie with motorcycles hell s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve s rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda rrrr makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you messin wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die a rating of does not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is i feel dumber after watching the first min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is a good movie don t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for once in a life time movies keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like toback took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn t the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of i like ghost stories good ghost stories of bumps in the night voices that can not be explained now i ve see many of them as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films some times to find a real gem you got ta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called the new house was one of the most scariest films i ever saw it was on once in i was only but nothing since then even compared to it with all the remake going on in hollywood some one should do this one as is with no more special efx than the original this episode was down right creepy as hell i m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost stories to even come close was the original the haunting and george c scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost stories like these okay i ve watched this movie twice now i have researched it heavily on the net i have asked several people on there opinions i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie is supposed to be based on i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it as the plot of the movie doesn t seem to make any sense at all here is the plot of the book br br laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work and explains that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter carmilla for several months soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams and begins to come down with a strange illness who is this mysterious carmilla and just what has she to do with laura s condition and the general br br i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it and let me know what their results are i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i can t be bothered with that it s called the this movie doesn t make any sense game br br all you have to do is whilst watching the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening i mean complete all questions answered everything makes sense absolutely complete br br it will have to answer such questions as br br why can vampires walk around in day light br br why are they all lesbians br br why is a girl called bob and why does she shoot herself br br when is the movie a dream and when is it real br br why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn t make anyone bat an eyelid br br why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she is a zombie too br br and why does he then let a girl which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire drive with him in his car br br and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car br br what the hell is the asylum scene all about br br what the hell is the green goo all about br br why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse br br why are there never any vampires fighting zombies br br what is the significance of the necklace what is it made of why does it kill vampires and how does jenna know that br br in fact sod it it s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too br br i have my plot and i have to admit it is not quite there but it is a pretty good effort br br in conclusion br br vampires vs zombies has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it is based on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell is going on this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two orderlies the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the orderlies are gay the orderlies kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny it said comedy on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn t this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn t br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the mechanics i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can t not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi vai this story about three women is a very sensitive study about muri l charlotte van den eynde the youngest laura els dottermans who is about and martha frieda pittors the oldest who is the mother of muri l they live together in the same building they have different expectations of life the vital laura wants a child muri l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something for instances an accident which could dramatize this story as times goes on you discover that the director doroth e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case so one is left with a feeling of emptiness first and foremost i loved the novel by ray bradbury it s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later it was one of his best books with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i as just hoping that this movie would be all right it had lots of chances with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even wrote the script himself and on top of all that it has pam grier br br how could it fail br br there may be spoilers within br br first of all it was dumbed down much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book gone everything that made you squirm gone br br and then there s the acting like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the s the kids in this movie can not act and this bugged me a lot neither of them looked but or their strong friendship wasn t addressed it was more like they were acquaintaces br br you d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr halloway and mr dark but here it s like they just don t care all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something this is far from being some of their best performances br br pam grier was fine as the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn t well pulled off she s a lot less evil and doesn t have the presence as she did in the book br br and everything that was left out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jim s house the real death of mr dark what happened to mr coogan on the merry go round the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more br br and the special effects were bad even for the s the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn t really creepy and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything br br i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel but it makes blood boil don t see this movie but read the book it s a classic of bradbury this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in i remember him playing in a great film lost weekend ray plays the role of michael stuart who is a very rich banker there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose as a very rich count his name is count ariszted misha auer who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convicts started applauding which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this is deanna durbin s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas having reserved a special slot for it last night i sat down to watch it with my daughter aged and a film studies student with chocolates of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin br br after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk the shaky camera shots and angles general poor cinematography direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied despondent we viewed on br br anne played by sally hawkins looked oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasions breaking our hard won fantasy of the moment and engaging us directly in an almost i ll find you stalking fashion br br poor rupert penry jones who played captain wentworth did his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they paid him well however as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall drenching him and his co actor they were nearly swept out to sea health and safety would have had a field day poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place br br other than mr penry jones alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott br br towards the long awaited end of the film captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being in contrast anne ran hyper ventilating from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told in the course of only three or four minutes without even having worked up a sweat br br we experienced none of anne s charms crossing the screen indeed we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain spineless opinion less anne and why someone anyone did not tell mean winging sir walter to just shut the heck up br br the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment was painfully drawn out as they moved in closer anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met eww br br the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been br br what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story filmed in some of england s finest scenery br br sorry jane if you like sci fi monsters and ancient legends then you will love this movie br br the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago while the acting may have been a little less than desirable the story line and effects adequately compensated for it br br i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv br br if you like non stop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore you have to see this movie a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and clich at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton s first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major hit american werewolf in london also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn t read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either therory wouldn t surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don t watch this film that s all i can say unless you re an insomniac what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he s always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn t watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it s face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film s title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren t all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of a killer cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem are back on the case two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish br br the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out now i m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible if it wasn t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep there is a bit of gore but it s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line br br the ending is extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel br br days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you re trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven s plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don t let it happen to you in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early s in disney s laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where iwerks continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn t really popular and by the studio was closed later that year iwerks was hired by columbia pictures and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br s skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that s about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it s not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it s hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference iwerks did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn t mean it s necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all iwerks executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while denat s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk s flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it s still a fun film to watch br br it s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney s main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can t help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that iwerk s skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br yes indeed it could have been a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but is not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly told the image is sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted the sound needs more attention it usually does in romanian movies the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action about the acting sorry but the best actress is the landlady the others are acting immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting is poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it s a picture for adults told by the children bother only if extremely curious you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you re a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as spago and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world s most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry s longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and made his debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let s face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i ve seen the movie at least that s how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn t have that much appeal to it and i don t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let s just say it s a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you ll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world s most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you re ready good day james this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class their problems relationships and interactions with each other it should have managed a wider distribution as it s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time br br the swimming instructor is an almost olympian reduced to teaching adults basic lessons and often the target of horndogging from his female students he attempts more or less to fend them off with varying results br br the students characters are mainstream u s a teachers policemen college students and retired people all of whom haven t learned to swim for some reason the movie covers their relationships including friends relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class several subplots provide amusing fodder including a teacher going through a divorce some high school students making a documentary and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys br br this is a good date movie or just one to watch when you re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch i watched six of a kind for w c fields he s only in it for around minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the reamaining minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j pinkham whinney he is everyone s foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracie s funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don t remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with ruggles where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields though the situation is constantly funny the whinneys are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited edmund lowe who reminds me somewhat of warren william heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour br br douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast everyone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h b warner as an added bonus there s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective and furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film br br on the plus side the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled it s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense br br nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner this movie is lame and not funny at all the plot doesn t even make sense some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter gets sucked through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she s more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witches or something and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie i m sure the topless girls doesn t hurt there either the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing who are these people and what are they doing basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things like the other dimension and book seller than make it confusing i didn t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal i don t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid i can t think of any part of the movie that was good although i was hoping that i d like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i d call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie imagine this a high school except it s boarding school and the kids don t have parents around oh and it s in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren t any reasonable rules like how they have co habitation nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here s the story a girl zoey brooks attends pca a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she s the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don t even come close to zoey s perfection we re bad people in the show nothing s her fault and if anyone contradicts her they re portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they re normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can t afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i m too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey what s the for anyway is nick s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn t like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set s pretty i had been amazed by director antal s kontroll back in his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn t really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time first of all the reason i m giving this film stars instead of is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo he alone can get stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie br br i was initially all fired up at reading one poster s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave the performance of his career to me it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment then i thought to myself what else has stevens done so i checked and you know that person was absolutely right in the years since this columbo movie was made apparently every one of the projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career br br if you like columbo see every other of the titles before watching this one do yourself a favor and save the worst for last this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can t his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian chapa is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn t enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems nonetheless to be regarded as a perfect catch by any woman that runs across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film he s a hero whom it s very difficult to empathize with so the movie is in trouble right from the start however it s troubles don t end there it has the production values of a tv movie check out that head made of clay or something near the end and the ending cheats in a way that i can t reveal in case anyone wants to see the movie highly unlikely let s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it s been years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don t want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i ll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i m respect my opinions but it s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can t figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i m sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today during the clete roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood s poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events i decided to watch this one because it s been nominated for oscar this year i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie but ended up bored and disappointed first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hands camera mode is really annoying br br i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this br br american military machine people who makes money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something sort of patriotic br br why these heroic efforts of director and the main character to inspire the audience with an idea of loving war like a drug oh please come on what a bore br br watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying food i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those quiet movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called horror movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so innocent but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it s like a riff on james m cain s the postman always rings twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he s not around and she s at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for seki and a little extra they re soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let s just say a shave he knows that he ll find out and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it s literally at least to them at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji changes gears into the kaidan a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji and her reactions to gisaburo s re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry gisaburo s ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn t know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that senses maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seiko s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death s connections to one another inextricably it s a classic waiting to be discovered i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what jaguars are for cars top of the line perfecto what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing style sorry i have no other words for it sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en i was under the impression that something didn t smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wan na be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim renart michael par and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory renart goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it s a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder gerrick turns in as a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won t spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at minutes sanctimony is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn t get enough money to pay for the location it s the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra s services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who s working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak s apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you d want to bring up your family this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff in depth novels in to a hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the s to the s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with akasha s plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven t read the books you won t understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch must see it will hate it have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a worst case scenario of playing strong feelings accompanied by some bad acting don t waist your time this movie xadsnt entertaining if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy br br i give this it really was awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it its all the good things this movie isn t an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat don t listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone breaks in if you re wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don t listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are benefits that jill has shes a fast runner and is on the track team she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don t listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i m a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy twinkles cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there s no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio s baron munchausen as well as jimmy durante however decades later it s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts br br as for the stooges this is a film from there very early days before mgm had any idea what to do with the team at this point they were known as ted healy and his stooges as healy was the front man fortunately for the stooges they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man read up on him you ll see what i mean and the rest is history within a year they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy such as the films of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they left for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady and oddly in this film they didn t act as a team they just did various supporting roles such as larry playing the piano br br this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle when they are rescued and brought home all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there as for pearl i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films as he has the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome as for durante i never knew what the public saw in him as least as far as his films are concerned he was loud and loud he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton s career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat br br in this film the stooges they didn t yet have the right chemistry seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd what they did in the film was pretty good but because all the segments were short they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines stooges fans might be very frustrated at this though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films oh and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly br br overall the film is rather dull and disappointing however there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing look carefully as this is walter brennan in a role you d certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film is the clean as a whistle song starting at about minutes into the film this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called pre code scene that never would have been allowed in films after when the production code was strengthened despite the word clean in the title it s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it s quite shocking when seen today though such excesses were pretty common in the early s finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades see the film you ll see that i mean when carol vanessa hidalgo starts looking into her brother s death she begins to suspect something more sinister than natural causes the closer she gets to the truth the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanists they ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways br br if you re into sleazy satanic themed movies black candles has a lot to offer the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed unfortunately all the sleaze in the world can t save black candles most of the movie is a total bore other than the one scene i ve already mentioned the numerous sex scenes aren t shocking and certainly aren t sexy the acting is spotty at best even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance the plot really doesn t matter its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together i m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror black candles comes off as amateurish is about the best i can do one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killers zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off the film is constructed as a murder mystery or a cold case style thriller it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills br br some people dislike any movie that is shot on video this attitude is very old style and provincial it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value these attitudes are on the way out zodiac killer is a low budget film no doubt but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem i ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school britney bashing etc etc so let s focus on the movie and the message br br i have rated this movie out of for the age range to years and for a family movie for the average adult male out of br br i like pop rock music i m i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews i didn t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any self promotion br br i watch movies to be entertained i don t care about casting lighting producers directors etc what is the movie and does it entertain me br br i watched this movie for the message the world s greatest epidemic is low self esteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest the movie is light bright and breezy great for kids i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don t give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable great message though should be more of them br br this movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies it is filled with super surfer greg noll s home movies and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory it is filled with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots nor are they surgeons perhaps or ph d s again perhaps it believes in the quest of the surfer it believes in the beauty of human goofiness it believes in the great gift of peace which comes from the cessation of war surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war with the russian socialists surfing is the ultimate narcissism it is dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received this movie has no military heroes it has no guns the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop this is not a problem peace is not desperate it is the joy of exhalation i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal dimensional strings although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching this movie was so badly written directed and acted that it beggars belief it should be remade with a better script director and casting service the worst problem is the acting you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished professional and totally believable and on the other hand ri chard who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning and keeping couple although both normally do fine work the actors and director should not have attempted to do accents at all they are inconsistent and unbelievable much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english the casting is ludicrous why have children of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society been cast with very pale skinned actors while the supposedly socially desirable marcel has pronounced african features including an obviously dyed blond fro it s as if the casting directors can not be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color it s just so weird this could be a great movie and should be re made but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors there are plenty of good actors out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction when i was a younger oh about i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn t exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it s a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney s praises cries of super deeee doooper make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there he certainly was a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew but even mcqueen can t save this turkey of a film shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st louis br br mcqueen s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang there s more than a broad hint that there s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke he s not liked at all by the other heist members mainly because of his lack of criminal resume br br steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke all pretty rough characters that would certainly get my suspicions aroused br br the great st louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn t do much of anything one of those two jokers decided steve s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation br br this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen i m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can t believe they would have if they saw this br br or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren t married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he s not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it tacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women s prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women s prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she s pregnant with his love child he s indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he s innocent but he s convicted and it sure sounds like he s a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne s character and it s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black s humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it s only minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d s humor simply couldn t work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you re a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth bucks i don t think so i was tempted to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a seems more appropriate just be sure it s your style i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff the game before watching the movie relies on the audience s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it ll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through ff once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if you re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it s a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there s only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you ll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you re retarded if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don t reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credits as a mst k episode this one wasn t very good for two reasons this one is from the season on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can t wait to see lola while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy donald martin who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn t feel shy with a waitress who comes from brooklyn like he does soon joe notices he s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney s anchors aweigh is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch once again in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of the year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave it s so energetic if you knew susie like i know susie is quite funny it s a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell it s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango jealousy the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world or everytown through years you can break it up into about different scenes or parts the film spans from to and is mainly about how this ruler or the boss wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again after everytown was bombed and war broke out br br this film only has about faults it s audio is muddy and video had some quirks the characters aren t deep at all and the overall plot isn t altogether solid the plot is lacking something that i can t put my finger on it just seems a little fluffy but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g wells though might happened in the next hundred years this is a must see it s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing a long drawn out war because they were just about to go to war with germany and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything br br things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once weak stale tired cliched wants to be basic instinct but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives new insights insipid trite grotesque and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity oh wait it was only minutes long it must have just seemed a lot longer i d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again i m expressing an opinion here i guess this means i didn t like it one word can describe this movie and that is weird i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting well it was the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not very strange if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem i don t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right br br the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle thrown together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on br br i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring but all in all a excellent movie this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors so what went wrong i don t know and simply i don t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid very stupid plot twists devices i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather what about lock stock thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film i ll not comment a lot what s to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about colombia s reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it s beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you ll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it s the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn t it etc etc it has been a long time i haven t seen a movie so bad this movie is a riot i can not remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies i ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny but this one is wall to wall great lines i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in the movie was non stop until the end when they did the minutes of sentimental plot clean up other than that it s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations i d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don t get all the jokes the first time around you have to see it two or three times to get it all in br br as far as the actual film goes it could have used a better edit it s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that all the characters are great it s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable no victims in this movie also thank god they got a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film you just wish that women like her really existed she s not a like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite br br if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer does not do it justice they do not give away all the good jokes just some of the mediocre ones br br oh and one more thing i hope critics put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedies don t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don t put it on their list this means you ebert a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth things must be pretty bad back on mars two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner br br the diner has had no customers since eleven o clock that morning now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus although he didn t notice who they were the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed one of them is an alien but which one all of them are suspect there s the crazy old man jack elam of course who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit there s a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couples nobody has noticed anyone else and even the couples are suspicious of each other bride to newly minted husband i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone rings for no reason the lights go on and off the juke box turns itself on and none of it is to be taken seriously br br it s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle there is no discernible depth to it it s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens it s not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses br br i always enjoy it when it s on it s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman knowing that in he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm s version of shakespeare s play and here he is with three arms br br oops it s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created and how bias its product was br br i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinians in prison i understand restrictions are in place but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace br br i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence so to speak she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber s parents and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control it is more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignored pleas for understanding and freedom ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land br br i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seems exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it is a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn t quite get the director s intentions if any i wonder if she s ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you ll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it s just me this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space as a history of space flight it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it disney has shown it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again in an alternate s where an outbreak of the undead caused by a mysterious space dust has been contained through the use of special electronic collars a young loner timmy finds a friend in fido billy connelly his family s recently acquired domesticated zombie br br fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hot to trot wife played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss having been psychologically scarred as a child when he was forced to shoot his own father who tried to eat him br br timmy runs into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal s collar goes on the blink and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour with the authorities on fido s trail trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend br br a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick fido is a thoroughly entertaining deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into s small town america is a stroke of genius and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole reanimated dead theme that i have seen br br connelly s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead s bub and return of the living dead s tarman it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus the rest of the cast also give commendable performances with young k sun ray as timmy and ms moss deserving special mentions ray because for one so young he puts in a particularly assured turn and moss because she is so bloody yummy br br this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it is also the best director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future br br out of rounded up to for imdb an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as mills and boon so what it is good to see a warm touching story of real love in these cynical times many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other even though for political reasons it was an arranged marriage i did feel though that sir john conroy who was desperate to control the young queen is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain as it is rumoured that he was in fact the real father of victoria as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have been interesting to explore this theory emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england which prospered as never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer first off i have to say that i loved the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it was great we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial the movie was so disappointing to me the movie cuts out some characters and misses a lot of the main points of the book it skips around a lot and doesn t explain anything in detail if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book they would be confused the most disappointing thing in this movie to me was the ending the ending in the book was the most powerful and in the movie they changed it it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of melting together but instead the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs to sum up i don t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner s name on the cover it s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn t very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i m sure it was it doesn t suck it s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn t think any of it was funny i was disgusted by this movie no it wasn t because of the graphic sex scenes it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art it shows one piece of art work that she did judith beheading holofernese but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial br br i don t know if you understood this from the movie probably not tassi was not a noble character he raped artemisia it was not love it was rape he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka had sex with while she states over and over again it s true br br i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about don t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work br br don t see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar s a bug s life we re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer when it s in the right hands that is a bug s life is a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions br br it is only pixar s second animated feature the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in with their landmark movie toy story it was a movie which defied convention re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film br br after all it s a film about ants well all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug s life but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film as humans are the focal point in dramas romances and so on how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you ll probably ever encounter br br not only are they all entirely amiable and likable there isn t an unpleasant character in sight even the villains are riveting characters but they re colourful they re eclectic and they re idiosyncratic and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug s life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name is flik david foley and his character is rather generic to say the least out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush beautiful ant island he is the one considered the black sheep of the clan as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season s harvest with his antics br br the problem arises in the fact that the ants harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper kevin spacey who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone they go insane for lack of a better term hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack s hands however it s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil the cogs and clockwork in flik s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers br br if you think about it a bug s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line s of akira kurosawa s classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil in a bug s life the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl br br much amusement comes out of these scenes and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs among them are an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen as is the entire movie collectively br br as i ve said much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie what makes a bug s life even better is that the film isn t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film the clich d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we d like however it s easy to ignore this fault and it s incredulously easy to enjoy this film br br although a bug s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor this is still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have proved that they re not just a one hit wonder but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manages to top their standards it s only always by themselves what more is there to say about a bug s life other than see it it s not quite the best which we ve seen from the folks at emeryville california but this beats out the lot of its year and i ll be damned if this isn t the best animated feature of br br what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version is no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever anyway back to this version it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeeds in both but high art it is nit throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe the direction was average and the editing abysmal worse than the old quincy deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it s about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn t that easy to get along with she just started puberty i m guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts i just don t get some of the big premises of this episode that miranda is so remarkable and that there s anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here made the remark that maybe it s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness miranda is just a jerk the episode is slow inconsistent and way too talky i also don t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador why doesn t the federation just leave the damn medusans be there s one part i do like when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at its lamest i ll always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldn t purchase it except for a used copy under this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movies mental list mind the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series spirited away and fly away home br br i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie she s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls she really sucks you into her life i also certainly can t fault any of the protagonist s acting or anyone else s in the film br br the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules the movie is never boring the romance is really cute and didn t make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really made it though was the indian factor jess parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else the indian people are also hilarious essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it br br feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film they re funny they re refreshing and they make you feel good i know that you ve already entered this in film festivals or at least i think you have i may just be making that up but i think this should get best animated short film in every one bravo i can t wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations but hear it now and accept it as the truth kudos my friend okay now i m just trying to get ten lines of text though i still mean it and here comes yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do in fact i ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those br br r this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs evil plot and is all about action what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around her movements were done so well why don t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days it s quite effective br br fire and ice in it s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others including plenty of women will adore it s esthetic quality i for sure did not mind bakshi just loves animating lushious voluptuous babes as can also be seen in cool world and i don t think he has to apoligize since it s pretty much animation for adults but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it br br this one was just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it s possibly bakshi s finest for those who like animations with lushious women try space adventure cobra as well br br i give fire and ice out of my ratings acting suspense character attachment plot character development overall br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny nd and csi th i don t know in the other csis you get into the episode you re watching but in this one you just can t get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain t good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author s hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven t seen it buy it anyway it s well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they d play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the s the courthouse city hall etc they re all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the pennants on chick s wall you ll see two for ole miss chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect but fails painfully on all other fronts the actors all play extremely silly caricatures you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot is predictable and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films including shabby larger than life special effects and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp br br it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they won t be able to do it again the cash cow is now dead as a dodo i can t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton and sure it s his company but you re fired or you re hired for how many seasons now after watching the show i wouldn t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve br br i d love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he gets hurt so i don t have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it i d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a and it doesn t deserve that if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme style i would never have rented it nevertheless i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot i lasted a very very very long forty minutes before giving up it s just boring pretentious twaddle br br the last french movie i saw was romance and it too was pretty dismal but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme overseas it ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy it s called dogme because that s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera br br the story and the show were good but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies ri chard is great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous seriously i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i can t say anything bad about peter galleghar he s one of my favorite actors i love anne rice i m currently reading the vampire chronicles but i m glad i saw the movie before reading the book this is a little too real for me i prefer lestat and louis s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i don t want to give anything away sorry but it s just not my type of show first let me just comment on what i liked about the movie the special effects were fantastic and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game there that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing br br i have innumerable complaints about the film but four major complaints jump to mind my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away where lois s year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman when the crying super child throws a piano at lex s henchman to save his mother i almost got up and left the theater singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child it s been days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit br br my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space it doesn t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what s wrong with that i don t know how many comic books brian singer has read but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas that s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground br br my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior jor el wasn t all wise he was just a scientist and he didn t send his son to earth to be a savior he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode i ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ s primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman returns the passion of the christ br br and speaking of luthor my last major complaint has to do with singer s depiction of lex luthor lex luthor is a shrewd cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president which he does in the comics than try to destroy the world the man wants money and power he wants to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman returns as well as all the previous superman movies is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the quite awful previous superman movies this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow br br to summarize i don t know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you don t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven t already don t see it don t buy it when it comes out on dvd don t rent it basically don t contribute any money towards it in any way this movie does not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that sees this movie bryan singer should be fined billion dollars if you re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you ll get the same experience without having to waste hours of your time this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference no porn br br the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable at the very least the pacing should have been picked up br br while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had he should have spent more time on the story or better yet get someone else to write it many of the action scenes were just pointless br br it was a complete waste of my time is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn t have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked overall i was rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle br br bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows which deal with the subjects i referenced i think you will find at least something here br br in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way i especially liked how they explained where the cylon s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers br br the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters but this is something i think needs work i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident br br based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where caprica goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did i m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn t to good compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wan na be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice s other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj silkk gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn t introduced in this movie and the scene isn t in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn t mention what happen other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don t love em like i do don t watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel purez i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands shipwrecks jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently there s a needless mins of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blowing up scene jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game there is no communicator with doyle on the other end the modified soldiers look like albinos with singlets on and there was no mutated monkey like creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building there s an ending scene where everyone except krieger live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema then this is for you one of the best ensemble acted films i ve ever seen there isn t much to the plot but the acting incredible you see the characters change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you much as the villa does on all the women truly enchanted i haven t seen this movie in about years but it still haunts me br br when asked about my favorite films this is the one that i seem to always mention first there are certain films works of art like this film dark city and breaking the waves that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a life changing event such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend this film shook me when i first saw it it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days today i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood br br hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation changed everything it changed our perception of security it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it changed our world br br however i can t not stress how utterly repulsed disillusioned and angry i am at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press hollywood has sunk to a new low even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all is uwe boll i am very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how dare they br br to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks br br ask yourself if you have a soul br br think remember respect the memories of the lives lost on by not seeing this film at all you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed that s why movies like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences especially local ones we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with tax when they reach our shores and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one not only that the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear lest they reach the sea br br and these movies are relatively easy to make hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic for once those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long can t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these of course there are amongst us ahem those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models and movies such as these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they don t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park the guy sitting beside me i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s appear and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans br br so there we have it the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage as does the gt here the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification that even i m impressed alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that has wings for doors but seriously my heart goes out to the cars each time they re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment i mean this are perfectly fine high performance models that are at the apex of motoring but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow they do so because they can br br there s no story in redline just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties the cars that is that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shots of pedals always the accelerator mind you tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steering wheels gear shifts always shifting up and not down all these while having the actors make pretend that they re the baddest asses with an engine snarling and giving each other dirty looks not a very tall order for an actor and that s why we get the most woeful performances ever with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids br br the heroine yes it made a statement that girls can drive natasha a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin is one of those million dollar finds a girl with model looks who don t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil who has racing pedigree within her and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable every line had to do with cars and when singing about love just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts lubricants and going for rides introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous eddie griffin she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle everything else well like i said just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race br br and it s almost always the same as there s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars especially when you know the race is rigged for narrative reasons and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker sun kang and of course the star it created vin diesel redline had none just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it s one man one car and a minutes race against time to get to vegas br br if not for the cars then this movie seriously is a piece of junk with bad acting bad lines and bad action strictly for the car fans or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines im the type of person who always goes to horror section when i m picking a film so i picked five across the eyes i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish i think i could of done better myself i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the embarcadero freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting nearbye you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact hickman s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden pontiacs in the s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york have you ever heard the saying that people telegraph their intentions well in this movie the characters actions do more than telegraph future plans they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtz s character is not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesn t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have br br the bottom line obvious plot one note performances unlikeable characters and grotesque southern accents employed by british actors night of the living homeless was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movies most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains br br kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart gives a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town is completely overrun with them this is a very strong randy marsh episode as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy makes it to the community center he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming i don t have any change unfortunately the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he becomes one of them asking everyone for change br br the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park and find a man who is a director of homeless studies they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people break into the man s house and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself however he fails several times as he shoots himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder screaming horribly until he finally dies this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in fantastic easter special two weeks ago br br meanwhile a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem the property values have nosedived thus the bank has foreclosed on his house making him homeless randy immediately turns on him holding the gun to the man s head when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out randy pulls the trigger br br in evergreen the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica california br br the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable br br i m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into but this movie is not a horror movie as for the story it was fairly interesting but rather slow i was especially disappointed with the ending though br br spoiler br br tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle s home without at least calling the detective or the police first she knows exactly what s going on at that point plus she has a video tape as proof instead she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying i know everything i have proof you didn t expect proof did you then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he s going to harm her well duh of course he s going to harm you idiot you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb ending i gave this a there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone gets killed or nearly so i am tired of cross hairs and changing views i can not give the plot away convoluted and insane if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back i wish reviews were more honest not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end docteur petiot starring michel serrault is a brutal story about a brutal man a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate is not there yet he preys on the weakest amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography are superb and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story he is the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and caring calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer kudos to mr serrault for his chilling portrayal i just got this video used and i was watching it last night the acting started out extremely bad hey hey twister but got very good soon after wards the tornadoes looked extremely fake and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done and just about on par with movies like twister the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too the story was very well written and it s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formulas movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for years br br while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality this merits an a in my book this film is really vile it plays on the urban paranoia of the s s and puts it into a school context i m not saying that urban crime wasn t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren t aren t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it s not a case of social issues but a white upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he knows how to play the system does that sound familiar yes this turd is pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this what a horrible horrible film the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time not that i saw much i left the theatre screaming after about minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves meryl streep was awful as usual how many hurt and tortured expressions can person have aidan quinn s talents were as so often totally wasted and who told gloria estefan she could act trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school the kids weren t even cute just written in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really made me cringe for once real horror this one motocrossed was fun but it wasn t that great i guess i just didn t understand a lot of the motocross racing lingo and there was a lot of that in the film the plot wasn t what i expected from the disney channel previews so that could account for some of my disappointment sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he wants to broaden his horizons and spoiler needs a family member in order to do it br br a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain t scary at all works better as a dark macabre black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecracks that s for sure the actors aren t interesting save robert englund as always and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto and there are simply far too many visual effects the finale is ok but doesn t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope br br in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer s story it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before br br there are cameos worth noting a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become br br film debut of breckin meyer who plays spencer br br one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits br br ok i m italian but there aren t so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it s the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i d like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it s too slow it s so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven t already seen it watch it an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful so no new story lines here however the authors managed to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watching kids vomiting or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife s teeth out in a bloody horror type go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone the first cube movie was an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn t understand it was on the non literal level a man vs cruel nature plot where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end triumphing to face a new indefinable world beyond man s petty squabbles a world where there were no more struggle but peace i rated cube a out of and it s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels br br the second movie hypercube was a massive disappointment some of the ideas were kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning still for being fairly entertaining i rated it a out of br br the third movie cube zero while ignoring the second plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there is no homage or tribute here there is only ripping off the same kind of plot with some elements idiotically altered like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say br br that we see something from behind the scenes means nothing because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment the architects of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan did at the end of the first movie are just killed where the bleep is the sense in that that s just flippin stupid i m glad i didn t pay to see this br br the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realized that mr tony giglio was earnest about this movie it s a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully me thinks he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself he sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesn t make it true customs change word definitions change over time look at english german where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same it s always growing and changing the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses these writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here same string of letters two entirely different meanings this is why many biblical researchers use a lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written it s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn t exist in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty talk about ego putting soapbox away god bless maegi i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie megacheese i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol slewfoot or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don t watch for the love of god don t watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i m doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god s sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it it has lot s of laughs guns action crime good one liners and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character max a dea agent diane is the fbi agent played by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv plays the bad guy livingston the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much has all the good one liners this is the perfect crime caper there is the usual love story but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix the film is shot in boston where you have some great shots and locals great photography and music in this film this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy it has everything that one could ever want check out sutherland s toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me if you like to see animals being skinned alive their heads smashed dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them then this one is for you but if you are somewhat normal and don t need to see real footage of animal cruelty pass this one up this movie tries to shock the viewer and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of babies in the movie fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up and special effects so we shouldn t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals its not what we rented the movie for if anything there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it as a very hardcore horror fan this one turned my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked another spanish movie about the civil war this time we re told about the story of carol lovely played by d butant clara lago a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york it is such an initiating trip and soon she ll find about the injustices of the human race their stupid fights and conflicts their contradictions br br imanol uribe makes his best film since d xadas contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he tries not to take part in the conflict he just shows us some facts and let us decide ok the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple clara lago and juan jos ballesta br br a well cared production br br my rate a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods this is simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypasses the ocean view area the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view once the interstate was completed ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few years the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing br br it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film rollercoaster this is also untrue footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to death of ocean view park br br as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time with the cast involved there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors i don t believe this film was intended to be another citizen kane i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table but proved unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway let s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise br br for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fans but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park this movie is like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan s role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father a trio of buddies sergeants all in the british army carouse brawl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save scores of the queen s soldiers from certain massacre br br based more on the three musketeers than kipling s classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood s golden year of filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusion br br it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable however this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time br br it s interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than honorary knighthoods after the conflict while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers br br the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe heartbreaking in the title role he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of kipling s poem ring true he is unforgettable br br montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare are effective but have little to do movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine s father br br the film picks its villains well the demonic thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous blood soaked kali hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of indian life for centuries ritualistically strangling up to victims a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares this movie pretty much sucked i m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible if your in the military and you see this movie you ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad it was ridiculous they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do it was a pretty gory movie i d have to say the least there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump i d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a better movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i ve ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn t be explained for this genre to work br br originally written i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot the most suspense surprises most emotional especially the ending and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving was not as episodic and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie br br it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole i have heard many strange reasons such as a because yoda died b because bobba fett died c because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader was revealed br br i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who cares if bobba fett died if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die don t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett s name judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think secondly many fans did not like yoda dying sure it was a momentous period in the movie i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic all the good guys can t stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda s death well nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why was obi wan s death okay but yoda s not hmmmmmmmmmmmm another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible that is utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage they had swinging vines ropes logs set up to trip those walkers and other traps the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest the only thing they had was their blasters to add it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros the band of rebels as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have been a great upset lastly if this scene was still unbelievable to you how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo chewbacca and the princess being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view and not only that the heroes of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters the troopers must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strikes back the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not heroes against a legion of stormtroopers don t believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando s base or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star br br the last reason that i care to discuss others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here is that people did not like darth vader being revealed well in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father annakin skywalker it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father s face because it made it complete by annakin s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he was annakin skywalker by removing the helmet the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about in fact that s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke s father isn t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet br br on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse even if it is better that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be better or worse that the original but i can not know for sure let s see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was br br i am not sure who criticizes these movies but i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite that it is rotj i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading br br bottom line the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its minutes there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful exciting surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day br br finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky insignificant details or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such as this movie stinks because luke is not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately br br crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman s agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it s because i m jewish isn t it it s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners dvd doesn t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there s little doubt in sam levene s performance that the character is in fact also gay not a mincing caricature but there s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper s confused soldier there s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young s maigret like detective gloria grahame s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in as a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for crusading this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it s always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it s interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the villains in this movie those villains are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you re fighting against at first it s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german s are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn t however the best it s hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn t even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don t know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they re being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren t the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert s book i hated hated hated this movie and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert s review of rob reiner s north where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well but above all the other things that were awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits but after that first or minutes the other minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for seconds then someone gets shot then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra s my way sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss who i admire much as an actor for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that independence day was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history did goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if independence day were a bomb what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time says that the movie is set on another planet i only wish now that i have wasted minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minutes out of my life that i will never get back ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it s honor as the worst movie ever what a boring film to sum it all up its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor while she tried to flee from the village with her son can someone say boring the concept wasn t too bad but it was poorly executed the canadian locales and some of the village scenes were nicely shot however overall the cinematography came up short the story could have been great but the movie just seemed to drag on there is only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hours of it br br the best part of the whole movie was the song ishq kamina and that was only five minutes long other than that this movie was a piece of crap rant start i didn t want to believe them at first but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic even though their budgets mainly spent on special effects have become more and more fantastic do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry has built up since the break out film shiri swiri by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did rant end br br the only reason i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean east asian styled dragon i have seen to date for the final scenes now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons remember dungeons dragons in hasn t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use but how well you use it i hope there are more and better korean legends they can use because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one br br in short i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem arirang being played at the very end as a creature feature i would have given it at least stars out of if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it but i ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting just less dragons as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a better world i said better world because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don t know qin shihuang means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king means the land and the people spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is qin shihuang s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles it also had technicolor one of the few movies made with it in br br now the bad news regrettably i can t say much positive for the story it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light and hollywood has done that ever since why these criminals are always shown to be the good guys is beyond me this film glamorizes them and made their enemies the railroad people into vicious human beings the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous well that s the film world for you evil is good good is bad br br hey hollywood here s a news flash the james boys were criminals really look it up i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i m sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn t live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin s granddad the only sad thing was the ending it s a shame they couldn t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending i don t normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn t turn it off i don t believe i ve ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn t turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it s a sports thriller but it s so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it s not funny not even in a dumb silly way it s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers it s painful to watch but at least it s only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can t describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i m sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you re out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i ve seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can t stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn t bad as the second string few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john lassiter s amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who s review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i m betting the older charas too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo s mother soske s mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend soske whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham soske is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he s related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young soske which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end ponyo s father fujimoto must cope with his daughter s decision and his estranges wife s wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there s the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki s best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki s delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address as expected joe james russo the attacker forces his way into marjorie s home and subjects her to humiliating terror bruised and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat hog tied and battered himself joe tries to explain himself to marjorie s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there is almost a hint of mercy but it is not coming from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m young i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i ve seen the whole thing played like a cnn worst case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn t seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don t bother with this one for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film s most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven t seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo s carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard s kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end i am not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u s army riffles in wwi and wwii in movie we can see privates armed with m garand invented in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load times more ammunition and times more fire rate m was semi automatic springfield requires reloading after every shot little difference german army uniforms has borrowed from year too especially helmets german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archives how much truthful is this true story i am surprised how much truthful can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i m telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may oliver a person too talented for this film didn t like wheeler a sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king at about the same time woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king so when wheeler arrived it was up to the boys to fight it out but they refused because they are already friends which greatly disappointed the people as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime br br i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood the silent era through the s i have seen and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i can t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better for example there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother s film duck soup yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp at times woolsey talked a bit like groucho but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny in fact he just seemed to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality was that he looked goofy surely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese a piece of cheese that sang very poorly a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as who s on first which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they started their spiel they just ended the routine so prematurely that you are left frustrated i knew that who s on first had been around for many years and used by many teams but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist br br once again i have found yet another sub par film by this duo while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly such as silly billies and the rainmakers which i actually gave s to on imdb this one was a major endurance test to complete something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey where was all the humor i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that s the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn t any good actually it s bloody awful but i didn t expect anything else when i bought it it s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really baaaaaaad br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she s the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i ve seen pteradactyl even when her boyfriend dies she can t stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that s the way i like it the chupacabra looks pretty messed up and it s easy to see that it s a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you re even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn t you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked the symbolic use of objects form editing the position of characters in the scene these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken even the title has a least four meanings that i can see the boxing ring the wedding ring the bracelet the lover buys and the love triangle at the heart of the story i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford s small town boy david chappellet what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla sparv the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn t really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn t need to do much and indeed doesn t while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don t fully compensate and you don t care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that s probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it s the theme that s so important here i m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you ll like it this is an art film that was either made in or the national film preservation foundation says and imdb says regardless of the exact date the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late s early s br br the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understood by us mortals i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie is diamond among coals during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw this film should have made them stars shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film it could have easily been a franchise release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed no matter how late watch it you won t be disappointed do yourself another favor read the book same title it ll blow you away times have changed dramatically since those days or at least we like to think they have a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town leading to all kinds of complications cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can t escape the title town hopper does what he does best playing a psycho known as lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns and john s direction creates a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertaining it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up i really liked this movie i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie it is definitely worth renting although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his product s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don t see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real sahlep powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole ali s bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn t show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even ali s troubles are not convincing because we don t see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don t see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i m wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man s big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie s leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie s clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn t great but it s a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number on the comedians comedian okay ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to datd the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone s favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the s i was born on may th despite this my life was very much in the style of the s when other kids had playstations i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only years old at the time of writing this review i because of my s style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn t see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk s adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as the world david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local caf the chipmunks are playing a game of around the world in days against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team s likeness secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds to varify that they were there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt the girls and boys of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be topped it s also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include getting lucky kind of suggestive for a kid s film eh and my mother as well as wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song getting lucky i first didn t think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince s men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells alvin and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven t seen this flick give it a watch it s worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s gets a solid out of br br headin for the top don t you know we never stop believing now just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a bomb rating a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night i feared the worst knowing its reputation and it was as god awful as i d anticipated this is a mexican made mess dubbed into english and produced by k gordon murray it s got terrible sets and effects and features a rather frightening santa who doesn t operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in outer space and who doesn t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is the opening sequence where st nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages seems to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesn t observe the child labor laws br br eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth just to make little kids naughty and turn santa s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience and it s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever oddly the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on this easily makes my personal list of the worst movie i ve ever seen but i m sure that s nothing unique as is often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as pelagia in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as corelli s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia s fianc br br i rated this film an despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie passing them down in the family if you will and i loved it br br clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it s up to superman to stop this mayhem br br it s just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effects and sound the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid and i m now it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic much much better than of the scream rip offs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn t read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed mystery is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don t like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadn t guessed i loved it the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it s really rather messy though fellowes doesn t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich landmine though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there s also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing br br i m disappointed not that it s bad but that it could have been much better this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert godfrey s up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age holes is an awesome movie i love it a lot and it s one of my favorite films it s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn t cheesy holes is generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more pictures like it holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool don t get the wrong idea i don t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it s stuff is aimed towards kids and that s okay children deserve to have their entertainment too but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with holes it s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it s corny really it s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to br br holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this i can not hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen savers with co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn t pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she s hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn t afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it s music movies comic books the internet and television this is what s great about the show if you don t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on aots some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren t as geek as i d like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup worst dcom i have seen ever well maybe not as bad as smart house this was just bad the acting and story was fine but the effects sucked br br they were so fake the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen that was probably the only scene in which i was excited br br overall i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly br br i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene br br its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities and also i didn t know that an indian can cross the march s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier s were sleeping some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn t for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they re all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there s never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film is so feather light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakeries and hairdressers and plumbing but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick they re both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass this film is quite simply brilliant the cinematography is good the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking this is the story of donald woods a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid kevin kline is completely convincing so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later i recognised him from kline s portrayal denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance as ever br br i urge you to watch this it is long but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story remember folks this really happened i have recently seen this production on dvd it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in and it was just as good as i remembered at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been i am a bit of a jane eyre purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly br br all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way some even leave out the rivers family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this is the only production to include the gypsy scene done correctly br br the casting is perfect zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she looked too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted his expression is fantastically frightening but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable oh to be loved by a man like that there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks br br finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it is simply perfection in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it s a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carrie s boss i m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven t prey br br aspect ratio br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren s follow up to satan s slave amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v browne s eye catching cinematography though annan s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and left under mysterious circumstances stokes unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there s an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to emasculate their clueless visitor by dressing him in women s clothing though stokes alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially annan s final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren s unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film s budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army is the local dentist he s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie is always being viewed with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro ves at the islands police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for closer inspection a quick search for the killer proves fruitless as does a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who lives on the island through the winter months a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together br br goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain with a heavy fog rolling in the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesn t work seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut reports of ufo s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin s idea that aliens might be involved but a rise in radioactive levels on the island has him doubting himself br br the nightmare man is based on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it is here adapted by dr who and blake s scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board the nightmare man though is on the whole a succinctly better crafted piece that builds its plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor characters time is given to giving them all a firm background the island setting is perhaps a genre clich that has been used over and over but its one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times there is an authenticity about proceedings the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point if there is one negative about the killer its that we are given his her its pov for the killings an acceptable clich on its own but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer given the clues presented but it s a fun and very well acted piece the local scottish cast are exceptional the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold imrie never one i ve taken to in other works is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers it disappointed me in some ways but taking into account when it was made its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it is even more terrifying this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie so if you haven t seen either movie and want to but don t want the spoilers please don t read this review br br while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe s christian and sarah michelle gellar s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did it s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough you ll recognize it there are also inconsistencies in the plot if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon s character br br also the tie in with the photography you could be a model comment at the end was totally lame and didn t add anything at all overall this movie was a waste of time i can t believe they made a cruel intentions this movie is ridiculous it s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it s a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they re all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie in dramatising wilde s novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown dorian s essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson s dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas rls took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it s a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have s have not s i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn t write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn t take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as nita i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of mazursky s an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother biji he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors mrinal sen s khandar gautam ghose s paar benegal s ankur a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn t make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn t see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don t know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven t already don t waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel at a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director murali k thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows is thalluri s attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis s sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluri s talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn t reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or romanticizes the act thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and revetting is an absolutely unmissable film the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won t watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich d lines in the movie i m sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton s character has hijacked hamill s prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you ll find something of interest here but you can t convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso if anyone thinks there s some hidden meaning here you re really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employing a large number of roach s reliable performers although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves star struck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set does so here as cecilia always ready for an audition is treated by a would be paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behind the scenes action of naturally a musical comedy featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton russell hicks and walter long on balance one must hand the bays to mischa auer who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star a role which he largely creates and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley s filmic spectacles the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start these slasher pics are past their sell by date but this one is good fun br br the valentine cards themselves are witty and well thought out br br the film has one peach of a line he s no angel when he in fact is angel watching buffy reruns will never be the same br br the cast is a sizzling display of young talent but the story does not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters sorry but no br br the direction is very good managing to show very little actual gore and relying on your imaginations implied threat much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes br br essentially the main directorial plus lies within the borrowing of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks psycho s shower scene is tributed along with halloween s masking br br murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know br br light viewing not very scary but a few good jump moments if it was a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movies have had their day and this is just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundbreaking the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a instead of a is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn t shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go skydiving maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today s market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me like most i thought another crocodile movie so far we ve had primeval and rogue in the last months what can they do that s new where both those films were about action and violence this one s about fear and tension br br the performances aren t oscar worthy when there s nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it s like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don t really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it s a stretch to say you ll enjoy this movie it ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick s abundance of clich s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the characters and the dialog br br i d read about elizabeth berkly s awful performance in the equally awful showgirls which i ve never seen and her performance here while not awful is barely up to the standards of lifetime s worse fare there was not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldn t have been if so it would have placed the film completely out of balance since there wasn t a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal br br the principal s handling of liz s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable her husband s initial reaction and advice were likewise forrest gump attacking jenny s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic intelligent action and hell he was mentally challenged br br the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession br br finally and frankly i rather enjoyed this part the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs that you d rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the law and order series and the like but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime br br finally i found a kind of story within a story fascination with josh s concoction of his being the victim of his teacher this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story this was something of an achievement like going from f to f minus br br this whole lame situation should have been resolved in real life in about minutes following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities with husband involved but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following and left an hour s blank film in the camera br br but the writer s here proved with their ending they could do even worse when the situation was finally resolved and righted this was accomplished in all of about seconds with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parents or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption br br this one s a presentation the second because it does have some mild fascination if you haven t seen this yet you really should on dvd i can t believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren t many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like cgi s but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you ve seen a dinosaur my favorites were the coelophysis the raptors the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn t get money from the government for financing otherwise i m never paying taxes again ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by sadhu s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director shimit amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making let s keep it simple my two kids were glued to this movie it has its flaws from an adult perspective but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it br br and the pepsi girl was excellent br br and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot although she s not in the film very much so don t get too excited there br br not that s it s really a bad thing but it is the kind of movie you watch just once don t buy the dvd br br enjoy br br did i mention kimberly williams that was for the dads it was a m in the morning and i had nothing else to do don t judge me please br br we re back in time during the spanish settlements a group have made their way onto an island it doesn t take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobbles up their horse soon they re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg sucks it reminds me of the cg of early console video games the encounters were lame the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it s just a middling effort lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost feel them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the s and s oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can t even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other got ta go now i have to go watch it again saturday june pm the neptune br br monday june pm the neptune br br few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of its centennial saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impressions of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura s camera creative use of large flats and mirrors moved throughout the set combined with screens shadows fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song dance and instrumental performance photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program connecting the passion of the music to its great creator saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich d movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it s genre but don t let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the story line was rather typical of clara s later silents i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves never mind that this man is married clara s lack of modesty was shocking in the day but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a brilliant story line quite typical actually this movie is a nice showcase of clara s ability to make the audience laugh as the number of video nasties i ve yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage popped up on my to rent list when i saw it was available br br the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip though if he returns with the girl and all the money he gets a significant cut he s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot is one of the worst actors ever granted they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after stealing away into the jungle we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever ping pong balls for eyes and that s pretty much it his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i found myself muting much of those scenes br br oh did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this is probably the main reason this film was banned though there is one specific scene about one second long where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out but it s not a redeeming factor for gore fans also jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals and sadly male as well so if you want fair in terms of exploitation you got it br br i can t recommend this trash to anyone it s not even the good bad movie it s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you are making your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list which is certainly not true i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a should have gave it a i gave it an extra star just because david keith s gun was cool i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film he failed thank god br br the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won t like her because she s ugly the film is just bad for so many reasons the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit those two scenes made me cringe janeane s character is sickeningly arrogant and guessing from her role as stand up comedienne and arch feminist is in real life too she claims that the film is anti feminist when in fact it s just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it s interesting to note her hypocrisy too she d been a feminist and comedienne for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film i mean come on she acted in it for heaven s sake what this film was really was anti men if anything it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman s character noelle br br there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure is that the best the script writers could come up with blimey they ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made there s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn t ugly but is actually beautiful erm was i watching the same film as they were she s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one although having said that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well she s lanky and gaunt looking br br i guarantee three things about this film if you ve never watched it br br you will know what the ending will be br br you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and br br you will be bored after ten minutes br br watch at your own peril this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person having just seen walt disney s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony the cast of this film contain some of new zealander s better actors many of who i have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long running new zealand soap shortland street it s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meets the love boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea br br if you are an actor i recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she s the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one s professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don t want to face the consequence one ironically can t believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it s not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies credits due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski s trois couleurs especially bleu this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty the governess rush hour as villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend s wedding opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com this film is awful the plot is extremely lazy it is not scary either people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film is more like dark water except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it i was extremely disappointed with this film it didn t scare me nor interest me either let s face it this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g the dead trying to contact the living dragonfly what lies beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc etc it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans the films that are coming out of hollywood like this are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer they re just being churned out angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela s identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today s world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it s pretty much just more terror tainment br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you re taking the word of the producers there s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb s user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see it wasn t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you ve been painting a wall until you re completely bored well that s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can t really blame them since there s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that s not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don t get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they re charging towards a gaping ravine isn t this somewhat illogical it s also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs moshe dayan arik sharon or god when you ve got an idiotic enemy who can t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn t help myself i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b which is unique among allen s work along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop s most enjoyable aspect the plot revolves around johanson s character a journalism student who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she falls in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen br br i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson s performance but i am a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she plays a ditsy yappy bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen s stereotypical neurosis stricken character she adds appropriate body language for comic effect needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus br br allen is allen he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late br br jackman is also enjoyable as the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less br br in terms of the plot i can not help but feel that this is fresh in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen are more detective like than anything however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything being black and white things are painted in shades of gray being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners i did find his allusions to his last film interesting come for the humor laugh and be merry br br needless to say if you enjoy allen s work watch it if not watch something else i rented this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portrays the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith is assassinated and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land despite his grave doubts he perseveres and finally has a vision that utah is the place for his colony that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later as crops are destroyed by crickets he again doubts that he has truly been chosen however a miracle occurs which cements his place in history br br i found the performances to be moving and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal polygamy is a part of the story but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised the issue is not emphasized br br i m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout s frightmare is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic s s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding s slasher genre it isn t totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance classier than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn t be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death s door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad s grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad s body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband s body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn t a very nice guy in life it s not much of a stretch to assume that he won t be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we re in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad s body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can t really recommend frightmare to anyone who didn t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label paired with roy ward s vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you re a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn t have the big budget there s no special effects no car chases and there s no explosions actually reality doesn t have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since i m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his harvey and kiefer s mickey enhances the oppositeness of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady mrs ramsay i m sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don t think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn t very good but they are truly good so i don t think that you before you haven t seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn t have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven t seen them doing there job as usual i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has there is no story a group of guys meander around iraq one day they are here diffusing a bomb tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire no wait here they are back in bagdad there is no cohesive story at all the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures by that i mean we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds what do you think is going to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy why yes there is no story here the script is juvenile and predictable the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon don t waste time or money on this boring movie a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other s jeep mysteriously won t start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn t all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it slaussen is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the s genre in it s twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won t be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn t know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy s business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie s biggest influence is the comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn t stale and recycled it s basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it s real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don t care about what s happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn t dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn t changed my mind spade s given very little to do serving as the movie s most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy s business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that s cool but i just can t get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever having read during many years about how great this film was how it established ruiz among the french critics specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watched it about a year ago i found it pretty disappointing but then i guess my expectations were sky high shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cerebral film made for tv and mercifully only an hour long is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it s ending if you haven t been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it s genre i loved this show from it s first airing and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week the plot characters writing special affects were outstanding then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining well written show i say bring it back i know all of the actors would come back i would suggest buying the dvd s i am i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunters but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too i didn t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much don t get my wrong its not a bad short film tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film you can tell that it has been an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on though i don t feel it greatly detracts for one s ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do i say go for it the gag reel was fun i won t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also done by jagged edge i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we ve received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it s also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much i was never so bored in my life hours of pretentious self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems it s like watching lizards molt even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this this movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on br br just remember this when you re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad this is the formula that they are using this is what makes zombie movies so great br br and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know br br all in all it doesn t linger there s never a point where you think to yourself c mon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely this is the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks br br so awful it s wonderful if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love it br br as a great trivia note if you re watching it on dvd you ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score well that s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop the ladies man is laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes including the funniest love song ever written br br ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role br br tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you ll find in any comedy out there br br it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round br br i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre and i urge you to vote br br and remember kids theres more motion in the ocean when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn t just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie is great the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot br br the only thing that really let me down are the performances emily blunt the devil wears prada is the star of the film bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable br br to me the film feels like unfinished maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script i don t know but that s how i feel about the movie br br but overall it s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt a flying saucer manned literally by a crew of about male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some years ago on a forbidden planet what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in br br on the surface this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeare s tempest but this is a stretch and in some ways an insult to the scifi genre stripped of what makes it a scifi film sure its the tempest but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about br br underneath this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek br br anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful the special effects and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of s sci fi props you might think you were watching a s piece br br this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call s sci fi and though not in my opinion the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects the clever plot now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek lost in space and even farscape is worth paying attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek s original series aired about years later though they may find themselves disappointed by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it br br some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles unfortunately nielsen s performance is only average and at times down right poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other films over acts his role as well ms francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job the problems with the featured performances i think are as much the fault of the director and the editor as anything though they certainly got most of the film quite right i just saw this film on dvd last night and decided to check out the reviews this morning it seems that i robot has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling too br br i find this somewhat surprising as this film is not great or even good but neither is it terrible or even really bad what this film really is is depressing depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid clich d re heats and acclaim them as spectacular new works this film as retread written all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action to smith s character a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effects that borrowed from matrix and a few others br br i robot is sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today s audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lots and lots of adrenaline smith is mediocre but we already knew that he seems to be hollywood s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story has lots of holes in it of all sizes but i don t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by today s standards but very b movie compared to true winners this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century br br this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people not white black etc br br good movie with a good message i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great mile s sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it s fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am sadden that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven t watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br i have to disagree with another commenter who said the special effects were okay i found them pretty bad it just wasn t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story br br maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story the archaeologists are looking for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what is so special about it that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt br br if you re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the beginning the ancient ceremony looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert br br the action level was constant throughout the movie no ups and downs no climax it made the movie look short and that s certainly a pro for this particular movie liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he is a true actor he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary mary is such a beautiful woman it s her love that makes rob roy the legend but it s his passion that makes her love undying they need each other tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect in one way or another upon watching the movie you will find cunningham disgusting the scotland scenery is beautiful the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well if you like history romance passion and love you ll enjoy rob roy there is violence and blood but it s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if you re not used to a scottish accent one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes it s their skill as actors that attracts you they don t rely on marquee names popularity or sex symbol appeal this is something special when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren t conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can t help it sorry for that raincoat was a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn t enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore having seen carlo lizzani s documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don t know what to criticize therefore to be clear i ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director s career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with nannies cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti s crucial visit in paris in the s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director s career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director s death in is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco rosi but later such movies like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people s emotions and viewpoints into stone time is precious this film isn t i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time br br the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction is this the film the critics are raving about what a piece of crap br br the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family get it br br the acting is superb br br the production lighting sets editing sound is about steps above a minutes story the characters are shallow and unintelligent i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next br br i have had more fun doing the laundry worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don t know how everyone in the movie didn t shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don t know and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don t watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn t even the to be expected nudity you d get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead savage island is a lame movie it s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting not only that the storyline and script was wretched i don t know why this movie was made i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry this one made my blood boil the situations were inane at best if i made a movie like this it would have been a short really because those backwood idjits wouldn t have been in the picture br br don t be fooled by the cover on the d v d i am an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie is virtually unwatchable i don t mind movies being shot on d v but if you re going to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror films sans wrong turn br br i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by br br movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story br br however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe s civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is hynkel and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his subordinates technical innovations which don t work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact hynkel s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery br br in truth chaplin s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the fuehrer s face your cause is doomed to failure because it s built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of silent comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain t i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn t come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the wouldn t it be wonderful speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film s underlying weakness remains if napaloni is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn t bother him and he still kills people friday the th what s that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn t it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way never saw the original movie in the series i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie it was however a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark really this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water not really worth watching i would however like to see the original granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also made a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown created in and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn t matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it s tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number on the greatest pop culture icons and he was number on the greatest cartoons very good highly regarded at release but since rather neglected immense importance in the history of performing arts a classic use of embedded plots one of my favourite films why hasn t the soundtrack been re released the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helmed this episode who murders her husband with a poker has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband s corpse she decides to use an ax once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman s head to frame the killer for her husband s murder santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child br br this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old santa kills theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she s been cheating with routine it s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac there s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions not one of the show s highlights the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film it should have read be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your family s church at years old listening to the preacher drone on about god s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego br br it starts off well intentioned building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny s how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble i believe i counted the use of the word pray about times in a five minute span near the end after the st i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last minutes plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me as it became totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of ending up on the floor br br for all the salivating christians who ranked this film stars i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square the ten commandments anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp the god who wasn t there what would jesus buy or the soon to be released religulous br br maybe robert whitlow s book is better tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford s films at two hours it was quite long for a silent film yet continues to hold your interest some years after it was filmed mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a greatest hits performance with bits of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character s illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question if the academy awards had been around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary s i first saw this movie when i was about years old my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for on vhs she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch this movie however scared the hell out of me you may be asking yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas that s right satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day for if santa doesn t make it back to his home in space he turns to powder don t get me wrong the movie is funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell which occurs at the beginning of the movie is just downright creepy although there are some snippets in this part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these are not very well developed in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs br br although this program as a whole leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserves some praise almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you if asked they think the drug war is designed to solve for example while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensued and the subsequent reversal of prohibition is totally ignored by this program br br this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems but not all users do their drugs in excess just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics br br if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science has decided to totally prohibit whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that is in here br br on the other hand this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in th century united states like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there is a significant element of various people s points of view with regard to drug laws and most but not all of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana br br the criminal justice system along with its often harsh life ruining penalties is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately there s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs a lack of compassion for fellow humans a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs yet this program ignores it br br so in sum the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives it s pretty disappointing considering this film was released years before i was born i don t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected s crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group in their endeavors the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin whom sister goes after because she believes he is the big time who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life though he could be accused of killing her he really kills only her spirit and will to live after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose the story isn t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off then threatens him it s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be discovered back then first i realize that a rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst this movie gets that from me because as one reviewer points out it s not bad in a self aware over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply misses its mark on every count contains possible spoilers the dialog is completely disingenuous the continuity is so deliberate it s painful daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love and with his final word the flamenco dancers start the mock shock of what s her name see i don t even remember her character s name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tells her that her friend is the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things vegetable carts gone flying cars crashing into each other motorcycles going down the stairs people nearly being hit but remarkably no one is oh that s right except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds and an approaching car apparently didn t notice him there hmmm br br it s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money you d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing now there s a novel idea br br my suggestion don t see this film don t rent the dvd don t watch it on cable there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he is black then walk away the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise is funny and the show contains many such types of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all the year saw no fewer than filmed productions of h g wells great novel war of the worlds this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place the last year of the th century using wells original setting in and near woking england br br imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as spoilers that might apply with some films where the ending might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world it seems positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature so let s get right to the chase the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease against which they have no immunity if that s a spoiler so be it after a book and other films including the classic you ought to know how this ends br br this film which follows wells plot in the main is also very cleverly presented in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late th early th century photography although filmed in a widescreen aspect the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs rather than black colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting at other times colors are washed out these variations are typical of early films which didn t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on as you ll see on occasion here the special effects are deliberately retrograde of a sort seen even as late as the s and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effects are really awkward such as the destruction of big ben the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair br br this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells original narrative as has been noted viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story wells description of the martians a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles is effectively portrayed when the martian machines appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how wells described them both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective primarily of rural england plus a few scenes in london involving the narrator s brother the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesn t dwell unduly on the devastation of london br br the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines the narrator traveling about to seek escape sees much of what wells terms the rout of mankind he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene wells adds that after eating they set up a prolonged and cheerful hooting the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder cheers from the gallery british curates are so often utterly insufferable br br this film lasts almost hours going through wells story in welcome detail it s about time the author got his due in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact a word about the acting don t expect award winning performances they re not bad however the actors are earnest and they grow on you most of them however have had very abbreviated film careers often only in this film the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate is john kaufman also in his nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing the brother henderson is played with some conviction by w bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part is played by james lathrop in his first film br br this is overall a splendid film portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it despite its slight defects it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors if you want to see h g wells war of the worlds and not some wholly distorted version of it see this film of the elements that make this the best at this point i have to say is christine mcintire shemp s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent i imagine that as one poster suggested christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil to be smiling at shemp s possibly dying br br another character who helps this stand out is the goon his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short is this good who s going to complain not i okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the last one and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one part was bad but why do they play us anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part and i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in d pointless id say i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts and yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series br br i gave a nightmare on elm street six out of br br good points of movie had potential with plot br br bad points of film terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing everyone my name may sound weird but there was nothing else br br any way i haven t seen anything like this before so it was crazy of course that s a good thing it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying twas beauty who killed the beast war of the worlds scene and more walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one also how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema br br however some parts don t fit like in the original lion king weren t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they are not they were fighting the hyenas backstage ther s more the reason being why pumbaa isn t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also it s just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonn s story was told whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks br br but apart from that it s great finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie which not only tells a story but actually tells the real story i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o donnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is it is not a movie to attract new fans but a movie to tell the real tale some things could have been better but when you can not forget the awful movie from then is this a magnificent movie so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story by now the game s stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they re all rehash but so was monkey island and for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don t need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself i decided to watch this movie because i d not seen carol lombard before in any movie i m sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what s that clich marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples worsening financial status their troubles with john s live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john s diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples angst about their marriage the baby s sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clich d situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn t much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early so it was planned in soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i m glad i saw it as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you ve seen all of stewart s movies otherwise don t bother unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director but for the last years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min no sex no blood it s suppose to be about snuff no actors no dialogs just as bad as an t v film it s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our minds forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi robowar rats l altro inferno virus cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco s spirit s new film pass on this one but if you don t know this nice artisan s career track down his old films and have fun i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director s techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn t as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in ralston s case it was the latter br br i must admit david arnott s portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i can not say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery s first film and it was obvious i mean really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn t the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy can not be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by zinc and we as a race will always want what we can not have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money the was in essence the bank for the last man don t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don t expect more from ralston and that is how i will end it br br grade out of br br i must admit i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem i am a true horror fan as true as they come and found cut to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced but one of the great parody comedy films of late br br my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film was not overly clever in it s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i am certain this was intended as humour hoping this was intended as humour br br and of course there was the gore br br the use of the customised garden shears was brilliance besides the expected stabs and slashes in short there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth br br the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance was and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film both performances were fantastic as well as simon bossell the castle in a brilliant role as the jokey technician br br all in all i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years as well as a beautiful satire parody toungue in cheek till the very end br br loved it go see it i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i ll just tell you that it s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the pieces of extreme gore and banned in countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the s today you don t need them as everything is done on computer but computers can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci s gates to hell or even savini s crowning achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can t tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don t see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it s here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a scalping there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated br br i always felt that ms merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the s and s from atlanta s sweet auburn to new york s harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny s boarding house the story revolves around nanny s relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year a few too many coincidences and plot holes however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn t come as too much of a surprise brosnan is excellent in this role gone is the wooden james bond a role he was wasted in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan s straight man i ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing my father a consultant nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hit man comedy the humour can be very dark if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself as a casual listener of the rolling stones i thought this might be interesting not so as this film is very of its age in the s to me someone born in the s this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap but i am sure this film was not made for me but people who were active during th s i expected drugs galore with th stones i was disappointed it actually showed real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not seen any of the directors other films but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing sort of amatuerish which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly directed tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this is that i didn t waste money on it it came free with a sunday paper watch the original with the same title from this made for tv movie is just god awful although it does use as far as i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesn t work is it the acting the poor directing ok so it s made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hands on the superb original especially as you ll be spoiled to the plot and won t enjoy the original as much as if you ve watched it first br br there are a few things that are different from the original it s shorter for once but all are for the worse the actors playing the parts here just don t fit the bill you just don t believe them and who could top edward g robinsons performance from the original if you want only watch it after you ve seen the original and even then you ll be very brave if you watch it through it s almost sacrilege director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn t know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film s end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl mcburney a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel s best film it certainly is one of eastwood s best real performances page is always so very good and hartman fe rdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a spring break movie plus it makes fun of the college film genre it s funny it s got a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain wilson phillips omg i m just repeating myself now it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they re dumb arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she s a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond s phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don t get me wrong this isn t a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny lipson plays king vultan boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent i have to say that the events of didn t hit me until i saw this documentary it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers i was sick of hearing about it when this was aired on tv a year and a day later i was bawling my eyes out it was the first time i had cried since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i am watching it now on tv years later and i am still crying over the tragedies the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing it was an accident and look where it got them these two brothers make me want to have been there to help perfect movies are rare even my favorite films tend to have flaws rear window looks a little stagey at times chris elliot s character in groundhog day doesn t work the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish br br the script is brilliant the acting is superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing the whole cast shines the directing and the photography are inspired and the music score is touching without being intrusive like some miramax scores that are too manipulative every sad moment is truly moving every light moment makes me smile this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it br br i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people real feelings and real problems brilliant a must see this has to be one of the worst movies ever made the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way just a few of the awful moments in the movie a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the mile per hour winds thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at feet thats impossible even for pilots with thousands of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she is instructed to pull on the flaps huh come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this is a movie you want to miss take my word for it regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you re a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn t carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don t get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren t close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don t care about acting or make up this is better as a book out of for an ok story i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with lan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenberg s later less bizarre works in pola x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol s factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age cathering deneuve shows that she still has it her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn t sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as pola x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn t work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating it s hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon was well done but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious br br i was amazed to see marcus aurelius in the acting credits wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker br br the story might been interesting but the acting is flat and direction is tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend s house and get drunk while doing so then it ll be enjoyable i remember going to see the movie in the summer of with my parents and being pretty into it at the time of course i was seven at the time br br right before the jackson movies came out my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic br br ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this is saying something much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them br br because of budget constraints the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the rings and part of the two towers was pared down even more what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books br br its not all bad though the animation brings a warmth to it that i found lacking in the jackson movies its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding br br this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came several years later a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired which was meant to wrap things up all i will say about that is that it was a musical just finished watching ftm the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it s frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let s get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn t seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn t like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it s insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeals to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights al pacino with great speech scenes and great one liners every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as wynorski s curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don t know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a komanbra part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it s almost over it s almost over out of i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn t know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he s definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was evie s rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with for greta garbo s first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o neill s pultizer prize winning play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna s father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn t be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn t offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion s generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo s anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play s greatest problem has always been that chris s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don t always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minutes doesn t allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne s second act appearance in show boat br br anna and marthy s early scene together on screen minutes into the film taking each other s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it s hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it was first filmed without sound in also with george marion s original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way let me set the scene it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies i am with my friend deciding what to see we look for a movie that is starting soon and the grinch comes up we buy tickets not knowing what to expect what we got was a roller coaster of fun br br jim carrey who may i add is my no actor in the whole world was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard s best movie next to apollo the way that this movie was made the scenery the actors the props and the music was just amazing it really brought this childhood movie to life br br the story is based upon the story of the grinch as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can t stand christmas he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk but one little girl is going to change the grinch s look on life and on others in a drastic way br br cindy lou who played by adorable new actress taylor momsem meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people br br all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents a solid well done jim br br as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia i can still tell it was a quality show very educational but still funny i have not seen the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing was it was too long ago to remember br br the premise of the show was to show you how the body works i swear school still hasn t taught me half of what i know from this show it also tied in other things like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don t exercise with nice examples within the body who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you d the cartoon looked nice very kids friendly of course but done with care cells viruses electric signals in the brain antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures looking pretty much how you d expect what they should look like in the animated body br br this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale were key parts of my childhood i m so happy i found them here fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama s in the years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it s that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england s involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david norwell suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn t have both oars in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr norwell this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another all centered around adam s inabilities and seizures why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get clich snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it s standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct they filmed this movie out on long island where i grew up my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer which they told me was colored water tasted disgusting and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form it never came out in the theaters obviously and it as far as i knew was never released on video and i m sure wasn t released on dvd yet it looks like it was seen by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother yet there is no way i can find it anywhere does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased and which format that would be that s how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who s on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he s financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy s running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he s very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster s woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score out of stars human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br this early biograph short was so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d w griffith s years of discovery dvd set highly recommended it features three excellent performances by the main leads and interesting to see henry b walthall the little colonel birth of a nation as a campy musician giving a countess the eye and other things br br the countess husband goes berserk at his wife s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour it s kind of incredible that they wouldn t hear the wall going up but hey maybe the wine had something to do with it here mr johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment comes at the end as the lady passes out from shock and fear once she realizes she s doomed henry picks up his instrument and fans it over her the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lost it and laughed my head off the expression on his face from that moment i was charmed by henry b walthall baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this is the movie which caused his downfall it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred soon after its release he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably its a very bad movie with horrible acting bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease i m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission sorry i ll not recommend this one to anyone written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick is harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word f k the most number of times almost three hours long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord br br also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f murray abraham and angel salazar pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster is that powerful enough for you crime does not pay for long first the cgi in this movie was horrible i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park gets killed it s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen even night of the living dead had better animation br br that said the movie had almost no plot why were they on that island in particular well it wasn t stated in the movie and why would the people keep coming into the cat s area makes no sense br br one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting in what could be called a b made for tv movie movie the acting was very good parry shen stood out in particular br br if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quotes i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme s best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn t come off although it strays away from the book a little you can t help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine s dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr tilney he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it s hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney as for john thorpe well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the marchioness i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say elinor s calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive page point by point line by line refutation of this mendacious film which should be titled a convenient lie the website address where his debunking report which is titled a skeptic s guide to an inconvenient truth can be found at is www cei org a shorter page version can be found at www cei org pdf pdf once you read those demolitions you ll realize that alleged global warming is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of which gore also endorsed as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber as james the amazing randi does to psychics and philip klass does to ufos and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories so does mario lewis does to al gore s movie and the whole global warming scam a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film s first audiences pretty much as it s described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow s part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd sigh i m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the the first time alright br br but i guess what s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us back in a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic clich ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it s about time the concept of having laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially stan laurel of course as usual br br the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula it doesn t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending it s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the movie br br the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor br br the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed it all helps to make dirty work to be one of the better laurel hardy shorts br br this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn t it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches winry it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i ve been feeling down in the dumps and it s such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i thought it was pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effects excellent acting especially de niro who is awesome this movie made me happier than i ve been for a while br br it is a very funny and clever movie the running joke of the kingdom s history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled that s much of what makes it so good it s an elaborate special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies yet there is an incredible attention to small things br br i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again i was surprised that forgiving the franklins did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants i watched this movie so that you don t have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film s title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn t sure if genevieve bujold s character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it s credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over m too bad the money wasn t spent on a better project just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the messengers is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie s resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you ve seen previews for this movie then you ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters i went to see this movie actually i went to see family portraits which contains cutting moments other short films by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina i just couldn t watch it i had to cover my eyes after the st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while by the time it was over my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the nd short begun btw of course i was not the only one who left the room it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it i just don t get how you can love that kind of movies the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it and i just don t think it makes any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff makes no other sense than to try to shock people and that s not a good enough reason i think there s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it was good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of films a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending pluses the way the story moves begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he s there the music a disinterested look at the life of policemen minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effects still having people s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided br br no complaints i don t understand the positive comments made about this film it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i can not understand how it ever got made br br cartoon characters abound sue s foul mouthed alcoholic layabout irish father being a prime example none of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for sue s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence as desperately unattractive as they both are i ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but given that they do why should i be expected to care what happens to them so many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is if that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film br br i didn t like the film at all steven what have you done you have hit an all new low it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege and and exit wounds the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted pounds on this garbage out of ten better luck next time a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer s next target director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoops around corners in a museum after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purposes practically gives away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals and stages his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dressed to kill is exhausting primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial much of the acting with the exception of young keith gordon is mediocre and the second finale is a rip off of de palma s own carrie not to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end results are distinctly half baked from flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david labraccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in lost boys and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru calling episode which used the movie s premise br br flatliners one of my favorite shows back in the s as i recall it went to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together br br each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible br br i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who came back as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames oh well you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea br br mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best br br definitely deserves a place in tv s hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo kolchack you are on it or in the case of the hall of fame in it i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldn t be laughing you ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and well you get the point br br but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face frownland really is a remarkable piece of work that after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him br br it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein s film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer if someone sets you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the pain perhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can t even begin to attempt to explain br br unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself bring a doggie bag i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night s sitcoms on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didn t expect much and i didn t get much although rose mcgowan is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i d give it a out of i first saw this film when i was about years old on tv in the uk where it was called laupta the flying island i absolutely loved it and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it i was enchanted by the story and characters but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw sometimes erroneously referred to as the streamline dub the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set br br unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn t have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese had and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead they have made some pointless alterations such as changing the main character s name from pazu to patzu and added some dialogue but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking which i find annoying in many disney films br br this film still blows away most recent animated films and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market homogenized animation this film can t make up its mind whether its message is humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless or don t ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan is out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all senses who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself i doubt it was her first when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan obviously as among humans total psychos date other total psychos br br the film reeks of half thought out anti human message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all it s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and as the film progresses he grows more and more compassionate to the whale s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better br br the films final journey in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north reminds me of melville s eerie man whale connection and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husbands might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident it s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss however it never goes there the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone br br the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight fails to chomp up the whale hugger tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier i love animals and i detest whaling and what is more i love orca whales but if this film s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed nolan shows compassion and growth and feels for others and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming br br the only message one can walk away with is if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you why o why did i pick this one up well i needed a no brainer in the summer heat and the cover looked cool br br of course i should ve known better this is a really really bad movie and it gets embarasing when the makers know it s bad and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women and some sex scenes to it well folks it does nt cut it does it br br if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very very good well played and funny go rent lake placid that is an order only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine seaview is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it s not rock they re under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a our teacher showed us this movie in first grade i haven t seen it since i just watched the trailer though does this look like a first grade movie to you i don t think so i was so horrified by this movie i could barely watch it it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half and then there was the boy with ketchup i was freaked out by this film now today being i probably would not feel that way i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn t see this movie even though it s pg be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids i don t even remember what it was about once was enough a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon s seed the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific but instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death despite the title itself being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to the end scott menville is not casey kasem that is the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company br br shaggy s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows they ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original br br i m not sure what they re on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isn t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows br br and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted i like it but it s not real scooby doo type animation but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me this might too br br it s worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly besides i am trying not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die as the saying goes we ll see how it looks after two more episodes by then i ll have formed a much more solid opinion i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i ll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this even this early in his career capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing this is a thin story and quite predictable at times but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately the first part looks like a cinderella story though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune br br nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it s easy to get caught up in the clich s then the movie does become more original as the married couple have to find a way to make a living the ending is very predictable but satisfying i also want to compliment the title writing very witty and fun uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he s ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i ve ever seen this isn t that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i d take a pass unless it s late at night and you re catching it on cable this video is so hilariously funny it makes everything else br br by eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor which just goes to show you how good this really is to be honest i don t think that i ve ever br br laughed at something as much as this including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse this show is amazing although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long plus its extended version beginning with m but it didn t bother me see it the funniest thing i ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer s client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste minutes of your life on this note the music was good it s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it s impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you d be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion i never watched the next action hero show and until reading the other comments here did not know that this movie was the prize from that competition i was just flipping channels and came across this and found myself watching dare eagerly all the way to the end br br yes the plot s been done the most dangerous game etc but i was hoping for and almost received the gotcha how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end i think the high tech was overdone gps s and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider but it nevertheless was not too overdone br br the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that was required of the viewer do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much br br the final solution was good but the ending was disappointing with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy except for zane who doesn t get near as much work as he deserves imho they were winners from a reality show br br knock me out i am a big fan of old horror movies and since i am middle aged old to me is a movie made before with most being made in the s to s period i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies with one exception being creepshow which i thought was great i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending all the stories were great though so why did i like them so much the characters had some decent development the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bits were really funny this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it s telling you something of also romero s expertise is hard to find here they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard i don t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me and that s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on it s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing yuck yuck to see it i just wanted to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing gheorghe muresan act i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn t that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure it was better than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don t want to have to think much it s well worth a rent some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made well they are only partly right for me this is the worst movie ever made period i have never seen anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature as this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isn t even so bad its good there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis other bad movies like clambake this one is so rotten to sit through its painful pure garbage native americans should sue for their poor clich d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole stars seriously grade f first of all yes i m white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race anyway white people hating black people bad but black people hating white people ok because apparently we deserved it where do i start i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene were ice cube and co get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win the neo nazi where twice the size and the chase the chase is priceless this is not a movie about race tolerance and understanding it doesn t deliver this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich stereotypes the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it br br save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written poorly acted dull and clearly biased picture if you are into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid s satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always the three shorts included on this compilation issued in are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn t look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth s tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it s kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film s decent cast pino donaggio s music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film s sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br out of years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie was first class the acting memorable and the storyline a classic recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part again i looked eagerly to viewing part i was so pleased to realize early on into part that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii wrong i wish i d stopped at ii the storyline was not good it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story the characters were weak especially the daughter pacino s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather or then scenes such as corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goodies get away and everyone else is shot daughter and st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the steps corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isn t ready for an emergency no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but i ll watch many times down the years this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i ve watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based the key word here is based how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom br br sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it this involves him selling out and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity however they are not overdone the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney s misadventures the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction is never that much of an issue because simon pegg as sidney projects likability too well br br jeff bridges underplays sidney s editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney s affections and with regard to megan fox who plays an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belongings and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort of course given that i m a fat year old english accountant you might not find my offer too enticing but it s there on the table anyway given how short her career has been so far one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become however she does it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far br br there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us br br there are several laugh out loud moments and i smiled most of the way through as ever the f word makes appearances when it really doesn t need to although at least a couple of these are very funny alien hunter out of is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all things on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot br br derivative doesn t even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him he turns her down aggh br br in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke br br with about seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title br br i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield the characters in the cornfield dress like logan s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them br br that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it br br alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired brittany s strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially linnea s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing i saw the film and i got screwed because the film was foolish and boring i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled sholay the cast and crew was bad the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle amithab bachan s acting is poor i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure nobody did justice to their work including ajay devagan this film don t deserve any audiences i bet that this film will flop br br finally this movie sucks lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon it s quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin after the murders within her fantasies are committed lorna awakens bewildered often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality br br if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco i d say it s elegant difficult by now you ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career as far as film making style and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience and as you read from the reaction of the user comments here some like this decision others find the style labouring dull and bewildering i ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head but even franco himself when quizzed by critics who watched succubus admitted that he didn t even understand the film and he directed it some might say that succubus was merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in furs considered his masterwork by franco faithful because it also adopts the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined in a sense like the protagonist we are experiencing the same type of confusion certainly succubus is unconventional film making where we aren t given the keys to what is exactly going on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn t help matters succubus is also populated by beatnik types and poet speak corman s film a bucket of blood poked fun at my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually great locations and jazz score i liked this film myself although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank welker s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott s good name this film shows the usual knott s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts last good outing when you have an extra minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel i have not read the book so i really didn t know that much about the plot and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that was not what it needed there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman playing a year old is just stupid br br there s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it s considered funny and it goes on for minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid thank god this wasn t based on a true story because what a story it is populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds before the devil is a mesmerizing jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it weren t carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn t hurt either br br the main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry br br the story is told with time shifts which are noted on screen such as charlie two days before the robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didn t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldn t make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to gina marisa tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and you ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands proceed with caution if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives this dvd delivers you will learn new things guaranteed so much so that you won t need any other documentary s on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well as a bonus watch this with tora tora tora saving private ryan patton band of brothers a bridge too far the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you won t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject perfect the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment br br the two criminals performed by robert blake and scott wilson as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile is part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family looking for a safe that isn t there once on the run they start writing bad cheques carving out a trail for the authorities br br there are many fine supporting actors i like john forsyth as the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney br br i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through having only caught it in short snatches i did finally get to it after buying the dvd the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen br br don t miss this brilliant movie to me this is what great film making is all about this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all latterman leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first minutes and i am going to stick to it though it s too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o brien for example i know it s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o brien s antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensen s spoof of trading spouses and nanny in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people s pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on th april coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike s talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on th july someone wrote here that the people who praised spike s talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford it s all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you re not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they re unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it s all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i m appalled for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i m afraid i don t know what the world has come to let me tell u something i started watching many t v shows like lost prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season then we have the sopranos i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season and more importantly all of its episodes there is no department that this show doesn t excel in acting nothing short of superb james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would ve been the better choice however after watching the first few episodes i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony the raw emotion he displays is superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actors perform to the best quality and all giving an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i been so sucked into a t v show before the story is nothing short of excellent each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say its too violent or they feel that the character of tony is immoral i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day i don t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me you ll be hooked from the very first episode i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show hooked on it trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v after you ve watched the first season you ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos i d give this a negative rating if i could i went into this movie not expecting much but i had an open mind the whole thing is stupid the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i were a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie became so popular seriously the worst thing i ve ever seen i wasn t entertained it wasn t funny i wasn t even bored i wasn t anything it wasn t even so bad it was good it s just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie don t even rent this movie no clue how it s getting such a high rating most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all faggy seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i m bating here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over this is a great ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid it doesn t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown s graveyard when i was ten turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile but i love it now as a year old br br i bought this dvd used for bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it ruled it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you got ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd this movie is awesome if you love s metal and bad movies this one s for you while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being sittaford mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments bethany cox good lord what were they thinking here is your spoiler warning even though i don t think it ll really matter you won t be seeing this piece of trash anyway br br a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies in other words the whole thing is really stupid br br you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can t save something and they didn t i know some of their lines were funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comments but geez this was pretty dang sad br br all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud it is not worth your eyes i had heard and read so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series like entourage sopranos or mad men but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one didn t make it past the first six episodes br br the writing was unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing the dialog felt forced like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh br br the characters never developed enough for me to care about them they were selfish and unappealing i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer s loyalty br br episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line br br add to that i heard that season two wasn t as good so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out br br if you re a fan of good casting and writing i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course you re stoned and then all bets are off this movie is among my favorite foreign films some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson br br in japan a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it takes his train to pass he is enthralled by her but is it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share br br shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and in itself transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be as if the film were not of value in itself this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for better or worse and i ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades milo o shea is still leopold bloom this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love br br the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film dreaming of julia makes much more sense it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people s daily lives and pursuits that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history br br the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could br br the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love br br the revolution like the film julie never seems to have an ending i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey s it s politics too upfront and ridiculous and let s face it i was still under a love spell known as blowup and i still haven t completely shaken it now the love is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and oh well good luck to me br br but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age and zp is it s own experience and is only really linked to blowup through its creator the late great mr antonioni br br twelve years ago i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print projected at its correct size immense restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of place br br what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own br br i remember the second time around seeing it the early s i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli s olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now were engaging me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality she took her time to live everything everything dies around her br br upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found enjoyment the encroaching shoulder padded big haired s whispered but that s a hippie fantasy let it go br br the force of antonioni s vision had i had realised already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered s with an uh huh and guarded my love secretly possessively and jealously br br but this then is what good art does it lives inside of you and if you wish it has its way and loves you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed br br was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup undoubtedly zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all br br today reality hit zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice s restaurant br br so it is still too difficult too disturbing too what br br maybe it s that as with all good art it lives while everything dies around it br br peace very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome make up effects daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital she escapes again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives doctors and relatives it s all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire the film is too long too weird and too forgettable the biggest surprise comes at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts yeah right this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn t make the cut as a marine dressed in baby blue outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine raider gere s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent s innocence stealing his baby blue uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent s character whose name is marion takes gere s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine raider marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local caf he meets rose hudkins who immediately catches his eye staying with hudkins parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese internment camps as the towns folks go hunting escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there s still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his s performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid s were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as hedge quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he s the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with jmv s talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa j niksen vuosi is one of jarva s most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society s authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br vatanen antti litja smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn t all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes j niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving i love jamie foxx br br and i enjoy of all movies i see br br and i walked out of this one br br now i admit it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing oh no jamie s knocking on a door hee hee hee but this was just so incredibly annoying there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle everything had to be in your face loud and annoying br br the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like but at this point it s just old and tired he brought nothing new or interesting from all the characters too many lines you saw coming too many you ve heard before and too many tough guy lines and i don t mind that sort of thing really as long as there s a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked br br i love jamie foxx and i think he s really funny and i thought he was funny in this movie but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else br br this movie needed less shoot em up less annoying camera shots more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i gave it a after seeing dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies i was very surprised to see a very fun smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout the movie moves along well it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city madonna was great as the damsel in distress she really impressed me and added depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i don t think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn t laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film has everything to keep me happy i don t know why some people criticise that show so much br br it is a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream prime time but still br br the family dynamics are funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried roy jibes are only just above average but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing br br this show was well worth the pounds i paid for it br br rating mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel gutierrez who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra an evil creature from myth legend erm i m struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott maginnis i won t beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it s referred to a chupacabra in fact i suspect this wasn t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn t change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project but that s it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character s are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i m sorry but i don t know how else to describe it br br director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable there s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink you ll miss something editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it s not scary there s no nudity there s no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there s virtually no colour to the picture either it s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you ll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it s a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isn t it isn t even a proper werewolf flick either don t be fooled this is awful i m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a s culture clash movie john wayne would hardly be one s first choice as a cultural attache being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplished his task with style the duke was a guy who really could act well his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle br br despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time he failed to dominate this movie many of his good intentions came a cropper he had authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian br br the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles i can not comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props the set pieces were complex and detailed a lot of money and thought had been applied to it br br the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort script was good without being too wordy there was a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy periods of translation didn t interfere with the narrative it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set whether or not they were japanese i couldn t say but anyway they looked the part at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians unlike other efforts such as blood alley yes i know they were chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i br br frankly i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies the script was better for a start i never liked the songs in the king and i and wasn t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of blood alley i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke s more popular outings br br recommended i was so glad i came across this short film i m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for br br the plot is pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy br br it s a well made short film well edited and the actors all do a great job and the last shot of the film is perfect br br i highly recommend this film i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one but when i started with it i found it really awful they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think of the movie is shot in india you can see indian made cars you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand hindi written on the road you can also see temples in afghanistan hahah its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie pure time waste i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don t watch this waste of time truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren t going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke s or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters ftw br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first turgid minutes of the film in this movie ch vez supporters either venezuelan and not venezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country br br they did not say that the conflict started because of ch vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues br br they did not say anything about more than tv interruptions transmitted by ch vez during only days in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signals each one with about minutes of duration br br they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army forces who is a traditional supporter of ch vez even now in despite of his announcement he is the ministro de interior y justicia after ch vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equals to defense secretary in us br br they did not say anything about ch vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections br br they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch vez supporters either civilians and military official forces br br they present some facts in a wrong order in order to lie br br they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch vez actions in order to avoid the elections br br that s why i tell you this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie one could wish that an idea as good as the invisible man would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects but this is not the case the story the characters and finally the entire last minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early s there are some great moments mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets but alas soon we re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable but schematic br br there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past years and some of them have their charms but it s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven who does have his moments is a very bad one it is obvious that the money is the key issue here the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough and as a result hollow man is seriously undermined with clich s sappy characters predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever br br however the one thing that actually impressed me beside the special effects was the swearing when making this kind of film modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex is very toned down when the whole world blows up the good guys go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them i m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears i think we can thank verhoeven for that ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke s cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke br br well take a peak it s worth as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal i d agree with him this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carried by his family he has a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold things with it he learns to speak later in the film it is very good for a guy like him also starring home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr brown it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan best writing screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture it was nominated the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapted screenplay daniel day lewis was number on the greatest movie stars he was number on the greatest british actors he was number on britain s finest actors and he was number on the world s greatest actor and the film was number on the greatest british films outstanding all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn t i ll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i m not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there s no sequel i do regret that i have bought this series i expected more action more objective picture and more consistency this is just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it is just boredom itself i find the actors work quite weak as well o donnell might seem charming as robin with batman but in this picture he lacks any charm probably while he becomes older he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up it comes as no surprise that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands the story has been told before a deadly disease is spreading around but the extra in this film is peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run is real he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child this person could be working next to you this film was very well advertised i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it then i went and saw it i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not trying to go into them with too many expectations but this movie was not that funny now it wasnt the worst movie i ve ever seen but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it but for true comedy fans id say pass maybe even check out the kings of comedy again something told me to go see meet the parents instead as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it s really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn t get the tragic destiny s of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br very typical almod var of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters nearly complete lack of taboo it s the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later works though you ll find it in a more rough version here he s building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who d find this movie hilarious i do once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you re just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass cybermen tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke s mickey and ricky being one of the doctor s companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the cybermen had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let s hope so a brother s promise is a wonderful family film this is a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depicts this athlete s life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family members is evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us the commitment and determination of dan s coach and his teammates shows what it takes to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age well now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his house of corpses crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corpses but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i don t remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained deaths took place long ago some like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine whose small role provides the film s only worthwhile moments attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum the result comes across like satan s school for girls catchy title made for tv production values intriguing plot crossed with children shouldn t play with dead things low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead trouble is it s nowhere near as entertaining or fun the house of seven corpses is dead at frame one and spends the rest of its minutes going through rigor mortis dragging us along for every aching second director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this i took my year old to see this movie we left after or minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i don t understand how the rating system works i loved this film i thought it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd obv not easily forgotten br br the script is brilliant and the casting couldn t be more perfect each character has their moment and i laughed hard throughout this film comedic timing was spot on br br it s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it s not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can t understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character s actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orlean s accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn t a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don t recommend it unless you re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west clich that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don t you think about that stmd is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn t gel what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film first off i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie its just awful me and my friend who love action movies independence day jurassic park lotr etc went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons mindless entertainment all we got was a mindless hour and a half the cg was not as bad as i was expecting but the plot is so awful along with the acting it made up for it its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every years sounds like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes but with magic and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes it just gets ridiculous the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believed we spent money on this the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest i ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this br br story cg acting br br i don t drink but it would have helped before watching this movie i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn t know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority i must have seen this a dozen times over the years i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pbs station br br i bought a dvd set for the children to see and am making them watch it they don t teach history in school and this explains the most critical event of the th century it expands their critical thinking br br impartially with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why it details what lead up to the war and the actual war br br buy it for your children along with alistair cooke s america watch it with them and make them understand you ll be so glad you did steven seagal s films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven t even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth and i for one think that is a good thing i ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the th time you hear it so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the minutes thank god i watched this at a friend s place and did not pay for it the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence br br also actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen excluding porn she s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent he s the one that carries the movie br br i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie it s a shame that they got to call it a sequel because i was a fan of the original which was actually pretty good a friend lent me this dvd which he got from the director at a festival i think i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie br br the standouts where the actors youssef kerkor was really good as ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also directed and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda was by far my favorite he seemed the least one dimensional and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting was good some was so so but none of it was bad i also really liked the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny br br i m giving this one high marks even though it has some issues because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared and decided to make their movie their way well done to adam jones and crew shawshank godfather pulp fiction all good films great films but nothing and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all santa claus br br the film is so great and has so many messages i cried while watching it seriously this is one of those movies you need to watch times when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eyes and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder what is so bad about this ice cream is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil think movie makes you think br br this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santas he is a normal person we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams and we wonder is the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mentions christ the whole meaning behind christmas br br you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic whether it s christmas or not this movie gets a whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad cinema s greatest period started in post war europe with italy s neo realist movement during the next or decades that followed france s new wavers caught everyone s attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of europoean cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti s particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he s not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century s great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler s th symphony taking full advantage of mahler s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it s a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn t get better than this i ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it s too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie s thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it s mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with bogarde s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogarde s dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it s ostensibly in english but the dvd s sound seems muddy and there s a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn t up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don t know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of out of this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movies but i wasn t prepared for the last minutes of this story if by any chance you re not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat s paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings it isn t too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn t be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it s supposed to look like a home video and it s just like a serious version of kath and kim it s stupid br br it s too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she s not even slightly stupid she s a stereotypical black latino chick br br it s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn t compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family they failed it s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don t act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated hillybilly horror sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there is absolutely new here the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich s deformed hicks a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who s good at heart etcetera but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this is forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j d hart once starred in a movie called films that suck earlier in his career quite an ironic omen indeed br br my grade d as a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much disney for my taste this film takes you on one family s impossible journey and makes you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully acted and photographed heartbreakingly real its last line with its wistful hope is one of the more powerful in memory stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me i can t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i d get fired and i own the company i would have to fire myself god this movie was just a plain steaming stinking pile of poo that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible something else i have to say the guideline about lines of text in a comment is idiotic what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg rated show i loved everybit of this show this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier s richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn t enough time to properly explore what s going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn t a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn t even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders typical meandering hero s stream of consciousness so it doesn t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn t it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i m afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies hail and kill this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i ve seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn t enjoy this one as much as rope but that s not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn t feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it s one of hitchcock s least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically it is always difficult to bring a pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven t been lost the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue s point of view then from maud s one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans having killed their father the vampire king radu now sets his sights on stefan stefan s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful bloodstone br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there s only one reason to watch this movie and his name is radu he s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i m just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it s original it s fun and radu is one of the best vampires i ve seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he s what a vampire should be let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and can not be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet can not explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it s more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it s going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it s usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed for a long time the menagerie was my favorite star trek episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by city on the edge of forever what i used to prefer about menagerie was that it s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline i still think it s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode though the new part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and us to watch the pilot the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one you can poke holes in the plot if you want for instance given the talosians mind control abilities and captain pike s condition why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st s only two parter coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym from when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn t watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then out of now out of largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren s missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona s guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she s a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn t is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i ve ever seen br br stars herculis puaro is in general a well established hero we know well from books and movies this movie or this story don t work and i felt its not agatha s mistake the cast isn t good the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic the scenes are as said before perfect and looking fake the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim is not likable how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well this was by far the worst movie i ve ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round if you ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much as i did that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut s writing that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself and that you can t put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen does this mean that the movie misses the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense i ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut s genius and loses grip on his own craft i would not place this movie as one of the best i ve seen but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching by taking vonnegut s voice out of the movie s narration or trying to insert it however it can mother night tells his story brilliantly and preserves the story s fundamental lessons without confusion distraction or disappointment this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn t funny but it s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn t expect anything better by director michael bully herbig who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but erkan and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel who is very beautiful to me i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the s a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak she was and he was when this movie was released i think that the difference didn t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it does matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that is why his character would be attracted to hers but it s less clear why hers would be attracted to his br br still the movie works as a light romantic fantasy the scene where she stares at him across the cat s head with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring is true magic it s a little jarring therefore when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply as he embraces her she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families the only conceivable flaw of this film is it s title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven t seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it s like a bad relationship i can t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man br br robert stack we love you salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives we see them panhandling in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donations is so lame no one gives them anything salva who is a hardened petty criminal doesn t even have any redeeming qualities that is until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a winning combination something that salva capitalizes on br br he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo salva shows he is a natural for the reality show he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program espe who is a no nonsense woman who is show s producer can t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention ultimately salva is the victim of his own success in the end br br jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie is had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television spain which was vulnerable to these types of programs has seen its share of the bizarre which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience br br the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film mr molla like any actor who decides to direct his first feature would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress is one of the best reasons for watching the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director these kinda movies just don t get the credit they deserve this is my nd all time favorite movie stand by me being st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasn t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn t real popular back in the s i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn t go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven t seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years i really can t believe i ve only just got round to watching purple rain the brand new disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it wow i was really looking forward to watching it but i wasn t prepared for just how electric it actually is prince s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding he really has the moves in this one i am very familiar from repeated listens with the classic purple rain album and all its songs but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics like computer blue the beautiful ones when doves cry and purple rain itself there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform the closing songs baby i m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid s he s overflowing it blew me away it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years br br prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight br br some of the scenes are very s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film s overall charm morris day is the coolest cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance br br i already can t wait to watch it again i really can t extras are terrific particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a prince groupie a good ol boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn t convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb i was extremely pleased with the film the film was dark moving the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon br br i had initially expected to see many special effects and like a lover s caress it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club br br eric etebari the best actor award was the number one choice you made jr lopez look like a child compared to kasadya br br overall the acting story line the high quality filming and awesome effects it was fantastic i just wish it were longer i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations but it is kinda hilarious at least if you grew up on weird al like i did it s a mockumentary about his life and career beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins it s uneven in places but some of the segments are still very funny particularly when he goes to japan although it s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation and he doesn t find love however fleeting he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life br br perhaps weird al isn t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet still this is a funny movie one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven t done since the fan boys took over alt asian movies and john woo s hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving it was very well directed with strong imagery the visual effects were amazing especially for a short it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard this leans towards the gothic feel i would love to see this as a full feature film carrie why else would he do this to me br br not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies or even decent movies i saw lois and clark i am aware of just how good dean cain is br br obviously this is gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoilers as you can t really spoil this movie any more than it already is br br to begin with why is that a fake helicopter i mean why br br how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried how hard would it have been to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren t american br br why are there occasions when the movie gives us a slug line we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on and then that s it who cares about the timeline to be honest who cared about it even when they mentioned it but i guess that s beside the point br br does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens the answer is no br br that dragon sure can walk down that hall over and over and over and over br br who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history it was straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon s dead now say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i used to be superman aha ha ha ha ha br br fade to black br br my god it made me cringe it was so stupid br br but never fear even though the whole building exploded and no one was left alive for some reason there s a second untouched unmanned lab that survived pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for us all br br minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretched scenes maximum headache inducing jerky zooms maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing up until the time flashes on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing to be fair the movie does have some string music that was interesting so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this unfortunately that was not to be and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i am trying to merk a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the eighty s it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don t get me wrong there are many more great performance s in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it br br couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won t shut up or a victim s father responding to the criminal s death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it s quite unprofessional and adds nothing it s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses br br but the rat yes the big rat why we didn t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the big one isn t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry br br the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn t stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself br br but not for more than ok well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie br br well i figured out within the first minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically br br the cast couldn t have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing br br all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man s legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn t just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself such a struggle is best told exactly as that a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che s life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner br br while the movie s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who arguably conducted the whole thing br br yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn t feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back there s the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve br br indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively br br with that said i can not rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part s ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie s characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film br br a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net sometimes it s hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody s idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against seamless hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin s the naked city that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already of course it isn t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars in the first minutes and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don s simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i m leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south br br a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good br br while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i ve seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses br br a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her br br and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he s about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he s about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher s flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one s eyes open for no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can t find in this version we watched br br the film s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better br br the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william golding s trilogy these three minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o war in the early th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who s worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life s hardships man s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o brian s series of novels on which it was based will love this for everyone else it s a whole new world to discover wow this is really not that good br br i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special br br the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies br br i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i m against politicians in general but if you re looking to be offended i can t help you br br not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin br br rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it s not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear br br another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it s then that you know you aren t simply watching another silly s slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it s originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what i d choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it s extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn t any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women s behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore suyin s attitudes always leave poor elliott a determined brave and extremely practical man anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact suyin s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people s life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead s family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone s daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn t know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i d heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow one word reviews that s what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn t age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don t watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience br br the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes br br one important factor of christy s success is his mother s support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy s dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh o conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other br br btw jim sheridan s works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying god knows why he chose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity i m stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it s an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clich of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there s nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it s possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it s miles ahead of this schlock do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you ve seen one of films scott made at rko during his prime the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town s main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won t say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they d learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america s movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word years ago when the city was named i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character s behaviors today s kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the events that s precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don t waste your time money on this one sigh leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far br br to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something br br lordi isn t scary lordi is lame lordi is over br br i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision br br no wait they won the eurovision that s it i rest my case after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that of the episodes really are nt that good but the other certainly make up for it if i had to pick great episodes id go for formula driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the s there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it s one of the best comedies of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary s excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs is so bad that it s fun meatballs and meatballs are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters the film s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself br br i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act br br higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you ll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey s wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor s mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai s robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dick philes should shun the stars collective what the hell attitude to their late s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn t stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it from i can t even describe it it s the worst movie i ve ever seen i m being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn t like to think much it s not even scary it s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clich s and cook it for a week or so and you ll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys was horrible the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn t know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn t great but this is telly so it was fine i don t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn t clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it ll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn t work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they ve even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a one flew over the cuckoo s next twelve monkeys type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story lady and the tramp ii scamp s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it s junior s turn lady and tramp s youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp s mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie out of wow what s this on the video rental store s shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasn t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fianc e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fianc e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn t like how this had nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn t believe the words coming out of david s mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn t even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good seconds long out of an hour and long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it s one of joel schumacher s better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie jack s performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him danny s performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn t here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn t she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn t need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it s alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could ve done it in a way that didn t look cartoony brave little toaster anyone the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow br br the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don t have much but what they do have angels baseball and what they are seeking identity that s when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are br br depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball s biggest boners dorothy kingsley and george wells dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox br br spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won t maybe i ll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it s a made for tv b movie the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness br br start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it br br on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i m sure this story will not be everyone s cup of tea especially considering the film s darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford s very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy s the sum of all fears fears will be harrison ford s third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas congresswoman it s a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford s quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford s character s investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch s investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack s thriller is top notched from dave grusin s pollack s the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film s unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br out of or out of for all of the has beens or never was s or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more br br robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself br br williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever br br one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester br br holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the director spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn t have pace rhythm it s illogical what a mess you can tell what s gon na happen since the first minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn t recommend this movie at all it s a waste of money and time i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the s their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k complete with bearded host br br capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he s a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python s and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why words no o j a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic br br in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it s no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable br br so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time br br out of broken hearts i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner s inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it s pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them what a good movie at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley s rock around the clock br br anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us br br spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally thinking of your own future br br bye had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she s in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that s how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don t have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic stars yes it is a bit cheesy but it s suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it s interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i ve watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it s difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn t be universally sought after but i m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i ll keep hoping so it isn t an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn t really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression i absolutely loved this film i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film s plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of to i d give it about an the only reason i shy away from is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it s a i definitely think it s a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents have to agree that this movie and it s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn t disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca s films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap this was my first gaspar noe movie i ve watched and i have to say i was shocked i don t mind gore in generally but this isn t even gore it s real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can t stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i ll let you figure them out don t watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i m a big fan of tom selleck s and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can t imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan s an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh although i lived in australia in i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the s and s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can t stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don t watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he manages to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the white mans view life begins and ends in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving br br oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace s loretta young husband what an actor as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i d like to see more of this actor s work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don t cut don t cut as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession br br loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months br br glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn t anyone know back in that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies health but her character redeems herself in the end br br also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable br br life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into out of this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie s character and denzel washington s of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock s rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you d be bored possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney s sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i m going to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn t seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can t leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney s name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of s this movie s true score br br as mentioned before chris rock is the king previous to going to see this movie i wasn t that over the top about him but now i m banging on the doors of chris rock s website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on br br there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn t realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture br br well to the actual plot of the film br br don t spoil the experience for yourself don t read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it s a cinema experience that doesn t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell s part is very small and doesn t add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn t stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money br br whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears br br it s so campy that among taylor fans it s probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you re way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam s torturing of his parents br br i m sorry to say this bam but you re in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he s going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera s already too big ego i don t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don t know how to categorize this film it wasn t scary or spooky so can t be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can t be a drama there was no suspense so it can t be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn t there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn t schlocky s horror films ya got ta love em in contrast to today s boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula br br this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without br br john carradine having long since given up looking for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director br br the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there s truth in advertising it s just sad that the ghoul didn t understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can t go around tugging on satan s coat and expect him to take it lying down br br sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses i suppose for this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now years it s charm was just as silly as it s entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained overall it s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all now i don t hate cheap movies i just don t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad s camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes br br maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn t maybe i hate it because it s cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can t save this br br seriously this one is a complete waste of time a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land br br the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn t fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own it s a neurological drama it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person s brain br br it s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf br br no small feat for such a sort of a movie br br the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn t think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn t just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i m your father and i m smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce s wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i d recommend watching it s hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it s heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you re a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw s match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i m a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it s a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn t make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i d recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it s no good amanda i ll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he ll mark your packages return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the don t mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it s the greatest movie ever done it s just crap on a stick it also didn t help that the story line was sooo crappy i don t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i m very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn t they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael latt didn t have steven spielberg s budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either br br the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you d think if he was turning into a real bat he d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood s the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he s just having an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction br br it s not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it s bad in a clich d wooden professional way it s just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved br br i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but br br the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver br br he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario br br he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episodes instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clich d acting mannerisms br br he needed to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant br br i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it s bad but it isn t bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don t laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven t disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn t yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don t get off on their own self importance years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that s what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie s nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything br br the plot follows a group of teen cliche s on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled i m supposed to feel sorry for this guy br br to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it s message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn t even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it s surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like hour and minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a and if your not happy with my preview seriously i m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won t go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you ve been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they re exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment s hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to feet long in a matter of a day but don t grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don t meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don t necessarily change the direction they re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age br br animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for swearing at the same volume br br old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just oz episode you ll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn t dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn t mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn t say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who ll be sold out for a nickel inmates who ll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the polari but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master s of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with halliwell s murals decorating every surface are terribly well done i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy the plot is simplistic but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable even the well bread suspected serial killer while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point risk addiction i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love br br this was the most i d laughed at one of woody s comedies in years dare i say a decade while i ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson in this she managed to tone down her sexy image and jumped right into a average but spirited young woman br br this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it was wittier than devil wears prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friends basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time br br this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie br br ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots br br out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them petter mattei s love in the time of money is a visually stunning film to watch mr mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter br br this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler s play about the same theme the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect each one is connected in one way or another to the next person but no one seems to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film has a sophisticated luxurious look we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat br br the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter br br the acting is good under mr mattei s direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these characters come alive br br we wish mr mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work probably my all time favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it s not preachy or boring it just never gets old despite my having seen it some or more times in the last years paul lukas performance brings tears to my eyes and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles is a delight the kids are as grandma says more like dressed up midgets than children but that only makes them more fun to watch and the mother s slow awakening to what s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling if i had a dozen thumbs they d all be up for this movie i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i ve got what i wan na say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first aired the first or years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by the show was not really funny anymore and it s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn t still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can t believe it s still on the air encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film bad mistake i ve seen films and this is truly one of the worst of them it s awful in almost every way editing pacing storyline acting soundtrack the film s only song a lame country tune is played no less than four times the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film br br the only thing that prevents me giving this a score is harvey keitel while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessives only if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie if you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked it br br great camp phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines br br at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore br br its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there were some pretty interesting characters but eventually i just lost interest br br i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking br br for something similar but better try brother from another planet i saw this movie when i was about when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn t care much for the romantic angle as a year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules so im not a big fan of boll s work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller br br three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr krieger played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven t even gone far before i started to cry mehehe i can not go on any more if you wan na stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of scheisse that s poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wan na take a wiff go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wan na shoot him the first three minutes he s on screen the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because the scottish play is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you can not improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i ve ever seen sort of like a high school film project what was rosanna arquette thinking and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town pretty hard to get involved with this one no lessons to be learned from it no brilliant insights just stilted and quite ridiculous but lots of skin if that intrigues you videotaped nonsense what was with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounters and what was with that absurd dance with everybody playing their stereotyped roles give this one a pass it s like a million other miles of bad wasted film money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa some films just simply should not be remade this is one of them in and of itself it is not a bad film but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson was excellent as he always is and most of the cast holds up with the exception of owen wilson who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more this movie made it into one of my top most awful movies horrible br br there wasn t a continuous minute where there wasn t a fight with one monster or another there was no chance for any character development they were too busy running from one sword fight to another i had no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them br br scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies lotr star wars and matrix br br examples br br the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda obee one and vader br br the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings elijah wood is the victim in both films and wait it hypnotizes stings its victim and wraps them up uh hello br br and the whole machine vs humans theme was the matrix or terminator br br there are more examples but why waste the time and will someone tell me what was with the nazi s nazi s br br there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it was a children s movie or an adult movie and wasn t much of either br br just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in my dad took me my brother sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it an awful film it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe they ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition my complaint is not that they ve taken liberties with the facts if the story were good that would perfectly fine but it s simply bizarre by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script i suppose there weren t enough naked people in the factual version it s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist s life we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they d favored the rest of the film with same brevity after the success of die hard and it s sequels it s no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a movies cashed in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that is what they did with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallone s career br br cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing base jumping aviation facial expressions acting skills all in all it s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills and unintentionally plenty of laughs br br you ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddies and best of all the permanently harassed and hapless turncoat agent rex linn as travers br br he may of been henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely can t be it really does look like ralph waite s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death br br mention too must go to former london s burning actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football yes you can t help enjoy that bit hal needed a good kicking br br so forget your better judgement who cares if that could never happen lower your acting expectations turn up the volume and enjoy and if you re looking for qaulen he s the one wearing the helicopter i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it s entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn t even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it s almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you won t regret it it s too much fun rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn t anything more other than him i still liked it the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times you really start liking it first of all let s get a few things straight here a i am an anime fan always has been as a matter of fact i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several b movies because they re hilarious c i like the godzilla movies a lot br br moving on when the movie first comes on it seems like it s going to be your usual b movie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime comes on this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill br br the animation is very bad cheap even worse than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it s so cheap one of the few scenes from the movie i vividly remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school it s the same kids over over again the fx are terrible too the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation is unorganized the dialogue voices especially the english dub that i viewed was horrid i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd vhs player the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes comments like the robots joel mike on mst k you pick the season honestly this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time br br heck i m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night because it s stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time i m giving this movie a an improvement from the i was originally going to give it br br according to my grading scale means pretty much both boring bad as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun as counting to this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there is no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me nor does the development of the cop it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the s and not even a good one in those standards br br the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter s complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia gibb portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen s mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren t though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i ve read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don t want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it s all about and not how it s all about and i guess that s what some people don t like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it d at least get nominated for best picture br br i ve noticed that i ve kind of been repeating myself not because there s nothing else to say but because i can t stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of this film tried to be too many things all at once stinging political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family values promo the list goes on and on it failed miserably at all of them but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end br br although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film br br there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening reminds me a bit of three kings which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i d be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america s funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once war movie is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich d dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and ren e zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier s tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast coming to ada s rescue is the course tough as nails ruby thewes played by ren e zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby s deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant br br director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether taut and organically gripping edward dmytryk s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger s apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who s assigned to ryan s outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who s leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it s pretty much confined to young s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there s no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it s based on richard brooks the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don t fit so smoothly the victim s chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there s a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan s murderous rage ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he can not achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video which has brought us other cult classics such as spider baby the print quality is excellent but this alone can t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull there s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie is slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling adding insult to injury the movie was dubbed not subtitled as promised on the video jacket one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man titta di girolamo a physically non descript middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy when we re introduced to him at the start of the film he s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo s cash tell him that dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes at the news he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can t bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this bluffed only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo s troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who won t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life titta decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di girolamo s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell amore or l imbalsamatore another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist s insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dell amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it s almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of titta s best friend a man whom he hasn t seen in years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it s never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like titta accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator s expectations le conseguenze dell amore is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt xa during the second half of the s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell amore l imbalsamatore and others your loss world i watched this film not really expecting much i got it in a pack of films all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i was right they were all terrible this movie has a few and a few is stretching it interesting points the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch the drummer is very like a drummer i e damned annoying and well thats about it actually the problem is that its just so boring in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious i had my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but gave it a go and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking coz they don t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot i thought he looked a bit like a meercat all this and i haven t even mentioned the killer i m not even gon na go into it its just not worth explaining anyway as far as i m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who was actually quite funny it wasn t because of their acting talent i ve certainly seen a lot worse but i ve also seen a lot better best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry i bought this film at blockbuster for because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don t usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she s wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it s teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i ve been writing into a pg movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it s number so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though the plot is about the death of little children hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter in the end the serial killer get caught that s it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors it is unbelievable how bad these actors are including hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just don t watch the movie i ve warned you ever watched a movie that lost the plot well this didn t even really have one to begin with br br where to begin the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable or even the beginning which suggests a spate of killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction br br add a lead actress who can t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty but not in the way you hope br br given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offers nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder don t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before br br after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of us no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon br br it really is only a movie as they say okay so this series kind of takes the route of here we go again week in week out david morse s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what s wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david koepp a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can t see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let s hope something good can make it past a first series after sitting through this pile of dung my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it was that listless and formulaic but the u s propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves disappointingly that it s the work of humans call me a conspiracy theorist but quotes like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there s also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr whatever her name was being chided by all involved for never shutting up she s clearly in the movie only for looks but they felt the need to slap a dr title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage s character says don t you ever shut up and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands like she s a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie was that it s so astonishingly bad you do get a few laughs out of it the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it creepy it had all the clich s of movies of this type and no substance the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it the production was good however the script and acting were b movie quality the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors the good actors didn t hold their own nor did they lift up the others br br this movie is not worthy of more words but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines james wood and cuba gooding jr play caricatures of themselves in other movies br br if you are looking for mindless entertainment i still wouldn t recommend this movie this movie is based on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out fifty s hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances pass but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held bullets has there been such a miracle i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god s army was okay and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br dutcher s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what dutcher shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time dutcher try making a movie that someone can identify with this movie struck home for me being i remember the s and my father working in a factory i figured if i worked hard too if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream the house a few kids a car all to call my own i ve noted however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you can t get anywhere br br i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs it s made for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic an t find it anywhere i d love to show this to my friends my pseudo friends family and other relatives see what they think and remind them that once upon a time americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished i think the feeling is still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas as a disclaimer i ve seen the movie times in the last years and i only just saw the musical this week this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn t in the musical however it tainted me when i watched the musical br br i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene is one of the best parts of the movie a worthwhile addition compared to the musical the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical as well as the cast which is at least times bigger easier to do in the movie of course the decors lighting dancing and singing are also much superior in the movie which should be expected and was indeed delivered br br the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie the new ones are quite good ones and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion especially compared to a musical which has few decors the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters but their dancing is impeccable and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham s nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born canaanites wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists linguists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one preston sturgis the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry luce clone thatcher s memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane s story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner s right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom s confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union s headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane s success few films do including all of orson welles other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one s interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve s son by tom s son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans sturgis came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers return to the th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the s and s whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western s clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest this is presented in shaw scope just like the good old days br br this film is a simple story of good versus evil told in acts which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era br br act one sets up the premise workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot having their wages cut by by incoming manchu gangsters they can t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters and their boss at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequences but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times br br act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob however without real martial arts he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly after some slapstick moments he finally gets accepted by the abbot whom he impersonated but is disappointed at the teaching methods kinda like mr miyagi s style in karate kid but instead of painting fences he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly builds strength endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way br br act three is where the fight fest begins with cheesy sound effects each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow with some pause in between moves but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks they sure don t make fight scenes like they used to return to the th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday so if you re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what are you waiting for spoilers all too in real life as well as in the movies familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hands the case of young and innocent in never handling or firing a gun jimmy davis franchot tone has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men like jimmy davis are forced to take up arms for their country br br jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay by being belted in the mouth by his good friend fred p willis spencer tracy ended up on the front lines in france with jimmy s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german who raised his arms in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him br br recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy gladys george rose was really in love with jimmy s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her it s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose thinking that he was killed fell in love and later married jimmy when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy now fully recovered from his wounds was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy s proposal of marriage to her br br with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred who s still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city s underworld not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster br br jimmy s life of crime came full circle when rose after she found out about his secret life ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a valentine day like massacre with his gang members dressed as cops of his rival mobsters while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence is up get his life back together br br spoiler alert hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law it s at fred s circus where he works as both manger and barker that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he like at his trial had a sudden change of heart but the thought of going back to prison with at least another ten years added on to his sentence was just too much for jimmy it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job that he himself didn t have the heart to do for him bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones br br bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides deaths the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards br br you have got almost everything in this movie the scientist s assistants consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her sons a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela s house bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie br br the corpse vanishes is worth a look especially for bela lugosi fans great fun br br rating stars out of i can not believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line s tape this ain t no minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an the percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of as strikingly similar to the post socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a whupping they deserve it s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can t be denied the right to ever vote again they ve clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he s helped create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic as robespierres plight is it s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine as someone has already mentioned on this board it s very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with love machine it starts to show its faux hand about the minute mark with minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it s downhill from there br br director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn t get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in when the film was made eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn t work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it s not going to be an oscar nominated film it s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes br br the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert it s just them fighting back throughout the whole film which includes a lot of violence which is basically the whole film as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience br br i d give the hills have eyes ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment something to pass time if you re bored and nothing else br br i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned no spoilers br br after hitchcock s successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne dumarier s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock s sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freaks and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock s more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time shooting ban on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock s most well known films it s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock s original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his deaf wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it s not a big movie and doesn t try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his th performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they re taking their bows and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren t other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn t get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser what happened what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie loses it actually it never really got going there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant then find out that she is after all but that was it steve martin who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie other than to make it longer i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it was not but maybe a drama with comedic elements i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot i ve just watched fingersmith and i m stunned to see the average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it so let s begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg s movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it s quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence besides being boring the scenes were oppressive and dark the movie tried to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with its message what were the redeeming qualities on top of that i don t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did an unmarried woman named stella bette midler gets pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own things go ok until the child named jenny trini alvarado becomes a teenager and things gradually and predictably become worse br br i ve seen both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affected me much and i cry easily but they were well made if dated trying to remake this in was just a stupid idea i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of beaches to get this made this predictably bombed the story is laughable and dated by today s standards even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actors don t help in supporting roles flimsy and dull really who thought this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a don t torture a duckling is one of fulci s earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot g a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don t torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci s later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci s non splatter films but don t despair don t torture still has more than it s fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn t bother you then definitely give this one a look busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn t going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter liapis who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this film whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an asylum is hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br solely for the high bimbo quotient i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali larter her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you i m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though marques houston did appear in hp he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren t the most talented and couldn t carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i m sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i m sorry kym whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the hudlin brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i m no nasa expert but surely it s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film out of with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don t go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then i m comin upstairs junior and i m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offsetting his small role however is dan acroyd who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it s not that shocking it s not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis cerda s sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material although i don t care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written its not just about entertainment there s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across and yes it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn t watch sepet and or gubra for times br br i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right its really ironic how the characters relate like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future br br and i absolutely love the voice overs its crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there was suddenly mukhsin s voice saying bismillahhirrahmannirrahim the scene when he climbed the tree br br it captured malaysian s attitude and in some mild way sniggering at how pathetic it is portrayed in the character for example even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isn t sorted out br br all i can say is this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it br br it kept me glued to the screen i couldn t even take my eyes off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha i am not a golf fan by any means on may about pm the movie started with a scene in the late s old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don t want to give away too much i was up until a m this is super please see the movie upon viewing tobe hooper s gem crocodile in i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts with ed writing the scripts and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer all we d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants br br while tobe hooper s crocky opus referenced his own movies blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages rip offs to jaws temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock br br i was disappointed the crock didn t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism or crocky appreciation but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach perhaps in the coming years we ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed br br all in all the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me it tries to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like sh kasugi christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time it s actually is a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it s flaws captures your interest it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it even if it s made in the s it doesn t have a modern feel it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had this on the other hand just has the real feeling you just can t hate it i think it s an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they don t because coburn has a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman br br that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after as he explains it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired it s not something he s proud of she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt br br lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is heston is his usual stalwart hero but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn he blows everyone else off the screen when he s on br br coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can t touch him he knows that heston has to make it personal then br br coburn s gang includes morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be br br the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western andrew mclaglen directed it and i m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there is a lot br br for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men is your film maybe it was the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which is with the director as he keeps saying hi kids into the camera like a buffoon but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator turns out it s way too sleazy for its own good or bad or whatever there s a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respects in not having balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies and with the killing scenes there has to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in creating the creature killer whatever entrails of a virgin has neither it s safe to say it s a pretty soulless movie even if isn t one of the very worst ever made it s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their other heads br br in this case we re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by a murderer as he s credited first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on we get spliced in or phoned in take your pick clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere it looks like it s from another movie then once settled into the house there s a wrestling scene that s poorly choreographed and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killings first the rape by the photographers who promise the girls some jobs for their time then the murderer who like d amato s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one br br now the latter of those taken by themselves should be considered the highlights of the movie this is like saying however that the cro tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eye gouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually is kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl whose inconsequential name i can t remember even this becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title on top of this the sex scenes which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway are dubbed over by the actors you d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one where it s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch as the last girl left alive the virgin of the picture tries to stop the murderer from getting to her which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him you just want it to be done with for the i hate women mantra to ease up or be rid altogether the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a rotten tomatoes users ranked it at and the critics averaged an amazing if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike mina s son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren t a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo stephen hawkings is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it s a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they ll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won t be the same after you see it the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don t need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of s then the rest of us will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don t even get me started about the southern accents y all and the story was trite just remember you were warned oh god i must have seen this when i was only or twelve don t ask how i may have been young but i wasn t stupid anyone could see that this is a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly i ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland i ve seen better performances at a school play and i ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignoring the children tapping on the glass br br the story is set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people are trying out a new water sport surfing in shark filled waters it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family br br i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years the best of which is lake placid and the worse of which is its sequel blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind br br the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer s life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number reminds me that he s still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can t get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that s titled the number is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn t even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous and i have never seen such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i was very disappointed the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldn t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end if you don t want to know much about the plot don t keep reading br br gilbert s character ophelia is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor is matt who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce he is gentle convincing and compelling in this role br br the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love br br the chemistry between the two leads is not great even though the talent of these two people is not in my opinion a question they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical two people meet tragedy bigger tragedy a secret is revealed another tragedy and then they get together i wish there was more to it than that but there it is in a nutshell br br i wanted mindless entertainment and i got it with this in regard to the genre of romantic films this one fails to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner is far superior not a steele book as are some of steele s earlier books turned into film oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don t even remember how many i ve seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all dramaticness ok this is for kids who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we ll let me tell you there s a million of you d this is one of them i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this nicholas walker is paul the local town reverand who s married to martha ally sheedy but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so doing he gets a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of misery type of way it s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator in a film billed as a black comedy one has to bring both elements into said movie while this does bring the former in spades it sadly contains none of the latter furthermore you can t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one br br eye candy dara tomanovich gets topless sally kirkland also shows some skin br br my grade c br br where i saw it showtime showcase hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore verbinsky to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn t entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clich s all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn t enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn t that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it s getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood bullshits down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment if you came here it s because you ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that s what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother s trailer i swear to god br br you know what i m not writing anymore about this it s just too painful deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read are three smart girls in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences it also stars ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it s a sweet story about three young women now living in switzerland with their divorced mother who hear their father winninger is marrying again not having seen him in years and knowing their mother still loves him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper nanny determined to stop the wedding realizing that the intended called precious barnes is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count this is arranged by their father s accountant king the man he chooses is a full time drunk auer but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess br br this is a delightful film not cloying or overly sugary at all with some nice performances particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young women are pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course is on young durbin who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer in fact her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult she has no trouble with the high notes as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sings a delightful il bacio in a police station br br one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father played by charles winninger not want his children around until he sees them and gets to know them barnes as the gold digger isn t all that young but the girls mother looks way up there so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger more glamorous woman in fact he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters br br universal gives durbin the big star buildup here she has the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point was still paying his dues and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is br br very entertaining and of course this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new better and different those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing directing and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england other days other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment made in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchens in the major roles under the brush stroke direction of mike newell these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter s eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille s classic epic of starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some rivoting scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning pharohs armies building sethi s pyramids could have been done with todays technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn t want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gangs of new york in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody s in the pianist and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot just to name a few his roles all influence eachother but each is seperate and utterly unique he changes completely with each character he takes on and i m beginning to believe that he can act as anything anything br br as cristy brown he is stunning he does not ridicule the character and he does not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown comes to life a smart man an outrageous man human br br this movie despite small scene transition faults and the like is an inspiration yes it s predictable but is it stupidly sentimental no i laughed i cried not a single moment of cheese proof that this isn t a hollywood movie br br my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant when cristy is discussing painters with eileen peter and her friends here s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax i ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that s animated wheel out the cripple and his performance never slows down never falters and is beautiful simply he has a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tired of cristy s perspicacious eyes twitching and guttural speeches br br a must see fo sho yo my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn t be much good the movie s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making hera s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don t see the gods and there s no real certainty that they exist so it s got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn t do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg s works and again and again don t understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood s movies cause it s so inept it s very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there s no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it s extremely inept amateurish film it s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion s gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach s castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma s home a floating space station here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station s power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at lives still these minor problems aside it s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we ve been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect out of this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature spatula madness is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job joins in the fight against the evil spoons this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning but is barely present for the remainder of the feature this film s minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lies below it the plot that is set up doesn t really have time to show but it s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films this film is worth watching at least a few times take it for what it is and don t expect a deep story okay last night august th i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here s what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i ve ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van bebble s take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second dibs on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you ve heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn t want to have anything to do with how in god s name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock n roll mind of a man who couldn t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public s image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie s work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i m glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart i am glad i did it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake the bonus levels were very hard the sniper one i think was too hard it made me so frustrated i didn t play the game for a week and a half there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it br br the only thing i might change was the upgrade system i didn t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded such as buying an armor upgrade didn t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter i really liked the q copter i think the developers did a good job no this hilariously horrible s made for tv horror clinker isn t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness that s quite tasty in a so execrable it s downright awesome sort of way richard crenna looking haggard and possibly inebriated and yvette mimieux who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppets from the disney witch mountain pictures are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesn t that sound really scary and disturbing well scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain t but it sure is funny thanks to curtis night tide harrington s hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effects an almost painfully risible n ridiculous plot and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story besides the leads both martine beswicke and r g armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy show people released by mgm in davies plays a hick from savannah georgia who arrives in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot as is davies outrageous southern costume davies lands a job in slapstick comedy not what she wants but it brings her success she meets fellow slapstick star william haines who is immediately smitten with her well davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio high art studios and lands a job in stuffy period pieces a handsome but fake actor andre telefair shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that is not who she really is marion davies is wonderful throughout as she outrageously runs the gamut of emotions required of a serious actress william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self and there are cameos by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous stars of the day including the director of the film king vidor this is a silent film with a few sound effects as sound pictures were just coming into their own a treasure of a film the performance of every actor and actress in the film are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again however i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors and director attenborough s credits that puzzles me aren t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent long lasting film for the audience i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don t have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director s chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it s very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she s sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated this is the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared not handsome but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark pretty as she is is also a complete and believable jane eyre this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this is the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this apparently the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called movie they described blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skin but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the plot furthermore as a viewer of many and sundry films some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain br br correct br br jonathan tanner br br br br p s i was not blinded by the choreography i liked boyle s performance but that s about the only positive thing i can say everything was overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actors spoke like you would expect your year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded stone hearted cop or an ultra evil villain the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music and what s with the whole ish police torture stuff it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story cox added a lot of things in fact that he apparently thought would be really cool but had nothing to do with the story that s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges stories so good is his minimalism they are tightly bound with no superfluous details this movie is just the opposite i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i wasted renting this but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you what a pity this film is very boring and so long it s simply painfull the story is staggering without goal and no fun br br you feel better when it s finished so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin s adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven t really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys as well br br loved it the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we re used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release of stars this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a foodie the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette s menu and choice of wines are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a out of film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it set in the the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the danton affair written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris usually i m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties early nineties film featuring now has beens but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through guys dressing up as girls has been done to death but never so pathetically corey haim s performance was abysmal as usual nicole eggert was not much better this has no redeeming qualities even if you are a number fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash stay away i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almod var regulars appear in this film so it s not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn t find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood s novel the robber bride and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an ex cop journalist tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman s crazy female friends it s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms atwood s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men victims of scheming women br br heh okay you got me if these guys are mentioned in the book and i m pretty sure they re entirely made up for the movie i ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female characters of the novel aren t enough to carry the movie zenia s manipulations aren t interesting unless we see them happen to a man and a man s life is screwed up roz charis and toni tell their stories to a man because it s not important if a man doesn t hear them br br i liked the characters in the book it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man s story i normally do not look for feminist angles on media and i tried to enjoy the movie as is if i hadn t read the book i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the ex cop and you want to read more about them you re out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot it s the same plot the movie excavated it ironed it and sprinkled it with male angst it s like zenia s revenge on margaret atwood this movie gets a because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid s monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn t terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it s a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br the synopsis isn t entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston rekert as paul sharpe s newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr rekert mr novak s investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom rekert fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo missing in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn made money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place of course not troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it is this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this revolt of the zombies proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn t necessarily make lightning strike twice br br the halperin brothers responsible for the horror classic white zombie made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi s eyes from that previous film there was a court battle with the white zombie film s rights owners who didn t want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word was the only thing that could help this film because as everyone knows bad films can make much more money simply by having the word zombie appear in the title knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead but simply hypnotism victims br br wan na create a mind controlled army of zombies be ready to crack a few eggs including your own br br the lame plot man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend whom she loves jealous this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn t worth spit br br this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i ve ever seen you d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming the acting isn t even good this movie makes the racially insensitive king of the zombies which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invaders seem like a serious drama this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama the credits list the ironically named company favorite films i m not sure whose favorite film this would be but they re obviously an idiot br br not recommended for fans of zombies romance or classic films the complaints are valid to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women i am okay with these night time soaps like grey s anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end however when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romps and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital it seems like general hospital or a female counterpart to baywatch that was what men wanted and they had it so if this is what women want so be it but the idea that this is a high brow show or something men will watch is unrealistic this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year i didn t see any cameos in the movie but it is still pretty good it is similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this is a better put together movie it actually has a point if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roeper s review of this movie is right on i mean i don t really like ebert on most movies but this is the movie that i will agree about the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laughed at when it is found out about but it still suggests that you wait steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet it is still funny i remember seeing this film in the mid s thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is newish it just seconds away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces br br it s look like the dvd is due a region release soon the region copy i is very poor quality let s hope they ve cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominated it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he s sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudy s situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn t fit in but before it s all over murray s performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn t matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don t let the absurd rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman of stars br br the hound the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won t miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn t have to go back why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it s mindboggling one of the premises of film is that our hero who s a hacker has a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he s helpless and can t get into any computers he s a hacker it s like saying that you can t drive your car if you don t have your lucky driving cap on i won t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off i know these horrible things happen in the world but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species br br this should be banned and destroyed i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market br br this movie should be removed from the public the person who made this movie needs psychological help anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i d love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was s love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i m an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english s experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english s talents didn t translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the s doesn t translate to the s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone s time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let s remake a classic with worse everything i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill jackie kennedy s sister and the cousin of these women would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be considered the skeletons in the family closet the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women i d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating i e are they nuts or am i missing something this movie is hard to come by netflix does not have it facets does though c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages br br this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show br br except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average br br this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example br br just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what i just watched this movie on it s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william s zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that s the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there nanoo nanoo i caught this film on azn on cable it sounded like it would be a good film a japanese green card i can t say i ve ever disliked an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean and i am a huge fan of john woo s hong kong films i an not adverse to a light hearted films like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourites so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly acted film ever again br br i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude because no one in this film had a personality and when any of the characters did try to act as opposed to mumbling a line or two their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy because i didn t laugh once even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this a refreshing breath of comedy it was neither refreshing nor a breath of comedy and the ending was very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things br br avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst is a better acted film than this and i walked out half way through that film before i begin let me get something off my chest i m a huge fan of john eyres first film project shadowchaser the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son s coach but once executed meeker returns as a revenant or as kelly perine calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making silvano s life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker s wife br br director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film s main flaw since there s nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse ye lou s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her ex lover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting br br i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitutes a convoluted semi historical conflict for a plot without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes the sudden time shifting doesn t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless normally i don t mind dark movies but the absence of light the bone jarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i don t think that helps the movie the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the th century and i don t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moments don t add to its watchability br br the actors are all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films brooding and looking generally annoyed however at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator br br all in all a very disappointing film especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he after hearing about george orwell s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life i m now but never having read the book i am totally confused as to what i ve just seen br br i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel as i m sure most are but only through hearsay and quotes without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery and even with it i m still no more educated about the story of than i was before i watched it br br on the plus side br br the cinematography is amazing hurt burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making br br now for the down sides and there are plenty br br there is a war going on at least as far as the propaganda is concerned but why with who nothing is explained there are a couple of names bandied about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation br br who is winston what does he do where does he come from where does he work why is he changing news reports why isn t he on the front line why doesn t he eat the food in the canteen what is that drink he s drinking through the entire film why is he so weak ill why isn t he brainwashed like the rest of them what s the deal with his mother sister what happened to his father a little back story would have been nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that haven t read the book without it this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on br br the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it s very annoying all the same br br also i know this has been mentioned before but why all the nudity it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage br br i personally can t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days we are not all brainwashed simpletons but this is a few steps too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you ve read the book because if this film really is the literal translation that i ve seen many people say i would find it very hard to understand why is hailed as the classic it is br br there s no denying that it was light years ahead of it s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline br br i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i m to make any sense out of this br br all in all very disappointed in something i ve waited for years to watch this cute animated short features two comic icons betty boop and henry br br henry is the bald slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks br br well here he does speak br br he wants to get a puppy from betty boop s pet store and when he is left to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue br br betty sings a song about pets henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey but everything works out in the end i just got back from this free screening and this osama witch project is the hands down worst film i ve seen this year worse than even catwoman which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction br br in september tapes a film crew of documentary journalists heads to afghanistan despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip the conditions and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife s death on sept to track down osama bin laden br br they made eight tapes on their journey which now document their travels and of course their attempts to kill the terrorist leader the eight tapes thankfully all end at points significant in the narrative which is convenient for a documentary br br the psychotic idiotic protagonist who is given to long significant speeches that he probably learned watching macgyver cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps i don t know why he didn t just wear a sign on his back that said shoot me br br the crew s translator supposedly their sensible voice of reason does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom br br you wish they d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons br br around tape i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew i remember seeing this film in the theater in when i was years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell s voice was dubbed by someone else ian holme was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i m used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until am to see it a family is traveling through the mid west there s widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and ben s little daughter k t geri reischl then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they re forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros strother martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there s some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can t explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it s a quiet kind of horror that isn t made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman s flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she s also recently learned she s pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn t want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight s first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon says are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we ve been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it s a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying save time the only upside me was that the actor who played finny was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stopped there they should have continued to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there s nothing else there to show br br gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film i don t really think they exist i think they bought this script at scripts r us where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blanks there s a monster stalking us let s split up they actually let s split up in this movie hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar not dead yet burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie ir glasses spraying with something like paint were handled badly br br what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issues for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treating an invisible subject and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than seconds and would have been far more interesting had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have been a much better movie all in all it stunk br br i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie but i don t want to do any spoilers suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than a young girl becomes a war time marine s pen pal and when he visits at war s end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who tucks the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker s actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit plays the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses br br even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful though it couldn t catch up with the original it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors though the film bombed at the box office the actors got the undue recognition in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film br br all said this is not a family film so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family robert altman s downbeat new fangled western from edmund naughton s book mccabe was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario the characters here don t merit much interest and the picture looks intentionally brackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel once the profits start coming in beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action altman creates a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town is limited most of the story being made up of vignettes and altman s pacing is deliberately slow there s hardly a statement being made just the opposite in fact and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds it s a self defeating picture and yet in an altman quirky way it wears defeat proudly from what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me on second viewing a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation br br spoiler of sorts follows br br poor cedric he apparently didn t know what hit him poor audience we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guys just didn t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu an intellectual being to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach br br on a purely technical note i loved the camera action in this film subtitles were totally unnecessary even though my french is presque rien i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more this was a polished very professionally made motion picture though many scenes seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten i don t think i ve ever gave something a rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it s not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can t set up or finish a punchline and you ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it s just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that s screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he s still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out from the film s first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clich s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen s subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen s methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can t lose jane austen s technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth s wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody s follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen s elizabeth at least in austen s eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety knightley s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew macfayden br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache i ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is life sometimes has boring patches no real plot and not necessarily a happy ending a river runs through it is the perfect name for this film and norman maclean s novel life ebbs and flows like a river and it has it s rough spots but it is a wonderful trip br br robert redford brings a lot to the film his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly as a director he is restrained and calm and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes as for the acting craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers i don t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn s performances except that they truly feel real a river runs through it is a wonderful film br br out of the story is very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie is quite fine even the directing of it the main problem is with the castings that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael played impressively by asi dayan all other actors were unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl played by taly sharon was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors great script and rather good photograph was not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself is very powerful it s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a yo prison time drugs the end is rather sad mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency out of because very few greek movies can make such an impression mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i ve ever seen but what a film i thought it was fabulous excellent and impressive it was funny well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change and being able to pull it off this was great i ll definitely watch it again you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that s a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man s van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it out of stars i can t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i laughed a couple of times probably because of how stupid it was if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn t the plot was so horrible it made no sense and the acting was so bad that i couldn t even tell if they were trying that movie was terrible rating f this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic peens holding passion there s also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can t tell you how much that s been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of dido s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that s what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director s history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it s very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik s name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drinks any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink if you can t figure out the through line keep drinking beyotch whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it s easy br br that s it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian smirnoff punch jr even though i m quite young the beatles are my absolutely favourite band i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember br br it s the sort of film that is worth trying the once i can see why it wasn t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film it didn t much details except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up jared harris stars i d never heard of him he played john or aiden quinn who played paul however they are certainly underestimated actors br br the film had a slow start but as it developed i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters as a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like the script was brilliant and harris got lennon s accent personality and mannerisms spot on quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent the make up artists made them look excellent br br this paragraph may be counted as a spoiler br br as i mentioned before it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians as for lennon s rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it br br it is quite different from the other biographical films i ve seen where it s about how the beatles got together and became famous and those never really did the characters that well e g backbeat br br in conclusion i would say if you re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minutes long it s worth waiting for the film to develop br br if anyone does know whether the meeting of really did happen please send it to the comments page for this film i d be very interested an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn t so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it s like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a cafe around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty films as the burning bed enough or monster this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she s not such a bad person after all give us a break here s my question to the filmmakers if letourneau were a man and vili were a year old girl would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person answer hell no br br imagine switching the genders in this film and then you ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage were the genders switched there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead we d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl his lascivious behavior landing him in prison and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex br br let s call a spade a spade letourneau is a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts she s a criminal who belongs in prison and deserves our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy the premise of this movie was decent enough but with sub par acting it was just bland and dull br br spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death it was accidental so although it was a murder it wasn t like the guy set out to do it also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree there is no emotion in this film the first minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister and hearing her message it was dull and boring br br with some polishing and better acting it could have been pretty good the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy quaint streets and sunshine i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere br br othello works for big fat mr karva his crime boss step dad at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it s never really defined but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers so trust me he s a prick doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs one of his colleagues is runner a black dude who is always dashing from a to b until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running runner dumps the lost boy in othello s flat where he promptly starts granting more wishes keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled karva has the boy kidnapped but he isn t sure of what would really bring him happiness is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job either way i don t want to see the little boy grant him the second br br it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes the ending tries to be shocking but since there s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience br br writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell ironically if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film as it is we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy who s origins are never revealed that s just plain irritating br br aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score this film has little to recommend i can t emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you d best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i m overexaggerating a little this isn t the worst kids movie no let me rephrase that this isn t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i ve been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won t learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we don t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i degress br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there s a better movie kiki s delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it is nothing else on tv are you really bored well then watch phat beach however don t rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake br br i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard however there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at if you are looking for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie tries at kind of watch something like hoop dreams or jason s lyric if you are lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent however if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amused br br out of the elegant documentary br br don t watch this movie if you re an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you re about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the hubble telescope and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of possibility br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it s very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibilities quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn t seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i ve never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don t divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don t like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you ll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i m talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie originally slated for direct to video but bumped up to theatrical status it would become known as batman mask of the phantasm ten years after phantasm we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb sub zero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman joins the family br br the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line br br the animation is the sleeker futuristic style that was utilized for batman the animated series fifth and sixth seasons aka the new batman adventures it s quite nicely done and just as sleek as return of the joker s animation there is also some use of cgi but it s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero the music was alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans rodent shaped hearts br br kevin conroy as always does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman it s also great to have the old batman the animated series alumni back that includes bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon batgirl her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr alfred br br villains were also great especially given that rupert thorne the old mob boss from the original series appears for the first time since the fourth season br br overall while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan you will love the five minute short chase me i think this movie was supposed to be shocking but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it s been made and simply is it s one and a half hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie the five girls br br sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way which is basically fine since it s a horror movie and i usually like horror movies i ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever it s no spectacle other than that it s simply grotesque it s so lame it even gets boring and really quick too br br the worst thing if the above wasn t bad enough for ya about this movie is that they ve tried to copy the blair whitch project by filming with cheap hand held cameras but again this too serves no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough there s an explanation namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch in this film there s no other explanation than hey ya ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can t make out what they re saying also no effort has been made to make anything any better sound wise or other wise br br than finally there s the soundtrack which is just as bad as the rest and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock br br my advise don t watch this under any circumstances why can t a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they re fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i ve ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i ve seen but thankfully i can t remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader s c diorama set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn t needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i m kind of cheap i d have to have or bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we re plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the shlitz hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it s a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it s full blown old school horror steve johnson s make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking though i d heard that cama de gato was the worst brazilian movie of the decade i watched it giving it a chance after all first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature shot in video for just us and though it looks even cheaper i can t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it then as i watched it i realized why but whatever chances you re ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minutes it s an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex drugs and violence and they re made to look like closeted gays too made with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it lasts ninety two count em minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it s not even funny bad br br we ve all seen the story before bored young guys want to have fun go partying take drugs and everything goes wrong there s gang rape spanking murder the accidental death falling down the staircase of the mother of one of the boys culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film is heavily influenced by larry clark especially kids and bully but clark s films though also moralist and sexploitative are high class masterworks compared to this crap br br i don t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience s throat stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb minded with so much babbling yelling inept direction shaky camera and terrible acting going on stockler doesn t care a bit about technique the quality of the images framing sound recording soundtrack songs dialog sets editing etc is uniformly appalling but he s a narcissistic control freak he anticipates the criticisms he s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is i could relate to that br br despite his megalomaniac ambitions stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can t even decide if he wants gritty realism hand held video camera etc or stylization repetition of scenes use of alternate takes etc damn he can t even decide where to put his camera there s use of subjective camera for the three leads the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exists simply to justify the director s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for all you see is a filmmaker being hateful preachy condemning moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it br br it s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo s blat can be highly effective under good direction as in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here he s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped actors in recent memory he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn br br the film opens and ends with real interviews with typical middle class youth stockler wants us to take those interviews as proof of what he s trying to preach in fiction but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees selecting a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statements which only shows assholes exist everywhere stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior i couldn t tell br br with its dogmatic self righteousness headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom cama de gato is bad for a reasons but above all it s harmful in a very insidious manner it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato is best unwatched unmentioned buried and forgotten an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it was funny and sad and very beautiful well it starts out a bit dark a dog who escaped the pound and gets killed by an old friend ends up in heaven and comes back but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else was okay and the songs were fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaws the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didn t deserve to die but she is in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this is a very good animated movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommended for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this you ll find after the movie dom deluise has a very important and special message got ta love that guy ahehehe this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a clich hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan s ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing if you loved bulgakov s book you would be understandably afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story s deeper meaning to the screen there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita as complex and far fetched as the story is the movie leaves out nothing it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score with not a note missed why can t we find such talent here in the u s so now my favorite book and movie have the same title this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga br br that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before br br not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace br br this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched br br the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution br br as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying this has to be the worst piece of garbage i ve seen in a while br br heath ledger is a heartthrob he looked deformed i wish i d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him br br orlando bloom is a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him i can t say i agree br br rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn t wait to get off the set br br i m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers this is a far cry from butch cassidy which actually was an entertaining film this was trite cliche ridden and boring we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better it didn t br br the last minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel and women and children are dying because of their presence that s not funny but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i kept waiting for them to say i ll bite yer leg off we were howling with laughter as were several other warped members of the audience when we left pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was br br i may not have paid cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasn t free it cost me hours of my life that i will never get back a very ordinary made for tv product tyson attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans i m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn t you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department br br i just sat there through most of the movie thinking is this supposed to be funny and this is the guy from tenacious d right the truth is this film has nothing to offer at all it s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction you ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn t i was bored stupid about minutes in but though it would surely pick up it didn t minutes later i d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful br br it s like remember years ago when you d see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they were famous and you d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop yeah it s like that br br i ve enjoyed some of jack black s earlier movies like shallow hall and i m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to us again jack i m gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something at the least give you a serious talking to br br i know it s a clich but this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen and for so many reasons i haven t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i ve read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt s vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the damned s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i ll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where s the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem s lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let s see what else can i say it wasn t too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br jy br br jimboduck dot com while i count myself as a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there the pace of the gathering is slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confusing worse the characterization in the premiere episode is poor although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god s gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire i don t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the club they are today s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans as well as billions of humans the world over who don t happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth such as the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lost are they in their fantasy sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy however the club is in a class by itself they are truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lies disinformation and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion the club though is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of cult but due to the club s vast wealth conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip they are above the law in this country for those of you who have seen the movie the matrix you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them br br in less civil times the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the club out of town with torches and pitchforks but in today s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague br br the television ratings system and the v chip on tv s should also have a rating called r for religion so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape such as presented by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their children if you wish to see shakespeare s masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart s as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet s indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet s character together with the aid of shakespeare s full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud revengeful ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father s death and suspected murder or his mother s marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father s ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king s secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself the golden door is the story of a sicilian family s journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he ll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they re aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e delousing mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular salvatore s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish nifty little episode played mainly for laughs but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere but which passenger is it talk about your illegal immigrants all star supporting cast from wild eyed jack elam hamming it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if she s the martian then i say let s open the borders to cruel faced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it i watched mask in the s and it s currently showing on fox kids in the uk very late at night i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was it s just plain awful it is no where near in the same league as the transformers he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses comes on straight after it that s if mask doesn t put me to sleep first one of the lesser s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids phantasm class phantasm ii awesome phantasm iii erm terrible br br even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply can t the movie seems to have sold out first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start something the others did not also too many pointless characters prime examples the kid who is a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls erm not gon na work or rather shouldn t and the blooming zombies what the hell are they doing there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there is a severe lack of midgets running about br br the only good bits are the cracking start and of course reggie b br br possible spoiler coming up br br to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv br br overall very very disappointing ludicrous angelic year old annakin turns into whiny brat year old annakin who somehow seems appealing to amidala years his senior now year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams and so takes to slaughtering children his friends and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared br br i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention the story is ridiculous the characters are unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc br br obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hacks off annakin s legs lets him burn in the lava and leaves him to suffer doesn t anyone think that s a little out of character not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living as it turns out br br i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations none of that here the story could have been written by a year old br br oh yeah the cgi is pretty cool scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great b movie killer klowns from outer space agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to dialog the ladies in this bad s comedy not bad as in s lingo which meant good bad as in bad with no likable characters including but not limited to a kid who s the freakiest looking guy since friday the th part a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one has two this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedies and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel br br my grade d br br eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point think bachlor party but not as funny and very disturbing br br where i saw it comcast moviepass if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it s got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that s hard to do when you consider custer s last stand at the little big horn and it s prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there s an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there s a lot to take in here though for the picture s two hour plus run time custer s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the major s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer s first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadn t noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it s interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan s depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn s portrayal here it s more than evident but it doesn t come close to that of richard mulligan s take on the military hero in s little big man let s just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one s point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer s character when he stated you take glory with you when it s your time to go the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal s driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno s replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british gaumont studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger s the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman s film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film s title in amazing shining white and blue stating the thing one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter s greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i m really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius like justin out there no one can say i wasn t warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that s horror aficionados are always dying to know what s in there even if we know it ll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn t even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie a new way to enjoy goldsworthy s work rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion watching goldsworthy build his pieces one develops an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he uses goldsworthy describes how the flow of life the rivers and the tides inspires and affects his work although i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy s pieces no snowballs i do feel it was a bit long the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy s work to life and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch if you liked william hickey in prizzi s honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he s doing in this schlock fest morgan fairchild s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk i have seen most if not all of the laurel hardy classic films i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly even after watching it over and over again this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel hardy however fails miserably for various reasons one of which is how out of place their cloths are still early th century however are both portrayed in the s setting some of the former dialogue was brought back however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever the real laurel hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn t on so late at night it s on at am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the s and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the s i m hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy i have just given a for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i m not a git who only gives bad reviews but because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can t avoid them all they ll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we re talking about here has a great life she s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this happy hooker type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly pretty woman insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that is without his plastic friend yep don t leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination out of of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where s the charm where s the charisma don t mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don t either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate thieves highway a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i ll finish on a song br br pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don t believe you you re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn t help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you ll stay with me and i ll pay you i ll treat you right this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn t that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears can not act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn t chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn t a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake normally i don t like series at all they re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast br br these series however are well played the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one the story will still be catching your mind br br the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital holy sh t this was god awful i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters you know h ll bring your girlfriend and make things interesting you will be the only ones there anyway f ck this slide show br br ye be warned br br i recommend not watching this br br hello br br how are you br br i m pretty good br br enjoying this day br br i am br br this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie this is sad this movie is without a doubt a perfect for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time porn is watched for the porn jackie chan is watched for the action i think you people are rating it bad because there s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie was boring very boring but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that this did change the way how american action movies were created they have even stollen scenes from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan s hes pure in everyway he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park and even in todays movies american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do a masterpiece i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james mcnally s summary of the content of the film is very good nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world s dogs but also undercutting a number of interviewees comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore s recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasants as the stars de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making this movie really woke me up like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber br br this guy john ben chaplin leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girl to die for nadia nicole kidman ordered by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by johns plan however a glitch turns up nadia does not speak a word of johns language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process br br what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure giving the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably acted likewise br br kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles at least from the cultural background br br the pace of the film is fast and captivating and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear you rather feel that you re in the middle of the plot and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out br br my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it has an unusual plot great acting and ideas below the surface like the idea of the rude awakening from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society s machine the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all br br thank you writers for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewers i am sure of it ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it this sports a nice deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk the first third of this movie was nothing but talk and more talk most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other br br the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it s really a chick flick and little else this probably plays on the lifetime network br br there was a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they had lost me br br by the way sally field looked about years old in here i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you ll crack up on the ground and you ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison s attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don t remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can t stop laughing i wish i had that movie howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film s best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there s no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america s own imperial age br br america s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery s noble brigand candace bergen s feisty heroine john huston s wily john hay or steve kanaly s spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt s big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while what with all it s raving reviews nominations and media attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie was good it really portrayed the black music scene back then however as the movie wore on me and my whole family were bored out of our wits the singing just kept coming one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent br br furthermore i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters i just didn t care what happened to them even when eddie murphy s character died of a drug overdose i knew i should have been sad but i just couldn t feel any emotion for that character the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in br br finally the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which goes along with the lack of character development this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn t really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances one of starewicz s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz s films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz s old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil s club scene twigss and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work nice character development in a pretty cool milieu being a male i m probably not qualified to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isn t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters each has their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn t go for cheap comedy when it could have it didn t try to pound a lesson into us the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it needed to happen good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people prussic gas a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish the inspectors at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch renberg certainly have their hands full with this case it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turns is to inherit a great deal of wealth the girls who are targeted share a room with ann but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy s finest must figure out the staff of the girls dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation it s a clever scheme where a driver greaves g nter meisner meets the convicts who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind he gives them orders on who to kill and how uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening under suspicion are girls dormitory headmistress her author brother a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some are red herrings until they are disposed of throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered the ending features multiple twists br br out of the krimi films i ve seen the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it s colorful killer a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind s secret hideout with an alligator pit which isn t used the fake bible water pistol when opened fires the gas into the face of startled victims the greaves royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins abilities to get at the truth perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it i felt he was used as comedy relief particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims often misunderstanding what are told to him higgins using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator instead follows the clues facts often avoiding sir john as much as possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls executions i d say this may be one of the best if not the best examples of the krimi genre for it keeps you guessing always one more ace up it s sleeve the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there s a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special i saw this movie in the theater and was thoroughly impressed by it then again that was when claire danes was a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywood ized bitch she is today anyway this film really struck me as one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship films how far would you really go for your best friend i was moved to tears at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon as i left the theater i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you d do something like that for her i ve seen this film literally over times it s absolutely jam packed with entertainment powers boothe gives a stellar performance as a fan of actors such as william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never thought an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those roles until i saw boothe as jim jones as far as i m concerned powers boothe is jim jones this film captures his best performance the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there s the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it s hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn t have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one she appears like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese br br i have always liked her as an actor and had no idea she started this young with her career go figure i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on i say that because whenever i have watched her perform the characters thus far in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character quite nicely in fact br br anyway my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland somehow i assumed that was her first time up at bat not so well done reese this game ranks above all so far i had the honor of playing mine on ps so the graphics were really good the voice acting was above standard the difficulty level is just right wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting the only rating this game deserves is great this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation tanisha couldn t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director s spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it s certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she s married to the crippled edward g robinson who s the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck s daughter nor with lita milan who is keith s mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford s mouth i m a peaceable man would have been very applicable in the vioilent men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn t been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well apparently the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listening to a director andy copp s commentary which i didn t have available to me or reading up on the film prior to watching viewers won t have a clue what it is about br br gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage but unless they re also fond of pretentious headache inducing experimental art house cinema they ll find this one a real chore to sit through br br minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one s sanity if you ve still got all your marbles you ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watched the whole thing but am well aware that i m completely barking this movie was absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead i couldn t even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all celina jaitley was not bad the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it was pretty hilarious the songs sini ne and its remix version were really good you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster all in all it seems emran doesn t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat something ain t right theme song written by b j cook from skylark david foster s old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc s airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i d like to think this is really what detectives do did giambone was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor s name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama this movie fails miserably on every level i have an idea let s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if we re lucky they ll all be shot and killed and we won t have to ever have our time wasted by them again did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i can t think of anything i ve ever seen that was this bad i d rather watch ishtar times in a row than sit through minutes of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film i ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless that s my two cents yes i ll say before i start commenting this movie is incredibly underrated br br sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind br br the acting was good apart from thewlis br br stone really has a talent with this role she s slick naughty and seductive and doesn t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino morrisey was also good he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it thewlis however was lame he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way he really sucked br br overall this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james cy grant and michael crane i have seen this film at least times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn t the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn t you yay we ve solved the murder now like every other week let s go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young s terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can t believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b airport is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disaster in the sky formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft s flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other airport films supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the s nightmare is full of bad southern stereotypes complete with phoney accents not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised babe in prison movie especially in its uncut original version nevertheless acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular does a good job of making viewers hate him even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes there s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed who appears as the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligan s island made a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d br br ok i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it br br but we decided it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes br br and i m sorry but this has got to be one of the worst films in history br br it began off alright and we thought ok this might actually be ok but after about minutes we were sadly mistaken br br it began when the mysterious paint baller turned out to be the most obvious character the scouser australian i say that because he had an accent which couldn t be identified who s acting might i just say was abysmal br br then it got to the end and by that time we had all lost the will to live the paint ball finals br br the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn t actually win but annoyingly enough they won by default br br and i know this has nothing to do with it but the name the team were given was just awful critical damage i mean they could of picked a more awesome name like the destroyers of the anti christ or something or that s what the film should of been called anyway insignificant and low brained haha s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effects are tacky the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs the brain takes place in a typical quiet american town setting where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet it is here that a tv guru named dr blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling under the label of independent thinkers a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill how cool is that now it s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr blake and his monstrous brain actually come from there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that s about it meh who needs a background in a movie like this really there s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil brain looks like an over sized sock puppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she s obviously a great talent she has exactly movies on her repertoire of which this is her masterpiece in her debut she was credited as runaway model and in men and a baby her character is referred to as one of jack s girls i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie glc br br it s about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after glc what next for bronson br br we re using a new angle my family don t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won t be shown until well after the watershed well here s another terrific example of awkward s film making the rudimentary premise of what s the matter with helen is quite shocking and disturbing but it s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hush hush sweet charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but there s a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique we re literally catapulted back to the s with a sublime depiction of that era s music religion theatrical business and wardrobes following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winters flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies the script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced there s never a dull moment in what s the matter with helen although the singing tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters she s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who s about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combined there are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like mich al macliamm ir as the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an oscar are breathtaking resnais wow the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a s french musical in vibrant colour the opening voice over with old embellished inter titles was a nice touch then the camera aperture opens like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera backs off or rather up suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party this is all in the first seconds br br then the music starts a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i can t blame it on the subtitles those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minutes into the film br br i m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out i endured br br it didn t get much better i ll tell you why there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters we don t even see their faces half the time as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moths around a lamp and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot it s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs br br the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did hour was that i was looking at the camera techniques lighting and scenery which were all i admit excellent but is that enough to hold your attention for hours not me maybe tomorrow i ll try watching the end aw who am i kidding i have more important things to do i m sure you do too skip this i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch it s one of those films where you stop to see what it is just for a moment but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can t turn it off no matter how bad it is one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it s good and so bad it s well just plain bad it s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it s both great middle of the night fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag don t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male because logic does not apply this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a counter earth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a made for tv way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man s john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i ll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn t even shaking the camera or the set i ve seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what s wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn t work br br i m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that s what you the viewer will do you ll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can t recall too much about it black comedy isn t always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don t often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in br br devito plays an odd mamma s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn t have the guts to actually do it himself that s where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai i and murder larry s ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it s certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn t too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone of stars br br the hound back in i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation weekends and the holiday itself i stayed in town during that time hanging out at my parents house a lot br br i didn t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents tube i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx i was hooked instantly i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents family homes and through inheritances from relatives estates and often wondered about their history value etc br br after my long vacation i used to go to my folks house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx br br i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air br br it never did personal fx was the first and best of the collectible shows and it vanished from the air almost fifteen years later i m still sore br br way to go fx paul verhoeven s predecessor to his breakout hit basic instinct is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve played by jeroen krabb a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes while there he meets the seductive christine halsslag ren e soutendijk who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kills him br br paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself and that is one of things i like best about him this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards and that doesn t happen very often i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work but you ll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i ve mentioned but are lovely nonetheless a man gets eaten by lions another one has a pipe sent through his skull a boat is smashed in half lovely br br the acting in the fourth man isn t anything to write home about but it s solid throughout jeroen krabb holds the audience s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer it is ren e soutendijk that impresses the most though as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct but the original fatale did it best paul verhoeven s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish but he obviously has talent and it s a shame that he doesn t put it to better use of all the verhoeven films i ve seen this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it s worth the effort i accept that most s horror aren t scary by today s standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn t any blood to speak of br br i like how the s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn t the worst i ve ever seen but its almost up there br br out of demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don t even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend s house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it s just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i ve seen bad horror movies before manos troll hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski s donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh s sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that davie s main aspiration is to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don t tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also davie doesn t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the s he looks like he d be more comfortable in the early days of rock n roll posing as james dean s less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry s father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don t think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson s and that s just because he s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski being so close to the material he simply doesn t see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it ll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach braff s amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let s face it at this point it isn t going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don t attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch please re watch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out min tv episode into the most painful hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has line and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss s accent just changes about times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven finally an iranian film that is not made by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this is a non documentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the system in its ass it s all about football and its funny its really funny the director says the places are real the event is real and so are the characters and the extras this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a your heart is made of stone b you are blind excellently scripted the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it has won the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it s near perfect where where can i get hold of it sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan s whip br br written and directed by jason maran satan s whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i m guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan s whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time tainted look at kibbutz life br br this film is less a cultural story about a boy s life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minutes of the movie the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves and it s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical kibbutznikim besides the two main characters a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well evil br br the story centers on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows there is no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking year old boy his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and brutish personality he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother he treats these volunteers like trash after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn t seen in a long time due to his military service he orders quote linda go take shower and i cum in two minutes br br there is one other good character in this movie a european foreigner who plays the mother s boyfriend when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother s son the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist s arm he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz members more hypocrisy the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and gives an account of the actual act that s supposed to be humorous for the audience but is really just stupid she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse br br the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently can t escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose it s a mystery how the boy s father died but you can rest assured the kibbutz drove him to it and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son br br that s the gist of this movie one dimensional characters over dramatization dry performances and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience s head that kibbutz life was degrading miserable and even deadly for those who didn t fit in i feel sorry for the guy who made this film obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen br br i will admit the setting presumably new york city has never been so downright ugly and unappealing i am reminded that the s was a bad decade for men s fashion and automobiles and all the smoking if the plan was to cheapen the characters it succeeded br br for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there has to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty came close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot had struck mikey well it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most br br i can t remember when i detested a film as strongly i suppose i m a rube who doesn t dig art flicks oh well lost carnivale desperate housewifes the list goes on and on these and a bunch of other high quality shows proves that we re in the middle of a golden age in television history lost is pure genius incredible layers of personal and psychologically viable stories underscored by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describing a tv show a killer score great performances and editing anyone who isn t hooked on this are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever it may have its problems when watching only one episode a week but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up as i m sure they do clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister scoutmaster is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you ve heard it you ve heard it and you don t need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film s scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it s a pity this film doesn t have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affects all the muscles in his body he is confined to a wheelchair and needs round the clock attention so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a mile round trip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses the mythical city of everytown in represents england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally does arrive it s ravages continue not for another five years but until at which time everytown is completely destroyed adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the wandering sickness a pestilence that continues for another four years br br things to come balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization the wings over the world concept plays out a bit corny though it s spokesman cabal raymond massey is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause if he fails others will follow this message is continually reinforced throughout the film brought home convincingly in massey s end of movie speech man s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an all the universe or nothing mindset br br the film s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year the spectacle of the city s rebirth strikes a resonant chord as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man s first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than br br things to come is one of those rarities in film a picture that makes you think which side will you come down on the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it s not a comfortable question as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci s last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci s movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it s gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it s a hard to archive even the braindead didn t stop it citb is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by khmmm evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it s wounds forget the beyond or zombie this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being putted in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar he s been shot about fifty times by now and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear and you ll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity william smith does another turn as a russian soldier the same character he played in red dawn a few years earlier after playing biker heavies for most of the s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies sadly he ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors i like raptors because they are scary my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eats the banana br br i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time br br this is best movie warning review contains mild spoilers br br a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st series however just two years on and i find i can t remember enough about them in order to do it i guess they couldn t have made much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequels dream warriors in particular weren t as bad as is often made out though even the original was no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams doesn t lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five films i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy s dead br br an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character s demise the fact that the movie s conclusion is not even hidden but in fact the entire purpose for the film s being goes to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was br br taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain robert englund s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter i always thought freddy s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it s like englund s crying out we know this is garbage but you re paying to see it so who s the one laughing and i m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight was freddy s appearance in the films always so rudimentary all he gets to do here is a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr har har hars and that s it if this was the only elm st film you d ever seen you wouldn t get to know the character at all even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstated misplaced and not at all funny irony br br acting is almost universally poor just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keeps his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire the script too is absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan opens a road map upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written you re f ked when prompted for the map carlos responds well the map says we re f ked who wrote the screenplay oscar wilde br br or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy his hearing enhanced to painful levels so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin a potentially fatal sound given that all sounds are magnified oddly the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect nice hearing from you carlos quips freddy hoping some better lines will come along it s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn t occur instaneously so being knocked unconscious wouldn t allow instant access into freddy s world though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isn t that high on the list of requirements br br the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane is the only one who gets to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallops and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients freddy s dead no laughs no scares no interest no fun br br some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the s but although it is undoubtedly brutal violent and very downbeat this film from pou soi cheang isn t really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch particularly if gritty hard edged action is your thing br br edison chen plays pang a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee is wai the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape until he meets yue a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse br br a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amazing sound design a haunting score and solid performances from chen and lee as well as newcomer pei pei as pang s love interest dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence think along the lines of chan wook park s vengeance trilogy stabbings shootings merciless beatings all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang br br of course this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film dies rather nasty deaths unfortunately there is a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in its final moments dog bite dog crosses it in a laughably over dramatic final scene pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on eventually after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue delivering their baby moments before he himself dies br br whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it s still worth seeking out i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn t that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can t stand up to his mom for the one he loves there s ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can t be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with gabriela way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under imdb had for rating i d choose that in a heartbeat absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say even though this movie did not get the best comments this movie made my day it got me thinking what a false world this is br br what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you it s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance same way some people are such that they are never grateful this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself br br a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster the surviving brother decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone br br amitabh gave the performance of his life the new actor aryan gave a good performance the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself br br a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movies always give some message to the audience his movies are like novels of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they are entertaining as well as lesson giving after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is mader with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind i can t say much about this film i think it speaks for itself as do the current ratings on here i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it i even tried to like it by watching it twice but i just couldn t i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and i m not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this was awful it wasn t even funny in the slightest the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie and it reminds me not to waste my money amy poehler is so very annoying too br br overall well i think you get my point the stars are for walken by the way i am not so old that i can t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood in new orleans an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr clinton reed richard widmark of the u s public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them br br panic in the streets discloses a simple story but it is still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive my vote is seven br br title brazil p nico nas ruas panic in the streets the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i can t believe national lampoon put its name on this don t buy it don t rent it don t waste hours of your life on this there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles schumer i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i m a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it s that important i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it s moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting out of ten yes i call this a perfect movie not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works it s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach br br barbara stanwyck is simply stunning there was nothing this actress couldn t do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outbursts with this lady i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interesting br br the title fits this movie very well it is about desires human desires i think everyone can understand actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here br br i liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock s shadow of a doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang s considerably harsher movie clash by night made one year earlier where stanywck stars in a similar part i can also recommend it i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that s the way of the world it s been about years since i ve seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn t take off like their counterparts in the early s but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently what so ever the acting was great the main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy i had some reservations about this movie i figured it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas being in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decided to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow br br this movie turned out to be one laugh after another ben affleck was believable in his character but the real star of this one is james gandofini he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great dad br br if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours definitely check this one out when i first saw this film around months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i m sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it s untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein s films as art focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i ve seen a few of his films and he hasn t yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is in brave new girl holly comes from a small town in texas sings the yellow rose of texas at a local competition and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i loved this movie it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace the acting was of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end it seems a sequel could be in the making kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production quite a gem in the film archives despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich d sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn t direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don t think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you ll find absolutely zero original content in the messengers what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don t be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn t there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn t anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there s any message that the messengers delivers it s don t waste your time on this movie this movie sucks ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there s nothing going for this movie whatsoever maybe seconds of sex but that s it there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off this movie is complete rash and you shouldn t subject yourself to watching it i regret it it s very boring i would rate it zero but i can t no body in their right mind should see this i m sure you ll regret it completely i did how could they think up something this bad even mystery men was better mystery men that sucks that movie wasn t worth being made complete waste of time the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn t really in the mood for it at that particular time it s kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i m still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers orange face lift my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk that d make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clich s predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn t bad enough sometimes you can t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would ve felt i had gotten my money s worth going into see seven pounds i wasn t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about so within the first min or so you are completely lost in the plot have no idea what is going on and you think tim who claims to be ben is just a big asshole all of this comes to an end when the twist so to speak is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to br br the acting of this film is great as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress rosario dawson to me this is one of her better movies aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film other actors such as woody harrelson have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film was still good br br this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped the movie however was still pretty good nothing is revealed until the last min of the movie and everything falls into place up until then it just seems like a pointless love story final thought seven pounds seven stars i saw brother s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he shows up there because his brother has died and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait marar xada really disappointed me i can t consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr ferm xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can t really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar xada maybe once also marar xada never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn t really important to the story that of marcial the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters the mad doctor s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy the results are not good this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors there isn t much zombie action in this one and the effects while adequate are nothing special you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes watch out for some nudity and bad language witty funny intelligent awesome i was flipping channels late one night years ago came across this and a wildfire started i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time please do yourself a favor run don t walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it s a win win situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of sanechaos it s a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he s much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you ll miss em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it s coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of ast rix the french comic books it s based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze g rard darmon and edouard baer and please don t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books ast rix et ob lix contre c sar and directed by claude zidi i thought this movie was stunning with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi br br cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerisms her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch br br although not each character was overtly beautiful this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time br br overall i thought this film was fantastic i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever made that is the robert wise paul newman flick somebody up there likes me that movie might be number but gentleman jim is a close number br br the movie doesn t just chronicle the rise of james j corbett it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more gentlemanly days of the gloved marquis of queensbury rules and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability br br gentleman jim is not a realistic look at those days it is romanticized and yes even a bit hokey at times but always delightfully so errol flynn is perfect as the gentleman jim who really isn t a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship and we all know it is of course love that will win that match in the end br br at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line was not i can lick any man in the world of course romanticism again hands over his belt to corbett this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch raging bull instead that is a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim is a lot more fun that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this is the only movie i ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander the quickening at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our cinema that there s no chance for an air america well there s no real plot to speak of it s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it s not in this case what else can i say about this the action when happening is inventive and there s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper one that has to be several miles high but overall there s not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but you re not missing much if you skip this one this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven t seen any of the others there are the usual ingredients it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently the story is just laughably idiotic and the film takes itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa br br but it has a few things going for it bo looks great the production values sets costumes etc are quite good and this greatly enhances its camp value in a strange way it is actually quite funny simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we re all different made of different clay as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that s the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one gets committed and obsession in committed starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is joline and this is her story br br admittedly joline has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it s forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he s gone off to find himself and figure it all out when joline realizes he s not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it s because of that clay she s made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space and not even letting him know she s there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma and it s her job to keep a spiritual vigil over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local eateries carmen s grampy alfonso arau who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her for joline it s a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br there s a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from joline s point of view as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br heather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that joline be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it s all a part of the character she creates there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she s a likable agreeable person and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it s a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life br br as carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with joline this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br overall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as joline s brother jay goran visnjic alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br the supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art alexakis new york car thief dylan baker carl s editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we re going and what we really need committed is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast are tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments this movie is stupid there s no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i ve ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i m rating this a br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn t leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br sara s father being a soldier the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart sara s friendship with becky and her adopting lottie although this last one wasn t developed as much as it could have been the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that s about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged and respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a feel good family film then this delivers if you re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you ve read the book don t waste time with this one it s such a shame with a cast like this if they d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early s and made everyone look bad and claimed we all made over a day when a day was much closer to reality when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work and offered me work i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least years and kept most in the bank and still left myself for nl and cash games at the casinos i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll instead i win about a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all i was only homeless cause i didn t wan na risk spending all my money and going broke sometimes i had over in my sock while i slept outside anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs im no longer homeless am now in govt housing for a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping worrying about getting caught by security are finally over had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner its a shame how they don t better select who they pick i really in enjoyed watching this movie like most of the people that watched it i wasn t sure that i was getting whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies i e sister act br br however this was not really comedy it is a drama with comedic moments so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking br br this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks but also about relations with in the black community i do think that it is worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn t for you having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn t seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what s going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts ch without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don t forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction acting atmosphere sound effect br br total ken burns baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball s early years and heroes there s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br hours is simply too long for the human attention span it s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it s not even a tight hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn t baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he s sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there s no crying in baseball quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clich s no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br hongshen jia is in his mid twenties he s a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he s the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn t know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br hongshen s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to ritan park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain grassy picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer s positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he s the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john s son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon s influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon s presence as does hongshen s need to re hang his hero s poster in his redecorated room br br if lennon s influence is spiriting hongshen s father s influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is fegsen s differences from his son that underwrites his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he s chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to hongshen s emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can t a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab inst he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects recede so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banishes his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen says of this movie it s a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it s homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw alien versus predator it too has an average grading of over stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn t here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con s brother by the way yes they re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won t tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it s filmed and paced badly it s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven t seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don t expect the thrills of the first although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars alec guinness produced an amazing body of work particularly in the s s ranging from dramas to quirky comedies i particularly love his comedies as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen far different from the usual fare from hollywood br br this being said this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies it s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere except for ealing studios which had a particular fondness for little films like this one br br guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work so he tends to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspects or at night and try his hand at inventing repeatedly he is caught such as after he blew up the lab and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds then despite the importance of the discovery he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events and then the fun begins br br the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry unions the government and people in general victor mclaglen s performance is one of the finest in film history br br i think we can all feel for gypo because we ve all struggled with what is right and what isn t and been wrong this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio rko radio pictures br br joseph h august s cinematography is at its very best here however august s stunning portion was mostly overlooked he didn t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved br br this is a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all conveyed with as little words as possible how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you d think it couldn t be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they re planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he s a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it s utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don t waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn it s peak years were between and one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle who had a small but fanatic cult of followers she was actually able to act unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks and her subsequent credits proved it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique br br gary graver the director was also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combined with monica gayle s screen presence makes sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drags and you won t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be this is the type of film that i ve been looking for ages particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago which i still keep thinking about the back cover doesn t do this film justice it s superb and in my top for sure i did not expect much from this film but boy o boy i did not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock is not showing a good act here you can t get the feeling that his caracter is real i think the movie would have been a bit better if it s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it in the making of they don t show a single smile this is a very bad film i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me but i did never laugh i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina flynn known mostly for his swashbuckling roles and his bedroom antics takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully playing real life boxing champ jim corbett flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist all the while setting one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men and a dog including a prominent judge the next day he gets a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge s private club he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club s resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers up to and including the world champion john l sullivan bond flynn is downright magical here he is the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he looks terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit and does virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn at this stage he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time and she does so admirably she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell bond is incredibly burly brawny and towering yet tender when the script calls for it amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn s manager the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed a few of the sets are amazingly presented some of smith s gowns border on the garish but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well it s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing but it s also so much more some of it like the character traits shown by flynn is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes but a lot of it is authentic like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes one line is particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it s classic romantic dialogue and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett plot centers on two chauffers who ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single ladies quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel wins his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he loses he must play bottom man to his friend br br lots of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa br br hilarious fun thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero s and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person s memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by s flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost flatliners bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally fubarred in it s execution elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies it has every thing you would want in a film like great one liners sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not seen it you are missing out on one of the greatest films made i can t wait till her new movie comes out i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful especially since it was based on a true man pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl the photography was beautiful br br this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl i want to read as much as i can about him at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it but i am not surprised i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing i gave it the highest rating however i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house br br you can t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i d probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood s golden age of the s and s however no matter how much i love their films i just can t recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven t yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda s behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it s all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can t stay mad at fonda because he s so i can t think of the right word creepy is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don t go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic i was debating between this movie and but chose inglourious basterds due to it s amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it s that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve the song choices are really good hush my child just move on up to your destination and you make boundaries and complications anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review bend it like beckham great flick directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle s living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger s where the sidewalks ends from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg br br dana andrews is the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks when he hit someone his knuckles hurt and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain gary merrill who points up the title why are you always trying to push me in the gutter he asks andrews i have as much right on the sidewalk as you br br dana andrew s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden painful discovery that he is the son of a thief his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta br br by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrews and gene tierney of laura are united once more and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crooks this time he goes too far and accidentally kills a suspect the killing is accidental the victim worthless yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail br br using his knowledge of police procedure he covers up his part in the crime plants false clues and tries to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigating the case himself the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise br br the film is one of the best detective films of the s with curious moral values also one of preminger s best br br preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism in sum overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy is not very funny and juvenile additionally the film is not really realistic liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover s son by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball s chance in hell the actors do their best and are appealing but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing editing and lack of focus incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the min one that i watched but i can t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i d heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn t much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it s tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o toole who makes a most memorable tiberius oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i d like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br out of from ozjeppe did anyone edit this film or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes it s ok though i fell asleep watching it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot is actually not the worst i ve seen but it s close the acting is not the worst i ve seen either but it s close the production well i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life not trying to be spiteful but unhinged could have used some more production br br please don t think i m a hater of horror films or even that i didn t enjoy this film i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it the gruesome moments were not too poorly done but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget br br characters seemed awkwardly developed or ignored all together twist ending was pretty bad and the exposition took forever without exposing much br br i d recommend avoiding this movie br br riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of teen movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie has is so misleading in years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn t enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can t leave because the moment he does he knows he ll be arrested br br boyer s performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i ll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn t enter the casbah that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn t enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he s shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent man with the screaming brain certainly isn t a perfect movie but i m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don t make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of william s body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he s writing his own films you d think he d give himself a role that he hasn t been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn t an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn t been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it s your choice br br enjoy tell the truth i m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after having seen it i was really a disappointed and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie br br i m surprise at this movie all completely it is like a kid s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing i m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account br br synopsis the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak br br just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done the story is very predictable though expected and the humor is lame and haven t we already seen the same characters play by mc lovin in so many other movies like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep br br well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay and the acting is so so as expected when you re watching this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer and that movie also sucks but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie br br anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie can t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone br br pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes br br cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kids do not mix together br br rating grade f this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia kerbridge does a great job as a woman of who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayo stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent s murder that she has become mute needless to say julia s hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia s sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip s location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy s hideout in a luxury packard wouldn t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they re spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don t get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of that s how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole br br without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically so it isn t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s br br the film is lighthearted you ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe all of the film s characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfections br br i ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance is this synchronous or what i think so because now i m really geeked to give it a try br br watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again br br why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery as it is perfect as is recap something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former seti worker is brought in to decipher the message problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turns awkward especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly soon the object is in the open the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity it is decided to open the object but just before that is done julian decodes the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes as it is finally breached and two things unleashed on earth the first is an alien that had been dormant in the object and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff and washington that is suspiciously updated on this historic event decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica br br comments the movie holds a few surprises one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful well worked through and a lot better than expected unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own and this time not in a good way actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes it is never really explained why washington know so much why washington is able to command russian submarines why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language and obviously chose english why but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encoded and finally the end is as open as an end can be br br the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good br br this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it features a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix i d have a couple of hours of my life back i m frankly suspicious when i see that a film s director also wrote it in this case according to the credits the same guy was writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there were a few interesting moments e g judy tenuta s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism which led me to rate this two stars rather than one those moments however were few and far between and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in its violence i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i d seen the whole thing nope though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later the spinning camera technique was overused and essentially pointless i found myself talking to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommended the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling well documented and enraging as an american i am constantly humiliated by my country s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this is probably the first john pilger documentary i ve seen but it immediately made me want to see what else he s done my only complaint and the reason i gave this film only out of is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction but makes no suggestion of how to help i don t know about britain but america s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government s doings a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders cause this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don t say i didn t warn you this is a very memorable spaghetti western it has a great storyline interesting characters and some very good acting especially from rosalba neri her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic she steals every scene she is in and expresses so much with her face and eyes even when she s not speaking her performance is very believable she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top not that there s anything wrong with being over the top mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too br br the music score is excellent and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie whether you want it to or not there are a couple of parts that are very amusing i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot there s also lots of slick gun play that s very well done br br i would probably have given this movie or stars if it wasn t for two things the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about minutes into the film this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie it is very poorly choreographed and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy but this is a more serious western and the brawl really needed to be more realistic the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma s cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasn t at all funny all i can say is where is tuco when you need him br br all that having been said let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned and all fans of the genre need to see this movie the plot michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there s romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in it must be emphasized that this movie is a story st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin in the rain dick van dyke carl reiner s the comic what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett s film legacy it doesn t take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett s and mabel normand s life the character michael linnett connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael sinnott and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie throwings the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in with about films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next years in he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack s wandering willies is done in the road to hollywood used some of sennett s crosby films years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie s punctured romance with sound in he was honored on tv s this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who got involved with adam hoss and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western br br perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights people have relationships some go good some not so good it s just life and we re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor s nobility intact but that s if bonanza were done today br br but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped the secret of bonanza s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children the kids were all different in personality but all came together in a pinch br br the cartwrights became and still are an american institution i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that br br pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show rumor has it he didn t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious perhaps if it were done now he d have liked it better in the way i describe br br this was just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control little joe was the youngest most hot headed but the most romantic of the cartwrights br br when roberts left the show kept going with the two younger sons but when big dan blocker left the heart went out of bonanza other characters had been added on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family br br so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city it doesn t look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits is the cartwright home the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fans the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real br br and if they weren t real they should have been years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn t sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director s cut or in this case let s salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut scenes from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are minutes into it and we still don t know what s going on or why we re watching what s going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone s death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there s no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews and edwards previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it s no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i ll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie s mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird s eye view of julie running towards hudson s plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence i m like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where s peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that s one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film stars but it s effect is diminished considerably because it s repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man s land is ok even if it s bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she s on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she s no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release this series made for televisi n espa ola tve is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato s r le as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers i want the minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers an observation which mystifies me not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars e g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudors james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing br br when the biographies and accomplishments of the director even when he won an academy award and the actors are listed this film is usually omitted from their past performances i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films however it is seldom every seen on cable i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known it s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good of all the movies of the seventies none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel i mean yes there were movies like the exorcist and other ones but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars my absolute favorites were eli wallach sylvia miles and burgess meredith then there are the subtle clues that lead to what s going on too pay close attention i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like black and white cat black and white cake plus the books are really good as well i m just sorry that they re not going to turn the second book into a film it s so scary that it would outdo this movie this is apparently the second remake of this film having been filmed before in and and in so many ways it reminds me of the later film a yank at oxford both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both ultimately show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency in this film william haines is tom brown and his main rival bob is played by frances x bushman and in a supporting role is jack pickford always remembered as the brother of mary of these three pickford comes off the best as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom s pal he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clich s are there and the movie because it was done so many times before and since offers few surprises however it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing br br in my opinion for a better silent college film try harold lloyd s the freshman it s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such as in westpoint and the smart set among others and if you ve seen one of these films you ve seen them all well made but certainly not original and because it is just a rehash of his other films anyone giving the film a score of is strongly advised to see these other films br br i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the talk about over rated there are dozens and dozens of better films how this film got to be is anyone s guess this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that s holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let s face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there s one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it s shakespeare s so any adaptation if it s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that s what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it s the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame owen loves his mamma only he d love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn t a great film it s too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it s a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can t write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn t come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus girls i d like to pork br br then there s devito s owen lift who calls himself professor donner s star pupil even though the teacher won t read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we d be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner s help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner s hated ex then tells the professor it s his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock s strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here she s not a woman she s the terminator one little murder and i m jack the ripper those are all crystal s words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito s and ramsey s apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that s a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation the only time i ve seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and when momma says he doesn t have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it you lied to me he yells out slamming the professor s forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn t groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn t disappeared from films of course but it s a mystery why he hasn t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it s because as throw momma from the train s lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn t to everyone s tastes that s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united states br br just cause br br starring sean connery laurence fishburne and blair underwood br br a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves br br this film is set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent the premise about people who s lives are going nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs could have made for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i m suprised it hasn t been banned x and y are friends x is sleeping with z y sleeps with z as well oh you figure it out br br a total waste of time painful dialogue it sounded like something that a group of year olds would have written for a gcse drama project the female character was completely superfluous just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it br br if you re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run don t walk away from this sorry little misfit br br and one question when the group left the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film to go back to glasgow why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar but is totally worthwhile it really reminds me of the old serials from the s and s which is why i d have loved to see follow up movies but judging by the rest of full moon s output there simply weren t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which is unfortunate because without em this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great i wasn t sure if ms nipar hadn t wandered off an a list picture onto this film she was very believable no seriously anyway it s a shame they didn t have the bucks to license dr strange because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom a truly muddled incomprehensible mess most things in the film look more or less like but then there are futuristic things just thrown in like the policeman s ray gun and that car the director seemed to be in love with colored lights the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie but since there was no cast listing i don t know which actress that was this one is worth missing grade f it doesn t happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george crile s best seller charlie wilson s war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie s angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach em to type but you can t teach em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson s war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie s team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four academy awards and nine nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he s aided abetted and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency s boardroom and in wilson s bedroom br br for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie s team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren t so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it s like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as nichol s film so pointedly points out the ball you ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you ve lost interest in it mike krzyzewski knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn t so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn t let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again i m a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you d expect from a smart aleck year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church s fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm if you re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau s early work this ludicrous film offers the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bores us in the process its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups a naive young hippy played by the waif like kay lenz hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys and then one day she meets the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor and she decides that she is in love with him if you think that is superficial the whole film encapsulates such scenes she keeps saying how much she loves him and she only met him it wears thin and really quick i couldn t help but laugh throughout the film its obvious she s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s is also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d this film was pretty good i am not too big a fan of baseball but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc br br danny glover joseph gordon levitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport the plot was believable and i love the message william dear and the guys put together a great movie br br most sports films revolve around true stories or events and they often do not work well but this film hits a on the perfectness scale even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there br br for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film the ending is superb the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong br br examples quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seems to affect the event solid particles can pass through barriers all of this so far is accurate but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this is complete poppycock instead the theory asserts that at our level it is possible for you to walk through a wall but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief also you d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall the odds are so astronomically against it br br this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer played by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate there may be some truth to that but quantum physics has nothing to do with it br br plus string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays instead of wasting your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hour long episodes quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie one of my sisters friends lent me this game and it is too damn hard it carries the appearance of a kids game but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions and you have to search seemingly endless levels for notes to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them and i am only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it is definately not recommended for kids they will pull their hair out within the hour chuck jones s rabbit seasoning the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello s who s on next routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you re despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones s impeccable timing as you ll come across rabbit seasoning is a true classic a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear also alas an ending that comes out of nowhere because apparently the auteur has lost interest in the movie or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot crossfire is a justifiably famous noir that s a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph samuels sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuels winds up dead br br i don t know about but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don t suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role she s a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don t know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie skippy from family ties plays eddie a wussy metal nerd who gets picked on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr dies he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead metal idol he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge but then he doesn t want to take it as far as sammi does which isn t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from family ties i haven t a clue the cameo by gene simmons is ok and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one br br my grade d br br eye candy elise richards gets topless an a topless extra at a pool party of course i would have to give this film out of as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over years living in italy he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing so rodolfo sonego did if you check out his biography you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories my uncle visited australia and my town in to check out locations for a girl in australia and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movies i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently great goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history their is no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ of its time br br this was not a bond game based on material from another medium this was a completely new scripted game which even had its own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay was excellent and if you re a fan of the bond games or films alike you ll enjoy it br br unlike some most games these cast members portrayed their characters themselves as opposed to fictional creations for the game which gives it that more cinematic feel with a very bond able storyline you feel like you re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie br br enjoyable in all aspects from start to finish even after beating the game there s still plenty more to be done with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved as well as its multi player missions this is a stand out game despite being quite old now in video game years it s still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just thinking about it i ve got the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and well written storyline br br the story comes to life on the screen almost as if the actors were their in front of you and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself superbly done in true bond fashion which can only be named awesome completely awesome br br i ve got ta go throw this game on now if you haven t played it yet you re missing out helena bonham carter is the center of this movie she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh was tolerable the movie itself was good not exceptional if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a thumbs in the middle review remarking that i d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode i ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june and as a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show is utter crap br br everything s wrong with it everything getting past just the lousy animation and design the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories br br and for god s sake is it just me or is the joker in every episode is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system or again is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains see no character development above br br and to make matters worse every single joker tale is the same part formula br br joker gasses people br br joker sets out to gas the whole city br br batman saves the day br br pfeh br br there was one episode i saw that wasn t a joker story the title escapes me but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that was the single worst batman story i ve ever seen heard or read yes worse than i ve got batman in my basement br br i can t really say what i feel this show is because it s probably against the tos but it starts with b and rhymes with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc era of bat entertainment back from the fox and kids wb days stuff that good and i should have known this just couldn t possibly have lasted forever unfortunately just because someone is under the age of does not mean they are stupid if your child likes this film you d better have him her tested i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad this film is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing is horrid i can t remember when i ve heard such bad dialogue the songs are beyond wretched the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much who decided to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he is ugly as sin br br the worst thing is the obviousness of it all it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible great children s movies are wicked smart and full of wit films like shrek and toy story in recent years willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo yes that s right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood hey babu riba is a film about a young woman mariana nicknamed esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps years old in belgrade yugoslavia the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz blue jeans or anything american it seems br br the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties in the wake of changing communist politics they go their separate ways and reunite in the year before the film was made br br i enjoyed the film with some reservations the subtitles for one thing were difficult especially in the beginning there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all perhaps the conversational pace required it but i couldn t always both read the text and absorb the scene which caused me to not always understand which character was involved i watched the movie a video from our public library with a friend and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative br br this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bonds to each other there is a main flashforward and it was intriguing keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the cast and what had actually happened br br i would rate it out of and would like to see other films by the director jovan acin after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose mcgowan who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil encurralados trapped this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy s law being applied to home ownership and construction if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it was set in the simpler forties we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturbing hilarious these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire from wobbly garbled beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout br br our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms when the father separates from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie you re about to watch father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit and is polite as he gets people s attention before he shoots them but alas dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about feet behind them he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly wastes the mother this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred br br so now we fast forward about years if you re honest about the hero s age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves or diamond prospectors or something ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods while bo masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty drives around the desert in his denim outfits bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they don t seem to have any friends other than each other and they spend all of their time together that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as you know its a shame you re my sister he says to her while she s stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas and he is overjoyed with his new love br br so anyway there s a lot of fun action scenes ridiculous violence great acting impossible to follow plot lines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond which later explodes all of these things are great but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire you may be glad you did or not i am so disappointed this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses woody i ve seen these characters already i ve seen the storyline from you ten times already where did your creativity go you need to open your eyes and look around you the world has changed dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it br br there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again br br when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out it does nothing for me because now i ve come to expect his old standby the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating depressing and same old same old br br if woody wants to win his fans back then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated not insulted this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff predictable from beginning to end as a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr limpet was much better with knott s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant his performance there was toned down with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile much as bob denver did neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles assuming they were simply typecast it was probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the high pitched voice john ritter whom knotts worked with in three s company was able to transcend his genre branching out successfully into dramatic roles like the dreamer of oz but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in airplane and police squad br br there s also no way the then year old knotts could pass for a year old as his character insisted he was it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at playing the college age forrest gump br br the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode it s especially evident in the exterior scenes of the town where roy goes after he s fired it s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality br br even viewing this strictly as a children s movie it s very disappointing it s not because it lacks action or special effects although it does the pace is much too slow the situations repetitive how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap with breakneck gags otherwise you risk boring them and any adults in the theater as well movies even kid s movies have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written disney s the love bug for instance at least had some interesting race action if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world s freighters are of questionable registry nationality and it s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don t have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it s fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it s more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate okok everything you will need about minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get minutes of fun br br i m from hongkong and it s really hard to find rpers none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books dices game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both gamers s real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game br br i don t want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i m sure you still get many fun from it in all honesty i haven t seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can t risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don t know if it s available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don t want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked you d think you re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel miles or so from france to saudi arabia going through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arriving in the middle east but this is not a tour and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights br br reda s father is in his twilight years and wishes to do the haj however since walking and taking the mule is out of the question he chooses to travel to mecca by car he can t drive and therefore enlists the help of reda to his son s protest to get him there in their broken down vehicle br br but reda doesn t see the point of having him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn t understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son being not the best of pals br br the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenges they face the weird people they meet having to duke it out in varied weather conditions and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other the father trying to impose on his son and the son trying to assert himself as an adult but circumstances we see reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water through the many encounters they actually team up quite well despite their differences br br it s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination br br it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are don t miss this and yes book early i was pleasantly surprised that this evening s session was still a full house i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won t make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don t see what it is flashback hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it s a complete failure a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store after he s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he ll be transferring soon bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals animals like say a certain rabbit this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early s it still remains as funny nearly years later this animated short can be seen on disc of the looney tunes golden collection volume br br my grade a i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in for two reasons br br host steve martin was at his most wittiest i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and i ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle s head in my bed br br surprise winners no one had adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeers and boos but they won br br last year s award ceremony wasn t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn t the best in the trilogy fellowship was much better but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics obviously they are i m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers br br chris rock wasn t too bad but he s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the minor oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats there s no such thing as a minor oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they re as well deserved as best picture or best director all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history as for the awards themselves br br best supporting actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category br br best supporting actor morgan freeman no real complaints since freeman is one of america s greatest living character actors br br best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn br br best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night br br best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he d never won one actually i m glad about this because if he didn t deserve it for taxi driver raging bull or goodfellas he didn t deserve it for the aviator br br best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off br br what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven t done in the past i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd s sake and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts while in a plane flicking through the large choice of movies i came across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice br br i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride i don t remember last time i have been so excited terrified not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can t turn away from the screen literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you ve got br br you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from thinking how come the human being can be so vicious to why not after all ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestants their motives and start guessing you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe br br good acting good directing with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more br br spoilers couple of things i would have changed br br the casting of the contestants i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid it felt like you didn t care about some of the contestants although this might have been done on purpose i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants game rules a big glitch br br what happens if the th contestants doesn t die when he pulls the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have given a chance to all contestants to live ie if th is a blank too then no one dies br br interestingly i haven t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time just wish i had some popcorn with me ah another movie with motorcycles hell s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve s rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda rrrr makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you messin wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die a rating of does not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is i feel dumber after watching the first min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is a good movie don t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for once in a life time movies keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like toback took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn t the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of i like ghost stories good ghost stories of bumps in the night voices that can not be explained now i ve see many of them as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films some times to find a real gem you got ta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called the new house was one of the most scariest films i ever saw it was on once in i was only but nothing since then even compared to it with all the remake going on in hollywood some one should do this one as is with no more special efx than the original this episode was down right creepy as hell i m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost stories to even come close was the original the haunting and george c scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost stories like these okay i ve watched this movie twice now i have researched it heavily on the net i have asked several people on there opinions i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie is supposed to be based on i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it as the plot of the movie doesn t seem to make any sense at all here is the plot of the book br br laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work and explains that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter carmilla for several months soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams and begins to come down with a strange illness who is this mysterious carmilla and just what has she to do with laura s condition and the general br br i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it and let me know what their results are i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i can t be bothered with that it s called the this movie doesn t make any sense game br br all you have to do is whilst watching the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening i mean complete all questions answered everything makes sense absolutely complete br br it will have to answer such questions as br br why can vampires walk around in day light br br why are they all lesbians br br why is a girl called bob and why does she shoot herself br br when is the movie a dream and when is it real br br why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn t make anyone bat an eyelid br br why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she is a zombie too br br and why does he then let a girl which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire drive with him in his car br br and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car br br what the hell is the asylum scene all about br br what the hell is the green goo all about br br why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse br br why are there never any vampires fighting zombies br br what is the significance of the necklace what is it made of why does it kill vampires and how does jenna know that br br in fact sod it it s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too br br i have my plot and i have to admit it is not quite there but it is a pretty good effort br br in conclusion br br vampires vs zombies has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it is based on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell is going on this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two orderlies the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the orderlies are gay the orderlies kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny it said comedy on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn t this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn t br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the mechanics i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can t not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi vai this story about three women is a very sensitive study about muri l charlotte van den eynde the youngest laura els dottermans who is about and martha frieda pittors the oldest who is the mother of muri l they live together in the same building they have different expectations of life the vital laura wants a child muri l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something for instances an accident which could dramatize this story as times goes on you discover that the director doroth e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case so one is left with a feeling of emptiness first and foremost i loved the novel by ray bradbury it s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later it was one of his best books with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i as just hoping that this movie would be all right it had lots of chances with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even wrote the script himself and on top of all that it has pam grier br br how could it fail br br there may be spoilers within br br first of all it was dumbed down much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book gone everything that made you squirm gone br br and then there s the acting like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the s the kids in this movie can not act and this bugged me a lot neither of them looked but or their strong friendship wasn t addressed it was more like they were acquaintaces br br you d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr halloway and mr dark but here it s like they just don t care all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something this is far from being some of their best performances br br pam grier was fine as the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn t well pulled off she s a lot less evil and doesn t have the presence as she did in the book br br and everything that was left out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jim s house the real death of mr dark what happened to mr coogan on the merry go round the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more br br and the special effects were bad even for the s the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn t really creepy and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything br br i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel but it makes blood boil don t see this movie but read the book it s a classic of bradbury this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in i remember him playing in a great film lost weekend ray plays the role of michael stuart who is a very rich banker there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose as a very rich count his name is count ariszted misha auer who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convicts started applauding which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this is deanna durbin s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas having reserved a special slot for it last night i sat down to watch it with my daughter aged and a film studies student with chocolates of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin br br after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk the shaky camera shots and angles general poor cinematography direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied despondent we viewed on br br anne played by sally hawkins looked oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasions breaking our hard won fantasy of the moment and engaging us directly in an almost i ll find you stalking fashion br br poor rupert penry jones who played captain wentworth did his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they paid him well however as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall drenching him and his co actor they were nearly swept out to sea health and safety would have had a field day poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place br br other than mr penry jones alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott br br towards the long awaited end of the film captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being in contrast anne ran hyper ventilating from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told in the course of only three or four minutes without even having worked up a sweat br br we experienced none of anne s charms crossing the screen indeed we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain spineless opinion less anne and why someone anyone did not tell mean winging sir walter to just shut the heck up br br the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment was painfully drawn out as they moved in closer anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met eww br br the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been br br what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story filmed in some of england s finest scenery br br sorry jane if you like sci fi monsters and ancient legends then you will love this movie br br the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago while the acting may have been a little less than desirable the story line and effects adequately compensated for it br br i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv br br if you like non stop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore you have to see this movie a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and clich at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton s first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major hit american werewolf in london also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn t read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either therory wouldn t surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don t watch this film that s all i can say unless you re an insomniac what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he s always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn t watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it s face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film s title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren t all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of a killer cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem are back on the case two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish br br the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out now i m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible if it wasn t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep there is a bit of gore but it s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line br br the ending is extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel br br days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you re trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven s plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don t let it happen to you in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early s in disney s laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where iwerks continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn t really popular and by the studio was closed later that year iwerks was hired by columbia pictures and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br s skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that s about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it s not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it s hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference iwerks did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn t mean it s necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all iwerks executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while denat s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk s flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it s still a fun film to watch br br it s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney s main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can t help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that iwerk s skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br yes indeed it could have been a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but is not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly told the image is sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted the sound needs more attention it usually does in romanian movies the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action about the acting sorry but the best actress is the landlady the others are acting immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting is poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it s a picture for adults told by the children bother only if extremely curious you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you re a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as spago and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world s most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry s longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and made his debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let s face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i ve seen the movie at least that s how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn t have that much appeal to it and i don t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let s just say it s a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you ll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world s most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you re ready good day james this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class their problems relationships and interactions with each other it should have managed a wider distribution as it s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time br br the swimming instructor is an almost olympian reduced to teaching adults basic lessons and often the target of horndogging from his female students he attempts more or less to fend them off with varying results br br the students characters are mainstream u s a teachers policemen college students and retired people all of whom haven t learned to swim for some reason the movie covers their relationships including friends relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class several subplots provide amusing fodder including a teacher going through a divorce some high school students making a documentary and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys br br this is a good date movie or just one to watch when you re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch i watched six of a kind for w c fields he s only in it for around minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the reamaining minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j pinkham whinney he is everyone s foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracie s funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don t remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with ruggles where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields though the situation is constantly funny the whinneys are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited edmund lowe who reminds me somewhat of warren william heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour br br douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast everyone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h b warner as an added bonus there s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective and furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film br br on the plus side the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled it s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense br br nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner this movie is lame and not funny at all the plot doesn t even make sense some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter gets sucked through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she s more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witches or something and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie i m sure the topless girls doesn t hurt there either the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing who are these people and what are they doing basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things like the other dimension and book seller than make it confusing i didn t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal i don t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid i can t think of any part of the movie that was good although i was hoping that i d like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i d call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie imagine this a high school except it s boarding school and the kids don t have parents around oh and it s in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren t any reasonable rules like how they have co habitation nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here s the story a girl zoey brooks attends pca a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she s the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don t even come close to zoey s perfection we re bad people in the show nothing s her fault and if anyone contradicts her they re portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they re normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can t afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i m too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey what s the for anyway is nick s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn t like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set s pretty i had been amazed by director antal s kontroll back in his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn t really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time first of all the reason i m giving this film stars instead of is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo he alone can get stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie br br i was initially all fired up at reading one poster s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave the performance of his career to me it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment then i thought to myself what else has stevens done so i checked and you know that person was absolutely right in the years since this columbo movie was made apparently every one of the projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career br br if you like columbo see every other of the titles before watching this one do yourself a favor and save the worst for last this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can t his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian chapa is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn t enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems nonetheless to be regarded as a perfect catch by any woman that runs across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film he s a hero whom it s very difficult to empathize with so the movie is in trouble right from the start however it s troubles don t end there it has the production values of a tv movie check out that head made of clay or something near the end and the ending cheats in a way that i can t reveal in case anyone wants to see the movie highly unlikely let s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it s been years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don t want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i ll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i m respect my opinions but it s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can t figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i m sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today during the clete roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood s poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events i decided to watch this one because it s been nominated for oscar this year i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie but ended up bored and disappointed first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hands camera mode is really annoying br br i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this br br american military machine people who makes money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something sort of patriotic br br why these heroic efforts of director and the main character to inspire the audience with an idea of loving war like a drug oh please come on what a bore br br watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying food i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those quiet movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called horror movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so innocent but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it s like a riff on james m cain s the postman always rings twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he s not around and she s at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for seki and a little extra they re soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let s just say a shave he knows that he ll find out and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it s literally at least to them at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji changes gears into the kaidan a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji and her reactions to gisaburo s re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry gisaburo s ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn t know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that senses maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seiko s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death s connections to one another inextricably it s a classic waiting to be discovered i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what jaguars are for cars top of the line perfecto what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing style sorry i have no other words for it sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en i was under the impression that something didn t smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wan na be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim renart michael par and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory renart goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it s a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder gerrick turns in as a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won t spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at minutes sanctimony is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn t get enough money to pay for the location it s the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra s services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who s working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak s apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you d want to bring up your family this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff in depth novels in to a hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the s to the s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with akasha s plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven t read the books you won t understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch must see it will hate it have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a worst case scenario of playing strong feelings accompanied by some bad acting don t waist your time this movie xadsnt entertaining if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy br br i give this it really was awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it its all the good things this movie isn t an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat don t listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone breaks in if you re wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don t listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are benefits that jill has shes a fast runner and is on the track team she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don t listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i m a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy twinkles cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there s no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio s baron munchausen as well as jimmy durante however decades later it s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts br br as for the stooges this is a film from there very early days before mgm had any idea what to do with the team at this point they were known as ted healy and his stooges as healy was the front man fortunately for the stooges they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man read up on him you ll see what i mean and the rest is history within a year they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy such as the films of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they left for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady and oddly in this film they didn t act as a team they just did various supporting roles such as larry playing the piano br br this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle when they are rescued and brought home all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there as for pearl i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films as he has the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome as for durante i never knew what the public saw in him as least as far as his films are concerned he was loud and loud he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton s career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat br br in this film the stooges they didn t yet have the right chemistry seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd what they did in the film was pretty good but because all the segments were short they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines stooges fans might be very frustrated at this though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films oh and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly br br overall the film is rather dull and disappointing however there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing look carefully as this is walter brennan in a role you d certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film is the clean as a whistle song starting at about minutes into the film this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called pre code scene that never would have been allowed in films after when the production code was strengthened despite the word clean in the title it s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it s quite shocking when seen today though such excesses were pretty common in the early s finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades see the film you ll see that i mean when carol vanessa hidalgo starts looking into her brother s death she begins to suspect something more sinister than natural causes the closer she gets to the truth the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanists they ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways br br if you re into sleazy satanic themed movies black candles has a lot to offer the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed unfortunately all the sleaze in the world can t save black candles most of the movie is a total bore other than the one scene i ve already mentioned the numerous sex scenes aren t shocking and certainly aren t sexy the acting is spotty at best even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance the plot really doesn t matter its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together i m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror black candles comes off as amateurish is about the best i can do one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killers zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off the film is constructed as a murder mystery or a cold case style thriller it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills br br some people dislike any movie that is shot on video this attitude is very old style and provincial it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value these attitudes are on the way out zodiac killer is a low budget film no doubt but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem i ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school britney bashing etc etc so let s focus on the movie and the message br br i have rated this movie out of for the age range to years and for a family movie for the average adult male out of br br i like pop rock music i m i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews i didn t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any self promotion br br i watch movies to be entertained i don t care about casting lighting producers directors etc what is the movie and does it entertain me br br i watched this movie for the message the world s greatest epidemic is low self esteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest the movie is light bright and breezy great for kids i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don t give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable great message though should be more of them br br this movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies it is filled with super surfer greg noll s home movies and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory it is filled with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots nor are they surgeons perhaps or ph d s again perhaps it believes in the quest of the surfer it believes in the beauty of human goofiness it believes in the great gift of peace which comes from the cessation of war surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war with the russian socialists surfing is the ultimate narcissism it is dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received this movie has no military heroes it has no guns the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop this is not a problem peace is not desperate it is the joy of exhalation i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal dimensional strings although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching this movie was so badly written directed and acted that it beggars belief it should be remade with a better script director and casting service the worst problem is the acting you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished professional and totally believable and on the other hand ri chard who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning and keeping couple although both normally do fine work the actors and director should not have attempted to do accents at all they are inconsistent and unbelievable much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english the casting is ludicrous why have children of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society been cast with very pale skinned actors while the supposedly socially desirable marcel has pronounced african features including an obviously dyed blond fro it s as if the casting directors can not be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color it s just so weird this could be a great movie and should be re made but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors there are plenty of good actors out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction when i was a younger oh about i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn t exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it s a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney s praises cries of super deeee doooper make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there he certainly was a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew but even mcqueen can t save this turkey of a film shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st louis br br mcqueen s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang there s more than a broad hint that there s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke he s not liked at all by the other heist members mainly because of his lack of criminal resume br br steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke all pretty rough characters that would certainly get my suspicions aroused br br the great st louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn t do much of anything one of those two jokers decided steve s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation br br this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen i m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can t believe they would have if they saw this br br or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren t married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he s not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it tacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women s prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women s prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she s pregnant with his love child he s indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he s innocent but he s convicted and it sure sounds like he s a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne s character and it s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black s humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it s only minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d s humor simply couldn t work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you re a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth bucks i don t think so i was tempted to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a seems more appropriate just be sure it s your style i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff the game before watching the movie relies on the audience s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it ll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through ff once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if you re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it s a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there s only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you ll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you re retarded if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don t reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credits as a mst k episode this one wasn t very good for two reasons this one is from the season on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can t wait to see lola while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy donald martin who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn t feel shy with a waitress who comes from brooklyn like he does soon joe notices he s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney s anchors aweigh is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch once again in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of the year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave it s so energetic if you knew susie like i know susie is quite funny it s a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell it s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango jealousy the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world or everytown through years you can break it up into about different scenes or parts the film spans from to and is mainly about how this ruler or the boss wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again after everytown was bombed and war broke out br br this film only has about faults it s audio is muddy and video had some quirks the characters aren t deep at all and the overall plot isn t altogether solid the plot is lacking something that i can t put my finger on it just seems a little fluffy but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g wells though might happened in the next hundred years this is a must see it s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing a long drawn out war because they were just about to go to war with germany and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything br br things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once weak stale tired cliched wants to be basic instinct but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives new insights insipid trite grotesque and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity oh wait it was only minutes long it must have just seemed a lot longer i d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again i m expressing an opinion here i guess this means i didn t like it one word can describe this movie and that is weird i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting well it was the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not very strange if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem i don t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right br br the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle thrown together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on br br i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring but all in all a excellent movie this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors so what went wrong i don t know and simply i don t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid very stupid plot twists devices i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather what about lock stock thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film i ll not comment a lot what s to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about colombia s reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it s beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you ll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it s the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn t it etc etc it has been a long time i haven t seen a movie so bad this movie is a riot i can not remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies i ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny but this one is wall to wall great lines i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in the movie was non stop until the end when they did the minutes of sentimental plot clean up other than that it s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations i d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don t get all the jokes the first time around you have to see it two or three times to get it all in br br as far as the actual film goes it could have used a better edit it s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that all the characters are great it s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable no victims in this movie also thank god they got a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film you just wish that women like her really existed she s not a like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite br br if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer does not do it justice they do not give away all the good jokes just some of the mediocre ones br br oh and one more thing i hope critics put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedies don t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don t put it on their list this means you ebert a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth things must be pretty bad back on mars two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner br br the diner has had no customers since eleven o clock that morning now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus although he didn t notice who they were the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed one of them is an alien but which one all of them are suspect there s the crazy old man jack elam of course who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit there s a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couples nobody has noticed anyone else and even the couples are suspicious of each other bride to newly minted husband i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone rings for no reason the lights go on and off the juke box turns itself on and none of it is to be taken seriously br br it s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle there is no discernible depth to it it s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens it s not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses br br i always enjoy it when it s on it s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman knowing that in he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm s version of shakespeare s play and here he is with three arms br br oops it s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created and how bias its product was br br i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinians in prison i understand restrictions are in place but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace br br i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence so to speak she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber s parents and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control it is more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignored pleas for understanding and freedom ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land br br i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seems exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it is a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn t quite get the director s intentions if any i wonder if she s ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you ll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it s just me this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space as a history of space flight it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it disney has shown it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again in an alternate s where an outbreak of the undead caused by a mysterious space dust has been contained through the use of special electronic collars a young loner timmy finds a friend in fido billy connelly his family s recently acquired domesticated zombie br br fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hot to trot wife played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss having been psychologically scarred as a child when he was forced to shoot his own father who tried to eat him br br timmy runs into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal s collar goes on the blink and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour with the authorities on fido s trail trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend br br a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick fido is a thoroughly entertaining deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into s small town america is a stroke of genius and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole reanimated dead theme that i have seen br br connelly s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead s bub and return of the living dead s tarman it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus the rest of the cast also give commendable performances with young k sun ray as timmy and ms moss deserving special mentions ray because for one so young he puts in a particularly assured turn and moss because she is so bloody yummy br br this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it is also the best director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future br br out of rounded up to for imdb an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as mills and boon so what it is good to see a warm touching story of real love in these cynical times many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other even though for political reasons it was an arranged marriage i did feel though that sir john conroy who was desperate to control the young queen is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain as it is rumoured that he was in fact the real father of victoria as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have been interesting to explore this theory emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england which prospered as never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer first off i have to say that i loved the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it was great we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial the movie was so disappointing to me the movie cuts out some characters and misses a lot of the main points of the book it skips around a lot and doesn t explain anything in detail if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book they would be confused the most disappointing thing in this movie to me was the ending the ending in the book was the most powerful and in the movie they changed it it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of melting together but instead the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs to sum up i don t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner s name on the cover it s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn t very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i m sure it was it doesn t suck it s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn t think any of it was funny i was disgusted by this movie no it wasn t because of the graphic sex scenes it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art it shows one piece of art work that she did judith beheading holofernese but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial br br i don t know if you understood this from the movie probably not tassi was not a noble character he raped artemisia it was not love it was rape he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka had sex with while she states over and over again it s true br br i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about don t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work br br don t see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar s a bug s life we re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer when it s in the right hands that is a bug s life is a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions br br it is only pixar s second animated feature the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in with their landmark movie toy story it was a movie which defied convention re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film br br after all it s a film about ants well all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug s life but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film as humans are the focal point in dramas romances and so on how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you ll probably ever encounter br br not only are they all entirely amiable and likable there isn t an unpleasant character in sight even the villains are riveting characters but they re colourful they re eclectic and they re idiosyncratic and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug s life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name is flik david foley and his character is rather generic to say the least out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush beautiful ant island he is the one considered the black sheep of the clan as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season s harvest with his antics br br the problem arises in the fact that the ants harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper kevin spacey who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone they go insane for lack of a better term hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack s hands however it s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil the cogs and clockwork in flik s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers br br if you think about it a bug s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line s of akira kurosawa s classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil in a bug s life the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl br br much amusement comes out of these scenes and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs among them are an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen as is the entire movie collectively br br as i ve said much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie what makes a bug s life even better is that the film isn t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film the clich d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we d like however it s easy to ignore this fault and it s incredulously easy to enjoy this film br br although a bug s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor this is still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have proved that they re not just a one hit wonder but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manages to top their standards it s only always by themselves what more is there to say about a bug s life other than see it it s not quite the best which we ve seen from the folks at emeryville california but this beats out the lot of its year and i ll be damned if this isn t the best animated feature of br br what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version is no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever anyway back to this version it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeeds in both but high art it is nit throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe the direction was average and the editing abysmal worse than the old quincy deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it s about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn t that easy to get along with she just started puberty i m guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts i just don t get some of the big premises of this episode that miranda is so remarkable and that there s anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here made the remark that maybe it s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness miranda is just a jerk the episode is slow inconsistent and way too talky i also don t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador why doesn t the federation just leave the damn medusans be there s one part i do like when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at its lamest i ll always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldn t purchase it except for a used copy under this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movies mental list mind the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series spirited away and fly away home br br i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie she s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls she really sucks you into her life i also certainly can t fault any of the protagonist s acting or anyone else s in the film br br the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules the movie is never boring the romance is really cute and didn t make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really made it though was the indian factor jess parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else the indian people are also hilarious essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it br br feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film they re funny they re refreshing and they make you feel good i know that you ve already entered this in film festivals or at least i think you have i may just be making that up but i think this should get best animated short film in every one bravo i can t wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations but hear it now and accept it as the truth kudos my friend okay now i m just trying to get ten lines of text though i still mean it and here comes yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do in fact i ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those br br r this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs evil plot and is all about action what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around her movements were done so well why don t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days it s quite effective br br fire and ice in it s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others including plenty of women will adore it s esthetic quality i for sure did not mind bakshi just loves animating lushious voluptuous babes as can also be seen in cool world and i don t think he has to apoligize since it s pretty much animation for adults but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it br br this one was just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it s possibly bakshi s finest for those who like animations with lushious women try space adventure cobra as well br br i give fire and ice out of my ratings acting suspense character attachment plot character development overall br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny nd and csi th i don t know in the other csis you get into the episode you re watching but in this one you just can t get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain t good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author s hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven t seen it buy it anyway it s well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they d play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the s the courthouse city hall etc they re all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the pennants on chick s wall you ll see two for ole miss chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect but fails painfully on all other fronts the actors all play extremely silly caricatures you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot is predictable and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films including shabby larger than life special effects and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp br br it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they won t be able to do it again the cash cow is now dead as a dodo i can t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton and sure it s his company but you re fired or you re hired for how many seasons now after watching the show i wouldn t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve br br i d love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he gets hurt so i don t have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it i d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a and it doesn t deserve that if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme style i would never have rented it nevertheless i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot i lasted a very very very long forty minutes before giving up it s just boring pretentious twaddle br br the last french movie i saw was romance and it too was pretty dismal but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme overseas it ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy it s called dogme because that s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera br br the story and the show were good but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies ri chard is great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous seriously i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i can t say anything bad about peter galleghar he s one of my favorite actors i love anne rice i m currently reading the vampire chronicles but i m glad i saw the movie before reading the book this is a little too real for me i prefer lestat and louis s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i don t want to give anything away sorry but it s just not my type of show first let me just comment on what i liked about the movie the special effects were fantastic and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game there that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing br br i have innumerable complaints about the film but four major complaints jump to mind my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away where lois s year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman when the crying super child throws a piano at lex s henchman to save his mother i almost got up and left the theater singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child it s been days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit br br my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space it doesn t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what s wrong with that i don t know how many comic books brian singer has read but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas that s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground br br my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior jor el wasn t all wise he was just a scientist and he didn t send his son to earth to be a savior he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode i ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ s primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman returns the passion of the christ br br and speaking of luthor my last major complaint has to do with singer s depiction of lex luthor lex luthor is a shrewd cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president which he does in the comics than try to destroy the world the man wants money and power he wants to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman returns as well as all the previous superman movies is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the quite awful previous superman movies this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow br br to summarize i don t know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you don t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven t already don t see it don t buy it when it comes out on dvd don t rent it basically don t contribute any money towards it in any way this movie does not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that sees this movie bryan singer should be fined billion dollars if you re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you ll get the same experience without having to waste hours of your time this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference no porn br br the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable at the very least the pacing should have been picked up br br while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had he should have spent more time on the story or better yet get someone else to write it many of the action scenes were just pointless br br it was a complete waste of my time is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn t have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked overall i was rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle br br bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows which deal with the subjects i referenced i think you will find at least something here br br in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way i especially liked how they explained where the cylon s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers br br the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters but this is something i think needs work i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident br br based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where caprica goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did i m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn t to good compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wan na be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice s other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj silkk gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn t introduced in this movie and the scene isn t in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn t mention what happen other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don t love em like i do don t watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel purez i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands shipwrecks jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently there s a needless mins of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blowing up scene jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game there is no communicator with doyle on the other end the modified soldiers look like albinos with singlets on and there was no mutated monkey like creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building there s an ending scene where everyone except krieger live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema then this is for you one of the best ensemble acted films i ve ever seen there isn t much to the plot but the acting incredible you see the characters change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you much as the villa does on all the women truly enchanted i haven t seen this movie in about years but it still haunts me br br when asked about my favorite films this is the one that i seem to always mention first there are certain films works of art like this film dark city and breaking the waves that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a life changing event such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend this film shook me when i first saw it it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days today i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood br br hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation changed everything it changed our perception of security it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it changed our world br br however i can t not stress how utterly repulsed disillusioned and angry i am at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press hollywood has sunk to a new low even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all is uwe boll i am very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how dare they br br to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks br br ask yourself if you have a soul br br think remember respect the memories of the lives lost on by not seeing this film at all you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed that s why movies like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences especially local ones we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with tax when they reach our shores and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one not only that the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear lest they reach the sea br br and these movies are relatively easy to make hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic for once those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long can t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these of course there are amongst us ahem those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models and movies such as these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they don t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park the guy sitting beside me i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s appear and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans br br so there we have it the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage as does the gt here the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification that even i m impressed alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that has wings for doors but seriously my heart goes out to the cars each time they re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment i mean this are perfectly fine high performance models that are at the apex of motoring but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow they do so because they can br br there s no story in redline just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties the cars that is that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shots of pedals always the accelerator mind you tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steering wheels gear shifts always shifting up and not down all these while having the actors make pretend that they re the baddest asses with an engine snarling and giving each other dirty looks not a very tall order for an actor and that s why we get the most woeful performances ever with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids br br the heroine yes it made a statement that girls can drive natasha a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin is one of those million dollar finds a girl with model looks who don t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil who has racing pedigree within her and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable every line had to do with cars and when singing about love just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts lubricants and going for rides introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous eddie griffin she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle everything else well like i said just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race br br and it s almost always the same as there s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars especially when you know the race is rigged for narrative reasons and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker sun kang and of course the star it created vin diesel redline had none just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it s one man one car and a minutes race against time to get to vegas br br if not for the cars then this movie seriously is a piece of junk with bad acting bad lines and bad action strictly for the car fans or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines im the type of person who always goes to horror section when i m picking a film so i picked five across the eyes i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish i think i could of done better myself i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the embarcadero freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting nearbye you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact hickman s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden pontiacs in the s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york have you ever heard the saying that people telegraph their intentions well in this movie the characters actions do more than telegraph future plans they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtz s character is not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesn t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have br br the bottom line obvious plot one note performances unlikeable characters and grotesque southern accents employed by british actors night of the living homeless was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movies most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains br br kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart gives a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town is completely overrun with them this is a very strong randy marsh episode as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy makes it to the community center he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming i don t have any change unfortunately the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he becomes one of them asking everyone for change br br the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park and find a man who is a director of homeless studies they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people break into the man s house and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself however he fails several times as he shoots himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder screaming horribly until he finally dies this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in fantastic easter special two weeks ago br br meanwhile a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem the property values have nosedived thus the bank has foreclosed on his house making him homeless randy immediately turns on him holding the gun to the man s head when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out randy pulls the trigger br br in evergreen the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica california br br the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable br br i m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into but this movie is not a horror movie as for the story it was fairly interesting but rather slow i was especially disappointed with the ending though br br spoiler br br tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle s home without at least calling the detective or the police first she knows exactly what s going on at that point plus she has a video tape as proof instead she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying i know everything i have proof you didn t expect proof did you then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he s going to harm her well duh of course he s going to harm you idiot you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb ending i gave this a there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone gets killed or nearly so i am tired of cross hairs and changing views i can not give the plot away convoluted and insane if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back i wish reviews were more honest not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end docteur petiot starring michel serrault is a brutal story about a brutal man a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate is not there yet he preys on the weakest amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography are superb and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story he is the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and caring calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer kudos to mr serrault for his chilling portrayal i just got this video used and i was watching it last night the acting started out extremely bad hey hey twister but got very good soon after wards the tornadoes looked extremely fake and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done and just about on par with movies like twister the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too the story was very well written and it s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formulas movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for years br br while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality this merits an a in my book this film is really vile it plays on the urban paranoia of the s s and puts it into a school context i m not saying that urban crime wasn t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren t aren t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it s not a case of social issues but a white upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he knows how to play the system does that sound familiar yes this turd is pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this what a horrible horrible film the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time not that i saw much i left the theatre screaming after about minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves meryl streep was awful as usual how many hurt and tortured expressions can person have aidan quinn s talents were as so often totally wasted and who told gloria estefan she could act trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school the kids weren t even cute just written in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really made me cringe for once real horror this one motocrossed was fun but it wasn t that great i guess i just didn t understand a lot of the motocross racing lingo and there was a lot of that in the film the plot wasn t what i expected from the disney channel previews so that could account for some of my disappointment sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he wants to broaden his horizons and spoiler needs a family member in order to do it br br a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain t scary at all works better as a dark macabre black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecracks that s for sure the actors aren t interesting save robert englund as always and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto and there are simply far too many visual effects the finale is ok but doesn t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope br br in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer s story it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before br br there are cameos worth noting a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become br br film debut of breckin meyer who plays spencer br br one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits br br ok i m italian but there aren t so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it s the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i d like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it s too slow it s so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven t already seen it watch it an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful so no new story lines here however the authors managed to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watching kids vomiting or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife s teeth out in a bloody horror type go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone the first cube movie was an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn t understand it was on the non literal level a man vs cruel nature plot where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end triumphing to face a new indefinable world beyond man s petty squabbles a world where there were no more struggle but peace i rated cube a out of and it s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels br br the second movie hypercube was a massive disappointment some of the ideas were kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning still for being fairly entertaining i rated it a out of br br the third movie cube zero while ignoring the second plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there is no homage or tribute here there is only ripping off the same kind of plot with some elements idiotically altered like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say br br that we see something from behind the scenes means nothing because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment the architects of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan did at the end of the first movie are just killed where the bleep is the sense in that that s just flippin stupid i m glad i didn t pay to see this br br the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realized that mr tony giglio was earnest about this movie it s a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully me thinks he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself he sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesn t make it true customs change word definitions change over time look at english german where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same it s always growing and changing the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses these writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here same string of letters two entirely different meanings this is why many biblical researchers use a lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written it s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn t exist in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty talk about ego putting soapbox away god bless maegi i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie megacheese i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol slewfoot or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don t watch for the love of god don t watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i m doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god s sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it it has lot s of laughs guns action crime good one liners and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character max a dea agent diane is the fbi agent played by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv plays the bad guy livingston the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much has all the good one liners this is the perfect crime caper there is the usual love story but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix the film is shot in boston where you have some great shots and locals great photography and music in this film this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy it has everything that one could ever want check out sutherland s toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me if you like to see animals being skinned alive their heads smashed dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them then this one is for you but if you are somewhat normal and don t need to see real footage of animal cruelty pass this one up this movie tries to shock the viewer and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of babies in the movie fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up and special effects so we shouldn t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals its not what we rented the movie for if anything there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it as a very hardcore horror fan this one turned my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked another spanish movie about the civil war this time we re told about the story of carol lovely played by d butant clara lago a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york it is such an initiating trip and soon she ll find about the injustices of the human race their stupid fights and conflicts their contradictions br br imanol uribe makes his best film since d xadas contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he tries not to take part in the conflict he just shows us some facts and let us decide ok the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple clara lago and juan jos ballesta br br a well cared production br br my rate a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods this is simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypasses the ocean view area the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view once the interstate was completed ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few years the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing br br it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film rollercoaster this is also untrue footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to death of ocean view park br br as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time with the cast involved there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors i don t believe this film was intended to be another citizen kane i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table but proved unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway let s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise br br for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fans but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park this movie is like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan s role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father a trio of buddies sergeants all in the british army carouse brawl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save scores of the queen s soldiers from certain massacre br br based more on the three musketeers than kipling s classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood s golden year of filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusion br br it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable however this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time br br it s interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than honorary knighthoods after the conflict while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers br br the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe heartbreaking in the title role he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of kipling s poem ring true he is unforgettable br br montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare are effective but have little to do movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine s father br br the film picks its villains well the demonic thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous blood soaked kali hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of indian life for centuries ritualistically strangling up to victims a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares this movie pretty much sucked i m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible if your in the military and you see this movie you ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad it was ridiculous they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do it was a pretty gory movie i d have to say the least there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump i d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a better movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i ve ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn t be explained for this genre to work br br originally written i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot the most suspense surprises most emotional especially the ending and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving was not as episodic and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie br br it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole i have heard many strange reasons such as a because yoda died b because bobba fett died c because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader was revealed br br i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who cares if bobba fett died if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die don t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett s name judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think secondly many fans did not like yoda dying sure it was a momentous period in the movie i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic all the good guys can t stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda s death well nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why was obi wan s death okay but yoda s not hmmmmmmmmmmmm another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible that is utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage they had swinging vines ropes logs set up to trip those walkers and other traps the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest the only thing they had was their blasters to add it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros the band of rebels as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have been a great upset lastly if this scene was still unbelievable to you how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo chewbacca and the princess being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view and not only that the heroes of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters the troopers must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strikes back the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not heroes against a legion of stormtroopers don t believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando s base or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star br br the last reason that i care to discuss others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here is that people did not like darth vader being revealed well in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father annakin skywalker it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father s face because it made it complete by annakin s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he was annakin skywalker by removing the helmet the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about in fact that s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke s father isn t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet br br on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse even if it is better that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be better or worse that the original but i can not know for sure let s see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was br br i am not sure who criticizes these movies but i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite that it is rotj i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading br br bottom line the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its minutes there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful exciting surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day br br finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky insignificant details or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such as this movie stinks because luke is not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately br br crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman s agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it s because i m jewish isn t it it s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners dvd doesn t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there s little doubt in sam levene s performance that the character is in fact also gay not a mincing caricature but there s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper s confused soldier there s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young s maigret like detective gloria grahame s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in as a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for crusading this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it s always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it s interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the villains in this movie those villains are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you re fighting against at first it s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german s are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn t however the best it s hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn t even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don t know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they re being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren t the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert s book i hated hated hated this movie and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert s review of rob reiner s north where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well but above all the other things that were awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits but after that first or minutes the other minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for seconds then someone gets shot then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra s my way sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss who i admire much as an actor for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that independence day was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history did goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if independence day were a bomb what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time says that the movie is set on another planet i only wish now that i have wasted minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minutes out of my life that i will never get back ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it s honor as the worst movie ever what a boring film to sum it all up its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor while she tried to flee from the village with her son can someone say boring the concept wasn t too bad but it was poorly executed the canadian locales and some of the village scenes were nicely shot however overall the cinematography came up short the story could have been great but the movie just seemed to drag on there is only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hours of it br br the best part of the whole movie was the song ishq kamina and that was only five minutes long other than that this movie was a piece of crap rant start i didn t want to believe them at first but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic even though their budgets mainly spent on special effects have become more and more fantastic do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry has built up since the break out film shiri swiri by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did rant end br br the only reason i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean east asian styled dragon i have seen to date for the final scenes now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons remember dungeons dragons in hasn t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use but how well you use it i hope there are more and better korean legends they can use because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one br br in short i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem arirang being played at the very end as a creature feature i would have given it at least stars out of if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it but i ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting just less dragons as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a better world i said better world because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don t know qin shihuang means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king means the land and the people spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is qin shihuang s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles it also had technicolor one of the few movies made with it in br br now the bad news regrettably i can t say much positive for the story it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light and hollywood has done that ever since why these criminals are always shown to be the good guys is beyond me this film glamorizes them and made their enemies the railroad people into vicious human beings the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous well that s the film world for you evil is good good is bad br br hey hollywood here s a news flash the james boys were criminals really look it up i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i m sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn t live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin s granddad the only sad thing was the ending it s a shame they couldn t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending i don t normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn t turn it off i don t believe i ve ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn t turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it s a sports thriller but it s so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it s not funny not even in a dumb silly way it s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers it s painful to watch but at least it s only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can t describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i m sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you re out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i ve seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can t stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn t bad as the second string few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john lassiter s amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who s review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i m betting the older charas too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo s mother soske s mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend soske whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham soske is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he s related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young soske which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end ponyo s father fujimoto must cope with his daughter s decision and his estranges wife s wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there s the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki s best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki s delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address as expected joe james russo the attacker forces his way into marjorie s home and subjects her to humiliating terror bruised and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat hog tied and battered himself joe tries to explain himself to marjorie s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there is almost a hint of mercy but it is not coming from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m young i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i ve seen the whole thing played like a cnn worst case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn t seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don t bother with this one for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film s most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven t seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo s carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard s kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end i am not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u s army riffles in wwi and wwii in movie we can see privates armed with m garand invented in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load times more ammunition and times more fire rate m was semi automatic springfield requires reloading after every shot little difference german army uniforms has borrowed from year too especially helmets german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archives how much truthful is this true story i am surprised how much truthful can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i m telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may oliver a person too talented for this film didn t like wheeler a sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king at about the same time woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king so when wheeler arrived it was up to the boys to fight it out but they refused because they are already friends which greatly disappointed the people as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime br br i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood the silent era through the s i have seen and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i can t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better for example there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother s film duck soup yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp at times woolsey talked a bit like groucho but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny in fact he just seemed to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality was that he looked goofy surely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese a piece of cheese that sang very poorly a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as who s on first which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they started their spiel they just ended the routine so prematurely that you are left frustrated i knew that who s on first had been around for many years and used by many teams but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist br br once again i have found yet another sub par film by this duo while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly such as silly billies and the rainmakers which i actually gave s to on imdb this one was a major endurance test to complete something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey where was all the humor i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that s the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn t any good actually it s bloody awful but i didn t expect anything else when i bought it it s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really baaaaaaad br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she s the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i ve seen pteradactyl even when her boyfriend dies she can t stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that s the way i like it the chupacabra looks pretty messed up and it s easy to see that it s a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you re even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn t you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked the symbolic use of objects form editing the position of characters in the scene these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken even the title has a least four meanings that i can see the boxing ring the wedding ring the bracelet the lover buys and the love triangle at the heart of the story i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford s small town boy david chappellet what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla sparv the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn t really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn t need to do much and indeed doesn t while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don t fully compensate and you don t care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that s probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it s the theme that s so important here i m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you ll like it this is an art film that was either made in or the national film preservation foundation says and imdb says regardless of the exact date the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late s early s br br the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understood by us mortals i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie is diamond among coals during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw this film should have made them stars shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film it could have easily been a franchise release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed no matter how late watch it you won t be disappointed do yourself another favor read the book same title it ll blow you away times have changed dramatically since those days or at least we like to think they have a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town leading to all kinds of complications cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can t escape the title town hopper does what he does best playing a psycho known as lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns and john s direction creates a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertaining it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up i really liked this movie i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie it is definitely worth renting although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his product s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don t see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real sahlep powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole ali s bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn t show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even ali s troubles are not convincing because we don t see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don t see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i m wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man s big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie s leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie s clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn t great but it s a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number on the comedians comedian okay ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to datd the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone s favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the s i was born on may th despite this my life was very much in the style of the s when other kids had playstations i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only years old at the time of writing this review i because of my s style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn t see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk s adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as the world david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local caf the chipmunks are playing a game of around the world in days against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team s likeness secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds to varify that they were there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt the girls and boys of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be topped it s also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include getting lucky kind of suggestive for a kid s film eh and my mother as well as wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song getting lucky i first didn t think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince s men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells alvin and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven t seen this flick give it a watch it s worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s gets a solid out of br br headin for the top don t you know we never stop believing now just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a bomb rating a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night i feared the worst knowing its reputation and it was as god awful as i d anticipated this is a mexican made mess dubbed into english and produced by k gordon murray it s got terrible sets and effects and features a rather frightening santa who doesn t operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in outer space and who doesn t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is the opening sequence where st nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages seems to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesn t observe the child labor laws br br eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth just to make little kids naughty and turn santa s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience and it s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever oddly the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on this easily makes my personal list of the worst movie i ve ever seen but i m sure that s nothing unique as is often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as pelagia in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as corelli s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia s fianc br br i rated this film an despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie passing them down in the family if you will and i loved it br br clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it s up to superman to stop this mayhem br br it s just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effects and sound the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid and i m now it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic much much better than of the scream rip offs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn t read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed mystery is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don t like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadn t guessed i loved it the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it s really rather messy though fellowes doesn t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich landmine though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there s also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing br br i m disappointed not that it s bad but that it could have been much better this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert godfrey s up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age holes is an awesome movie i love it a lot and it s one of my favorite films it s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn t cheesy holes is generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more pictures like it holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool don t get the wrong idea i don t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it s stuff is aimed towards kids and that s okay children deserve to have their entertainment too but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with holes it s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it s corny really it s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to br br holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this i can not hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen savers with co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn t pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she s hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn t afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it s music movies comic books the internet and television this is what s great about the show if you don t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on aots some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren t as geek as i d like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup worst dcom i have seen ever well maybe not as bad as smart house this was just bad the acting and story was fine but the effects sucked br br they were so fake the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen that was probably the only scene in which i was excited br br overall i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly br br i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene br br its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities and also i didn t know that an indian can cross the march s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier s were sleeping some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn t for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they re all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there s never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film is so feather light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakeries and hairdressers and plumbing but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick they re both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass this film is quite simply brilliant the cinematography is good the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking this is the story of donald woods a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid kevin kline is completely convincing so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later i recognised him from kline s portrayal denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance as ever br br i urge you to watch this it is long but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story remember folks this really happened i have recently seen this production on dvd it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in and it was just as good as i remembered at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been i am a bit of a jane eyre purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly br br all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way some even leave out the rivers family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this is the only production to include the gypsy scene done correctly br br the casting is perfect zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she looked too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted his expression is fantastically frightening but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable oh to be loved by a man like that there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks br br finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it is simply perfection in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it s a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carrie s boss i m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven t prey br br aspect ratio br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren s follow up to satan s slave amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v browne s eye catching cinematography though annan s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and left under mysterious circumstances stokes unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there s an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to emasculate their clueless visitor by dressing him in women s clothing though stokes alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially annan s final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren s unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film s budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army is the local dentist he s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie is always being viewed with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro ves at the islands police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for closer inspection a quick search for the killer proves fruitless as does a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who lives on the island through the winter months a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together br br goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain with a heavy fog rolling in the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesn t work seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut reports of ufo s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin s idea that aliens might be involved but a rise in radioactive levels on the island has him doubting himself br br the nightmare man is based on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it is here adapted by dr who and blake s scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board the nightmare man though is on the whole a succinctly better crafted piece that builds its plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor characters time is given to giving them all a firm background the island setting is perhaps a genre clich that has been used over and over but its one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times there is an authenticity about proceedings the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point if there is one negative about the killer its that we are given his her its pov for the killings an acceptable clich on its own but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer given the clues presented but it s a fun and very well acted piece the local scottish cast are exceptional the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold imrie never one i ve taken to in other works is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers it disappointed me in some ways but taking into account when it was made its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it is even more terrifying this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie so if you haven t seen either movie and want to but don t want the spoilers please don t read this review br br while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe s christian and sarah michelle gellar s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did it s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough you ll recognize it there are also inconsistencies in the plot if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon s character br br also the tie in with the photography you could be a model comment at the end was totally lame and didn t add anything at all overall this movie was a waste of time i can t believe they made a cruel intentions this movie is ridiculous it s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it s a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they re all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie in dramatising wilde s novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown dorian s essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson s dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas rls took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it s a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have s have not s i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn t write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn t take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as nita i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of mazursky s an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother biji he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors mrinal sen s khandar gautam ghose s paar benegal s ankur a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn t make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn t see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don t know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven t already don t waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel at a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director murali k thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows is thalluri s attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis s sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluri s talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn t reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or romanticizes the act thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and revetting is an absolutely unmissable film the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won t watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich d lines in the movie i m sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton s character has hijacked hamill s prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you ll find something of interest here but you can t convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso if anyone thinks there s some hidden meaning here you re really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employing a large number of roach s reliable performers although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves star struck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set does so here as cecilia always ready for an audition is treated by a would be paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behind the scenes action of naturally a musical comedy featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton russell hicks and walter long on balance one must hand the bays to mischa auer who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star a role which he largely creates and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley s filmic spectacles the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start these slasher pics are past their sell by date but this one is good fun br br the valentine cards themselves are witty and well thought out br br the film has one peach of a line he s no angel when he in fact is angel watching buffy reruns will never be the same br br the cast is a sizzling display of young talent but the story does not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters sorry but no br br the direction is very good managing to show very little actual gore and relying on your imaginations implied threat much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes br br essentially the main directorial plus lies within the borrowing of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks psycho s shower scene is tributed along with halloween s masking br br murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know br br light viewing not very scary but a few good jump moments if it was a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movies have had their day and this is just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundbreaking the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a instead of a is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn t shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go skydiving maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today s market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me like most i thought another crocodile movie so far we ve had primeval and rogue in the last months what can they do that s new where both those films were about action and violence this one s about fear and tension br br the performances aren t oscar worthy when there s nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it s like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don t really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it s a stretch to say you ll enjoy this movie it ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick s abundance of clich s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the characters and the dialog br br i d read about elizabeth berkly s awful performance in the equally awful showgirls which i ve never seen and her performance here while not awful is barely up to the standards of lifetime s worse fare there was not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldn t have been if so it would have placed the film completely out of balance since there wasn t a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal br br the principal s handling of liz s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable her husband s initial reaction and advice were likewise forrest gump attacking jenny s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic intelligent action and hell he was mentally challenged br br the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession br br finally and frankly i rather enjoyed this part the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs that you d rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the law and order series and the like but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime br br finally i found a kind of story within a story fascination with josh s concoction of his being the victim of his teacher this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story this was something of an achievement like going from f to f minus br br this whole lame situation should have been resolved in real life in about minutes following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities with husband involved but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following and left an hour s blank film in the camera br br but the writer s here proved with their ending they could do even worse when the situation was finally resolved and righted this was accomplished in all of about seconds with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parents or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption br br this one s a presentation the second because it does have some mild fascination if you haven t seen this yet you really should on dvd i can t believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren t many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like cgi s but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you ve seen a dinosaur my favorites were the coelophysis the raptors the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn t get money from the government for financing otherwise i m never paying taxes again ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by sadhu s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director shimit amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making let s keep it simple my two kids were glued to this movie it has its flaws from an adult perspective but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it br br and the pepsi girl was excellent br br and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot although she s not in the film very much so don t get too excited there br br not that s it s really a bad thing but it is the kind of movie you watch just once don t buy the dvd br br enjoy br br did i mention kimberly williams that was for the dads it was a m in the morning and i had nothing else to do don t judge me please br br we re back in time during the spanish settlements a group have made their way onto an island it doesn t take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobbles up their horse soon they re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg sucks it reminds me of the cg of early console video games the encounters were lame the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it s just a middling effort lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost feel them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the s and s oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can t even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other got ta go now i have to go watch it again saturday june pm the neptune br br monday june pm the neptune br br few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of its centennial saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impressions of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura s camera creative use of large flats and mirrors moved throughout the set combined with screens shadows fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song dance and instrumental performance photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program connecting the passion of the music to its great creator saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich d movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it s genre but don t let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the story line was rather typical of clara s later silents i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves never mind that this man is married clara s lack of modesty was shocking in the day but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a brilliant story line quite typical actually this movie is a nice showcase of clara s ability to make the audience laugh as the number of video nasties i ve yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage popped up on my to rent list when i saw it was available br br the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip though if he returns with the girl and all the money he gets a significant cut he s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot is one of the worst actors ever granted they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after stealing away into the jungle we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever ping pong balls for eyes and that s pretty much it his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i found myself muting much of those scenes br br oh did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this is probably the main reason this film was banned though there is one specific scene about one second long where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out but it s not a redeeming factor for gore fans also jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals and sadly male as well so if you want fair in terms of exploitation you got it br br i can t recommend this trash to anyone it s not even the good bad movie it s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you are making your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list which is certainly not true i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a should have gave it a i gave it an extra star just because david keith s gun was cool i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film he failed thank god br br the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won t like her because she s ugly the film is just bad for so many reasons the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit those two scenes made me cringe janeane s character is sickeningly arrogant and guessing from her role as stand up comedienne and arch feminist is in real life too she claims that the film is anti feminist when in fact it s just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it s interesting to note her hypocrisy too she d been a feminist and comedienne for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film i mean come on she acted in it for heaven s sake what this film was really was anti men if anything it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman s character noelle br br there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure is that the best the script writers could come up with blimey they ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made there s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn t ugly but is actually beautiful erm was i watching the same film as they were she s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one although having said that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well she s lanky and gaunt looking br br i guarantee three things about this film if you ve never watched it br br you will know what the ending will be br br you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and br br you will be bored after ten minutes br br watch at your own peril this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person having just seen walt disney s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony the cast of this film contain some of new zealander s better actors many of who i have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long running new zealand soap shortland street it s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meets the love boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea br br if you are an actor i recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she s the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one s professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don t want to face the consequence one ironically can t believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it s not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies credits due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski s trois couleurs especially bleu this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty the governess rush hour as villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend s wedding opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com this film is awful the plot is extremely lazy it is not scary either people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film is more like dark water except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it i was extremely disappointed with this film it didn t scare me nor interest me either let s face it this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g the dead trying to contact the living dragonfly what lies beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc etc it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans the films that are coming out of hollywood like this are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer they re just being churned out angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela s identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today s world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it s pretty much just more terror tainment br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you re taking the word of the producers there s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb s user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see it wasn t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you ve been painting a wall until you re completely bored well that s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can t really blame them since there s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that s not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don t get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they re charging towards a gaping ravine isn t this somewhat illogical it s also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs moshe dayan arik sharon or god when you ve got an idiotic enemy who can t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn t help myself i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b which is unique among allen s work along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop s most enjoyable aspect the plot revolves around johanson s character a journalism student who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she falls in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen br br i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson s performance but i am a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she plays a ditsy yappy bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen s stereotypical neurosis stricken character she adds appropriate body language for comic effect needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus br br allen is allen he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late br br jackman is also enjoyable as the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less br br in terms of the plot i can not help but feel that this is fresh in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen are more detective like than anything however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything being black and white things are painted in shades of gray being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners i did find his allusions to his last film interesting come for the humor laugh and be merry br br needless to say if you enjoy allen s work watch it if not watch something else i rented this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portrays the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith is assassinated and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land despite his grave doubts he perseveres and finally has a vision that utah is the place for his colony that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later as crops are destroyed by crickets he again doubts that he has truly been chosen however a miracle occurs which cements his place in history br br i found the performances to be moving and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal polygamy is a part of the story but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised the issue is not emphasized br br i m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout s frightmare is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic s s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding s slasher genre it isn t totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance classier than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn t be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death s door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad s grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad s body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband s body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn t a very nice guy in life it s not much of a stretch to assume that he won t be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we re in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad s body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can t really recommend frightmare to anyone who didn t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label paired with roy ward s vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you re a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn t have the big budget there s no special effects no car chases and there s no explosions actually reality doesn t have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since i m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his harvey and kiefer s mickey enhances the oppositeness of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady mrs ramsay i m sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don t think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn t very good but they are truly good so i don t think that you before you haven t seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn t have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven t seen them doing there job as usual i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has there is no story a group of guys meander around iraq one day they are here diffusing a bomb tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire no wait here they are back in bagdad there is no cohesive story at all the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures by that i mean we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds what do you think is going to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy why yes there is no story here the script is juvenile and predictable the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon don t waste time or money on this boring movie a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other s jeep mysteriously won t start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn t all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it slaussen is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the s genre in it s twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won t be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn t know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy s business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie s biggest influence is the comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn t stale and recycled it s basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it s real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don t care about what s happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn t dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn t changed my mind spade s given very little to do serving as the movie s most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy s business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that s cool but i just can t get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever having read during many years about how great this film was how it established ruiz among the french critics specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watched it about a year ago i found it pretty disappointing but then i guess my expectations were sky high shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cerebral film made for tv and mercifully only an hour long is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it s ending if you haven t been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it s genre i loved this show from it s first airing and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week the plot characters writing special affects were outstanding then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining well written show i say bring it back i know all of the actors would come back i would suggest buying the dvd s i am i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunters but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too i didn t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much don t get my wrong its not a bad short film tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film you can tell that it has been an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on though i don t feel it greatly detracts for one s ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do i say go for it the gag reel was fun i won t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also done by jagged edge i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we ve received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it s also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much i was never so bored in my life hours of pretentious self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems it s like watching lizards molt even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this this movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on br br just remember this when you re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad this is the formula that they are using this is what makes zombie movies so great br br and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know br br all in all it doesn t linger there s never a point where you think to yourself c mon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely this is the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks br br so awful it s wonderful if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love it br br as a great trivia note if you re watching it on dvd you ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score well that s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop the ladies man is laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes including the funniest love song ever written br br ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role br br tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you ll find in any comedy out there br br it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round br br i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre and i urge you to vote br br and remember kids theres more motion in the ocean when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn t just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie is great the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot br br the only thing that really let me down are the performances emily blunt the devil wears prada is the star of the film bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable br br to me the film feels like unfinished maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script i don t know but that s how i feel about the movie br br but overall it s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt a flying saucer manned literally by a crew of about male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some years ago on a forbidden planet what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in br br on the surface this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeare s tempest but this is a stretch and in some ways an insult to the scifi genre stripped of what makes it a scifi film sure its the tempest but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about br br underneath this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek br br anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful the special effects and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of s sci fi props you might think you were watching a s piece br br this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call s sci fi and though not in my opinion the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects the clever plot now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek lost in space and even farscape is worth paying attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek s original series aired about years later though they may find themselves disappointed by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it br br some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles unfortunately nielsen s performance is only average and at times down right poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other films over acts his role as well ms francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job the problems with the featured performances i think are as much the fault of the director and the editor as anything though they certainly got most of the film quite right i just saw this film on dvd last night and decided to check out the reviews this morning it seems that i robot has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling too br br i find this somewhat surprising as this film is not great or even good but neither is it terrible or even really bad what this film really is is depressing depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid clich d re heats and acclaim them as spectacular new works this film as retread written all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action to smith s character a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effects that borrowed from matrix and a few others br br i robot is sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today s audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lots and lots of adrenaline smith is mediocre but we already knew that he seems to be hollywood s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story has lots of holes in it of all sizes but i don t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by today s standards but very b movie compared to true winners this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century br br this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people not white black etc br br good movie with a good message i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great mile s sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it s fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am sadden that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven t watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br i have to disagree with another commenter who said the special effects were okay i found them pretty bad it just wasn t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story br br maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story the archaeologists are looking for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what is so special about it that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt br br if you re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the beginning the ancient ceremony looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert br br the action level was constant throughout the movie no ups and downs no climax it made the movie look short and that s certainly a pro for this particular movie liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he is a true actor he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary mary is such a beautiful woman it s her love that makes rob roy the legend but it s his passion that makes her love undying they need each other tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect in one way or another upon watching the movie you will find cunningham disgusting the scotland scenery is beautiful the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well if you like history romance passion and love you ll enjoy rob roy there is violence and blood but it s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if you re not used to a scottish accent one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes it s their skill as actors that attracts you they don t rely on marquee names popularity or sex symbol appeal this is something special when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren t conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can t help it sorry for that raincoat was a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn t enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore having seen carlo lizzani s documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don t know what to criticize therefore to be clear i ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director s career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with nannies cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti s crucial visit in paris in the s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director s career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director s death in is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco rosi but later such movies like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people s emotions and viewpoints into stone time is precious this film isn t i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time br br the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction is this the film the critics are raving about what a piece of crap br br the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family get it br br the acting is superb br br the production lighting sets editing sound is about steps above a minutes story the characters are shallow and unintelligent i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next br br i have had more fun doing the laundry worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don t know how everyone in the movie didn t shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don t know and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don t watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn t even the to be expected nudity you d get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead savage island is a lame movie it s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting not only that the storyline and script was wretched i don t know why this movie was made i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry this one made my blood boil the situations were inane at best if i made a movie like this it would have been a short really because those backwood idjits wouldn t have been in the picture br br don t be fooled by the cover on the d v d i am an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie is virtually unwatchable i don t mind movies being shot on d v but if you re going to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror films sans wrong turn br br i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by br br movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story br br however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe s civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is hynkel and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his subordinates technical innovations which don t work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact hynkel s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery br br in truth chaplin s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the fuehrer s face your cause is doomed to failure because it s built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of silent comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain t i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn t come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the wouldn t it be wonderful speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film s underlying weakness remains if napaloni is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn t bother him and he still kills people friday the th what s that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn t it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way never saw the original movie in the series i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie it was however a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark really this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water not really worth watching i would however like to see the original granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also made a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown created in and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn t matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it s tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number on the greatest pop culture icons and he was number on the greatest cartoons very good highly regarded at release but since rather neglected immense importance in the history of performing arts a classic use of embedded plots one of my favourite films why hasn t the soundtrack been re released the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helmed this episode who murders her husband with a poker has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband s corpse she decides to use an ax once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman s head to frame the killer for her husband s murder santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child br br this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old santa kills theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she s been cheating with routine it s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac there s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions not one of the show s highlights the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film it should have read be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your family s church at years old listening to the preacher drone on about god s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego br br it starts off well intentioned building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny s how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble i believe i counted the use of the word pray about times in a five minute span near the end after the st i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last minutes plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me as it became totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of ending up on the floor br br for all the salivating christians who ranked this film stars i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square the ten commandments anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp the god who wasn t there what would jesus buy or the soon to be released religulous br br maybe robert whitlow s book is better tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford s films at two hours it was quite long for a silent film yet continues to hold your interest some years after it was filmed mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a greatest hits performance with bits of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character s illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question if the academy awards had been around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary s i first saw this movie when i was about years old my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for on vhs she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch this movie however scared the hell out of me you may be asking yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas that s right satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day for if santa doesn t make it back to his home in space he turns to powder don t get me wrong the movie is funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell which occurs at the beginning of the movie is just downright creepy although there are some snippets in this part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these are not very well developed in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs br br although this program as a whole leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserves some praise almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you if asked they think the drug war is designed to solve for example while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensued and the subsequent reversal of prohibition is totally ignored by this program br br this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems but not all users do their drugs in excess just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics br br if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science has decided to totally prohibit whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that is in here br br on the other hand this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in th century united states like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there is a significant element of various people s points of view with regard to drug laws and most but not all of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana br br the criminal justice system along with its often harsh life ruining penalties is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately there s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs a lack of compassion for fellow humans a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs yet this program ignores it br br so in sum the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives it s pretty disappointing considering this film was released years before i was born i don t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected s crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group in their endeavors the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin whom sister goes after because she believes he is the big time who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life though he could be accused of killing her he really kills only her spirit and will to live after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose the story isn t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off then threatens him it s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be discovered back then first i realize that a rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst this movie gets that from me because as one reviewer points out it s not bad in a self aware over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply misses its mark on every count contains possible spoilers the dialog is completely disingenuous the continuity is so deliberate it s painful daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love and with his final word the flamenco dancers start the mock shock of what s her name see i don t even remember her character s name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tells her that her friend is the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things vegetable carts gone flying cars crashing into each other motorcycles going down the stairs people nearly being hit but remarkably no one is oh that s right except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds and an approaching car apparently didn t notice him there hmmm br br it s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money you d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing now there s a novel idea br br my suggestion don t see this film don t rent the dvd don t watch it on cable there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he is black then walk away the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise is funny and the show contains many such types of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all the year saw no fewer than filmed productions of h g wells great novel war of the worlds this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place the last year of the th century using wells original setting in and near woking england br br imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as spoilers that might apply with some films where the ending might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world it seems positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature so let s get right to the chase the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease against which they have no immunity if that s a spoiler so be it after a book and other films including the classic you ought to know how this ends br br this film which follows wells plot in the main is also very cleverly presented in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late th early th century photography although filmed in a widescreen aspect the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs rather than black colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting at other times colors are washed out these variations are typical of early films which didn t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on as you ll see on occasion here the special effects are deliberately retrograde of a sort seen even as late as the s and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effects are really awkward such as the destruction of big ben the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair br br this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells original narrative as has been noted viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story wells description of the martians a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles is effectively portrayed when the martian machines appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how wells described them both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective primarily of rural england plus a few scenes in london involving the narrator s brother the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesn t dwell unduly on the devastation of london br br the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines the narrator traveling about to seek escape sees much of what wells terms the rout of mankind he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene wells adds that after eating they set up a prolonged and cheerful hooting the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder cheers from the gallery british curates are so often utterly insufferable br br this film lasts almost hours going through wells story in welcome detail it s about time the author got his due in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact a word about the acting don t expect award winning performances they re not bad however the actors are earnest and they grow on you most of them however have had very abbreviated film careers often only in this film the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate is john kaufman also in his nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing the brother henderson is played with some conviction by w bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part is played by james lathrop in his first film br br this is overall a splendid film portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it despite its slight defects it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors if you want to see h g wells war of the worlds and not some wholly distorted version of it see this film of the elements that make this the best at this point i have to say is christine mcintire shemp s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent i imagine that as one poster suggested christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil to be smiling at shemp s possibly dying br br another character who helps this stand out is the goon his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short is this good who s going to complain not i okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the last one and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one part was bad but why do they play us anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part and i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in d pointless id say i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts and yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series br br i gave a nightmare on elm street six out of br br good points of movie had potential with plot br br bad points of film terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing everyone my name may sound weird but there was nothing else br br any way i haven t seen anything like this before so it was crazy of course that s a good thing it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying twas beauty who killed the beast war of the worlds scene and more walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one also how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema br br however some parts don t fit like in the original lion king weren t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they are not they were fighting the hyenas backstage ther s more the reason being why pumbaa isn t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also it s just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonn s story was told whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks br br but apart from that it s great finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie which not only tells a story but actually tells the real story i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o donnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is it is not a movie to attract new fans but a movie to tell the real tale some things could have been better but when you can not forget the awful movie from then is this a magnificent movie so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story by now the game s stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they re all rehash but so was monkey island and for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don t need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself i decided to watch this movie because i d not seen carol lombard before in any movie i m sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what s that clich marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples worsening financial status their troubles with john s live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john s diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples angst about their marriage the baby s sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clich d situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn t much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early so it was planned in soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i m glad i saw it as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you ve seen all of stewart s movies otherwise don t bother unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director but for the last years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min no sex no blood it s suppose to be about snuff no actors no dialogs just as bad as an t v film it s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our minds forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi robowar rats l altro inferno virus cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco s spirit s new film pass on this one but if you don t know this nice artisan s career track down his old films and have fun i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director s techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn t as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in ralston s case it was the latter br br i must admit david arnott s portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i can not say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery s first film and it was obvious i mean really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn t the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy can not be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by zinc and we as a race will always want what we can not have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money the was in essence the bank for the last man don t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don t expect more from ralston and that is how i will end it br br grade out of br br i must admit i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem i am a true horror fan as true as they come and found cut to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced but one of the great parody comedy films of late br br my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film was not overly clever in it s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i am certain this was intended as humour hoping this was intended as humour br br and of course there was the gore br br the use of the customised garden shears was brilliance besides the expected stabs and slashes in short there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth br br the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance was and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film both performances were fantastic as well as simon bossell the castle in a brilliant role as the jokey technician br br all in all i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years as well as a beautiful satire parody toungue in cheek till the very end br br loved it go see it i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i ll just tell you that it s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the pieces of extreme gore and banned in countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the s today you don t need them as everything is done on computer but computers can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci s gates to hell or even savini s crowning achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can t tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don t see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it s here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a scalping there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated br br i always felt that ms merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the s and s from atlanta s sweet auburn to new york s harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny s boarding house the story revolves around nanny s relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year a few too many coincidences and plot holes however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn t come as too much of a surprise brosnan is excellent in this role gone is the wooden james bond a role he was wasted in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan s straight man i ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing my father a consultant nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hit man comedy the humour can be very dark if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself as a casual listener of the rolling stones i thought this might be interesting not so as this film is very of its age in the s to me someone born in the s this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap but i am sure this film was not made for me but people who were active during th s i expected drugs galore with th stones i was disappointed it actually showed real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not seen any of the directors other films but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing sort of amatuerish which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly directed tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this is that i didn t waste money on it it came free with a sunday paper watch the original with the same title from this made for tv movie is just god awful although it does use as far as i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesn t work is it the acting the poor directing ok so it s made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hands on the superb original especially as you ll be spoiled to the plot and won t enjoy the original as much as if you ve watched it first br br there are a few things that are different from the original it s shorter for once but all are for the worse the actors playing the parts here just don t fit the bill you just don t believe them and who could top edward g robinsons performance from the original if you want only watch it after you ve seen the original and even then you ll be very brave if you watch it through it s almost sacrilege director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn t know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film s end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl mcburney a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel s best film it certainly is one of eastwood s best real performances page is always so very good and hartman fe rdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a spring break movie plus it makes fun of the college film genre it s funny it s got a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain wilson phillips omg i m just repeating myself now it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they re dumb arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she s a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond s phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don t get me wrong this isn t a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny lipson plays king vultan boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent i have to say that the events of didn t hit me until i saw this documentary it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers i was sick of hearing about it when this was aired on tv a year and a day later i was bawling my eyes out it was the first time i had cried since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i am watching it now on tv years later and i am still crying over the tragedies the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing it was an accident and look where it got them these two brothers make me want to have been there to help perfect movies are rare even my favorite films tend to have flaws rear window looks a little stagey at times chris elliot s character in groundhog day doesn t work the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish br br the script is brilliant the acting is superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing the whole cast shines the directing and the photography are inspired and the music score is touching without being intrusive like some miramax scores that are too manipulative every sad moment is truly moving every light moment makes me smile this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it br br i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people real feelings and real problems brilliant a must see this has to be one of the worst movies ever made the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way just a few of the awful moments in the movie a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the mile per hour winds thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at feet thats impossible even for pilots with thousands of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she is instructed to pull on the flaps huh come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this is a movie you want to miss take my word for it regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you re a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn t carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don t get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren t close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don t care about acting or make up this is better as a book out of for an ok story i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with lan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenberg s later less bizarre works in pola x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol s factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age cathering deneuve shows that she still has it her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn t sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as pola x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn t work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating it s hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon was well done but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious br br i was amazed to see marcus aurelius in the acting credits wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker br br the story might been interesting but the acting is flat and direction is tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend s house and get drunk while doing so then it ll be enjoyable i remember going to see the movie in the summer of with my parents and being pretty into it at the time of course i was seven at the time br br right before the jackson movies came out my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic br br ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this is saying something much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them br br because of budget constraints the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the rings and part of the two towers was pared down even more what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books br br its not all bad though the animation brings a warmth to it that i found lacking in the jackson movies its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding br br this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came several years later a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired which was meant to wrap things up all i will say about that is that it was a musical just finished watching ftm the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it s frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let s get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn t seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn t like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it s insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeals to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights al pacino with great speech scenes and great one liners every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as wynorski s curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don t know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a komanbra part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it s almost over it s almost over out of i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn t know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he s definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was evie s rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with for greta garbo s first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o neill s pultizer prize winning play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna s father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn t be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn t offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion s generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo s anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play s greatest problem has always been that chris s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don t always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minutes doesn t allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne s second act appearance in show boat br br anna and marthy s early scene together on screen minutes into the film taking each other s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it s hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it was first filmed without sound in also with george marion s original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way let me set the scene it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies i am with my friend deciding what to see we look for a movie that is starting soon and the grinch comes up we buy tickets not knowing what to expect what we got was a roller coaster of fun br br jim carrey who may i add is my no actor in the whole world was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard s best movie next to apollo the way that this movie was made the scenery the actors the props and the music was just amazing it really brought this childhood movie to life br br the story is based upon the story of the grinch as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can t stand christmas he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk but one little girl is going to change the grinch s look on life and on others in a drastic way br br cindy lou who played by adorable new actress taylor momsem meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people br br all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents a solid well done jim br br as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia i can still tell it was a quality show very educational but still funny i have not seen the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing was it was too long ago to remember br br the premise of the show was to show you how the body works i swear school still hasn t taught me half of what i know from this show it also tied in other things like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don t exercise with nice examples within the body who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you d the cartoon looked nice very kids friendly of course but done with care cells viruses electric signals in the brain antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures looking pretty much how you d expect what they should look like in the animated body br br this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale were key parts of my childhood i m so happy i found them here fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama s in the years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it s that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england s involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david norwell suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn t have both oars in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr norwell this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another all centered around adam s inabilities and seizures why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get clich snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it s standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct they filmed this movie out on long island where i grew up my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer which they told me was colored water tasted disgusting and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form it never came out in the theaters obviously and it as far as i knew was never released on video and i m sure wasn t released on dvd yet it looks like it was seen by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother yet there is no way i can find it anywhere does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased and which format that would be that s how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who s on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he s financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy s running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he s very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster s woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score out of stars human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br this early biograph short was so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d w griffith s years of discovery dvd set highly recommended it features three excellent performances by the main leads and interesting to see henry b walthall the little colonel birth of a nation as a campy musician giving a countess the eye and other things br br the countess husband goes berserk at his wife s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour it s kind of incredible that they wouldn t hear the wall going up but hey maybe the wine had something to do with it here mr johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment comes at the end as the lady passes out from shock and fear once she realizes she s doomed henry picks up his instrument and fans it over her the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lost it and laughed my head off the expression on his face from that moment i was charmed by henry b walthall baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this is the movie which caused his downfall it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred soon after its release he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably its a very bad movie with horrible acting bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease i m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission sorry i ll not recommend this one to anyone written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick is harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word f k the most number of times almost three hours long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord br br also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f murray abraham and angel salazar pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster is that powerful enough for you crime does not pay for long first the cgi in this movie was horrible i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park gets killed it s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen even night of the living dead had better animation br br that said the movie had almost no plot why were they on that island in particular well it wasn t stated in the movie and why would the people keep coming into the cat s area makes no sense br br one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting in what could be called a b made for tv movie movie the acting was very good parry shen stood out in particular br br if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quotes i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme s best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn t come off although it strays away from the book a little you can t help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine s dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr tilney he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it s hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney as for john thorpe well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the marchioness i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say elinor s calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive page point by point line by line refutation of this mendacious film which should be titled a convenient lie the website address where his debunking report which is titled a skeptic s guide to an inconvenient truth can be found at is www cei org a shorter page version can be found at www cei org pdf pdf once you read those demolitions you ll realize that alleged global warming is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of which gore also endorsed as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber as james the amazing randi does to psychics and philip klass does to ufos and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories so does mario lewis does to al gore s movie and the whole global warming scam a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film s first audiences pretty much as it s described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow s part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd sigh i m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the the first time alright br br but i guess what s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us back in a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic clich ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it s about time the concept of having laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially stan laurel of course as usual br br the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula it doesn t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending it s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the movie br br the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor br br the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed it all helps to make dirty work to be one of the better laurel hardy shorts br br this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn t it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches winry it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i ve been feeling down in the dumps and it s such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i thought it was pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effects excellent acting especially de niro who is awesome this movie made me happier than i ve been for a while br br it is a very funny and clever movie the running joke of the kingdom s history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled that s much of what makes it so good it s an elaborate special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies yet there is an incredible attention to small things br br i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again i was surprised that forgiving the franklins did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants i watched this movie so that you don t have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film s title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn t sure if genevieve bujold s character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it s credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over m too bad the money wasn t spent on a better project just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the messengers is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie s resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you ve seen previews for this movie then you ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters i went to see this movie actually i went to see family portraits which contains cutting moments other short films by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina i just couldn t watch it i had to cover my eyes after the st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while by the time it was over my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the nd short begun btw of course i was not the only one who left the room it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it i just don t get how you can love that kind of movies the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it and i just don t think it makes any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff makes no other sense than to try to shock people and that s not a good enough reason i think there s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it was good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of films a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending pluses the way the story moves begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he s there the music a disinterested look at the life of policemen minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effects still having people s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided br br no complaints i don t understand the positive comments made about this film it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i can not understand how it ever got made br br cartoon characters abound sue s foul mouthed alcoholic layabout irish father being a prime example none of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for sue s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence as desperately unattractive as they both are i ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but given that they do why should i be expected to care what happens to them so many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is if that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film br br i didn t like the film at all steven what have you done you have hit an all new low it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege and and exit wounds the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted pounds on this garbage out of ten better luck next time a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer s next target director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoops around corners in a museum after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purposes practically gives away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals and stages his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dressed to kill is exhausting primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial much of the acting with the exception of young keith gordon is mediocre and the second finale is a rip off of de palma s own carrie not to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end results are distinctly half baked from flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david labraccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in lost boys and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru calling episode which used the movie s premise br br flatliners one of my favorite shows back in the s as i recall it went to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together br br each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible br br i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who came back as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames oh well you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea br br mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best br br definitely deserves a place in tv s hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo kolchack you are on it or in the case of the hall of fame in it i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldn t be laughing you ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and well you get the point br br but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face frownland really is a remarkable piece of work that after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him br br it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein s film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer if someone sets you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the pain perhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can t even begin to attempt to explain br br unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself bring a doggie bag i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night s sitcoms on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didn t expect much and i didn t get much although rose mcgowan is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i d give it a out of i first saw this film when i was about years old on tv in the uk where it was called laupta the flying island i absolutely loved it and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it i was enchanted by the story and characters but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw sometimes erroneously referred to as the streamline dub the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set br br unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn t have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese had and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead they have made some pointless alterations such as changing the main character s name from pazu to patzu and added some dialogue but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking which i find annoying in many disney films br br this film still blows away most recent animated films and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market homogenized animation this film can t make up its mind whether its message is humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless or don t ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan is out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all senses who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself i doubt it was her first when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan obviously as among humans total psychos date other total psychos br br the film reeks of half thought out anti human message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all it s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and as the film progresses he grows more and more compassionate to the whale s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better br br the films final journey in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north reminds me of melville s eerie man whale connection and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husbands might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident it s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss however it never goes there the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone br br the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight fails to chomp up the whale hugger tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier i love animals and i detest whaling and what is more i love orca whales but if this film s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed nolan shows compassion and growth and feels for others and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming br br the only message one can walk away with is if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you why o why did i pick this one up well i needed a no brainer in the summer heat and the cover looked cool br br of course i should ve known better this is a really really bad movie and it gets embarasing when the makers know it s bad and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women and some sex scenes to it well folks it does nt cut it does it br br if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very very good well played and funny go rent lake placid that is an order only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine seaview is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it s not rock they re under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a our teacher showed us this movie in first grade i haven t seen it since i just watched the trailer though does this look like a first grade movie to you i don t think so i was so horrified by this movie i could barely watch it it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half and then there was the boy with ketchup i was freaked out by this film now today being i probably would not feel that way i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn t see this movie even though it s pg be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids i don t even remember what it was about once was enough a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon s seed the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific but instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death despite the title itself being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to the end scott menville is not casey kasem that is the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company br br shaggy s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows they ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original br br i m not sure what they re on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isn t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows br br and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted i like it but it s not real scooby doo type animation but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me this might too br br it s worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly besides i am trying not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die as the saying goes we ll see how it looks after two more episodes by then i ll have formed a much more solid opinion i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i ll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this even this early in his career capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing this is a thin story and quite predictable at times but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately the first part looks like a cinderella story though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune br br nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it s easy to get caught up in the clich s then the movie does become more original as the married couple have to find a way to make a living the ending is very predictable but satisfying i also want to compliment the title writing very witty and fun uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he s ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i ve ever seen this isn t that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i d take a pass unless it s late at night and you re catching it on cable this video is so hilariously funny it makes everything else br br by eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor which just goes to show you how good this really is to be honest i don t think that i ve ever br br laughed at something as much as this including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse this show is amazing although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long plus its extended version beginning with m but it didn t bother me see it the funniest thing i ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer s client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste minutes of your life on this note the music was good it s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it s impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you d be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion i never watched the next action hero show and until reading the other comments here did not know that this movie was the prize from that competition i was just flipping channels and came across this and found myself watching dare eagerly all the way to the end br br yes the plot s been done the most dangerous game etc but i was hoping for and almost received the gotcha how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end i think the high tech was overdone gps s and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider but it nevertheless was not too overdone br br the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that was required of the viewer do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much br br the final solution was good but the ending was disappointing with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy except for zane who doesn t get near as much work as he deserves imho they were winners from a reality show br br knock me out i am a big fan of old horror movies and since i am middle aged old to me is a movie made before with most being made in the s to s period i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies with one exception being creepshow which i thought was great i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending all the stories were great though so why did i like them so much the characters had some decent development the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bits were really funny this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it s telling you something of also romero s expertise is hard to find here they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard i don t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me and that s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on it s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing yuck yuck to see it i just wanted to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing gheorghe muresan act i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn t that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure it was better than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don t want to have to think much it s well worth a rent some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made well they are only partly right for me this is the worst movie ever made period i have never seen anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature as this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isn t even so bad its good there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis other bad movies like clambake this one is so rotten to sit through its painful pure garbage native americans should sue for their poor clich d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole stars seriously grade f first of all yes i m white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race anyway white people hating black people bad but black people hating white people ok because apparently we deserved it where do i start i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene were ice cube and co get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win the neo nazi where twice the size and the chase the chase is priceless this is not a movie about race tolerance and understanding it doesn t deliver this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich stereotypes the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it br br save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written poorly acted dull and clearly biased picture if you are into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid s satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always the three shorts included on this compilation issued in are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn t look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth s tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it s kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film s decent cast pino donaggio s music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film s sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br out of years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie was first class the acting memorable and the storyline a classic recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part again i looked eagerly to viewing part i was so pleased to realize early on into part that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii wrong i wish i d stopped at ii the storyline was not good it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story the characters were weak especially the daughter pacino s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather or then scenes such as corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goodies get away and everyone else is shot daughter and st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the steps corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isn t ready for an emergency no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but i ll watch many times down the years this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i ve watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based the key word here is based how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom br br sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it this involves him selling out and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity however they are not overdone the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney s misadventures the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction is never that much of an issue because simon pegg as sidney projects likability too well br br jeff bridges underplays sidney s editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney s affections and with regard to megan fox who plays an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belongings and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort of course given that i m a fat year old english accountant you might not find my offer too enticing but it s there on the table anyway given how short her career has been so far one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become however she does it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far br br there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us br br there are several laugh out loud moments and i smiled most of the way through as ever the f word makes appearances when it really doesn t need to although at least a couple of these are very funny alien hunter out of is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all things on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot br br derivative doesn t even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him he turns her down aggh br br in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke br br with about seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title br br i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield the characters in the cornfield dress like logan s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them br br that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it br br alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired brittany s strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially linnea s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing i saw the film and i got screwed because the film was foolish and boring i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled sholay the cast and crew was bad the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle amithab bachan s acting is poor i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure nobody did justice to their work including ajay devagan this film don t deserve any audiences i bet that this film will flop br br finally this movie sucks lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon it s quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin after the murders within her fantasies are committed lorna awakens bewildered often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality br br if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco i d say it s elegant difficult by now you ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career as far as film making style and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience and as you read from the reaction of the user comments here some like this decision others find the style labouring dull and bewildering i ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head but even franco himself when quizzed by critics who watched succubus admitted that he didn t even understand the film and he directed it some might say that succubus was merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in furs considered his masterwork by franco faithful because it also adopts the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined in a sense like the protagonist we are experiencing the same type of confusion certainly succubus is unconventional film making where we aren t given the keys to what is exactly going on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn t help matters succubus is also populated by beatnik types and poet speak corman s film a bucket of blood poked fun at my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually great locations and jazz score i liked this film myself although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank welker s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott s good name this film shows the usual knott s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts last good outing when you have an extra minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel i have not read the book so i really didn t know that much about the plot and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that was not what it needed there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman playing a year old is just stupid br br there s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it s considered funny and it goes on for minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid thank god this wasn t based on a true story because what a story it is populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds before the devil is a mesmerizing jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it weren t carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn t hurt either br br the main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry br br the story is told with time shifts which are noted on screen such as charlie two days before the robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didn t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldn t make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to gina marisa tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and you ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands proceed with caution if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives this dvd delivers you will learn new things guaranteed so much so that you won t need any other documentary s on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well as a bonus watch this with tora tora tora saving private ryan patton band of brothers a bridge too far the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you won t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject perfect the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment br br the two criminals performed by robert blake and scott wilson as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile is part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family looking for a safe that isn t there once on the run they start writing bad cheques carving out a trail for the authorities br br there are many fine supporting actors i like john forsyth as the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney br br i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through having only caught it in short snatches i did finally get to it after buying the dvd the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen br br don t miss this brilliant movie to me this is what great film making is all about this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all latterman leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first minutes and i am going to stick to it though it s too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o brien for example i know it s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o brien s antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensen s spoof of trading spouses and nanny in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people s pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on th april coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike s talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on th july someone wrote here that the people who praised spike s talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford it s all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you re not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they re unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it s all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i m appalled for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i m afraid i don t know what the world has come to let me tell u something i started watching many t v shows like lost prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season then we have the sopranos i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season and more importantly all of its episodes there is no department that this show doesn t excel in acting nothing short of superb james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would ve been the better choice however after watching the first few episodes i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony the raw emotion he displays is superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actors perform to the best quality and all giving an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i been so sucked into a t v show before the story is nothing short of excellent each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say its too violent or they feel that the character of tony is immoral i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day i don t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me you ll be hooked from the very first episode i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show hooked on it trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v after you ve watched the first season you ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos i d give this a negative rating if i could i went into this movie not expecting much but i had an open mind the whole thing is stupid the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i were a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie became so popular seriously the worst thing i ve ever seen i wasn t entertained it wasn t funny i wasn t even bored i wasn t anything it wasn t even so bad it was good it s just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie don t even rent this movie no clue how it s getting such a high rating most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all faggy seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i m bating here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over this is a great ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid it doesn t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown s graveyard when i was ten turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile but i love it now as a year old br br i bought this dvd used for bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it ruled it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you got ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd this movie is awesome if you love s metal and bad movies this one s for you while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being sittaford mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments bethany cox good lord what were they thinking here is your spoiler warning even though i don t think it ll really matter you won t be seeing this piece of trash anyway br br a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies in other words the whole thing is really stupid br br you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can t save something and they didn t i know some of their lines were funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comments but geez this was pretty dang sad br br all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud it is not worth your eyes i had heard and read so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series like entourage sopranos or mad men but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one didn t make it past the first six episodes br br the writing was unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing the dialog felt forced like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh br br the characters never developed enough for me to care about them they were selfish and unappealing i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer s loyalty br br episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line br br add to that i heard that season two wasn t as good so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out br br if you re a fan of good casting and writing i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course you re stoned and then all bets are off this movie is among my favorite foreign films some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson br br in japan a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it takes his train to pass he is enthralled by her but is it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share br br shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and in itself transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be as if the film were not of value in itself this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for better or worse and i ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades milo o shea is still leopold bloom this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love br br the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film dreaming of julia makes much more sense it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people s daily lives and pursuits that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history br br the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could br br the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love br br the revolution like the film julie never seems to have an ending i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey s it s politics too upfront and ridiculous and let s face it i was still under a love spell known as blowup and i still haven t completely shaken it now the love is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and oh well good luck to me br br but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age and zp is it s own experience and is only really linked to blowup through its creator the late great mr antonioni br br twelve years ago i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print projected at its correct size immense restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of place br br what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own br br i remember the second time around seeing it the early s i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli s olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now were engaging me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality she took her time to live everything everything dies around her br br upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found enjoyment the encroaching shoulder padded big haired s whispered but that s a hippie fantasy let it go br br the force of antonioni s vision had i had realised already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered s with an uh huh and guarded my love secretly possessively and jealously br br but this then is what good art does it lives inside of you and if you wish it has its way and loves you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed br br was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup undoubtedly zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all br br today reality hit zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice s restaurant br br so it is still too difficult too disturbing too what br br maybe it s that as with all good art it lives while everything dies around it br br peace very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome make up effects daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital she escapes again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives doctors and relatives it s all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire the film is too long too weird and too forgettable the biggest surprise comes at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts yeah right this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn t make the cut as a marine dressed in baby blue outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine raider gere s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent s innocence stealing his baby blue uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent s character whose name is marion takes gere s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine raider marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local caf he meets rose hudkins who immediately catches his eye staying with hudkins parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese internment camps as the towns folks go hunting escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there s still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his s performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid s were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as hedge quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he s the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with jmv s talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa j niksen vuosi is one of jarva s most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society s authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br vatanen antti litja smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn t all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes j niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving i love jamie foxx br br and i enjoy of all movies i see br br and i walked out of this one br br now i admit it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing oh no jamie s knocking on a door hee hee hee but this was just so incredibly annoying there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle everything had to be in your face loud and annoying br br the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like but at this point it s just old and tired he brought nothing new or interesting from all the characters too many lines you saw coming too many you ve heard before and too many tough guy lines and i don t mind that sort of thing really as long as there s a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked br br i love jamie foxx and i think he s really funny and i thought he was funny in this movie but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else br br this movie needed less shoot em up less annoying camera shots more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i gave it a after seeing dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies i was very surprised to see a very fun smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout the movie moves along well it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city madonna was great as the damsel in distress she really impressed me and added depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i don t think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn t laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film has everything to keep me happy i don t know why some people criticise that show so much br br it is a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream prime time but still br br the family dynamics are funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried roy jibes are only just above average but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing br br this show was well worth the pounds i paid for it br br rating mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel gutierrez who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra an evil creature from myth legend erm i m struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott maginnis i won t beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it s referred to a chupacabra in fact i suspect this wasn t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn t change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project but that s it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character s are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i m sorry but i don t know how else to describe it br br director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable there s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink you ll miss something editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it s not scary there s no nudity there s no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there s virtually no colour to the picture either it s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you ll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it s a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isn t it isn t even a proper werewolf flick either don t be fooled this is awful i m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a s culture clash movie john wayne would hardly be one s first choice as a cultural attache being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplished his task with style the duke was a guy who really could act well his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle br br despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time he failed to dominate this movie many of his good intentions came a cropper he had authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian br br the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles i can not comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props the set pieces were complex and detailed a lot of money and thought had been applied to it br br the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort script was good without being too wordy there was a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy periods of translation didn t interfere with the narrative it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set whether or not they were japanese i couldn t say but anyway they looked the part at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians unlike other efforts such as blood alley yes i know they were chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i br br frankly i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies the script was better for a start i never liked the songs in the king and i and wasn t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of blood alley i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke s more popular outings br br recommended i was so glad i came across this short film i m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for br br the plot is pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy br br it s a well made short film well edited and the actors all do a great job and the last shot of the film is perfect br br i highly recommend this film i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one but when i started with it i found it really awful they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think of the movie is shot in india you can see indian made cars you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand hindi written on the road you can also see temples in afghanistan hahah its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie pure time waste i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don t watch this waste of time truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren t going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke s or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters ftw br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first turgid minutes of the film in this movie ch vez supporters either venezuelan and not venezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country br br they did not say that the conflict started because of ch vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues br br they did not say anything about more than tv interruptions transmitted by ch vez during only days in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signals each one with about minutes of duration br br they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army forces who is a traditional supporter of ch vez even now in despite of his announcement he is the ministro de interior y justicia after ch vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equals to defense secretary in us br br they did not say anything about ch vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections br br they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch vez supporters either civilians and military official forces br br they present some facts in a wrong order in order to lie br br they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch vez actions in order to avoid the elections br br that s why i tell you this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie one could wish that an idea as good as the invisible man would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects but this is not the case the story the characters and finally the entire last minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early s there are some great moments mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets but alas soon we re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable but schematic br br there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past years and some of them have their charms but it s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven who does have his moments is a very bad one it is obvious that the money is the key issue here the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough and as a result hollow man is seriously undermined with clich s sappy characters predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever br br however the one thing that actually impressed me beside the special effects was the swearing when making this kind of film modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex is very toned down when the whole world blows up the good guys go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them i m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears i think we can thank verhoeven for that ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke s cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke br br well take a peak it s worth as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal i d agree with him this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carried by his family he has a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold things with it he learns to speak later in the film it is very good for a guy like him also starring home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr brown it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan best writing screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture it was nominated the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapted screenplay daniel day lewis was number on the greatest movie stars he was number on the greatest british actors he was number on britain s finest actors and he was number on the world s greatest actor and the film was number on the greatest british films outstanding all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn t i ll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i m not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there s no sequel i do regret that i have bought this series i expected more action more objective picture and more consistency this is just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it is just boredom itself i find the actors work quite weak as well o donnell might seem charming as robin with batman but in this picture he lacks any charm probably while he becomes older he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up it comes as no surprise that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands the story has been told before a deadly disease is spreading around but the extra in this film is peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run is real he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child this person could be working next to you this film was very well advertised i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it then i went and saw it i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not trying to go into them with too many expectations but this movie was not that funny now it wasnt the worst movie i ve ever seen but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it but for true comedy fans id say pass maybe even check out the kings of comedy again something told me to go see meet the parents instead as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it s really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn t get the tragic destiny s of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br very typical almod var of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters nearly complete lack of taboo it s the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later works though you ll find it in a more rough version here he s building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who d find this movie hilarious i do once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you re just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass cybermen tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke s mickey and ricky being one of the doctor s companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the cybermen had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let s hope so a brother s promise is a wonderful family film this is a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depicts this athlete s life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family members is evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us the commitment and determination of dan s coach and his teammates shows what it takes to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age well now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his house of corpses crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corpses but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i don t remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained deaths took place long ago some like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine whose small role provides the film s only worthwhile moments attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum the result comes across like satan s school for girls catchy title made for tv production values intriguing plot crossed with children shouldn t play with dead things low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead trouble is it s nowhere near as entertaining or fun the house of seven corpses is dead at frame one and spends the rest of its minutes going through rigor mortis dragging us along for every aching second director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this i took my year old to see this movie we left after or minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i don t understand how the rating system works i loved this film i thought it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd obv not easily forgotten br br the script is brilliant and the casting couldn t be more perfect each character has their moment and i laughed hard throughout this film comedic timing was spot on br br it s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it s not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can t understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character s actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orlean s accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn t a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don t recommend it unless you re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west clich that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don t you think about that stmd is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn t gel what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film first off i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie its just awful me and my friend who love action movies independence day jurassic park lotr etc went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons mindless entertainment all we got was a mindless hour and a half the cg was not as bad as i was expecting but the plot is so awful along with the acting it made up for it its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every years sounds like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes but with magic and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes it just gets ridiculous the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believed we spent money on this the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest i ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this br br story cg acting br br i don t drink but it would have helped before watching this movie i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn t know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority i must have seen this a dozen times over the years i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pbs station br br i bought a dvd set for the children to see and am making them watch it they don t teach history in school and this explains the most critical event of the th century it expands their critical thinking br br impartially with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why it details what lead up to the war and the actual war br br buy it for your children along with alistair cooke s america watch it with them and make them understand you ll be so glad you did steven seagal s films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven t even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth and i for one think that is a good thing i ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the th time you hear it so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the minutes thank god i watched this at a friend s place and did not pay for it the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence br br also actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen excluding porn she s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent he s the one that carries the movie br br i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie it s a shame that they got to call it a sequel because i was a fan of the original which was actually pretty good a friend lent me this dvd which he got from the director at a festival i think i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie br br the standouts where the actors youssef kerkor was really good as ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also directed and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda was by far my favorite he seemed the least one dimensional and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting was good some was so so but none of it was bad i also really liked the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny br br i m giving this one high marks even though it has some issues because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared and decided to make their movie their way well done to adam jones and crew shawshank godfather pulp fiction all good films great films but nothing and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all santa claus br br the film is so great and has so many messages i cried while watching it seriously this is one of those movies you need to watch times when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eyes and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder what is so bad about this ice cream is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil think movie makes you think br br this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santas he is a normal person we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams and we wonder is the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mentions christ the whole meaning behind christmas br br you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic whether it s christmas or not this movie gets a whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad cinema s greatest period started in post war europe with italy s neo realist movement during the next or decades that followed france s new wavers caught everyone s attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of europoean cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti s particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he s not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century s great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler s th symphony taking full advantage of mahler s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it s a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn t get better than this i ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it s too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie s thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it s mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with bogarde s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogarde s dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it s ostensibly in english but the dvd s sound seems muddy and there s a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn t up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don t know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of out of this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movies but i wasn t prepared for the last minutes of this story if by any chance you re not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat s paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings it isn t too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn t be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it s supposed to look like a home video and it s just like a serious version of kath and kim it s stupid br br it s too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she s not even slightly stupid she s a stereotypical black latino chick br br it s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn t compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family they failed it s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don t act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated hillybilly horror sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there is absolutely new here the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich s deformed hicks a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who s good at heart etcetera but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this is forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j d hart once starred in a movie called films that suck earlier in his career quite an ironic omen indeed br br my grade d as a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much disney for my taste this film takes you on one family s impossible journey and makes you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully acted and photographed heartbreakingly real its last line with its wistful hope is one of the more powerful in memory stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me i can t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i d get fired and i own the company i would have to fire myself god this movie was just a plain steaming stinking pile of poo that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible something else i have to say the guideline about lines of text in a comment is idiotic what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg rated show i loved everybit of this show this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier s richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn t enough time to properly explore what s going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn t a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn t even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders typical meandering hero s stream of consciousness so it doesn t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn t it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i m afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies hail and kill this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i ve seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn t enjoy this one as much as rope but that s not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn t feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it s one of hitchcock s least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically it is always difficult to bring a pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven t been lost the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue s point of view then from maud s one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans having killed their father the vampire king radu now sets his sights on stefan stefan s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful bloodstone br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there s only one reason to watch this movie and his name is radu he s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i m just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it s original it s fun and radu is one of the best vampires i ve seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he s what a vampire should be let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and can not be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet can not explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it s more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it s going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it s usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed for a long time the menagerie was my favorite star trek episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by city on the edge of forever what i used to prefer about menagerie was that it s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline i still think it s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode though the new part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and us to watch the pilot the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one you can poke holes in the plot if you want for instance given the talosians mind control abilities and captain pike s condition why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st s only two parter coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym from when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn t watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then out of now out of largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren s missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona s guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she s a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn t is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i ve ever seen br br stars herculis puaro is in general a well established hero we know well from books and movies this movie or this story don t work and i felt its not agatha s mistake the cast isn t good the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic the scenes are as said before perfect and looking fake the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim is not likable how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well this was by far the worst movie i ve ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round if you ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much as i did that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut s writing that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself and that you can t put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen does this mean that the movie misses the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense i ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut s genius and loses grip on his own craft i would not place this movie as one of the best i ve seen but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching by taking vonnegut s voice out of the movie s narration or trying to insert it however it can mother night tells his story brilliantly and preserves the story s fundamental lessons without confusion distraction or disappointment this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn t funny but it s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn t expect anything better by director michael bully herbig who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but erkan and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel who is very beautiful to me i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the s a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak she was and he was when this movie was released i think that the difference didn t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it does matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that is why his character would be attracted to hers but it s less clear why hers would be attracted to his br br still the movie works as a light romantic fantasy the scene where she stares at him across the cat s head with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring is true magic it s a little jarring therefore when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply as he embraces her she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families the only conceivable flaw of this film is it s title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven t seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it s like a bad relationship i can t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man br br robert stack we love you salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives we see them panhandling in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donations is so lame no one gives them anything salva who is a hardened petty criminal doesn t even have any redeeming qualities that is until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a winning combination something that salva capitalizes on br br he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo salva shows he is a natural for the reality show he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program espe who is a no nonsense woman who is show s producer can t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention ultimately salva is the victim of his own success in the end br br jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie is had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television spain which was vulnerable to these types of programs has seen its share of the bizarre which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience br br the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film mr molla like any actor who decides to direct his first feature would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress is one of the best reasons for watching the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director these kinda movies just don t get the credit they deserve this is my nd all time favorite movie stand by me being st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasn t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn t real popular back in the s i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn t go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven t seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years i really can t believe i ve only just got round to watching purple rain the brand new disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it wow i was really looking forward to watching it but i wasn t prepared for just how electric it actually is prince s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding he really has the moves in this one i am very familiar from repeated listens with the classic purple rain album and all its songs but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics like computer blue the beautiful ones when doves cry and purple rain itself there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform the closing songs baby i m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid s he s overflowing it blew me away it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years br br prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight br br some of the scenes are very s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film s overall charm morris day is the coolest cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance br br i already can t wait to watch it again i really can t extras are terrific particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a prince groupie a good ol boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn t convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb i was extremely pleased with the film the film was dark moving the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon br br i had initially expected to see many special effects and like a lover s caress it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club br br eric etebari the best actor award was the number one choice you made jr lopez look like a child compared to kasadya br br overall the acting story line the high quality filming and awesome effects it was fantastic i just wish it were longer i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations but it is kinda hilarious at least if you grew up on weird al like i did it s a mockumentary about his life and career beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins it s uneven in places but some of the segments are still very funny particularly when he goes to japan although it s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation and he doesn t find love however fleeting he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life br br perhaps weird al isn t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet still this is a funny movie one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven t done since the fan boys took over alt asian movies and john woo s hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving it was very well directed with strong imagery the visual effects were amazing especially for a short it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard this leans towards the gothic feel i would love to see this as a full feature film carrie why else would he do this to me br br not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies or even decent movies i saw lois and clark i am aware of just how good dean cain is br br obviously this is gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoilers as you can t really spoil this movie any more than it already is br br to begin with why is that a fake helicopter i mean why br br how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried how hard would it have been to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren t american br br why are there occasions when the movie gives us a slug line we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on and then that s it who cares about the timeline to be honest who cared about it even when they mentioned it but i guess that s beside the point br br does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens the answer is no br br that dragon sure can walk down that hall over and over and over and over br br who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history it was straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon s dead now say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i used to be superman aha ha ha ha ha br br fade to black br br my god it made me cringe it was so stupid br br but never fear even though the whole building exploded and no one was left alive for some reason there s a second untouched unmanned lab that survived pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for us all br br minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretched scenes maximum headache inducing jerky zooms maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing up until the time flashes on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing to be fair the movie does have some string music that was interesting so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this unfortunately that was not to be and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i am trying to merk a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the eighty s it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don t get me wrong there are many more great performance s in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it br br couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won t shut up or a victim s father responding to the criminal s death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it s quite unprofessional and adds nothing it s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses br br but the rat yes the big rat why we didn t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the big one isn t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry br br the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn t stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself br br but not for more than ok well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie br br well i figured out within the first minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically br br the cast couldn t have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing br br all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man s legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn t just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself such a struggle is best told exactly as that a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che s life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner br br while the movie s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who arguably conducted the whole thing br br yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn t feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back there s the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve br br indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively br br with that said i can not rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part s ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie s characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film br br a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net sometimes it s hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody s idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against seamless hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin s the naked city that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already of course it isn t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars in the first minutes and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don s simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i m leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south br br a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good br br while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i ve seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses br br a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her br br and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he s about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he s about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher s flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one s eyes open for no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can t find in this version we watched br br the film s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better br br the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william golding s trilogy these three minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o war in the early th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who s worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life s hardships man s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o brian s series of novels on which it was based will love this for everyone else it s a whole new world to discover wow this is really not that good br br i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special br br the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies br br i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i m against politicians in general but if you re looking to be offended i can t help you br br not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin br br rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it s not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear br br another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it s then that you know you aren t simply watching another silly s slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it s originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what i d choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it s extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn t any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women s behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore suyin s attitudes always leave poor elliott a determined brave and extremely practical man anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact suyin s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people s life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead s family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone s daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn t know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i d heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow one word reviews that s what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn t age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don t watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience br br the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes br br one important factor of christy s success is his mother s support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy s dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh o conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other br br btw jim sheridan s works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying god knows why he chose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity i m stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it s an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clich of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there s nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it s possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it s miles ahead of this schlock do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you ve seen one of films scott made at rko during his prime the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town s main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won t say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they d learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america s movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word years ago when the city was named i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character s behaviors today s kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the events that s precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don t waste your time money on this one sigh leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far br br to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something br br lordi isn t scary lordi is lame lordi is over br br i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision br br no wait they won the eurovision that s it i rest my case after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that of the episodes really are nt that good but the other certainly make up for it if i had to pick great episodes id go for formula driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the s there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it s one of the best comedies of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary s excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs is so bad that it s fun meatballs and meatballs are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters the film s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself br br i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act br br higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you ll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey s wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor s mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai s robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dick philes should shun the stars collective what the hell attitude to their late s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn t stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it from i can t even describe it it s the worst movie i ve ever seen i m being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn t like to think much it s not even scary it s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clich s and cook it for a week or so and you ll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys was horrible the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn t know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn t great but this is telly so it was fine i don t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn t clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it ll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn t work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they ve even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a one flew over the cuckoo s next twelve monkeys type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story lady and the tramp ii scamp s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it s junior s turn lady and tramp s youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp s mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie out of wow what s this on the video rental store s shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasn t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fianc e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fianc e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn t like how this had nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn t believe the words coming out of david s mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn t even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good seconds long out of an hour and long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it s one of joel schumacher s better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie jack s performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him danny s performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn t here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn t she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn t need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it s alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could ve done it in a way that didn t look cartoony brave little toaster anyone the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow br br the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don t have much but what they do have angels baseball and what they are seeking identity that s when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are br br depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball s biggest boners dorothy kingsley and george wells dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox br br spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won t maybe i ll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it s a made for tv b movie the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness br br start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it br br on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i m sure this story will not be everyone s cup of tea especially considering the film s darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford s very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy s the sum of all fears fears will be harrison ford s third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas congresswoman it s a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford s quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford s character s investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch s investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack s thriller is top notched from dave grusin s pollack s the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film s unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br out of or out of for all of the has beens or never was s or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more br br robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself br br williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever br br one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester br br holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the director spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn t have pace rhythm it s illogical what a mess you can tell what s gon na happen since the first minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn t recommend this movie at all it s a waste of money and time i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the s their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k complete with bearded host br br capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he s a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python s and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why words no o j a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic br br in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it s no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable br br so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time br br out of broken hearts i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner s inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it s pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them what a good movie at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley s rock around the clock br br anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us br br spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally thinking of your own future br br bye had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she s in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that s how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don t have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic stars yes it is a bit cheesy but it s suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it s interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i ve watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it s difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn t be universally sought after but i m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i ll keep hoping so it isn t an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn t really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression i absolutely loved this film i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film s plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of to i d give it about an the only reason i shy away from is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it s a i definitely think it s a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents have to agree that this movie and it s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn t disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca s films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap this was my first gaspar noe movie i ve watched and i have to say i was shocked i don t mind gore in generally but this isn t even gore it s real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can t stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i ll let you figure them out don t watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i m a big fan of tom selleck s and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can t imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan s an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh although i lived in australia in i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the s and s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can t stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don t watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he manages to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the white mans view life begins and ends in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving br br oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace s loretta young husband what an actor as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i d like to see more of this actor s work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don t cut don t cut as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession br br loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months br br glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn t anyone know back in that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies health but her character redeems herself in the end br br also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable br br life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into out of this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie s character and denzel washington s of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock s rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you d be bored possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney s sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i m going to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn t seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can t leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney s name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of s this movie s true score br br as mentioned before chris rock is the king previous to going to see this movie i wasn t that over the top about him but now i m banging on the doors of chris rock s website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on br br there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn t realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture br br well to the actual plot of the film br br don t spoil the experience for yourself don t read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it s a cinema experience that doesn t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell s part is very small and doesn t add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn t stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money br br whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears br br it s so campy that among taylor fans it s probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you re way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam s torturing of his parents br br i m sorry to say this bam but you re in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he s going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera s already too big ego i don t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don t know how to categorize this film it wasn t scary or spooky so can t be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can t be a drama there was no suspense so it can t be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn t there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn t schlocky s horror films ya got ta love em in contrast to today s boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula br br this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without br br john carradine having long since given up looking for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director br br the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there s truth in advertising it s just sad that the ghoul didn t understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can t go around tugging on satan s coat and expect him to take it lying down br br sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses i suppose for this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now years it s charm was just as silly as it s entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained overall it s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all now i don t hate cheap movies i just don t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad s camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes br br maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn t maybe i hate it because it s cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can t save this br br seriously this one is a complete waste of time a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land br br the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn t fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own it s a neurological drama it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person s brain br br it s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf br br no small feat for such a sort of a movie br br the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn t think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn t just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i m your father and i m smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce s wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i d recommend watching it s hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it s heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you re a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw s match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i m a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it s a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn t make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i d recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it s no good amanda i ll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he ll mark your packages return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the don t mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it s the greatest movie ever done it s just crap on a stick it also didn t help that the story line was sooo crappy i don t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i m very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn t they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael latt didn t have steven spielberg s budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either br br the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you d think if he was turning into a real bat he d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood s the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he s just having an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction br br it s not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it s bad in a clich d wooden professional way it s just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved br br i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but br br the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver br br he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario br br he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episodes instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clich d acting mannerisms br br he needed to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant br br i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it s bad but it isn t bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don t laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven t disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn t yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don t get off on their own self importance years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that s what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie s nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything br br the plot follows a group of teen cliche s on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled i m supposed to feel sorry for this guy br br to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it s message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn t even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it s surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like hour and minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a and if your not happy with my preview seriously i m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won t go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you ve been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they re exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment s hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to feet long in a matter of a day but don t grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don t meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don t necessarily change the direction they re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on 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['one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just oz episode you ll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn t dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn t mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn t say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who ll be sold out for a nickel inmates who ll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the polari but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master s of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with halliwell s murals decorating every surface are terribly well done i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy the plot is simplistic but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable even the well bread suspected serial killer while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point risk addiction i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love br br this was the most i d laughed at one of woody s comedies in years dare i say a decade while i ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson in this she managed to tone down her sexy image and jumped right into a average but spirited young woman br br this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it was wittier than devil wears prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friends basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time br br this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie br br ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots br br out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them petter mattei s love in the time of money is a visually stunning film to watch mr mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter br br this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler s play about the same theme the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect each one is connected in one way or another to the next person but no one seems to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film has a sophisticated luxurious look we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat br br the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter br br the acting is good under mr mattei s direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these characters come alive br br we wish mr mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work probably my all time favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it s not preachy or boring it just never gets old despite my having seen it some or more times in the last years paul lukas performance brings tears to my eyes and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles is a delight the kids are as grandma says more like dressed up midgets than children but that only makes them more fun to watch and the mother s slow awakening to what s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling if i had a dozen thumbs they d all be up for this movie i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i ve got what i wan na say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first aired the first or years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by the show was not really funny anymore and it s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn t still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can t believe it s still on the air encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film bad mistake i ve seen films and this is truly one of the worst of them it s awful in almost every way editing pacing storyline acting soundtrack the film s only song a lame country tune is played no less than four times the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film br br the only thing that prevents me giving this a score is harvey keitel while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessives only if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie if you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked it br br great camp phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines br br at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore br br its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there were some pretty interesting characters but eventually i just lost interest br br i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking br br for something similar but better try brother from another planet i saw this movie when i was about when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn t care much for the romantic angle as a year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules so im not a big fan of boll s work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller br br three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr krieger played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven t even gone far before i started to cry mehehe i can not go on any more if you wan na stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of scheisse that s poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wan na take a wiff go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wan na shoot him the first three minutes he s on screen the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because the scottish play is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you can not improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i ve ever seen sort of like a high school film project what was rosanna arquette thinking and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town pretty hard to get involved with this one no lessons to be learned from it no brilliant insights just stilted and quite ridiculous but lots of skin if that intrigues you videotaped nonsense what was with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounters and what was with that absurd dance with everybody playing their stereotyped roles give this one a pass it s like a million other miles of bad wasted film money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa some films just simply should not be remade this is one of them in and of itself it is not a bad film but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson was excellent as he always is and most of the cast holds up with the exception of owen wilson who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more this movie made it into one of my top most awful movies horrible br br there wasn t a continuous minute where there wasn t a fight with one monster or another there was no chance for any character development they were too busy running from one sword fight to another i had no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them br br scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies lotr star wars and matrix br br examples br br the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda obee one and vader br br the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings elijah wood is the victim in both films and wait it hypnotizes stings its victim and wraps them up uh hello br br and the whole machine vs humans theme was the matrix or terminator br br there are more examples but why waste the time and will someone tell me what was with the nazi s nazi s br br there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it was a children s movie or an adult movie and wasn t much of either br br just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in my dad took me my brother sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it an awful film it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe they ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition my complaint is not that they ve taken liberties with the facts if the story were good that would perfectly fine but it s simply bizarre by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script i suppose there weren t enough naked people in the factual version it s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist s life we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they d favored the rest of the film with same brevity after the success of die hard and it s sequels it s no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a movies cashed in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that is what they did with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallone s career br br cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing base jumping aviation facial expressions acting skills all in all it s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills and unintentionally plenty of laughs br br you ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddies and best of all the permanently harassed and hapless turncoat agent rex linn as travers br br he may of been henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely can t be it really does look like ralph waite s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death br br mention too must go to former london s burning actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football yes you can t help enjoy that bit hal needed a good kicking br br so forget your better judgement who cares if that could never happen lower your acting expectations turn up the volume and enjoy and if you re looking for qaulen he s the one wearing the helicopter i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it s entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn t even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it s almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you won t regret it it s too much fun rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn t anything more other than him i still liked it the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times you really start liking it first of all let s get a few things straight here a i am an anime fan always has been as a matter of fact i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several b movies because they re hilarious c i like the godzilla movies a lot br br moving on when the movie first comes on it seems like it s going to be your usual b movie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime comes on this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill br br the animation is very bad cheap even worse than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it s so cheap one of the few scenes from the movie i vividly remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school it s the same kids over over again the fx are terrible too the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation is unorganized the dialogue voices especially the english dub that i viewed was horrid i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd vhs player the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes comments like the robots joel mike on mst k you pick the season honestly this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time br br heck i m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night because it s stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time i m giving this movie a an improvement from the i was originally going to give it br br according to my grading scale means pretty much both boring bad as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun as counting to this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there is no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me nor does the development of the cop it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the s and not even a good one in those standards br br the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter s complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia gibb portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen s mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren t though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i ve read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don t want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it s all about and not how it s all about and i guess that s what some people don t like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it d at least get nominated for best picture br br i ve noticed that i ve kind of been repeating myself not because there s nothing else to say but because i can t stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of this film tried to be too many things all at once stinging political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family values promo the list goes on and on it failed miserably at all of them but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end br br although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film br br there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening reminds me a bit of three kings which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i d be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america s funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once war movie is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich d dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and ren e zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier s tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast coming to ada s rescue is the course tough as nails ruby thewes played by ren e zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby s deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant br br director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether taut and organically gripping edward dmytryk s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger s apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who s assigned to ryan s outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who s leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it s pretty much confined to young s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there s no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it s based on richard brooks the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don t fit so smoothly the victim s chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there s a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan s murderous rage ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he can not achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video which has brought us other cult classics such as spider baby the print quality is excellent but this alone can t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull there s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie is slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling adding insult to injury the movie was dubbed not subtitled as promised on the video jacket one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man titta di girolamo a physically non descript middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy when we re introduced to him at the start of the film he s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo s cash tell him that dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes at the news he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can t bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this bluffed only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo s troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who won t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life titta decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di girolamo s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell amore or l imbalsamatore another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist s insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dell amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it s almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of titta s best friend a man whom he hasn t seen in years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it s never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like titta accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator s expectations le conseguenze dell amore is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt xa during the second half of the s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell amore l imbalsamatore and others your loss world i watched this film not really expecting much i got it in a pack of films all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i was right they were all terrible this movie has a few and a few is stretching it interesting points the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch the drummer is very like a drummer i e damned annoying and well thats about it actually the problem is that its just so boring in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious i had my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but gave it a go and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking coz they don t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot i thought he looked a bit like a meercat all this and i haven t even mentioned the killer i m not even gon na go into it its just not worth explaining anyway as far as i m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who was actually quite funny it wasn t because of their acting talent i ve certainly seen a lot worse but i ve also seen a lot better best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry i bought this film at blockbuster for because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don t usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she s wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it s teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i ve been writing into a pg movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it s number so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though the plot is about the death of little children hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter in the end the serial killer get caught that s it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors it is unbelievable how bad these actors are including hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just don t watch the movie i ve warned you ever watched a movie that lost the plot well this didn t even really have one to begin with br br where to begin the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable or even the beginning which suggests a spate of killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction br br add a lead actress who can t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty but not in the way you hope br br given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offers nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder don t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before br br after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of us no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon br br it really is only a movie as they say okay so this series kind of takes the route of here we go again week in week out david morse s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what s wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david koepp a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can t see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let s hope something good can make it past a first series after sitting through this pile of dung my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it was that listless and formulaic but the u s propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves disappointingly that it s the work of humans call me a conspiracy theorist but quotes like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there s also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr whatever her name was being chided by all involved for never shutting up she s clearly in the movie only for looks but they felt the need to slap a dr title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage s character says don t you ever shut up and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands like she s a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie was that it s so astonishingly bad you do get a few laughs out of it the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it creepy it had all the clich s of movies of this type and no substance the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it the production was good however the script and acting were b movie quality the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors the good actors didn t hold their own nor did they lift up the others br br this movie is not worthy of more words but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines james wood and cuba gooding jr play caricatures of themselves in other movies br br if you are looking for mindless entertainment i still wouldn t recommend this movie this movie is based on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out fifty s hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances pass but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held bullets has there been such a miracle i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god s army was okay and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br dutcher s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what dutcher shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time dutcher try making a movie that someone can identify with this movie struck home for me being i remember the s and my father working in a factory i figured if i worked hard too if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream the house a few kids a car all to call my own i ve noted however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you can t get anywhere br br i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs it s made for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic an t find it anywhere i d love to show this to my friends my pseudo friends family and other relatives see what they think and remind them that once upon a time americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished i think the feeling is still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas as a disclaimer i ve seen the movie times in the last years and i only just saw the musical this week this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn t in the musical however it tainted me when i watched the musical br br i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene is one of the best parts of the movie a worthwhile addition compared to the musical the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical as well as the cast which is at least times bigger easier to do in the movie of course the decors lighting dancing and singing are also much superior in the movie which should be expected and was indeed delivered br br the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie the new ones are quite good ones and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion especially compared to a musical which has few decors the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters but their dancing is impeccable and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham s nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born canaanites wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists linguists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one preston sturgis the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry luce clone thatcher s memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane s story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner s right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom s confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union s headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane s success few films do including all of orson welles other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one s interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve s son by tom s son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans sturgis came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers return to the th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the s and s whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western s clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest this is presented in shaw scope just like the good old days br br this film is a simple story of good versus evil told in acts which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era br br act one sets up the premise workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot having their wages cut by by incoming manchu gangsters they can t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters and their boss at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequences but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times br br act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob however without real martial arts he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly after some slapstick moments he finally gets accepted by the abbot whom he impersonated but is disappointed at the teaching methods kinda like mr miyagi s style in karate kid but instead of painting fences he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly builds strength endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way br br act three is where the fight fest begins with cheesy sound effects each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow with some pause in between moves but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks they sure don t make fight scenes like they used to return to the th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday so if you re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what are you waiting for spoilers all too in real life as well as in the movies familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hands the case of young and innocent in never handling or firing a gun jimmy davis franchot tone has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men like jimmy davis are forced to take up arms for their country br br jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay by being belted in the mouth by his good friend fred p willis spencer tracy ended up on the front lines in france with jimmy s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german who raised his arms in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him br br recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy gladys george rose was really in love with jimmy s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her it s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose thinking that he was killed fell in love and later married jimmy when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy now fully recovered from his wounds was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy s proposal of marriage to her br br with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred who s still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city s underworld not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster br br jimmy s life of crime came full circle when rose after she found out about his secret life ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a valentine day like massacre with his gang members dressed as cops of his rival mobsters while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence is up get his life back together br br spoiler alert hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law it s at fred s circus where he works as both manger and barker that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he like at his trial had a sudden change of heart but the thought of going back to prison with at least another ten years added on to his sentence was just too much for jimmy it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job that he himself didn t have the heart to do for him bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones br br bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides deaths the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards br br you have got almost everything in this movie the scientist s assistants consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her sons a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela s house bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie br br the corpse vanishes is worth a look especially for bela lugosi fans great fun br br rating stars out of i can not believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line s tape this ain t no minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an the percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of as strikingly similar to the post socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a whupping they deserve it s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can t be denied the right to ever vote again they ve clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he s helped create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic as robespierres plight is it s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine as someone has already mentioned on this board it s very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with love machine it starts to show its faux hand about the minute mark with minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it s downhill from there br br director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn t get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in when the film was made eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn t work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it s not going to be an oscar nominated film it s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes br br the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert it s just them fighting back throughout the whole film which includes a lot of violence which is basically the whole film as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience br br i d give the hills have eyes ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment something to pass time if you re bored and nothing else br br i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned no spoilers br br after hitchcock s successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne dumarier s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock s sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freaks and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock s more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time shooting ban on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock s most well known films it s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock s original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his deaf wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it s not a big movie and doesn t try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his th performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they re taking their bows and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren t other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn t get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser what happened what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie loses it actually it never really got going there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant then find out that she is after all but that was it steve martin who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie other than to make it longer i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it was not but maybe a drama with comedic elements i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot i ve just watched fingersmith and i m stunned to see the average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it so let s begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg s movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it s quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence besides being boring the scenes were oppressive and dark the movie tried to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with its message what were the redeeming qualities on top of that i don t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did an unmarried woman named stella bette midler gets pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own things go ok until the child named jenny trini alvarado becomes a teenager and things gradually and predictably become worse br br i ve seen both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affected me much and i cry easily but they were well made if dated trying to remake this in was just a stupid idea i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of beaches to get this made this predictably bombed the story is laughable and dated by today s standards even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actors don t help in supporting roles flimsy and dull really who thought this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a don t torture a duckling is one of fulci s earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot g a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don t torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci s later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci s non splatter films but don t despair don t torture still has more than it s fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn t bother you then definitely give this one a look busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn t going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter liapis who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this film whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an asylum is hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br solely for the high bimbo quotient i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali larter her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you i m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though marques houston did appear in hp he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren t the most talented and couldn t carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i m sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i m sorry kym whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the hudlin brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i m no nasa expert but surely it s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film out of with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don t go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then i m comin upstairs junior and i m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offsetting his small role however is dan acroyd who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it s not that shocking it s not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis cerda s sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material although i don t care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written its not just about entertainment there s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across and yes it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn t watch sepet and or gubra for times br br i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right its really ironic how the characters relate like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future br br and i absolutely love the voice overs its crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there was suddenly mukhsin s voice saying bismillahhirrahmannirrahim the scene when he climbed the tree br br it captured malaysian s attitude and in some mild way sniggering at how pathetic it is portrayed in the character for example even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isn t sorted out br br all i can say is this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it br br it kept me glued to the screen i couldn t even take my eyes off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha i am not a golf fan by any means on may about pm the movie started with a scene in the late s old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don t want to give away too much i was up until a m this is super please see the movie upon viewing tobe hooper s gem crocodile in i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts with ed writing the scripts and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer all we d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants br br while tobe hooper s crocky opus referenced his own movies blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages rip offs to jaws temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock br br i was disappointed the crock didn t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism or crocky appreciation but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach perhaps in the coming years we ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed br br all in all the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me it tries to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like sh kasugi christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time it s actually is a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it s flaws captures your interest it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it even if it s made in the s it doesn t have a modern feel it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had this on the other hand just has the real feeling you just can t hate it i think it s an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they don t because coburn has a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman br br that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after as he explains it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired it s not something he s proud of she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt br br lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is heston is his usual stalwart hero but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn he blows everyone else off the screen when he s on br br coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can t touch him he knows that heston has to make it personal then br br coburn s gang includes morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be br br the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western andrew mclaglen directed it and i m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there is a lot br br for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men is your film maybe it was the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which is with the director as he keeps saying hi kids into the camera like a buffoon but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator turns out it s way too sleazy for its own good or bad or whatever there s a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respects in not having balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies and with the killing scenes there has to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in creating the creature killer whatever entrails of a virgin has neither it s safe to say it s a pretty soulless movie even if isn t one of the very worst ever made it s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their other heads br br in this case we re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by a murderer as he s credited first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on we get spliced in or phoned in take your pick clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere it looks like it s from another movie then once settled into the house there s a wrestling scene that s poorly choreographed and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killings first the rape by the photographers who promise the girls some jobs for their time then the murderer who like d amato s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one br br now the latter of those taken by themselves should be considered the highlights of the movie this is like saying however that the cro tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eye gouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually is kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl whose inconsequential name i can t remember even this becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title on top of this the sex scenes which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway are dubbed over by the actors you d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one where it s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch as the last girl left alive the virgin of the picture tries to stop the murderer from getting to her which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him you just want it to be done with for the i hate women mantra to ease up or be rid altogether the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a rotten tomatoes users ranked it at and the critics averaged an amazing if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike mina s son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren t a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo stephen hawkings is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it s a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they ll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won t be the same after you see it the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don t need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of s then the rest of us will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don t even get me started about the southern accents y all and the story was trite just remember you were warned oh god i must have seen this when i was only or twelve don t ask how i may have been young but i wasn t stupid anyone could see that this is a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly i ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland i ve seen better performances at a school play and i ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignoring the children tapping on the glass br br the story is set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people are trying out a new water sport surfing in shark filled waters it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family br br i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years the best of which is lake placid and the worse of which is its sequel blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind br br the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer s life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number reminds me that he s still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can t get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that s titled the number is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn t even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous and i have never seen such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i was very disappointed the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldn t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end if you don t want to know much about the plot don t keep reading br br gilbert s character ophelia is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor is matt who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce he is gentle convincing and compelling in this role br br the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love br br the chemistry between the two leads is not great even though the talent of these two people is not in my opinion a question they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical two people meet tragedy bigger tragedy a secret is revealed another tragedy and then they get together i wish there was more to it than that but there it is in a nutshell br br i wanted mindless entertainment and i got it with this in regard to the genre of romantic films this one fails to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner is far superior not a steele book as are some of steele s earlier books turned into film oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don t even remember how many i ve seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all dramaticness ok this is for kids who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we ll let me tell you there s a million of you d this is one of them i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this nicholas walker is paul the local town reverand who s married to martha ally sheedy but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so doing he gets a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of misery type of way it s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator in a film billed as a black comedy one has to bring both elements into said movie while this does bring the former in spades it sadly contains none of the latter furthermore you can t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one br br eye candy dara tomanovich gets topless sally kirkland also shows some skin br br my grade c br br where i saw it showtime showcase hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore verbinsky to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn t entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clich s all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn t enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn t that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it s getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood bullshits down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment if you came here it s because you ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that s what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother s trailer i swear to god br br you know what i m not writing anymore about this it s just too painful deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read are three smart girls in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences it also stars ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it s a sweet story about three young women now living in switzerland with their divorced mother who hear their father winninger is marrying again not having seen him in years and knowing their mother still loves him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper nanny determined to stop the wedding realizing that the intended called precious barnes is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count this is arranged by their father s accountant king the man he chooses is a full time drunk auer but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess br br this is a delightful film not cloying or overly sugary at all with some nice performances particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young women are pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course is on young durbin who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer in fact her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult she has no trouble with the high notes as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sings a delightful il bacio in a police station br br one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father played by charles winninger not want his children around until he sees them and gets to know them barnes as the gold digger isn t all that young but the girls mother looks way up there so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger more glamorous woman in fact he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters br br universal gives durbin the big star buildup here she has the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point was still paying his dues and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is br br very entertaining and of course this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new better and different those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing directing and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england other days other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment made in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchens in the major roles under the brush stroke direction of mike newell these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter s eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille s classic epic of starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some rivoting scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning pharohs armies building sethi s pyramids could have been done with todays technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn t want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gangs of new york in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody s in the pianist and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot just to name a few his roles all influence eachother but each is seperate and utterly unique he changes completely with each character he takes on and i m beginning to believe that he can act as anything anything br br as cristy brown he is stunning he does not ridicule the character and he does not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown comes to life a smart man an outrageous man human br br this movie despite small scene transition faults and the like is an inspiration yes it s predictable but is it stupidly sentimental no i laughed i cried not a single moment of cheese proof that this isn t a hollywood movie br br my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant when cristy is discussing painters with eileen peter and her friends here s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax i ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that s animated wheel out the cripple and his performance never slows down never falters and is beautiful simply he has a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tired of cristy s perspicacious eyes twitching and guttural speeches br br a must see fo sho yo my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn t be much good the movie s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making hera s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don t see the gods and there s no real certainty that they exist so it s got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn t do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg s works and again and again don t understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood s movies cause it s so inept it s very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there s no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it s extremely inept amateurish film it s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion s gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach s castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma s home a floating space station here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station s power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at lives still these minor problems aside it s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we ve been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect out of this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature spatula madness is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job joins in the fight against the evil spoons this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning but is barely present for the remainder of the feature this film s minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lies below it the plot that is set up doesn t really have time to show but it s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films this film is worth watching at least a few times take it for what it is and don t expect a deep story okay last night august th i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here s what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i ve ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van bebble s take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second dibs on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you ve heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn t want to have anything to do with how in god s name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock n roll mind of a man who couldn t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public s image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie s work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i m glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart i am glad i did it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake the bonus levels were very hard the sniper one i think was too hard it made me so frustrated i didn t play the game for a week and a half there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it br br the only thing i might change was the upgrade system i didn t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded such as buying an armor upgrade didn t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter i really liked the q copter i think the developers did a good job no this hilariously horrible s made for tv horror clinker isn t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness that s quite tasty in a so execrable it s downright awesome sort of way richard crenna looking haggard and possibly inebriated and yvette mimieux who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppets from the disney witch mountain pictures are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesn t that sound really scary and disturbing well scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain t but it sure is funny thanks to curtis night tide harrington s hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effects an almost painfully risible n ridiculous plot and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story besides the leads both martine beswicke and r g armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy show people released by mgm in davies plays a hick from savannah georgia who arrives in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot as is davies outrageous southern costume davies lands a job in slapstick comedy not what she wants but it brings her success she meets fellow slapstick star william haines who is immediately smitten with her well davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio high art studios and lands a job in stuffy period pieces a handsome but fake actor andre telefair shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that is not who she really is marion davies is wonderful throughout as she outrageously runs the gamut of emotions required of a serious actress william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self and there are cameos by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous stars of the day including the director of the film king vidor this is a silent film with a few sound effects as sound pictures were just coming into their own a treasure of a film the performance of every actor and actress in the film are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again however i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors and director attenborough s credits that puzzles me aren t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent long lasting film for the audience i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don t have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director s chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it s very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she s sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated this is the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared not handsome but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark pretty as she is is also a complete and believable jane eyre this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this is the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this apparently the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called movie they described blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skin but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the plot furthermore as a viewer of many and sundry films some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain br br correct br br jonathan tanner br br br br p s i was not blinded by the choreography i liked boyle s performance but that s about the only positive thing i can say everything was overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actors spoke like you would expect your year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded stone hearted cop or an ultra evil villain the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music and what s with the whole ish police torture stuff it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story cox added a lot of things in fact that he apparently thought would be really cool but had nothing to do with the story that s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges stories so good is his minimalism they are tightly bound with no superfluous details this movie is just the opposite i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i wasted renting this but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you what a pity this film is very boring and so long it s simply painfull the story is staggering without goal and no fun br br you feel better when it s finished so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin s adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven t really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys as well br br loved it the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we re used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release of stars this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a foodie the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette s menu and choice of wines are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a out of film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it set in the the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the danton affair written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris usually i m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties early nineties film featuring now has beens but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through guys dressing up as girls has been done to death but never so pathetically corey haim s performance was abysmal as usual nicole eggert was not much better this has no redeeming qualities even if you are a number fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash stay away i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almod var regulars appear in this film so it s not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn t find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood s novel the robber bride and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an ex cop journalist tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman s crazy female friends it s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms atwood s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men victims of scheming women br br heh okay you got me if these guys are mentioned in the book and i m pretty sure they re entirely made up for the movie i ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female characters of the novel aren t enough to carry the movie zenia s manipulations aren t interesting unless we see them happen to a man and a man s life is screwed up roz charis and toni tell their stories to a man because it s not important if a man doesn t hear them br br i liked the characters in the book it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man s story i normally do not look for feminist angles on media and i tried to enjoy the movie as is if i hadn t read the book i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the ex cop and you want to read more about them you re out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot it s the same plot the movie excavated it ironed it and sprinkled it with male angst it s like zenia s revenge on margaret atwood this movie gets a because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid s monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn t terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it s a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br the synopsis isn t entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston rekert as paul sharpe s newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr rekert mr novak s investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom rekert fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo missing in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn made money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place of course not troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it is this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this revolt of the zombies proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn t necessarily make lightning strike twice br br the halperin brothers responsible for the horror classic white zombie made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi s eyes from that previous film there was a court battle with the white zombie film s rights owners who didn t want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word was the only thing that could help this film because as everyone knows bad films can make much more money simply by having the word zombie appear in the title knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead but simply hypnotism victims br br wan na create a mind controlled army of zombies be ready to crack a few eggs including your own br br the lame plot man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend whom she loves jealous this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn t worth spit br br this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i ve ever seen you d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming the acting isn t even good this movie makes the racially insensitive king of the zombies which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invaders seem like a serious drama this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama the credits list the ironically named company favorite films i m not sure whose favorite film this would be but they re obviously an idiot br br not recommended for fans of zombies romance or classic films the complaints are valid to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women i am okay with these night time soaps like grey s anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end however when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romps and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital it seems like general hospital or a female counterpart to baywatch that was what men wanted and they had it so if this is what women want so be it but the idea that this is a high brow show or something men will watch is unrealistic this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year i didn t see any cameos in the movie but it is still pretty good it is similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this is a better put together movie it actually has a point if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roeper s review of this movie is right on i mean i don t really like ebert on most movies but this is the movie that i will agree about the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laughed at when it is found out about but it still suggests that you wait steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet it is still funny i remember seeing this film in the mid s thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is newish it just seconds away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces br br it s look like the dvd is due a region release soon the region copy i is very poor quality let s hope they ve cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominated it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he s sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudy s situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn t fit in but before it s all over murray s performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn t matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don t let the absurd rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman of stars br br the hound the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won t miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn t have to go back why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it s mindboggling one of the premises of film is that our hero who s a hacker has a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he s helpless and can t get into any computers he s a hacker it s like saying that you can t drive your car if you don t have your lucky driving cap on i won t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off i know these horrible things happen in the world but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species br br this should be banned and destroyed i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market br br this movie should be removed from the public the person who made this movie needs psychological help anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i d love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was s love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i m an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english s experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english s talents didn t translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the s doesn t translate to the s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone s time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let s remake a classic with worse everything i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill jackie kennedy s sister and the cousin of these women would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be considered the skeletons in the family closet the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women i d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating i e are they nuts or am i missing something this movie is hard to come by netflix does not have it facets does though c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages br br this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show br br except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average br br this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example br br just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what i just watched this movie on it s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william s zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that s the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there nanoo nanoo i caught this film on azn on cable it sounded like it would be a good film a japanese green card i can t say i ve ever disliked an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean and i am a huge fan of john woo s hong kong films i an not adverse to a light hearted films like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourites so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly acted film ever again br br i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude because no one in this film had a personality and when any of the characters did try to act as opposed to mumbling a line or two their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy because i didn t laugh once even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this a refreshing breath of comedy it was neither refreshing nor a breath of comedy and the ending was very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things br br avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst is a better acted film than this and i walked out half way through that film before i begin let me get something off my chest i m a huge fan of john eyres first film project shadowchaser the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son s coach but once executed meeker returns as a revenant or as kelly perine calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making silvano s life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker s wife br br director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film s main flaw since there s nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse ye lou s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her ex lover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting br br i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitutes a convoluted semi historical conflict for a plot without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes the sudden time shifting doesn t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless normally i don t mind dark movies but the absence of light the bone jarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i don t think that helps the movie the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the th century and i don t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moments don t add to its watchability br br the actors are all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films brooding and looking generally annoyed however at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator br br all in all a very disappointing film especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he after hearing about george orwell s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life i m now but never having read the book i am totally confused as to what i ve just seen br br i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel as i m sure most are but only through hearsay and quotes without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery and even with it i m still no more educated about the story of than i was before i watched it br br on the plus side br br the cinematography is amazing hurt burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making br br now for the down sides and there are plenty br br there is a war going on at least as far as the propaganda is concerned but why with who nothing is explained there are a couple of names bandied about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation br br who is winston what does he do where does he come from where does he work why is he changing news reports why isn t he on the front line why doesn t he eat the food in the canteen what is that drink he s drinking through the entire film why is he so weak ill why isn t he brainwashed like the rest of them what s the deal with his mother sister what happened to his father a little back story would have been nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that haven t read the book without it this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on br br the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it s very annoying all the same br br also i know this has been mentioned before but why all the nudity it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage br br i personally can t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days we are not all brainwashed simpletons but this is a few steps too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you ve read the book because if this film really is the literal translation that i ve seen many people say i would find it very hard to understand why is hailed as the classic it is br br there s no denying that it was light years ahead of it s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline br br i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i m to make any sense out of this br br all in all very disappointed in something i ve waited for years to watch this cute animated short features two comic icons betty boop and henry br br henry is the bald slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks br br well here he does speak br br he wants to get a puppy from betty boop s pet store and when he is left to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue br br betty sings a song about pets henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey but everything works out in the end i just got back from this free screening and this osama witch project is the hands down worst film i ve seen this year worse than even catwoman which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction br br in september tapes a film crew of documentary journalists heads to afghanistan despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip the conditions and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife s death on sept to track down osama bin laden br br they made eight tapes on their journey which now document their travels and of course their attempts to kill the terrorist leader the eight tapes thankfully all end at points significant in the narrative which is convenient for a documentary br br the psychotic idiotic protagonist who is given to long significant speeches that he probably learned watching macgyver cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps i don t know why he didn t just wear a sign on his back that said shoot me br br the crew s translator supposedly their sensible voice of reason does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom br br you wish they d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons br br around tape i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew i remember seeing this film in the theater in when i was years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell s voice was dubbed by someone else ian holme was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i m used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until am to see it a family is traveling through the mid west there s widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and ben s little daughter k t geri reischl then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they re forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros strother martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there s some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can t explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it s a quiet kind of horror that isn t made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman s flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she s also recently learned she s pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn t want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight s first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon says are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we ve been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it s a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying save time the only upside me was that the actor who played finny was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stopped there they should have continued to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there s nothing else there to show br br gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film i don t really think they exist i think they bought this script at scripts r us where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blanks there s a monster stalking us let s split up they actually let s split up in this movie hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar not dead yet burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie ir glasses spraying with something like paint were handled badly br br what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issues for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treating an invisible subject and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than seconds and would have been far more interesting had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have been a much better movie all in all it stunk br br i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie but i don t want to do any spoilers suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than a young girl becomes a war time marine s pen pal and when he visits at war s end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who tucks the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker s actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit plays the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses br br even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful though it couldn t catch up with the original it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors though the film bombed at the box office the actors got the undue recognition in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film br br all said this is not a family film so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family robert altman s downbeat new fangled western from edmund naughton s book mccabe was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario the characters here don t merit much interest and the picture looks intentionally brackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel once the profits start coming in beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action altman creates a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town is limited most of the story being made up of vignettes and altman s pacing is deliberately slow there s hardly a statement being made just the opposite in fact and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds it s a self defeating picture and yet in an altman quirky way it wears defeat proudly from what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me on second viewing a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation br br spoiler of sorts follows br br poor cedric he apparently didn t know what hit him poor audience we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guys just didn t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu an intellectual being to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach br br on a purely technical note i loved the camera action in this film subtitles were totally unnecessary even though my french is presque rien i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more this was a polished very professionally made motion picture though many scenes seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten i don t think i ve ever gave something a rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it s not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can t set up or finish a punchline and you ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it s just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that s screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he s still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out from the film s first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clich s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen s subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen s methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can t lose jane austen s technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth s wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody s follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen s elizabeth at least in austen s eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety knightley s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew macfayden br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache i ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is life sometimes has boring patches no real plot and not necessarily a happy ending a river runs through it is the perfect name for this film and norman maclean s novel life ebbs and flows like a river and it has it s rough spots but it is a wonderful trip br br robert redford brings a lot to the film his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly as a director he is restrained and calm and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes as for the acting craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers i don t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn s performances except that they truly feel real a river runs through it is a wonderful film br br out of the story is very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie is quite fine even the directing of it the main problem is with the castings that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael played impressively by asi dayan all other actors were unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl played by taly sharon was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors great script and rather good photograph was not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself is very powerful it s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a yo prison time drugs the end is rather sad mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency out of because very few greek movies can make such an impression mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i ve ever seen but what a film i thought it was fabulous excellent and impressive it was funny well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change and being able to pull it off this was great i ll definitely watch it again you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that s a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man s van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it out of stars i can t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i laughed a couple of times probably because of how stupid it was if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn t the plot was so horrible it made no sense and the acting was so bad that i couldn t even tell if they were trying that movie was terrible rating f this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic peens holding passion there s also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can t tell you how much that s been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of dido s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that s what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director s history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it s very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik s name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drinks any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink if you can t figure out the through line keep drinking beyotch whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it s easy br br that s it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian smirnoff punch jr even though i m quite young the beatles are my absolutely favourite band i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember br br it s the sort of film that is worth trying the once i can see why it wasn t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film it didn t much details except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up jared harris stars i d never heard of him he played john or aiden quinn who played paul however they are certainly underestimated actors br br the film had a slow start but as it developed i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters as a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like the script was brilliant and harris got lennon s accent personality and mannerisms spot on quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent the make up artists made them look excellent br br this paragraph may be counted as a spoiler br br as i mentioned before it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians as for lennon s rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it br br it is quite different from the other biographical films i ve seen where it s about how the beatles got together and became famous and those never really did the characters that well e g backbeat br br in conclusion i would say if you re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minutes long it s worth waiting for the film to develop br br if anyone does know whether the meeting of really did happen please send it to the comments page for this film i d be very interested an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn t so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it s like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a cafe around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty films as the burning bed enough or monster this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she s not such a bad person after all give us a break here s my question to the filmmakers if letourneau were a man and vili were a year old girl would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person answer hell no br br imagine switching the genders in this film and then you ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage were the genders switched there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead we d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl his lascivious behavior landing him in prison and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex br br let s call a spade a spade letourneau is a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts she s a criminal who belongs in prison and deserves our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy the premise of this movie was decent enough but with sub par acting it was just bland and dull br br spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death it was accidental so although it was a murder it wasn t like the guy set out to do it also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree there is no emotion in this film the first minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister and hearing her message it was dull and boring br br with some polishing and better acting it could have been pretty good the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy quaint streets and sunshine i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere br br othello works for big fat mr karva his crime boss step dad at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it s never really defined but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers so trust me he s a prick doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs one of his colleagues is runner a black dude who is always dashing from a to b until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running runner dumps the lost boy in othello s flat where he promptly starts granting more wishes keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled karva has the boy kidnapped but he isn t sure of what would really bring him happiness is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job either way i don t want to see the little boy grant him the second br br it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes the ending tries to be shocking but since there s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience br br writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell ironically if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film as it is we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy who s origins are never revealed that s just plain irritating br br aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score this film has little to recommend i can t emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you d best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i m overexaggerating a little this isn t the worst kids movie no let me rephrase that this isn t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i ve been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won t learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we don t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i degress br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there s a better movie kiki s delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it is nothing else on tv are you really bored well then watch phat beach however don t rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake br br i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard however there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at if you are looking for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie tries at kind of watch something like hoop dreams or jason s lyric if you are lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent however if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amused br br out of the elegant documentary br br don t watch this movie if you re an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you re about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the hubble telescope and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of possibility br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it s very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibilities quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn t seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i ve never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don t divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don t like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you ll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i m talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie originally slated for direct to video but bumped up to theatrical status it would become known as batman mask of the phantasm ten years after phantasm we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb sub zero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman joins the family br br the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line br br the animation is the sleeker futuristic style that was utilized for batman the animated series fifth and sixth seasons aka the new batman adventures it s quite nicely done and just as sleek as return of the joker s animation there is also some use of cgi but it s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero the music was alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans rodent shaped hearts br br kevin conroy as always does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman it s also great to have the old batman the animated series alumni back that includes bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon batgirl her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr alfred br br villains were also great especially given that rupert thorne the old mob boss from the original series appears for the first time since the fourth season br br overall while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan you will love the five minute short chase me i think this movie was supposed to be shocking but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it s been made and simply is it s one and a half hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie the five girls br br sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way which is basically fine since it s a horror movie and i usually like horror movies i ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever it s no spectacle other than that it s simply grotesque it s so lame it even gets boring and really quick too br br the worst thing if the above wasn t bad enough for ya about this movie is that they ve tried to copy the blair whitch project by filming with cheap hand held cameras but again this too serves no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough there s an explanation namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch in this film there s no other explanation than hey ya ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can t make out what they re saying also no effort has been made to make anything any better sound wise or other wise br br than finally there s the soundtrack which is just as bad as the rest and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock br br my advise don t watch this under any circumstances why can t a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they re fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i ve ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i ve seen but thankfully i can t remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader s c diorama set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn t needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i m kind of cheap i d have to have or bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we re plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the shlitz hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it s a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it s full blown old school horror steve johnson s make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking though i d heard that cama de gato was the worst brazilian movie of the decade i watched it giving it a chance after all first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature shot in video for just us and though it looks even cheaper i can t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it then as i watched it i realized why but whatever chances you re ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minutes it s an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex drugs and violence and they re made to look like closeted gays too made with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it lasts ninety two count em minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it s not even funny bad br br we ve all seen the story before bored young guys want to have fun go partying take drugs and everything goes wrong there s gang rape spanking murder the accidental death falling down the staircase of the mother of one of the boys culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film is heavily influenced by larry clark especially kids and bully but clark s films though also moralist and sexploitative are high class masterworks compared to this crap br br i don t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience s throat stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb minded with so much babbling yelling inept direction shaky camera and terrible acting going on stockler doesn t care a bit about technique the quality of the images framing sound recording soundtrack songs dialog sets editing etc is uniformly appalling but he s a narcissistic control freak he anticipates the criticisms he s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is i could relate to that br br despite his megalomaniac ambitions stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can t even decide if he wants gritty realism hand held video camera etc or stylization repetition of scenes use of alternate takes etc damn he can t even decide where to put his camera there s use of subjective camera for the three leads the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exists simply to justify the director s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for all you see is a filmmaker being hateful preachy condemning moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it br br it s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo s blat can be highly effective under good direction as in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here he s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped actors in recent memory he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn br br the film opens and ends with real interviews with typical middle class youth stockler wants us to take those interviews as proof of what he s trying to preach in fiction but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees selecting a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statements which only shows assholes exist everywhere stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior i couldn t tell br br with its dogmatic self righteousness headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom cama de gato is bad for a reasons but above all it s harmful in a very insidious manner it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato is best unwatched unmentioned buried and forgotten an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it was funny and sad and very beautiful well it starts out a bit dark a dog who escaped the pound and gets killed by an old friend ends up in heaven and comes back but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else was okay and the songs were fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaws the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didn t deserve to die but she is in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this is a very good animated movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommended for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this you ll find after the movie dom deluise has a very important and special message got ta love that guy ahehehe this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a clich hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan s ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing if you loved bulgakov s book you would be understandably afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story s deeper meaning to the screen there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita as complex and far fetched as the story is the movie leaves out nothing it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score with not a note missed why can t we find such talent here in the u s so now my favorite book and movie have the same title this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga br br that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before br br not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace br br this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched br br the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution br br as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying this has to be the worst piece of garbage i ve seen in a while br br heath ledger is a heartthrob he looked deformed i wish i d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him br br orlando bloom is a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him i can t say i agree br br rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn t wait to get off the set br br i m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers this is a far cry from butch cassidy which actually was an entertaining film this was trite cliche ridden and boring we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better it didn t br br the last minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel and women and children are dying because of their presence that s not funny but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i kept waiting for them to say i ll bite yer leg off we were howling with laughter as were several other warped members of the audience when we left pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was br br i may not have paid cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasn t free it cost me hours of my life that i will never get back a very ordinary made for tv product tyson attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans i m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn t you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department br br i just sat there through most of the movie thinking is this supposed to be funny and this is the guy from tenacious d right the truth is this film has nothing to offer at all it s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction you ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn t i was bored stupid about minutes in but though it would surely pick up it didn t minutes later i d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful br br it s like remember years ago when you d see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they were famous and you d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop yeah it s like that br br i ve enjoyed some of jack black s earlier movies like shallow hall and i m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to us again jack i m gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something at the least give you a serious talking to br br i know it s a clich but this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen and for so many reasons i haven t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i ve read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt s vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the damned s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i ll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where s the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem s lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let s see what else can i say it wasn t too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br jy br br jimboduck dot com while i count myself as a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there the pace of the gathering is slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confusing worse the characterization in the premiere episode is poor although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god s gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire i don t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the club they are today s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans as well as billions of humans the world over who don t happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth such as the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lost are they in their fantasy sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy however the club is in a class by itself they are truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lies disinformation and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion the club though is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of cult but due to the club s vast wealth conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip they are above the law in this country for those of you who have seen the movie the matrix you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them br br in less civil times the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the club out of town with torches and pitchforks but in today s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague br br the television ratings system and the v chip on tv s should also have a rating called r for religion so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape such as presented by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their children if you wish to see shakespeare s masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart s as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet s indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet s character together with the aid of shakespeare s full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud revengeful ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father s death and suspected murder or his mother s marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father s ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king s secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself the golden door is the story of a sicilian family s journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he ll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they re aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e delousing mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular salvatore s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish nifty little episode played mainly for laughs but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere but which passenger is it talk about your illegal immigrants all star supporting cast from wild eyed jack elam hamming it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if she s the martian then i say let s open the borders to cruel faced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it i watched mask in the s and it s currently showing on fox kids in the uk very late at night i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was it s just plain awful it is no where near in the same league as the transformers he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses comes on straight after it that s if mask doesn t put me to sleep first one of the lesser s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids phantasm class phantasm ii awesome phantasm iii erm terrible br br even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply can t the movie seems to have sold out first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start something the others did not also too many pointless characters prime examples the kid who is a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls erm not gon na work or rather shouldn t and the blooming zombies what the hell are they doing there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there is a severe lack of midgets running about br br the only good bits are the cracking start and of course reggie b br br possible spoiler coming up br br to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv br br overall very very disappointing ludicrous angelic year old annakin turns into whiny brat year old annakin who somehow seems appealing to amidala years his senior now year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams and so takes to slaughtering children his friends and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared br br i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention the story is ridiculous the characters are unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc br br obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hacks off annakin s legs lets him burn in the lava and leaves him to suffer doesn t anyone think that s a little out of character not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living as it turns out br br i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations none of that here the story could have been written by a year old br br oh yeah the cgi is pretty cool scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great b movie killer klowns from outer space agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to dialog the ladies in this bad s comedy not bad as in s lingo which meant good bad as in bad with no likable characters including but not limited to a kid who s the freakiest looking guy since friday the th part a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one has two this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedies and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel br br my grade d br br eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point think bachlor party but not as funny and very disturbing br br where i saw it comcast moviepass if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it s got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that s hard to do when you consider custer s last stand at the little big horn and it s prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there s an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there s a lot to take in here though for the picture s two hour plus run time custer s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the major s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer s first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadn t noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it s interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan s depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn s portrayal here it s more than evident but it doesn t come close to that of richard mulligan s take on the military hero in s little big man let s just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one s point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer s character when he stated you take glory with you when it s your time to go the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal s driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno s replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british gaumont studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger s the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman s film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film s title in amazing shining white and blue stating the thing one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter s greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i m really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius like justin out there no one can say i wasn t warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that s horror aficionados are always dying to know what s in there even if we know it ll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn t even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie a new way to enjoy goldsworthy s work rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion watching goldsworthy build his pieces one develops an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he uses goldsworthy describes how the flow of life the rivers and the tides inspires and affects his work although i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy s pieces no snowballs i do feel it was a bit long the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy s work to life and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch if you liked william hickey in prizzi s honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he s doing in this schlock fest morgan fairchild s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk i have seen most if not all of the laurel hardy classic films i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly even after watching it over and over again this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel hardy however fails miserably for various reasons one of which is how out of place their cloths are still early th century however are both portrayed in the s setting some of the former dialogue was brought back however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever the real laurel hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn t on so late at night it s on at am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the s and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the s i m hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy i have just given a for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i m not a git who only gives bad reviews but because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can t avoid them all they ll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we re talking about here has a great life she s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this happy hooker type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly pretty woman insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that is without his plastic friend yep don t leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination out of of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where s the charm where s the charisma don t mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don t either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate thieves highway a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i ll finish on a song br br pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don t believe you you re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn t help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you ll stay with me and i ll pay you i ll treat you right this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn t that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears can not act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn t chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn t a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake normally i don t like series at all they re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast br br these series however are well played the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one the story will still be catching your mind br br the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital holy sh t this was god awful i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters you know h ll bring your girlfriend and make things interesting you will be the only ones there anyway f ck this slide show br br ye be warned br br i recommend not watching this br br hello br br how are you br br i m pretty good br br enjoying this day br br i am br br this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie this is sad this movie is without a doubt a perfect for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time porn is watched for the porn jackie chan is watched for the action i think you people are rating it bad because there s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie was boring very boring but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that this did change the way how american action movies were created they have even stollen scenes from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan s hes pure in everyway he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park and even in todays movies american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do a masterpiece i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james mcnally s summary of the content of the film is very good nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world s dogs but also undercutting a number of interviewees comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore s recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasants as the stars de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making this movie really woke me up like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber br br this guy john ben chaplin leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girl to die for nadia nicole kidman ordered by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by johns plan however a glitch turns up nadia does not speak a word of johns language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process br br what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure giving the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably acted likewise br br kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles at least from the cultural background br br the pace of the film is fast and captivating and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear you rather feel that you re in the middle of the plot and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out br br my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it has an unusual plot great acting and ideas below the surface like the idea of the rude awakening from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society s machine the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all br br thank you writers for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewers i am sure of it ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it this sports a nice deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk the first third of this movie was nothing but talk and more talk most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other br br the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it s really a chick flick and little else this probably plays on the lifetime network br br there was a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they had lost me br br by the way sally field looked about years old in here i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you ll crack up on the ground and you ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison s attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don t remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can t stop laughing i wish i had that movie howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film s best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there s no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america s own imperial age br br america s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery s noble brigand candace bergen s feisty heroine john huston s wily john hay or steve kanaly s spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt s big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while what with all it s raving reviews nominations and media attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie was good it really portrayed the black music scene back then however as the movie wore on me and my whole family were bored out of our wits the singing just kept coming one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent br br furthermore i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters i just didn t care what happened to them even when eddie murphy s character died of a drug overdose i knew i should have been sad but i just couldn t feel any emotion for that character the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in br br finally the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which goes along with the lack of character development this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn t really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances one of starewicz s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz s films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz s old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil s club scene twigss and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work nice character development in a pretty cool milieu being a male i m probably not qualified to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isn t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters each has their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn t go for cheap comedy when it could have it didn t try to pound a lesson into us the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it needed to happen good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people prussic gas a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish the inspectors at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch renberg certainly have their hands full with this case it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turns is to inherit a great deal of wealth the girls who are targeted share a room with ann but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy s finest must figure out the staff of the girls dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation it s a clever scheme where a driver greaves g nter meisner meets the convicts who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind he gives them orders on who to kill and how uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening under suspicion are girls dormitory headmistress her author brother a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some are red herrings until they are disposed of throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered the ending features multiple twists br br out of the krimi films i ve seen the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it s colorful killer a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind s secret hideout with an alligator pit which isn t used the fake bible water pistol when opened fires the gas into the face of startled victims the greaves royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins abilities to get at the truth perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it i felt he was used as comedy relief particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims often misunderstanding what are told to him higgins using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator instead follows the clues facts often avoiding sir john as much as possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls executions i d say this may be one of the best if not the best examples of the krimi genre for it keeps you guessing always one more ace up it s sleeve the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there s a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special i saw this movie in the theater and was thoroughly impressed by it then again that was when claire danes was a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywood ized bitch she is today anyway this film really struck me as one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship films how far would you really go for your best friend i was moved to tears at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon as i left the theater i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you d do something like that for her i ve seen this film literally over times it s absolutely jam packed with entertainment powers boothe gives a stellar performance as a fan of actors such as william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never thought an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those roles until i saw boothe as jim jones as far as i m concerned powers boothe is jim jones this film captures his best performance the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there s the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it s hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn t have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one she appears like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese br br i have always liked her as an actor and had no idea she started this young with her career go figure i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on i say that because whenever i have watched her perform the characters thus far in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character quite nicely in fact br br anyway my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland somehow i assumed that was her first time up at bat not so well done reese this game ranks above all so far i had the honor of playing mine on ps so the graphics were really good the voice acting was above standard the difficulty level is just right wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting the only rating this game deserves is great this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation tanisha couldn t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director s spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it s certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she s married to the crippled edward g robinson who s the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck s daughter nor with lita milan who is keith s mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford s mouth i m a peaceable man would have been very applicable in the vioilent men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn t been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well apparently the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listening to a director andy copp s commentary which i didn t have available to me or reading up on the film prior to watching viewers won t have a clue what it is about br br gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage but unless they re also fond of pretentious headache inducing experimental art house cinema they ll find this one a real chore to sit through br br minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one s sanity if you ve still got all your marbles you ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watched the whole thing but am well aware that i m completely barking this movie was absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead i couldn t even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all celina jaitley was not bad the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it was pretty hilarious the songs sini ne and its remix version were really good you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster all in all it seems emran doesn t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat something ain t right theme song written by b j cook from skylark david foster s old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc s airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i d like to think this is really what detectives do did giambone was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor s name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama this movie fails miserably on every level i have an idea let s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if we re lucky they ll all be shot and killed and we won t have to ever have our time wasted by them again did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i can t think of anything i ve ever seen that was this bad i d rather watch ishtar times in a row than sit through minutes of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film i ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless that s my two cents yes i ll say before i start commenting this movie is incredibly underrated br br sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind br br the acting was good apart from thewlis br br stone really has a talent with this role she s slick naughty and seductive and doesn t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino morrisey was also good he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it thewlis however was lame he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way he really sucked br br overall this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james cy grant and michael crane i have seen this film at least times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn t the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn t you yay we ve solved the murder now like every other week let s go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young s terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can t believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b airport is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disaster in the sky formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft s flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other airport films supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the s nightmare is full of bad southern stereotypes complete with phoney accents not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised babe in prison movie especially in its uncut original version nevertheless acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular does a good job of making viewers hate him even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes there s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed who appears as the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligan s island made a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d br br ok i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it br br but we decided it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes br br and i m sorry but this has got to be one of the worst films in history br br it began off alright and we thought ok this might actually be ok but after about minutes we were sadly mistaken br br it began when the mysterious paint baller turned out to be the most obvious character the scouser australian i say that because he had an accent which couldn t be identified who s acting might i just say was abysmal br br then it got to the end and by that time we had all lost the will to live the paint ball finals br br the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn t actually win but annoyingly enough they won by default br br and i know this has nothing to do with it but the name the team were given was just awful critical damage i mean they could of picked a more awesome name like the destroyers of the anti christ or something or that s what the film should of been called anyway insignificant and low brained haha s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effects are tacky the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs the brain takes place in a typical quiet american town setting where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet it is here that a tv guru named dr blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling under the label of independent thinkers a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill how cool is that now it s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr blake and his monstrous brain actually come from there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that s about it meh who needs a background in a movie like this really there s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil brain looks like an over sized sock puppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she s obviously a great talent she has exactly movies on her repertoire of which this is her masterpiece in her debut she was credited as runaway model and in men and a baby her character is referred to as one of jack s girls i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie glc br br it s about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after glc what next for bronson br br we re using a new angle my family don t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won t be shown until well after the watershed well here s another terrific example of awkward s film making the rudimentary premise of what s the matter with helen is quite shocking and disturbing but it s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hush hush sweet charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but there s a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique we re literally catapulted back to the s with a sublime depiction of that era s music religion theatrical business and wardrobes following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winters flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies the script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced there s never a dull moment in what s the matter with helen although the singing tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters she s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who s about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combined there are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like mich al macliamm ir as the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an oscar are breathtaking resnais wow the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a s french musical in vibrant colour the opening voice over with old embellished inter titles was a nice touch then the camera aperture opens like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera backs off or rather up suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party this is all in the first seconds br br then the music starts a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i can t blame it on the subtitles those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minutes into the film br br i m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out i endured br br it didn t get much better i ll tell you why there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters we don t even see their faces half the time as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moths around a lamp and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot it s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs br br the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did hour was that i was looking at the camera techniques lighting and scenery which were all i admit excellent but is that enough to hold your attention for hours not me maybe tomorrow i ll try watching the end aw who am i kidding i have more important things to do i m sure you do too skip this i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch it s one of those films where you stop to see what it is just for a moment but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can t turn it off no matter how bad it is one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it s good and so bad it s well just plain bad it s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it s both great middle of the night fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag don t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male because logic does not apply this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a counter earth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a made for tv way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man s john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i ll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn t even shaking the camera or the set i ve seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what s wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn t work br br i m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that s what you the viewer will do you ll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can t recall too much about it black comedy isn t always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don t often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in br br devito plays an odd mamma s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn t have the guts to actually do it himself that s where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai i and murder larry s ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it s certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn t too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone of stars br br the hound back in i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation weekends and the holiday itself i stayed in town during that time hanging out at my parents house a lot br br i didn t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents tube i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx i was hooked instantly i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents family homes and through inheritances from relatives estates and often wondered about their history value etc br br after my long vacation i used to go to my folks house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx br br i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air br br it never did personal fx was the first and best of the collectible shows and it vanished from the air almost fifteen years later i m still sore br br way to go fx paul verhoeven s predecessor to his breakout hit basic instinct is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve played by jeroen krabb a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes while there he meets the seductive christine halsslag ren e soutendijk who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kills him br br paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself and that is one of things i like best about him this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards and that doesn t happen very often i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work but you ll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i ve mentioned but are lovely nonetheless a man gets eaten by lions another one has a pipe sent through his skull a boat is smashed in half lovely br br the acting in the fourth man isn t anything to write home about but it s solid throughout jeroen krabb holds the audience s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer it is ren e soutendijk that impresses the most though as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct but the original fatale did it best paul verhoeven s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish but he obviously has talent and it s a shame that he doesn t put it to better use of all the verhoeven films i ve seen this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it s worth the effort i accept that most s horror aren t scary by today s standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn t any blood to speak of br br i like how the s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn t the worst i ve ever seen but its almost up there br br out of demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don t even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend s house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it s just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i ve seen bad horror movies before manos troll hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski s donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh s sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that davie s main aspiration is to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don t tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also davie doesn t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the s he looks like he d be more comfortable in the early days of rock n roll posing as james dean s less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry s father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don t think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson s and that s just because he s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski being so close to the material he simply doesn t see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it ll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach braff s amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let s face it at this point it isn t going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don t attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch please re watch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out min tv episode into the most painful hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has line and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss s accent just changes about times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven finally an iranian film that is not made by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this is a non documentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the system in its ass it s all about football and its funny its really funny the director says the places are real the event is real and so are the characters and the extras this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a your heart is made of stone b you are blind excellently scripted the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it has won the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it s near perfect where where can i get hold of it sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan s whip br br written and directed by jason maran satan s whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i m guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan s whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time tainted look at kibbutz life br br this film is less a cultural story about a boy s life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minutes of the movie the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves and it s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical kibbutznikim besides the two main characters a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well evil br br the story centers on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows there is no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking year old boy his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and brutish personality he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother he treats these volunteers like trash after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn t seen in a long time due to his military service he orders quote linda go take shower and i cum in two minutes br br there is one other good character in this movie a european foreigner who plays the mother s boyfriend when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother s son the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist s arm he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz members more hypocrisy the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and gives an account of the actual act that s supposed to be humorous for the audience but is really just stupid she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse br br the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently can t escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose it s a mystery how the boy s father died but you can rest assured the kibbutz drove him to it and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son br br that s the gist of this movie one dimensional characters over dramatization dry performances and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience s head that kibbutz life was degrading miserable and even deadly for those who didn t fit in i feel sorry for the guy who made this film obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen br br i will admit the setting presumably new york city has never been so downright ugly and unappealing i am reminded that the s was a bad decade for men s fashion and automobiles and all the smoking if the plan was to cheapen the characters it succeeded br br for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there has to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty came close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot had struck mikey well it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most br br i can t remember when i detested a film as strongly i suppose i m a rube who doesn t dig art flicks oh well lost carnivale desperate housewifes the list goes on and on these and a bunch of other high quality shows proves that we re in the middle of a golden age in television history lost is pure genius incredible layers of personal and psychologically viable stories underscored by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describing a tv show a killer score great performances and editing anyone who isn t hooked on this are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever it may have its problems when watching only one episode a week but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up as i m sure they do clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister scoutmaster is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you ve heard it you ve heard it and you don t need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film s scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it s a pity this film doesn t have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affects all the muscles in his body he is confined to a wheelchair and needs round the clock attention so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a mile round trip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses the mythical city of everytown in represents england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally does arrive it s ravages continue not for another five years but until at which time everytown is completely destroyed adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the wandering sickness a pestilence that continues for another four years br br things to come balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization the wings over the world concept plays out a bit corny though it s spokesman cabal raymond massey is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause if he fails others will follow this message is continually reinforced throughout the film brought home convincingly in massey s end of movie speech man s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an all the universe or nothing mindset br br the film s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year the spectacle of the city s rebirth strikes a resonant chord as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man s first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than br br things to come is one of those rarities in film a picture that makes you think which side will you come down on the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it s not a comfortable question as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci s last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci s movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it s gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it s a hard to archive even the braindead didn t stop it citb is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by khmmm evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it s wounds forget the beyond or zombie this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being putted in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar he s been shot about fifty times by now and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear and you ll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity william smith does another turn as a russian soldier the same character he played in red dawn a few years earlier after playing biker heavies for most of the s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies sadly he ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors i like raptors because they are scary my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eats the banana br br i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time br br this is best movie warning review contains mild spoilers br br a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st series however just two years on and i find i can t remember enough about them in order to do it i guess they couldn t have made much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequels dream warriors in particular weren t as bad as is often made out though even the original was no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams doesn t lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five films i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy s dead br br an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character s demise the fact that the movie s conclusion is not even hidden but in fact the entire purpose for the film s being goes to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was br br taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain robert englund s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter i always thought freddy s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it s like englund s crying out we know this is garbage but you re paying to see it so who s the one laughing and i m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight was freddy s appearance in the films always so rudimentary all he gets to do here is a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr har har hars and that s it if this was the only elm st film you d ever seen you wouldn t get to know the character at all even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstated misplaced and not at all funny irony br br acting is almost universally poor just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keeps his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire the script too is absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan opens a road map upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written you re f ked when prompted for the map carlos responds well the map says we re f ked who wrote the screenplay oscar wilde br br or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy his hearing enhanced to painful levels so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin a potentially fatal sound given that all sounds are magnified oddly the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect nice hearing from you carlos quips freddy hoping some better lines will come along it s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn t occur instaneously so being knocked unconscious wouldn t allow instant access into freddy s world though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isn t that high on the list of requirements br br the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane is the only one who gets to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallops and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients freddy s dead no laughs no scares no interest no fun br br some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the s but although it is undoubtedly brutal violent and very downbeat this film from pou soi cheang isn t really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch particularly if gritty hard edged action is your thing br br edison chen plays pang a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee is wai the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape until he meets yue a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse br br a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amazing sound design a haunting score and solid performances from chen and lee as well as newcomer pei pei as pang s love interest dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence think along the lines of chan wook park s vengeance trilogy stabbings shootings merciless beatings all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang br br of course this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film dies rather nasty deaths unfortunately there is a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in its final moments dog bite dog crosses it in a laughably over dramatic final scene pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on eventually after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue delivering their baby moments before he himself dies br br whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it s still worth seeking out i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn t that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can t stand up to his mom for the one he loves there s ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can t be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with gabriela way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under imdb had for rating i d choose that in a heartbeat absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say even though this movie did not get the best comments this movie made my day it got me thinking what a false world this is br br what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you it s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance same way some people are such that they are never grateful this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself br br a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster the surviving brother decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone br br amitabh gave the performance of his life the new actor aryan gave a good performance the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself br br a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movies always give some message to the audience his movies are like novels of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they are entertaining as well as lesson giving after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is mader with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind i can t say much about this film i think it speaks for itself as do the current ratings on here i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it i even tried to like it by watching it twice but i just couldn t i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and i m not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this was awful it wasn t even funny in the slightest the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie and it reminds me not to waste my money amy poehler is so very annoying too br br overall well i think you get my point the stars are for walken by the way i am not so old that i can t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood in new orleans an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr clinton reed richard widmark of the u s public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them br br panic in the streets discloses a simple story but it is still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive my vote is seven br br title brazil p nico nas ruas panic in the streets the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i can t believe national lampoon put its name on this don t buy it don t rent it don t waste hours of your life on this there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles schumer i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i m a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it s that important i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it s moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting out of ten yes i call this a perfect movie not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works it s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach br br barbara stanwyck is simply stunning there was nothing this actress couldn t do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outbursts with this lady i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interesting br br the title fits this movie very well it is about desires human desires i think everyone can understand actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here br br i liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock s shadow of a doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang s considerably harsher movie clash by night made one year earlier where stanywck stars in a similar part i can also recommend it i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that s the way of the world it s been about years since i ve seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn t take off like their counterparts in the early s but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently what so ever the acting was great the main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy i had some reservations about this movie i figured it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas being in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decided to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow br br this movie turned out to be one laugh after another ben affleck was believable in his character but the real star of this one is james gandofini he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great dad br br if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours definitely check this one out when i first saw this film around months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i m sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it s untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein s films as art focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i ve seen a few of his films and he hasn t yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is in brave new girl holly comes from a small town in texas sings the yellow rose of texas at a local competition and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i loved this movie it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace the acting was of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end it seems a sequel could be in the making kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production quite a gem in the film archives despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich d sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn t direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don t think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you ll find absolutely zero original content in the messengers what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don t be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn t there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn t anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there s any message that the messengers delivers it s don t waste your time on this movie this movie sucks ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there s nothing going for this movie whatsoever maybe seconds of sex but that s it there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off this movie is complete rash and you shouldn t subject yourself to watching it i regret it it s very boring i would rate it zero but i can t no body in their right mind should see this i m sure you ll regret it completely i did how could they think up something this bad even mystery men was better mystery men that sucks that movie wasn t worth being made complete waste of time the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn t really in the mood for it at that particular time it s kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i m still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers orange face lift my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk that d make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clich s predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn t bad enough sometimes you can t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would ve felt i had gotten my money s worth going into see seven pounds i wasn t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about so within the first min or so you are completely lost in the plot have no idea what is going on and you think tim who claims to be ben is just a big asshole all of this comes to an end when the twist so to speak is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to br br the acting of this film is great as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress rosario dawson to me this is one of her better movies aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film other actors such as woody harrelson have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film was still good br br this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped the movie however was still pretty good nothing is revealed until the last min of the movie and everything falls into place up until then it just seems like a pointless love story final thought seven pounds seven stars i saw brother s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he shows up there because his brother has died and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait marar xada really disappointed me i can t consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr ferm xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can t really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar xada maybe once also marar xada never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn t really important to the story that of marcial the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters the mad doctor s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy the results are not good this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors there isn t much zombie action in this one and the effects while adequate are nothing special you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes watch out for some nudity and bad language witty funny intelligent awesome i was flipping channels late one night years ago came across this and a wildfire started i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time please do yourself a favor run don t walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it s a win win situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of sanechaos it s a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he s much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you ll miss em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it s coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of ast rix the french comic books it s based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze g rard darmon and edouard baer and please don t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books ast rix et ob lix contre c sar and directed by claude zidi i thought this movie was stunning with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi br br cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerisms her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch br br although not each character was overtly beautiful this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time br br overall i thought this film was fantastic i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever made that is the robert wise paul newman flick somebody up there likes me that movie might be number but gentleman jim is a close number br br the movie doesn t just chronicle the rise of james j corbett it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more gentlemanly days of the gloved marquis of queensbury rules and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability br br gentleman jim is not a realistic look at those days it is romanticized and yes even a bit hokey at times but always delightfully so errol flynn is perfect as the gentleman jim who really isn t a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship and we all know it is of course love that will win that match in the end br br at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line was not i can lick any man in the world of course romanticism again hands over his belt to corbett this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch raging bull instead that is a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim is a lot more fun that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this is the only movie i ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander the quickening at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our cinema that there s no chance for an air america well there s no real plot to speak of it s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it s not in this case what else can i say about this the action when happening is inventive and there s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper one that has to be several miles high but overall there s not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but you re not missing much if you skip this one this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven t seen any of the others there are the usual ingredients it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently the story is just laughably idiotic and the film takes itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa br br but it has a few things going for it bo looks great the production values sets costumes etc are quite good and this greatly enhances its camp value in a strange way it is actually quite funny simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we re all different made of different clay as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that s the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one gets committed and obsession in committed starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is joline and this is her story br br tadmittedly joline has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it s forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he s gone off to find himself and figure it all out when joline realizes he s not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it s because of that clay she s made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space and not even letting him know she s there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma and it s her job to keep a spiritual vigil over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local eateries carmen s grampy alfonso arau who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her for joline it s a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br tthere s a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from joline s point of view as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br theather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that joline be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it s all a part of the character she creates there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she s a likable agreeable person and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it s a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life br br tas carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with joline this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br toverall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as joline s brother jay goran visnjic alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br tthe supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art alexakis new york car thief dylan baker carl s editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we re going and what we really need committed is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast are tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments this movie is stupid there s no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i ve ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i m rating this a br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn t leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br sara s father being a soldier the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart sara s friendship with becky and her adopting lottie although this last one wasn t developed as much as it could have been the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that s about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged and respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a feel good family film then this delivers if you re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you ve read the book don t waste time with this one it s such a shame with a cast like this if they d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early s and made everyone look bad and claimed we all made over a day when a day was much closer to reality when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work and offered me work i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least years and kept most in the bank and still left myself for nl and cash games at the casinos i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll instead i win about a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all i was only homeless cause i didn t wan na risk spending all my money and going broke sometimes i had over in my sock while i slept outside anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs im no longer homeless am now in govt housing for a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping worrying about getting caught by security are finally over had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner its a shame how they don t better select who they pick i really in enjoyed watching this movie like most of the people that watched it i wasn t sure that i was getting whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies i e sister act br br however this was not really comedy it is a drama with comedic moments so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking br br this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks but also about relations with in the black community i do think that it is worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn t for you having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn t seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what s going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts ch without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don t forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction acting atmosphere sound effect br br total ken burns baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball s early years and heroes there s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br hours is simply too long for the human attention span it s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it s not even a tight hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn t baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he s sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there s no crying in baseball quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clich s no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br hongshen jia is in his mid twenties he s a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he s the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn t know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br hongshen s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to ritan park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain grassy picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer s positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he s the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john s son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon s influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon s presence as does hongshen s need to re hang his hero s poster in his redecorated room br br if lennon s influence is spiriting hongshen s father s influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is fegsen s differences from his son that underwrites his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he s chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to hongshen s emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can t a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab inst he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects recede so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banishes his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen says of this movie it s a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it s homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw alien versus predator it too has an average grading of over stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn t here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con s brother by the way yes they re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won t tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it s filmed and paced badly it s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven t seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don t expect the thrills of the first although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars alec guinness produced an amazing body of work particularly in the s s ranging from dramas to quirky comedies i particularly love his comedies as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen far different from the usual fare from hollywood br br this being said this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies it s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere except for ealing studios which had a particular fondness for little films like this one br br guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work so he tends to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspects or at night and try his hand at inventing repeatedly he is caught such as after he blew up the lab and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds then despite the importance of the discovery he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events and then the fun begins br br the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry unions the government and people in general victor mclaglen s performance is one of the finest in film history br br i think we can all feel for gypo because we ve all struggled with what is right and what isn t and been wrong this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio rko radio pictures br br joseph h august s cinematography is at its very best here however august s stunning portion was mostly overlooked he didn t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved br br this is a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all conveyed with as little words as possible how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you d think it couldn t be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they re planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he s a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it s utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don t waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn it s peak years were between and one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle who had a small but fanatic cult of followers she was actually able to act unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks and her subsequent credits proved it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique br br gary graver the director was also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combined with monica gayle s screen presence makes sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drags and you won t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be this is the type of film that i ve been looking for ages particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago which i still keep thinking about the back cover doesn t do this film justice it s superb and in my top for sure i did not expect much from this film but boy o boy i did not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock is not showing a good act here you can t get the feeling that his caracter is real i think the movie would have been a bit better if it s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it in the making of they don t show a single smile this is a very bad film i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me but i did never laugh i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina flynn known mostly for his swashbuckling roles and his bedroom antics takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully playing real life boxing champ jim corbett flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist all the while setting one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men and a dog including a prominent judge the next day he gets a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge s private club he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club s resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers up to and including the world champion john l sullivan bond flynn is downright magical here he is the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he looks terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit and does virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn at this stage he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time and she does so admirably she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell bond is incredibly burly brawny and towering yet tender when the script calls for it amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn s manager the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed a few of the sets are amazingly presented some of smith s gowns border on the garish but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well it s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing but it s also so much more some of it like the character traits shown by flynn is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes but a lot of it is authentic like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes one line is particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it s classic romantic dialogue and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett plot centers on two chauffers who ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single ladies quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel wins his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he loses he must play bottom man to his friend br br lots of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa br br hilarious fun thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero s and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person s memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by s flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost flatliners bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally fubarred in it s execution elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies it has every thing you would want in a film like great one liners sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not seen it you are missing out on one of the greatest films made i can t wait till her new movie comes out i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful especially since it was based on a true man pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl the photography was beautiful br br this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl i want to read as much as i can about him at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it but i am not surprised i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing i gave it the highest rating however i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house br br you can t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i d probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood s golden age of the s and s however no matter how much i love their films i just can t recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven t yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda s behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it s all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can t stay mad at fonda because he s so i can t think of the right word creepy is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don t go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic i was debating between this movie and but chose inglourious basterds due to it s amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it s that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve the song choices are really good hush my child just move on up to your destination and you make boundaries and complications anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review bend it like beckham great flick directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle s living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger s where the sidewalks ends from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg br br dana andrews is the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks when he hit someone his knuckles hurt and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain gary merrill who points up the title why are you always trying to push me in the gutter he asks andrews i have as much right on the sidewalk as you br br dana andrew s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden painful discovery that he is the son of a thief his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta br br by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrews and gene tierney of laura are united once more and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crooks this time he goes too far and accidentally kills a suspect the killing is accidental the victim worthless yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail br br using his knowledge of police procedure he covers up his part in the crime plants false clues and tries to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigating the case himself the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise br br the film is one of the best detective films of the s with curious moral values also one of preminger s best br br preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism in sum overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy is not very funny and juvenile additionally the film is not really realistic liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover s son by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball s chance in hell the actors do their best and are appealing but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing editing and lack of focus incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the min one that i watched but i can t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i d heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn t much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it s tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o toole who makes a most memorable tiberius oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i d like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br out of from ozjeppe did anyone edit this film or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes it s ok though i fell asleep watching it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot is actually not the worst i ve seen but it s close the acting is not the worst i ve seen either but it s close the production well i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life not trying to be spiteful but unhinged could have used some more production br br please don t think i m a hater of horror films or even that i didn t enjoy this film i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it the gruesome moments were not too poorly done but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget br br characters seemed awkwardly developed or ignored all together twist ending was pretty bad and the exposition took forever without exposing much br br i d recommend avoiding this movie br br riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of teen movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie has is so misleading in years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn t enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can t leave because the moment he does he knows he ll be arrested br br boyer s performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i ll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn t enter the casbah that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn t enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he s shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent man with the screaming brain certainly isn t a perfect movie but i m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don t make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of william s body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he s writing his own films you d think he d give himself a role that he hasn t been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn t an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn t been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it s your choice br br enjoy tell the truth i m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after having seen it i was really a disappointed and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie br br i m surprise at this movie all completely it is like a kid s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing i m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account br br synopsis the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak br br just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done the story is very predictable though expected and the humor is lame and haven t we already seen the same characters play by mc lovin in so many other movies like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep br br well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay and the acting is so so as expected when you re watching this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer and that movie also sucks but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie br br anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie can t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone br br pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes br br cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kids do not mix together br br rating grade f this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia kerbridge does a great job as a woman of who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayo stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent s murder that she has become mute needless to say julia s hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia s sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip s location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy s hideout in a luxury packard wouldn t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they re spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don t get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of that s how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole br br without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically so it isn t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s br br the film is lighthearted you ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe all of the film s characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfections br br i ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance is this synchronous or what i think so because now i m really geeked to give it a try br br watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again br br why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery as it is perfect as is recap something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former seti worker is brought in to decipher the message problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turns awkward especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly soon the object is in the open the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity it is decided to open the object but just before that is done julian decodes the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes as it is finally breached and two things unleashed on earth the first is an alien that had been dormant in the object and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff and washington that is suspiciously updated on this historic event decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica br br comments the movie holds a few surprises one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful well worked through and a lot better than expected unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own and this time not in a good way actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes it is never really explained why washington know so much why washington is able to command russian submarines why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language and obviously chose english why but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encoded and finally the end is as open as an end can be br br the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good br br this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it features a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix i d have a couple of hours of my life back i m frankly suspicious when i see that a film s director also wrote it in this case according to the credits the same guy was writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there were a few interesting moments e g judy tenuta s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism which led me to rate this two stars rather than one those moments however were few and far between and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in its violence i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i d seen the whole thing nope though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later the spinning camera technique was overused and essentially pointless i found myself talking to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommended the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling well documented and enraging as an american i am constantly humiliated by my country s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this is probably the first john pilger documentary i ve seen but it immediately made me want to see what else he s done my only complaint and the reason i gave this film only out of is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction but makes no suggestion of how to help i don t know about britain but america s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government s doings a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders cause this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don t say i didn t warn you this is a very memorable spaghetti western it has a great storyline interesting characters and some very good acting especially from rosalba neri her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic she steals every scene she is in and expresses so much with her face and eyes even when she s not speaking her performance is very believable she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top not that there s anything wrong with being over the top mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too br br the music score is excellent and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie whether you want it to or not there are a couple of parts that are very amusing i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot there s also lots of slick gun play that s very well done br br i would probably have given this movie or stars if it wasn t for two things the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about minutes into the film this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie it is very poorly choreographed and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy but this is a more serious western and the brawl really needed to be more realistic the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma s cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasn t at all funny all i can say is where is tuco when you need him br br all that having been said let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned and all fans of the genre need to see this movie the plot michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there s romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in it must be emphasized that this movie is a story st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin in the rain dick van dyke carl reiner s the comic what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett s film legacy it doesn t take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett s and mabel normand s life the character michael linnett connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael sinnott and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie throwings the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in with about films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next years in he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack s wandering willies is done in the road to hollywood used some of sennett s crosby films years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie s punctured romance with sound in he was honored on tv s this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who got involved with adam hoss and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western br br perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights people have relationships some go good some not so good it s just life and we re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor s nobility intact but that s if bonanza were done today br br but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped the secret of bonanza s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children the kids were all different in personality but all came together in a pinch br br the cartwrights became and still are an american institution i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that br br pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show rumor has it he didn t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious perhaps if it were done now he d have liked it better in the way i describe br br this was just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control little joe was the youngest most hot headed but the most romantic of the cartwrights br br when roberts left the show kept going with the two younger sons but when big dan blocker left the heart went out of bonanza other characters had been added on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family br br so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city it doesn t look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits is the cartwright home the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fans the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real br br and if they weren t real they should have been years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn t sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director s cut or in this case let s salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut scenes from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are minutes into it and we still don t know what s going on or why we re watching what s going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone s death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there s no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews and edwards previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it s no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i ll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie s mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird s eye view of julie running towards hudson s plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence i m like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where s peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that s one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film stars but it s effect is diminished considerably because it s repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man s land is ok even if it s bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she s on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she s no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release this series made for televisi n espa ola tve is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato s r le as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers i want the minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers an observation which mystifies me not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars e g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudors james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing br br when the biographies and accomplishments of the director even when he won an academy award and the actors are listed this film is usually omitted from their past performances i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films however it is seldom every seen on cable i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known it s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good of all the movies of the seventies none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel i mean yes there were movies like the exorcist and other ones but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars my absolute favorites were eli wallach sylvia miles and burgess meredith then there are the subtle clues that lead to what s going on too pay close attention i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like black and white cat black and white cake plus the books are really good as well i m just sorry that they re not going to turn the second book into a film it s so scary that it would outdo this movie this is apparently the second remake of this film having been filmed before in and and in so many ways it reminds me of the later film a yank at oxford both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both ultimately show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency in this film william haines is tom brown and his main rival bob is played by frances x bushman and in a supporting role is jack pickford always remembered as the brother of mary of these three pickford comes off the best as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom s pal he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clich s are there and the movie because it was done so many times before and since offers few surprises however it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing br br in my opinion for a better silent college film try harold lloyd s the freshman it s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such as in westpoint and the smart set among others and if you ve seen one of these films you ve seen them all well made but certainly not original and because it is just a rehash of his other films anyone giving the film a score of is strongly advised to see these other films br br i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the talk about over rated there are dozens and dozens of better films how this film got to be is anyone s guess this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that s holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let s face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there s one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it s shakespeare s so any adaptation if it s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that s what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it s the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame owen loves his mamma only he d love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn t a great film it s too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it s a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can t write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn t come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus girls i d like to pork br br then there s devito s owen lift who calls himself professor donner s star pupil even though the teacher won t read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we d be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner s help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner s hated ex then tells the professor it s his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock s strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here she s not a woman she s the terminator one little murder and i m jack the ripper those are all crystal s words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito s and ramsey s apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that s a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation the only time i ve seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and when momma says he doesn t have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it you lied to me he yells out slamming the professor s forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn t groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn t disappeared from films of course but it s a mystery why he hasn t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it s because as throw momma from the train s lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn t to everyone s tastes that s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united states br br just cause br br starring sean connery laurence fishburne and blair underwood br br a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves br br this film is set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent the premise about people who s lives are going nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs could have made for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i m suprised it hasn t been banned x and y are friends x is sleeping with z y sleeps with z as well oh you figure it out br br a total waste of time painful dialogue it sounded like something that a group of year olds would have written for a gcse drama project the female character was completely superfluous just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it br br if you re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run don t walk away from this sorry little misfit br br and one question when the group left the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film to go back to glasgow why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar but is totally worthwhile it really reminds me of the old serials from the s and s which is why i d have loved to see follow up movies but judging by the rest of full moon s output there simply weren t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which is unfortunate because without em this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great i wasn t sure if ms nipar hadn t wandered off an a list picture onto this film she was very believable no seriously anyway it s a shame they didn t have the bucks to license dr strange because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom a truly muddled incomprehensible mess most things in the film look more or less like but then there are futuristic things just thrown in like the policeman s ray gun and that car the director seemed to be in love with colored lights the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie but since there was no cast listing i don t know which actress that was this one is worth missing grade f it doesn t happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george crile s best seller charlie wilson s war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie s angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach em to type but you can t teach em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson s war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie s team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four academy awards and nine nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he s aided abetted and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency s boardroom and in wilson s bedroom br br for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie s team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren t so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it s like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as nichol s film so pointedly points out the ball you ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you ve lost interest in it mike krzyzewski knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn t so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn t let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again i m a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you d expect from a smart aleck year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church s fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm if you re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau s early work this ludicrous film offers the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bores us in the process its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups a naive young hippy played by the waif like kay lenz hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys and then one day she meets the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor and she decides that she is in love with him if you think that is superficial the whole film encapsulates such scenes she keeps saying how much she loves him and she only met him it wears thin and really quick i couldn t help but laugh throughout the film its obvious she s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s is also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d this film was pretty good i am not too big a fan of baseball but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc br br danny glover joseph gordon levitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport the plot was believable and i love the message william dear and the guys put together a great movie br br most sports films revolve around true stories or events and they often do not work well but this film hits a on the perfectness scale even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there br br for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film the ending is superb the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong br br examples quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seems to affect the event solid particles can pass through barriers all of this so far is accurate but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this is complete poppycock instead the theory asserts that at our level it is possible for you to walk through a wall but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief also you d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall the odds are so astronomically against it br br this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer played by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate there may be some truth to that but quantum physics has nothing to do with it br br plus string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays instead of wasting your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hour long episodes quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie one of my sisters friends lent me this game and it is too damn hard it carries the appearance of a kids game but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions and you have to search seemingly endless levels for notes to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them and i am only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it is definately not recommended for kids they will pull their hair out within the hour chuck jones s rabbit seasoning the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello s who s on next routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you re despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones s impeccable timing as you ll come across rabbit seasoning is a true classic a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear also alas an ending that comes out of nowhere because apparently the auteur has lost interest in the movie or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot crossfire is a justifiably famous noir that s a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph samuels sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuels winds up dead br br i don t know about but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don t suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role she s a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don t know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie skippy from family ties plays eddie a wussy metal nerd who gets picked on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr dies he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead metal idol he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge but then he doesn t want to take it as far as sammi does which isn t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from family ties i haven t a clue the cameo by gene simmons is ok and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one br br my grade d br br eye candy elise richards gets topless an a topless extra at a pool party of course i would have to give this film out of as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over years living in italy he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing so rodolfo sonego did if you check out his biography you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories my uncle visited australia and my town in to check out locations for a girl in australia and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movies i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently great goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history their is no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ of its time br br this was not a bond game based on material from another medium this was a completely new scripted game which even had its own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay was excellent and if you re a fan of the bond games or films alike you ll enjoy it br br unlike some most games these cast members portrayed their characters themselves as opposed to fictional creations for the game which gives it that more cinematic feel with a very bond able storyline you feel like you re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie br br enjoyable in all aspects from start to finish even after beating the game there s still plenty more to be done with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved as well as its multi player missions this is a stand out game despite being quite old now in video game years it s still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just thinking about it i ve got the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and well written storyline br br the story comes to life on the screen almost as if the actors were their in front of you and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself superbly done in true bond fashion which can only be named awesome completely awesome br br i ve got ta go throw this game on now if you haven t played it yet you re missing out helena bonham carter is the center of this movie she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh was tolerable the movie itself was good not exceptional if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a thumbs in the middle review remarking that i d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode i ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june and as a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show is utter crap br br everything s wrong with it everything getting past just the lousy animation and design the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories br br and for god s sake is it just me or is the joker in every episode is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system or again is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains see no character development above br br and to make matters worse every single joker tale is the same part formula br br joker gasses people br br joker sets out to gas the whole city br br batman saves the day br br pfeh br br there was one episode i saw that wasn t a joker story the title escapes me but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that was the single worst batman story i ve ever seen heard or read yes worse than i ve got batman in my basement br br i can t really say what i feel this show is because it s probably against the tos but it starts with b and rhymes with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc era of bat entertainment back from the fox and kids wb days stuff that good and i should have known this just couldn t possibly have lasted forever unfortunately just because someone is under the age of does not mean they are stupid if your child likes this film you d better have him her tested i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad this film is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing is horrid i can t remember when i ve heard such bad dialogue the songs are beyond wretched the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much who decided to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he is ugly as sin br br the worst thing is the obviousness of it all it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible great children s movies are wicked smart and full of wit films like shrek and toy story in recent years willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo yes that s right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood hey babu riba is a film about a young woman mariana nicknamed esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps years old in belgrade yugoslavia the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz blue jeans or anything american it seems br br the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties in the wake of changing communist politics they go their separate ways and reunite in the year before the film was made br br i enjoyed the film with some reservations the subtitles for one thing were difficult especially in the beginning there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all perhaps the conversational pace required it but i couldn t always both read the text and absorb the scene which caused me to not always understand which character was involved i watched the movie a video from our public library with a friend and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative br br this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bonds to each other there is a main flashforward and it was intriguing keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the cast and what had actually happened br br i would rate it out of and would like to see other films by the director jovan acin after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose mcgowan who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil encurralados trapped this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy s law being applied to home ownership and construction if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it was set in the simpler forties we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturbing hilarious these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire from wobbly garbled beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout br br our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms when the father separates from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie you re about to watch father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit and is polite as he gets people s attention before he shoots them but alas dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about feet behind them he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly wastes the mother this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred br br so now we fast forward about years if you re honest about the hero s age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves or diamond prospectors or something ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods while bo masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty drives around the desert in his denim outfits bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they don t seem to have any friends other than each other and they spend all of their time together that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as you know its a shame you re my sister he says to her while she s stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas and he is overjoyed with his new love br br so anyway there s a lot of fun action scenes ridiculous violence great acting impossible to follow plot lines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond which later explodes all of these things are great but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire you may be glad you did or not i am so disappointed this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses woody i ve seen these characters already i ve seen the storyline from you ten times already where did your creativity go you need to open your eyes and look around you the world has changed dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it br br there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again br br when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out it does nothing for me because now i ve come to expect his old standby the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating depressing and same old same old br br if woody wants to win his fans back then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated not insulted this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff predictable from beginning to end as a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr limpet was much better with knott s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant his performance there was toned down with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile much as bob denver did neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles assuming they were simply typecast it was probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the high pitched voice john ritter whom knotts worked with in three s company was able to transcend his genre branching out successfully into dramatic roles like the dreamer of oz but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in airplane and police squad br br there s also no way the then year old knotts could pass for a year old as his character insisted he was it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at playing the college age forrest gump br br the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode it s especially evident in the exterior scenes of the town where roy goes after he s fired it s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality br br even viewing this strictly as a children s movie it s very disappointing it s not because it lacks action or special effects although it does the pace is much too slow the situations repetitive how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap with breakneck gags otherwise you risk boring them and any adults in the theater as well movies even kid s movies have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written disney s the love bug for instance at least had some interesting race action if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world s freighters are of questionable registry nationality and it s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don t have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it s fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it s more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate okok everything you will need about minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get minutes of fun br br i m from hongkong and it s really hard to find rpers none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books dices game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both gamers s real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game br br i don t want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i m sure you still get many fun from it in all honesty i haven t seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can t risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don t know if it s available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don t want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked you d think you re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel miles or so from france to saudi arabia going through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arriving in the middle east but this is not a tour and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights br br reda s father is in his twilight years and wishes to do the haj however since walking and taking the mule is out of the question he chooses to travel to mecca by car he can t drive and therefore enlists the help of reda to his son s protest to get him there in their broken down vehicle br br but reda doesn t see the point of having him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn t understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son being not the best of pals br br the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenges they face the weird people they meet having to duke it out in varied weather conditions and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other the father trying to impose on his son and the son trying to assert himself as an adult but circumstances we see reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water through the many encounters they actually team up quite well despite their differences br br it s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination br br it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are don t miss this and yes book early i was pleasantly surprised that this evening s session was still a full house i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won t make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don t see what it is flashback hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it s a complete failure a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store after he s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he ll be transferring soon bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals animals like say a certain rabbit this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early s it still remains as funny nearly years later this animated short can be seen on disc of the looney tunes golden collection volume br br my grade a i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in for two reasons br br host steve martin was at his most wittiest i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and i ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle s head in my bed br br surprise winners no one had adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeers and boos but they won br br last year s award ceremony wasn t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn t the best in the trilogy fellowship was much better but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics obviously they are i m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers br br chris rock wasn t too bad but he s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the minor oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats there s no such thing as a minor oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they re as well deserved as best picture or best director all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history as for the awards themselves br br best supporting actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category br br best supporting actor morgan freeman no real complaints since freeman is one of america s greatest living character actors br br best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn br br best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night br br best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he d never won one actually i m glad about this because if he didn t deserve it for taxi driver raging bull or goodfellas he didn t deserve it for the aviator br br best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off br br what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven t done in the past i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd s sake and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts while in a plane flicking through the large choice of movies i came across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice br br i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride i don t remember last time i have been so excited terrified not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can t turn away from the screen literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you ve got br br you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from thinking how come the human being can be so vicious to why not after all ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestants their motives and start guessing you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe br br good acting good directing with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more br br spoilers couple of things i would have changed br br the casting of the contestants i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid it felt like you didn t care about some of the contestants although this might have been done on purpose i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants game rules a big glitch br br what happens if the th contestants doesn t die when he pulls the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have given a chance to all contestants to live ie if th is a blank too then no one dies br br interestingly i haven t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time just wish i had some popcorn with me ah another movie with motorcycles hell s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve s rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda rrrr makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you messin wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die a rating of does not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is i feel dumber after watching the first min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is a good movie don t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for once in a life time movies keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like toback took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn t the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of i like ghost stories good ghost stories of bumps in the night voices that can not be explained now i ve see many of them as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films some times to find a real gem you got ta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called the new house was one of the most scariest films i ever saw it was on once in i was only but nothing since then even compared to it with all the remake going on in hollywood some one should do this one as is with no more special efx than the original this episode was down right creepy as hell i m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost stories to even come close was the original the haunting and george c scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost stories like these okay i ve watched this movie twice now i have researched it heavily on the net i have asked several people on there opinions i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie is supposed to be based on i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it as the plot of the movie doesn t seem to make any sense at all here is the plot of the book br br laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work and explains that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter carmilla for several months soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams and begins to come down with a strange illness who is this mysterious carmilla and just what has she to do with laura s condition and the general br br i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it and let me know what their results are i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i can t be bothered with that it s called the this movie doesn t make any sense game br br all you have to do is whilst watching the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening i mean complete all questions answered everything makes sense absolutely complete br br it will have to answer such questions as br br why can vampires walk around in day light br br why are they all lesbians br br why is a girl called bob and why does she shoot herself br br when is the movie a dream and when is it real br br why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn t make anyone bat an eyelid br br why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she is a zombie too br br and why does he then let a girl which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire drive with him in his car br br and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car br br what the hell is the asylum scene all about br br what the hell is the green goo all about br br why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse br br why are there never any vampires fighting zombies br br what is the significance of the necklace what is it made of why does it kill vampires and how does jenna know that br br in fact sod it it s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too br br i have my plot and i have to admit it is not quite there but it is a pretty good effort br br in conclusion br br vampires vs zombies has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it is based on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell is going on this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two orderlies the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the orderlies are gay the orderlies kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny it said comedy on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn t this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn t br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the mechanics i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can t not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi vai this story about three women is a very sensitive study about muri l charlotte van den eynde the youngest laura els dottermans who is about and martha frieda pittors the oldest who is the mother of muri l they live together in the same building they have different expectations of life the vital laura wants a child muri l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something for instances an accident which could dramatize this story as times goes on you discover that the director doroth e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case so one is left with a feeling of emptiness first and foremost i loved the novel by ray bradbury it s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later it was one of his best books with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i as just hoping that this movie would be all right it had lots of chances with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even wrote the script himself and on top of all that it has pam grier br br how could it fail br br there may be spoilers within br br first of all it was dumbed down much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book gone everything that made you squirm gone br br and then there s the acting like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the s the kids in this movie can not act and this bugged me a lot neither of them looked but or their strong friendship wasn t addressed it was more like they were acquaintaces br br you d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr halloway and mr dark but here it s like they just don t care all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something this is far from being some of their best performances br br pam grier was fine as the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn t well pulled off she s a lot less evil and doesn t have the presence as she did in the book br br and everything that was left out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jim s house the real death of mr dark what happened to mr coogan on the merry go round the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more br br and the special effects were bad even for the s the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn t really creepy and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything br br i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel but it makes blood boil don t see this movie but read the book it s a classic of bradbury this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in i remember him playing in a great film lost weekend ray plays the role of michael stuart who is a very rich banker there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose as a very rich count his name is count ariszted misha auer who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convicts started applauding which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this is deanna durbin s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas having reserved a special slot for it last night i sat down to watch it with my daughter aged and a film studies student with chocolates of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin br br after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk the shaky camera shots and angles general poor cinematography direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied despondent we viewed on br br anne played by sally hawkins looked oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasions breaking our hard won fantasy of the moment and engaging us directly in an almost i ll find you stalking fashion br br poor rupert penry jones who played captain wentworth did his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they paid him well however as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall drenching him and his co actor they were nearly swept out to sea health and safety would have had a field day poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place br br other than mr penry jones alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott br br towards the long awaited end of the film captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being in contrast anne ran hyper ventilating from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told in the course of only three or four minutes without even having worked up a sweat br br we experienced none of anne s charms crossing the screen indeed we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain spineless opinion less anne and why someone anyone did not tell mean winging sir walter to just shut the heck up br br the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment was painfully drawn out as they moved in closer anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met eww br br the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been br br what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story filmed in some of england s finest scenery br br sorry jane if you like sci fi monsters and ancient legends then you will love this movie br br the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago while the acting may have been a little less than desirable the story line and effects adequately compensated for it br br i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv br br if you like non stop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore you have to see this movie a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and clich at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton s first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major hit american werewolf in london also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn t read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either therory wouldn t surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don t watch this film that s all i can say unless you re an insomniac what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he s always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn t watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it s face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film s title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren t all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of a killer cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem are back on the case two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish br br the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out now i m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible if it wasn t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep there is a bit of gore but it s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line br br the ending is extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel br br days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you re trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven s plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don t let it happen to you in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early s in disney s laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where iwerks continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn t really popular and by the studio was closed later that year iwerks was hired by columbia pictures and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br s skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that s about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it s not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it s hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference iwerks did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn t mean it s necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all iwerks executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while denat s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk s flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it s still a fun film to watch br br it s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney s main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can t help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that iwerk s skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br yes indeed it could have been a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but is not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly told the image is sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted the sound needs more attention it usually does in romanian movies the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action about the acting sorry but the best actress is the landlady the others are acting immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting is poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it s a picture for adults told by the children bother only if extremely curious you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you re a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as spago and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world s most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry s longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and made his debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let s face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i ve seen the movie at least that s how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn t have that much appeal to it and i don t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let s just say it s a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you ll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world s most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you re ready good day james this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class their problems relationships and interactions with each other it should have managed a wider distribution as it s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time br br the swimming instructor is an almost olympian reduced to teaching adults basic lessons and often the target of horndogging from his female students he attempts more or less to fend them off with varying results br br the students characters are mainstream u s a teachers policemen college students and retired people all of whom haven t learned to swim for some reason the movie covers their relationships including friends relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class several subplots provide amusing fodder including a teacher going through a divorce some high school students making a documentary and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys br br this is a good date movie or just one to watch when you re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch i watched six of a kind for w c fields he s only in it for around minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the reamaining minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j pinkham whinney he is everyone s foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracie s funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don t remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with ruggles where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields though the situation is constantly funny the whinneys are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited edmund lowe who reminds me somewhat of warren william heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour br br douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast everyone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h b warner as an added bonus there s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective and furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film br br on the plus side the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled it s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense br br nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner this movie is lame and not funny at all the plot doesn t even make sense some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter gets sucked through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she s more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witches or something and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie i m sure the topless girls doesn t hurt there either the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing who are these people and what are they doing basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things like the other dimension and book seller than make it confusing i didn t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal i don t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid i can t think of any part of the movie that was good although i was hoping that i d like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i d call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie imagine this a high school except it s boarding school and the kids don t have parents around oh and it s in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren t any reasonable rules like how they have co habitation nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here s the story a girl zoey brooks attends pca a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she s the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don t even come close to zoey s perfection we re bad people in the show nothing s her fault and if anyone contradicts her they re portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they re normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can t afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i m too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey what s the for anyway is nick s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn t like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set s pretty i had been amazed by director antal s kontroll back in his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn t really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time first of all the reason i m giving this film stars instead of is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo he alone can get stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie br br i was initially all fired up at reading one poster s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave the performance of his career to me it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment then i thought to myself what else has stevens done so i checked and you know that person was absolutely right in the years since this columbo movie was made apparently every one of the projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career br br if you like columbo see every other of the titles before watching this one do yourself a favor and save the worst for last this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can t his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian chapa is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn t enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems nonetheless to be regarded as a perfect catch by any woman that runs across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film he s a hero whom it s very difficult to empathize with so the movie is in trouble right from the start however it s troubles don t end there it has the production values of a tv movie check out that head made of clay or something near the end and the ending cheats in a way that i can t reveal in case anyone wants to see the movie highly unlikely let s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it s been years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don t want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i ll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i m respect my opinions but it s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can t figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i m sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today during the clete roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood s poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events i decided to watch this one because it s been nominated for oscar this year i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie but ended up bored and disappointed first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hands camera mode is really annoying br br i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this br br american military machine people who makes money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something sort of patriotic br br why these heroic efforts of director and the main character to inspire the audience with an idea of loving war like a drug oh please come on what a bore br br watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying food i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those quiet movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called horror movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so innocent but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it s like a riff on james m cain s the postman always rings twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he s not around and she s at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for seki and a little extra they re soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let s just say a shave he knows that he ll find out and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it s literally at least to them at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji changes gears into the kaidan a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji and her reactions to gisaburo s re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry gisaburo s ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn t know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that senses maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seiko s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death s connections to one another inextricably it s a classic waiting to be discovered i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what jaguars are for cars top of the line perfecto what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing style sorry i have no other words for it sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en i was under the impression that something didn t smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wan na be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim renart michael par and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory renart goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it s a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder gerrick turns in as a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won t spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at minutes sanctimony is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn t get enough money to pay for the location it s the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra s services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who s working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak s apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you d want to bring up your family this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff in depth novels in to a hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the s to the s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with akasha s plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven t read the books you won t understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch must see it will hate it have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a worst case scenario of playing strong feelings accompanied by some bad acting don t waist your time this movie xadsnt entertaining if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy br br i give this it really was awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it its all the good things this movie isn t an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat don t listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone breaks in if you re wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don t listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are benefits that jill has shes a fast runner and is on the track team she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don t listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i m a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy twinkles cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there s no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio s baron munchausen as well as jimmy durante however decades later it s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts br br as for the stooges this is a film from there very early days before mgm had any idea what to do with the team at this point they were known as ted healy and his stooges as healy was the front man fortunately for the stooges they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man read up on him you ll see what i mean and the rest is history within a year they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy such as the films of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they left for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady and oddly in this film they didn t act as a team they just did various supporting roles such as larry playing the piano br br this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle when they are rescued and brought home all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there as for pearl i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films as he has the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome as for durante i never knew what the public saw in him as least as far as his films are concerned he was loud and loud he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton s career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat br br in this film the stooges they didn t yet have the right chemistry seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd what they did in the film was pretty good but because all the segments were short they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines stooges fans might be very frustrated at this though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films oh and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly br br overall the film is rather dull and disappointing however there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing look carefully as this is walter brennan in a role you d certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film is the clean as a whistle song starting at about minutes into the film this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called pre code scene that never would have been allowed in films after when the production code was strengthened despite the word clean in the title it s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it s quite shocking when seen today though such excesses were pretty common in the early s finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades see the film you ll see that i mean when carol vanessa hidalgo starts looking into her brother s death she begins to suspect something more sinister than natural causes the closer she gets to the truth the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanists they ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways br br if you re into sleazy satanic themed movies black candles has a lot to offer the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed unfortunately all the sleaze in the world can t save black candles most of the movie is a total bore other than the one scene i ve already mentioned the numerous sex scenes aren t shocking and certainly aren t sexy the acting is spotty at best even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance the plot really doesn t matter its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together i m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror black candles comes off as amateurish is about the best i can do one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killers zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off the film is constructed as a murder mystery or a cold case style thriller it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills br br some people dislike any movie that is shot on video this attitude is very old style and provincial it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value these attitudes are on the way out zodiac killer is a low budget film no doubt but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem i ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school britney bashing etc etc so let s focus on the movie and the message br br i have rated this movie out of for the age range to years and for a family movie for the average adult male out of br br i like pop rock music i m i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews i didn t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any self promotion br br i watch movies to be entertained i don t care about casting lighting producers directors etc what is the movie and does it entertain me br br i watched this movie for the message the world s greatest epidemic is low self esteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest the movie is light bright and breezy great for kids i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don t give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable great message though should be more of them br br this movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies it is filled with super surfer greg noll s home movies and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory it is filled with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots nor are they surgeons perhaps or ph d s again perhaps it believes in the quest of the surfer it believes in the beauty of human goofiness it believes in the great gift of peace which comes from the cessation of war surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war with the russian socialists surfing is the ultimate narcissism it is dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received this movie has no military heroes it has no guns the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop this is not a problem peace is not desperate it is the joy of exhalation i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal dimensional strings although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching this movie was so badly written directed and acted that it beggars belief it should be remade with a better script director and casting service the worst problem is the acting you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished professional and totally believable and on the other hand ri chard who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning and keeping couple although both normally do fine work the actors and director should not have attempted to do accents at all they are inconsistent and unbelievable much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english the casting is ludicrous why have children of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society been cast with very pale skinned actors while the supposedly socially desirable marcel has pronounced african features including an obviously dyed blond fro it s as if the casting directors can not be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color it s just so weird this could be a great movie and should be re made but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors there are plenty of good actors out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction when i was a younger oh about i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn t exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it s a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney s praises cries of super deeee doooper make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there he certainly was a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew but even mcqueen can t save this turkey of a film shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st louis br br mcqueen s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang there s more than a broad hint that there s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke he s not liked at all by the other heist members mainly because of his lack of criminal resume br br steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke all pretty rough characters that would certainly get my suspicions aroused br br the great st louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn t do much of anything one of those two jokers decided steve s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation br br this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen i m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can t believe they would have if they saw this br br or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren t married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he s not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it tacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women s prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women s prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she s pregnant with his love child he s indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he s innocent but he s convicted and it sure sounds like he s a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne s character and it s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black s humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it s only minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d s humor simply couldn t work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you re a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth bucks i don t think so i was tempted to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a seems more appropriate just be sure it s your style i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff the game before watching the movie relies on the audience s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it ll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through ff once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if you re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it s a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there s only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you ll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you re retarded if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don t reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credits as a mst k episode this one wasn t very good for two reasons this one is from the season on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can t wait to see lola while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy donald martin who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn t feel shy with a waitress who comes from brooklyn like he does soon joe notices he s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney s anchors aweigh is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch once again in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of the year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave it s so energetic if you knew susie like i know susie is quite funny it s a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell it s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango jealousy the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world or everytown through years you can break it up into about different scenes or parts the film spans from to and is mainly about how this ruler or the boss wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again after everytown was bombed and war broke out br br this film only has about faults it s audio is muddy and video had some quirks the characters aren t deep at all and the overall plot isn t altogether solid the plot is lacking something that i can t put my finger on it just seems a little fluffy but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g wells though might happened in the next hundred years this is a must see it s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing a long drawn out war because they were just about to go to war with germany and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything br br things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once weak stale tired cliched wants to be basic instinct but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives new insights insipid trite grotesque and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity oh wait it was only minutes long it must have just seemed a lot longer i d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again i m expressing an opinion here i guess this means i didn t like it one word can describe this movie and that is weird i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting well it was the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not very strange if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem i don t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right br br the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle thrown together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on br br i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring but all in all a excellent movie this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors so what went wrong i don t know and simply i don t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid very stupid plot twists devices i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather what about lock stock thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film i ll not comment a lot what s to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about colombia s reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it s beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you ll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it s the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn t it etc etc it has been a long time i haven t seen a movie so bad this movie is a riot i can not remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies i ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny but this one is wall to wall great lines i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in the movie was non stop until the end when they did the minutes of sentimental plot clean up other than that it s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations i d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don t get all the jokes the first time around you have to see it two or three times to get it all in br br as far as the actual film goes it could have used a better edit it s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that all the characters are great it s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable no victims in this movie also thank god they got a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film you just wish that women like her really existed she s not a like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite br br if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer does not do it justice they do not give away all the good jokes just some of the mediocre ones br br oh and one more thing i hope critics put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedies don t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don t put it on their list this means you ebert a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth things must be pretty bad back on mars two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner br br the diner has had no customers since eleven o clock that morning now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus although he didn t notice who they were the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed one of them is an alien but which one all of them are suspect there s the crazy old man jack elam of course who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit there s a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couples nobody has noticed anyone else and even the couples are suspicious of each other bride to newly minted husband i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone rings for no reason the lights go on and off the juke box turns itself on and none of it is to be taken seriously br br it s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle there is no discernible depth to it it s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens it s not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses br br i always enjoy it when it s on it s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman knowing that in he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm s version of shakespeare s play and here he is with three arms br br oops it s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created and how bias its product was br br i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinians in prison i understand restrictions are in place but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace br br i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence so to speak she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber s parents and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control it is more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignored pleas for understanding and freedom ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land br br i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seems exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it is a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn t quite get the director s intentions if any i wonder if she s ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you ll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it s just me this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space as a history of space flight it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it disney has shown it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again in an alternate s where an outbreak of the undead caused by a mysterious space dust has been contained through the use of special electronic collars a young loner timmy finds a friend in fido billy connelly his family s recently acquired domesticated zombie br br fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hot to trot wife played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss having been psychologically scarred as a child when he was forced to shoot his own father who tried to eat him br br timmy runs into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal s collar goes on the blink and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour with the authorities on fido s trail trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend br br a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick fido is a thoroughly entertaining deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into s small town america is a stroke of genius and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole reanimated dead theme that i have seen br br connelly s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead s bub and return of the living dead s tarman it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus the rest of the cast also give commendable performances with young k sun ray as timmy and ms moss deserving special mentions ray because for one so young he puts in a particularly assured turn and moss because she is so bloody yummy br br this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it is also the best director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future br br out of rounded up to for imdb an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as mills and boon so what it is good to see a warm touching story of real love in these cynical times many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other even though for political reasons it was an arranged marriage i did feel though that sir john conroy who was desperate to control the young queen is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain as it is rumoured that he was in fact the real father of victoria as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have been interesting to explore this theory emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england which prospered as never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer first off i have to say that i loved the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it was great we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial the movie was so disappointing to me the movie cuts out some characters and misses a lot of the main points of the book it skips around a lot and doesn t explain anything in detail if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book they would be confused the most disappointing thing in this movie to me was the ending the ending in the book was the most powerful and in the movie they changed it it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of melting together but instead the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs to sum up i don t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner s name on the cover it s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn t very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i m sure it was it doesn t suck it s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn t think any of it was funny i was disgusted by this movie no it wasn t because of the graphic sex scenes it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art it shows one piece of art work that she did judith beheading holofernese but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial br br i don t know if you understood this from the movie probably not tassi was not a noble character he raped artemisia it was not love it was rape he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka had sex with while she states over and over again it s true br br i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about don t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work br br don t see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar s a bug s life we re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer when it s in the right hands that is a bug s life is a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions br br it is only pixar s second animated feature the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in with their landmark movie toy story it was a movie which defied convention re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film br br after all it s a film about ants well all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug s life but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film as humans are the focal point in dramas romances and so on how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you ll probably ever encounter br br not only are they all entirely amiable and likable there isn t an unpleasant character in sight even the villains are riveting characters but they re colourful they re eclectic and they re idiosyncratic and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug s life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name is flik david foley and his character is rather generic to say the least out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush beautiful ant island he is the one considered the black sheep of the clan as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season s harvest with his antics br br the problem arises in the fact that the ants harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper kevin spacey who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone they go insane for lack of a better term hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack s hands however it s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil the cogs and clockwork in flik s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers br br if you think about it a bug s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line s of akira kurosawa s classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil in a bug s life the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl br br much amusement comes out of these scenes and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs among them are an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen as is the entire movie collectively br br as i ve said much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie what makes a bug s life even better is that the film isn t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film the clich d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we d like however it s easy to ignore this fault and it s incredulously easy to enjoy this film br br although a bug s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor this is still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have proved that they re not just a one hit wonder but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manages to top their standards it s only always by themselves what more is there to say about a bug s life other than see it it s not quite the best which we ve seen from the folks at emeryville california but this beats out the lot of its year and i ll be damned if this isn t the best animated feature of br br what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version is no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever anyway back to this version it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeeds in both but high art it is nit throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe the direction was average and the editing abysmal worse than the old quincy deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it s about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn t that easy to get along with she just started puberty i m guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts i just don t get some of the big premises of this episode that miranda is so remarkable and that there s anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here made the remark that maybe it s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness miranda is just a jerk the episode is slow inconsistent and way too talky i also don t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador why doesn t the federation just leave the damn medusans be there s one part i do like when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at its lamest i ll always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldn t purchase it except for a used copy under this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movies mental list mind the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series spirited away and fly away home br br i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie she s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls she really sucks you into her life i also certainly can t fault any of the protagonist s acting or anyone else s in the film br br the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules the movie is never boring the romance is really cute and didn t make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really made it though was the indian factor jess parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else the indian people are also hilarious essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it br br feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film they re funny they re refreshing and they make you feel good i know that you ve already entered this in film festivals or at least i think you have i may just be making that up but i think this should get best animated short film in every one bravo i can t wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations but hear it now and accept it as the truth kudos my friend okay now i m just trying to get ten lines of text though i still mean it and here comes yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do in fact i ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those br br r this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs evil plot and is all about action what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around her movements were done so well why don t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days it s quite effective br br fire and ice in it s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others including plenty of women will adore it s esthetic quality i for sure did not mind bakshi just loves animating lushious voluptuous babes as can also be seen in cool world and i don t think he has to apoligize since it s pretty much animation for adults but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it br br this one was just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it s possibly bakshi s finest for those who like animations with lushious women try space adventure cobra as well br br i give fire and ice out of my ratings acting suspense character attachment plot character development overall br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny nd and csi th i don t know in the other csis you get into the episode you re watching but in this one you just can t get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain t good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author s hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven t seen it buy it anyway it s well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they d play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the s the courthouse city hall etc they re all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the pennants on chick s wall you ll see two for ole miss chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect but fails painfully on all other fronts the actors all play extremely silly caricatures you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot is predictable and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films including shabby larger than life special effects and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp br br it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they won t be able to do it again the cash cow is now dead as a dodo i can t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton and sure it s his company but you re fired or you re hired for how many seasons now after watching the show i wouldn t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve br br i d love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he gets hurt so i don t have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it i d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a and it doesn t deserve that if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme style i would never have rented it nevertheless i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot i lasted a very very very long forty minutes before giving up it s just boring pretentious twaddle br br the last french movie i saw was romance and it too was pretty dismal but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme overseas it ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy it s called dogme because that s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera br br the story and the show were good but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies ri chard is great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous seriously i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i can t say anything bad about peter galleghar he s one of my favorite actors i love anne rice i m currently reading the vampire chronicles but i m glad i saw the movie before reading the book this is a little too real for me i prefer lestat and louis s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i don t want to give anything away sorry but it s just not my type of show first let me just comment on what i liked about the movie the special effects were fantastic and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game there that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing br br i have innumerable complaints about the film but four major complaints jump to mind my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away where lois s year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman when the crying super child throws a piano at lex s henchman to save his mother i almost got up and left the theater singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child it s been days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit br br my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space it doesn t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what s wrong with that i don t know how many comic books brian singer has read but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas that s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground br br my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior jor el wasn t all wise he was just a scientist and he didn t send his son to earth to be a savior he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode i ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ s primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman returns the passion of the christ br br and speaking of luthor my last major complaint has to do with singer s depiction of lex luthor lex luthor is a shrewd cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president which he does in the comics than try to destroy the world the man wants money and power he wants to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman returns as well as all the previous superman movies is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the quite awful previous superman movies this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow br br to summarize i don t know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you don t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven t already don t see it don t buy it when it comes out on dvd don t rent it basically don t contribute any money towards it in any way this movie does not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that sees this movie bryan singer should be fined billion dollars if you re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you ll get the same experience without having to waste hours of your time this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference no porn br br the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable at the very least the pacing should have been picked up br br while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had he should have spent more time on the story or better yet get someone else to write it many of the action scenes were just pointless br br it was a complete waste of my time is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn t have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked overall i was rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle br br bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows which deal with the subjects i referenced i think you will find at least something here br br in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way i especially liked how they explained where the cylon s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers br br the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters but this is something i think needs work i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident br br based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where caprica goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did i m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn t to good compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wan na be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice s other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj silkk gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn t introduced in this movie and the scene isn t in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn t mention what happen other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don t love em like i do don t watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel purez i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands shipwrecks jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently there s a needless mins of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blowing up scene jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game there is no communicator with doyle on the other end the modified soldiers look like albinos with singlets on and there was no mutated monkey like creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building there s an ending scene where everyone except krieger live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema then this is for you one of the best ensemble acted films i ve ever seen there isn t much to the plot but the acting incredible you see the characters change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you much as the villa does on all the women truly enchanted i haven t seen this movie in about years but it still haunts me br br when asked about my favorite films this is the one that i seem to always mention first there are certain films works of art like this film dark city and breaking the waves that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a life changing event such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend this film shook me when i first saw it it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days today i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood br br hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation changed everything it changed our perception of security it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it changed our world br br however i can t not stress how utterly repulsed disillusioned and angry i am at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press hollywood has sunk to a new low even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all is uwe boll i am very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how dare they br br to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks br br ask yourself if you have a soul br br think remember respect the memories of the lives lost on by not seeing this film at all you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed that s why movies like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences especially local ones we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with tax when they reach our shores and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one not only that the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear lest they reach the sea br br and these movies are relatively easy to make hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic for once those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long can t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these of course there are amongst us ahem those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models and movies such as these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they don t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park the guy sitting beside me i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s appear and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans br br so there we have it the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage as does the gt here the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification that even i m impressed alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that has wings for doors but seriously my heart goes out to the cars each time they re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment i mean this are perfectly fine high performance models that are at the apex of motoring but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow they do so because they can br br there s no story in redline just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties the cars that is that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shots of pedals always the accelerator mind you tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steering wheels gear shifts always shifting up and not down all these while having the actors make pretend that they re the baddest asses with an engine snarling and giving each other dirty looks not a very tall order for an actor and that s why we get the most woeful performances ever with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids br br the heroine yes it made a statement that girls can drive natasha a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin is one of those million dollar finds a girl with model looks who don t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil who has racing pedigree within her and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable every line had to do with cars and when singing about love just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts lubricants and going for rides introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous eddie griffin she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle everything else well like i said just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race br br and it s almost always the same as there s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars especially when you know the race is rigged for narrative reasons and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker sun kang and of course the star it created vin diesel redline had none just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it s one man one car and a minutes race against time to get to vegas br br if not for the cars then this movie seriously is a piece of junk with bad acting bad lines and bad action strictly for the car fans or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines im the type of person who always goes to horror section when i m picking a film so i picked five across the eyes i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish i think i could of done better myself i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the embarcadero freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting nearbye you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact hickman s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden pontiacs in the s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york have you ever heard the saying that people telegraph their intentions well in this movie the characters actions do more than telegraph future plans they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtz s character is not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesn t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have br br the bottom line obvious plot one note performances unlikeable characters and grotesque southern accents employed by british actors night of the living homeless was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movies most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains br br kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart gives a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town is completely overrun with them this is a very strong randy marsh episode as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy makes it to the community center he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming i don t have any change unfortunately the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he becomes one of them asking everyone for change br br the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park and find a man who is a director of homeless studies they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people break into the man s house and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself however he fails several times as he shoots himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder screaming horribly until he finally dies this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in fantastic easter special two weeks ago br br meanwhile a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem the property values have nosedived thus the bank has foreclosed on his house making him homeless randy immediately turns on him holding the gun to the man s head when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out randy pulls the trigger br br in evergreen the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica california br br the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable br br i m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into but this movie is not a horror movie as for the story it was fairly interesting but rather slow i was especially disappointed with the ending though br br spoiler br br tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle s home without at least calling the detective or the police first she knows exactly what s going on at that point plus she has a video tape as proof instead she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying i know everything i have proof you didn t expect proof did you then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he s going to harm her well duh of course he s going to harm you idiot you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb ending i gave this a there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone gets killed or nearly so i am tired of cross hairs and changing views i can not give the plot away convoluted and insane if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back i wish reviews were more honest not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end docteur petiot starring michel serrault is a brutal story about a brutal man a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate is not there yet he preys on the weakest amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography are superb and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story he is the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and caring calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer kudos to mr serrault for his chilling portrayal i just got this video used and i was watching it last night the acting started out extremely bad hey hey twister but got very good soon after wards the tornadoes looked extremely fake and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done and just about on par with movies like twister the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too the story was very well written and it s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formulas movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for years br br while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality this merits an a in my book this film is really vile it plays on the urban paranoia of the s s and puts it into a school context i m not saying that urban crime wasn t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren t aren t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it s not a case of social issues but a white upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he knows how to play the system does that sound familiar yes this turd is pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this what a horrible horrible film the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time not that i saw much i left the theatre screaming after about minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves meryl streep was awful as usual how many hurt and tortured expressions can person have aidan quinn s talents were as so often totally wasted and who told gloria estefan she could act trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school the kids weren t even cute just written in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really made me cringe for once real horror this one motocrossed was fun but it wasn t that great i guess i just didn t understand a lot of the motocross racing lingo and there was a lot of that in the film the plot wasn t what i expected from the disney channel previews so that could account for some of my disappointment sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he wants to broaden his horizons and spoiler needs a family member in order to do it br br a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain t scary at all works better as a dark macabre black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecracks that s for sure the actors aren t interesting save robert englund as always and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto and there are simply far too many visual effects the finale is ok but doesn t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope br br in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer s story it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before br br there are cameos worth noting a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become br br film debut of breckin meyer who plays spencer br br one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits br br ok i m italian but there aren t so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it s the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i d like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it s too slow it s so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven t already seen it watch it an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful so no new story lines here however the authors managed to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watching kids vomiting or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife s teeth out in a bloody horror type go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone the first cube movie was an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn t understand it was on the non literal level a man vs cruel nature plot where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end triumphing to face a new indefinable world beyond man s petty squabbles a world where there were no more struggle but peace i rated cube a out of and it s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels br br the second movie hypercube was a massive disappointment some of the ideas were kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning still for being fairly entertaining i rated it a out of br br the third movie cube zero while ignoring the second plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there is no homage or tribute here there is only ripping off the same kind of plot with some elements idiotically altered like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say br br that we see something from behind the scenes means nothing because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment the architects of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan did at the end of the first movie are just killed where the bleep is the sense in that that s just flippin stupid i m glad i didn t pay to see this br br the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realized that mr tony giglio was earnest about this movie it s a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully me thinks he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself he sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesn t make it true customs change word definitions change over time look at english german where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same it s always growing and changing the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses these writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here same string of letters two entirely different meanings this is why many biblical researchers use a lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written it s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn t exist in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty talk about ego putting soapbox away god bless maegi i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie megacheese i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol slewfoot or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don t watch for the love of god don t watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i m doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god s sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it it has lot s of laughs guns action crime good one liners and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character max a dea agent diane is the fbi agent played by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv plays the bad guy livingston the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much has all the good one liners this is the perfect crime caper there is the usual love story but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix the film is shot in boston where you have some great shots and locals great photography and music in this film this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy it has everything that one could ever want check out sutherland s toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me if you like to see animals being skinned alive their heads smashed dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them then this one is for you but if you are somewhat normal and don t need to see real footage of animal cruelty pass this one up this movie tries to shock the viewer and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of babies in the movie fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up and special effects so we shouldn t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals its not what we rented the movie for if anything there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it as a very hardcore horror fan this one turned my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked another spanish movie about the civil war this time we re told about the story of carol lovely played by d butant clara lago a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york it is such an initiating trip and soon she ll find about the injustices of the human race their stupid fights and conflicts their contradictions br br imanol uribe makes his best film since d xadas contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he tries not to take part in the conflict he just shows us some facts and let us decide ok the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple clara lago and juan jos ballesta br br a well cared production br br my rate a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods this is simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypasses the ocean view area the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view once the interstate was completed ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few years the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing br br it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film rollercoaster this is also untrue footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to death of ocean view park br br as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time with the cast involved there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors i don t believe this film was intended to be another citizen kane i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table but proved unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway let s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise br br for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fans but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park this movie is like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan s role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father a trio of buddies sergeants all in the british army carouse brawl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save scores of the queen s soldiers from certain massacre br br based more on the three musketeers than kipling s classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood s golden year of filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusion br br it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable however this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time br br it s interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than honorary knighthoods after the conflict while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers br br the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe heartbreaking in the title role he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of kipling s poem ring true he is unforgettable br br montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare are effective but have little to do movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine s father br br the film picks its villains well the demonic thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous blood soaked kali hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of indian life for centuries ritualistically strangling up to victims a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares this movie pretty much sucked i m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible if your in the military and you see this movie you ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad it was ridiculous they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do it was a pretty gory movie i d have to say the least there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump i d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a better movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i ve ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn t be explained for this genre to work br br originally written i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot the most suspense surprises most emotional especially the ending and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving was not as episodic and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie br br it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole i have heard many strange reasons such as a because yoda died b because bobba fett died c because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader was revealed br br i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who cares if bobba fett died if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die don t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett s name judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think secondly many fans did not like yoda dying sure it was a momentous period in the movie i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic all the good guys can t stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda s death well nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why was obi wan s death okay but yoda s not hmmmmmmmmmmmm another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible that is utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage they had swinging vines ropes logs set up to trip those walkers and other traps the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest the only thing they had was their blasters to add it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros the band of rebels as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have been a great upset lastly if this scene was still unbelievable to you how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo chewbacca and the princess being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view and not only that the heroes of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters the troopers must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strikes back the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not heroes against a legion of stormtroopers don t believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando s base or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star br br the last reason that i care to discuss others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here is that people did not like darth vader being revealed well in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father annakin skywalker it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father s face because it made it complete by annakin s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he was annakin skywalker by removing the helmet the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about in fact that s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke s father isn t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet br br on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse even if it is better that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be better or worse that the original but i can not know for sure let s see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was br br i am not sure who criticizes these movies but i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite that it is rotj i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading br br bottom line the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its minutes there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful exciting surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day br br finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky insignificant details or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such as this movie stinks because luke is not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately br br crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman s agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it s because i m jewish isn t it it s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners dvd doesn t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there s little doubt in sam levene s performance that the character is in fact also gay not a mincing caricature but there s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper s confused soldier there s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young s maigret like detective gloria grahame s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in as a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for crusading this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it s always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it s interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the villains in this movie those villains are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you re fighting against at first it s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german s are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn t however the best it s hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn t even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don t know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they re being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren t the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert s book i hated hated hated this movie and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert s review of rob reiner s north where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well but above all the other things that were awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits but after that first or minutes the other minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for seconds then someone gets shot then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra s my way sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss who i admire much as an actor for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that independence day was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history did goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if independence day were a bomb what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time says that the movie is set on another planet i only wish now that i have wasted minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minutes out of my life that i will never get back ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it s honor as the worst movie ever what a boring film to sum it all up its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor while she tried to flee from the village with her son can someone say boring the concept wasn t too bad but it was poorly executed the canadian locales and some of the village scenes were nicely shot however overall the cinematography came up short the story could have been great but the movie just seemed to drag on there is only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hours of it br br the best part of the whole movie was the song ishq kamina and that was only five minutes long other than that this movie was a piece of crap rant start i didn t want to believe them at first but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic even though their budgets mainly spent on special effects have become more and more fantastic do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry has built up since the break out film shiri swiri by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did rant end br br the only reason i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean east asian styled dragon i have seen to date for the final scenes now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons remember dungeons dragons in hasn t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use but how well you use it i hope there are more and better korean legends they can use because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one br br in short i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem arirang being played at the very end as a creature feature i would have given it at least stars out of if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it but i ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting just less dragons as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a better world i said better world because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don t know qin shihuang means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king means the land and the people spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is qin shihuang s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles it also had technicolor one of the few movies made with it in br br now the bad news regrettably i can t say much positive for the story it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light and hollywood has done that ever since why these criminals are always shown to be the good guys is beyond me this film glamorizes them and made their enemies the railroad people into vicious human beings the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous well that s the film world for you evil is good good is bad br br hey hollywood here s a news flash the james boys were criminals really look it up i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i m sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn t live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin s granddad the only sad thing was the ending it s a shame they couldn t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending i don t normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn t turn it off i don t believe i ve ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn t turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it s a sports thriller but it s so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it s not funny not even in a dumb silly way it s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers it s painful to watch but at least it s only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can t describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i m sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you re out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i ve seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can t stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn t bad as the second string few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john lassiter s amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who s review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i m betting the older charas too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo s mother soske s mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend soske whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham soske is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he s related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young soske which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end ponyo s father fujimoto must cope with his daughter s decision and his estranges wife s wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there s the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki s best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki s delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address as expected joe james russo the attacker forces his way into marjorie s home and subjects her to humiliating terror bruised and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat hog tied and battered himself joe tries to explain himself to marjorie s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there is almost a hint of mercy but it is not coming from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m young i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i ve seen the whole thing played like a cnn worst case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn t seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don t bother with this one for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film s most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven t seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo s carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard s kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end i am not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u s army riffles in wwi and wwii in movie we can see privates armed with m garand invented in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load times more ammunition and times more fire rate m was semi automatic springfield requires reloading after every shot little difference german army uniforms has borrowed from year too especially helmets german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archives how much truthful is this true story i am surprised how much truthful can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i m telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may oliver a person too talented for this film didn t like wheeler a sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king at about the same time woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king so when wheeler arrived it was up to the boys to fight it out but they refused because they are already friends which greatly disappointed the people as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime br br i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood the silent era through the s i have seen and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i can t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better for example there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother s film duck soup yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp at times woolsey talked a bit like groucho but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny in fact he just seemed to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality was that he looked goofy surely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese a piece of cheese that sang very poorly a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as who s on first which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they started their spiel they just ended the routine so prematurely that you are left frustrated i knew that who s on first had been around for many years and used by many teams but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist br br once again i have found yet another sub par film by this duo while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly such as silly billies and the rainmakers which i actually gave s to on imdb this one was a major endurance test to complete something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey where was all the humor i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that s the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn t any good actually it s bloody awful but i didn t expect anything else when i bought it it s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really baaaaaaad br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she s the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i ve seen pteradactyl even when her boyfriend dies she can t stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that s the way i like it the chupacabra looks pretty messed up and it s easy to see that it s a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you re even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn t you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked the symbolic use of objects form editing the position of characters in the scene these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken even the title has a least four meanings that i can see the boxing ring the wedding ring the bracelet the lover buys and the love triangle at the heart of the story i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford s small town boy david chappellet what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla sparv the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn t really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn t need to do much and indeed doesn t while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don t fully compensate and you don t care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that s probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it s the theme that s so important here i m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you ll like it this is an art film that was either made in or the national film preservation foundation says and imdb says regardless of the exact date the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late s early s br br the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understood by us mortals i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie is diamond among coals during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw this film should have made them stars shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film it could have easily been a franchise release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed no matter how late watch it you won t be disappointed do yourself another favor read the book same title it ll blow you away times have changed dramatically since those days or at least we like to think they have a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town leading to all kinds of complications cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can t escape the title town hopper does what he does best playing a psycho known as lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns and john s direction creates a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertaining it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up i really liked this movie i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie it is definitely worth renting although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his product s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don t see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real sahlep powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole ali s bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn t show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even ali s troubles are not convincing because we don t see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don t see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i m wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man s big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie s leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie s clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn t great but it s a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number on the comedians comedian okay ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to datd the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone s favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the s i was born on may th despite this my life was very much in the style of the s when other kids had playstations i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only years old at the time of writing this review i because of my s style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn t see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk s adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as the world david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local caf the chipmunks are playing a game of around the world in days against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team s likeness secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds to varify that they were there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt the girls and boys of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be topped it s also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include getting lucky kind of suggestive for a kid s film eh and my mother as well as wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song getting lucky i first didn t think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince s men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells alvin and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven t seen this flick give it a watch it s worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s gets a solid out of br br headin for the top don t you know we never stop believing now just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a bomb rating a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night i feared the worst knowing its reputation and it was as god awful as i d anticipated this is a mexican made mess dubbed into english and produced by k gordon murray it s got terrible sets and effects and features a rather frightening santa who doesn t operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in outer space and who doesn t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is the opening sequence where st nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages seems to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesn t observe the child labor laws br br eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth just to make little kids naughty and turn santa s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience and it s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever oddly the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on this easily makes my personal list of the worst movie i ve ever seen but i m sure that s nothing unique as is often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as pelagia in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as corelli s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia s fianc br br i rated this film an despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie passing them down in the family if you will and i loved it br br clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it s up to superman to stop this mayhem br br it s just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effects and sound the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid and i m now it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic much much better than of the scream rip offs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn t read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed mystery is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don t like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadn t guessed i loved it the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it s really rather messy though fellowes doesn t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich landmine though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there s also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing br br i m disappointed not that it s bad but that it could have been much better this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert godfrey s up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age holes is an awesome movie i love it a lot and it s one of my favorite films it s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn t cheesy holes is generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more pictures like it holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool don t get the wrong idea i don t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it s stuff is aimed towards kids and that s okay children deserve to have their entertainment too but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with holes it s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it s corny really it s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to br br holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this i can not hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen savers with co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn t pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she s hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn t afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it s music movies comic books the internet and television this is what s great about the show if you don t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on aots some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren t as geek as i d like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup worst dcom i have seen ever well maybe not as bad as smart house this was just bad the acting and story was fine but the effects sucked br br they were so fake the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen that was probably the only scene in which i was excited br br overall i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly br br i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene br br its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities and also i didn t know that an indian can cross the march s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier s were sleeping some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn t for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they re all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there s never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film is so feather light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakeries and hairdressers and plumbing but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick they re both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass this film is quite simply brilliant the cinematography is good the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking this is the story of donald woods a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid kevin kline is completely convincing so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later i recognised him from kline s portrayal denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance as ever br br i urge you to watch this it is long but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story remember folks this really happened i have recently seen this production on dvd it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in and it was just as good as i remembered at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been i am a bit of a jane eyre purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly br br all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way some even leave out the rivers family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this is the only production to include the gypsy scene done correctly br br the casting is perfect zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she looked too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted his expression is fantastically frightening but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable oh to be loved by a man like that there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks br br finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it is simply perfection in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it s a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carrie s boss i m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven t prey br br aspect ratio br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren s follow up to satan s slave amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v browne s eye catching cinematography though annan s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and left under mysterious circumstances stokes unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there s an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to emasculate their clueless visitor by dressing him in women s clothing though stokes alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially annan s final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren s unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film s budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army is the local dentist he s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie is always being viewed with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro ves at the islands police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for closer inspection a quick search for the killer proves fruitless as does a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who lives on the island through the winter months a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together br br goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain with a heavy fog rolling in the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesn t work seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut reports of ufo s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin s idea that aliens might be involved but a rise in radioactive levels on the island has him doubting himself br br the nightmare man is based on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it is here adapted by dr who and blake s scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board the nightmare man though is on the whole a succinctly better crafted piece that builds its plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor characters time is given to giving them all a firm background the island setting is perhaps a genre clich that has been used over and over but its one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times there is an authenticity about proceedings the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point if there is one negative about the killer its that we are given his her its pov for the killings an acceptable clich on its own but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer given the clues presented but it s a fun and very well acted piece the local scottish cast are exceptional the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold imrie never one i ve taken to in other works is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers it disappointed me in some ways but taking into account when it was made its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it is even more terrifying this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie so if you haven t seen either movie and want to but don t want the spoilers please don t read this review br br while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe s christian and sarah michelle gellar s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did it s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough you ll recognize it there are also inconsistencies in the plot if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon s character br br also the tie in with the photography you could be a model comment at the end was totally lame and didn t add anything at all overall this movie was a waste of time i can t believe they made a cruel intentions this movie is ridiculous it s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it s a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they re all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie in dramatising wilde s novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown dorian s essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson s dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas rls took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it s a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have s have not s i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn t write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn t take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as nita i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of mazursky s an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother biji he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors mrinal sen s khandar gautam ghose s paar benegal s ankur a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn t make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn t see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don t know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven t already don t waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel at a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director murali k thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows is thalluri s attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis s sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluri s talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn t reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or romanticizes the act thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and revetting is an absolutely unmissable film the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won t watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich d lines in the movie i m sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton s character has hijacked hamill s prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you ll find something of interest here but you can t convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso if anyone thinks there s some hidden meaning here you re really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employing a large number of roach s reliable performers although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves star struck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set does so here as cecilia always ready for an audition is treated by a would be paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behind the scenes action of naturally a musical comedy featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton russell hicks and walter long on balance one must hand the bays to mischa auer who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star a role which he largely creates and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley s filmic spectacles the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start these slasher pics are past their sell by date but this one is good fun br br the valentine cards themselves are witty and well thought out br br the film has one peach of a line he s no angel when he in fact is angel watching buffy reruns will never be the same br br the cast is a sizzling display of young talent but the story does not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters sorry but no br br the direction is very good managing to show very little actual gore and relying on your imaginations implied threat much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes br br essentially the main directorial plus lies within the borrowing of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks psycho s shower scene is tributed along with halloween s masking br br murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know br br light viewing not very scary but a few good jump moments if it was a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movies have had their day and this is just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundbreaking the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a instead of a is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn t shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go skydiving maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today s market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me like most i thought another crocodile movie so far we ve had primeval and rogue in the last months what can they do that s new where both those films were about action and violence this one s about fear and tension br br the performances aren t oscar worthy when there s nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it s like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don t really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it s a stretch to say you ll enjoy this movie it ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick s abundance of clich s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the characters and the dialog br br i d read about elizabeth berkly s awful performance in the equally awful showgirls which i ve never seen and her performance here while not awful is barely up to the standards of lifetime s worse fare there was not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldn t have been if so it would have placed the film completely out of balance since there wasn t a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal br br the principal s handling of liz s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable her husband s initial reaction and advice were likewise forrest gump attacking jenny s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic intelligent action and hell he was mentally challenged br br the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession br br finally and frankly i rather enjoyed this part the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs that you d rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the law and order series and the like but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime br br finally i found a kind of story within a story fascination with josh s concoction of his being the victim of his teacher this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story this was something of an achievement like going from f to f minus br br this whole lame situation should have been resolved in real life in about minutes following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities with husband involved but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following and left an hour s blank film in the camera br br but the writer s here proved with their ending they could do even worse when the situation was finally resolved and righted this was accomplished in all of about seconds with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parents or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption br br this one s a presentation the second because it does have some mild fascination if you haven t seen this yet you really should on dvd i can t believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren t many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like cgi s but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you ve seen a dinosaur my favorites were the coelophysis the raptors the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn t get money from the government for financing otherwise i m never paying taxes again ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by sadhu s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director shimit amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making let s keep it simple my two kids were glued to this movie it has its flaws from an adult perspective but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it br br and the pepsi girl was excellent br br and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot although she s not in the film very much so don t get too excited there br br not that s it s really a bad thing but it is the kind of movie you watch just once don t buy the dvd br br enjoy br br did i mention kimberly williams that was for the dads it was a m in the morning and i had nothing else to do don t judge me please br br we re back in time during the spanish settlements a group have made their way onto an island it doesn t take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobbles up their horse soon they re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg sucks it reminds me of the cg of early console video games the encounters were lame the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it s just a middling effort lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost feel them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the s and s oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can t even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other got ta go now i have to go watch it again saturday june pm the neptune br br monday june pm the neptune br br few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of its centennial saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impressions of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura s camera creative use of large flats and mirrors moved throughout the set combined with screens shadows fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song dance and instrumental performance photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program connecting the passion of the music to its great creator saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich d movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it s genre but don t let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the story line was rather typical of clara s later silents i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves never mind that this man is married clara s lack of modesty was shocking in the day but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a brilliant story line quite typical actually this movie is a nice showcase of clara s ability to make the audience laugh as the number of video nasties i ve yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage popped up on my to rent list when i saw it was available br br the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip though if he returns with the girl and all the money he gets a significant cut he s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot is one of the worst actors ever granted they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after stealing away into the jungle we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever ping pong balls for eyes and that s pretty much it his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i found myself muting much of those scenes br br oh did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this is probably the main reason this film was banned though there is one specific scene about one second long where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out but it s not a redeeming factor for gore fans also jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals and sadly male as well so if you want fair in terms of exploitation you got it br br i can t recommend this trash to anyone it s not even the good bad movie it s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you are making your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list which is certainly not true i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a should have gave it a i gave it an extra star just because david keith s gun was cool i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film he failed thank god br br the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won t like her because she s ugly the film is just bad for so many reasons the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit those two scenes made me cringe janeane s character is sickeningly arrogant and guessing from her role as stand up comedienne and arch feminist is in real life too she claims that the film is anti feminist when in fact it s just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it s interesting to note her hypocrisy too she d been a feminist and comedienne for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film i mean come on she acted in it for heaven s sake what this film was really was anti men if anything it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman s character noelle br br there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure is that the best the script writers could come up with blimey they ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made there s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn t ugly but is actually beautiful erm was i watching the same film as they were she s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one although having said that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well she s lanky and gaunt looking br br i guarantee three things about this film if you ve never watched it br br you will know what the ending will be br br you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and br br you will be bored after ten minutes br br watch at your own peril this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person having just seen walt disney s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony the cast of this film contain some of new zealander s better actors many of who i have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long running new zealand soap shortland street it s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meets the love boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea br br if you are an actor i recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she s the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one s professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don t want to face the consequence one ironically can t believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it s not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies credits due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski s trois couleurs especially bleu this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty the governess rush hour as villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend s wedding opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com this film is awful the plot is extremely lazy it is not scary either people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film is more like dark water except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it i was extremely disappointed with this film it didn t scare me nor interest me either let s face it this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g the dead trying to contact the living dragonfly what lies beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc etc it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans the films that are coming out of hollywood like this are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer they re just being churned out angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela s identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today s world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it s pretty much just more terror tainment br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you re taking the word of the producers there s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb s user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see it wasn t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you ve been painting a wall until you re completely bored well that s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can t really blame them since there s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that s not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don t get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they re charging towards a gaping ravine isn t this somewhat illogical it s also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs moshe dayan arik sharon or god when you ve got an idiotic enemy who can t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn t help myself i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b which is unique among allen s work along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop s most enjoyable aspect the plot revolves around johanson s character a journalism student who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she falls in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen br br i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson s performance but i am a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she plays a ditsy yappy bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen s stereotypical neurosis stricken character she adds appropriate body language for comic effect needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus br br allen is allen he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late br br jackman is also enjoyable as the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less br br in terms of the plot i can not help but feel that this is fresh in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen are more detective like than anything however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything being black and white things are painted in shades of gray being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners i did find his allusions to his last film interesting come for the humor laugh and be merry br br needless to say if you enjoy allen s work watch it if not watch something else i rented this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portrays the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith is assassinated and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land despite his grave doubts he perseveres and finally has a vision that utah is the place for his colony that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later as crops are destroyed by crickets he again doubts that he has truly been chosen however a miracle occurs which cements his place in history br br i found the performances to be moving and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal polygamy is a part of the story but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised the issue is not emphasized br br i m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout s frightmare is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic s s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding s slasher genre it isn t totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance classier than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn t be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death s door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad s grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad s body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband s body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn t a very nice guy in life it s not much of a stretch to assume that he won t be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we re in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad s body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can t really recommend frightmare to anyone who didn t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label paired with roy ward s vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you re a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn t have the big budget there s no special effects no car chases and there s no explosions actually reality doesn t have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since i m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his harvey and kiefer s mickey enhances the oppositeness of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady mrs ramsay i m sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don t think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn t very good but they are truly good so i don t think that you before you haven t seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn t have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven t seen them doing there job as usual i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has there is no story a group of guys meander around iraq one day they are here diffusing a bomb tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire no wait here they are back in bagdad there is no cohesive story at all the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures by that i mean we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds what do you think is going to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy why yes there is no story here the script is juvenile and predictable the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon don t waste time or money on this boring movie a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other s jeep mysteriously won t start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn t all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it slaussen is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the s genre in it s twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won t be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn t know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy s business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie s biggest influence is the comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn t stale and recycled it s basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it s real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don t care about what s happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn t dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn t changed my mind spade s given very little to do serving as the movie s most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy s business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that s cool but i just can t get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever having read during many years about how great this film was how it established ruiz among the french critics specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watched it about a year ago i found it pretty disappointing but then i guess my expectations were sky high shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cerebral film made for tv and mercifully only an hour long is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it s ending if you haven t been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it s genre i loved this show from it s first airing and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week the plot characters writing special affects were outstanding then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining well written show i say bring it back i know all of the actors would come back i would suggest buying the dvd s i am i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunters but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too i didn t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much don t get my wrong its not a bad short film tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film you can tell that it has been an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on though i don t feel it greatly detracts for one s ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do i say go for it the gag reel was fun i won t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also done by jagged edge i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we ve received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it s also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much i was never so bored in my life hours of pretentious self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems it s like watching lizards molt even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this this movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on br br just remember this when you re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad this is the formula that they are using this is what makes zombie movies so great br br and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know br br all in all it doesn t linger there s never a point where you think to yourself c mon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely this is the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks br br so awful it s wonderful if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love it br br as a great trivia note if you re watching it on dvd you ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score well that s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop the ladies man is laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes including the funniest love song ever written br br ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role br br tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you ll find in any comedy out there br br it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round br br i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre and i urge you to vote br br and remember kids theres more motion in the ocean when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn t just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie is great the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot br br the only thing that really let me down are the performances emily blunt the devil wears prada is the star of the film bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable br br to me the film feels like unfinished maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script i don t know but that s how i feel about the movie br br but overall it s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt a flying saucer manned literally by a crew of about male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some years ago on a forbidden planet what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in br br on the surface this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeare s tempest but this is a stretch and in some ways an insult to the scifi genre stripped of what makes it a scifi film sure its the tempest but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about br br underneath this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek br br anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful the special effects and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of s sci fi props you might think you were watching a s piece br br this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call s sci fi and though not in my opinion the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects the clever plot now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek lost in space and even farscape is worth paying attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek s original series aired about years later though they may find themselves disappointed by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it br br some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles unfortunately nielsen s performance is only average and at times down right poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other films over acts his role as well ms francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job the problems with the featured performances i think are as much the fault of the director and the editor as anything though they certainly got most of the film quite right i just saw this film on dvd last night and decided to check out the reviews this morning it seems that i robot has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling too br br i find this somewhat surprising as this film is not great or even good but neither is it terrible or even really bad what this film really is is depressing depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid clich d re heats and acclaim them as spectacular new works this film as retread written all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action to smith s character a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effects that borrowed from matrix and a few others br br i robot is sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today s audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lots and lots of adrenaline smith is mediocre but we already knew that he seems to be hollywood s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story has lots of holes in it of all sizes but i don t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by today s standards but very b movie compared to true winners this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century br br this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people not white black etc br br good movie with a good message i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great mile s sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it s fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am sadden that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven t watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br i have to disagree with another commenter who said the special effects were okay i found them pretty bad it just wasn t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story br br maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story the archaeologists are looking for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what is so special about it that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt br br if you re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the beginning the ancient ceremony looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert br br the action level was constant throughout the movie no ups and downs no climax it made the movie look short and that s certainly a pro for this particular movie liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he is a true actor he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary mary is such a beautiful woman it s her love that makes rob roy the legend but it s his passion that makes her love undying they need each other tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect in one way or another upon watching the movie you will find cunningham disgusting the scotland scenery is beautiful the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well if you like history romance passion and love you ll enjoy rob roy there is violence and blood but it s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if you re not used to a scottish accent one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes it s their skill as actors that attracts you they don t rely on marquee names popularity or sex symbol appeal this is something special when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren t conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can t help it sorry for that raincoat was a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn t enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore having seen carlo lizzani s documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don t know what to criticize therefore to be clear i ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director s career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with nannies cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti s crucial visit in paris in the s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director s career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director s death in is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco rosi but later such movies like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people s emotions and viewpoints into stone time is precious this film isn t i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time br br the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction is this the film the critics are raving about what a piece of crap br br the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family get it br br the acting is superb br br the production lighting sets editing sound is about steps above a minutes story the characters are shallow and unintelligent i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next br br i have had more fun doing the laundry worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don t know how everyone in the movie didn t shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don t know and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don t watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn t even the to be expected nudity you d get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead savage island is a lame movie it s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting not only that the storyline and script was wretched i don t know why this movie was made i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry this one made my blood boil the situations were inane at best if i made a movie like this it would have been a short really because those backwood idjits wouldn t have been in the picture br br don t be fooled by the cover on the d v d i am an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie is virtually unwatchable i don t mind movies being shot on d v but if you re going to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror films sans wrong turn br br i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by br br movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story br br however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe s civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is hynkel and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his subordinates technical innovations which don t work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact hynkel s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery br br in truth chaplin s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the fuehrer s face your cause is doomed to failure because it s built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of silent comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain t i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn t come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the wouldn t it be wonderful speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film s underlying weakness remains if napaloni is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn t bother him and he still kills people friday the th what s that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn t it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way never saw the original movie in the series i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie it was however a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark really this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water not really worth watching i would however like to see the original granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also made a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown created in and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn t matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it s tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number on the greatest pop culture icons and he was number on the greatest cartoons very good highly regarded at release but since rather neglected immense importance in the history of performing arts a classic use of embedded plots one of my favourite films why hasn t the soundtrack been re released the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helmed this episode who murders her husband with a poker has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband s corpse she decides to use an ax once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman s head to frame the killer for her husband s murder santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child br br this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old santa kills theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she s been cheating with routine it s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac there s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions not one of the show s highlights the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film it should have read be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your family s church at years old listening to the preacher drone on about god s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego br br it starts off well intentioned building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny s how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble i believe i counted the use of the word pray about times in a five minute span near the end after the st i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last minutes plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me as it became totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of ending up on the floor br br for all the salivating christians who ranked this film stars i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square the ten commandments anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp the god who wasn t there what would jesus buy or the soon to be released religulous br br maybe robert whitlow s book is better tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford s films at two hours it was quite long for a silent film yet continues to hold your interest some years after it was filmed mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a greatest hits performance with bits of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character s illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question if the academy awards had been around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary s i first saw this movie when i was about years old my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for on vhs she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch this movie however scared the hell out of me you may be asking yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas that s right satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day for if santa doesn t make it back to his home in space he turns to powder don t get me wrong the movie is funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell which occurs at the beginning of the movie is just downright creepy although there are some snippets in this part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these are not very well developed in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs br br although this program as a whole leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserves some praise almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you if asked they think the drug war is designed to solve for example while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensued and the subsequent reversal of prohibition is totally ignored by this program br br this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems but not all users do their drugs in excess just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics br br if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science has decided to totally prohibit whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that is in here br br on the other hand this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in th century united states like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there is a significant element of various people s points of view with regard to drug laws and most but not all of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana br br the criminal justice system along with its often harsh life ruining penalties is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately there s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs a lack of compassion for fellow humans a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs yet this program ignores it br br so in sum the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives it s pretty disappointing considering this film was released years before i was born i don t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected s crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group in their endeavors the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin whom sister goes after because she believes he is the big time who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life though he could be accused of killing her he really kills only her spirit and will to live after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose the story isn t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off then threatens him it s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be discovered back then first i realize that a rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst this movie gets that from me because as one reviewer points out it s not bad in a self aware over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply misses its mark on every count contains possible spoilers the dialog is completely disingenuous the continuity is so deliberate it s painful daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love and with his final word the flamenco dancers start the mock shock of what s her name see i don t even remember her character s name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tells her that her friend is the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things vegetable carts gone flying cars crashing into each other motorcycles going down the stairs people nearly being hit but remarkably no one is oh that s right except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds and an approaching car apparently didn t notice him there hmmm br br it s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money you d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing now there s a novel idea br br my suggestion don t see this film don t rent the dvd don t watch it on cable there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he is black then walk away the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise is funny and the show contains many such types of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all the year saw no fewer than filmed productions of h g wells great novel war of the worlds this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place the last year of the th century using wells original setting in and near woking england br br imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as spoilers that might apply with some films where the ending might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world it seems positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature so let s get right to the chase the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease against which they have no immunity if that s a spoiler so be it after a book and other films including the classic you ought to know how this ends br br this film which follows wells plot in the main is also very cleverly presented in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late th early th century photography although filmed in a widescreen aspect the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs rather than black colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting at other times colors are washed out these variations are typical of early films which didn t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on as you ll see on occasion here the special effects are deliberately retrograde of a sort seen even as late as the s and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effects are really awkward such as the destruction of big ben the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair br br this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells original narrative as has been noted viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story wells description of the martians a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles is effectively portrayed when the martian machines appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how wells described them both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective primarily of rural england plus a few scenes in london involving the narrator s brother the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesn t dwell unduly on the devastation of london br br the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines the narrator traveling about to seek escape sees much of what wells terms the rout of mankind he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene wells adds that after eating they set up a prolonged and cheerful hooting the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder cheers from the gallery british curates are so often utterly insufferable br br this film lasts almost hours going through wells story in welcome detail it s about time the author got his due in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact a word about the acting don t expect award winning performances they re not bad however the actors are earnest and they grow on you most of them however have had very abbreviated film careers often only in this film the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate is john kaufman also in his nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing the brother henderson is played with some conviction by w bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part is played by james lathrop in his first film br br this is overall a splendid film portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it despite its slight defects it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors if you want to see h g wells war of the worlds and not some wholly distorted version of it see this film of the elements that make this the best at this point i have to say is christine mcintire shemp s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent i imagine that as one poster suggested christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil to be smiling at shemp s possibly dying br br another character who helps this stand out is the goon his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short is this good who s going to complain not i okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the last one and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one part was bad but why do they play us anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part and i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in d pointless id say i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts and yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series br br i gave a nightmare on elm street six out of br br good points of movie had potential with plot br br bad points of film terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing everyone my name may sound weird but there was nothing else br br any way i haven t seen anything like this before so it was crazy of course that s a good thing it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying twas beauty who killed the beast war of the worlds scene and more walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one also how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema br br however some parts don t fit like in the original lion king weren t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they are not they were fighting the hyenas backstage ther s more the reason being why pumbaa isn t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also it s just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonn s story was told whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks br br but apart from that it s great finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie which not only tells a story but actually tells the real story i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o donnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is it is not a movie to attract new fans but a movie to tell the real tale some things could have been better but when you can not forget the awful movie from then is this a magnificent movie so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story by now the game s stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they re all rehash but so was monkey island and for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don t need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself i decided to watch this movie because i d not seen carol lombard before in any movie i m sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what s that clich marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples worsening financial status their troubles with john s live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john s diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples angst about their marriage the baby s sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clich d situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn t much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early so it was planned in soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i m glad i saw it as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you ve seen all of stewart s movies otherwise don t bother unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director but for the last years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min no sex no blood it s suppose to be about snuff no actors no dialogs just as bad as an t v film it s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our minds forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi robowar rats l altro inferno virus cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco s spirit s new film pass on this one but if you don t know this nice artisan s career track down his old films and have fun i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director s techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn t as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in ralston s case it was the latter br br i must admit david arnott s portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i can not say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery s first film and it was obvious i mean really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn t the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy can not be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by zinc and we as a race will always want what we can not have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money the was in essence the bank for the last man don t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don t expect more from ralston and that is how i will end it br br grade out of br br i must admit i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem i am a true horror fan as true as they come and found cut to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced but one of the great parody comedy films of late br br my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film was not overly clever in it s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i am certain this was intended as humour hoping this was intended as humour br br and of course there was the gore br br the use of the customised garden shears was brilliance besides the expected stabs and slashes in short there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth br br the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance was and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film both performances were fantastic as well as simon bossell the castle in a brilliant role as the jokey technician br br all in all i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years as well as a beautiful satire parody toungue in cheek till the very end br br loved it go see it i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i ll just tell you that it s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the pieces of extreme gore and banned in countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the s today you don t need them as everything is done on computer but computers can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci s gates to hell or even savini s crowning achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can t tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don t see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it s here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a scalping there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated br br i always felt that ms merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the s and s from atlanta s sweet auburn to new york s harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny s boarding house the story revolves around nanny s relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year a few too many coincidences and plot holes however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn t come as too much of a surprise brosnan is excellent in this role gone is the wooden james bond a role he was wasted in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan s straight man i ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing my father a consultant nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hit man comedy the humour can be very dark if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself as a casual listener of the rolling stones i thought this might be interesting not so as this film is very of its age in the s to me someone born in the s this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap but i am sure this film was not made for me but people who were active during th s i expected drugs galore with th stones i was disappointed it actually showed real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not seen any of the directors other films but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing sort of amatuerish which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly directed tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this is that i didn t waste money on it it came free with a sunday paper watch the original with the same title from this made for tv movie is just god awful although it does use as far as i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesn t work is it the acting the poor directing ok so it s made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hands on the superb original especially as you ll be spoiled to the plot and won t enjoy the original as much as if you ve watched it first br br there are a few things that are different from the original it s shorter for once but all are for the worse the actors playing the parts here just don t fit the bill you just don t believe them and who could top edward g robinsons performance from the original if you want only watch it after you ve seen the original and even then you ll be very brave if you watch it through it s almost sacrilege director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn t know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film s end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl mcburney a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel s best film it certainly is one of eastwood s best real performances page is always so very good and hartman fe rdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a spring break movie plus it makes fun of the college film genre it s funny it s got a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain wilson phillips omg i m just repeating myself now it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they re dumb arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she s a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond s phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don t get me wrong this isn t a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny lipson plays king vultan boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent i have to say that the events of didn t hit me until i saw this documentary it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers i was sick of hearing about it when this was aired on tv a year and a day later i was bawling my eyes out it was the first time i had cried since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i am watching it now on tv years later and i am still crying over the tragedies the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing it was an accident and look where it got them these two brothers make me want to have been there to help perfect movies are rare even my favorite films tend to have flaws rear window looks a little stagey at times chris elliot s character in groundhog day doesn t work the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish br br the script is brilliant the acting is superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing the whole cast shines the directing and the photography are inspired and the music score is touching without being intrusive like some miramax scores that are too manipulative every sad moment is truly moving every light moment makes me smile this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it br br i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people real feelings and real problems brilliant a must see this has to be one of the worst movies ever made the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way just a few of the awful moments in the movie a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the mile per hour winds thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at feet thats impossible even for pilots with thousands of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she is instructed to pull on the flaps huh come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this is a movie you want to miss take my word for it regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you re a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn t carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don t get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren t close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don t care about acting or make up this is better as a book out of for an ok story i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with lan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenberg s later less bizarre works in pola x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol s factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age cathering deneuve shows that she still has it her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn t sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as pola x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn t work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating it s hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon was well done but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious br br i was amazed to see marcus aurelius in the acting credits wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker br br the story might been interesting but the acting is flat and direction is tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend s house and get drunk while doing so then it ll be enjoyable i remember going to see the movie in the summer of with my parents and being pretty into it at the time of course i was seven at the time br br right before the jackson movies came out my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic br br ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this is saying something much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them br br because of budget constraints the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the rings and part of the two towers was pared down even more what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books br br its not all bad though the animation brings a warmth to it that i found lacking in the jackson movies its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding br br this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came several years later a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired which was meant to wrap things up all i will say about that is that it was a musical just finished watching ftm the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it s frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let s get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn t seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn t like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it s insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeals to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights al pacino with great speech scenes and great one liners every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as wynorski s curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don t know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a komanbra part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it s almost over it s almost over out of i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn t know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he s definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was evie s rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with for greta garbo s first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o neill s pultizer prize winning play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna s father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn t be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn t offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion s generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo s anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play s greatest problem has always been that chris s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don t always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minutes doesn t allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne s second act appearance in show boat br br anna and marthy s early scene together on screen minutes into the film taking each other s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it s hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it was first filmed without sound in also with george marion s original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way let me set the scene it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies i am with my friend deciding what to see we look for a movie that is starting soon and the grinch comes up we buy tickets not knowing what to expect what we got was a roller coaster of fun br br jim carrey who may i add is my no actor in the whole world was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard s best movie next to apollo the way that this movie was made the scenery the actors the props and the music was just amazing it really brought this childhood movie to life br br the story is based upon the story of the grinch as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can t stand christmas he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk but one little girl is going to change the grinch s look on life and on others in a drastic way br br cindy lou who played by adorable new actress taylor momsem meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people br br all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents a solid well done jim br br as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia i can still tell it was a quality show very educational but still funny i have not seen the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing was it was too long ago to remember br br the premise of the show was to show you how the body works i swear school still hasn t taught me half of what i know from this show it also tied in other things like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don t exercise with nice examples within the body who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you d the cartoon looked nice very kids friendly of course but done with care cells viruses electric signals in the brain antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures looking pretty much how you d expect what they should look like in the animated body br br this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale were key parts of my childhood i m so happy i found them here fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama s in the years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it s that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england s involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david norwell suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn t have both oars in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr norwell this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another all centered around adam s inabilities and seizures why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get clich snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it s standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct they filmed this movie out on long island where i grew up my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer which they told me was colored water tasted disgusting and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form it never came out in the theaters obviously and it as far as i knew was never released on video and i m sure wasn t released on dvd yet it looks like it was seen by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother yet there is no way i can find it anywhere does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased and which format that would be that s how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who s on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he s financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy s running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he s very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster s woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score out of stars human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br this early biograph short was so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d w griffith s years of discovery dvd set highly recommended it features three excellent performances by the main leads and interesting to see henry b walthall the little colonel birth of a nation as a campy musician giving a countess the eye and other things br br the countess husband goes berserk at his wife s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour it s kind of incredible that they wouldn t hear the wall going up but hey maybe the wine had something to do with it here mr johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment comes at the end as the lady passes out from shock and fear once she realizes she s doomed henry picks up his instrument and fans it over her the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lost it and laughed my head off the expression on his face from that moment i was charmed by henry b walthall baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this is the movie which caused his downfall it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred soon after its release he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably its a very bad movie with horrible acting bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease i m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission sorry i ll not recommend this one to anyone written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick is harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word f k the most number of times almost three hours long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord br br also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f murray abraham and angel salazar pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster is that powerful enough for you crime does not pay for long first the cgi in this movie was horrible i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park gets killed it s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen even night of the living dead had better animation br br that said the movie had almost no plot why were they on that island in particular well it wasn t stated in the movie and why would the people keep coming into the cat s area makes no sense br br one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting in what could be called a b made for tv movie movie the acting was very good parry shen stood out in particular br br if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quotes i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme s best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn t come off although it strays away from the book a little you can t help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine s dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr tilney he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it s hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney as for john thorpe well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the marchioness i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say elinor s calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive page point by point line by line refutation of this mendacious film which should be titled a convenient lie the website address where his debunking report which is titled a skeptic s guide to an inconvenient truth can be found at is www cei org a shorter page version can be found at www cei org pdf pdf once you read those demolitions you ll realize that alleged global warming is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of which gore also endorsed as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber as james the amazing randi does to psychics and philip klass does to ufos and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories so does mario lewis does to al gore s movie and the whole global warming scam a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film s first audiences pretty much as it s described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow s part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd sigh i m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the the first time alright br br but i guess what s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us back in a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic clich ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it s about time the concept of having laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially stan laurel of course as usual br br the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula it doesn t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending it s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the movie br br the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor br br the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed it all helps to make dirty work to be one of the better laurel hardy shorts br br this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn t it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches winry it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i ve been feeling down in the dumps and it s such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i thought it was pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effects excellent acting especially de niro who is awesome this movie made me happier than i ve been for a while br br it is a very funny and clever movie the running joke of the kingdom s history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled that s much of what makes it so good it s an elaborate special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies yet there is an incredible attention to small things br br i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again i was surprised that forgiving the franklins did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants i watched this movie so that you don t have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film s title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn t sure if genevieve bujold s character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it s credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over m too bad the money wasn t spent on a better project just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the messengers is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie s resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you ve seen previews for this movie then you ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters i went to see this movie actually i went to see family portraits which contains cutting moments other short films by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina i just couldn t watch it i had to cover my eyes after the st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while by the time it was over my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the nd short begun btw of course i was not the only one who left the room it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it i just don t get how you can love that kind of movies the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it and i just don t think it makes any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff makes no other sense than to try to shock people and that s not a good enough reason i think there s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it was good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of films a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending pluses the way the story moves begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he s there the music a disinterested look at the life of policemen minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effects still having people s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided br br no complaints i don t understand the positive comments made about this film it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i can not understand how it ever got made br br cartoon characters abound sue s foul mouthed alcoholic layabout irish father being a prime example none of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for sue s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence as desperately unattractive as they both are i ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but given that they do why should i be expected to care what happens to them so many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is if that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film br br i didn t like the film at all steven what have you done you have hit an all new low it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege and and exit wounds the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted pounds on this garbage out of ten better luck next time a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer s next target director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoops around corners in a museum after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purposes practically gives away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals and stages his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dressed to kill is exhausting primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial much of the acting with the exception of young keith gordon is mediocre and the second finale is a rip off of de palma s own carrie not to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end results are distinctly half baked from flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david labraccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in lost boys and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru calling episode which used the movie s premise br br flatliners one of my favorite shows back in the s as i recall it went to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together br br each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible br br i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who came back as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames oh well you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea br br mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best br br definitely deserves a place in tv s hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo kolchack you are on it or in the case of the hall of fame in it i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldn t be laughing you ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and well you get the point br br but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face frownland really is a remarkable piece of work that after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him br br it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein s film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer if someone sets you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the pain perhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can t even begin to attempt to explain br br unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself bring a doggie bag i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night s sitcoms on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didn t expect much and i didn t get much although rose mcgowan is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i d give it a out of i first saw this film when i was about years old on tv in the uk where it was called laupta the flying island i absolutely loved it and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it i was enchanted by the story and characters but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw sometimes erroneously referred to as the streamline dub the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set br br unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn t have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese had and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead they have made some pointless alterations such as changing the main character s name from pazu to patzu and added some dialogue but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking which i find annoying in many disney films br br this film still blows away most recent animated films and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market homogenized animation this film can t make up its mind whether its message is humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless or don t ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan is out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all senses who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself i doubt it was her first when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan obviously as among humans total psychos date other total psychos br br the film reeks of half thought out anti human message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all it s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and as the film progresses he grows more and more compassionate to the whale s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better br br the films final journey in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north reminds me of melville s eerie man whale connection and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husbands might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident it s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss however it never goes there the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone br br the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight fails to chomp up the whale hugger tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier i love animals and i detest whaling and what is more i love orca whales but if this film s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed nolan shows compassion and growth and feels for others and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming br br the only message one can walk away with is if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you why o why did i pick this one up well i needed a no brainer in the summer heat and the cover looked cool br br of course i should ve known better this is a really really bad movie and it gets embarasing when the makers know it s bad and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women and some sex scenes to it well folks it does nt cut it does it br br if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very very good well played and funny go rent lake placid that is an order only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine seaview is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it s not rock they re under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a our teacher showed us this movie in first grade i haven t seen it since i just watched the trailer though does this look like a first grade movie to you i don t think so i was so horrified by this movie i could barely watch it it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half and then there was the boy with ketchup i was freaked out by this film now today being i probably would not feel that way i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn t see this movie even though it s pg be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids i don t even remember what it was about once was enough a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon s seed the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific but instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death despite the title itself being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to the end scott menville is not casey kasem that is the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company br br shaggy s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows they ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original br br i m not sure what they re on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isn t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows br br and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted i like it but it s not real scooby doo type animation but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me this might too br br it s worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly besides i am trying not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die as the saying goes we ll see how it looks after two more episodes by then i ll have formed a much more solid opinion i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i ll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this even this early in his career capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing this is a thin story and quite predictable at times but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately the first part looks like a cinderella story though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune br br nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it s easy to get caught up in the clich s then the movie does become more original as the married couple have to find a way to make a living the ending is very predictable but satisfying i also want to compliment the title writing very witty and fun uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he s ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i ve ever seen this isn t that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i d take a pass unless it s late at night and you re catching it on cable this video is so hilariously funny it makes everything else br br by eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor which just goes to show you how good this really is to be honest i don t think that i ve ever br br laughed at something as much as this including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse this show is amazing although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long plus its extended version beginning with m but it didn t bother me see it the funniest thing i ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer s client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste minutes of your life on this note the music was good it s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it s impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you d be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion i never watched the next action hero show and until reading the other comments here did not know that this movie was the prize from that competition i was just flipping channels and came across this and found myself watching dare eagerly all the way to the end br br yes the plot s been done the most dangerous game etc but i was hoping for and almost received the gotcha how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end i think the high tech was overdone gps s and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider but it nevertheless was not too overdone br br the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that was required of the viewer do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much br br the final solution was good but the ending was disappointing with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy except for zane who doesn t get near as much work as he deserves imho they were winners from a reality show br br knock me out i am a big fan of old horror movies and since i am middle aged old to me is a movie made before with most being made in the s to s period i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies with one exception being creepshow which i thought was great i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending all the stories were great though so why did i like them so much the characters had some decent development the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bits were really funny this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it s telling you something of also romero s expertise is hard to find here they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard i don t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me and that s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on it s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing yuck yuck to see it i just wanted to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing gheorghe muresan act i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn t that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure it was better than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don t want to have to think much it s well worth a rent some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made well they are only partly right for me this is the worst movie ever made period i have never seen anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature as this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isn t even so bad its good there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis other bad movies like clambake this one is so rotten to sit through its painful pure garbage native americans should sue for their poor clich d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole stars seriously grade f first of all yes i m white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race anyway white people hating black people bad but black people hating white people ok because apparently we deserved it where do i start i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene were ice cube and co get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win the neo nazi where twice the size and the chase the chase is priceless this is not a movie about race tolerance and understanding it doesn t deliver this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich stereotypes the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it br br save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written poorly acted dull and clearly biased picture if you are into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid s satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always the three shorts included on this compilation issued in are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn t look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth s tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it s kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film s decent cast pino donaggio s music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film s sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br out of years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie was first class the acting memorable and the storyline a classic recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part again i looked eagerly to viewing part i was so pleased to realize early on into part that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii wrong i wish i d stopped at ii the storyline was not good it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story the characters were weak especially the daughter pacino s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather or then scenes such as corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goodies get away and everyone else is shot daughter and st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the steps corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isn t ready for an emergency no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but i ll watch many times down the years this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i ve watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based the key word here is based how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom br br sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it this involves him selling out and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity however they are not overdone the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney s misadventures the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction is never that much of an issue because simon pegg as sidney projects likability too well br br jeff bridges underplays sidney s editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney s affections and with regard to megan fox who plays an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belongings and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort of course given that i m a fat year old english accountant you might not find my offer too enticing but it s there on the table anyway given how short her career has been so far one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become however she does it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far br br there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us br br there are several laugh out loud moments and i smiled most of the way through as ever the f word makes appearances when it really doesn t need to although at least a couple of these are very funny alien hunter out of is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all things on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot br br derivative doesn t even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him he turns her down aggh br br in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke br br with about seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title br br i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield the characters in the cornfield dress like logan s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them br br that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it br br alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired brittany s strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially linnea s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing i saw the film and i got screwed because the film was foolish and boring i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled sholay the cast and crew was bad the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle amithab bachan s acting is poor i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure nobody did justice to their work including ajay devagan this film don t deserve any audiences i bet that this film will flop br br finally this movie sucks lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon it s quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin after the murders within her fantasies are committed lorna awakens bewildered often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality br br if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco i d say it s elegant difficult by now you ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career as far as film making style and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience and as you read from the reaction of the user comments here some like this decision others find the style labouring dull and bewildering i ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head but even franco himself when quizzed by critics who watched succubus admitted that he didn t even understand the film and he directed it some might say that succubus was merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in furs considered his masterwork by franco faithful because it also adopts the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined in a sense like the protagonist we are experiencing the same type of confusion certainly succubus is unconventional film making where we aren t given the keys to what is exactly going on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn t help matters succubus is also populated by beatnik types and poet speak corman s film a bucket of blood poked fun at my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually great locations and jazz score i liked this film myself although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank welker s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott s good name this film shows the usual knott s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts last good outing when you have an extra minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel i have not read the book so i really didn t know that much about the plot and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that was not what it needed there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman playing a year old is just stupid br br there s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it s considered funny and it goes on for minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid thank god this wasn t based on a true story because what a story it is populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds before the devil is a mesmerizing jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it weren t carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn t hurt either br br the main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry br br the story is told with time shifts which are noted on screen such as charlie two days before the robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didn t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldn t make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to gina marisa tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and you ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands proceed with caution if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives this dvd delivers you will learn new things guaranteed so much so that you won t need any other documentary s on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well as a bonus watch this with tora tora tora saving private ryan patton band of brothers a bridge too far the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you won t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject perfect the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment br br the two criminals performed by robert blake and scott wilson as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile is part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family looking for a safe that isn t there once on the run they start writing bad cheques carving out a trail for the authorities br br there are many fine supporting actors i like john forsyth as the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney br br i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through having only caught it in short snatches i did finally get to it after buying the dvd the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen br br don t miss this brilliant movie to me this is what great film making is all about this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all latterman leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first minutes and i am going to stick to it though it s too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o brien for example i know it s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o brien s antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensen s spoof of trading spouses and nanny in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people s pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on th april coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike s talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on th july someone wrote here that the people who praised spike s talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford it s all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you re not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they re unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it s all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i m appalled for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i m afraid i don t know what the world has come to let me tell u something i started watching many t v shows like lost prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season then we have the sopranos i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season and more importantly all of its episodes there is no department that this show doesn t excel in acting nothing short of superb james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would ve been the better choice however after watching the first few episodes i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony the raw emotion he displays is superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actors perform to the best quality and all giving an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i been so sucked into a t v show before the story is nothing short of excellent each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say its too violent or they feel that the character of tony is immoral i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day i don t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me you ll be hooked from the very first episode i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show hooked on it trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v after you ve watched the first season you ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos i d give this a negative rating if i could i went into this movie not expecting much but i had an open mind the whole thing is stupid the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i were a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie became so popular seriously the worst thing i ve ever seen i wasn t entertained it wasn t funny i wasn t even bored i wasn t anything it wasn t even so bad it was good it s just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie don t even rent this movie no clue how it s getting such a high rating most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all faggy seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i m bating here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over this is a great ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid it doesn t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown s graveyard when i was ten turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile but i love it now as a year old br br i bought this dvd used for bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it ruled it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you got ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd this movie is awesome if you love s metal and bad movies this one s for you while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being sittaford mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments bethany cox good lord what were they thinking here is your spoiler warning even though i don t think it ll really matter you won t be seeing this piece of trash anyway br br a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies in other words the whole thing is really stupid br br you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can t save something and they didn t i know some of their lines were funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comments but geez this was pretty dang sad br br all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud it is not worth your eyes i had heard and read so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series like entourage sopranos or mad men but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one didn t make it past the first six episodes br br the writing was unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing the dialog felt forced like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh br br the characters never developed enough for me to care about them they were selfish and unappealing i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer s loyalty br br episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line br br add to that i heard that season two wasn t as good so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out br br if you re a fan of good casting and writing i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course you re stoned and then all bets are off this movie is among my favorite foreign films some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson br br in japan a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it takes his train to pass he is enthralled by her but is it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share br br shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and in itself transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be as if the film were not of value in itself this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for better or worse and i ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades milo o shea is still leopold bloom this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love br br the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film dreaming of julia makes much more sense it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people s daily lives and pursuits that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history br br the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could br br the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love br br the revolution like the film julie never seems to have an ending i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey s it s politics too upfront and ridiculous and let s face it i was still under a love spell known as blowup and i still haven t completely shaken it now the love is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and oh well good luck to me br br but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age and zp is it s own experience and is only really linked to blowup through its creator the late great mr antonioni br br twelve years ago i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print projected at its correct size immense restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of place br br what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own br br i remember the second time around seeing it the early s i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli s olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now were engaging me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality she took her time to live everything everything dies around her br br upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found enjoyment the encroaching shoulder padded big haired s whispered but that s a hippie fantasy let it go br br the force of antonioni s vision had i had realised already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered s with an uh huh and guarded my love secretly possessively and jealously br br but this then is what good art does it lives inside of you and if you wish it has its way and loves you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed br br was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup undoubtedly zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all br br today reality hit zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice s restaurant br br so it is still too difficult too disturbing too what br br maybe it s that as with all good art it lives while everything dies around it br br peace very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome make up effects daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital she escapes again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives doctors and relatives it s all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire the film is too long too weird and too forgettable the biggest surprise comes at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts yeah right this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn t make the cut as a marine dressed in baby blue outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine raider gere s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent s innocence stealing his baby blue uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent s character whose name is marion takes gere s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine raider marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local caf he meets rose hudkins who immediately catches his eye staying with hudkins parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese internment camps as the towns folks go hunting escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there s still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his s performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid s were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as hedge quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he s the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with jmv s talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa j niksen vuosi is one of jarva s most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society s authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br vatanen antti litja smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn t all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes j niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving i love jamie foxx br br and i enjoy of all movies i see br br and i walked out of this one br br now i admit it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing oh no jamie s knocking on a door hee hee hee but this was just so incredibly annoying there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle everything had to be in your face loud and annoying br br the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like but at this point it s just old and tired he brought nothing new or interesting from all the characters too many lines you saw coming too many you ve heard before and too many tough guy lines and i don t mind that sort of thing really as long as there s a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked br br i love jamie foxx and i think he s really funny and i thought he was funny in this movie but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else br br this movie needed less shoot em up less annoying camera shots more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i gave it a after seeing dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies i was very surprised to see a very fun smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout the movie moves along well it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city madonna was great as the damsel in distress she really impressed me and added depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i don t think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn t laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film has everything to keep me happy i don t know why some people criticise that show so much br br it is a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream prime time but still br br the family dynamics are funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried roy jibes are only just above average but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing br br this show was well worth the pounds i paid for it br br rating mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel gutierrez who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra an evil creature from myth legend erm i m struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott maginnis i won t beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it s referred to a chupacabra in fact i suspect this wasn t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn t change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project but that s it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character s are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i m sorry but i don t know how else to describe it br br director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable there s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink you ll miss something editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it s not scary there s no nudity there s no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there s virtually no colour to the picture either it s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you ll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it s a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isn t it isn t even a proper werewolf flick either don t be fooled this is awful i m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a s culture clash movie john wayne would hardly be one s first choice as a cultural attache being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplished his task with style the duke was a guy who really could act well his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle br br despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time he failed to dominate this movie many of his good intentions came a cropper he had authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian br br the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles i can not comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props the set pieces were complex and detailed a lot of money and thought had been applied to it br br the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort script was good without being too wordy there was a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy periods of translation didn t interfere with the narrative it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set whether or not they were japanese i couldn t say but anyway they looked the part at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians unlike other efforts such as blood alley yes i know they were chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i br br frankly i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies the script was better for a start i never liked the songs in the king and i and wasn t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of blood alley i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke s more popular outings br br recommended i was so glad i came across this short film i m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for br br the plot is pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy br br it s a well made short film well edited and the actors all do a great job and the last shot of the film is perfect br br i highly recommend this film i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one but when i started with it i found it really awful they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think of the movie is shot in india you can see indian made cars you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand hindi written on the road you can also see temples in afghanistan hahah its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie pure time waste i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don t watch this waste of time truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren t going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke s or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters ftw br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first turgid minutes of the film in this movie ch vez supporters either venezuelan and not venezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country br br they did not say that the conflict started because of ch vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues br br they did not say anything about more than tv interruptions transmitted by ch vez during only days in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signals each one with about minutes of duration br br they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army forces who is a traditional supporter of ch vez even now in despite of his announcement he is the ministro de interior y justicia after ch vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equals to defense secretary in us br br they did not say anything about ch vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections br br they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch vez supporters either civilians and military official forces br br they present some facts in a wrong order in order to lie br br they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch vez actions in order to avoid the elections br br that s why i tell you this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie one could wish that an idea as good as the invisible man would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects but this is not the case the story the characters and finally the entire last minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early s there are some great moments mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets but alas soon we re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable but schematic br br there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past years and some of them have their charms but it s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven who does have his moments is a very bad one it is obvious that the money is the key issue here the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough and as a result hollow man is seriously undermined with clich s sappy characters predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever br br however the one thing that actually impressed me beside the special effects was the swearing when making this kind of film modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex is very toned down when the whole world blows up the good guys go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them i m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears i think we can thank verhoeven for that ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke s cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke br br well take a peak it s worth as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal i d agree with him this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carried by his family he has a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold things with it he learns to speak later in the film it is very good for a guy like him also starring home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr brown it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan best writing screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture it was nominated the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapted screenplay daniel day lewis was number on the greatest movie stars he was number on the greatest british actors he was number on britain s finest actors and he was number on the world s greatest actor and the film was number on the greatest british films outstanding all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn t i ll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i m not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there s no sequel i do regret that i have bought this series i expected more action more objective picture and more consistency this is just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it is just boredom itself i find the actors work quite weak as well o donnell might seem charming as robin with batman but in this picture he lacks any charm probably while he becomes older he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up it comes as no surprise that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands the story has been told before a deadly disease is spreading around but the extra in this film is peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run is real he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child this person could be working next to you this film was very well advertised i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it then i went and saw it i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not trying to go into them with too many expectations but this movie was not that funny now it wasnt the worst movie i ve ever seen but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it but for true comedy fans id say pass maybe even check out the kings of comedy again something told me to go see meet the parents instead as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it s really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn t get the tragic destiny s of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br very typical almod var of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters nearly complete lack of taboo it s the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later works though you ll find it in a more rough version here he s building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who d find this movie hilarious i do once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you re just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass cybermen tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke s mickey and ricky being one of the doctor s companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the cybermen had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let s hope so a brother s promise is a wonderful family film this is a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depicts this athlete s life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family members is evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us the commitment and determination of dan s coach and his teammates shows what it takes to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age well now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his house of corpses crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corpses but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i don t remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained deaths took place long ago some like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine whose small role provides the film s only worthwhile moments attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum the result comes across like satan s school for girls catchy title made for tv production values intriguing plot crossed with children shouldn t play with dead things low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead trouble is it s nowhere near as entertaining or fun the house of seven corpses is dead at frame one and spends the rest of its minutes going through rigor mortis dragging us along for every aching second director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this i took my year old to see this movie we left after or minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i don t understand how the rating system works i loved this film i thought it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd obv not easily forgotten br br the script is brilliant and the casting couldn t be more perfect each character has their moment and i laughed hard throughout this film comedic timing was spot on br br it s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it s not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can t understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character s actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orlean s accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn t a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don t recommend it unless you re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west clich that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don t you think about that stmd is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn t gel what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film first off i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie its just awful me and my friend who love action movies independence day jurassic park lotr etc went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons mindless entertainment all we got was a mindless hour and a half the cg was not as bad as i was expecting but the plot is so awful along with the acting it made up for it its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every years sounds like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes but with magic and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes it just gets ridiculous the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believed we spent money on this the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest i ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this br br story cg acting br br i don t drink but it would have helped before watching this movie i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn t know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority i must have seen this a dozen times over the years i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pbs station br br i bought a dvd set for the children to see and am making them watch it they don t teach history in school and this explains the most critical event of the th century it expands their critical thinking br br impartially with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why it details what lead up to the war and the actual war br br buy it for your children along with alistair cooke s america watch it with them and make them understand you ll be so glad you did steven seagal s films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven t even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth and i for one think that is a good thing i ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the th time you hear it so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the minutes thank god i watched this at a friend s place and did not pay for it the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence br br also actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen excluding porn she s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent he s the one that carries the movie br br i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie it s a shame that they got to call it a sequel because i was a fan of the original which was actually pretty good a friend lent me this dvd which he got from the director at a festival i think i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie br br the standouts where the actors youssef kerkor was really good as ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also directed and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda was by far my favorite he seemed the least one dimensional and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting was good some was so so but none of it was bad i also really liked the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny br br i m giving this one high marks even though it has some issues because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared and decided to make their movie their way well done to adam jones and crew shawshank godfather pulp fiction all good films great films but nothing and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all santa claus br br the film is so great and has so many messages i cried while watching it seriously this is one of those movies you need to watch times when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eyes and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder what is so bad about this ice cream is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil think movie makes you think br br this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santas he is a normal person we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams and we wonder is the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mentions christ the whole meaning behind christmas br br you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic whether it s christmas or not this movie gets a whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad cinema s greatest period started in post war europe with italy s neo realist movement during the next or decades that followed france s new wavers caught everyone s attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of europoean cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti s particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he s not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century s great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler s th symphony taking full advantage of mahler s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it s a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn t get better than this i ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it s too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie s thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it s mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with bogarde s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogarde s dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it s ostensibly in english but the dvd s sound seems muddy and there s a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn t up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don t know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of out of this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movies but i wasn t prepared for the last minutes of this story if by any chance you re not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat s paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings it isn t too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn t be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it s supposed to look like a home video and it s just like a serious version of kath and kim it s stupid br br it s too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she s not even slightly stupid she s a stereotypical black latino chick br br it s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn t compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family they failed it s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don t act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated hillybilly horror sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there is absolutely new here the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich s deformed hicks a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who s good at heart etcetera but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this is forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j d hart once starred in a movie called films that suck earlier in his career quite an ironic omen indeed br br my grade d as a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much disney for my taste this film takes you on one family s impossible journey and makes you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully acted and photographed heartbreakingly real its last line with its wistful hope is one of the more powerful in memory stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me i can t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i d get fired and i own the company i would have to fire myself god this movie was just a plain steaming stinking pile of poo that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible something else i have to say the guideline about lines of text in a comment is idiotic what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg rated show i loved everybit of this show this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier s richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn t enough time to properly explore what s going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn t a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn t even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders typical meandering hero s stream of consciousness so it doesn t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn t it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i m afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies hail and kill this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i ve seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn t enjoy this one as much as rope but that s not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn t feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it s one of hitchcock s least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically it is always difficult to bring a pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven t been lost the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue s point of view then from maud s one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans having killed their father the vampire king radu now sets his sights on stefan stefan s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful bloodstone br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there s only one reason to watch this movie and his name is radu he s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i m just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it s original it s fun and radu is one of the best vampires i ve seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he s what a vampire should be let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and can not be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet can not explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it s more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it s going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it s usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed for a long time the menagerie was my favorite star trek episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by city on the edge of forever what i used to prefer about menagerie was that it s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline i still think it s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode though the new part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and us to watch the pilot the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one you can poke holes in the plot if you want for instance given the talosians mind control abilities and captain pike s condition why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st s only two parter coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym from when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn t watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then out of now out of largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren s missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona s guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she s a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn t is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i ve ever seen br br stars herculis puaro is in general a well established hero we know well from books and movies this movie or this story don t work and i felt its not agatha s mistake the cast isn t good the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic the scenes are as said before perfect and looking fake the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim is not likable how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well this was by far the worst movie i ve ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round if you ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much as i did that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut s writing that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself and that you can t put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen does this mean that the movie misses the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense i ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut s genius and loses grip on his own craft i would not place this movie as one of the best i ve seen but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching by taking vonnegut s voice out of the movie s narration or trying to insert it however it can mother night tells his story brilliantly and preserves the story s fundamental lessons without confusion distraction or disappointment this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn t funny but it s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn t expect anything better by director michael bully herbig who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but erkan and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel who is very beautiful to me i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the s a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak she was and he was when this movie was released i think that the difference didn t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it does matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that is why his character would be attracted to hers but it s less clear why hers would be attracted to his br br still the movie works as a light romantic fantasy the scene where she stares at him across the cat s head with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring is true magic it s a little jarring therefore when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply as he embraces her she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families the only conceivable flaw of this film is it s title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven t seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it s like a bad relationship i can t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man br br robert stack we love you salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives we see them panhandling in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donations is so lame no one gives them anything salva who is a hardened petty criminal doesn t even have any redeeming qualities that is until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a winning combination something that salva capitalizes on br br he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo salva shows he is a natural for the reality show he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program espe who is a no nonsense woman who is show s producer can t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention ultimately salva is the victim of his own success in the end br br jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie is had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television spain which was vulnerable to these types of programs has seen its share of the bizarre which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience br br the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film mr molla like any actor who decides to direct his first feature would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress is one of the best reasons for watching the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director these kinda movies just don t get the credit they deserve this is my nd all time favorite movie stand by me being st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasn t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn t real popular back in the s i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn t go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven t seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years i really can t believe i ve only just got round to watching purple rain the brand new disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it wow i was really looking forward to watching it but i wasn t prepared for just how electric it actually is prince s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding he really has the moves in this one i am very familiar from repeated listens with the classic purple rain album and all its songs but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics like computer blue the beautiful ones when doves cry and purple rain itself there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform the closing songs baby i m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid s he s overflowing it blew me away it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years br br prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight br br some of the scenes are very s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film s overall charm morris day is the coolest cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance br br i already can t wait to watch it again i really can t extras are terrific particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a prince groupie a good ol boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn t convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb i was extremely pleased with the film the film was dark moving the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon br br i had initially expected to see many special effects and like a lover s caress it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club br br eric etebari the best actor award was the number one choice you made jr lopez look like a child compared to kasadya br br overall the acting story line the high quality filming and awesome effects it was fantastic i just wish it were longer i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations but it is kinda hilarious at least if you grew up on weird al like i did it s a mockumentary about his life and career beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins it s uneven in places but some of the segments are still very funny particularly when he goes to japan although it s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation and he doesn t find love however fleeting he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life br br perhaps weird al isn t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet still this is a funny movie one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven t done since the fan boys took over alt asian movies and john woo s hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving it was very well directed with strong imagery the visual effects were amazing especially for a short it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard this leans towards the gothic feel i would love to see this as a full feature film carrie why else would he do this to me br br not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies or even decent movies i saw lois and clark i am aware of just how good dean cain is br br obviously this is gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoilers as you can t really spoil this movie any more than it already is br br to begin with why is that a fake helicopter i mean why br br how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried how hard would it have been to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren t american br br why are there occasions when the movie gives us a slug line we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on and then that s it who cares about the timeline to be honest who cared about it even when they mentioned it but i guess that s beside the point br br does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens the answer is no br br that dragon sure can walk down that hall over and over and over and over br br who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history it was straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon s dead now say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i used to be superman aha ha ha ha ha br br fade to black br br my god it made me cringe it was so stupid br br but never fear even though the whole building exploded and no one was left alive for some reason there s a second untouched unmanned lab that survived pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for us all br br minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretched scenes maximum headache inducing jerky zooms maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing up until the time flashes on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing to be fair the movie does have some string music that was interesting so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this unfortunately that was not to be and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i am trying to merk a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the eighty s it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don t get me wrong there are many more great performance s in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it br br couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won t shut up or a victim s father responding to the criminal s death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it s quite unprofessional and adds nothing it s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses br br but the rat yes the big rat why we didn t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the big one isn t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry br br the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn t stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself br br but not for more than ok well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie br br well i figured out within the first minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically br br the cast couldn t have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing br br all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man s legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn t just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself such a struggle is best told exactly as that a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che s life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner br br while the movie s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who arguably conducted the whole thing br br yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn t feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back there s the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve br br indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively br br with that said i can not rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part s ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie s characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film br br a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net sometimes it s hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody s idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against seamless hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin s the naked city that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already of course it isn t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars in the first minutes and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don s simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i m leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south br br a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good br br while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i ve seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses br br a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her br br and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he s about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he s about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher s flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one s eyes open for no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can t find in this version we watched br br the film s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better br br the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william golding s trilogy these three minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o war in the early th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who s worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life s hardships man s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o brian s series of novels on which it was based will love this for everyone else it s a whole new world to discover wow this is really not that good br br i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special br br the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies br br i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i m against politicians in general but if you re looking to be offended i can t help you br br not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin br br rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it s not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear br br another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it s then that you know you aren t simply watching another silly s slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it s originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what i d choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it s extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn t any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women s behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore suyin s attitudes always leave poor elliott a determined brave and extremely practical man anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact suyin s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people s life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead s family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone s daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn t know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i d heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow one word reviews that s what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn t age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don t watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience br br the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes br br one important factor of christy s success is his mother s support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy s dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh o conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other br br btw jim sheridan s works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying god knows why he chose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity i m stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it s an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clich of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there s nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it s possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it s miles ahead of this schlock do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you ve seen one of films scott made at rko during his prime the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town s main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won t say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they d learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america s movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word years ago when the city was named i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character s behaviors today s kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the events that s precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don t waste your time money on this one sigh leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far br br to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something br br lordi isn t scary lordi is lame lordi is over br br i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision br br no wait they won the eurovision that s it i rest my case after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that of the episodes really are nt that good but the other certainly make up for it if i had to pick great episodes id go for formula driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the s there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it s one of the best comedies of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary s excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs is so bad that it s fun meatballs and meatballs are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters the film s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself br br i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act br br higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you ll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey s wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor s mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai s robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dick philes should shun the stars collective what the hell attitude to their late s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn t stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it from i can t even describe it it s the worst movie i ve ever seen i m being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn t like to think much it s not even scary it s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clich s and cook it for a week or so and you ll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys was horrible the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn t know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn t great but this is telly so it was fine i don t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn t clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it ll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn t work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they ve even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a one flew over the cuckoo s next twelve monkeys type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story lady and the tramp ii scamp s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it s junior s turn lady and tramp s youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp s mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie out of wow what s this on the video rental store s shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasn t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fianc e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fianc e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn t like how this had nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn t believe the words coming out of david s mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn t even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good seconds long out of an hour and long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it s one of joel schumacher s better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie jack s performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him danny s performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn t here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn t she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn t need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it s alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could ve done it in a way that didn t look cartoony brave little toaster anyone the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow br br the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don t have much but what they do have angels baseball and what they are seeking identity that s when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are br br depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball s biggest boners dorothy kingsley and george wells dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox br br spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won t maybe i ll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it s a made for tv b movie the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness br br start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it br br on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i m sure this story will not be everyone s cup of tea especially considering the film s darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford s very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy s the sum of all fears fears will be harrison ford s third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas congresswoman it s a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford s quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford s character s investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch s investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack s thriller is top notched from dave grusin s pollack s the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film s unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br out of or out of for all of the has beens or never was s or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more br br robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself br br williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever br br one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester br br holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the director spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn t have pace rhythm it s illogical what a mess you can tell what s gon na happen since the first minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn t recommend this movie at all it s a waste of money and time i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the s their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k complete with bearded host br br capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he s a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python s and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why words no o j a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic br br in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it s no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable br br so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time br br out of broken hearts i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner s inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it s pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them what a good movie at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley s rock around the clock br br anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us br br spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally thinking of your own future br br bye had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she s in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that s how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don t have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic stars yes it is a bit cheesy but it s suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it s interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i ve watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it s difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn t be universally sought after but i m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i ll keep hoping so it isn t an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn t really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression i absolutely loved this film i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film s plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of to i d give it about an the only reason i shy away from is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it s a i definitely think it s a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents have to agree that this movie and it s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn t disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca s films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap this was my first gaspar noe movie i ve watched and i have to say i was shocked i don t mind gore in generally but this isn t even gore it s real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can t stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i ll let you figure them out don t watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i m a big fan of tom selleck s and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can t imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan s an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh although i lived in australia in i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the s and s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can t stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don t watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he manages to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the white mans view life begins and ends in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving br br oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace s loretta young husband what an actor as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i d like to see more of this actor s work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don t cut don t cut as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession br br loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months br br glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn t anyone know back in that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies health but her character redeems herself in the end br br also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable br br life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into out of this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie s character and denzel washington s of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock s rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you d be bored possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney s sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i m going to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn t seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can t leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney s name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of s this movie s true score br br as mentioned before chris rock is the king previous to going to see this movie i wasn t that over the top about him but now i m banging on the doors of chris rock s website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on br br there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn t realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture br br well to the actual plot of the film br br don t spoil the experience for yourself don t read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it s a cinema experience that doesn t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell s part is very small and doesn t add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn t stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money br br whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears br br it s so campy that among taylor fans it s probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you re way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam s torturing of his parents br br i m sorry to say this bam but you re in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he s going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera s already too big ego i don t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don t know how to categorize this film it wasn t scary or spooky so can t be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can t be a drama there was no suspense so it can t be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn t there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn t schlocky s horror films ya got ta love em in contrast to today s boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula br br this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without br br john carradine having long since given up looking for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director br br the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there s truth in advertising it s just sad that the ghoul didn t understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can t go around tugging on satan s coat and expect him to take it lying down br br sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses i suppose for this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now years it s charm was just as silly as it s entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained overall it s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all now i don t hate cheap movies i just don t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad s camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes br br maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn t maybe i hate it because it s cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can t save this br br seriously this one is a complete waste of time a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land br br the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn t fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own it s a neurological drama it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person s brain br br it s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf br br no small feat for such a sort of a movie br br the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn t think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn t just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i m your father and i m smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce s wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i d recommend watching it s hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it s heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you re a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw s match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i m a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it s a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn t make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i d recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it s no good amanda i ll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he ll mark your packages return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the don t mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it s the greatest movie ever done it s just crap on a stick it also didn t help that the story line was sooo crappy i don t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i m very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn t they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael latt didn t have steven spielberg s budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either br br the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you d think if he was turning into a real bat he d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood s the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he s just having an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction br br it s not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it s bad in a clich d wooden professional way it s just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved br br i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but br br the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver br br he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario br br he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episodes instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clich d acting mannerisms br br he needed to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant br br i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it s bad but it isn t bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don t laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven t disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn t yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don t get off on their own self importance years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that s what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie s nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything br br the plot follows a group of teen cliche s on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled i m supposed to feel sorry for this guy br br to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it s message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn t even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it s surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like hour and minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a and if your not happy with my preview seriously i m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won t go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you ve been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they re exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment s hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to feet long in a matter of a day but don t grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don t meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don t necessarily change the direction they re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age br br animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for swearing at the same volume br br old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just oz episode you ll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn t dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn t mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn t say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who ll be sold out for a nickel inmates who ll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the polari but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master s of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with halliwell s murals decorating every surface are terribly well done i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy the plot is simplistic but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable even the well bread suspected serial killer while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point risk addiction i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love br br this was the most i d laughed at one of woody s comedies in years dare i say a decade while i ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson in this she managed to tone down her sexy image and jumped right into a average but spirited young woman br br this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it was wittier than devil wears prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friends basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time br br this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie br br ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots br br out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them petter mattei s love in the time of money is a visually stunning film to watch mr mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter br br this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler s play about the same theme the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect each one is connected in one way or another to the next person but no one seems to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film has a sophisticated luxurious look we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat br br the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter br br the acting is good under mr mattei s direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these characters come alive br br we wish mr mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work probably my all time favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it s not preachy or boring it just never gets old despite my having seen it some or more times in the last years paul lukas performance brings tears to my eyes and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles is a delight the kids are as grandma says more like dressed up midgets than children but that only makes them more fun to watch and the mother s slow awakening to what s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling if i had a dozen thumbs they d all be up for this movie i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i ve got what i wan na say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first aired the first or years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by the show was not really funny anymore and it s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn t still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can t believe it s still on the air encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film bad mistake i ve seen films and this is truly one of the worst of them it s awful in almost every way editing pacing storyline acting soundtrack the film s only song a lame country tune is played no less than four times the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film br br the only thing that prevents me giving this a score is harvey keitel while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessives only if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie if you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked it br br great camp phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines br br at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore br br its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there were some pretty interesting characters but eventually i just lost interest br br i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking br br for something similar but better try brother from another planet i saw this movie when i was about when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn t care much for the romantic angle as a year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules so im not a big fan of boll s work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller br br three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr krieger played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven t even gone far before i started to cry mehehe i can not go on any more if you wan na stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of scheisse that s poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wan na take a wiff go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wan na shoot him the first three minutes he s on screen the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because the scottish play is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you can not improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i ve ever seen sort of like a high school film project what was rosanna arquette thinking and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town pretty hard to get involved with this one no lessons to be learned from it no brilliant insights just stilted and quite ridiculous but lots of skin if that intrigues you videotaped nonsense what was with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounters and what was with that absurd dance with everybody playing their stereotyped roles give this one a pass it s like a million other miles of bad wasted film money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa some films just simply should not be remade this is one of them in and of itself it is not a bad film but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson was excellent as he always is and most of the cast holds up with the exception of owen wilson who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more this movie made it into one of my top most awful movies horrible br br there wasn t a continuous minute where there wasn t a fight with one monster or another there was no chance for any character development they were too busy running from one sword fight to another i had no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them br br scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies lotr star wars and matrix br br examples br br the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda obee one and vader br br the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings elijah wood is the victim in both films and wait it hypnotizes stings its victim and wraps them up uh hello br br and the whole machine vs humans theme was the matrix or terminator br br there are more examples but why waste the time and will someone tell me what was with the nazi s nazi s br br there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it was a children s movie or an adult movie and wasn t much of either br br just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in my dad took me my brother sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it an awful film it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe they ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition my complaint is not that they ve taken liberties with the facts if the story were good that would perfectly fine but it s simply bizarre by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script i suppose there weren t enough naked people in the factual version it s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist s life we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they d favored the rest of the film with same brevity after the success of die hard and it s sequels it s no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a movies cashed in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that is what they did with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallone s career br br cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing base jumping aviation facial expressions acting skills all in all it s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills and unintentionally plenty of laughs br br you ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddies and best of all the permanently harassed and hapless turncoat agent rex linn as travers br br he may of been henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely can t be it really does look like ralph waite s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death br br mention too must go to former london s burning actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football yes you can t help enjoy that bit hal needed a good kicking br br so forget your better judgement who cares if that could never happen lower your acting expectations turn up the volume and enjoy and if you re looking for qaulen he s the one wearing the helicopter i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it s entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn t even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it s almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you won t regret it it s too much fun rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn t anything more other than him i still liked it the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times you really start liking it first of all let s get a few things straight here a i am an anime fan always has been as a matter of fact i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several b movies because they re hilarious c i like the godzilla movies a lot br br moving on when the movie first comes on it seems like it s going to be your usual b movie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime comes on this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill br br the animation is very bad cheap even worse than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it s so cheap one of the few scenes from the movie i vividly remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school it s the same kids over over again the fx are terrible too the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation is unorganized the dialogue voices especially the english dub that i viewed was horrid i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd vhs player the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes comments like the robots joel mike on mst k you pick the season honestly this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time br br heck i m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night because it s stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time i m giving this movie a an improvement from the i was originally going to give it br br according to my grading scale means pretty much both boring bad as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun as counting to this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there is no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me nor does the development of the cop it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the s and not even a good one in those standards br br the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter s complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia gibb portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen s mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren t though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i ve read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don t want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it s all about and not how it s all about and i guess that s what some people don t like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it d at least get nominated for best picture br br i ve noticed that i ve kind of been repeating myself not because there s nothing else to say but because i can t stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of this film tried to be too many things all at once stinging political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family values promo the list goes on and on it failed miserably at all of them but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end br br although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film br br there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening reminds me a bit of three kings which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i d be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america s funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once war movie is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich d dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and ren e zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier s tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast coming to ada s rescue is the course tough as nails ruby thewes played by ren e zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby s deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant br br director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether taut and organically gripping edward dmytryk s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger s apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who s assigned to ryan s outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who s leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it s pretty much confined to young s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there s no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it s based on richard brooks the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don t fit so smoothly the victim s chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there s a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan s murderous rage ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he can not achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video which has brought us other cult classics such as spider baby the print quality is excellent but this alone can t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull there s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie is slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling adding insult to injury the movie was dubbed not subtitled as promised on the video jacket one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man titta di girolamo a physically non descript middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy when we re introduced to him at the start of the film he s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo s cash tell him that dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes at the news he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can t bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this bluffed only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo s troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who won t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life titta decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di girolamo s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell amore or l imbalsamatore another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist s insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dell amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it s almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of titta s best friend a man whom he hasn t seen in years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it s never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like titta accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator s expectations le conseguenze dell amore is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt xa during the second half of the s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell amore l imbalsamatore and others your loss world i watched this film not really expecting much i got it in a pack of films all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i was right they were all terrible this movie has a few and a few is stretching it interesting points the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch the drummer is very like a drummer i e damned annoying and well thats about it actually the problem is that its just so boring in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious i had my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but gave it a go and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking coz they don t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot i thought he looked a bit like a meercat all this and i haven t even mentioned the killer i m not even gon na go into it its just not worth explaining anyway as far as i m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who was actually quite funny it wasn t because of their acting talent i ve certainly seen a lot worse but i ve also seen a lot better best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry i bought this film at blockbuster for because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don t usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she s wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it s teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i ve been writing into a pg movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it s number so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though the plot is about the death of little children hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter in the end the serial killer get caught that s it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors it is unbelievable how bad these actors are including hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just don t watch the movie i ve warned you ever watched a movie that lost the plot well this didn t even really have one to begin with br br where to begin the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable or even the beginning which suggests a spate of killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction br br add a lead actress who can t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty but not in the way you hope br br given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offers nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder don t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before br br after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of us no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon br br it really is only a movie as they say okay so this series kind of takes the route of here we go again week in week out david morse s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what s wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david koepp a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can t see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let s hope something good can make it past a first series after sitting through this pile of dung my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it was that listless and formulaic but the u s propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves disappointingly that it s the work of humans call me a conspiracy theorist but quotes like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there s also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr whatever her name was being chided by all involved for never shutting up she s clearly in the movie only for looks but they felt the need to slap a dr title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage s character says don t you ever shut up and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands like she s a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie was that it s so astonishingly bad you do get a few laughs out of it the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it creepy it had all the clich s of movies of this type and no substance the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it the production was good however the script and acting were b movie quality the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors the good actors didn t hold their own nor did they lift up the others br br this movie is not worthy of more words but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines james wood and cuba gooding jr play caricatures of themselves in other movies br br if you are looking for mindless entertainment i still wouldn t recommend this movie this movie is based on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out fifty s hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances pass but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held bullets has there been such a miracle i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god s army was okay and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br dutcher s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what dutcher shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time dutcher try making a movie that someone can identify with this movie struck home for me being i remember the s and my father working in a factory i figured if i worked hard too if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream the house a few kids a car all to call my own i ve noted however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you can t get anywhere br br i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs it s made for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic an t find it anywhere i d love to show this to my friends my pseudo friends family and other relatives see what they think and remind them that once upon a time americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished i think the feeling is still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas as a disclaimer i ve seen the movie times in the last years and i only just saw the musical this week this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn t in the musical however it tainted me when i watched the musical br br i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene is one of the best parts of the movie a worthwhile addition compared to the musical the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical as well as the cast which is at least times bigger easier to do in the movie of course the decors lighting dancing and singing are also much superior in the movie which should be expected and was indeed delivered br br the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie the new ones are quite good ones and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion especially compared to a musical which has few decors the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters but their dancing is impeccable and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham s nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born canaanites wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists linguists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one preston sturgis the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry luce clone thatcher s memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane s story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner s right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom s confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union s headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane s success few films do including all of orson welles other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one s interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve s son by tom s son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans sturgis came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers return to the th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the s and s whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western s clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest this is presented in shaw scope just like the good old days br br this film is a simple story of good versus evil told in acts which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era br br act one sets up the premise workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot having their wages cut by by incoming manchu gangsters they can t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters and their boss at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequences but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times br br act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob however without real martial arts he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly after some slapstick moments he finally gets accepted by the abbot whom he impersonated but is disappointed at the teaching methods kinda like mr miyagi s style in karate kid but instead of painting fences he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly builds strength endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way br br act three is where the fight fest begins with cheesy sound effects each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow with some pause in between moves but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks they sure don t make fight scenes like they used to return to the th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday so if you re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what are you waiting for spoilers all too in real life as well as in the movies familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hands the case of young and innocent in never handling or firing a gun jimmy davis franchot tone has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men like jimmy davis are forced to take up arms for their country br br jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay by being belted in the mouth by his good friend fred p willis spencer tracy ended up on the front lines in france with jimmy s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german who raised his arms in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him br br recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy gladys george rose was really in love with jimmy s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her it s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose thinking that he was killed fell in love and later married jimmy when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy now fully recovered from his wounds was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy s proposal of marriage to her br br with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred who s still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city s underworld not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster br br jimmy s life of crime came full circle when rose after she found out about his secret life ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a valentine day like massacre with his gang members dressed as cops of his rival mobsters while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence is up get his life back together br br spoiler alert hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law it s at fred s circus where he works as both manger and barker that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he like at his trial had a sudden change of heart but the thought of going back to prison with at least another ten years added on to his sentence was just too much for jimmy it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job that he himself didn t have the heart to do for him bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones br br bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides deaths the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards br br you have got almost everything in this movie the scientist s assistants consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her sons a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela s house bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie br br the corpse vanishes is worth a look especially for bela lugosi fans great fun br br rating stars out of i can not believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line s tape this ain t no minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an the percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of as strikingly similar to the post socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a whupping they deserve it s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can t be denied the right to ever vote again they ve clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he s helped create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic as robespierres plight is it s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine as someone has already mentioned on this board it s very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with love machine it starts to show its faux hand about the minute mark with minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it s downhill from there br br director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn t get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in when the film was made eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn t work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it s not going to be an oscar nominated film it s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes br br the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert it s just them fighting back throughout the whole film which includes a lot of violence which is basically the whole film as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience br br i d give the hills have eyes ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment something to pass time if you re bored and nothing else br br i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned no spoilers br br after hitchcock s successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne dumarier s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock s sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freaks and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock s more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time shooting ban on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock s most well known films it s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock s original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his deaf wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it s not a big movie and doesn t try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his th performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they re taking their bows and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren t other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn t get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser what happened what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie loses it actually it never really got going there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant then find out that she is after all but that was it steve martin who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie other than to make it longer i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it was not but maybe a drama with comedic elements i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot i ve just watched fingersmith and i m stunned to see the average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it so let s begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg s movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it s quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence besides being boring the scenes were oppressive and dark the movie tried to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with its message what were the redeeming qualities on top of that i don t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did an unmarried woman named stella bette midler gets pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own things go ok until the child named jenny trini alvarado becomes a teenager and things gradually and predictably become worse br br i ve seen both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affected me much and i cry easily but they were well made if dated trying to remake this in was just a stupid idea i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of beaches to get this made this predictably bombed the story is laughable and dated by today s standards even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actors don t help in supporting roles flimsy and dull really who thought this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a don t torture a duckling is one of fulci s earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot g a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don t torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci s later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci s non splatter films but don t despair don t torture still has more than it s fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn t bother you then definitely give this one a look busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn t going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter liapis who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this film whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an asylum is hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br solely for the high bimbo quotient i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali larter her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you i m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though marques houston did appear in hp he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren t the most talented and couldn t carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i m sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i m sorry kym whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the hudlin brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i m no nasa expert but surely it s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film out of with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don t go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then i m comin upstairs junior and i m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offsetting his small role however is dan acroyd who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it s not that shocking it s not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis cerda s sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material although i don t care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written its not just about entertainment there s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across and yes it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn t watch sepet and or gubra for times br br i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right its really ironic how the characters relate like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future br br and i absolutely love the voice overs its crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there was suddenly mukhsin s voice saying bismillahhirrahmannirrahim the scene when he climbed the tree br br it captured malaysian s attitude and in some mild way sniggering at how pathetic it is portrayed in the character for example even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isn t sorted out br br all i can say is this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it br br it kept me glued to the screen i couldn t even take my eyes off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha i am not a golf fan by any means on may about pm the movie started with a scene in the late s old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don t want to give away too much i was up until a m this is super please see the movie upon viewing tobe hooper s gem crocodile in i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts with ed writing the scripts and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer all we d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants br br while tobe hooper s crocky opus referenced his own movies blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages rip offs to jaws temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock br br i was disappointed the crock didn t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism or crocky appreciation but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach perhaps in the coming years we ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed br br all in all the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me it tries to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like sh kasugi christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time it s actually is a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it s flaws captures your interest it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it even if it s made in the s it doesn t have a modern feel it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had this on the other hand just has the real feeling you just can t hate it i think it s an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they don t because coburn has a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman br br that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after as he explains it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired it s not something he s proud of she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt br br lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is heston is his usual stalwart hero but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn he blows everyone else off the screen when he s on br br coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can t touch him he knows that heston has to make it personal then br br coburn s gang includes morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be br br the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western andrew mclaglen directed it and i m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there is a lot br br for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men is your film maybe it was the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which is with the director as he keeps saying hi kids into the camera like a buffoon but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator turns out it s way too sleazy for its own good or bad or whatever there s a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respects in not having balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies and with the killing scenes there has to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in creating the creature killer whatever entrails of a virgin has neither it s safe to say it s a pretty soulless movie even if isn t one of the very worst ever made it s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their other heads br br in this case we re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by a murderer as he s credited first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on we get spliced in or phoned in take your pick clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere it looks like it s from another movie then once settled into the house there s a wrestling scene that s poorly choreographed and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killings first the rape by the photographers who promise the girls some jobs for their time then the murderer who like d amato s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one br br now the latter of those taken by themselves should be considered the highlights of the movie this is like saying however that the cro tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eye gouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually is kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl whose inconsequential name i can t remember even this becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title on top of this the sex scenes which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway are dubbed over by the actors you d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one where it s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch as the last girl left alive the virgin of the picture tries to stop the murderer from getting to her which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him you just want it to be done with for the i hate women mantra to ease up or be rid altogether the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a rotten tomatoes users ranked it at and the critics averaged an amazing if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike mina s son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren t a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo stephen hawkings is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it s a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they ll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won t be the same after you see it the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don t need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of s then the rest of us will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don t even get me started about the southern accents y all and the story was trite just remember you were warned oh god i must have seen this when i was only or twelve don t ask how i may have been young but i wasn t stupid anyone could see that this is a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly i ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland i ve seen better performances at a school play and i ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignoring the children tapping on the glass br br the story is set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people are trying out a new water sport surfing in shark filled waters it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family br br i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years the best of which is lake placid and the worse of which is its sequel blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind br br the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer s life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number reminds me that he s still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can t get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that s titled the number is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn t even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous and i have never seen such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i was very disappointed the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldn t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end if you don t want to know much about the plot don t keep reading br br gilbert s character ophelia is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor is matt who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce he is gentle convincing and compelling in this role br br the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love br br the chemistry between the two leads is not great even though the talent of these two people is not in my opinion a question they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical two people meet tragedy bigger tragedy a secret is revealed another tragedy and then they get together i wish there was more to it than that but there it is in a nutshell br br i wanted mindless entertainment and i got it with this in regard to the genre of romantic films this one fails to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner is far superior not a steele book as are some of steele s earlier books turned into film oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don t even remember how many i ve seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all dramaticness ok this is for kids who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we ll let me tell you there s a million of you d this is one of them i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this nicholas walker is paul the local town reverand who s married to martha ally sheedy but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so doing he gets a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of misery type of way it s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator in a film billed as a black comedy one has to bring both elements into said movie while this does bring the former in spades it sadly contains none of the latter furthermore you can t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one br br eye candy dara tomanovich gets topless sally kirkland also shows some skin br br my grade c br br where i saw it showtime showcase hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore verbinsky to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn t entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clich s all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn t enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn t that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it s getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood bullshits down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment if you came here it s because you ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that s what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother s trailer i swear to god br br you know what i m not writing anymore about this it s just too painful deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read are three smart girls in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences it also stars ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it s a sweet story about three young women now living in switzerland with their divorced mother who hear their father winninger is marrying again not having seen him in years and knowing their mother still loves him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper nanny determined to stop the wedding realizing that the intended called precious barnes is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count this is arranged by their father s accountant king the man he chooses is a full time drunk auer but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess br br this is a delightful film not cloying or overly sugary at all with some nice performances particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young women are pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course is on young durbin who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer in fact her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult she has no trouble with the high notes as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sings a delightful il bacio in a police station br br one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father played by charles winninger not want his children around until he sees them and gets to know them barnes as the gold digger isn t all that young but the girls mother looks way up there so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger more glamorous woman in fact he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters br br universal gives durbin the big star buildup here she has the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point was still paying his dues and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is br br very entertaining and of course this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new better and different those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing directing and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england other days other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment made in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchens in the major roles under the brush stroke direction of mike newell these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter s eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille s classic epic of starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some rivoting scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning pharohs armies building sethi s pyramids could have been done with todays technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn t want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gangs of new york in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody s in the pianist and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot just to name a few his roles all influence eachother but each is seperate and utterly unique he changes completely with each character he takes on and i m beginning to believe that he can act as anything anything br br as cristy brown he is stunning he does not ridicule the character and he does not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown comes to life a smart man an outrageous man human br br this movie despite small scene transition faults and the like is an inspiration yes it s predictable but is it stupidly sentimental no i laughed i cried not a single moment of cheese proof that this isn t a hollywood movie br br my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant when cristy is discussing painters with eileen peter and her friends here s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax i ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that s animated wheel out the cripple and his performance never slows down never falters and is beautiful simply he has a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tired of cristy s perspicacious eyes twitching and guttural speeches br br a must see fo sho yo my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn t be much good the movie s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making hera s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don t see the gods and there s no real certainty that they exist so it s got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn t do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg s works and again and again don t understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood s movies cause it s so inept it s very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there s no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it s extremely inept amateurish film it s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion s gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach s castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma s home a floating space station here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station s power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at lives still these minor problems aside it s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we ve been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect out of this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature spatula madness is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job joins in the fight against the evil spoons this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning but is barely present for the remainder of the feature this film s minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lies below it the plot that is set up doesn t really have time to show but it s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films this film is worth watching at least a few times take it for what it is and don t expect a deep story okay last night august th i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here s what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i ve ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van bebble s take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second dibs on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you ve heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn t want to have anything to do with how in god s name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock n roll mind of a man who couldn t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public s image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie s work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i m glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart i am glad i did it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake the bonus levels were very hard the sniper one i think was too hard it made me so frustrated i didn t play the game for a week and a half there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it br br the only thing i might change was the upgrade system i didn t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded such as buying an armor upgrade didn t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter i really liked the q copter i think the developers did a good job no this hilariously horrible s made for tv horror clinker isn t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness that s quite tasty in a so execrable it s downright awesome sort of way richard crenna looking haggard and possibly inebriated and yvette mimieux who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppets from the disney witch mountain pictures are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesn t that sound really scary and disturbing well scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain t but it sure is funny thanks to curtis night tide harrington s hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effects an almost painfully risible n ridiculous plot and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story besides the leads both martine beswicke and r g armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy show people released by mgm in davies plays a hick from savannah georgia who arrives in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot as is davies outrageous southern costume davies lands a job in slapstick comedy not what she wants but it brings her success she meets fellow slapstick star william haines who is immediately smitten with her well davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio high art studios and lands a job in stuffy period pieces a handsome but fake actor andre telefair shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that is not who she really is marion davies is wonderful throughout as she outrageously runs the gamut of emotions required of a serious actress william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self and there are cameos by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous stars of the day including the director of the film king vidor this is a silent film with a few sound effects as sound pictures were just coming into their own a treasure of a film the performance of every actor and actress in the film are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again however i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors and director attenborough s credits that puzzles me aren t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent long lasting film for the audience i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don t have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director s chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it s very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she s sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated this is the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared not handsome but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark pretty as she is is also a complete and believable jane eyre this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this is the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this apparently the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called movie they described blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skin but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the plot furthermore as a viewer of many and sundry films some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain br br correct br br jonathan tanner br br br br p s i was not blinded by the choreography i liked boyle s performance but that s about the only positive thing i can say everything was overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actors spoke like you would expect your year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded stone hearted cop or an ultra evil villain the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music and what s with the whole ish police torture stuff it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story cox added a lot of things in fact that he apparently thought would be really cool but had nothing to do with the story that s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges stories so good is his minimalism they are tightly bound with no superfluous details this movie is just the opposite i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i wasted renting this but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you what a pity this film is very boring and so long it s simply painfull the story is staggering without goal and no fun br br you feel better when it s finished so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin s adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven t really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys as well br br loved it the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we re used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release of stars this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a foodie the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette s menu and choice of wines are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a out of film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it set in the the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the danton affair written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris usually i m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties early nineties film featuring now has beens but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through guys dressing up as girls has been done to death but never so pathetically corey haim s performance was abysmal as usual nicole eggert was not much better this has no redeeming qualities even if you are a number fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash stay away i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almod var regulars appear in this film so it s not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn t find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood s novel the robber bride and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an ex cop journalist tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman s crazy female friends it s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms atwood s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men victims of scheming women br br heh okay you got me if these guys are mentioned in the book and i m pretty sure they re entirely made up for the movie i ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female characters of the novel aren t enough to carry the movie zenia s manipulations aren t interesting unless we see them happen to a man and a man s life is screwed up roz charis and toni tell their stories to a man because it s not important if a man doesn t hear them br br i liked the characters in the book it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man s story i normally do not look for feminist angles on media and i tried to enjoy the movie as is if i hadn t read the book i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the ex cop and you want to read more about them you re out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot it s the same plot the movie excavated it ironed it and sprinkled it with male angst it s like zenia s revenge on margaret atwood this movie gets a because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid s monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn t terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it s a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br the synopsis isn t entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston rekert as paul sharpe s newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr rekert mr novak s investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom rekert fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo missing in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn made money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place of course not troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it is this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this revolt of the zombies proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn t necessarily make lightning strike twice br br the halperin brothers responsible for the horror classic white zombie made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi s eyes from that previous film there was a court battle with the white zombie film s rights owners who didn t want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word was the only thing that could help this film because as everyone knows bad films can make much more money simply by having the word zombie appear in the title knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead but simply hypnotism victims br br wan na create a mind controlled army of zombies be ready to crack a few eggs including your own br br the lame plot man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend whom she loves jealous this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn t worth spit br br this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i ve ever seen you d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming the acting isn t even good this movie makes the racially insensitive king of the zombies which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invaders seem like a serious drama this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama the credits list the ironically named company favorite films i m not sure whose favorite film this would be but they re obviously an idiot br br not recommended for fans of zombies romance or classic films the complaints are valid to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women i am okay with these night time soaps like grey s anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end however when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romps and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital it seems like general hospital or a female counterpart to baywatch that was what men wanted and they had it so if this is what women want so be it but the idea that this is a high brow show or something men will watch is unrealistic this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year i didn t see any cameos in the movie but it is still pretty good it is similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this is a better put together movie it actually has a point if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roeper s review of this movie is right on i mean i don t really like ebert on most movies but this is the movie that i will agree about the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laughed at when it is found out about but it still suggests that you wait steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet it is still funny i remember seeing this film in the mid s thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is newish it just seconds away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces br br it s look like the dvd is due a region release soon the region copy i is very poor quality let s hope they ve cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominated it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he s sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudy s situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn t fit in but before it s all over murray s performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn t matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don t let the absurd rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman of stars br br the hound the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won t miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn t have to go back why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it s mindboggling one of the premises of film is that our hero who s a hacker has a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he s helpless and can t get into any computers he s a hacker it s like saying that you can t drive your car if you don t have your lucky driving cap on i won t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off i know these horrible things happen in the world but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species br br this should be banned and destroyed i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market br br this movie should be removed from the public the person who made this movie needs psychological help anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i d love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was s love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i m an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english s experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english s talents didn t translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the s doesn t translate to the s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone s time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let s remake a classic with worse everything i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill jackie kennedy s sister and the cousin of these women would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be considered the skeletons in the family closet the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women i d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating i e are they nuts or am i missing something this movie is hard to come by netflix does not have it facets does though c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages br br this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show br br except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average br br this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example br br just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what i just watched this movie on it s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william s zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that s the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there nanoo nanoo i caught this film on azn on cable it sounded like it would be a good film a japanese green card i can t say i ve ever disliked an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean and i am a huge fan of john woo s hong kong films i an not adverse to a light hearted films like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourites so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly acted film ever again br br i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude because no one in this film had a personality and when any of the characters did try to act as opposed to mumbling a line or two their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy because i didn t laugh once even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this a refreshing breath of comedy it was neither refreshing nor a breath of comedy and the ending was very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things br br avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst is a better acted film than this and i walked out half way through that film before i begin let me get something off my chest i m a huge fan of john eyres first film project shadowchaser the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son s coach but once executed meeker returns as a revenant or as kelly perine calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making silvano s life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker s wife br br director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film s main flaw since there s nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse ye lou s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her ex lover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting br br i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitutes a convoluted semi historical conflict for a plot without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes the sudden time shifting doesn t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless normally i don t mind dark movies but the absence of light the bone jarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i don t think that helps the movie the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the th century and i don t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moments don t add to its watchability br br the actors are all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films brooding and looking generally annoyed however at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator br br all in all a very disappointing film especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he after hearing about george orwell s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life i m now but never having read the book i am totally confused as to what i ve just seen br br i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel as i m sure most are but only through hearsay and quotes without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery and even with it i m still no more educated about the story of than i was before i watched it br br on the plus side br br the cinematography is amazing hurt burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making br br now for the down sides and there are plenty br br there is a war going on at least as far as the propaganda is concerned but why with who nothing is explained there are a couple of names bandied about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation br br who is winston what does he do where does he come from where does he work why is he changing news reports why isn t he on the front line why doesn t he eat the food in the canteen what is that drink he s drinking through the entire film why is he so weak ill why isn t he brainwashed like the rest of them what s the deal with his mother sister what happened to his father a little back story would have been nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that haven t read the book without it this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on br br the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it s very annoying all the same br br also i know this has been mentioned before but why all the nudity it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage br br i personally can t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days we are not all brainwashed simpletons but this is a few steps too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you ve read the book because if this film really is the literal translation that i ve seen many people say i would find it very hard to understand why is hailed as the classic it is br br there s no denying that it was light years ahead of it s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline br br i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i m to make any sense out of this br br all in all very disappointed in something i ve waited for years to watch this cute animated short features two comic icons betty boop and henry br br henry is the bald slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks br br well here he does speak br br he wants to get a puppy from betty boop s pet store and when he is left to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue br br betty sings a song about pets henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey but everything works out in the end i just got back from this free screening and this osama witch project is the hands down worst film i ve seen this year worse than even catwoman which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction br br in september tapes a film crew of documentary journalists heads to afghanistan despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip the conditions and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife s death on sept to track down osama bin laden br br they made eight tapes on their journey which now document their travels and of course their attempts to kill the terrorist leader the eight tapes thankfully all end at points significant in the narrative which is convenient for a documentary br br the psychotic idiotic protagonist who is given to long significant speeches that he probably learned watching macgyver cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps i don t know why he didn t just wear a sign on his back that said shoot me br br the crew s translator supposedly their sensible voice of reason does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom br br you wish they d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons br br around tape i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew i remember seeing this film in the theater in when i was years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell s voice was dubbed by someone else ian holme was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i m used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until am to see it a family is traveling through the mid west there s widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and ben s little daughter k t geri reischl then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they re forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros strother martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there s some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can t explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it s a quiet kind of horror that isn t made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman s flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she s also recently learned she s pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn t want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight s first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon says are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we ve been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it s a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying save time the only upside me was that the actor who played finny was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stopped there they should have continued to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there s nothing else there to show br br gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film i don t really think they exist i think they bought this script at scripts r us where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blanks there s a monster stalking us let s split up they actually let s split up in this movie hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar not dead yet burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie ir glasses spraying with something like paint were handled badly br br what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issues for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treating an invisible subject and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than seconds and would have been far more interesting had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have been a much better movie all in all it stunk br br i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie but i don t want to do any spoilers suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than a young girl becomes a war time marine s pen pal and when he visits at war s end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who tucks the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker s actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit plays the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses br br even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful though it couldn t catch up with the original it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors though the film bombed at the box office the actors got the undue recognition in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film br br all said this is not a family film so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family robert altman s downbeat new fangled western from edmund naughton s book mccabe was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario the characters here don t merit much interest and the picture looks intentionally brackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel once the profits start coming in beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action altman creates a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town is limited most of the story being made up of vignettes and altman s pacing is deliberately slow there s hardly a statement being made just the opposite in fact and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds it s a self defeating picture and yet in an altman quirky way it wears defeat proudly from what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me on second viewing a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation br br spoiler of sorts follows br br poor cedric he apparently didn t know what hit him poor audience we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guys just didn t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu an intellectual being to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach br br on a purely technical note i loved the camera action in this film subtitles were totally unnecessary even though my french is presque rien i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more this was a polished very professionally made motion picture though many scenes seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten i don t think i ve ever gave something a rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it s not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can t set up or finish a punchline and you ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it s just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that s screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he s still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out from the film s first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clich s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen s subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen s methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can t lose jane austen s technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth s wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody s follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen s elizabeth at least in austen s eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety knightley s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew macfayden br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache i ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is life sometimes has boring patches no real plot and not necessarily a happy ending a river runs through it is the perfect name for this film and norman maclean s novel life ebbs and flows like a river and it has it s rough spots but it is a wonderful trip br br robert redford brings a lot to the film his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly as a director he is restrained and calm and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes as for the acting craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers i don t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn s performances except that they truly feel real a river runs through it is a wonderful film br br out of the story is very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie is quite fine even the directing of it the main problem is with the castings that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael played impressively by asi dayan all other actors were unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl played by taly sharon was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors great script and rather good photograph was not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself is very powerful it s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a yo prison time drugs the end is rather sad mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency out of because very few greek movies can make such an impression mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i ve ever seen but what a film i thought it was fabulous excellent and impressive it was funny well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change and being able to pull it off this was great i ll definitely watch it again you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that s a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man s van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it out of stars i can t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i laughed a couple of times probably because of how stupid it was if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn t the plot was so horrible it made no sense and the acting was so bad that i couldn t even tell if they were trying that movie was terrible rating f this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic peens holding passion there s also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can t tell you how much that s been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of dido s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that s what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director s history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it s very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik s name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drinks any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink if you can t figure out the through line keep drinking beyotch whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it s easy br br that s it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian smirnoff punch jr even though i m quite young the beatles are my absolutely favourite band i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember br br it s the sort of film that is worth trying the once i can see why it wasn t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film it didn t much details except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up jared harris stars i d never heard of him he played john or aiden quinn who played paul however they are certainly underestimated actors br br the film had a slow start but as it developed i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters as a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like the script was brilliant and harris got lennon s accent personality and mannerisms spot on quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent the make up artists made them look excellent br br this paragraph may be counted as a spoiler br br as i mentioned before it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians as for lennon s rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it br br it is quite different from the other biographical films i ve seen where it s about how the beatles got together and became famous and those never really did the characters that well e g backbeat br br in conclusion i would say if you re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minutes long it s worth waiting for the film to develop br br if anyone does know whether the meeting of really did happen please send it to the comments page for this film i d be very interested an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn t so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it s like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a cafe around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty films as the burning bed enough or monster this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she s not such a bad person after all give us a break here s my question to the filmmakers if letourneau were a man and vili were a year old girl would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person answer hell no br br imagine switching the genders in this film and then you ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage were the genders switched there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead we d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl his lascivious behavior landing him in prison and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex br br let s call a spade a spade letourneau is a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts she s a criminal who belongs in prison and deserves our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy the premise of this movie was decent enough but with sub par acting it was just bland and dull br br spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death it was accidental so although it was a murder it wasn t like the guy set out to do it also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree there is no emotion in this film the first minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister and hearing her message it was dull and boring br br with some polishing and better acting it could have been pretty good the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy quaint streets and sunshine i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere br br othello works for big fat mr karva his crime boss step dad at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it s never really defined but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers so trust me he s a prick doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs one of his colleagues is runner a black dude who is always dashing from a to b until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running runner dumps the lost boy in othello s flat where he promptly starts granting more wishes keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled karva has the boy kidnapped but he isn t sure of what would really bring him happiness is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job either way i don t want to see the little boy grant him the second br br it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes the ending tries to be shocking but since there s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience br br writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell ironically if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film as it is we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy who s origins are never revealed that s just plain irritating br br aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score this film has little to recommend i can t emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you d best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i m overexaggerating a little this isn t the worst kids movie no let me rephrase that this isn t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i ve been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won t learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we don t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i degress br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there s a better movie kiki s delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it is nothing else on tv are you really bored well then watch phat beach however don t rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake br br i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard however there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at if you are looking for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie tries at kind of watch something like hoop dreams or jason s lyric if you are lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent however if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amused br br out of the elegant documentary br br don t watch this movie if you re an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you re about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the hubble telescope and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of possibility br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it s very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibilities quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn t seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i ve never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don t divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don t like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you ll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i m talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie originally slated for direct to video but bumped up to theatrical status it would become known as batman mask of the phantasm ten years after phantasm we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb sub zero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman joins the family br br the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line br br the animation is the sleeker futuristic style that was utilized for batman the animated series fifth and sixth seasons aka the new batman adventures it s quite nicely done and just as sleek as return of the joker s animation there is also some use of cgi but it s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero the music was alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans rodent shaped hearts br br kevin conroy as always does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman it s also great to have the old batman the animated series alumni back that includes bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon batgirl her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr alfred br br villains were also great especially given that rupert thorne the old mob boss from the original series appears for the first time since the fourth season br br overall while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan you will love the five minute short chase me i think this movie was supposed to be shocking but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it s been made and simply is it s one and a half hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie the five girls br br sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way which is basically fine since it s a horror movie and i usually like horror movies i ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever it s no spectacle other than that it s simply grotesque it s so lame it even gets boring and really quick too br br the worst thing if the above wasn t bad enough for ya about this movie is that they ve tried to copy the blair whitch project by filming with cheap hand held cameras but again this too serves no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough there s an explanation namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch in this film there s no other explanation than hey ya ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can t make out what they re saying also no effort has been made to make anything any better sound wise or other wise br br than finally there s the soundtrack which is just as bad as the rest and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock br br my advise don t watch this under any circumstances why can t a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they re fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i ve ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i ve seen but thankfully i can t remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader s c diorama set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn t needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i m kind of cheap i d have to have or bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we re plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the shlitz hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it s a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it s full blown old school horror steve johnson s make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking though i d heard that cama de gato was the worst brazilian movie of the decade i watched it giving it a chance after all first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature shot in video for just us and though it looks even cheaper i can t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it then as i watched it i realized why but whatever chances you re ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minutes it s an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex drugs and violence and they re made to look like closeted gays too made with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it lasts ninety two count em minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it s not even funny bad br br we ve all seen the story before bored young guys want to have fun go partying take drugs and everything goes wrong there s gang rape spanking murder the accidental death falling down the staircase of the mother of one of the boys culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film is heavily influenced by larry clark especially kids and bully but clark s films though also moralist and sexploitative are high class masterworks compared to this crap br br i don t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience s throat stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb minded with so much babbling yelling inept direction shaky camera and terrible acting going on stockler doesn t care a bit about technique the quality of the images framing sound recording soundtrack songs dialog sets editing etc is uniformly appalling but he s a narcissistic control freak he anticipates the criticisms he s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is i could relate to that br br despite his megalomaniac ambitions stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can t even decide if he wants gritty realism hand held video camera etc or stylization repetition of scenes use of alternate takes etc damn he can t even decide where to put his camera there s use of subjective camera for the three leads the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exists simply to justify the director s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for all you see is a filmmaker being hateful preachy condemning moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it br br it s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo s blat can be highly effective under good direction as in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here he s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped actors in recent memory he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn br br the film opens and ends with real interviews with typical middle class youth stockler wants us to take those interviews as proof of what he s trying to preach in fiction but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees selecting a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statements which only shows assholes exist everywhere stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior i couldn t tell br br with its dogmatic self righteousness headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom cama de gato is bad for a reasons but above all it s harmful in a very insidious manner it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato is best unwatched unmentioned buried and forgotten an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it was funny and sad and very beautiful well it starts out a bit dark a dog who escaped the pound and gets killed by an old friend ends up in heaven and comes back but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else was okay and the songs were fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaws the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didn t deserve to die but she is in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this is a very good animated movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommended for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this you ll find after the movie dom deluise has a very important and special message got ta love that guy ahehehe this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a clich hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan s ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing if you loved bulgakov s book you would be understandably afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story s deeper meaning to the screen there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita as complex and far fetched as the story is the movie leaves out nothing it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score with not a note missed why can t we find such talent here in the u s so now my favorite book and movie have the same title this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga br br that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before br br not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace br br this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched br br the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution br br as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying this has to be the worst piece of garbage i ve seen in a while br br heath ledger is a heartthrob he looked deformed i wish i d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him br br orlando bloom is a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him i can t say i agree br br rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn t wait to get off the set br br i m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers this is a far cry from butch cassidy which actually was an entertaining film this was trite cliche ridden and boring we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better it didn t br br the last minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel and women and children are dying because of their presence that s not funny but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i kept waiting for them to say i ll bite yer leg off we were howling with laughter as were several other warped members of the audience when we left pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was br br i may not have paid cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasn t free it cost me hours of my life that i will never get back a very ordinary made for tv product tyson attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans i m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn t you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department br br i just sat there through most of the movie thinking is this supposed to be funny and this is the guy from tenacious d right the truth is this film has nothing to offer at all it s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction you ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn t i was bored stupid about minutes in but though it would surely pick up it didn t minutes later i d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful br br it s like remember years ago when you d see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they were famous and you d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop yeah it s like that br br i ve enjoyed some of jack black s earlier movies like shallow hall and i m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to us again jack i m gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something at the least give you a serious talking to br br i know it s a clich but this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen and for so many reasons i haven t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i ve read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt s vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the damned s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i ll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where s the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem s lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let s see what else can i say it wasn t too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br jy br br jimboduck dot com while i count myself as a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there the pace of the gathering is slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confusing worse the characterization in the premiere episode is poor although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god s gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire i don t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the club they are today s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans as well as billions of humans the world over who don t happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth such as the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lost are they in their fantasy sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy however the club is in a class by itself they are truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lies disinformation and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion the club though is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of cult but due to the club s vast wealth conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip they are above the law in this country for those of you who have seen the movie the matrix you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them br br in less civil times the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the club out of town with torches and pitchforks but in today s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague br br the television ratings system and the v chip on tv s should also have a rating called r for religion so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape such as presented by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their children if you wish to see shakespeare s masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart s as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet s indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet s character together with the aid of shakespeare s full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud revengeful ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father s death and suspected murder or his mother s marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father s ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king s secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself the golden door is the story of a sicilian family s journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he ll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they re aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e delousing mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular salvatore s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish nifty little episode played mainly for laughs but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere but which passenger is it talk about your illegal immigrants all star supporting cast from wild eyed jack elam hamming it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if she s the martian then i say let s open the borders to cruel faced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it i watched mask in the s and it s currently showing on fox kids in the uk very late at night i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was it s just plain awful it is no where near in the same league as the transformers he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses comes on straight after it that s if mask doesn t put me to sleep first one of the lesser s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids phantasm class phantasm ii awesome phantasm iii erm terrible br br even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply can t the movie seems to have sold out first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start something the others did not also too many pointless characters prime examples the kid who is a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls erm not gon na work or rather shouldn t and the blooming zombies what the hell are they doing there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there is a severe lack of midgets running about br br the only good bits are the cracking start and of course reggie b br br possible spoiler coming up br br to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv br br overall very very disappointing ludicrous angelic year old annakin turns into whiny brat year old annakin who somehow seems appealing to amidala years his senior now year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams and so takes to slaughtering children his friends and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared br br i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention the story is ridiculous the characters are unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc br br obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hacks off annakin s legs lets him burn in the lava and leaves him to suffer doesn t anyone think that s a little out of character not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living as it turns out br br i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations none of that here the story could have been written by a year old br br oh yeah the cgi is pretty cool scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great b movie killer klowns from outer space agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to dialog the ladies in this bad s comedy not bad as in s lingo which meant good bad as in bad with no likable characters including but not limited to a kid who s the freakiest looking guy since friday the th part a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one has two this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedies and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel br br my grade d br br eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point think bachlor party but not as funny and very disturbing br br where i saw it comcast moviepass if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it s got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that s hard to do when you consider custer s last stand at the little big horn and it s prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there s an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there s a lot to take in here though for the picture s two hour plus run time custer s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the major s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer s first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadn t noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it s interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan s depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn s portrayal here it s more than evident but it doesn t come close to that of richard mulligan s take on the military hero in s little big man let s just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one s point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer s character when he stated you take glory with you when it s your time to go the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal s driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno s replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british gaumont studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger s the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman s film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film s title in amazing shining white and blue stating the thing one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter s greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i m really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius like justin out there no one can say i wasn t warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that s horror aficionados are always dying to know what s in there even if we know it ll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn t even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie a new way to enjoy goldsworthy s work rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion watching goldsworthy build his pieces one develops an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he uses goldsworthy describes how the flow of life the rivers and the tides inspires and affects his work although i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy s pieces no snowballs i do feel it was a bit long the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy s work to life and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch if you liked william hickey in prizzi s honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he s doing in this schlock fest morgan fairchild s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk i have seen most if not all of the laurel hardy classic films i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly even after watching it over and over again this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel hardy however fails miserably for various reasons one of which is how out of place their cloths are still early th century however are both portrayed in the s setting some of the former dialogue was brought back however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever the real laurel hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn t on so late at night it s on at am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the s and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the s i m hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy i have just given a for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i m not a git who only gives bad reviews but because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can t avoid them all they ll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we re talking about here has a great life she s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this happy hooker type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly pretty woman insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that is without his plastic friend yep don t leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination out of of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where s the charm where s the charisma don t mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don t either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate thieves highway a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i ll finish on a song br br pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don t believe you you re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn t help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you ll stay with me and i ll pay you i ll treat you right this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn t that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears can not act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn t chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn t a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake normally i don t like series at all they re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast br br these series however are well played the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one the story will still be catching your mind br br the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital holy sh t this was god awful i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters you know h ll bring your girlfriend and make things interesting you will be the only ones there anyway f ck this slide show br br ye be warned br br i recommend not watching this br br hello br br how are you br br i m pretty good br br enjoying this day br br i am br br this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie this is sad this movie is without a doubt a perfect for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time porn is watched for the porn jackie chan is watched for the action i think you people are rating it bad because there s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie was boring very boring but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that this did change the way how american action movies were created they have even stollen scenes from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan s hes pure in everyway he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park and even in todays movies american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do a masterpiece i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james mcnally s summary of the content of the film is very good nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world s dogs but also undercutting a number of interviewees comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore s recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasants as the stars de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making this movie really woke me up like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber br br this guy john ben chaplin leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girl to die for nadia nicole kidman ordered by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by johns plan however a glitch turns up nadia does not speak a word of johns language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process br br what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure giving the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably acted likewise br br kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles at least from the cultural background br br the pace of the film is fast and captivating and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear you rather feel that you re in the middle of the plot and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out br br my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it has an unusual plot great acting and ideas below the surface like the idea of the rude awakening from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society s machine the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all br br thank you writers for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewers i am sure of it ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it this sports a nice deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk the first third of this movie was nothing but talk and more talk most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other br br the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it s really a chick flick and little else this probably plays on the lifetime network br br there was a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they had lost me br br by the way sally field looked about years old in here i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you ll crack up on the ground and you ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison s attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don t remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can t stop laughing i wish i had that movie howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film s best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there s no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america s own imperial age br br america s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery s noble brigand candace bergen s feisty heroine john huston s wily john hay or steve kanaly s spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt s big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while what with all it s raving reviews nominations and media attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie was good it really portrayed the black music scene back then however as the movie wore on me and my whole family were bored out of our wits the singing just kept coming one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent br br furthermore i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters i just didn t care what happened to them even when eddie murphy s character died of a drug overdose i knew i should have been sad but i just couldn t feel any emotion for that character the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in br br finally the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which goes along with the lack of character development this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn t really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances one of starewicz s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz s films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz s old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil s club scene twigss and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work nice character development in a pretty cool milieu being a male i m probably not qualified to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isn t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters each has their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn t go for cheap comedy when it could have it didn t try to pound a lesson into us the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it needed to happen good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people prussic gas a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish the inspectors at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch renberg certainly have their hands full with this case it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turns is to inherit a great deal of wealth the girls who are targeted share a room with ann but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy s finest must figure out the staff of the girls dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation it s a clever scheme where a driver greaves g nter meisner meets the convicts who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind he gives them orders on who to kill and how uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening under suspicion are girls dormitory headmistress her author brother a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some are red herrings until they are disposed of throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered the ending features multiple twists br br out of the krimi films i ve seen the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it s colorful killer a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind s secret hideout with an alligator pit which isn t used the fake bible water pistol when opened fires the gas into the face of startled victims the greaves royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins abilities to get at the truth perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it i felt he was used as comedy relief particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims often misunderstanding what are told to him higgins using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator instead follows the clues facts often avoiding sir john as much as possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls executions i d say this may be one of the best if not the best examples of the krimi genre for it keeps you guessing always one more ace up it s sleeve the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there s a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special i saw this movie in the theater and was thoroughly impressed by it then again that was when claire danes was a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywood ized bitch she is today anyway this film really struck me as one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship films how far would you really go for your best friend i was moved to tears at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon as i left the theater i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you d do something like that for her i ve seen this film literally over times it s absolutely jam packed with entertainment powers boothe gives a stellar performance as a fan of actors such as william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never thought an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those roles until i saw boothe as jim jones as far as i m concerned powers boothe is jim jones this film captures his best performance the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there s the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it s hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn t have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one she appears like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese br br i have always liked her as an actor and had no idea she started this young with her career go figure i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on i say that because whenever i have watched her perform the characters thus far in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character quite nicely in fact br br anyway my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland somehow i assumed that was her first time up at bat not so well done reese this game ranks above all so far i had the honor of playing mine on ps so the graphics were really good the voice acting was above standard the difficulty level is just right wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting the only rating this game deserves is great this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation tanisha couldn t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director s spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it s certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she s married to the crippled edward g robinson who s the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck s daughter nor with lita milan who is keith s mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford s mouth i m a peaceable man would have been very applicable in the vioilent men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn t been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well apparently the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listening to a director andy copp s commentary which i didn t have available to me or reading up on the film prior to watching viewers won t have a clue what it is about br br gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage but unless they re also fond of pretentious headache inducing experimental art house cinema they ll find this one a real chore to sit through br br minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one s sanity if you ve still got all your marbles you ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watched the whole thing but am well aware that i m completely barking this movie was absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead i couldn t even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all celina jaitley was not bad the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it was pretty hilarious the songs sini ne and its remix version were really good you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster all in all it seems emran doesn t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat something ain t right theme song written by b j cook from skylark david foster s old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc s airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i d like to think this is really what detectives do did giambone was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor s name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama this movie fails miserably on every level i have an idea let s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if we re lucky they ll all be shot and killed and we won t have to ever have our time wasted by them again did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i can t think of anything i ve ever seen that was this bad i d rather watch ishtar times in a row than sit through minutes of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film i ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless that s my two cents yes i ll say before i start commenting this movie is incredibly underrated br br sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind br br the acting was good apart from thewlis br br stone really has a talent with this role she s slick naughty and seductive and doesn t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino morrisey was also good he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it thewlis however was lame he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way he really sucked br br overall this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james cy grant and michael crane i have seen this film at least times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn t the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn t you yay we ve solved the murder now like every other week let s go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young s terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can t believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b airport is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disaster in the sky formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft s flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other airport films supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the s nightmare is full of bad southern stereotypes complete with phoney accents not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised babe in prison movie especially in its uncut original version nevertheless acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular does a good job of making viewers hate him even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes there s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed who appears as the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligan s island made a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d br br ok i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it br br but we decided it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes br br and i m sorry but this has got to be one of the worst films in history br br it began off alright and we thought ok this might actually be ok but after about minutes we were sadly mistaken br br it began when the mysterious paint baller turned out to be the most obvious character the scouser australian i say that because he had an accent which couldn t be identified who s acting might i just say was abysmal br br then it got to the end and by that time we had all lost the will to live the paint ball finals br br the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn t actually win but annoyingly enough they won by default br br and i know this has nothing to do with it but the name the team were given was just awful critical damage i mean they could of picked a more awesome name like the destroyers of the anti christ or something or that s what the film should of been called anyway insignificant and low brained haha s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effects are tacky the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs the brain takes place in a typical quiet american town setting where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet it is here that a tv guru named dr blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling under the label of independent thinkers a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill how cool is that now it s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr blake and his monstrous brain actually come from there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that s about it meh who needs a background in a movie like this really there s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil brain looks like an over sized sock puppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she s obviously a great talent she has exactly movies on her repertoire of which this is her masterpiece in her debut she was credited as runaway model and in men and a baby her character is referred to as one of jack s girls i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie glc br br it s about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after glc what next for bronson br br we re using a new angle my family don t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won t be shown until well after the watershed well here s another terrific example of awkward s film making the rudimentary premise of what s the matter with helen is quite shocking and disturbing but it s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hush hush sweet charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but there s a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique we re literally catapulted back to the s with a sublime depiction of that era s music religion theatrical business and wardrobes following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winters flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies the script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced there s never a dull moment in what s the matter with helen although the singing tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters she s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who s about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combined there are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like mich al macliamm ir as the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an oscar are breathtaking resnais wow the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a s french musical in vibrant colour the opening voice over with old embellished inter titles was a nice touch then the camera aperture opens like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera backs off or rather up suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party this is all in the first seconds br br then the music starts a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i can t blame it on the subtitles those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minutes into the film br br i m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out i endured br br it didn t get much better i ll tell you why there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters we don t even see their faces half the time as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moths around a lamp and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot it s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs br br the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did hour was that i was looking at the camera techniques lighting and scenery which were all i admit excellent but is that enough to hold your attention for hours not me maybe tomorrow i ll try watching the end aw who am i kidding i have more important things to do i m sure you do too skip this i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch it s one of those films where you stop to see what it is just for a moment but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can t turn it off no matter how bad it is one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it s good and so bad it s well just plain bad it s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it s both great middle of the night fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag don t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male because logic does not apply this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a counter earth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a made for tv way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man s john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i ll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn t even shaking the camera or the set i ve seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what s wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn t work br br i m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that s what you the viewer will do you ll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can t recall too much about it black comedy isn t always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don t often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in br br devito plays an odd mamma s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn t have the guts to actually do it himself that s where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai i and murder larry s ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it s certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn t too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone of stars br br the hound back in i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation weekends and the holiday itself i stayed in town during that time hanging out at my parents house a lot br br i didn t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents tube i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx i was hooked instantly i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents family homes and through inheritances from relatives estates and often wondered about their history value etc br br after my long vacation i used to go to my folks house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx br br i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air br br it never did personal fx was the first and best of the collectible shows and it vanished from the air almost fifteen years later i m still sore br br way to go fx paul verhoeven s predecessor to his breakout hit basic instinct is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve played by jeroen krabb a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes while there he meets the seductive christine halsslag ren e soutendijk who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kills him br br paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself and that is one of things i like best about him this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards and that doesn t happen very often i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work but you ll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i ve mentioned but are lovely nonetheless a man gets eaten by lions another one has a pipe sent through his skull a boat is smashed in half lovely br br the acting in the fourth man isn t anything to write home about but it s solid throughout jeroen krabb holds the audience s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer it is ren e soutendijk that impresses the most though as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct but the original fatale did it best paul verhoeven s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish but he obviously has talent and it s a shame that he doesn t put it to better use of all the verhoeven films i ve seen this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it s worth the effort i accept that most s horror aren t scary by today s standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn t any blood to speak of br br i like how the s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn t the worst i ve ever seen but its almost up there br br out of demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don t even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend s house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it s just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i ve seen bad horror movies before manos troll hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski s donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh s sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that davie s main aspiration is to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don t tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also davie doesn t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the s he looks like he d be more comfortable in the early days of rock n roll posing as james dean s less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry s father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don t think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson s and that s just because he s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski being so close to the material he simply doesn t see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it ll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach braff s amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let s face it at this point it isn t going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don t attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch please re watch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out min tv episode into the most painful hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has line and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss s accent just changes about times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven finally an iranian film that is not made by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this is a non documentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the system in its ass it s all about football and its funny its really funny the director says the places are real the event is real and so are the characters and the extras this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a your heart is made of stone b you are blind excellently scripted the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it has won the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it s near perfect where where can i get hold of it sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan s whip br br written and directed by jason maran satan s whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i m guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan s whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time tainted look at kibbutz life br br this film is less a cultural story about a boy s life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minutes of the movie the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves and it s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical kibbutznikim besides the two main characters a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well evil br br the story centers on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows there is no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking year old boy his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and brutish personality he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother he treats these volunteers like trash after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn t seen in a long time due to his military service he orders quote linda go take shower and i cum in two minutes br br there is one other good character in this movie a european foreigner who plays the mother s boyfriend when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother s son the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist s arm he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz members more hypocrisy the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and gives an account of the actual act that s supposed to be humorous for the audience but is really just stupid she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse br br the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently can t escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose it s a mystery how the boy s father died but you can rest assured the kibbutz drove him to it and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son br br that s the gist of this movie one dimensional characters over dramatization dry performances and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience s head that kibbutz life was degrading miserable and even deadly for those who didn t fit in i feel sorry for the guy who made this film obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen br br i will admit the setting presumably new york city has never been so downright ugly and unappealing i am reminded that the s was a bad decade for men s fashion and automobiles and all the smoking if the plan was to cheapen the characters it succeeded br br for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there has to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty came close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot had struck mikey well it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most br br i can t remember when i detested a film as strongly i suppose i m a rube who doesn t dig art flicks oh well lost carnivale desperate housewifes the list goes on and on these and a bunch of other high quality shows proves that we re in the middle of a golden age in television history lost is pure genius incredible layers of personal and psychologically viable stories underscored by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describing a tv show a killer score great performances and editing anyone who isn t hooked on this are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever it may have its problems when watching only one episode a week but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up as i m sure they do clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister scoutmaster is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you ve heard it you ve heard it and you don t need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film s scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it s a pity this film doesn t have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affects all the muscles in his body he is confined to a wheelchair and needs round the clock attention so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a mile round trip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses the mythical city of everytown in represents england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally does arrive it s ravages continue not for another five years but until at which time everytown is completely destroyed adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the wandering sickness a pestilence that continues for another four years br br things to come balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization the wings over the world concept plays out a bit corny though it s spokesman cabal raymond massey is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause if he fails others will follow this message is continually reinforced throughout the film brought home convincingly in massey s end of movie speech man s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an all the universe or nothing mindset br br the film s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year the spectacle of the city s rebirth strikes a resonant chord as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man s first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than br br things to come is one of those rarities in film a picture that makes you think which side will you come down on the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it s not a comfortable question as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci s last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci s movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it s gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it s a hard to archive even the braindead didn t stop it citb is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by khmmm evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it s wounds forget the beyond or zombie this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being putted in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar he s been shot about fifty times by now and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear and you ll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity william smith does another turn as a russian soldier the same character he played in red dawn a few years earlier after playing biker heavies for most of the s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies sadly he ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors i like raptors because they are scary my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eats the banana br br i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time br br this is best movie warning review contains mild spoilers br br a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st series however just two years on and i find i can t remember enough about them in order to do it i guess they couldn t have made much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequels dream warriors in particular weren t as bad as is often made out though even the original was no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams doesn t lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five films i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy s dead br br an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character s demise the fact that the movie s conclusion is not even hidden but in fact the entire purpose for the film s being goes to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was br br taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain robert englund s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter i always thought freddy s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it s like englund s crying out we know this is garbage but you re paying to see it so who s the one laughing and i m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight was freddy s appearance in the films always so rudimentary all he gets to do here is a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr har har hars and that s it if this was the only elm st film you d ever seen you wouldn t get to know the character at all even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstated misplaced and not at all funny irony br br acting is almost universally poor just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keeps his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire the script too is absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan opens a road map upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written you re f ked when prompted for the map carlos responds well the map says we re f ked who wrote the screenplay oscar wilde br br or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy his hearing enhanced to painful levels so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin a potentially fatal sound given that all sounds are magnified oddly the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect nice hearing from you carlos quips freddy hoping some better lines will come along it s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn t occur instaneously so being knocked unconscious wouldn t allow instant access into freddy s world though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isn t that high on the list of requirements br br the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane is the only one who gets to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallops and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients freddy s dead no laughs no scares no interest no fun br br some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the s but although it is undoubtedly brutal violent and very downbeat this film from pou soi cheang isn t really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch particularly if gritty hard edged action is your thing br br edison chen plays pang a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee is wai the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape until he meets yue a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse br br a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amazing sound design a haunting score and solid performances from chen and lee as well as newcomer pei pei as pang s love interest dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence think along the lines of chan wook park s vengeance trilogy stabbings shootings merciless beatings all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang br br of course this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film dies rather nasty deaths unfortunately there is a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in its final moments dog bite dog crosses it in a laughably over dramatic final scene pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on eventually after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue delivering their baby moments before he himself dies br br whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it s still worth seeking out i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn t that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can t stand up to his mom for the one he loves there s ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can t be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with gabriela way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under imdb had for rating i d choose that in a heartbeat absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say even though this movie did not get the best comments this movie made my day it got me thinking what a false world this is br br what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you it s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance same way some people are such that they are never grateful this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself br br a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster the surviving brother decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone br br amitabh gave the performance of his life the new actor aryan gave a good performance the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself br br a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movies always give some message to the audience his movies are like novels of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they are entertaining as well as lesson giving after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is mader with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind i can t say much about this film i think it speaks for itself as do the current ratings on here i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it i even tried to like it by watching it twice but i just couldn t i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and i m not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this was awful it wasn t even funny in the slightest the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie and it reminds me not to waste my money amy poehler is so very annoying too br br overall well i think you get my point the stars are for walken by the way i am not so old that i can t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood in new orleans an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr clinton reed richard widmark of the u s public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them br br panic in the streets discloses a simple story but it is still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive my vote is seven br br title brazil p nico nas ruas panic in the streets the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i can t believe national lampoon put its name on this don t buy it don t rent it don t waste hours of your life on this there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles schumer i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i m a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it s that important i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it s moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting out of ten yes i call this a perfect movie not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works it s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach br br barbara stanwyck is simply stunning there was nothing this actress couldn t do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outbursts with this lady i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interesting br br the title fits this movie very well it is about desires human desires i think everyone can understand actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here br br i liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock s shadow of a doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang s considerably harsher movie clash by night made one year earlier where stanywck stars in a similar part i can also recommend it i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that s the way of the world it s been about years since i ve seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn t take off like their counterparts in the early s but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently what so ever the acting was great the main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy i had some reservations about this movie i figured it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas being in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decided to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow br br this movie turned out to be one laugh after another ben affleck was believable in his character but the real star of this one is james gandofini he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great dad br br if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours definitely check this one out when i first saw this film around months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i m sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it s untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein s films as art focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i ve seen a few of his films and he hasn t yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is in brave new girl holly comes from a small town in texas sings the yellow rose of texas at a local competition and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i loved this movie it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace the acting was of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end it seems a sequel could be in the making kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production quite a gem in the film archives despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich d sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn t direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don t think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you ll find absolutely zero original content in the messengers what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don t be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn t there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn t anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there s any message that the messengers delivers it s don t waste your time on this movie this movie sucks ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there s nothing going for this movie whatsoever maybe seconds of sex but that s it there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off this movie is complete rash and you shouldn t subject yourself to watching it i regret it it s very boring i would rate it zero but i can t no body in their right mind should see this i m sure you ll regret it completely i did how could they think up something this bad even mystery men was better mystery men that sucks that movie wasn t worth being made complete waste of time the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn t really in the mood for it at that particular time it s kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i m still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers orange face lift my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk that d make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clich s predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn t bad enough sometimes you can t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would ve felt i had gotten my money s worth going into see seven pounds i wasn t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about so within the first min or so you are completely lost in the plot have no idea what is going on and you think tim who claims to be ben is just a big asshole all of this comes to an end when the twist so to speak is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to br br the acting of this film is great as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress rosario dawson to me this is one of her better movies aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film other actors such as woody harrelson have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film was still good br br this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped the movie however was still pretty good nothing is revealed until the last min of the movie and everything falls into place up until then it just seems like a pointless love story final thought seven pounds seven stars i saw brother s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he shows up there because his brother has died and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait marar xada really disappointed me i can t consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr ferm xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can t really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar xada maybe once also marar xada never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn t really important to the story that of marcial the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters the mad doctor s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy the results are not good this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors there isn t much zombie action in this one and the effects while adequate are nothing special you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes watch out for some nudity and bad language witty funny intelligent awesome i was flipping channels late one night years ago came across this and a wildfire started i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time please do yourself a favor run don t walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it s a win win situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of sanechaos it s a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he s much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you ll miss em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it s coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of ast rix the french comic books it s based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze g rard darmon and edouard baer and please don t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books ast rix et ob lix contre c sar and directed by claude zidi i thought this movie was stunning with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi br br cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerisms her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch br br although not each character was overtly beautiful this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time br br overall i thought this film was fantastic i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever made that is the robert wise paul newman flick somebody up there likes me that movie might be number but gentleman jim is a close number br br the movie doesn t just chronicle the rise of james j corbett it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more gentlemanly days of the gloved marquis of queensbury rules and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability br br gentleman jim is not a realistic look at those days it is romanticized and yes even a bit hokey at times but always delightfully so errol flynn is perfect as the gentleman jim who really isn t a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship and we all know it is of course love that will win that match in the end br br at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line was not i can lick any man in the world of course romanticism again hands over his belt to corbett this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch raging bull instead that is a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim is a lot more fun that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this is the only movie i ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander the quickening at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our cinema that there s no chance for an air america well there s no real plot to speak of it s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it s not in this case what else can i say about this the action when happening is inventive and there s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper one that has to be several miles high but overall there s not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but you re not missing much if you skip this one this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven t seen any of the others there are the usual ingredients it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently the story is just laughably idiotic and the film takes itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa br br but it has a few things going for it bo looks great the production values sets costumes etc are quite good and this greatly enhances its camp value in a strange way it is actually quite funny simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we re all different made of different clay as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that s the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one gets committed and obsession in committed starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is joline and this is her story br br admittedly joline has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it s forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he s gone off to find himself and figure it all out when joline realizes he s not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it s because of that clay she s made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space and not even letting him know she s there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma and it s her job to keep a spiritual vigil over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local eateries carmen s grampy alfonso arau who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her for joline it s a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br there s a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from joline s point of view as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br heather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that joline be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it s all a part of the character she creates there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she s a likable agreeable person and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it s a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life br br as carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with joline this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br overall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as joline s brother jay goran visnjic alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br the supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art alexakis new york car thief dylan baker carl s editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we re going and what we really need committed is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast are tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments this movie is stupid there s no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i ve ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i m rating this a br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn t leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br sara s father being a soldier the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart sara s friendship with becky and her adopting lottie although this last one wasn t developed as much as it could have been the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that s about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged and respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a feel good family film then this delivers if you re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you ve read the book don t waste time with this one it s such a shame with a cast like this if they d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early s and made everyone look bad and claimed we all made over a day when a day was much closer to reality when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work and offered me work i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least years and kept most in the bank and still left myself for nl and cash games at the casinos i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll instead i win about a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all i was only homeless cause i didn t wan na risk spending all my money and going broke sometimes i had over in my sock while i slept outside anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs im no longer homeless am now in govt housing for a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping worrying about getting caught by security are finally over had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner its a shame how they don t better select who they pick i really in enjoyed watching this movie like most of the people that watched it i wasn t sure that i was getting whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies i e sister act br br however this was not really comedy it is a drama with comedic moments so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking br br this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks but also about relations with in the black community i do think that it is worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn t for you having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn t seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what s going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts ch without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don t forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction acting atmosphere sound effect br br total ken burns baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball s early years and heroes there s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br hours is simply too long for the human attention span it s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it s not even a tight hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn t baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he s sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there s no crying in baseball quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clich s no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br hongshen jia is in his mid twenties he s a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he s the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn t know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br hongshen s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to ritan park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain grassy picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer s positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he s the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john s son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon s influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon s presence as does hongshen s need to re hang his hero s poster in his redecorated room br br if lennon s influence is spiriting hongshen s father s influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is fegsen s differences from his son that underwrites his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he s chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to hongshen s emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can t a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab inst he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects recede so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banishes his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen says of this movie it s a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it s homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw alien versus predator it too has an average grading of over stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn t here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con s brother by the way yes they re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won t tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it s filmed and paced badly it s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven t seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don t expect the thrills of the first although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars alec guinness produced an amazing body of work particularly in the s s ranging from dramas to quirky comedies i particularly love his comedies as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen far different from the usual fare from hollywood br br this being said this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies it s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere except for ealing studios which had a particular fondness for little films like this one br br guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work so he tends to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspects or at night and try his hand at inventing repeatedly he is caught such as after he blew up the lab and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds then despite the importance of the discovery he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events and then the fun begins br br the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry unions the government and people in general victor mclaglen s performance is one of the finest in film history br br i think we can all feel for gypo because we ve all struggled with what is right and what isn t and been wrong this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio rko radio pictures br br joseph h august s cinematography is at its very best here however august s stunning portion was mostly overlooked he didn t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved br br this is a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all conveyed with as little words as possible how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you d think it couldn t be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they re planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he s a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it s utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don t waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn it s peak years were between and one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle who had a small but fanatic cult of followers she was actually able to act unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks and her subsequent credits proved it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique br br gary graver the director was also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combined with monica gayle s screen presence makes sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drags and you won t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be this is the type of film that i ve been looking for ages particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago which i still keep thinking about the back cover doesn t do this film justice it s superb and in my top for sure i did not expect much from this film but boy o boy i did not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock is not showing a good act here you can t get the feeling that his caracter is real i think the movie would have been a bit better if it s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it in the making of they don t show a single smile this is a very bad film i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me but i did never laugh i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina flynn known mostly for his swashbuckling roles and his bedroom antics takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully playing real life boxing champ jim corbett flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist all the while setting one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men and a dog including a prominent judge the next day he gets a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge s private club he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club s resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers up to and including the world champion john l sullivan bond flynn is downright magical here he is the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he looks terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit and does virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn at this stage he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time and she does so admirably she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell bond is incredibly burly brawny and towering yet tender when the script calls for it amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn s manager the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed a few of the sets are amazingly presented some of smith s gowns border on the garish but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well it s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing but it s also so much more some of it like the character traits shown by flynn is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes but a lot of it is authentic like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes one line is particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it s classic romantic dialogue and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett plot centers on two chauffers who ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single ladies quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel wins his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he loses he must play bottom man to his friend br br lots of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa br br hilarious fun thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero s and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person s memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by s flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost flatliners bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally fubarred in it s execution elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies it has every thing you would want in a film like great one liners sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not seen it you are missing out on one of the greatest films made i can t wait till her new movie comes out i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful especially since it was based on a true man pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl the photography was beautiful br br this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl i want to read as much as i can about him at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it but i am not surprised i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing i gave it the highest rating however i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house br br you can t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i d probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood s golden age of the s and s however no matter how much i love their films i just can t recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven t yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda s behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it s all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can t stay mad at fonda because he s so i can t think of the right word creepy is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don t go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic i was debating between this movie and but chose inglourious basterds due to it s amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it s that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve the song choices are really good hush my child just move on up to your destination and you make boundaries and complications anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review bend it like beckham great flick directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle s living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger s where the sidewalks ends from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg br br dana andrews is the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks when he hit someone his knuckles hurt and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain gary merrill who points up the title why are you always trying to push me in the gutter he asks andrews i have as much right on the sidewalk as you br br dana andrew s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden painful discovery that he is the son of a thief his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta br br by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrews and gene tierney of laura are united once more and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crooks this time he goes too far and accidentally kills a suspect the killing is accidental the victim worthless yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail br br using his knowledge of police procedure he covers up his part in the crime plants false clues and tries to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigating the case himself the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise br br the film is one of the best detective films of the s with curious moral values also one of preminger s best br br preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism in sum overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy is not very funny and juvenile additionally the film is not really realistic liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover s son by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball s chance in hell the actors do their best and are appealing but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing editing and lack of focus incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the min one that i watched but i can t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i d heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn t much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it s tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o toole who makes a most memorable tiberius oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i d like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br out of from ozjeppe did anyone edit this film or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes it s ok though i fell asleep watching it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot is actually not the worst i ve seen but it s close the acting is not the worst i ve seen either but it s close the production well i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life not trying to be spiteful but unhinged could have used some more production br br please don t think i m a hater of horror films or even that i didn t enjoy this film i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it the gruesome moments were not too poorly done but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget br br characters seemed awkwardly developed or ignored all together twist ending was pretty bad and the exposition took forever without exposing much br br i d recommend avoiding this movie br br riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of teen movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie has is so misleading in years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn t enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can t leave because the moment he does he knows he ll be arrested br br boyer s performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i ll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn t enter the casbah that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn t enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he s shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent man with the screaming brain certainly isn t a perfect movie but i m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don t make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of william s body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he s writing his own films you d think he d give himself a role that he hasn t been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn t an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn t been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it s your choice br br enjoy tell the truth i m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after having seen it i was really a disappointed and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie br br i m surprise at this movie all completely it is like a kid s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing i m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account br br synopsis the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak br br just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done the story is very predictable though expected and the humor is lame and haven t we already seen the same characters play by mc lovin in so many other movies like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep br br well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay and the acting is so so as expected when you re watching this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer and that movie also sucks but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie br br anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie can t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone br br pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes br br cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kids do not mix together br br rating grade f this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia kerbridge does a great job as a woman of who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayo stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent s murder that she has become mute needless to say julia s hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia s sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip s location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy s hideout in a luxury packard wouldn t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they re spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don t get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of that s how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole br br without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically so it isn t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s br br the film is lighthearted you ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe all of the film s characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfections br br i ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance is this synchronous or what i think so because now i m really geeked to give it a try br br watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again br br why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery as it is perfect as is recap something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former seti worker is brought in to decipher the message problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turns awkward especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly soon the object is in the open the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity it is decided to open the object but just before that is done julian decodes the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes as it is finally breached and two things unleashed on earth the first is an alien that had been dormant in the object and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff and washington that is suspiciously updated on this historic event decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica br br comments the movie holds a few surprises one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful well worked through and a lot better than expected unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own and this time not in a good way actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes it is never really explained why washington know so much why washington is able to command russian submarines why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language and obviously chose english why but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encoded and finally the end is as open as an end can be br br the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good br br this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it features a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix i d have a couple of hours of my life back i m frankly suspicious when i see that a film s director also wrote it in this case according to the credits the same guy was writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there were a few interesting moments e g judy tenuta s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism which led me to rate this two stars rather than one those moments however were few and far between and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in its violence i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i d seen the whole thing nope though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later the spinning camera technique was overused and essentially pointless i found myself talking to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommended the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling well documented and enraging as an american i am constantly humiliated by my country s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this is probably the first john pilger documentary i ve seen but it immediately made me want to see what else he s done my only complaint and the reason i gave this film only out of is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction but makes no suggestion of how to help i don t know about britain but america s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government s doings a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders cause this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don t say i didn t warn you this is a very memorable spaghetti western it has a great storyline interesting characters and some very good acting especially from rosalba neri her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic she steals every scene she is in and expresses so much with her face and eyes even when she s not speaking her performance is very believable she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top not that there s anything wrong with being over the top mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too br br the music score is excellent and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie whether you want it to or not there are a couple of parts that are very amusing i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot there s also lots of slick gun play that s very well done br br i would probably have given this movie or stars if it wasn t for two things the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about minutes into the film this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie it is very poorly choreographed and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy but this is a more serious western and the brawl really needed to be more realistic the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma s cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasn t at all funny all i can say is where is tuco when you need him br br all that having been said let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned and all fans of the genre need to see this movie the plot michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there s romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in it must be emphasized that this movie is a story st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin in the rain dick van dyke carl reiner s the comic what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett s film legacy it doesn t take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett s and mabel normand s life the character michael linnett connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael sinnott and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie throwings the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in with about films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next years in he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack s wandering willies is done in the road to hollywood used some of sennett s crosby films years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie s punctured romance with sound in he was honored on tv s this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who got involved with adam hoss and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western br br perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights people have relationships some go good some not so good it s just life and we re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor s nobility intact but that s if bonanza were done today br br but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped the secret of bonanza s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children the kids were all different in personality but all came together in a pinch br br the cartwrights became and still are an american institution i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that br br pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show rumor has it he didn t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious perhaps if it were done now he d have liked it better in the way i describe br br this was just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control little joe was the youngest most hot headed but the most romantic of the cartwrights br br when roberts left the show kept going with the two younger sons but when big dan blocker left the heart went out of bonanza other characters had been added on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family br br so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city it doesn t look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits is the cartwright home the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fans the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real br br and if they weren t real they should have been years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn t sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director s cut or in this case let s salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut scenes from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are minutes into it and we still don t know what s going on or why we re watching what s going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone s death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there s no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews and edwards previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it s no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i ll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie s mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird s eye view of julie running towards hudson s plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence i m like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where s peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that s one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film stars but it s effect is diminished considerably because it s repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man s land is ok even if it s bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she s on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she s no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release this series made for televisi n espa ola tve is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato s r le as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers i want the minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers an observation which mystifies me not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars e g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudors james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing br br when the biographies and accomplishments of the director even when he won an academy award and the actors are listed this film is usually omitted from their past performances i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films however it is seldom every seen on cable i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known it s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good of all the movies of the seventies none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel i mean yes there were movies like the exorcist and other ones but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars my absolute favorites were eli wallach sylvia miles and burgess meredith then there are the subtle clues that lead to what s going on too pay close attention i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like black and white cat black and white cake plus the books are really good as well i m just sorry that they re not going to turn the second book into a film it s so scary that it would outdo this movie this is apparently the second remake of this film having been filmed before in and and in so many ways it reminds me of the later film a yank at oxford both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both ultimately show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency in this film william haines is tom brown and his main rival bob is played by frances x bushman and in a supporting role is jack pickford always remembered as the brother of mary of these three pickford comes off the best as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom s pal he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clich s are there and the movie because it was done so many times before and since offers few surprises however it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing br br in my opinion for a better silent college film try harold lloyd s the freshman it s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such as in westpoint and the smart set among others and if you ve seen one of these films you ve seen them all well made but certainly not original and because it is just a rehash of his other films anyone giving the film a score of is strongly advised to see these other films br br i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the talk about over rated there are dozens and dozens of better films how this film got to be is anyone s guess this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that s holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let s face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there s one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it s shakespeare s so any adaptation if it s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that s what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it s the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame owen loves his mamma only he d love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn t a great film it s too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it s a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can t write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn t come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus girls i d like to pork br br then there s devito s owen lift who calls himself professor donner s star pupil even though the teacher won t read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we d be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner s help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner s hated ex then tells the professor it s his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock s strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here she s not a woman she s the terminator one little murder and i m jack the ripper those are all crystal s words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito s and ramsey s apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that s a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation the only time i ve seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and when momma says he doesn t have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it you lied to me he yells out slamming the professor s forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn t groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn t disappeared from films of course but it s a mystery why he hasn t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it s because as throw momma from the train s lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn t to everyone s tastes that s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united states br br just cause br br starring sean connery laurence fishburne and blair underwood br br a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves br br this film is set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent the premise about people who s lives are going nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs could have made for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i m suprised it hasn t been banned x and y are friends x is sleeping with z y sleeps with z as well oh you figure it out br br a total waste of time painful dialogue it sounded like something that a group of year olds would have written for a gcse drama project the female character was completely superfluous just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it br br if you re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run don t walk away from this sorry little misfit br br and one question when the group left the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film to go back to glasgow why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar but is totally worthwhile it really reminds me of the old serials from the s and s which is why i d have loved to see follow up movies but judging by the rest of full moon s output there simply weren t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which is unfortunate because without em this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great i wasn t sure if ms nipar hadn t wandered off an a list picture onto this film she was very believable no seriously anyway it s a shame they didn t have the bucks to license dr strange because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom a truly muddled incomprehensible mess most things in the film look more or less like but then there are futuristic things just thrown in like the policeman s ray gun and that car the director seemed to be in love with colored lights the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie but since there was no cast listing i don t know which actress that was this one is worth missing grade f it doesn t happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george crile s best seller charlie wilson s war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie s angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach em to type but you can t teach em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson s war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie s team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four academy awards and nine nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he s aided abetted and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency s boardroom and in wilson s bedroom br br for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie s team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren t so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it s like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as nichol s film so pointedly points out the ball you ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you ve lost interest in it mike krzyzewski knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn t so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn t let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again i m a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you d expect from a smart aleck year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church s fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm if you re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau s early work this ludicrous film offers the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bores us in the process its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups a naive young hippy played by the waif like kay lenz hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys and then one day she meets the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor and she decides that she is in love with him if you think that is superficial the whole film encapsulates such scenes she keeps saying how much she loves him and she only met him it wears thin and really quick i couldn t help but laugh throughout the film its obvious she s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s is also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d this film was pretty good i am not too big a fan of baseball but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc br br danny glover joseph gordon levitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport the plot was believable and i love the message william dear and the guys put together a great movie br br most sports films revolve around true stories or events and they often do not work well but this film hits a on the perfectness scale even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there br br for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film the ending is superb the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong br br examples quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seems to affect the event solid particles can pass through barriers all of this so far is accurate but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this is complete poppycock instead the theory asserts that at our level it is possible for you to walk through a wall but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief also you d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall the odds are so astronomically against it br br this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer played by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate there may be some truth to that but quantum physics has nothing to do with it br br plus string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays instead of wasting your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hour long episodes quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie one of my sisters friends lent me this game and it is too damn hard it carries the appearance of a kids game but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions and you have to search seemingly endless levels for notes to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them and i am only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it is definately not recommended for kids they will pull their hair out within the hour chuck jones s rabbit seasoning the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello s who s on next routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you re despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones s impeccable timing as you ll come across rabbit seasoning is a true classic a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear also alas an ending that comes out of nowhere because apparently the auteur has lost interest in the movie or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot crossfire is a justifiably famous noir that s a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph samuels sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuels winds up dead br br i don t know about but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don t suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role she s a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don t know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie skippy from family ties plays eddie a wussy metal nerd who gets picked on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr dies he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead metal idol he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge but then he doesn t want to take it as far as sammi does which isn t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from family ties i haven t a clue the cameo by gene simmons is ok and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one br br my grade d br br eye candy elise richards gets topless an a topless extra at a pool party of course i would have to give this film out of as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over years living in italy he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing so rodolfo sonego did if you check out his biography you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories my uncle visited australia and my town in to check out locations for a girl in australia and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movies i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently great goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history their is no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ of its time br br this was not a bond game based on material from another medium this was a completely new scripted game which even had its own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay was excellent and if you re a fan of the bond games or films alike you ll enjoy it br br unlike some most games these cast members portrayed their characters themselves as opposed to fictional creations for the game which gives it that more cinematic feel with a very bond able storyline you feel like you re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie br br enjoyable in all aspects from start to finish even after beating the game there s still plenty more to be done with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved as well as its multi player missions this is a stand out game despite being quite old now in video game years it s still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just thinking about it i ve got the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and well written storyline br br the story comes to life on the screen almost as if the actors were their in front of you and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself superbly done in true bond fashion which can only be named awesome completely awesome br br i ve got ta go throw this game on now if you haven t played it yet you re missing out helena bonham carter is the center of this movie she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh was tolerable the movie itself was good not exceptional if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a thumbs in the middle review remarking that i d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode i ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june and as a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show is utter crap br br everything s wrong with it everything getting past just the lousy animation and design the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories br br and for god s sake is it just me or is the joker in every episode is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system or again is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains see no character development above br br and to make matters worse every single joker tale is the same part formula br br joker gasses people br br joker sets out to gas the whole city br br batman saves the day br br pfeh br br there was one episode i saw that wasn t a joker story the title escapes me but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that was the single worst batman story i ve ever seen heard or read yes worse than i ve got batman in my basement br br i can t really say what i feel this show is because it s probably against the tos but it starts with b and rhymes with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc era of bat entertainment back from the fox and kids wb days stuff that good and i should have known this just couldn t possibly have lasted forever unfortunately just because someone is under the age of does not mean they are stupid if your child likes this film you d better have him her tested i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad this film is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing is horrid i can t remember when i ve heard such bad dialogue the songs are beyond wretched the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much who decided to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he is ugly as sin br br the worst thing is the obviousness of it all it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible great children s movies are wicked smart and full of wit films like shrek and toy story in recent years willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo yes that s right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood hey babu riba is a film about a young woman mariana nicknamed esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps years old in belgrade yugoslavia the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz blue jeans or anything american it seems br br the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties in the wake of changing communist politics they go their separate ways and reunite in the year before the film was made br br i enjoyed the film with some reservations the subtitles for one thing were difficult especially in the beginning there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all perhaps the conversational pace required it but i couldn t always both read the text and absorb the scene which caused me to not always understand which character was involved i watched the movie a video from our public library with a friend and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative br br this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bonds to each other there is a main flashforward and it was intriguing keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the cast and what had actually happened br br i would rate it out of and would like to see other films by the director jovan acin after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose mcgowan who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil encurralados trapped this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy s law being applied to home ownership and construction if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it was set in the simpler forties we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturbing hilarious these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire from wobbly garbled beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout br br our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms when the father separates from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie you re about to watch father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit and is polite as he gets people s attention before he shoots them but alas dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about feet behind them he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly wastes the mother this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred br br so now we fast forward about years if you re honest about the hero s age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves or diamond prospectors or something ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods while bo masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty drives around the desert in his denim outfits bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they don t seem to have any friends other than each other and they spend all of their time together that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as you know its a shame you re my sister he says to her while she s stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas and he is overjoyed with his new love br br so anyway there s a lot of fun action scenes ridiculous violence great acting impossible to follow plot lines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond which later explodes all of these things are great but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire you may be glad you did or not i am so disappointed this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses woody i ve seen these characters already i ve seen the storyline from you ten times already where did your creativity go you need to open your eyes and look around you the world has changed dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it br br there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again br br when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out it does nothing for me because now i ve come to expect his old standby the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating depressing and same old same old br br if woody wants to win his fans back then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated not insulted this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff predictable from beginning to end as a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr limpet was much better with knott s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant his performance there was toned down with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile much as bob denver did neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles assuming they were simply typecast it was probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the high pitched voice john ritter whom knotts worked with in three s company was able to transcend his genre branching out successfully into dramatic roles like the dreamer of oz but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in airplane and police squad br br there s also no way the then year old knotts could pass for a year old as his character insisted he was it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at playing the college age forrest gump br br the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode it s especially evident in the exterior scenes of the town where roy goes after he s fired it s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality br br even viewing this strictly as a children s movie it s very disappointing it s not because it lacks action or special effects although it does the pace is much too slow the situations repetitive how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap with breakneck gags otherwise you risk boring them and any adults in the theater as well movies even kid s movies have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written disney s the love bug for instance at least had some interesting race action if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world s freighters are of questionable registry nationality and it s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don t have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it s fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it s more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate okok everything you will need about minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get minutes of fun br br i m from hongkong and it s really hard to find rpers none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books dices game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both gamers s real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game br br i don t want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i m sure you still get many fun from it in all honesty i haven t seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can t risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don t know if it s available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don t want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked you d think you re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel miles or so from france to saudi arabia going through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arriving in the middle east but this is not a tour and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights br br reda s father is in his twilight years and wishes to do the haj however since walking and taking the mule is out of the question he chooses to travel to mecca by car he can t drive and therefore enlists the help of reda to his son s protest to get him there in their broken down vehicle br br but reda doesn t see the point of having him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn t understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son being not the best of pals br br the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenges they face the weird people they meet having to duke it out in varied weather conditions and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other the father trying to impose on his son and the son trying to assert himself as an adult but circumstances we see reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water through the many encounters they actually team up quite well despite their differences br br it s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination br br it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are don t miss this and yes book early i was pleasantly surprised that this evening s session was still a full house i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won t make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don t see what it is flashback hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it s a complete failure a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store after he s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he ll be transferring soon bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals animals like say a certain rabbit this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early s it still remains as funny nearly years later this animated short can be seen on disc of the looney tunes golden collection volume br br my grade a i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in for two reasons br br host steve martin was at his most wittiest i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and i ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle s head in my bed br br surprise winners no one had adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeers and boos but they won br br last year s award ceremony wasn t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn t the best in the trilogy fellowship was much better but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics obviously they are i m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers br br chris rock wasn t too bad but he s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the minor oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats there s no such thing as a minor oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they re as well deserved as best picture or best director all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history as for the awards themselves br br best supporting actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category br br best supporting actor morgan freeman no real complaints since freeman is one of america s greatest living character actors br br best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn br br best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night br br best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he d never won one actually i m glad about this because if he didn t deserve it for taxi driver raging bull or goodfellas he didn t deserve it for the aviator br br best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off br br what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven t done in the past i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd s sake and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts while in a plane flicking through the large choice of movies i came across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice br br i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride i don t remember last time i have been so excited terrified not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can t turn away from the screen literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you ve got br br you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from thinking how come the human being can be so vicious to why not after all ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestants their motives and start guessing you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe br br good acting good directing with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more br br spoilers couple of things i would have changed br br the casting of the contestants i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid it felt like you didn t care about some of the contestants although this might have been done on purpose i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants game rules a big glitch br br what happens if the th contestants doesn t die when he pulls the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have given a chance to all contestants to live ie if th is a blank too then no one dies br br interestingly i haven t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time just wish i had some popcorn with me ah another movie with motorcycles hell s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve s rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda rrrr makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you messin wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die a rating of does not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is i feel dumber after watching the first min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is a good movie don t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for once in a life time movies keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like toback took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn t the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of i like ghost stories good ghost stories of bumps in the night voices that can not be explained now i ve see many of them as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films some times to find a real gem you got ta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called the new house was one of the most scariest films i ever saw it was on once in i was only but nothing since then even compared to it with all the remake going on in hollywood some one should do this one as is with no more special efx than the original this episode was down right creepy as hell i m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost stories to even come close was the original the haunting and george c scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost stories like these okay i ve watched this movie twice now i have researched it heavily on the net i have asked several people on there opinions i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie is supposed to be based on i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it as the plot of the movie doesn t seem to make any sense at all here is the plot of the book br br laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work and explains that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter carmilla for several months soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams and begins to come down with a strange illness who is this mysterious carmilla and just what has she to do with laura s condition and the general br br i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it and let me know what their results are i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i can t be bothered with that it s called the this movie doesn t make any sense game br br all you have to do is whilst watching the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening i mean complete all questions answered everything makes sense absolutely complete br br it will have to answer such questions as br br why can vampires walk around in day light br br why are they all lesbians br br why is a girl called bob and why does she shoot herself br br when is the movie a dream and when is it real br br why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn t make anyone bat an eyelid br br why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she is a zombie too br br and why does he then let a girl which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire drive with him in his car br br and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car br br what the hell is the asylum scene all about br br what the hell is the green goo all about br br why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse br br why are there never any vampires fighting zombies br br what is the significance of the necklace what is it made of why does it kill vampires and how does jenna know that br br in fact sod it it s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too br br i have my plot and i have to admit it is not quite there but it is a pretty good effort br br in conclusion br br vampires vs zombies has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it is based on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell is going on this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two orderlies the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the orderlies are gay the orderlies kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny it said comedy on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn t this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn t br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the mechanics i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can t not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi vai this story about three women is a very sensitive study about muri l charlotte van den eynde the youngest laura els dottermans who is about and martha frieda pittors the oldest who is the mother of muri l they live together in the same building they have different expectations of life the vital laura wants a child muri l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something for instances an accident which could dramatize this story as times goes on you discover that the director doroth e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case so one is left with a feeling of emptiness first and foremost i loved the novel by ray bradbury it s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later it was one of his best books with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i as just hoping that this movie would be all right it had lots of chances with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even wrote the script himself and on top of all that it has pam grier br br how could it fail br br there may be spoilers within br br first of all it was dumbed down much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book gone everything that made you squirm gone br br and then there s the acting like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the s the kids in this movie can not act and this bugged me a lot neither of them looked but or their strong friendship wasn t addressed it was more like they were acquaintaces br br you d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr halloway and mr dark but here it s like they just don t care all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something this is far from being some of their best performances br br pam grier was fine as the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn t well pulled off she s a lot less evil and doesn t have the presence as she did in the book br br and everything that was left out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jim s house the real death of mr dark what happened to mr coogan on the merry go round the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more br br and the special effects were bad even for the s the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn t really creepy and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything br br i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel but it makes blood boil don t see this movie but read the book it s a classic of bradbury this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in i remember him playing in a great film lost weekend ray plays the role of michael stuart who is a very rich banker there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose as a very rich count his name is count ariszted misha auer who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convicts started applauding which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this is deanna durbin s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas having reserved a special slot for it last night i sat down to watch it with my daughter aged and a film studies student with chocolates of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin br br after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk the shaky camera shots and angles general poor cinematography direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied despondent we viewed on br br anne played by sally hawkins looked oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasions breaking our hard won fantasy of the moment and engaging us directly in an almost i ll find you stalking fashion br br poor rupert penry jones who played captain wentworth did his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they paid him well however as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall drenching him and his co actor they were nearly swept out to sea health and safety would have had a field day poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place br br other than mr penry jones alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott br br towards the long awaited end of the film captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being in contrast anne ran hyper ventilating from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told in the course of only three or four minutes without even having worked up a sweat br br we experienced none of anne s charms crossing the screen indeed we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain spineless opinion less anne and why someone anyone did not tell mean winging sir walter to just shut the heck up br br the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment was painfully drawn out as they moved in closer anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met eww br br the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been br br what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story filmed in some of england s finest scenery br br sorry jane if you like sci fi monsters and ancient legends then you will love this movie br br the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago while the acting may have been a little less than desirable the story line and effects adequately compensated for it br br i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv br br if you like non stop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore you have to see this movie a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and clich at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton s first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major hit american werewolf in london also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn t read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either therory wouldn t surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don t watch this film that s all i can say unless you re an insomniac what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he s always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn t watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it s face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film s title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren t all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of a killer cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem are back on the case two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish br br the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out now i m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible if it wasn t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep there is a bit of gore but it s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line br br the ending is extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel br br days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you re trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven s plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don t let it happen to you in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early s in disney s laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where iwerks continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn t really popular and by the studio was closed later that year iwerks was hired by columbia pictures and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br s skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that s about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it s not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it s hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference iwerks did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn t mean it s necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all iwerks executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while denat s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk s flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it s still a fun film to watch br br it s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney s main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can t help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that iwerk s skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br yes indeed it could have been a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but is not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly told the image is sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted the sound needs more attention it usually does in romanian movies the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action about the acting sorry but the best actress is the landlady the others are acting immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting is poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it s a picture for adults told by the children bother only if extremely curious you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you re a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as spago and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world s most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry s longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and made his debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let s face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i ve seen the movie at least that s how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn t have that much appeal to it and i don t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let s just say it s a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you ll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world s most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you re ready good day james this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class their problems relationships and interactions with each other it should have managed a wider distribution as it s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time br br the swimming instructor is an almost olympian reduced to teaching adults basic lessons and often the target of horndogging from his female students he attempts more or less to fend them off with varying results br br the students characters are mainstream u s a teachers policemen college students and retired people all of whom haven t learned to swim for some reason the movie covers their relationships including friends relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class several subplots provide amusing fodder including a teacher going through a divorce some high school students making a documentary and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys br br this is a good date movie or just one to watch when you re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch i watched six of a kind for w c fields he s only in it for around minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the reamaining minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j pinkham whinney he is everyone s foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracie s funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don t remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with ruggles where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields though the situation is constantly funny the whinneys are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited edmund lowe who reminds me somewhat of warren william heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour br br douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast everyone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h b warner as an added bonus there s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective and furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film br br on the plus side the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled it s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense br br nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner this movie is lame and not funny at all the plot doesn t even make sense some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter gets sucked through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she s more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witches or something and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie i m sure the topless girls doesn t hurt there either the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing who are these people and what are they doing basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things like the other dimension and book seller than make it confusing i didn t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal i don t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid i can t think of any part of the movie that was good although i was hoping that i d like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i d call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie imagine this a high school except it s boarding school and the kids don t have parents around oh and it s in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren t any reasonable rules like how they have co habitation nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here s the story a girl zoey brooks attends pca a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she s the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don t even come close to zoey s perfection we re bad people in the show nothing s her fault and if anyone contradicts her they re portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they re normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can t afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i m too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey what s the for anyway is nick s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn t like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set s pretty i had been amazed by director antal s kontroll back in his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn t really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time first of all the reason i m giving this film stars instead of is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo he alone can get stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie br br i was initially all fired up at reading one poster s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave the performance of his career to me it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment then i thought to myself what else has stevens done so i checked and you know that person was absolutely right in the years since this columbo movie was made apparently every one of the projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career br br if you like columbo see every other of the titles before watching this one do yourself a favor and save the worst for last this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can t his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian chapa is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn t enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems nonetheless to be regarded as a perfect catch by any woman that runs across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film he s a hero whom it s very difficult to empathize with so the movie is in trouble right from the start however it s troubles don t end there it has the production values of a tv movie check out that head made of clay or something near the end and the ending cheats in a way that i can t reveal in case anyone wants to see the movie highly unlikely let s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it s been years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don t want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i ll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i m respect my opinions but it s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can t figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i m sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today during the clete roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood s poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events i decided to watch this one because it s been nominated for oscar this year i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie but ended up bored and disappointed first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hands camera mode is really annoying br br i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this br br american military machine people who makes money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something sort of patriotic br br why these heroic efforts of director and the main character to inspire the audience with an idea of loving war like a drug oh please come on what a bore br br watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying food i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those quiet movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called horror movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so innocent but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it s like a riff on james m cain s the postman always rings twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he s not around and she s at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for seki and a little extra they re soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let s just say a shave he knows that he ll find out and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it s literally at least to them at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji changes gears into the kaidan a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji and her reactions to gisaburo s re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry gisaburo s ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn t know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that senses maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seiko s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death s connections to one another inextricably it s a classic waiting to be discovered i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what jaguars are for cars top of the line perfecto what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing style sorry i have no other words for it sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en i was under the impression that something didn t smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wan na be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim renart michael par and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory renart goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it s a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder gerrick turns in as a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won t spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at minutes sanctimony is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn t get enough money to pay for the location it s the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra s services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who s working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak s apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you d want to bring up your family this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff in depth novels in to a hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the s to the s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with akasha s plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven t read the books you won t understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch must see it will hate it have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a worst case scenario of playing strong feelings accompanied by some bad acting don t waist your time this movie xadsnt entertaining if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy br br i give this it really was awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it its all the good things this movie isn t an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat don t listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone breaks in if you re wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don t listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are benefits that jill has shes a fast runner and is on the track team she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don t listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i m a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy twinkles cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there s no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio s baron munchausen as well as jimmy durante however decades later it s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts br br as for the stooges this is a film from there very early days before mgm had any idea what to do with the team at this point they were known as ted healy and his stooges as healy was the front man fortunately for the stooges they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man read up on him you ll see what i mean and the rest is history within a year they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy such as the films of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they left for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady and oddly in this film they didn t act as a team they just did various supporting roles such as larry playing the piano br br this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle when they are rescued and brought home all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there as for pearl i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films as he has the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome as for durante i never knew what the public saw in him as least as far as his films are concerned he was loud and loud he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton s career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat br br in this film the stooges they didn t yet have the right chemistry seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd what they did in the film was pretty good but because all the segments were short they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines stooges fans might be very frustrated at this though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films oh and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly br br overall the film is rather dull and disappointing however there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing look carefully as this is walter brennan in a role you d certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film is the clean as a whistle song starting at about minutes into the film this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called pre code scene that never would have been allowed in films after when the production code was strengthened despite the word clean in the title it s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it s quite shocking when seen today though such excesses were pretty common in the early s finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades see the film you ll see that i mean when carol vanessa hidalgo starts looking into her brother s death she begins to suspect something more sinister than natural causes the closer she gets to the truth the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanists they ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways br br if you re into sleazy satanic themed movies black candles has a lot to offer the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed unfortunately all the sleaze in the world can t save black candles most of the movie is a total bore other than the one scene i ve already mentioned the numerous sex scenes aren t shocking and certainly aren t sexy the acting is spotty at best even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance the plot really doesn t matter its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together i m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror black candles comes off as amateurish is about the best i can do one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killers zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off the film is constructed as a murder mystery or a cold case style thriller it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills br br some people dislike any movie that is shot on video this attitude is very old style and provincial it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value these attitudes are on the way out zodiac killer is a low budget film no doubt but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem i ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school britney bashing etc etc so let s focus on the movie and the message br br i have rated this movie out of for the age range to years and for a family movie for the average adult male out of br br i like pop rock music i m i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews i didn t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any self promotion br br i watch movies to be entertained i don t care about casting lighting producers directors etc what is the movie and does it entertain me br br i watched this movie for the message the world s greatest epidemic is low self esteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest the movie is light bright and breezy great for kids i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don t give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable great message though should be more of them br br this movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies it is filled with super surfer greg noll s home movies and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory it is filled with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots nor are they surgeons perhaps or ph d s again perhaps it believes in the quest of the surfer it believes in the beauty of human goofiness it believes in the great gift of peace which comes from the cessation of war surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war with the russian socialists surfing is the ultimate narcissism it is dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received this movie has no military heroes it has no guns the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop this is not a problem peace is not desperate it is the joy of exhalation i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal dimensional strings although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching this movie was so badly written directed and acted that it beggars belief it should be remade with a better script director and casting service the worst problem is the acting you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished professional and totally believable and on the other hand ri chard who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning and keeping couple although both normally do fine work the actors and director should not have attempted to do accents at all they are inconsistent and unbelievable much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english the casting is ludicrous why have children of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society been cast with very pale skinned actors while the supposedly socially desirable marcel has pronounced african features including an obviously dyed blond fro it s as if the casting directors can not be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color it s just so weird this could be a great movie and should be re made but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors there are plenty of good actors out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction when i was a younger oh about i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn t exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it s a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney s praises cries of super deeee doooper make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there he certainly was a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew but even mcqueen can t save this turkey of a film shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st louis br br mcqueen s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang there s more than a broad hint that there s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke he s not liked at all by the other heist members mainly because of his lack of criminal resume br br steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke all pretty rough characters that would certainly get my suspicions aroused br br the great st louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn t do much of anything one of those two jokers decided steve s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation br br this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen i m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can t believe they would have if they saw this br br or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren t married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he s not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it tacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women s prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women s prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she s pregnant with his love child he s indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he s innocent but he s convicted and it sure sounds like he s a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne s character and it s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black s humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it s only minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d s humor simply couldn t work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you re a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth bucks i don t think so i was tempted to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a seems more appropriate just be sure it s your style i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff the game before watching the movie relies on the audience s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it ll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through ff once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if you re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it s a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there s only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you ll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you re retarded if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don t reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credits as a mst k episode this one wasn t very good for two reasons this one is from the season on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can t wait to see lola while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy donald martin who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn t feel shy with a waitress who comes from brooklyn like he does soon joe notices he s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney s anchors aweigh is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch once again in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of the year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave it s so energetic if you knew susie like i know susie is quite funny it s a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell it s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango jealousy the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world or everytown through years you can break it up into about different scenes or parts the film spans from to and is mainly about how this ruler or the boss wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again after everytown was bombed and war broke out br br this film only has about faults it s audio is muddy and video had some quirks the characters aren t deep at all and the overall plot isn t altogether solid the plot is lacking something that i can t put my finger on it just seems a little fluffy but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g wells though might happened in the next hundred years this is a must see it s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing a long drawn out war because they were just about to go to war with germany and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything br br things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once weak stale tired cliched wants to be basic instinct but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives new insights insipid trite grotesque and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity oh wait it was only minutes long it must have just seemed a lot longer i d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again i m expressing an opinion here i guess this means i didn t like it one word can describe this movie and that is weird i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting well it was the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not very strange if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem i don t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right br br the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle thrown together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on br br i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring but all in all a excellent movie this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors so what went wrong i don t know and simply i don t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid very stupid plot twists devices i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather what about lock stock thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film i ll not comment a lot what s to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about colombia s reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it s beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you ll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it s the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn t it etc etc it has been a long time i haven t seen a movie so bad this movie is a riot i can not remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies i ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny but this one is wall to wall great lines i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in the movie was non stop until the end when they did the minutes of sentimental plot clean up other than that it s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations i d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don t get all the jokes the first time around you have to see it two or three times to get it all in br br as far as the actual film goes it could have used a better edit it s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that all the characters are great it s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable no victims in this movie also thank god they got a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film you just wish that women like her really existed she s not a like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite br br if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer does not do it justice they do not give away all the good jokes just some of the mediocre ones br br oh and one more thing i hope critics put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedies don t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don t put it on their list this means you ebert a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth things must be pretty bad back on mars two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner br br the diner has had no customers since eleven o clock that morning now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus although he didn t notice who they were the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed one of them is an alien but which one all of them are suspect there s the crazy old man jack elam of course who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit there s a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couples nobody has noticed anyone else and even the couples are suspicious of each other bride to newly minted husband i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone rings for no reason the lights go on and off the juke box turns itself on and none of it is to be taken seriously br br it s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle there is no discernible depth to it it s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens it s not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses br br i always enjoy it when it s on it s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman knowing that in he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm s version of shakespeare s play and here he is with three arms br br oops it s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created and how bias its product was br br i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinians in prison i understand restrictions are in place but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace br br i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence so to speak she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber s parents and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control it is more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignored pleas for understanding and freedom ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land br br i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seems exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it is a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn t quite get the director s intentions if any i wonder if she s ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you ll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it s just me this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space as a history of space flight it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it disney has shown it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again in an alternate s where an outbreak of the undead caused by a mysterious space dust has been contained through the use of special electronic collars a young loner timmy finds a friend in fido billy connelly his family s recently acquired domesticated zombie br br fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hot to trot wife played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss having been psychologically scarred as a child when he was forced to shoot his own father who tried to eat him br br timmy runs into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal s collar goes on the blink and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour with the authorities on fido s trail trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend br br a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick fido is a thoroughly entertaining deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into s small town america is a stroke of genius and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole reanimated dead theme that i have seen br br connelly s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead s bub and return of the living dead s tarman it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus the rest of the cast also give commendable performances with young k sun ray as timmy and ms moss deserving special mentions ray because for one so young he puts in a particularly assured turn and moss because she is so bloody yummy br br this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it is also the best director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future br br out of rounded up to for imdb an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as mills and boon so what it is good to see a warm touching story of real love in these cynical times many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other even though for political reasons it was an arranged marriage i did feel though that sir john conroy who was desperate to control the young queen is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain as it is rumoured that he was in fact the real father of victoria as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have been interesting to explore this theory emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england which prospered as never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer first off i have to say that i loved the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it was great we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial the movie was so disappointing to me the movie cuts out some characters and misses a lot of the main points of the book it skips around a lot and doesn t explain anything in detail if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book they would be confused the most disappointing thing in this movie to me was the ending the ending in the book was the most powerful and in the movie they changed it it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of melting together but instead the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs to sum up i don t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner s name on the cover it s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn t very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i m sure it was it doesn t suck it s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn t think any of it was funny i was disgusted by this movie no it wasn t because of the graphic sex scenes it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art it shows one piece of art work that she did judith beheading holofernese but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial br br i don t know if you understood this from the movie probably not tassi was not a noble character he raped artemisia it was not love it was rape he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka had sex with while she states over and over again it s true br br i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about don t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work br br don t see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar s a bug s life we re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer when it s in the right hands that is a bug s life is a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions br br it is only pixar s second animated feature the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in with their landmark movie toy story it was a movie which defied convention re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film br br after all it s a film about ants well all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug s life but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film as humans are the focal point in dramas romances and so on how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you ll probably ever encounter br br not only are they all entirely amiable and likable there isn t an unpleasant character in sight even the villains are riveting characters but they re colourful they re eclectic and they re idiosyncratic and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug s life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name is flik david foley and his character is rather generic to say the least out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush beautiful ant island he is the one considered the black sheep of the clan as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season s harvest with his antics br br the problem arises in the fact that the ants harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper kevin spacey who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone they go insane for lack of a better term hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack s hands however it s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil the cogs and clockwork in flik s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers br br if you think about it a bug s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line s of akira kurosawa s classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil in a bug s life the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl br br much amusement comes out of these scenes and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs among them are an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen as is the entire movie collectively br br as i ve said much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie what makes a bug s life even better is that the film isn t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film the clich d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we d like however it s easy to ignore this fault and it s incredulously easy to enjoy this film br br although a bug s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor this is still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have proved that they re not just a one hit wonder but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manages to top their standards it s only always by themselves what more is there to say about a bug s life other than see it it s not quite the best which we ve seen from the folks at emeryville california but this beats out the lot of its year and i ll be damned if this isn t the best animated feature of br br what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version is no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever anyway back to this version it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeeds in both but high art it is nit throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe the direction was average and the editing abysmal worse than the old quincy deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it s about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn t that easy to get along with she just started puberty i m guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts i just don t get some of the big premises of this episode that miranda is so remarkable and that there s anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here made the remark that maybe it s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness miranda is just a jerk the episode is slow inconsistent and way too talky i also don t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador why doesn t the federation just leave the damn medusans be there s one part i do like when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at its lamest i ll always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldn t purchase it except for a used copy under this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movies mental list mind the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series spirited away and fly away home br br i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie she s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls she really sucks you into her life i also certainly can t fault any of the protagonist s acting or anyone else s in the film br br the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules the movie is never boring the romance is really cute and didn t make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really made it though was the indian factor jess parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else the indian people are also hilarious essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it br br feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film they re funny they re refreshing and they make you feel good i know that you ve already entered this in film festivals or at least i think you have i may just be making that up but i think this should get best animated short film in every one bravo i can t wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations but hear it now and accept it as the truth kudos my friend okay now i m just trying to get ten lines of text though i still mean it and here comes yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do in fact i ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those br br r this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs evil plot and is all about action what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around her movements were done so well why don t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days it s quite effective br br fire and ice in it s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others including plenty of women will adore it s esthetic quality i for sure did not mind bakshi just loves animating lushious voluptuous babes as can also be seen in cool world and i don t think he has to apoligize since it s pretty much animation for adults but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it br br this one was just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it s possibly bakshi s finest for those who like animations with lushious women try space adventure cobra as well br br i give fire and ice out of my ratings acting suspense character attachment plot character development overall br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny nd and csi th i don t know in the other csis you get into the episode you re watching but in this one you just can t get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain t good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author s hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven t seen it buy it anyway it s well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they d play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the s the courthouse city hall etc they re all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the pennants on chick s wall you ll see two for ole miss chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect but fails painfully on all other fronts the actors all play extremely silly caricatures you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot is predictable and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films including shabby larger than life special effects and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp br br it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they won t be able to do it again the cash cow is now dead as a dodo i can t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton and sure it s his company but you re fired or you re hired for how many seasons now after watching the show i wouldn t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve br br i d love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he gets hurt so i don t have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it i d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a and it doesn t deserve that if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme style i would never have rented it nevertheless i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot i lasted a very very very long forty minutes before giving up it s just boring pretentious twaddle br br the last french movie i saw was romance and it too was pretty dismal but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme overseas it ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy it s called dogme because that s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera br br the story and the show were good but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies ri chard is great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous seriously i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i can t say anything bad about peter galleghar he s one of my favorite actors i love anne rice i m currently reading the vampire chronicles but i m glad i saw the movie before reading the book this is a little too real for me i prefer lestat and louis s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i don t want to give anything away sorry but it s just not my type of show first let me just comment on what i liked about the movie the special effects were fantastic and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game there that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing br br i have innumerable complaints about the film but four major complaints jump to mind my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away where lois s year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman when the crying super child throws a piano at lex s henchman to save his mother i almost got up and left the theater singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child it s been days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit br br my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space it doesn t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what s wrong with that i don t know how many comic books brian singer has read but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas that s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground br br my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior jor el wasn t all wise he was just a scientist and he didn t send his son to earth to be a savior he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode i ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ s primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman returns the passion of the christ br br and speaking of luthor my last major complaint has to do with singer s depiction of lex luthor lex luthor is a shrewd cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president which he does in the comics than try to destroy the world the man wants money and power he wants to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman returns as well as all the previous superman movies is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the quite awful previous superman movies this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow br br to summarize i don t know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you don t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven t already don t see it don t buy it when it comes out on dvd don t rent it basically don t contribute any money towards it in any way this movie does not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that sees this movie bryan singer should be fined billion dollars if you re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you ll get the same experience without having to waste hours of your time this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference no porn br br the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable at the very least the pacing should have been picked up br br while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had he should have spent more time on the story or better yet get someone else to write it many of the action scenes were just pointless br br it was a complete waste of my time is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn t have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked overall i was rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle br br bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows which deal with the subjects i referenced i think you will find at least something here br br in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way i especially liked how they explained where the cylon s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers br br the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters but this is something i think needs work i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident br br based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where caprica goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did i m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn t to good compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wan na be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice s other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj silkk gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn t introduced in this movie and the scene isn t in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn t mention what happen other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don t love em like i do don t watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel purez i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands shipwrecks jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently there s a needless mins of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blowing up scene jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game there is no communicator with doyle on the other end the modified soldiers look like albinos with singlets on and there was no mutated monkey like creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building there s an ending scene where everyone except krieger live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema then this is for you one of the best ensemble acted films i ve ever seen there isn t much to the plot but the acting incredible you see the characters change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you much as the villa does on all the women truly enchanted i haven t seen this movie in about years but it still haunts me br br when asked about my favorite films this is the one that i seem to always mention first there are certain films works of art like this film dark city and breaking the waves that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a life changing event such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend this film shook me when i first saw it it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days today i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood br br hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation changed everything it changed our perception of security it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it changed our world br br however i can t not stress how utterly repulsed disillusioned and angry i am at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press hollywood has sunk to a new low even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all is uwe boll i am very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how dare they br br to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks br br ask yourself if you have a soul br br think remember respect the memories of the lives lost on by not seeing this film at all you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed that s why movies like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences especially local ones we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with tax when they reach our shores and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one not only that the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear lest they reach the sea br br and these movies are relatively easy to make hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic for once those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long can t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these of course there are amongst us ahem those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models and movies such as these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they don t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park the guy sitting beside me i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s appear and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans br br so there we have it the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage as does the gt here the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification that even i m impressed alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that has wings for doors but seriously my heart goes out to the cars each time they re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment i mean this are perfectly fine high performance models that are at the apex of motoring but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow they do so because they can br br there s no story in redline just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties the cars that is that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shots of pedals always the accelerator mind you tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steering wheels gear shifts always shifting up and not down all these while having the actors make pretend that they re the baddest asses with an engine snarling and giving each other dirty looks not a very tall order for an actor and that s why we get the most woeful performances ever with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids br br the heroine yes it made a statement that girls can drive natasha a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin is one of those million dollar finds a girl with model looks who don t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil who has racing pedigree within her and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable every line had to do with cars and when singing about love just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts lubricants and going for rides introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous eddie griffin she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle everything else well like i said just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race br br and it s almost always the same as there s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars especially when you know the race is rigged for narrative reasons and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker sun kang and of course the star it created vin diesel redline had none just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it s one man one car and a minutes race against time to get to vegas br br if not for the cars then this movie seriously is a piece of junk with bad acting bad lines and bad action strictly for the car fans or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines im the type of person who always goes to horror section when i m picking a film so i picked five across the eyes i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish i think i could of done better myself i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the embarcadero freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting nearbye you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact hickman s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden pontiacs in the s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york have you ever heard the saying that people telegraph their intentions well in this movie the characters actions do more than telegraph future plans they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtz s character is not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesn t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have br br the bottom line obvious plot one note performances unlikeable characters and grotesque southern accents employed by british actors night of the living homeless was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movies most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains br br kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart gives a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town is completely overrun with them this is a very strong randy marsh episode as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy makes it to the community center he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming i don t have any change unfortunately the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he becomes one of them asking everyone for change br br the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park and find a man who is a director of homeless studies they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people break into the man s house and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself however he fails several times as he shoots himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder screaming horribly until he finally dies this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in fantastic easter special two weeks ago br br meanwhile a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem the property values have nosedived thus the bank has foreclosed on his house making him homeless randy immediately turns on him holding the gun to the man s head when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out randy pulls the trigger br br in evergreen the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica california br br the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable br br i m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into but this movie is not a horror movie as for the story it was fairly interesting but rather slow i was especially disappointed with the ending though br br spoiler br br tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle s home without at least calling the detective or the police first she knows exactly what s going on at that point plus she has a video tape as proof instead she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying i know everything i have proof you didn t expect proof did you then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he s going to harm her well duh of course he s going to harm you idiot you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb ending i gave this a there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone gets killed or nearly so i am tired of cross hairs and changing views i can not give the plot away convoluted and insane if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back i wish reviews were more honest not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end docteur petiot starring michel serrault is a brutal story about a brutal man a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate is not there yet he preys on the weakest amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography are superb and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story he is the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and caring calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer kudos to mr serrault for his chilling portrayal i just got this video used and i was watching it last night the acting started out extremely bad hey hey twister but got very good soon after wards the tornadoes looked extremely fake and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done and just about on par with movies like twister the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too the story was very well written and it s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formulas movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for years br br while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality this merits an a in my book this film is really vile it plays on the urban paranoia of the s s and puts it into a school context i m not saying that urban crime wasn t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren t aren t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it s not a case of social issues but a white upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he knows how to play the system does that sound familiar yes this turd is pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this what a horrible horrible film the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time not that i saw much i left the theatre screaming after about minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves meryl streep was awful as usual how many hurt and tortured expressions can person have aidan quinn s talents were as so often totally wasted and who told gloria estefan she could act trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school the kids weren t even cute just written in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really made me cringe for once real horror this one motocrossed was fun but it wasn t that great i guess i just didn t understand a lot of the motocross racing lingo and there was a lot of that in the film the plot wasn t what i expected from the disney channel previews so that could account for some of my disappointment sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he wants to broaden his horizons and spoiler needs a family member in order to do it br br a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain t scary at all works better as a dark macabre black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecracks that s for sure the actors aren t interesting save robert englund as always and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto and there are simply far too many visual effects the finale is ok but doesn t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope br br in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer s story it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before br br there are cameos worth noting a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become br br film debut of breckin meyer who plays spencer br br one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits br br ok i m italian but there aren t so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it s the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i d like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it s too slow it s so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven t already seen it watch it an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful so no new story lines here however the authors managed to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watching kids vomiting or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife s teeth out in a bloody horror type go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone the first cube movie was an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn t understand it was on the non literal level a man vs cruel nature plot where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end triumphing to face a new indefinable world beyond man s petty squabbles a world where there were no more struggle but peace i rated cube a out of and it s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels br br the second movie hypercube was a massive disappointment some of the ideas were kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning still for being fairly entertaining i rated it a out of br br the third movie cube zero while ignoring the second plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there is no homage or tribute here there is only ripping off the same kind of plot with some elements idiotically altered like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say br br that we see something from behind the scenes means nothing because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment the architects of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan did at the end of the first movie are just killed where the bleep is the sense in that that s just flippin stupid i m glad i didn t pay to see this br br the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realized that mr tony giglio was earnest about this movie it s a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully me thinks he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself he sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesn t make it true customs change word definitions change over time look at english german where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same it s always growing and changing the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses these writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here same string of letters two entirely different meanings this is why many biblical researchers use a lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written it s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn t exist in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty talk about ego putting soapbox away god bless maegi i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie megacheese i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol slewfoot or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don t watch for the love of god don t watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i m doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god s sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it it has lot s of laughs guns action crime good one liners and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character max a dea agent diane is the fbi agent played by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv plays the bad guy livingston the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much has all the good one liners this is the perfect crime caper there is the usual love story but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix the film is shot in boston where you have some great shots and locals great photography and music in this film this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy it has everything that one could ever want check out sutherland s toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me if you like to see animals being skinned alive their heads smashed dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them then this one is for you but if you are somewhat normal and don t need to see real footage of animal cruelty pass this one up this movie tries to shock the viewer and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of babies in the movie fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up and special effects so we shouldn t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals its not what we rented the movie for if anything there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it as a very hardcore horror fan this one turned my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked another spanish movie about the civil war this time we re told about the story of carol lovely played by d butant clara lago a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york it is such an initiating trip and soon she ll find about the injustices of the human race their stupid fights and conflicts their contradictions br br imanol uribe makes his best film since d xadas contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he tries not to take part in the conflict he just shows us some facts and let us decide ok the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple clara lago and juan jos ballesta br br a well cared production br br my rate a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods this is simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypasses the ocean view area the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view once the interstate was completed ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few years the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing br br it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film rollercoaster this is also untrue footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to death of ocean view park br br as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time with the cast involved there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors i don t believe this film was intended to be another citizen kane i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table but proved unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway let s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise br br for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fans but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park this movie is like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan s role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father a trio of buddies sergeants all in the british army carouse brawl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save scores of the queen s soldiers from certain massacre br br based more on the three musketeers than kipling s classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood s golden year of filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusion br br it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable however this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time br br it s interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than honorary knighthoods after the conflict while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers br br the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe heartbreaking in the title role he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of kipling s poem ring true he is unforgettable br br montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare are effective but have little to do movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine s father br br the film picks its villains well the demonic thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous blood soaked kali hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of indian life for centuries ritualistically strangling up to victims a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares this movie pretty much sucked i m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible if your in the military and you see this movie you ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad it was ridiculous they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do it was a pretty gory movie i d have to say the least there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump i d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a better movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i ve ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn t be explained for this genre to work br br originally written i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot the most suspense surprises most emotional especially the ending and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving was not as episodic and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie br br it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole i have heard many strange reasons such as a because yoda died b because bobba fett died c because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader was revealed br br i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who cares if bobba fett died if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die don t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett s name judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think secondly many fans did not like yoda dying sure it was a momentous period in the movie i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic all the good guys can t stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda s death well nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why was obi wan s death okay but yoda s not hmmmmmmmmmmmm another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible that is utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage they had swinging vines ropes logs set up to trip those walkers and other traps the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest the only thing they had was their blasters to add it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros the band of rebels as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have been a great upset lastly if this scene was still unbelievable to you how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo chewbacca and the princess being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view and not only that the heroes of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters the troopers must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strikes back the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not heroes against a legion of stormtroopers don t believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando s base or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star br br the last reason that i care to discuss others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here is that people did not like darth vader being revealed well in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father annakin skywalker it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father s face because it made it complete by annakin s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he was annakin skywalker by removing the helmet the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about in fact that s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke s father isn t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet br br on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse even if it is better that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be better or worse that the original but i can not know for sure let s see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was br br i am not sure who criticizes these movies but i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite that it is rotj i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading br br bottom line the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its minutes there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful exciting surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day br br finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky insignificant details or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such as this movie stinks because luke is not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately br br crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman s agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it s because i m jewish isn t it it s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners dvd doesn t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there s little doubt in sam levene s performance that the character is in fact also gay not a mincing caricature but there s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper s confused soldier there s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young s maigret like detective gloria grahame s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in as a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for crusading this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it s always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it s interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the villains in this movie those villains are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you re fighting against at first it s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german s are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn t however the best it s hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn t even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don t know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they re being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren t the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert s book i hated hated hated this movie and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert s review of rob reiner s north where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well but above all the other things that were awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits but after that first or minutes the other minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for seconds then someone gets shot then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra s my way sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss who i admire much as an actor for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that independence day was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history did goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if independence day were a bomb what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time says that the movie is set on another planet i only wish now that i have wasted minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minutes out of my life that i will never get back ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it s honor as the worst movie ever what a boring film to sum it all up its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor while she tried to flee from the village with her son can someone say boring the concept wasn t too bad but it was poorly executed the canadian locales and some of the village scenes were nicely shot however overall the cinematography came up short the story could have been great but the movie just seemed to drag on there is only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hours of it br br the best part of the whole movie was the song ishq kamina and that was only five minutes long other than that this movie was a piece of crap rant start i didn t want to believe them at first but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic even though their budgets mainly spent on special effects have become more and more fantastic do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry has built up since the break out film shiri swiri by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did rant end br br the only reason i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean east asian styled dragon i have seen to date for the final scenes now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons remember dungeons dragons in hasn t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use but how well you use it i hope there are more and better korean legends they can use because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one br br in short i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem arirang being played at the very end as a creature feature i would have given it at least stars out of if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it but i ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting just less dragons as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a better world i said better world because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don t know qin shihuang means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king means the land and the people spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is qin shihuang s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles it also had technicolor one of the few movies made with it in br br now the bad news regrettably i can t say much positive for the story it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light and hollywood has done that ever since why these criminals are always shown to be the good guys is beyond me this film glamorizes them and made their enemies the railroad people into vicious human beings the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous well that s the film world for you evil is good good is bad br br hey hollywood here s a news flash the james boys were criminals really look it up i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i m sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn t live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin s granddad the only sad thing was the ending it s a shame they couldn t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending i don t normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn t turn it off i don t believe i ve ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn t turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it s a sports thriller but it s so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it s not funny not even in a dumb silly way it s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers it s painful to watch but at least it s only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can t describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i m sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you re out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i ve seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can t stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn t bad as the second string few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john lassiter s amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who s review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i m betting the older charas too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo s mother soske s mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend soske whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham soske is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he s related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young soske which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end ponyo s father fujimoto must cope with his daughter s decision and his estranges wife s wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there s the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki s best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki s delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address as expected joe james russo the attacker forces his way into marjorie s home and subjects her to humiliating terror bruised and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat hog tied and battered himself joe tries to explain himself to marjorie s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there is almost a hint of mercy but it is not coming from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m young i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i ve seen the whole thing played like a cnn worst case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn t seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don t bother with this one for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film s most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven t seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo s carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard s kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end i am not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u s army riffles in wwi and wwii in movie we can see privates armed with m garand invented in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load times more ammunition and times more fire rate m was semi automatic springfield requires reloading after every shot little difference german army uniforms has borrowed from year too especially helmets german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archives how much truthful is this true story i am surprised how much truthful can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i m telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may oliver a person too talented for this film didn t like wheeler a sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king at about the same time woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king so when wheeler arrived it was up to the boys to fight it out but they refused because they are already friends which greatly disappointed the people as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime br br i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood the silent era through the s i have seen and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i can t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better for example there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother s film duck soup yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp at times woolsey talked a bit like groucho but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny in fact he just seemed to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality was that he looked goofy surely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese a piece of cheese that sang very poorly a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as who s on first which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they started their spiel they just ended the routine so prematurely that you are left frustrated i knew that who s on first had been around for many years and used by many teams but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist br br once again i have found yet another sub par film by this duo while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly such as silly billies and the rainmakers which i actually gave s to on imdb this one was a major endurance test to complete something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey where was all the humor i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that s the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn t any good actually it s bloody awful but i didn t expect anything else when i bought it it s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really baaaaaaad br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she s the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i ve seen pteradactyl even when her boyfriend dies she can t stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that s the way i like it the chupacabra looks pretty messed up and it s easy to see that it s a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you re even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn t you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked the symbolic use of objects form editing the position of characters in the scene these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken even the title has a least four meanings that i can see the boxing ring the wedding ring the bracelet the lover buys and the love triangle at the heart of the story i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford s small town boy david chappellet what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla sparv the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn t really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn t need to do much and indeed doesn t while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don t fully compensate and you don t care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that s probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it s the theme that s so important here i m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you ll like it this is an art film that was either made in or the national film preservation foundation says and imdb says regardless of the exact date the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late s early s br br the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understood by us mortals i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie is diamond among coals during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw this film should have made them stars shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film it could have easily been a franchise release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed no matter how late watch it you won t be disappointed do yourself another favor read the book same title it ll blow you away times have changed dramatically since those days or at least we like to think they have a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town leading to all kinds of complications cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can t escape the title town hopper does what he does best playing a psycho known as lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns and john s direction creates a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertaining it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up i really liked this movie i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie it is definitely worth renting although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his product s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don t see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real sahlep powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole ali s bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn t show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even ali s troubles are not convincing because we don t see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don t see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i m wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man s big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie s leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie s clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn t great but it s a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number on the comedians comedian okay ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to datd the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone s favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the s i was born on may th despite this my life was very much in the style of the s when other kids had playstations i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only years old at the time of writing this review i because of my s style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn t see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk s adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as the world david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local caf the chipmunks are playing a game of around the world in days against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team s likeness secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds to varify that they were there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt the girls and boys of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be topped it s also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include getting lucky kind of suggestive for a kid s film eh and my mother as well as wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song getting lucky i first didn t think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince s men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells alvin and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven t seen this flick give it a watch it s worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s gets a solid out of br br headin for the top don t you know we never stop believing now just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a bomb rating a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night i feared the worst knowing its reputation and it was as god awful as i d anticipated this is a mexican made mess dubbed into english and produced by k gordon murray it s got terrible sets and effects and features a rather frightening santa who doesn t operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in outer space and who doesn t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is the opening sequence where st nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages seems to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesn t observe the child labor laws br br eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth just to make little kids naughty and turn santa s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience and it s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever oddly the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on this easily makes my personal list of the worst movie i ve ever seen but i m sure that s nothing unique as is often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as pelagia in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as corelli s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia s fianc br br i rated this film an despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie passing them down in the family if you will and i loved it br br clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it s up to superman to stop this mayhem br br it s just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effects and sound the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid and i m now it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic much much better than of the scream rip offs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn t read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed mystery is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don t like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadn t guessed i loved it the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it s really rather messy though fellowes doesn t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich landmine though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there s also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing br br i m disappointed not that it s bad but that it could have been much better this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert godfrey s up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age holes is an awesome movie i love it a lot and it s one of my favorite films it s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn t cheesy holes is generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more pictures like it holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool don t get the wrong idea i don t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it s stuff is aimed towards kids and that s okay children deserve to have their entertainment too but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with holes it s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it s corny really it s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to br br holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this i can not hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen savers with co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn t pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she s hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn t afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it s music movies comic books the internet and television this is what s great about the show if you don t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on aots some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren t as geek as i d like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup worst dcom i have seen ever well maybe not as bad as smart house this was just bad the acting and story was fine but the effects sucked br br they were so fake the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen that was probably the only scene in which i was excited br br overall i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly br br i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene br br its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities and also i didn t know that an indian can cross the march s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier s were sleeping some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn t for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they re all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there s never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film is so feather light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakeries and hairdressers and plumbing but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick they re both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass this film is quite simply brilliant the cinematography is good the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking this is the story of donald woods a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid kevin kline is completely convincing so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later i recognised him from kline s portrayal denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance as ever br br i urge you to watch this it is long but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story remember folks this really happened i have recently seen this production on dvd it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in and it was just as good as i remembered at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been i am a bit of a jane eyre purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly br br all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way some even leave out the rivers family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this is the only production to include the gypsy scene done correctly br br the casting is perfect zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she looked too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted his expression is fantastically frightening but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable oh to be loved by a man like that there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks br br finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it is simply perfection in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it s a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carrie s boss i m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven t prey br br aspect ratio br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren s follow up to satan s slave amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v browne s eye catching cinematography though annan s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and left under mysterious circumstances stokes unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there s an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to emasculate their clueless visitor by dressing him in women s clothing though stokes alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially annan s final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren s unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film s budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army is the local dentist he s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie is always being viewed with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro ves at the islands police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for closer inspection a quick search for the killer proves fruitless as does a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who lives on the island through the winter months a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together br br goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain with a heavy fog rolling in the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesn t work seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut reports of ufo s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin s idea that aliens might be involved but a rise in radioactive levels on the island has him doubting himself br br the nightmare man is based on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it is here adapted by dr who and blake s scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board the nightmare man though is on the whole a succinctly better crafted piece that builds its plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor characters time is given to giving them all a firm background the island setting is perhaps a genre clich that has been used over and over but its one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times there is an authenticity about proceedings the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point if there is one negative about the killer its that we are given his her its pov for the killings an acceptable clich on its own but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer given the clues presented but it s a fun and very well acted piece the local scottish cast are exceptional the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold imrie never one i ve taken to in other works is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers it disappointed me in some ways but taking into account when it was made its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it is even more terrifying this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie so if you haven t seen either movie and want to but don t want the spoilers please don t read this review br br while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe s christian and sarah michelle gellar s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did it s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough you ll recognize it there are also inconsistencies in the plot if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon s character br br also the tie in with the photography you could be a model comment at the end was totally lame and didn t add anything at all overall this movie was a waste of time i can t believe they made a cruel intentions this movie is ridiculous it s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it s a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they re all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie in dramatising wilde s novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown dorian s essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson s dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas rls took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it s a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have s have not s i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn t write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn t take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as nita i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of mazursky s an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother biji he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors mrinal sen s khandar gautam ghose s paar benegal s ankur a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn t make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn t see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don t know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven t already don t waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel at a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director murali k thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows is thalluri s attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis s sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluri s talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn t reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or romanticizes the act thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and revetting is an absolutely unmissable film the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won t watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich d lines in the movie i m sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton s character has hijacked hamill s prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you ll find something of interest here but you can t convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso if anyone thinks there s some hidden meaning here you re really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employing a large number of roach s reliable performers although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves star struck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set does so here as cecilia always ready for an audition is treated by a would be paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behind the scenes action of naturally a musical comedy featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton russell hicks and walter long on balance one must hand the bays to mischa auer who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star a role which he largely creates and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley s filmic spectacles the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start these slasher pics are past their sell by date but this one is good fun br br the valentine cards themselves are witty and well thought out br br the film has one peach of a line he s no angel when he in fact is angel watching buffy reruns will never be the same br br the cast is a sizzling display of young talent but the story does not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters sorry but no br br the direction is very good managing to show very little actual gore and relying on your imaginations implied threat much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes br br essentially the main directorial plus lies within the borrowing of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks psycho s shower scene is tributed along with halloween s masking br br murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know br br light viewing not very scary but a few good jump moments if it was a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movies have had their day and this is just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundbreaking the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a instead of a is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn t shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go skydiving maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today s market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me like most i thought another crocodile movie so far we ve had primeval and rogue in the last months what can they do that s new where both those films were about action and violence this one s about fear and tension br br the performances aren t oscar worthy when there s nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it s like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don t really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it s a stretch to say you ll enjoy this movie it ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick s abundance of clich s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the characters and the dialog br br i d read about elizabeth berkly s awful performance in the equally awful showgirls which i ve never seen and her performance here while not awful is barely up to the standards of lifetime s worse fare there was not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldn t have been if so it would have placed the film completely out of balance since there wasn t a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal br br the principal s handling of liz s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable her husband s initial reaction and advice were likewise forrest gump attacking jenny s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic intelligent action and hell he was mentally challenged br br the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession br br finally and frankly i rather enjoyed this part the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs that you d rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the law and order series and the like but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime br br finally i found a kind of story within a story fascination with josh s concoction of his being the victim of his teacher this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story this was something of an achievement like going from f to f minus br br this whole lame situation should have been resolved in real life in about minutes following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities with husband involved but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following and left an hour s blank film in the camera br br but the writer s here proved with their ending they could do even worse when the situation was finally resolved and righted this was accomplished in all of about seconds with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parents or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption br br this one s a presentation the second because it does have some mild fascination if you haven t seen this yet you really should on dvd i can t believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren t many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like cgi s but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you ve seen a dinosaur my favorites were the coelophysis the raptors the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn t get money from the government for financing otherwise i m never paying taxes again ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by sadhu s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director shimit amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making let s keep it simple my two kids were glued to this movie it has its flaws from an adult perspective but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it br br and the pepsi girl was excellent br br and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot although she s not in the film very much so don t get too excited there br br not that s it s really a bad thing but it is the kind of movie you watch just once don t buy the dvd br br enjoy br br did i mention kimberly williams that was for the dads it was a m in the morning and i had nothing else to do don t judge me please br br we re back in time during the spanish settlements a group have made their way onto an island it doesn t take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobbles up their horse soon they re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg sucks it reminds me of the cg of early console video games the encounters were lame the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it s just a middling effort lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost feel them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the s and s oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can t even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other got ta go now i have to go watch it again saturday june pm the neptune br br monday june pm the neptune br br few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of its centennial saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impressions of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura s camera creative use of large flats and mirrors moved throughout the set combined with screens shadows fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song dance and instrumental performance photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program connecting the passion of the music to its great creator saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich d movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it s genre but don t let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the story line was rather typical of clara s later silents i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves never mind that this man is married clara s lack of modesty was shocking in the day but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a brilliant story line quite typical actually this movie is a nice showcase of clara s ability to make the audience laugh as the number of video nasties i ve yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage popped up on my to rent list when i saw it was available br br the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip though if he returns with the girl and all the money he gets a significant cut he s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot is one of the worst actors ever granted they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after stealing away into the jungle we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever ping pong balls for eyes and that s pretty much it his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i found myself muting much of those scenes br br oh did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this is probably the main reason this film was banned though there is one specific scene about one second long where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out but it s not a redeeming factor for gore fans also jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals and sadly male as well so if you want fair in terms of exploitation you got it br br i can t recommend this trash to anyone it s not even the good bad movie it s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you are making your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list which is certainly not true i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a should have gave it a i gave it an extra star just because david keith s gun was cool i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film he failed thank god br br the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won t like her because she s ugly the film is just bad for so many reasons the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit those two scenes made me cringe janeane s character is sickeningly arrogant and guessing from her role as stand up comedienne and arch feminist is in real life too she claims that the film is anti feminist when in fact it s just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it s interesting to note her hypocrisy too she d been a feminist and comedienne for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film i mean come on she acted in it for heaven s sake what this film was really was anti men if anything it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman s character noelle br br there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure is that the best the script writers could come up with blimey they ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made there s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn t ugly but is actually beautiful erm was i watching the same film as they were she s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one although having said that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well she s lanky and gaunt looking br br i guarantee three things about this film if you ve never watched it br br you will know what the ending will be br br you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and br br you will be bored after ten minutes br br watch at your own peril this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person having just seen walt disney s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony the cast of this film contain some of new zealander s better actors many of who i have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long running new zealand soap shortland street it s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meets the love boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea br br if you are an actor i recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she s the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one s professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don t want to face the consequence one ironically can t believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it s not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies credits due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski s trois couleurs especially bleu this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty the governess rush hour as villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend s wedding opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com this film is awful the plot is extremely lazy it is not scary either people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film is more like dark water except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it i was extremely disappointed with this film it didn t scare me nor interest me either let s face it this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g the dead trying to contact the living dragonfly what lies beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc etc it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans the films that are coming out of hollywood like this are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer they re just being churned out angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela s identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today s world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it s pretty much just more terror tainment br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you re taking the word of the producers there s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb s user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see it wasn t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you ve been painting a wall until you re completely bored well that s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can t really blame them since there s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that s not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don t get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they re charging towards a gaping ravine isn t this somewhat illogical it s also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs moshe dayan arik sharon or god when you ve got an idiotic enemy who can t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn t help myself i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b which is unique among allen s work along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop s most enjoyable aspect the plot revolves around johanson s character a journalism student who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she falls in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen br br i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson s performance but i am a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she plays a ditsy yappy bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen s stereotypical neurosis stricken character she adds appropriate body language for comic effect needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus br br allen is allen he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late br br jackman is also enjoyable as the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less br br in terms of the plot i can not help but feel that this is fresh in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen are more detective like than anything however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything being black and white things are painted in shades of gray being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners i did find his allusions to his last film interesting come for the humor laugh and be merry br br needless to say if you enjoy allen s work watch it if not watch something else i rented this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portrays the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith is assassinated and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land despite his grave doubts he perseveres and finally has a vision that utah is the place for his colony that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later as crops are destroyed by crickets he again doubts that he has truly been chosen however a miracle occurs which cements his place in history br br i found the performances to be moving and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal polygamy is a part of the story but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised the issue is not emphasized br br i m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout s frightmare is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic s s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding s slasher genre it isn t totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance classier than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn t be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death s door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad s grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad s body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband s body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn t a very nice guy in life it s not much of a stretch to assume that he won t be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we re in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad s body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can t really recommend frightmare to anyone who didn t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label paired with roy ward s vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you re a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn t have the big budget there s no special effects no car chases and there s no explosions actually reality doesn t have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since i m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his harvey and kiefer s mickey enhances the oppositeness of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady mrs ramsay i m sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don t think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn t very good but they are truly good so i don t think that you before you haven t seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn t have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven t seen them doing there job as usual i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has there is no story a group of guys meander around iraq one day they are here diffusing a bomb tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire no wait here they are back in bagdad there is no cohesive story at all the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures by that i mean we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds what do you think is going to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy why yes there is no story here the script is juvenile and predictable the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon don t waste time or money on this boring movie a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other s jeep mysteriously won t start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn t all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it slaussen is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the s genre in it s twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won t be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn t know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy s business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie s biggest influence is the comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn t stale and recycled it s basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it s real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don t care about what s happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn t dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn t changed my mind spade s given very little to do serving as the movie s most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy s business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that s cool but i just can t get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever having read during many years about how great this film was how it established ruiz among the french critics specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watched it about a year ago i found it pretty disappointing but then i guess my expectations were sky high shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cerebral film made for tv and mercifully only an hour long is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it s ending if you haven t been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it s genre i loved this show from it s first airing and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week the plot characters writing special affects were outstanding then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining well written show i say bring it back i know all of the actors would come back i would suggest buying the dvd s i am i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunters but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too i didn t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much don t get my wrong its not a bad short film tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film you can tell that it has been an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on though i don t feel it greatly detracts for one s ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do i say go for it the gag reel was fun i won t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also done by jagged edge i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we ve received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it s also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much i was never so bored in my life hours of pretentious self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems it s like watching lizards molt even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this this movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on br br just remember this when you re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad this is the formula that they are using this is what makes zombie movies so great br br and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know br br all in all it doesn t linger there s never a point where you think to yourself c mon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely this is the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks br br so awful it s wonderful if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love it br br as a great trivia note if you re watching it on dvd you ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score well that s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop the ladies man is laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes including the funniest love song ever written br br ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role br br tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you ll find in any comedy out there br br it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round br br i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre and i urge you to vote br br and remember kids theres more motion in the ocean when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn t just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie is great the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot br br the only thing that really let me down are the performances emily blunt the devil wears prada is the star of the film bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable br br to me the film feels like unfinished maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script i don t know but that s how i feel about the movie br br but overall it s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt a flying saucer manned literally by a crew of about male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some years ago on a forbidden planet what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in br br on the surface this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeare s tempest but this is a stretch and in some ways an insult to the scifi genre stripped of what makes it a scifi film sure its the tempest but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about br br underneath this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek br br anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful the special effects and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of s sci fi props you might think you were watching a s piece br br this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call s sci fi and though not in my opinion the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects the clever plot now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek lost in space and even farscape is worth paying attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek s original series aired about years later though they may find themselves disappointed by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it br br some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles unfortunately nielsen s performance is only average and at times down right poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other films over acts his role as well ms francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job the problems with the featured performances i think are as much the fault of the director and the editor as anything though they certainly got most of the film quite right i just saw this film on dvd last night and decided to check out the reviews this morning it seems that i robot has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling too br br i find this somewhat surprising as this film is not great or even good but neither is it terrible or even really bad what this film really is is depressing depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid clich d re heats and acclaim them as spectacular new works this film as retread written all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action to smith s character a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effects that borrowed from matrix and a few others br br i robot is sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today s audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lots and lots of adrenaline smith is mediocre but we already knew that he seems to be hollywood s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story has lots of holes in it of all sizes but i don t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by today s standards but very b movie compared to true winners this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century br br this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people not white black etc br br good movie with a good message i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great mile s sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it s fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am sadden that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven t watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br i have to disagree with another commenter who said the special effects were okay i found them pretty bad it just wasn t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story br br maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story the archaeologists are looking for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what is so special about it that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt br br if you re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the beginning the ancient ceremony looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert br br the action level was constant throughout the movie no ups and downs no climax it made the movie look short and that s certainly a pro for this particular movie liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he is a true actor he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary mary is such a beautiful woman it s her love that makes rob roy the legend but it s his passion that makes her love undying they need each other tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect in one way or another upon watching the movie you will find cunningham disgusting the scotland scenery is beautiful the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well if you like history romance passion and love you ll enjoy rob roy there is violence and blood but it s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if you re not used to a scottish accent one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes it s their skill as actors that attracts you they don t rely on marquee names popularity or sex symbol appeal this is something special when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren t conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can t help it sorry for that raincoat was a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn t enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore having seen carlo lizzani s documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don t know what to criticize therefore to be clear i ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director s career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with nannies cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti s crucial visit in paris in the s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director s career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director s death in is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco rosi but later such movies like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people s emotions and viewpoints into stone time is precious this film isn t i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time br br the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction is this the film the critics are raving about what a piece of crap br br the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family get it br br the acting is superb br br the production lighting sets editing sound is about steps above a minutes story the characters are shallow and unintelligent i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next br br i have had more fun doing the laundry worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don t know how everyone in the movie didn t shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don t know and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don t watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn t even the to be expected nudity you d get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead savage island is a lame movie it s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting not only that the storyline and script was wretched i don t know why this movie was made i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry this one made my blood boil the situations were inane at best if i made a movie like this it would have been a short really because those backwood idjits wouldn t have been in the picture br br don t be fooled by the cover on the d v d i am an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie is virtually unwatchable i don t mind movies being shot on d v but if you re going to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror films sans wrong turn br br i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by br br movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story br br however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe s civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is hynkel and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his subordinates technical innovations which don t work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact hynkel s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery br br in truth chaplin s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the fuehrer s face your cause is doomed to failure because it s built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of silent comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain t i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn t come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the wouldn t it be wonderful speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film s underlying weakness remains if napaloni is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn t bother him and he still kills people friday the th what s that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn t it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way never saw the original movie in the series i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie it was however a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark really this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water not really worth watching i would however like to see the original granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also made a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown created in and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn t matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it s tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number on the greatest pop culture icons and he was number on the greatest cartoons very good highly regarded at release but since rather neglected immense importance in the history of performing arts a classic use of embedded plots one of my favourite films why hasn t the soundtrack been re released the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helmed this episode who murders her husband with a poker has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband s corpse she decides to use an ax once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman s head to frame the killer for her husband s murder santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child br br this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old santa kills theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she s been cheating with routine it s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac there s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions not one of the show s highlights the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film it should have read be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your family s church at years old listening to the preacher drone on about god s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego br br it starts off well intentioned building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny s how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble i believe i counted the use of the word pray about times in a five minute span near the end after the st i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last minutes plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me as it became totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of ending up on the floor br br for all the salivating christians who ranked this film stars i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square the ten commandments anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp the god who wasn t there what would jesus buy or the soon to be released religulous br br maybe robert whitlow s book is better tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford s films at two hours it was quite long for a silent film yet continues to hold your interest some years after it was filmed mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a greatest hits performance with bits of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character s illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question if the academy awards had been around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary s i first saw this movie when i was about years old my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for on vhs she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch this movie however scared the hell out of me you may be asking yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas that s right satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day for if santa doesn t make it back to his home in space he turns to powder don t get me wrong the movie is funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell which occurs at the beginning of the movie is just downright creepy although there are some snippets in this part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these are not very well developed in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs br br although this program as a whole leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserves some praise almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you if asked they think the drug war is designed to solve for example while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensued and the subsequent reversal of prohibition is totally ignored by this program br br this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems but not all users do their drugs in excess just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics br br if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science has decided to totally prohibit whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that is in here br br on the other hand this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in th century united states like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there is a significant element of various people s points of view with regard to drug laws and most but not all of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana br br the criminal justice system along with its often harsh life ruining penalties is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately there s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs a lack of compassion for fellow humans a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs yet this program ignores it br br so in sum the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives it s pretty disappointing considering this film was released years before i was born i don t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected s crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group in their endeavors the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin whom sister goes after because she believes he is the big time who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life though he could be accused of killing her he really kills only her spirit and will to live after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose the story isn t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off then threatens him it s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be discovered back then first i realize that a rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst this movie gets that from me because as one reviewer points out it s not bad in a self aware over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply misses its mark on every count contains possible spoilers the dialog is completely disingenuous the continuity is so deliberate it s painful daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love and with his final word the flamenco dancers start the mock shock of what s her name see i don t even remember her character s name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tells her that her friend is the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things vegetable carts gone flying cars crashing into each other motorcycles going down the stairs people nearly being hit but remarkably no one is oh that s right except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds and an approaching car apparently didn t notice him there hmmm br br it s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money you d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing now there s a novel idea br br my suggestion don t see this film don t rent the dvd don t watch it on cable there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he is black then walk away the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise is funny and the show contains many such types of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all the year saw no fewer than filmed productions of h g wells great novel war of the worlds this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place the last year of the th century using wells original setting in and near woking england br br imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as spoilers that might apply with some films where the ending might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world it seems positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature so let s get right to the chase the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease against which they have no immunity if that s a spoiler so be it after a book and other films including the classic you ought to know how this ends br br this film which follows wells plot in the main is also very cleverly presented in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late th early th century photography although filmed in a widescreen aspect the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs rather than black colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting at other times colors are washed out these variations are typical of early films which didn t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on as you ll see on occasion here the special effects are deliberately retrograde of a sort seen even as late as the s and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effects are really awkward such as the destruction of big ben the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair br br this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells original narrative as has been noted viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story wells description of the martians a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles is effectively portrayed when the martian machines appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how wells described them both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective primarily of rural england plus a few scenes in london involving the narrator s brother the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesn t dwell unduly on the devastation of london br br the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines the narrator traveling about to seek escape sees much of what wells terms the rout of mankind he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene wells adds that after eating they set up a prolonged and cheerful hooting the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder cheers from the gallery british curates are so often utterly insufferable br br this film lasts almost hours going through wells story in welcome detail it s about time the author got his due in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact a word about the acting don t expect award winning performances they re not bad however the actors are earnest and they grow on you most of them however have had very abbreviated film careers often only in this film the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate is john kaufman also in his nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing the brother henderson is played with some conviction by w bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part is played by james lathrop in his first film br br this is overall a splendid film portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it despite its slight defects it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors if you want to see h g wells war of the worlds and not some wholly distorted version of it see this film of the elements that make this the best at this point i have to say is christine mcintire shemp s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent i imagine that as one poster suggested christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil to be smiling at shemp s possibly dying br br another character who helps this stand out is the goon his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short is this good who s going to complain not i okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the last one and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one part was bad but why do they play us anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part and i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in d pointless id say i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts and yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series br br i gave a nightmare on elm street six out of br br good points of movie had potential with plot br br bad points of film terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing everyone my name may sound weird but there was nothing else br br any way i haven t seen anything like this before so it was crazy of course that s a good thing it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying twas beauty who killed the beast war of the worlds scene and more walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one also how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema br br however some parts don t fit like in the original lion king weren t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they are not they were fighting the hyenas backstage ther s more the reason being why pumbaa isn t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also it s just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonn s story was told whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks br br but apart from that it s great finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie which not only tells a story but actually tells the real story i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o donnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is it is not a movie to attract new fans but a movie to tell the real tale some things could have been better but when you can not forget the awful movie from then is this a magnificent movie so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story by now the game s stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they re all rehash but so was monkey island and for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don t need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself i decided to watch this movie because i d not seen carol lombard before in any movie i m sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what s that clich marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples worsening financial status their troubles with john s live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john s diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples angst about their marriage the baby s sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clich d situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn t much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early so it was planned in soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i m glad i saw it as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you ve seen all of stewart s movies otherwise don t bother unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director but for the last years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min no sex no blood it s suppose to be about snuff no actors no dialogs just as bad as an t v film it s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our minds forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi robowar rats l altro inferno virus cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco s spirit s new film pass on this one but if you don t know this nice artisan s career track down his old films and have fun i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director s techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn t as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in ralston s case it was the latter br br i must admit david arnott s portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i can not say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery s first film and it was obvious i mean really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn t the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy can not be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by zinc and we as a race will always want what we can not have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money the was in essence the bank for the last man don t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don t expect more from ralston and that is how i will end it br br grade out of br br i must admit i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem i am a true horror fan as true as they come and found cut to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced but one of the great parody comedy films of late br br my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film was not overly clever in it s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i am certain this was intended as humour hoping this was intended as humour br br and of course there was the gore br br the use of the customised garden shears was brilliance besides the expected stabs and slashes in short there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth br br the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance was and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film both performances were fantastic as well as simon bossell the castle in a brilliant role as the jokey technician br br all in all i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years as well as a beautiful satire parody toungue in cheek till the very end br br loved it go see it i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i ll just tell you that it s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the pieces of extreme gore and banned in countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the s today you don t need them as everything is done on computer but computers can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci s gates to hell or even savini s crowning achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can t tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don t see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it s here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a scalping there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated br br i always felt that ms merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the s and s from atlanta s sweet auburn to new york s harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny s boarding house the story revolves around nanny s relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year a few too many coincidences and plot holes however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn t come as too much of a surprise brosnan is excellent in this role gone is the wooden james bond a role he was wasted in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan s straight man i ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing my father a consultant nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hit man comedy the humour can be very dark if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself as a casual listener of the rolling stones i thought this might be interesting not so as this film is very of its age in the s to me someone born in the s this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap but i am sure this film was not made for me but people who were active during th s i expected drugs galore with th stones i was disappointed it actually showed real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not seen any of the directors other films but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing sort of amatuerish which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly directed tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this is that i didn t waste money on it it came free with a sunday paper watch the original with the same title from this made for tv movie is just god awful although it does use as far as i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesn t work is it the acting the poor directing ok so it s made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hands on the superb original especially as you ll be spoiled to the plot and won t enjoy the original as much as if you ve watched it first br br there are a few things that are different from the original it s shorter for once but all are for the worse the actors playing the parts here just don t fit the bill you just don t believe them and who could top edward g robinsons performance from the original if you want only watch it after you ve seen the original and even then you ll be very brave if you watch it through it s almost sacrilege director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn t know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film s end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl mcburney a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel s best film it certainly is one of eastwood s best real performances page is always so very good and hartman fe rdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a spring break movie plus it makes fun of the college film genre it s funny it s got a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain wilson phillips omg i m just repeating myself now it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they re dumb arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she s a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond s phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don t get me wrong this isn t a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny lipson plays king vultan boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent i have to say that the events of didn t hit me until i saw this documentary it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers i was sick of hearing about it when this was aired on tv a year and a day later i was bawling my eyes out it was the first time i had cried since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i am watching it now on tv years later and i am still crying over the tragedies the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing it was an accident and look where it got them these two brothers make me want to have been there to help perfect movies are rare even my favorite films tend to have flaws rear window looks a little stagey at times chris elliot s character in groundhog day doesn t work the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish br br the script is brilliant the acting is superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing the whole cast shines the directing and the photography are inspired and the music score is touching without being intrusive like some miramax scores that are too manipulative every sad moment is truly moving every light moment makes me smile this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it br br i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people real feelings and real problems brilliant a must see this has to be one of the worst movies ever made the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way just a few of the awful moments in the movie a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the mile per hour winds thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at feet thats impossible even for pilots with thousands of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she is instructed to pull on the flaps huh come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this is a movie you want to miss take my word for it regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you re a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn t carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don t get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren t close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don t care about acting or make up this is better as a book out of for an ok story i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with lan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenberg s later less bizarre works in pola x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol s factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age cathering deneuve shows that she still has it her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn t sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as pola x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn t work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating it s hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon was well done but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious br br i was amazed to see marcus aurelius in the acting credits wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker br br the story might been interesting but the acting is flat and direction is tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend s house and get drunk while doing so then it ll be enjoyable i remember going to see the movie in the summer of with my parents and being pretty into it at the time of course i was seven at the time br br right before the jackson movies came out my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic br br ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this is saying something much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them br br because of budget constraints the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the rings and part of the two towers was pared down even more what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books br br its not all bad though the animation brings a warmth to it that i found lacking in the jackson movies its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding br br this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came several years later a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired which was meant to wrap things up all i will say about that is that it was a musical just finished watching ftm the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it s frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let s get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn t seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn t like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it s insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeals to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights al pacino with great speech scenes and great one liners every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as wynorski s curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don t know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a komanbra part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it s almost over it s almost over out of i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn t know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he s definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was evie s rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with for greta garbo s first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o neill s pultizer prize winning play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna s father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn t be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn t offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion s generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo s anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play s greatest problem has always been that chris s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don t always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minutes doesn t allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne s second act appearance in show boat br br anna and marthy s early scene together on screen minutes into the film taking each other s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it s hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it was first filmed without sound in also with george marion s original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way let me set the scene it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies i am with my friend deciding what to see we look for a movie that is starting soon and the grinch comes up we buy tickets not knowing what to expect what we got was a roller coaster of fun br br jim carrey who may i add is my no actor in the whole world was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard s best movie next to apollo the way that this movie was made the scenery the actors the props and the music was just amazing it really brought this childhood movie to life br br the story is based upon the story of the grinch as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can t stand christmas he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk but one little girl is going to change the grinch s look on life and on others in a drastic way br br cindy lou who played by adorable new actress taylor momsem meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people br br all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents a solid well done jim br br as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia i can still tell it was a quality show very educational but still funny i have not seen the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing was it was too long ago to remember br br the premise of the show was to show you how the body works i swear school still hasn t taught me half of what i know from this show it also tied in other things like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don t exercise with nice examples within the body who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you d the cartoon looked nice very kids friendly of course but done with care cells viruses electric signals in the brain antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures looking pretty much how you d expect what they should look like in the animated body br br this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale were key parts of my childhood i m so happy i found them here fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama s in the years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it s that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england s involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david norwell suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn t have both oars in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr norwell this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another all centered around adam s inabilities and seizures why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get clich snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it s standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct they filmed this movie out on long island where i grew up my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer which they told me was colored water tasted disgusting and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form it never came out in the theaters obviously and it as far as i knew was never released on video and i m sure wasn t released on dvd yet it looks like it was seen by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother yet there is no way i can find it anywhere does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased and which format that would be that s how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who s on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he s financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy s running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he s very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster s woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score out of stars human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br this early biograph short was so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d w griffith s years of discovery dvd set highly recommended it features three excellent performances by the main leads and interesting to see henry b walthall the little colonel birth of a nation as a campy musician giving a countess the eye and other things br br the countess husband goes berserk at his wife s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour it s kind of incredible that they wouldn t hear the wall going up but hey maybe the wine had something to do with it here mr johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment comes at the end as the lady passes out from shock and fear once she realizes she s doomed henry picks up his instrument and fans it over her the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lost it and laughed my head off the expression on his face from that moment i was charmed by henry b walthall baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this is the movie which caused his downfall it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred soon after its release he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably its a very bad movie with horrible acting bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease i m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission sorry i ll not recommend this one to anyone written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick is harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word f k the most number of times almost three hours long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord br br also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f murray abraham and angel salazar pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster is that powerful enough for you crime does not pay for long first the cgi in this movie was horrible i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park gets killed it s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen even night of the living dead had better animation br br that said the movie had almost no plot why were they on that island in particular well it wasn t stated in the movie and why would the people keep coming into the cat s area makes no sense br br one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting in what could be called a b made for tv movie movie the acting was very good parry shen stood out in particular br br if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quotes i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme s best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn t come off although it strays away from the book a little you can t help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine s dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr tilney he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it s hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney as for john thorpe well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the marchioness i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say elinor s calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive page point by point line by line refutation of this mendacious film which should be titled a convenient lie the website address where his debunking report which is titled a skeptic s guide to an inconvenient truth can be found at is www cei org a shorter page version can be found at www cei org pdf pdf once you read those demolitions you ll realize that alleged global warming is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of which gore also endorsed as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber as james the amazing randi does to psychics and philip klass does to ufos and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories so does mario lewis does to al gore s movie and the whole global warming scam a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film s first audiences pretty much as it s described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow s part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd sigh i m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the the first time alright br br but i guess what s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us back in a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic clich ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it s about time the concept of having laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially stan laurel of course as usual br br the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula it doesn t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending it s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the movie br br the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor br br the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed it all helps to make dirty work to be one of the better laurel hardy shorts br br this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn t it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches winry it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i ve been feeling down in the dumps and it s such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i thought it was pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effects excellent acting especially de niro who is awesome this movie made me happier than i ve been for a while br br it is a very funny and clever movie the running joke of the kingdom s history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled that s much of what makes it so good it s an elaborate special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies yet there is an incredible attention to small things br br i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again i was surprised that forgiving the franklins did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants i watched this movie so that you don t have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film s title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn t sure if genevieve bujold s character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it s credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over m too bad the money wasn t spent on a better project just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the messengers is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie s resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you ve seen previews for this movie then you ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters i went to see this movie actually i went to see family portraits which contains cutting moments other short films by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina i just couldn t watch it i had to cover my eyes after the st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while by the time it was over my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the nd short begun btw of course i was not the only one who left the room it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it i just don t get how you can love that kind of movies the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it and i just don t think it makes any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff makes no other sense than to try to shock people and that s not a good enough reason i think there s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it was good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of films a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending pluses the way the story moves begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he s there the music a disinterested look at the life of policemen minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effects still having people s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided br br no complaints i don t understand the positive comments made about this film it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i can not understand how it ever got made br br cartoon characters abound sue s foul mouthed alcoholic layabout irish father being a prime example none of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for sue s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence as desperately unattractive as they both are i ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but given that they do why should i be expected to care what happens to them so many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is if that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film br br i didn t like the film at all steven what have you done you have hit an all new low it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege and and exit wounds the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted pounds on this garbage out of ten better luck next time a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer s next target director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoops around corners in a museum after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purposes practically gives away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals and stages his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dressed to kill is exhausting primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial much of the acting with the exception of young keith gordon is mediocre and the second finale is a rip off of de palma s own carrie not to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end results are distinctly half baked from flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david labraccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in lost boys and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru calling episode which used the movie s premise br br flatliners one of my favorite shows back in the s as i recall it went to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together br br each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible br br i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who came back as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames oh well you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea br br mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best br br definitely deserves a place in tv s hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo kolchack you are on it or in the case of the hall of fame in it i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldn t be laughing you ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and well you get the point br br but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face frownland really is a remarkable piece of work that after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him br br it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein s film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer if someone sets you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the pain perhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can t even begin to attempt to explain br br unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself bring a doggie bag i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night s sitcoms on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didn t expect much and i didn t get much although rose mcgowan is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i d give it a out of i first saw this film when i was about years old on tv in the uk where it was called laupta the flying island i absolutely loved it and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it i was enchanted by the story and characters but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw sometimes erroneously referred to as the streamline dub the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set br br unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn t have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese had and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead they have made some pointless alterations such as changing the main character s name from pazu to patzu and added some dialogue but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking which i find annoying in many disney films br br this film still blows away most recent animated films and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market homogenized animation this film can t make up its mind whether its message is humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless or don t ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan is out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all senses who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself i doubt it was her first when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan obviously as among humans total psychos date other total psychos br br the film reeks of half thought out anti human message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all it s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and as the film progresses he grows more and more compassionate to the whale s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better br br the films final journey in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north reminds me of melville s eerie man whale connection and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husbands might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident it s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss however it never goes there the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone br br the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight fails to chomp up the whale hugger tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier i love animals and i detest whaling and what is more i love orca whales but if this film s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed nolan shows compassion and growth and feels for others and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming br br the only message one can walk away with is if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you why o why did i pick this one up well i needed a no brainer in the summer heat and the cover looked cool br br of course i should ve known better this is a really really bad movie and it gets embarasing when the makers know it s bad and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women and some sex scenes to it well folks it does nt cut it does it br br if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very very good well played and funny go rent lake placid that is an order only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine seaview is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it s not rock they re under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a our teacher showed us this movie in first grade i haven t seen it since i just watched the trailer though does this look like a first grade movie to you i don t think so i was so horrified by this movie i could barely watch it it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half and then there was the boy with ketchup i was freaked out by this film now today being i probably would not feel that way i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn t see this movie even though it s pg be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids i don t even remember what it was about once was enough a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon s seed the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific but instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death despite the title itself being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to the end scott menville is not casey kasem that is the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company br br shaggy s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows they ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original br br i m not sure what they re on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isn t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows br br and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted i like it but it s not real scooby doo type animation but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me this might too br br it s worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly besides i am trying not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die as the saying goes we ll see how it looks after two more episodes by then i ll have formed a much more solid opinion i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i ll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this even this early in his career capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing this is a thin story and quite predictable at times but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately the first part looks like a cinderella story though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune br br nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it s easy to get caught up in the clich s then the movie does become more original as the married couple have to find a way to make a living the ending is very predictable but satisfying i also want to compliment the title writing very witty and fun uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he s ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i ve ever seen this isn t that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i d take a pass unless it s late at night and you re catching it on cable this video is so hilariously funny it makes everything else br br by eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor which just goes to show you how good this really is to be honest i don t think that i ve ever br br laughed at something as much as this including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse this show is amazing although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long plus its extended version beginning with m but it didn t bother me see it the funniest thing i ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer s client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste minutes of your life on this note the music was good it s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it s impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you d be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion i never watched the next action hero show and until reading the other comments here did not know that this movie was the prize from that competition i was just flipping channels and came across this and found myself watching dare eagerly all the way to the end br br yes the plot s been done the most dangerous game etc but i was hoping for and almost received the gotcha how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end i think the high tech was overdone gps s and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider but it nevertheless was not too overdone br br the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that was required of the viewer do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much br br the final solution was good but the ending was disappointing with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy except for zane who doesn t get near as much work as he deserves imho they were winners from a reality show br br knock me out i am a big fan of old horror movies and since i am middle aged old to me is a movie made before with most being made in the s to s period i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies with one exception being creepshow which i thought was great i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending all the stories were great though so why did i like them so much the characters had some decent development the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bits were really funny this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it s telling you something of also romero s expertise is hard to find here they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard i don t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me and that s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on it s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing yuck yuck to see it i just wanted to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing gheorghe muresan act i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn t that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure it was better than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don t want to have to think much it s well worth a rent some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made well they are only partly right for me this is the worst movie ever made period i have never seen anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature as this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isn t even so bad its good there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis other bad movies like clambake this one is so rotten to sit through its painful pure garbage native americans should sue for their poor clich d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole stars seriously grade f first of all yes i m white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race anyway white people hating black people bad but black people hating white people ok because apparently we deserved it where do i start i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene were ice cube and co get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win the neo nazi where twice the size and the chase the chase is priceless this is not a movie about race tolerance and understanding it doesn t deliver this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich stereotypes the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it br br save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written poorly acted dull and clearly biased picture if you are into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid s satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always the three shorts included on this compilation issued in are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn t look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth s tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it s kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film s decent cast pino donaggio s music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film s sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br out of years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie was first class the acting memorable and the storyline a classic recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part again i looked eagerly to viewing part i was so pleased to realize early on into part that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii wrong i wish i d stopped at ii the storyline was not good it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story the characters were weak especially the daughter pacino s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather or then scenes such as corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goodies get away and everyone else is shot daughter and st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the steps corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isn t ready for an emergency no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but i ll watch many times down the years this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i ve watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based the key word here is based how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom br br sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it this involves him selling out and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity however they are not overdone the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney s misadventures the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction is never that much of an issue because simon pegg as sidney projects likability too well br br jeff bridges underplays sidney s editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney s affections and with regard to megan fox who plays an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belongings and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort of course given that i m a fat year old english accountant you might not find my offer too enticing but it s there on the table anyway given how short her career has been so far one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become however she does it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far br br there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us br br there are several laugh out loud moments and i smiled most of the way through as ever the f word makes appearances when it really doesn t need to although at least a couple of these are very funny alien hunter out of is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all things on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot br br derivative doesn t even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him he turns her down aggh br br in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke br br with about seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title br br i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield the characters in the cornfield dress like logan s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them br br that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it br br alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired brittany s strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially linnea s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing i saw the film and i got screwed because the film was foolish and boring i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled sholay the cast and crew was bad the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle amithab bachan s acting is poor i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure nobody did justice to their work including ajay devagan this film don t deserve any audiences i bet that this film will flop br br finally this movie sucks lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon it s quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin after the murders within her fantasies are committed lorna awakens bewildered often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality br br if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco i d say it s elegant difficult by now you ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career as far as film making style and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience and as you read from the reaction of the user comments here some like this decision others find the style labouring dull and bewildering i ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head but even franco himself when quizzed by critics who watched succubus admitted that he didn t even understand the film and he directed it some might say that succubus was merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in furs considered his masterwork by franco faithful because it also adopts the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined in a sense like the protagonist we are experiencing the same type of confusion certainly succubus is unconventional film making where we aren t given the keys to what is exactly going on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn t help matters succubus is also populated by beatnik types and poet speak corman s film a bucket of blood poked fun at my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually great locations and jazz score i liked this film myself although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank welker s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott s good name this film shows the usual knott s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts last good outing when you have an extra minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel i have not read the book so i really didn t know that much about the plot and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that was not what it needed there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman playing a year old is just stupid br br there s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it s considered funny and it goes on for minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid thank god this wasn t based on a true story because what a story it is populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds before the devil is a mesmerizing jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it weren t carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn t hurt either br br the main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry br br the story is told with time shifts which are noted on screen such as charlie two days before the robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didn t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldn t make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to gina marisa tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and you ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands proceed with caution if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives this dvd delivers you will learn new things guaranteed so much so that you won t need any other documentary s on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well as a bonus watch this with tora tora tora saving private ryan patton band of brothers a bridge too far the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you won t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject perfect the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment br br the two criminals performed by robert blake and scott wilson as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile is part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family looking for a safe that isn t there once on the run they start writing bad cheques carving out a trail for the authorities br br there are many fine supporting actors i like john forsyth as the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney br br i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through having only caught it in short snatches i did finally get to it after buying the dvd the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen br br don t miss this brilliant movie to me this is what great film making is all about this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all latterman leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first minutes and i am going to stick to it though it s too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o brien for example i know it s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o brien s antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensen s spoof of trading spouses and nanny in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people s pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on th april coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike s talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on th july someone wrote here that the people who praised spike s talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford it s all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you re not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they re unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it s all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i m appalled for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i m afraid i don t know what the world has come to let me tell u something i started watching many t v shows like lost prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season then we have the sopranos i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season and more importantly all of its episodes there is no department that this show doesn t excel in acting nothing short of superb james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would ve been the better choice however after watching the first few episodes i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony the raw emotion he displays is superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actors perform to the best quality and all giving an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i been so sucked into a t v show before the story is nothing short of excellent each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say its too violent or they feel that the character of tony is immoral i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day i don t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me you ll be hooked from the very first episode i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show hooked on it trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v after you ve watched the first season you ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos i d give this a negative rating if i could i went into this movie not expecting much but i had an open mind the whole thing is stupid the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i were a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie became so popular seriously the worst thing i ve ever seen i wasn t entertained it wasn t funny i wasn t even bored i wasn t anything it wasn t even so bad it was good it s just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie don t even rent this movie no clue how it s getting such a high rating most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all faggy seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i m bating here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over this is a great ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid it doesn t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown s graveyard when i was ten turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile but i love it now as a year old br br i bought this dvd used for bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it ruled it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you got ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd this movie is awesome if you love s metal and bad movies this one s for you while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being sittaford mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments bethany cox good lord what were they thinking here is your spoiler warning even though i don t think it ll really matter you won t be seeing this piece of trash anyway br br a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies in other words the whole thing is really stupid br br you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can t save something and they didn t i know some of their lines were funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comments but geez this was pretty dang sad br br all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud it is not worth your eyes i had heard and read so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series like entourage sopranos or mad men but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one didn t make it past the first six episodes br br the writing was unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing the dialog felt forced like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh br br the characters never developed enough for me to care about them they were selfish and unappealing i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer s loyalty br br episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line br br add to that i heard that season two wasn t as good so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out br br if you re a fan of good casting and writing i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course you re stoned and then all bets are off this movie is among my favorite foreign films some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson br br in japan a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it takes his train to pass he is enthralled by her but is it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share br br shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and in itself transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be as if the film were not of value in itself this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for better or worse and i ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades milo o shea is still leopold bloom this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love br br the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film dreaming of julia makes much more sense it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people s daily lives and pursuits that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history br br the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could br br the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love br br the revolution like the film julie never seems to have an ending i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey s it s politics too upfront and ridiculous and let s face it i was still under a love spell known as blowup and i still haven t completely shaken it now the love is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and oh well good luck to me br br but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age and zp is it s own experience and is only really linked to blowup through its creator the late great mr antonioni br br twelve years ago i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print projected at its correct size immense restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of place br br what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own br br i remember the second time around seeing it the early s i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli s olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now were engaging me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality she took her time to live everything everything dies around her br br upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found enjoyment the encroaching shoulder padded big haired s whispered but that s a hippie fantasy let it go br br the force of antonioni s vision had i had realised already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered s with an uh huh and guarded my love secretly possessively and jealously br br but this then is what good art does it lives inside of you and if you wish it has its way and loves you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed br br was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup undoubtedly zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all br br today reality hit zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice s restaurant br br so it is still too difficult too disturbing too what br br maybe it s that as with all good art it lives while everything dies around it br br peace very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome make up effects daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital she escapes again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives doctors and relatives it s all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire the film is too long too weird and too forgettable the biggest surprise comes at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts yeah right this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn t make the cut as a marine dressed in baby blue outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine raider gere s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent s innocence stealing his baby blue uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent s character whose name is marion takes gere s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine raider marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local caf he meets rose hudkins who immediately catches his eye staying with hudkins parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese internment camps as the towns folks go hunting escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there s still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his s performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid s were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as hedge quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he s the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with jmv s talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa j niksen vuosi is one of jarva s most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society s authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br vatanen antti litja smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn t all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes j niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving i love jamie foxx br br and i enjoy of all movies i see br br and i walked out of this one br br now i admit it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing oh no jamie s knocking on a door hee hee hee but this was just so incredibly annoying there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle everything had to be in your face loud and annoying br br the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like but at this point it s just old and tired he brought nothing new or interesting from all the characters too many lines you saw coming too many you ve heard before and too many tough guy lines and i don t mind that sort of thing really as long as there s a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked br br i love jamie foxx and i think he s really funny and i thought he was funny in this movie but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else br br this movie needed less shoot em up less annoying camera shots more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i gave it a after seeing dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies i was very surprised to see a very fun smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout the movie moves along well it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city madonna was great as the damsel in distress she really impressed me and added depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i don t think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn t laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film has everything to keep me happy i don t know why some people criticise that show so much br br it is a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream prime time but still br br the family dynamics are funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried roy jibes are only just above average but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing br br this show was well worth the pounds i paid for it br br rating mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel gutierrez who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra an evil creature from myth legend erm i m struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott maginnis i won t beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it s referred to a chupacabra in fact i suspect this wasn t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn t change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project but that s it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character s are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i m sorry but i don t know how else to describe it br br director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable there s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink you ll miss something editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it s not scary there s no nudity there s no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there s virtually no colour to the picture either it s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you ll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it s a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isn t it isn t even a proper werewolf flick either don t be fooled this is awful i m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a s culture clash movie john wayne would hardly be one s first choice as a cultural attache being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplished his task with style the duke was a guy who really could act well his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle br br despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time he failed to dominate this movie many of his good intentions came a cropper he had authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian br br the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles i can not comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props the set pieces were complex and detailed a lot of money and thought had been applied to it br br the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort script was good without being too wordy there was a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy periods of translation didn t interfere with the narrative it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set whether or not they were japanese i couldn t say but anyway they looked the part at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians unlike other efforts such as blood alley yes i know they were chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i br br frankly i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies the script was better for a start i never liked the songs in the king and i and wasn t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of blood alley i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke s more popular outings br br recommended i was so glad i came across this short film i m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for br br the plot is pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy br br it s a well made short film well edited and the actors all do a great job and the last shot of the film is perfect br br i highly recommend this film i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one but when i started with it i found it really awful they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think of the movie is shot in india you can see indian made cars you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand hindi written on the road you can also see temples in afghanistan hahah its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie pure time waste i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don t watch this waste of time truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren t going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke s or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters ftw br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first turgid minutes of the film in this movie ch vez supporters either venezuelan and not venezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country br br they did not say that the conflict started because of ch vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues br br they did not say anything about more than tv interruptions transmitted by ch vez during only days in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signals each one with about minutes of duration br br they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army forces who is a traditional supporter of ch vez even now in despite of his announcement he is the ministro de interior y justicia after ch vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equals to defense secretary in us br br they did not say anything about ch vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections br br they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch vez supporters either civilians and military official forces br br they present some facts in a wrong order in order to lie br br they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch vez actions in order to avoid the elections br br that s why i tell you this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie one could wish that an idea as good as the invisible man would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects but this is not the case the story the characters and finally the entire last minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early s there are some great moments mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets but alas soon we re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable but schematic br br there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past years and some of them have their charms but it s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven who does have his moments is a very bad one it is obvious that the money is the key issue here the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough and as a result hollow man is seriously undermined with clich s sappy characters predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever br br however the one thing that actually impressed me beside the special effects was the swearing when making this kind of film modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex is very toned down when the whole world blows up the good guys go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them i m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears i think we can thank verhoeven for that ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke s cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke br br well take a peak it s worth as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal i d agree with him this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carried by his family he has a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold things with it he learns to speak later in the film it is very good for a guy like him also starring home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr brown it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan best writing screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture it was nominated the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapted screenplay daniel day lewis was number on the greatest movie stars he was number on the greatest british actors he was number on britain s finest actors and he was number on the world s greatest actor and the film was number on the greatest british films outstanding all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn t i ll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i m not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there s no sequel i do regret that i have bought this series i expected more action more objective picture and more consistency this is just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it is just boredom itself i find the actors work quite weak as well o donnell might seem charming as robin with batman but in this picture he lacks any charm probably while he becomes older he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up it comes as no surprise that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands the story has been told before a deadly disease is spreading around but the extra in this film is peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run is real he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child this person could be working next to you this film was very well advertised i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it then i went and saw it i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not trying to go into them with too many expectations but this movie was not that funny now it wasnt the worst movie i ve ever seen but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it but for true comedy fans id say pass maybe even check out the kings of comedy again something told me to go see meet the parents instead as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it s really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn t get the tragic destiny s of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br very typical almod var of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters nearly complete lack of taboo it s the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later works though you ll find it in a more rough version here he s building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who d find this movie hilarious i do once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you re just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass cybermen tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke s mickey and ricky being one of the doctor s companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the cybermen had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let s hope so a brother s promise is a wonderful family film this is a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depicts this athlete s life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family members is evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us the commitment and determination of dan s coach and his teammates shows what it takes to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age well now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his house of corpses crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corpses but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i don t remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained deaths took place long ago some like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine whose small role provides the film s only worthwhile moments attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum the result comes across like satan s school for girls catchy title made for tv production values intriguing plot crossed with children shouldn t play with dead things low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead trouble is it s nowhere near as entertaining or fun the house of seven corpses is dead at frame one and spends the rest of its minutes going through rigor mortis dragging us along for every aching second director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this i took my year old to see this movie we left after or minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i don t understand how the rating system works i loved this film i thought it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd obv not easily forgotten br br the script is brilliant and the casting couldn t be more perfect each character has their moment and i laughed hard throughout this film comedic timing was spot on br br it s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it s not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can t understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character s actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orlean s accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn t a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don t recommend it unless you re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west clich that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don t you think about that stmd is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn t gel what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film first off i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie its just awful me and my friend who love action movies independence day jurassic park lotr etc went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons mindless entertainment all we got was a mindless hour and a half the cg was not as bad as i was expecting but the plot is so awful along with the acting it made up for it its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every years sounds like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes but with magic and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes it just gets ridiculous the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believed we spent money on this the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest i ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this br br story cg acting br br i don t drink but it would have helped before watching this movie i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn t know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority i must have seen this a dozen times over the years i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pbs station br br i bought a dvd set for the children to see and am making them watch it they don t teach history in school and this explains the most critical event of the th century it expands their critical thinking br br impartially with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why it details what lead up to the war and the actual war br br buy it for your children along with alistair cooke s america watch it with them and make them understand you ll be so glad you did steven seagal s films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven t even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth and i for one think that is a good thing i ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the th time you hear it so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the minutes thank god i watched this at a friend s place and did not pay for it the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence br br also actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen excluding porn she s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent he s the one that carries the movie br br i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie it s a shame that they got to call it a sequel because i was a fan of the original which was actually pretty good a friend lent me this dvd which he got from the director at a festival i think i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie br br the standouts where the actors youssef kerkor was really good as ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also directed and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda was by far my favorite he seemed the least one dimensional and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting was good some was so so but none of it was bad i also really liked the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny br br i m giving this one high marks even though it has some issues because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared and decided to make their movie their way well done to adam jones and crew shawshank godfather pulp fiction all good films great films but nothing and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all santa claus br br the film is so great and has so many messages i cried while watching it seriously this is one of those movies you need to watch times when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eyes and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder what is so bad about this ice cream is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil think movie makes you think br br this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santas he is a normal person we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams and we wonder is the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mentions christ the whole meaning behind christmas br br you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic whether it s christmas or not this movie gets a whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad cinema s greatest period started in post war europe with italy s neo realist movement during the next or decades that followed france s new wavers caught everyone s attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of europoean cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti s particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he s not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century s great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler s th symphony taking full advantage of mahler s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it s a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn t get better than this i ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it s too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie s thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it s mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with bogarde s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogarde s dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it s ostensibly in english but the dvd s sound seems muddy and there s a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn t up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don t know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of out of this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movies but i wasn t prepared for the last minutes of this story if by any chance you re not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat s paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings it isn t too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn t be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it s supposed to look like a home video and it s just like a serious version of kath and kim it s stupid br br it s too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she s not even slightly stupid she s a stereotypical black latino chick br br it s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn t compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family they failed it s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don t act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated hillybilly horror sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there is absolutely new here the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich s deformed hicks a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who s good at heart etcetera but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this is forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j d hart once starred in a movie called films that suck earlier in his career quite an ironic omen indeed br br my grade d as a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much disney for my taste this film takes you on one family s impossible journey and makes you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully acted and photographed heartbreakingly real its last line with its wistful hope is one of the more powerful in memory stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me i can t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i d get fired and i own the company i would have to fire myself god this movie was just a plain steaming stinking pile of poo that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible something else i have to say the guideline about lines of text in a comment is idiotic what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg rated show i loved everybit of this show this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier s richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn t enough time to properly explore what s going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn t a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn t even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders typical meandering hero s stream of consciousness so it doesn t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn t it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i m afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies hail and kill this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i ve seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn t enjoy this one as much as rope but that s not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn t feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it s one of hitchcock s least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically it is always difficult to bring a pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven t been lost the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue s point of view then from maud s one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans having killed their father the vampire king radu now sets his sights on stefan stefan s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful bloodstone br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there s only one reason to watch this movie and his name is radu he s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i m just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it s original it s fun and radu is one of the best vampires i ve seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he s what a vampire should be let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and can not be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet can not explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it s more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it s going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it s usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed for a long time the menagerie was my favorite star trek episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by city on the edge of forever what i used to prefer about menagerie was that it s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline i still think it s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode though the new part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and us to watch the pilot the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one you can poke holes in the plot if you want for instance given the talosians mind control abilities and captain pike s condition why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st s only two parter coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym from when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn t watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then out of now out of largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren s missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona s guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she s a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn t is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i ve ever seen br br stars herculis puaro is in general a well established hero we know well from books and movies this movie or this story don t work and i felt its not agatha s mistake the cast isn t good the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic the scenes are as said before perfect and looking fake the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim is not likable how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well this was by far the worst movie i ve ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round if you ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much as i did that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut s writing that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself and that you can t put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen does this mean that the movie misses the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense i ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut s genius and loses grip on his own craft i would not place this movie as one of the best i ve seen but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching by taking vonnegut s voice out of the movie s narration or trying to insert it however it can mother night tells his story brilliantly and preserves the story s fundamental lessons without confusion distraction or disappointment this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn t funny but it s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn t expect anything better by director michael bully herbig who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but erkan and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel who is very beautiful to me i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the s a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak she was and he was when this movie was released i think that the difference didn t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it does matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that is why his character would be attracted to hers but it s less clear why hers would be attracted to his br br still the movie works as a light romantic fantasy the scene where she stares at him across the cat s head with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring is true magic it s a little jarring therefore when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply as he embraces her she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families the only conceivable flaw of this film is it s title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven t seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it s like a bad relationship i can t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man br br robert stack we love you salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives we see them panhandling in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donations is so lame no one gives them anything salva who is a hardened petty criminal doesn t even have any redeeming qualities that is until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a winning combination something that salva capitalizes on br br he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo salva shows he is a natural for the reality show he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program espe who is a no nonsense woman who is show s producer can t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention ultimately salva is the victim of his own success in the end br br jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie is had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television spain which was vulnerable to these types of programs has seen its share of the bizarre which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience br br the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film mr molla like any actor who decides to direct his first feature would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress is one of the best reasons for watching the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director these kinda movies just don t get the credit they deserve this is my nd all time favorite movie stand by me being st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasn t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn t real popular back in the s i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn t go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven t seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years i really can t believe i ve only just got round to watching purple rain the brand new disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it wow i was really looking forward to watching it but i wasn t prepared for just how electric it actually is prince s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding he really has the moves in this one i am very familiar from repeated listens with the classic purple rain album and all its songs but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics like computer blue the beautiful ones when doves cry and purple rain itself there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform the closing songs baby i m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid s he s overflowing it blew me away it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years br br prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight br br some of the scenes are very s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film s overall charm morris day is the coolest cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance br br i already can t wait to watch it again i really can t extras are terrific particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a prince groupie a good ol boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn t convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb i was extremely pleased with the film the film was dark moving the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon br br i had initially expected to see many special effects and like a lover s caress it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club br br eric etebari the best actor award was the number one choice you made jr lopez look like a child compared to kasadya br br overall the acting story line the high quality filming and awesome effects it was fantastic i just wish it were longer i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations but it is kinda hilarious at least if you grew up on weird al like i did it s a mockumentary about his life and career beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins it s uneven in places but some of the segments are still very funny particularly when he goes to japan although it s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation and he doesn t find love however fleeting he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life br br perhaps weird al isn t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet still this is a funny movie one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven t done since the fan boys took over alt asian movies and john woo s hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving it was very well directed with strong imagery the visual effects were amazing especially for a short it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard this leans towards the gothic feel i would love to see this as a full feature film carrie why else would he do this to me br br not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies or even decent movies i saw lois and clark i am aware of just how good dean cain is br br obviously this is gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoilers as you can t really spoil this movie any more than it already is br br to begin with why is that a fake helicopter i mean why br br how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried how hard would it have been to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren t american br br why are there occasions when the movie gives us a slug line we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on and then that s it who cares about the timeline to be honest who cared about it even when they mentioned it but i guess that s beside the point br br does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens the answer is no br br that dragon sure can walk down that hall over and over and over and over br br who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history it was straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon s dead now say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i used to be superman aha ha ha ha ha br br fade to black br br my god it made me cringe it was so stupid br br but never fear even though the whole building exploded and no one was left alive for some reason there s a second untouched unmanned lab that survived pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for us all br br minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretched scenes maximum headache inducing jerky zooms maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing up until the time flashes on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing to be fair the movie does have some string music that was interesting so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this unfortunately that was not to be and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i am trying to merk a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the eighty s it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don t get me wrong there are many more great performance s in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it br br couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won t shut up or a victim s father responding to the criminal s death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it s quite unprofessional and adds nothing it s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses br br but the rat yes the big rat why we didn t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the big one isn t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry br br the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn t stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself br br but not for more than ok well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie br br well i figured out within the first minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically br br the cast couldn t have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing br br all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man s legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn t just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself such a struggle is best told exactly as that a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che s life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner br br while the movie s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who arguably conducted the whole thing br br yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn t feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back there s the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve br br indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively br br with that said i can not rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part s ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie s characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film br br a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net sometimes it s hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody s idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against seamless hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin s the naked city that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already of course it isn t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars in the first minutes and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don s simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i m leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south br br a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good br br while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i ve seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses br br a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her br br and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he s about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he s about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher s flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one s eyes open for no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can t find in this version we watched br br the film s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better br br the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william golding s trilogy these three minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o war in the early th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who s worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life s hardships man s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o brian s series of novels on which it was based will love this for everyone else it s a whole new world to discover wow this is really not that good br br i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special br br the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies br br i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i m against politicians in general but if you re looking to be offended i can t help you br br not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin br br rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it s not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear br br another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it s then that you know you aren t simply watching another silly s slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it s originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what i d choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it s extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn t any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women s behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore suyin s attitudes always leave poor elliott a determined brave and extremely practical man anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact suyin s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people s life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead s family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone s daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn t know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i d heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow one word reviews that s what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn t age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don t watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience br br the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes br br one important factor of christy s success is his mother s support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy s dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh o conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other br br btw jim sheridan s works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying god knows why he chose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity i m stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it s an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clich of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there s nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it s possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it s miles ahead of this schlock do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you ve seen one of films scott made at rko during his prime the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town s main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won t say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they d learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america s movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word years ago when the city was named i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character s behaviors today s kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the events that s precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don t waste your time money on this one sigh leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far br br to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something br br lordi isn t scary lordi is lame lordi is over br br i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision br br no wait they won the eurovision that s it i rest my case after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that of the episodes really are nt that good but the other certainly make up for it if i had to pick great episodes id go for formula driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the s there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it s one of the best comedies of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary s excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs is so bad that it s fun meatballs and meatballs are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters the film s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself br br i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act br br higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you ll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey s wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor s mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai s robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dick philes should shun the stars collective what the hell attitude to their late s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn t stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it from i can t even describe it it s the worst movie i ve ever seen i m being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn t like to think much it s not even scary it s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clich s and cook it for a week or so and you ll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys was horrible the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn t know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn t great but this is telly so it was fine i don t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn t clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it ll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn t work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they ve even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a one flew over the cuckoo s next twelve monkeys type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story lady and the tramp ii scamp s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it s junior s turn lady and tramp s youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp s mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie out of wow what s this on the video rental store s shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasn t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fianc e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fianc e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn t like how this had nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn t believe the words coming out of david s mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn t even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good seconds long out of an hour and long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it s one of joel schumacher s better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie jack s performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him danny s performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn t here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn t she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn t need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it s alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could ve done it in a way that didn t look cartoony brave little toaster anyone the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow br br the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don t have much but what they do have angels baseball and what they are seeking identity that s when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are br br depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball s biggest boners dorothy kingsley and george wells dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox br br spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won t maybe i ll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it s a made for tv b movie the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness br br start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it br br on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i m sure this story will not be everyone s cup of tea especially considering the film s darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford s very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy s the sum of all fears fears will be harrison ford s third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas congresswoman it s a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford s quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford s character s investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch s investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack s thriller is top notched from dave grusin s pollack s the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film s unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br out of or out of for all of the has beens or never was s or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more br br robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself br br williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever br br one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester br br holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the director spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn t have pace rhythm it s illogical what a mess you can tell what s gon na happen since the first minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn t recommend this movie at all it s a waste of money and time i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the s their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k complete with bearded host br br capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he s a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python s and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why words no o j a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic br br in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it s no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable br br so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time br br out of broken hearts i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner s inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it s pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them what a good movie at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley s rock around the clock br br anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us br br spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally thinking of your own future br br bye had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she s in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that s how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don t have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic stars yes it is a bit cheesy but it s suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it s interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i ve watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it s difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn t be universally sought after but i m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i ll keep hoping so it isn t an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn t really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression i absolutely loved this film i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film s plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of to i d give it about an the only reason i shy away from is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it s a i definitely think it s a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents have to agree that this movie and it s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn t disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca s films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap this was my first gaspar noe movie i ve watched and i have to say i was shocked i don t mind gore in generally but this isn t even gore it s real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can t stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i ll let you figure them out don t watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i m a big fan of tom selleck s and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can t imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan s an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh although i lived in australia in i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the s and s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can t stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don t watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he manages to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the white mans view life begins and ends in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving br br oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace s loretta young husband what an actor as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i d like to see more of this actor s work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don t cut don t cut as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession br br loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months br br glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn t anyone know back in that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies health but her character redeems herself in the end br br also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable br br life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into out of this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie s character and denzel washington s of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock s rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you d be bored possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney s sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i m going to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn t seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can t leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney s name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of s this movie s true score br br as mentioned before chris rock is the king previous to going to see this movie i wasn t that over the top about him but now i m banging on the doors of chris rock s website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on br br there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn t realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture br br well to the actual plot of the film br br don t spoil the experience for yourself don t read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it s a cinema experience that doesn t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell s part is very small and doesn t add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn t stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money br br whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears br br it s so campy that among taylor fans it s probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you re way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam s torturing of his parents br br i m sorry to say this bam but you re in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he s going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera s already too big ego i don t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don t know how to categorize this film it wasn t scary or spooky so can t be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can t be a drama there was no suspense so it can t be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn t there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn t schlocky s horror films ya got ta love em in contrast to today s boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula br br this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without br br john carradine having long since given up looking for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director br br the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there s truth in advertising it s just sad that the ghoul didn t understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can t go around tugging on satan s coat and expect him to take it lying down br br sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses i suppose for this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now years it s charm was just as silly as it s entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained overall it s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all now i don t hate cheap movies i just don t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad s camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes br br maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn t maybe i hate it because it s cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can t save this br br seriously this one is a complete waste of time a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land br br the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn t fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own it s a neurological drama it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person s brain br br it s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf br br no small feat for such a sort of a movie br br the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn t think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn t just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i m your father and i m smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce s wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i d recommend watching it s hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it s heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you re a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw s match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i m a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it s a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn t make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i d recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it s no good amanda i ll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he ll mark your packages return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the don t mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it s the greatest movie ever done it s just crap on a stick it also didn t help that the story line was sooo crappy i don t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i m very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn t they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael latt didn t have steven spielberg s budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either br br the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you d think if he was turning into a real bat he d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood s the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he s just having an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction br br it s not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it s bad in a clich d wooden professional way it s just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved br br i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but br br the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver br br he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario br br he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episodes instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clich d acting mannerisms br br he needed to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant br br i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it s bad but it isn t bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don t laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven t disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn t yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don t get off on their own self importance years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that s what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie s nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything br br the plot follows a group of teen cliche s on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled i m supposed to feel sorry for this guy br br to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it s message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn t even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it s surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like hour and minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a and if your not happy with my preview seriously i m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won t go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you ve been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they re exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment s hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to feet long in a matter of a day but don t grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don t meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don t necessarily change the direction they re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age br br animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for swearing at the same volume br br old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military']

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[['one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just oz episode you ll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn t dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn t mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn t say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who ll be sold out for a nickel inmates who ll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the polari but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master s of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with halliwell s murals decorating every surface are terribly well done i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy the plot is simplistic but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable even the well bread suspected serial killer while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point risk addiction i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love br br this was the most i d laughed at one of woody s comedies in years dare i say a decade while i ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson in this she managed to tone down her sexy image and jumped right into a average but spirited young woman br br this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it was wittier than devil wears prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friends basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time br br this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie br br ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots br br out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them petter mattei s love in the time of money is a visually stunning film to watch mr mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter br br this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler s play about the same theme the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect each one is connected in one way or another to the next person but no one seems to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film has a sophisticated luxurious look we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat br br the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter br br the acting is good under mr mattei s direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these characters come alive br br we wish mr mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work probably my all time favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it s not preachy or boring it just never gets old despite my having seen it some or more times in the last years paul lukas performance brings tears to my eyes and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles is a delight the kids are as grandma says more like dressed up midgets than children but that only makes them more fun to watch and the mother s slow awakening to what s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling if i had a dozen thumbs they d all be up for this movie i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i ve got what i wan na say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first aired the first or years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by the show was not really funny anymore and it s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn t still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can t believe it s still on the air encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film bad mistake i ve seen films and this is truly one of the worst of them it s awful in almost every way editing pacing storyline acting soundtrack the film s only song a lame country tune is played no less than four times the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film br br the only thing that prevents me giving this a score is harvey keitel while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessives only if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie if you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked it br br great camp phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines br br at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore br br its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there were some pretty interesting characters but eventually i just lost interest br br i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking br br for something similar but better try brother from another planet i saw this movie when i was about when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn t care much for the romantic angle as a year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules so im not a big fan of boll s work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller br br three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr krieger played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven t even gone far before i started to cry mehehe i can not go on any more if you wan na stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of scheisse that s poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wan na take a wiff go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wan na shoot him the first three minutes he s on screen the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because the scottish play is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you can not improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i ve ever seen sort of like a high school film project what was rosanna arquette thinking and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town pretty hard to get involved with this one no lessons to be learned from it no brilliant insights just stilted and quite ridiculous but lots of skin if that intrigues you videotaped nonsense what was with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounters and what was with that absurd dance with everybody playing their stereotyped roles give this one a pass it s like a million other miles of bad wasted film money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa some films just simply should not be remade this is one of them in and of itself it is not a bad film but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson was excellent as he always is and most of the cast holds up with the exception of owen wilson who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more this movie made it into one of my top most awful movies horrible br br there wasn t a continuous minute where there wasn t a fight with one monster or another there was no chance for any character development they were too busy running from one sword fight to another i had no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them br br scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies lotr star wars and matrix br br examples br br the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda obee one and vader br br the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings elijah wood is the victim in both films and wait it hypnotizes stings its victim and wraps them up uh hello br br and the whole machine vs humans theme was the matrix or terminator br br there are more examples but why waste the time and will someone tell me what was with the nazi s nazi s br br there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it was a children s movie or an adult movie and wasn t much of either br br just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in my dad took me my brother sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it an awful film it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe they ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition my complaint is not that they ve taken liberties with the facts if the story were good that would perfectly fine but it s simply bizarre by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script i suppose there weren t enough naked people in the factual version it s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist s life we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they d favored the rest of the film with same brevity after the success of die hard and it s sequels it s no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a movies cashed in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that is what they did with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallone s career br br cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing base jumping aviation facial expressions acting skills all in all it s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills and unintentionally plenty of laughs br br you ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddies and best of all the permanently harassed and hapless turncoat agent rex linn as travers br br he may of been henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely can t be it really does look like ralph waite s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death br br mention too must go to former london s burning actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football yes you can t help enjoy that bit hal needed a good kicking br br so forget your better judgement who cares if that could never happen lower your acting expectations turn up the volume and enjoy and if you re looking for qaulen he s the one wearing the helicopter i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it s entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn t even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it s almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you won t regret it it s too much fun rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn t anything more other than him i still liked it the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times you really start liking it first of all let s get a few things straight here a i am an anime fan always has been as a matter of fact i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several b movies because they re hilarious c i like the godzilla movies a lot br br moving on when the movie first comes on it seems like it s going to be your usual b movie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime comes on this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill br br the animation is very bad cheap even worse than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it s so cheap one of the few scenes from the movie i vividly remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school it s the same kids over over again the fx are terrible too the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation is unorganized the dialogue voices especially the english dub that i viewed was horrid i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd vhs player the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes comments like the robots joel mike on mst k you pick the season honestly this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time br br heck i m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night because it s stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time i m giving this movie a an improvement from the i was originally going to give it br br according to my grading scale means pretty much both boring bad as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun as counting to this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there is no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me nor does the development of the cop it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the s and not even a good one in those standards br br the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter s complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia gibb portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen s mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren t though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i ve read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don t want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it s all about and not how it s all about and i guess that s what some people don t like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it d at least get nominated for best picture br br i ve noticed that i ve kind of been repeating myself not because there s nothing else to say but because i can t stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of this film tried to be too many things all at once stinging political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family values promo the list goes on and on it failed miserably at all of them but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end br br although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film br br there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening reminds me a bit of three kings which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i d be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america s funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once war movie is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich d dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and ren e zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier s tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast coming to ada s rescue is the course tough as nails ruby thewes played by ren e zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby s deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant br br director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether taut and organically gripping edward dmytryk s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger s apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who s assigned to ryan s outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who s leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it s pretty much confined to young s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there s no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it s based on richard brooks the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don t fit so smoothly the victim s chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there s a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan s murderous rage ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he can not achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video which has brought us other cult classics such as spider baby the print quality is excellent but this alone can t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull there s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie is slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling adding insult to injury the movie was dubbed not subtitled as promised on the video jacket one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man titta di girolamo a physically non descript middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy when we re introduced to him at the start of the film he s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo s cash tell him that dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes at the news he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can t bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this bluffed only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo s troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who won t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life titta decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di girolamo s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell amore or l imbalsamatore another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist s insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dell amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it s almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of titta s best friend a man whom he hasn t seen in years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it s never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like titta accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator s expectations le conseguenze dell amore is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt xa during the second half of the s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell amore l imbalsamatore and others your loss world i watched this film not really expecting much i got it in a pack of films all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i was right they were all terrible this movie has a few and a few is stretching it interesting points the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch the drummer is very like a drummer i e damned annoying and well thats about it actually the problem is that its just so boring in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious i had my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but gave it a go and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking coz they don t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot i thought he looked a bit like a meercat all this and i haven t even mentioned the killer i m not even gon na go into it its just not worth explaining anyway as far as i m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who was actually quite funny it wasn t because of their acting talent i ve certainly seen a lot worse but i ve also seen a lot better best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry i bought this film at blockbuster for because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don t usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she s wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it s teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i ve been writing into a pg movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it s number so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though the plot is about the death of little children hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter in the end the serial killer get caught that s it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors it is unbelievable how bad these actors are including hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just don t watch the movie i ve warned you ever watched a movie that lost the plot well this didn t even really have one to begin with br br where to begin the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable or even the beginning which suggests a spate of killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction br br add a lead actress who can t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty but not in the way you hope br br given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offers nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder don t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before br br after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of us no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon br br it really is only a movie as they say okay so this series kind of takes the route of here we go again week in week out david morse s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what s wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david koepp a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can t see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let s hope something good can make it past a first series after sitting through this pile of dung my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it was that listless and formulaic but the u s propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves disappointingly that it s the work of humans call me a conspiracy theorist but quotes like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there s also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr whatever her name was being chided by all involved for never shutting up she s clearly in the movie only for looks but they felt the need to slap a dr title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage s character says don t you ever shut up and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands like she s a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie was that it s so astonishingly bad you do get a few laughs out of it the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it creepy it had all the clich s of movies of this type and no substance the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it the production was good however the script and acting were b movie quality the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors the good actors didn t hold their own nor did they lift up the others br br this movie is not worthy of more words but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines james wood and cuba gooding jr play caricatures of themselves in other movies br br if you are looking for mindless entertainment i still wouldn t recommend this movie this movie is based on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out fifty s hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances pass but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held bullets has there been such a miracle i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god s army was okay and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br dutcher s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what dutcher shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time dutcher try making a movie that someone can identify with this movie struck home for me being i remember the s and my father working in a factory i figured if i worked hard too if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream the house a few kids a car all to call my own i ve noted however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you can t get anywhere br br i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs it s made for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic an t find it anywhere i d love to show this to my friends my pseudo friends family and other relatives see what they think and remind them that once upon a time americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished i think the feeling is still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas as a disclaimer i ve seen the movie times in the last years and i only just saw the musical this week this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn t in the musical however it tainted me when i watched the musical br br i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene is one of the best parts of the movie a worthwhile addition compared to the musical the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical as well as the cast which is at least times bigger easier to do in the movie of course the decors lighting dancing and singing are also much superior in the movie which should be expected and was indeed delivered br br the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie the new ones are quite good ones and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion especially compared to a musical which has few decors the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters but their dancing is impeccable and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham s nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born canaanites wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists linguists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one preston sturgis the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry luce clone thatcher s memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane s story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner s right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom s confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union s headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane s success few films do including all of orson welles other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one s interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve s son by tom s son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans sturgis came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers return to the th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the s and s whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western s clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest this is presented in shaw scope just like the good old days br br this film is a simple story of good versus evil told in acts which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era br br act one sets up the premise workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot having their wages cut by by incoming manchu gangsters they can t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters and their boss at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequences but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times br br act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob however without real martial arts he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly after some slapstick moments he finally gets accepted by the abbot whom he impersonated but is disappointed at the teaching methods kinda like mr miyagi s style in karate kid but instead of painting fences he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly builds strength endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way br br act three is where the fight fest begins with cheesy sound effects each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow with some pause in between moves but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks they sure don t make fight scenes like they used to return to the th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday so if you re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what are you waiting for spoilers all too in real life as well as in the movies familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hands the case of young and innocent in never handling or firing a gun jimmy davis franchot tone has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men like jimmy davis are forced to take up arms for their country br br jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay by being belted in the mouth by his good friend fred p willis spencer tracy ended up on the front lines in france with jimmy s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german who raised his arms in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him br br recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy gladys george rose was really in love with jimmy s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her it s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose thinking that he was killed fell in love and later married jimmy when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy now fully recovered from his wounds was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy s proposal of marriage to her br br with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred who s still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city s underworld not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster br br jimmy s life of crime came full circle when rose after she found out about his secret life ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a valentine day like massacre with his gang members dressed as cops of his rival mobsters while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence is up get his life back together br br spoiler alert hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law it s at fred s circus where he works as both manger and barker that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he like at his trial had a sudden change of heart but the thought of going back to prison with at least another ten years added on to his sentence was just too much for jimmy it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job that he himself didn t have the heart to do for him bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones br br bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides deaths the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards br br you have got almost everything in this movie the scientist s assistants consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her sons a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela s house bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie br br the corpse vanishes is worth a look especially for bela lugosi fans great fun br br rating stars out of i can not believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line s tape this ain t no minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an the percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of as strikingly similar to the post socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a whupping they deserve it s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can t be denied the right to ever vote again they ve clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he s helped create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic as robespierres plight is it s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine as someone has already mentioned on this board it s very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with love machine it starts to show its faux hand about the minute mark with minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it s downhill from there br br director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn t get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in when the film was made eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn t work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it s not going to be an oscar nominated film it s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes br br the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert it s just them fighting back throughout the whole film which includes a lot of violence which is basically the whole film as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience br br i d give the hills have eyes ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment something to pass time if you re bored and nothing else br br i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned no spoilers br br after hitchcock s successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne dumarier s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock s sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freaks and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock s more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time shooting ban on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock s most well known films it s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock s original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his deaf wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it s not a big movie and doesn t try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his th performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they re taking their bows and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren t other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn t get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser what happened what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie loses it actually it never really got going there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant then find out that she is after all but that was it steve martin who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie other than to make it longer i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it was not but maybe a drama with comedic elements i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot i ve just watched fingersmith and i m stunned to see the average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it so let s begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg s movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it s quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence besides being boring the scenes were oppressive and dark the movie tried to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with its message what were the redeeming qualities on top of that i don t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did an unmarried woman named stella bette midler gets pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own things go ok until the child named jenny trini alvarado becomes a teenager and things gradually and predictably become worse br br i ve seen both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affected me much and i cry easily but they were well made if dated trying to remake this in was just a stupid idea i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of beaches to get this made this predictably bombed the story is laughable and dated by today s standards even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actors don t help in supporting roles flimsy and dull really who thought this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a don t torture a duckling is one of fulci s earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot g a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don t torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci s later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci s non splatter films but don t despair don t torture still has more than it s fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn t bother you then definitely give this one a look busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn t going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter liapis who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this film whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an asylum is hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br solely for the high bimbo quotient i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali larter her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you i m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though marques houston did appear in hp he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren t the most talented and couldn t carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i m sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i m sorry kym whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the hudlin brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i m no nasa expert but surely it s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film out of with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don t go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then i m comin upstairs junior and i m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offsetting his small role however is dan acroyd who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it s not that shocking it s not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis cerda s sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material although i don t care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written its not just about entertainment there s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across and yes it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn t watch sepet and or gubra for times br br i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right its really ironic how the characters relate like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future br br and i absolutely love the voice overs its crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there was suddenly mukhsin s voice saying bismillahhirrahmannirrahim the scene when he climbed the tree br br it captured malaysian s attitude and in some mild way sniggering at how pathetic it is portrayed in the character for example even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isn t sorted out br br all i can say is this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it br br it kept me glued to the screen i couldn t even take my eyes off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha i am not a golf fan by any means on may about pm the movie started with a scene in the late s old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don t want to give away too much i was up until a m this is super please see the movie upon viewing tobe hooper s gem crocodile in i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts with ed writing the scripts and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer all we d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants br br while tobe hooper s crocky opus referenced his own movies blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages rip offs to jaws temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock br br i was disappointed the crock didn t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism or crocky appreciation but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach perhaps in the coming years we ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed br br all in all the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me it tries to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like sh kasugi christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time it s actually is a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it s flaws captures your interest it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it even if it s made in the s it doesn t have a modern feel it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had this on the other hand just has the real feeling you just can t hate it i think it s an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they don t because coburn has a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman br br that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after as he explains it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired it s not something he s proud of she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt br br lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is heston is his usual stalwart hero but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn he blows everyone else off the screen when he s on br br coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can t touch him he knows that heston has to make it personal then br br coburn s gang includes morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be br br the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western andrew mclaglen directed it and i m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there is a lot br br for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men is your film maybe it was the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which is with the director as he keeps saying hi kids into the camera like a buffoon but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator turns out it s way too sleazy for its own good or bad or whatever there s a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respects in not having balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies and with the killing scenes there has to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in creating the creature killer whatever entrails of a virgin has neither it s safe to say it s a pretty soulless movie even if isn t one of the very worst ever made it s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their other heads br br in this case we re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by a murderer as he s credited first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on we get spliced in or phoned in take your pick clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere it looks like it s from another movie then once settled into the house there s a wrestling scene that s poorly choreographed and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killings first the rape by the photographers who promise the girls some jobs for their time then the murderer who like d amato s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one br br now the latter of those taken by themselves should be considered the highlights of the movie this is like saying however that the cro tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eye gouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually is kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl whose inconsequential name i can t remember even this becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title on top of this the sex scenes which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway are dubbed over by the actors you d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one where it s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch as the last girl left alive the virgin of the picture tries to stop the murderer from getting to her which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him you just want it to be done with for the i hate women mantra to ease up or be rid altogether the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a rotten tomatoes users ranked it at and the critics averaged an amazing if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike mina s son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren t a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo stephen hawkings is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it s a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they ll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won t be the same after you see it the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don t need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of s then the rest of us will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don t even get me started about the southern accents y all and the story was trite just remember you were warned oh god i must have seen this when i was only or twelve don t ask how i may have been young but i wasn t stupid anyone could see that this is a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly i ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland i ve seen better performances at a school play and i ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignoring the children tapping on the glass br br the story is set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people are trying out a new water sport surfing in shark filled waters it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family br br i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years the best of which is lake placid and the worse of which is its sequel blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind br br the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer s life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number reminds me that he s still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can t get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that s titled the number is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn t even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous and i have never seen such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i was very disappointed the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldn t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end if you don t want to know much about the plot don t keep reading br br gilbert s character ophelia is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor is matt who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce he is gentle convincing and compelling in this role br br the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love br br the chemistry between the two leads is not great even though the talent of these two people is not in my opinion a question they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical two people meet tragedy bigger tragedy a secret is revealed another tragedy and then they get together i wish there was more to it than that but there it is in a nutshell br br i wanted mindless entertainment and i got it with this in regard to the genre of romantic films this one fails to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner is far superior not a steele book as are some of steele s earlier books turned into film oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don t even remember how many i ve seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all dramaticness ok this is for kids who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we ll let me tell you there s a million of you d this is one of them i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this nicholas walker is paul the local town reverand who s married to martha ally sheedy but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so doing he gets a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of misery type of way it s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator in a film billed as a black comedy one has to bring both elements into said movie while this does bring the former in spades it sadly contains none of the latter furthermore you can t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one br br eye candy dara tomanovich gets topless sally kirkland also shows some skin br br my grade c br br where i saw it showtime showcase hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore verbinsky to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn t entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clich s all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn t enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn t that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it s getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood bullshits down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment if you came here it s because you ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that s what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother s trailer i swear to god br br you know what i m not writing anymore about this it s just too painful deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read are three smart girls in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences it also stars ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it s a sweet story about three young women now living in switzerland with their divorced mother who hear their father winninger is marrying again not having seen him in years and knowing their mother still loves him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper nanny determined to stop the wedding realizing that the intended called precious barnes is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count this is arranged by their father s accountant king the man he chooses is a full time drunk auer but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess br br this is a delightful film not cloying or overly sugary at all with some nice performances particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young women are pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course is on young durbin who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer in fact her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult she has no trouble with the high notes as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sings a delightful il bacio in a police station br br one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father played by charles winninger not want his children around until he sees them and gets to know them barnes as the gold digger isn t all that young but the girls mother looks way up there so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger more glamorous woman in fact he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters br br universal gives durbin the big star buildup here she has the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point was still paying his dues and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is br br very entertaining and of course this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new better and different those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing directing and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england other days other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment made in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchens in the major roles under the brush stroke direction of mike newell these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter s eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille s classic epic of starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some rivoting scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning pharohs armies building sethi s pyramids could have been done with todays technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn t want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gangs of new york in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody s in the pianist and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot just to name a few his roles all influence eachother but each is seperate and utterly unique he changes completely with each character he takes on and i m beginning to believe that he can act as anything anything br br as cristy brown he is stunning he does not ridicule the character and he does not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown comes to life a smart man an outrageous man human br br this movie despite small scene transition faults and the like is an inspiration yes it s predictable but is it stupidly sentimental no i laughed i cried not a single moment of cheese proof that this isn t a hollywood movie br br my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant when cristy is discussing painters with eileen peter and her friends here s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax i ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that s animated wheel out the cripple and his performance never slows down never falters and is beautiful simply he has a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tired of cristy s perspicacious eyes twitching and guttural speeches br br a must see fo sho yo my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn t be much good the movie s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making hera s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don t see the gods and there s no real certainty that they exist so it s got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn t do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg s works and again and again don t understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood s movies cause it s so inept it s very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there s no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it s extremely inept amateurish film it s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion s gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach s castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma s home a floating space station here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station s power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at lives still these minor problems aside it s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we ve been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect out of this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature spatula madness is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job joins in the fight against the evil spoons this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning but is barely present for the remainder of the feature this film s minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lies below it the plot that is set up doesn t really have time to show but it s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films this film is worth watching at least a few times take it for what it is and don t expect a deep story okay last night august th i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here s what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i ve ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van bebble s take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second dibs on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you ve heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn t want to have anything to do with how in god s name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock n roll mind of a man who couldn t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public s image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie s work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i m glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart i am glad i did it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake the bonus levels were very hard the sniper one i think was too hard it made me so frustrated i didn t play the game for a week and a half there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it br br the only thing i might change was the upgrade system i didn t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded such as buying an armor upgrade didn t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter i really liked the q copter i think the developers did a good job no this hilariously horrible s made for tv horror clinker isn t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness that s quite tasty in a so execrable it s downright awesome sort of way richard crenna looking haggard and possibly inebriated and yvette mimieux who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppets from the disney witch mountain pictures are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesn t that sound really scary and disturbing well scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain t but it sure is funny thanks to curtis night tide harrington s hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effects an almost painfully risible n ridiculous plot and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story besides the leads both martine beswicke and r g armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy show people released by mgm in davies plays a hick from savannah georgia who arrives in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot as is davies outrageous southern costume davies lands a job in slapstick comedy not what she wants but it brings her success she meets fellow slapstick star william haines who is immediately smitten with her well davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio high art studios and lands a job in stuffy period pieces a handsome but fake actor andre telefair shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that is not who she really is marion davies is wonderful throughout as she outrageously runs the gamut of emotions required of a serious actress william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self and there are cameos by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous stars of the day including the director of the film king vidor this is a silent film with a few sound effects as sound pictures were just coming into their own a treasure of a film the performance of every actor and actress in the film are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again however i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors and director attenborough s credits that puzzles me aren t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent long lasting film for the audience i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don t have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director s chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it s very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she s sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated this is the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared not handsome but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark pretty as she is is also a complete and believable jane eyre this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this is the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this apparently the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called movie they described blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skin but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the plot furthermore as a viewer of many and sundry films some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain br br correct br br jonathan tanner br br br br p s i was not blinded by the choreography i liked boyle s performance but that s about the only positive thing i can say everything was overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actors spoke like you would expect your year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded stone hearted cop or an ultra evil villain the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music and what s with the whole ish police torture stuff it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story cox added a lot of things in fact that he apparently thought would be really cool but had nothing to do with the story that s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges stories so good is his minimalism they are tightly bound with no superfluous details this movie is just the opposite i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i wasted renting this but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you what a pity this film is very boring and so long it s simply painfull the story is staggering without goal and no fun br br you feel better when it s finished so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin s adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven t really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys as well br br loved it the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we re used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release of stars this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a foodie the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette s menu and choice of wines are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a out of film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it set in the the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the danton affair written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris usually i m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties early nineties film featuring now has beens but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through guys dressing up as girls has been done to death but never so pathetically corey haim s performance was abysmal as usual nicole eggert was not much better this has no redeeming qualities even if you are a number fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash stay away i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almod var regulars appear in this film so it s not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn t find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood s novel the robber bride and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an ex cop journalist tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman s crazy female friends it s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms atwood s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men victims of scheming women br br heh okay you got me if these guys are mentioned in the book and i m pretty sure they re entirely made up for the movie i ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female characters of the novel aren t enough to carry the movie zenia s manipulations aren t interesting unless we see them happen to a man and a man s life is screwed up roz charis and toni tell their stories to a man because it s not important if a man doesn t hear them br br i liked the characters in the book it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man s story i normally do not look for feminist angles on media and i tried to enjoy the movie as is if i hadn t read the book i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the ex cop and you want to read more about them you re out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot it s the same plot the movie excavated it ironed it and sprinkled it with male angst it s like zenia s revenge on margaret atwood this movie gets a because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid s monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn t terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it s a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br the synopsis isn t entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston rekert as paul sharpe s newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr rekert mr novak s investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom rekert fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo missing in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn made money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place of course not troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it is this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this revolt of the zombies proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn t necessarily make lightning strike twice br br the halperin brothers responsible for the horror classic white zombie made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi s eyes from that previous film there was a court battle with the white zombie film s rights owners who didn t want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word was the only thing that could help this film because as everyone knows bad films can make much more money simply by having the word zombie appear in the title knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead but simply hypnotism victims br br wan na create a mind controlled army of zombies be ready to crack a few eggs including your own br br the lame plot man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend whom she loves jealous this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn t worth spit br br this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i ve ever seen you d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming the acting isn t even good this movie makes the racially insensitive king of the zombies which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invaders seem like a serious drama this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama the credits list the ironically named company favorite films i m not sure whose favorite film this would be but they re obviously an idiot br br not recommended for fans of zombies romance or classic films the complaints are valid to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women i am okay with these night time soaps like grey s anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end however when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romps and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital it seems like general hospital or a female counterpart to baywatch that was what men wanted and they had it so if this is what women want so be it but the idea that this is a high brow show or something men will watch is unrealistic this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year i didn t see any cameos in the movie but it is still pretty good it is similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this is a better put together movie it actually has a point if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roeper s review of this movie is right on i mean i don t really like ebert on most movies but this is the movie that i will agree about the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laughed at when it is found out about but it still suggests that you wait steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet it is still funny i remember seeing this film in the mid s thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is newish it just seconds away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces br br it s look like the dvd is due a region release soon the region copy i is very poor quality let s hope they ve cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominated it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he s sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudy s situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn t fit in but before it s all over murray s performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn t matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don t let the absurd rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman of stars br br the hound the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won t miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn t have to go back why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it s mindboggling one of the premises of film is that our hero who s a hacker has a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he s helpless and can t get into any computers he s a hacker it s like saying that you can t drive your car if you don t have your lucky driving cap on i won t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off i know these horrible things happen in the world but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species br br this should be banned and destroyed i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market br br this movie should be removed from the public the person who made this movie needs psychological help anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i d love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was s love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i m an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english s experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english s talents didn t translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the s doesn t translate to the s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone s time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let s remake a classic with worse everything i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill jackie kennedy s sister and the cousin of these women would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be considered the skeletons in the family closet the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women i d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating i e are they nuts or am i missing something this movie is hard to come by netflix does not have it facets does though c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages br br this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show br br except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average br br this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example br br just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what i just watched this movie on it s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william s zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that s the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there nanoo nanoo i caught this film on azn on cable it sounded like it would be a good film a japanese green card i can t say i ve ever disliked an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean and i am a huge fan of john woo s hong kong films i an not adverse to a light hearted films like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourites so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly acted film ever again br br i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude because no one in this film had a personality and when any of the characters did try to act as opposed to mumbling a line or two their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy because i didn t laugh once even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this a refreshing breath of comedy it was neither refreshing nor a breath of comedy and the ending was very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things br br avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst is a better acted film than this and i walked out half way through that film before i begin let me get something off my chest i m a huge fan of john eyres first film project shadowchaser the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son s coach but once executed meeker returns as a revenant or as kelly perine calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making silvano s life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker s wife br br director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film s main flaw since there s nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse ye lou s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her ex lover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting br br i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitutes a convoluted semi historical conflict for a plot without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes the sudden time shifting doesn t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless normally i don t mind dark movies but the absence of light the bone jarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i don t think that helps the movie the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the th century and i don t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moments don t add to its watchability br br the actors are all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films brooding and looking generally annoyed however at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator br br all in all a very disappointing film especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he after hearing about george orwell s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life i m now but never having read the book i am totally confused as to what i ve just seen br br i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel as i m sure most are but only through hearsay and quotes without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery and even with it i m still no more educated about the story of than i was before i watched it br br on the plus side br br the cinematography is amazing hurt burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making br br now for the down sides and there are plenty br br there is a war going on at least as far as the propaganda is concerned but why with who nothing is explained there are a couple of names bandied about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation br br who is winston what does he do where does he come from where does he work why is he changing news reports why isn t he on the front line why doesn t he eat the food in the canteen what is that drink he s drinking through the entire film why is he so weak ill why isn t he brainwashed like the rest of them what s the deal with his mother sister what happened to his father a little back story would have been nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that haven t read the book without it this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on br br the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it s very annoying all the same br br also i know this has been mentioned before but why all the nudity it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage br br i personally can t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days we are not all brainwashed simpletons but this is a few steps too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you ve read the book because if this film really is the literal translation that i ve seen many people say i would find it very hard to understand why is hailed as the classic it is br br there s no denying that it was light years ahead of it s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline br br i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i m to make any sense out of this br br all in all very disappointed in something i ve waited for years to watch this cute animated short features two comic icons betty boop and henry br br henry is the bald slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks br br well here he does speak br br he wants to get a puppy from betty boop s pet store and when he is left to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue br br betty sings a song about pets henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey but everything works out in the end i just got back from this free screening and this osama witch project is the hands down worst film i ve seen this year worse than even catwoman which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction br br in september tapes a film crew of documentary journalists heads to afghanistan despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip the conditions and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife s death on sept to track down osama bin laden br br they made eight tapes on their journey which now document their travels and of course their attempts to kill the terrorist leader the eight tapes thankfully all end at points significant in the narrative which is convenient for a documentary br br the psychotic idiotic protagonist who is given to long significant speeches that he probably learned watching macgyver cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps i don t know why he didn t just wear a sign on his back that said shoot me br br the crew s translator supposedly their sensible voice of reason does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom br br you wish they d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons br br around tape i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew i remember seeing this film in the theater in when i was years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell s voice was dubbed by someone else ian holme was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i m used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until am to see it a family is traveling through the mid west there s widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and ben s little daughter k t geri reischl then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they re forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros strother martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there s some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can t explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it s a quiet kind of horror that isn t made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman s flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she s also recently learned she s pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn t want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight s first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon says are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we ve been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it s a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying save time the only upside me was that the actor who played finny was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stopped there they should have continued to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there s nothing else there to show br br gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film i don t really think they exist i think they bought this script at scripts r us where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blanks there s a monster stalking us let s split up they actually let s split up in this movie hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar not dead yet burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie ir glasses spraying with something like paint were handled badly br br what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issues for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treating an invisible subject and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than seconds and would have been far more interesting had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have been a much better movie all in all it stunk br br i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie but i don t want to do any spoilers suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than a young girl becomes a war time marine s pen pal and when he visits at war s end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who tucks the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker s actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit plays the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses br br even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful though it couldn t catch up with the original it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors though the film bombed at the box office the actors got the undue recognition in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film br br all said this is not a family film so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family robert altman s downbeat new fangled western from edmund naughton s book mccabe was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario the characters here don t merit much interest and the picture looks intentionally brackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel once the profits start coming in beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action altman creates a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town is limited most of the story being made up of vignettes and altman s pacing is deliberately slow there s hardly a statement being made just the opposite in fact and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds it s a self defeating picture and yet in an altman quirky way it wears defeat proudly from what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me on second viewing a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation br br spoiler of sorts follows br br poor cedric he apparently didn t know what hit him poor audience we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guys just didn t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu an intellectual being to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach br br on a purely technical note i loved the camera action in this film subtitles were totally unnecessary even though my french is presque rien i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more this was a polished very professionally made motion picture though many scenes seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten i don t think i ve ever gave something a rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it s not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can t set up or finish a punchline and you ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it s just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that s screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he s still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out from the film s first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clich s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen s subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen s methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can t lose jane austen s technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth s wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody s follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen s elizabeth at least in austen s eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety knightley s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew macfayden br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache i ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is life sometimes has boring patches no real plot and not necessarily a happy ending a river runs through it is the perfect name for this film and norman maclean s novel life ebbs and flows like a river and it has it s rough spots but it is a wonderful trip br br robert redford brings a lot to the film his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly as a director he is restrained and calm and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes as for the acting craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers i don t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn s performances except that they truly feel real a river runs through it is a wonderful film br br out of the story is very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie is quite fine even the directing of it the main problem is with the castings that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael played impressively by asi dayan all other actors were unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl played by taly sharon was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors great script and rather good photograph was not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself is very powerful it s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a yo prison time drugs the end is rather sad mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency out of because very few greek movies can make such an impression mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i ve ever seen but what a film i thought it was fabulous excellent and impressive it was funny well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change and being able to pull it off this was great i ll definitely watch it again you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that s a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man s van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it out of stars i can t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i laughed a couple of times probably because of how stupid it was if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn t the plot was so horrible it made no sense and the acting was so bad that i couldn t even tell if they were trying that movie was terrible rating f this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic peens holding passion there s also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can t tell you how much that s been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of dido s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that s what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director s history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it s very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik s name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drinks any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink if you can t figure out the through line keep drinking beyotch whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it s easy br br that s it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian smirnoff punch jr even though i m quite young the beatles are my absolutely favourite band i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember br br it s the sort of film that is worth trying the once i can see why it wasn t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film it didn t much details except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up jared harris stars i d never heard of him he played john or aiden quinn who played paul however they are certainly underestimated actors br br the film had a slow start but as it developed i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters as a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like the script was brilliant and harris got lennon s accent personality and mannerisms spot on quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent the make up artists made them look excellent br br this paragraph may be counted as a spoiler br br as i mentioned before it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians as for lennon s rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it br br it is quite different from the other biographical films i ve seen where it s about how the beatles got together and became famous and those never really did the characters that well e g backbeat br br in conclusion i would say if you re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minutes long it s worth waiting for the film to develop br br if anyone does know whether the meeting of really did happen please send it to the comments page for this film i d be very interested an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn t so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it s like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a cafe around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty films as the burning bed enough or monster this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she s not such a bad person after all give us a break here s my question to the filmmakers if letourneau were a man and vili were a year old girl would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person answer hell no br br imagine switching the genders in this film and then you ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage were the genders switched there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead we d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl his lascivious behavior landing him in prison and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex br br let s call a spade a spade letourneau is a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts she s a criminal who belongs in prison and deserves our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy the premise of this movie was decent enough but with sub par acting it was just bland and dull br br spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death it was accidental so although it was a murder it wasn t like the guy set out to do it also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree there is no emotion in this film the first minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister and hearing her message it was dull and boring br br with some polishing and better acting it could have been pretty good the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy quaint streets and sunshine i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere br br othello works for big fat mr karva his crime boss step dad at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it s never really defined but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers so trust me he s a prick doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs one of his colleagues is runner a black dude who is always dashing from a to b until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running runner dumps the lost boy in othello s flat where he promptly starts granting more wishes keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled karva has the boy kidnapped but he isn t sure of what would really bring him happiness is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job either way i don t want to see the little boy grant him the second br br it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes the ending tries to be shocking but since there s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience br br writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell ironically if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film as it is we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy who s origins are never revealed that s just plain irritating br br aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score this film has little to recommend i can t emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you d best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i m overexaggerating a little this isn t the worst kids movie no let me rephrase that this isn t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i ve been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won t learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we don t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i degress br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there s a better movie kiki s delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it is nothing else on tv are you really bored well then watch phat beach however don t rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake br br i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard however there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at if you are looking for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie tries at kind of watch something like hoop dreams or jason s lyric if you are lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent however if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amused br br out of the elegant documentary br br don t watch this movie if you re an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you re about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the hubble telescope and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of possibility br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it s very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibilities quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn t seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i ve never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don t divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don t like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you ll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i m talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie originally slated for direct to video but bumped up to theatrical status it would become known as batman mask of the phantasm ten years after phantasm we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb sub zero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman joins the family br br the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line br br the animation is the sleeker futuristic style that was utilized for batman the animated series fifth and sixth seasons aka the new batman adventures it s quite nicely done and just as sleek as return of the joker s animation there is also some use of cgi but it s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero the music was alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans rodent shaped hearts br br kevin conroy as always does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman it s also great to have the old batman the animated series alumni back that includes bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon batgirl her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr alfred br br villains were also great especially given that rupert thorne the old mob boss from the original series appears for the first time since the fourth season br br overall while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan you will love the five minute short chase me i think this movie was supposed to be shocking but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it s been made and simply is it s one and a half hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie the five girls br br sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way which is basically fine since it s a horror movie and i usually like horror movies i ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever it s no spectacle other than that it s simply grotesque it s so lame it even gets boring and really quick too br br the worst thing if the above wasn t bad enough for ya about this movie is that they ve tried to copy the blair whitch project by filming with cheap hand held cameras but again this too serves no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough there s an explanation namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch in this film there s no other explanation than hey ya ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can t make out what they re saying also no effort has been made to make anything any better sound wise or other wise br br than finally there s the soundtrack which is just as bad as the rest and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock br br my advise don t watch this under any circumstances why can t a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they re fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i ve ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i ve seen but thankfully i can t remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader s c diorama set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn t needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i m kind of cheap i d have to have or bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we re plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the shlitz hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it s a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it s full blown old school horror steve johnson s make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking though i d heard that cama de gato was the worst brazilian movie of the decade i watched it giving it a chance after all first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature shot in video for just us and though it looks even cheaper i can t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it then as i watched it i realized why but whatever chances you re ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minutes it s an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex drugs and violence and they re made to look like closeted gays too made with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it lasts ninety two count em minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it s not even funny bad br br we ve all seen the story before bored young guys want to have fun go partying take drugs and everything goes wrong there s gang rape spanking murder the accidental death falling down the staircase of the mother of one of the boys culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film is heavily influenced by larry clark especially kids and bully but clark s films though also moralist and sexploitative are high class masterworks compared to this crap br br i don t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience s throat stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb minded with so much babbling yelling inept direction shaky camera and terrible acting going on stockler doesn t care a bit about technique the quality of the images framing sound recording soundtrack songs dialog sets editing etc is uniformly appalling but he s a narcissistic control freak he anticipates the criticisms he s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is i could relate to that br br despite his megalomaniac ambitions stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can t even decide if he wants gritty realism hand held video camera etc or stylization repetition of scenes use of alternate takes etc damn he can t even decide where to put his camera there s use of subjective camera for the three leads the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exists simply to justify the director s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for all you see is a filmmaker being hateful preachy condemning moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it br br it s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo s blat can be highly effective under good direction as in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here he s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped actors in recent memory he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn br br the film opens and ends with real interviews with typical middle class youth stockler wants us to take those interviews as proof of what he s trying to preach in fiction but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees selecting a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statements which only shows assholes exist everywhere stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior i couldn t tell br br with its dogmatic self righteousness headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom cama de gato is bad for a reasons but above all it s harmful in a very insidious manner it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato is best unwatched unmentioned buried and forgotten an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it was funny and sad and very beautiful well it starts out a bit dark a dog who escaped the pound and gets killed by an old friend ends up in heaven and comes back but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else was okay and the songs were fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaws the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didn t deserve to die but she is in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this is a very good animated movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommended for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this you ll find after the movie dom deluise has a very important and special message got ta love that guy ahehehe this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a clich hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan s ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing if you loved bulgakov s book you would be understandably afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story s deeper meaning to the screen there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita as complex and far fetched as the story is the movie leaves out nothing it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score with not a note missed why can t we find such talent here in the u s so now my favorite book and movie have the same title this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga br br that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before br br not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace br br this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched br br the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution br br as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying this has to be the worst piece of garbage i ve seen in a while br br heath ledger is a heartthrob he looked deformed i wish i d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him br br orlando bloom is a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him i can t say i agree br br rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn t wait to get off the set br br i m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers this is a far cry from butch cassidy which actually was an entertaining film this was trite cliche ridden and boring we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better it didn t br br the last minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel and women and children are dying because of their presence that s not funny but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i kept waiting for them to say i ll bite yer leg off we were howling with laughter as were several other warped members of the audience when we left pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was br br i may not have paid cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasn t free it cost me hours of my life that i will never get back a very ordinary made for tv product tyson attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans i m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn t you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department br br i just sat there through most of the movie thinking is this supposed to be funny and this is the guy from tenacious d right the truth is this film has nothing to offer at all it s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction you ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn t i was bored stupid about minutes in but though it would surely pick up it didn t minutes later i d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful br br it s like remember years ago when you d see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they were famous and you d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop yeah it s like that br br i ve enjoyed some of jack black s earlier movies like shallow hall and i m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to us again jack i m gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something at the least give you a serious talking to br br i know it s a clich but this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen and for so many reasons i haven t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i ve read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt s vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the damned s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i ll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where s the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem s lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let s see what else can i say it wasn t too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br jy br br jimboduck dot com while i count myself as a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there the pace of the gathering is slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confusing worse the characterization in the premiere episode is poor although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god s gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire i don t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the club they are today s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans as well as billions of humans the world over who don t happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth such as the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lost are they in their fantasy sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy however the club is in a class by itself they are truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lies disinformation and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion the club though is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of cult but due to the club s vast wealth conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip they are above the law in this country for those of you who have seen the movie the matrix you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them br br in less civil times the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the club out of town with torches and pitchforks but in today s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague br br the television ratings system and the v chip on tv s should also have a rating called r for religion so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape such as presented by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their children if you wish to see shakespeare s masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart s as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet s indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet s character together with the aid of shakespeare s full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud revengeful ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father s death and suspected murder or his mother s marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father s ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king s secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself the golden door is the story of a sicilian family s journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he ll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they re aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e delousing mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular salvatore s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish nifty little episode played mainly for laughs but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere but which passenger is it talk about your illegal immigrants all star supporting cast from wild eyed jack elam hamming it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if she s the martian then i say let s open the borders to cruel faced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it i watched mask in the s and it s currently showing on fox kids in the uk very late at night i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was it s just plain awful it is no where near in the same league as the transformers he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses comes on straight after it that s if mask doesn t put me to sleep first one of the lesser s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids phantasm class phantasm ii awesome phantasm iii erm terrible br br even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply can t the movie seems to have sold out first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start something the others did not also too many pointless characters prime examples the kid who is a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls erm not gon na work or rather shouldn t and the blooming zombies what the hell are they doing there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there is a severe lack of midgets running about br br the only good bits are the cracking start and of course reggie b br br possible spoiler coming up br br to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv br br overall very very disappointing ludicrous angelic year old annakin turns into whiny brat year old annakin who somehow seems appealing to amidala years his senior now year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams and so takes to slaughtering children his friends and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared br br i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention the story is ridiculous the characters are unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc br br obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hacks off annakin s legs lets him burn in the lava and leaves him to suffer doesn t anyone think that s a little out of character not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living as it turns out br br i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations none of that here the story could have been written by a year old br br oh yeah the cgi is pretty cool scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great b movie killer klowns from outer space agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to dialog the ladies in this bad s comedy not bad as in s lingo which meant good bad as in bad with no likable characters including but not limited to a kid who s the freakiest looking guy since friday the th part a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one has two this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedies and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel br br my grade d br br eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point think bachlor party but not as funny and very disturbing br br where i saw it comcast moviepass if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it s got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that s hard to do when you consider custer s last stand at the little big horn and it s prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there s an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there s a lot to take in here though for the picture s two hour plus run time custer s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the major s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer s first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadn t noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it s interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan s depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn s portrayal here it s more than evident but it doesn t come close to that of richard mulligan s take on the military hero in s little big man let s just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one s point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer s character when he stated you take glory with you when it s your time to go the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal s driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno s replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british gaumont studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger s the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman s film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film s title in amazing shining white and blue stating the thing one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter s greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i m really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius like justin out there no one can say i wasn t warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that s horror aficionados are always dying to know what s in there even if we know it ll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn t even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie a new way to enjoy goldsworthy s work rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion watching goldsworthy build his pieces one develops an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he uses goldsworthy describes how the flow of life the rivers and the tides inspires and affects his work although i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy s pieces no snowballs i do feel it was a bit long the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy s work to life and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch if you liked william hickey in prizzi s honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he s doing in this schlock fest morgan fairchild s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk i have seen most if not all of the laurel hardy classic films i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly even after watching it over and over again this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel hardy however fails miserably for various reasons one of which is how out of place their cloths are still early th century however are both portrayed in the s setting some of the former dialogue was brought back however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever the real laurel hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn t on so late at night it s on at am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the s and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the s i m hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy i have just given a for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i m not a git who only gives bad reviews but because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can t avoid them all they ll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we re talking about here has a great life she s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this happy hooker type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly pretty woman insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that is without his plastic friend yep don t leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination out of of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where s the charm where s the charisma don t mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don t either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate thieves highway a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i ll finish on a song br br pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don t believe you you re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn t help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you ll stay with me and i ll pay you i ll treat you right this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn t that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears can not act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn t chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn t a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake normally i don t like series at all they re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast br br these series however are well played the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one the story will still be catching your mind br br the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital holy sh t this was god awful i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters you know h ll bring your girlfriend and make things interesting you will be the only ones there anyway f ck this slide show br br ye be warned br br i recommend not watching this br br hello br br how are you br br i m pretty good br br enjoying this day br br i am br br this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie this is sad this movie is without a doubt a perfect for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time porn is watched for the porn jackie chan is watched for the action i think you people are rating it bad because there s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie was boring very boring but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that this did change the way how american action movies were created they have even stollen scenes from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan s hes pure in everyway he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park and even in todays movies american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do a masterpiece i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james mcnally s summary of the content of the film is very good nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world s dogs but also undercutting a number of interviewees comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore s recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasants as the stars de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making this movie really woke me up like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber br br this guy john ben chaplin leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girl to die for nadia nicole kidman ordered by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by johns plan however a glitch turns up nadia does not speak a word of johns language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process br br what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure giving the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably acted likewise br br kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles at least from the cultural background br br the pace of the film is fast and captivating and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear you rather feel that you re in the middle of the plot and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out br br my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it has an unusual plot great acting and ideas below the surface like the idea of the rude awakening from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society s machine the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all br br thank you writers for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewers i am sure of it ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it this sports a nice deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk the first third of this movie was nothing but talk and more talk most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other br br the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it s really a chick flick and little else this probably plays on the lifetime network br br there was a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they had lost me br br by the way sally field looked about years old in here i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you ll crack up on the ground and you ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison s attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don t remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can t stop laughing i wish i had that movie howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film s best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there s no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america s own imperial age br br america s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery s noble brigand candace bergen s feisty heroine john huston s wily john hay or steve kanaly s spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt s big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while what with all it s raving reviews nominations and media attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie was good it really portrayed the black music scene back then however as the movie wore on me and my whole family were bored out of our wits the singing just kept coming one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent br br furthermore i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters i just didn t care what happened to them even when eddie murphy s character died of a drug overdose i knew i should have been sad but i just couldn t feel any emotion for that character the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in br br finally the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which goes along with the lack of character development this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn t really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances one of starewicz s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz s films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz s old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil s club scene twigss and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work nice character development in a pretty cool milieu being a male i m probably not qualified to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isn t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters each has their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn t go for cheap comedy when it could have it didn t try to pound a lesson into us the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it needed to happen good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people prussic gas a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish the inspectors at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch renberg certainly have their hands full with this case it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turns is to inherit a great deal of wealth the girls who are targeted share a room with ann but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy s finest must figure out the staff of the girls dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation it s a clever scheme where a driver greaves g nter meisner meets the convicts who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind he gives them orders on who to kill and how uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening under suspicion are girls dormitory headmistress her author brother a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some are red herrings until they are disposed of throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered the ending features multiple twists br br out of the krimi films i ve seen the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it s colorful killer a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind s secret hideout with an alligator pit which isn t used the fake bible water pistol when opened fires the gas into the face of startled victims the greaves royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins abilities to get at the truth perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it i felt he was used as comedy relief particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims often misunderstanding what are told to him higgins using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator instead follows the clues facts often avoiding sir john as much as possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls executions i d say this may be one of the best if not the best examples of the krimi genre for it keeps you guessing always one more ace up it s sleeve the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there s a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special i saw this movie in the theater and was thoroughly impressed by it then again that was when claire danes was a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywood ized bitch she is today anyway this film really struck me as one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship films how far would you really go for your best friend i was moved to tears at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon as i left the theater i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you d do something like that for her i ve seen this film literally over times it s absolutely jam packed with entertainment powers boothe gives a stellar performance as a fan of actors such as william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never thought an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those roles until i saw boothe as jim jones as far as i m concerned powers boothe is jim jones this film captures his best performance the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there s the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it s hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn t have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one she appears like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese br br i have always liked her as an actor and had no idea she started this young with her career go figure i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on i say that because whenever i have watched her perform the characters thus far in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character quite nicely in fact br br anyway my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland somehow i assumed that was her first time up at bat not so well done reese this game ranks above all so far i had the honor of playing mine on ps so the graphics were really good the voice acting was above standard the difficulty level is just right wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting the only rating this game deserves is great this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation tanisha couldn t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director s spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it s certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she s married to the crippled edward g robinson who s the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck s daughter nor with lita milan who is keith s mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford s mouth i m a peaceable man would have been very applicable in the vioilent men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn t been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well apparently the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listening to a director andy copp s commentary which i didn t have available to me or reading up on the film prior to watching viewers won t have a clue what it is about br br gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage but unless they re also fond of pretentious headache inducing experimental art house cinema they ll find this one a real chore to sit through br br minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one s sanity if you ve still got all your marbles you ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watched the whole thing but am well aware that i m completely barking this movie was absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead i couldn t even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all celina jaitley was not bad the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it was pretty hilarious the songs sini ne and its remix version were really good you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster all in all it seems emran doesn t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat something ain t right theme song written by b j cook from skylark david foster s old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc s airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i d like to think this is really what detectives do did giambone was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor s name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama this movie fails miserably on every level i have an idea let s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if we re lucky they ll all be shot and killed and we won t have to ever have our time wasted by them again did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i can t think of anything i ve ever seen that was this bad i d rather watch ishtar times in a row than sit through minutes of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film i ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless that s my two cents yes i ll say before i start commenting this movie is incredibly underrated br br sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind br br the acting was good apart from thewlis br br stone really has a talent with this role she s slick naughty and seductive and doesn t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino morrisey was also good he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it thewlis however was lame he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way he really sucked br br overall this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james cy grant and michael crane i have seen this film at least times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn t the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn t you yay we ve solved the murder now like every other week let s go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young s terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can t believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b airport is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disaster in the sky formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft s flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other airport films supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the s nightmare is full of bad southern stereotypes complete with phoney accents not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised babe in prison movie especially in its uncut original version nevertheless acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular does a good job of making viewers hate him even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes there s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed who appears as the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligan s island made a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d br br ok i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it br br but we decided it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes br br and i m sorry but this has got to be one of the worst films in history br br it began off alright and we thought ok this might actually be ok but after about minutes we were sadly mistaken br br it began when the mysterious paint baller turned out to be the most obvious character the scouser australian i say that because he had an accent which couldn t be identified who s acting might i just say was abysmal br br then it got to the end and by that time we had all lost the will to live the paint ball finals br br the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn t actually win but annoyingly enough they won by default br br and i know this has nothing to do with it but the name the team were given was just awful critical damage i mean they could of picked a more awesome name like the destroyers of the anti christ or something or that s what the film should of been called anyway insignificant and low brained haha s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effects are tacky the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs the brain takes place in a typical quiet american town setting where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet it is here that a tv guru named dr blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling under the label of independent thinkers a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill how cool is that now it s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr blake and his monstrous brain actually come from there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that s about it meh who needs a background in a movie like this really there s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil brain looks like an over sized sock puppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she s obviously a great talent she has exactly movies on her repertoire of which this is her masterpiece in her debut she was credited as runaway model and in men and a baby her character is referred to as one of jack s girls i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie glc br br it s about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after glc what next for bronson br br we re using a new angle my family don t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won t be shown until well after the watershed well here s another terrific example of awkward s film making the rudimentary premise of what s the matter with helen is quite shocking and disturbing but it s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hush hush sweet charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but there s a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique we re literally catapulted back to the s with a sublime depiction of that era s music religion theatrical business and wardrobes following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winters flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies the script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced there s never a dull moment in what s the matter with helen although the singing tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters she s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who s about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combined there are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like mich al macliamm ir as the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an oscar are breathtaking resnais wow the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a s french musical in vibrant colour the opening voice over with old embellished inter titles was a nice touch then the camera aperture opens like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera backs off or rather up suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party this is all in the first seconds br br then the music starts a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i can t blame it on the subtitles those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minutes into the film br br i m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out i endured br br it didn t get much better i ll tell you why there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters we don t even see their faces half the time as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moths around a lamp and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot it s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs br br the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did hour was that i was looking at the camera techniques lighting and scenery which were all i admit excellent but is that enough to hold your attention for hours not me maybe tomorrow i ll try watching the end aw who am i kidding i have more important things to do i m sure you do too skip this i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch it s one of those films where you stop to see what it is just for a moment but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can t turn it off no matter how bad it is one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it s good and so bad it s well just plain bad it s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it s both great middle of the night fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag don t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male because logic does not apply this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a counter earth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a made for tv way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man s john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i ll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn t even shaking the camera or the set i ve seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what s wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn t work br br i m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that s what you the viewer will do you ll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can t recall too much about it black comedy isn t always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don t often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in br br devito plays an odd mamma s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn t have the guts to actually do it himself that s where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai i and murder larry s ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it s certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn t too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone of stars br br the hound back in i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation weekends and the holiday itself i stayed in town during that time hanging out at my parents house a lot br br i didn t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents tube i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx i was hooked instantly i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents family homes and through inheritances from relatives estates and often wondered about their history value etc br br after my long vacation i used to go to my folks house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx br br i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air br br it never did personal fx was the first and best of the collectible shows and it vanished from the air almost fifteen years later i m still sore br br way to go fx paul verhoeven s predecessor to his breakout hit basic instinct is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve played by jeroen krabb a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes while there he meets the seductive christine halsslag ren e soutendijk who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kills him br br paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself and that is one of things i like best about him this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards and that doesn t happen very often i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work but you ll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i ve mentioned but are lovely nonetheless a man gets eaten by lions another one has a pipe sent through his skull a boat is smashed in half lovely br br the acting in the fourth man isn t anything to write home about but it s solid throughout jeroen krabb holds the audience s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer it is ren e soutendijk that impresses the most though as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct but the original fatale did it best paul verhoeven s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish but he obviously has talent and it s a shame that he doesn t put it to better use of all the verhoeven films i ve seen this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it s worth the effort i accept that most s horror aren t scary by today s standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn t any blood to speak of br br i like how the s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn t the worst i ve ever seen but its almost up there br br out of demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don t even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend s house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it s just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i ve seen bad horror movies before manos troll hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski s donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh s sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that davie s main aspiration is to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don t tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also davie doesn t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the s he looks like he d be more comfortable in the early days of rock n roll posing as james dean s less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry s father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don t think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson s and that s just because he s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski being so close to the material he simply doesn t see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it ll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach braff s amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let s face it at this point it isn t going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don t attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch please re watch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out min tv episode into the most painful hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has line and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss s accent just changes about times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven finally an iranian film that is not made by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this is a non documentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the system in its ass it s all about football and its funny its really funny the director says the places are real the event is real and so are the characters and the extras this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a your heart is made of stone b you are blind excellently scripted the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it has won the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it s near perfect where where can i get hold of it sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan s whip br br written and directed by jason maran satan s whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i m guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan s whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time tainted look at kibbutz life br br this film is less a cultural story about a boy s life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minutes of the movie the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves and it s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical kibbutznikim besides the two main characters a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well evil br br the story centers on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows there is no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking year old boy his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and brutish personality he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother he treats these volunteers like trash after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn t seen in a long time due to his military service he orders quote linda go take shower and i cum in two minutes br br there is one other good character in this movie a european foreigner who plays the mother s boyfriend when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother s son the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist s arm he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz members more hypocrisy the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and gives an account of the actual act that s supposed to be humorous for the audience but is really just stupid she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse br br the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently can t escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose it s a mystery how the boy s father died but you can rest assured the kibbutz drove him to it and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son br br that s the gist of this movie one dimensional characters over dramatization dry performances and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience s head that kibbutz life was degrading miserable and even deadly for those who didn t fit in i feel sorry for the guy who made this film obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen br br i will admit the setting presumably new york city has never been so downright ugly and unappealing i am reminded that the s was a bad decade for men s fashion and automobiles and all the smoking if the plan was to cheapen the characters it succeeded br br for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there has to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty came close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot had struck mikey well it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most br br i can t remember when i detested a film as strongly i suppose i m a rube who doesn t dig art flicks oh well lost carnivale desperate housewifes the list goes on and on these and a bunch of other high quality shows proves that we re in the middle of a golden age in television history lost is pure genius incredible layers of personal and psychologically viable stories underscored by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describing a tv show a killer score great performances and editing anyone who isn t hooked on this are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever it may have its problems when watching only one episode a week but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up as i m sure they do clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister scoutmaster is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you ve heard it you ve heard it and you don t need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film s scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it s a pity this film doesn t have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affects all the muscles in his body he is confined to a wheelchair and needs round the clock attention so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a mile round trip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses the mythical city of everytown in represents england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally does arrive it s ravages continue not for another five years but until at which time everytown is completely destroyed adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the wandering sickness a pestilence that continues for another four years br br things to come balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization the wings over the world concept plays out a bit corny though it s spokesman cabal raymond massey is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause if he fails others will follow this message is continually reinforced throughout the film brought home convincingly in massey s end of movie speech man s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an all the universe or nothing mindset br br the film s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year the spectacle of the city s rebirth strikes a resonant chord as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man s first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than br br things to come is one of those rarities in film a picture that makes you think which side will you come down on the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it s not a comfortable question as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci s last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci s movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it s gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it s a hard to archive even the braindead didn t stop it citb is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by khmmm evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it s wounds forget the beyond or zombie this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being putted in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar he s been shot about fifty times by now and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear and you ll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity william smith does another turn as a russian soldier the same character he played in red dawn a few years earlier after playing biker heavies for most of the s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies sadly he ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors i like raptors because they are scary my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eats the banana br br i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time br br this is best movie warning review contains mild spoilers br br a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st series however just two years on and i find i can t remember enough about them in order to do it i guess they couldn t have made much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequels dream warriors in particular weren t as bad as is often made out though even the original was no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams doesn t lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five films i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy s dead br br an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character s demise the fact that the movie s conclusion is not even hidden but in fact the entire purpose for the film s being goes to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was br br taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain robert englund s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter i always thought freddy s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it s like englund s crying out we know this is garbage but you re paying to see it so who s the one laughing and i m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight was freddy s appearance in the films always so rudimentary all he gets to do here is a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr har har hars and that s it if this was the only elm st film you d ever seen you wouldn t get to know the character at all even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstated misplaced and not at all funny irony br br acting is almost universally poor just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keeps his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire the script too is absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan opens a road map upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written you re f ked when prompted for the map carlos responds well the map says we re f ked who wrote the screenplay oscar wilde br br or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy his hearing enhanced to painful levels so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin a potentially fatal sound given that all sounds are magnified oddly the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect nice hearing from you carlos quips freddy hoping some better lines will come along it s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn t occur instaneously so being knocked unconscious wouldn t allow instant access into freddy s world though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isn t that high on the list of requirements br br the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane is the only one who gets to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallops and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients freddy s dead no laughs no scares no interest no fun br br some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the s but although it is undoubtedly brutal violent and very downbeat this film from pou soi cheang isn t really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch particularly if gritty hard edged action is your thing br br edison chen plays pang a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee is wai the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape until he meets yue a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse br br a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amazing sound design a haunting score and solid performances from chen and lee as well as newcomer pei pei as pang s love interest dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence think along the lines of chan wook park s vengeance trilogy stabbings shootings merciless beatings all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang br br of course this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film dies rather nasty deaths unfortunately there is a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in its final moments dog bite dog crosses it in a laughably over dramatic final scene pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on eventually after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue delivering their baby moments before he himself dies br br whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it s still worth seeking out i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn t that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can t stand up to his mom for the one he loves there s ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can t be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with gabriela way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under imdb had for rating i d choose that in a heartbeat absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say even though this movie did not get the best comments this movie made my day it got me thinking what a false world this is br br what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you it s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance same way some people are such that they are never grateful this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself br br a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster the surviving brother decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone br br amitabh gave the performance of his life the new actor aryan gave a good performance the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself br br a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movies always give some message to the audience his movies are like novels of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they are entertaining as well as lesson giving after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is mader with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind i can t say much about this film i think it speaks for itself as do the current ratings on here i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it i even tried to like it by watching it twice but i just couldn t i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and i m not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this was awful it wasn t even funny in the slightest the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie and it reminds me not to waste my money amy poehler is so very annoying too br br overall well i think you get my point the stars are for walken by the way i am not so old that i can t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood in new orleans an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr clinton reed richard widmark of the u s public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them br br panic in the streets discloses a simple story but it is still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive my vote is seven br br title brazil p nico nas ruas panic in the streets the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i can t believe national lampoon put its name on this don t buy it don t rent it don t waste hours of your life on this there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles schumer i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i m a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it s that important i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it s moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting out of ten yes i call this a perfect movie not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works it s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach br br barbara stanwyck is simply stunning there was nothing this actress couldn t do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outbursts with this lady i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interesting br br the title fits this movie very well it is about desires human desires i think everyone can understand actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here br br i liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock s shadow of a doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang s considerably harsher movie clash by night made one year earlier where stanywck stars in a similar part i can also recommend it i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that s the way of the world it s been about years since i ve seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn t take off like their counterparts in the early s but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently what so ever the acting was great the main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy i had some reservations about this movie i figured it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas being in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decided to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow br br this movie turned out to be one laugh after another ben affleck was believable in his character but the real star of this one is james gandofini he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great dad br br if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours definitely check this one out when i first saw this film around months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i m sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it s untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein s films as art focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i ve seen a few of his films and he hasn t yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is in brave new girl holly comes from a small town in texas sings the yellow rose of texas at a local competition and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i loved this movie it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace the acting was of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end it seems a sequel could be in the making kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production quite a gem in the film archives despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich d sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn t direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don t think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you ll find absolutely zero original content in the messengers what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don t be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn t there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn t anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there s any message that the messengers delivers it s don t waste your time on this movie this movie sucks ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there s nothing going for this movie whatsoever maybe seconds of sex but that s it there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off this movie is complete rash and you shouldn t subject yourself to watching it i regret it it s very boring i would rate it zero but i can t no body in their right mind should see this i m sure you ll regret it completely i did how could they think up something this bad even mystery men was better mystery men that sucks that movie wasn t worth being made complete waste of time the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn t really in the mood for it at that particular time it s kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i m still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers orange face lift my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk that d make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clich s predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn t bad enough sometimes you can t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would ve felt i had gotten my money s worth going into see seven pounds i wasn t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about so within the first min or so you are completely lost in the plot have no idea what is going on and you think tim who claims to be ben is just a big asshole all of this comes to an end when the twist so to speak is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to br br the acting of this film is great as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress rosario dawson to me this is one of her better movies aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film other actors such as woody harrelson have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film was still good br br this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped the movie however was still pretty good nothing is revealed until the last min of the movie and everything falls into place up until then it just seems like a pointless love story final thought seven pounds seven stars i saw brother s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he shows up there because his brother has died and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait marar xada really disappointed me i can t consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr ferm xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can t really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar xada maybe once also marar xada never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn t really important to the story that of marcial the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters the mad doctor s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy the results are not good this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors there isn t much zombie action in this one and the effects while adequate are nothing special you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes watch out for some nudity and bad language witty funny intelligent awesome i was flipping channels late one night years ago came across this and a wildfire started i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time please do yourself a favor run don t walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it s a win win situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of sanechaos it s a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he s much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you ll miss em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it s coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of ast rix the french comic books it s based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze g rard darmon and edouard baer and please don t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books ast rix et ob lix contre c sar and directed by claude zidi i thought this movie was stunning with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi br br cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerisms her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch br br although not each character was overtly beautiful this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time br br overall i thought this film was fantastic i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever made that is the robert wise paul newman flick somebody up there likes me that movie might be number but gentleman jim is a close number br br the movie doesn t just chronicle the rise of james j corbett it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more gentlemanly days of the gloved marquis of queensbury rules and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability br br gentleman jim is not a realistic look at those days it is romanticized and yes even a bit hokey at times but always delightfully so errol flynn is perfect as the gentleman jim who really isn t a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship and we all know it is of course love that will win that match in the end br br at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line was not i can lick any man in the world of course romanticism again hands over his belt to corbett this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch raging bull instead that is a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim is a lot more fun that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this is the only movie i ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander the quickening at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our cinema that there s no chance for an air america well there s no real plot to speak of it s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it s not in this case what else can i say about this the action when happening is inventive and there s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper one that has to be several miles high but overall there s not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but you re not missing much if you skip this one this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven t seen any of the others there are the usual ingredients it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently the story is just laughably idiotic and the film takes itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa br br but it has a few things going for it bo looks great the production values sets costumes etc are quite good and this greatly enhances its camp value in a strange way it is actually quite funny simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we re all different made of different clay as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that s the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one gets committed and obsession in committed starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is joline and this is her story br br tadmittedly joline has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it s forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he s gone off to find himself and figure it all out when joline realizes he s not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it s because of that clay she s made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space and not even letting him know she s there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma and it s her job to keep a spiritual vigil over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local eateries carmen s grampy alfonso arau who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her for joline it s a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br tthere s a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from joline s point of view as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br theather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that joline be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it s all a part of the character she creates there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she s a likable agreeable person and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it s a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life br br tas carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with joline this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br toverall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as joline s brother jay goran visnjic alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br tthe supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art alexakis new york car thief dylan baker carl s editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we re going and what we really need committed is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast are tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments this movie is stupid there s no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i ve ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i m rating this a br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn t leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br sara s father being a soldier the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart sara s friendship with becky and her adopting lottie although this last one wasn t developed as much as it could have been the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that s about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged and respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a feel good family film then this delivers if you re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you ve read the book don t waste time with this one it s such a shame with a cast like this if they d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early s and made everyone look bad and claimed we all made over a day when a day was much closer to reality when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work and offered me work i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least years and kept most in the bank and still left myself for nl and cash games at the casinos i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll instead i win about a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all i was only homeless cause i didn t wan na risk spending all my money and going broke sometimes i had over in my sock while i slept outside anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs im no longer homeless am now in govt housing for a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping worrying about getting caught by security are finally over had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner its a shame how they don t better select who they pick i really in enjoyed watching this movie like most of the people that watched it i wasn t sure that i was getting whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies i e sister act br br however this was not really comedy it is a drama with comedic moments so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking br br this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks but also about relations with in the black community i do think that it is worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn t for you having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn t seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what s going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts ch without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don t forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction acting atmosphere sound effect br br total ken burns baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball s early years and heroes there s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br hours is simply too long for the human attention span it s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it s not even a tight hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn t baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he s sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there s no crying in baseball quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clich s no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br hongshen jia is in his mid twenties he s a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he s the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn t know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br hongshen s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to ritan park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain grassy picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer s positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he s the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john s son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon s influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon s presence as does hongshen s need to re hang his hero s poster in his redecorated room br br if lennon s influence is spiriting hongshen s father s influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is fegsen s differences from his son that underwrites his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he s chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to hongshen s emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can t a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab inst he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects recede so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banishes his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen says of this movie it s a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it s homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw alien versus predator it too has an average grading of over stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn t here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con s brother by the way yes they re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won t tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it s filmed and paced badly it s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven t seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don t expect the thrills of the first although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars alec guinness produced an amazing body of work particularly in the s s ranging from dramas to quirky comedies i particularly love his comedies as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen far different from the usual fare from hollywood br br this being said this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies it s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere except for ealing studios which had a particular fondness for little films like this one br br guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work so he tends to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspects or at night and try his hand at inventing repeatedly he is caught such as after he blew up the lab and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds then despite the importance of the discovery he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events and then the fun begins br br the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry unions the government and people in general victor mclaglen s performance is one of the finest in film history br br i think we can all feel for gypo because we ve all struggled with what is right and what isn t and been wrong this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio rko radio pictures br br joseph h august s cinematography is at its very best here however august s stunning portion was mostly overlooked he didn t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved br br this is a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all conveyed with as little words as possible how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you d think it couldn t be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they re planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he s a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it s utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don t waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn it s peak years were between and one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle who had a small but fanatic cult of followers she was actually able to act unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks and her subsequent credits proved it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique br br gary graver the director was also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combined with monica gayle s screen presence makes sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drags and you won t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be this is the type of film that i ve been looking for ages particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago which i still keep thinking about the back cover doesn t do this film justice it s superb and in my top for sure i did not expect much from this film but boy o boy i did not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock is not showing a good act here you can t get the feeling that his caracter is real i think the movie would have been a bit better if it s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it in the making of they don t show a single smile this is a very bad film i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me but i did never laugh i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina flynn known mostly for his swashbuckling roles and his bedroom antics takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully playing real life boxing champ jim corbett flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist all the while setting one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men and a dog including a prominent judge the next day he gets a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge s private club he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club s resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers up to and including the world champion john l sullivan bond flynn is downright magical here he is the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he looks terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit and does virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn at this stage he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time and she does so admirably she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell bond is incredibly burly brawny and towering yet tender when the script calls for it amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn s manager the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed a few of the sets are amazingly presented some of smith s gowns border on the garish but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well it s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing but it s also so much more some of it like the character traits shown by flynn is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes but a lot of it is authentic like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes one line is particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it s classic romantic dialogue and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett plot centers on two chauffers who ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single ladies quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel wins his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he loses he must play bottom man to his friend br br lots of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa br br hilarious fun thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero s and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person s memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by s flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost flatliners bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally fubarred in it s execution elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies it has every thing you would want in a film like great one liners sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not seen it you are missing out on one of the greatest films made i can t wait till her new movie comes out i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful especially since it was based on a true man pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl the photography was beautiful br br this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl i want to read as much as i can about him at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it but i am not surprised i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing i gave it the highest rating however i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house br br you can t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i d probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood s golden age of the s and s however no matter how much i love their films i just can t recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven t yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda s behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it s all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can t stay mad at fonda because he s so i can t think of the right word creepy is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don t go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic i was debating between this movie and but chose inglourious basterds due to it s amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it s that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve the song choices are really good hush my child just move on up to your destination and you make boundaries and complications anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review bend it like beckham great flick directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle s living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger s where the sidewalks ends from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg br br dana andrews is the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks when he hit someone his knuckles hurt and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain gary merrill who points up the title why are you always trying to push me in the gutter he asks andrews i have as much right on the sidewalk as you br br dana andrew s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden painful discovery that he is the son of a thief his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta br br by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrews and gene tierney of laura are united once more and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crooks this time he goes too far and accidentally kills a suspect the killing is accidental the victim worthless yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail br br using his knowledge of police procedure he covers up his part in the crime plants false clues and tries to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigating the case himself the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise br br the film is one of the best detective films of the s with curious moral values also one of preminger s best br br preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism in sum overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy is not very funny and juvenile additionally the film is not really realistic liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover s son by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball s chance in hell the actors do their best and are appealing but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing editing and lack of focus incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the min one that i watched but i can t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i d heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn t much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it s tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o toole who makes a most memorable tiberius oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i d like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br out of from ozjeppe did anyone edit this film or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes it s ok though i fell asleep watching it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot is actually not the worst i ve seen but it s close the acting is not the worst i ve seen either but it s close the production well i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life not trying to be spiteful but unhinged could have used some more production br br please don t think i m a hater of horror films or even that i didn t enjoy this film i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it the gruesome moments were not too poorly done but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget br br characters seemed awkwardly developed or ignored all together twist ending was pretty bad and the exposition took forever without exposing much br br i d recommend avoiding this movie br br riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of teen movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie has is so misleading in years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn t enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can t leave because the moment he does he knows he ll be arrested br br boyer s performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i ll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn t enter the casbah that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn t enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he s shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent man with the screaming brain certainly isn t a perfect movie but i m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don t make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of william s body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he s writing his own films you d think he d give himself a role that he hasn t been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn t an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn t been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it s your choice br br enjoy tell the truth i m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after having seen it i was really a disappointed and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie br br i m surprise at this movie all completely it is like a kid s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing i m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account br br synopsis the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak br br just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done the story is very predictable though expected and the humor is lame and haven t we already seen the same characters play by mc lovin in so many other movies like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep br br well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay and the acting is so so as expected when you re watching this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer and that movie also sucks but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie br br anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie can t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone br br pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes br br cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kids do not mix together br br rating grade f this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia kerbridge does a great job as a woman of who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayo stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent s murder that she has become mute needless to say julia s hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia s sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip s location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy s hideout in a luxury packard wouldn t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they re spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don t get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of that s how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole br br without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically so it isn t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s br br the film is lighthearted you ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe all of the film s characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfections br br i ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance is this synchronous or what i think so because now i m really geeked to give it a try br br watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again br br why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery as it is perfect as is recap something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former seti worker is brought in to decipher the message problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turns awkward especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly soon the object is in the open the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity it is decided to open the object but just before that is done julian decodes the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes as it is finally breached and two things unleashed on earth the first is an alien that had been dormant in the object and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff and washington that is suspiciously updated on this historic event decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica br br comments the movie holds a few surprises one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful well worked through and a lot better than expected unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own and this time not in a good way actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes it is never really explained why washington know so much why washington is able to command russian submarines why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language and obviously chose english why but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encoded and finally the end is as open as an end can be br br the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good br br this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it features a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix i d have a couple of hours of my life back i m frankly suspicious when i see that a film s director also wrote it in this case according to the credits the same guy was writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there were a few interesting moments e g judy tenuta s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism which led me to rate this two stars rather than one those moments however were few and far between and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in its violence i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i d seen the whole thing nope though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later the spinning camera technique was overused and essentially pointless i found myself talking to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommended the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling well documented and enraging as an american i am constantly humiliated by my country s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this is probably the first john pilger documentary i ve seen but it immediately made me want to see what else he s done my only complaint and the reason i gave this film only out of is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction but makes no suggestion of how to help i don t know about britain but america s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government s doings a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders cause this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don t say i didn t warn you this is a very memorable spaghetti western it has a great storyline interesting characters and some very good acting especially from rosalba neri her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic she steals every scene she is in and expresses so much with her face and eyes even when she s not speaking her performance is very believable she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top not that there s anything wrong with being over the top mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too br br the music score is excellent and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie whether you want it to or not there are a couple of parts that are very amusing i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot there s also lots of slick gun play that s very well done br br i would probably have given this movie or stars if it wasn t for two things the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about minutes into the film this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie it is very poorly choreographed and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy but this is a more serious western and the brawl really needed to be more realistic the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma s cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasn t at all funny all i can say is where is tuco when you need him br br all that having been said let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned and all fans of the genre need to see this movie the plot michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there s romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in it must be emphasized that this movie is a story st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin in the rain dick van dyke carl reiner s the comic what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett s film legacy it doesn t take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett s and mabel normand s life the character michael linnett connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael sinnott and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie throwings the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in with about films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next years in he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack s wandering willies is done in the road to hollywood used some of sennett s crosby films years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie s punctured romance with sound in he was honored on tv s this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who got involved with adam hoss and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western br br perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights people have relationships some go good some not so good it s just life and we re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor s nobility intact but that s if bonanza were done today br br but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped the secret of bonanza s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children the kids were all different in personality but all came together in a pinch br br the cartwrights became and still are an american institution i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that br br pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show rumor has it he didn t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious perhaps if it were done now he d have liked it better in the way i describe br br this was just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control little joe was the youngest most hot headed but the most romantic of the cartwrights br br when roberts left the show kept going with the two younger sons but when big dan blocker left the heart went out of bonanza other characters had been added on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family br br so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city it doesn t look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits is the cartwright home the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fans the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real br br and if they weren t real they should have been years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn t sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director s cut or in this case let s salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut scenes from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are minutes into it and we still don t know what s going on or why we re watching what s going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone s death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there s no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews and edwards previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it s no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i ll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie s mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird s eye view of julie running towards hudson s plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence i m like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where s peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that s one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film stars but it s effect is diminished considerably because it s repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man s land is ok even if it s bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she s on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she s no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release this series made for televisi n espa ola tve is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato s r le as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers i want the minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers an observation which mystifies me not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars e g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudors james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing br br when the biographies and accomplishments of the director even when he won an academy award and the actors are listed this film is usually omitted from their past performances i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films however it is seldom every seen on cable i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known it s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good of all the movies of the seventies none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel i mean yes there were movies like the exorcist and other ones but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars my absolute favorites were eli wallach sylvia miles and burgess meredith then there are the subtle clues that lead to what s going on too pay close attention i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like black and white cat black and white cake plus the books are really good as well i m just sorry that they re not going to turn the second book into a film it s so scary that it would outdo this movie this is apparently the second remake of this film having been filmed before in and and in so many ways it reminds me of the later film a yank at oxford both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both ultimately show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency in this film william haines is tom brown and his main rival bob is played by frances x bushman and in a supporting role is jack pickford always remembered as the brother of mary of these three pickford comes off the best as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom s pal he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clich s are there and the movie because it was done so many times before and since offers few surprises however it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing br br in my opinion for a better silent college film try harold lloyd s the freshman it s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such as in westpoint and the smart set among others and if you ve seen one of these films you ve seen them all well made but certainly not original and because it is just a rehash of his other films anyone giving the film a score of is strongly advised to see these other films br br i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the talk about over rated there are dozens and dozens of better films how this film got to be is anyone s guess this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that s holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let s face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there s one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it s shakespeare s so any adaptation if it s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that s what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it s the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame owen loves his mamma only he d love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn t a great film it s too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it s a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can t write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn t come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus girls i d like to pork br br then there s devito s owen lift who calls himself professor donner s star pupil even though the teacher won t read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we d be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner s help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner s hated ex then tells the professor it s his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock s strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here she s not a woman she s the terminator one little murder and i m jack the ripper those are all crystal s words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito s and ramsey s apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that s a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation the only time i ve seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and when momma says he doesn t have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it you lied to me he yells out slamming the professor s forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn t groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn t disappeared from films of course but it s a mystery why he hasn t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it s because as throw momma from the train s lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn t to everyone s tastes that s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united states br br just cause br br starring sean connery laurence fishburne and blair underwood br br a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves br br this film is set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent the premise about people who s lives are going nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs could have made for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i m suprised it hasn t been banned x and y are friends x is sleeping with z y sleeps with z as well oh you figure it out br br a total waste of time painful dialogue it sounded like something that a group of year olds would have written for a gcse drama project the female character was completely superfluous just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it br br if you re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run don t walk away from this sorry little misfit br br and one question when the group left the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film to go back to glasgow why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar but is totally worthwhile it really reminds me of the old serials from the s and s which is why i d have loved to see follow up movies but judging by the rest of full moon s output there simply weren t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which is unfortunate because without em this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great i wasn t sure if ms nipar hadn t wandered off an a list picture onto this film she was very believable no seriously anyway it s a shame they didn t have the bucks to license dr strange because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom a truly muddled incomprehensible mess most things in the film look more or less like but then there are futuristic things just thrown in like the policeman s ray gun and that car the director seemed to be in love with colored lights the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie but since there was no cast listing i don t know which actress that was this one is worth missing grade f it doesn t happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george crile s best seller charlie wilson s war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie s angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach em to type but you can t teach em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson s war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie s team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four academy awards and nine nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he s aided abetted and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency s boardroom and in wilson s bedroom br br for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie s team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren t so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it s like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as nichol s film so pointedly points out the ball you ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you ve lost interest in it mike krzyzewski knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn t so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn t let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again i m a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you d expect from a smart aleck year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church s fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm if you re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau s early work this ludicrous film offers the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bores us in the process its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups a naive young hippy played by the waif like kay lenz hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys and then one day she meets the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor and she decides that she is in love with him if you think that is superficial the whole film encapsulates such scenes she keeps saying how much she loves him and she only met him it wears thin and really quick i couldn t help but laugh throughout the film its obvious she s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s is also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d this film was pretty good i am not too big a fan of baseball but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc br br danny glover joseph gordon levitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport the plot was believable and i love the message william dear and the guys put together a great movie br br most sports films revolve around true stories or events and they often do not work well but this film hits a on the perfectness scale even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there br br for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film the ending is superb the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong br br examples quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seems to affect the event solid particles can pass through barriers all of this so far is accurate but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this is complete poppycock instead the theory asserts that at our level it is possible for you to walk through a wall but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief also you d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall the odds are so astronomically against it br br this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer played by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate there may be some truth to that but quantum physics has nothing to do with it br br plus string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays instead of wasting your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hour long episodes quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie one of my sisters friends lent me this game and it is too damn hard it carries the appearance of a kids game but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions and you have to search seemingly endless levels for notes to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them and i am only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it is definately not recommended for kids they will pull their hair out within the hour chuck jones s rabbit seasoning the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello s who s on next routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you re despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones s impeccable timing as you ll come across rabbit seasoning is a true classic a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear also alas an ending that comes out of nowhere because apparently the auteur has lost interest in the movie or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot crossfire is a justifiably famous noir that s a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph samuels sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuels winds up dead br br i don t know about but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don t suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role she s a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don t know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie skippy from family ties plays eddie a wussy metal nerd who gets picked on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr dies he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead metal idol he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge but then he doesn t want to take it as far as sammi does which isn t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from family ties i haven t a clue the cameo by gene simmons is ok and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one br br my grade d br br eye candy elise richards gets topless an a topless extra at a pool party of course i would have to give this film out of as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over years living in italy he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing so rodolfo sonego did if you check out his biography you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories my uncle visited australia and my town in to check out locations for a girl in australia and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movies i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently great goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history their is no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ of its time br br this was not a bond game based on material from another medium this was a completely new scripted game which even had its own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay was excellent and if you re a fan of the bond games or films alike you ll enjoy it br br unlike some most games these cast members portrayed their characters themselves as opposed to fictional creations for the game which gives it that more cinematic feel with a very bond able storyline you feel like you re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie br br enjoyable in all aspects from start to finish even after beating the game there s still plenty more to be done with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved as well as its multi player missions this is a stand out game despite being quite old now in video game years it s still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just thinking about it i ve got the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and well written storyline br br the story comes to life on the screen almost as if the actors were their in front of you and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself superbly done in true bond fashion which can only be named awesome completely awesome br br i ve got ta go throw this game on now if you haven t played it yet you re missing out helena bonham carter is the center of this movie she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh was tolerable the movie itself was good not exceptional if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a thumbs in the middle review remarking that i d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode i ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june and as a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show is utter crap br br everything s wrong with it everything getting past just the lousy animation and design the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories br br and for god s sake is it just me or is the joker in every episode is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system or again is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains see no character development above br br and to make matters worse every single joker tale is the same part formula br br joker gasses people br br joker sets out to gas the whole city br br batman saves the day br br pfeh br br there was one episode i saw that wasn t a joker story the title escapes me but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that was the single worst batman story i ve ever seen heard or read yes worse than i ve got batman in my basement br br i can t really say what i feel this show is because it s probably against the tos but it starts with b and rhymes with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc era of bat entertainment back from the fox and kids wb days stuff that good and i should have known this just couldn t possibly have lasted forever unfortunately just because someone is under the age of does not mean they are stupid if your child likes this film you d better have him her tested i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad this film is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing is horrid i can t remember when i ve heard such bad dialogue the songs are beyond wretched the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much who decided to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he is ugly as sin br br the worst thing is the obviousness of it all it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible great children s movies are wicked smart and full of wit films like shrek and toy story in recent years willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo yes that s right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood hey babu riba is a film about a young woman mariana nicknamed esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps years old in belgrade yugoslavia the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz blue jeans or anything american it seems br br the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties in the wake of changing communist politics they go their separate ways and reunite in the year before the film was made br br i enjoyed the film with some reservations the subtitles for one thing were difficult especially in the beginning there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all perhaps the conversational pace required it but i couldn t always both read the text and absorb the scene which caused me to not always understand which character was involved i watched the movie a video from our public library with a friend and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative br br this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bonds to each other there is a main flashforward and it was intriguing keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the cast and what had actually happened br br i would rate it out of and would like to see other films by the director jovan acin after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose mcgowan who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil encurralados trapped this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy s law being applied to home ownership and construction if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it was set in the simpler forties we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturbing hilarious these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire from wobbly garbled beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout br br our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms when the father separates from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie you re about to watch father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit and is polite as he gets people s attention before he shoots them but alas dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about feet behind them he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly wastes the mother this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred br br so now we fast forward about years if you re honest about the hero s age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves or diamond prospectors or something ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods while bo masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty drives around the desert in his denim outfits bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they don t seem to have any friends other than each other and they spend all of their time together that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as you know its a shame you re my sister he says to her while she s stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas and he is overjoyed with his new love br br so anyway there s a lot of fun action scenes ridiculous violence great acting impossible to follow plot lines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond which later explodes all of these things are great but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire you may be glad you did or not i am so disappointed this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses woody i ve seen these characters already i ve seen the storyline from you ten times already where did your creativity go you need to open your eyes and look around you the world has changed dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it br br there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again br br when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out it does nothing for me because now i ve come to expect his old standby the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating depressing and same old same old br br if woody wants to win his fans back then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated not insulted this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff predictable from beginning to end as a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr limpet was much better with knott s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant his performance there was toned down with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile much as bob denver did neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles assuming they were simply typecast it was probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the high pitched voice john ritter whom knotts worked with in three s company was able to transcend his genre branching out successfully into dramatic roles like the dreamer of oz but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in airplane and police squad br br there s also no way the then year old knotts could pass for a year old as his character insisted he was it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at playing the college age forrest gump br br the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode it s especially evident in the exterior scenes of the town where roy goes after he s fired it s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality br br even viewing this strictly as a children s movie it s very disappointing it s not because it lacks action or special effects although it does the pace is much too slow the situations repetitive how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap with breakneck gags otherwise you risk boring them and any adults in the theater as well movies even kid s movies have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written disney s the love bug for instance at least had some interesting race action if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world s freighters are of questionable registry nationality and it s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don t have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it s fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it s more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate okok everything you will need about minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get minutes of fun br br i m from hongkong and it s really hard to find rpers none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books dices game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both gamers s real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game br br i don t want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i m sure you still get many fun from it in all honesty i haven t seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can t risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don t know if it s available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don t want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked you d think you re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel miles or so from france to saudi arabia going through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arriving in the middle east but this is not a tour and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights br br reda s father is in his twilight years and wishes to do the haj however since walking and taking the mule is out of the question he chooses to travel to mecca by car he can t drive and therefore enlists the help of reda to his son s protest to get him there in their broken down vehicle br br but reda doesn t see the point of having him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn t understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son being not the best of pals br br the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenges they face the weird people they meet having to duke it out in varied weather conditions and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other the father trying to impose on his son and the son trying to assert himself as an adult but circumstances we see reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water through the many encounters they actually team up quite well despite their differences br br it s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination br br it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are don t miss this and yes book early i was pleasantly surprised that this evening s session was still a full house i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won t make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don t see what it is flashback hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it s a complete failure a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store after he s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he ll be transferring soon bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals animals like say a certain rabbit this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early s it still remains as funny nearly years later this animated short can be seen on disc of the looney tunes golden collection volume br br my grade a i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in for two reasons br br host steve martin was at his most wittiest i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and i ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle s head in my bed br br surprise winners no one had adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeers and boos but they won br br last year s award ceremony wasn t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn t the best in the trilogy fellowship was much better but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics obviously they are i m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers br br chris rock wasn t too bad but he s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the minor oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats there s no such thing as a minor oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they re as well deserved as best picture or best director all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history as for the awards themselves br br best supporting actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category br br best supporting actor morgan freeman no real complaints since freeman is one of america s greatest living character actors br br best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn br br best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night br br best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he d never won one actually i m glad about this because if he didn t deserve it for taxi driver raging bull or goodfellas he didn t deserve it for the aviator br br best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off br br what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven t done in the past i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd s sake and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts while in a plane flicking through the large choice of movies i came across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice br br i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride i don t remember last time i have been so excited terrified not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can t turn away from the screen literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you ve got br br you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from thinking how come the human being can be so vicious to why not after all ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestants their motives and start guessing you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe br br good acting good directing with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more br br spoilers couple of things i would have changed br br the casting of the contestants i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid it felt like you didn t care about some of the contestants although this might have been done on purpose i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants game rules a big glitch br br what happens if the th contestants doesn t die when he pulls the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have given a chance to all contestants to live ie if th is a blank too then no one dies br br interestingly i haven t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time just wish i had some popcorn with me ah another movie with motorcycles hell s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve s rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda rrrr makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you messin wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die a rating of does not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is i feel dumber after watching the first min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is a good movie don t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for once in a life time movies keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like toback took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn t the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of i like ghost stories good ghost stories of bumps in the night voices that can not be explained now i ve see many of them as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films some times to find a real gem you got ta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called the new house was one of the most scariest films i ever saw it was on once in i was only but nothing since then even compared to it with all the remake going on in hollywood some one should do this one as is with no more special efx than the original this episode was down right creepy as hell i m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost stories to even come close was the original the haunting and george c scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost stories like these okay i ve watched this movie twice now i have researched it heavily on the net i have asked several people on there opinions i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie is supposed to be based on i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it as the plot of the movie doesn t seem to make any sense at all here is the plot of the book br br laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work and explains that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter carmilla for several months soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams and begins to come down with a strange illness who is this mysterious carmilla and just what has she to do with laura s condition and the general br br i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it and let me know what their results are i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i can t be bothered with that it s called the this movie doesn t make any sense game br br all you have to do is whilst watching the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening i mean complete all questions answered everything makes sense absolutely complete br br it will have to answer such questions as br br why can vampires walk around in day light br br why are they all lesbians br br why is a girl called bob and why does she shoot herself br br when is the movie a dream and when is it real br br why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn t make anyone bat an eyelid br br why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she is a zombie too br br and why does he then let a girl which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire drive with him in his car br br and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car br br what the hell is the asylum scene all about br br what the hell is the green goo all about br br why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse br br why are there never any vampires fighting zombies br br what is the significance of the necklace what is it made of why does it kill vampires and how does jenna know that br br in fact sod it it s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too br br i have my plot and i have to admit it is not quite there but it is a pretty good effort br br in conclusion br br vampires vs zombies has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it is based on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell is going on this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two orderlies the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the orderlies are gay the orderlies kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny it said comedy on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn t this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn t br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the mechanics i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can t not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi vai this story about three women is a very sensitive study about muri l charlotte van den eynde the youngest laura els dottermans who is about and martha frieda pittors the oldest who is the mother of muri l they live together in the same building they have different expectations of life the vital laura wants a child muri l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something for instances an accident which could dramatize this story as times goes on you discover that the director doroth e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case so one is left with a feeling of emptiness first and foremost i loved the novel by ray bradbury it s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later it was one of his best books with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i as just hoping that this movie would be all right it had lots of chances with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even wrote the script himself and on top of all that it has pam grier br br how could it fail br br there may be spoilers within br br first of all it was dumbed down much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book gone everything that made you squirm gone br br and then there s the acting like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the s the kids in this movie can not act and this bugged me a lot neither of them looked but or their strong friendship wasn t addressed it was more like they were acquaintaces br br you d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr halloway and mr dark but here it s like they just don t care all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something this is far from being some of their best performances br br pam grier was fine as the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn t well pulled off she s a lot less evil and doesn t have the presence as she did in the book br br and everything that was left out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jim s house the real death of mr dark what happened to mr coogan on the merry go round the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more br br and the special effects were bad even for the s the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn t really creepy and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything br br i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel but it makes blood boil don t see this movie but read the book it s a classic of bradbury this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in i remember him playing in a great film lost weekend ray plays the role of michael stuart who is a very rich banker there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose as a very rich count his name is count ariszted misha auer who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convicts started applauding which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this is deanna durbin s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas having reserved a special slot for it last night i sat down to watch it with my daughter aged and a film studies student with chocolates of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin br br after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk the shaky camera shots and angles general poor cinematography direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied despondent we viewed on br br anne played by sally hawkins looked oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasions breaking our hard won fantasy of the moment and engaging us directly in an almost i ll find you stalking fashion br br poor rupert penry jones who played captain wentworth did his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they paid him well however as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall drenching him and his co actor they were nearly swept out to sea health and safety would have had a field day poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place br br other than mr penry jones alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott br br towards the long awaited end of the film captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being in contrast anne ran hyper ventilating from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told in the course of only three or four minutes without even having worked up a sweat br br we experienced none of anne s charms crossing the screen indeed we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain spineless opinion less anne and why someone anyone did not tell mean winging sir walter to just shut the heck up br br the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment was painfully drawn out as they moved in closer anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met eww br br the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been br br what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story filmed in some of england s finest scenery br br sorry jane if you like sci fi monsters and ancient legends then you will love this movie br br the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago while the acting may have been a little less than desirable the story line and effects adequately compensated for it br br i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv br br if you like non stop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore you have to see this movie a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and clich at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton s first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major hit american werewolf in london also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn t read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either therory wouldn t surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don t watch this film that s all i can say unless you re an insomniac what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he s always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn t watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it s face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film s title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren t all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of a killer cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem are back on the case two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish br br the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out now i m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible if it wasn t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep there is a bit of gore but it s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line br br the ending is extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel br br days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you re trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven s plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don t let it happen to you in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early s in disney s laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where iwerks continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn t really popular and by the studio was closed later that year iwerks was hired by columbia pictures and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br s skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that s about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it s not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it s hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference iwerks did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn t mean it s necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all iwerks executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while denat s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk s flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it s still a fun film to watch br br it s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney s main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can t help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that iwerk s skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br yes indeed it could have been a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but is not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly told the image is sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted the sound needs more attention it usually does in romanian movies the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action about the acting sorry but the best actress is the landlady the others are acting immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting is poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it s a picture for adults told by the children bother only if extremely curious you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you re a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as spago and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world s most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry s longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and made his debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let s face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i ve seen the movie at least that s how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn t have that much appeal to it and i don t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let s just say it s a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you ll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world s most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you re ready good day james this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class their problems relationships and interactions with each other it should have managed a wider distribution as it s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time br br the swimming instructor is an almost olympian reduced to teaching adults basic lessons and often the target of horndogging from his female students he attempts more or less to fend them off with varying results br br the students characters are mainstream u s a teachers policemen college students and retired people all of whom haven t learned to swim for some reason the movie covers their relationships including friends relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class several subplots provide amusing fodder including a teacher going through a divorce some high school students making a documentary and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys br br this is a good date movie or just one to watch when you re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch i watched six of a kind for w c fields he s only in it for around minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the reamaining minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j pinkham whinney he is everyone s foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracie s funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don t remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with ruggles where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields though the situation is constantly funny the whinneys are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited edmund lowe who reminds me somewhat of warren william heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour br br douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast everyone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h b warner as an added bonus there s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective and furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film br br on the plus side the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled it s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense br br nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner this movie is lame and not funny at all the plot doesn t even make sense some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter gets sucked through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she s more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witches or something and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie i m sure the topless girls doesn t hurt there either the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing who are these people and what are they doing basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things like the other dimension and book seller than make it confusing i didn t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal i don t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid i can t think of any part of the movie that was good although i was hoping that i d like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i d call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie imagine this a high school except it s boarding school and the kids don t have parents around oh and it s in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren t any reasonable rules like how they have co habitation nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here s the story a girl zoey brooks attends pca a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she s the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don t even come close to zoey s perfection we re bad people in the show nothing s her fault and if anyone contradicts her they re portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they re normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can t afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i m too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey what s the for anyway is nick s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn t like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set s pretty i had been amazed by director antal s kontroll back in his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn t really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time first of all the reason i m giving this film stars instead of is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo he alone can get stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie br br i was initially all fired up at reading one poster s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave the performance of his career to me it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment then i thought to myself what else has stevens done so i checked and you know that person was absolutely right in the years since this columbo movie was made apparently every one of the projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career br br if you like columbo see every other of the titles before watching this one do yourself a favor and save the worst for last this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can t his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian chapa is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn t enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems nonetheless to be regarded as a perfect catch by any woman that runs across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film he s a hero whom it s very difficult to empathize with so the movie is in trouble right from the start however it s troubles don t end there it has the production values of a tv movie check out that head made of clay or something near the end and the ending cheats in a way that i can t reveal in case anyone wants to see the movie highly unlikely let s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it s been years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don t want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i ll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i m respect my opinions but it s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can t figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i m sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today during the clete roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood s poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events i decided to watch this one because it s been nominated for oscar this year i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie but ended up bored and disappointed first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hands camera mode is really annoying br br i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this br br american military machine people who makes money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something sort of patriotic br br why these heroic efforts of director and the main character to inspire the audience with an idea of loving war like a drug oh please come on what a bore br br watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying food i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those quiet movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called horror movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so innocent but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it s like a riff on james m cain s the postman always rings twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he s not around and she s at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for seki and a little extra they re soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let s just say a shave he knows that he ll find out and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it s literally at least to them at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji changes gears into the kaidan a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji and her reactions to gisaburo s re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry gisaburo s ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn t know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that senses maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seiko s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death s connections to one another inextricably it s a classic waiting to be discovered i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what jaguars are for cars top of the line perfecto what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing style sorry i have no other words for it sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en i was under the impression that something didn t smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wan na be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim renart michael par and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory renart goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it s a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder gerrick turns in as a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won t spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at minutes sanctimony is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn t get enough money to pay for the location it s the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra s services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who s working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak s apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you d want to bring up your family this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff in depth novels in to a hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the s to the s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with akasha s plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven t read the books you won t understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch must see it will hate it have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a worst case scenario of playing strong feelings accompanied by some bad acting don t waist your time this movie xadsnt entertaining if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy br br i give this it really was awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it its all the good things this movie isn t an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat don t listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone breaks in if you re wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don t listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are benefits that jill has shes a fast runner and is on the track team she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don t listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i m a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy twinkles cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there s no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio s baron munchausen as well as jimmy durante however decades later it s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts br br as for the stooges this is a film from there very early days before mgm had any idea what to do with the team at this point they were known as ted healy and his stooges as healy was the front man fortunately for the stooges they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man read up on him you ll see what i mean and the rest is history within a year they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy such as the films of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they left for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady and oddly in this film they didn t act as a team they just did various supporting roles such as larry playing the piano br br this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle when they are rescued and brought home all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there as for pearl i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films as he has the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome as for durante i never knew what the public saw in him as least as far as his films are concerned he was loud and loud he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton s career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat br br in this film the stooges they didn t yet have the right chemistry seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd what they did in the film was pretty good but because all the segments were short they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines stooges fans might be very frustrated at this though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films oh and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly br br overall the film is rather dull and disappointing however there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing look carefully as this is walter brennan in a role you d certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film is the clean as a whistle song starting at about minutes into the film this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called pre code scene that never would have been allowed in films after when the production code was strengthened despite the word clean in the title it s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it s quite shocking when seen today though such excesses were pretty common in the early s finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades see the film you ll see that i mean when carol vanessa hidalgo starts looking into her brother s death she begins to suspect something more sinister than natural causes the closer she gets to the truth the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanists they ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways br br if you re into sleazy satanic themed movies black candles has a lot to offer the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed unfortunately all the sleaze in the world can t save black candles most of the movie is a total bore other than the one scene i ve already mentioned the numerous sex scenes aren t shocking and certainly aren t sexy the acting is spotty at best even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance the plot really doesn t matter its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together i m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror black candles comes off as amateurish is about the best i can do one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killers zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off the film is constructed as a murder mystery or a cold case style thriller it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills br br some people dislike any movie that is shot on video this attitude is very old style and provincial it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value these attitudes are on the way out zodiac killer is a low budget film no doubt but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem i ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school britney bashing etc etc so let s focus on the movie and the message br br i have rated this movie out of for the age range to years and for a family movie for the average adult male out of br br i like pop rock music i m i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews i didn t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any self promotion br br i watch movies to be entertained i don t care about casting lighting producers directors etc what is the movie and does it entertain me br br i watched this movie for the message the world s greatest epidemic is low self esteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest the movie is light bright and breezy great for kids i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don t give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable great message though should be more of them br br this movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies it is filled with super surfer greg noll s home movies and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory it is filled with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots nor are they surgeons perhaps or ph d s again perhaps it believes in the quest of the surfer it believes in the beauty of human goofiness it believes in the great gift of peace which comes from the cessation of war surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war with the russian socialists surfing is the ultimate narcissism it is dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received this movie has no military heroes it has no guns the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop this is not a problem peace is not desperate it is the joy of exhalation i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal dimensional strings although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching this movie was so badly written directed and acted that it beggars belief it should be remade with a better script director and casting service the worst problem is the acting you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished professional and totally believable and on the other hand ri chard who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning and keeping couple although both normally do fine work the actors and director should not have attempted to do accents at all they are inconsistent and unbelievable much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english the casting is ludicrous why have children of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society been cast with very pale skinned actors while the supposedly socially desirable marcel has pronounced african features including an obviously dyed blond fro it s as if the casting directors can not be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color it s just so weird this could be a great movie and should be re made but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors there are plenty of good actors out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction when i was a younger oh about i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn t exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it s a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney s praises cries of super deeee doooper make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there he certainly was a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew but even mcqueen can t save this turkey of a film shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st louis br br mcqueen s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang there s more than a broad hint that there s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke he s not liked at all by the other heist members mainly because of his lack of criminal resume br br steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke all pretty rough characters that would certainly get my suspicions aroused br br the great st louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn t do much of anything one of those two jokers decided steve s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation br br this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen i m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can t believe they would have if they saw this br br or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren t married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he s not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it tacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women s prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women s prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she s pregnant with his love child he s indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he s innocent but he s convicted and it sure sounds like he s a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne s character and it s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black s humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it s only minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d s humor simply couldn t work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you re a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth bucks i don t think so i was tempted to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a seems more appropriate just be sure it s your style i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff the game before watching the movie relies on the audience s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it ll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through ff once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if you re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it s a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there s only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you ll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you re retarded if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don t reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credits as a mst k episode this one wasn t very good for two reasons this one is from the season on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can t wait to see lola while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy donald martin who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn t feel shy with a waitress who comes from brooklyn like he does soon joe notices he s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney s anchors aweigh is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch once again in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of the year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave it s so energetic if you knew susie like i know susie is quite funny it s a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell it s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango jealousy the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world or everytown through years you can break it up into about different scenes or parts the film spans from to and is mainly about how this ruler or the boss wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again after everytown was bombed and war broke out br br this film only has about faults it s audio is muddy and video had some quirks the characters aren t deep at all and the overall plot isn t altogether solid the plot is lacking something that i can t put my finger on it just seems a little fluffy but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g wells though might happened in the next hundred years this is a must see it s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing a long drawn out war because they were just about to go to war with germany and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything br br things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once weak stale tired cliched wants to be basic instinct but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives new insights insipid trite grotesque and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity oh wait it was only minutes long it must have just seemed a lot longer i d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again i m expressing an opinion here i guess this means i didn t like it one word can describe this movie and that is weird i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting well it was the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not very strange if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem i don t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right br br the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle thrown together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on br br i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring but all in all a excellent movie this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors so what went wrong i don t know and simply i don t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid very stupid plot twists devices i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather what about lock stock thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film i ll not comment a lot what s to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about colombia s reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it s beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you ll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it s the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn t it etc etc it has been a long time i haven t seen a movie so bad this movie is a riot i can not remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies i ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny but this one is wall to wall great lines i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in the movie was non stop until the end when they did the minutes of sentimental plot clean up other than that it s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations i d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don t get all the jokes the first time around you have to see it two or three times to get it all in br br as far as the actual film goes it could have used a better edit it s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that all the characters are great it s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable no victims in this movie also thank god they got a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film you just wish that women like her really existed she s not a like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite br br if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer does not do it justice they do not give away all the good jokes just some of the mediocre ones br br oh and one more thing i hope critics put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedies don t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don t put it on their list this means you ebert a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth things must be pretty bad back on mars two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner br br the diner has had no customers since eleven o clock that morning now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus although he didn t notice who they were the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed one of them is an alien but which one all of them are suspect there s the crazy old man jack elam of course who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit there s a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couples nobody has noticed anyone else and even the couples are suspicious of each other bride to newly minted husband i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone rings for no reason the lights go on and off the juke box turns itself on and none of it is to be taken seriously br br it s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle there is no discernible depth to it it s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens it s not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses br br i always enjoy it when it s on it s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman knowing that in he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm s version of shakespeare s play and here he is with three arms br br oops it s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created and how bias its product was br br i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinians in prison i understand restrictions are in place but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace br br i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence so to speak she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber s parents and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control it is more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignored pleas for understanding and freedom ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land br br i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seems exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it is a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn t quite get the director s intentions if any i wonder if she s ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you ll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it s just me this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space as a history of space flight it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it disney has shown it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again in an alternate s where an outbreak of the undead caused by a mysterious space dust has been contained through the use of special electronic collars a young loner timmy finds a friend in fido billy connelly his family s recently acquired domesticated zombie br br fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hot to trot wife played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss having been psychologically scarred as a child when he was forced to shoot his own father who tried to eat him br br timmy runs into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal s collar goes on the blink and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour with the authorities on fido s trail trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend br br a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick fido is a thoroughly entertaining deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into s small town america is a stroke of genius and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole reanimated dead theme that i have seen br br connelly s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead s bub and return of the living dead s tarman it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus the rest of the cast also give commendable performances with young k sun ray as timmy and ms moss deserving special mentions ray because for one so young he puts in a particularly assured turn and moss because she is so bloody yummy br br this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it is also the best director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future br br out of rounded up to for imdb an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as mills and boon so what it is good to see a warm touching story of real love in these cynical times many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other even though for political reasons it was an arranged marriage i did feel though that sir john conroy who was desperate to control the young queen is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain as it is rumoured that he was in fact the real father of victoria as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have been interesting to explore this theory emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england which prospered as never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer first off i have to say that i loved the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it was great we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial the movie was so disappointing to me the movie cuts out some characters and misses a lot of the main points of the book it skips around a lot and doesn t explain anything in detail if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book they would be confused the most disappointing thing in this movie to me was the ending the ending in the book was the most powerful and in the movie they changed it it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of melting together but instead the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs to sum up i don t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner s name on the cover it s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn t very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i m sure it was it doesn t suck it s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn t think any of it was funny i was disgusted by this movie no it wasn t because of the graphic sex scenes it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art it shows one piece of art work that she did judith beheading holofernese but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial br br i don t know if you understood this from the movie probably not tassi was not a noble character he raped artemisia it was not love it was rape he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka had sex with while she states over and over again it s true br br i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about don t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work br br don t see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar s a bug s life we re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer when it s in the right hands that is a bug s life is a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions br br it is only pixar s second animated feature the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in with their landmark movie toy story it was a movie which defied convention re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film br br after all it s a film about ants well all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug s life but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film as humans are the focal point in dramas romances and so on how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you ll probably ever encounter br br not only are they all entirely amiable and likable there isn t an unpleasant character in sight even the villains are riveting characters but they re colourful they re eclectic and they re idiosyncratic and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug s life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name is flik david foley and his character is rather generic to say the least out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush beautiful ant island he is the one considered the black sheep of the clan as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season s harvest with his antics br br the problem arises in the fact that the ants harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper kevin spacey who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone they go insane for lack of a better term hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack s hands however it s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil the cogs and clockwork in flik s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers br br if you think about it a bug s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line s of akira kurosawa s classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil in a bug s life the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl br br much amusement comes out of these scenes and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs among them are an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen as is the entire movie collectively br br as i ve said much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie what makes a bug s life even better is that the film isn t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film the clich d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we d like however it s easy to ignore this fault and it s incredulously easy to enjoy this film br br although a bug s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor this is still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have proved that they re not just a one hit wonder but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manages to top their standards it s only always by themselves what more is there to say about a bug s life other than see it it s not quite the best which we ve seen from the folks at emeryville california but this beats out the lot of its year and i ll be damned if this isn t the best animated feature of br br what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version is no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever anyway back to this version it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeeds in both but high art it is nit throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe the direction was average and the editing abysmal worse than the old quincy deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it s about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn t that easy to get along with she just started puberty i m guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts i just don t get some of the big premises of this episode that miranda is so remarkable and that there s anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here made the remark that maybe it s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness miranda is just a jerk the episode is slow inconsistent and way too talky i also don t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador why doesn t the federation just leave the damn medusans be there s one part i do like when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at its lamest i ll always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldn t purchase it except for a used copy under this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movies mental list mind the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series spirited away and fly away home br br i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie she s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls she really sucks you into her life i also certainly can t fault any of the protagonist s acting or anyone else s in the film br br the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules the movie is never boring the romance is really cute and didn t make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really made it though was the indian factor jess parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else the indian people are also hilarious essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it br br feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film they re funny they re refreshing and they make you feel good i know that you ve already entered this in film festivals or at least i think you have i may just be making that up but i think this should get best animated short film in every one bravo i can t wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations but hear it now and accept it as the truth kudos my friend okay now i m just trying to get ten lines of text though i still mean it and here comes yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do in fact i ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those br br r this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs evil plot and is all about action what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around her movements were done so well why don t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days it s quite effective br br fire and ice in it s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others including plenty of women will adore it s esthetic quality i for sure did not mind bakshi just loves animating lushious voluptuous babes as can also be seen in cool world and i don t think he has to apoligize since it s pretty much animation for adults but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it br br this one was just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it s possibly bakshi s finest for those who like animations with lushious women try space adventure cobra as well br br i give fire and ice out of my ratings acting suspense character attachment plot character development overall br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny nd and csi th i don t know in the other csis you get into the episode you re watching but in this one you just can t get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain t good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author s hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven t seen it buy it anyway it s well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they d play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the s the courthouse city hall etc they re all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the pennants on chick s wall you ll see two for ole miss chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect but fails painfully on all other fronts the actors all play extremely silly caricatures you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot is predictable and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films including shabby larger than life special effects and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp br br it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they won t be able to do it again the cash cow is now dead as a dodo i can t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton and sure it s his company but you re fired or you re hired for how many seasons now after watching the show i wouldn t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve br br i d love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he gets hurt so i don t have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it i d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a and it doesn t deserve that if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme style i would never have rented it nevertheless i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot i lasted a very very very long forty minutes before giving up it s just boring pretentious twaddle br br the last french movie i saw was romance and it too was pretty dismal but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme overseas it ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy it s called dogme because that s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera br br the story and the show were good but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies ri chard is great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous seriously i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i can t say anything bad about peter galleghar he s one of my favorite actors i love anne rice i m currently reading the vampire chronicles but i m glad i saw the movie before reading the book this is a little too real for me i prefer lestat and louis s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i don t want to give anything away sorry but it s just not my type of show first let me just comment on what i liked about the movie the special effects were fantastic and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game there that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing br br i have innumerable complaints about the film but four major complaints jump to mind my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away where lois s year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman when the crying super child throws a piano at lex s henchman to save his mother i almost got up and left the theater singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child it s been days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit br br my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space it doesn t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what s wrong with that i don t know how many comic books brian singer has read but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas that s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground br br my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior jor el wasn t all wise he was just a scientist and he didn t send his son to earth to be a savior he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode i ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ s primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman returns the passion of the christ br br and speaking of luthor my last major complaint has to do with singer s depiction of lex luthor lex luthor is a shrewd cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president which he does in the comics than try to destroy the world the man wants money and power he wants to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman returns as well as all the previous superman movies is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the quite awful previous superman movies this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow br br to summarize i don t know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you don t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven t already don t see it don t buy it when it comes out on dvd don t rent it basically don t contribute any money towards it in any way this movie does not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that sees this movie bryan singer should be fined billion dollars if you re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you ll get the same experience without having to waste hours of your time this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference no porn br br the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable at the very least the pacing should have been picked up br br while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had he should have spent more time on the story or better yet get someone else to write it many of the action scenes were just pointless br br it was a complete waste of my time is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn t have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked overall i was rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle br br bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows which deal with the subjects i referenced i think you will find at least something here br br in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way i especially liked how they explained where the cylon s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers br br the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters but this is something i think needs work i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident br br based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where caprica goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did i m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn t to good compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wan na be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice s other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj silkk gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn t introduced in this movie and the scene isn t in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn t mention what happen other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don t love em like i do don t watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel purez i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands shipwrecks jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently there s a needless mins of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blowing up scene jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game there is no communicator with doyle on the other end the modified soldiers look like albinos with singlets on and there was no mutated monkey like creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building there s an ending scene where everyone except krieger live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema then this is for you one of the best ensemble acted films i ve ever seen there isn t much to the plot but the acting incredible you see the characters change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you much as the villa does on all the women truly enchanted i haven t seen this movie in about years but it still haunts me br br when asked about my favorite films this is the one that i seem to always mention first there are certain films works of art like this film dark city and breaking the waves that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a life changing event such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend this film shook me when i first saw it it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days today i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood br br hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation changed everything it changed our perception of security it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it changed our world br br however i can t not stress how utterly repulsed disillusioned and angry i am at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press hollywood has sunk to a new low even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all is uwe boll i am very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how dare they br br to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks br br ask yourself if you have a soul br br think remember respect the memories of the lives lost on by not seeing this film at all you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed that s why movies like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences especially local ones we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with tax when they reach our shores and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one not only that the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear lest they reach the sea br br and these movies are relatively easy to make hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic for once those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long can t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these of course there are amongst us ahem those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models and movies such as these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they don t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park the guy sitting beside me i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s appear and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans br br so there we have it the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage as does the gt here the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification that even i m impressed alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that has wings for doors but seriously my heart goes out to the cars each time they re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment i mean this are perfectly fine high performance models that are at the apex of motoring but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow they do so because they can br br there s no story in redline just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties the cars that is that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shots of pedals always the accelerator mind you tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steering wheels gear shifts always shifting up and not down all these while having the actors make pretend that they re the baddest asses with an engine snarling and giving each other dirty looks not a very tall order for an actor and that s why we get the most woeful performances ever with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids br br the heroine yes it made a statement that girls can drive natasha a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin is one of those million dollar finds a girl with model looks who don t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil who has racing pedigree within her and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable every line had to do with cars and when singing about love just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts lubricants and going for rides introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous eddie griffin she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle everything else well like i said just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race br br and it s almost always the same as there s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars especially when you know the race is rigged for narrative reasons and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker sun kang and of course the star it created vin diesel redline had none just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it s one man one car and a minutes race against time to get to vegas br br if not for the cars then this movie seriously is a piece of junk with bad acting bad lines and bad action strictly for the car fans or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines im the type of person who always goes to horror section when i m picking a film so i picked five across the eyes i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish i think i could of done better myself i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the embarcadero freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting nearbye you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact hickman s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden pontiacs in the s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york have you ever heard the saying that people telegraph their intentions well in this movie the characters actions do more than telegraph future plans they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtz s character is not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesn t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have br br the bottom line obvious plot one note performances unlikeable characters and grotesque southern accents employed by british actors night of the living homeless was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movies most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains br br kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart gives a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town is completely overrun with them this is a very strong randy marsh episode as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy makes it to the community center he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming i don t have any change unfortunately the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he becomes one of them asking everyone for change br br the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park and find a man who is a director of homeless studies they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people break into the man s house and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself however he fails several times as he shoots himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder screaming horribly until he finally dies this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in fantastic easter special two weeks ago br br meanwhile a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem the property values have nosedived thus the bank has foreclosed on his house making him homeless randy immediately turns on him holding the gun to the man s head when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out randy pulls the trigger br br in evergreen the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica california br br the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable br br i m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into but this movie is not a horror movie as for the story it was fairly interesting but rather slow i was especially disappointed with the ending though br br spoiler br br tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle s home without at least calling the detective or the police first she knows exactly what s going on at that point plus she has a video tape as proof instead she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying i know everything i have proof you didn t expect proof did you then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he s going to harm her well duh of course he s going to harm you idiot you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb ending i gave this a there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone gets killed or nearly so i am tired of cross hairs and changing views i can not give the plot away convoluted and insane if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back i wish reviews were more honest not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end docteur petiot starring michel serrault is a brutal story about a brutal man a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate is not there yet he preys on the weakest amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography are superb and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story he is the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and caring calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer kudos to mr serrault for his chilling portrayal i just got this video used and i was watching it last night the acting started out extremely bad hey hey twister but got very good soon after wards the tornadoes looked extremely fake and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done and just about on par with movies like twister the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too the story was very well written and it s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formulas movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for years br br while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality this merits an a in my book this film is really vile it plays on the urban paranoia of the s s and puts it into a school context i m not saying that urban crime wasn t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren t aren t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it s not a case of social issues but a white upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he knows how to play the system does that sound familiar yes this turd is pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this what a horrible horrible film the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time not that i saw much i left the theatre screaming after about minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves meryl streep was awful as usual how many hurt and tortured expressions can person have aidan quinn s talents were as so often totally wasted and who told gloria estefan she could act trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school the kids weren t even cute just written in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really made me cringe for once real horror this one motocrossed was fun but it wasn t that great i guess i just didn t understand a lot of the motocross racing lingo and there was a lot of that in the film the plot wasn t what i expected from the disney channel previews so that could account for some of my disappointment sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he wants to broaden his horizons and spoiler needs a family member in order to do it br br a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain t scary at all works better as a dark macabre black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecracks that s for sure the actors aren t interesting save robert englund as always and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto and there are simply far too many visual effects the finale is ok but doesn t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope br br in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer s story it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before br br there are cameos worth noting a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become br br film debut of breckin meyer who plays spencer br br one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits br br ok i m italian but there aren t so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it s the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i d like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it s too slow it s so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven t already seen it watch it an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful so no new story lines here however the authors managed to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watching kids vomiting or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife s teeth out in a bloody horror type go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone the first cube movie was an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn t understand it was on the non literal level a man vs cruel nature plot where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end triumphing to face a new indefinable world beyond man s petty squabbles a world where there were no more struggle but peace i rated cube a out of and it s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels br br the second movie hypercube was a massive disappointment some of the ideas were kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning still for being fairly entertaining i rated it a out of br br the third movie cube zero while ignoring the second plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there is no homage or tribute here there is only ripping off the same kind of plot with some elements idiotically altered like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say br br that we see something from behind the scenes means nothing because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment the architects of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan did at the end of the first movie are just killed where the bleep is the sense in that that s just flippin stupid i m glad i didn t pay to see this br br the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realized that mr tony giglio was earnest about this movie it s a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully me thinks he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself he sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesn t make it true customs change word definitions change over time look at english german where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same it s always growing and changing the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses these writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here same string of letters two entirely different meanings this is why many biblical researchers use a lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written it s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn t exist in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty talk about ego putting soapbox away god bless maegi i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie megacheese i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol slewfoot or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don t watch for the love of god don t watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i m doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god s sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it it has lot s of laughs guns action crime good one liners and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character max a dea agent diane is the fbi agent played by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv plays the bad guy livingston the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much has all the good one liners this is the perfect crime caper there is the usual love story but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix the film is shot in boston where you have some great shots and locals great photography and music in this film this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy it has everything that one could ever want check out sutherland s toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me if you like to see animals being skinned alive their heads smashed dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them then this one is for you but if you are somewhat normal and don t need to see real footage of animal cruelty pass this one up this movie tries to shock the viewer and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of babies in the movie fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up and special effects so we shouldn t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals its not what we rented the movie for if anything there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it as a very hardcore horror fan this one turned my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked another spanish movie about the civil war this time we re told about the story of carol lovely played by d butant clara lago a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york it is such an initiating trip and soon she ll find about the injustices of the human race their stupid fights and conflicts their contradictions br br imanol uribe makes his best film since d xadas contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he tries not to take part in the conflict he just shows us some facts and let us decide ok the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple clara lago and juan jos ballesta br br a well cared production br br my rate a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods this is simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypasses the ocean view area the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view once the interstate was completed ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few years the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing br br it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film rollercoaster this is also untrue footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to death of ocean view park br br as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time with the cast involved there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors i don t believe this film was intended to be another citizen kane i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table but proved unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway let s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise br br for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fans but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park this movie is like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan s role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father a trio of buddies sergeants all in the british army carouse brawl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save scores of the queen s soldiers from certain massacre br br based more on the three musketeers than kipling s classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood s golden year of filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusion br br it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable however this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time br br it s interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than honorary knighthoods after the conflict while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers br br the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe heartbreaking in the title role he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of kipling s poem ring true he is unforgettable br br montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare are effective but have little to do movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine s father br br the film picks its villains well the demonic thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous blood soaked kali hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of indian life for centuries ritualistically strangling up to victims a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares this movie pretty much sucked i m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible if your in the military and you see this movie you ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad it was ridiculous they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do it was a pretty gory movie i d have to say the least there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump i d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a better movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i ve ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn t be explained for this genre to work br br originally written i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot the most suspense surprises most emotional especially the ending and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving was not as episodic and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie br br it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole i have heard many strange reasons such as a because yoda died b because bobba fett died c because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader was revealed br br i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who cares if bobba fett died if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die don t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett s name judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think secondly many fans did not like yoda dying sure it was a momentous period in the movie i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic all the good guys can t stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda s death well nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why was obi wan s death okay but yoda s not hmmmmmmmmmmmm another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible that is utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage they had swinging vines ropes logs set up to trip those walkers and other traps the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest the only thing they had was their blasters to add it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros the band of rebels as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have been a great upset lastly if this scene was still unbelievable to you how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo chewbacca and the princess being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view and not only that the heroes of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters the troopers must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strikes back the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not heroes against a legion of stormtroopers don t believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando s base or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star br br the last reason that i care to discuss others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here is that people did not like darth vader being revealed well in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father annakin skywalker it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father s face because it made it complete by annakin s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he was annakin skywalker by removing the helmet the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about in fact that s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke s father isn t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet br br on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse even if it is better that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be better or worse that the original but i can not know for sure let s see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was br br i am not sure who criticizes these movies but i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite that it is rotj i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading br br bottom line the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its minutes there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful exciting surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day br br finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky insignificant details or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such as this movie stinks because luke is not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately br br crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman s agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it s because i m jewish isn t it it s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners dvd doesn t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there s little doubt in sam levene s performance that the character is in fact also gay not a mincing caricature but there s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper s confused soldier there s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young s maigret like detective gloria grahame s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in as a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for crusading this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it s always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it s interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the villains in this movie those villains are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you re fighting against at first it s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german s are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn t however the best it s hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn t even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don t know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they re being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren t the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert s book i hated hated hated this movie and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert s review of rob reiner s north where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well but above all the other things that were awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits but after that first or minutes the other minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for seconds then someone gets shot then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra s my way sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss who i admire much as an actor for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that independence day was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history did goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if independence day were a bomb what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time says that the movie is set on another planet i only wish now that i have wasted minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minutes out of my life that i will never get back ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it s honor as the worst movie ever what a boring film to sum it all up its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor while she tried to flee from the village with her son can someone say boring the concept wasn t too bad but it was poorly executed the canadian locales and some of the village scenes were nicely shot however overall the cinematography came up short the story could have been great but the movie just seemed to drag on there is only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hours of it br br the best part of the whole movie was the song ishq kamina and that was only five minutes long other than that this movie was a piece of crap rant start i didn t want to believe them at first but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic even though their budgets mainly spent on special effects have become more and more fantastic do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry has built up since the break out film shiri swiri by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did rant end br br the only reason i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean east asian styled dragon i have seen to date for the final scenes now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons remember dungeons dragons in hasn t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use but how well you use it i hope there are more and better korean legends they can use because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one br br in short i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem arirang being played at the very end as a creature feature i would have given it at least stars out of if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it but i ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting just less dragons as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a better world i said better world because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don t know qin shihuang means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king means the land and the people spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is qin shihuang s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles it also had technicolor one of the few movies made with it in br br now the bad news regrettably i can t say much positive for the story it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light and hollywood has done that ever since why these criminals are always shown to be the good guys is beyond me this film glamorizes them and made their enemies the railroad people into vicious human beings the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous well that s the film world for you evil is good good is bad br br hey hollywood here s a news flash the james boys were criminals really look it up i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i m sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn t live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin s granddad the only sad thing was the ending it s a shame they couldn t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending i don t normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn t turn it off i don t believe i ve ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn t turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it s a sports thriller but it s so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it s not funny not even in a dumb silly way it s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers it s painful to watch but at least it s only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can t describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i m sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you re out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i ve seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can t stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn t bad as the second string few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john lassiter s amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who s review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i m betting the older charas too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo s mother soske s mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend soske whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham soske is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he s related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young soske which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end ponyo s father fujimoto must cope with his daughter s decision and his estranges wife s wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there s the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki s best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki s delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address as expected joe james russo the attacker forces his way into marjorie s home and subjects her to humiliating terror bruised and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat hog tied and battered himself joe tries to explain himself to marjorie s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there is almost a hint of mercy but it is not coming from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m young i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i ve seen the whole thing played like a cnn worst case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn t seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don t bother with this one for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film s most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven t seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo s carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard s kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end i am not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u s army riffles in wwi and wwii in movie we can see privates armed with m garand invented in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load times more ammunition and times more fire rate m was semi automatic springfield requires reloading after every shot little difference german army uniforms has borrowed from year too especially helmets german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archives how much truthful is this true story i am surprised how much truthful can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i m telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may oliver a person too talented for this film didn t like wheeler a sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king at about the same time woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king so when wheeler arrived it was up to the boys to fight it out but they refused because they are already friends which greatly disappointed the people as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime br br i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood the silent era through the s i have seen and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i can t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better for example there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother s film duck soup yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp at times woolsey talked a bit like groucho but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny in fact he just seemed to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality was that he looked goofy surely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese a piece of cheese that sang very poorly a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as who s on first which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they started their spiel they just ended the routine so prematurely that you are left frustrated i knew that who s on first had been around for many years and used by many teams but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist br br once again i have found yet another sub par film by this duo while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly such as silly billies and the rainmakers which i actually gave s to on imdb this one was a major endurance test to complete something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey where was all the humor i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that s the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn t any good actually it s bloody awful but i didn t expect anything else when i bought it it s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really baaaaaaad br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she s the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i ve seen pteradactyl even when her boyfriend dies she can t stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that s the way i like it the chupacabra looks pretty messed up and it s easy to see that it s a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you re even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn t you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked the symbolic use of objects form editing the position of characters in the scene these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken even the title has a least four meanings that i can see the boxing ring the wedding ring the bracelet the lover buys and the love triangle at the heart of the story i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford s small town boy david chappellet what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla sparv the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn t really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn t need to do much and indeed doesn t while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don t fully compensate and you don t care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that s probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it s the theme that s so important here i m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you ll like it this is an art film that was either made in or the national film preservation foundation says and imdb says regardless of the exact date the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late s early s br br the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understood by us mortals i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie is diamond among coals during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw this film should have made them stars shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film it could have easily been a franchise release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed no matter how late watch it you won t be disappointed do yourself another favor read the book same title it ll blow you away times have changed dramatically since those days or at least we like to think they have a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town leading to all kinds of complications cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can t escape the title town hopper does what he does best playing a psycho known as lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns and john s direction creates a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertaining it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up i really liked this movie i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie it is definitely worth renting although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his product s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don t see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real sahlep powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole ali s bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn t show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even ali s troubles are not convincing because we don t see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don t see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i m wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man s big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie s leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie s clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn t great but it s a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number on the comedians comedian okay ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to datd the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone s favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the s i was born on may th despite this my life was very much in the style of the s when other kids had playstations i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only years old at the time of writing this review i because of my s style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn t see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk s adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as the world david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local caf the chipmunks are playing a game of around the world in days against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team s likeness secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds to varify that they were there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt the girls and boys of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be topped it s also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include getting lucky kind of suggestive for a kid s film eh and my mother as well as wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song getting lucky i first didn t think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince s men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells alvin and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven t seen this flick give it a watch it s worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s gets a solid out of br br headin for the top don t you know we never stop believing now just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a bomb rating a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night i feared the worst knowing its reputation and it was as god awful as i d anticipated this is a mexican made mess dubbed into english and produced by k gordon murray it s got terrible sets and effects and features a rather frightening santa who doesn t operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in outer space and who doesn t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is the opening sequence where st nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages seems to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesn t observe the child labor laws br br eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth just to make little kids naughty and turn santa s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience and it s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever oddly the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on this easily makes my personal list of the worst movie i ve ever seen but i m sure that s nothing unique as is often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as pelagia in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as corelli s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia s fianc br br i rated this film an despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie passing them down in the family if you will and i loved it br br clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it s up to superman to stop this mayhem br br it s just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effects and sound the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid and i m now it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic much much better than of the scream rip offs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn t read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed mystery is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don t like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadn t guessed i loved it the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it s really rather messy though fellowes doesn t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich landmine though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there s also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing br br i m disappointed not that it s bad but that it could have been much better this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert godfrey s up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age holes is an awesome movie i love it a lot and it s one of my favorite films it s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn t cheesy holes is generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more pictures like it holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool don t get the wrong idea i don t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it s stuff is aimed towards kids and that s okay children deserve to have their entertainment too but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with holes it s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it s corny really it s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to br br holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this i can not hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen savers with co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn t pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she s hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn t afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it s music movies comic books the internet and television this is what s great about the show if you don t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on aots some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren t as geek as i d like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup worst dcom i have seen ever well maybe not as bad as smart house this was just bad the acting and story was fine but the effects sucked br br they were so fake the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen that was probably the only scene in which i was excited br br overall i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly br br i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene br br its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities and also i didn t know that an indian can cross the march s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier s were sleeping some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn t for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they re all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there s never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film is so feather light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakeries and hairdressers and plumbing but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick they re both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass this film is quite simply brilliant the cinematography is good the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking this is the story of donald woods a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid kevin kline is completely convincing so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later i recognised him from kline s portrayal denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance as ever br br i urge you to watch this it is long but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story remember folks this really happened i have recently seen this production on dvd it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in and it was just as good as i remembered at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been i am a bit of a jane eyre purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly br br all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way some even leave out the rivers family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this is the only production to include the gypsy scene done correctly br br the casting is perfect zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she looked too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted his expression is fantastically frightening but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable oh to be loved by a man like that there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks br br finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it is simply perfection in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it s a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carrie s boss i m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven t prey br br aspect ratio br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren s follow up to satan s slave amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v browne s eye catching cinematography though annan s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and left under mysterious circumstances stokes unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there s an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to emasculate their clueless visitor by dressing him in women s clothing though stokes alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially annan s final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren s unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film s budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army is the local dentist he s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie is always being viewed with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro ves at the islands police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for closer inspection a quick search for the killer proves fruitless as does a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who lives on the island through the winter months a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together br br goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain with a heavy fog rolling in the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesn t work seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut reports of ufo s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin s idea that aliens might be involved but a rise in radioactive levels on the island has him doubting himself br br the nightmare man is based on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it is here adapted by dr who and blake s scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board the nightmare man though is on the whole a succinctly better crafted piece that builds its plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor characters time is given to giving them all a firm background the island setting is perhaps a genre clich that has been used over and over but its one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times there is an authenticity about proceedings the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point if there is one negative about the killer its that we are given his her its pov for the killings an acceptable clich on its own but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer given the clues presented but it s a fun and very well acted piece the local scottish cast are exceptional the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold imrie never one i ve taken to in other works is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers it disappointed me in some ways but taking into account when it was made its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it is even more terrifying this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie so if you haven t seen either movie and want to but don t want the spoilers please don t read this review br br while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe s christian and sarah michelle gellar s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did it s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough you ll recognize it there are also inconsistencies in the plot if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon s character br br also the tie in with the photography you could be a model comment at the end was totally lame and didn t add anything at all overall this movie was a waste of time i can t believe they made a cruel intentions this movie is ridiculous it s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it s a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they re all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie in dramatising wilde s novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown dorian s essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson s dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas rls took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it s a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have s have not s i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn t write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn t take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as nita i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of mazursky s an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother biji he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors mrinal sen s khandar gautam ghose s paar benegal s ankur a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn t make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn t see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don t know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven t already don t waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel at a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director murali k thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows is thalluri s attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis s sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluri s talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn t reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or romanticizes the act thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and revetting is an absolutely unmissable film the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won t watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich d lines in the movie i m sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton s character has hijacked hamill s prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you ll find something of interest here but you can t convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso if anyone thinks there s some hidden meaning here you re really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employing a large number of roach s reliable performers although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves star struck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set does so here as cecilia always ready for an audition is treated by a would be paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behind the scenes action of naturally a musical comedy featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton russell hicks and walter long on balance one must hand the bays to mischa auer who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star a role which he largely creates and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley s filmic spectacles the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start these slasher pics are past their sell by date but this one is good fun br br the valentine cards themselves are witty and well thought out br br the film has one peach of a line he s no angel when he in fact is angel watching buffy reruns will never be the same br br the cast is a sizzling display of young talent but the story does not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters sorry but no br br the direction is very good managing to show very little actual gore and relying on your imaginations implied threat much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes br br essentially the main directorial plus lies within the borrowing of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks psycho s shower scene is tributed along with halloween s masking br br murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know br br light viewing not very scary but a few good jump moments if it was a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movies have had their day and this is just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundbreaking the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a instead of a is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn t shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go skydiving maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today s market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me like most i thought another crocodile movie so far we ve had primeval and rogue in the last months what can they do that s new where both those films were about action and violence this one s about fear and tension br br the performances aren t oscar worthy when there s nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it s like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don t really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it s a stretch to say you ll enjoy this movie it ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick s abundance of clich s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the characters and the dialog br br i d read about elizabeth berkly s awful performance in the equally awful showgirls which i ve never seen and her performance here while not awful is barely up to the standards of lifetime s worse fare there was not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldn t have been if so it would have placed the film completely out of balance since there wasn t a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal br br the principal s handling of liz s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable her husband s initial reaction and advice were likewise forrest gump attacking jenny s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic intelligent action and hell he was mentally challenged br br the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession br br finally and frankly i rather enjoyed this part the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs that you d rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the law and order series and the like but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime br br finally i found a kind of story within a story fascination with josh s concoction of his being the victim of his teacher this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story this was something of an achievement like going from f to f minus br br this whole lame situation should have been resolved in real life in about minutes following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities with husband involved but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following and left an hour s blank film in the camera br br but the writer s here proved with their ending they could do even worse when the situation was finally resolved and righted this was accomplished in all of about seconds with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parents or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption br br this one s a presentation the second because it does have some mild fascination if you haven t seen this yet you really should on dvd i can t believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren t many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like cgi s but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you ve seen a dinosaur my favorites were the coelophysis the raptors the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn t get money from the government for financing otherwise i m never paying taxes again ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by sadhu s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director shimit amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making let s keep it simple my two kids were glued to this movie it has its flaws from an adult perspective but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it br br and the pepsi girl was excellent br br and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot although she s not in the film very much so don t get too excited there br br not that s it s really a bad thing but it is the kind of movie you watch just once don t buy the dvd br br enjoy br br did i mention kimberly williams that was for the dads it was a m in the morning and i had nothing else to do don t judge me please br br we re back in time during the spanish settlements a group have made their way onto an island it doesn t take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobbles up their horse soon they re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg sucks it reminds me of the cg of early console video games the encounters were lame the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it s just a middling effort lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost feel them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the s and s oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can t even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other got ta go now i have to go watch it again saturday june pm the neptune br br monday june pm the neptune br br few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of its centennial saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impressions of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura s camera creative use of large flats and mirrors moved throughout the set combined with screens shadows fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song dance and instrumental performance photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program connecting the passion of the music to its great creator saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich d movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it s genre but don t let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the story line was rather typical of clara s later silents i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves never mind that this man is married clara s lack of modesty was shocking in the day but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a brilliant story line quite typical actually this movie is a nice showcase of clara s ability to make the audience laugh as the number of video nasties i ve yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage popped up on my to rent list when i saw it was available br br the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip though if he returns with the girl and all the money he gets a significant cut he s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot is one of the worst actors ever granted they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after stealing away into the jungle we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever ping pong balls for eyes and that s pretty much it his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i found myself muting much of those scenes br br oh did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this is probably the main reason this film was banned though there is one specific scene about one second long where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out but it s not a redeeming factor for gore fans also jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals and sadly male as well so if you want fair in terms of exploitation you got it br br i can t recommend this trash to anyone it s not even the good bad movie it s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you are making your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list which is certainly not true i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a should have gave it a i gave it an extra star just because david keith s gun was cool i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film he failed thank god br br the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won t like her because she s ugly the film is just bad for so many reasons the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit those two scenes made me cringe janeane s character is sickeningly arrogant and guessing from her role as stand up comedienne and arch feminist is in real life too she claims that the film is anti feminist when in fact it s just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it s interesting to note her hypocrisy too she d been a feminist and comedienne for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film i mean come on she acted in it for heaven s sake what this film was really was anti men if anything it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman s character noelle br br there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure is that the best the script writers could come up with blimey they ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made there s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn t ugly but is actually beautiful erm was i watching the same film as they were she s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one although having said that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well she s lanky and gaunt looking br br i guarantee three things about this film if you ve never watched it br br you will know what the ending will be br br you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and br br you will be bored after ten minutes br br watch at your own peril this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person having just seen walt disney s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony the cast of this film contain some of new zealander s better actors many of who i have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long running new zealand soap shortland street it s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meets the love boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea br br if you are an actor i recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she s the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one s professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don t want to face the consequence one ironically can t believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it s not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies credits due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski s trois couleurs especially bleu this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty the governess rush hour as villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend s wedding opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com this film is awful the plot is extremely lazy it is not scary either people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film is more like dark water except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it i was extremely disappointed with this film it didn t scare me nor interest me either let s face it this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g the dead trying to contact the living dragonfly what lies beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc etc it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans the films that are coming out of hollywood like this are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer they re just being churned out angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela s identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today s world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it s pretty much just more terror tainment br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you re taking the word of the producers there s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb s user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see it wasn t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you ve been painting a wall until you re completely bored well that s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can t really blame them since there s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that s not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don t get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they re charging towards a gaping ravine isn t this somewhat illogical it s also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs moshe dayan arik sharon or god when you ve got an idiotic enemy who can t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn t help myself i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b which is unique among allen s work along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop s most enjoyable aspect the plot revolves around johanson s character a journalism student who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she falls in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen br br i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson s performance but i am a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she plays a ditsy yappy bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen s stereotypical neurosis stricken character she adds appropriate body language for comic effect needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus br br allen is allen he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late br br jackman is also enjoyable as the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less br br in terms of the plot i can not help but feel that this is fresh in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen are more detective like than anything however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything being black and white things are painted in shades of gray being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners i did find his allusions to his last film interesting come for the humor laugh and be merry br br needless to say if you enjoy allen s work watch it if not watch something else i rented this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portrays the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith is assassinated and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land despite his grave doubts he perseveres and finally has a vision that utah is the place for his colony that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later as crops are destroyed by crickets he again doubts that he has truly been chosen however a miracle occurs which cements his place in history br br i found the performances to be moving and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal polygamy is a part of the story but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised the issue is not emphasized br br i m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout s frightmare is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic s s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding s slasher genre it isn t totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance classier than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn t be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death s door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad s grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad s body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband s body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn t a very nice guy in life it s not much of a stretch to assume that he won t be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we re in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad s body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can t really recommend frightmare to anyone who didn t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label paired with roy ward s vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you re a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn t have the big budget there s no special effects no car chases and there s no explosions actually reality doesn t have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since i m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his harvey and kiefer s mickey enhances the oppositeness of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady mrs ramsay i m sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don t think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn t very good but they are truly good so i don t think that you before you haven t seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn t have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven t seen them doing there job as usual i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has there is no story a group of guys meander around iraq one day they are here diffusing a bomb tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire no wait here they are back in bagdad there is no cohesive story at all the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures by that i mean we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds what do you think is going to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy why yes there is no story here the script is juvenile and predictable the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon don t waste time or money on this boring movie a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other s jeep mysteriously won t start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn t all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it slaussen is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the s genre in it s twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won t be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn t know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy s business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie s biggest influence is the comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn t stale and recycled it s basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it s real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don t care about what s happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn t dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn t changed my mind spade s given very little to do serving as the movie s most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy s business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that s cool but i just can t get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever having read during many years about how great this film was how it established ruiz among the french critics specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watched it about a year ago i found it pretty disappointing but then i guess my expectations were sky high shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cerebral film made for tv and mercifully only an hour long is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it s ending if you haven t been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it s genre i loved this show from it s first airing and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week the plot characters writing special affects were outstanding then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining well written show i say bring it back i know all of the actors would come back i would suggest buying the dvd s i am i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunters but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too i didn t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much don t get my wrong its not a bad short film tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film you can tell that it has been an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on though i don t feel it greatly detracts for one s ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do i say go for it the gag reel was fun i won t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also done by jagged edge i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we ve received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it s also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much i was never so bored in my life hours of pretentious self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems it s like watching lizards molt even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this this movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on br br just remember this when you re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad this is the formula that they are using this is what makes zombie movies so great br br and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know br br all in all it doesn t linger there s never a point where you think to yourself c mon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely this is the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks br br so awful it s wonderful if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love it br br as a great trivia note if you re watching it on dvd you ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score well that s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop the ladies man is laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes including the funniest love song ever written br br ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role br br tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you ll find in any comedy out there br br it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round br br i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre and i urge you to vote br br and remember kids theres more motion in the ocean when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn t just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie is great the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot br br the only thing that really let me down are the performances emily blunt the devil wears prada is the star of the film bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable br br to me the film feels like unfinished maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script i don t know but that s how i feel about the movie br br but overall it s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt a flying saucer manned literally by a crew of about male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some years ago on a forbidden planet what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in br br on the surface this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeare s tempest but this is a stretch and in some ways an insult to the scifi genre stripped of what makes it a scifi film sure its the tempest but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about br br underneath this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek br br anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful the special effects and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of s sci fi props you might think you were watching a s piece br br this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call s sci fi and though not in my opinion the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects the clever plot now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek lost in space and even farscape is worth paying attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek s original series aired about years later though they may find themselves disappointed by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it br br some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles unfortunately nielsen s performance is only average and at times down right poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other films over acts his role as well ms francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job the problems with the featured performances i think are as much the fault of the director and the editor as anything though they certainly got most of the film quite right i just saw this film on dvd last night and decided to check out the reviews this morning it seems that i robot has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling too br br i find this somewhat surprising as this film is not great or even good but neither is it terrible or even really bad what this film really is is depressing depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid clich d re heats and acclaim them as spectacular new works this film as retread written all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action to smith s character a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effects that borrowed from matrix and a few others br br i robot is sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today s audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lots and lots of adrenaline smith is mediocre but we already knew that he seems to be hollywood s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story has lots of holes in it of all sizes but i don t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by today s standards but very b movie compared to true winners this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century br br this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people not white black etc br br good movie with a good message i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great mile s sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it s fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am sadden that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven t watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br i have to disagree with another commenter who said the special effects were okay i found them pretty bad it just wasn t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story br br maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story the archaeologists are looking for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what is so special about it that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt br br if you re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the beginning the ancient ceremony looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert br br the action level was constant throughout the movie no ups and downs no climax it made the movie look short and that s certainly a pro for this particular movie liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he is a true actor he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary mary is such a beautiful woman it s her love that makes rob roy the legend but it s his passion that makes her love undying they need each other tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect in one way or another upon watching the movie you will find cunningham disgusting the scotland scenery is beautiful the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well if you like history romance passion and love you ll enjoy rob roy there is violence and blood but it s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if you re not used to a scottish accent one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes it s their skill as actors that attracts you they don t rely on marquee names popularity or sex symbol appeal this is something special when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren t conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can t help it sorry for that raincoat was a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn t enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore having seen carlo lizzani s documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don t know what to criticize therefore to be clear i ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director s career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with nannies cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti s crucial visit in paris in the s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director s career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director s death in is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco rosi but later such movies like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people s emotions and viewpoints into stone time is precious this film isn t i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time br br the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction is this the film the critics are raving about what a piece of crap br br the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family get it br br the acting is superb br br the production lighting sets editing sound is about steps above a minutes story the characters are shallow and unintelligent i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next br br i have had more fun doing the laundry worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don t know how everyone in the movie didn t shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don t know and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don t watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn t even the to be expected nudity you d get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead savage island is a lame movie it s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting not only that the storyline and script was wretched i don t know why this movie was made i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry this one made my blood boil the situations were inane at best if i made a movie like this it would have been a short really because those backwood idjits wouldn t have been in the picture br br don t be fooled by the cover on the d v d i am an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie is virtually unwatchable i don t mind movies being shot on d v but if you re going to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror films sans wrong turn br br i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by br br movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story br br however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe s civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is hynkel and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his subordinates technical innovations which don t work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact hynkel s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery br br in truth chaplin s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the fuehrer s face your cause is doomed to failure because it s built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of silent comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain t i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn t come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the wouldn t it be wonderful speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film s underlying weakness remains if napaloni is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn t bother him and he still kills people friday the th what s that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn t it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way never saw the original movie in the series i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie it was however a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark really this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water not really worth watching i would however like to see the original granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also made a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown created in and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn t matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it s tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number on the greatest pop culture icons and he was number on the greatest cartoons very good highly regarded at release but since rather neglected immense importance in the history of performing arts a classic use of embedded plots one of my favourite films why hasn t the soundtrack been re released the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helmed this episode who murders her husband with a poker has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband s corpse she decides to use an ax once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman s head to frame the killer for her husband s murder santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child br br this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old santa kills theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she s been cheating with routine it s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac there s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions not one of the show s highlights the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film it should have read be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your family s church at years old listening to the preacher drone on about god s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego br br it starts off well intentioned building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny s how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble i believe i counted the use of the word pray about times in a five minute span near the end after the st i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last minutes plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me as it became totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of ending up on the floor br br for all the salivating christians who ranked this film stars i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square the ten commandments anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp the god who wasn t there what would jesus buy or the soon to be released religulous br br maybe robert whitlow s book is better tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford s films at two hours it was quite long for a silent film yet continues to hold your interest some years after it was filmed mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a greatest hits performance with bits of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character s illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question if the academy awards had been around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary s i first saw this movie when i was about years old my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for on vhs she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch this movie however scared the hell out of me you may be asking yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas that s right satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day for if santa doesn t make it back to his home in space he turns to powder don t get me wrong the movie is funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell which occurs at the beginning of the movie is just downright creepy although there are some snippets in this part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these are not very well developed in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs br br although this program as a whole leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserves some praise almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you if asked they think the drug war is designed to solve for example while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensued and the subsequent reversal of prohibition is totally ignored by this program br br this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems but not all users do their drugs in excess just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics br br if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science has decided to totally prohibit whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that is in here br br on the other hand this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in th century united states like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there is a significant element of various people s points of view with regard to drug laws and most but not all of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana br br the criminal justice system along with its often harsh life ruining penalties is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately there s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs a lack of compassion for fellow humans a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs yet this program ignores it br br so in sum the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives it s pretty disappointing considering this film was released years before i was born i don t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected s crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group in their endeavors the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin whom sister goes after because she believes he is the big time who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life though he could be accused of killing her he really kills only her spirit and will to live after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose the story isn t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off then threatens him it s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be discovered back then first i realize that a rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst this movie gets that from me because as one reviewer points out it s not bad in a self aware over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply misses its mark on every count contains possible spoilers the dialog is completely disingenuous the continuity is so deliberate it s painful daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love and with his final word the flamenco dancers start the mock shock of what s her name see i don t even remember her character s name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tells her that her friend is the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things vegetable carts gone flying cars crashing into each other motorcycles going down the stairs people nearly being hit but remarkably no one is oh that s right except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds and an approaching car apparently didn t notice him there hmmm br br it s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money you d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing now there s a novel idea br br my suggestion don t see this film don t rent the dvd don t watch it on cable there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he is black then walk away the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise is funny and the show contains many such types of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all the year saw no fewer than filmed productions of h g wells great novel war of the worlds this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place the last year of the th century using wells original setting in and near woking england br br imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as spoilers that might apply with some films where the ending might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world it seems positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature so let s get right to the chase the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease against which they have no immunity if that s a spoiler so be it after a book and other films including the classic you ought to know how this ends br br this film which follows wells plot in the main is also very cleverly presented in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late th early th century photography although filmed in a widescreen aspect the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs rather than black colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting at other times colors are washed out these variations are typical of early films which didn t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on as you ll see on occasion here the special effects are deliberately retrograde of a sort seen even as late as the s and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effects are really awkward such as the destruction of big ben the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair br br this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells original narrative as has been noted viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story wells description of the martians a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles is effectively portrayed when the martian machines appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how wells described them both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective primarily of rural england plus a few scenes in london involving the narrator s brother the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesn t dwell unduly on the devastation of london br br the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines the narrator traveling about to seek escape sees much of what wells terms the rout of mankind he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene wells adds that after eating they set up a prolonged and cheerful hooting the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder cheers from the gallery british curates are so often utterly insufferable br br this film lasts almost hours going through wells story in welcome detail it s about time the author got his due in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact a word about the acting don t expect award winning performances they re not bad however the actors are earnest and they grow on you most of them however have had very abbreviated film careers often only in this film the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate is john kaufman also in his nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing the brother henderson is played with some conviction by w bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part is played by james lathrop in his first film br br this is overall a splendid film portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it despite its slight defects it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors if you want to see h g wells war of the worlds and not some wholly distorted version of it see this film of the elements that make this the best at this point i have to say is christine mcintire shemp s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent i imagine that as one poster suggested christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil to be smiling at shemp s possibly dying br br another character who helps this stand out is the goon his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short is this good who s going to complain not i okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the last one and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one part was bad but why do they play us anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part and i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in d pointless id say i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts and yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series br br i gave a nightmare on elm street six out of br br good points of movie had potential with plot br br bad points of film terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing everyone my name may sound weird but there was nothing else br br any way i haven t seen anything like this before so it was crazy of course that s a good thing it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying twas beauty who killed the beast war of the worlds scene and more walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one also how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema br br however some parts don t fit like in the original lion king weren t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they are not they were fighting the hyenas backstage ther s more the reason being why pumbaa isn t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also it s just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonn s story was told whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks br br but apart from that it s great finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie which not only tells a story but actually tells the real story i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o donnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is it is not a movie to attract new fans but a movie to tell the real tale some things could have been better but when you can not forget the awful movie from then is this a magnificent movie so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story by now the game s stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they re all rehash but so was monkey island and for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don t need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself i decided to watch this movie because i d not seen carol lombard before in any movie i m sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what s that clich marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples worsening financial status their troubles with john s live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john s diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples angst about their marriage the baby s sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clich d situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn t much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early so it was planned in soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i m glad i saw it as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you ve seen all of stewart s movies otherwise don t bother unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director but for the last years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min no sex no blood it s suppose to be about snuff no actors no dialogs just as bad as an t v film it s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our minds forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi robowar rats l altro inferno virus cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco s spirit s new film pass on this one but if you don t know this nice artisan s career track down his old films and have fun i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director s techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn t as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in ralston s case it was the latter br br i must admit david arnott s portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i can not say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery s first film and it was obvious i mean really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn t the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy can not be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by zinc and we as a race will always want what we can not have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money the was in essence the bank for the last man don t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don t expect more from ralston and that is how i will end it br br grade out of br br i must admit i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem i am a true horror fan as true as they come and found cut to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced but one of the great parody comedy films of late br br my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film was not overly clever in it s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i am certain this was intended as humour hoping this was intended as humour br br and of course there was the gore br br the use of the customised garden shears was brilliance besides the expected stabs and slashes in short there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth br br the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance was and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film both performances were fantastic as well as simon bossell the castle in a brilliant role as the jokey technician br br all in all i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years as well as a beautiful satire parody toungue in cheek till the very end br br loved it go see it i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i ll just tell you that it s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the pieces of extreme gore and banned in countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the s today you don t need them as everything is done on computer but computers can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci s gates to hell or even savini s crowning achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can t tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don t see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it s here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a scalping there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated br br i always felt that ms merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the s and s from atlanta s sweet auburn to new york s harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny s boarding house the story revolves around nanny s relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year a few too many coincidences and plot holes however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn t come as too much of a surprise brosnan is excellent in this role gone is the wooden james bond a role he was wasted in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan s straight man i ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing my father a consultant nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hit man comedy the humour can be very dark if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself as a casual listener of the rolling stones i thought this might be interesting not so as this film is very of its age in the s to me someone born in the s this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap but i am sure this film was not made for me but people who were active during th s i expected drugs galore with th stones i was disappointed it actually showed real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not seen any of the directors other films but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing sort of amatuerish which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly directed tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this is that i didn t waste money on it it came free with a sunday paper watch the original with the same title from this made for tv movie is just god awful although it does use as far as i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesn t work is it the acting the poor directing ok so it s made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hands on the superb original especially as you ll be spoiled to the plot and won t enjoy the original as much as if you ve watched it first br br there are a few things that are different from the original it s shorter for once but all are for the worse the actors playing the parts here just don t fit the bill you just don t believe them and who could top edward g robinsons performance from the original if you want only watch it after you ve seen the original and even then you ll be very brave if you watch it through it s almost sacrilege director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn t know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film s end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl mcburney a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel s best film it certainly is one of eastwood s best real performances page is always so very good and hartman fe rdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a spring break movie plus it makes fun of the college film genre it s funny it s got a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain wilson phillips omg i m just repeating myself now it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they re dumb arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she s a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond s phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don t get me wrong this isn t a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny lipson plays king vultan boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent i have to say that the events of didn t hit me until i saw this documentary it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers i was sick of hearing about it when this was aired on tv a year and a day later i was bawling my eyes out it was the first time i had cried since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i am watching it now on tv years later and i am still crying over the tragedies the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing it was an accident and look where it got them these two brothers make me want to have been there to help perfect movies are rare even my favorite films tend to have flaws rear window looks a little stagey at times chris elliot s character in groundhog day doesn t work the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish br br the script is brilliant the acting is superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing the whole cast shines the directing and the photography are inspired and the music score is touching without being intrusive like some miramax scores that are too manipulative every sad moment is truly moving every light moment makes me smile this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it br br i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people real feelings and real problems brilliant a must see this has to be one of the worst movies ever made the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way just a few of the awful moments in the movie a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the mile per hour winds thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at feet thats impossible even for pilots with thousands of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she is instructed to pull on the flaps huh come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this is a movie you want to miss take my word for it regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you re a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn t carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don t get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren t close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don t care about acting or make up this is better as a book out of for an ok story i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with lan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenberg s later less bizarre works in pola x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol s factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age cathering deneuve shows that she still has it her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn t sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as pola x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn t work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating it s hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon was well done but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious br br i was amazed to see marcus aurelius in the acting credits wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker br br the story might been interesting but the acting is flat and direction is tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend s house and get drunk while doing so then it ll be enjoyable i remember going to see the movie in the summer of with my parents and being pretty into it at the time of course i was seven at the time br br right before the jackson movies came out my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic br br ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this is saying something much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them br br because of budget constraints the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the rings and part of the two towers was pared down even more what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books br br its not all bad though the animation brings a warmth to it that i found lacking in the jackson movies its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding br br this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came several years later a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired which was meant to wrap things up all i will say about that is that it was a musical just finished watching ftm the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it s frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let s get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn t seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn t like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it s insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeals to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights al pacino with great speech scenes and great one liners every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as wynorski s curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don t know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a komanbra part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it s almost over it s almost over out of i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn t know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he s definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was evie s rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with for greta garbo s first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o neill s pultizer prize winning play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna s father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn t be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn t offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion s generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo s anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play s greatest problem has always been that chris s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don t always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minutes doesn t allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne s second act appearance in show boat br br anna and marthy s early scene together on screen minutes into the film taking each other s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it s hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it was first filmed without sound in also with george marion s original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way let me set the scene it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies i am with my friend deciding what to see we look for a movie that is starting soon and the grinch comes up we buy tickets not knowing what to expect what we got was a roller coaster of fun br br jim carrey who may i add is my no actor in the whole world was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard s best movie next to apollo the way that this movie was made the scenery the actors the props and the music was just amazing it really brought this childhood movie to life br br the story is based upon the story of the grinch as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can t stand christmas he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk but one little girl is going to change the grinch s look on life and on others in a drastic way br br cindy lou who played by adorable new actress taylor momsem meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people br br all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents a solid well done jim br br as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia i can still tell it was a quality show very educational but still funny i have not seen the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing was it was too long ago to remember br br the premise of the show was to show you how the body works i swear school still hasn t taught me half of what i know from this show it also tied in other things like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don t exercise with nice examples within the body who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you d the cartoon looked nice very kids friendly of course but done with care cells viruses electric signals in the brain antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures looking pretty much how you d expect what they should look like in the animated body br br this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale were key parts of my childhood i m so happy i found them here fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama s in the years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it s that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england s involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david norwell suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn t have both oars in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr norwell this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another all centered around adam s inabilities and seizures why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get clich snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it s standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct they filmed this movie out on long island where i grew up my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer which they told me was colored water tasted disgusting and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form it never came out in the theaters obviously and it as far as i knew was never released on video and i m sure wasn t released on dvd yet it looks like it was seen by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother yet there is no way i can find it anywhere does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased and which format that would be that s how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who s on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he s financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy s running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he s very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster s woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score out of stars human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br this early biograph short was so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d w griffith s years of discovery dvd set highly recommended it features three excellent performances by the main leads and interesting to see henry b walthall the little colonel birth of a nation as a campy musician giving a countess the eye and other things br br the countess husband goes berserk at his wife s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour it s kind of incredible that they wouldn t hear the wall going up but hey maybe the wine had something to do with it here mr johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment comes at the end as the lady passes out from shock and fear once she realizes she s doomed henry picks up his instrument and fans it over her the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lost it and laughed my head off the expression on his face from that moment i was charmed by henry b walthall baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this is the movie which caused his downfall it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred soon after its release he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably its a very bad movie with horrible acting bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease i m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission sorry i ll not recommend this one to anyone written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick is harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word f k the most number of times almost three hours long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord br br also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f murray abraham and angel salazar pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster is that powerful enough for you crime does not pay for long first the cgi in this movie was horrible i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park gets killed it s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen even night of the living dead had better animation br br that said the movie had almost no plot why were they on that island in particular well it wasn t stated in the movie and why would the people keep coming into the cat s area makes no sense br br one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting in what could be called a b made for tv movie movie the acting was very good parry shen stood out in particular br br if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quotes i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme s best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn t come off although it strays away from the book a little you can t help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine s dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr tilney he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it s hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney as for john thorpe well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the marchioness i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say elinor s calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive page point by point line by line refutation of this mendacious film which should be titled a convenient lie the website address where his debunking report which is titled a skeptic s guide to an inconvenient truth can be found at is www cei org a shorter page version can be found at www cei org pdf pdf once you read those demolitions you ll realize that alleged global warming is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of which gore also endorsed as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber as james the amazing randi does to psychics and philip klass does to ufos and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories so does mario lewis does to al gore s movie and the whole global warming scam a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film s first audiences pretty much as it s described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow s part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd sigh i m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the the first time alright br br but i guess what s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us back in a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic clich ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it s about time the concept of having laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially stan laurel of course as usual br br the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula it doesn t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending it s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the movie br br the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor br br the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed it all helps to make dirty work to be one of the better laurel hardy shorts br br this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn t it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches winry it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i ve been feeling down in the dumps and it s such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i thought it was pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effects excellent acting especially de niro who is awesome this movie made me happier than i ve been for a while br br it is a very funny and clever movie the running joke of the kingdom s history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled that s much of what makes it so good it s an elaborate special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies yet there is an incredible attention to small things br br i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again i was surprised that forgiving the franklins did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants i watched this movie so that you don t have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film s title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn t sure if genevieve bujold s character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it s credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over m too bad the money wasn t spent on a better project just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the messengers is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie s resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you ve seen previews for this movie then you ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters i went to see this movie actually i went to see family portraits which contains cutting moments other short films by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina i just couldn t watch it i had to cover my eyes after the st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while by the time it was over my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the nd short begun btw of course i was not the only one who left the room it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it i just don t get how you can love that kind of movies the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it and i just don t think it makes any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff makes no other sense than to try to shock people and that s not a good enough reason i think there s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it was good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of films a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending pluses the way the story moves begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he s there the music a disinterested look at the life of policemen minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effects still having people s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided br br no complaints i don t understand the positive comments made about this film it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i can not understand how it ever got made br br cartoon characters abound sue s foul mouthed alcoholic layabout irish father being a prime example none of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for sue s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence as desperately unattractive as they both are i ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but given that they do why should i be expected to care what happens to them so many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is if that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film br br i didn t like the film at all steven what have you done you have hit an all new low it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege and and exit wounds the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted pounds on this garbage out of ten better luck next time a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer s next target director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoops around corners in a museum after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purposes practically gives away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals and stages his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dressed to kill is exhausting primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial much of the acting with the exception of young keith gordon is mediocre and the second finale is a rip off of de palma s own carrie not to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end results are distinctly half baked from flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david labraccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in lost boys and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru calling episode which used the movie s premise br br flatliners one of my favorite shows back in the s as i recall it went to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together br br each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible br br i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who came back as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames oh well you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea br br mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best br br definitely deserves a place in tv s hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo kolchack you are on it or in the case of the hall of fame in it i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldn t be laughing you ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and well you get the point br br but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face frownland really is a remarkable piece of work that after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him br br it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein s film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer if someone sets you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the pain perhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can t even begin to attempt to explain br br unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself bring a doggie bag i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night s sitcoms on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didn t expect much and i didn t get much although rose mcgowan is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i d give it a out of i first saw this film when i was about years old on tv in the uk where it was called laupta the flying island i absolutely loved it and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it i was enchanted by the story and characters but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw sometimes erroneously referred to as the streamline dub the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set br br unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn t have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese had and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead they have made some pointless alterations such as changing the main character s name from pazu to patzu and added some dialogue but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking which i find annoying in many disney films br br this film still blows away most recent animated films and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market homogenized animation this film can t make up its mind whether its message is humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless or don t ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan is out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all senses who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself i doubt it was her first when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan obviously as among humans total psychos date other total psychos br br the film reeks of half thought out anti human message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all it s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and as the film progresses he grows more and more compassionate to the whale s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better br br the films final journey in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north reminds me of melville s eerie man whale connection and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husbands might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident it s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss however it never goes there the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone br br the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight fails to chomp up the whale hugger tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier i love animals and i detest whaling and what is more i love orca whales but if this film s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed nolan shows compassion and growth and feels for others and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming br br the only message one can walk away with is if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you why o why did i pick this one up well i needed a no brainer in the summer heat and the cover looked cool br br of course i should ve known better this is a really really bad movie and it gets embarasing when the makers know it s bad and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women and some sex scenes to it well folks it does nt cut it does it br br if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very very good well played and funny go rent lake placid that is an order only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine seaview is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it s not rock they re under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a our teacher showed us this movie in first grade i haven t seen it since i just watched the trailer though does this look like a first grade movie to you i don t think so i was so horrified by this movie i could barely watch it it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half and then there was the boy with ketchup i was freaked out by this film now today being i probably would not feel that way i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn t see this movie even though it s pg be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids i don t even remember what it was about once was enough a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon s seed the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific but instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death despite the title itself being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to the end scott menville is not casey kasem that is the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company br br shaggy s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows they ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original br br i m not sure what they re on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isn t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows br br and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted i like it but it s not real scooby doo type animation but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me this might too br br it s worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly besides i am trying not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die as the saying goes we ll see how it looks after two more episodes by then i ll have formed a much more solid opinion i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i ll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this even this early in his career capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing this is a thin story and quite predictable at times but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately the first part looks like a cinderella story though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune br br nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it s easy to get caught up in the clich s then the movie does become more original as the married couple have to find a way to make a living the ending is very predictable but satisfying i also want to compliment the title writing very witty and fun uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he s ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i ve ever seen this isn t that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i d take a pass unless it s late at night and you re catching it on cable this video is so hilariously funny it makes everything else br br by eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor which just goes to show you how good this really is to be honest i don t think that i ve ever br br laughed at something as much as this including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse this show is amazing although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long plus its extended version beginning with m but it didn t bother me see it the funniest thing i ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer s client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste minutes of your life on this note the music was good it s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it s impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you d be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion i never watched the next action hero show and until reading the other comments here did not know that this movie was the prize from that competition i was just flipping channels and came across this and found myself watching dare eagerly all the way to the end br br yes the plot s been done the most dangerous game etc but i was hoping for and almost received the gotcha how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end i think the high tech was overdone gps s and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider but it nevertheless was not too overdone br br the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that was required of the viewer do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much br br the final solution was good but the ending was disappointing with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy except for zane who doesn t get near as much work as he deserves imho they were winners from a reality show br br knock me out i am a big fan of old horror movies and since i am middle aged old to me is a movie made before with most being made in the s to s period i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies with one exception being creepshow which i thought was great i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending all the stories were great though so why did i like them so much the characters had some decent development the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bits were really funny this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it s telling you something of also romero s expertise is hard to find here they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard i don t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me and that s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on it s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing yuck yuck to see it i just wanted to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing gheorghe muresan act i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn t that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure it was better than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don t want to have to think much it s well worth a rent some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made well they are only partly right for me this is the worst movie ever made period i have never seen anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature as this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isn t even so bad its good there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis other bad movies like clambake this one is so rotten to sit through its painful pure garbage native americans should sue for their poor clich d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole stars seriously grade f first of all yes i m white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race anyway white people hating black people bad but black people hating white people ok because apparently we deserved it where do i start i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene were ice cube and co get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win the neo nazi where twice the size and the chase the chase is priceless this is not a movie about race tolerance and understanding it doesn t deliver this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich stereotypes the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it br br save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written poorly acted dull and clearly biased picture if you are into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid s satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always the three shorts included on this compilation issued in are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn t look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth s tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it s kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film s decent cast pino donaggio s music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film s sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br out of years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie was first class the acting memorable and the storyline a classic recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part again i looked eagerly to viewing part i was so pleased to realize early on into part that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii wrong i wish i d stopped at ii the storyline was not good it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story the characters were weak especially the daughter pacino s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather or then scenes such as corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goodies get away and everyone else is shot daughter and st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the steps corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isn t ready for an emergency no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but i ll watch many times down the years this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i ve watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based the key word here is based how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom br br sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it this involves him selling out and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity however they are not overdone the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney s misadventures the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction is never that much of an issue because simon pegg as sidney projects likability too well br br jeff bridges underplays sidney s editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney s affections and with regard to megan fox who plays an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belongings and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort of course given that i m a fat year old english accountant you might not find my offer too enticing but it s there on the table anyway given how short her career has been so far one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become however she does it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far br br there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us br br there are several laugh out loud moments and i smiled most of the way through as ever the f word makes appearances when it really doesn t need to although at least a couple of these are very funny alien hunter out of is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all things on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot br br derivative doesn t even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him he turns her down aggh br br in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke br br with about seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title br br i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield the characters in the cornfield dress like logan s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them br br that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it br br alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired brittany s strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially linnea s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing i saw the film and i got screwed because the film was foolish and boring i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled sholay the cast and crew was bad the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle amithab bachan s acting is poor i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure nobody did justice to their work including ajay devagan this film don t deserve any audiences i bet that this film will flop br br finally this movie sucks lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon it s quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin after the murders within her fantasies are committed lorna awakens bewildered often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality br br if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco i d say it s elegant difficult by now you ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career as far as film making style and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience and as you read from the reaction of the user comments here some like this decision others find the style labouring dull and bewildering i ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head but even franco himself when quizzed by critics who watched succubus admitted that he didn t even understand the film and he directed it some might say that succubus was merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in furs considered his masterwork by franco faithful because it also adopts the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined in a sense like the protagonist we are experiencing the same type of confusion certainly succubus is unconventional film making where we aren t given the keys to what is exactly going on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn t help matters succubus is also populated by beatnik types and poet speak corman s film a bucket of blood poked fun at my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually great locations and jazz score i liked this film myself although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank welker s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott s good name this film shows the usual knott s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts last good outing when you have an extra minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel i have not read the book so i really didn t know that much about the plot and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that was not what it needed there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman playing a year old is just stupid br br there s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it s considered funny and it goes on for minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid thank god this wasn t based on a true story because what a story it is populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds before the devil is a mesmerizing jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it weren t carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn t hurt either br br the main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry br br the story is told with time shifts which are noted on screen such as charlie two days before the robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didn t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldn t make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to gina marisa tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and you ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands proceed with caution if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives this dvd delivers you will learn new things guaranteed so much so that you won t need any other documentary s on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well as a bonus watch this with tora tora tora saving private ryan patton band of brothers a bridge too far the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you won t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject perfect the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment br br the two criminals performed by robert blake and scott wilson as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile is part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family looking for a safe that isn t there once on the run they start writing bad cheques carving out a trail for the authorities br br there are many fine supporting actors i like john forsyth as the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney br br i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through having only caught it in short snatches i did finally get to it after buying the dvd the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen br br don t miss this brilliant movie to me this is what great film making is all about this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all latterman leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first minutes and i am going to stick to it though it s too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o brien for example i know it s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o brien s antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensen s spoof of trading spouses and nanny in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people s pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on th april coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike s talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on th july someone wrote here that the people who praised spike s talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford it s all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you re not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they re unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it s all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i m appalled for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i m afraid i don t know what the world has come to let me tell u something i started watching many t v shows like lost prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season then we have the sopranos i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season and more importantly all of its episodes there is no department that this show doesn t excel in acting nothing short of superb james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would ve been the better choice however after watching the first few episodes i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony the raw emotion he displays is superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actors perform to the best quality and all giving an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i been so sucked into a t v show before the story is nothing short of excellent each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say its too violent or they feel that the character of tony is immoral i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day i don t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me you ll be hooked from the very first episode i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show hooked on it trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v after you ve watched the first season you ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos i d give this a negative rating if i could i went into this movie not expecting much but i had an open mind the whole thing is stupid the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i were a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie became so popular seriously the worst thing i ve ever seen i wasn t entertained it wasn t funny i wasn t even bored i wasn t anything it wasn t even so bad it was good it s just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie don t even rent this movie no clue how it s getting such a high rating most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all faggy seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i m bating here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over this is a great ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid it doesn t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown s graveyard when i was ten turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile but i love it now as a year old br br i bought this dvd used for bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it ruled it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you got ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd this movie is awesome if you love s metal and bad movies this one s for you while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being sittaford mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments bethany cox good lord what were they thinking here is your spoiler warning even though i don t think it ll really matter you won t be seeing this piece of trash anyway br br a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies in other words the whole thing is really stupid br br you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can t save something and they didn t i know some of their lines were funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comments but geez this was pretty dang sad br br all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud it is not worth your eyes i had heard and read so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series like entourage sopranos or mad men but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one didn t make it past the first six episodes br br the writing was unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing the dialog felt forced like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh br br the characters never developed enough for me to care about them they were selfish and unappealing i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer s loyalty br br episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line br br add to that i heard that season two wasn t as good so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out br br if you re a fan of good casting and writing i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course you re stoned and then all bets are off this movie is among my favorite foreign films some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson br br in japan a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it takes his train to pass he is enthralled by her but is it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share br br shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and in itself transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be as if the film were not of value in itself this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for better or worse and i ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades milo o shea is still leopold bloom this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love br br the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film dreaming of julia makes much more sense it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people s daily lives and pursuits that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history br br the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could br br the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love br br the revolution like the film julie never seems to have an ending i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey s it s politics too upfront and ridiculous and let s face it i was still under a love spell known as blowup and i still haven t completely shaken it now the love is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and oh well good luck to me br br but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age and zp is it s own experience and is only really linked to blowup through its creator the late great mr antonioni br br twelve years ago i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print projected at its correct size immense restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of place br br what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own br br i remember the second time around seeing it the early s i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli s olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now were engaging me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality she took her time to live everything everything dies around her br br upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found enjoyment the encroaching shoulder padded big haired s whispered but that s a hippie fantasy let it go br br the force of antonioni s vision had i had realised already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered s with an uh huh and guarded my love secretly possessively and jealously br br but this then is what good art does it lives inside of you and if you wish it has its way and loves you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed br br was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup undoubtedly zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all br br today reality hit zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice s restaurant br br so it is still too difficult too disturbing too what br br maybe it s that as with all good art it lives while everything dies around it br br peace very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome make up effects daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital she escapes again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives doctors and relatives it s all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire the film is too long too weird and too forgettable the biggest surprise comes at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts yeah right this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn t make the cut as a marine dressed in baby blue outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine raider gere s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent s innocence stealing his baby blue uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent s character whose name is marion takes gere s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine raider marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local caf he meets rose hudkins who immediately catches his eye staying with hudkins parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese internment camps as the towns folks go hunting escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there s still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his s performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid s were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as hedge quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he s the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with jmv s talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa j niksen vuosi is one of jarva s most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society s authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br vatanen antti litja smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn t all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes j niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving i love jamie foxx br br and i enjoy of all movies i see br br and i walked out of this one br br now i admit it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing oh no jamie s knocking on a door hee hee hee but this was just so incredibly annoying there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle everything had to be in your face loud and annoying br br the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like but at this point it s just old and tired he brought nothing new or interesting from all the characters too many lines you saw coming too many you ve heard before and too many tough guy lines and i don t mind that sort of thing really as long as there s a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked br br i love jamie foxx and i think he s really funny and i thought he was funny in this movie but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else br br this movie needed less shoot em up less annoying camera shots more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i gave it a after seeing dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies i was very surprised to see a very fun smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout the movie moves along well it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city madonna was great as the damsel in distress she really impressed me and added depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i don t think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn t laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film has everything to keep me happy i don t know why some people criticise that show so much br br it is a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream prime time but still br br the family dynamics are funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried roy jibes are only just above average but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing br br this show was well worth the pounds i paid for it br br rating mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel gutierrez who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra an evil creature from myth legend erm i m struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott maginnis i won t beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it s referred to a chupacabra in fact i suspect this wasn t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn t change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project but that s it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character s are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i m sorry but i don t know how else to describe it br br director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable there s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink you ll miss something editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it s not scary there s no nudity there s no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there s virtually no colour to the picture either it s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you ll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it s a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isn t it isn t even a proper werewolf flick either don t be fooled this is awful i m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a s culture clash movie john wayne would hardly be one s first choice as a cultural attache being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplished his task with style the duke was a guy who really could act well his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle br br despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time he failed to dominate this movie many of his good intentions came a cropper he had authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian br br the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles i can not comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props the set pieces were complex and detailed a lot of money and thought had been applied to it br br the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort script was good without being too wordy there was a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy periods of translation didn t interfere with the narrative it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set whether or not they were japanese i couldn t say but anyway they looked the part at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians unlike other efforts such as blood alley yes i know they were chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i br br frankly i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies the script was better for a start i never liked the songs in the king and i and wasn t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of blood alley i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke s more popular outings br br recommended i was so glad i came across this short film i m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for br br the plot is pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy br br it s a well made short film well edited and the actors all do a great job and the last shot of the film is perfect br br i highly recommend this film i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one but when i started with it i found it really awful they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think of the movie is shot in india you can see indian made cars you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand hindi written on the road you can also see temples in afghanistan hahah its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie pure time waste i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don t watch this waste of time truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren t going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke s or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters ftw br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first turgid minutes of the film in this movie ch vez supporters either venezuelan and not venezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country br br they did not say that the conflict started because of ch vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues br br they did not say anything about more than tv interruptions transmitted by ch vez during only days in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signals each one with about minutes of duration br br they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army forces who is a traditional supporter of ch vez even now in despite of his announcement he is the ministro de interior y justicia after ch vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equals to defense secretary in us br br they did not say anything about ch vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections br br they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch vez supporters either civilians and military official forces br br they present some facts in a wrong order in order to lie br br they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch vez actions in order to avoid the elections br br that s why i tell you this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie one could wish that an idea as good as the invisible man would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects but this is not the case the story the characters and finally the entire last minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early s there are some great moments mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets but alas soon we re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable but schematic br br there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past years and some of them have their charms but it s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven who does have his moments is a very bad one it is obvious that the money is the key issue here the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough and as a result hollow man is seriously undermined with clich s sappy characters predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever br br however the one thing that actually impressed me beside the special effects was the swearing when making this kind of film modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex is very toned down when the whole world blows up the good guys go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them i m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears i think we can thank verhoeven for that ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke s cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke br br well take a peak it s worth as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal i d agree with him this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carried by his family he has a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold things with it he learns to speak later in the film it is very good for a guy like him also starring home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr brown it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan best writing screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture it was nominated the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapted screenplay daniel day lewis was number on the greatest movie stars he was number on the greatest british actors he was number on britain s finest actors and he was number on the world s greatest actor and the film was number on the greatest british films outstanding all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn t i ll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i m not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there s no sequel i do regret that i have bought this series i expected more action more objective picture and more consistency this is just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it is just boredom itself i find the actors work quite weak as well o donnell might seem charming as robin with batman but in this picture he lacks any charm probably while he becomes older he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up it comes as no surprise that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands the story has been told before a deadly disease is spreading around but the extra in this film is peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run is real he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child this person could be working next to you this film was very well advertised i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it then i went and saw it i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not trying to go into them with too many expectations but this movie was not that funny now it wasnt the worst movie i ve ever seen but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it but for true comedy fans id say pass maybe even check out the kings of comedy again something told me to go see meet the parents instead as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it s really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn t get the tragic destiny s of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br very typical almod var of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters nearly complete lack of taboo it s the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later works though you ll find it in a more rough version here he s building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who d find this movie hilarious i do once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you re just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass cybermen tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke s mickey and ricky being one of the doctor s companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the cybermen had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let s hope so a brother s promise is a wonderful family film this is a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depicts this athlete s life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family members is evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us the commitment and determination of dan s coach and his teammates shows what it takes to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age well now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his house of corpses crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corpses but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i don t remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained deaths took place long ago some like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine whose small role provides the film s only worthwhile moments attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum the result comes across like satan s school for girls catchy title made for tv production values intriguing plot crossed with children shouldn t play with dead things low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead trouble is it s nowhere near as entertaining or fun the house of seven corpses is dead at frame one and spends the rest of its minutes going through rigor mortis dragging us along for every aching second director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this i took my year old to see this movie we left after or minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i don t understand how the rating system works i loved this film i thought it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd obv not easily forgotten br br the script is brilliant and the casting couldn t be more perfect each character has their moment and i laughed hard throughout this film comedic timing was spot on br br it s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it s not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can t understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character s actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orlean s accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn t a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don t recommend it unless you re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west clich that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don t you think about that stmd is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn t gel what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film first off i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie its just awful me and my friend who love action movies independence day jurassic park lotr etc went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons mindless entertainment all we got was a mindless hour and a half the cg was not as bad as i was expecting but the plot is so awful along with the acting it made up for it its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every years sounds like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes but with magic and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes it just gets ridiculous the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believed we spent money on this the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest i ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this br br story cg acting br br i don t drink but it would have helped before watching this movie i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn t know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority i must have seen this a dozen times over the years i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pbs station br br i bought a dvd set for the children to see and am making them watch it they don t teach history in school and this explains the most critical event of the th century it expands their critical thinking br br impartially with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why it details what lead up to the war and the actual war br br buy it for your children along with alistair cooke s america watch it with them and make them understand you ll be so glad you did steven seagal s films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven t even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth and i for one think that is a good thing i ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the th time you hear it so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the minutes thank god i watched this at a friend s place and did not pay for it the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence br br also actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen excluding porn she s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent he s the one that carries the movie br br i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie it s a shame that they got to call it a sequel because i was a fan of the original which was actually pretty good a friend lent me this dvd which he got from the director at a festival i think i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie br br the standouts where the actors youssef kerkor was really good as ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also directed and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda was by far my favorite he seemed the least one dimensional and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting was good some was so so but none of it was bad i also really liked the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny br br i m giving this one high marks even though it has some issues because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared and decided to make their movie their way well done to adam jones and crew shawshank godfather pulp fiction all good films great films but nothing and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all santa claus br br the film is so great and has so many messages i cried while watching it seriously this is one of those movies you need to watch times when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eyes and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder what is so bad about this ice cream is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil think movie makes you think br br this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santas he is a normal person we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams and we wonder is the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mentions christ the whole meaning behind christmas br br you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic whether it s christmas or not this movie gets a whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad cinema s greatest period started in post war europe with italy s neo realist movement during the next or decades that followed france s new wavers caught everyone s attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of europoean cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti s particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he s not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century s great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler s th symphony taking full advantage of mahler s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it s a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn t get better than this i ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it s too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie s thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it s mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with bogarde s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogarde s dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it s ostensibly in english but the dvd s sound seems muddy and there s a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn t up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don t know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of out of this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movies but i wasn t prepared for the last minutes of this story if by any chance you re not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat s paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings it isn t too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn t be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it s supposed to look like a home video and it s just like a serious version of kath and kim it s stupid br br it s too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she s not even slightly stupid she s a stereotypical black latino chick br br it s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn t compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family they failed it s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don t act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated hillybilly horror sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there is absolutely new here the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich s deformed hicks a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who s good at heart etcetera but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this is forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j d hart once starred in a movie called films that suck earlier in his career quite an ironic omen indeed br br my grade d as a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much disney for my taste this film takes you on one family s impossible journey and makes you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully acted and photographed heartbreakingly real its last line with its wistful hope is one of the more powerful in memory stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me i can t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i d get fired and i own the company i would have to fire myself god this movie was just a plain steaming stinking pile of poo that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible something else i have to say the guideline about lines of text in a comment is idiotic what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg rated show i loved everybit of this show this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier s richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn t enough time to properly explore what s going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn t a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn t even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders typical meandering hero s stream of consciousness so it doesn t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn t it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i m afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies hail and kill this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i ve seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn t enjoy this one as much as rope but that s not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn t feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it s one of hitchcock s least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically it is always difficult to bring a pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven t been lost the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue s point of view then from maud s one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans having killed their father the vampire king radu now sets his sights on stefan stefan s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful bloodstone br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there s only one reason to watch this movie and his name is radu he s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i m just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it s original it s fun and radu is one of the best vampires i ve seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he s what a vampire should be let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and can not be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet can not explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it s more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it s going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it s usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed for a long time the menagerie was my favorite star trek episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by city on the edge of forever what i used to prefer about menagerie was that it s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline i still think it s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode though the new part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and us to watch the pilot the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one you can poke holes in the plot if you want for instance given the talosians mind control abilities and captain pike s condition why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st s only two parter coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym from when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn t watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then out of now out of largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren s missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona s guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she s a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn t is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i ve ever seen br br stars herculis puaro is in general a well established hero we know well from books and movies this movie or this story don t work and i felt its not agatha s mistake the cast isn t good the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic the scenes are as said before perfect and looking fake the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim is not likable how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well this was by far the worst movie i ve ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round if you ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much as i did that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut s writing that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself and that you can t put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen does this mean that the movie misses the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense i ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut s genius and loses grip on his own craft i would not place this movie as one of the best i ve seen but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching by taking vonnegut s voice out of the movie s narration or trying to insert it however it can mother night tells his story brilliantly and preserves the story s fundamental lessons without confusion distraction or disappointment this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn t funny but it s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn t expect anything better by director michael bully herbig who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but erkan and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel who is very beautiful to me i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the s a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak she was and he was when this movie was released i think that the difference didn t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it does matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that is why his character would be attracted to hers but it s less clear why hers would be attracted to his br br still the movie works as a light romantic fantasy the scene where she stares at him across the cat s head with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring is true magic it s a little jarring therefore when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply as he embraces her she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families the only conceivable flaw of this film is it s title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven t seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it s like a bad relationship i can t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man br br robert stack we love you salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives we see them panhandling in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donations is so lame no one gives them anything salva who is a hardened petty criminal doesn t even have any redeeming qualities that is until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a winning combination something that salva capitalizes on br br he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo salva shows he is a natural for the reality show he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program espe who is a no nonsense woman who is show s producer can t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention ultimately salva is the victim of his own success in the end br br jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie is had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television spain which was vulnerable to these types of programs has seen its share of the bizarre which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience br br the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film mr molla like any actor who decides to direct his first feature would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress is one of the best reasons for watching the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director these kinda movies just don t get the credit they deserve this is my nd all time favorite movie stand by me being st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasn t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn t real popular back in the s i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn t go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven t seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years i really can t believe i ve only just got round to watching purple rain the brand new disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it wow i was really looking forward to watching it but i wasn t prepared for just how electric it actually is prince s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding he really has the moves in this one i am very familiar from repeated listens with the classic purple rain album and all its songs but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics like computer blue the beautiful ones when doves cry and purple rain itself there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform the closing songs baby i m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid s he s overflowing it blew me away it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years br br prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight br br some of the scenes are very s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film s overall charm morris day is the coolest cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance br br i already can t wait to watch it again i really can t extras are terrific particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a prince groupie a good ol boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn t convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb i was extremely pleased with the film the film was dark moving the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon br br i had initially expected to see many special effects and like a lover s caress it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club br br eric etebari the best actor award was the number one choice you made jr lopez look like a child compared to kasadya br br overall the acting story line the high quality filming and awesome effects it was fantastic i just wish it were longer i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations but it is kinda hilarious at least if you grew up on weird al like i did it s a mockumentary about his life and career beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins it s uneven in places but some of the segments are still very funny particularly when he goes to japan although it s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation and he doesn t find love however fleeting he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life br br perhaps weird al isn t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet still this is a funny movie one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven t done since the fan boys took over alt asian movies and john woo s hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving it was very well directed with strong imagery the visual effects were amazing especially for a short it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard this leans towards the gothic feel i would love to see this as a full feature film carrie why else would he do this to me br br not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies or even decent movies i saw lois and clark i am aware of just how good dean cain is br br obviously this is gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoilers as you can t really spoil this movie any more than it already is br br to begin with why is that a fake helicopter i mean why br br how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried how hard would it have been to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren t american br br why are there occasions when the movie gives us a slug line we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on and then that s it who cares about the timeline to be honest who cared about it even when they mentioned it but i guess that s beside the point br br does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens the answer is no br br that dragon sure can walk down that hall over and over and over and over br br who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history it was straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon s dead now say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i used to be superman aha ha ha ha ha br br fade to black br br my god it made me cringe it was so stupid br br but never fear even though the whole building exploded and no one was left alive for some reason there s a second untouched unmanned lab that survived pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for us all br br minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretched scenes maximum headache inducing jerky zooms maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing up until the time flashes on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing to be fair the movie does have some string music that was interesting so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this unfortunately that was not to be and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i am trying to merk a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the eighty s it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don t get me wrong there are many more great performance s in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it br br couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won t shut up or a victim s father responding to the criminal s death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it s quite unprofessional and adds nothing it s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses br br but the rat yes the big rat why we didn t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the big one isn t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry br br the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn t stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself br br but not for more than ok well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie br br well i figured out within the first minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically br br the cast couldn t have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing br br all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man s legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn t just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself such a struggle is best told exactly as that a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che s life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner br br while the movie s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who arguably conducted the whole thing br br yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn t feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back there s the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve br br indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively br br with that said i can not rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part s ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie s characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film br br a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net sometimes it s hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody s idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against seamless hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin s the naked city that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already of course it isn t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars in the first minutes and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don s simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i m leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south br br a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good br br while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i ve seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses br br a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her br br and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he s about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he s about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher s flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one s eyes open for no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can t find in this version we watched br br the film s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better br br the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william golding s trilogy these three minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o war in the early th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who s worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life s hardships man s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o brian s series of novels on which it was based will love this for everyone else it s a whole new world to discover wow this is really not that good br br i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special br br the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies br br i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i m against politicians in general but if you re looking to be offended i can t help you br br not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin br br rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it s not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear br br another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it s then that you know you aren t simply watching another silly s slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it s originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what i d choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it s extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn t any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women s behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore suyin s attitudes always leave poor elliott a determined brave and extremely practical man anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact suyin s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people s life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead s family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone s daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn t know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i d heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow one word reviews that s what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn t age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don t watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience br br the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes br br one important factor of christy s success is his mother s support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy s dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh o conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other br br btw jim sheridan s works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying god knows why he chose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity i m stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it s an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clich of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there s nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it s possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it s miles ahead of this schlock do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you ve seen one of films scott made at rko during his prime the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town s main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won t say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they d learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america s movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word years ago when the city was named i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character s behaviors today s kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the events that s precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don t waste your time money on this one sigh leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far br br to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something br br lordi isn t scary lordi is lame lordi is over br br i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision br br no wait they won the eurovision that s it i rest my case after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that of the episodes really are nt that good but the other certainly make up for it if i had to pick great episodes id go for formula driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the s there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it s one of the best comedies of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary s excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs is so bad that it s fun meatballs and meatballs are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters the film s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself br br i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act br br higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you ll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey s wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor s mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai s robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dick philes should shun the stars collective what the hell attitude to their late s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn t stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it from i can t even describe it it s the worst movie i ve ever seen i m being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn t like to think much it s not even scary it s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clich s and cook it for a week or so and you ll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys was horrible the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn t know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn t great but this is telly so it was fine i don t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn t clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it ll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn t work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they ve even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a one flew over the cuckoo s next twelve monkeys type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story lady and the tramp ii scamp s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it s junior s turn lady and tramp s youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp s mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie out of wow what s this on the video rental store s shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasn t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fianc e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fianc e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn t like how this had nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn t believe the words coming out of david s mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn t even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good seconds long out of an hour and long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it s one of joel schumacher s better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie jack s performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him danny s performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn t here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn t she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn t need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it s alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could ve done it in a way that didn t look cartoony brave little toaster anyone the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow br br the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don t have much but what they do have angels baseball and what they are seeking identity that s when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are br br depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball s biggest boners dorothy kingsley and george wells dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox br br spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won t maybe i ll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it s a made for tv b movie the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness br br start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it br br on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i m sure this story will not be everyone s cup of tea especially considering the film s darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford s very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy s the sum of all fears fears will be harrison ford s third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas congresswoman it s a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford s quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford s character s investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch s investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack s thriller is top notched from dave grusin s pollack s the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film s unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br out of or out of for all of the has beens or never was s or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more br br robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself br br williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever br br one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester br br holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the director spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn t have pace rhythm it s illogical what a mess you can tell what s gon na happen since the first minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn t recommend this movie at all it s a waste of money and time i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the s their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k complete with bearded host br br capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he s a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python s and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why words no o j a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic br br in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it s no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable br br so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time br br out of broken hearts i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner s inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it s pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them what a good movie at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley s rock around the clock br br anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us br br spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally thinking of your own future br br bye had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she s in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that s how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don t have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic stars yes it is a bit cheesy but it s suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it s interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i ve watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it s difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn t be universally sought after but i m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i ll keep hoping so it isn t an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn t really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression i absolutely loved this film i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film s plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of to i d give it about an the only reason i shy away from is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it s a i definitely think it s a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents have to agree that this movie and it s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn t disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca s films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap this was my first gaspar noe movie i ve watched and i have to say i was shocked i don t mind gore in generally but this isn t even gore it s real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can t stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i ll let you figure them out don t watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i m a big fan of tom selleck s and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can t imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan s an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh although i lived in australia in i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the s and s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can t stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don t watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he manages to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the white mans view life begins and ends in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving br br oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace s loretta young husband what an actor as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i d like to see more of this actor s work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don t cut don t cut as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession br br loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months br br glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn t anyone know back in that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies health but her character redeems herself in the end br br also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable br br life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into out of this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie s character and denzel washington s of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock s rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you d be bored possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney s sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i m going to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn t seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can t leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney s name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of s this movie s true score br br as mentioned before chris rock is the king previous to going to see this movie i wasn t that over the top about him but now i m banging on the doors of chris rock s website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on br br there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn t realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture br br well to the actual plot of the film br br don t spoil the experience for yourself don t read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it s a cinema experience that doesn t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell s part is very small and doesn t add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn t stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money br br whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears br br it s so campy that among taylor fans it s probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you re way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam s torturing of his parents br br i m sorry to say this bam but you re in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he s going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera s already too big ego i don t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don t know how to categorize this film it wasn t scary or spooky so can t be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can t be a drama there was no suspense so it can t be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn t there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn t schlocky s horror films ya got ta love em in contrast to today s boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula br br this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without br br john carradine having long since given up looking for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director br br the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there s truth in advertising it s just sad that the ghoul didn t understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can t go around tugging on satan s coat and expect him to take it lying down br br sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses i suppose for this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now years it s charm was just as silly as it s entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained overall it s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all now i don t hate cheap movies i just don t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad s camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes br br maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn t maybe i hate it because it s cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can t save this br br seriously this one is a complete waste of time a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land br br the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn t fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own it s a neurological drama it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person s brain br br it s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf br br no small feat for such a sort of a movie br br the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn t think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn t just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i m your father and i m smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce s wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i d recommend watching it s hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it s heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you re a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw s match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i m a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it s a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn t make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i d recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it s no good amanda i ll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he ll mark your packages return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the don t mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it s the greatest movie ever done it s just crap on a stick it also didn t help that the story line was sooo crappy i don t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i m very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn t they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael latt didn t have steven spielberg s budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either br br the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you d think if he was turning into a real bat he d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood s the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he s just having an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction br br it s not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it s bad in a clich d wooden professional way it s just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved br br i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but br br the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver br br he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario br br he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episodes instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clich d acting mannerisms br br he needed to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant br br i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it s bad but it isn t bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don t laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven t disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn t yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don t get off on their own self importance years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that s what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie s nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything br br the plot follows a group of teen cliche s on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled i m supposed to feel sorry for this guy br br to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it s message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn t even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it s surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like hour and minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a and if your not happy with my preview seriously i m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won t go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you ve been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they re exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment s hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to feet long in a matter of a day but don t grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don t meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don t necessarily change the direction they re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age br br animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for swearing at the same volume br br old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military one of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just oz episode you ll be hooked they are right as this is exactly what happened with me br br the first thing that struck me about oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pulls no punches with regards to drugs sex or violence its is hardcore in the classic use of the word br br it is called oz as that is the nickname given to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focuses mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards so privacy is not high on the agenda em city is home to many aryans muslims gangstas latinos christians italians irish and more so scuffles death stares dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away br br i would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn t dare forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences forget charm forget romance oz doesn t mess around the first episode i ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal i couldn t say i was ready for it but as i watched more i developed a taste for oz and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crooked guards who ll be sold out for a nickel inmates who ll kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience watching oz you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing thats if you can get in touch with your darker side a wonderful little production br br the filming technique is very unassuming very old time bbc fashion and gives a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece br br the actors are extremely well chosen michael sheen not only has got all the polari but he has all the voices down pat too you can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to williams diary entries not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece a masterful production about one of the great master s of comedy and his life br br the realism really comes home with the little things the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream techniques remains solid then disappears it plays on our knowledge and our senses particularly with the scenes concerning orton and halliwell and the sets particularly of their flat with halliwell s murals decorating every surface are terribly well done i thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light hearted comedy the plot is simplistic but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable even the well bread suspected serial killer while some may be disappointed when they realize this is not match point risk addiction i thought it was proof that woody allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love br br this was the most i d laughed at one of woody s comedies in years dare i say a decade while i ve never been impressed with scarlet johanson in this she managed to tone down her sexy image and jumped right into a average but spirited young woman br br this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it was wittier than devil wears prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friends basically there s a family where a little boy jake thinks there s a zombie in his closet his parents are fighting all the time br br this movie is slower than a soap opera and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie br br ok first of all when you re going to make a film you must decide if its a thriller or a drama as a drama the movie is watchable parents are divorcing arguing like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film i expected to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots br br out of just for the well playing parents descent dialogs as for the shots with jake just ignore them petter mattei s love in the time of money is a visually stunning film to watch mr mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations this is a movie that seems to be telling us what money power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter br br this being a variation on the arthur schnitzler s play about the same theme the director transfers the action to the present time new york where all these different characters meet and connect each one is connected in one way or another to the next person but no one seems to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film has a sophisticated luxurious look we are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat br br the only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits a big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter br br the acting is good under mr mattei s direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these characters come alive br br we wish mr mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work probably my all time favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it s not preachy or boring it just never gets old despite my having seen it some or more times in the last years paul lukas performance brings tears to my eyes and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles is a delight the kids are as grandma says more like dressed up midgets than children but that only makes them more fun to watch and the mother s slow awakening to what s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling if i had a dozen thumbs they d all be up for this movie i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me i grew up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke were my hero s every week you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about tv and the many movies so any ole way i believe i ve got what i wan na say would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt if my rhymes would be lines would you let me submit or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit if this is so then i must go so lets do it this show was an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first aired the first or years were brilliant but things dropped off after that by the show was not really funny anymore and it s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today br br it s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen the writing is painfully bad the performances are almost as bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest hosts this show probably wouldn t still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed how can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success as it is now the show is just awful i can t believe it s still on the air encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here i was looking forward to watching this film bad mistake i ve seen films and this is truly one of the worst of them it s awful in almost every way editing pacing storyline acting soundtrack the film s only song a lame country tune is played no less than four times the film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme rarely have i been so happy to see the end credits of a film br br the only thing that prevents me giving this a score is harvey keitel while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessives only if you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie if you are young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom liked it br br great camp phil the alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines br br at first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed i didn t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore br br its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there were some pretty interesting characters but eventually i just lost interest br br i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking br br for something similar but better try brother from another planet i saw this movie when i was about when it came out i recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air the horror the horror br br as a young kid going to these cheesy b films on saturday afternoons i still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end i didn t care much for the romantic angle as a year old and the predictable plots i love them now for the unintentional humor br br but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it came out and i loved that the star janet leigh was bumped off early in the film i sat up and took notice at that point since screenwriters are making up the story make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well worn formula there are no rules so im not a big fan of boll s work but then again not many are i enjoyed his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently bought the rights to use far cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished br br people who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned that this is not far cry this is something mr boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks feeling loneley on the set mr boll invites three of his countrymen to play with these players go by the names of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller br br three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale goes like this jack carver played by til schweiger yes carver is german all hail the bratwurst eating dudes however i find that tils acting in this movie is pretty badass people have complained about how he s not really staying true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a br br however the storyline in this film is beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr krieger played by udo kier making genetically mutated soldiers or gms as they are called performing his top secret research on an island that reminds me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm trees here instead we got some nice rich lumberjack woods we haven t even gone far before i started to cry mehehe i can not go on any more if you wan na stay true to bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true boll experience meaning most of it will suck br br there are some things worth mentioning that would imply that boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes until the whole cromed albino gms squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh the movie far cry reeks of scheisse that s poop for you simpletons from a fa r if you wan na take a wiff go ahead btw carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wan na shoot him the first three minutes he s on screen the cast played shakespeare br br shakespeare lost br br i appreciate that this is trying to bring shakespeare to the masses but why ruin something so good br br is it because the scottish play is my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know is that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization tried to do something similar in the victorian era br br in other words you can not improve perfection br br i have no more to write but as i have to write at least ten lines of text and english composition was never my forte i will just have to keep going and say that this movie as the saying goes just does not cut it this a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous one of the actors is george clooney and i m not a fan but this roll is not bad another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greetings bart kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film i ve ever seen sort of like a high school film project what was rosanna arquette thinking and what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed midwest town pretty hard to get involved with this one no lessons to be learned from it no brilliant insights just stilted and quite ridiculous but lots of skin if that intrigues you videotaped nonsense what was with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounters and what was with that absurd dance with everybody playing their stereotyped roles give this one a pass it s like a million other miles of bad wasted film money that could have been spent on starving children or aids in africa some films just simply should not be remade this is one of them in and of itself it is not a bad film but it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson was excellent as he always is and most of the cast holds up with the exception of owen wilson who just did not bring the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the shirley jackson story in it s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects again i will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more this movie made it into one of my top most awful movies horrible br br there wasn t a continuous minute where there wasn t a fight with one monster or another there was no chance for any character development they were too busy running from one sword fight to another i had no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them br br scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies lotr star wars and matrix br br examples br br the ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old star wars with yoda obee one and vader br br the spider machine in the beginning was exactly like frodo being attacked by the spider in return of the kings elijah wood is the victim in both films and wait it hypnotizes stings its victim and wraps them up uh hello br br and the whole machine vs humans theme was the matrix or terminator br br there are more examples but why waste the time and will someone tell me what was with the nazi s nazi s br br there was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it was a children s movie or an adult movie and wasn t much of either br br just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money i remember this film it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in my dad took me my brother sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adams actor dan haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies if anyone knows where to find this on dvd etc please let me know the cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is miles away would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it an awful film it must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the golden globe they ve taken the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition my complaint is not that they ve taken liberties with the facts if the story were good that would perfectly fine but it s simply bizarre by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film so why did they come up with this dishwater dull script i suppose there weren t enough naked people in the factual version it s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist s life we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they d favored the rest of the film with same brevity after the success of die hard and it s sequels it s no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a movies cashed in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that is what they did with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallone s career br br cliffhanger is one big nit pickers dream especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing base jumping aviation facial expressions acting skills all in all it s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk stallone even managed to get out acted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills and unintentionally plenty of laughs br br you ve got to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddies and best of all the permanently harassed and hapless turncoat agent rex linn as travers br br he may of been henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker is noteworthy for a cringe worthy performance as hal he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely can t be it really does look like ralph waite s frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death br br mention too must go to former london s burning actor craig fairbrass as the brit bad guy who comes a cropper whilst using hal as a human football yes you can t help enjoy that bit hal needed a good kicking br br so forget your better judgement who cares if that could never happen lower your acting expectations turn up the volume and enjoy and if you re looking for qaulen he s the one wearing the helicopter i had the terrible misfortune of having to view this b movie in it s entirety br br all i have to say is save your time and money this has got to be the worst b movie of all time it shouldn t even be called a b movie more like an f movie because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie the story is not interesting at all all of the actors are paper thin and not at all believable it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it s almost funny almost br br the movie is just packed full of crappy one liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit br br this movie is supposed to be geared towards men but all the women in it are so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costumes and they fail miserably br br even some of the most ridiculous b movies will still give you some laughs but this is just too painful to watch what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you won t regret it it s too much fun rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn t anything more other than him i still liked it the music by a r rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times you really start liking it first of all let s get a few things straight here a i am an anime fan always has been as a matter of fact i used to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several b movies because they re hilarious c i like the godzilla movies a lot br br moving on when the movie first comes on it seems like it s going to be your usual b movie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime comes on this is when the movie goes wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill br br the animation is very bad cheap even worse than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it s so cheap one of the few scenes from the movie i vividly remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school it s the same kids over over again the fx are terrible too the dinosaurs look worse than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation is unorganized the dialogue voices especially the english dub that i viewed was horrid i was begging my dad to take the tape out of the dvd vhs player the only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes comments like the robots joel mike on mst k you pick the season honestly this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time br br heck i m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a b movie night because it s stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time i m giving this movie a an improvement from the i was originally going to give it br br according to my grading scale means pretty much both boring bad as fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun as counting to this was the worst movie i saw at worldfest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film it s great to see j beals but she s only in the movie for a few minutes m parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for the rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable the main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there is no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolving about an actor who can t get work doesn t feel very original to me nor does the development of the cop it feels like one of many straight to video movies i saw back in the s and not even a good one in those standards br br the karen carpenter story shows a little more about singer karen carpenter s complex life though it fails in giving accurate facts and details br br cynthia gibb portrays karen was not a fine election she is a good actress but plays a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role needed a stronger character someone with a stronger personality br br louise fletcher role as agnes carpenter is terrific she does a great job as karen s mother br br it has great songs which could have been included in a soundtrack album unfortunately they weren t though this movie was on the top of the ratings in usa and other several countries the cell is an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations this is boldness at work pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent this is the best movie of the year to date br br i ve read numerous complaints about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting to negatively criticize this film is to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow the cell has just opened the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director tarsem singh that we don t want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him br br we ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre is a bit overworked the s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick some of them worked but most failed but the cell does not blaze down the same trail we are given a new twist we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied br br i like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how jennifer lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another instead she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long twizzlers and jaunted into another entity the cell wants to let you see what it s all about and not how it s all about and i guess that s what some people don t like true i do like explanations with my movies but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in br br i noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another nonetheless the set design was simply astonishing i wouldn t be surprised if this film took home a few oscars in cinematography best costumes best director and the like if it were up to me it d at least get nominated for best picture br br i ve noticed that i ve kind of been repeating myself not because there s nothing else to say but because i can t stress enough how fantastic i thought the cell was if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye popping feast then you are assured a good time i guess this film was just a little too much for some people writing it off as weird or crazy i am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it was right down my alley leaving the theater i heard one audience member say whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs if so i want what he was smoking br br out of this film tried to be too many things all at once stinging political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family values promo the list goes on and on it failed miserably at all of them but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end br br although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film br br there is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war but poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening reminds me a bit of three kings which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern this movie was so frustrating everything seemed energetic and i was totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought i d be able to stand it but i was wrong first the weird looping it was like watching america s funniest home videos the damn parents i hated them so much the stereo typical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who was always hanging on someone i just hated her and had to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own what crappy dancing horrible and beautiful at once war movie is a hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clich d dialogue rehashed plot and over the top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large scale combat once in a while however a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil war era cold mountain starring jude law nicole kidman and ren e zellweger is such a film br br then again calling cold mountain a war movie is not entirely accurate true enough the film opens with a quite literally quick and dirty battle sequence that puts glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain is not so much about the civil war itself as it is about the period and the people of the times the story centers around disgruntled confederate soldier inman played by jude law who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind ada monroe played by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier s tribulations on the battlefield indeed the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived br br cold mountain soon takes a drastic turn though as the intrepid hero inman turns out to be a deserter incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the confederates and begins a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast coming to ada s rescue is the course tough as nails ruby thewes played by ren e zellweger who helps ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon ada br br within these two settings a vivid compelling and at times very disturbing portrait of the war torn south unfolds the characters with whom inman and ada interact are surprisingly complex enhanced by wonderful performances of brendan gleeson as ruby s deadbeat father ray winstone as an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have been greatly affected and changed by the war of northern aggression mostly for the worse the dark pervading anti war message accented by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of virginia and north carolina is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century it s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant br br director anthony minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters the love story between inman and ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot br br make no mistake cold mountain has neither the traits of a feel good romance nor an inspiring war drama it is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether taut and organically gripping edward dmytryk s crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle br br bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars three of them end up at a stranger s apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beats their host sam levene to death because he happens to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who s assigned to ryan s outfit suspicion falls on the second of the three george cooper who has vanished ryan slays the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young closes in br br abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring bobs ryan naturally does his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however is not central young may never have been better gloria grahame gives her first fully fledged rendition of the smart mouthed vulnerable tramp and as a sad sack who s leeched into her life paul kelly haunts us in a small peripheral role that he makes memorable br br the politically engaged dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing but it s pretty much confined to young s reminiscence of how his irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier thus incidentally stretching chronology to the limit at least there s no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hates jews and hillbillies and br br curiously crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it the novel it s based on richard brooks the brick foxhole dealt with a gay bashing murder but homosexuality in was still beyond the pale news of the holocaust had however begun to emerge from the ashes of europe so hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti semitism the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer br br but while the change from homophobia to anti semitism works in general the specifics don t fit so smoothly the victim s chatting up a lonesome drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd even though or especially since there s a girlfriend in tow it raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip off to the original engine generating ryan s murderous rage ardh satya is one of the finest film ever made in indian cinema directed by the great director govind nihalani this one is the most successful hard hitting parallel cinema which also turned out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of india br br the film tells the real life scenario of mumbai police of the s unlike any police of other cities in india mumbai police encompasses a different system altogether govind nihalani creates a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment br br amongst various police officers colleagues the film describes the story of anand velankar a young hot blooded cop coming from a poor family his father is a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father s ideologies incidences of his father s atrocities on his mother anand s approach towards immediate action against crime is an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film is here revolved in a plot wherein anand s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors this leads to frustrations as he can not achieve the desired job satisfaction resulting from the frustrations his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms bars also turning him to an alcoholic br br the spirit within him is still alive as he constantly fights the system he is aware of the system of the metro where the police politicians are a inertly associated by far end his compromise towards unethical practice is negative finally he gets suspended br br the direction is a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scenes is when anand breaks in the underworld gangster rama shetty s house to arrest him followed by short conversation which is fantastic at many scenes the film has hair raising moments br br the practical approach of script is a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deceptions all are integral part of mumbai police even today those aspects are dealt brilliantly br br finally the films belongs to the one man show om puri portraying anand velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i was excited to find this title among the offerings from anchor bay video which has brought us other cult classics such as spider baby the print quality is excellent but this alone can t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull there s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the templars set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie is slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling adding insult to injury the movie was dubbed not subtitled as promised on the video jacket one of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middle man titta di girolamo a physically non descript middle aged man originally from salerno in southern italy when we re introduced to him at the start of the film he s been living a non life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italian speaking canton of switzerland for the last ten years conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamo s cash tell him that dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes at the news he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account meanwhile he tells us the spectators that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous he says you can t bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth having eventually done this bluffed only halfway through and told the truth and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately love is exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamo s troubles br br this initially unsympathetic character a scowling taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who won t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about at one point in his non life titta decides to feel concern about appearing ridiculous the first half of the film may be described as slow by some it does indeed reveal di girolamo s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details however scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band boards of canada especially stood out br br never was the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as le conseguenze dell amore or l imbalsamatore another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist s insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dell amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it s almost impossible to pin point its cause if indeed there is one br br the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia played by olivia magnani grand daughter of the legendary anna and the memory of titta s best friend a man whom he hasn t seen in years unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it s never explicitly spelt out the spectator knows that to a man like titta accepting the consequences of love will have unimaginable consequences a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator s expectations le conseguenze dell amore is a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that has been taking place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecitt xa during the second half of the s the world is waiting for italy to produce more il postino like fare more la vita bella style films neglecting to explore fine creations like le conseguenze dell amore l imbalsamatore and others your loss world i watched this film not really expecting much i got it in a pack of films all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i was right they were all terrible this movie has a few and a few is stretching it interesting points the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch the drummer is very like a drummer i e damned annoying and well thats about it actually the problem is that its just so boring in what i can only assume was an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious i had my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but gave it a go and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking coz they don t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot i thought he looked a bit like a meercat all this and i haven t even mentioned the killer i m not even gon na go into it its just not worth explaining anyway as far as i m concerned star and london are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who was actually quite funny it wasn t because of their acting talent i ve certainly seen a lot worse but i ve also seen a lot better best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry i bought this film at blockbuster for because it sounded interesting a bit ranma esque with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton because there was a cute girl in a mini skirt on the back and because there was a restricted viewing sticker on it i thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge i was wrong br br having watched it i have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker since there is hardly any foul language little violence and the closest thing to nudity honestly i don t usually go around hoping for it is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties you see her panties a lot in this movie because no matter what she s wearing a miniskirt of some sort even the anti religious humor is tame and lame caricatured insincere derivative unoriginal and worst of all not funny in the slightest it would be better just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify as pg it is not rated but blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of rent this as if it was pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba is worse br br it is but not in that way br br in a way this worries me the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides not this one but better ones like the virgin suicides it s teenagers if both of those movies were rated r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turning a story i ve been writing into a pg movie the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers i think it s number so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it br br just say no to this movie though the plot is about the death of little children hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings during the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter in the end the serial killer get caught that s it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors it is unbelievable how bad these actors are including hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just don t watch the movie i ve warned you ever watched a movie that lost the plot well this didn t even really have one to begin with br br where to begin the achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms that are strangely never actually heard in the house great double glazing the house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable or even the beginning which suggests a spate of killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction br br add a lead actress who can t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty but not in the way you hope br br given a following simply for being banned in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offers nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder don t worry its telegraphed at least ten minutes before br br after a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of us no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon br br it really is only a movie as they say okay so this series kind of takes the route of here we go again week in week out david morse s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle but what s wrong with that david morse is one of the greatest character actors out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series created by david koepp a great writer is heaven br br due to the lack of love for this show by many i can t see it going to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me let s hope something good can make it past a first series after sitting through this pile of dung my husband and i wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it was that listless and formulaic but the u s propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves disappointingly that it s the work of humans call me a conspiracy theorist but quotes like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews lines like i would never use the declaration of independence as a bargaining chip with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took valium before shooting each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there s also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr whatever her name was being chided by all involved for never shutting up she s clearly in the movie only for looks but they felt the need to slap a dr title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage s character says don t you ever shut up and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands like she s a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie was that it s so astonishingly bad you do get a few laughs out of it the really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it creepy it had all the clich s of movies of this type and no substance the plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watching it the production was good however the script and acting were b movie quality the casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors the good actors didn t hold their own nor did they lift up the others br br this movie is not worthy of more words but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines james wood and cuba gooding jr play caricatures of themselves in other movies br br if you are looking for mindless entertainment i still wouldn t recommend this movie this movie is based on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackles issues of race relations between asians and whites a topic that comes from han s personal experiences as an eurasian growing up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong settings gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time br br other than that the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones looks the part and gives a wonderful oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world the acting is top notch and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined br br the cinematography really brings out fifty s hong kong especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments the ending is a real tear jerker some may consider sentimental romances pass but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love stories this is a shining example of all the films i have seen this one the rage has got to be one of the worst yet the direction logic continuity changes in plot script and dialog made me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey is know for his b movies but this is a sure w movie w waste br br take for example about two dozen fbi local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep is ma and is confused as to why all the cops are about within seconds a huge gun battle ensues ma being killed straight off the cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them the cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet pellet ma is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed damn that guy is tough truly a miracle not since the six shooter held bullets has there been such a miracle i had heard good things about states of grace and came in with an open mind i thought that god s army was okay and i thought that maybe dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker the film began with some shaky acting and i thought well maybe it will get better unfortunately it never did the picture starts out by introducing two elders mormon missionaries and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it becomes almost laughable br br dutcher s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of mormon missionaries dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflects reality missions are nothing like what dutcher shows having served a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity br br the conclusion which i m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all was both unbelievable c mon the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other and cheesy next time dutcher try making a movie that someone can identify with this movie struck home for me being i remember the s and my father working in a factory i figured if i worked hard too if i had pride and never gave up i too could have the american dream the house a few kids a car all to call my own i ve noted however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you can t get anywhere br br i would like to know if anyone has this movie on dvd or vhs it s made for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic an t find it anywhere i d love to show this to my friends my pseudo friends family and other relatives see what they think and remind them that once upon a time americans would work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished i think the feeling is still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas as a disclaimer i ve seen the movie times in the last years and i only just saw the musical this week this allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn t in the musical however it tainted me when i watched the musical br br i actually believe michael douglas worked quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene is one of the best parts of the movie a worthwhile addition compared to the musical the dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical as well as the cast which is at least times bigger easier to do in the movie of course the decors lighting dancing and singing are also much superior in the movie which should be expected and was indeed delivered br br the songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie the new ones are quite good ones and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion especially compared to a musical which has few decors the one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters but their dancing is impeccable and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars goldie hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors the story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an arab dignitary the story goes downhill halfway through the movie and goldie s charm just doesn t save this movie unless you are a goldie hawn fan don t go out of your way to see this film how this film could be classified as drama i have no idea if i were john voight and mary steenburgen i would be trying to erase this from my cv it was as historically accurate as xena and hercules abraham and moses got melded into noah lot abraham s nephew lot turns up thousands of years before he would have been born canaanites wandered the earth really what were the scriptwriters thinking was it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animals and lot and canaanites and all that stuff from sunday school or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible from christians jews and muslims to historians archaeologists geologists psychologists linguists as a matter of fact did anyone not get offended anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one preston sturgis the power and the glory was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television in the meantime it had gained in notoriety because pauline kael s the citizen kane book had suggested that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane was based on sturgis screenplay here as is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstated her case br br there are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel representing ralston the henry luce clone thatcher s memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each has his or her different slant on kane reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of kane s story this method also leads to frequent overlapping re tellings of the same incident br br this is not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it is about a legendary business leader here it is tom garner spencer tracy a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there are only two narrators they are garner s right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of kane in garner henry when he narrates is talking about his boss and friend whom he respected and loved his wife is like the voice of the skeptical public she sees only the flaws in henry br br typical example although he worked his way up tom becomes more and more anti labor in his later years unions are troublemakers and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans henry describes tom s confrontation with the union in a major walk out and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life but henry s wife reminds him how tom used scabs and violence to end the strike apparently blowing up the union s headquarters killing many people so we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black br br i m not really knocking the power and the glory for not duplicating kane s success few films do including all of orson welles other films but i am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one s interest to the end and thanks to the performances of tracy and colleen moore as his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home br br when they marry tom wants to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had but in america great business success comes at a cost tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire he expands it and improves it constantly but it takes him away from home too much and he loses touch with sally and he also notices eve helen vinson the younger woman who becomes his mistress when sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her br br similarly tom too gets a full shock which makes him a martyr in the eyes of henry eve marries tom and presents him with a son but it turns out to be eve s son by tom s son tom jr philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes tom to shoot himself br br the film is not a total success the action jumps at times unconvincingly yet it does make the business seem real note the scene when tom tells his board of directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans sturgis came from a wealthy background so he could bring in this type of detail so on the whole it is a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which means it s still quite bad by normal standards but redeemed by its solid build up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance br br the genre s well known weaknesses are in full gear banal dialogue wooden acting illogical plot points and the finale goes on much too long while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair br br fulci s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing though yellow clues wherever you look br br out of limping killers return to the th chamber is one of those classic kung fu movies which shaw produces back in the s and s whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western s clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print made for the fantastic film fest this is presented in shaw scope just like the good old days br br this film is a simple story of good versus evil told in acts which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era br br act one sets up the premise workers in a dye mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot having their wages cut by by incoming manchu gangsters they can t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters and their boss at first they had a minor success in getting liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequences but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times br br act two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob however without real martial arts he embarks on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly after some slapstick moments he finally gets accepted by the abbot whom he impersonated but is disappointed at the teaching methods kinda like mr miyagi s style in karate kid but instead of painting fences he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly builds strength endurance and learns kung fu the unorthodox way br br act three is where the fight fest begins with cheesy sound effects each obvious non contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment but it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners and the use of slow motion only to showcase stunts in different angles you may find the speed of fights a tad too slow with some pause in between moves but with yuen wo ping and his style being used ad nausem in hollywood flicks they sure don t make fight scenes like they used to return to the th chamber gets a repeat screening on monday so if you re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what are you waiting for spoilers all too in real life as well as in the movies familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hands the case of young and innocent in never handling or firing a gun jimmy davis franchot tone has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men like jimmy davis are forced to take up arms for their country br br jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the us army but was encouraged to stay by being belted in the mouth by his good friend fred p willis spencer tracy ended up on the front lines in france with jimmy s unit pinned down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen german soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple it was when jimmy gunned down the last surviving german who raised his arms in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him br br recovering from his wounds at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with us army volunteer nurse rose duffy gladys george rose was really in love with jimmy s good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her it s when fred was lost during the fighting on the western front that rose thinking that he was killed fell in love and later married jimmy when fred unexpectedly showed up in the french town where jimmy now fully recovered from his wounds was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and rose who had already accepted jimmy s proposal of marriage to her br br with wwi over and jimmy marrying rose left fred who s still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it was almost by accident that fred ran into jimmy on the streets of new york city and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy had become a top mobster in new york city s underworld not only that but as fred later found out his wife rose had no idea what jimmy was really involved in with jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster br br jimmy s life of crime came full circle when rose after she found out about his secret life ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a valentine day like massacre with his gang members dressed as cops of his rival mobsters while on trial jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence is up get his life back together br br spoiler alert hearing rumors from fellow convicts that rose and his best friend fred were having an affair behind his back jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law it s at fred s circus where he works as both manger and barker that jimmy in seeing that rose as well as fred were true to him that he like at his trial had a sudden change of heart but the thought of going back to prison with at least another ten years added on to his sentence was just too much for jimmy it was then that jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job that he himself didn t have the heart to do for him bela lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for monogram studios in the s and the corpse vanishes is one of the better ones br br bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides deaths the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards br br you have got almost everything in this movie the scientist s assistants consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her sons a thunderstorm and spooky passages in bela s house bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie br br the corpse vanishes is worth a look especially for bela lugosi fans great fun br br rating stars out of i can not believe i enjoyed this as much as i did the anthology stories were better than par but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself where i have i seen them before forget the running time listed on new line s tape this ain t no minutes according to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an the percent of the nations nitwits that still support w bush would do well to see this movie which shows the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of as strikingly similar to the post socio political landscape maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a whupping they deserve it s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country those who voted for him can t be denied the right to ever vote again they ve clearly shown they have no sense of character br br what really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as robespierre a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder self defense and patriotism his legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he s helped create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleaders you know of br br wojciech pszoniak blows the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic as robespierres plight is it s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine as someone has already mentioned on this board it s very difficult to make a fake documentary it requires tremendous skill pacing patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable acting aka great acting br br such is not the case with love machine it starts to show its faux hand about the minute mark with minutes left to watch and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in it s downhill from there br br director gordon eriksen simply peaked too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problems started early as he explains in the extras he began wanting to do a real doc couldn t get funding and settled for a cheaper way of making his film br br the premise people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website was perhaps more interesting in when the film was made eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host hand held cameras zooms grainy blacks and whites all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesn t work the film is confusing and forced but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue the hills have eyes ii is what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it s not going to be an oscar nominated film it s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes br br the plot is basically about a group of national guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert it s just them fighting back throughout the whole film which includes a lot of violence which is basically the whole film as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience br br i d give the hills have eyes ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake the hills have eyes ii is just decent entertainment something to pass time if you re bored and nothing else br br i laughed all the way through this rotten movie it s so unbelievable a woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage has a breakdown in front of a real estate office what happens the office manager comes outside and offers her a job hilarious next thing you know the two women are going at it yep they re lesbians nothing rings true in this lifetime for women with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i don t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like i had a chance to be happy and didn t take it doesn t help there s a wealthy distant mother who disapproves of her daughter s new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film gets made in which there s a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turning in her grave the woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids sheesh no cliche is left unturned no spoilers br br after hitchcock s successful first american film rebecca based upon daphne dumarier s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early british period mistaken identity and espionage as the u s settled into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilians building planes weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes these thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good law abiding citizens knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approached hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption war time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her brief stint in hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in nyc who co authored the script were a perfect match for hitchcock s sensibilities br br this often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meets new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moments later is framed for committing sabotage fleeing the authorities who don t believe his far fetched story he meets several characters on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freaks and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security he falls madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnapped by the supposed saboteur barry falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix br br in good form for this outing hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies average joes and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving it s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock s more memorable finales look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attractions all of which were recreated by art directors in hollywood due to the war time shooting ban on public attractions while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock s most well known films it s a popular b movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual terrific hitchcock villains remember to look for hitchcock s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcock s original cameo idea that was shot him fighting in sign language with his deaf wife was axed by the bureau of standards and practices who were afraid of offending the deaf i just watched the dresser this evening having only seen it once before about a dozen years ago br br it s not a big movie and doesn t try to make a big splash but my god the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie br br the dresser is the story of sir an aging shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet putting on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these are two men each dependent upon the other sir is almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into getting onstage for his th performance of lear and norman lives his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he is nothing or thinks he is anyway br br this is a character driven film the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters and as such it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life finney only years old is completely believable as a very old very sick petulant bullying but brilliant stage actor he hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they re taking their bows and courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer employer is really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship is that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple br br yes there are others in the cast of this movie but there is no question that the true stars are finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that is not to say that there aren t other fine performances most notably eileen atkins as the long suffering stage manager madge there is a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desires old regrets and what might have been br br although it doesn t get talked about these days it is worth remembering that the dresser was nominated for five academy awards best actor nominations for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapted screenplay br br i had remembered this as being a good movie but i wasn t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as i was from beginning to end if you want to see an example of what great acting is all about and be hugely entertained all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser what happened what we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie loses it actually it never really got going there was a little excitement when we find out that angie is not really pregnant then find out that she is after all but that was it steve martin who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie other than to make it longer i really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it was not but maybe a drama with comedic elements i think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here i can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot i ve just watched fingersmith and i m stunned to see the average rating for the show br br not only was the plot was difficult to follow but it seems character development was randomly applied br br the actors were adequate but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional once this happens the story really falls flat and becomes tedious br br and just in case anyone didn t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film br br the end scene is disappointing and phoned in and anyone who sat back and went ohhh so they were carpet munchers all along must have been out for the evening br br two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it so let s begin br br the movie itself is as original as cronenberg s movies would usually appear br br my intention to see it was certainly jjl being one of my favourite actresses she is as lovely as usual this cutie br br i would not say it was my favourite movie of hers still it s quite interesting and entertaining to follow br br the rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array br br recommend with confidence besides being boring the scenes were oppressive and dark the movie tried to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with its message what were the redeeming qualities on top of that i don t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did an unmarried woman named stella bette midler gets pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own things go ok until the child named jenny trini alvarado becomes a teenager and things gradually and predictably become worse br br i ve seen both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affected me much and i cry easily but they were well made if dated trying to remake this in was just a stupid idea i guess midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of beaches to get this made this predictably bombed the story is laughable and dated by today s standards even though midler and alvarado give good performances this film really drags and i was bored silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actors don t help in supporting roles flimsy and dull really who thought this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a don t torture a duckling is one of fulci s earlier and honestly in terms of story line better films and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci is known for this is still a very unique and enjoyable film br br the story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations either as suspects or those helping the investigation or in some cases both include the towns police force a small time reporter a beautiful and rich ex drug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practices witchcraft and his female prot g a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf mute little girl all of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns until the actual killer is revealed br br don t torture a duckling is neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it does contain elements of both it is more of an old fashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong as some of fulci s later works this is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end recommended for giallo murder mystery fans or anyone looking to check out some of fulci s non splatter films but don t despair don t torture still has more than it s fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killings and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys which is also kind of disconcerting but if that type of material doesn t bother you then definitely give this one a look busty beauty stacie randall plays pvc clad bad ass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trapped in hell determined to free her master the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive troll like creatures called lite and dark br br now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isn t going to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex lover police detective jonathan graves peter liapis who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil alexandra is capable of meanwhile wise cracking inter dimensional half pints lite and dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home br br in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all females are big breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv is no exception every woman in this film whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquities or a mental patient in an asylum is hot hot hot and wears not a lot and it s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable br br but be warned even though the presence of semi naked quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful the black humour as the dvd blurb describes it is about as funny as a knee to the knackers with the comedic banter of lite and dark being particularly cringe worthy and the special effects are bargain basement consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier br br solely for the high bimbo quotient i really like salman kahn so i was really disappointed when i seen this movie it didn t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this dvd the music was not bad it was quite nice usually indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series heroes ali larter her acting had a lot to be desired however she did look good in the indian dresses that she wore all the movie had not a lot to be desired and i hope salman does a lot better on his next movie thank you i m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies which it is not even though marques houston did appear in hp he played a totally different character he was eight years older in this film okay so reid and martin weren t the most talented and couldn t carry a film all by themselves but to trade on the hp franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference albeit minor to the earlier movies i m sure everyone who wanted to see it was hoodwinked into thinking that they were seeing a sequel not a totally different film with a familiar name and i m sorry kym whitley is not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the earlier films although meagen good and mari morrow are a substantial visual diversion i have to give this a thumbs down just naming the film down to the last minute would have been ok furthermore the hudlin brothers who produced the first three movies were not involved in the making of this film this film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen the writer obviously bought the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and followed it play by play in particular the stereo typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space putting on a brave show in the face of disaster has been done time and time again br br max q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects the producers could only muster thousand to learn that the film was nominated for a special visual effects emmy has me absolutely gob smacked br br i think a handful of high school students with a pass in media studies could have created more believable effects br br and the plot holes are too numerous to mention but i will pick one out as an example now i m no nasa expert but surely it s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear shaped with the program surely there is someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twenty nine year old who has not been in the control room before br br the only saving grace for this film is the work of bill campbell he manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script br br i give this film out of with the above average work of bill campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark caddyshack two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up robert stack is a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb is funny being the only character from the original most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt being played by randy quaid every line he says reminds me of the originals humor especially the scene at his office i don t go in for law suits or motions i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindale maybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then i m comin upstairs junior and i m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs and cramming your brand new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offsetting his small role however is dan acroyd who is obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny its just stupid overall caddyshack ii is a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it honestly this short film sucks the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd is crisp and clear and i haven t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it if the film was a little grainy it might have added some creepiness factor to what was going on i have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like nekromantik and visitor q among others are more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull this is an expensive beautifully filmed turd it s not that shocking it s not that disgusting if you insist on viewing it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos the filming is good and it does have some gore if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore but other than that absolutely nothing going for this over hyped mess on the other hand genesis cerda s sequel to aftermath now available as a double feature released by unearthed films is an absolute masterpiece of a short film really showing what a good director cerda really is when given the right material although i don t care for aftermath at all genesis is so well made that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future i thought that mukhsin has been wonderfully written its not just about entertainment there s tonnes of subtle messages that i think yasmin was trying to bring across and yes it might be confusing to some of you especially if you didn t watch sepet and or gubra for times br br i bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right its really ironic how the characters relate like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from gubra and the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future br br and i absolutely love the voice overs its crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they took a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there was suddenly mukhsin s voice saying bismillahhirrahmannirrahim the scene when he climbed the tree br br it captured malaysian s attitude and in some mild way sniggering at how pathetic it is portrayed in the character for example even the kids can be really sharp tongued complete with the shrill annoying voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isn t sorted out br br all i can say is this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it br br it kept me glued to the screen i couldn t even take my eyes off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha i am not a golf fan by any means on may about pm the movie started with a scene in the late s old movies i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon is awaken by the voices of men he goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something so then i turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on the movie is excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decisions he makes for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period then there is little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in francis winning don t want to give away too much i was up until a m this is super please see the movie upon viewing tobe hooper s gem crocodile in i developed a great interest in the college crocodile niche of the exploitation monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness if only ed wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts with ed writing the scripts and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer all we d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer breasts and ren hoek pectoral implants br br while tobe hooper s crocky opus referenced his own movies blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies see if you can look past the revenge of the nerds sequel sets to find the allusions homages rip offs to jaws temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the ready for tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock br br i was disappointed the crock didn t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism or crocky appreciation but the quasi captain ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach perhaps in the coming years we ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero g monkey midget crocodile bloodshed br br all in all the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me it tries to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like sh kasugi christopher lee and john rhys davies it really is the perfect b adventure of all time it s actually is a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it s flaws captures your interest it must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it even if it s made in the s it doesn t have a modern feel it more has the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie had big adventure movie are again the big thing in hollywood but i m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had this on the other hand just has the real feeling you just can t hate it i think it s an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song the last hard men finds james coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang do he and his friends head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they don t because coburn has a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman br br that peace officer is charlton heston who is now retired and he knows what coburn is after as he explains it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a waco like standoff his indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired it s not something he s proud of she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt br br lest we feel sorry for coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is heston is his usual stalwart hero but the acting honors in the last hard men go to james coburn he blows everyone else off the screen when he s on br br coburn gets the bright idea of making sure heston trails him by kidnapping hershey and taking her to an indian reservation where the white authorities can t touch him he knows that heston has to make it personal then br br coburn s gang includes morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston has chris mitchum along who is his son in law to be br br the last hard men is one nasty and brutal western andrew mclaglen directed it and i m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for sam peckinpaugh it sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there is a lot br br for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men is your film maybe it was the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which is with the director as he keeps saying hi kids into the camera like a buffoon but i had expectations for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal bloody killings by a weird japanese penetrator turns out it s way too sleazy for its own good or bad or whatever there s a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respects in not having balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies and with the killing scenes there has to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in creating the creature killer whatever entrails of a virgin has neither it s safe to say it s a pretty soulless movie even if isn t one of the very worst ever made it s there just for horn dog japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their other heads br br in this case we re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by a murderer as he s credited first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on we get spliced in or phoned in take your pick clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere it looks like it s from another movie then once settled into the house there s a wrestling scene that s poorly choreographed and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killings first the rape by the photographers who promise the girls some jobs for their time then the murderer who like d amato s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kills the men and or rapes the women one by one br br now the latter of those taken by themselves should be considered the highlights of the movie this is like saying however that the cro tons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eye gouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually is kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sex crazed girl whose inconsequential name i can t remember even this becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title on top of this the sex scenes which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in long takes without cutaways where everything by the japanese censors is blurred anyway are dubbed over by the actors you d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin is that of a lumpy one where it s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch as the last girl left alive the virgin of the picture tries to stop the murderer from getting to her which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him you just want it to be done with for the i hate women mantra to ease up or be rid altogether the few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallowing a bug the displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pigs came to pass what does that leave us with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train and just for kicks a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to castro s manic and unremitting cigar fellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock is right twice a day this is a historically awful movie this film took me by surprise i make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler all i knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb readers gave it a rotten tomatoes users ranked it at and the critics averaged an amazing if anything they underrated this little gem br br filmmaker doug block decided to record his parents for posterity and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker mike mina s son doug was going to take us as a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself knew where he was going with this br br life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey it is difficult to verbalize just how moved i was with this story and the unique way in which it was told absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must see even if you aren t a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten birch street is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you the best news of all is that hbo had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience eventually millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo stephen hawkings is a genius he is the king of geniuses watching this movie makes me feel dumb but it s a great movie not highly entertaining but very very intriguing the movie centers around wheelchair bound stephen hawkings a man who makes einstein look average and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe time the galaxy and black holes everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they ll write it all down well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours here is a man who despite suffering from lou gehrig s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes awesome you won t be the same after you see it the story is about a psychic woman tory who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders br br you really don t need to find out because oh my god this was so so so so bad i know all the nora roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of s then the rest of us will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie is worth watching but do not be fooled the ending was predictable the acting terrible don t even get me started about the southern accents y all and the story was trite just remember you were warned oh god i must have seen this when i was only or twelve don t ask how i may have been young but i wasn t stupid anyone could see that this is a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly i ve seen more impressive effects at disneyland i ve seen better performances at a school play and i ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignoring the children tapping on the glass br br the story is set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people are trying out a new water sport surfing in shark filled waters it soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family br br i think i have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years the best of which is lake placid and the worse of which is its sequel blood surf would have to be the second worst croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tailing closely behind br br the australian saltwater crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year movies like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer s life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf fate leads walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life all based around the number as the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end br br the number offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution the film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential the screenplay was probably the worst part about it it was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie it seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea he just didn t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time the second half of the film was running low on ideas the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful br br joel schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other films but the number reminds me that he s still capable of making a stinker he has the movie drenched in style but he just can t get a good focus he moves the film at a clunky and slow pace he switches from reality to what s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying the actual book in the film that s titled the number is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears when carrey is finally done with book we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery at this point the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished br br the acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn t even seem to be trying he was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden his narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts logan lerman was pretty bland as was danny huston overall the number was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills rating we brought this film as a joke for a friend and could of been our worst joke to play the film is barely watchable and the acting is dire the worst child actor ever used and hasslehoff giving a substandard performance the plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on it tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable br br just terrible this was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life it was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous and i have never seen such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie were all the hot guys especially drew fuller i don t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie i didn t even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves i mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i was very disappointed the whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion this is a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldn t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a steele novel knows how they all end if you don t want to know much about the plot don t keep reading br br gilbert s character ophelia is a woman of french decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor is matt who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce he is gentle convincing and compelling in this role br br the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid all of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love br br the chemistry between the two leads is not great even though the talent of these two people is not in my opinion a question they did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical two people meet tragedy bigger tragedy a secret is revealed another tragedy and then they get together i wish there was more to it than that but there it is in a nutshell br br i wanted mindless entertainment and i got it with this in regard to the genre of romantic films this one fails to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner is far superior not a steele book as are some of steele s earlier books turned into film oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movies i don t even remember how many i ve seen maybe it sells but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these also the pulling of the kid i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies cellphone scene is also nothing new the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked i mean it lacked all dramaticness ok this is for kids who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique we ll let me tell you there s a million of you d this is one of them i ve seen worse but you won t be missing anything by not seeing this nicholas walker is paul the local town reverand who s married to martha ally sheedy but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so doing he gets a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good reverand in a shades of misery type of way it s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator in a film billed as a black comedy one has to bring both elements into said movie while this does bring the former in spades it sadly contains none of the latter furthermore you can t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an all together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one br br eye candy dara tomanovich gets topless sally kirkland also shows some skin br br my grade c br br where i saw it showtime showcase hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world it only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re invented over and over again take superheroes for example for each x man and spiderman there are daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remakes are even worst it only took the ring which was pitch perfect mostly because of mr gore verbinsky to bring a ton of look alike creepy woman based horrors e g the ring the eye dark water which was fine but pointless and the grudges br br the first grudge wasn t entirely bad it was scary most of the way which is what one could expect from it plus the plot had some brains mixing narratives grudge is exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic goes the same way br br tired scares bad acting except for amber tamblyn and clich s all over the place three stories take place on different places and time there is aubrey tamblyn investigating what drove her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything is tied up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else is simply tiresome and dull br br the chills are all over there a girl alone in the lockers someone who shouldn t enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghosts keep killing and killing and killing which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the ebola epidemic hey doesn t that seem just like another bad japanese remake something called pulse yeah day after day it s getting easier to hold a grudge against hollywood bullshits down periscope has been in our library since it first arrived in vhs since then we have acquired the dvd and a digital from cinema now br br it is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con it is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters i am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered br br the movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession even among the very young i became aware of this while visiting the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scouts my grandson among them had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board br br it is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our navy and hollywood which is rare company br br thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment if you came here it s because you ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it br br i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize as a canadian because that s what we do that this film ever had to cross your eyes if only for a moment i hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases br br i like everyone else rented this movie believing it to be some stupid b movie ripoff of blade i thought sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie i ll give the creators of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for removing the rec xx xx xx from the bottom right hand corner of the screen i can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie br br and for the record i saw the movie but did not watch it the dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother s trailer i swear to god br br you know what i m not writing anymore about this it s just too painful deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read are three smart girls in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audiences it also stars ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it s a sweet story about three young women now living in switzerland with their divorced mother who hear their father winninger is marrying again not having seen him in years and knowing their mother still loves him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper nanny determined to stop the wedding realizing that the intended called precious barnes is nothing but a gold digger aided and abetted by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy count this is arranged by their father s accountant king the man he chooses is a full time drunk auer but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess br br this is a delightful film not cloying or overly sugary at all with some nice performances particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young women are pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course is on young durbin who is a natural actress and a beautifully trained singer in fact her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult she has no trouble with the high notes as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sings a delightful il bacio in a police station br br one of the nicest things about the film is to see the father played by charles winninger not want his children around until he sees them and gets to know them barnes as the gold digger isn t all that young but the girls mother looks way up there so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger more glamorous woman in fact he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters br br universal gives durbin the big star buildup here she has the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point was still paying his dues and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is br br very entertaining and of course this led to a sequel and big stardom for deanna if anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new better and different those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing directing and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in italy and england other days other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment made in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchens in the major roles under the brush stroke direction of mike newell these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter s eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us i watched this series out of curiosity wanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technology out do cecil b demille s classic epic of starring charleton heston yul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i was let down yes they had all the biblical characters correct but they didn t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes that held your interest throughout the first movie if you going to have a mini series you have to have some rivoting scenes the burning bush parting the red sea drowning pharohs armies building sethi s pyramids could have been done with todays technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as lord of the rings or the matrix obviously they didn t want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which is much needed in these trouble times daniel day lewis is the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gangs of new york in a performance ten times stronger than adrian brody s in the pianist and as the outrageous cristy brown with cerebral palsy in my left foot just to name a few his roles all influence eachother but each is seperate and utterly unique he changes completely with each character he takes on and i m beginning to believe that he can act as anything anything br br as cristy brown he is stunning he does not ridicule the character and he does not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown comes to life a smart man an outrageous man human br br this movie despite small scene transition faults and the like is an inspiration yes it s predictable but is it stupidly sentimental no i laughed i cried not a single moment of cheese proof that this isn t a hollywood movie br br my favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant when cristy is discussing painters with eileen peter and her friends here s where daniel day lewis reaches an acting climax i ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that s animated wheel out the cripple and his performance never slows down never falters and is beautiful simply he has a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tired of cristy s perspicacious eyes twitching and guttural speeches br br a must see fo sho yo my guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain its confused abbreviated storyline i was never completely lost but i was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot br br if it were longer it might make more sense but it still wouldn t be much good the movie s most interesting idea is of the war between zeus and hera as being a war between the male and female but the movie drops the ball on this making hera s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what zeus followers do or believe the movie is also interesting because you don t see the gods and there s no real certainty that they exist so it s got a couple of intriguing ideas but it doesn t do anything useful with them br br bad dialog cardboard characters and one interesting scene involving hercules and his three antagonistic sons not unwatchable but also not worth watching well i like to watch bad horror b movies cause i think it s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movies to for example some spielberg s works and again and again don t understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood s movies cause it s so inept it s very funny but people the chilling is not funny and is not even interesting it s extremely boring horror movie without anything what makes even bad movies watchable there s no acting no screenplay no direction no thrills and not even blood it s extremely inept amateurish film it s definitely the worst movie i had ever seen and i had seen a lot of worst movies believe me i warned you this is the worst movie i have ever seen as well as the worst that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously just be forewarned br br this is not one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it its just plain bad bad bad bad bad br br this movie is the equivalent to having a pet rock as your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never does at least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into lion s gate completely deceives on this bombshell no this is a disaster after watching this film you would swear george w bush had his hands all over the making of this film yes its that idiotic br br stay away unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time its probably how lion s gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe i have been a mario fan for as long as i can remember i have very fond memories of playing super mario world as a kid this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new super mario galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing mario franchise there is much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keeping intact the greatest elements of mario the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space br br the story begins much like any other mario game mario receives a letter from princess peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arriving at peach s castle mario finds bowser and his son bowser jr attacking the castle with their airships bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lifts her castle up into space in the midst of the castle being lifted into space mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet mario is found by a talking star named luma and is taken back to the luma s home a floating space station here mario meets many other lumas and also meets their leader a woman named rosalina rosalina tells mario that bowser has taken away the space station s power stars and scattered them across the universe it is up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins br br the way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies each galaxy consists of multiple planets that mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the power stars mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity some planets are small and others are big many planets are similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game are the controls all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting stars you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment then there is the graphics these are by far the best graphics on the wii it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks you could probably almost say it looks as good as some games br br my only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to and also the story is pretty weak the worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at lives still these minor problems aside it s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging this is the type of game that we ve been waiting for on the wii br br a perfect out of this short film that inspired the soon to be full length feature spatula madness is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers the short film stars edward the spatula who after being fired from his job joins in the fight against the evil spoons this premise allows for some funny content near the beginning but is barely present for the remainder of the feature this film s minute running time is absorbed by some odd ball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lies below it the plot that is set up doesn t really have time to show but it s surely follows it plot better than many high budget hollywood films this film is worth watching at least a few times take it for what it is and don t expect a deep story okay last night august th i had the distinct displeasure of meeting mr van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago as part of the chicago underground film festival here s what i have to say about it first of all the film is an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie i ve ever seen second of all in a short q a session after the show mr van bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual manson family members or charlie himself calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them that the film was based on his van bebble s take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on tv and in the news and i m assuming from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative so i had second dibs on questions i asked if he was trying to present the outsider mtv sex drugs and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting f you shut the f up this is the truth all those other movies are bullsh br br well anyway i didn t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when i read the tagline for the film you ve heard the laws side of the story now hear the story as it is told by the manson family excuse me if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn t want to have anything to do with how in god s name can he tell the story for them this is the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard the film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small dimly lit theatre and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock n roll mind of a man who couldn t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actors on screen this film accomplishes little more than warping the public s image of actual events which helped shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher comic book porno rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual br br the film was definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of charlie s work with the family off of his lie album the editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos all in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers i felt like i was at a midnight rocky horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving probably the best part of the experience the cast was very good with the exception of charlie who resembled some sort of stoned dungeons and dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying the descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that was actually presented br br all in all the film basically explains itself as sadie or maybe it was linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh books or make a bunch of bullsh movies etc etc case in point even the disclaimer based on a true story is a dead giveaway signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world all you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead br br all i can say is this when the film ended i got a free beer so i m glad i went but not so glad i spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f up for asking the director a question peace i bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart i am glad i did it was very entertaining listening to sean connery and playing the game i thought the graphics were the best i have ever seen in a movie game remake the bonus levels were very hard the sniper one i think was too hard it made me so frustrated i didn t play the game for a week and a half there were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it br br the only thing i might change was the upgrade system i didn t notice any difference from un upgraded equipment to the upgraded such as buying an armor upgrade didn t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter i really liked the q copter i think the developers did a good job no this hilariously horrible s made for tv horror clinker isn t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness that s quite tasty in a so execrable it s downright awesome sort of way richard crenna looking haggard and possibly inebriated and yvette mimieux who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute german shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppets from the disney witch mountain pictures are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesn t that sound really scary and disturbing well scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain t but it sure is funny thanks to curtis night tide harrington s hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effects an almost painfully risible n ridiculous plot and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story besides the leads both martine beswicke and r g armstrong briefly pop up as members of a satanic cult and victor jory has a nice cameo as a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on crenna practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade while stuck up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo it is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it is about women and a man who on a vacation this was made during the end of the ultra nazi seventies when blonde women were supposedly ultra american survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death br br this movie like the others of that era contrives to bring this about and the viewer knows this there is no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time it is laughable br br the five people happen upon two savage young characters and go nuts everyone is nuts so that the director writer team can justify their nazi propaganda br br for some reason the guy is attracted to the blonde who is really not much to look at and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventies movies were meant to appeal to women and not men br br totally crap and totally depressing marion davies stars in this remarkable comedy show people released by mgm in davies plays a hick from savannah georgia who arrives in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in is a hoot as is davies outrageous southern costume davies lands a job in slapstick comedy not what she wants but it brings her success she meets fellow slapstick star william haines who is immediately smitten with her well davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio high art studios and lands a job in stuffy period pieces a handsome but fake actor andre telefair shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that is not who she really is marion davies is wonderful throughout as she outrageously runs the gamut of emotions required of a serious actress william haines is his usual wonderful comedic self and there are cameos by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous stars of the day including the director of the film king vidor this is a silent film with a few sound effects as sound pictures were just coming into their own a treasure of a film the performance of every actor and actress in the film are excellently natural which is what movie acting should be and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that i am never tired of seeing it over and over again however i am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors and director attenborough s credits that puzzles me aren t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent long lasting film for the audience i am hoping i would get some answers to my puzzles from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film while star trek the motion picture was mostly boring star trek the final frontier is plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassadors representing earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have been kidnapped by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hopes to find god using mysticism and bad writing he persuades many of the senior officers of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god like alien this one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin at the core is a good idea that is never really developed the plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before it is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco the action scenes don t have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy is boring and the humor is stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he takes the director s chair the ego gets bigger most of the focus is on him spock and mccoy but does not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner is usually guilty of over acting in previous movies and television spots he is just plain bad in this one now kirk is reckless a practical jokers and silly one of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this is the worst of the star trek franchise i should have given it three out of ten instead of five despite later claims this early talkie melodrama has very little in common with citizen kane it s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat told in flashback but hopping around time the scriptwriter preston sturges shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of kane are evident still it s very watchable with a young spencer tracy his old man makeup makes him look just like well an old spencer tracy showing depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well matched playing a multifaceted woman behind the man there s also helen vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history sending the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberations the surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets and there are some plot holes left open how would she know whose son it was if she s sleeping with both of them and the music is awfully hokey for all that i was quite fascinated this is the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton is a little tough to imagine as rochester who jane eyre declared not handsome but his acting overcomes this and zelah clark pretty as she is is also a complete and believable jane eyre this production is a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this is the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and re read the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this apparently the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so called movie they described blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skin but here i am perhaps revealing too much of the plot furthermore as a viewer of many and sundry films some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain br br correct br br jonathan tanner br br br br p s i was not blinded by the choreography i liked boyle s performance but that s about the only positive thing i can say everything was overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actors spoke like you would expect your year old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded stone hearted cop or an ultra evil villain the raspy voice overs seemed amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music and what s with the whole ish police torture stuff it was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story cox added a lot of things in fact that he apparently thought would be really cool but had nothing to do with the story that s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes borges stories so good is his minimalism they are tightly bound with no superfluous details this movie is just the opposite i stopped watching after the scene where lonnrot is questioning the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i wasted renting this but at least i can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake it s terrific when a funny movie doesn t make smile you what a pity this film is very boring and so long it s simply painfull the story is staggering without goal and no fun br br you feel better when it s finished so well made no cgi crap has anyone else been on the jumping crocs tour of darwin s adelaide river before black water was way realistic rogue was a bit cringeworthy br br thought the blonde chick was excellent in it haven t really seen her before and the other chick is a babe she is always excellent br br v suspenseful i would compare it to jaws over any other man eating animal flick br br got the hole aussie thing down pat without going ott with struths and crikeys as well br br loved it the assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character rather than star turns the need to stage special effects obligatory romance and endless car chases however there is a car chase in here and a dandy it is aidan quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer recruited to eliminate him it is rare that a second or third tier actor such as quinn is given an important starring role like this that carries a film usually such a role is given to an a list actor with box office draw which is probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at times agent that recruits quinn ben kingsley is fine also as the israeli agent the plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once as we re used to seeing the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity the locations are convincing and effective the soundtrack is nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days without dumb and or meaningless plot developments unconvincing star turns loud annoying music video type soundtracks a villain that hams it up and repeatedly a cast costumes and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this is an outstanding thriller which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release of stars this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen the stark scenery the isolation the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication the acting is completely natural but for me as a foodie the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette s menu and choice of wines are authentic and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be this is a out of film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it set in the the second year of the french republic formed after the execution of louis xvi this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders danton gerard depardieu at his finest and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton has returned to paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he is opposed to the reign of terror which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens mainly by guillotine who are thought to be opposed to the revolution danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee are afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them being overthrown and put danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors this was the first french language film made by andrzej wajda after he had arrived in france from poland his polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which had opposed the polish government in the late seventies and early eighties his previous film man of iron had dealt with the solidarity union and its leader lech walesa and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton walesa are the voice of reason opposed to robespierre jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent the film is based on the polish play the danton affair written by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical but what the film does is to concentrate on the behind the scenes meetings of the committees and the scenes in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of paris usually i m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties early nineties film featuring now has beens but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through guys dressing up as girls has been done to death but never so pathetically corey haim s performance was abysmal as usual nicole eggert was not much better this has no redeeming qualities even if you are a number fan of an actor actress in this piece of trash stay away i have now seen quite a few films by pedro almod var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films and the story just never got me interested many almod var regulars appear in this film so it s not like there was a lack of on screen talent but this film just seemed more serious than his other films if there was a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldn t find it and it made for one surprisingly weak movie i greatly enjoyed margaret atwood s novel the robber bride and i was thrilled to see there was a movie version a woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an ex cop journalist tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman s crazy female friends it s fortunate that the movie script fixes ms atwood s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men victims of scheming women br br heh okay you got me if these guys are mentioned in the book and i m pretty sure they re entirely made up for the movie i ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female characters of the novel aren t enough to carry the movie zenia s manipulations aren t interesting unless we see them happen to a man and a man s life is screwed up roz charis and toni tell their stories to a man because it s not important if a man doesn t hear them br br i liked the characters in the book it hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man s story i normally do not look for feminist angles on media and i tried to enjoy the movie as is if i hadn t read the book i might have enjoyed the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the ex cop and you want to read more about them you re out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot it s the same plot the movie excavated it ironed it and sprinkled it with male angst it s like zenia s revenge on margaret atwood this movie gets a because there is a lot of gore in it who cares about the plot or the acting this is an italian horror movie people so you know you can t expect much from the acting or the plot everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn t matter to me the italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie this is one of the goriest italian movies you will ever see no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true ingrid bergman playing dentist walter matthau s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss is absolutely wonderful in this film she handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrid s monologue is a front but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart matthau is an odd choice for the leading man he s too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i liked the way he tries hard to please goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie hawn who won a supporting oscar is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today this bedroom farce isn t terribly sophisticated and faintly reminds one of any wednesday besides but it s a welcome relief from the noisy teen oriented comedies they turn out today cactus flower is a lovely sigh from a bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he is sleeping his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage according to the dvd sleeve s synopsis br br the synopsis isn t entirely correct as it turns out br br anyway the movie opens with a dizzying out of body example of handsome director winston rekert as paul sharpe s newly discovered astral body experience it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski as matthew sharpe being a kid draws pictures of the blue man as his murder spree begins handsome detective john novak as stewart kaufman discovers the victims are connected to mr rekert mr novak s investigation leads to the supernatural a prime example of which is karen black as janus with whom rekert fears he is falling in love br br several in the cast perform well but the blue man winds up tying itself up in a knot aka eternal evil its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies at the time i couldn t believe how movies like rambo missing in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn made money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly troma s war is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place of course not troma s war lacks any sort of sophistication though it does make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it is this tale based on two edgar allen poe pieces the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem is actually quite creepy from beginning to end it is similar to some of the old black and white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff plays a demented inventor of life size dolls that terrorize the guests he dies early in the film or does he and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences i won t go into too much detail here but it is definitely a must see for fans of old dark house mysteries br br watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room br br dan basinger i am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie jack frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by a pix entertainment and without exception everything this company deals with is pure crap first and this is very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movies this one i feel was made intentionally bad i just can t get over how fake the snowman is which is why its always shown only briefly the way it moves is the best this movie is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that was made too be a good movie and that version is as bad as this revolt of the zombies proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn t necessarily make lightning strike twice br br the halperin brothers responsible for the horror classic white zombie made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close ups of lugosi s eyes from that previous film there was a court battle with the white zombie film s rights owners who didn t want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word was the only thing that could help this film because as everyone knows bad films can make much more money simply by having the word zombie appear in the title knowing what victor halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting it seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle the zombies here seem not to be true walking dead but simply hypnotism victims br br wan na create a mind controlled army of zombies be ready to crack a few eggs including your own br br the lame plot man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend whom she loves jealous this sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn t worth spit br br this includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments i ve ever seen you d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming the acting isn t even good this movie makes the racially insensitive king of the zombies which appeared on the same double bill dvd i bought seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic it makes the atomic age sci fi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invaders seem like a serious drama this is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean films are often known for their use of melodrama the credits list the ironically named company favorite films i m not sure whose favorite film this would be but they re obviously an idiot br br not recommended for fans of zombies romance or classic films the complaints are valid to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women i am okay with these night time soaps like grey s anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end however when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romps and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so called little hospital it seems like general hospital or a female counterpart to baywatch that was what men wanted and they had it so if this is what women want so be it but the idea that this is a high brow show or something men will watch is unrealistic this movie was one of the best movies that i have seen this year i didn t see any cameos in the movie but it is still pretty good it is similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this is a better put together movie it actually has a point if you are going to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappointed just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roeper s review of this movie is right on i mean i don t really like ebert on most movies but this is the movie that i will agree about the movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there there is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laughed at when it is found out about but it still suggests that you wait steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet it is still funny i remember seeing this film in the mid s thought it a well paced and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the had to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area has changed although my office is newish it just seconds away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership is still there selling bentleys and rolls royces br br it s look like the dvd is due a region release soon the region copy i is very poor quality let s hope they ve cleaned it up br br only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but i guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with two hours ago i was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography it is quite understandable how it won the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominated it close ups of walls humans and of many other things the warm colored lighting which is also usually by the director gave the movie a warm atmosphere only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it an interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movements characterize the movie some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close ups not only tony leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since maggie cheung was also so brilliant i wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes the story was also connected somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s this prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema luckily for bill murray this is such a light weight project since he pretty much has to carry it meatballs is the story of low rent camp northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named camp mohawk which culminates in a two day olympiad competition above it all is bill murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut br br the film is sprinkled with medium sized laughs chuckles and more than a few guffaws along the way the biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he s sleeping morty or micky as everyone calls him wakes up along the side of a road strung up in some trees several feet above the ground and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake there are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another but this is a pg rated film with little in the way of raunchiness br br the film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named rudy who is played by chris makepeace of course it s up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudy s situation seems tacked on to a great degree notice how when murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him you must be the short depressed kid we ordered makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or murray was just ad libbing while the cameras were rolling in other words murray might as well have said to makepeace you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn t fit in but before it s all over murray s performance makes this plot device more than bearable he really seems to have some good chemistry with makepeace br br the film culminates with the games between the two rival camps very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable but it just doesn t matter this is a pretty good film on many levels don t let the absurd rating this film is currently getting scare you off murray will keep you laughing throughout just be warned avoid the sequels especially the one with corey feldman of stars br br the hound the danish bladerunner is boldly stated on the box are you kidding me this film is a complete drag when i m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i won t miss anything not this time i actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldn t have to go back why the hell is there not one sciencefiction scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work it s mindboggling one of the premises of film is that our hero who s a hacker has a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally caught on in the future when he loses the assistant in the movie he s helpless and can t get into any computers he s a hacker it s like saying that you can t drive your car if you don t have your lucky driving cap on i won t even go into the lightning effect when he recieves electroshock this movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off i know these horrible things happen in the world but im watching movies based on the fact that what im watching is not actually happening on the screen these live animal clips are not meant to be in movies they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species br br this should be banned and destroyed i have also contacted netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market br br this movie should be removed from the public the person who made this movie needs psychological help anyone who thinks kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something i d love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy acting action in places this is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed up has been and never was s love to star in i actually felt embarrassed for the stars in this film the only thespian missing to top this turd was gary coleman who if he would have been in the movie would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad br br there was one part in the film where carol alt screamed do you think i m an idiot yes carol i do your agent does and please for the love of all that is decent and holy go away and stop degrading yourself like this this film is something anna nicole smith would take part in br br i would tell you what the plot was but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway so i barely paid attention this film could have been a decent re make and gosh knows it tried or ms english tried assembling talented actors together with a successful experienced writer director should be a formula for a decent film but ms english s experience according to her imdb bio is exclusively limited to television work and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film br br i am surprised that none of the reviews i have read mention what i found most unlikeable about this film and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential it looked and felt like it was made for television to give some credit to ms english many of the jokes that simply did not work on a movie screen would have been terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have helped so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on tv but looked awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film had been chopped up into a mini series or a sit com i think it could have worked but this is cinema and sadly ms english s talents didn t translate i cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors the writers that i felt like i came out of the theater half shriveled meg ryan is her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face but where did she have a chance to use her talent she has made films where she doesn t recreate her stereo typed role and done them well but not here annette bening seemed to simply go through the motions such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance and it was sad to see what worked in this film in the s doesn t translate to the s and no one helped ms english get the changes updates or subtleties right if only she as writer director and producer had reached out for some assistance i think it could have been good but it was not br br it s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone s time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday is appropriate a few movie execs are having a meeting the caption reads let s remake a classic with worse everything i find it very intriguing that lee radziwill jackie kennedy s sister and the cousin of these women would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be considered the skeletons in the family closet the extra features on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women i d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating i e are they nuts or am i missing something this movie is hard to come by netflix does not have it facets does though c mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode it s just an old s tv show this episode of star trek is notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrow s ever used on star trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages br br this use of an outdoor location and babe gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show br br except a few notable exceptions i e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow is yesterday the old series of star trek needs to be seriously moth balled and put out of it s boring misery half a dozen good episodes from is quite a poor batting average br br this is typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produced back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on he actually made a lot of rubbish he doesn t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as irwin allen for example br br just look at the set of the bridge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they used wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels you can clearly see the folds in the paper every expense spared or what i just watched this movie on it s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i liked not loved mork mindy as a kid mostly for robin william s zany energetic performance this movie made me remember why was the original show great not really but robin certainly was which brings me to this movie br br i was pleasantly surprised expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show which in a way it was but of course the real focus was on robin it was interesting to see robin s journey from struggling street jester to national t v star and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife and my hat is off to star chris diamantopoulos as he portrayed mr williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it was even dead on on an unrelated note i noticed that robin s struggles were in some ways similar to andy kaufman who was under appreciated by network t v and held back creatively but that s the taxi behind the scenes biopic br br all in all this was a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i got to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting was solid by all never melodramatic like i suspected and the story moved along well performances that were particularly good were by those who played garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckles robin was a hoot not a great masterpiece by any means i would have liked to have seen a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fans out there nanoo nanoo i caught this film on azn on cable it sounded like it would be a good film a japanese green card i can t say i ve ever disliked an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror films of all time are japanese and korean and i am a huge fan of john woo s hong kong films i an not adverse to a light hearted films like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourites so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly acted film ever again br br i think the director steven okazaki must have spiked the water with quaalude because no one in this film had a personality and when any of the characters did try to act as opposed to mumbling a line or two their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake i honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before the only person who sounded genuine was brenda aoki i find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy because i didn t laugh once even more surprising is that cbs morning news called this a refreshing breath of comedy it was neither refreshing nor a breath of comedy and the ending was very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things br br avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst is a better acted film than this and i walked out half way through that film before i begin let me get something off my chest i m a huge fan of john eyres first film project shadowchaser the film a b grade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit spawned two sequels a spin off br br judge and jury begins with joseph meeker a convicted killer who was sent to death row following his capture after the so called bloody shootout which seems like a poor name for a killing spree meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store being led to the electric chair there is an amusing scene where meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love who was killed during the shootout expressing his revenge for the person who killed her michael silvano a washed up football star who spends his days watching his son alex practicing football with his high school team and ends up harassing his son s coach but once executed meeker returns as a revenant or as kelly perine calls a hamburger without the fries whose sole aim is to get his revenge which basically means making silvano s life a misery br br let me point out the fact that judge and jury is not a true horror film it is a supernatural action film with meeker chasing silvano using his ability to change form which amounts to david keith dressing up as everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad as his moustache a drag queen a clown a stand up comedian a shotgun which fires explosive rounds an invulnerability to death although that doesn t stop martin kove from shooting keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for killing meeker s wife br br director john eyres does not seem interested in characterisations instead focusing solely on action scenes which the film has plenty of but that is the film s main flaw since there s nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting is surprisingly good with keith delivering the best performance supported ably by kove as well as paul koslo who plays the washed up cop quite well kelly perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse ye lou s film purple butterfly pits a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese forces in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her ex lover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting br br i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitutes a convoluted semi historical conflict for a plot without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes the sudden time shifting doesn t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless normally i don t mind dark movies but the absence of light the bone jarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad film making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i don t think that helps the movie the backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the th century and i don t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moments don t add to its watchability br br the actors are all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films brooding and looking generally annoyed however at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love making scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator br br all in all a very disappointing film especially seeing as how it comes from the director of suzhou he after hearing about george orwell s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life i m now but never having read the book i am totally confused as to what i ve just seen br br i am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel as i m sure most are but only through hearsay and quotes without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery and even with it i m still no more educated about the story of than i was before i watched it br br on the plus side br br the cinematography is amazing hurt burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making br br now for the down sides and there are plenty br br there is a war going on at least as far as the propaganda is concerned but why with who nothing is explained there are a couple of names bandied about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation br br who is winston what does he do where does he come from where does he work why is he changing news reports why isn t he on the front line why doesn t he eat the food in the canteen what is that drink he s drinking through the entire film why is he so weak ill why isn t he brainwashed like the rest of them what s the deal with his mother sister what happened to his father a little back story would have been nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that haven t read the book without it this is just a confusing and hard to follow art house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on br br the soundtrack was dis jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the big brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on i accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it s very annoying all the same br br also i know this has been mentioned before but why all the nudity it just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage br br i personally can t abide the way hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days we are not all brainwashed simpletons but this is a few steps too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you ve read the book because if this film really is the literal translation that i ve seen many people say i would find it very hard to understand why is hailed as the classic it is br br there s no denying that it was light years ahead of it s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be but many sci fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline br br i guess i have to do what i should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i m to make any sense out of this br br all in all very disappointed in something i ve waited for years to watch this cute animated short features two comic icons betty boop and henry br br henry is the bald slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks br br well here he does speak br br he wants to get a puppy from betty boop s pet store and when he is left to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue br br betty sings a song about pets henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey but everything works out in the end i just got back from this free screening and this osama witch project is the hands down worst film i ve seen this year worse than even catwoman which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction br br in september tapes a film crew of documentary journalists heads to afghanistan despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip the conditions and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife s death on sept to track down osama bin laden br br they made eight tapes on their journey which now document their travels and of course their attempts to kill the terrorist leader the eight tapes thankfully all end at points significant in the narrative which is convenient for a documentary br br the psychotic idiotic protagonist who is given to long significant speeches that he probably learned watching macgyver cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps i don t know why he didn t just wear a sign on his back that said shoot me br br the crew s translator supposedly their sensible voice of reason does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom br br you wish they d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons br br around tape i began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew i remember seeing this film in the theater in when i was years old you do the math i absolutely loved it i was tarzan for the weeks after seeing it climbing the furniture jumping around making monkey sounds it started a fascination with tarzan and monkeys but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highlander very shortly after this was the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happened to be on cable as i was getting ready for bed at am and even though it was late and i was tired and i had to be at work at am i stayed up to watch this movie that i loved as a kid br br upon viewing it i realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that that andie macdowell s voice was dubbed by someone else ian holme was of course solid as usual and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up but what was most surprising was how good lambert was as tarzan he was great the depth he managed to capture in so few lines his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark were just amazing br br as i stated earlier i am lambert fan but i m used to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again br br so to make a short story way too long i was a little disappointed that the film was not that good but i was glad to see that lambert was good and i do not regret staying up until am to see it a family is traveling through the mid west there s widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and ben s little daughter k t geri reischl then hit a town named hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely their car breaks down and they re forced to stay they soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil br br the story is not that good people just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end the acting is pretty poor too bateman and capri are bland and everybody else is about the same only old pros strother martin and l q jones give good performances still this movie does work it forgoes blood and gore there s some but this is pg and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hampers a lot of it but it still works martin especially chews the scenery in his role i can t explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it did work on me it s a quiet kind of horror that isn t made anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered a francis ford coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman s flight from her husband and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her we learn little about this woman s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late she s also recently learned she s pregnant which has further complicated her heart she doesn t want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone she meets two men on her journey a former college football hero who after an accident during a game has been left with permanent brain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscapes as photographed by the very talented wilmer butler are astutely realized as are the characters shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performances most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms some scenes such as knight s first call home from a pay phone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon says are almost too intimate to watch coppola toys with reality turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we ve been made privy to he allows scenes to play out yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy there are at least two or three very frisky moments it s a heady endeavor so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later some may shun coppola s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings from this movie was not very well directed they almost totally disregarded the book i guess they were trying save time the only upside me was that the actor who played finny was cute some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book major parts of the book were once again chopped out you lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary also i was surprised not pleasantly by a new character that was no where in the book one of my favorite characters leper was poorly interpreted and portrayed he seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book over all disappointing the buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stopped there they should have continued to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there s nothing else there to show br br gary thompson and andrew marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film i don t really think they exist i think they bought this script at scripts r us where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blanks there s a monster stalking us let s split up they actually let s split up in this movie hit alien giant bug monster invisible man with crowbar not dead yet burn huge rabbit shark invisible man in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie ir glasses spraying with something like paint were handled badly br br what is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issues for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treating an invisible subject and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than seconds and would have been far more interesting had there been any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have been a much better movie all in all it stunk br br i would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie but i don t want to do any spoilers suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than a young girl becomes a war time marine s pen pal and when he visits at war s end expecting someone a bit more available comic complications ensue all ultimately works out well naturally but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery errol flynn s dead on impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca is a highlight as are various send ups of his own swashbuckling image the jumping scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker is a riot it is tucker though who tucks the movie under his arm lowers his head and barrels over the goal line he demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in f troop and imparts a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance eleanor parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued and little patti brady charms as tucker s actual pen pal friend a fine lightweight coming home comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining this movie is a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit plays the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheating wife role of lane they have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the indian masses br br even then the movie has got the full traces of unfaithful though it couldn t catch up with the original it was a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lovers where mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer in the future if the indian directors plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censors though the film bombed at the box office the actors got the undue recognition in future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a oscar nominated film br br all said this is not a family film so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family robert altman s downbeat new fangled western from edmund naughton s book mccabe was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following aside from a completely convincing boom town scenario the characters here don t merit much interest and the picture looks intentionally brackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty plays a turn of the century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel once the profits start coming in beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action altman creates a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town is limited most of the story being made up of vignettes and altman s pacing is deliberately slow there s hardly a statement being made just the opposite in fact and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds it s a self defeating picture and yet in an altman quirky way it wears defeat proudly from what seemed at first just another introverted french flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me on second viewing a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation br br spoiler of sorts follows br br poor cedric he apparently didn t know what hit him poor audience we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guys just didn t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much as mathieu and cedric were sexually attracted to each other the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for mathieu an intellectual being to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach br br on a purely technical note i loved the camera action in this film subtitles were totally unnecessary even though my french is presque rien i could watch it again without the annoying english translation and enjoy it even more this was a polished very professionally made motion picture though many scenes seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten i don t think i ve ever gave something a rating but this one easily gets the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes it s not just that the jokes are so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily has zero charisma can t set up or finish a punchline and you ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach br br i have watched the show never in its entirety but many times still it just creeps up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever br br actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest it s just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that s screaming get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watching the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he got on the air and what he s still doing there watch as much as you can i think you will find its complete awkwardness interesting in the standard view this is a purely awful movie however it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as i did watching this movie andy griffith s ghost dressed in native american garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime i wouldn t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be laying on the couch at in the morning and it comes on tv check it out from the film s first shot keira knightley as elizabeth bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn thus invoking all the clich s cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong minded rebellious female character in period drama i knew i was in for something to make me want to kill myself br br joe wright seemed not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact jane austen s subtle nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawing rooms but a sort of u certificate wuthering heights thus we were treated to every scene between elizabeth and darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p is not about passion sexual tension or love it s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society which was completely ignored so that the bennets house was a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shouts at once runs around leaves their underwear on chairs and pigs wander happily through the house the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a matrix reloaded style dance orgy and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety br br the genius of jane austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap so both the brilliance of jane austen and the very factor that allows her plots particularly in this film to function was completely erased subtlety in general was nowhere int his film sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances br br it was so obviously trying to be a serious film the humour which is pride prejudice both austen s methodology and her appeal was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po faced melodrama and when it was allowed in was handled so clumsily pride prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points yes but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour they are embedded in it you can t lose jane austen s technique leaving only the bare bones of the story and expect the themes to remain not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy handed mystical numinous fauxbrow cinematography br br elizabeth bennett is supposed to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clear sighted keira knightley played the first half of the film like an empty headed giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an empty headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine elizabeth s wit her combative verbal exchanges her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody s follies including her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clear sightedness were completely lost and replaced with what a lot of giggling and staring into the distance rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation and not genuinely raging either no these were petulant hissy fits and where the great strength of austen s elizabeth at least in austen s eyes was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety knightley s elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong minded and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she was ably matched by matthew macfayden br br donald sutherland as mr bennet seemed weak ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie as the only two sensible people in a world of fools was completely lost not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley was no longer amiable and well meaning to the point of folly but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs and the woman who was playing jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all the script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of jane austen delivered with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy br br just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache i ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is life sometimes has boring patches no real plot and not necessarily a happy ending a river runs through it is the perfect name for this film and norman maclean s novel life ebbs and flows like a river and it has it s rough spots but it is a wonderful trip br br robert redford brings a lot to the film his narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly as a director he is restrained and calm and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes as for the acting craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprising well as brothers i don t know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyn s performances except that they truly feel real a river runs through it is a wonderful film br br out of the story is very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie is quite fine even the directing of it the main problem is with the castings that turned that movie into almost another local and regular clich with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael played impressively by asi dayan all other actors were unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl played by taly sharon was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile there were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future this movie was not so much promoted here in greece even though it got good actors great script and rather good photograph was not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself is very powerful it s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home village after been released from a yo prison time drugs the end is rather sad mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency out of because very few greek movies can make such an impression mystery men has got to be the stupidest film i ve ever seen but what a film i thought it was fabulous excellent and impressive it was funny well done and nice to see ridiculous super heroes for a change and being able to pull it off this was great i ll definitely watch it again you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of listerine or whatever it is and he s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink that s a great metaphor for this movie i kept watching even though it was really difficult but keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i had the chance br br the premise is corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand years gargoyles have returned to romania and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead it s up to michael pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the gargoyles run amok unfortunately the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads the best acting is done by the cg gargoyles br br in the end this movie feels like a poor man s van helsing if you check your brain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i gave it out of stars i can t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life i laughed a couple of times probably because of how stupid it was if someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn t the plot was so horrible it made no sense and the acting was so bad that i couldn t even tell if they were trying that movie was terrible rating f this is one of a rarity of movies where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film br br the cinematic aspect of wolfgang something s photography seems to have left out both close ups and breasts mo and wolfgang s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses plastic peens holding passion there s also beetle banging as violet would have put it this plastic peen goes up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome br br alright so if you are still reading let us explain who we are mo ogrodnik teaches at nyu and we are a group of her students who finishing a film class with her decided to get poop faced and watch here directorial debut she also wrote uptown girls i can t tell you how much that s been hammered into our skulls so this movie is quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie br br about minutes into this game none of us could see straight the sheer amount of dido s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant there was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh so naturally reading a local newspaper because that s what we all do the heart shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chin up boy suggests the director s history of homosexual pornographic experiments we wish we were kidding br br enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one it s very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care br br the mo ogrodnik ripe drinking game every time you see anything related to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodnik s name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drinks any time somebody points a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body any time there is blood including lady blood please take a sip the underused hula hoop girl requires one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man requires one drink if you can t figure out the through line keep drinking beyotch whenever you are able to predict a line take a drink trust us it s easy br br that s it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped br br hawaiian smirnoff punch jr even though i m quite young the beatles are my absolutely favourite band i never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since i can remember br br it s the sort of film that is worth trying the once i can see why it wasn t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the tv i was flicking through my tv guide and happened to see this film it didn t much details except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have broken up jared harris stars i d never heard of him he played john or aiden quinn who played paul however they are certainly underestimated actors br br the film had a slow start but as it developed i could see how well quinn but especially harris played their characters as a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney are like the script was brilliant and harris got lennon s accent personality and mannerisms spot on quinn played mccartney quite well but sometimes went into his irish accent the make up artists made them look excellent br br this paragraph may be counted as a spoiler br br as i mentioned before it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film i found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians as for lennon s rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it br br it is quite different from the other biographical films i ve seen where it s about how the beatles got together and became famous and those never really did the characters that well e g backbeat br br in conclusion i would say if you re a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minutes long it s worth waiting for the film to develop br br if anyone does know whether the meeting of really did happen please send it to the comments page for this film i d be very interested an american werewolf in london had some funny parts but this one isn t so good the computer werewolves are just awful the perspective is all off it s like seeing them through a distorting mirror the writers step on the throat of many of their gags american boy says to parisian girl is there a cafe around here instead of just leaving it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this is paris originally i was a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off the p o d and was rather disappointed after watching the movie my view was changed the movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that kg and jaybles portray in the movie br br much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies i have seen in the theaters lately ex saw iii dull and dragging casino royale way to homo erotic which in prior installments i have really enjoyed br br if you enjoyed borat you will enjoy the tale of the greatest band on earth this is just one more of those hideous films that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty films as the burning bed enough or monster this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she s not such a bad person after all give us a break here s my question to the filmmakers if letourneau were a man and vili were a year old girl would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person answer hell no br br imagine switching the genders in this film and then you ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage were the genders switched there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead we d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl his lascivious behavior landing him in prison and his brainwashed victim suffering from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex br br let s call a spade a spade letourneau is a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts she s a criminal who belongs in prison and deserves our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy the premise of this movie was decent enough but with sub par acting it was just bland and dull br br spoilers the film does not work because of the nature of the death it was accidental so although it was a murder it wasn t like the guy set out to do it also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree there is no emotion in this film the first minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister and hearing her message it was dull and boring br br with some polishing and better acting it could have been pretty good the lives of the saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of london as a bustling city of busy quaint streets and sunshine i was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere br br othello works for big fat mr karva his crime boss step dad at least i think that is what he is supposed to be because it s never really defined but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers so trust me he s a prick doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand jobs one of his colleagues is runner a black dude who is always dashing from a to b until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running runner dumps the lost boy in othello s flat where he promptly starts granting more wishes keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled karva has the boy kidnapped but he isn t sure of what would really bring him happiness is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand job either way i don t want to see the little boy grant him the second br br it just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes the ending tries to be shocking but since there s hardly any back story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience br br writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell ironically if he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film as it is we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy who s origins are never revealed that s just plain irritating br br aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score this film has little to recommend i can t emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids br br for that matter you d best spare the adults from it as well br br all right perhaps i m overexaggerating a little this isn t the worst kids movie no let me rephrase that this isn t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults for dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids that would be jack which i ve been meaning to review gut like a fish br br adults won t learn anything surprising well if you must fast forward to just before the end credits for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we don t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way well duh i could have told you that so can four years of college at an art school but i degress br br i have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when russ was traumatized at eight years old there s a better movie kiki s delivery service that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head and the adults will like it too br br by the way there is a moment in the movie made with amature mst k ers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it is nothing else on tv are you really bored well then watch phat beach however don t rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake br br i watched this on tv and found myself laughing at certain points i did not laugh long and i did not laugh hard however there were subtle jokes and comments i laughed at if you are looking for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you are looking for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie tries at kind of watch something like hoop dreams or jason s lyric if you are lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie is nearly non existent however if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amused br br out of the elegant documentary br br don t watch this movie if you re an egotistical know all student of physics this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know br br do watch this movie if you re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including relativity quantum string and m theory br br what a brilliantly architected documentary starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimensions beyond i have always had a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you re about to fail the grade br br the show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini series split over three shows it therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented i found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence br br we are all and everything around us is vibrational energy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us even with the hubble telescope and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high school m theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of possibility br br it just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it s very nature move by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy br br you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to god br br bravo brian greene well done indeed br br p s if you re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibilities quantum mechanics blended with spirituality of all things can bring then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn t seen one before my eyes process light reflections just fine i see things everyday that i ve never seen before and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don t divide but if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don t like and hang on to those that you do there is a lot to like about this film br br then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deeper you might even find the universe is talking to us with thought if you ll listen and some are and that is truly incredible there is a modern day jesus mohammad buddha those among others that history suggests have communicated with the non physical alive today and she lives in texas i know some of you know what i m talking about br br i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the universe as i do now in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit show with producing a feature length movie originally slated for direct to video but bumped up to theatrical status it would become known as batman mask of the phantasm ten years after phantasm we have had an additional three feature films released from the boys at the wb sub zero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman joins the family br br the plot is basic and in many ways similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante modeling herself after batman has begun targeting operations run by gotham mob boss rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she crosses the line br br the animation is the sleeker futuristic style that was utilized for batman the animated series fifth and sixth seasons aka the new batman adventures it s quite nicely done and just as sleek as return of the joker s animation there is also some use of cgi but it s minor compared to the overabundance of it in sub zero the music was alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the points in the score when the old animated batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans rodent shaped hearts br br kevin conroy as always does a wonderful job as bruce wayne and batman it s also great to have the old batman the animated series alumni back that includes bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon batgirl her cameo hints at the romantic relationship between her and bruce that was mentioned in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr alfred br br villains were also great especially given that rupert thorne the old mob boss from the original series appears for the first time since the fourth season br br overall while not quite reaching the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten years ago motb carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman films and if you have the dvd and are a hardcore fan you will love the five minute short chase me i think this movie was supposed to be shocking but the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it s been made and simply is it s one and a half hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie the five girls br br sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way which is basically fine since it s a horror movie and i usually like horror movies i ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se however all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever it s no spectacle other than that it s simply grotesque it s so lame it even gets boring and really quick too br br the worst thing if the above wasn t bad enough for ya about this movie is that they ve tried to copy the blair whitch project by filming with cheap hand held cameras but again this too serves no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough there s an explanation namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch in this film there s no other explanation than hey ya ll we wanted this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about the girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can t make out what they re saying also no effort has been made to make anything any better sound wise or other wise br br than finally there s the soundtrack which is just as bad as the rest and varies from cheap euro house to the worst grungy hard rock br br my advise don t watch this under any circumstances why can t a movie be rated a zero or even a negative number some movies such as plan nine from outer space are so bad they re fun to watch this is not one the dungeon of horror might be the worst movie i ve ever seen some of anyway i had to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age there may be worse movies i ve seen but thankfully i can t remember them the sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint the special effects looked like a fifth grader s c diorama set in a shoebox the movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the marquis shoots and kills his servant he then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it without the gun having been reloaded this movie was so bad my dvd copy only had name credits i guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated though i guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn t needed this movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as the manipulator the worst movie i have ever seen with an actual one time hollywood leading man mickey rooney the only time i would recommend watching the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone were to pay you i m kind of cheap i d have to have or bucks for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator phil the never out of the can cinematographer this movie took me by surprise the opening credit sequence features nicely done animation after that we re plunged into a semi cheesy production betraying its low budget the characters typical american teens are introduced slowly with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this by the time the shlitz hits the fan we know each one of the characters and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities it s a slow uphill set up kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kicks in it s full blown old school horror steve johnson s make up effects are awesome equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films and the scares are jolting kevin tenney delivers his best movie ever with heart stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set ups the tongue in cheek sometimes cheesy humor marks this film as pure s horror as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like night of the living dead or hills have eyes but for true horror fans this one is worth checking out play it as the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunted hill the set up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking though i d heard that cama de gato was the worst brazilian movie of the decade i watched it giving it a chance after all first time director producer writer alexandre stockler managed to make his debut feature shot in video for just us and though it looks even cheaper i can t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it then as i watched it i realized why but whatever chances you re ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minutes it s an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian upper middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo nazis hooked on bad sex drugs and violence and they re made to look like closeted gays too made with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it lasts ninety two count em minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it s not even funny bad br br we ve all seen the story before bored young guys want to have fun go partying take drugs and everything goes wrong there s gang rape spanking murder the accidental death falling down the staircase of the mother of one of the boys culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film is heavily influenced by larry clark especially kids and bully but clark s films though also moralist and sexploitative are high class masterworks compared to this crap br br i don t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience s throat stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numb minded with so much babbling yelling inept direction shaky camera and terrible acting going on stockler doesn t care a bit about technique the quality of the images framing sound recording soundtrack songs dialog sets editing etc is uniformly appalling but he s a narcissistic control freak he anticipates the criticisms he s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie cutie comments and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far fetched and phony it all is i could relate to that br br despite his megalomaniac ambitions stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure he can t even decide if he wants gritty realism hand held video camera etc or stylization repetition of scenes use of alternate takes etc damn he can t even decide where to put his camera there s use of subjective camera for the three leads the dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exists simply to justify the director s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for all you see is a filmmaker being hateful preachy condemning moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it br br it s very disappointing to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actors in brazil with his sleepy eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall sal mineo s blat can be highly effective under good direction as in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here he s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under equipped actors in recent memory he also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes so goddawful they look rather like web cam porn br br the film opens and ends with real interviews with typical middle class youth stockler wants us to take those interviews as proof of what he s trying to preach in fiction but he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees selecting a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statements which only shows assholes exist everywhere stockler wants to prove that brazilian middle class youths are all present or future fascists because they re middle class and enjoy recreational drugs is he saying all neo fascists are on drugs or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior i couldn t tell br br with its dogmatic self righteousness headache inducing technique and mind bending boredom cama de gato is bad for a reasons but above all it s harmful in a very insidious manner it gives detractors of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato is best unwatched unmentioned buried and forgotten an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it was funny and sad and very beautiful well it starts out a bit dark a dog who escaped the pound and gets killed by an old friend ends up in heaven and comes back but it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else was okay and the songs were fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaws the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didn t deserve to die but she is in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this is a very good animated movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommended for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this you ll find after the movie dom deluise has a very important and special message got ta love that guy ahehehe this movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general it was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message but the message was a clich hopeless mess to begin with this movie falls on shameless environmental point even making a self righteous point of destroying an suv and promoting animal planet br br in sitting through this i couldn t help but notice that steve carell got no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to wanda sykes her character gets frequent cringe worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit br br far from the brilliance of bruce almighty evan almighty blows its whole record breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spends the first half building up to the construction of evan s ark but by the end we learn that the ark was completely meaningless and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages the movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god was trying to influence politics it is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance i had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing if you loved bulgakov s book you would be understandably afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art film project than for actually bringing the story s deeper meaning to the screen there are a couple examples of this with the master and margarita as complex and far fetched as the story is the movie leaves out nothing it is as if the filmmaker read bulgakov s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score with not a note missed why can t we find such talent here in the u s so now my favorite book and movie have the same title this movie is very violent yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters it has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption black mail and murder this is where the killings start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also co stars richard roundtree br br i really enjoyed this film as a child but as i got older i realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action is very very bad the day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumi s fate as an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga br br that s as poetical as i ll get when talking about azumi death or love because when i cringed over the heavy sentimentality of house of flying daggers and complained about the credibility of aya ueto portraying a blood driven assassin after watching azumi i started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before br br not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics which is their number one priority as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape but i won t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in azumi s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma by the way chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace br br this brings me to the final blow which is the action simply disguised in the title as the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons to no one s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fights in azumi was at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched br br the romance side of azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution br br as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation i won t lie and i ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but i ll step right up and say that after watching azumi the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it s worth azumi death or love could have gone straight to video with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins doing their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die trying this has to be the worst piece of garbage i ve seen in a while br br heath ledger is a heartthrob he looked deformed i wish i d known that he and naomi watts are an item in real life because i spent of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him br br orlando bloom is a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deer in the headlights look about him i can t say i agree br br rachel griffiths was her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush looked as if he couldn t wait to get off the set br br i m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers this is a far cry from butch cassidy which actually was an entertaining film this was trite cliche ridden and boring we only stayed because we were convinced it would get better it didn t br br the last minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel and women and children are dying because of their presence that s not funny but it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of was the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i kept waiting for them to say i ll bite yer leg off we were howling with laughter as were several other warped members of the audience when we left pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was br br i may not have paid cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasn t free it cost me hours of my life that i will never get back a very ordinary made for tv product tyson attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes tyson even remotely interesting a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans i m sure deep in the recesses of jack blacks mind the character of nacho libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn t you can tell ol jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department br br i just sat there through most of the movie thinking is this supposed to be funny and this is the guy from tenacious d right the truth is this film has nothing to offer at all it s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction you ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn t i was bored stupid about minutes in but though it would surely pick up it didn t minutes later i d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful br br it s like remember years ago when you d see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they were famous and you d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop yeah it s like that br br i ve enjoyed some of jack black s earlier movies like shallow hall and i m really looking forward to seeing pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to us again jack i m gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something at the least give you a serious talking to br br i know it s a clich but this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen and for so many reasons i haven t read the anne rice novel that this movie was based on but who knows maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting queen of the damned and is probably better for your health it isn t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie you can count the number of pages by anne rice that i ve read on one hand but after seeing this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she writes really good novels the plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history br br still stuart townsend s voice over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than brad pitt s vampire narrative ever did and you can tell that queen of the damned s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decided to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously one can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places the costumes and rock roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack br br however i ll give credit where credit is due the soundtrack is excellent korn and disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like butthead br br the film opens with a very cool goth rock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minutes or so the directing degenerates quickly it s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn t enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects unfortunately queen of the damned fails to do the genre justice just as its john carpenter counterparts fail to impress where are the yellow contacts where s the pale blue make up scene after scene i shook my head reminiscing about the days of salem s lot and fright night when low budget was done right br br there are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage props to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress had her life not been taken from us so prematurely for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing did i mention that the soundtrack was good let s see what else can i say it wasn t too long the anne rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola got his hands on it there are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot but all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second rate vampire movies out there the director of this movie went on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tells you anything br br jy br br jimboduck dot com while i count myself as a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there the pace of the gathering is slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confusing worse the characterization in the premiere episode is poor although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems i remember the gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series leonard maltin gave this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film was he looking at kid vengeance or god s gun are bombs this film is a delight it is fantastic it is literate it is well mounted it is beautiful photographed making a brilliant use of colors right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well done satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work it is too bad mr maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved one can only guess as to his reason i suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be kudos belong to everyone involved in this project this film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire i don t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united states as the club they are today s equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of americans as well as billions of humans the world over who don t happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen the lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth such as the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lost are they in their fantasy sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy however the club is in a class by itself they are truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lies disinformation and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion the club though is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of cult but due to the club s vast wealth conned daily from the millions of americans locked in their deceitful grip they are above the law in this country for those of you who have seen the movie the matrix you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them br br in less civil times the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with the club out of town with torches and pitchforks but in today s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague br br the television ratings system and the v chip on tv s should also have a rating called r for religion so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape such as presented by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their children if you wish to see shakespeare s masterpiece in its entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but jacoby s performance as hamlet and patrick stewart s as claudius are well worth the effort br br it never ceases to amaze me how clear hamlet is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the bard every film version of hamlet has tinkered with its structure olivier concentrated on hamlet s indecision gibson on his passions jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of hamlet s character together with the aid of shakespeare s full script br br why does hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet says i am very proud revengeful ambitious hamlet is extremely upset not only for his father s death and suspected murder or his mother s marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius has usurped the throne belonging to hamlet he is furious at his mother for marrying claudius marriages between royal kin is not unknown done for political reasons but that her marriage solidified claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he is therefore impotent to do anything about it and this is true even after he hears his father s ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in doing so he must out the king s secret and here is the tragedy at the moment hamlet is successful in displaying claudius guilt in public he has opportunity to kill him and does not why he wants it all he wants revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreaches himself in classic tragic form his own hubris is his undoing he kills polonius thinking it is claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself the golden door is the story of a sicilian family s journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middle aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging seas and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risking everything for the new world their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled the imagery of the new world is optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coins rain from heaven upon salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he ll be in the new world carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people helps provide hope while they re aboard the ship to the new world br br the voyage to the new world is shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i referred to is the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive this is shown as salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left donkeys goats and rabbits in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the new world i thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the new world it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit the most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the new world this shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depicting the separation between the old and new worlds this shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise br br as later contrasted to how the new world visually looks the old world seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy new world i thought it was particularly interesting that the statue of liberty is never shown through the fog at ellis island but is remained hidden i think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stands for give me your poor your tired your hungry seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the new world once they arrived in the americas they had to go through rather humiliating tests i e delousing mathematics puzzles etc in order to prove themselves as fit for the new world these tests completely changed the perspectives of the sicilian people in particular salvatore s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the new world feeling more violated than treated with respect where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world required was disparaging and rude salvatore doesn t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually was seemed disappointing to him this attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted br br the film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence are prerequisites adhering to these rules is to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating perhaps this is a commentary on how america has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct though the rules seemed rigid they were there to protect and help the people flourish nifty little episode played mainly for laughs but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian has snuck aboard a broken down bus on its way to nowhere but which passenger is it talk about your illegal immigrants all star supporting cast from wild eyed jack elam hamming it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if she s the martian then i say let s open the borders to cruel faced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar faces john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis as the bus driver makes for a very entertaining half hour even if the action is confined to a single set i had before a feeling of mislike for all russian films but after seeing this film i haven t this is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the ussr he knows the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it i watched mask in the s and it s currently showing on fox kids in the uk very late at night i remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears i never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was it s just plain awful it is no where near in the same league as the transformers he man or thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made i only watch it on fox kids because ulysses comes on straight after it that s if mask doesn t put me to sleep first one of the lesser s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on fox kids phantasm class phantasm ii awesome phantasm iii erm terrible br br even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply can t the movie seems to have sold out first bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start something the others did not also too many pointless characters prime examples the kid who is a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls erm not gon na work or rather shouldn t and the blooming zombies what the hell are they doing there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there is a severe lack of midgets running about br br the only good bits are the cracking start and of course reggie b br br possible spoiler coming up br br to me this film seems like a filler between ii and iv as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv br br overall very very disappointing ludicrous angelic year old annakin turns into whiny brat year old annakin who somehow seems appealing to amidala years his senior now year old jedi warrior hero annakin has a couple of bad dreams and so takes to slaughtering children his friends and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared br br i think the people who like this movie are not paying attention the story is ridiculous the characters are unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc br br obi wan kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hacks off annakin s legs lets him burn in the lava and leaves him to suffer doesn t anyone think that s a little out of character not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living as it turns out br br i was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations none of that here the story could have been written by a year old br br oh yeah the cgi is pretty cool scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great b movie killer klowns from outer space agrees to help three middle aged guys learn how to dialog the ladies in this bad s comedy not bad as in s lingo which meant good bad as in bad with no likable characters including but not limited to a kid who s the freakiest looking guy since friday the th part a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one has two this movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedies and then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel br br my grade d br br eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point think bachlor party but not as funny and very disturbing br br where i saw it comcast moviepass if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film is actually quite entertaining it s got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere casting match ups of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead roles as evident on this board the picture doesn t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction i know i know that s hard to do when you consider custer s last stand at the little big horn and it s prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess there s an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it br br there s a lot to take in here though for the picture s two hour plus run time custer s arrival at west point is probably the first head scratcher riding up as he does in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy putting him up in the major s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble br br ironically a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy as in custer s first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounters that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadn t noticed it before in other films but mcdaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forties mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been moreland hamming it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene was a hoot too br br as for flynn it s interesting to note that a year earlier he portrayed j e b stuart opposite ronald reagan s depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vying for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynn s portrayal here it s more than evident but it doesn t come close to that of richard mulligan s take on the military hero in s little big man let s just say that one was a bit over the top br br the better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before riding into the little big horn in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one s point of view earlier a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into custer s character when he stated you take glory with you when it s your time to go the film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction the first really bad thing is the guy hijacking steven seagal would have been beaten to pulp by seagal s driving but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie br br it seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of getting a headache br br i does give me some hope that steven seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding jay leno s replacing carson as host of the tonight show film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding conan o brien and jay leno br br the film does a good job of sparking viewers interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders particularly of the nbc executives the portrayal of ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting i thought br br still many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon and some of the acting seemed perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story any film about wwii made during wwii by a british production company has no latter day peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in at dawn we dive as a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspects of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depictions of subs and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of things for those unacquainted with target priorities an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the ealing rank and british gaumont studios back in the day frankly i prefer its quieter more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over produced hollywood movie ever could this reminds me of powell and pressburger s the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles so this is clearly meant to be mr portman s film but the whole cast shines as for the title sequence am i the only one who is utterly charmed by gainsborough production s lovely pre cgi gainsborough girl a brilliant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing is a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it is simply brilliant the start of the film has the alien s spacecraft hurtling towards the earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film s title in amazing shining white and blue stating the thing one of the best opening credits for a horror film ever br br the cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their station in antartica is visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have been great in the cinema i regret not seeing this on the big screen br br kurt russell is excellent as macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base all the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected my favourite scene in the whole film has to be when macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection it is tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because its funny as well br br special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself if he didn t get an oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have this is also debatable as to whether this is john carpenter s greatest film its certainly a gruesome masterpiece br br wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime br br utterly brilliant br br ten out of ten i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen the way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece very original and creative i related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some i m really glad i ran across this movie if only there were more genius like justin out there no one can say i wasn t warned as i have read the reviews both user external but like most of us attracted to horror movies curiosity got this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know that s horror aficionados are always dying to know what s in there even if we know it ll be bad br br the bottom line is that this movie left me angry not because it pretends to be real who cares gimmicks are allowed or because the actors and dialogue are so lame is this an unusual event in horror movies or even because the movie is so bad and i am being polite here what really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of bwp but also a half hearted lazy rip off at that br br i don t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didn t even try the movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie a new way to enjoy goldsworthy s work rivers and tides allows fans to see his work in motion watching goldsworthy build his pieces one develops an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he uses goldsworthy describes how the flow of life the rivers and the tides inspires and affects his work although i was happy the film covered the majority of goldsworthy s pieces no snowballs i do feel it was a bit long the film makers did a wonderful job of bringing goldsworthy s work to life and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch if you liked william hickey in prizzi s honor he resurrects his character as don anthony in mob boss this is a very weak godfather satire with few laughs stuart whitman looks perplexed as to what he s doing in this schlock fest morgan fairchild s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie and that alone is not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooges slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flawed mob boss is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk i have seen most if not all of the laurel hardy classic films i have always enjoyed there comical stupidly even after watching it over and over again this new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both laurel hardy however fails miserably for various reasons one of which is how out of place their cloths are still early th century however are both portrayed in the s setting some of the former dialogue was brought back however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the worst film i have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever the real laurel hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation i just started watching the show around july i found it by mistake i was channel surfing during a vacation it is a great show i just wish it wasn t on so late at night it s on at am as a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time br br i read some comments i did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the s and not believing that this stuff can happen br br i grew up in the s i m hispanic and i had a white boyfriend plus we had black friends in high school i believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color br br i can t wait till the show goes on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning this film is well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs i thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy i have just given a for thieves highway i mention this for two reasons one to prove i m not a git who only gives bad reviews but because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night br br we all know pretty woman is a chick flick but you can t avoid them all they ll eventually get you pretty woman for me does two things two terrible horrible ghastly things firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friends leg warmers lots of giggling borrowing each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this is a street walker prostitute we re talking about here has a great life she s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling is this happy hooker type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but don t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have what a cop out really really lame br br secondly pretty woman insults romance itself edward lewis played by richard gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that is without his plastic friend yep don t leave home without it especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination out of of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another even when he first meets her it s the lotus esprit turbo that does all the work necklaces here diamonds there limos over there money money money where s the charm where s the charisma don t mention that attempt at the piano please br br girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most guys who like this film will not even have realized that old eddy has less charm than a calculator as they probably don t either so it wont have registered more importantly anyone who likes this film will hate thieves highway a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject br br i ll finish on a song br br pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i don t believe you you re not the truth no one could spend as much as you mercy br br pretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldn t help but see pretty woman and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me br br pretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say you ll stay with me and i ll pay you i ll treat you right this movie was terrible the plot was terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where did this movie come from this movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including gary sinise kathy bates joey lauren adams and jennifer tilly i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school is perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that and why do they suddenly allow girls into the school isn t that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spears can not act she always has the same facial expression which really annoys me she is basically emotionless and all the guys seem to like her br br and shouldn t chase tell her he likes her its not that hard really none of this show is real life and she isn t a girl like me because majority of the regular girls do not go to boarding school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach br br fake fake fake normally i don t like series at all they re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast br br these series however are well played the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one the story will still be catching your mind br br the episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital holy sh t this was god awful i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters you know h ll bring your girlfriend and make things interesting you will be the only ones there anyway f ck this slide show br br ye be warned br br i recommend not watching this br br hello br br how are you br br i m pretty good br br enjoying this day br br i am br br this comment was one hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie this is sad this movie is without a doubt a perfect for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous saying that a jackie chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scenes for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other american films from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chan s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while american movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what jackie chan was doing at the time porn is watched for the porn jackie chan is watched for the action i think you people are rating it bad because there s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie was boring very boring but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that this did change the way how american action movies were created they have even stollen scenes from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chan s hes pure in everyway he literally makes american movies look like a walk in the park and even in todays movies american movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more police story and many other jackie chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do a masterpiece i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the shorter version james mcnally s summary of the content of the film is very good nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass media the power of capital and the need for diversity br br the film is shot on hand held dv which some might find offputting but which does enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment br br despite the sprawling feel of the film the editing is very sharp not only giving us a parade of the world s dogs but also undercutting a number of interviewees comments with somewhat contradictory visual images and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoked michael moore s recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the roots of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasants as the stars de montille pere et fils were present at the lff screening and answered questions afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder bravo hubert br br overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people and organise our world i can t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of it is barely watchable and unbelievably boring certainly one of the worst films i have seen in a long long time br br in a no budget way it reminded me of star wars episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck br br this film should be avoided at all costs it s one of those festival films that only please the pseudo intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it different therefore good br br bad film making is not different it s just bad film making this movie really woke me up like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber br br this guy john ben chaplin leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girl to die for nadia nicole kidman ordered by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by johns plan however a glitch turns up nadia does not speak a word of johns language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process br br what happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decently paid safe feeling clerk into a decision making decently thinking action figure giving the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably acted likewise br br kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team acting russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogues however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right nicole kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles at least from the cultural background br br the pace of the film is fast and captivating and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear you rather feel that you re in the middle of the plot and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out br br my advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it has an unusual plot great acting and ideas below the surface like the idea of the rude awakening from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a society s machine the life which members of the fight club were so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john was rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all br br thank you writers for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewers i am sure of it ed wood rides again the fact that this movie was made should give any young br br aspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have thought of using to br br line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watching this br br movie made me realize that boa vs python was not that bad after all it probably would have been better to do this movie in claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film it is understandable why this director has so many aliases there is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to br br make your toward your tv set s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it this sports a nice deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk the first third of this movie was nothing but talk and more talk most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other br br the first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it s really a chick flick and little else this probably plays on the lifetime network br br there was a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they had lost me br br by the way sally field looked about years old in here i think this movie has got it all it has really cool music that i can never get out of my head it has cool looking characters is really funny you know the kind that you ll crack up on the ground and you ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks despite the bad acting bad cgi and bad story about cops going after a robot its really cool its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times br br there are so many funny parts like when kurt was trying to get edison s attention and gave him the finger and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i kept saying remember remember to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened there was also a really funny part when edision ran into the room and kurt was there just before they fought and kurt was talking about his strange dream and how he was superman i loved that part although it has been a while since i saw it so i don t remember that part everything the actors said were funny like how kurt says i worship you like a god to the robot br br although there was some bad things in all it was a great movie man i can t stop laughing i wish i had that movie howard kevin kline teaches english at the high school in a small indiana city he is finally getting married to emily joan cusack much to his parents delight the town is abuzz too because one of its own cameron matt dillon has been nominated for an acting oscar everyone including howard and emily is watching the academy awards on television as cameron is declared the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man in part because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school you guessed it its howard but howard has never come out in fact he believes he is straight with the whole town and members of the media waiting and observing the happenings will howard and emily go ahead and get married or is howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this is a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation as the man who did not realize he was gay kline is excellent and touching the rest of the cast is equally fine with cusack a stitch as the mixed up fianc and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland is beautiful then too the script the direction and the production are very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film s best asset no doubt for those who would be offended by a gay themed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who wants to laugh heartily and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time this is definitely the best film out there when the opening shot is u s marines seriously disrespecting the u s flag a movie has a tough road ahead but unfortunately it was downhill from there there is a military adviser credited who is also apparently a retired u s marine making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol and law went unnoticed even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a marine is reported kia then buried in very short order without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body or if there even was a body the u s government is still finding the missing from wwii and it takes months to identify the remains military shot down remain mia for months or years and are only declared kia when the remains have been positively identified or after years of red tape here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks maybe this happens in denmark but not in the u s clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with or respect for the u s military br br beyond that there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere there must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash having a script that worked might have helped but this one seems to have been made up on the spot working from cliffs notes there s no way to know if the script was this awful originally or if it was the auteur or the middle management kids at the studio who bear responsibility either way this is an awful movie that should have never been made we usually think of the british as the experts at rendering great adventure from the imperial age with the likes of the four feathers and zulu simply because the imperial age was for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of america s own imperial age br br america s projection of power under teddy roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility is smitten by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of native peoples or cultures can rest assured that the way arabs and muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage what makes this story different are the terrific production values faultless photography composition and editing the terrific casting the underappreciated brian keith playing a bully teddy and vivid history br br though the wind and the lion is told largely through the eyes of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the characters whether it be sean connery s noble brigand candace bergen s feisty heroine john huston s wily john hay or steve kanaly s spiffy radiant ruthless can do lieutenant roosevelt s big stick there is a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing moor on his white steed this is high adventure at its best i had been looking forward to seeing dreamgirls for quite a while what with all it s raving reviews nominations and media attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie was good it really portrayed the black music scene back then however as the movie wore on me and my whole family were bored out of our wits the singing just kept coming one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have broke even with rent br br furthermore i noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters i just didn t care what happened to them even when eddie murphy s character died of a drug overdose i knew i should have been sad but i just couldn t feel any emotion for that character the characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in br br finally the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which goes along with the lack of character development this movie reminded me of a copy cat movie based on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesn t really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances one of starewicz s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange the dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters with the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death the mascot features new techniques i have not yet seen in starewicz s films the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop motion animation makes for a new twist on starewicz s old style of puppetry live scenes of moving cars and people s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh the honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and starewicz s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat new puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil s club scene twigss and newspaper shreds come to life skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses a new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene overall starewicz is able to update his style of film making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work nice character development in a pretty cool milieu being a male i m probably not qualified to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isn t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher what makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters each has their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoyed about this movie is that it didn t go for cheap comedy when it could have it didn t try to pound a lesson into us the people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light i did have a little trouble with the alfred molina character having such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it needed to happen good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people prussic gas a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish the inspectors at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried sch renberg certainly have their hands full with this case it all seems to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turns is to inherit a great deal of wealth the girls who are targeted share a room with ann but the reason for their murders remains a mystery sy s finest must figure out the staff of the girls dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation it s a clever scheme where a driver greaves g nter meisner meets the convicts who hide in a barrel who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind he gives them orders on who to kill and how uncovering this operation is a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening under suspicion are girls dormitory headmistress her author brother a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some are red herrings until they are disposed of throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered the ending features multiple twists br br out of the krimi films i ve seen the college girl murders is the closest to a giallo with it s colorful killer a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind s secret hideout with an alligator pit which isn t used the fake bible water pistol when opened fires the gas into the face of startled victims the greaves royles royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumbling buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines higgins abilities to get at the truth perhaps poking fun at know it all british inspectors who harm a case more than solve it i felt he was used as comedy relief particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims often misunderstanding what are told to him higgins using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator instead follows the clues facts often avoiding sir john as much as possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls executions i d say this may be one of the best if not the best examples of the krimi genre for it keeps you guessing always one more ace up it s sleeve the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye opening and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off i was very lucky to see this film as part of the melbourne international film festival only a few days ago i must admit that i am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offerings there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth this is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community the audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive i am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and i am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness this movie is really bad most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement there s a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg there are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth and the plot is a bunch of post apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all the whole thing is just laughable i think this is one hell of a movie we can see steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movies there s a message in it without the message it would be one of many action fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special i saw this movie in the theater and was thoroughly impressed by it then again that was when claire danes was a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywood ized bitch she is today anyway this film really struck me as one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship films how far would you really go for your best friend i was moved to tears at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon as i left the theater i called my best friend and sobbed to her how much i loved her this is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you d do something like that for her i ve seen this film literally over times it s absolutely jam packed with entertainment powers boothe gives a stellar performance as a fan of actors such as william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never thought an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those roles until i saw boothe as jim jones as far as i m concerned powers boothe is jim jones this film captures his best performance the three main characters are all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devoted to mercedes this was part of the frustration screaming at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no good harry to no avail br br then there s the satisfaction steve buscemi has a great part as a transvestite and harvey keitel s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap tv movie is incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino is doing half a monologue and anthony quinn turns ernesto into a wealthy man br br time and again great moments appear in the story but in the end it s hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesn t have a happy ending or even a complete one but it somehow feels right br br this movie is strange but then so am i no wonder i liked it reese witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one she appears like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese br br i have always liked her as an actor and had no idea she started this young with her career go figure i actually gained some respect for reese to know who she was so early on i say that because whenever i have watched her perform the characters thus far in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character quite nicely in fact br br anyway my first film experience with reese was the little red riding hood parody reese did with kiefer sutherland somehow i assumed that was her first time up at bat not so well done reese this game ranks above all so far i had the honor of playing mine on ps so the graphics were really good the voice acting was above standard the difficulty level is just right wesker has to be the best characters in the re series in my opinion the story amazed me and took many different twist that i wasn t expecting the only rating this game deserves is great this movie is not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movies this totally is a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously sucked never watch this movie as for the actors it appears the acting genes skipped a generation tanisha couldn t have worn less and uday chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director s spoiled son all of that halla re was amazingly stupid the songs are eh and i hope the director did not spend to much money on it bottom line i hated the movie do not let your kids watch it and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must as i said the songs are eh at least it is better then the movie this is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers it s certainly all been done before and since but the violent men is something special br br what makes it special is barbara stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films she s married to the crippled edward g robinson who s the cattle baron here but robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent no matter to barbara whose needs are being met by her brother in law brian keith that doesn t sit well with either dianne foster who is robinson and stanwyck s daughter nor with lita milan who is keith s mexican girl friend br br the infidelity subplot almost takes over the film but glenn ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here he s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often i almost expect those famous words from wild bill elliott to come out of ford s mouth i m a peaceable man would have been very applicable in the vioilent men br br the fifties was the age of the adult western themes were entering into horse operas that hadn t been explored before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component br br there s enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well apparently the mutilation man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listening to a director andy copp s commentary which i didn t have available to me or reading up on the film prior to watching viewers won t have a clue what it is about br br gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real life footage but unless they re also fond of pretentious headache inducing experimental art house cinema they ll find this one a real chore to sit through br br minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis chordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mind numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one s sanity if you ve still got all your marbles you ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watched the whole thing but am well aware that i m completely barking this movie was absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes at times i felt like i was watching an episode of beavis and butthead i couldn t even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt is not impressive at all celina jaitley was not bad the only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it was pretty hilarious the songs sini ne and its remix version were really good you can always count on emran lip locking and lip synching a chartbuster all in all it seems emran doesn t have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaart beat something ain t right theme song written by b j cook from skylark david foster s old band and wife she also wrote the memorable theme from cbc s airwaves oh night heat what a program well written well acted and totally classic crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end i d like to think this is really what detectives do did giambone was a real favourite on a canadian tip i learned every canadian actor s name and style from guest spots done on night heat everyone passed through the night heat set and like law order it was story driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama this movie fails miserably on every level i have an idea let s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if we re lucky they ll all be shot and killed and we won t have to ever have our time wasted by them again did i mention that i have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i can t think of anything i ve ever seen that was this bad i d rather watch ishtar times in a row than sit through minutes of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film i ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless that s my two cents yes i ll say before i start commenting this movie is incredibly underrated br br sharon stone is great in her role of catherine trammell as is morrissey as dr glass he is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star glass is drawn into a seductive game that trammel uses to manipulate his mind br br the acting was good apart from thewlis br br stone really has a talent with this role she s slick naughty and seductive and doesn t look a day older than she did in the first she really impressed me like in casino morrisey was also good he showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it thewlis however was lame he ruined his character and was over the top the whole way he really sucked br br overall this movie not as good the first but stone is a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis based on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth s core provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest a victorian scientist dr abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters br br cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying instead of being a bold adventurer he comes across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overacted enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro plays the pretty princess dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast are godfrey james cy grant and michael crane i have seen this film at least times and i am still excited by it the acting is perfect and the romance between joe and jean keeps me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown is the tops brilliant film this show makes absolutely no sense every week two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder right but even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldn t the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it but every week these two fools go around polluting evidence committing crimes of their own and in some cases causing more murders once they do miraculously solve the murders there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted all the evidence has been sabotaged and you d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two wouldn t you yay we ve solved the murder now like every other week let s go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no back up tell them that we know about it there is no way we could get ourselves into any danger is there rosemary and thyme is one of the worst shows on television and certainly the most ridiculous this movie was so bad it was funny for awhile there i thought i was actually watching a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt the script was dreadful enough but coupled with sean young s terrible acting especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail complete with flashbacks while dangling off a cliff makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching in fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an ed wood movie i still can t believe how this thing got made first of all how did such a bad script get the green light how did star actors get attached were they at low points in their careers questions questions meryl streep is such a genius well at least as an actress i know she s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents but she nails the accent every time her performance as lindy chamberlain was inspiring mrs chamberlain as portrayed here was not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just makes streep s work all the more remarkable i think she is worth all or so of her oscar nominations about the film well there were a couple of interesting things i don t know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story i had largely missed this when i first saw the film some years ago but it came through loud and clear yesterday and it seems the australian press is just as accomplished at misery inducing pursuit and overkill as their american colleagues a pretty good film a bit different grade b airport is basically a slopped together mess for universal studios to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disaster in the sky formula br br bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which is when george kennedy sticks his hand out of concorde s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat seeking missile following the aircraft s flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air many stars in this one including robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye as a nervous passenger br br not really related to the other airport films supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison conditions in the rural south of the s nightmare is full of bad southern stereotypes complete with phoney accents not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most american southerners this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly disguised babe in prison movie especially in its uncut original version nevertheless acting is generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular does a good job of making viewers hate him even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes there s also a change of pace role for the late robert reed who appears as the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligan s island made a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d br br ok i bought this film from woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it br br but we decided it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes br br and i m sorry but this has got to be one of the worst films in history br br it began off alright and we thought ok this might actually be ok but after about minutes we were sadly mistaken br br it began when the mysterious paint baller turned out to be the most obvious character the scouser australian i say that because he had an accent which couldn t be identified who s acting might i just say was abysmal br br then it got to the end and by that time we had all lost the will to live the paint ball finals br br the only thing i did like about this plot is that they didn t actually win but annoyingly enough they won by default br br and i know this has nothing to do with it but the name the team were given was just awful critical damage i mean they could of picked a more awesome name like the destroyers of the anti christ or something or that s what the film should of been called anyway insignificant and low brained haha s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effects are tacky the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs the brain takes place in a typical quiet american town setting where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet it is here that a tv guru named dr blake and his adorable pet brain begin their quest for nation wide mind controlling under the label of independent thinkers a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill how cool is that now it s up to the meadowvale teen rebel to save the world the funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where dr blake and his monstrous brain actually come from there are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that s about it meh who needs a background in a movie like this really there s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil brain looks like an over sized sock puppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson are the same men who made bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great david gale whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in re animator a girl named christine kossak provides the nudity factor and she s obviously a great talent she has exactly movies on her repertoire of which this is her masterpiece in her debut she was credited as runaway model and in men and a baby her character is referred to as one of jack s girls i really wonder how she feels about her career as an actress does anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip presents one edition featured charles bronson robbie coltrane being interviewed about his new movie glc br br it s about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner br br and after glc what next for bronson br br we re using a new angle my family don t get wiped out but i go after creeps just the same br br this accurately describes the evil that men do it s a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained br br bronson is a retired hit man who isn t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it s never really explained why the doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accents br br as you may guess it s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like the doctor s sister being a lesbian so some t a can be included br br in many ways it s like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicles that were being released at the same time but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ice cold in alex and the guns of naverone two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on sunday afternoons believe me this movie won t be shown until well after the watershed well here s another terrific example of awkward s film making the rudimentary premise of what s the matter with helen is quite shocking and disturbing but it s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hush hush sweet charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres the basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but there s a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap dancing the setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique we re literally catapulted back to the s with a sublime depiction of that era s music religion theatrical business and wardrobes following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life imprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winters flee to california and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listens to the ramblings of a radio evangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies the script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced there s never a dull moment in what s the matter with helen although the singing tap dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of shelley winters she s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who s about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combined there are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like mich al macliamm ir as the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead as the creepy priestess and timothy carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house there are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an oscar are breathtaking resnais wow the genius who brought us hiroshima mon amour takes on the challenge of making a s french musical in vibrant colour the opening voice over with old embellished inter titles was a nice touch then the camera aperture opens like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera backs off or rather up suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party this is all in the first seconds br br then the music starts a rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i can t blame it on the subtitles those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minutes into the film br br i m not sure what resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out i endured br br it didn t get much better i ll tell you why there is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters we don t even see their faces half the time as resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moths around a lamp and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot it s as if you were to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs br br the only thing that kept me watching as long as i did hour was that i was looking at the camera techniques lighting and scenery which were all i admit excellent but is that enough to hold your attention for hours not me maybe tomorrow i ll try watching the end aw who am i kidding i have more important things to do i m sure you do too skip this i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch it s one of those films where you stop to see what it is just for a moment but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can t turn it off no matter how bad it is one of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it s good and so bad it s well just plain bad it s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it s both great middle of the night fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag don t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe is so obviously male because logic does not apply this movie takes the plot behind the sci fi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crashing on a counter earth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibes on that world and tries to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv is probably better off for it br br everyone here is perfectly adequate in a made for tv way cameron mitchell turns in his usual solid performance so does glenn corbett who seems to be a kind of poor man s john saxon who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth br br but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this sci fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad br br i ll give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers br br in stranded in space the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound things start shaking and the camera blurs into a blackout and as a friend pointed out it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats the director wasn t even shaking the camera or the set i ve seen episodes of the twilight zone and the outer limits that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made for tv mediocrity br br and that in essence is what s wrong with stranded in space no budget no time no imagination just making the token gestures and hoping the sci fi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guys it didn t work br br i m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away and never thought of it again except as a listing on their c v and that s what you the viewer will do you ll remember if pressed that you once watched a tv movie called stranded in space but it made no lasting impression on you and you can t recall too much about it black comedy isn t always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they don t often find big audiences people seem to either set their minds for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesn t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train was a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in br br devito plays an odd mamma s boy named owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with the mother is played by anne ramsey who passed away shortly after this was released and she is quite a caricature she is loud ugly rude and overbearing though owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself he wants desperately to have his mother offed he fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes but he clearly doesn t have the guts to actually do it himself that s where billy crystal comes in crystal plays larry donner owen s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college larry is a paranoid would be intellectual novelist who claims his ex wife stole his novel and made millions off it he is currently trying to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night was owen hears larry wish his ex wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrowing the idea from strangers on a train owen decides to travel to hawai i and murder larry s ex wife once it appears he has done so he expects larry to return the favor and kill his mother the resulting action is often quite funny and even poignant it s certainly never dull and often full of surprises br br the acting is exceptional even if ramsey was a bit over the top crystal is as good as he can be and devito has always been undervalued as a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works often painfully so the film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes and the off beat tone is truly refreshing i have often been critical of the late s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film making throw momma from the train takes chances both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot how many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered the film isn t too long and it is chock full of laughs writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone of stars br br the hound back in i had a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation weekends and the holiday itself i stayed in town during that time hanging out at my parents house a lot br br i didn t have a tv in my apartment so i used to watch my parents tube i had just finished watching a segment of the x files when a program came on called personal fx i was hooked instantly i had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents family homes and through inheritances from relatives estates and often wondered about their history value etc br br after my long vacation i used to go to my folks house on my lunch hours just to catch personal fx br br i can remember one episode during which co host claire carter announced that the new york apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that personl fx would return to the air br br it never did personal fx was the first and best of the collectible shows and it vanished from the air almost fifteen years later i m still sore br br way to go fx paul verhoeven s predecessor to his breakout hit basic instinct is a stylish and shocking neo noir thriller verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films both in his native holland and in america and this film is one of the reasons why the fourth man follows the strange story of gerard reve played by jeroen krabb a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes while there he meets the seductive christine halsslag ren e soutendijk who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kills him br br paul verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it many of the occurrences in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on paul verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself and that is one of things i like best about him this film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards and that doesn t happen very often i wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work but you ll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one i ve mentioned but are lovely nonetheless a man gets eaten by lions another one has a pipe sent through his skull a boat is smashed in half lovely br br the acting in the fourth man isn t anything to write home about but it s solid throughout jeroen krabb holds the audience s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer it is ren e soutendijk that impresses the most though as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance is what sharon stone would imitate nine years later with basic instinct but the original fatale did it best paul verhoeven s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish but he obviously has talent and it s a shame that he doesn t put it to better use of all the verhoeven films i ve seen this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it s worth the effort i accept that most s horror aren t scary by today s standards but what the hell is this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on earth yeah which is what the people wanted br br the overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast but the title really kills the movie night of the beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn t any blood to speak of br br i like how the s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one this movie isn t the worst i ve ever seen but its almost up there br br out of demon wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs it is definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i don t even consider it a movie i describe it more as a thing a monstrous thing a thing that must be stopped at all costs my friends and i first discovered this thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend s house it was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies we unfortunately picked this one well during the minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up the thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word it s just a cheap poorly done rip off of evil dead the whole story seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces i have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed i ve seen bad horror movies before manos troll hobgoblins shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films br br fun fact this film is like a cockroach on steroids much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seems to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh there is a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality is ready for public consumption a movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time as a viewer i have seen may examples of both br br on september i attended a screening of writer director jon satejowski s donnybrook now having read the script and having seen two different cuts a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it is a movie and a student movie at that it is for lack of a better word competent which is to say the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images the visuals are for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters i understand that this is a modestly budgeted film but some visual flair would have been appreciated and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested br br granted there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written engrossing story and some sharp dialog steven soderbergh s sex lies and videotape comes immediately to mind this movie however has neither the main story is weak and unfocused if the main plot is davie trying to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie misses the point what i got out of it is that davie s main aspiration is to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there is one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get are scenes of davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar we are simply told that davie has played a lot of gigs but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show don t tell the audience anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this also davie doesn t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the s he looks like he d be more comfortable in the early days of rock n roll posing as james dean s less talented brother in the meantime the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather clich characters and story threads that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency i e the subplot involving terry s father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watching napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time br br as for the above mentioned dialog scenes i guess i should mention that they are few and extremely far between is it too much to ask for characters who do speak i don t think it is when the characters do speak it is in short choppy sentences collections of oh so insightful questions angered grunts or wildly over the top outbursts these characters simply do not behave like normal rational people working with material like this it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film al hudson s and that s just because he s doing a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski being so close to the material he simply doesn t see them or if he does he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it ll hurt his creative vision being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner is the mark of a self indulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider br br in the end we are left with a poor high school set knock off of zach braff s amazing garden state combined with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two films far more worthy of your time br br now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do is compliment mr satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur this is a student movie nothing more nothing less if the movie holds any promise and let s face it at this point it isn t going to come from the acting writing or directing it is this if if the people associated with this film are willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lessons learned on your next attempt don t attack your critics or have friend or family do it for you if you are able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of being called a film br br i am your audience and i am willing to watch please re watch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer is completely misleading and the weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out min tv episode into the most painful hrs of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins micky has line and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns also mr briss s accent just changes about times in the film tons of badly acted extras and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god awful piece of crap batman and robin all is forgiven finally an iranian film that is not made by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this is a non documentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the system in its ass it s all about football and its funny its really funny the director says the places are real the event is real and so are the characters and the extras this is why i purposely chose not to use professional actors as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness the non actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a your heart is made of stone b you are blind excellently scripted the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it has won the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it s near perfect where where can i get hold of it sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror if you can just toe tap your way through the slow paced early scenes sometimes a real gem will present itself this unfortunately was not the case with satan s whip br br written and directed by jason maran satan s whip attempts to drag us along on a boring snore fest of a film with no real pay off at the end i m guessing that the black white and blue cinematography must have been for a reason however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue and i found this increasingly annoying as the film went on the story in itself is not that bad and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic this combined with the slow pacing and lack of any real red gore made satan s whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time tainted look at kibbutz life br br this film is less a cultural story about a boy s life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minutes of the movie the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves and it s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical kibbutznikim besides the two main characters a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well evil br br the story centers on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows there is no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome european looking year old boy his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and brutish personality he cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother he treats these volunteers like trash after his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn t seen in a long time due to his military service he orders quote linda go take shower and i cum in two minutes br br there is one other good character in this movie a european foreigner who plays the mother s boyfriend when the animal rapist tries to hit the mother s son the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist s arm he is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz members more hypocrisy the indescribably annoying french woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and gives an account of the actual act that s supposed to be humorous for the audience but is really just stupid she of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse br br the film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently can t escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was is always free to come and go as they choose it s a mystery how the boy s father died but you can rest assured the kibbutz drove him to it and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son br br that s the gist of this movie one dimensional characters over dramatization dry performances and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience s head that kibbutz life was degrading miserable and even deadly for those who didn t fit in i feel sorry for the guy who made this film obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz but i feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr made me think this turkey was another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen br br i will admit the setting presumably new york city has never been so downright ugly and unappealing i am reminded that the s was a bad decade for men s fashion and automobiles and all the smoking if the plan was to cheapen the characters it succeeded br br for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there has to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty came close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot had struck mikey well it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most br br i can t remember when i detested a film as strongly i suppose i m a rube who doesn t dig art flicks oh well lost carnivale desperate housewifes the list goes on and on these and a bunch of other high quality shows proves that we re in the middle of a golden age in television history lost is pure genius incredible layers of personal and psychologically viable stories underscored by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describing a tv show a killer score great performances and editing anyone who isn t hooked on this are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever it may have its problems when watching only one episode a week but the dvd format is actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up as i m sure they do clifton webb is one of my favorites however mister scoutmaster is not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer is presented with numerous ham handed references to religious faith and u s patriotism that come off as over reverent rather than genuine clifton webb does his best with a poor script edmund gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do the child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog like low voice unusual for someone of his age however once you ve heard it you ve heard it and you don t need to hear it again unfortunately he is in the majority of the film s scenes i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he shows up since he has a lot of scenes in this film this means that i fast forward through a lot of the film there were and are so many talented child actors it s a pity this film doesn t have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional broad brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing this is a must see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real life adventure and its sense of morality darius goes west is an amazing roller coaster of a story we live the lives of darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius has duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affects all the muscles in his body he is confined to a wheelchair and needs round the clock attention so how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a mile round trip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises the message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses the mythical city of everytown in represents england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally does arrive it s ravages continue not for another five years but until at which time everytown is completely destroyed adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the wandering sickness a pestilence that continues for another four years br br things to come balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization the wings over the world concept plays out a bit corny though it s spokesman cabal raymond massey is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause if he fails others will follow this message is continually reinforced throughout the film brought home convincingly in massey s end of movie speech man s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an all the universe or nothing mindset br br the film s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis as everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year the spectacle of the city s rebirth strikes a resonant chord as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man s first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than br br things to come is one of those rarities in film a picture that makes you think which side will you come down on the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it s not a comfortable question as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control fulci does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made answer yes cat in the brain also known as nightmare concert is fulci s last masterpiece yes it is no matter what some people will say about it there are few facts why this movie is one of the best fulci s movies br br fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one lead roll in this movie is no other then fulci himself who plays well horror splatter gore director who thinks he is slowly going insane it s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here being fulci flick you need to know it s gory how much well pretty much i always loved gore in the movies and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stopped my thirst for gore and believe me it s a hard to archive even the braindead didn t stop it citb is all about gore almost every scene revolves about fulci who after being hypnotized by khmmm evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor which starts to spit some ooze from it s wounds forget the beyond or zombie this is the goriest fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie he is such a brilliant director some funny moments and lines happens from time to time like one where fulci says making gore movies is kind of a sickness ending is very good considering that fulci and most of the italian horror masters is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes if you are fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat its only a movie ps some of the gore scenes within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue torn out eyeballs torn out maggot infested corpses zombies decapitations face being putted in boiling water stabs in the shower to head throat slit many parts of the body and organs being toast aside hammer smashed face what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar he s been shot about fifty times by now and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear and you ll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey tries out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity william smith does another turn as a russian soldier the same character he played in red dawn a few years earlier after playing biker heavies for most of the s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing communist heavies sadly he ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors i like raptors because they are scary my favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eats the banana br br i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it s okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and i think it s got a good ending even though i didn t really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings i figured it out over time and that s the important part the other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you re watching it the first time br br this is best movie warning review contains mild spoilers br br a couple of years back i managed to see the first five films in this franchise and was planning to do an overview of the whole elm st series however just two years on and i find i can t remember enough about them in order to do it i guess they couldn t have made much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequels dream warriors in particular weren t as bad as is often made out though even the original was no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams doesn t lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five films i do know they never plumbed the depths of freddy s dead br br an indication of how sick of freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character s demise the fact that the movie s conclusion is not even hidden but in fact the entire purpose for the film s being goes to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was br br taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain robert englund s in no way scary interpretation booms with laughter i always thought freddy s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it s like englund s crying out we know this is garbage but you re paying to see it so who s the one laughing and i m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight was freddy s appearance in the films always so rudimentary all he gets to do here is a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr har har hars and that s it if this was the only elm st film you d ever seen you wouldn t get to know the character at all even as the character pre death in a flashback englund plays him as a boo hiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstated misplaced and not at all funny irony br br acting is almost universally poor just look at how many times breckin meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keeps his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire the script too is absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan opens a road map upon which the noel coward like freddy has wittily written you re f ked when prompted for the map carlos responds well the map says we re f ked who wrote the screenplay oscar wilde br br or how about the scene where carlos is tortured by freddy his hearing enhanced to painful levels so freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin a potentially fatal sound given that all sounds are magnified oddly the fact that carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect nice hearing from you carlos quips freddy hoping some better lines will come along it s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn t occur instaneously so being knocked unconscious wouldn t allow instant access into freddy s world though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isn t that high on the list of requirements br br the teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane is the only one who gets to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallops and was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients freddy s dead no laughs no scares no interest no fun br br some comments here on imdb have likened dog bite dog to the classic cat iii films of the s but although it is undoubtedly brutal violent and very downbeat this film from pou soi cheang isn t really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch particularly if gritty hard edged action is your thing br br edison chen plays pang a cambodian hit man who travels to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee is wai the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape until he meets yue a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse br br a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amazing sound design a haunting score and solid performances from chen and lee as well as newcomer pei pei as pang s love interest dog bite dog is one for fans of hard hitting asian hyper violence think along the lines of chan wook park s vengeance trilogy stabbings shootings merciless beatings all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director cheang br br of course this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film dies rather nasty deaths unfortunately there is a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in its final moments dog bite dog crosses it in a laughably over dramatic final scene pang and wai are locked in battle as a pregnant yue looks on eventually after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas a wounded pang performs a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue delivering their baby moments before he himself dies br br whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with its deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it s still worth seeking out i watched this movie for the hot guy and even he sucked he was the worst one well okay i have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he was even worse the guy wasn t that cute in the end he had the most terrible accent and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can t stand up to his mom for the one he loves there s ever been overall and if this makes any sense to you when i go to pick up movies at the video store i think to myself as i read the back of a movie that looks so so well at least it can t be worse than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible writing acting plot everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips it was the most horrid movie i will ever see with gabriela way up there too i hated it and trust me if there was any number under imdb had for rating i d choose that in a heartbeat absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story told with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you i have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say even though this movie did not get the best comments this movie made my day it got me thinking what a false world this is br br what do you do when your most loved ones deceive you it s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance same way some people are such that they are never grateful this movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself br br a brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster the surviving brother decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone br br amitabh gave the performance of his life the new actor aryan gave a good performance the actress who played the wife of amitabh stole the show her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself br br a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movies always give some message to the audience his movies are like novels of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they are entertaining as well as lesson giving after a very scary crude opening which gives you that creepy chainsaw massacre feeling everything falls apart br br spoiler alert as soon as the two fbi officers start jabbing you know they are the real killers anyone who have seen enough of these fooled ya movies can figure this out br br this movie is mader with one thing in mind to depict brutal murders why then is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well will this be next for us movie goers the torture and abuse of children whats wrong with you people lynch is truly has a disgusting ugly mind i can t say much about this film i think it speaks for itself as do the current ratings on here i rented this about two years ago and i totally regretted it i even tried to like it by watching it twice but i just couldn t i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and i m not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this was awful it wasn t even funny in the slightest the only bits i enjoyed were the few scenes with christopher walken in them i think this film ruined both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their films now a days is this terrible movie and it reminds me not to waste my money amy poehler is so very annoying too br br overall well i think you get my point the stars are for walken by the way i am not so old that i can t remember laughing at bobcat goldthwait a couple times but some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells br br from the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades br br if you ever saw shakes the clown you know how unfunny bobcat was years ago this movie is worse it was not even funny by accident it is sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into hollywood in new orleans an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he is chased by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan killed by blackie and his body is dumped in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr clinton reed richard widmark of the u s public health service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty eight hours to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assigns the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them br br panic in the streets discloses a simple story but it is still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot has not become dated after fifty seven years jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he tries to escape with zero mostel is still very impressive my vote is seven br br title brazil p nico nas ruas panic in the streets the box is why i originally picked up this movie and the back is why i rented it but i soon learned that i had been duped i had thought this movie would be something like a road trip eurotrip american pie deal but i was wrong this movie is one of the dumbest i ve seen in a long time the unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you the acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy it appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i can t believe national lampoon put its name on this don t buy it don t rent it don t waste hours of your life on this there have been many documentaries that i have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lost come to mind first and foremost but this is the first film that had me seething with anger after i saw it it seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very worst an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco was occurring i assumed that david koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult after seeing this i think that koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the u s government through his eccentric actions sure there were lots of weapons at the branch davidian compound but none of it was illegal it was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless and it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense led by a few of the committee democrats standing out most in my mind was ny representative and current u s senator from ny charles schumer i voted for the man when i lived in ny state i m a democrat pretty left leaning too after seeing his actions on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for d amato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this is a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be shown in classes it s that important i saw this movie last night and thought it was decent it has it s moments i guess you would say some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool and some of the location shots were very authentic i won t be putting this movie in my dvd collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting i guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre the action is good the acting is decent the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story is pretty interesting out of ten yes i call this a perfect movie not one boring second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives i could sympathize with perfect lighting crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works it s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach br br barbara stanwyck is simply stunning there was nothing this actress couldn t do and she always went easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outbursts with this lady i always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirmed my opinion always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments it is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career and this one is by far the least interesting br br the title fits this movie very well it is about desires human desires i think everyone can understand actually no one seems to be scheming in this movie all characters act on impulse everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which i will not go here br br i liked what this movie has to say about youth about maturing and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one is alfred hitchcock s shadow of a doubt it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured small town america the story has a certain similarity with fritz lang s considerably harsher movie clash by night made one year earlier where stanywck stars in a similar part i can also recommend it i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie that s the way of the world it s been about years since i ve seen this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes it was unfortunate that this group didn t take off like their counterparts in the early s but as previously stated racial tension existed in the united states which prohibited equalized exposure for the african american musical groups it is good to see that earth wind fire continuing their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decided to comment it the truth is that nature needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably is like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie is not just about kids this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do when i was twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they are protected by law and didn t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law but fearing that i might harm them actually i am currently what so ever the acting was great the main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy i had some reservations about this movie i figured it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas being in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decided to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow br br this movie turned out to be one laugh after another ben affleck was believable in his character but the real star of this one is james gandofini he delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great dad br br if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours definitely check this one out when i first saw this film around months ago i considered it interesting but little more but it stuck with me that interest grew and grew and i wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchased the criterion dvd box set and it turns out that i was right the second time alexander nevsky is a great film it is rousing and i m sure it succeeded in its main aim propaganda against the germans br br that is the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it is merely propagandist and nothing else it s untrue he is an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever lived by now the world is far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein s films as art focus is another great movie starring william h macy i first discovered macy in fargo and i ve seen a few of his films and he hasn t yet deceived me macy is the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he plays the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hard working stiff who harbours his handicapped mother at home the scene is set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman is the head of human resources for a company which is basically anti semite after he accidentally hires a woman of jewish descent he is asked to buy a pair of glasses to improve his failing eyesight br br unbelievably the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife played by a great laura dern as the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where being jewish is akin to being an animal br br the movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal the chilling thought is that in some places it probably still is in brave new girl holly comes from a small town in texas sings the yellow rose of texas at a local competition and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in philadelphia from there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i loved this movie it was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace the acting was of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun were outstanding as well as nick roth the camera work was really done well and i was very pleased with the end it seems a sequel could be in the making kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production quite a gem in the film archives despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clich d sub par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending clue for all considering seeing this turkey sam raimi didn t direct it although commercials for the movie play up his involvement in truth he is one of four producers it s too bad that someone as talented as raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie i don t think he would ever have directed something like this that task was left to the pang brothers br br the screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other horror films so you ll find absolutely zero original content in the messengers what we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the birds one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies the whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise ending long before it comes br br right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts has nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghosts the teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them even quite early in the movie i m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise is entirely absent now you know so don t be fooled perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors it simply isn t there all of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened anyhow didn t anyone think to maybe arrest him it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots loud noises visual flashes and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling boo all we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house if there s any message that the messengers delivers it s don t waste your time on this movie this movie sucks ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there s nothing going for this movie whatsoever maybe seconds of sex but that s it there is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off this movie is complete rash and you shouldn t subject yourself to watching it i regret it it s very boring i would rate it zero but i can t no body in their right mind should see this i m sure you ll regret it completely i did how could they think up something this bad even mystery men was better mystery men that sucks that movie wasn t worth being made complete waste of time the characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored i was looking forward to the guardian but when i walked into the theater i wasn t really in the mood for it at that particular time it s kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it br br i m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit the trailers looked good but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher showed in the butterfly effect i m still not completely sold on him something about the guy just annoys me probably has to do with his simian features br br it took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away the movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i was gripped tighter than kenny rogers orange face lift my concerns briefly bristled at kutcher s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglasses a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk that d make george clooney proud yeah we get it i was totally ready to hate him br br but then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs br br darn you ape man efficiently mixing tense exciting rescue scenes drama humor and solid acting the guardian is easily a film that i dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy you can quibble about its clich s predictability and rare moments of overcooked sappiness but none of that takes away from the entertainment value br br i had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner started training the young guys but on the contrary the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under appreciated group br br do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous missions in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded panicked people who are depending on you for their survival and if all that isn t bad enough sometimes you can t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies br br man who wants all that responsibility not me i had no idea what it was really like for these guys and who would have thought i d have an ashton kutcher kevin costner movie to thank for the education br br not only does the guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers br br the gist br br moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but had i paid i would ve felt i had gotten my money s worth going into see seven pounds i wasn t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about so within the first min or so you are completely lost in the plot have no idea what is going on and you think tim who claims to be ben is just a big asshole all of this comes to an end when the twist so to speak is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives by this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to br br the acting of this film is great as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress rosario dawson to me this is one of her better movies aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to she has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film other actors such as woody harrelson have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film was still good br br this movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped the movie however was still pretty good nothing is revealed until the last min of the movie and everything falls into place up until then it just seems like a pointless love story final thought seven pounds seven stars i saw brother s shadow at the tribeca film festival and loved it judd hirsch and scott cohen are great as father and son the film follows scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he shows up there because his brother has died and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family the story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait marar xada really disappointed me i can t consider it as a bad movie but the development just seemed too rushed and non believable for it to evoke any emotions dr ferm xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can t really understand where it was born from i mean how many times does he ever have a conversation with marar xada maybe once also marar xada never appeared to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie or else another title was needed some of the best acting came from a role that wasn t really important to the story that of marcial the sub intelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbits of the canary islands and other wow moments were interesting but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this was its real intention and most importantly as a solid drama serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains the mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems there is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters the mad doctor s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy the results are not good this is a class c film with ok acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors there isn t much zombie action in this one and the effects while adequate are nothing special you can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes watch out for some nudity and bad language witty funny intelligent awesome i was flipping channels late one night years ago came across this and a wildfire started i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i made watch this didn t think it was as awesome as i did the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time please do yourself a favor run don t walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it s a win win situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of sanechaos it s a unique film as it gives us our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seems so reserved detached he s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter of factly uses all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intended last act when coward must make like the flying dutchman he s much less comfortable br br but his way with an epigram is peerless and hecht macarthur have given him some gems macarthur really he was the wit of the pair br br the film is superbly lighted by the great lee garmes but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr cared about one thing getting their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blink and you ll miss em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene br br the most notable supporting player is the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher coward br br curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary algonquin round table of which he was a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member br br the scoundrel actually won an oscar for best story though that victory is probably due more to coward s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot it s coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember this is definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also acting as ceasar has managed to capture the very essence of the adventures of ast rix the french comic books it s based upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which is also an homage to the world of animated films this movie is so funny so full of jokes both visual and spoken that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all between your bursts of laughter the only drawback is that a non french audience or at least a non french speaking audience might not get all the private jokes there are so many dialogues impossible to translate so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessened however it s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture the amazing stunts the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting all actors are great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze g rard darmon and edouard baer and please don t ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books ast rix et ob lix contre c sar and directed by claude zidi i thought this movie was stunning with completely outstanding performances by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi br br cervi portrays artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerisms her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place the passion to which artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch br br although not each character was overtly beautiful this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time br br overall i thought this film was fantastic i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever made that is the robert wise paul newman flick somebody up there likes me that movie might be number but gentleman jim is a close number br br the movie doesn t just chronicle the rise of james j corbett it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare knuckle rules to the more gentlemanly days of the gloved marquis of queensbury rules and the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability br br gentleman jim is not a realistic look at those days it is romanticized and yes even a bit hokey at times but always delightfully so errol flynn is perfect as the gentleman jim who really isn t a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family alexis smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love hate relationship and we all know it is of course love that will win that match in the end br br at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line was not i can lick any man in the world of course romanticism again hands over his belt to corbett this is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch raging bull instead that is a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim is a lot more fun that this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that god is truly dead am i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this is the only movie i ve ever seen in the theater that i regret not walking out on and demanding my money back it was just that dull and i even saw highlander the quickening at the local cinema from beginning to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together as best buddies the action what little there is is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our cinema that there s no chance for an air america well there s no real plot to speak of it s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it s not in this case what else can i say about this the action when happening is inventive and there s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper one that has to be several miles high but overall there s not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but you re not missing much if you skip this one this is the best film the derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven t seen any of the others there are the usual ingredients it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts we can watch bo disrobing or auditioning for wet t shirt contests quite frequently the story is just laughably idiotic and the film takes itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa br br but it has a few things going for it bo looks great the production values sets costumes etc are quite good and this greatly enhances its camp value in a strange way it is actually quite funny simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly some people drift through life moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant committed to whatever it is and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but we re all different made of different clay as one of the characters in this film puts it which is what makes life so interesting some people are just plain crazy though and maybe that s the way you have to be to live among the masses who knows who knows what it takes to make things life work writer director lisa krueger takes a shot at it using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed and how one gets committed and obsession in committed starring heather graham as a young woman who is adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name is joline and this is her story br br admittedly joline has always been a committed person in work relationships in life in general she s a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what and when she marries carl luke wilson it s forever the only problem is someone forgot to tell carl and days into the marriage he s gone off to find himself and figure it all out when joline realizes he s not coming back she refuses to give up on him or their marriage maybe it s because of that clay she s made of regardless she leaves their home in new york city and sets off to find him which she does in el paso texas of all places but once she knows where he is she keeps her distance giving him his space and not even letting him know she s there she considers carl as being in a spiritual coma and it s her job to keep a spiritual vigil over him until he comes to his senses and while she watches and waits her life is anything but dull as she encounters a young woman named carmen patricia velazquez a waitress at one of the local eateries carmen s grampy alfonso arau who is something of a mystic t bo mark ruffalo a truck driver who has issues concerning carl and neil goran visnjic an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her for joline it s a journey of discovery during which she learns a lot about carl but even more about herself br br there s a touch of humor a touch of romance and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot and krueger presents it all extremely well delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining her characters are very real people with all the wants needs and imperfections that make up the human condition a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story we see it from joline s point of view as krueger makes us privy to joline s thoughts and therefore her motivations which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold that along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates makes for a very effective piece of storytelling there s an underlying seriousness to this subject matter but krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that joline encounters and the result is a well textured affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life br br heather graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make joline a character totally of her own creation she immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person and one that is real and for this film to work it was imperative that joline be viable and believable and graham succeeds on all fronts her screen presence has never been more alluring and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes is enough to draw you in entirely it s all a part of the character she creates there s an appeal to joline that exudes from her entire countenance who she is inside and out she s a likable agreeable person and because you ve shared her innermost thoughts you know who she is it s a good job all the way around beginning with the way the character was written to the way graham brings her so vibrantly to life br br as carmen patricia velazquez is totally engaging as well her performance is very natural and straightforward and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character she has a charismatic presence but is less than flamboyant and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down to earth she is refreshingly open and up front you get the impression that carmen is not one to hold anything back but is totally honest on all fronts and that too is part of her appeal and as with joline this character is well written and velazquez brings her convincingly to life br br overall there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film including those of luke wilson casey affleck as joline s brother jay goran visnjic alfonso arau and especially mark ruffalo as t bo who with very little actual screen time manages to create a memorable character br br the supporting cast includes kim dickens jenny clea du vall mimi summer phoenix meg art alexakis new york car thief dylan baker carl s editor and mary kay place psychiatrist a film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider the big picture reflecting upon who we are where we re going and what we really need committed is an enjoyable experience a ride definitely worth taking ho hum an inventor s horst buchholz deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands unknowingly his son luke perry has been working on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia d abo and the cat and mouse car chases and gunfire begins also in the cast are tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts perry fans will be accepting d abo is wrong for the role but nice to look at note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie makes navy seals look like a reckless group of rangers when in fact they are the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen helps destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies i have ever seen this is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there are possibilities for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comments this movie is stupid there s no getting around it but so is dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber is significantly more funny than this however i for one love seeing stupid movies tail sting and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is call me callous but see this movie and you ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it i was looking forward to this so much being a big fan of the book however when it came out i remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time i ve ever spent at the cinema br br in principle the acting the sets and the music were excellent and are the main reason why i m rating this a br br in this version sara is a little too self sacrificing for my taste there is no way she would have deliberately lied to miss minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls in the book she makes a point of describing lies as not just wicked but vulgar br br there s also far too much of a disneyfied ending for me sara s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the indian sunset while the book does have a happy and critics might say equally improbable ending it doesn t leave you thinking oh puh leeze br br about the only things true to the book were br br sara s father being a soldier the lines between sara and her father are you learning me by heart no i know you by heart you are inside my heart sara s friendship with becky and her adopting lottie although this last one wasn t developed as much as it could have been the changing of her room by adding various luxury items that part was brilliantly done the basic core a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly is there but that s about all that is br br people might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience possibly all i can say to that is i have two cousins aged and respectively who were big fans of this film until they read the book br br if all you want is a feel good family film then this delivers if you re looking for a film that actually tells the story of a little princess in fact if you ve read the book don t waste time with this one it s such a shame with a cast like this if they d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic br br am i harping on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempts to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have done the same thing preferably more than once as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early s and made everyone look bad and claimed we all made over a day when a day was much closer to reality when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work and offered me work i actually went and took the work if i was physically able and if i would been offered the id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least years and kept most in the bank and still left myself for nl and cash games at the casinos i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll instead i win about a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all i was only homeless cause i didn t wan na risk spending all my money and going broke sometimes i had over in my sock while i slept outside anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger i admit i was different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs im no longer homeless am now in govt housing for a month and getting ssi and spend most of my time winning at online poker mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me ssi glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping worrying about getting caught by security are finally over had this tv crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner its a shame how they don t better select who they pick i really in enjoyed watching this movie like most of the people that watched it i wasn t sure that i was getting whoopi goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies i e sister act br br however this was not really comedy it is a drama with comedic moments so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking br br this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks but also about relations with in the black community i do think that it is worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn t for you having been a marine i can tell you that the d i is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting marine corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men jack webb is excellent as sgt jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film centers on one recruit who doesn t seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be br br the plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what s going on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be br br a word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie this is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b bs and lots of blood br br if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports dolby digital or dts ch without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation and don t forget to switch the light off br br my points on different aspects br br direction acting atmosphere sound effect br br total ken burns baseball is a decent documentary it presents a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball s early years and heroes there s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan that said the film has several glaring flaws br br hours is simply too long for the human attention span it s clear that burns stretched his film out to fit his nine inning concept it s not even a tight hours the pace on every segment is slow almost morose the music always nostalgic and wistful isn t baseball ever exciting and fun why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak yakking about baseball as a metaphor baseball as americana the psychology and theology of baseball enough this is syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal is here to sell us all the yankee hokum he s sold us before ken burns uses the national anthem as the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many times you might vomit we get it dude br br clearly burns is a neo hollywood faux liberal so he spends probably a third of the film on the negro leagues these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open minded as kenny is today for shame he chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that america was segregated in those times burns falls head over heels in love with buck o neil a former negro league player and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly o neil waxes poetic about his playing days nonsense br br burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball winds up as mushy gushy civil rights propaganda disguised as americana its clear that burns is not a baseball fan otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering not weeping and reciting soliloquies are you listening mr burns there s no crying in baseball quitting may be as much about exiting a pre ordained identity as about drug withdrawal as a rural guy coming to beijing class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents acting success troubles arise however when the new man is too new when it demands too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensuing splits and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim br br but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actors bring to this journey no clich s no stereotypes no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scenes no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character acts and whims br br hongshen jia is in his mid twenties he s a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starved the perfect recipe for his enablers soon he s the cool actor idolized by youth he was hot in the early nineties he always had to be the most fashionable he needs extremes and goes in for heavy metal adopts earrings and a scarf his acting means the arts friends and roles but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his self criticism dulled by the immediacy of success opens the doors to an irrational self doubt self hatred i didn t know how to act i felt like a phony and to readily available drugs to counter them he says i had to get high to do what director wanted so his shallow identity as an actor becomes via drugs an escape from identity br br hongshen s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual intermittent and doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract is out and a great deal of his change occurs outdoors not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways bridges and high rises of beijing the physicality is almost romantic but is not the bike rides to ritan park the long spontaneous walks the drenching sun and rain grassy picnics the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific he drifts in order to arrive all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity i started to open up he says of this period in retrospect and the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer s positioning clumsy graceful humorous telling in a current circumstance if mind or spirit is lacking his legs can compel him to walk all night br br central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles to punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity he smashes his videos and tv and bangs his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he has let down his iconic anti establishment artist but he s the only viable guide he knows he even imagines himself as john s son yoko ono and adopts his mother mary as an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrenching shaking pain in the park hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals music is so much more real than acting he says and speaks of lennon s influence as showing me a new way in the mental institute the life saving apples resistance nourishment reflect lennon s presence as does hongshen s need to re hang his hero s poster in his redecorated room br br if lennon s influence is spiriting hongshen s father s influence is grounding although father and son are both actors and users drugs and drink it is fegsen s differences from his son that underwrites his change for the father is more secure in himself he accepts that he s chinese a peasant in a line of peasants a rural theater director and he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions it s this recognizable identity that drives hongshen to treat him like a sounding board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jeans beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar and a fake he exposes more of himself than his father all the acts i acted before were bullshit life is bullshit and to hongshen s emphatic you are not my father he softly replies why can t a peasant be your father br br under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmates at the rehab inst he makes some tangible connection to a real not whole self as the long term drug effects recede so does his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banishes his black cloud all his edges soften you are just a human being he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap down incurred for refusing medicine back home lard peasant soap is fine with him now and his once rare and true friendships begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back to back fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen says of this movie it s a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he has gained success without a loss of identity i have watched this movie countless times and never failed to be charmed by it s homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterizations by all of the cast and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touches me today shown on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nicest present i could have had if only i had read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than looking at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public i would not have seen this desecration alien was a fantastic dramatic and well made horror sci fi predator was a great sci fi action mess about i do really have only myself to blame though as i saw alien versus predator it too has an average grading of over stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site br br stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot being ruined for you br br right from the beginning this film was ridiculous no explanation was offered for the predator ship overrun not overrun by aliens ok so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an alien predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why from then on it gets really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out i couldn t here br br a father and son are hunting in the woods the damaged ship crash lands to from the view given i would calculate at the very least odd miles away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet br br an edgy thriller type scenario is introduced with an ex con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduced i mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out a slasher horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute not cute boy is the ex con s brother by the way yes they re clever these director brothers whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child br br guess what happens next i won t tell you much more about the actual smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the alien ridden universe br br the predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post i read too late the aliens are boring the predator alien is ridiculous the action is at times exploitative gratuitous disgusting nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mothers oh i was shocked alright shocked at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really wanted to shock titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the alien predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them the characters have no depth and neither does the plot it s filmed and paced badly it s acted by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci fi characters this film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you haven t seen it then well please make your own decision br br ps did i even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout even though i saw this film when i was very young i already knew the story of wild the thief taker and shepherd who famously escaped from newgate prison br br apart from the liberty taken right at the end the film more or less faithfully follows the true story the temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that br br of the performances there is scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele is ideally cast also good is stanley baker as the thief taker and alan badel is good as always br br because the film sticks to the facts it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family gone is the wonderful campiness of the original in place is a c grade action no brainer wich is not all bad but pales in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence is gone and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers see it but don t expect the thrills of the first although most americans have little knowledge of his work other than star wars alec guinness produced an amazing body of work particularly in the s s ranging from dramas to quirky comedies i particularly love his comedies as they are so well done and seem so natural and real on the screen far different from the usual fare from hollywood br br this being said this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies it s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere except for ealing studios which had a particular fondness for little films like this one br br guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company he wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work so he tends to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspects or at night and try his hand at inventing repeatedly he is caught such as after he blew up the lab and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds then despite the importance of the discovery he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events and then the fun begins br br the film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry unions the government and people in general victor mclaglen s performance is one of the finest in film history br br i think we can all feel for gypo because we ve all struggled with what is right and what isn t and been wrong this was one of the first art house pictures to be released by a major american movie studio rko radio pictures br br joseph h august s cinematography is at its very best here however august s stunning portion was mostly overlooked he didn t receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved br br this is a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all conveyed with as little words as possible how do you take a cast of experienced well known actors and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel has the answer armored six co workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just as they get to first base with their plans everything unravels quickly with a plot like this you d think it couldn t be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guys they joke they laugh have a few drinks together etc then we suddenly learn they re planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short is sucked into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he s a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minutes of the film these former regular guys nearly all turn into money crazed psychos willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scenes mike matt dillon goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty it s utterly unbelievable and b movie is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say don t waste your time too bad no one gave laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before making this picture the sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn it s peak years were between and one of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was monica gayle who had a small but fanatic cult of followers she was actually able to act unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks and her subsequent credits proved it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique br br gary graver the director was also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combined with monica gayle s screen presence makes sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drags and you won t have your finger pressed on the fast forward button what a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be this is the type of film that i ve been looking for ages particularly important for me was the fantastic looking chicago which i still keep thinking about the back cover doesn t do this film justice it s superb and in my top for sure i did not expect much from this film but boy o boy i did not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock is not showing a good act here you can t get the feeling that his caracter is real i think the movie would have been a bit better if it s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more better humor was involved the movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it in the making of they don t show a single smile this is a very bad film i gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me but i did never laugh i cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie i thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen it my have been b c i am mel brooks biggest fan i know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them when it is played on a family channel this is one of my favorite movies so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina flynn known mostly for his swashbuckling roles and his bedroom antics takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully playing real life boxing champ jim corbett flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist all the while setting one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bare knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men and a dog including a prominent judge the next day he gets a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge s private club he uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club s resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers up to and including the world champion john l sullivan bond flynn is downright magical here he is the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he looks terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit and does virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for flynn at this stage he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time and she does so admirably she is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell bond is incredibly burly brawny and towering yet tender when the script calls for it amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient carson frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as flynn s manager the rest of the cast is excellent as well including flynn s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill types the whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed a few of the sets are amazingly presented some of smith s gowns border on the garish but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well it s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing but it s also so much more some of it like the character traits shown by flynn is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes but a lot of it is authentic like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes one line is particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it s entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it s classic romantic dialogue and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the classes in beverly hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it s seen since the days of granny and jed clampett plot centers on two chauffers who ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single ladies quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel wins his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he loses he must play bottom man to his friend br br lots of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa br br hilarious fun thought provoking humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war a small but altruistic view of one family s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessens the glamor of war showing it s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit br br a lot of today s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the hero s and other glamorous features of war but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community this movie attempts this through a retelling of a person s memory of those days this movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events when in reality this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds perhaps thousands of actual events during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by s flicks br br i mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost flatliners bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past very bad things groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts br br noble idea totally fubarred in it s execution elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies it has every thing you would want in a film like great one liners sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not seen it you are missing out on one of the greatest films made i can t wait till her new movie comes out i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and thought it was wonderful especially since it was based on a true man pierce brosnan was very good as the loner english man who took on the persona of the half breed grey owl the photography was beautiful br br this movie made me do more research into this character archie belaney known simple as grey owl i want to read as much as i can about him at the time i did not know richard attenborough had directed it but i am not surprised i like all his movies whether he is acting or directing i gave it the highest rating however i would have liked to have seen more in the movie about why he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house br br you can t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes despite having an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinkers i d probably watch just about anything with them in the film as i am a huge fan of hollywood s golden age of the s and s however no matter how much i love their films i just can t recommend this film br br the movie begins with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two haven t yet met but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodels while skiing it was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but i stuck it out especially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turned it off then fonda is knocked out in the fall and barbara goes for help back at the ski lodge he seems okay but fortunately she is also a doctor and has him x rayed and nurses him back to health he in turn becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her despite hardly knowing each other they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy br br once home however all isn t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film plays it all for laughs but frankly fonda s behaviors were really creepy spying on her and her male patients attacking or threatening any man she treats tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there men and women are out to steal away his wife he comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it s all supposed to be for laughs considering that he seems like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order but oddly she gets mad but just can t stay mad at fonda because he s so i can t think of the right word creepy is all that comes to mind later out of the blue multi millionaire fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions when this job falls through the film ends with fonda buying his own hospital giving barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they don t go any further with the story but i assume based on fonda s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients br br the first portion at the ski lodge and the next did not fit well together nor did the final horatio alger inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world they were like three separate plots but despite this the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films i find the critique of many imdb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to get away from it all br br in this case however i have to say it was bad i am a scifi junkie and there was nothing in this movie that grabbed me for even one second br br there was no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government was that was so worried about these pieces br br the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these pieces is scary half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third a year old kid would have been able to put them together br br this movie was bad br br dominic i was debating between this movie and but chose inglourious basterds due to it s amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expected a lot of witty dialog i got a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot is very important and i think this movie gets it totally wrong and the plot it s that believable or really all that entertaining either save your time and money i can t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses bend it like beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line it is about a girl called jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve the song choices are really good hush my child just move on up to your destination and you make boundaries and complications anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review bend it like beckham great flick directed by diane keaton and adapted from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband sid john tururro is a little lacking in the emotions department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom is well steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle s living habits he even decides he wants to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama is a bit comedic change that to zany not being a macdowell fan unstrung heroes assures my attitude albeit i enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is otto preminger s where the sidewalks ends from a really excellent script by ben hecht based on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg br br dana andrews is the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong arm methods as much as he detests crooks when he hit someone his knuckles hurt and the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain gary merrill who points up the title why are you always trying to push me in the gutter he asks andrews i have as much right on the sidewalk as you br br dana andrew s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden painful discovery that he is the son of a thief his deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta br br by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrews and gene tierney of laura are united once more and andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crooks this time he goes too far and accidentally kills a suspect the killing is accidental the victim worthless yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail br br using his knowledge of police procedure he covers up his part in the crime plants false clues and tries to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigating the case himself the double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise br br the film is one of the best detective films of the s with curious moral values also one of preminger s best br br preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism in sum overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes the director and co writer says he wanted to mix genres in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy is not very funny and juvenile additionally the film is not really realistic liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing french citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in french hospitals i watched this film on my big screen tv at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex lover s son by that time i was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty ex lover at times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoints keep changing from nora and ismael her ex lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed the epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub plots and seems to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball s chance in hell the actors do their best and are appealing but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing editing and lack of focus incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperors who went insane leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path i know there are several versions of this and this is based on the min one that i watched but i can t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck br br i d heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex nudity which honestly there isn t much of here at all and boring when there is and blood but beware it s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camera work is hopelessly inept full of strange zooms failed framing and confusing pans to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven is it day or night are they in or outside have they changed scenes who is or is meant to be in the shot editing is the final sin here making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story but these faults distract so much it s tragic br br a story with so many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan burnt and fellini like turkey that s only good for a few gobble laughs and peter o toole who makes a most memorable tiberius oh yes which brings us to the big name actors i d like to line them all up one by one and just ask who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this there i ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time period br br out of from ozjeppe did anyone edit this film or was it only the dvd release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes it s ok though i fell asleep watching it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot is actually not the worst i ve seen but it s close the acting is not the worst i ve seen either but it s close the production well i can honestly say that it was the worst i had ever seen in my life not trying to be spiteful but unhinged could have used some more production br br please don t think i m a hater of horror films or even that i didn t enjoy this film i just felt i was laughing at the film much more than i felt i was laughing along with it the gruesome moments were not too poorly done but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget br br characters seemed awkwardly developed or ignored all together twist ending was pretty bad and the exposition took forever without exposing much br br i d recommend avoiding this movie br br riding high on the success of rebel without a cause came a tidal wave of teen movies arguably this is one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen the story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the supporting cast is memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously most of the comments on this movie are positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i came out of this movie wondering what was going on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious i was glad that i had a free ticket to the movie or i would have asked for my money back movie reviewers and critics love this movie which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie has is so misleading in years time this film will not compare to true greats such as the godfather the film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn t enough to save the film nor are the lesbian scenes pepe le moko played by charles boyer is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout europe and to stay free he holes himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police are reluctant to go until a senior officer is sent from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allows him to remain out of police custody it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time a place he can t leave because the moment he does he knows he ll be arrested br br boyer s performance was good and i can understand why he was nominated for an oscar he captures the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately was quite a letdown a number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent of which i ll mention two first was the idea that the police wouldn t enter the casbah that was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldn t enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seemed to make much sense i also found it difficult to believe that le moko hardened criminal mastermind that he was could be so quickly swept off his feet by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the casbah to find her essentially giving himself up i understand the irony of the final few scenes of course as pepe leaves the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he s shot and killed by the police i just found it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap br br this is worth watching for boyer and to a lesser extent calleia but the story is disappointing and inconsistent man with the screaming brain certainly isn t a perfect movie but i m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy endings campbell is as a writer uneven there are lots of things in the story that don t make a great deal of sense why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other better incarnations the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of william s body is straight out of evil dead ii there are however lots of little touches and non sequiturs that feel rather brilliant such as when william is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue what are you looking at the movie looks like a sci fi channel original probably because it was the acting is actually pretty good i particularly enjoyed tamara gorski as tatoya she was ruthless and cunning yes but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored ted raimi handled the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce is funny as the arrogant sardonic condescending american jerk now that he s writing his own films you d think he d give himself a role that he hasn t been typecast in already man with the screaming brain is a bizarre nonsensical b movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it is absolutely awful this isn t an overstatement it is so unbelievable and exaggerated it gets boring it is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one they writer hasn t been able to pull it off in a good way br br if you d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ears and just watch it s not worth listening p there are so many great movies out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it s your choice br br enjoy tell the truth i m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which is also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after having seen it i was really a disappointed and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie br br i m surprise at this movie all completely it is like a kid s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing i m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account br br synopsis the story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior there they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak br br just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all they are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done the story is very predictable though expected and the humor is lame and haven t we already seen the same characters play by mc lovin in so many other movies like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep br br well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay and the acting is so so as expected when you re watching this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this is the same guy who brought us wet hot american summer and that movie also sucks but somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie br br anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie can t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone br br pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes br br cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kids do not mix together br br rating grade f this film held my interest enough to watch it several times the plot has holes but the lead performers make it work br br catherine mary stewart julia kerbridge does a great job as a woman of who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician she worked years to earn the money to go to medical school she is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream br br meanwhile julia s sister and brother in law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayo stewart to avoid having her become a ward of the state amanda is about years old from her appearance amanda is so traumatized from her parent s murder that she has become mute needless to say julia s hour days get longer caring for amanda br br rob lowe plays kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of julia and amanda he is always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really starts to warm up to kevin as the film progresses perhaps more than to her aunt julia starts to rely on kevin to take some of the load of caring for amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia br br the chemistry between rob and catherine mary was great you keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen was good as well arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words the plot had julia and amanda gradually warming up to each other you can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses br br we discover that julia s sister and brother in law the meyers were involved in industrial espionage they stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities the plot is unclear whether the meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed br br in any case the meyers are murdered in their home by of their former associates the killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before killing them the killers search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize is located eventually the killers kidnap amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip s location br br eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip after some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guys the predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together br br what struck me about the plot were major holes kevin moves into the same apartment building as julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers the killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene with no concern for concealing their identity the killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles he was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film there are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention br br the film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort like the previous poster i am from northern vermont and i was inclined to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i seen such a confusing plot the things the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy s hideout in a luxury packard wouldn t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out of course they re spotted and shot at losing some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u s canada border patrol which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now br br and don t get me started on the last half hour which made no sense whatsoever br br the only good thing i can say about the film is that kris kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years may contain spoilers this movie was the worst movie ever i couldn t even watch it all it was so bad this film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot this was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times not even the gore in the film was good the shootings were fake and the acting was worse please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there is nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of that s how horrible this film really is the worst movie ever watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole br br without giving away too much of the plot it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves br br the story has a prologue about what dancing in japan symbolizes sociologically so it isn t exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan as it is here in the u s br br the film is lighthearted you ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe all of the film s characters are taken seriously as they are and none are diminished because of their imperfections br br i ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends it just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance is this synchronous or what i think so because now i m really geeked to give it a try br br watch this wonderful family film small children might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again br br why they would make a remake of shall we dance is a mystery as it is perfect as is recap something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former seti worker is brought in to decipher the message problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turns awkward especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly soon the object is in the open the mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity it is decided to open the object but just before that is done julian decodes the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes as it is finally breached and two things unleashed on earth the first is an alien that had been dormant in the object and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff and washington that is suspiciously updated on this historic event decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carrying nuclear weapons is sent to antarctica br br comments the movie holds a few surprises one is carl lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful well worked through and a lot better than expected unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own and this time not in a good way actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes it is never really explained why washington know so much why washington is able to command russian submarines why the object is in the antarctic and has woken up now it is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to earth before and knew the language and obviously chose english why but then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encoded and finally the end is as open as an end can be br br the movie is a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good br br this movie features charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it features a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking had i checked imdb before renting this dvd from netflix i d have a couple of hours of my life back i m frankly suspicious when i see that a film s director also wrote it in this case according to the credits the same guy was writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there were a few interesting moments e g judy tenuta s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting judy ism which led me to rate this two stars rather than one those moments however were few and far between and i almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in its violence i admit i went back to watch that part again to see if i had missed something that would help me figure it out once i d seen the whole thing nope though i at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later the spinning camera technique was overused and essentially pointless i found myself talking to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommended the endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard of population is compelling well documented and enraging as an american i am constantly humiliated by my country s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this is probably the first john pilger documentary i ve seen but it immediately made me want to see what else he s done my only complaint and the reason i gave this film only out of is that pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the us and uk governments demands that we viewers citizens are complicit in our own inaction but makes no suggestion of how to help i don t know about britain but america s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government s doings a gesture in the right direction might help these islanders cause this flick is so bad its beyond belief even for an independent low budget film it just well sucks i can t even believe even troma would put out such crap i have been a fan of some troma flicks for years toxic avenger squeeze play rockabilly vampire to name a few but lloyd come on this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste it features some of the worst acting imaginable i think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good oh wait that is what they did i mean it these characters have negative charisma with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity as will the special effects people but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears the script is full of plot holes the size of alaska and there are severe continuity problems the worst part however is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way and this is the most unforgivable sin in film making but don t take my word for it go out and waste four bucks renting it just don t say i didn t warn you this is a very memorable spaghetti western it has a great storyline interesting characters and some very good acting especially from rosalba neri her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic she steals every scene she is in and expresses so much with her face and eyes even when she s not speaking her performance is very believable she manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top not that there s anything wrong with being over the top mark damon is surprisingly good in this movie too br br the music score is excellent and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie whether you want it to or not there are a couple of parts that are very amusing i especially like the part where rosalba neri undresses in front of the parrot there s also lots of slick gun play that s very well done br br i would probably have given this movie or stars if it wasn t for two things the first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about minutes into the film this is one of the most ridiculous looking fights i have ever seen in a movie it is very poorly choreographed and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it were a terence hill bud spencer comedy but this is a more serious western and the brawl really needed to be more realistic the other thing that annoyed me about this movie was yuma s cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasn t at all funny all i can say is where is tuco when you need him br br all that having been said let me assure everyone reading this that johnny yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults i have mentioned and all fans of the genre need to see this movie the plot michael linnett connors has done everything in films but direct and is looking for his st big chance he discovers molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star he signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agrees and their big time careers are under way what follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there s romance and a little sadness too the performances by don ameche and alice fay are top notch the music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard lots of dvd extras as well in this restored version released in it must be emphasized that this movie is a story st not just a tribute to silent films later years would bring similar films such as singin in the rain dick van dyke carl reiner s the comic what is special about this film though is recreating silent movies in we see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effects are included in glorious b w while the rest of the movie is in pristine color one of the greatest in the silent era buster keaton who at this point was on an uphill climb is used superbly in silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game it is said that he had some input on his scenes as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan is that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade is mack sennett s film legacy it doesn t take a genius to realize this movie is a positive reworking of mack sennett s and mabel normand s life the character michael linnett connors is mack sennett whose real name was michael sinnott and molly of course is mabel sennett had the pie throwings the bathing beauties and keystone cops he worked with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his leading lady not only all that but sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well as most film viewers today prefer sound features those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture as mack sennett fell into that category it is fortunate that there is hollywood cavalcade sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies his career started in as an actor then writer director producer he semi retired in with about films to his credit he had worked with the best such as charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w c fields keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar as film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack played it wise did only selective work for the next years in he had receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence was still felt e g here come the co eds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in mack s wandering willies is done in the road to hollywood used some of sennett s crosby films years later brought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participated with his knack of always associating with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show came about later in the year brought a re release of his greatest triumph tillie s punctured romance with sound in he was honored on tv s this is your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which is a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade was published brought a more concrete association with abbott costello as he had a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table as we get to the silver haired mack he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say here i am when he rises to give a speech a short while later he is at his most subdued underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help it got to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who got involved with adam hoss and little joe were going to end up dying because we couldn t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic tv western br br perhaps if bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the cartwrights people have relationships some go good some not so good it s just life and we re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor s nobility intact but that s if bonanza were done today br br but we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from nbc certainly helped the secret of bonanza s success was the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart sons ben cartwright was the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three children the kids were all different in personality but all came together in a pinch br br the cartwrights became and still are an american institution i daresay more people cared about this family than the kennedys just the popularity that bonanza has in syndication testifies to that br br pernell roberts as oldest son adam was written out of the show rumor has it he didn t care for the noble cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious perhaps if it were done now he d have liked it better in the way i describe br br this was just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv shows to their credit landon also has highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he had creative control little joe was the youngest most hot headed but the most romantic of the cartwrights br br when roberts left the show kept going with the two younger sons but when big dan blocker left the heart went out of bonanza other characters had been added on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopted young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick hoss was easily the most lovable of the cartwrights his sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family br br so the cartwrights of the ponderosa have passed into history i got a real taste of how america took the cartwrights to heart when i visited the real virginia city it doesn t look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credits is the cartwright home the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fans the ranchhouse and the cartwrights are real br br and if they weren t real they should have been years ago when darling lili played on tv it was always the pan and scan version which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews blake edwards opus i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all br br boy what a terrible film it s so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong looking at it now it s obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood thought she wasn t sexy or glamorous enough so blake created this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story war movie romance slapstick comedy musical darling lili suffers from multiple personalities never knowing who or what it is some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole it just doesn t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing br br mind you the version on the dvd is the director s cut or in this case let s salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in releasing the dvd edwards cut scenes from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film moves along with no idea of what it is we are minutes into it and we still don t know what s going on or why we re watching what s going what kind of spy is lili how powerful is she was she ever responsible for someone s death instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews things aren t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why does julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she got involved with there should have been one of her ex hanging around trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings there s no catalyst in this story br br one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews and edwards previous successes the best or worst example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest edwards channeling sound of music it s no wonder he removed it from the dvd back in that scene might have worked on a certain level but today that moment reeks of desperation there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews edwards other films the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie the musical moment i ll give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie s mary poppins persona which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act the ending bird s eye view of julie running towards hudson s plane is another wink at sound of music br br the whole thing is confusing julie plays a singer born from a german father and british mother who lives in england but sings her english songs in paris you never know exactly where the story takes place some moments are just badly edited like when julie and her uncle are on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence i m like what happened here br br the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy every scene with the french police are pathetic where s peter sellers when you really need him the action is stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train hudson s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train almost killing lili in the process brilliant what s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning that s one slow moving train there br br the musical moments the beginning is the best part of the entire film and the reason i gave this film stars but it s effect is diminished considerably because it s repeated at the end speaking of redundant did we really need to see a can can dance crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too the girl in no man s land is ok even if it s bleeding obvious but that moment just doesn t make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital making me wonder how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying br br the whole project is listless and without energy the romance is unbelievable rock hudson is way too old and tired looking check out the museum scene julie looks dazed like she s on valium but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision as much as i like julie she s no greta garbo who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie plays a german spy she still comes across as cloying and cute br br how bad is darling lili even after years since its release blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release this series made for televisi n espa ola tve is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son br br based on a background of historical events such as the may student uprising in france the decaying franco regime the war in viet nam the rise of imperialism and others specifically related to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment br br generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times as it should be stated anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things br br the best thing that can be said of this series is ana duato s r le as mother of three children she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well manifesting that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among women of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the brain as we say in spain common sense is one of the least common senses imanol arias offers very little apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series indeed as an actor he should not be trusted in anything which is not a tv series his resources are too limited however his part as father of the working class household is not at all bad br br not really recommendable for other audiences even spanish speakers in latin america the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references it is even probable that certain situations which cause a few spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers i want the minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting was horrific i used to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent d onofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reeves and dan aykroyd were not a surprise everyone knows they never could act thankfully only dan attempted an accent his accent was a disaster as expected i think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from minnesota i hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i was able to sit through the whole movie was because i was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read one of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers an observation which mystifies me not only directed by the acclaimed ang lee it had many young actors who were to become major stars e g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudors james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances especially meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing br br when the biographies and accomplishments of the director even when he won an academy award and the actors are listed this film is usually omitted from their past performances i discovered the film on dvd by accident and it became one of my most often watched films however it is seldom every seen on cable i look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known it s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little clich you cant help but like it br br i think the story was a little rushed at the end but extending that would have made the story even longer superior to other romantic comedies such as days with mr arrogant and possibly tied with my tutor friend br br it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great as my sassy girl but still good of all the movies of the seventies none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the sentinel i mean yes there were movies like the exorcist and other ones but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated devices as such but this is a story worth getting into then there are all the stars and soon to be stars my absolute favorites were eli wallach sylvia miles and burgess meredith then there are the subtle clues that lead to what s going on too pay close attention i had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like black and white cat black and white cake plus the books are really good as well i m just sorry that they re not going to turn the second book into a film it s so scary that it would outdo this movie this is apparently the second remake of this film having been filmed before in and and in so many ways it reminds me of the later film a yank at oxford both films concern a conceited blow hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both ultimately show the blow hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency in this film william haines is tom brown and his main rival bob is played by frances x bushman and in a supporting role is jack pickford always remembered as the brother of mary of these three pickford comes off the best as the sympathetic loser who becomes tom s pal he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clich s are there and the movie because it was done so many times before and since offers few surprises however it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing br br in my opinion for a better silent college film try harold lloyd s the freshman it s football scenes are frankly more exciting and harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying tom brown the freshman is probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard is a lesser picture is that william haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such as in westpoint and the smart set among others and if you ve seen one of these films you ve seen them all well made but certainly not original and because it is just a rehash of his other films anyone giving the film a score of is strongly advised to see these other films br br i just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on imdb from the talk about over rated there are dozens and dozens of better films how this film got to be is anyone s guess this movie illustrates like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything that s holding it back br br awesome talent outstanding performances particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way br br an adaptation of sorts it brought nothing new to macbeth no setting it in present day australia is not enough and essentially completely failed to justify its existence apart from let s face it completely unnecessarily paying homage to the original work if there s one body of work that has been done and done and done and done it s shakespeare s so any adaptation if it s not to be a self indulgent and pointless exercise needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work br br and that s what this macbeth fails to do as it was done this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever it s the same piece that we have seen countless too many times before except with guns and in different outfits br br apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keeping the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tuned out even though i was looking at the screen i never thought i had a short attention span but there you go br br i suppose the movie succeeds on its own very limited terms but as australia continues to produce world class acting talent its movie makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with br br a shame an absolute shame owen loves his mamma only he d love her better six feet under in this dark laugh out loud comedy that both stars and is directed by danny devito with admirable assists from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role br br throw momma from the train is a terrific comedy even if it isn t a great film it s too shallow in parts and the ending feels less organic than tacked on but it s a gut splitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer devito is avid but untalented crystal is blocked and bitter br br crystal s professor donner believes his ex wife stole his book the unfortunately titled hot fire and can t write more than the opening line of his next book which doesn t come easy he teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities including a middle aged woman who writes tom clancy type fiction but doesn t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life mr pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs per minutes on screen an ascot wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus girls i d like to pork br br then there s devito s owen lift who calls himself professor donner s star pupil even though the teacher won t read his work in class owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a man child in his late s who lives with his overbearing mother anne ramsey who calls him lardass and other endearing sentiments in any other movie we d be asked to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train piles life s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along that s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people br br for those of us who enjoy the humor of this character even identifying with him and take the rest of what we see here as a lark it s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes asking us to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donner s help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first goes to hawaii to kill donner s hated ex then tells the professor it s his turn to kill mrs lift swapping murders as seen in hitchcock s strangers on a train br br as a director devito not only complements his actors performances with scene setting that places the accent on dialogue he makes some bold visual statements throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes and away from taking things too seriously br br also helping matters is writer stu silver who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter you got rats the size of oldsmobiles here she s not a woman she s the terminator one little murder and i m jack the ripper those are all crystal s words but some of the funniest lines which work only in context but absolutely kill are devito s and ramsey s apparently silver never wrote another screenplay after this according to the imdb and that s a shame because he had real talent for it br br the best scene in this movie when crystal meets ramsey was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical coming attraction presentation the only time i ve seen a movie promoted that way owen introduces the professor to his mother as cousin patty and when momma says he doesn t have a cousin patty panicky owen loses it you lied to me he yells out slamming the professor s forehead with a pan br br of course in reality the professor wouldn t groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train works effectively at such moments when playing its looney tunes vibe for all its worth devito hasn t disappeared from films of course but it s a mystery why he hasn t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it s because as throw momma from the train s lack of mainstream success shows his kind of vision isn t to everyone s tastes that s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over and like it a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united states br br just cause br br starring sean connery laurence fishburne and blair underwood br br a liberal though good hearted harvard law professor paul armstrong is convoked to the flordia everglades by unjustly convicted black guy bobby earl confessing that sadistic cold hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl as he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that bobby earl is a victim of discrimination that the black police detective lt tanny brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean when the infamous psychotic serial killer blair sullivan is introduced he discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl when armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of sullivan s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote bobby earl gets a re trial is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment all seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan comes into focus armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be sullivan s parents whom he immensely detests sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shriver s heinous murder and why he was brought here it turns out that bobby earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill joanie shriver he just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge upon armstrong s beautiful wife and daughter now sullivan is executed to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration but good virtuous cop brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie is stabbed and eaten by ruthless man eating alligators paul armstrong tanny brown his wife and daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works delivers both mystery and subterfuge how reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen sentenced to unfair penalties even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery is great as the oblivious holier than thou hero laurence fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean arrogant but good guy cop underwood and harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos capeshaw is okay ruby dee is great as the tenacious grandmother the rest of the cast is wonderful as well filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves br br this film is set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a scottish accent the premise about people who s lives are going nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs could have made for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of self obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits i m suprised it hasn t been banned x and y are friends x is sleeping with z y sleeps with z as well oh you figure it out br br a total waste of time painful dialogue it sounded like something that a group of year olds would have written for a gcse drama project the female character was completely superfluous just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it br br if you re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run don t walk away from this sorry little misfit br br and one question when the group left the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film to go back to glasgow why did they do it via the forton motorway services at lancaster which is in england doctor mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar but is totally worthwhile it really reminds me of the old serials from the s and s which is why i d have loved to see follow up movies but judging by the rest of full moon s output there simply weren t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which is unfortunate because without em this could have been a harry potter style magicfest that kids would have eaten up both jeffrey combs and yvette nipar are great i wasn t sure if ms nipar hadn t wandered off an a list picture onto this film she was very believable no seriously anyway it s a shame they didn t have the bucks to license dr strange because i think this could have been a total kiddie phenom a truly muddled incomprehensible mess most things in the film look more or less like but then there are futuristic things just thrown in like the policeman s ray gun and that car the director seemed to be in love with colored lights the only really notable performance was the girl who played valerie but since there was no cast listing i don t know which actress that was this one is worth missing grade f it doesn t happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference br br george crile s best seller charlie wilson s war is a fascinating and eye opening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of lufkin only really wanted two things their guns and to be left alone it s easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known appropriately enough as charlie s angels br br when asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive young aides his response is a classic you can teach em to type but you can t teach em to grow tits no argument there br br but even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter humiliating defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war as a result fat chance huh br br under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson s war is a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind the scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising charlie s team br br the on screen team is composed of three marvelous actors with four academy awards and nine nominations between them charlie is beautifully portrayed by tom hanks in a solid slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years he s aided abetted and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite played by the still slinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all accounts ms roberts looks good and holds her own but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why kabul and country is so important to her character maybe the two afghan hounds usually by her side know but we as an audience never do as for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steals every scene he appears in as gust aurakotos a smart street wise i e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who knows the score both in the agency s boardroom and in wilson s bedroom br br for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u s can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the skies this takes money lots of money and eventually charlie s team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebels this includes top of the line state of the art anti aircraft and anti tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices nasty nasty stuff br br that this kind of multi billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind congressional doors is truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business as usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government oh momma i wish it weren t so br br even though the initial outcome for team charlie was an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the taliban and others since the funding was entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity was the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies left so did our aid zip for schools zip for infrastructure zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the afghan people as a result the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster it s like the forerunner to mission accomplished br br as nichol s film so pointedly points out the ball you ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you ve lost interest in it mike krzyzewski knows this eva longoria parker knows this little lateesha in lafayette knows this but the typical american politician doesn t so we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn t let the world know we were the good guys talk about a catch another mike nichols film br br perhaps charlie wilson said it best we f ked up the end game br br again i m a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some ideas from dali left me cold bunuel had a life long grudge against the catholic church and delighted in trying to offend catholics in fairly silly ways this is one of the silliest almost like what you d expect from a smart aleck year old in film class the last few minutes of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else are a final nose thumbing at religion br br if you read the scholars regarding this slow paced occasionally amusing film it s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression if that is indeed the point then bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies is this behavior the church s fault for interrupting his lovemaking or is he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the catholics as the ones to blame br br there are a few moments where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe falling out a window a poor model a man shredding a feather pillow a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava or a mud pit hard to tell in b w the rest is forgettable self indulgence unfortunately bunuel was still chasing the same bogey men through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm if you re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau s early work this ludicrous film offers the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bores us in the process its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups a naive young hippy played by the waif like kay lenz hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys and then one day she meets the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor and she decides that she is in love with him if you think that is superficial the whole film encapsulates such scenes she keeps saying how much she loves him and she only met him it wears thin and really quick i couldn t help but laugh throughout the film its obvious she s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place a disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex i had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s is also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d this film was pretty good i am not too big a fan of baseball but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc br br danny glover joseph gordon levitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport the plot was believable and i love the message william dear and the guys put together a great movie br br most sports films revolve around true stories or events and they often do not work well but this film hits a on the perfectness scale even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there br br for his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film the ending is superb the makers of blaire witch obviously watched this film it s ending wasn t an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan s great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor the only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about quantum physics in this mess is just plain wrong br br examples quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seems to affect the event solid particles can pass through barriers all of this so far is accurate but then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this is complete poppycock instead the theory asserts that at our level it is possible for you to walk through a wall but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief also you d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall the odds are so astronomically against it br br this is but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer played by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self hate there may be some truth to that but quantum physics has nothing to do with it br br plus string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays instead of wasting your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series done for nova on pbs that gives you a history of physics from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hour long episodes quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation i was truly looking forward to this title it sounded and looked fun the idea of someone making a cheesy s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs but instead this title only bores first off there is almost no froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment i have to sit through minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the froggg humping a bare breasted chick why on top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads i wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp i wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the froggg going on a killing spree or it maybe escaping a silly trap something exciting geez have fun with it be creative who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick my advice to the filmmakers keep going your concepts are good but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important put more creature in a creature movie one of my sisters friends lent me this game and it is too damn hard it carries the appearance of a kids game but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions and you have to search seemingly endless levels for notes to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them and i am only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it is definately not recommended for kids they will pull their hair out within the hour chuck jones s rabbit seasoning the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy is often considered to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning is the most finely honed script here the emphasis is placed on language as bugs and daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of abbot and costello s who s on next routine as a long term daffy fan i have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently daffy who gets all the best lines the famous pronoun trouble being one of the all time classics and does most of the work bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while elmer as always is the befuddled dupe part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old daffy who comes off worst being shot in the face again and again his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions it all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration you re despicable as intricate an example of chuck jones s impeccable timing as you ll come across rabbit seasoning is a true classic a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touches people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear also alas an ending that comes out of nowhere because apparently the auteur has lost interest in the movie or perhaps because as a b picture it has to fit into a slot crossfire is a justifiably famous noir that s a murder mystery with a strong message it stars robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and is strongly directed by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young as the detective finlay in charge of the case seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death and just as important why the victim joseph samuels sam levene is someone the soldiers meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuels winds up dead br br i don t know about but seeing crossfire today one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects i don t suppose it was so apparent back then as these actors were just getting started nevertheless the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing anti semite language br br the characterizations are vivid including that of gloria grahame in a smallish role she s a woman who meets mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldiers in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone is excellent robert young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife br br truly excellent and a must see awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and i am just such a huge fan i hope they bring the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart times where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don t know what there missing br br the songs in this film are ace the ones i love the most boys girls of rock n roll diamond dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother br br this film is sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie skippy from family ties plays eddie a wussy metal nerd who gets picked on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr dies he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall but when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead metal idol he first gets sucked into ideas of revenge but then he doesn t want to take it as far as sammi does which isn t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital this movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy played by skippy from family ties i haven t a clue the cameo by gene simmons is ok and ozzy osbourne reaches coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one br br my grade d br br eye candy elise richards gets topless an a topless extra at a pool party of course i would have to give this film out of as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego wrote screenplays for over years living in italy he was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing so rodolfo sonego did if you check out his biography you can see the number of movies that have been made in italy alberto sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories my uncle visited australia and my town in to check out locations for a girl in australia and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movies i found a copy of this movie on dvd recently great goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in vg history their is no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modern day bond champ of its time br br this was not a bond game based on material from another medium this was a completely new scripted game which even had its own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay was excellent and if you re a fan of the bond games or films alike you ll enjoy it br br unlike some most games these cast members portrayed their characters themselves as opposed to fictional creations for the game which gives it that more cinematic feel with a very bond able storyline you feel like you re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie br br enjoyable in all aspects from start to finish even after beating the game there s still plenty more to be done with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved as well as its multi player missions this is a stand out game despite being quite old now in video game years it s still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just thinking about it i ve got the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and well written storyline br br the story comes to life on the screen almost as if the actors were their in front of you and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself superbly done in true bond fashion which can only be named awesome completely awesome br br i ve got ta go throw this game on now if you haven t played it yet you re missing out helena bonham carter is the center of this movie she plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh was tolerable the movie itself was good not exceptional if you are a helena bonham carter fan it is worth seeing i commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a thumbs in the middle review remarking that i d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode i ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in june and as a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show is utter crap br br everything s wrong with it everything getting past just the lousy animation and design the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories br br and for god s sake is it just me or is the joker in every episode is gotham that much of a revolving door justice system or again is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains see no character development above br br and to make matters worse every single joker tale is the same part formula br br joker gasses people br br joker sets out to gas the whole city br br batman saves the day br br pfeh br br there was one episode i saw that wasn t a joker story the title escapes me but the villain was that nefarious cluemaster the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that was the single worst batman story i ve ever seen heard or read yes worse than i ve got batman in my basement br br i can t really say what i feel this show is because it s probably against the tos but it starts with b and rhymes with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm dini etc era of bat entertainment back from the fox and kids wb days stuff that good and i should have known this just couldn t possibly have lasted forever unfortunately just because someone is under the age of does not mean they are stupid if your child likes this film you d better have him her tested i am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad this film is a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing is horrid i can t remember when i ve heard such bad dialogue the songs are beyond wretched the acting is sub par but then the actors were not given much who decided to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he is ugly as sin br br the worst thing is the obviousness of it all it is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible great children s movies are wicked smart and full of wit films like shrek and toy story in recent years willie wonka and the witches to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbing down of american more are flocking to dreck like finding nemo yes that s right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eye crossing trash like red riding hood hey babu riba is a film about a young woman mariana nicknamed esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps years old in belgrade yugoslavia the five are committed friends and crazy about jazz blue jeans or anything american it seems br br the very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties in the wake of changing communist politics they go their separate ways and reunite in the year before the film was made br br i enjoyed the film with some reservations the subtitles for one thing were difficult especially in the beginning there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all perhaps the conversational pace required it but i couldn t always both read the text and absorb the scene which caused me to not always understand which character was involved i watched the movie a video from our public library with a friend and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative br br this yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bonds to each other there is a main flashforward and it was intriguing keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis a vis the cast and what had actually happened br br i would rate it out of and would like to see other films by the director jovan acin after a snowstorm the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman jason adam beach comes to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day among the weird strangers jason meets his former sweetheart nancy rose mcgowan who has just left her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients and finds some corpses indicating that among them there is a killer br br the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay is simply awful most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests my vote is four br br title brazil encurralados trapped this movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy s law being applied to home ownership and construction if a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it was set in the simpler forties we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by loy and douglas their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturbing hilarious these words are not big enough to describe the event which is white fire from wobbly garbled beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout br br our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world a family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms when the father separates from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie you re about to watch father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit and is polite as he gets people s attention before he shoots them but alas dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about feet behind them he too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly wastes the mother this action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes bo and ingred br br so now we fast forward about years if you re honest about the hero s age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settled as professional thieves or diamond prospectors or something ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods while bo masterfully played by the dynamic robert ginty drives around the desert in his denim outfits bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they don t seem to have any friends other than each other and they spend all of their time together that coupled with the fact that bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as you know its a shame you re my sister he says to her while she s stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo is then crushed when ingrid is killed as he wanders the beaches of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo finds a girl who looks like ingrid and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this opens the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas and he is overjoyed with his new love br br so anyway there s a lot of fun action scenes ridiculous violence great acting impossible to follow plot lines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond which later explodes all of these things are great but the bo and ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is white fire you may be glad you did or not i am so disappointed this movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy here was the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upper class manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses woody i ve seen these characters already i ve seen the storyline from you ten times already where did your creativity go you need to open your eyes and look around you the world has changed dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it br br there are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again br br when i hear that woody allen has a new project coming out it does nothing for me because now i ve come to expect his old standby the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating depressing and same old same old br br if woody wants to win his fans back then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated not insulted this movie is all ultra lightweight fluff predictable from beginning to end as a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr limpet was much better with knott s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant his performance there was toned down with none of his trademark goggle eyed stare although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile much as bob denver did neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles assuming they were simply typecast it was probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the high pitched voice john ritter whom knotts worked with in three s company was able to transcend his genre branching out successfully into dramatic roles like the dreamer of oz but the closest knotts ever got was a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen was a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in airplane and police squad br br there s also no way the then year old knotts could pass for a year old as his character insisted he was it was as ludicrously unbelievable as tom hanks at playing the college age forrest gump br br the film was clearly made on a shoestring budget very much looking like a hastily filmed tv episode it s especially evident in the exterior scenes of the town where roy goes after he s fired it s unlikely even a pre schooler would be fooled by the mayberry like soundstage artificiality br br even viewing this strictly as a children s movie it s very disappointing it s not because it lacks action or special effects although it does the pace is much too slow the situations repetitive how many times can you watch roy getting onto a bus a comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap with breakneck gags otherwise you risk boring them and any adults in the theater as well movies even kid s movies have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written disney s the love bug for instance at least had some interesting race action if you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization there is an excellent book called outlaw seas or the outlaw sea and it describes in story after story how these things do happen the lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons one many of the world s freighters are of questionable registry nationality and it s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don t have an office in a real country two many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries the crews are often like illegal immigrant workers threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices three there is often a language barrier not only between the officers and the crew but also between the crew members themselves the crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence four once committing an illegal act the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it s fascinating reading br br horrifying story excellent movie does anyone else notice how hbo seems to make the best and most important movies hollywood has trouble releasing enough oscar worthy movies in any given year so that several of the top contenders usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema br br i loved the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual loved omar epps gamers dr is not a fancy made movie it s more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly made dungeon castle village sword axe shield robe plate okok everything you will need about minutes to adjust your expecting on visual then you will get minutes of fun br br i m from hongkong and it s really hard to find rpers none of my friends play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watching gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule books dices game set etc etc etc you hear terms like fighter wizard hit point level character flaming hand chaotic evil br br what rpg fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to not bonded by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie goes both gamers s real life as well as in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game br br i don t want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr is a must watch movie for rpg lovers for people never play rpg game i m sure you still get many fun from it in all honesty i haven t seen this film for many years but the few times i have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory as anyone who has seen it will understand i first saw it as a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixties and it scared the hell out of us kids in a fun way i remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i can t risk giving away the ending except to say that it was surprising to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed the ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history and yet oddly moving in a way you have to see it for yourself which is not easy these days i don t know if it s available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kids and adults this is the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rocked it rocked hard and yet it also rocked tasty mr meatloaf added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled now that tells you something this filmed rocked even before it started now i don t want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rocked if you have heard the new album and thought to yourself this seems a bit substandard tenacious material it is like i a merely playing badminton with satan what gives then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it better do not know what they want because better would no longer be the d this movie is the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked you d think you re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel miles or so from france to saudi arabia going through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arriving in the middle east but this is not a tour and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights br br reda s father is in his twilight years and wishes to do the haj however since walking and taking the mule is out of the question he chooses to travel to mecca by car he can t drive and therefore enlists the help of reda to his son s protest to get him there in their broken down vehicle br br but reda doesn t see the point of having him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn t understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son being not the best of pals br br the beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenges they face the weird people they meet having to duke it out in varied weather conditions and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other the father trying to impose on his son and the son trying to assert himself as an adult but circumstances we see reveal that reda is quite a fish out of water through the many encounters they actually team up quite well despite their differences br br it s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their haj the final scene in mecca is truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating the sights of europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination br br it certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are don t miss this and yes book early i was pleasantly surprised that this evening s session was still a full house i watched this movie based on the good reviews here and i won t make that mistake again br br the first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy but you don t see what it is flashback hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen when the ending is finally reveled you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching the only connection these people have is that they have all had a bad day but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom br br if this was supposed to be a crash clone it s a complete failure a great bugs bunny cartoon from the earlier years has bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store after he s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he ll be transferring soon bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals animals like say a certain rabbit this causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early s it still remains as funny nearly years later this animated short can be seen on disc of the looney tunes golden collection volume br br my grade a i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent years was in for two reasons br br host steve martin was at his most wittiest i saw the teamsters help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and i ll better not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle s head in my bed br br surprise winners no one had adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeers and boos but they won br br last year s award ceremony wasn t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and i was happy to see return of the king sweep the awards even if it wasn t the best in the trilogy fellowship was much better but what let the bbc coverage down was jonathan ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but so when i heard sky were doing the coverage for british tv i was expecting barry norman and mark kermode to be doing the links but instead we ended up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv are desperate for film critics obviously they are i m sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers br br chris rock wasn t too bad but he s no steve martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i had with the ceremony was the format with the minor oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats there s no such thing as a minor oscar and just because the award is for best animated short or best costume design they re as well deserved as best picture or best director all the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snobs the academy are becoming and i quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history as for the awards themselves br br best supporting actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category br br best supporting actor morgan freeman no real complaints since freeman is one of america s greatest living character actors br br best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn br br best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone thought annette benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night br br best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone thought scorsese was going to get the award simply because he d never won one actually i m glad about this because if he didn t deserve it for taxi driver raging bull or goodfellas he didn t deserve it for the aviator br br best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while i thought the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have made it a dead cert for best picture while mdb s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off br br what these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven t done in the past i mean a beautiful mind beating the fellowship of the ring for gawd s sake and long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts while in a plane flicking through the large choice of movies i came across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice br br i remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this has been a hell of a ride i don t remember last time i have been so excited terrified not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can t turn away from the screen literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you ve got br br you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from thinking how come the human being can be so vicious to why not after all ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestants their motives and start guessing you will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe br br good acting good directing with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more br br spoilers couple of things i would have changed br br the casting of the contestants i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid it felt like you didn t care about some of the contestants although this might have been done on purpose i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants game rules a big glitch br br what happens if the th contestants doesn t die when he pulls the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have given a chance to all contestants to live ie if th is a blank too then no one dies br br interestingly i haven t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time just wish i had some popcorn with me ah another movie with motorcycles hell s angels posse and steve a lame o as the not so cool car driver this movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking pot smoking and lots of moronic acts steve s rendition of a dying cat during his i love what i know serenade had me vomiting for hours bike chick linda rrrr makes out with everyone fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds i also dare you to try to make out what banjo is saying you messin wit private stock this is scriptwriting folks br br i liked the ending what better place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it br br die jeter die a rating of does not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is i feel dumber after watching the first min luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly not because of the budget of the film or the special effects just simply good acting and getting simple things right and most importantly not being lame but i guess this was produced for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is a good movie don t be scared of rating films low save your under appreciated high scores for once in a life time movies keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted reviews and opinions don t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds peace love the most self indulgent movie i have every had the misfortune to br br rent unwatchable much of the movie is obviously improvised br br and not well it looks like toback took the first take of br br everything the movie gets good for a couple of minutes when br br robert downey jr shows up then goes to hell again real br br quickly this has got to be the worst movie i haver ever seen nielson in this movie just does not have what he needs to be funny i think the reasons that the naked gun and the like movies is that they did not require nielson to be funny he just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny he isn t the movie had only one good part and this may be considered a spoiler by some and that the beginning credits were animated if the whole movie had been animated it might have been good i had no intention of seeing this movie when i saw the ads for it and the only reason i did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest this is the first and probably only movie i have ever walked out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of i like ghost stories good ghost stories of bumps in the night voices that can not be explained now i ve see many of them as special efx have a ever more grip on todays films some times to find a real gem you got ta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story called the new house was one of the most scariest films i ever saw it was on once in i was only but nothing since then even compared to it with all the remake going on in hollywood some one should do this one as is with no more special efx than the original this episode was down right creepy as hell i m lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost stories to even come close was the original the haunting and george c scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost stories like these okay i ve watched this movie twice now i have researched it heavily on the net i have asked several people on there opinions i have even gone to the length of reading the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie is supposed to be based on i feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it as the plot of the movie doesn t seem to make any sense at all here is the plot of the book br br laura lives in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death he makes claims of supernatural powers being at work and explains that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the lafontaines looking after her daughter carmilla for several months soon laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams and begins to come down with a strange illness who is this mysterious carmilla and just what has she to do with laura s condition and the general br br i have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it and let me know what their results are i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i can t be bothered with that it s called the this movie doesn t make any sense game br br all you have to do is whilst watching the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening i mean complete all questions answered everything makes sense absolutely complete br br it will have to answer such questions as br br why can vampires walk around in day light br br why are they all lesbians br br why is a girl called bob and why does she shoot herself br br when is the movie a dream and when is it real br br why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn t make anyone bat an eyelid br br why does travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she is a zombie too br br and why does he then let a girl which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire drive with him in his car br br and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car br br what the hell is the asylum scene all about br br what the hell is the green goo all about br br why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse br br why are there never any vampires fighting zombies br br what is the significance of the necklace what is it made of why does it kill vampires and how does jenna know that br br in fact sod it it s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too br br i have my plot and i have to admit it is not quite there but it is a pretty good effort br br in conclusion br br vampires vs zombies has no moment in it where there are actually vampires fighting zombies everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it is based on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell is going on this would ve been a great silent film the acting really is good at least in a look ma i m doing really big acting sort of way br br everything is huge every line is profound every scene is shattered by human tragedy br br mostly i felt like gagging yet like any train wreck i couldn t tear my eyes away this dialogue might ve worked on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it was cluttered haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work br br if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping doses you might enjoy the movie be prepared to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plods along at its own pace br br this script must ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves it simply doesn t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera br br imdb does us a great disservice at times when it uses its goofy computer controlled weighted score curse of the starving class deserves less than a br br character driven fiction is great but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isn t character development your characters must have a motivation being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is not character development that s a plot contrivance br br stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it muted perhaps you ll get some amusement from all the arm waving the characters do br br oh and word to the wise to prove that this is truly an artsy film you see james woods in all his dangly male look at me i m the figurative and literal representation of the naked vulnerability of man glory br br don t say you weren t warned this movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward attended by two orderlies the unconscious main character is heard in a voice over saying that the orderlies are gay the orderlies kiss i watched this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny it said comedy on the dvd case after all and it goes on like that had i seen this in a movie theater i probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter because it is so funny and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy while it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn t this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn t br br brilliant brains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brooks have proved that fact but you have to know the mechanics i suppose director and co scriptwriter dani levy does not bother about those mechanics he thinks that certain things simply are funny the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy can t not for me anyway br br the main problem i have with this movie is that i can t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave i could not understand why the two brothers one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly disliked each other they are both rather bland characters their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other well one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin but even these incestuous relationships if anything they are embarrassing just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better br br the acting is not bad udo semel i actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a lighter version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself is not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to directing movies leaving the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he did a comedy about hitler oi vai this story about three women is a very sensitive study about muri l charlotte van den eynde the youngest laura els dottermans who is about and martha frieda pittors the oldest who is the mother of muri l they live together in the same building they have different expectations of life the vital laura wants a child muri l comes from a village and wants to change her life in brussels martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl in fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something for instances an accident which could dramatize this story as times goes on you discover that the director doroth e van den berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more this movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case so one is left with a feeling of emptiness first and foremost i loved the novel by ray bradbury it s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later it was one of his best books with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i as just hoping that this movie would be all right it had lots of chances with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even wrote the script himself and on top of all that it has pam grier br br how could it fail br br there may be spoilers within br br first of all it was dumbed down much of the horror from the book was lost as bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book gone everything that made you squirm gone br br and then there s the acting like a lot of movies that disney threw out in the s the kids in this movie can not act and this bugged me a lot neither of them looked but or their strong friendship wasn t addressed it was more like they were acquaintaces br br you d think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their roles of mr halloway and mr dark but here it s like they just don t care all they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something this is far from being some of their best performances br br pam grier was fine as the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasn t well pulled off she s a lot less evil and doesn t have the presence as she did in the book br br and everything that was left out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jim s house the real death of mr dark what happened to mr coogan on the merry go round the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more br br and the special effects were bad even for the s the merry go round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn t really creepy and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything br br i could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel but it makes blood boil don t see this movie but read the book it s a classic of bradbury this film is so old i never realized how young looking ray milland looked in i remember him playing in a great film lost weekend ray plays the role of michael stuart who is a very rich banker there are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose as a very rich count his name is count ariszted misha auer who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convicts started applauding which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this is deanna durbin s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with universal studios after leaving mgm i had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on dvd at christmas having reserved a special slot for it last night i sat down to watch it with my daughter aged and a film studies student with chocolates of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin br br after just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk the shaky camera shots and angles general poor cinematography direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied despondent we viewed on br br anne played by sally hawkins looked oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasions breaking our hard won fantasy of the moment and engaging us directly in an almost i ll find you stalking fashion br br poor rupert penry jones who played captain wentworth did his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they paid him well however as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall drenching him and his co actor they were nearly swept out to sea health and safety would have had a field day poor rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re shoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place br br other than mr penry jones alice krige gave the only convincing performance as lady russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of anthony head s unconvincing portrayal of annoying sir walter elliott br br towards the long awaited end of the film captain wentworth appeared to oddly grace anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie it was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being in contrast anne ran hyper ventilating from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime had managed to call upon almost the entirety of bath we are told in the course of only three or four minutes without even having worked up a sweat br br we experienced none of anne s charms crossing the screen indeed we were left wondering what charismatic captain wentworth had ever seen in plain spineless opinion less anne and why someone anyone did not tell mean winging sir walter to just shut the heck up br br the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment was painfully drawn out as they moved in closer anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met eww br br the most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been br br what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story filmed in some of england s finest scenery br br sorry jane if you like sci fi monsters and ancient legends then you will love this movie br br the special effects are by far the best i have seen since juarassic park hit the big screen years ago while the acting may have been a little less than desirable the story line and effects adequately compensated for it br br i wish now i had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv br br if you like non stop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore you have to see this movie a rather silly little film you just may love br br although rather corny and clich at times it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy knowing yours is the best team br br notable for several screen debuts including david naughton s first film role after his dr pepper be a pepper commercials and before his major hit american werewolf in london also features paul ruebens in what i believe is his first pee wee herman esquire roll a year before he became known for it and last but not least mr spin city and alex keaton himself michael j fox gets his first film role here fans will remember stephen furst as flounder in animal house outside of that no names but all funny characters br br doubt it has ever made it to dvd but there are still probably some vhs copies floating around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do is worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love this is an ok adaptation of the breath taking book of dan brown i can t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy given the excellent story the result could have been better though the movie is pretty long but at the end i was feeling like some things were missing sound effects and sound tracks were very good acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak for people who didn t read the book things may look happening too quickly from my point of view instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper what makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and using the time not in a good way these are main problems of the movie so it is worth watching but could have been done better i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie did the impossible br br while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror films over their american counterparts this movie was a lesson in over abundance as in the movie was minutes too long it would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement the acting was absolutely terrible bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad lib something called a script did these people even get any direction were they coaxed to be boring and dull either therory wouldn t surprise me br br what was even worse was the rather unscary make up involved with the creatures from the other side either way they all stunk don t watch this film that s all i can say unless you re an insomniac what can i say not as bad as many here have made it out to be the only reason i even watched this film that i had previously never heard of before was strictly for ian mcshane br br i was not disappointed in the least ian mcshane was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role he s always great to watch and for my money an extremely underused actor br br as for the rest of the film every other actor in the movie delivered strong solid performances these people certainly weren t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation as this was a fairly low budget film but this did not mean that any of them mailed their appearances in everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them br br i was even pleasantly surprised at adrian paul s performance though i must admit i have only ever seen him in the highlander television series before this movie br br the plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expected a clear cut by the numbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie clearly wasn t watching the film closely enough this film is not going to tell you what the meaning of life is the idea is that after seeing the film you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee i certainly did br br no car chases no explosions no bar room brawls sounds pretty dull huh but the reality is that i was completely absorbed by the film and it s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved br br warning if you re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous question as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly br br you might not enjoy this film originally harped as a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film falls flat on it s face with a new title first off if you are going to include the word massacre in your film s title you better deliver this one certainly does not there is no gore no on screen murders and no chainsaw as the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game only to be offed one by one again this film could have been ok if the gore quotient was upped a bit why directors especially those doing direct to video flicks are afraid to show any gore is beyond me now i am not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on why else would anyone rent a movie called cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shot on a home video camera cheapness it looks cheap sounds cheap and the actors aren t all that good it tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be but even that fails the ending ends up being a ridiculous mess folks if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of a killer cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder at his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave this of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look the two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem are back on the case two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish br br the acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays dr vincent van gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film the other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out now i m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible if it wasn t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness i would probably have fallen asleep there is a bit of gore but it s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims the zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times there is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing i have ever seen in a film it is just a plastic toy on a fishing line br br the ending is extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does god knows how they made enough money to make a sequel br br days of heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films i have ever seen in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone unless you re trying to put your kids to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters why days of heaven s plot is simple but extremely vague long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story does not touch you by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone the only things working are your eyes and unfortunately your ears who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talks like a man i am now dumber for seeing this movie don t let it happen to you in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphonies series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney had been collaborating together since the early s in disney s laugh o gram cartoon series however their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that was the birth of celebrity productions where iwerks continued developing his style and technique and where he created the character of flip the frog while his work kept the same high quality it wasn t really popular and by the studio was closed later that year iwerks was hired by columbia pictures and iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance this time in color br br s skeleton frolics is essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it is set on an abandoned graveyard where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffins ready for the show that s about to begin as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it s not easy to be a musician made of just bones as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts however the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance a lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra it s hard to dance with loose body parts everything ends at dawn and just when the sun is about to rise again the skeletons run towards their graves br br directed and animated by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolics follows faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance years before although with a crucial difference iwerks did the whole film in technicolor the bright tonalities allowed iwerks to create a more visually appealing film and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving disney creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before it is certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesn t mean it s necessarily a better film for starters the film is practically identical to the one he did with disney with the only differences being the music more on that later and the color effects it looks beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all br br however it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film after all iwerks executes it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody created by joe denat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by carl w stalling for the skeleton dance in other words while denat s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme it s easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable being a musical film this is of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music brings down iwerk s flawless work of animation personally i think that with a better musical accompaniment skeleton frolics would be remembered as fondly as the skeleton dance despite not being as groundbreaking as it s still a fun film to watch br br it s kind of sad that most of the work iwerks did after leaving disney is now forgotten due to his poor success however it must be said that if iwerks lacked the popularity of disney or fleischer disney s main rival he did not lack the quality of those companies films it was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to disney s mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite its shortcomings skeleton frolics is a very funny and visually breathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just can t help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watching it it definitely reminds us that iwerk s skeletons are still here to haunt us and inspire us br br yes indeed it could have been a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but is not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly told the image is sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture looks crowded and narrow sighted the sound needs more attention it usually does in romanian movies the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen the soundtrack is short and is not helping the action about the acting sorry but the best actress is the landlady the others are acting immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting is poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it s a picture for adults told by the children bother only if extremely curious you wear only the best italian suits from armani hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements your automobile is the finest that german engineering has to offer and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood you re a member of the finest polo clubs frequently dine at restaurants such as spago and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi automatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alps go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair is never ever out of place you are bond james bond the world s most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british ss and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond was created by ian fleming and is the movie industry s longest lasting icon being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades the latest man to play the role is pierce brosnan who took over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and made his debut in goldeneye br br this is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye developed by rare for nintendo has been on the market for some time its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is and no review library would be complete without it br br let s face it most of the time movie licensed games are flops although the two seem like a good mix the results for the most part have been horrendous games like cliffhanger true lies lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flops are ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i am not a fan of movie licensed games especially if i ve seen the movie at least that s how i used to think in the case of goldeneye i had more reservations than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didn t have that much appeal to it and i don t rank it in the top ten amongst bond movies as a game however let s just say it s a completely different story br br the game is a first person shooter and in order to be successful you ll need at least as much brains as brawn for those who have seen the movie which i imagine is most of you reading this the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world s most dangerous satellite goldeneye has begun in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured your missions will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known m will brief you as soon as you re ready good day james this is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class their problems relationships and interactions with each other it should have managed a wider distribution as it s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time br br the swimming instructor is an almost olympian reduced to teaching adults basic lessons and often the target of horndogging from his female students he attempts more or less to fend them off with varying results br br the students characters are mainstream u s a teachers policemen college students and retired people all of whom haven t learned to swim for some reason the movie covers their relationships including friends relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class several subplots provide amusing fodder including a teacher going through a divorce some high school students making a documentary and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys br br this is a good date movie or just one to watch when you re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality this mostly routine fact based tv drama gets a boost from the fine performance by cole this is the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and children fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks predictable but not a bad watch i watched six of a kind for w c fields he s only in it for around minutes and has one long scene the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville and several other great moments the reamaining minutes are also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles as the bumbling banker j pinkham whinney he is everyone s foil he stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland plays his wife flora joining in the proceedings are george burns and gracie allen boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracie s funny quite but she can also get tiring and poor george burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i don t remember laughing at him once although he has one great scene with ruggles where ruggles tries desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with fields where he asks fields to sell him a sweater that bit is exclusively fields though the situation is constantly funny the whinneys are going to drive to california but to help them with expenses george and gracie are recruited edmund lowe who reminds me somewhat of warren william heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour br br douglas walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast everyone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h b warner as an added bonus there s nat pendleton as a dimwit detective and furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film br br on the plus side the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled it s all suddenly clear to detective philo vance and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense br br nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner this movie is lame and not funny at all the plot doesn t even make sense some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter gets sucked through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit i guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her the main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she s more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witches or something and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie i m sure the topless girls doesn t hurt there either the extra features on the dvd were even more confusing than the rest of the movie i thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing who are these people and what are they doing basically this is a go camping to make out then fight a monster movie but there are a bunch of things like the other dimension and book seller than make it confusing i didn t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal i don t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid i can t think of any part of the movie that was good although i was hoping that i d like it a little more this was still certainly an impressive film there were great performances by all the leads and the story while not what i d call chilling was still effective and it kept me interested for me the best part of this film was the look of the picture for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well i also thought that the low budget suited this movie for i don t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim all things considered it fell a little short of my expectations but i m still very glad that i finally sat down to watch this movie imagine this a high school except it s boarding school and the kids don t have parents around oh and it s in malibu and the kids are all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there aren t any reasonable rules like how they have co habitation nuclear weapons in their dorms coffee stands a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student br br here s the story a girl zoey brooks attends pca a formerly all boys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she is smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist wants to be almost all the boys in school want her and every girl wants to be her friend she s the one everyone comes to for advice the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan and is just wonderful too bad none of this makes her likable br br are we supposed to believe that if we don t even come close to zoey s perfection we re bad people in the show nothing s her fault and if anyone contradicts her they re portrayed as the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time br br her loyal group of blind followers are chase the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who has a soft side yeah this show basically spews out stereotypes br br what ticks me off though is that they all try to pretend they re normal kids they complain that logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a too good to be true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can t afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problems i m too good looking rich and stress free i guess zoey what s the for anyway is nick s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically except they caught a glimpse of reality didn t like it and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on the hills br br but hey at least the set s pretty i had been amazed by director antal s kontroll back in his first american project vacancy was less impressive but a decent start armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable the film never rises above the level of a b movie br br it s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn t really deliver in that department either br br what you are left with is one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score you re left with what could have been a below average direct to video featuring van damme or seagal br br this was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time first of all the reason i m giving this film stars instead of is because at least peter falk gave his usual fantastic performance as lieutenant columbo he alone can get stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie br br i was initially all fired up at reading one poster s comment that andrew stevens in this movie gave the performance of his career to me it was the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruined this movie and so i was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment then i thought to myself what else has stevens done so i checked and you know that person was absolutely right in the years since this columbo movie was made apparently every one of the projects that stevens has been in since then has been utter crap so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career br br if you like columbo see every other of the titles before watching this one do yourself a favor and save the worst for last this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years not even woody harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom br br the murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not nothing is of any interest the cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful i just sat in utter amazement during this movie thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining br br the producers of this movie were very clever they made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy are they in for a horrible time br br if you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie some people actually did enjoyed this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just had to see it looked like a fun low budget horror action western that i could get into yeah i knew it would suck but i rented it anyway hoping for laughs only a few laughs were to be found this was an extremely stupid movie it begins with a bounty hunter our protagonist who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film he looks acts like he could take on chuck norris but he can t his dialogue sucks too anyway he goes into a village shoots some zombies you could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes minutes to reload or watch some zombies at least the zombies look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombies die and in the end everyone is dead except our main character who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people i am finally seeing the el padrino movie from what i can see it is an incredible film and lots of action damian chapa is good director but i must admit i love his acting the best br br also i saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit br br however the film el padrino is a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is i am so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also br br i am one of those people who love to see artists make it br br b s i thrive on cinema but there is a limit a name isn t enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry till the end things are getting so confused that i admit that i did not understand the end or was there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed next michael callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems nonetheless to be regarded as a perfect catch by any woman that runs across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co produced the film he s a hero whom it s very difficult to empathize with so the movie is in trouble right from the start however it s troubles don t end there it has the production values of a tv movie check out that head made of clay or something near the end and the ending cheats in a way that i can t reveal in case anyone wants to see the movie highly unlikely let s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows i was drawn to friends by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i had see in a club in nearby houston i had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make recently i was brought back to the movie by a song that heart did called seasons then i found the elton john song friends thinking it was the same song it s been years of so anyway the flood of the emotions of friends came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual details of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary eyed at the end as i was i m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movies which seemed so important to me back then i e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i don t want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turns out silly then at least i ll be able to turn my wife onto a great no outstanding soundtrack when we met we went through this with last tango in paris the youngsters i work with i m respect my opinions but it s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little aged now i just can t figure out if the the aging process is the movies or me friends is a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will bring back a lot of special feelings i m sure by all means rent or buy a copy indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today during the clete roberts preface i was beginning to think this was an ed wood production however what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town is told using a cast culled from hollywood s poverty row and this makes the movie all the more realistic there are no punches pulled here and at times the film is reminiscent of the well the black and white texture gives a newsreel like quality for certain younger viewers will be reminded of the blair witch project but this one is based on real events i decided to watch this one because it s been nominated for oscar this year i guess as many folks here i really wanted to like this movie but ended up bored and disappointed first scene was ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hands camera mode is really annoying br br i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for oscar is this br br american military machine people who makes money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungling up something sort of patriotic br br why these heroic efforts of director and the main character to inspire the audience with an idea of loving war like a drug oh please come on what a bore br br watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called mom or with the word mom in the title br br this is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there br br it is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation br br the kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger who just happens to be a flesh eater who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly is not defined br br there is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified attempts to help her by supplying food i shall say no more about that for fear of inserting a spoiler it is one of those quiet movies as opposed to guns blasting explosions raging car chases etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans whilst also inserting sadness into the story along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so called horror movies br br there is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and looks so innocent but what she becomes oh my br br a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan empire of passion starts out deceptively that is if you re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie it s like a riff on james m cain s the postman always rings twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki is a mother of two and a dutiful hard working wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he s not around and she s at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji comes around to bring some goodies for seki and a little extra they re soon sleeping together but after he does something to her let s just say a shave he knows that he ll find out and immediately proposes that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it s literally at least to them at first super terrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji changes gears into the kaidan a japanese ghost story br br this is a film where the horror comes not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that builds for the characters in a way there s the mechanics of a film noir at work throughout if only loosely translated by way of a th century japanese village as opposed to an american city or small town i e the snooping cop the evidence found possibly by another word getting around suspicions aroused etc it s compelling because seiko actually was against the plan from the start manipulated by the lustful but ill prepared toyoji and her reactions to gisaburo s re appearances are staggering to her take the one that comes closest to poetry gisaburo s ghost pale blue face and mostly silent chilling stare motions for seiko to get on the rickshaw she does reluctantly and he pushes her around on a road she doesn t know in the wee hours before dawn surrounded by smoke most japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric br br while it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end there s so much here that director oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work after hitting it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the senses which ironically got banned in his own country he made something that he claimed was even more daring that senses maybe he was right empire of passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor also starring tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread you can believe in ghosts in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would be lovebirds will go the snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries the fate of their very souls is at stake br br and oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldn t surprise me if an american remake was already in the works and crafts shot after gorgeous shot with repetition working its way into the mis en scene i e the shots of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after i finish typing this i e toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seiko s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind it s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit not to be confused with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death s connections to one another inextricably it s a classic waiting to be discovered i am not a big music video fan i think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song any song in other words creative thinking goes out the window likewise personal feelings aside about mj toss aside this was the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it was a movie yes folks it was brilliant you had awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this was spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man but was he a man or something sinister vincent price did his thing adding to the song and video mj was mj enough said about that this song was to video what jaguars are for cars top of the line perfecto what was even better about this was that we got the real mj without the thousand facelifts though ironically enough there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around folks go to youtube take mins out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is oh my goodness i would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than domestic disturbance this soon but here it is armed with rotten plot terrible editing stilted acting and headache inducing style sorry i have no other words for it sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re evaluate an entire genre that is this film is so bad that even the thrillers i condemned as complete failures now seem a little better br br now not only sanctimony is a terrible film in itself it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it right from the main titles nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from se en i was under the impression that something didn t smell quite right as soon as the movie started with a series of corny wan na be hip quick cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors i knew where that smell was coming from br br it turns out that two policemen or rather policeman jim renart michael par and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin are investigating on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer known as monkey killer what a menacing chilling nickname uh for his working methods has killed quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently works following the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cuts eyes ears and tongues out of his victims so far six eyes six ears and three tongues in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer is probably going to kill other three people well because he probably wants to complete the number so suddenly the film focuses on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful good looking businessman with a dreadful temper and that s where the rip off of american psycho kicks in br br so we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath none of which is interesting in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely misses gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory renart goes in the back of the disco club because well just because the script tells us it s a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path and the guard is never heard of again does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic br br anyway after another murder gerrick turns in as a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith gets some dates with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity br br i won t spoil the ending but it is quite simply an embarrassment there are contradictions some plot holes issues that never get resolved and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder supposed to be shocking and sad comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly can t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it br br at minutes sanctimony is really pushing it you never care about one single character because they are all so flat not to mention boring that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them you are never pulled into the story because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place the acting ranges from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the supporting cast the music is abysmal generic techno and the photography is one of the worst i have ever seen of course like every fiasco of the genre we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity br br the man with a golden arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two were monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one is the best br br maybe if otto preminger had shot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet who knows maybe preminger couldn t get enough money to pay for the location it s the only flaw i find in the film br br frank sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss robert strauss when the game was raided he took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people are conspiring against him br br first bob strauss who wants him back dealing especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town he uses a few underhanded methods to get sinatra s services back secondly darren mcgavin is the local dope dealer who wants sinatra good and hooked as a customer again and finally eleanor parker his clinging wife who s working a con game to beat all just to keep him around br br frank sinatra got a nomination for best actor for this film but lost to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn t won for from here to eternity in the supporting actor category a few years back and that marty was such an acclaimed film in that year his scenes going through withdrawal locked up in kim novak s apartment will leave you shaken br br eleanor parker does not get enough credit for her role she s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost if she had not been nominated that same year for interrupted melody she might have been nominated for this marked the high point of her career br br darren mcgavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler his performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl br br elmer bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the characters live in not a place you d want to bring up your family this film was basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio two they tried to stuff in depth novels in to a hour movie br br i maintain the only way for these two books vampire lestat and queen of the damned to work in a live action form would be through a mini series first off the the vampire lestat alone takes place from the s to the s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat sets up the events of the second part queen of the damned without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed br br lestat was not cruel and vicious to all he was not wanting to go along with akasha s plans marius did not make lestat lestat did not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius was not after david nor the other way around every character was completely represented wrong basically same names different story br br if they wanted to make a vampire movie fine even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels fine but don t piggie back into the theaters off the success of rice s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love br br if you haven t read the books you won t understand the film really if you have read the books you will be insulted that being said i am such a huge fan i had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it catch must see it will hate it have previously enjoyed wesley snipes in several action flicks and i had expected a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a worst case scenario of playing strong feelings accompanied by some bad acting don t waist your time this movie xadsnt entertaining if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tears will be wept due to seeing wesley snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy br br i give this it really was awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it its all the good things this movie isn t an intense thriller about a mute movie make up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night after she tries to get away from the murder scene she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness this movie leaves you on the edge of your seat don t listen to most of these people ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love its about jill johnson played by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone breaks in if you re wondering how he got in the house he went through the garage most likely so anyway don t listen to the worst acting it has amazing acting with a great story i think that there are benefits that jill has shes a fast runner and is on the track team she got out alive lol br br it is a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece don t listen to the other people on the site its very good trust me i am good at reviewing movies i m a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it is amazingly awesome what a frustrating movie a small southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces as anyone who has read anything by carson mccullers already knows this does none of that instead the writers settled for cutesy twinkles cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing looks like a made for tv movie and was directed with no particular distinction but it s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting br br the most frustrating aspect though is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this well there s no other word for it drivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing this movie starred a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio s baron munchausen as well as jimmy durante however decades later it s being billed as a three stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well as zazu pitts br br as for the stooges this is a film from there very early days before mgm had any idea what to do with the team at this point they were known as ted healy and his stooges as healy was the front man fortunately for the stooges they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man read up on him you ll see what i mean and the rest is history within a year they were making very successful shorts for columbia and executives at mgm were soon kicking themselves for losing the team this sort of thing was a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy such as the films of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they left for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film roles including acting with clark gable and joan crawford in dancing lady and oddly in this film they didn t act as a team they just did various supporting roles such as larry playing the piano br br this particular film begins with pearl and durante lost in the african jungle when they are rescued and brought home all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there as for pearl i could really see why he never made a successful transition to films as he has the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome as for durante i never knew what the public saw in him as least as far as his films are concerned he was loud and loud he apparently took time off from helping mgm to ruin buster keaton s career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lots of verbal humor and vaudeville style routines that tend to fall rather flat br br in this film the stooges they didn t yet have the right chemistry seeing healy doing the job that moe did in their later films is odd what they did in the film was pretty good but because all the segments were short they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines stooges fans might be very frustrated at this though die hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life long goal of seeing everything stooge even the rotten joe derita and joe besser films oh and did they got bad after the deaths of shemp and curly br br overall the film is rather dull and disappointing however there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing look carefully as this is walter brennan in a role you d certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film is the clean as a whistle song starting at about minutes into the film this song and dance number is clearly an example of a so called pre code scene that never would have been allowed in films after when the production code was strengthened despite the word clean in the title it s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it s quite shocking when seen today though such excesses were pretty common in the early s finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relations back a few decades see the film you ll see that i mean when carol vanessa hidalgo starts looking into her brother s death she begins to suspect something more sinister than natural causes the closer she gets to the truth the more of a threat she becomes to her sister in law fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanists they ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways br br if you re into sleazy satanic themed movies black candles has a lot to offer the movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft core sex one scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed unfortunately all the sleaze in the world can t save black candles most of the movie is a total bore other than the one scene i ve already mentioned the numerous sex scenes aren t shocking and certainly aren t sexy the acting is spotty at best even genre favorite helga line gives a disappointing performance the plot really doesn t matter its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together i m only familiar with one other movie directed by jose ramon larraz compared with his daughters of darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror black candles comes off as amateurish is about the best i can do one of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history zodiac killer offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers the filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remembers zodiac will be intrigued others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killers zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self promoter the director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off the film is constructed as a murder mystery or a cold case style thriller it is an intelligent investigative procedural style horror film that will put off gore hounds in search of cheap thrills br br some people dislike any movie that is shot on video this attitude is very old style and provincial it is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value these attitudes are on the way out zodiac killer is a low budget film no doubt but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully crafted gem i ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it takes to get into music school britney bashing etc etc so let s focus on the movie and the message br br i have rated this movie out of for the age range to years and for a family movie for the average adult male out of br br i like pop rock music i m i know of britney spears but never realised she actually sang stronger until i read the credits and these reviews i didn t recognise her poster on the wall so i was not worried about any self promotion br br i watch movies to be entertained i don t care about casting lighting producers directors etc what is the movie and does it entertain me br br i watched this movie for the message the world s greatest epidemic is low self esteem which is a whole other story so watched with the message in mind as that is an area of interest the movie is light bright and breezy great for kids i found the texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up don t give up message so yeh it was a bit predictable great message though should be more of them br br this movie is a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal i like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies it is filled with super surfer greg noll s home movies and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory it is filled with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic surfers are not astronauts nor test pilots nor are they surgeons perhaps or ph d s again perhaps it believes in the quest of the surfer it believes in the beauty of human goofiness it believes in the great gift of peace which comes from the cessation of war surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attacked by japanese zeroes fifteen years before it celebrates the down time of a country which fought a cold war instead of a hot war with the russian socialists surfing is the ultimate narcissism it is dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique he had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received this movie has no military heroes it has no guns the only beach head surfers conquer has a beer stand and and a surfboard shop this is not a problem peace is not desperate it is the joy of exhalation i had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode it was dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learned a single thing the graphics were rudimentary any small idea was repeated ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series hosted by carl sagan that had a good musical theme there was no music coming from these infernal dimensional strings although the plot of this film is a bit far fetched it is worth seeing just for the performances of michaels caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine hams it up which is exactly what the character he is playing should do entertaining and fun this is a hour and a half of easy watching this movie was so badly written directed and acted that it beggars belief it should be remade with a better script director and casting service the worst problem is the acting you have jennifer beals on the one hand who is polished professional and totally believable and on the other hand ri chard who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine are just awful as the slave owning and keeping couple although both normally do fine work the actors and director should not have attempted to do accents at all they are inconsistent and unbelievable much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual english the casting is ludicrous why have children of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society been cast with very pale skinned actors while the supposedly socially desirable marcel has pronounced african features including an obviously dyed blond fro it s as if the casting directors can not be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color it s just so weird this could be a great movie and should be re made but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors there are plenty of good actors out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction when i was a younger oh about i watched barney for the first time and liked it but back then i didn t exactly have a brain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really is first of all everything on that show is creepy barney the main character is a horrendous foot tall talking purple dinosaur that teaches year olds about imagination shudders b j i know what your thinking about his name is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he is the exact opposite after watching a few episodes with b j dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap and making a few no so funny jokes i wanted to scream baby bop oh oh god vomits oh oh oh anyway baby bop is the worst idea of a character ever she is a green triceratops it s a dinosaur that carries a yellow blanket her remarks of hee hee hee and barney s praises cries of super deeee doooper make it hard to sit through each episode as the seventh graders learn about shapes and manners br br and that my friend is what makes this show truly horrible steve mcqueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there he certainly was a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew but even mcqueen can t save this turkey of a film shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in st louis br br mcqueen s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang there s more than a broad hint that there s a gay relationship going on between young steve and david clarke he s not liked at all by the other heist members mainly because of his lack of criminal resume br br steve also has a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspects something afoot especially when he starts hanging around with crahan denton and james dukas as well as clarke all pretty rough characters that would certainly get my suspicions aroused br br the great st louis bank robbery had two directors charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim did mostly documentaries and stix didn t do much of anything one of those two jokers decided steve s performance was best served by doing a bad marlon brando imitation br br this film may go down as the worst ever done by steve mcqueen i m willing to bet that dick powell and four star productions had already signed him for wanted dead or alive because i can t believe they would have if they saw this br br or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey this is a bad film as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts as a result it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film miss dunne or mr huston should have been proud of making however the film is worth watching if you are a fan of pre code films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls do put out even if they aren t married and even if their partner is br br the film begins with miss dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to europe for wwi in the process she meets a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convinces her to sleep with him she becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne does not want him back as she realizes he s not worth it but later her baby dies at child birth while all these very controversial plot elements are used they are always alluded to almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kids in the audience will be clueless after all films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time br br surprisingly this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and cabot ends about of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to it was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it tacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women s prison though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there what we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate and as a result of all this violence miss dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer br br but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the women s prison reform business goes by the wayside dunne meets a judge walter huston who is married but he desperately wants her now throughout the film dunne is portrayed as a very good girl even though she did have unmarried sex with cabot she was more or less tricked into it but now single irene who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man he tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only but she never thinks to investigate if this is true and with his assurance off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business but while she s pregnant with his love child he s indicted for being a crooked judge he assures her he s innocent but he s convicted and it sure sounds like he s a scoundrel using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moments of the film miss dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until huston is released the film then ends br br so we basically have three separate films and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gathered that she should be a strong minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships this really undoes all the positives about dunne s character and it s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film a strong women s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent re write this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film but it couldn t make up its mind what it wanted to be and was just another dull pre code film i caught this movie on the sci fi channel recently it actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as b list horror suspense films go two guys one naive and one loud mouthed a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky make shift tank truck hybrid decides to play cat and mouse with them things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase suspense scenes nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror slasher buff definitely worth checking out very mild spoilers a basic plot outline no real details br br if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations i saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in maryland and the only reason i agreed to go was because it was free i expected a few chuckles but as i have never been a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that br br the first ten minutes of the film are hilarious as we are given a look at jack black s humble christian origins in a midwest american town the film then takes us years into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gass the second half of tenacious d we see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name finally as the title suggests the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face that said there were times it felt a bit long it s only minutes but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter the story is every bit as absurd as it sounds and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot which is fine except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the songs it is a musical but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so then kept going anyway br br i will say that the r rating really saved this movie from bombing the d s humor simply couldn t work without cussing sex and drug references but unless you re a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit but is it worth bucks i don t think so i was tempted to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres a seems more appropriate just be sure it s your style i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie is not recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played ff the game before watching the movie relies on the audience s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements and it does so very subtly do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise it ll be that much better br br with that in mind this film has some of the most spectacular cg sequences i have ever witnessed the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroids yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action oriented ones is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe br br i believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who are familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation br br once again i myself having only played through ff once thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from square enix and that is the feel in most scenes choreographed and organized like a dance br br in short if you enjoyed the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if you re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as ff on playstation or pc doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience br br finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film characters move with fluidity each scene background comes to life and tells its own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reactions subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery br br square enix and the great tetsuya nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent children has ushered in a new era for cg animations allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves br br thanks square enix the wait was well worth it this is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made everything about it acting directing script cinematography is dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claims to be from a nearby universe one assumes the scriptwriter meant galaxy but didn t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms a better title for the film would be it came from the planet of plot contrivances the plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the humans are all given magical macguffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time is ignored now it s a couple days after meeting the alien then bam all of a sudden there s only a couple hours left until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupider for having watched it the ending is particularly silly and should have been accompanied by someone going ta da as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you ll get cancer watching it if you can watch the last minutes without crapping yourself enemies of freedom honestly laughing you re retarded if you really really really enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt mirrors eating non ants and conquering the world with a voice over narrative then this is the movie for you basically a couple of scientists working out of a bio dome communicate with highly intelligent ants the most intelligent actors in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientists and a girl they rescued from the ants use everything at their disposal computers green dye and horrid acting but to no avail i guess they just couldn t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly br br the title of the movie phase iv is something of a mystery this is not a spoiler but phase i starts right after the opening credits whereas you don t reach phase iv until the end credits roll apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phases throughout the movie as a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credits as a mst k episode this one wasn t very good for two reasons this one is from the season on ktma when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons and this movie is so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there are one or two gamera references as they had just finished riffing gamera movies br br the movie does have a trick surprise ending but i was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me joseph brady and clarence doolittle are two sailors who have a four day shore leave in hollywood joe knows everything about girls and can t wait to see lola while clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls they then run into a little boy donald martin who has ran away in order to join the navy they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who wants to be a singer clarence wants susie to be his girl but his shyness gets in the way but he doesn t feel shy with a waitress who comes from brooklyn like he does soon joe notices he s in love with susie the boys are in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don t even know as they are in a fix with their feelings george sidney s anchors aweigh is a great musical comedy gene kelly is top notch once again in his singing and dancing routines frank sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from brooklyn shy isn t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he plays his part well kathryn grayson is fantastic as susan abbott we sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of the year old dean stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor jose iturbi does great job performing himself it s magic what he does with the piano edgar kennedy plays chief of police station sara berner is the voice of jerry mouse there s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave it s so energetic if you knew susie like i know susie is quite funny it s a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell it s lovely to listen to grayson singing the tango jealousy the most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world and there gene sings and dances with jerry mouse also tom cat is seen there as the butler they originally asked mickey mouse but he refused the movie was nominated for five oscars but georgie stoll got one for original music score anchors aweigh is some high class entertainment from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my media studies class and i recognised the leading actress so i tried it despite the rating by the critics basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson s ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully s michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them investigating the murder is homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene e g non relating hairs the plan doesn t seem to be completely going well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin as suspects it is just a question of if they can sway them away also starring agnes bruckner as lisa mills chris penn as ray feathers r d call as captain rod cody and tom verica as asst d a al swanson i can see now the same concept as sir alfred hitchcock s rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film does it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from being dull and predictable adequate things to come is an early sci fi film that shows an imagined world or everytown through years you can break it up into about different scenes or parts the film spans from to and is mainly about how this ruler or the boss wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again after everytown was bombed and war broke out br br this film only has about faults it s audio is muddy and video had some quirks the characters aren t deep at all and the overall plot isn t altogether solid the plot is lacking something that i can t put my finger on it just seems a little fluffy but if you love sci fi and are interested in what h g wells though might happened in the next hundred years this is a must see it s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing a long drawn out war because they were just about to go to war with germany and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything br br things to come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once weak stale tired cliched wants to be basic instinct but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives new insights insipid trite grotesque and without the possibly redeeming value of brevity oh wait it was only minutes long it must have just seemed a lot longer i d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again i m expressing an opinion here i guess this means i didn t like it one word can describe this movie and that is weird i recorded this movie one day because it was a japanese animation and it was old so i thought it would be interesting well it was the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not very strange if you are a fan of animation science fiction you might want to check this out while i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem i don t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right br br the story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting one of the girls is alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle thrown together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on br br i just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint is that the dvd was sorely lacking in special features oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring but all in all a excellent movie this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hacks at work today not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of british actors so what went wrong i don t know and simply i don t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co worker out of his father s company and thus leads to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid very stupid plot twists devices i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather what about lock stock thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film i ll not comment a lot what s to stereotype characters absolute ignorance about colombia s reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it s beside the nonsense scenes very poor actors direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreters you ll know they are at least good but seeing this so call film it is impossible to guess it you get tired of the music this comedy has no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it s the rap sing in the final credits pathetic doesn t it etc etc it has been a long time i haven t seen a movie so bad this movie is a riot i can not remember the last time i had such a great time at the movies i ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny but this one is wall to wall great lines i think best in show is the last movie that i laughed so hard and so much in the movie was non stop until the end when they did the minutes of sentimental plot clean up other than that it s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations i d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the zucker movies where you don t get all the jokes the first time around you have to see it two or three times to get it all in br br as far as the actual film goes it could have used a better edit it s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that all the characters are great it s not like an adam sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable no victims in this movie also thank god they got a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film you just wish that women like her really existed she s not a like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than julia roberts overdone overbite br br if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer does not do it justice they do not give away all the good jokes just some of the mediocre ones br br oh and one more thing i hope critics put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedies don t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don t put it on their list this means you ebert a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth things must be pretty bad back on mars two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported ufo crash whatever landed is buried under the ice at tracy s pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner br br the diner has had no customers since eleven o clock that morning now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge the bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus although he didn t notice who they were the problem is that there are now seven people waiting for the journey to be resumed one of them is an alien but which one all of them are suspect there s the crazy old man jack elam of course who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit there s a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couples nobody has noticed anyone else and even the couples are suspicious of each other bride to newly minted husband i could have sworn you had a mole on your chin the story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone rings for no reason the lights go on and off the juke box turns itself on and none of it is to be taken seriously br br it s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle there is no discernible depth to it it s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens it s not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses br br i always enjoy it when it s on it s especially interesting to see john hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman knowing that in he was the roman senator who masterminded the assassination of julius caesar in mgm s version of shakespeare s play and here he is with three arms br br oops it s rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created and how bias its product was br br i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film makers to display the palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallels the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinians in prison i understand restrictions are in place but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace br br i came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence so to speak she continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber s parents and her angry and closed minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control it is more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignored pleas for understanding and freedom ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquired the land br br i have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seems exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it is a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart wrenching and sad subject matter relentless like one of those loud action movies the entire cast seems to be on speed i didn t quite get the director s intentions if any i wonder if she s ever seen a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this is one hell of a mess and i loved abba the costumes the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations the one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of meryl streep making a fool of herself no chemistry with her friends christine baranski and julie walters think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and you ll understand what i was hoping for i was embarrassed in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seemed to enjoy it so it probably it s just me this movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space as a history of space flight it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it disney has shown it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again in an alternate s where an outbreak of the undead caused by a mysterious space dust has been contained through the use of special electronic collars a young loner timmy finds a friend in fido billy connelly his family s recently acquired domesticated zombie br br fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hot to trot wife played by the gorgeous carrie anne moss having been psychologically scarred as a child when he was forced to shoot his own father who tried to eat him br br timmy runs into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal s collar goes on the blink and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour with the authorities on fido s trail trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies and his mother forming a bond with their undead house help will timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend br br a refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick fido is a thoroughly entertaining deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour taking the romero zombie verse and transplanting it into s small town america is a stroke of genius and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole reanimated dead theme that i have seen br br connelly s fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead s bub and return of the living dead s tarman it is not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin s performance is so fine that i actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus the rest of the cast also give commendable performances with young k sun ray as timmy and ms moss deserving special mentions ray because for one so young he puts in a particularly assured turn and moss because she is so bloody yummy br br this is the third zombie film that i have watched this week the others being the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it is also the best director andrew currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future br br out of rounded up to for imdb an extremely down to earth well made and acted rodeo western no gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hats off particularly to slim pickens for giving what i think was his signature performance especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life his role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ups and downs of the hard nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style he and mr coburn teamed up extremely well as partners not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer as coburn s native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have been one of her first roles br br not as flashy perhaps as junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for showing this true grit of an under rated movie from time to time despite some reviews being distinctly luke warm i found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as mills and boon so what it is good to see a warm touching story of real love in these cynical times many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes you really believe that the young victoria and albert are passionately fond of each other even though for political reasons it was an arranged marriage i did feel though that sir john conroy who was desperate to control the young queen is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain as it is rumoured that he was in fact the real father of victoria as a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have been interesting to explore this theory emily blunt is totally convincing as the young princess trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her she brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made victoria a great queen of england which prospered as never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie american nightmare is officially tied in my opinion with it s pat for the worst movie of all time br br seven friends oddly resembling the k mart version of the cast of friends gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it s hosted by a guy with a beard that s the most exciting aspect of his show br br chandler monica joey and oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad one liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse serial killer is listening br br crazy nurse then proceeds to torture ross and rachel and wait sorry again by making their fears come to life these fears include such stunners as voodoo and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures br br no really br br this movie was in a word rotten crazy nurse s killing spree lacks motivation there s nothing to make the viewer jump the ending blows and again voodoo br br if you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones rent american nightmare with them br br if you care for your loved ones even a little bit go to your local blockbuster rent all of the copies of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer first off i have to say that i loved the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it was great we also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial the movie was so disappointing to me the movie cuts out some characters and misses a lot of the main points of the book it skips around a lot and doesn t explain anything in detail if someone was watching this movie without having first read the book they would be confused the most disappointing thing in this movie to me was the ending the ending in the book was the most powerful and in the movie they changed it it was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of melting together but instead the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs to sum up i don t think that this movie captured the real meaning that orwell portrayed in his book this movie was extremely boring i only laughed a few times i decided to rent it when i noticed william shatner s name on the cover it s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates when wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist he meets a prostitute she takes him to a club called the playground where he befriends several pimps when mayor tony gold shatner decides to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies br br the animation isn t very good in this it looks like it was made with macromedia which i m sure it was it doesn t suck it s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years the humor in this is not very good i didn t think any of it was funny i was disgusted by this movie no it wasn t because of the graphic sex scenes it was because it ruined the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie does not hold much truth about her and her art it shows one piece of art work that she did judith beheading holofernese but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first judith for a year after the trial br br i don t know if you understood this from the movie probably not tassi was not a noble character he raped artemisia it was not love it was rape he did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured according to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka had sex with while she states over and over again it s true br br i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she is really about don t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work br br don t see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia such a joyous world has been created for us in pixar s a bug s life we re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation for those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer when it s in the right hands that is a bug s life is a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equally warm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high calibre film productions br br it is only pixar s second animated feature the sub group of disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in with their landmark movie toy story it was a movie which defied convention re invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film br br after all it s a film about ants well all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in a bug s life but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film as humans are the focal point in dramas romances and so on how can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toy box items were able to become the grandest most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted the guys at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you ll probably ever encounter br br not only are they all entirely amiable and likable there isn t an unpleasant character in sight even the villains are riveting characters but they re colourful they re eclectic and they re idiosyncratic and the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto a bug s life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name is flik david foley and his character is rather generic to say the least out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush beautiful ant island he is the one considered the black sheep of the clan as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season s harvest with his antics br br the problem arises in the fact that the ants harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by hopper kevin spacey who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone they go insane for lack of a better term hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack s hands however it s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil the cogs and clockwork in flik s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offers to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony s rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers br br if you think about it a bug s life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line s of akira kurosawa s classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but good hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies one lone village dweller goes in search for help in the big city finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil in a bug s life the help comes in the form of a down and out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by flik as warriors in a bar room brawl br br much amusement comes out of these scenes and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs among them are an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a side splitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasi femme fatale ladybug who s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on screen as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on screen as is the entire movie collectively br br as i ve said much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie what makes a bug s life even better is that the film isn t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film the clich d kid friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we d like however it s easy to ignore this fault and it s incredulously easy to enjoy this film br br although a bug s life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor this is still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have proved that they re not just a one hit wonder but instead a much gifted and talented group of film artists in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manages to top their standards it s only always by themselves what more is there to say about a bug s life other than see it it s not quite the best which we ve seen from the folks at emeryville california but this beats out the lot of its year and i ll be damned if this isn t the best animated feature of br br what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version is no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of juliette brioche as kathy has got to be the worst casting decision ever anyway back to this version it aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeeds in both but high art it is nit throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe the direction was average and the editing abysmal worse than the old quincy deepak verma does a great turn as hindley and is in fact one of britains wasted talents the part of heath was played with great charm and belief and i think that the casting is the strongest point of this project although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had its clear that he was a director for hire and didn t instill the project with the passion that it deserved my father the hero used to be my favorite movie when i was younger it s about andre a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hoping to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isn t that easy to get along with she just started puberty i m guessing she is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meets handsome ben and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie i would give my father the hero it is surprising that a production like this gets made these days especially for television considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes not to mention lesbianism this has been given superb treatment and direction br br the sets and costumes are flawless the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable there is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes the protagonist is really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoids the mistake most films shows make when dealing with homosexuality lesbianism the characters are very human it seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on tv and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay not so with this in tipping the velvet the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means br br the bbc have made some wonderful productions in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts i just don t get some of the big premises of this episode that miranda is so remarkable and that there s anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here made the remark that maybe it s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness miranda is just a jerk the episode is slow inconsistent and way too talky i also don t quite understand why kolos is an ambassador why doesn t the federation just leave the damn medusans be there s one part i do like when kolos is speaking through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at its lamest i ll always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldn t purchase it except for a used copy under this is one of my all time favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movies mental list mind the only ones on par with it are movies such as the lord of the rings series spirited away and fly away home br br i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie she s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls she really sucks you into her life i also certainly can t fault any of the protagonist s acting or anyone else s in the film br br the soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules the movie is never boring the romance is really cute and didn t make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really made it though was the indian factor jess parents are indian and there are many colourful indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else the indian people are also hilarious essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it br br feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film they re funny they re refreshing and they make you feel good i know that you ve already entered this in film festivals or at least i think you have i may just be making that up but i think this should get best animated short film in every one bravo i can t wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations but hear it now and accept it as the truth kudos my friend okay now i m just trying to get ten lines of text though i still mean it and here comes yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this is extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing better to do in fact i ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those br br r this is probably the first entry in the lance o leary nurse keat detective series in subsequent o leary films he was played by much younger actors than guy kibbee br br a group of relatives all played by well known character actors gathers in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who goes into a coma br br while they wait for him to recover all sorts of mysterious goings on happen including a couple of murders br br a creepy film worth seeing this animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs evil plot and is all about action what sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated it was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around her movements were done so well why don t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days it s quite effective br br fire and ice in it s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others including plenty of women will adore it s esthetic quality i for sure did not mind bakshi just loves animating lushious voluptuous babes as can also be seen in cool world and i don t think he has to apoligize since it s pretty much animation for adults but i had also enjoyed this animation as a child and i never forgot it br br this one was just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it s possibly bakshi s finest for those who like animations with lushious women try space adventure cobra as well br br i give fire and ice out of my ratings acting suspense character attachment plot character development overall br br this show sucks very much officially for me csi miami is the best csi ny nd and csi th i don t know in the other csis you get into the episode you re watching but in this one you just can t get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show is not worth watching i know people have different opinions and i respect that but for me this csi ain t good enough so if you like suspense real acting performance good plot direction character development attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami i am not a faulkner fan which is considered sacrilegious especially since i grew up near the author s hometown however i think this is an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you haven t seen it buy it anyway it s well worth having in your permanent collection tcm recently played the movie as a part of the race on film series i wish they d play it more often very moving br br on a side note the folks from oxford mississippi will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the s the courthouse city hall etc they re all on screen i never knew the movie was filmed there until i noticed the familiarity of the buildings when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i began to get suspicious look closely at the pennants on chick s wall you ll see two for ole miss chinese ghost story iii is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films the film delivers the spell casting special effects that one can expect but fails painfully on all other fronts the actors all play extremely silly caricatures you have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot is predictable and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begins to resemble old godzilla films including shabby larger than life special effects and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grinned if i was expecting camp br br it is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they won t be able to do it again the cash cow is now dead as a dodo i can t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with paris hilton and sure it s his company but you re fired or you re hired for how many seasons now after watching the show i wouldn t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve br br i d love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he gets hurt so i don t have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it i d give this show a negative mark if i could but it gets a and it doesn t deserve that if i had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease inducing dogme style i would never have rented it nevertheless i took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot i lasted a very very very long forty minutes before giving up it s just boring pretentious twaddle br br the last french movie i saw was romance and it too was pretty dismal but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time i am baffled at the continuing popularity of dogme overseas it ll catch on in america about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy it s called dogme because that s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera br br the story and the show were good but it was really depressing and i hate depressing movies ri chard is great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous seriously i thought she was carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i can t say anything bad about peter galleghar he s one of my favorite actors i love anne rice i m currently reading the vampire chronicles but i m glad i saw the movie before reading the book this is a little too real for me i prefer lestat and louis s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves eartha kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did the movie was ruined for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i don t want to give anything away sorry but it s just not my type of show first let me just comment on what i liked about the movie the special effects were fantastic and very rarely did i feel like i was watching a video game there that is the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone reading this to take note that i can t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing br br i have innumerable complaints about the film but four major complaints jump to mind my first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away where lois s year old son turns out to be the super powered child of superman when the crying super child throws a piano at lex s henchman to save his mother i almost got up and left the theater singer could have made a much better superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super powered illegitimate child it s been days since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit br br my next major complaint has to do with the fact that superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space it doesn t take comic book guy from the simpsons to point out what s wrong with that i don t know how many comic books brian singer has read but when superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any superman related projects ever again the concept is as ridiculous as making a dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then brush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas that s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground br br my third major complaint has to do with the fact that singer slaps movie goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman as the only son of a god like jor el sent to earth to be a savior jor el wasn t all wise he was just a scientist and he didn t send his son to earth to be a savior he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode i ll buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god sends christ to earth because heaven was about to explode and then radioactive pieces of heaven become christ s primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stabs superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until i m too brain dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman returns the passion of the christ br br and speaking of luthor my last major complaint has to do with singer s depiction of lex luthor lex luthor is a shrewd cold hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for president which he does in the comics than try to destroy the world the man wants money and power he wants to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman returns as well as all the previous superman movies is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world if singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the quite awful previous superman movies this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer s next project can be a batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow br br to summarize i don t know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews everyone is entitled to their opinion but if you don t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven t already don t see it don t buy it when it comes out on dvd don t rent it basically don t contribute any money towards it in any way this movie does not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that sees this movie bryan singer should be fined billion dollars if you re a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you ll get the same experience without having to waste hours of your time this is one of the best tv productions of a musical ever i have heard the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have seen tyne daly live and i ve seen the rosalind russell movie countless times i think bette is if not the best then tied with the best she captures not just the bravura but also the pathos of mama rose i was never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoyed cynthia gibb in what is arguably her best role everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful the three strippers led by the always dependable christine ebersole are hard to top there was supposed to be a tv production of mame a few years back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intended for auntie mame i am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad it reminds me of a c grade porn movie with one major difference no porn br br the story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable at the very least the pacing should have been picked up br br while i accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had he should have spent more time on the story or better yet get someone else to write it many of the action scenes were just pointless br br it was a complete waste of my time is it a perfect movie no it is a weird adaptation from a sci fi book and it features vampires from space naked beauties and the british army efficiency br br when i first saw this movie i was rather young and all i can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it weren t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie i probably wouldn t have rated it so high but given her sheer magnificence i am now actually considering voting it up br br lucky for me i got reminded of the movie and watched it again now imagine raiders of the lost ark or poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci fi story but with completely over the top performances i still enjoyed the movie tremendously as well as mathilda may but it was a mixture of nostalgia comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended br br bottom line if you are a sci fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie oh and did i mention mathilda may is young beautiful and naked overall i was rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minutes were worrying as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of the o c but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that i very rarely see television tackle br br bsg dealt with themes such as monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and i personally found myself evoking such works as ghost in the shell and the matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed i think if you are a fan of the two i just mentioned or other films television shows which deal with the subjects i referenced i think you will find at least something here br br in terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in bsg came about i believe they handled it in a very interesting way i especially liked how they explained where the cylon s belief in one god came from and the creation of caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers br br the only real weak points i noticed were the relationship between the greystone parents and the actress who plays lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters but this is something i think needs work i also found magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time needed to develop but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident br br based on the pilot i greatly look forward to seeing where caprica goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once did i m the type of guy who loves hood movies from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie was something different i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable but some bits were just weird well the acting wasn t to good compared to silkk the shockers performance in hot boyz quite good and ice t in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt ice t kills the wan na be jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both ice t and the other dude this kills the jamaican however ice t is unharmed very similar to ice s other movie urban menace which stars both of these actors were snoops character is supernatural however after this there is nothing suggested that corrupt is like a demon when mj silkk gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh with out blood and when mj confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend benny was weird benny isn t introduced in this movie and the scene isn t in the film it does hold weight to the fact why corrupt wants to kill mj but is still makes u scratch your head wen jody writes a letter to miss jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn t mention what happen other main characters mj and lisa the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto which plagues the lives of latinos and blacks word wide was a good part of the film even though the clip of the projects was re used thousands of times and the scene where miles kills the latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed not wearing a helmet and running into my latino brothers car would of killed him the movie was similar to the film urban menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team it was ok tho but me being from poverty i love hood films however if u don t love em like i do don t watch it only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with dollars and my love of the genre br br nathaniel purez i am a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still holds a place in my top games list of all time the story line was new fresh a truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on or so i thought br br farcry the movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more br br the video game begins as the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then finds a communication device where harlan doyle guides him across islands shipwrecks jungles installations and volcanoes to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutated super soldiers and genetically enhanced animals br br the movie plays out very very differently there s a needless mins of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blowing up scene jack then walks onto the beach kills some goons then drives off nothing like the game there is no communicator with doyle on the other end the modified soldiers look like albinos with singlets on and there was no mutated monkey like creatures jumping out of the bushes a part of the farcry game i enjoyed allot there is no sun filled beach scenes no aircraft carrier no communications stations on huge cliffs little reference to any in game contents characters items vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building there s an ending scene where everyone except krieger live happily ever after what the br br i recommend avoiding this movie at all costs if you are a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it is a movie clearly intended for males so girls stay away so if your a male years of age have never played farcry and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books games to the cinema then this is for you one of the best ensemble acted films i ve ever seen there isn t much to the plot but the acting incredible you see the characters change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film casts a mesmerizing spell on you much as the villa does on all the women truly enchanted i haven t seen this movie in about years but it still haunts me br br when asked about my favorite films this is the one that i seem to always mention first there are certain films works of art like this film dark city and breaking the waves that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a life changing event such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend this film shook me when i first saw it it left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days today i wrote this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood br br hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation changed everything it changed our perception of security it changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it changed our world br br however i can t not stress how utterly repulsed disillusioned and angry i am at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word of mouth among moviegoers and critics alike most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press hollywood has sunk to a new low even lower than the low down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all is uwe boll i am very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost how dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how dare they br br to those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks br br ask yourself if you have a soul br br think remember respect the memories of the lives lost on by not seeing this film at all you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed that s why movies like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences especially local ones we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with tax when they reach our shores and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one not only that the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear lest they reach the sea br br and these movies are relatively easy to make hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic for once those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long can t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these of course there are amongst us ahem those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models and movies such as these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they don t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into park the guy sitting beside me i swear he wet his pants every time his dream car s appear and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans br br so there we have it the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese models like the evos and the skylines take centerstage as does the gt here the ford gt takes on an incredibly drool worthy facade modification that even i m impressed alongside the latest models like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that has wings for doors but seriously my heart goes out to the cars each time they re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment i mean this are perfectly fine high performance models that are at the apex of motoring but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow they do so because they can br br there s no story in redline just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties the cars that is that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shots of pedals always the accelerator mind you tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steering wheels gear shifts always shifting up and not down all these while having the actors make pretend that they re the baddest asses with an engine snarling and giving each other dirty looks not a very tall order for an actor and that s why we get the most woeful performances ever with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids br br the heroine yes it made a statement that girls can drive natasha a very plasticky looking nadia bjorlin is one of those million dollar finds a girl with model looks who don t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil who has racing pedigree within her and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable every line had to do with cars and when singing about love just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts lubricants and going for rides introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called infamous eddie griffin she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle everything else well like i said just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race br br and it s almost always the same as there s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars especially when you know the race is rigged for narrative reasons and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious had quite charismatic actors and i will put my head on the chopping block by naming paul walker sun kang and of course the star it created vin diesel redline had none just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately it looks like a tv movie in its treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it s one man one car and a minutes race against time to get to vegas br br if not for the cars then this movie seriously is a piece of junk with bad acting bad lines and bad action strictly for the car fans or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines im the type of person who always goes to horror section when i m picking a film so i picked five across the eyes i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish i think i could of done better myself i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul seven ups has been compared to bullitt for the chase scene but does not come anywhere near matching bullitt bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds when mcqueen leaves the seedy hotel gets into his mustang which is parked under the embarcadero freeway now torn down and notices the charger sitting nearbye you know you are about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen starts that car begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed adding to it is a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing that shot of mcqueen s mustang suddenly appearing in bill hickman s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact hickman s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect then of course san francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends also bullitt being filmed in the s when cars were still hot mustang gt and dodge charger made for a better set of wheels then two boring smog device laden pontiacs in the s seven ups bill hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies i saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i was doing movie reviews for a paper they gave it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups had a few jumps over little hills yawn but of course they were not san francisco hills the seven ups chase where they are actually going fast is longer than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood off of roy schieders pontiac is the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it was filmed in new york have you ever heard the saying that people telegraph their intentions well in this movie the characters actions do more than telegraph future plans they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgiven if the setting had been used better or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtz s character is not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesn t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have br br the bottom line obvious plot one note performances unlikeable characters and grotesque southern accents employed by british actors night of the living homeless was a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movies most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains br br kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart gives a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town is completely overrun with them this is a very strong randy marsh episode as he assumes the role of the shotgun wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy makes it to the community center he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming i don t have any change unfortunately the refugees end up losing gerald broflofski to the homeless when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he becomes one of them asking everyone for change br br the boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in south park and find a man who is a director of homeless studies they find out that the nearby city of evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people break into the man s house and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself however he fails several times as he shoots himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder screaming horribly until he finally dies this scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in fantastic easter special two weeks ago br br meanwhile a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem the property values have nosedived thus the bank has foreclosed on his house making him homeless randy immediately turns on him holding the gun to the man s head when the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out randy pulls the trigger br br in evergreen the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of south park and takes them all the way to santa monica california br br the zombie movie parallels and the great randy marsh lines make this one definitely re watchable br br i m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into but this movie is not a horror movie as for the story it was fairly interesting but rather slow i was especially disappointed with the ending though br br spoiler br br tell me why on earth does she run over to her uncle s home without at least calling the detective or the police first she knows exactly what s going on at that point plus she has a video tape as proof instead she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying i know everything i have proof you didn t expect proof did you then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he s going to harm her well duh of course he s going to harm you idiot you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb ending i gave this a there are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone gets killed or nearly so i am tired of cross hairs and changing views i can not give the plot away convoluted and insane if i had paid to see this i would demand my money back i wish reviews were more honest not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is paula sage s touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline this gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you ve seen something special i read the book before seeing the movie and the film is one of the best adaptations out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon are amazing robbins is a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he made the film very haunting and intentionally slow paced to add depth an especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end docteur petiot starring michel serrault is a brutal story about a brutal man a doctor who heals the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate is not there yet he preys on the weakest amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography are superb and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story he is the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and caring calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer kudos to mr serrault for his chilling portrayal i just got this video used and i was watching it last night the acting started out extremely bad hey hey twister but got very good soon after wards the tornadoes looked extremely fake and many of the cgi effects were very dodgy but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done and just about on par with movies like twister the scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too the story was very well written and it s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formulas movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for years br br while this movie had a very weird mix of fx and acting quality this merits an a in my book this film is really vile it plays on the urban paranoia of the s s and puts it into a school context i m not saying that urban crime wasn t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren t aren t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it s not a case of social issues but a white upper middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he knows how to play the system does that sound familiar yes this turd is pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment this belongs in the same category as trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing is that michael fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this what a horrible horrible film the worst collection of cliches i have seen in a long time not that i saw much i left the theatre screaming after about minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves meryl streep was awful as usual how many hurt and tortured expressions can person have aidan quinn s talents were as so often totally wasted and who told gloria estefan she could act trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school the kids weren t even cute just written in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really made me cringe for once real horror this one motocrossed was fun but it wasn t that great i guess i just didn t understand a lot of the motocross racing lingo and there was a lot of that in the film the plot wasn t what i expected from the disney channel previews so that could account for some of my disappointment sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he wants to broaden his horizons and spoiler needs a family member in order to do it br br a failure as a horror movie because it simply ain t scary at all works better as a dark macabre black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecracks that s for sure the actors aren t interesting save robert englund as always and an obviously slumming yaphet kotto and there are simply far too many visual effects the finale is ok but doesn t provide as many sparks as i think one might hope br br in adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer s story it provides englund the opportunity to do more non makeup scenes than ever before br br there are cameos worth noting a joint cameo by then couple roseanne and tom arnold that is devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shock rocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become br br film debut of breckin meyer who plays spencer br br one of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits br br ok i m italian but there aren t so many italian film like this i think that the plot is very good for of the film but the final is too simple too predictable but it s the only little mistake the consequences of love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack i d like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it is a great great actor you know if your name were al pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance but it s only a great theater italian actor called toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it s too slow it s so boring so many silences but i think that this components its fantastic its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl the grand daughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian films if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this is by far the best in the series with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages the other ernest flicks were good too but most people tend to get tired of him quickly not me however br br in this movie ernest p whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happens to look exactly like our bumbling hero ernest mr nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer br br a great flick if you haven t already seen it watch it an idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful so no new story lines here however the authors managed to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watching kids vomiting or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife s teeth out in a bloody horror type go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone the first cube movie was an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn t understand it was on the non literal level a man vs cruel nature plot where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end triumphing to face a new indefinable world beyond man s petty squabbles a world where there were no more struggle but peace i rated cube a out of and it s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels br br the second movie hypercube was a massive disappointment some of the ideas were kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning still for being fairly entertaining i rated it a out of br br the third movie cube zero while ignoring the second plays like a vastly inferior commercial b movie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there is no homage or tribute here there is only ripping off the same kind of plot with some elements idiotically altered like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say br br that we see something from behind the scenes means nothing because the watchers are just part of the big bad experiment the architects of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan did at the end of the first movie are just killed where the bleep is the sense in that that s just flippin stupid i m glad i didn t pay to see this br br the production values and acting in cube zero are not too bad but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of i have just watched this movie on dvd late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience in other words the creators planed to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realized that mr tony giglio was earnest about this movie it s a pity because the dialogue is ridiculous the acting is poor and lifeless the story is a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction for this reasons i vote i believe shakespeare explained what i just read beautifully me thinks he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself he sites profane literature writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible a number of times however i can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesn t make it true customs change word definitions change over time look at english german where it is very obviously a common root nothing stays the same it s always growing and changing the bible has many different translations but the king james version is the one i ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research in the king james version you will notice there are certain words written in italics these words have been added by the translators and can be dropped the mean of the entire verse changes writings from around the time of christ were written without spaces without punctuation without paragraphs without numeric verses these writings look like one long word the translators added all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it as god is nowhere or do you read it as god is now here same string of letters two entirely different meanings this is why many biblical researchers use a lexicon to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written it s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesn t exist in the end i just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty talk about ego putting soapbox away god bless maegi i presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry val br br mike nelson made me watch this he mentioned it in his book movie megacheese i asked myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bots never trusted mike nelson br br the music is by john williams which is probably part of his payment to the devil in fact i m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol slewfoot or is now cursed from the executive director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio don t watch for the love of god don t watch not even making a copy and showing someone else will un curse you i m doomed now i understand this i accept this but save yourself this movie was flippin awful i wanted those hours of my life back for god s sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs its not worth mentioning the title but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kids in the movie the zero plot or story the garden variety college frat boy esquire scenes of towel slapping or the very bad acted teen angst innuendo my god it never ended i remember thinking i would have rather kissed the movie theater floor then sit through this one again br br but what do you expect most people with the brain power to look up reviews are not going to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debating to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your brain cells heed the warning this is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it it has lot s of laughs guns action crime good one liners and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role as an assasain tia carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too thomas ian griffin is great in this as the lead character max a dea agent diane is the fbi agent played by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv plays the bad guy livingston the plot centers around max and diane trying to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much has all the good one liners this is the perfect crime caper there is the usual love story but played very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here thrown into the mix the film is shot in boston where you have some great shots and locals great photography and music in this film this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy it has everything that one could ever want check out sutherland s toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me if you like to see animals being skinned alive their heads smashed dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them then this one is for you but if you are somewhat normal and don t need to see real footage of animal cruelty pass this one up this movie tries to shock the viewer and it sure does with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of babies in the movie fake at least its was enough to make myself turn it off i ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie we watch gore and horror because we know its just make up and special effects so we shouldn t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals its not what we rented the movie for if anything there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won t be surprised by it as a very hardcore horror fan this one turned my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked another spanish movie about the civil war this time we re told about the story of carol lovely played by d butant clara lago a little girl which comes to live to a little spanish village from new york it is such an initiating trip and soon she ll find about the injustices of the human race their stupid fights and conflicts their contradictions br br imanol uribe makes his best film since d xadas contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he tries not to take part in the conflict he just shows us some facts and let us decide ok the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple clara lago and juan jos ballesta br br a well cared production br br my rate a response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed one person suggested that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods this is simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypasses the ocean view area the primary route for traffic went through the heart of ocean view once the interstate was completed ocean view rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime this led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park which also faced new competition from nearby busch gardens in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few years the city of norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought after location for construction of high end housing br br it has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film rollercoaster this is also untrue footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to death of ocean view park br br as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly but somewhat typical for b grade movies of the time with the cast involved there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors i don t believe this film was intended to be another citizen kane i believe playboy was experimenting with a new non nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table but proved unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway let s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise br br for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fans but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park this movie is like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome i was expecting a lot from mr amitabh bachan s role of sarkar but am disappointed being a ram gopal verma s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar is supposed to be a strong character but the movie shows that amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his there is a movie in tamil called nayakan based on the theme of god father and kamala hassan has played the lead the movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things the movie fails to show the strong impact of god father a trio of buddies sergeants all in the british army carouse brawl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save scores of the queen s soldiers from certain massacre br br based more on the three musketeers than kipling s classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood s golden year of filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusion br br it is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable however this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time br br it s interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boasted of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than honorary knighthoods after the conflict while grant reportedly worked undercover for british intelligence keeping an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizers br br the real acting laurels here should go to sam jaffe heartbreaking in the title role he infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of kipling s poem ring true he is unforgettable br br montague love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli is evil incarnate as the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare are effective but have little to do movie mavens will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaine s father br br the film picks its villains well the demonic thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous blood soaked kali hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of indian life for centuries ritualistically strangling up to victims a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares this movie pretty much sucked i m in the army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible if your in the military and you see this movie you ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad it was ridiculous they acted like a bunch of normal people with army uniforms on not knowing what to do it was a pretty gory movie i d have to say the least there was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump i d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a better movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i liked the first one better than this one if you watched pulp fiction don t see this movie this movie is not funny this is the worst parody movie ever this is a poor attempt of parody films br br the cast is bad the film is bad this is one of the worst pictures ever made br br i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this is one of the worst parody films ever made br br plump fiction is not a good movie it is not funny it is so dumb and vulgar i went to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances i e sliding doors me myself i etc br br but this was the worst one i ve ever seen i had to force myself to sit through it i didn t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me br br the magical realism was completely missing because demi moore was grim and the lovers she was two timing were guys who usually play villains though each was kind of sexy and appealing br br there was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldn t be explained for this genre to work br br originally written i thought that rotj was clearly the best out of the three star wars movies i find it surprising that rotj is considered the weakest installment in the trilogy by many who have voted to me it seemed like rotj was the best because it had the most profound plot the most suspense surprises most emotional especially the ending and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strikes back a lot also but i think it is slightly less good than than rotj since it was slower moving was not as episodic and i just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as i did with the third movie br br it also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for rotj being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole i have heard many strange reasons such as a because yoda died b because bobba fett died c because small ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader was revealed br br i would like to debunk each of these reasons because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who cares if bobba fett died if george lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die don t get me wrong i am fan of bobba fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not lucas intention to make him a central character in the films that star wars fans made him out to be his name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie you had to go to the credits to find out bobba fett s name judging rotj because a minor character died is a bit much i think secondly many fans did not like yoda dying sure it was a momentous period in the movie i was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic all the good guys can t stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guys lived and all the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not liking yoda s death well nobody complained when darth vader struck down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why was obi wan s death okay but yoda s not hmmmmmmmmmmmm another reason i just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible that is utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks are in their native planet endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage since you lived in the forest all your life i hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage they had swinging vines ropes logs set up to trip those walkers and other traps the stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest the only thing they had was their blasters to add it was not like the ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest i thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the star wars heros the band of rebels as well as the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have been a great upset lastly if this scene was still unbelievable to you how about in empire strikes back or in a new hope where there were several scenes of a group consisting of just han solo chewbacca and the princess being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view and not only that the heroes of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blasters the troopers must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strikes back the battle of endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not heroes against a legion of stormtroopers don t believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our heroes were escaping lando s base or when our heros were rescuing princess leia and being shot at somehow they missed as han solo and luke were trying to exit the death star br br the last reason that i care to discuss others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here is that people did not like darth vader being revealed well in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie luke was trying to find whether or not darth vader was his father annakin skywalker it would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without luke getting to see his father s face because it made it complete by annakin s revelation it symbolized the transition darth vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he was annakin skywalker by removing the helmet the point is that annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about in fact that s is what i would have done in that scene too if i were luke s father isn t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet br br on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel must be worse even if it is better that preceding movies is another reason that rotj does not get as many accolades as it deserves i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be better or worse that the original but i can not know for sure let s see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was br br i am not sure who criticizes these movies but i have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite star wars movie and they all tell me except for one person that said that a new hope was their favorite that it is rotj i believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading br br bottom line the return of the jedi was the best of the trilogy this movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its minutes there was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful exciting surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj was better than the one in the empire strikes back any day br br finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky insignificant details or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such as this movie stinks because luke is not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffered unfortunately br br crossfire remains one of the best hollywood message movies because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman s agreement which it beat to theatres by a few months it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying it s because i m jewish isn t it it s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the brief featurette on the warners dvd doesn t mention that novelist richard brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti semitic one but it s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is jewish there s little doubt in sam levene s performance that the character is in fact also gay not a mincing caricature but there s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with george cooper s confused soldier there s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy br br there s an element of ealing films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere is pure rko noir set over one long sweltering night the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style it cut back on lighting time and allowed director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actors and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laid back but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young s maigret like detective gloria grahame s tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly as her compulsive liar admirer a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties but the lasting impression is of robert ryan s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in as a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott found themselves investigated by the huac which itself had a notable tendency to target jews so much for crusading this movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved it s always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrates on a group of german soldiers who after fighting in the north africa campaign are send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of ww ii is being fought br br it s interesting to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the germans simply as the villains in this movie those villains are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you re fighting against at first it s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german s are the evil villains but of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them br br the way this story is told isn t however the best it s hard to keep track of the story at times as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isn t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague it also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who it doesn t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movies are always better than european movies br br the production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations though the movie wasn t even shot in russia itself it helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere br br the character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i don t know for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism it also helps that they re being played by well cast actors all of the actors aren t the best known actors around thomas kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality br br all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to its original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and its good production values br br so i rented this from netflix because somebody gave me roger ebert s book i hated hated hated this movie and he gave this one a rare zero star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor so i figured from ebert saying that i would see if it was really as bad as he said it was i know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hated this piece of junk like ebert did and never since ebert s review of rob reiner s north where he said he hated that movie ten times had i ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfuss as a gangster which i don t think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well but above all the other things that were awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all while the movie starts off with jeff goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching dreyfuss s girlfriend while dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits but after that first or minutes the other minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for seconds then someone gets shot then there are a whole bunch of jokes about dreyfuss being mentally ill haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying frank sinatra s my way sang by gabriel byrne apparently to insult dreyfuss of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader dreyfuss shoots byrne over five times and byrne just will not die are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i did not care or find that funny not only am i disappointed in dreyfuss who i admire much as an actor for producing and starring in this tripe but i am also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this was released the same year that independence day was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history did goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if independence day were a bomb what did an oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time says that the movie is set on another planet i only wish now that i have wasted minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minutes out of my life that i will never get back ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough i am afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire i have yet to top a worst movie i have ever seen because this one has won it s honor as the worst movie ever what a boring film to sum it all up its was basically just nana patekar beating up his daughter in law karisma kapoor while she tried to flee from the village with her son can someone say boring the concept wasn t too bad but it was poorly executed the canadian locales and some of the village scenes were nicely shot however overall the cinematography came up short the story could have been great but the movie just seemed to drag on there is only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hours of it br br the best part of the whole movie was the song ishq kamina and that was only five minutes long other than that this movie was a piece of crap rant start i didn t want to believe them at first but i guess this is what people are talking about when they say south korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill after the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a b movie genre successive korean blockbusters have become more and more generic even though their budgets mainly spent on special effects have become more and more fantastic do south korean movie makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry has built up since the break out film shiri swiri by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland china did rant end br br the only reason i can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean east asian styled dragon i have seen to date for the final scenes now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons remember dungeons dragons in hasn t anyone learnt that the trick is not how much special effects you use but how well you use it i hope there are more and better korean legends they can use because they have just killed a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one br br in short i agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how koreans felt about having their folk anthem arirang being played at the very end as a creature feature i would have given it at least stars out of if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it but i ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting just less dragons as a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a better world i said better world because it is a lie that chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years br br i guess most western audience may don t know qin shihuang means the first emperor the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word was spoken by the king means the land and the people spoken from his mouth is totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said br br another fact is qin shihuang s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people br br well i do like the beautiful scenes of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant this had a great cast with big name stars like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesser but known names with shorter roles it also had technicolor one of the few movies made with it in br br now the bad news regrettably i can t say much positive for the story it portrayed the james boys in a totally positive light and hollywood has done that ever since why these criminals are always shown to be the good guys is beyond me this film glamorizes them and made their enemies the railroad people into vicious human beings the latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous well that s the film world for you evil is good good is bad br br hey hollywood here s a news flash the james boys were criminals really look it up i remember watching this series avidly every saturday evening it was the highlight of the week i loved everything about it the location the costumes the actors and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i loved the way they solved the problem of michael praed leaving by creating another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there were legends of several robins in medieval times another thing i loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors i m sure robin and his men would have young after all people didn t live that long in those days other robins always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent looked like robin s granddad the only sad thing was the ending it s a shame they couldn t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending i don t normally write reviews but this film was special i couldn t turn it off i don t believe i ve ever seen a worse movie but there i sat watching it was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway it was disgusting but i couldn t turn away where do i start the movie seems to think it s a sports thriller but it s so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it s not funny not even in a dumb silly way it s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get togethers it s painful to watch but at least it s only for a minute or two second string went on for over an hour br br whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again the writing directing acting and everything was just terrible the problem is i can t describe how bad it was you just had to see it and i m sure this will never be shown again so unless you saw it you re out of luck i mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other bad film i ve seen over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i can t stand i will think to myself well at least it wasn t bad as the second string few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability br br no too many are focused on john lassiter s amazing ability to steal other movies plots turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius but i digress br br miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues usually ecologically themed and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies children br br that said i am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else are you going to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthralled a year old my niece amber loving it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who s review was of course it was good everything miyazaki san does is good a year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother characters and i m betting the older charas too and loving the cuteness of the child characters br br and that is what i respect most about miyazaki san he seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be seen as a simple story about a little fish girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there a little boy names soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there is an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters ponyo s mother soske s mother the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed br br but the girl who takes the cake is ponyo herself once she decides that she likes the human world she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams her father is trying to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination br br once human she teams up with her friend soske whom she loves very much although maybe not as much as ham soske is asked to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he s related to the jonas brothers can we just get past that please gives perhaps the best performance in the film as young soske which is good since he has the most lines his character is also strong willed but also very respectful and friendly characteristics you re not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific br br in the end ponyo s father fujimoto must cope with his daughter s decision and his estranges wife s wishes to allow her to be human he hopes that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuses to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki has for some reason received some criticism for this it is honestly what makes his movies magical and yet relatable no one in real life is completely a bad person all humans are various shades of gray and that is exactly what miyazaki does with his characters br br and then there s the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film especially the water miyazaki has chosen to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means but every film in this was hand drawn and i for one was extremely grateful for that the character animation was extremely fluid and there even appeared to be some lip sync going on quite unusual for an anime film the backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience this is what animation used to look like and what it should look like br br in the end i found ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazaki s best in my opinion that honor is still held by kiki s delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family attractive marjorie farrah fawcett lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker she is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address as expected joe james russo the attacker forces his way into marjorie s home and subjects her to humiliating terror bruised and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat hog tied and battered himself joe tries to explain himself to marjorie s roommates diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there is almost a hint of mercy but it is not coming from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language makes for an r rating fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m young i find it sad that just because edward norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance i really hope norton did not do this he is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie br br i found it entertaining it wasn t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects but it was not a bad it was fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad horrible movie br br i watched this movie on tv last night hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease i was disappointed and i think the movie was garbage it did not seem real to me some of the acting was awful in particular that of the doctor she was about the worst i ve seen the whole thing played like a cnn worst case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn t seem sincere i have seen some disaster movies in particular those weather ones which are actually so bad they are amusing this one is almost as bad but it is not even amusing it is tedious and boring don t bother with this one for those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you br br for those with a poor attention span high expectations and no brains well um you may get bored and find things dragging at times br br this is a charming modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles i chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through br br this film is a little gem the great caruso was the biggest hit in the world in and broke all box office records at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers were stay at homes watching their new motorola televisions almost all recent box office figures are false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously today s movies will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loew s palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood runs what counts is the number of people responding to the picture not unadjusted box office media spin the genius of the great caruso was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and threw it in the trash instead of the movie s focus was on the music thus mgm gave us the best living opera singer mario lanza doing the music of the best ever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result was a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeating too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom took his place with lanza s voice dubbed in and with the formerly handsome and not fat lanza pictured in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it s almost always on ebay for or less don t be put off by the low price as it reflects only the easy availability of copies not the quality of the movie i attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have delivered less than memorable performances films while the underlying general storyline is somewhat familiar this film was excellent both costner and kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other the human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both the scene when costner confronts kutcher with the personal reasons why kutcher joined the coast guard rescue elite was the film s most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite coast guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility to save lives at sea the special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and wowing i haven t seen such angry seas since the perfect storm co star clancy brown hbo s carnivale great to see him again played the captain of the coast guard s kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins the film wonderfully and finally gives long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it had the audience applauding at the end i am not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u s army riffles in wwi and wwii in movie we can see privates armed with m garand invented in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load times more ammunition and times more fire rate m was semi automatic springfield requires reloading after every shot little difference german army uniforms has borrowed from year too especially helmets german helmets until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archives how much truthful is this true story i am surprised how much truthful can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made stop wondering i m telling you michael is it br br it is not heartwarming entertaining or travolta at his best it just sucks if i had kids i would let them watch deep throat before michael br br a sold out john travolta a washed up and balding william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film br br but wait you ll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over us with this one the film began with wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may oliver a person too talented for this film didn t like wheeler a sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from wheeler they left and wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king at about the same time woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king so when wheeler arrived it was up to the boys to fight it out but they refused because they are already friends which greatly disappointed the people as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime br br i am a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywood the silent era through the s i have seen and reviewed hundreds if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films i have never been able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolsey the only comedy team that might be as bad as the ritz brothers despite being very successful in their short careers in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i can t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better for example there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the marx brother s film duck soup yet cracked nuts never made me laugh and duck soup was a silly and highly enjoyable romp at times woolsey talked a bit like groucho but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny in fact he just seemed to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality was that he looked goofy surely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese a piece of cheese that sang very poorly a missed opportunity was the old vaudeville routine later popularized by abbott and costello as who s on first which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they started their spiel they just ended the routine so prematurely that you are left frustrated i knew that who s on first had been around for many years and used by many teams but i really wanted to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist br br once again i have found yet another sub par film by this duo while i must admit that i liked a few of their films mildly such as silly billies and the rainmakers which i actually gave s to on imdb this one was a major endurance test to complete something that i find happens all too often when i view the films of wheeler and woolsey where was all the humor i was really hoping that this would be a funny show given all the hype and the clever preview clips and talk about hype i even heard an interview with the show s creator on the bbc world today a show that is broadcast all over the world br br unfortunately this show doesn t even come close to delivering all of the jokes are obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they are not given any new treatment or twist all of the characters are one dimensional the acting is well mediocre i m being nice it s the classic cbc recipe one that always fails br br if you re muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters and if you re white you d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted ignorant or both not that making fun of white people is a problem most of the better comedies are rooted in that it s only a problem when it isn t funny as in this show br br canada is bursting with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producers of this show couldn t find any first of all mexican werewolf in texas is not a werewolf movie this title is bullcrap the story is actually about a chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something and i guess it actually works because that s the reason why i bought this piece of crap it sounded so stupid anyway the movie isn t any good actually it s bloody awful but i didn t expect anything else when i bought it it s a low budget horror movie with a chupacabra monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actors and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie is really baaaaaaad br br this movie has some of the worst acting i have ever seen the actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody it s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it the worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo she s the worst of them all i have never seen an actor as bad as her and i ve seen pteradactyl even when her boyfriend dies she can t stop being a bimbo about it i hate her br br some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good the ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie is shot in the night when the chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark the gore scenes are few and short but really grizzly and violent the effects are pretty hilarious really but that s the way i like it the chupacabra looks pretty messed up and it s easy to see that it s a guy in suit br br overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death i recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer this movie is so god awful that it was literally a chore to watch i wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but kept thinking foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that jackie mason was funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks and if you re even considering renting this turd or worse yet have i have one thing to ask of you didn t you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is oy vey this movie sucked the symbolic use of objects form editing the position of characters in the scene these were all used with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had the way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken even the title has a least four meanings that i can see the boxing ring the wedding ring the bracelet the lover buys and the love triangle at the heart of the story i found this movie to be very good in all areas the acting was brilliant from all characters especially ms stone and morissey tramell s character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute the plot is interesting even though this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels the setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious thriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserves better than what it got from the audience which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie before it even started you won t regret it if you go see it rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a jollies project for robert redford as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine br br the story is as light as powdered snow with redford s small town boy david chappellet what kind of lead name is that who with his eyes on the prize of olympic glory gets up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and team mates women are a mere side show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heavens above a free thinking independent woman played by camilla sparv the ski ing sequences are fine with some good stunt work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of skiing events down to the present day plus i m not convinced that the winter olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel i couldn t really be that excited for him one way or another br br of the actors redford best profile forward doesn t need to do much and indeed doesn t while gene hackman does better with equally meagre material ms sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats redford the way he s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way br br in truth though there s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don t fully compensate and you don t care a fig for any of the leading characters one of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it i would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing fun filled thought provoking movie the absence of sex vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoyed the buffalo scene but that s probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have been produced in any city it s the theme that s so important here i m just grateful that manna from heaven dropped down on us try it you ll like it this is an art film that was either made in or the national film preservation foundation says and imdb says regardless of the exact date the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period with some camera work and pop art stylings that are pure late s early s br br the film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks these distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understood by us mortals i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie is diamond among coals during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw this film should have made them stars shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film it could have easily been a franchise release on dvd is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it listed no matter how late watch it you won t be disappointed do yourself another favor read the book same title it ll blow you away times have changed dramatically since those days or at least we like to think they have a drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small wyoming town leading to all kinds of complications cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can t escape the title town hopper does what he does best playing a psycho known as lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh as a crooked sheriff and boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by brothers john and rick dahl contains delicious twists and turns and john s direction creates a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertaining it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up i really liked this movie i have seen several gene kelly flicks and this is one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seems the story gets lost in gene kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers but not in this movie it is definitely worth renting although promoted as one of the most sincere turkish films with an amateur cast ice cream i scream is more like a caricature of sincerity br br the plot opens with the dream of ali a traveling ice cream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice cream companies he dreams of playing in his product s tv commercial with beautiful models in bikinis dancing around him as his dream turns into a nightmare he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who rejects to make sex with him for years with no apparent reason is it because he is not successful in his job apparently because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice cream companies but this is what he says we actually don t see him suffer that much he still sells good traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop selling ice cream to the people in the town ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real sahlep powdered roots of mountain orchids ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor and gives ads to a local tv channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife is not fond of his ways of doing business they always quarrel and ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy br br in a very successful day his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town in search of his stolen bike ali goes to the police blames the big companies for the theft but of course nobody takes him seriously annoyed by the nagging of his wife ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk one of his friends at his table a wannabe socialist of the town gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism and with no real connection jumps to the subject of global freezing ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wakes up and prevents him an old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life according to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing when he returns home suddenly we see that his wife understood his value treating him like a hero and praising his manhood meanwhile the thief boys got sick eating too much ice cream they confess to the doctor that they stole ali s bike ali forgives them and there comes the happy end br br although the plot may look promising in a way it s the story telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesn t show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything is based on dialogs and the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art even ali s troubles are not convincing because we don t see it we just understand it from his words the director markets his film as a righteous fight of ali against big ice cream companies but there is nothing in the film about big companies we don t see their pressure enough the film actually ridicules ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft and when his motorbike is found it solves every problem ali becomes a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism br br second the film is cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny i may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and clever but they are not clever jokes at all they are just cheesy maybe i m wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the oscars or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man s big erection in his shorts and we had to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman saying f k you then you may find this film funny stan laurel and oliver hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i am happy to see any of their films ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boiled eggs and nuts instead of candy chaos begins with stan curiously pulling ollie s leg cast string and manages to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window clinging on to it getting ollie strung up to the ceiling when the situation calms down stan gets ollie s clothes as the doctor wants them both to leave and he also manages to sit on a syringe accidentally left by the nurse filled with a sleeping drug which comes into effect while he is driving which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isn t great but it s a black and white film worth looking at stan laurel and oliver hardy were number on the comedians comedian okay ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite its well documented failings this however was the worst film i have seen since demons at the door compared to datd the effects are vastly superior however the plot is weak the acting reminiscent of everyone s favourite the porn film and the decisions and actions of the characters consistently verge on the moronic i feel like trying out uwe boll s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i am not suggesting that he is really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up ok there it is i have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is house of the dead i was unlike most of the reviewers not born in the s i was born on may th despite this my life was very much in the style of the s when other kids had playstations i was playing zelda on my nes etc now this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only years old at the time of writing this review i because of my s style early childhood watched many tv shows and saw many movies that other kids didn t see and this movie was one of those and one of the greatest too br br it starts off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk s adoptive father is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around europe his taxi is almost there and the chipmunks help him pack while they are talking alvin expresses his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave is only going to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify as the world david is leaving the chipmunks in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boys soon dave is off to the airport and the chipmunks are left at home with miss miller later at a local caf the chipmunks are playing a game of around the world in days against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after losing the game to brittany after having his hot air balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get s in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world decide to fool the children into delivering them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely filled with diamonds at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team s likeness secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds to varify that they were there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now would never suspect them because they are just kids however this seems to be redundant because on their travels the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally and so begins a great adventure this film is a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it features great animation and top notch voice acting not to mention the kick ass music pardon my french p my favorite song is without a shred of doubt the girls and boys of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be topped it s also my favorite moment in the film other notable songs include getting lucky kind of suggestive for a kid s film eh and my mother as well as wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still brings a tear to my eye in relation to the song getting lucky i first didn t think anything of it but when i grew older and learned about life it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the chipettes panties this is especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes are being chased by the arabian prince s men when eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are feet tall chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the chipmunks and get home the direction of janice karman perfects this movie as she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr know the characters better than anyone they even do the voices of the chipmunks and the chipettes ross doing the voices for alvin and simon as well as dave and janice doing the voices for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson makes an appearance in this movie she plays the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the ending is of course a happy one the crooks have been caught the loose ends tied and the film ends when the children dave and miss miller are driving into the sunset alvin complaining about not having gotten his dollar reward for winning the race which annoys dave until he finally yells alvin and the screen fades to black br br classic ending by the way i hope you found my review of this movie useful and if you haven t seen this flick give it a watch it s worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s gets a solid out of br br headin for the top don t you know we never stop believing now just when i thought i would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a bomb rating a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night i feared the worst knowing its reputation and it was as god awful as i d anticipated this is a mexican made mess dubbed into english and produced by k gordon murray it s got terrible sets and effects and features a rather frightening santa who doesn t operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in outer space and who doesn t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is the opening sequence where st nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages seems to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesn t observe the child labor laws br br eventually we get some nasty and slinky red suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to earth just to make little kids naughty and turn santa s christmas eve rounds into a nightmare watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience and it s bound to frighten little children and turn them off santa claus and the holidays forever oddly the name of jesus christ is mentioned often in this christmas film which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on this easily makes my personal list of the worst movie i ve ever seen but i m sure that s nothing unique as is often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot is lost here director john madden shakespeare in love takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off what we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete br br there is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legends of the fall winning oscars for both is splendid working with madden the choices for locations on the greek island of kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful madden also uses numerous greek actors as the townspeople giving the town an authentic feel the soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the italian soldiers are marvelous br br madden does an excellent job of bringing us the italian occupation and the romance which take up the greater part of the film there are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold there isn t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated while the battle scenes are well done subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment is merely skeletal another negative is that the dvd is particularly sparse on features br br nicholas cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas br br penelope cruz whom the camera loves gives an uninspired performance as pelagia in part this is because cage so dominates the screen but cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allows the character to be objectified as corelli s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right br br john hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor who knows as much about human nature as medicine however christian bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as pelagia s fianc br br i rated this film an despite some drawbacks this is a touching film that is well worth seeing the photography alone is worth the price of admission my father grew grew up watching george reeves as superman and when i was a little kid he had episodes on vhs and let me view them including this movie passing them down in the family if you will and i loved it br br clark kent and lois lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it s up to superman to stop this mayhem br br it s just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effects and sound the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology george reeves was my hero when i was a little kid and i m now it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are this unpretentious horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic much much better than of the scream rip offs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel i read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but i felt that it truly transported me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint i watched this with someone who didn t read the book and he also enjoyed it they had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film it leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over you feel for the characters and their plights i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience afghani culture there are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch it is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime years ago sara a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments did i mention she has an imaginary friend this film lulls the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly boring i found it hard to sit through as i could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed mystery is sara going crazy or is it the paranormal a better question would be who cares and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks br br my grade d in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best films than this one must be included if you don t like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time being from atlanta it does hit home but it s also nice to see a cop action drama that takes place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film is funny at points with good plot good performances from a great supporting cast every character is real the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it has some good old fashion shootouts fistfights no cgi thank god real action br br if clint eastwood did his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt responded with his best clint type flick with this it comes off great i have watched love jones over thirty times it is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be african americans the dialogue was realistically written and delivered with honesty it was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional african americans this is virtually an untapped market love jones was visually captivating as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will bring memories of past and present love the feeling of the film is jazz and blues and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadn t guessed i loved it the basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage a trois fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience br br it s really rather messy though fellowes doesn t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat edged rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves br br the dialogue is inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clich landmine though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces there s also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didn t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation i wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story br br finally it is in fact the story which lets the rest down just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes woven as a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this meta essay with good performances and john warnaby s ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow furrowing br br i m disappointed not that it s bad but that it could have been much better this is absolutely the best movie i have ever watched at the age of i was up late and ran across the movie it was on the usa channel gilbert godfrey s up all night i will never forget at the time my friends and i were really struggling with different issues some sexual you know is a very rough and weird age it seems you are stuck in between being a little girl and being a young lady this movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me i now have a daughter that is have been searching for a couple years for this movie if it ever does come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age holes is an awesome movie i love it a lot and it s one of my favorite films it s one of the few flicks produced by disney that isn t cheesy holes is generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more pictures like it holes is indeed a rare breed of disney flicker shows that is cool don t get the wrong idea i don t mean to bad mouth disney but most of it s stuff is aimed towards kids and that s okay children deserve to have their entertainment too but disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with holes it s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it s corny really it s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to br br holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge i hope disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this i can not hate on the show when the old and better tech tv had to hit the bricks the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in attack of the show is the replacement for the screen savers with co hosts in the beginning they were kevin rose kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran came to be something of a co host as well but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show kevin rose decided to leave the show and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host but that didn t pan out for some reason br br eventually i just learned this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran moved on because hey this is what i read the two got married that was a big secret to me now there is a new female co host the not as hot my opinion olivia munn she s hiding something in those tops she wears while sarah lane had a perfect body and she wasn t afraid to show it br br ahem sorry br br attack of the show deals with everything young people want to know about it s music movies comic books the internet and television this is what s great about the show if you don t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching mtv you can get all you want on aots some segments and bits they do are funny they have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names br br even though the hosts aren t as geek as i d like them to be i still have found attack of the show to be entertaining even with its latest lineup worst dcom i have seen ever well maybe not as bad as smart house this was just bad the acting and story was fine but the effects sucked br br they were so fake the only good fight scene was between the brother and shen that was probably the only scene in which i was excited br br overall i found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly br br i will give it a four for brenda song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene br br its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people a movie which has no story again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times i think this is to much pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didn t know that there is enough facilities in pakistan for the pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities and also i didn t know that an indian can cross the march s between both countries go to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier s were sleeping some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing as american graffiti but i wouldn t for starters in ag everyone was white whereas in ch they re all black moreover this one has a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focuses on several working class african american students in chicago and their antics the movie deals mainly with home life and relationships in their apartments we see that there s never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest br br one thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible worrying about missing school two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star is the soundtrack it is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film is so feather light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakeries and hairdressers and plumbing but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick they re both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lies just beyond the looking glass this film is quite simply brilliant the cinematography is good the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking this is the story of donald woods a white south african who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid kevin kline is completely convincing so much so that when donald woods himself appeared on tv some years later i recognised him from kline s portrayal denzel washington also turns in a masterful performance as ever br br i urge you to watch this it is long but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story remember folks this really happened i have recently seen this production on dvd it is the first time i have seen it since it was originally broadcast in and it was just as good as i remembered at first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and i suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the bbc serials were back then i miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on sunday afternoons back then but that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been i am a bit of a jane eyre purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one i have recently re read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on reading the scene near the end where rochester questions jane about what st john was like i noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by dalton and clarke and done perfectly br br all the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way some even leave out the rivers family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this is the only production to include the gypsy scene done correctly br br the casting is perfect zelah clarke is like jane is described in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she looked too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as rochester portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off i agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted his expression is fantastically frightening but then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable oh to be loved by a man like that there were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however like when jane climbs in to bed with the dying helen and also when rochester takes jane shopping for her wedding things i thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks br br finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it is simply perfection in a time of bad if not plain awful comedies king of queens is more than just a breath of fresh air it s a complete oxygen tank it is in my opinion one of the best comedy shows of all times nothing has been this good since married with children kevin james and jerry stiller are comic geniuses and believe me it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius these guys truly understand what is funny i could watch ten episodes of seinfeld and wouldn t get half the laughs from seeing koq just once other funny people in this show are carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carrie s boss i m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem the show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers check it out if you haven t prey br br aspect ratio br br sound format mono br br a lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turns out to be a flesh eating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion br br despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j warren s follow up to satan s slave amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only writing credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v browne s eye catching cinematography though annan s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one or both of these doe eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed which may explain the absence of their respective families some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and left under mysterious circumstances stokes unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan is attracted to him creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there s an extraordinary multi layered sequence in which faulkner attempts to emasculate their clueless visitor by dressing him in women s clothing though stokes alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery br br in the early scenes at least the relationship between faulkner and annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allows herself to be ravished by stokes following a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequences are quite literally gut wrenching especially annan s final scene which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in and never fully restored what remains is still pretty vivid so brace yourselves excellent performances by the three leads bolstered by warren s unobtrusive direction which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations thereby compensating for the film s budgetary shortcomings originally released in the us as alien prey the tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army is the local dentist he s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie is always being viewed with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the islands serenity is broken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman he immediately reports his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice ro ves at the islands police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for closer inspection a quick search for the killer proves fruitless as does a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who lives on the island through the winter months a quick search at her home dove cottage reveals the missing remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together br br goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep is found mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist is found slain with a heavy fog rolling in the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesn t work seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut reports of ufo s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off gaffikin s idea that aliens might be involved but a rise in radioactive levels on the island has him doubting himself br br the nightmare man is based on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it is here adapted by dr who and blake s scriptwriter robert holmes and directed by douglas camfield who also had directing experience on both sci fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board the nightmare man though is on the whole a succinctly better crafted piece that builds its plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor characters time is given to giving them all a firm background the island setting is perhaps a genre clich that has been used over and over but its one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts in many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times there is an authenticity about proceedings the characters even speaking gaelic at times to further this point if there is one negative about the killer its that we are given his her its pov for the killings an acceptable clich on its own but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer given the clues presented but it s a fun and very well acted piece the local scottish cast are exceptional the local bobbies roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold imrie never one i ve taken to in other works is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers it disappointed me in some ways but taking into account when it was made its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it is even more terrifying this review also contains a spoiler of the first movie so if you haven t seen either movie and want to but don t want the spoilers please don t read this review br br while this movie is supposed to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie is a poor copy of the first cruel intentions the actors that they had portray ryan phillippe s christian and sarah michelle gellar s kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty rich kid attitude that the original actors did it s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough you ll recognize it there are also inconsistencies in the plot if this were truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why is it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon s character br br also the tie in with the photography you could be a model comment at the end was totally lame and didn t add anything at all overall this movie was a waste of time i can t believe they made a cruel intentions this movie is ridiculous it s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible the whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it s a comedy truly is bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they re all inside jokes amongst themselves this is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad it really is a very pointless movie their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway unless you want to be bored out of your ass i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie in dramatising wilde s novel john osborne has condensed events eliminated a number of characters and generally implied rather than shown dorian s essential wickedness if you want a more explicit rendering see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson lived in about the same time frame but were certainly vastly different men and writers this story really treats of a theme similar to stevenson s dr jekyll and mr hyde but note that wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy whereas rls took the scientific route both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil with evil winning in the end br br the actors in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as george sanders in his role really projecting wilde himself but with a subtle difference you ll suspect that sanders really believed what he was saying but gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes peter firth too shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion but then we don t get to see as many of his escapades as hurd hatfield had a chance to display br br it s a very good production with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel if not all of its ramifications it starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other clark movies like kids bully etc but then just as quickly it unravels into a direction less mess who is the main character is this a serious film or some gregg araki esquire over the top goofy film is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted i have no clue i found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end i kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came i cut a good minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes yes it illustrates the changing landscape between the have s have not s i got it way back in the beginning kids and bully was done in such a way that i actually felt like i was observing the realities of that group of friends wassup felt very staged poorly constructed and ever worse acting teenage caveman which larry didn t write but did direct was terrible but at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn t take itself seriously wassup rockers was just plain bad this is my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in its hindi version with its sita character presented as nita i also note that it is radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita sita yet what i loved about the film was its screenplay by ms mehta not her direction the characters big and small were well developed and seemed quixotic towards the end somewhat like the end of mazursky s an unmarried woman they are brave women surrounded by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him carrying his invalid mother biji he seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion br br ms mehta seems to fumble as a director however compared to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant as she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the chinese micro minority in the social milieu of india she even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she is dwarfed by these giants given her competent canadian production team and financial resources mehta s film of two bisexual ladies in an indian middle class household may be sacrilege to some but merely captures the atrophy of middle class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali films have touched parallel themes in india but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers br br ms das ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda are credible but not outstanding ms azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors mrinal sen s khandar gautam ghose s paar benegal s ankur a brilliance notably absent in this film ms das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema i am sure ms mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays all the way though i was thinking to myself oh god why at the very beginning i thought right it might be average but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious br br every part in it was so predictable even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring it was a half decent movie but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part were geller falls off the building had me in stitches my girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next and more times than less i was right br br why does going into the house make her come after you it doesn t make sense it was a poor excuse for a lot of killings and no really depth was seen at all br br you can see everything coming which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching oh shes behind her didn t see that one coming yawns br br surely these people must have thought to oh i don t know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of being eaten but someone hair at best during the movie i was very mildly scared and i mean mildly i was just crying out for the credits as they rolled i exhaled a short oh thank god if you haven t already don t waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel at a high school student commits suicide not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known time skips back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate students marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas all reaching boiling point hitting to an end for one br br after losing a friend to suicide and surviving his own suicide attempt writer director murali k thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows is thalluri s attempt to bring it to light if you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has becomes all the harder to view br br with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis s sex pregnancy sexual identity bullying friendship thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluri s talent is his subtlety he respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime it verges near documentary at times it has such a painful realism the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this br br has a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film is different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long tracking shots with time skipping back and forth to show each characters interaction from different perspectives a defining point to elephant was its ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of characters and the long tracking shots sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread while there resides this dread in the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level sant couldn t reach as time goes by each characters fragility creeps out dragging you along their emotional roller coaster br br the real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very beginning the hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion though many films that have shown suicide gloss over the act or romanticizes the act thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution with unknowns in the leads and their first major roles teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers br br compelling and revetting is an absolutely unmissable film the quote above just about says it all for slipstream i should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour but decided i ought to be fair and give it a chance i won t watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clich d lines in the movie i m sure it will set a record br br some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton is his quarry paxton s character has hijacked hamill s prisoner an android taking his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoots owens paxton with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tabs on the pair the real question though is why didn t he just fire the device at byron thereby cutting out the middleman br br if you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose you ll find something of interest here but you can t convince me that the film makes sense on any level scenes of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when paxton s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso if anyone thinks there s some hidden meaning here you re really stretching br br patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming the end to come into view alas even that was denied if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then so is understanding this movie had neither yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons apparently the film was keeping them afloat director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully leads this hal roach road show which tenders a fast moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employing a large number of roach s reliable performers although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley stars as joe jenkins a young kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to hollywood where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves star struck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefers using the entire m g m studio as his set does so here as cecilia always ready for an audition is treated by a would be paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behind the scenes action of naturally a musical comedy featuring broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interludes including their well known skit involving a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turns by such as joyce compton russell hicks and walter long on balance one must hand the bays to mischa auer who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star a role which he largely creates and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley s filmic spectacles the jokes are obvious the gags are corny and the characters are walking characatures but i couldn t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many times i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment it contains many quotable moments and some of the best sight gags i ve seen to this day if you ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start these slasher pics are past their sell by date but this one is good fun br br the valentine cards themselves are witty and well thought out br br the film has one peach of a line he s no angel when he in fact is angel watching buffy reruns will never be the same br br the cast is a sizzling display of young talent but the story does not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters sorry but no br br the direction is very good managing to show very little actual gore and relying on your imaginations implied threat much can be said also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes br br essentially the main directorial plus lies within the borrowing of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks psycho s shower scene is tributed along with halloween s masking br br murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as i know br br light viewing not very scary but a few good jump moments if it was a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movies have had their day and this is just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundbreaking the only reason i gave this episode of masters of horror a instead of a is because the two lead actors are good and it wasn t shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot are ridiculous br br talking driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a break what next zombies who come back to go skydiving maybe zombies who come back to host qvc shows br br i never supported the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces and homecoming was disrespectful in that it mocks the true horror of war br br with zombies being mass produced in today s market this is the spam of zombie related entertainment how homecoming made it onto masters of horror is beyond me like most i thought another crocodile movie so far we ve had primeval and rogue in the last months what can they do that s new where both those films were about action and violence this one s about fear and tension br br the performances aren t oscar worthy when there s nothing going on but in times of distress or terror these people suffer so much it s like torture there are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don t really behave like this as others have pointed out but the fear is so effective it s a stretch to say you ll enjoy this movie it ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as the passion of the christ there are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick s abundance of clich s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the characters and the dialog br br i d read about elizabeth berkly s awful performance in the equally awful showgirls which i ve never seen and her performance here while not awful is barely up to the standards of lifetime s worse fare there was not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldn t have been if so it would have placed the film completely out of balance since there wasn t a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal br br the principal s handling of liz s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable her husband s initial reaction and advice were likewise forrest gump attacking jenny s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic intelligent action and hell he was mentally challenged br br the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession br br finally and frankly i rather enjoyed this part the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs that you d rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most real like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the law and order series and the like but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime br br finally i found a kind of story within a story fascination with josh s concoction of his being the victim of his teacher this scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story this was something of an achievement like going from f to f minus br br this whole lame situation should have been resolved in real life in about minutes following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities with husband involved but then that would have precluded the contrived drama following and left an hour s blank film in the camera br br but the writer s here proved with their ending they could do even worse when the situation was finally resolved and righted this was accomplished in all of about seconds with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parents or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption br br this one s a presentation the second because it does have some mild fascination if you haven t seen this yet you really should on dvd i can t believe how much i enjoyed it it is amazingly realistic and believable true much of it is speculated and i would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts there aren t many of them but it handles everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature programs that you ve seen on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animals here are dinosaurs they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others br br for the most part the effects are excellent at times they will look a little too much like cgi s but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic in some cases you will actually be convinced that you ve seen a dinosaur my favorites were the coelophysis the raptors the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds i was most disappointed with the t rex however which looked a little too computer generated at times br br in any case you should definitely see this production it is educational well made and very entertaining for what it is its an a why is it that canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre other then action i caught dragon hunt on tv the other day and it was like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower its pretty telling that the cast imdb credits with this monstrosity apparently never worked again br br bad acting bad writing bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just goes on and on the movie really has nothing to recommend it if you re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out there are a tonne of other films that won t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards br br i hope this film didn t get money from the government for financing otherwise i m never paying taxes again ab tak chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe is a hard working hard edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison his loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers imtiaz becomes frustrated by sadhu s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status a new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and imtiaz is angry when sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of sadhu s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics br br i was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from india the camera work is excellent the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds the acting pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director shimit amin has taken liberties with factual accounts nevertheless ab tak chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film making let s keep it simple my two kids were glued to this movie it has its flaws from an adult perspective but buy some jelly worms and just enjoy it br br and the pepsi girl was excellent br br and kimberly williams was pretty gosh darned hot although she s not in the film very much so don t get too excited there br br not that s it s really a bad thing but it is the kind of movie you watch just once don t buy the dvd br br enjoy br br did i mention kimberly williams that was for the dads it was a m in the morning and i had nothing else to do don t judge me please br br we re back in time during the spanish settlements a group have made their way onto an island it doesn t take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobbles up their horse soon they re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg sucks it reminds me of the cg of early console video games the encounters were lame the only positive thing i have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it s just a middling effort lackawanna blues is and excellent movie the casting was perfect every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played their chemistry together was amazing the acting was superb i felt as if i knew the characters i could almost feel them they reminded me of people that i knew as a child growing up in the s and s oh the memories my personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see i have watched this movie so many times that i can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them i can t even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite parts thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age and that is black people loving each other looking out for each other respecting each other caring about each other and doing all we can to help each other got ta go now i have to go watch it again saturday june pm the neptune br br monday june pm the neptune br br few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as carlos saura s brilliant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of its centennial saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impressions of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings allowing the power of each performance to explode before saura s camera creative use of large flats and mirrors moved throughout the set combined with screens shadows fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song dance and instrumental performance photographs of albeniz reappear throughout the program connecting the passion of the music to its great creator saura encompasses all spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors as most people i am tired of the by the numbers clich d movies that hollywood makes there seems to be no creativity in hollywood companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in br br this movie is a welcome change it could be classified as romantic comedy for it s genre but don t let that turn you off this movie this is a very original movie which is not like most things hollywood produces br br if you are reading this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother going over that the only movies that come to mind to compare this to are interstate and art of travel which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage br br this is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same br br dean many of the reviews and comments i have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the story line was rather typical of clara s later silents i still find it somewhat heart stirring and incredibly fun clara plays a happy go lucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves never mind that this man is married clara s lack of modesty was shocking in the day but i believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a brilliant story line quite typical actually this movie is a nice showcase of clara s ability to make the audience laugh as the number of video nasties i ve yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage popped up on my to rent list when i saw it was available br br the premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip though if he returns with the girl and all the money he gets a significant cut he s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot is one of the worst actors ever granted they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after stealing away into the jungle we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human king kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever ping pong balls for eyes and that s pretty much it his growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i found myself muting much of those scenes br br oh did i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this is probably the main reason this film was banned though there is one specific scene about one second long where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out but it s not a redeeming factor for gore fans also jess franco goes beyond the usual t and a and shows lengthy close ups of female genitals and sadly male as well so if you want fair in terms of exploitation you got it br br i can t recommend this trash to anyone it s not even the good bad movie it s just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you are making your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list which is certainly not true i rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on david keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent judge and jury was well plain dumb i gave it a should have gave it a i gave it an extra star just because david keith s gun was cool i found out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on was in it game on is a funny british sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into hollywood and star in this film he failed thank god br br the film is a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she thinks ben chaplin won t like her because she s ugly the film is just bad for so many reasons the plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit those two scenes made me cringe janeane s character is sickeningly arrogant and guessing from her role as stand up comedienne and arch feminist is in real life too she claims that the film is anti feminist when in fact it s just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it s interesting to note her hypocrisy too she d been a feminist and comedienne for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad i imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film i mean come on she acted in it for heaven s sake what this film was really was anti men if anything it portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of uma thurman s character noelle br br there are other bad things about this film too like ben chaplin s character being the british man every american girl finds cute and jamie foxx being the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure is that the best the script writers could come up with blimey they ve never done that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever made there s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is the other comments on here all say how janeane garofalo isn t ugly but is actually beautiful erm was i watching the same film as they were she s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one although having said that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well she s lanky and gaunt looking br br i guarantee three things about this film if you ve never watched it br br you will know what the ending will be br br you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and br br you will be bored after ten minutes br br watch at your own peril this movie has everything typical horror movies lack although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers the only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this is a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person having just seen walt disney s the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog as linked from youtube i used those same sources to watch a remake done in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man ub iwerks the colors compared to the earlier black and white are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone are just as funny as the previous short it does get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier silly symphony the cast of this film contain some of new zealander s better actors many of who i have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them the fake american accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong as another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long running new zealand soap shortland street it s as if this movie was dreamt up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meets the love boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea br br if you are an actor i recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintains a streak of decency moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life how true these words are watson s anne manning is at the core of this intrigue she s the central conscience that the other three latched on she is the decency undeterred br br the circumstances of lies are to each its own one to defend one s professional name one to hold back due to family partner pressure one simply don t want to face the consequence one ironically can t believe the truth and lies to save friendship these are all precarious situations there lies the intrigue fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies contradictions indeed in spite of the seeming dishonor decency and heart remain strong br br the treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity it s not sensational or complex as another film where the truth lies credits due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performances of both watson and wilkinson there is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies beneath it all human frailty not excluded they meant well and following along with the story the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two manning s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship br br you might say there s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in separate lies yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention the deserving production efforts include cinematography by tony pierce roberts a veteran to the merchant ivory films and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski s trois couleurs especially bleu this is a british film you just might not want to miss br br emily watson anne the wife breaking the waves debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punch drunk love red dragon equilibrium in br br tom wilkinson james the husband the full monty the governess rush hour as villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently as father moore in the exorcism of emily rose opposite laura linney br br rupert everett bill he is simply delightful in my best friend s wedding opposite julia roberts and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently as sherlock holmes with ian hart as dr watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stockings tv br br linda bassett maggie she was very effective as ella khan opposite om puri in east is east i am amazed with some of the reviews of this film the only place that seems to tell the truth is rottentomatoes com this film is awful the plot is extremely lazy it is not scary either people out there who think that because it stars sarah michelle geller it is somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film is more like dark water except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it i was extremely disappointed with this film it didn t scare me nor interest me either let s face it this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e g the dead trying to contact the living dragonfly what lies beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc etc it seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the japanese and the koreans the films that are coming out of hollywood like this are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer they re just being churned out angela sandra bullock is a computer expert but being shy and somewhat of a recluse she does all of her work from the confines of her condo just as she is about to take a vacation in mexico a co worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash angela heads to mexico but takes the disc with her while she is sunning on the beach a terrific looking gentleman named jack jeremy northam makes overtures to her she falls for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it even after angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the usa jack makes things difficult he changes angela s identity on every computer across the nation making her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie has many assets first bullock and northam are two very beautiful interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation the script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today s world the costumes sets production and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful and despite how it sounds there is a great deal of exciting action as angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this is a great choice it delivers twists and turns with great frequency making it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment i rented the dvd in a video store as an alternative to reading the report but it s pretty much just more terror tainment br br while the film may present some info from the report in the drama you re taking the word of the producers there s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one br br the acting all around is pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotypes of hot shot bitchy foul mouthed government agents each thinking they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really has a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it br br imdb s user community ratings comments tend to be more right than wrong and i have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever i can br br i wish i had on this one look this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson as julie she is smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and the power gave us lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a coke and putting in this film my friends bob bill and dennis agree lisa is not only brilliant she is a hottie the movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard but as soon as lisa hits the screen things really start hopping the others are clearly not in her league this is not the exorcist but as i said if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this is the one to see it wasn t until i looked at the trivia section that i found out that the original producer star of this movie tyrone power died during its making this no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic you know when you ve been painting a wall until you re completely bored well that s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner br br the plot centres on soloman the king of israel having an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not being happy about it you can t really blame them since there s few things more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli women here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in european and american accents br br after much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed and no that s not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered israelis have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who can t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them this is what i don t get even though their blinded by the sun the egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the israelis never ever realising they re charging towards a gaping ravine isn t this somewhat illogical it s also something of a revealing error since the horses chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures br br anyway the film ends with soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising god for his victory but who needs moshe dayan arik sharon or god when you ve got an idiotic enemy who can t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall i am a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this was playing at the cinema i couldn t help myself i wanted to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in g b which is unique among allen s work along with what seems to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop is much lighter than mp and the humor is scoop s most enjoyable aspect the plot revolves around johanson s character a journalism student who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she falls in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by allen br br i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johanson s performance but i am a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she plays a ditsy yappy bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of allen s stereotypical neurosis stricken character she adds appropriate body language for comic effect needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find johanson s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus br br allen is allen he is still playing the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film makes me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late br br jackman is also enjoyable as the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less br br in terms of the plot i can not help but feel that this is fresh in fact it stinks of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen are more detective like than anything however i must applaud allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything being black and white things are painted in shades of gray being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt though the plot seemed old woody still has a knack for one liners i did find his allusions to his last film interesting come for the humor laugh and be merry br br needless to say if you enjoy allen s work watch it if not watch something else i rented this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormons this movie attempts to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focuses on the troubles the mormons had in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portrays the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stands up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith is assassinated and young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the mormons to a new land despite his grave doubts he perseveres and finally has a vision that utah is the place for his colony that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later as crops are destroyed by crickets he again doubts that he has truly been chosen however a miracle occurs which cements his place in history br br i found the performances to be moving and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal polygamy is a part of the story but the reasons why this is central to lds are not raised the issue is not emphasized br br i m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject matter but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout s frightmare is an odd little film the director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic s s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then exploding s slasher genre it isn t totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints and the less than professional caliber of its cast of young actors but it still has its moments mostly due to the classy performance classier than the movie deserves by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who plays an aging old time horror movie star ala vincent price named conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the has been horror star as he s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol conrad is a bit of a hoity toity prima donna jerk off just when you think he couldn t be any more un likable the commercial director berates conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die still feisty even at death s door he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself conrad is then laid to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket which will play personal video messages from conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects br br it is at this point that the kids from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad s grave an after hours visit breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these are characters in an s horror film logic has no place here the college kids spend the evening having dinner with conrad s body seated in a place of honor posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it before parking conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband s body has called in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasn t a very nice guy in life it s not much of a stretch to assume that he won t be any friendlier in death psychic lady makes contact with conrad and he re awakens in predictably ticked off fashion then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students ridiculously huge house picking off the young grave robbers one by one this is where the movie falls apart endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying hello is anyone there are intercut with occasional bursts of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which is the highlight of the movie before the last two survivors finally figure out way later than any semi intelligent people would have figured out the same thing but again we re in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get conrad s body back to its crypt where it belongs the sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music thunder moans and groans howls etc that becomes severely annoying after a while br br i can t really recommend frightmare to anyone who didn t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the s modern horror fans will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you came of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fans of jeffrey re animator combs may also want to check it out as the future dr west appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students br br i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label paired with roy ward s vault of horror and sold at dollar stores because the print quality is terrible i m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at troma which seems appropriate if you re a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley people watch movies for a variety of different reasons this movie didn t have the big budget there s no special effects no car chases and there s no explosions actually reality doesn t have much of these either at least not in my life br br this is a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos i am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since i m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain br br so watch this movie for the characters it is brim full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk br br within the first three minutes kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael hayden s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie excellent acting very believable br br henry czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his harvey and kiefer s mickey enhances the oppositeness of their characters br br i thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady mrs ramsay i m sure she and my mother in law are good friends br br there s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them i think that you can not imagine how these people really work before i came to the studios to watch the guys work there i actually thought quite the same as you do but since i saw and did the work the guys on that tv show have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long that really is no easy work and also the actors which in your eyes may be terribly bad are really great people and a lot of them really can act i don t think that the material given to them can really show that as i think this material isn t very good but they are truly good so i don t think that you before you haven t seen these guys doing there work can judge over them and i shouldn t have judged over them as well before i met them but i did and am now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven t seen them doing there job as usual i am making a mad dash to see the movies i haven t watched yet in anticipation of the oscars i was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has there is no story a group of guys meander around iraq one day they are here diffusing a bomb tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire no wait here they are back in bagdad there is no cohesive story at all the three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures by that i mean we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying we have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers dvds what do you think is going to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy why yes there is no story here the script is juvenile and predictable the camera is shaken around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this is such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon don t waste time or money on this boring movie a group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere one had a flat tire the other s jeep mysteriously won t start one of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him when the remaining foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermit like house which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins he goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the girls in the house before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warns them about davy his brother who is lurking about and isn t all there of course one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again is it slaussen is it davy the mannequins tourist trap has the usual horror requirements jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoes girl curiosity getting the better of people and never working out but it stands apart from the rest of the s genre in it s twist of an ending i started to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners is a terrific creepy over the top performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly doing the same this is a gem if you can find it i had taped it off of cable when i was younger and walking through a used video store i spotted a vhs copy that was totally overpriced but well worth it fans of tanya roberts won t be disappointed either best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup and crackers br br i gave it a because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain most lorne michaels films seem to fail because they re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five minute segments tommy boy is a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesn t know anything br br david spade gets the thankless overwhelmed everyman role he s paired with the annoying overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortunes as they travel cross country to save daddy s business br br the plot for starters is really faulty the whole premise daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz can be traced back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it is reduced to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together br br the movie s biggest influence is the comedy classic planes trains automobiles that movie is great because the plot isn t stale and recycled it s basic yeah a guy traveling home for thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob but it s real dammit it makes all the difference the characters are real the situations are far more real tommy boy is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters we feel nothing for them and we don t care about what s happening on screen pta walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate able tommy boy is simply absurd with jokes like a simple deer in the headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn t dead then awakens and wrecks their car br br the whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from pta and it s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the steve martin john candy movie br br farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable i ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn t changed my mind spade s given very little to do serving as the movie s most thankless character br br dan aykroyd is wasted as the evil baddie who plans to destroy daddy s business the ending is a joke and not in a har har funny way more like a oh god are they serious way br br some people dig it that s cool but i just can t get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrows from not just counting pt a without any credit whatsoever having read during many years about how great this film was how it established ruiz among the french critics specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watched it about a year ago i found it pretty disappointing but then i guess my expectations were sky high shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cerebral film made for tv and mercifully only an hour long is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncovered has a similar argument borgesian is a word i read a lot in reviews about this movie but i would say almost any borges story is more interesting than this film many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients this film follows three friends gary rick and david the big apple misadventures into the world of first time sex and true love along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it s ending if you haven t been lucky enough to see this movie yet by all means take a look sprinkled with many memorable s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace l a v truly is an original film a rarity among films of it s genre i loved this show from it s first airing and i always looked forward to watching each episode every week the plot characters writing special affects were outstanding then the sci fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining well written show i say bring it back i know all of the actors would come back i would suggest buying the dvd s i am i hope the sci fi channels executives get word of these comments and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunters but i am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too i didn t know what to except so i think it was a lot better not having excepted much don t get my wrong its not a bad short film tess nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film you can tell that it has been an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good there was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on though i don t feel it greatly detracts for one s ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much as i do i say go for it the gag reel was fun i won t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also done by jagged edge i know fans of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven did the first travesty actually make money this is another sequel along the lines of another stakeout that no one asked for but we ve received it anyway the sequel is like its predecessor completely brain dead it s also pretty disgusting remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden did they need the money that much i was never so bored in my life hours of pretentious self obsessed heroin addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems it s like watching lizards molt even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this this movie is awesome on so many levels and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on br br just remember this when you re watching shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movies be they good or bad this is the formula that they are using this is what makes zombie movies so great br br and what makes it better than great is the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know br br all in all it doesn t linger there s never a point where you think to yourself c mon get on with it it moves quick and corners nicely this is the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks br br so awful it s wonderful if your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek rent it buy it love it br br as a great trivia note if you re watching it on dvd you ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen underneath the musical score well that s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop the ladies man is laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes including the funniest love song ever written br br ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role br br tim meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you ll find in any comedy out there br br it is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round br br i am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre and i urge you to vote br br and remember kids theres more motion in the ocean when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minutes of the young victoria i knew this wouldn t just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie is great the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot br br the only thing that really let me down are the performances emily blunt the devil wears prada is the star of the film bringing victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend is almost bland as prince albert but he has great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany is also solid as lord melbourne although i expected more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable br br to me the film feels like unfinished maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script i don t know but that s how i feel about the movie br br but overall it s a great movie about the early years of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt a flying saucer manned literally by a crew of about male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some years ago on a forbidden planet what they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in br br on the surface this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeare s tempest but this is a stretch and in some ways an insult to the scifi genre stripped of what makes it a scifi film sure its the tempest but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about br br underneath this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like star trek br br anne francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful the special effects and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable if it were not for the goofy retro art deco ness of s sci fi props you might think you were watching a s piece br br this is a classic of that very special sub genre of sci fi i like to call s sci fi and though not in my opinion the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci fi film and special effects the clever plot now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of star trek lost in space and even farscape is worth paying attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of star trek s original series aired about years later though they may find themselves disappointed by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem i had with it br br some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young good looking leslie nielsen in one of his first starring roles unfortunately nielsen s performance is only average and at times down right poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other films over acts his role as well ms francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot are the stand out actors in this crowd though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job the problems with the featured performances i think are as much the fault of the director and the editor as anything though they certainly got most of the film quite right i just saw this film on dvd last night and decided to check out the reviews this morning it seems that i robot has polarized the critical viewing community here on imdb and given rise to a lot of insults and name calling too br br i find this somewhat surprising as this film is not great or even good but neither is it terrible or even really bad what this film really is is depressing depressing that the us film goer population is so ready to lap up insipid clich d re heats and acclaim them as spectacular new works this film as retread written all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modern day uber action to smith s character a smart mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effects that borrowed from matrix and a few others br br i robot is sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today s audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lots and lots of adrenaline smith is mediocre but we already knew that he seems to be hollywood s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story has lots of holes in it of all sizes but i don t think most people drawn to this film are critically minded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by today s standards but very b movie compared to true winners this was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects just tell a true story about the struggles of two african american women over a turbulent century br br this movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people not white black etc br br good movie with a good message i have bought the complete season of surface watched it in days i was so captured by the the plot theories and basically everything about this show the actor who plays miles is great mile s sister mother and father acted like real life family would you could connect on so many levels it s fascinating br br i find animals are so wonderful you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists br br am sadden that surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows i have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book br br love the show very much for those who haven t watched surface if you like sci fi you need to watch this this must have been one of the worst movies i have ever seen br br i have to disagree with another commenter who said the special effects were okay i found them pretty bad it just wasn t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story br br maybe that distraction is the reason that i did not fully understand the story the archaeologists are looking for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what is so special about it that also makes it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient egypt br br if you re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the beginning the ancient ceremony looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert br br the action level was constant throughout the movie no ups and downs no climax it made the movie look short and that s certainly a pro for this particular movie liam neeson portrays the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he is a true actor he captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles jessica lange is excellent as his wife mary mary is such a beautiful woman it s her love that makes rob roy the legend but it s his passion that makes her love undying they need each other tim roth as the evil cunningham is perfect in one way or another upon watching the movie you will find cunningham disgusting the scotland scenery is beautiful the environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well if you like history romance passion and love you ll enjoy rob roy there is violence and blood but it s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if you re not used to a scottish accent one important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes it s their skill as actors that attracts you they don t rely on marquee names popularity or sex symbol appeal this is something special when i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world she has beautiful and charming body when cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body i think male have hard to resist i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes at least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like seema biswas to c in bandit queen i concur with what mallicka b has said the movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotions aren t conveyed properly i guess a couple of not so good performances also contributed to its mediocrity in my view tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scenes she looks a bit lusty which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed i also noticed a bit of over acting in some of her scenes i m a bitter critic of aishwarya rai can t help it sorry for that raincoat was a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after seeing raincoat i was not at all impressed they ve shown i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i am so very tired of it the bad acting isn t enough the story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one is such a bore having seen carlo lizzani s documentary on luchino visconti i was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by adam low but the viewer like me did get dissatisfied i faced a need for critical opinion which i generally don t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer there are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally but when i read the reviews already written on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes don t know what to criticize therefore to be clear i ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director s career and latter one about visconti the director br br the aristocratic background all the hobbies the wealth that young luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented his effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino was brought up as a real count of milano in riches galore with nannies cooks with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father s splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that there is also an emphasis on visconti s crucial visit in paris in the s where he met eminent people left wingers who later had impact on his style and message in art that clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing a contrast at first sight br br however the part about his director s career which started with ossessione during wwii and ended with innocente just before the director s death in is poorly executed his movies are not discussed well why because there are very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remembers the works on la terra trema and that is all right there are also some interviews with franco rosi but later such movies like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig are mostly discussed by helmut berger although i liked the actor in the role of ludwig i did not like the interviews of his moreover some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary there is no mention of significant works of visconti like conversation piece there are no interviews with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be made there is one footage interview with maria callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him as a director makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious for instance he mentions the event how visconti separated from him after years of service therefore i say simplified and unsatisfactory br br what i find a strong point here are footage interviews with visconti himself as a result we may get his own opinion about his works for instance i very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself he also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming ludwig br br i believe it is better to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it is shorter and condensed as a whole you will get a better idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people s emotions and viewpoints into stone time is precious this film isn t i must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like fargo and this complete waste of time br br the theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction is this the film the critics are raving about what a piece of crap br br the hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family get it br br the acting is superb br br the production lighting sets editing sound is about steps above a minutes story the characters are shallow and unintelligent i was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next br br i have had more fun doing the laundry worst movie ever made ever i have no words to say about it other then it truly had no point no plot no anything sheer crap i don t know how everyone in the movie didn t shoot them shelves after watching it i love vampire flicks and mysteries and alternate abstract outside the box films and this was non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film was about cuz i still don t know and i just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it bottom line i think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs thats the only thing i got from this film please don t watch this i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasn t even the to be expected nudity you d get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point this movie blows go set yourself on fire instead savage island is a lame movie it s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting not only that the storyline and script was wretched i don t know why this movie was made i have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones i really hate are movies that make me angry this one made my blood boil the situations were inane at best if i made a movie like this it would have been a short really because those backwood idjits wouldn t have been in the picture br br don t be fooled by the cover on the d v d i am an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie is virtually unwatchable i don t mind movies being shot on d v but if you re going to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror films sans wrong turn br br i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pass on by br br movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic i have to say this is my favorite movie of all time i have seen it well over times actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching it is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in i highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again buy a copy now it is a classic i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning i m going to assume that one s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one s level of acceptance of joseph s story br br however that aside it was very well made well acted and had a nice score if you get to salt lake city it is a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begins there being that i m lds and regard joseph as a prophet i was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times which i presume is expected since they handed out tissues before the movie started anyway i m told that this film is available in several lds visitor centers around the globe if you have minutes check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tells a fascinating story adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he creates an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache sound like anyone you know br br from the safety of hollywood chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arms and defy hitler and mussolini given that the united states in had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to embroil itself in europe s civil strife remember it was hitler who declared war on the usa not the other way round it is surprising that chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic br br the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly humane brave etc etc chaplin is hynkel and he also plays the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin writes directs stars composes the music and does the catering br br in the full truth was not yet known about the third reich and chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standards of the day he gets hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin tries to ridicule hitler by making hynkel silly and hapless all this does is to humanise him when hynkel the not very warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside down aeroplane he becomes endearing rather than despicable as dictator he inspects his subordinates technical innovations which don t work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passages are meant to make us think that the real life nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside in fact hynkel s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery br br in truth chaplin s day had already passed when he made this ill considered polemic at heart he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gags like staggering up and down the street semi conscious or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings the hero schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judged but schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a nazi is it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such had existed would say to the fuehrer s face your cause is doomed to failure because it s built upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how does schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto if he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt why does he persist in wearing his ruritanian uniform chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of auschwitz birkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age as usual chaplin thinks in terms of silent comedy set pieces loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line there is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers shaving a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment filmed in reverse br br paulette goddard is the unremittingly perfect hannah just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich is ridiculously idyllic so hannah is quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee ain t i cute she asks after the barber gives her a make over too cute by far is the answer she doesn t come close to ringing true because chaplin has made her a caricature the wouldn t it be wonderful speech which chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying br br jack oakie is great as napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he brings a whiff of much needed comic brio to the proceedings but the film s underlying weakness remains if napaloni is silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stuttering stop start of the back projected train is a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth br br and where did the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform milo is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked do we really need more slashers i for one think we already have more than enough i guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it a long time ago he drowned but that didn t bother him and he still kills people friday the th what s that one day his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist milo comes to pay them a visit through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out milo s dull i mean dark secret she and her friends have been dying to know once discovered milo goes on yet another murderous rampage isn t it his bedtime yet and the girl well she screams a lot the acting is not even bottom of the barrel the barrel refuses to be associated with it milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him that but some movies just can t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity this is one of the best horror suspense films that hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts it has everything that a good film in this genre should had chill thrills and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in parts it was sort of far fetched the acting was not that great but my overhaul rating for house of wax is an eight out of ten if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats this is just the right movie for you i have to admit it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax i myself enjoy these museums but after seeing this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way never saw the original movie in the series i only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified this movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie it was however a movie that would make some walt disney movies look dark really this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen the only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid the story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water not really worth watching i would however like to see the original granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also made a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown created in and originally named mortimer before walt disney changed his name because his wife convinced him mickey mouse has become the staple of the disney brand i always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it is in fact his third but it doesn t matter for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable the story sees mickey piloting a steamboat until captain pete takes him off the bridge stopping to pick up cargo and minnie mouse missing the boat being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them mickey helps her crank it s tail and play the tune and getting some other animals to be percussion until pete comes along again to stop him making mickey peel potatoes mickey mouse was number on the greatest pop culture icons and he was number on the greatest cartoons very good highly regarded at release but since rather neglected immense importance in the history of performing arts a classic use of embedded plots one of my favourite films why hasn t the soundtrack been re released the perfect murder is foiled when a wife played by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helmed this episode who murders her husband with a poker has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside an escaped insane madman dressed in a santa claus suit played by a deviously hideous larry drake she fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband s corpse she decides to use an ax once she downs the santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman s head to frame the killer for her husband s murder santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child br br this episode of tales from the crypt just recycles tired material involving the old santa kills theme while also adding the oft used add nauseum woman murders her husband for a man she s been cheating with routine it s essentially trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac there s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions not one of the show s highlights the imdb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film it should have read be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your family s church at years old listening to the preacher drone on about god s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your lego br br it starts off well intentioned building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as renny s how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morphs into a christian jamboree sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic induced babble i believe i counted the use of the word pray about times in a five minute span near the end after the st i tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last minutes plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me as it became totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of ending up on the floor br br for all the salivating christians who ranked this film stars i suggest sticking with your theology reinforcing safety standards like circle square the ten commandments anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as jesus camp the god who wasn t there what would jesus buy or the soon to be released religulous br br maybe robert whitlow s book is better tess of the storm country is possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford s films at two hours it was quite long for a silent film yet continues to hold your interest some years after it was filmed mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a greatest hits performance with bits of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past the movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character s illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary is thought the unwed mother in question if the academy awards had been around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have been mary s i first saw this movie when i was about years old my mom bought it at our local kmart because it was on sale for on vhs she thought that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch this movie however scared the hell out of me you may be asking yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolves around satan sending one his minions pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas that s right satan sends a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalks santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on christmas day for if santa doesn t make it back to his home in space he turns to powder don t get me wrong the movie is funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell which occurs at the beginning of the movie is just downright creepy although there are some snippets in this part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these are not very well developed in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs br br although this program as a whole leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserves some praise almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you if asked they think the drug war is designed to solve for example while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensued and the subsequent reversal of prohibition is totally ignored by this program br br this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems but not all users do their drugs in excess just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics br br if you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science has decided to totally prohibit whose users it has decided to not so metaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that is in here br br on the other hand this is hardly in the category of anti drug propaganda it is mostly an interesting neutrally presented history of drugs in th century united states like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there is a significant element of various people s points of view with regard to drug laws and most but not all of that is not very thoughtful or well informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana br br the criminal justice system along with its often harsh life ruining penalties is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately there s an epidemic in this nation of an as yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs a lack of compassion for fellow humans a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally approved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason this is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs yet this program ignores it br br so in sum the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining but when it comes to presenting a rational non radical point of view with regard to drug policy and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives it s pretty disappointing considering this film was released years before i was born i don t feel too bad for over looking it for such a long time back in january of though i attended the second annual quentin tarantino film fest held in austin texas the particular theme of films this night was neglected s crime films and boy was her right the gravy train or the dion brothers as it appeared this print was an absolute gem wonderful performances quirky characters smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that is so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well i hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it the movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group in their endeavors the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called satin whom sister goes after because she believes he is the big time who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life though he could be accused of killing her he really kills only her spirit and will to live after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose the story isn t about the street life or the italian mobster who tries to buy stix off then threatens him it s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be discovered back then first i realize that a rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst this movie gets that from me because as one reviewer points out it s not bad in a self aware over the top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply misses its mark on every count contains possible spoilers the dialog is completely disingenuous the continuity is so deliberate it s painful daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love and with his final word the flamenco dancers start the mock shock of what s her name see i don t even remember her character s name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tells her that her friend is the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things vegetable carts gone flying cars crashing into each other motorcycles going down the stairs people nearly being hit but remarkably no one is oh that s right except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds and an approaching car apparently didn t notice him there hmmm br br it s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made there is so much pressure in the film industry to make money you d think that someone in hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing now there s a novel idea br br my suggestion don t see this film don t rent the dvd don t watch it on cable there are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he is black then walk away the other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise is funny and the show contains many such types of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers i could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all the year saw no fewer than filmed productions of h g wells great novel war of the worlds this is perhaps the least well known and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as wells wrote it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place the last year of the th century using wells original setting in and near woking england br br imdb seems unfriendly to what they regard as spoilers that might apply with some films where the ending might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world it seems positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in english literature so let s get right to the chase the aliens are destroyed through catching an earth disease against which they have no immunity if that s a spoiler so be it after a book and other films including the classic you ought to know how this ends br br this film which follows wells plot in the main is also very cleverly presented in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late th early th century photography although filmed in a widescreen aspect the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs rather than black colors are often reminiscent of hand tinting at other times colors are washed out these variations are typical of early films which didn t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality even going from black white to sepia white to blue white to reddish white and so on as you ll see on occasion here the special effects are deliberately retrograde of a sort seen even as late as the s and yet the martians and their machines are very much as wells described them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effects are really awkward such as the destruction of big ben the acting is often more in the style of that period than ours some aspects of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair br br this film is the only one that follows with some closeness wells original narrative as has been noted viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story wells description of the martians a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles is effectively portrayed when the martian machines appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how wells described them both wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the martians from the limited perspective primarily of rural england plus a few scenes in london involving the narrator s brother the director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesn t dwell unduly on the devastation of london br br the victory of the martians is hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines the narrator traveling about to seek escape sees much of what wells terms the rout of mankind he encounters a curate endowed with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene wells adds that after eating they set up a prolonged and cheerful hooting the narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate who revives just as the martians drag him off to the larder cheers from the gallery british curates are so often utterly insufferable br br this film lasts almost hours going through wells story in welcome detail it s about time the author got his due in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact a word about the acting don t expect award winning performances they re not bad however the actors are earnest and they grow on you most of them however have had very abbreviated film careers often only in this film the narrator is played by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate is john kaufman also in his nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing the brother henderson is played with some conviction by w bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part is played by james lathrop in his first film br br this is overall a splendid film portraying for the first time the war of the worlds as wells wrote it despite its slight defects it is far and away better than any of its hyped up competitors if you want to see h g wells war of the worlds and not some wholly distorted version of it see this film of the elements that make this the best at this point i have to say is christine mcintire shemp s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent i imagine that as one poster suggested christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil to be smiling at shemp s possibly dying br br another character who helps this stand out is the goon his look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof ball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short is this good who s going to complain not i okay this is stupid they say their not making another nightmare film that this is the last one and what do they do they go on making another one not that the next one part was bad but why do they play us anyway this movie made no sense what so ever it was extremelly dull the characters were highly one dimensional freddy was another joker which is very stupid for such a good series the plot is very very bad and this is even worse than part and i didnt get the movie its a stupid tale in d pointless id say i hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film this is so different than the prequels it tries and tries but this one tried the hardest and got slapped back on the face again there were hadly any death scenes although they were different they sucked bigtime how can they have gone this far didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts and yet they make this its all bout the money do not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series br br i gave a nightmare on elm street six out of br br good points of movie had potential with plot br br bad points of film terrible acting lack of deaths too funny to be classified as horror very confusing everyone my name may sound weird but there was nothing else br br any way i haven t seen anything like this before so it was crazy of course that s a good thing it is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig saying twas beauty who killed the beast war of the worlds scene and more walt disney company has not lost his touch maybe not for this one also how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema br br however some parts don t fit like in the original lion king weren t timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they are not they were fighting the hyenas backstage ther s more the reason being why pumbaa isn t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also it s just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonn s story was told whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks br br but apart from that it s great finally was there released a good modesty blaise movie which not only tells a story but actually tells the real story i admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by peter o donnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty became the magnificent person which she is it is not a movie to attract new fans but a movie to tell the real tale some things could have been better but when you can not forget the awful movie from then is this a magnificent movie so are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story by now the game s stale right br br the jokes have been done its all over the creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone after all br br wrong br br the game is still intact the jokes are here folks sure they re all rehash but so was monkey island and for that matter br br the difficulty is well placed somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fighting sub game is badly innappropriate in the tradition of sub games and this game has the best joke of the whole series when asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you don t need to see my identification its worth the price of the game by itself i decided to watch this movie because i d not seen carol lombard before in any movie i m sorry it had to be this one because quite frankly this is a dog and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom were great actors br br the problem with the film is simple it tries to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson played by stewart who marries jane played by lombard within an hour of meeting her what s that clich marry in haste repent at leisure br br in short the story is a series of episodes that show the couples worsening financial status their troubles with john s live in mother their struggles to pay the bills john s diminished status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother the couples angst about their marriage the baby s sickness which worsens thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to bring a special serum to save the child and finally john being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm br br how many more clich d situations could the writers include maybe mother dying soon after there wasn t much comedy the drama was lacklustre at best the dialog was painful to hear only the acting of the four main players was adequate br br this was the period at the end of the great depression with the usa coming out of its long downturn during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie br br so it made sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american values of family relationships heroism perseverance and initiative all against the backdrop of the average american family who better to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard br br and it should be noted that the film was released in early so it was planned in soon after the usa began to get production going for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film was a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war as many here would know hollywood and washington formed an uneasy alliance before during and after the war br br however i m glad i saw it as a piece of disguised socio political propaganda but i ll have to see other lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range br br as another reviewer noted see this one just to say that you ve seen all of stewart s movies otherwise don t bother unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there s nothing to spoil about that movie even if b mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun eurotrash director but for the last years he seemed to have lost it this film is just empty nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min no sex no blood it s suppose to be about snuff no actors no dialogs just as bad as an t v film it s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our minds forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gems as zombi robowar rats l altro inferno virus cruel jaws and few others so except if you want to see b mattei possessed by jess franco s spirit s new film pass on this one but if you don t know this nice artisan s career track down his old films and have fun i enjoyed watching this well acted movie very much it was well acted particularly by actress helen hunt and actors steven weber and jeff fahey it was a very interesting movie filled with drama and suspense from the beginning to the very end i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this made for television movie it is excellent and has great acting hypothetical situations abound one time director harry ralston gives us the ultimate post apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the streets in the stores and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempting to rekindle his sanity takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hopes for more but with nobody around he is left with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co existence alan a man of the book is left on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he is alone he begins living life his way until jeri ryan appears like she would in any dream out of the woods disheveled and unhappy to find the final man alive to be well like alan anyway they try to co exist fail get drunk and before creating the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael played by newcomer dan montgomery jr bonds are torn confusion sets in a couple becomes a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs brainless jock even with nobody left on the planet it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise br br using a variable film technique ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled the quiet earth which i will be viewing next oddly which he never gives any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it his punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while ralston tries to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director s techniques to attempt to find his own he opens the film interestingly enough but fails to answer any direct answers sure the final days have arrived but could there be a concise answer as to how or better yet why these select few survived a spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film the juxtaposition would have been like shawn of the dead but instead left us feeling like we were watching a made for tv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made and his passion nearly sells the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn t as happy with his overall final product there were mistakes ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out while this does make for decent independent film making it sometimes feels cheap and in ralston s case it was the latter br br i must admit david arnott s portrayal of alan hooked me he played that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he was funny to both watch and listen to and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer he was a key player in keeping the film together alas i can not say the same for the rest this was dan montgomery s first film and it was obvious i mean really really obvious there were scenes in which i thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance but alas it wasn t the case then there was jeri ryan she pulled into her character near the end of the film which to me was the culmination of the entire piece of art she goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confused again she fell into her character by the end giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured even as the commentary progressed all that she contributed was a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell tickets one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this was her first film so can i be too harsh br br overall this film felt like it was missing something i though the idea was strong the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the earth the evil of human nature still exists jealousy can not be killed by bacteria or bombs maybe because it is consumed by zinc and we as a race will always want what we can not have ralston is not a surprising director his techniques are flawed and pre used but he does know how to make a low budget comedy i think our idea of funny is different so that is why i couldn t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found hysterical his actors provided the level of acting needed for this film which was lower than average his film was loose meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled i e anything with wings survived which overall harmed the intensity of the film this was a comedy but it could have been much darker and much much funnier for those thinking that roger avery was a huge element to this film as we learn from their commentary all he was there for was money the was in essence the bank for the last man don t get your hopes up for any classic avery moments br br don t expect more from ralston and that is how i will end it br br grade out of br br i must admit i was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though was delighted with the unexpected australian horror gem i am a true horror fan as true as they come and found cut to not only be the best of the genre australia has ever produced but one of the great parody comedy films of late br br my only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film was not overly clever in it s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i am certain this was intended as humour hoping this was intended as humour br br and of course there was the gore br br the use of the customised garden shears was brilliance besides the expected stabs and slashes in short there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth br br the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance was and molly ringwald was just another reason to see the film both performances were fantastic as well as simon bossell the castle in a brilliant role as the jokey technician br br all in all i think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years as well as a beautiful satire parody toungue in cheek till the very end br br loved it go see it i am so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever i m shown some small town in the states it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless in this movie a former doctor who s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash directs his steps to the nearest small town he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns which happens to be the purgatory flats and of course as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose he meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her but there is a tiny handicap she is already married to a very small time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead to know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself i ll just tell you that it s slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but is a way down in all artistic properties like anyone else who bought this i was duped by the pieces of extreme gore and banned in countries or whatever it says in the box i have to admit i am a huge gore fan and i am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom are some of the best in the business the revolutionized make up effects in the s today you don t need them as everything is done on computer but computers can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress br br watching fantastically gory films like fulci s gates to hell or even savini s crowning achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film you can t tell the difference between reality and magic br br i can t imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that is the reason you seek this film then you are wasting your money as many other reviewers in here have noted most of the gore is an aftermath you don t see the torture or the bloodshed as it happens you see whatever it looks like afterwords br br the gore well it s here but not as much as one would hope or expect a man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts but other then those two scenes and one involving a scalping there is nothing really much else to this film the scenes of gore even in these three mentioned are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for maybe it s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i was expecting a bit more call me sick or twisted but isn t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place i honestly found myself bored in a lot of places br br cannibal ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust is not exactly a great film it is much better than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated br br i always felt that ms merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills familiar to millions as the lt on law and order she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases always in a supporting role hbo s lackawanna blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as nanny successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration but the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo br br the story could be set in any major african american community of the s and s from atlanta s sweet auburn to new york s harlem but the segregation integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at nanny s boarding house the story revolves around nanny s relationships with all kinds of people played by some of the best actors in the business i purposely did not say black actors this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day this will not likely be voted best comedy of the year a few too many coincidences and plot holes however we are talking about a movie where a hit man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn t come as too much of a surprise brosnan is excellent in this role gone is the wooden james bond a role he was wasted in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continues to make comedies greg kinnear is also excellent as brosnan s straight man i ve read a few negative comments in here about hope davis but i thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within there are lots of good chuckles as brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where i nearly died laughing my father a consultant nearly lost it when julian describes himself as a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hit man comedy the humour can be very dark if you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself as a casual listener of the rolling stones i thought this might be interesting not so as this film is very of its age in the s to me someone born in the s this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap but i am sure this film was not made for me but people who were active during th s i expected drugs galore with th stones i was disappointed it actually showed real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt as if i was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not seen any of the directors other films but i suspect they follow a similar style of directing sort of amatuerish which gave a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly directed tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this is that i didn t waste money on it it came free with a sunday paper watch the original with the same title from this made for tv movie is just god awful although it does use as far as i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesn t work is it the acting the poor directing ok so it s made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hands on the superb original especially as you ll be spoiled to the plot and won t enjoy the original as much as if you ve watched it first br br there are a few things that are different from the original it s shorter for once but all are for the worse the actors playing the parts here just don t fit the bill you just don t believe them and who could top edward g robinsons performance from the original if you want only watch it after you ve seen the original and even then you ll be very brave if you watch it through it s almost sacrilege director don siegel really impressed me with this film it is starkly shot graphic without being visually graphic well acted by all concerned and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer i didn t know what to expect sitting down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s soft core peddling with eastwood descending on a school for girls in the south but really is is neither of those things but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and women a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized as one reviewer previously noted none none of the characters are likable by the film s end and yet each one is interesting complex and enigmatic eastwood plays cpl mcburney a union soldier found by young pamelyn ferdin you ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it a girl at a school for manners headed by geraldine page amidst the chaos that was the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional sexual ties to eastwood each having their own needs and secrets and problems eastwood is not a nice man he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatchers siegel s best film it certainly is one of eastwood s best real performances page is always so very good and hartman fe rdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic some of the sexual laced scenes disturbing and what happens to eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film anyone who lived through the ages of revenge of the nerds and girlpower will appreciate this film it is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a spring break movie plus it makes fun of the college film genre it s funny it s got a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer actor rachel dratch is a comic genius and sophie monk is such a great villain wilson phillips omg i m just repeating myself now it will live on with girls who like miranda july but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they re dumb arguably the finest serial ever made no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbinding spectacular and action packed chapters flash and his friends along with new found friends such as prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now she s a car this serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot acting and budget it is miles ahead in these areas produced by universal studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production values across the board are advanced in my most humble opinion for the costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first rate we get hawk men shark men lion men high priests creatures like dragons octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic things are all of them believable and first rate special effects no way but for most are very impressive the musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well written lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter and expertly scored director frederick stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for alex raymond s phenom comic strip lastly the acting is pretty good in this serial all too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents here most everyone has some ability don t get me wrong this isn t a shakespeare troupe by any means but buster crabbe does a workmanlike likable job as flash he is ably aided by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out but before i get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movies decades later the shorts crabbe and unfortunately for all of us professor zarkov frank shannon wears are about as form fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear the girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actors that make the serial are charles middleton as ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton is a class act jack tiny lipson plays king vultan boisterous rousing hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steals each and every scene he is in the plot meanders here there and everywhere but flash gordon is the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow excellent i have to say that the events of didn t hit me until i saw this documentary it took me a year to come to grips with the devastation i was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on tv if there was any talk about the towers i was sick of hearing about it when this was aired on tv a year and a day later i was bawling my eyes out it was the first time i had cried since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i am watching it now on tv years later and i am still crying over the tragedies the fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing it was an accident and look where it got them these two brothers make me want to have been there to help perfect movies are rare even my favorite films tend to have flaws rear window looks a little stagey at times chris elliot s character in groundhog day doesn t work the music score in best years of our lives is too cheesy the beginning of nights of cabiria is a little too slow but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish br br the script is brilliant the acting is superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston are amazing the whole cast shines the directing and the photography are inspired and the music score is touching without being intrusive like some miramax scores that are too manipulative every sad moment is truly moving every light moment makes me smile this truly is one of the best films i have ever seen and i wish there were more films like it br br i am glad that reese witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film but i am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people real feelings and real problems brilliant a must see this has to be one of the worst movies ever made the plot looked intriguing like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better the plot has been worked out in the worst possible way just a few of the awful moments in the movie a flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the mile per hour winds thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at feet thats impossible even for pilots with thousands of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she is instructed to pull on the flaps huh come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this is a movie you want to miss take my word for it regardless of what anyone says its a b movie and the effects are poorly done if you re a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we are to view this as a movie not read it as a book so the effects and characters are important as well as the story the story are good but it doesn t carry the film no wonder it has a low rating over all i write this because i chose to see this movie when i saw some good reviews here on imdb but got severely disappointed don t get me wrong i thought the blade movies was awesome and loved the underworld movies but this characters aren t close the make up on the vampires is poorly done and the effects are worse this sucks i might not have gotten so disappointed if i had not read reviews here that told me how great it was the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this is awesome you don t care about acting or make up this is better as a book out of for an ok story i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which was actually written not spoken in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist was meant to be self referential in a tongue in cheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film they are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that i have to conclude carax actually takes himself seriously here or else has so much disdain for everyone especially the viewing audience that he can t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke br br some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique bizarre films because they do so with lan and unique personal style e g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story e g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenberg s later less bizarre works in pola x carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it well here it is the pacing is erratic and choppy in particular continuity is often dispensed with superfluous characters abound e g the gypsy mother and child most of the performances are overwrought the lighting is often poor particularly in the oft discussed sex scene unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list goes on br br not to be completely negative it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions i liked the musical score even the cacophonous industrial techno music being played in the sprawling abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhol s factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings and even well into middle age cathering deneuve shows that she still has it her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn t sink into bathos br br there was an earlier time when i would regard such films as pola x more charitably experimentation is admirable even when the experiment doesn t work but carax tries nothing new here the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films and after several decades of movie viewing and literally thousands of films later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly crafted tripe at this early moment in the st century one is left asking with the exception of jean pierre jeunet are there any directors in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating it s hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon was well done but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious br br i was amazed to see marcus aurelius in the acting credits wondering what an ex emperor of the roman empire was doing acting in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker br br the story might been interesting but the acting is flat and direction is tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend s house and get drunk while doing so then it ll be enjoyable i remember going to see the movie in the summer of with my parents and being pretty into it at the time of course i was seven at the time br br right before the jackson movies came out my wife and i rented this movie since she had never seen it and i was feeling nostalgic br br ralph bakshi ran out of money about mid way through the animation process for this movie and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this is saying something much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word there are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them br br because of budget constraints the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the rings and part of the two towers was pared down even more what you get is sort of like a film strip version of the cliff notes of the books br br its not all bad though the animation brings a warmth to it that i found lacking in the jackson movies its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding br br this movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came several years later a half hearted half hour long tv special was aired which was meant to wrap things up all i will say about that is that it was a musical just finished watching ftm the trailers intrigued me so much i actually went to see it on opening weekend something i never do needless to say i was very disappointed the story has so much potential and it s frustrating to see it get screwed up i really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i am not a mm hater i thought he was awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off times yes we all get it that he a good looking guy with a nice body but i think most people knew this years ago when he came on the scene in a time to kill showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman times in the movie is totally unnecessary i think one time would have been sufficient it wouldn t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling unless enough about that let s get into his role i feel his acting was very forced and he didn t seem very comfortable i know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner but his lines were corny and cheesy it was almost like he was referencing days and confused lines a few times in short i didn t like his character even though i was supposed to the accent his shirt off corny pick up lines weak sales pitches his character was just too much of a tool as brandon or jonathan pacino and assante were great but that no surprise piven is fun to watch as arie oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly it s insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeals to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female women make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights al pacino with great speech scenes and great one liners every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he did in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting are unnecessary br br this will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagrees with me ask your self this would this movie be much better if a directed by sodeberg b decaprio or ed norton as brandon instead of mm br br i will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks i realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie going public gets what the movie going public wants big budget crapola i was watching the sci fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on while not as bad as wynorski s curse of the komodo this still sucks bad wynorski uses the same island as in curse of the komodo as well as the same actors and house the effects are top notch suprising but thats about it i don t know what else to say about this movie oh yeah as in curse of the komodo the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island also when i saw this part i laughed hysterically a komanbra part man komodo and cobra overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards just remember if jim wynorski had anything to do with a movie steer clear to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating it s almost over it s almost over out of i only heard about driving lessons through the itv adverts and to be honest i didn t know how much i would like it i switched on the tv last night and was totally surprised driving lessons is a modest simple film which draws you in right from the start rupert grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager ben brilliantly he s definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton is played by the fabulous julie walters i loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me was evie s rather colourful poem it shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs in my opinion watching driving lessons is a great way to spend hours the scenery was also striking especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with for greta garbo s first talking picture mgm wisely chose eugene o neill s pultizer prize winning play anna christie br br also wisely the producers backed garbo up with not one but two members of the original broadway cast george marion as anna s father chris and james t mack as johnny the priest transmuted to johnny the harp for films so as not to offend br br this little change is interesting like too many films accused by those who want movies to be movies and ignore their origins of being little more than filmed stage plays the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn t be more faithful to the property by diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn t offend anyone or opening it up because they could too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place br br fortunately the respect the studio had for both o neill and garbo allowed anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in frances marion s generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonders marion even allows the point of the scene where garbo s anna reveals her past on the farm to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact what the league of decency must have thought of that br br the source play s greatest problem has always been that chris s friend marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don t always recognize br br the perfectly cast marie dressler who had cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before going to hollywood is the perfect balance for garbo s anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minutes doesn t allow us too much time to miss her one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original and screenwriter marion is wise enough to stray from o neill to bring dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of julie laverne s second act appearance in show boat br br anna and marthy s early scene together on screen minutes into the film taking each other s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece not to be missed br br anna christie is great tragic play and a good film drama it s hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it was first filmed without sound in also with george marion s original broadway chris could improve on this excellent filming br br the internal scenes hew closest to the play but the exteriors shouldn t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work is not to modern technical standards the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set especially in the new york harbor br br nearly all garbo s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille years later will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies but this anna christie together with the variety of her films mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laughs surely stand as her best br br o neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded sea plays should track down the fine world war ii shaped film released in the year before the u s entered the conflict the long voyage home it is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from anna christie and features a youngish john wayne in one of his rare non westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way let me set the scene it is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies i am with my friend deciding what to see we look for a movie that is starting soon and the grinch comes up we buy tickets not knowing what to expect what we got was a roller coaster of fun br br jim carrey who may i add is my no actor in the whole world was absolutely magnificent as the grinch in this ron howard s best movie next to apollo the way that this movie was made the scenery the actors the props and the music was just amazing it really brought this childhood movie to life br br the story is based upon the story of the grinch as we all know the grinch is a horrible person who just can t stand christmas he lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk but one little girl is going to change the grinch s look on life and on others in a drastic way br br cindy lou who played by adorable new actress taylor momsem meets the grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away she attempts to break the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the towns people br br all up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents a solid well done jim br br as a long time fan of all the star trek series i found this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashbacks featuring will riker s exploits both positive and largely romantic and negative lots of pain and a crewmate s death was a money saving device as were many of their bottle shows episodes in which all scenes take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appeared at least twice on the original series deserved a better final appearance than this for her character dr kate pulaski loyal viewers in the star trek world is there any other kind also were shortchanged this was the last episode of second season thus the season ended not with a bang but with a whimper this tv series was one of the ones i loved when i was a kid even though i see it now through the pink shaded glasses of nostalgia i can still tell it was a quality show very educational but still funny i have not seen the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing was it was too long ago to remember br br the premise of the show was to show you how the body works i swear school still hasn t taught me half of what i know from this show it also tied in other things like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don t exercise with nice examples within the body who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you d the cartoon looked nice very kids friendly of course but done with care cells viruses electric signals in the brain antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures looking pretty much how you d expect what they should look like in the animated body br br this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale were key parts of my childhood i m so happy i found them here fans of the hbo series tales from the crypt are going to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic ec comics were based on will recognize this one right off the bat br br underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer co author of the screenplays for apartment zero and death becomes her is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guy next door or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he takes the latter approach and it definitely works br br donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of making up and she s horribly burned in a fire he s reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen looking the worse for wear these days br br but abbey s never been one to give up without a fight and that s where the ec theme of the episode comes in cuckolded husbands and wives have always been the genre s favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigans and this case is definitely no exception if anything the ramped up quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere br br and that s not to mention that john esposito s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist you don t realize as you re watching that you only know half the story until close to the end think what lies beneath with more guts and gazongas and you re there br br not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed as with most moh episodes this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply dirty war is absolutely one of the best political government and well written t v drama s in the years br br the acting is superb the writing is spectacular br br diry war reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil br br dirty war should be made into a major motion picture it s that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth br br this t v drama reveals how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims because of england s involvement in the iraq war br br the scenes of different parts of london england are also spectacular br br dirty war is a must see some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly did not a college professor david norwell suddenly gets a yen for adoption he pretty much takes the first child offered a bad choice named adam as it turns out adam doesn t have both oars in the water which almost immediately causes untold stress and turmoil for dr norwell this sob story drolly played out with one problem after another all centered around adam s inabilities and seizures why norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out personally i think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner this is the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who s next which would provide anthems like baba o reily and wont get fooled again this film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the s br br daltrey shows what being a front man is all about entwistle steady as ever br br moon is great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him playing side saddle whilst having a bass drum head replaced br br townsend even looks like he s enjoying himself occasionally br br considering they took to the stage at am no one in the crowd was asleep br br there are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one this filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell and did so really awful jumble of unlikely unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation br br we get clich snapshots instead of characters one in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss who projects an overdone tough guy persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase as in the smallest from a complete american tourister set in a bright sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it s standard visually one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in ct they filmed this movie out on long island where i grew up my brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer which they told me was colored water tasted disgusting and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form it never came out in the theaters obviously and it as far as i knew was never released on video and i m sure wasn t released on dvd yet it looks like it was seen by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother yet there is no way i can find it anywhere does anybody know anything about when where how this movie could be purchased and which format that would be that s how burt reynolds describes this film which happens to be his best ever he plays tom sharky a vice detective who s on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man he s financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story is more complex because the guy s running for president this is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story reynolds doesn t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films he s very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong at times though the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt trying to get close to the mobster s woman only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharky s machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handles the score with magic this movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever check it out br br score out of stars human traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a fly on the wall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other there are many moments in that every one can relate to like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers the characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie the situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds the topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other the story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism this is a film about people this is a well written film with a sound track to die for d j s pete tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that i have seen in after watching this film i felt like i had been out partying all weekend fantastic movie jo brand as the voice of reality need i say more br br this early biograph short was so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d w griffith s years of discovery dvd set highly recommended it features three excellent performances by the main leads and interesting to see henry b walthall the little colonel birth of a nation as a campy musician giving a countess the eye and other things br br the countess husband goes berserk at his wife s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour it s kind of incredible that they wouldn t hear the wall going up but hey maybe the wine had something to do with it here mr johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment comes at the end as the lady passes out from shock and fear once she realizes she s doomed henry picks up his instrument and fans it over her the way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lost it and laughed my head off the expression on his face from that moment i was charmed by henry b walthall baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this is the movie which caused his downfall it was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred soon after its release he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably its a very bad movie with horrible acting bad quality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease i m one of the unfortunate souls who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission sorry i ll not recommend this one to anyone written by oliver stone and directed by brian de palma scarface paints a picture not easily forgotten al pacino turns in a stunning performance as tony montana a cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick is harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word f k the most number of times almost three hours long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord br br also playing interesting characters are michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f murray abraham and angel salazar pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation he manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster is that powerful enough for you crime does not pay for long first the cgi in this movie was horrible i watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park gets killed it s probably one of the worst examples of cgi i have even seen even night of the living dead had better animation br br that said the movie had almost no plot why were they on that island in particular well it wasn t stated in the movie and why would the people keep coming into the cat s area makes no sense br br one thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting in what could be called a b made for tv movie movie the acting was very good parry shen stood out in particular br br if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quotes i enjoyed it there you go i said it again i even bought this movie on dvd and enjoyed it a couple of more times call me old fashioned but i prefer movies like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving america van damme moves well for a guy of his age i think delivering kicks that reminds one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosions this is the movie to watch this is one of van damme s best works br br van damme and steven seagal movies get released theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen what a waste of talent a very poor semi coherent script cripples this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echoes of fargo here but it just doesn t come off although it strays away from the book a little you can t help but love the atmospheric music and settings br br the scenes in bath are just how they should be although if you have watched it as many times as i have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they are in the hot baths but did the men and women really bathe together like that you could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women it also seemed strange that they all had their hats on but perhaps this was the style at the time the ballroom scenes were very nice the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful i especially liked catherine s dress in the first ballroom scene br br northanger abbey looked suitably imposing but i enjoyed the bath scenes better br br schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as catherine morland googie withers gives the best performance as mrs allen i feel br br ugh peter firth as mr tilney he just talks a load of rubbish and is not a clergyman as he should be it s hard to think of him being in love with catherine but then the book never really gave that impression either br br general tilney is played reasonably well by hardy and stuart also gives a sort of good performance as isabella ingrid lacey did not give a good performance as elinor tilney as for john thorpe well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portrayed in the book but i quite like it br br i can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me the marchioness i hate her she is not part of the northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy br br some of the script is peculiar when catherine is asking elinor tilney about her mothers death she asks i suppose you saw the body how did it appear what a silly thing to say elinor s calm response is stupid too br br anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute has written a definitive page point by point line by line refutation of this mendacious film which should be titled a convenient lie the website address where his debunking report which is titled a skeptic s guide to an inconvenient truth can be found at is www cei org a shorter page version can be found at www cei org pdf pdf once you read those demolitions you ll realize that alleged global warming is no more real or dangerous than the y k scare of which gore also endorsed as he did the pseudo scientific film the day after tomorrow which was based on a book written by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber as james the amazing randi does to psychics and philip klass does to ufos and gerald posner does to jfk conspir idiocy theories so does mario lewis does to al gore s movie and the whole global warming scam a lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to china captures the amazement of film s first audiences pretty much as it s described to have been worldwide and uses actual lumiere films for most of the actualities i don t agree with other people about bad acting on the british fellow s part i thought he was fine but the chinese lead really stole the show in any case i found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in english which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the chinese on the dvd sigh i m baffled when i see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards it was mildly annoying to see it swiping the grinch who stole christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design seen many times before the whole weak tim burton ish style and the story that goes nowhere and we got the joke about shooting the crows with the the first time alright br br but i guess what s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa called lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge as any quick internet search will reveal i mean what is this this is what they base a hollywood contract on and opens doors in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake as don cherry might say cute idea salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherits a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasn t even in north america was made the th state of course there were only states at the time since this was made in linda travels to the country she has inherited and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people at one point she sings a song that she claims is from her people the navajo and it gets ever more sillier from there although yolande donlan s heavy lipstick and omni present smile never get ruffled or shmeared there are other songs scattered through out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess filmed in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here is dirk bogarde as british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde made a big splash in the uk film industry after serving in the war and was even knighted by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventures become more intertwined as lampidorra s financial problems worsen fun little farce along the lines of marx brothers film also note that donlan later married val guest the writer and director of our little project and stayed married for years guest was better known for writing and directing his sci fi flicks in both the uk the us back in a little film called making love shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men br br i have been waiting for years for a good old fashioned romance between two men latter days is all that and more br br yes it is soapy melodramatic clich ridden and quite corny that is what makes it so wonderful there is nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word br br as to the issue of religion sorry folks but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now it is not just the mormon church that rejects its gay members gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection br br i loved this movie it has a perfect blend of a fantasy romance grounded in the reality of the day to day lives of the characters if i could give it more than ten stars i would good love stories never go out of style great love stories like latter days are unforgettable br br it s about time the concept of having laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious it guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially stan laurel of course as usual br br the movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula it doesn t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending it s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the movie br br the supporting cast of the movie is surprising good sam adams is great as the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield goes deliciously over the top as the nutty professor br br the movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed it all helps to make dirty work to be one of the better laurel hardy shorts br br this movie came as a huge disappointment the anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expected shamballa to tie up all the loose ends unfortunately it didn t it added more plot holes than it resolved and confused more than it clarified the animation and voice acting were great but with an idiotic plot dull setting most of the movie doesn t even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing ending ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy and he ditches winry it was altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie and read the manga maybe i loved this movie so much in part because i ve been feeling down in the dumps and it s such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i thought it was pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effects excellent acting especially de niro who is awesome this movie made me happier than i ve been for a while br br it is a very funny and clever movie the running joke of the kingdom s history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled that s much of what makes it so good it s an elaborate special effects laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies yet there is an incredible attention to small things br br i feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again i was surprised that forgiving the franklins did not generate more buzz at this years sundance film festival there were times that the laughter at the screening i saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues you know little issues like religion sex and the truth lots of comedy s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations many leave you thinking i know they ripped this off from some sitcom this film takes off on its own unique direction i really think that jay floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived you know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot four young boys playing in grainy slow motion accompanied by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion once they re grown it s easy to spot the writer director among the four he s the quiet contemplative long haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants this means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only there s no writing or directing talent on display here and if you still can t figure out which one he is here s a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it took over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men were supposed to still be in high school what looked like a prison was apparently a high school the warden turned out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hitting back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scenes badly out of focus cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience overacting in the extreme and if you don t quite get the self important speeches or the slow motion scenes just listen to the overbearing music it will clue you in and what you re supposed to feel poor marisa ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films the biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies run over puppies chained to a tree rob and steal all the while complaining about their sad sorry lives but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah that s the ticket why is it that every twenty something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important so interesting that the world can t wait to see it onscreen if this movie is as autobiographical as it seems then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants i watched this movie so that you don t have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what was he thinking he did this for scale br br at least the film s title practices truth in advertising since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film adding to the confusion kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn t sure if genevieve bujold s character really existed this does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story br br the making of feature was far more interesting than the movie itself it explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie even as the film is being shot br br to it s credit this movie is visually pleasing and doesn t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over m too bad the money wasn t spent on a better project just saw this movie on opening night i read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it i must say i was not impressed i m so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money br br first of all the messengers is very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really did nothing for me the climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie s resolution br br furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub par suspense scenes br br if you ve seen previews for this movie then you ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie is not worth seeing in the theaters i went to see this movie actually i went to see family portraits which contains cutting moments other short films by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina i just couldn t watch it i had to cover my eyes after the st half of cutting moments and take a peek every once in a while by the time it was over my stomach was upside down and i felt light headed i just had to leave the cinema a few minutes after the nd short begun btw of course i was not the only one who left the room it was waaaay too violent and disgusting for me i am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it i just don t get how you can love that kind of movies the shocking and bloody and horrible images i saw got really stuck in my head for like two days i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it and i just don t think it makes any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff makes no other sense than to try to shock people and that s not a good enough reason i think there s absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it was good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of films a well made run of the mill movie with a tragic ending pluses the way the story moves begins with soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he s there the music a disinterested look at the life of policemen minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effects still having people s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided br br no complaints i don t understand the positive comments made about this film it is cheap and nasty on all levels and i can not understand how it ever got made br br cartoon characters abound sue s foul mouthed alcoholic layabout irish father being a prime example none of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for sue s asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence as desperately unattractive as they both are i ve no idea why either rita and or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but given that they do why should i be expected to care what happens to them so many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is if that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film br br i didn t like the film at all steven what have you done you have hit an all new low it is weird since steven s last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn t even funny steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway as for the action well let s just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege and and exit wounds the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn t make scenes sometimes flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted pounds on this garbage out of ten better luck next time a call girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer s next target director brian de palma is really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoops around corners in a museum after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purposes practically gives away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two characters are both watching a tv program about transsexuals and stages his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dressed to kill is exhausting primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial much of the acting with the exception of young keith gordon is mediocre and the second finale is a rip off of de palma s own carrie not to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end results are distinctly half baked from flat spoilers br br five med students nelson kiefer sutherland david labraccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment dying for exactly minutes it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage br br almost everyone does this experiment randy being the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitors david sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him joe sees all the women he has had sex with and which he videotaped asking him why from the tv screen rachel relives her father s suicide and nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions br br why are they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school is quite the experience both for the story and the characters played by then budding stars such as kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin br br the director is joel schumacher who had already worked with sutherland in lost boys and this second cooperation is even better than the first br br a must for psychological thriller horror buds and metaphor lovers this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs this is one of the minor classics from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru calling episode which used the movie s premise br br flatliners one of my favorite shows back in the s as i recall it went to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland were great together br br each episode usually reached a climax with kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible br br i remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient indian chief which who came back as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack trying to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames oh well you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea br br mcgavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best br br definitely deserves a place in tv s hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo kolchack you are on it or in the case of the hall of fame in it i think my summary says it all this mtv ish answer to the classic candid camera tv show features a gen x or is that gen y type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations example kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his wedding kennedy is the bride done up in a full bridal gown and long wig the joke is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his bits and pieces problem is this schtick goes on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took kennedy to get through this one running around constantly asking do i look fat i recognize the show was not made for me it was made for year old pinheads who think jackass is the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show was short lived frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldn t be laughing you ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide open mouths and glazen eyes you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and well you get the point br br but for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face frownland really is a remarkable piece of work that after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him br br it would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of ronald bronstein s film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer if someone sets you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the pain perhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i can t even begin to attempt to explain br br unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself bring a doggie bag i saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late night s sitcoms on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didn t expect much and i didn t get much although rose mcgowan is hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not oscar worthy to say the least this movie has its ups and downs and does have a nice couple of twists at the end but in all honesty it was awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad acting i d give it a out of i first saw this film when i was about years old on tv in the uk where it was called laupta the flying island i absolutely loved it and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and i missed it i was enchanted by the story and characters but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have been the original english dubbed version which i saw sometimes erroneously referred to as the streamline dub the dub was actually by ghibli themselves and only distributed by streamline which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box set br br unfortunately i feel that the release has been partly spoiled by disney the voice acting is ok but the dialogue doesn t have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese had and i think james van der beek sounds too old to play the lead they have made some pointless alterations such as changing the main character s name from pazu to patzu and added some dialogue but worst of all i feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to disney s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking which i find annoying in many disney films br br this film still blows away most recent animated films and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass market homogenized animation this film can t make up its mind whether its message is humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless or don t ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan is out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all senses who is obviously a sick psycho bitch and the canonical villain of the piece throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself i doubt it was her first when her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self inflicted wounds her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to nolan obviously as among humans total psychos date other total psychos br br the film reeks of half thought out anti human message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it does not succeed in demonizing nolan at all it s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and as the film progresses he grows more and more compassionate to the whale s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better br br the films final journey in which nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north reminds me of melville s eerie man whale connection and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husbands might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident it s clear nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss however it never goes there the whale character has no compassion or respect for anyone br br the final scene loses this focus and becomes jaws like where the sea monster finally kills everybody and nolan and no doubt through an oversight fails to chomp up the whale hugger tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier i love animals and i detest whaling and what is more i love orca whales but if this film s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed nolan shows compassion and growth and feels for others and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming br br the only message one can walk away with is if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you why o why did i pick this one up well i needed a no brainer in the summer heat and the cover looked cool br br of course i should ve known better this is a really really bad movie and it gets embarasing when the makers know it s bad and try cover it up by adding some sexy beautiful women and some sex scenes to it well folks it does nt cut it does it br br if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very very good well played and funny go rent lake placid that is an order only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb the first difficulty faced by the submarine seaview is what appear to be chunks of rock falling down through the water and crashing into its hull but it s not rock they re under the north pole it is ice everybody except possibly hitherto mentioned small children and even some of them know that ice floats br br then disaster strikes that darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catches fire no one knows how this happened we are told which is understandable because it is utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there is no air in space for it to burn br br there is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to nd grade school textbooks when making a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we are meant to focus on the people instead which is pretty easy as they are cardboard br br the cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub kiddie romp much like later episodes of his lost in space tv series the concept of which was swiped outright from writer ib melchior and then rushed into production br br the sub looks pretty good though which is why this one gets a our teacher showed us this movie in first grade i haven t seen it since i just watched the trailer though does this look like a first grade movie to you i don t think so i was so horrified by this movie i could barely watch it it was mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cutting that little girl in half and then there was the boy with ketchup i was freaked out by this film now today being i probably would not feel that way i just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn t see this movie even though it s pg be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids i don t even remember what it was about once was enough a plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro life and the other a destroyer of a demon s seed the horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific but instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death despite the title itself being a fan of masters of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon i view this episode as being thrown together from the get go never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to the end scott menville is not casey kasem that is the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re imagining scooby doo and company br br shaggy s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the scooby shows they ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original br br i m not sure what they re on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isn t following the formula used in any of the previous scooby shows br br and the animation style is very bizarre and distorted i like it but it s not real scooby doo type animation but the weird animation used for other wb shows grew on me this might too br br it s worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly besides i am trying not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die as the saying goes we ll see how it looks after two more episodes by then i ll have formed a much more solid opinion i often wonder how movies like this even get made and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them br br with aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along adding twists and turns when he liked no matter how ludicrous they were the script was non existent with inane dialogs such as jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right br br every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped acting was awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suits for a stocky emran locales the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish br br for those people who love hashmi and his movies watch it as for me i ll never get those two and a half hours back the only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent this movie is an amazing comedy the script is too funny if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have given justice to their roles after i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this even this early in his career capra was quite accomplished with his camera work and his timing this is a thin story and quite predictable at times but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately the first part looks like a cinderella story though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune br br nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it s easy to get caught up in the clich s then the movie does become more original as the married couple have to find a way to make a living the ending is very predictable but satisfying i also want to compliment the title writing very witty and fun uwe boll slips back in his film making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island an okay cast headed by the excellent udo keir is cast adrift by boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked the mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way its as if he couldn t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life i m guessing that boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had it really stinks clearly boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he s ever learned about film gets flushed the last film he made that was this bad was seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films i ve ever seen this isn t that bad but it is close simply because it should have been better then again udo keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film i d take a pass unless it s late at night and you re catching it on cable this video is so hilariously funny it makes everything else br br by eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hills cop and the nutty professor which just goes to show you how good this really is to be honest i don t think that i ve ever br br laughed at something as much as this including naked gun and the rarely seen bargearse this show is amazing although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with f that is four letters long plus its extended version beginning with m but it didn t bother me see it the funniest thing i ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too this film is dreadful it has absolutely zero laughs hebrew hammer adam goldberg sets out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise while there are some far and few nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent it is laboured hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly boring this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer s client love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite being played for what might be described as whacky over the top gags this film is consistently middle class middle of the road muck do not waste minutes of your life on this note the music was good it s amazing that such a cliche ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place the characters are so weak and the acting so uninspired that it s impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shields the temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible if you like this genre you d be better off renting singles or bodies rest motion i never watched the next action hero show and until reading the other comments here did not know that this movie was the prize from that competition i was just flipping channels and came across this and found myself watching dare eagerly all the way to the end br br yes the plot s been done the most dangerous game etc but i was hoping for and almost received the gotcha how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end i think the high tech was overdone gps s and gave me cold sweat flashbacks of night rider but it nevertheless was not too overdone br br the basic problem i had with this movie was the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that was required of the viewer do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and no cops show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a las vegas intersection and no cops show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much br br the final solution was good but the ending was disappointing with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting was so cheesy except for zane who doesn t get near as much work as he deserves imho they were winners from a reality show br br knock me out i am a big fan of old horror movies and since i am middle aged old to me is a movie made before with most being made in the s to s period i am not a big fan of more modern horror movies with one exception being creepshow which i thought was great i could reminisce about the stories there but i really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with hal holbrook and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending all the stories were great though so why did i like them so much the characters had some decent development the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bits were really funny this sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent i am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and i turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on imdb com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it s telling you something of also romero s expertise is hard to find here they must had told him to tone it down to a pg standard i don t know what this was rated at but it looks pg to me and that s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on it s shown on the encore cable channel if your dieing yuck yuck to see it i just wanted to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically loved this movie everything else about it was so so billy crystal is a good actor even if he is annoying but the thing that made this movie was at least for a basketball fan seeing gheorghe muresan act i thought that this movie was incredible i absolutely loved it even though my brothers didn t that much the special effects were outstanding and this movie is about my favorite sport golf the only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever seen it was everything i would expect out of a movie i just loved it also it was pretty kid friendly this movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it anything is possible i would give it a pure it was better than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirates of the caribbean movies combined absolutely amazing loved it this is a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes plays robin hood to a tee this is of course the usual good vs evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still works well a comedy for a night when you don t want to have to think much it s well worth a rent some here have commented that this is the worst elvis movie ever made well they are only partly right for me this is the worst movie ever made period i have never seen anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature as this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isn t even so bad its good there is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of elvis other bad movies like clambake this one is so rotten to sit through its painful pure garbage native americans should sue for their poor clich d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole stars seriously grade f first of all yes i m white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race anyway white people hating black people bad but black people hating white people ok because apparently we deserved it where do i start i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene were ice cube and co get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary looking neo nazis and win the neo nazi where twice the size and the chase the chase is priceless this is not a movie about race tolerance and understanding it doesn t deliver this is a racist movie that re affirm all the clich stereotypes the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead cmon simply awful i do regret ever seeing it br br save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written poorly acted dull and clearly biased picture if you are into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie donald pleasance and peter cushing united in one horror film that always sounds like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like the flesh and the fiends and from beyond the grave pairing up in a mid s satanic themed exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be called mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic setting the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourists vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire breathing minotaur statue cushing who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns that is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists when three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of towns before decides to investigate land of the minotaur is a boring and extremely slow paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details the titular minotaur for example is an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance instead the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises the only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and old fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always the three shorts included on this compilation issued in are timeless chaplin classics nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done the problem with this compilation is a minor one yet annoying the shorts have been stretch printed to fit the frame p s speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at frames p s this results is jerky motion that doesn t look very attractive and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time it s just not excusable that the current dvd version is unrestored the films look dirty as they did in and are still stretch printed there are separate restored versions of these classics available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but alas this has not been done br br a minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating the shorts are still worth s tourist trap is a clever unique b thriller that stands out as one of the best of it s kind br br travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner s mannequins are a little too life like for comfort br br while the film has hints of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reaches nightmarish proportions also schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings br br venteran actor chuck connors is the best of the film s decent cast pino donaggio s music score is excellent having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie a number of the film s sequences are quite memorable br br for horror and thriller fans alike tourist trap is an unforgettable must see film br br out of years ago i saw the godfather and it made a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie was first class the acting memorable and the storyline a classic recently i bought the trilogy and after watching part again i looked eagerly to viewing part i was so pleased to realize early on into part that here was a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything was just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii wrong i wish i d stopped at ii the storyline was not good it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story the characters were weak especially the daughter pacino s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in godfather or then scenes such as corleone being invested with all the trappings of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goodies get away and everyone else is shot daughter and st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the steps corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isn t ready for an emergency no it was not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but i ll watch many times down the years this little two person movie is actually much bigger than it looks it has so many layers i ve watched it over and over and always pick up on something new i am amazed at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman is a major star uk newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know toby young the journalist on whose real life experiences this movie is based the key word here is based how to lose friends is a fictitious romcom br br sidney young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally getting it right and making it this involves him selling out and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity however they are not overdone the main substance remains a comedy which centres around sidney s misadventures the script has its cake and eats it in that sidney is a stupid well meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction is never that much of an issue because simon pegg as sidney projects likability too well br br jeff bridges underplays sidney s editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of sidney s affections and with regard to megan fox who plays an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belongings and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort of course given that i m a fat year old english accountant you might not find my offer too enticing but it s there on the table anyway given how short her career has been so far one might think it is a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become however she does it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far br br there is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us br br there are several laugh out loud moments and i smiled most of the way through as ever the f word makes appearances when it really doesn t need to although at least a couple of these are very funny alien hunter out of is it me or does every movie that starts in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all things on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raiders of the lost ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot br br derivative doesn t even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease james spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson asks to join him he turns her down aggh br br in fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it i mean if your going to have impossibly good looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an antarctica research base why not go for broke br br with about seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci fi adventure needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself is a horribly clich d artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title br br i also inquired during viewing what is with the children of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield the characters in the cornfield dress like logan s run extras and i was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them br br that however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant the acting is mostly fine as spader reprises his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the latest in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it br br alien hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper children of the corn in space movie i have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you you are alone is that movie for me the film is constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again as if i am seeing it for the first time br br there is nothing i did not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the ending was perfect very emotionally stirring it was compelling and riveting br br i adored jessica bohl and her performance was the greatest i have ever witnessed i admired brittany s strength what a strong woman br br the tag line is when your darkest moments come to life we never know what we are capable of doing everyone says oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part br br thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art i love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie not just because i m a huge linnea quigley jill terashita fan but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times br br the special effects are awesome especially linnea s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed br br plenty of nudity provided by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc by the way if you have never seen this one try and buy watch the unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing i saw the film and i got screwed because the film was foolish and boring i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled sholay the cast and crew was bad the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle amithab bachan s acting is poor i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year sure nobody did justice to their work including ajay devagan this film don t deserve any audiences i bet that this film will flop br br finally this movie sucks lorna green janine reynaud is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club she falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon it s quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet is guiding lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love making is about to begin after the murders within her fantasies are committed lorna awakens bewildered often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality br br if someone asked me how to describe this particular work from franco i d say it s elegant difficult by now you ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by godard early in his career as far as film making style and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience and as you read from the reaction of the user comments here some like this decision others find the style labouring dull and bewildering i ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head but even franco himself when quizzed by critics who watched succubus admitted that he didn t even understand the film and he directed it some might say that succubus was merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in furs considered his masterwork by franco faithful because it also adopts the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn t truly know whether he she is experiencing something real or imagined in a sense like the protagonist we are experiencing the same type of confusion certainly succubus is unconventional film making where we aren t given the keys to what is exactly going on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn t help matters succubus is also populated by beatnik types and poet speak corman s film a bucket of blood poked fun at my personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually great locations and jazz score i liked this film myself although i can understand why it does receive a negative reaction loved that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig equally wasted rush her in an embrace of kisses this outing of knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever frank welker welker makes the film knotts and welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty knotts works for a small no where town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials when things go wrong the city fathers allow knotts to take the fall frank welker s character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knott s good name this film shows the usual knott s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film this may have been knotts last good outing when you have an extra minutes get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon don knotts emma is a horribly flawed film based on jane austens classic novel i have not read the book so i really didn t know that much about the plot and yet i still predicted nearly the entire plot there were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing the film is though for some reason very entertaining and i loved it of course there were all the scenes i disliked but the majority was well acted and funny gwyneth paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in emma the film also stars toni collette who has okay but has been much better ewan mecgreger who has also been better but he is still very good here alan cumming who i have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that was not what it needed there have been much better adaptations of jane austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching why do i hate this let me list the ways br br i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman playing a year old is just stupid br br there s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it s considered funny and it goes on for minutes br br strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt br br the title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs br br for a family film the fights were way too violent loved it when pickford was punching it out with a little boy and the humor was just stupid br br seriously minutes in i gave up and turned it off the slurs racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me also there was no plot that i could see the only thing worth seeing in this film was william haines who was a top leading man in the silent era br br just painful avoid thank god this wasn t based on a true story because what a story it is populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds before the devil is a mesmerizing jaw dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes is even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it weren t carried out with such magnificent overwhelming conviction by its stars the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesn t hurt either br br the main dysfunction here is of a family nature with the two majorly screwed up brothers brilliant portrayals from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke deciding to rob their own parents jewelry store an attempt that goes pathetically awry br br the story is told with time shifts which are noted on screen such as charlie two days before the robbery so no one should be confused some people have said they didn t like this device but i thought it worked perfectly adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks between them you couldn t make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the brothers is a drug addict married to gina marisa tomei also excellent who is having an affair with the other brother toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who has apparently caused him serious past pain and you ve got a shakespearean greek tragedy on your hands proceed with caution if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspectives this dvd delivers you will learn new things guaranteed so much so that you won t need any other documentary s on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well as a bonus watch this with tora tora tora saving private ryan patton band of brothers a bridge too far the longest day and other wwii epics along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you won t find a better wwii documentary set on the subject perfect the movie was gripping from start to finish and its b w photography of the american heartland is stunning we feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment br br the two criminals performed by robert blake and scott wilson as perry smith and dick hickock could be seen on any street in any town hickock is a smiling boy next door and smith the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town this point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile is part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family looking for a safe that isn t there once on the run they start writing bad cheques carving out a trail for the authorities br br there are many fine supporting actors i like john forsyth as the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney br br i have often wanted to see this movie all the way through having only caught it in short snatches i did finally get to it after buying the dvd the result is the finest classic crime movie i have ever seen br br don t miss this brilliant movie to me this is what great film making is all about this is a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes the same old jokes the same pattern copied from the days of nebuchadnezzer probably the pattern of johnny carson copied by one and all latterman leno conan daly this show does not seem to have any of these br br i fell in love with this show within the first minutes and i am going to stick to it though it s too early to say that this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project and i hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long br br returning back after months i still love this show and i love his self deprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys which however does not involve the usual monkeying of conan o brien for example i know it s a cardinal sin to be repelled by o brien s antics but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness br br i again watched it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensen s spoof of trading spouses and nanny in an earlier episode are hilarious idiot paparazzi are fun especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people s pictures and if i am not mistaken they start taking his pictures shouting gary coleman br br added on th april coming back once again i am left confused by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it is a joke or a real thing either way it was funny as hell br br i do not expect spike feresten to read these pages but maybe he does he is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike s talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la br br god willing br br returning back on th july someone wrote here that the people who praised spike s talkshow must be bribed by spike i confess that spike really bribed me but i must also confess that rockefeller named me in his will and last night i had sex with cindy crowford it s all about getting what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard s eighth wife is to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wishes for you br br most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue misogynistic pirates aside cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it learning only too late that it wasn t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty claudette colbert through a twisted in soul and in practice business deal he ends up marring buying her with the intent of bedding her but she will have none of it literally and frustrates him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction br br the film has definite french sensibilities which means it has strong double entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you re not accustomed to and may not enjoy seeing in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watched the film was because they are likable actors and the whole point of this movie is that they re unlikable people or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves they think from the world br br if you can accept it on its own terms you ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film and satisfaction as we said is what it s all about such a movie with such a cast only comes around after all once in a ummm blue moon now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly i m appalled for anyone to even think that the sopranos is not television then i m afraid i don t know what the world has come to let me tell u something i started watching many t v shows like lost prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those shows lost their touch after the first season especially lost and prison break which i refuse to watch because the companies took genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season then we have the sopranos i can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season and more importantly all of its episodes there is no department that this show doesn t excel in acting nothing short of superb james gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode after i heard that hbo wanted ray liotta to play tony i felt that it would ve been the better choice however after watching the first few episodes i knew that hbo had done a great job in casting james as tony the raw emotion he displays is superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remembered as johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite characters tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actors perform to the best quality and all giving an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i been so sucked into a t v show before the story is nothing short of excellent each episode is directed superbly and the score of this show is just fantastic i feel that the sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say its too violent or they feel that the character of tony is immoral i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day i don t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me you ll be hooked from the very first episode i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show hooked on it trust me when i say that this show is a godsend compared to the crap that comes on t v after you ve watched the first season you ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates television and no t v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is the sopranos i d give this a negative rating if i could i went into this movie not expecting much but i had an open mind the whole thing is stupid the snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i were a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie became so popular seriously the worst thing i ve ever seen i wasn t entertained it wasn t funny i wasn t even bored i wasn t anything it wasn t even so bad it was good it s just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie don t even rent this movie no clue how it s getting such a high rating most people are totally unaware that this movie exists fox which paid judge to make it has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it i guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer well i am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe basically judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid are getting more stupid by basically spending all of their time watching tv and having sex which produces more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talks all faggy seriously is this really that hard to believe oh sure this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson is great as the time traveling army guy hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one liners like can we family style her and hey man i m bating here this is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buying this on dvd the first day it comes out and watching it over and over this is a great ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was i can remember being freaked out by metal teens when i was a kid it doesn t help that i found a desecrated grave in my hometown s graveyard when i was ten turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile but i love it now as a year old br br i bought this dvd used for bucks and i expected it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it ruled it is all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you got ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd this movie is awesome if you love s metal and bad movies this one s for you while not quite as good as a murder is announced which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book this is an excellent adaptation and you know what it is a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i don t take pride in bad mouthing the geraldine mcewan adaptations two or three of them were surprisingly good but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffered from a plodding pace and both of the above problems and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptations worst being sittaford mystery which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing this adaptation of the book nemesis is a huge improvement it not only respects the book despite a few liberties but it pretty much rectifies the problems the itv version had despite the added character of lionel coming across as rather irritating more to do with how he was written than how he was acted and one or two moments of sluggish pacing this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book it is beautifully filmed with nice photography and period detail and the music as always is excellent the performances are wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general well done script with joan hickson brilliant as always as miss marple and solid turns from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as clothilde overall well worth watching better than the recent version in pretty much all departments bethany cox good lord what were they thinking here is your spoiler warning even though i don t think it ll really matter you won t be seeing this piece of trash anyway br br a group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies in other words the whole thing is really stupid br br you know it has to be bad when even mike and the bots can t save something and they didn t i know some of their lines were funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comments but geez this was pretty dang sad br br all i can say is do not watch this piece o crud it is not worth your eyes i had heard and read so many good things about weeds that i was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable series like entourage sopranos or mad men but that slowly eroded away with each episode i watched from season one didn t make it past the first six episodes br br the writing was unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of blacks embarrassing the dialog felt forced like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip it was a rare moment when i actually emitted an audible laugh br br the characters never developed enough for me to care about them they were selfish and unappealing i absolutely hated the addition of the brother in law who should have been hauled away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in mexico was so unoriginal and clich i had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer s loyalty br br episode after episode i liked the characters less and couldn t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line br br add to that i heard that season two wasn t as good so i lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out br br if you re a fan of good casting and writing i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course you re stoned and then all bets are off this movie is among my favorite foreign films some of the others are amilee and my life as a dog the similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson br br in japan a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life sees a beautiful japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it takes his train to pass he is enthralled by her but is it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share br br shall we dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away it is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and in itself transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be as if the film were not of value in itself this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for better or worse and i ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades milo o shea is still leopold bloom this film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love br br the names cuba libre and cuban blood are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film dreaming of julia makes much more sense it has more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people s daily lives and pursuits that fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in cuban history br br the excessive use of the voice over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could br br the comparisons to cinema paradiso and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love br br the revolution like the film julie never seems to have an ending i saw zp when it was first released and found it a major disappointment its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey s it s politics too upfront and ridiculous and let s face it i was still under a love spell known as blowup and i still haven t completely shaken it now the love is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and oh well good luck to me br br but time marches on and time has been kind to zp and time has been a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age and zp is it s own experience and is only really linked to blowup through its creator the late great mr antonioni br br twelve years ago i had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print projected at its correct size immense restored by an italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appeared it was like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of place br br what is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own br br i remember the second time around seeing it the early s i had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seemed like a smart alecky shadow version of zefferelli s olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now were engaging me particularly the girl in her insistent slo motion ality she took her time to live everything everything dies around her br br upon exciting the theater the daylight of reality quickly began to erase my new found enjoyment the encroaching shoulder padded big haired s whispered but that s a hippie fantasy let it go br br the force of antonioni s vision had i had realised already worked itself inside of me the first time around so i answered s with an uh huh and guarded my love secretly possessively and jealously br br but this then is what good art does it lives inside of you and if you wish it has its way and loves you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed br br was thrilled to see that turner classic movies had decided to show zp in its march lineup undoubtedly zp must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all br br today reality hit zp has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of alice s restaurant br br so it is still too difficult too disturbing too what br br maybe it s that as with all good art it lives while everything dies around it br br peace very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome make up effects daniella is a beautiful twenty something girl carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf she kills her brother in law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital she escapes again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives doctors and relatives it s all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire the film is too long too weird and too forgettable the biggest surprise comes at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts yeah right this is an interesting hard to find movie from the early s starring jan michael vincent as a young man who doesn t make the cut as a marine dressed in baby blue outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home the failed recruits are sent packing vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young richard gere who has just returned from a tour in the pacific as a hard core marine raider gere s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion and he takes advantage of vincent s innocence stealing his baby blue uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway vincent s character whose name is marion takes gere s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a marine raider marion hitch hikes his way into wyoming and stops at a little norman rockwell like little town in the local caf he meets rose hudkins who immediately catches his eye staying with hudkins parents marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks mr hudkins suspects marion and wonders how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also brings up the japanese internment camps as the towns folks go hunting escapees marion is shot accidentally during this hunt but there s still a happy ending which befuddled me a bit i would have preferred a little more drama anyway this captures jmv at the peak of his s performances buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mid s were amazingly good jmv performances he was both an action star and a heart throb all at the same time he made a lot of quality movies during his career and continued to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he does a very good job in this as hedge quietly observing the way people treat him in his uniform as he travels across the country he must have performed some of the stunt work as well there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie and it looks like he s the guy getting tossed down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have done so much more with jmv s talent and his looks innocence can only be so interesting evil as explored in buster and billie is much more dramatic anyway glynnis o connor is delightful as rose the whole look of the movie is like a norman rockwell painting the outdoor scenes are gorgeous must have been filmed in canada johnny and june carter cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music is great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus looked like i ve been there too and june gets into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash s narration is good too br br but br br the actor who played jesus was miscast there is no edge to the story like cash puts in some of his faith based music because it is uncompelling i doubt we ll see this ever widely distributed again br br i d love to buy the cd br br tom paine texas usa j niksen vuosi is one of jarva s most political movies it takes stance strongly against modern day society s authority status in the life of the common man and how it has estranged men from the nature completely it challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society br br vatanen antti litja smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isn t all that unambiguous in other words the society has the common man by the balls br br still the thing that makes j niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic brilliance is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well as the whole identity of finland as a nation vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us finns the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes j niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving i love jamie foxx br br and i enjoy of all movies i see br br and i walked out of this one br br now i admit it may have had something to do with the two middle aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing oh no jamie s knocking on a door hee hee hee but this was just so incredibly annoying there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle everything had to be in your face loud and annoying br br the bad guy tried to be smooth and malkovich like but at this point it s just old and tired he brought nothing new or interesting from all the characters too many lines you saw coming too many you ve heard before and too many tough guy lines and i don t mind that sort of thing really as long as there s a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked br br i love jamie foxx and i think he s really funny and i thought he was funny in this movie but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else br br this movie needed less shoot em up less annoying camera shots more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i gave it a after seeing dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of mafia and crime movies i was very surprised to see a very fun smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout the movie moves along well it has of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film are al pacino and madonna i was happy to find out that pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city madonna was great as the damsel in distress she really impressed me and added depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i don t think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameos from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others send them to the freezer this is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film the complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive wow i picked this off the rental shelf because i loved robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this is a phenomenal movie it has action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasn t laughing i was at the edge of my seat this is definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film has everything to keep me happy i don t know why some people criticise that show so much br br it is a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream prime time but still br br the family dynamics are funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows the supporting characters are absolutely hilarious the plots of the individual episodes and the frequent siegfried roy jibes are only just above average but ever so often you have sub plots or one liners that make you roll on the floor laughing br br this show was well worth the pounds i paid for it br br rating mexican werewolf in texas is set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay lives her best friend is rosie martine hughes she has a mexican boyfriend named miguel gabriel gutierrez who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town killing livestock several residents including some of their friends local mexican legends speak of the chupacabra an evil creature from myth legend erm i m struggling now because not that much else actually happens br br written directed by scott maginnis i won t beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas is awful period the script only ever mentions the word werewolf once the rest of the time it s referred to a chupacabra in fact i suspect this wasn t really conceived as a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature looks mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions there is no transformation scene at the end when it is killed it doesn t change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title there s nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title is just a rip off of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this is the type of home made crap that i personally think is killing the horror genre how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which were all made on shoe string budgets maybe the blair witch project but that s it in recent years crap like mexican werewolf in texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic the character s are awful things just happen around them the dialogue is rubbish the pacing is terrible the story sucks virtually sent me to sleep as a whole this film is just crap i m sorry but i don t know how else to describe it br br director maginnis does nothing to make this watchable there s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink you ll miss something editing which just annoys irritates in equal measure it s not scary there s no nudity there s no tension or atmosphere the special effects are awful the monster really does look poor it s no wonder maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it there s virtually no colour to the picture either it s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well the gore consists of some fake guts blink you ll miss them a few bloody wounds a severed arm big deal br br with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget was low but i simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far the whole thing has the look of a home movie it has no style is throughly bland dull to look at the acting sucks too although you probably already knew that br br mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting buying watching it because they might mistakenly think it s a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isn t it isn t even a proper werewolf flick either don t be fooled this is awful i m fed up of having to waste time money on home made amateur crap like this i found this to be a surprisingly light handed touch at a s culture clash movie john wayne would hardly be one s first choice as a cultural attache being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull run in harrods but this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplished his task with style the duke was a guy who really could act well his facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle br br despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time he failed to dominate this movie many of his good intentions came a cropper he had authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian br br the story of american attempts to curry favour with an isolationist japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell for leather battles i can not comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well there was a great deal of minutely choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props the set pieces were complex and detailed a lot of money and thought had been applied to it br br the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha added a little extra element and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag waving effort script was good without being too wordy there was a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy periods of translation didn t interfere with the narrative it was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set whether or not they were japanese i couldn t say but anyway they looked the part at least the leads were not played by cross dressing caucasians unlike other efforts such as blood alley yes i know they were chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i br br frankly i enjoyed this more than any of those other movies the script was better for a start i never liked the songs in the king and i and wasn t impressed by the heavy laden anti communist subtext of blood alley i confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of the duke s more popular outings br br recommended i was so glad i came across this short film i m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it was nominated for the live action short film at the academy awards i was so pleased that i actually had a film that i was rooting for br br the plot is pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals the result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy br br it s a well made short film well edited and the actors all do a great job and the last shot of the film is perfect br br i highly recommend this film i thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one but when i started with it i found it really awful they said movie is being made in afghanistan but i think of the movie is shot in india you can see indian made cars you can see lars drinking bisleri an indian water brand hindi written on the road you can also see temples in afghanistan hahah its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his her time watching this movie pure time waste i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don t watch this waste of time truly appalling waste of space me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about minutes from the end and i can count the films i have switched off before the end on one hand br br the script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldn t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from for example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beating his door down in minutes the scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river it is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters oh and what characters they are the protagonist played by rourke is dreadful he could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed after or so minutes of the film i had built absolutely zero attachment to this character he is neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene his motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery is he happy is he sad angry no idea just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme is just awful and pointless br br the good guys are at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex wife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you aren t going to shoot me that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying br br the richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated br br roasario dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character was so attracted to rourke s or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves realistic female characters ftw br br in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisations and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull its not even comedy bad either laughing at rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first turgid minutes of the film in this movie ch vez supporters either venezuelan and not venezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country br br they did not say that the conflict started because of ch vez announcement firing a lot of pdvsa best workers just for political issues br br they did not say anything about more than tv interruptions transmitted by ch vez during only days in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signals each one with about minutes of duration br br they did not tell us anything about the quiting announcement made by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army forces who is a traditional supporter of ch vez even now in despite of his announcement he is the ministro de interior y justicia after ch vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equals to defense secretary in us br br they did not say anything about ch vez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections br br they did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by ch vez supporters either civilians and military official forces br br they present some facts in a wrong order in order to lie br br they did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and ch vez actions in order to avoid the elections br br that s why i tell you this movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie one could wish that an idea as good as the invisible man would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects but this is not the case the story the characters and finally the entire last minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad scientist flick from the early s there are some great moments mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets but alas soon we re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable but schematic br br there has been a great many remakes of old films or tv shows over the past years and some of them have their charms but it s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol classics under the noses of eager madmen like verhoeven who does have his moments is a very bad one it is obvious that the money is the key issue here the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough and as a result hollow man is seriously undermined with clich s sappy characters predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever br br however the one thing that actually impressed me beside the special effects was the swearing when making this kind of film modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex is very toned down when the whole world blows up the good guys go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them i m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear but it makes it more believable if someone actually swears i think we can thank verhoeven for that ok so it owes pulp fiction but in my opinion has it s own voice and identity mainly because of the music video direction style sketch like narrative and great performances thomas jane delivers great the drug dealer show down is extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros has a short and effervescent appearance great humor they got the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable as is mickey rourke s cameo appearance take a peak br br great hollywood popcorn b production with strong performances of a level aspirants and renegades rourke br br well take a peak it s worth as far as i know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal i d agree with him this is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy man with a special body part helping him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominated daniel day lewis plays christy browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carried by his family he has a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold things with it he learns to speak later in the film it is very good for a guy like him also starring home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominated brenda fricker as mrs brown and bafta winning ray mcanally as mr brown it was nominated the oscars for best director for jim sheridan best writing screenplay based on material from another medium and best picture it was nominated the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapted screenplay daniel day lewis was number on the greatest movie stars he was number on the greatest british actors he was number on britain s finest actors and he was number on the world s greatest actor and the film was number on the greatest british films outstanding all i ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better all the while watching i was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future and there wasn t i ll admit to not finishing the film i had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man adam that it was ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finishing it is a bad review on myself but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they failed this film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplifies what america ran by lesbian natzis would be like and i m not against lesbians thank you mr director someone please give me a redeeming quality wait i have it there s no sequel i do regret that i have bought this series i expected more action more objective picture and more consistency this is just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it is just boredom itself i find the actors work quite weak as well o donnell might seem charming as robin with batman but in this picture he lacks any charm probably while he becomes older he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up it comes as no surprise that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the uk for of the recommended price and was not even released in the netherlands the story has been told before a deadly disease is spreading around but the extra in this film is peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run is real he is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child this person could be working next to you this film was very well advertised i am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months while i was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it then i went and saw it i was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until i remembered that i had paid for this movie i made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i was in plus i wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not trying to go into them with too many expectations but this movie was not that funny now it wasnt the worst movie i ve ever seen but it is definitely worth waiting for hbo if you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it but for true comedy fans id say pass maybe even check out the kings of comedy again something told me to go see meet the parents instead as far as i know this was my first experience with icelandic movies it s such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other br br because it s really worth while i left the cinema feeling really sad i couldn t get the tragic destiny s of the characters out of my head and it impressed me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only was it a tragic story it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack br br if you have the opportunity watch it it s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot br br very typical almod var of the time and in its own way no less funny than many of his later works and why is that there is nothing to be provoked or shocked about and i guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stems from an underlying almost surreal absurdity that is woven into the scenery the characters nearly complete lack of taboo it s the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later works though you ll find it in a more rough version here he s building up for masterpieces to come but is not yet there br br the sole reviewer who commented on this movie before i did claimed that it had to be a very select group of people who d find this movie hilarious i do once again doctor who delivers the goods by the bucket load it has humour you re just making it up as you go along yup but i do it brilliantly action monsters in this case still more kick ass cybermen tragedy and scare tactics in short just what the doctor ordered pun intended the way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episodes that have made you laugh then made you cry and made you go eek br br in terms of character development this is clearly the clincher for noel clarke s mickey and ricky being one of the doctor s companions you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he does it however it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path br br while the rise of the cybermen had more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel is an all out blast like alien compared to aliens both true classics but in different ways can the series keep it up at this level let s hope so a brother s promise is a wonderful family film this is a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depicts this athlete s life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family members is evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us the commitment and determination of dan s coach and his teammates shows what it takes to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating the faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives this is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age well now that i know where rob zombie stole the title for his house of corpses crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corpses but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs making a low rent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i don t remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained deaths took place long ago some like arthritic lurch stand in john carradine whose small role provides the film s only worthwhile moments attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum the result comes across like satan s school for girls catchy title made for tv production values intriguing plot crossed with children shouldn t play with dead things low rent movie about low rent movie makers who wake the dead trouble is it s nowhere near as entertaining or fun the house of seven corpses is dead at frame one and spends the rest of its minutes going through rigor mortis dragging us along for every aching second director sidney lumet has made some masterpieces like network dog day afternoon or serpico but he was not having too much luck on his most recent works gloria was pathetic and find me guilty was an interesting but failed experiment now lumet brings his best film in decades and by my point of view a true masterpiece before the devil knows you re dead i think this film is like a rebirth for lumet this movie has an excellent story which deeply has many layers also i think the ending of the movie is perfect the performances are brilliant philip seymour hoffman brings as usual a magnificent performance and he s no doubt one of the best actors of our days ethan hawke is also an excellent actor but he s underrated by my point of view his performance in here is great the rest of the cast is also excellent specially the great albert finney but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic oscars the film has a good level of intensity in part thanks to the performances and in part thanks to the brilliant screenplay before the devil knows you re dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction a great screenplay and excellent performances we need more movies like this i took my year old to see this movie we left after or minutes it was absolutely awful this movie should be rated r at the least i am not that strict with movies but this was just too much it was a waste of money i thought it would contain some comedy and i knew the comedy would probably be crude but this was way beyond crude i was sitting there watching and reading a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it was i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i don t understand how the rating system works i loved this film i thought it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i ran out after watching this to buy the dvd obv not easily forgotten br br the script is brilliant and the casting couldn t be more perfect each character has their moment and i laughed hard throughout this film comedic timing was spot on br br it s not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it s not available on dvd but i wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection br br i can t understand how the talented mr rickman gets into these mediocre films judas kiss boasts several wonderful actors an interesting plot and intriguing twists but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character s actions why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses why did he mistrust the detective he replaced there were times when i honestly couldn t tell if the director meant judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless alien lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby did he purposely instruct his two distinguished english actors alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orlean s accents as an alan freak i confess that i still thought mr rickman was sexy in a rumpled weary take him home and tuck him in sort of way br br judas kiss isn t a great movie but it does have some intriguing moments but i don t recommend it unless you re trying to immerse yourself in alan rickman first of all i should point out that i really enjoyed watching this documentary not only it had great music in it but the shots and the editing were also wonderful however all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist east meets west clich that bothers many turks like myself okay this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing something that would show ignorant europeans and americans that this country is not just about murdering armenians and kurds however the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as east from the eyes of the west i mean like one jazz musician says in the film maybe there is no east and west maybe it is just a myth a lie created by the ruling leaders of western countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and keep the cash flowing br br why don t you think about that stmd is not a terrible movie but it is quite forgettable the lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye strain special effects are imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there of course along with the archetypical teenagers but the whole movie just doesn t gel what was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue in cheek humor br br i can t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie i often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor but these are sadly lacking in this film first off i have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen its not even the low budget sci fi channel movie its just awful me and my friend who love action movies independence day jurassic park lotr etc went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a transformers with dragons mindless entertainment all we got was a mindless hour and a half the cg was not as bad as i was expecting but the plot is so awful along with the acting it made up for it its basically a chinese legged of dragons returning every years sounds like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes but with magic and a very small actual war between dragons rather big snakes it just gets ridiculous the director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laughed through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believed we spent money on this the short trailer on tv makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest i ve seen a lot of b movies like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this br br story cg acting br br i don t drink but it would have helped before watching this movie i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie the character of gust played perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman was one of the most unique yet entertaining characters in recent memory this movie informed yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience it made me laugh made me sad made me feel alive and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie it takes no time to understand what is going on and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i thought i knew my history apparently i didn t know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adults and young adults and the young at heart just not the young but as soon as they are allowed to see r rated movies make it a priority i must have seen this a dozen times over the years i was about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pbs station br br i bought a dvd set for the children to see and am making them watch it they don t teach history in school and this explains the most critical event of the th century it expands their critical thinking br br impartially with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why it details what lead up to the war and the actual war br br buy it for your children along with alistair cooke s america watch it with them and make them understand you ll be so glad you did steven seagal s films of late have not exactly been good but this is by far the worst since the patriot the plot makes no sense what so ever it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are who works for who or who is double crossing who the film is completely disjointed each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making but seagal does not get off lightly as one of the producers of this film he must also share the blame oh and i haven t even mentioned how awful the acting is even by seagal standards even as straight to video fodder this is not worth a view even for seagal fans give it a wide berth and i for one think that is a good thing i ve just never been a rosalind russell fan although the original was my favorite rr movie but i love bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this br br as for the rest of the production i think it was slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor characters in the original was mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails on the blackboard voice belting out hey it takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i missed it i was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy br br i also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre not just at the movies br br i think the other thing i liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which becomes completely annoying after about the th time you hear it so real and surreal all in one i remember feeling like tessa heck i remember being tessa this was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending i especially liked the protesters tangent it is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it is well worth the minutes thank god i watched this at a friend s place and did not pay for it the plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computers or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence br br also actress turned much music vj amanda walsh displays the worst acting i have ever seen excluding porn she s lucky that matt lanter is actually decent he s the one that carries the movie br br i hate that i wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie it s a shame that they got to call it a sequel because i was a fan of the original which was actually pretty good a friend lent me this dvd which he got from the director at a festival i think i went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great so maybe that colored my judgment but i have to admit that i liked this movie br br the standouts where the actors youssef kerkor was really good as ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also directed and justin lane were excellent as the roommates who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda was by far my favorite he seemed the least one dimensional and reminded me of an old college roommate so much i called the guy after watching the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting was good some was so so but none of it was bad i also really liked the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny br br i m giving this one high marks even though it has some issues because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared and decided to make their movie their way well done to adam jones and crew shawshank godfather pulp fiction all good films great films but nothing and i mean nothing lives up to the greatest christmas movie of all santa claus br br the film is so great and has so many messages i cried while watching it seriously this is one of those movies you need to watch times when we see pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eyes and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder what is so bad about this ice cream is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil think movie makes you think br br this movie has the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santas he is a normal person we see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams and we wonder is the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mentions christ the whole meaning behind christmas br br you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic whether it s christmas or not this movie gets a whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool i really cant think of anything good to say about this film not a single thing the script is a nightmare the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference you d think they would at least get a technical advisor the performances were bad by most of the cast although i dont really blame them the material really stinks the editing was equally bad i ll just stop now its all bad cinema s greatest period started in post war europe with italy s neo realist movement during the next or decades that followed france s new wavers caught everyone s attention and there was always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere making bitter masterpieces but in luchino visconti brought the art form to full circle geographically speaking with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be called the death of europoean cinema after the sixties wound down so did the great european filmmakers who with some exceptions generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new american generation of movie brats coppola scorsese co this movie absolutely feels like a grand summing up not just of visconti s particular obsessions but of the general attempt of european filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies and rest assured you will find no sterner task master than the visconti revealed here he s not playing to the crowd folks either you get behind him and follow along or you get left behind the pacing is a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incidents are few and far between but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm und drang cosmos br br we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in terms of the movies one of the century s great writers who inspired the tale thomas mann one of the greatest filmmakers directing it visconti one of the greatest actors in the lead role dirk bogarde and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler s th symphony taking full advantage of mahler s ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical breast visconti changes the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer even making bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache specs shaggy hair duck like walk bogarde by the way delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies it s a largely silent performance and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mugging like chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse br br cinema just doesn t get better than this i ll ignore the complaints from the ritalin addicts out there who say that it s too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of aschenbach s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced the flashbacks fit neatly within the movie s thematic concerns i e which is the better path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers of course some viewers will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie is actually about something and what it s mostly about is suffering romantic capital r suffering in particular as a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he spoke br br spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for its portentous opening credits and for its unforgettable ending with bogarde s jet black hair dye dripping off of his sweaty dying head and onto his chalk white face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogarde s dying desire stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about love lust beauty loss the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice is a miraculous work of art br br dvd tip as with the simultaneously released visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitles on while watching this movie it s ostensibly in english but the dvd s sound seems muddy and there s a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway br br this is a stereotype plot a young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school this leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight br br the fights are not of high standards they are way too simple in a way that is simple to every adult the fighter has trained and enters the ring but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking the coach yells do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once this results in a turning point in the fight although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movies and you ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes the fights are also shot poorly br br there final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moments are not what i call entertainment br br these guys really could have made some quality entertainment but the director wasn t up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they had a small budget i don t know but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of out of this production was quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movies but i wasn t prepared for the last minutes of this story if by any chance you re not convinced in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat s paw is not available on video dvd yet watch your pbs listings it isn t too bad but ultimately it lacks the quality that the australian series has br br the jokes are few and far between the actors are attractive they shouldn t be the film makers think far too much about the cinematography it s supposed to look like a home video and it s just like a serious version of kath and kim it s stupid br br it s too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim are supposed to be two curvy middle aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes there are no look at me kimmy jokes the fat friend of kim is not fat at all and she s not even slightly stupid she s a stereotypical black latino chick br br it s just not as stupid or funny as the australian series it doesn t compare nothing is the same i admit this show is pretty funny at times but it is not anything like the aussie series i was looking forward to an american take on a bogan family they failed it s supposed to be really stupid and hilarious but the actors don t act stupid to me this is just a typical american tv show it s a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show br br stars because it is an okay show just nothing like what it should be from the decrepit ranks of the already over saturated hillybilly horror sub genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there is absolutely new here the film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clich s deformed hicks a peaceful family turned gun toting killers when push comes to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who s good at heart etcetera but does even that half heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this is forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j d hart once starred in a movie called films that suck earlier in his career quite an ironic omen indeed br br my grade d as a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears dennis quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher it is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much disney for my taste this film takes you on one family s impossible journey and makes you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully acted and photographed heartbreakingly real its last line with its wistful hope is one of the more powerful in memory stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me i can t understand how this happens if i performed at work the way he acts in a movie i d get fired and i own the company i would have to fire myself god this movie was just a plain steaming stinking pile of poo that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible something else i have to say the guideline about lines of text in a comment is idiotic what is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie i will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary this show is great for many reasons the father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family i watched this one time and became hooked it so great to see a black family on tv worth watching this show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy sexy drugs bad dates death etc the best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family i cant tell you how many times i have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off great pg rated show i loved everybit of this show this film is where the batman franchise ought to have stopped though i will concede that the ideas behind batman forever were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director as it turned out this was not to be the case br br apparently warner brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turned out apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixties tv series i fail to understand how batman returns can be considered at all disappointing br br true it is not quite the equal of the first film though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in batman a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson as the joker in the first film yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman was always meant to be and highly satisfying br br michael keaton returns as the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangling with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken named in honour of the s german silent actor his partner in crime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier s richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romances both as himself and as the batman the four principals turn in excellent performances especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities br br there are some intriguing concepts in this film about the only weakness i can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places which i think is due mostly to the way this film is a four cornered fight there simply isn t enough time to properly explore what s going on br br nevertheless this is a damn good film i highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under burton and keaton the quick and the undead is finally the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void it is essentially one gigantic plot hole br br aside from that the acting was quite bad character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn t a single character worth hanging our hat on the most interesting cast member who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist got snuffed halfway through the proceedings br br what the quick and the undead does serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color timing it looked excellent when you take into account budget considerations br br unfortunately it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie you know they have movies where characters do this does it fit here no but who cares they do it in other movies so i should do it here br br maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists first year film schoolers otherwise a must miss i was stunned by this film afterwards i didn t even want to see any films for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison br br for many it may be the worst of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions and the worst of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it is composed of short distinct episodes linked by wenders typical meandering hero s stream of consciousness so it doesn t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema br br but for fans the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things br br am i the only person who thinks that the entire forensics and scenes of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their faces a rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he returns still no senior cops socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this is new york isn t it it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence only after she d stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene br br i want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images the horror continues not in the film itself pretty ordinary i m afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character as played by mr washington this man is a highly dedicated forensic crime scene examiner with years of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiners entrusts the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making dna profiling well nigh impossible now that was a bright idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable br br i have given this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolie s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended the one of the most remarkable sci fi movies of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establishes a new standard of s f movies hail and kill this is the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film i ve seen in full the first was rope which i really enjoyed with saboteur hitchcock was more room to roam free whereas rope took place all in one room i didn t enjoy this one as much as rope but that s not saying this is a bad film it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more br br it seems like a film hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones as a thriller i feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the states the climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design is almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important things are missing the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all missing intentional no doubt yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside br br the film doesn t feel like it should either they are almost globe trotting from place to place yet it feels more confined the script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving br br the performances are there but nothing amazing everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page the relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work the one stand out is otto kruger who has that rich ego evil persona down pat br br in the end i wanted more from this one i understand it s one of hitchcock s least exciting films but i did have a good time watching it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically it is always difficult to bring a pages book down to a three hours film i read the book before and i found the bbc production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible the qualities of the book haven t been lost the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud is brought up the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking the unexpected and surprising twists of the story the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from sue s point of view then from maud s one the main actors do very good and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other because they still love each other br br for each of her books the author sarah waters has thoroughly investigated what life was like in british th century while in tipping the velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements in affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits in fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in london and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research this is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotions and suspense this is one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movies br br calvin klein underwear model oh i mean stefan the good vampire returns to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicure impaired and eternally drooling half brother radu has other plans having killed their father the vampire king radu now sets his sights on stefan stefan s new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friends and the all powerful bloodstone br br okay the scenery is beautiful and it should be as it was shot on location in transyl fricken vania for gosh sakes the actresses are no great shakes and stefan the heroic vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker but who cares there s only one reason to watch this movie and his name is radu he s a physical homage to nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day the cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film as radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning slobbering face for the world to see i found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother but maybe i m just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts it s original it s fun and radu is one of the best vampires i ve seen in a long time much more fun than the stiff tragic whining undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes he s what a vampire should be let me first off say that i am a believer of ghosts and i do indeed know they exist i have had enough experiences with them to know they are there br br what i hate is the people who bring the bible and religion into all of this people forget there is more than one bible thousands of religions and beliefs and different ways to interpret what is said in the bible not everyone believes in god and not everyone believes in stereo typical religion br br religion does not make everything fact one of the things i should mention in the bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time slavery is ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances none of this oh that was the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible is the word of god and can not be changed there should be no changes or versions religion is full of misinterpretations mixed facts and people who so blindly follow it that there is no other way the excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancies properly and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their pastor or teacher br br but anyhow onto the review i am a decent fan of ghost hunters and when i heard this show was coming soon i was pretty excited and thought it had some potential as much as i like watching ghost hunters i do not like some of their members and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted yet can not explain anything that is going on just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up does not mean the camera filming the show did not i am glad they are skeptical but it s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not if ghosts were that easy to capture it would be known as a fact not a belief it s more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well as if there is something there what makes you think it s going to perform for you this show is kind of silly it s usually boring and there is lots of talk lots of psychics yet hardly anything happens the main guy s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to or is basically not needed br br also the reliance on psychics is too abundant as i believe very few of them are actually gifted silvia brown is one i definitely believe in but most are sometimes hard to believe br br i really wanted to like this show but of the few i have seen i have yet to be terribly impressed for a long time the menagerie was my favorite star trek episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by city on the edge of forever what i used to prefer about menagerie was that it s more hard core star trek with this fascinating back story to the then current trek storyline i still think it s fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two part episode though the new part of the story is largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and us to watch the pilot the idea of spock being court martialed is a clever one you can poke holes in the plot if you want for instance given the talosians mind control abilities and captain pike s condition why is it even necessary to physically bring pike back to their planet and there are other confusing questions about pike and commodore mendez best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy st s only two parter coen brothers wannabe from writer director paul chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other better movies yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching robert forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who goes on a killing spree in the desert the film is unusual but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it becomes alienating and off putting with a role for amanda plummer that is downright humiliating an admittedly bravura finale many quirky bits of business and forster looking great in the nude make this a curiosity item nothing more veteran movie director irvin kershner produced and maybe should directed as well could paul chart be a pseudonym from when it was released this film caused a sensation i watched it and was thrilled beautiful usually young naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director hamiltons photography his photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie today i saw it again and was bitterly disappointed the soft core in extremely slow paced scenes all filmed with some vaseline on the lenses actually is all there is there is no real story the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies but they are not real creatures with a soul actually nothing happens it is like hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills and this gets so boring after a while i even didn t watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that is all that remains of this masterpiece it is a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it br br back then out of now out of largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agren s missing sister br br despite its connection to the cannibal movie family this film is more of an extreme version of rene cardona s guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aims to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depicting a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania played with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several failed coups they end up fleeing into the green inferno only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites br br one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies early eighties where every new addition seemed to engage in a one upmanship contest with its predecessor by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures this inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others but with much less success br br was it the so called amazonian natives who looked like they were bollywood rejects this film was made on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoiling the conclusion it appeared as though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending where all loose ends are resolved most unsatisfying br br as with the others where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited thankfully the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks unfortunately the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly br br if there are any redeemable features at all kerman is an affable if somewhat one dimensional leading man and his bevy of scantily clad co stars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings get smart should be titled get stupid there is not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film is so bad it makes the austin powers films look shakespearean a few more films like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye as for anne hathaway what is she doing in this film she s a good actress but is just plain terrible br br the writing is pathetically lame there is not one funny clever or witty line there is not one good sight gag br br the directing is terrible comedy relies on timing someone should tell the director that every line that is supposed to be funny and isn t is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing i ve ever seen br br stars herculis puaro is in general a well established hero we know well from books and movies this movie or this story don t work and i felt its not agatha s mistake the cast isn t good the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic the scenes are as said before perfect and looking fake the story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim is not likable how can so many blundering decisions can be made all that waste of resources its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse a loose interpretation are you kidding it diminishes my regard for voight and coburn i hope they were paid well this was by far the worst movie i ve ever seen and thats compared to alexander fortress and the new world br br i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actors seemed to be out of screen i didn t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i was wrong while typing this message i ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas i m blaming the mrs for this one as she picked it thanks babe br br be warned a true shocker all round if you ve read mother night and enjoyed it so much as i did that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonngut s writing that beyond his story lies vonnegut himself and that you can t put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that vonnegut poses in his book but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen does this mean that the movie misses the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of america s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense i ve seen other movie versions of vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel vonnegut s genius and loses grip on his own craft i would not place this movie as one of the best i ve seen but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching by taking vonnegut s voice out of the movie s narration or trying to insert it however it can mother night tells his story brilliantly and preserves the story s fundamental lessons without confusion distraction or disappointment this is one of the worst movies i ve ever seen not only that it is a comedy which isn t funny but it s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects br br the two heroes with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot that they touched each others genitals all the time but the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by referring to german history and to show sensitive aspects of the heroes which finds its climax in showing how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadn t expect anything better by director michael bully herbig who also made two not funny tv shows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sf comedy movie but erkan and stefan had been just a little better in some of their stand up programs for me the only good thing about the movie is alexandra neldel who is very beautiful to me i sat through this on tv hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time but dear gussie whoever thought this script was worth producing the basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face looks like a bad b movie from the s a number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between stewart and novak she was and he was when this movie was released i think that the difference didn t matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it does matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that is why his character would be attracted to hers but it s less clear why hers would be attracted to his br br still the movie works as a light romantic fantasy the scene where she stares at him across the cat s head with her dark painted on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring is true magic it s a little jarring therefore when the scene shifts to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply as he embraces her she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about one man daddy has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kids grow up one all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances yes i shed a tear along the way knowing i had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent this true to life is one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too are parents a must see for those who care about their families the only conceivable flaw of this film is it s title please stop comparing it to the first i did in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you haven t seen the movie and are curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there is nothing alike and has a mood all its own this is a great exponent of screwy mid s comedy i seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this is in the imdb bottom is because of its title i usually hate movies like these i e adam sandler will farrell farrelly bros but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically i dunno maybe it s like a bad relationship i can t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this is the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man br br robert stack we love you salva and his pal bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives we see them panhandling in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donations is so lame no one gives them anything salva who is a hardened petty criminal doesn t even have any redeeming qualities that is until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a winning combination something that salva capitalizes on br br he and bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo salva shows he is a natural for the reality show he transforms himself into a christ like figure who is an instant success in the program espe who is a no nonsense woman who is show s producer can t escape from the way salva pays her unusual attention ultimately salva is the victim of his own success in the end br br jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie is had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television spain which was vulnerable to these types of programs has seen its share of the bizarre which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience br br the ensemble cast has some good moments in the film mr molla like any actor who decides to direct his first feature would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress is one of the best reasons for watching the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest responded well to the new director these kinda movies just don t get the credit they deserve this is my nd all time favorite movie stand by me being st the reason i watched this movie was because wil wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did sean astin i just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me everything in the movie is very exceptional the script the acting the screenplay i was on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasn t in the room i would have absolutely balled whenever joey trotta wil wheaton died i did not see that coming at all i was real surprised when i heard that it wasn t real popular back in the s i was born a few years after it came out so of course i didn t go see it in the theaters but im sure i would have if i would have been alive if any of my friends watched this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you haven t seen this movie or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb this is the movie for you to watch as a big time prince fan of the last three to four years i really can t believe i ve only just got round to watching purple rain the brand new disc anniversary special edition led me to buy it wow i was really looking forward to watching it but i wasn t prepared for just how electric it actually is prince s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding he really has the moves in this one i am very familiar from repeated listens with the classic purple rain album and all its songs but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics like computer blue the beautiful ones when doves cry and purple rain itself there is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where prince and the revolution perform the closing songs baby i m a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince was brimming with in his mid s he s overflowing it blew me away it even makes michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years br br prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight br br some of the scenes are very s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film s overall charm morris day is the coolest cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provides morris with a mirror mid performance br br i already can t wait to watch it again i really can t extras are terrific particularly seeing a young eddie murphy pre beverly hills cop admit he is a prince groupie a good ol boy film is almost required to have moonshine car chases a storyline that has a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short shorts and a low top the pretty gal is here dressed in designer jeans but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff he comes up way short big john is big but he isn t convincing with the bad part of his moniker bug eyed jack elam is a hoot as always and bo hopkins has been playing this same part for decades ned beatty also does his part in a small role but there is no story it smells more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is charlie daniels singing the theme you know the one it was made famous by jimmy dean after several extremely well ratings to the point of superb i was extremely pleased with the film the film was dark moving the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon br br i had initially expected to see many special effects and like a lover s caress it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club br br eric etebari the best actor award was the number one choice you made jr lopez look like a child compared to kasadya br br overall the acting story line the high quality filming and awesome effects it was fantastic i just wish it were longer i am looking forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectations but it is kinda hilarious at least if you grew up on weird al like i did it s a mockumentary about his life and career beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins it s uneven in places but some of the segments are still very funny particularly when he goes to japan although it s not quite as emotionally textured as lost in translation and he doesn t find love however fleeting he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is tokyo street life br br perhaps weird al isn t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet still this is a funny movie one of the two best films of the year a well filmed well written well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friends dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances theresa lee plays her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seems to be the foreign born chinese surrounded by native hkers and i found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes something i haven t done since the fan boys took over alt asian movies and john woo s hardboiled sure the ending was expected but i feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members highly enjoyable i managed to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving it was very well directed with strong imagery the visual effects were amazing especially for a short it had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard this leans towards the gothic feel i would love to see this as a full feature film carrie why else would he do this to me br br not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movies or even decent movies i saw lois and clark i am aware of just how good dean cain is br br obviously this is gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoilers as you can t really spoil this movie any more than it already is br br to begin with why is that a fake helicopter i mean why br br how come that one scientist is from chicago and that other scientist is from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried how hard would it have been to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren t american br br why are there occasions when the movie gives us a slug line we get helipad day and then mess hall day later on and then that s it who cares about the timeline to be honest who cared about it even when they mentioned it but i guess that s beside the point br br does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens the answer is no br br that dragon sure can walk down that hall over and over and over and over br br who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history it was straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon s dead now say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i used to be superman aha ha ha ha ha br br fade to black br br my god it made me cringe it was so stupid br br but never fear even though the whole building exploded and no one was left alive for some reason there s a second untouched unmanned lab that survived pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for us all br br minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretched scenes maximum headache inducing jerky zooms maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing up until the time flashes on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing to be fair the movie does have some string music that was interesting so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this unfortunately that was not to be and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i am trying to merk a wonderful film ahead of its time br br i think so in the eighty s it was all about winning greed is good remember that one i have seen this film more that times to me this is a real desert island film i keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin are simply wonderful also beverly d angelo beau bridges come in at a close second don t get me wrong there are many more great performance s in this film and it is also the way it is written that made it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv shows like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it is not a tom cruise film it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing the first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go you shouldn t really decide to watch this based on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldn t even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it br br couldn t they have just made earnest does dallas this is one of the more unromantic movies i have ever seen br br casting richard gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself supporting cast not too memorable br br story the medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting the story is weak not enough happens to make a movie about there is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here br br the setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive br br not destined to be a great one to remember only light spoilers in here br br stealing sinatra is a half slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers dimwit victims and a few other side stories thrown in to eat up some time br br you will see some poor performances all around in this movie the drama is forced and the humor makes no sense whether you re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won t shut up or a victim s father responding to the criminal s death threat with care for some tea none of it is believable this quite comfortably fits into the wannabe movie category br br you will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it s quite unprofessional and adds nothing it s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty br br however if you re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertained by the adequate storyline br br i voted yes this is one of those movies so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watched comedies good comedies and laughed less than my wife and i laughed at this movie the other comments give the idea well enough the characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge the acting oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses br br but the rat yes the big rat why we didn t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me often the big one isn t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third world dentistry br br the most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene after figuring out that the rats couldn t stand loud noise migraines from the bad acting the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy if you ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser this film is for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself br br but not for more than ok well where do i begin my story i went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the actors that were in it and that it was supposed to be a horror movie br br well i figured out within the first minutes what a poor decision i had made going out seeing this movie the plot was crap and so was the script the lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically br br the cast couldn t have been more plastic looking even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker like they dragged on for no particular reason very poor editing br br all in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money boo this is one of my favorites betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one is a business executive who re evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year the other is a playboy who has tired of gold digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital mature woman if you ve got silver in your hair and or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat following directly from where the story left off in part one the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man s legacy is exactly as such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represents a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to che struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties the change of setting isn t just aesthetic from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle yet as che would go on to say himself such a struggle is best told exactly as that a struggle while part one certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that part two takes a much more refined callous and bleak segment of che s life and ambition and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner br br while the movie s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible this somewhat distant cold approach to telling che s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man if anything the entirety of che taken as a whole delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way by no means does soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel did with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che is a slow moving reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who arguably conducted the whole thing br br yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of cuba and retreating to the bleak decaying backdrop of bolivia for part two the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn t feel too disjointed from its predecessor but does enough to give it its own reference points here the basic structure of part one is echoed back there s the initial struggle the battles the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement yet as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming and disquieting note this difference in combination with the similarities to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all means both could be digested one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieving as such and enjoyed as they are but taken as one statement che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve br br indeed everything that made part one the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building realistically structured combat scenes the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible but with a feature such as this part two once again proves that avoiding such elements don t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged in fact upon writing this review i was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review as a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively br br with that said i can not rightfully decree whether or not che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime but upon viewing both segments i can at least attest to each part s ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie s characters without drawing attention to themselves che part two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film br br a review by jamie robert ward http www invocus net sometimes it s hard to be a pirate but by golly miss jean peters has a lot of fun trying and it shows particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face with fifty years of hindsight feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male dominated society but i have serious doubts that either m tourneur or miss peters had any such concept in their heads at the time it was an exciting entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions hidden meanings or alternative agenda it was fun m louis jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest mr herbert chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor mr james robertson justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun but it is miss peters who stays in the memory wilfully adolescent illiterate tough but vulnerable wonderfully agile and ultimately courageous she is everybody s idea of a lady pirate there was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret i had never seen a film by john cassavetes up until two years ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i found interesting to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly wanted to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watching his other work shadows in particular i must admit it took me a a while before i actually enjoyed the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it was shot put me off somewhat and i thought of it as an original absolutely but flawed and dated experiment but now upon reviewing these little imperfections make it look so fresh even today br br shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadows offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an african american family in which two of the three siblings ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni are light skinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing a reaction against seamless hollywood production values cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film was shot were the italian neo realists whilst also professing admiration for welles pioneering spirit the use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neo realist directors but with his bebop score by charles mingus ans shafi hadi the film feels very different very american unlike anything made before really br br the song with the feathered girls i feel like a lolly pop or something feels like light years back to me ancient history but no matter how dated it might look it still makes a delightful time capsule of late fifties new york today i think it s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvised and without a real budget seymour cassel who acted and was involved in shadows claims it was jules dassin s the naked city that was the first and inspired them all but i think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent american filmmakers br br camera obscura based on an actual story john boorman shows the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport was stolen in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and was forced to stay back until she could get i d papers from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i tried finding something in those stone statues but nothing stirred in me i was stone myself br br suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot in a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life was in danger br br here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous selfless charity risking her life to save another patricia arquette is beautiful and not just to look at she has a beautiful heart this is an unforgettable story br br we are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps this pm entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make john woo say enough already of course it isn t nearly as beautiful as woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in minutes eric phillips don wilson is an undercover cop in the near future when his wife is framed for murdering the governor by a team using a look a like cyborg it is up to eric to clear her name wilson gets to pull van damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy failed to take notice is beyond me being a pm production there are tons of car chases exploding cars in the first minutes and shoot outs i particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck my other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in don s simulator it is merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effects circa shallow grave begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho i m leaning toward rip off after that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better almost to the point of being original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpasses many in the yankee comes down south to get killed by a bunch of rednecks genre because it is actually shot in the south br br a group of college girls head to ft lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road note to yankees stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl has to pee so she heads into the woods when she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankees do not wander off into the woods when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this is the point where the story not the movie actually comes close to being good br br while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do tom law is likable as deputy scott and is as authentic a southern deputy as i ve seen since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses br br a few scenes in the movie are worth the mention the girls stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out sue ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her br br and in the strangest scene sheriff dean makes like he s about to rape patty carol cadby and tells her to take off her clothes dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he s about to do the preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his bible his sermon is about how jezebel is saved by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher s flock jezebel was in the old testament a few thousand years before christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in heaven although this film has had a lot of praise i personally found it boring there are some nice brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standards is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first as the tolerance of the various men is stretched we see their characters develop the story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting it is a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one s eyes open for no mention if ann rivers siddons adapted the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else did it this lifetime like movie was directed by canadian director jeff woolnough having read the book a long time ago we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television you know that when the critical moments precede the commercials which of course one can t find in this version we watched br br the film s star is lara flynn boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through from the new eyebrows to other parts of her body ms boyle is hardly recognizable as col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera that goes for the rest of the mainly canadian actors that deserved better br br the film has a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wives and other better known features combined with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting meticulously constructed and perfectly played to the ends of the earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age br br based on william golding s trilogy these three minute films chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an aging man o war in the early th century as he heads for a government position down under br br among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous bullying captain jared harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who s worked his way up from the bottom jamie sives and fleetingly the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally passes in the night br br quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriters tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era br br shipboard life is one brutal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and as edmund becomes entangled in the loves hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life s hardships man s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments br br those who enjoyed master and commander the far side of the world or patrick o brian s series of novels on which it was based will love this for everyone else it s a whole new world to discover wow this is really not that good br br i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good it is but it is nothing special br br the movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies br br i have to point out before you read this review that in no way is this a statement against iranian people if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that i m against politicians in general but if you re looking to be offended i can t help you br br not in iran as this movie is banned there see imdb trivia for this movie which is a shame because the movie is great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have won at the international film festival in berlin br br rightfully so it was the runner up or second place if you will why because it is a movie about oppression it s not even that this is a complete women issue it is about the government trying to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by banning it nothing is resolved and or can they make this movie disappear br br another reviewer had a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sums it up pretty well i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i was at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killers the plot does sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out saturn and as you know saturn is the emotion planet it all falls into place makes complete sense and it s then that you know you aren t simply watching another silly s slasher with a pea brain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday is based on a ridiculous premise but it more than makes up for that with it s originality having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema but when given the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what i d choose br br also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it s extremely entertaining many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore this film however keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids which harks back to creepy kid classics such as village of the damned a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry there s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but that s not the case here as bloody birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows there wasn t any room for a chainsaw which is a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it after many many years i saw again this beautiful love story thinking about how would i half a century after react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time when i was just an male adolescent trying to understand women s behaviors in a small city in brazil br br this time however what caught my attention in the film was something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr han suyin jennifer jones makes clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition as an eurasian in fact she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provided that by doing so she is not betraying her chinese side its seems to the spectator that suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them br br therefore suyin s attitudes always leave poor elliott a determined brave and extremely practical man anxious and perplexed without knowing how much importance to give to her words for him whose love for her is plain and simple the situation is totally clear if we love each other let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast is what she seems verbally and non verbally to answer him all the time br br in fact suyin s chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind namely the constant raids on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non physical world for suyin is always alerting elliott about how dangerous is life not because of any objective and concrete threat as would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings br br in fact it looks like a whole bunch of chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people s life totally miserable because of that mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes so that they are not taken away by jealous gods everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon peasants are advised that they should shout loudly the rice is bad the rice is bad to protect their crops from being stolen by deities and in a funeral it is recommended that the dead s family be isolated from the other people by curtains so that the gods don t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility br br in other words suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone s daily life br br as the story takes place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really was at that time almost a semi feudal society while the country from which elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that launched by the usa after the first oil shock in took charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both sides of suyin s eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today br br a lot of history came into being since those old days as to china the main fact is that after several phases of a communist regime the country finally reached in the last two decades the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as state capitalism and what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled suyin in hong kong in and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it is gone completely gone in brief if that story took place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talking business as usual first and foremost i would like to say that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual someone that cared about others appreciated others found no barely any judgment against other people and this film has i think changed my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watched it i didn t know particularly what it was about i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i was clueless and as i began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters i was in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watched it i was blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness as human beings to their relationship i watched it a second time because i finally figured out how hypocritical i was being saying to myself and others oh i accept all types of people and try not to judge them while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watched this film i opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time and really looked not at the type of taboo relationship part that i d heard about all my life but simply at two human beings in love and i loved it i loved the storyline i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film i loved the sharing of feelings and i loved the strong bonds created it is a really eye opening beautifully done film that made me cry at times and i hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserves love no matter what shape or form it is presented in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow one word reviews that s what mine would be this film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film the singing the story everything is dull and washed out just like this public domain print like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories such as the awful snow white and the three stooges and the overrated babes in toyland this movie has limited appeal and just doesn t age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice is don t watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their films except for a c go to mars would be an improvement once in a while a movie will sweep along that stuns you draws you in awes you and in the end leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form this is not it this is an action movie that lacks convincing action it stinks rent something else hard to imagine this film is based on a true story and how christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart stirring daniel day lewis is a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience br br the movie is not so pessimistic as i thought before the story is kinda bright and intriguing christy is not despised by the normals his life is also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes br br one important factor of christy s success is his mother s support which seems to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserves her oscar award for this role this fat little middle aged woman uses her all to make christy s dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh o conor is also excellent as young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy is very well done trustful christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr eileen cole surprisingly played by fiona shaw i am deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind but anyway any woman has her own youth is paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love is a two edged sword happiness and agony are just next to each other br br btw jim sheridan s works are all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die trying god knows why he chose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity i m stunned that the reviewers imdb gave this tv film as a high a rating as they did it s an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clich of a film that had two big names from the past in it both of whom did a decent job but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels i like a good romance as well as anyone but as my wife and i were watching this and before we saw the rating we said there are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there s nothing in it to challenge their brains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preferences it s possible to make a good film like that and away from her is an example but this was amateur hour there are some quite good films rated much lower than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films watch the family stone it s miles ahead of this schlock do a title search on randolph scott and trail street is the one film missing from the list you ve seen one of films scott made at rko during his prime the others are always easy to get liberal kansas is just southwest of dodge city and is a powder keg about to explode between the trail riders who drive the longhorns into trail street the town s main street and the sod busters who feed our bellies it ll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order more i won t say except that scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three randolph scott always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage level headedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a scott movie with confidence they d learn positive values robert ryan co stars in this film playing a good guy for a change in real life ryan was one of the many world war ii heros who starred in america s movies how sad what we get these days george clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers while steven spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the olympic athletes murdered in in munich and the palestinian terrorists who killed them hollywood derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this plays out in liberal kansas liberal after all was not a dirty word years ago when the city was named i went to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest even a child can see the missing logic to character s behaviors today s kids need creative stories which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the events that s precisely what happened with movies like e t and star wars a decade ago how many kids imagined about becoming jedi knights and igniting their own lightsabers seriously don t waste your time money on this one sigh leave it to us finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool lordi is a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far br br to all you marketing idiots out there this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when finland tries to export something br br lordi isn t scary lordi is lame lordi is over br br i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic faced idiocy sure they won the eurovision br br no wait they won the eurovision that s it i rest my case after the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show on the good episodes as darkplace i cant argue that of the episodes really are nt that good but the other certainly make up for it if i had to pick great episodes id go for formula driver steve pising pronounced pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as dean learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have nt seen much dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co i had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals br br the idiots that put it down on production value don t get the point and probably have never been hospitalized and never worked in one for sure billy jack same era was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message br br i have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site i have found where it get mentioned i caught this on television one day when i was young and loved it in the s there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise it s one of the best comedies of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrary s excellent comedic performance which still stands as one of his greatest this is the film that really got ivan reitman noticed as a director reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time while this film is hilarious and meatballs is so bad that it s fun meatballs and meatballs are absolutely dreadful recommended for those who enjoyed stripes and ghostbusters the film s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country u s we see relationships all over at the university setting for the film befittingly the obvious of student v s teacher is present but what the film adds to its value is its other relationships male v s female white v s black and the individual v s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v s himself br br i was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other this film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides it did not attempt to show how either was right although i would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discusses sex and rape it is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together for a time lawrence fishburne does an over the top performance as the sagacious profesor phipps he crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down trodden with the industrious and positive other stars that make this film are omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance tyra banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act br br higher learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper in fact i would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other rather than some dry book as the real education at a university it is a life learning process not a textual one i think you ll find higher learning is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general is rich ailing elizabeth taylor courting the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or is she just overreacting or more precisely overacting as usual actually both are applicable in director joseph losey s wandering meandering mess called boom appropriately titled since tempers in the lush luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode richard burton climbs taylor s mountain uninvited she dresses him in a samurai s robe complete with saber though great looking in widescreen the picture is otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dick philes should shun the stars collective what the hell attitude to their late s film careers reached an ego mad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom is a catastrophe although screenwriter tennessee williams who adapted his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesn t stop here anymore was said to be quite fond of it from i can t even describe it it s the worst movie i ve ever seen i m being a nice guy when i call it movie just another big budget made to someone who doesn t like to think much it s not even scary it s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this thing to trick movie fans i guess big producers make whatever they want br br just get a big producer hot chicks allthough horrible actresses and a ton of horror movie clich s and cook it for a week or so and you ll get the nun br br and i thought bad boys was horrible the screenplay is the worst part of this film as it lurches from one premise to the next missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible this film is confusing because the audience doesn t know what the story is i had no problem with the low production values and the acting wasn t great but this is telly so it was fine i don t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take but having such a non sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash avoid this at all costs br br the prologue in particular was so poorly written it needed a voice over to fill in all the details that had been left out the prologue was rushed it wasn t clear what was happening ie the russian revolution was reduced to some riots are happening in petersburg with the next scene being soldiers arresting them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the details those pesky communists the prologue is best ignored br br this could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is it sets up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film no gone the film assumes she is who she says she is even though there is still no empirical evidence it sets up a melodramatic romance a love so strong it ll believe anything she says okay a soppy romance no because it makes no sense the love interest seems like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic bursting out in wild gestures this also doesn t work because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never got married and she returned to america the love story collapses despite there being plenty of love scenes i was never convinced of the reason that they were in love i find rom com romances more convincing despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they ve even spent any time with each other br br it could have been a thriller type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is and she struggles to prove her identity no the court case is summed up rather than dealt with the bizarre voice over comes back again to fill in the details of a better film br br the funniest thing to consider is what really happened anna anderson was a loony who went to america and married another loony and they did crazy things together throughout her life she had bouts of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either there s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a one flew over the cuckoo s next twelve monkeys type informant thankfully she vanishes having brought nothing to the story lady and the tramp ii scamp s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original but this time it s junior s turn lady and tramp s youngster scamp always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him following the rules in the house taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose scamp meets another dog called angel they both get along fine and do the things scamp s mother and father did having an italian meal spagetthi and meatballs etc afterwards scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal which is the baby scamp comes back and angel is joined in the family i give this movie out of wow what s this on the video rental store s shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasn t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie br br basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fianc e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute risa the entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city the mystery is solved when in the end tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fianc e which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end br br i didn t like how this had nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was the fact that david ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene otherwise its a totally different movie it made for a lousy love story even before the end is known which makes the ending more of a possibility because i didn t believe the words coming out of david s mouth the whole time but we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble br br there were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the shocking moments of the film which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i counted at least ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown even the menu screen on the dvd is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative br br david was no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he was the main problem long before the end the actors who played each role were all new to me which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting respect there were plot holes how did david and richard finally impress tish s father by getting the lease they wanted when david was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there were cheesy technology moments like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete bs too because it wasn t even about a last breath nobody really dies but they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere but that was a good seconds long out of an hour and long movie br br go rent and maybe buy the original it s one of joel schumacher s better and more original films it has everything better about it from this film i wouldn t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges ok honestly i dont see why everybody thinks this is so great its really not there were two good things that came out of this movie jack s performance he was very good i can tip my hat for him danny s performance he was good no other then that it got pretty stupid and what was stanley kubrick thinking drafting shelly as the wendy she was so bad she looked the same every time she got scared the problem with this movie was the ending i would have had more respect for it if kubrick would have ended it differently and the over all movie was just stupid the problem with the movie is that the book was so much better so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off this episode had potential the basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly rings is somewhat interesting and when she explores the noise there is genuine tension and fear but stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had br br first of all the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction e g it s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind this door has serious damage to it that wasn t here a minute ago the door opened by itself without me touching it etc given these supernatural phenomena plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room wouldn t she take some precaution before entering it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the lights also while in the haunted apartment she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesn t need to be involved walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed br br finally showing the phone scamper across the floor like it s alive was just comical if the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card he could ve done it in a way that didn t look cartoony brave little toaster anyone the quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time pam dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue chip prospects and make this work of art a must see academy award winners brenda fricker home alone lost in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster jay o sanders jfk the day after tomorrow br br the story is centralized around a foster child up and coming actor joseph gordon levitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr delivers a tear jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents the two don t have much but what they do have angels baseball and what they are seeking identity that s when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator comes in to save the day as frustrated angels manager george knox in relation all characters in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are br br depressed over the fact that roger jgl is separated from his father he wishes to god for reunification if the angels can take the pennant odds are astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd is sitting with roger in the stands snacking on cracker jacks and causing some of baseball s biggest boners dorothy kingsley and george wells dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominated in directors guild of america he includes a touching side story centered around pitcher mel clark played by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused anaheim clark has been dubbed a wash up a once big name in cinci but he has something to prove to manager knox br br spoiling this nail biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the th century this one is a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace did i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we are marshall for all you ladies out there i kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere when it ambiguously got there i was very disappointed i m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence but maybe i won t maybe i ll just imply something will happen the writers lacked any imagination this is not even a b movie it s a made for tv b movie the movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it was extremely funny angelena jolie was wonderful as juliet the parents are hilarious they are caterers as well as enemies the kids play the parts of romeo and juliet in the church play they fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie if you don t like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don t watch if you don t mind those you will have a blast watching this one if somebody wants to make a really really bad movie wizards of the lost kingdom really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness br br start with the pseudo chewbacca that follows around the main character some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting work your way slowly painfully through more not so special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it br br on second thought skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half a film for mature educated audiences br br i saw random hearts in an advance screening shortly before its north american release this romantic drama was quite a treat i m sure this story will not be everyone s cup of tea especially considering the film s darkly downbeat premise but the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor br br all time box office draw harrison ford star wars raiders of the lost ark the fugitive air force one patriot games is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate internal affairs officer dutch ford s very subdued nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss betrayal this is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters next year harrison ford returns to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lies beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancy s the sum of all fears fears will be harrison ford s third outing as cia operative jack ryan br br director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to scott thomas congresswoman it s a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only is sydney pollack a gifted director he is also one of the most believable natural and charming actors around see eyes wide shut as well br br kristin scott thomas the english patient the horse whisperer shows that you don t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy this is one of her better films and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite ford s quiet man toughness br br the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involving ford s character s investigation into police corruption look for a chilling effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who plays detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutch s investigation into police corruption br br the rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight charles s dutton whose long overdue for a film leading role goes to show that he is one of the best character actors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steals most of her scenes with that wonderful charming smile as wendy judd br br the technical side of pollack s thriller is top notched from dave grusin s pollack s the firm perfectly surreal feeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river runs through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh despite the film s unfortunate downer premise br br i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery well paced plot character driven stories and romance all rolled into one this is a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also features one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial endings for a harrison ford film in recent times random hearts is definitely one of the better films of the year br br out of or out of for all of the has beens or never was s or for the curious this film is for you ever played a sport or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left this film explores that and more br br robin williams jack dundee is a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life has been plagued by a miscue in a big rival high school football game years ago when he dropped the pass that would have won over bakersfield their arch rival that takes great pleasure in pounding the taft rockets season after season kurt russell reno hightower was the quarterback in that famous game and is the local legend that now is a van repair specialist whose life is fading into lethargy like the town of taft itself br br williams gets an idea to remake history by replaying the game he meets with skeptical resistance so he goes on a one man terror spree and literally paints the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the residents to recreate the game after succeeding the players from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which is hysterical the game is on bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets game strategies and sophisticated training routines taft is drawing plays in the mud with sticks stones and bottle caps what a riot does taft overcome the odds does robin willians purge the demons from his bowels does kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of times for one of the best viewing experiences ever br br one of robin williams best understated performances the chemistry between robin and russell is magic and who is kid lester br br holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performances as the wives of williams and russell succeeds on many levels a this movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that perrugorria have done br br it looks like a commercial from beginning to end the director spent the whole time on a tripod it doesn t have pace rhythm it s illogical what a mess you can tell what s gon na happen since the first minutes and the ending wow br br spoiler br br jesus christ how the hell perrugorria got shot are you serious worst scene of someone getting shot ever br br end of spoiler br br bad directing bad script bad acting really bad overall i wouldn t recommend this movie at all it s a waste of money and time i first remember bumping into this zaniness from the zucker brothers and jim abrahams back in the early days at comedy central back in those days the s their programming consisted of benny hill reruns and the original mst k complete with bearded host br br capt frank drebin played by the stone faced dead pan filibuster leslie nielson is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meets starsky hutch the show boiled in a flask full of well known police television show plots and scenarios this is distilled times to produce the most pure policeman every made forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin is clueless at most times a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he is a master of the police investigative methodology a k a ask johnny the leathery old shoe shine boy this does not make him a bad cop cops get lucky also capt drebin notice he s a captain here has perfected it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes br br the show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote ables most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly the magic never came from the sight gags however at its core was a nonsensical and straight faced conversation and activities in the foreground with crazy things occurring in the background the movies can best be described as minute compilations of the best gags from this series think of monty python s and now for something completely different br br if you liked airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this br br i always liked the series better than the movies even though i saw the movies first why words no o j a guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuses him but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it starts a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero it can t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic br br in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeeds at being a nice film it s no masterpiece but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is even with the superhero thing going believable br br so thin story but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time br br out of broken hearts i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don t say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film is amazing love me xxx p s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops this film will go down in children s film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children the film someone had to make br br waco the rules of engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that led to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government cover up br br the first thing you need to know about this film you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies this is not done for shock value but to illustrate points about the way they died as if you were present at the coroner s inquest br br the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hours it s pretty ponderous especially if you already followed the events closely at the time if you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report this may be essential viewing if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one sided version of events you should see waco the big lie br br in summary this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and is very sobering but as a work of film making could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it s at times superfluous for those who watched the cspan hearings and the minutes reports br br perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactics the fbi used blasting rock music at the sect and their charismatic leaders all rock musicians themselves picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them what a good movie at last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock illusions of fame well known rockers are getting old and forgotten not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever danced on bill haley s rock around the clock br br anyway still crazy is probably the best movie about rock n roll i have ever seen far much better than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people are mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see characters with their own personality weaknesses and dreams like anyone of us br br spend a good time watching this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally thinking of your own future br br bye had it with the one who raised you since when you were young you just want her gone from your life that woman is your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether she s in sick or well but that in times it can be aggravating especially when she becomes very overbearing that s how owen danny devito had to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey is one of the worst he trying his best to be a writer and she is everything but grateful calls him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he has his own woman problems his ex wife she trying to discredit him so what did owen do push her overboard what does he do help return the favor get rid of mrs lift in the kitchen scene i liked it where owen called larry cousin patty and momma said you don t have a cousin patty and owen shouts you lied to me and el cabongs larry with the frying pan then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that is thwarted and she kicks larry off the train well everything back to normal the ex wife lives but momma kicked the bucket on her own maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways a fun movie it is and the cast is great a classic stars yes it is a bit cheesy but it s suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorites there are some excellent actors in the film and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters it s interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i thought he was quite believable and rather chilling as the ever more paranoid co robert conrad is a long time favorite i think he brings his character to life very well and sam waterston has been star quality in everything of his i ve watched movies or tv br br i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i got is such poor quality it s difficult to fully enjoy it this is a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldn t be universally sought after but i m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version i ll keep hoping so it isn t an epic but for people experiencing anything similar br br sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy an br br imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well br br spent for some reason it hasn t really caught on in the audience br br something i do believe is a result of the main theme why did she br br commit suicide clearly this is hardly something that us br br moviegoers will flock to had it been an european production it br br probably would have reached its audience in a much greater br br extent it is however a movie that although the realism tainted by a br br shimmering romanticized glow gives the viewer a whole hearted br br impression i absolutely loved this film i was hesitant to watch it at first because i thought it would be too painful i remember how hard it was when john was shot however watching the two of us took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility i think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what might have been aidan quinn was adorable as paul and met the challenge head on i was impressed with his accent and mannerisms jared harris is also very talented and was quite believable as john my favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which was so poignant the film left me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel are appropriate given the circumstances previous reviewer claudio carvalho gave a much better recap of the film s plot details than i could what i recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous br br if you like movies that are wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant i think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art br br on a scale of to i d give it about an the only reason i shy away from is that it is a mood piece if you are in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it s a i definitely think it s a must see but none of us can be in that mood all the time so overall great premise poor execution cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written poorly directed poorly edited waste of film only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food br br joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agents have to agree that this movie and it s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve here s hoping that the dvd will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience the actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent perhaps overall the movie is a little long but may miles thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary good for the actors i am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot may miles thomas deserves more recognition from the film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors i had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on danish television yesterday first of all i wanted to see gina lollobrigida and here i wasn t disappointed she looked gorgeous second of all through reading about the film i had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in philippe de broca s films on this account however i was sadly disappointed i found the jokes predictable apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war and the characters completely one dimensional also the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i kept watching until the end but i got bored very quickly and just sat there waiting for the scenes with lollobrigida this film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making the lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all we have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face the jokes are all lame i never laughed once it was saturday night there were of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room the film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways ruined the night ok so pros and cons pros beautiful setting in hawaii looks good on bluray cons worst acting ever you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday predictable poor plot zero character development forced jokes which fall flat many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma may all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap this was my first gaspar noe movie i ve watched and i have to say i was shocked i don t mind gore in generally but this isn t even gore it s real butchering for some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and i mean really disgusting leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant when you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you can t stop and take a minute to think about it the actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society the movie is full of metaphors but i ll let you figure them out don t watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before i went to live in japan for a year in tom selleck does a fantastic job here as always and the movie is greatly humorous and educational i m a big fan of tom selleck s and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part bringing the film to life in a way i can t imagine any other actor being able to pull off br br this film featured some first rate japanese actors and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with selleck i can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie japan s an awesome place to go whether you want to party sight see or just try to take everything in i laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini gives his typical a performance the entire cast is funny the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome i went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why i was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy can identify with loneliness during the holidays and or putting up with the relatives the best part to this film to me anyway were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped namely the scene involving the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh although i lived in australia in i moved overseas not long after fed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one is a sportsman and the complacency of so many australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north br br consequently i missed the dismissal along with many other australian made tv dramas of the s and s such as the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since seen along with wildside br br to me the filmed story of the dismissal is fair and as far as i am aware accurate however as to public outrage it only shows one side of the picture not how families were riven by the controversy i know as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward br br but the commentary is in my view very one sided throughout the inescapable fact is that notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and chose decisively in favour of fraser as they did again two years later br br this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate states of america but this man does it for me that mustache gets me riled up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat was amazing the depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity it reminds me of the granite sculptures of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would be if you were a hot dog would you eat yourself will orhan be doing a reunion tour take note from the greats like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fades away vive la john denver gracias my friend o f f l orhan fan for life i never want to see this movie again br br not only is it dreadfully bad but i can t stand seeing my hero stan laurel looking so old and sick br br mostly i can t stand watching this terrible movie br br frankly there is no reason to watch this awful film the plot is just plain stupid the actors that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy are really really bad and laurel and hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films br br i warn you don t watch it the images will haunt you for a long while to come the problem is the role of the characters in the film man to man shows a british anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem is the role of the pygmies in the film two people who are kidnapped treated like animals and yet given such a shallow stereotypical role within the film the kidnapper british anthropologist ends up being the hero of the film because he manages to relate to the pygmies no notion of how the two hostages feel of their point of view of their ordeal i find it is a shallow film with a one sided fundamentally racist view it never manages to move away from the white mans view life begins and ends in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women played by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea as they await to give birth while the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in was like for our grandmothers and great grandmothers i found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving br br oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member young eric linden as jed sutton grace s loretta young husband what an actor as a first time father jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly i d like to see more of this actor s work he had a very emotional voice which was used to unforgettable effect in gone with the wind in that film eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia who screamed don t cut don t cut as scarlett fled the hospital in horror chilling another great performance is from aline macmahon who plays miss bowers the nurse her character is a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession br br loretta young did another superb acting job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance as grace my she is great in these precodes i ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months br br glenda farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didn t anyone know back in that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies health but her character redeems herself in the end br br also in the cast was an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star as a grieving italian husband his screen time was brief but notable br br life begins is a must see precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into out of this is a great film touching and strong the direction is without question breathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i i think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet paper no respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie for example the names of some serbian terrorists that i remember are caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of names are that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laughed for days thinking about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never been any cases of terrorism done by serbians a journalist like the main character ought to have known that thirdly the actors playing serbian terrorists are not even serbs nor do they speak serbo croatian all this aside this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper thin and full of holes at times it makes no sense whatsoever criticism does mention spoilers br br i rarely make user comments but this is one movie i have no problem slandering this movie stinks and its mediocre of rating of and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp the bone collector is not at all the same calibre of film that silence of the lambs or seven were despite what its ad claims this is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie was extremely slow i actually left for about minutes half way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolie s character debates denzel about cutting off a corpse hands the movie is not at all scary but tries to compensate this with a love subplot albeit sexy angelina jolie s character and denzel washington s of course what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor student relationship as seen in the brillian epic silence of the lambs with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lacks all effectiveness and i was personally routing for the villain to kill denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two with such a crappy movie i was half expecting a plot twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit things that mediocre movies like arlington road and scream pulled off anybody with a th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock s rear window the cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen esoterically speaking i even think the murderer s intention was completely lost as denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and gets with his pet project angelina br br if you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts like i am you will not appreciate this film if you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch up on every single hollywood cliche ever borne the late night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serial killer to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman trying to get by in an all male dominated workforce aka sotl see this movie but even then its too slow paced and you d be bored possible spoilers perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dreams come true is one of the worst movies ever made first of all the movie was made during the height of disney s sequel rampage it was created around the same time as the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which were disservices to their original film classics disney also made the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but i m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place let me go ahead and say that i am an avid supporter of good disney films and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however was a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that i grew up watching in the original cinderella was kind and loving the new cinderella had very out of character moments with current era phrasing like i m going to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella as i have affectionately named her says ewww that is the anti cinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsisters is good what the heck why they made it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella are just horrible family members for poor little anastasia my question to the world did the people at disney watch the original cinderella when making this sequel well it surely doesn t seem so if i remember correctly anastasia was just as abusive to cinderella as drizella and lady tremaine i am all for redemption and forgiveness but there was no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia was evil in the second one she is good one just can t leave a story like this i hope disney realizes that this movie among other movies is shaming walt disney s name perhaps now that michael eisner is gone things will start shaping up around the house of mouse hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of s this movie s true score br br as mentioned before chris rock is the king previous to going to see this movie i wasn t that over the top about him but now i m banging on the doors of chris rock s website begging him to take me on as his protege this film is truly funny if you don t find this movie funny you really need therapy and it s humour which targets all areas of society including race predictably class division love wealth employment dreams stand up comedy the list goes on br br there was one slight disappointment for me however this was that in going into this film i didn t realise that it was actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie made in with warren beatty as such i was quite surprised when i watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie i had watched on tv a few weeks ago regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that chris rock is funnier than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any you get the picture br br well to the actual plot of the film br br don t spoil the experience for yourself don t read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on imdb so far that have raved mad about it go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time go and see it because it s a cinema experience that doesn t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets go see it because it is a good movie formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it looks very much like a tv movie not really exciting the only reason i bothered to see it was because valentina vargas was in it no real surprises here though it is nice to see vargas great looking chilenian landscapes on display but malcolm mcdowell s part is very small and doesn t add much to the movie michael ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts the chase scenes are standard fare whatever rating i give boom is only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this is only for hardcore addicts of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscasting phase tennessee williams wrote the milk train doesn t stop here anymore and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play but apparently he was the only one taylor reportedly hated it and burton needed the money br br whatever it amounts to a hill of beans with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby talk with no less than noel coward who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears br br it s so campy that among taylor fans it s probably considered a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand you re way ahead of me sadly this is the film that signified the end of taylor being taken seriously as a film actress even after winning two oscars for burton it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare viva la bam this jackass spin off focuses on the obviously scripted adventures of bam margera and his pals johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it has its fair share of gross out comedy and crazy stunts focuses mainly on bam s torturing of his parents br br i m sorry to say this bam but you re in no way as cool as you think you are this ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny and yes i liked jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylized intro ends with bam coolly explaining that he s going to do whatever the f he wants to how about you do something that is actually funny i liked jackass for what it was worth the camera work was horrible any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents garage but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed br br not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile br br viva la bam is a poor spin off of that does little good but feed margera s already too big ego i don t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone i had never heard of larry fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor like many others on here i don t know how to categorize this film it wasn t scary or spooky so can t be called a horror the plot was so wafer thin it can t be a drama there was no suspense so it can t be a thriller its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the blair witch project people who liked this film used words like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn t there like the blair witch people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying this movie actually started off well with the family meeting the locals after hitting a deer it looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next minutes well over half the film nothing happened the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining it was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something does happen its not even clear how the father was shot how he dies the nurse said his liver was only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effects the film is called wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied i would have bailed out with minutes to go but i wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself it didn t schlocky s horror films ya got ta love em in contrast to today s boring slasher flicks these k tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula br br this is a b movie about the making of a b movie that went horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth stars as an over the hill b movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home her boyfriend director who looks and acts like gordon jump with an attitude is filming on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll co star discovers a book of tibetian chants that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism is something they could have done without br br john carradine having long since given up looking for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate he goes about his daily work but always seems to run afoul of the director br br the horror builds slowly a dead cat here john carradine entering a grave there finally culminating in seven yes seven murders at least there s truth in advertising it s just sad that the ghoul didn t understand that there was a movie being made above him how was poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chants would actually work face it you just can t go around tugging on satan s coat and expect him to take it lying down br br sterno says perform an autopsy on the house of seven corpses i suppose for this film was supposed to be cool but looking back now years it s charm was just as silly as it s entertainment value granted the special effects do well on t v with the series that started in but for the big screen i once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the seaview obviously not well staged or trained overall it s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and i still do recommend it for fun laughs sake this was probably one of irwin allen s biggest films and i think he thought a lot of it barabara eden went on to play genie on t v micheal ansara was her husband now that is a cool part about this film i always enjoyed seeing real life husband and wife teams star in the same movie neat this is one of the finest films to come out of hong kong s new wave that began with tsui hark s zu warriors of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accepted from then on as a given namely the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burning paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance br br it s not that there isn t humor here but it is a purely human humor as with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw but this is just as humans are not even buddhist priests can be saints all the time br br when irony is at last introduced into the film it is the nastiest possible emanating from the abbot of red lotus temple who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before he is the very incarnation of milton s satan from paradise lost better to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he can t get to satan s hell soon enough he ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule br br that s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here it s not that the abbot just wants to kill people he wants them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism as all encompassing reality thus there s a definite sense pervading the red temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it has become all there is to the universe and the abbot claiming mastery of infinite power is in charge br br of course fortunately the film doesn t end there though there are losses the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there is no doubt that in viewing this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chastened by the experience and somehow better for it over all now i don t hate cheap movies i just don t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad s camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes br br maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great and it wasn t maybe i hate it because it s cheap has the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic characters ever and the really really really worst showdown in the history of films ever even tom savini can t save this br br seriously this one is a complete waste of time a fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do that being stealing from farms and killing prey until a trio of farmers decide they ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem solved they are of course out foxed at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land br br the film version and i use the term film very loosely is more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movies particularly the oceans movies they they even have george clooney as mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them they ll make lots of money and destroy another classic roald dahl children book as soon as it hits a screen it destroys all intelligent life forms around but on behalf of its producers i must say it doesn t fall into any known movie category it deserves a brand new denomination of its own it s a neurological drama it saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person s brain br br it s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one it drives you speechless all you members go numb your mouth falls open and remains so and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf br br no small feat for such a sort of a movie br br the only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is outrage for a film made in senegal based i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesn t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films br br ms gai as the karmen of the title is very good to look at her fiery dancing smolders the screen as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film br br this is a karmen that aims to please to all genders but a real carmen she is not br br we would like to see ms gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here this is a very noir kind of episode it begins with jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorced karen mills pat delaney daughter in law of john huston who knew a few things about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen goes in the house while jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room he then discovers karen has disappeared without a trace of course he calls dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes so of course that makes jim an immediate suspect br br this is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by rocky asking jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn t think was important at the time but now might lead to a clue as to what happened it s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also goes a long way to show that rocky isn t just some clueless old man either as he says you come to me because i m your father and i m smarter than you this is one of those times where we see where jim got his smarts br br this episode also features an appearance by hottie lara parker who played angelique in the dark shadows series and went on to play laura banner bruce s wife in the incredible hulk series a few years later she looks terrific here br br this episode also marks the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep popping up on the rockford files almost whenever they needed a mob family this time its vincent minette who rockford helps apprehend br br lt diehl tom atkins makes his first appearance on the series and dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figured it would be better to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they were right though i prefer the later lt chapman to lt diehl br br not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart the royal rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events and i ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now the other shows may have better matches but i ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement br br i m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review i will comment on the quality of them though br br we have the standard matches and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw br br shawn michaels and edge open up for raw this proves to be a good match from two talented guys this is a match i d recommend watching it s hard to sum up without giving away the winner br br next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it is giant gonzales yokozuna kamala well this time it s heidenreich its also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if you re a fan i have to admit i am purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match br br the next two matches are the title matches for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable but with a anti climax and let down to end it raw s match is a pretty dull and boring affair which is a pity as i m a fan of both guys involved br br now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it s a pretty good one this year coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey its very enjoyable there are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated there is the token guy who doesn t make it to the ring the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant it has its usual highs and lows and i loved the ending in particular the vince mcmahon entrance br br i d recommend this show not the wwe on top form but its still good add it to your collection i remember this in a similar vein to the young ones we d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other br br we called one of our mates zipmole watkins after the brilliant episode in which daniel peacock has a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist br br lots of great lines remember at in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man take it easy guy gandhi as a local shopkeeper br br tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it s no good amanda i ll never make it as a bar man helen lederer teaches him to ask people about the match see the match last night i thought woodcock played well after a string of failed conversations the curly haired arsenal star was sitting at the bar see the match last night yeah i thought i played well br br we still do odd stupid lines now reg and ralph or ralph and reg reg reg reg reg reg reg br br lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the flatlets the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line and he ll mark your packages return to sender br br good old danny peacock you added a lot to some young drinkers evenings sir br br update i found a couple of episodes on tape i m going to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized this game deserves all the recognition it deserves at a time when first person shooters like quake iii arena and unreal tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventures are a dying breed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy life can only improve after playing the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island is already destined to be a classic too i guarantee it stephane audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sisters give up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look after their ageing father one day a french woman babette comes to work for them after some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which changes the lives of all those invited this is a film about human and cultural interaction reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful sobriety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it is also about human needs and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses a profoundly uplifting film this movie was way over hyped a lot of the viewers who thought this was amazing must have been into the old school movies cause the whole movie is set in the past at first i thought the movie was just showing something from the past so i was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass but it just going basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past and the don t mix very well in this movie even with special effects you could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with there are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying it s the greatest movie ever done it s just crap on a stick it also didn t help that the story line was sooo crappy i don t understand why hollywood agreed to have this movie produced and i also don t understand how actors actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this it s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print it will all be done on a computer this was a movie that should have been on a movie network because nothing about this movie was revolutionary i m very upset with myself for paying money to see this whatever you do don t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow it is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in this one came out a day before that other one with tom cruise didn t they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting br br writer director david michael latt didn t have steven spielberg s budget and c thomas howell is not tom cruise this is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed million worldwide br br the action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of rhett giles who played a pastor that was giving up on his god br br gary busey was creepy as an army lt i dunno sometimes you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movies out there but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved bat people which i saw under the title it lives by night is just such a movie you can t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on night gallery and not one of the better ones either br br the movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a were bat who drinks human blood actually you d think if he was turning into a real bat he d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket but because this is a cheap lurid horror movie blood s the word in spite of the fact that he has grand mal seizures at the drop of a hat and black out episodes almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr mustache aspen extreme insists that he s just having an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls and one wino also meanwhile the doctor s wife decides that denial is a river in egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction br br it s not so much that the acting is bad you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script even the guy who plays the sheriff okay it is pretty bad but it s bad in a clich d wooden professional way it s just that everything about the acting the way the scenes are paced the costumes the dialog the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to well slap everyone involved br br i think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but br br the director needed to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agreed to act and not just channel dennis weaver br br he also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bites human who then turns into a bat scenario br br he also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episodes instead of resorting to man has a seizure page from the little golden book of clich d acting mannerisms br br he needed to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant br br i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bots it s bad but it isn t bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still better than battlefield earth or waterworld though big fat liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing great production and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap the two stars work great together and what can i say amanda bynes shines putting irkel and lee majors in the film were brilliant touches watch this film with your kids if you don t laugh throughout it you must not have been paying attention tim robbins and john cusack are two actors i have appreciated throughout their careers and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie well all i can say is i totally regretted it these two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this is bad on its own sketches that are supposed to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think is that the director was their friend and they decided to support his movie by starring in it i can t think of anything else because this movie is so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack haven t disappointed me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled on watching this film i was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity karen carpenter was a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs as with all celebrities of today they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks styles etc this had a huge effect on karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight which eventually caused her death this heart felt film was not initially something which i would have thought of watching but on starting to view it then i was hooked in the same way that the tina turner story does then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life the acting was superb and even after nearly years after it was made then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining br br i would recommend this to anyone who hasn t yet watched it it is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged nothing is sacred just ask ernie fosselius these days everybody has a video camera and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying quickly written and shot and often posted directly to the internet spoofs are hot these days and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don t get off on their own self importance years ago when the first star wars was made it was a different world filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare then god gave us hardware wars it was shot to look cheap or was it just cheap and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact does that take away from the experience heck no that s what makes it so great it was raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie from fluke starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i did that when i was young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggie s nah just a little headache remark this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual star wars films rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always i hated it i hate self aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art this film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i became angered that i had spent hard earned money for sophomoric clap trap tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie let alone art i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movies but my god this was the worst movie i have ever seen bad acting bad effects bad script bad everything br br the plot follows a group of teen cliche s on their way to a rave that takes place in broad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrives all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party goers the clan set s off on a mission through a zombie infested forest during this crusade they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivors basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight came complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clips from the hotd video game and sloppy matrix esque camera rotations one of the character s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he was noble and brave but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled i m supposed to feel sorry for this guy br br to sum it all up there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is the theater i was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen and i m sure the money i wasted seeing this piece of sh t could easily cover the costs it took to make it grade f if you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything is better than this movie it is slow paced confusing boring poorly constructed gory gringy do i need to go on it s message is good but i have seen them been handled better in several other films the acting isn t even any good this movie is just even more awkward as it start off as being funny not intensional though because of it s surreal story than at the end just becomes uncomfortable to watch br br i honestly feel like hour and minutes of my life has been robbed why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for minutes than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minutes listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband br br honestly this movie deserves nothing but a and if your not happy with my preview seriously i m an open minded guy and i like movies that protest through symbolism but this movie was just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film this is like a zoology textbook given that its depiction of animals is so accurate however here are a few details that appear to have been slightly modified during the transition to film br br handgun bullets never hit giant komodo dragons it doesn t matter how many times you shoot at the komodo bullets just won t go near it br br the best way to avoid being eaten by a giant cobra or a giant komodo dragon is just to stand there the exception to this rule is if you ve been told to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo is right next to you and then you should stand there expecting defeat br br minutes of choppy slow motion footage behind the credits really makes for enjoyable watching br br is a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for losing your boating license getting arrested br br members of elite army units don t see giant komodo dragons coming until they are within one metre of the over sized beings maybe the computer generated nature of these dragons has something to do with it br br when filming a news story aiming on exposing illegal animal testing a reporter and a cameraman with one camera is all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphones etc are all superfluous br br when you hear a loud animal scream and one person has a gun he should take it out and point it at the nearest person br br when you take a gun out the sound of the safety being taken off will be made even if your finger is nowhere near the safety br br reporters agree to go half way around the world in order to expose something without having the faintest idea what they re exposing background research and vague knowledge are out of fashion in modern journalism br br handguns hold at least bullets in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with guns claim that they will need more ammo br br expensive cameras also remember that the reporter only has one camera are regularly left behind without even a moment s hesitation or regret these cameras amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves br br the blonde girl really is the stupid one br br the same girl that says not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus making it unsafe takes a team into a building made of the same material for protection and nobody says a word about it br br high tech facilities look like simple offices with high school chemistry sets br br genetically modified snakes grow from normal size to feet long in a matter of a day but don t grow at all in the weeks either side br br the military routinely destroys entire islands when people don t meet contact deadlines br br men with guns don t necessarily change the direction they re shooting when their target is no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shooting into the air br br the better looking you are the greater your chance of surviving giant creatures br br women s intuition is reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of minds br br any time you re being hunted by giant creatures is a great time to hit on girls half your age br br animal noises are an appropriate masking noise for swearing at the same volume br br old israeli and russian planes are regularly used by the us military'],
 ['0,"One of the other reviewers has mentioned that after watching just 1 Oz episode you\'ll be hooked. They are right, as this is exactly what happened with me.<br /><br />The first thing that struck me about Oz was its brutality and unflinching scenes of violence, which set in right from the word GO. Trust me, this is not a show for the faint hearted or timid. This show pulls no punches with regards to drugs, sex or violence. Its is hardcore, in the classic use of the word.<br /><br />It is called OZ as that is the nickname given to the Oswald Maximum Security State Penitentary. It focuses mainly on Emerald City, an experimental section of the prison where all the cells have glass fronts and face inwards, so privacy is not high on the agenda. Em City is home to many..Aryans, Muslims, gangstas, Latinos, Christians, Italians, Irish and more....so scuffles, death stares, dodgy dealings and shady agreements are never far away.<br /><br />I would say the main appeal of the show is due to the fact that it goes where other shows wouldn\'t dare. Forget pretty pictures painted for mainstream audiences, forget charm, forget romance...OZ doesn\'t mess around. The first episode I ever saw struck me as so nasty it was surreal, I couldn\'t say I was ready for it, but as I watched more, I developed a taste for Oz, and got accustomed to the high levels of graphic violence. Not just violence, but injustice (crooked guards who\'ll be sold out for a nickel, inmates who\'ll kill on order and get away with it, well mannered, middle class inmates being turned into prison bitches due to their lack of street skills or prison experience) Watching Oz, you may become comfortable with what is uncomfortable viewing....thats if you can get in touch with your darker side."'],
 ['1,"A wonderful little production. <br /><br />The filming technique is very unassuming- very old-time-BBC fashion and gives a comforting, and sometimes discomforting, sense of realism to the entire piece. <br /><br />The actors are extremely well chosen- Michael Sheen not only ""has got all the polari"" but he has all the voices down pat too! You can truly see the seamless editing guided by the references to Williams\' diary entries, not only is it well worth the watching but it is a terrificly written and performed piece. A masterful production about one of the great master\'s of comedy and his life. <br /><br />The realism really comes home with the little things: the fantasy of the guard which, rather than use the traditional \'dream\' techniques remains solid then disappears. It plays on our knowledge and our senses, particularly with the scenes concerning Orton and Halliwell and the sets (particularly of their flat with Halliwell\'s murals decorating every surface) are terribly well done."'],
 ['2,"I thought this was a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend, sitting in the air conditioned theater and watching a light-hearted comedy. The plot is simplistic, but the dialogue is witty and the characters are likable (even the well bread suspected serial killer). While some may be disappointed when they realize this is not Match Point 2: Risk Addiction, I thought it was proof that Woody Allen is still fully in control of the style many of us have grown to love.<br /><br />This was the most I\'d laughed at one of Woody\'s comedies in years (dare I say a decade?). While I\'ve never been impressed with Scarlet Johanson, in this she managed to tone down her ""sexy"" image and jumped right into a average, but spirited young woman.<br /><br />This may not be the crown jewel of his career, but it was wittier than ""Devil Wears Prada"" and more interesting than ""Superman"" a great comedy to go see with friends."'],
 ['3,"Basically there\'s a family where a little boy (Jake) thinks there\'s a zombie in his closet & his parents are fighting all the time.<br /><br />This movie is slower than a soap opera... and suddenly, Jake decides to become Rambo and kill the zombie.<br /><br />OK, first of all when you\'re going to make a film you must Decide if its a thriller or a drama! As a drama the movie is watchable. Parents are divorcing & arguing like in real life. And then we have Jake with his closet which totally ruins all the film! I expected to see a BOOGEYMAN similar movie, and instead i watched a drama with some meaningless thriller spots.<br /><br />3 out of 10 just for the well playing parents & descent dialogs. As for the shots with Jake: just ignore them."'],
 ['4,"Petter Mattei\'s ""Love in the Time of Money"" is a visually stunning film to watch. Mr. Mattei offers us a vivid portrait about human relations. This is a movie that seems to be telling us what money, power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter. <br /><br />This being a variation on the Arthur Schnitzler\'s play about the same theme, the director transfers the action to the present time New York where all these different characters meet and connect. Each one is connected in one way, or another to the next person, but no one seems to know the previous point of contact. Stylishly, the film has a sophisticated luxurious look. We are taken to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat.<br /><br />The only thing one gets out of all these souls in the picture is the different stages of loneliness each one inhabits. A big city is not exactly the best place in which human relations find sincere fulfillment, as one discerns is the case with most of the people we encounter.<br /><br />The acting is good under Mr. Mattei\'s direction. Steve Buscemi, Rosario Dawson, Carol Kane, Michael Imperioli, Adrian Grenier, and the rest of the talented cast, make these characters come alive.<br /><br />We wish Mr. Mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work."'],
 ['5,"Probably my all-time favorite movie, a story of selflessness, sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause, but it\'s not preachy or boring. It just never gets old, despite my having seen it some 15 or more times in the last 25 years. Paul Lukas\' performance brings tears to my eyes, and Bette Davis, in one of her very few truly sympathetic roles, is a delight. The kids are, as grandma says, more like ""dressed-up midgets"" than children, but that only makes them more fun to watch. And the mother\'s slow awakening to what\'s happening in the world and under her own roof is believable and startling. If I had a dozen thumbs, they\'d all be ""up"" for this movie."'],
 ['6,"I sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated Seahunt series with the tech they have today it would bring back the kid excitement in me.I grew up on black and white TV and Seahunt with Gunsmoke were my hero\'s every week.You have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt.We need a change of pace in TV and this would work for a world of under water adventure.Oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoints about TV and the many movies.So any ole way I believe I\'ve got what I wanna say.Would be nice to read some more plus points about sea hunt.If my rhymes would be 10 lines would you let me submit,or leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quit,If this is so then I must go so lets do it."'],
 ['7,"This show was an amazing, fresh & innovative idea in the 70\'s when it first aired. The first 7 or 8 years were brilliant, but things dropped off after that. By 1990, the show was not really funny anymore, and it\'s continued its decline further to the complete waste of time it is today.<br /><br />It\'s truly disgraceful how far this show has fallen. The writing is painfully bad, the performances are almost as bad - if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guest-hosts, this show probably wouldn\'t still be on the air. I find it so hard to believe that the same creator that hand-selected the original cast also chose the band of hacks that followed. How can one recognize such brilliance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity? I felt I must give 2 stars out of respect for the original cast that made this show such a huge success. As it is now, the show is just awful. I can\'t believe it\'s still on the air."'],
 ['8,"Encouraged by the positive comments about this film on here I was looking forward to watching this film. Bad mistake. I\'ve seen 950+ films and this is truly one of the worst of them - it\'s awful in almost every way: editing, pacing, storyline, \'acting,\' soundtrack (the film\'s only song - a lame country tune - is played no less than four times). The film looks cheap and nasty and is boring in the extreme. Rarely have I been so happy to see the end credits of a film. <br /><br />The only thing that prevents me giving this a 1-score is Harvey Keitel - while this is far from his best performance he at least seems to be making a bit of an effort. One for Keitel obsessives only."'],
 ['9,"If you like original gut wrenching laughter you will like this movie. If you are young or old then you will love this movie, hell even my mom liked it.<br /><br />Great Camp!!!"'],
 ['10,"Phil the Alien is one of those quirky films where the humour is based around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines.<br /><br />At first it was very odd and pretty funny but as the movie progressed I didn\'t find the jokes or oddness funny anymore.<br /><br />Its a low budget film (thats never a problem in itself), there were some pretty interesting characters, but eventually I just lost interest.<br /><br />I imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who is currently partaking.<br /><br />For something similar but better try ""Brother from another planet"""'],
 ['11,"I saw this movie when I was about 12 when it came out. I recall the scariest scene was the big bird eating men dangling helplessly from parachutes right out of the air. The horror. The horror.<br /><br />As a young kid going to these cheesy B films on Saturday afternoons, I still was tired of the formula for these monster type movies that usually included the hero, a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster died in the end. I didn\'t care much for the romantic angle as a 12 year old and the predictable plots. I love them now for the unintentional humor.<br /><br />But, about a year or so later, I saw Psycho when it came out and I loved that the star, Janet Leigh, was bumped off early in the film. I sat up and took notice at that point. Since screenwriters are making up the story, make it up to be as scary as possible and not from a well-worn formula. There are no rules."'],
 ['12,"So im not a big fan of Boll\'s work but then again not many are. I enjoyed his movie Postal (maybe im the only one). Boll apparently bought the rights to use Far Cry long ago even before the game itself was even finsished. <br /><br />People who have enjoyed killing mercs and infiltrating secret research labs located on a tropical island should be warned, that this is not Far Cry... This is something Mr Boll have schemed together along with his legion of schmucks.. Feeling loneley on the set Mr Boll invites three of his countrymen to play with. These players go by the names of Til Schweiger, Udo Kier and Ralf Moeller.<br /><br />Three names that actually have made them selfs pretty big in the movie biz. So the tale goes like this, Jack Carver played by Til Schweiger (yes Carver is German all hail the bratwurst eating dudes!!) However I find that Tils acting in this movie is pretty badass.. People have complained about how he\'s not really staying true to the whole Carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we don\'t really know what he looked like when he was kicking a**.. <br /><br />However, the storyline in this film is beyond demented. We see the evil mad scientist Dr. Krieger played by Udo Kier, making Genetically-Mutated-soldiers or GMS as they are called. Performing his top-secret research on an island that reminds me of ""SPOILER"" Vancouver for some reason. Thats right no palm trees here. Instead we got some nice rich lumberjack-woods. We haven\'t even gone FAR before I started to CRY (mehehe) I cannot go on any more.. If you wanna stay true to Bolls shenanigans then go and see this movie you will not be disappointed it delivers the true Boll experience, meaning most of it will suck.<br /><br />There are some things worth mentioning that would imply that Boll did a good work on some areas of the film such as some nice boat and fighting scenes. Until the whole cromed/albino GMS squad enters the scene and everything just makes me laugh.. The movie Far Cry reeks of scheisse (that\'s poop for you simpletons) from a fa,r if you wanna take a wiff go ahead.. BTW Carver gets a very annoying sidekick who makes you wanna shoot him the first three minutes he\'s on screen."'],
 ['13,"The cast played Shakespeare.<br /><br />Shakespeare lost.<br /><br />I appreciate that this is trying to bring Shakespeare to the masses, but why ruin something so good.<br /><br />Is it because \'The Scottish Play\' is my favorite Shakespeare? I do not know. What I do know is that a certain Rev Bowdler (hence bowdlerization) tried to do something similar in the Victorian era.<br /><br />In other words, you cannot improve perfection.<br /><br />I have no more to write but as I have to write at least ten lines of text (and English composition was never my forte I will just have to keep going and say that this movie, as the saying goes, just does not cut it."'],
 ["14,This a fantastic movie of three prisoners who become famous. One of the actors is george clooney and I'm not a fan but this roll is not bad. Another good thing about the movie is the soundtrack (The man of constant sorrow). I recommand this movie to everybody. Greetings Bart"],
 ['15,"Kind of drawn in by the erotic scenes, only to realize this was one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bits of film I\'ve ever seen. Sort of like a high school film project. What was Rosanna Arquette thinking?? And what was with all those stock characters in that bizarre supposed Midwest town? Pretty hard to get involved with this one. No lessons to be learned from it, no brilliant insights, just stilted and quite ridiculous (but lots of skin, if that intrigues you) videotaped nonsense....What was with the bisexual relationship, out of nowhere, after all the heterosexual encounters. And what was with that absurd dance, with everybody playing their stereotyped roles? Give this one a pass, it\'s like a million other miles of bad, wasted film, money that could have been spent on starving children or Aids in Africa....."'],
 ['16,"Some films just simply should not be remade. This is one of them. In and of itself it is not a bad film. But it fails to capture the flavor and the terror of the 1963 film of the same title. Liam Neeson was excellent as he always is, and most of the cast holds up, with the exception of Owen Wilson, who just did not bring the right feel to the character of Luke. But the major fault with this version is that it strayed too far from the Shirley Jackson story in it\'s attempts to be grandiose and lost some of the thrill of the earlier film in a trade off for snazzier special effects. Again I will say that in and of itself it is not a bad film. But you will enjoy the friction of terror in the older version much more."'],
 ['17,"This movie made it into one of my top 10 most awful movies. Horrible. <br /><br />There wasn\'t a continuous minute where there wasn\'t a fight with one monster or another. There was no chance for any character development, they were too busy running from one sword fight to another. I had no emotional attachment (except to the big bad machine that wanted to destroy them) <br /><br />Scenes were blatantly stolen from other movies, LOTR, Star Wars and Matrix. <br /><br />Examples<br /><br />>The ghost scene at the end was stolen from the final scene of the old Star Wars with Yoda, Obee One and Vader. <br /><br />>The spider machine in the beginning was exactly like Frodo being attacked by the spider in Return of the Kings. (Elijah Wood is the victim in both films) and wait......it hypnotizes (stings) its victim and wraps them up.....uh hello????<br /><br />>And the whole machine vs. humans theme WAS the Matrix..or Terminator.....<br /><br />There are more examples but why waste the time? And will someone tell me what was with the Nazi\'s?!?! Nazi\'s???? <br /><br />There was a juvenile story line rushed to a juvenile conclusion. The movie could not decide if it was a children\'s movie or an adult movie and wasn\'t much of either. <br /><br />Just awful. A real disappointment to say the least. Save your money."'],
 ['18,"I remember this film,it was the first film i had watched at the cinema the picture was dark in places i was very nervous it was back in 74/75 my Dad took me my brother & sister to Newbury cinema in Newbury Berkshire England. I recall the tigers and the lots of snow in the film also the appearance of Grizzly Adams actor Dan Haggery i think one of the tigers gets shot and dies. If anyone knows where to find this on DVD etc please let me know.The cinema now has been turned in a fitness club which is a very big shame as the nearest cinema now is 20 miles away, would love to hear from others who have seen this film or any other like it."'],
 ['19,"An awful film! It must have been up against some real stinkers to be nominated for the Golden Globe. They\'ve taken the story of the first famous female Renaissance painter and mangled it beyond recognition. My complaint is not that they\'ve taken liberties with the facts; if the story were good, that would perfectly fine. But it\'s simply bizarre -- by all accounts the true story of this artist would have made for a far better film, so why did they come up with this dishwater-dull script? I suppose there weren\'t enough naked people in the factual version. It\'s hurriedly capped off in the end with a summary of the artist\'s life -- we could have saved ourselves a couple of hours if they\'d favored the rest of the film with same brevity."'],
 ['20,"After the success of Die Hard and it\'s sequels it\'s no surprise really that in the 1990s, a glut of \'Die Hard on a .....\' movies cashed in on the wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time concept. That is what they did with Cliffhanger, Die Hard on a mountain just in time to rescue Sly \'Stop or My Mom Will Shoot\' Stallone\'s career.<br /><br />Cliffhanger is one big nit-pickers dream, especially to those who are expert at mountain climbing, base-jumping, aviation, facial expressions, acting skills. All in all it\'s full of excuses to dismiss the film as one overblown pile of junk. Stallone even managed to get out-acted by a horse! However, if you an forget all the nonsense, it\'s actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that delivers as plenty of thrills, and unintentionally, plenty of laughs.<br /><br />You\'ve got to love John Lithgows sneery evilness, his tick every box band of baddies, and best of all, the permanently harassed and hapless \'turncoat\' agent, Rex Linn as Travers.<br /><br />He may of been Henry in \'Portrait of a Serial Killer\' but Michael Rooker is noteworthy for a cringe-worthy performance as Hal, he insists on constantly shrieking in painful disbelief at his captors \'that man never hurt anybody\' And whilst he surely can\'t be, it really does look like Ralph Waite\'s Frank character is grinning as the girl plummets to her death.<br /><br />Mention too must go to former \'London\'s Burning\' actor Craig Fairbrass as the Brit bad guy, who comes a cropper whilst using Hal as a Human Football, yes, you can\'t help enjoy that bit, Hal needed a good kicking.<br /><br />So forget your better judgement, who cares if \'that could never happen\', lower your acting expectations, turn up the volume and enjoy! And if you\'re looking for Qaulen, he\'s the one wearing the helicopter."'],
 ['21,"I had the terrible misfortune of having to view this ""b-movie"" in it\'s entirety.<br /><br />All I have to say is--- save your time and money!!! This has got to be the worst b-movie of all time, it shouldn\'t even be called a b-movie, more like an f-movie! Because it fails in all aspects that make a good movie: the story is not interesting at all, all of the actors are paper-thin and not at all believable, it has bad direction and the action sequences are so fake it\'s almost funny.......almost.<br /><br />The movie is just packed full of crappy one-liners that no respectable person could find amusing in the least little bit.<br /><br />This movie is supposed to be geared towards men, but all the women in it are SO utterly unattractive, especially that old wrinkled thing that comes in towards the end. They try to appear sexy in those weird, horrible costumes and they fail miserably!!!<br /><br />Even some of the most ridiculous b-movies will still give you some laughs, but this is just too painful to watch!!"'],
 ['22,"What an absolutely stunning movie, if you have 2.5 hrs to kill, watch it, you won\'t regret it, it\'s too much fun! Rajnikanth carries the movie on his shoulders and although there isn\'t anything more other than him, I still liked it. The music by A.R.Rehman takes time to grow on you but after you heard it a few times, you really start liking it."'],
 ['23,"First of all, let\'s get a few things straight here: a) I AM an anime fan- always has been as a matter of fact (I used to watch Speed Racer all the time in Preschool). b) I DO like several B-Movies because they\'re hilarious. c) I like the Godzilla movies- a lot.<br /><br />Moving on, when the movie first comes on, it seems like it\'s going to be your usual B-movie, down to the crappy FX, but all a sudden- BOOM! the anime comes on! This is when the movie goes WWWAAAAAYYYYY downhill.<br /><br />The animation is VERY bad & cheap, even worse than what I remember from SPEED RACER, for crissakes! In fact, it\'s so cheap, one of the few scenes from the movie I ""vividly"" remember is when a bunch of kids run out of a school... & it\'s the same kids over & over again! The FX are terrible, too; the dinosaurs look worse than Godzilla. In addition, the transition to live action to animation is unorganized, the dialogue & voices(especially the English dub that I viewed) was horrid & I was begging my dad to take the tape out of the DVD/ VHS player; The only thing that kept me surviving was cracking out jokes & comments like the robots & Joel/Mike on MST3K (you pick the season). Honestly, this is the only way to barely enjoy this movie & survive it at the same time.<br /><br />Heck, I\'m planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on Halloween for a B-Movie night. Because it\'s stupid, pretty painful to watch & unintentionally hilarious at the same time, I\'m giving this movie a 3/10, an improvement from the 0.5/10 I was originally going to give it.<br /><br />(According to my grading scale: 3/10 means Pretty much both boring & bad. As fun as counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it, then it will become as fun as counting to 15.)"'],
 ["24,This was the worst movie I saw at WorldFest and it also received the least amount of applause afterwards! I can only think it is receiving such recognition based on the amount of known actors in the film. It's great to see J.Beals but she's only in the movie for a few minutes. M.Parker is a much better actress than the part allowed for. The rest of the acting is hard to judge because the movie is so ridiculous and predictable. The main character is totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch. There is no real emotional depth to the story. A movie revolving about an actor who can't get work doesn't feel very original to me. Nor does the development of the cop. It feels like one of many straight-to-video movies I saw back in the 90s ... And not even a good one in those standards.<br /><br />"],
 ['25,"The Karen Carpenter Story shows a little more about singer Karen Carpenter\'s complex life. Though it fails in giving accurate facts, and details.<br /><br />Cynthia Gibb (portrays Karen) was not a fine election. She is a good actress , but plays a very naive and sort of dumb Karen Carpenter. I think that the role needed a stronger character. Someone with a stronger personality.<br /><br />Louise Fletcher role as Agnes Carpenter is terrific, she does a great job as Karen\'s mother.<br /><br />It has great songs, which could have been included in a soundtrack album. Unfortunately they weren\'t, though this movie was on the top of the ratings in USA and other several countries"'],
 ['26,"""The Cell"" is an exotic masterpiece, a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer, but also into one of a very talented director. This is conclusive evidence of what can be achieved if human beings unleash their uninhibited imaginations. This is boldness at work, pushing aside thoughts to fall into formulas and cliches and creating something truly magnificent. This is the best movie of the year to date.<br /><br />I\'ve read numerous complaints about this film, anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast characters and bad acting. To negatively criticize this film is to miss the point. This movie may be a landmark, a tradition where future movies will hopefully follow. ""The Cell"" has just opened the door to another world of imagination. So can we slam the door in its face and tell it and its director Tarsem Singh that we don\'t want any more? Personally, I would more than welcome another movie by Tarsem, and would love to see someone try to challenge him.<br /><br />We\'ve all heard talk about going inside the mind of a serial killer, and yes, I do agree that the ""genre"" is a bit overworked. The 90s were full of movies trying to depict what makes serial killers tick; some of them worked, but most failed. But ""The Cell"" does not blaze down the same trail, we are given a new twist, we are physically transported into the mind and presented with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied.<br /><br />I like how the movie does not bog us down with too much scientific jargon trying to explain how Jennifer Lopez actually gets to enter the brain of another. Instead, she just lies down on a laboratory table and is wrapped with what looks like really long Twizzlers and jaunted into another entity. ""The Cell"" wants to let you ""see"" what it\'s all about and not ""how"" it\'s all about, and I guess that\'s what some people don\'t like. True, I do like explanations with my movies, but when a movie ventures onto new ground you must let it do what it desires and simply take it in.<br /><br />I noticed how the film was very dark when it showed reality, maybe to contrast the bright visuals when inside the brain of another. Nonetheless, the set design was simply astonishing. I wouldn\'t be surprised if this film took home a few Oscars in cinematography, best costumes, best director and the like. If it were up to me it\'d at least get nominated for best picture.<br /><br />I\'ve noticed that I\'ve kind of been repeating myself. Not because there\'s nothing else to say, but because I can\'t stress enough how fantastic I thought ""The Cell"" was. If you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it taken over with wonders and an eye-popping feast then you are assured a good time. I guess this film was just a little too much for some people, writing it off as ""weird"" or ""crazy"". I am very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind, so it was right down my alley. Leaving the theater, I heard one audience member say ""Whoever made that movie sure did a lot of good drugs."" If so, I want what he was smoking.<br /><br />**** (out of 4)"'],
 ['27,"This film tried to be too many things all at once: stinging political satire, Hollywood blockbuster, sappy romantic comedy, family values promo... the list goes on and on. It failed miserably at all of them, but there was enough interest to keep me from turning it off until the end.<br /><br />Although I appreciate the spirit behind WAR, INC., it depresses me to see such a clumsy effort, especially when it will be taken by its targets to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique, rather than simply the poor writing, direction, and production of this particular film.<br /><br />There is a critique to be made about the corporatization of war. But poking fun at it in this way diminishes the true atrocity of what is happening. Reminds me a bit of THREE KINGS, which similarly trivializes a genuine cause for concern."'],
 ['28,"This movie was so frustrating. Everything seemed energetic and I was totally prepared to have a good time. I at least thought I\'d be able to stand it. But, I was wrong. First, the weird looping? It was like watching ""America\'s Funniest Home Videos"". The damn parents. I hated them so much. The stereo-typical Latino family? I need to speak with the person responsible for this. We need to have a talk. That little girl who was always hanging on someone? I just hated her and had to mention it. Now, the final scene transcends, I must say. It\'s so gloriously bad and full of badness that it is a movie of its own. What crappy dancing. Horrible and beautiful at once."'],
 ['29,"\'War movie\' is a Hollywood genre that has been done and redone so many times that clichéd dialogue, rehashed plot and over-the-top action sequences seem unavoidable for any conflict dealing with large-scale combat. Once in a while, however, a war movie comes along that goes against the grain and brings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen. The Civil War-era ""Cold Mountain,"" starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger is such a film.<br /><br />Then again, calling Cold Mountain"" a war movie is not entirely accurate. True enough, the film opens with a (quite literally) quick-and-dirty battle sequence that puts ""Glory"" director Edward Zwick shame. However, ""Cold Mountain"" is not so much about the Civil War itself as it is about the period and the people of the times. The story centers around disgruntled Confederate soldier Inman, played by Jude Law, who becomes disgusted with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of Cold Mountain, North Carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he left behind, Ada Monroe, played by Nicole Kidman. At first glance, this setup appears formulaic as the romantic interest back home gives the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier\'s tribulations on the battlefield. Indeed, the earlier segments of the film are relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived.<br /><br />""Cold Mountain"" soon takes a drastic turn, though, as the intrepid hero Inman turns out to be a deserter (incidentally saving the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of wanting to root for the Confederates) and begins a long odyssey homeward. Meanwhile, back at the farm, Ada\'s cultured ways prove of little use in the fields; soon she is transformed into something of a wilderbeast. Coming to Ada\'s rescue is the course, tough-as-nails Ruby Thewes, played by Renée Zellweger, who helps Ada put the farm back together and, perhaps more importantly, cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seems to have brought upon Ada.<br /><br />Within these two settings, a vivid, compelling and, at times, very disturbing portrait of the war-torn South unfolds. The characters with whom Inman and Ada interact are surprisingly complex, enhanced by wonderful performances of Brendan Gleeson as Ruby\'s deadbeat father, Ray Winstone as an unrepentant southern ""lawman,"" and Natalie Portman as a deeply troubled and isolated young mother. All have been greatly affected and changed by ""the war of Northern aggression,"" mostly for the worse. The dark, pervading anti-war message, accented by an effective, haunting score and chillingly beautiful shots of Virginia and North Carolina, is communicated to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scenes as by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war was fought. Though the weapons and tactics of war itself have changed much in the past century, it\'s hellish effect on the land is timelessly relevant.<br /><br />Director Anthony Minghella manages to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film, but the atmosphere is unfortunately denigrated by a rather tepid climax that does little justice to the wonderfully formed characters. The love story between Inman and Ada is awkwardly tacked onto the beginning and end of the film, though the inherently distant, abstracted and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fits the dismal nature of the rest of the plot.<br /><br />Make no mistake, ""Cold Mountain"" has neither the traits of a feel-good romance nor an inspiring war drama. It is a unique vision of an era that is sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the lives of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of its terrible repercussions altogether."'],
 ['30,"Taut and organically gripping, Edward Dmytryk\'s Crossfire is a distinctive suspense thriller, an unlikely ""message"" movie using the look and devices of the noir cycle.<br /><br />Bivouacked in Washington, DC, a company of soldiers cope with their restlessness by hanging out in bars. Three of them end up at a stranger\'s apartment where Robert Ryan, drunk and belligerent, beats their host (Sam Levene) to death because he happens to be Jewish. Police detective Robert Young investigates with the help of Robert Mitchum, who\'s assigned to Ryan\'s outfit. Suspicion falls on the second of the three (George Cooper), who has vanished. Ryan slays the third buddy (Steve Brodie) to insure his silence before Young closes in.<br /><br />Abetted by a superior script by John Paxton, Dmytryk draws precise performances from his three starring Bobs. Ryan, naturally, does his prototypical Angry White Male (and to the hilt), while Mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance (his role, however, is not central); Young may never have been better. Gloria Grahame gives her first fully-fledged rendition of the smart-mouthed, vulnerable tramp, and, as a sad sack who\'s leeched into her life, Paul Kelly haunts us in a small, peripheral role that he makes memorable.<br /><br />The politically engaged Dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumbs to sermonizing, but it\'s pretty much confined to Young\'s reminiscence of how his Irish grandfather died at the hands of bigots a century earlier (thus, incidentally, stretching chronology to the limit). At least there\'s no attempt to render an explanation, however glib, of why Ryan hates Jews (and hillbillies and...).<br /><br />Curiously, Crossfire survives even the major change wrought upon it -- the novel it\'s based on (Richard Brooks\' The Brick Foxhole) dealt with a gay-bashing murder. But homosexuality in 1947 was still Beyond The Pale. News of the Holocaust had, however, begun to emerge from the ashes of Europe, so Hollywood felt emboldened to register its protest against anti-Semitism (the studios always quaked at the prospect of offending any potential ticket buyer).<br /><br />But while the change from homophobia to anti-Semitism works in general, the specifics don\'t fit so smoothly. The victim\'s chatting up a lonesome, drunk young soldier then inviting him back home looks odd, even though (or especially since) there\'s a girlfriend in tow. It raises the question whether this scenario was retained inadvertently or left in as a discreet tip-off to the original engine generating Ryan\'s murderous rage."'],
 ['31,"""Ardh Satya"" is one of the finest film ever made in Indian Cinema. Directed by the great director Govind Nihalani, this one is the most successful Hard Hitting Parallel Cinema which also turned out to be a Commercial Success. Even today, Ardh Satya is an inspiration for all leading directors of India.<br /><br />The film tells the Real-life Scenario of Mumbai Police of the 70s. Unlike any Police of other cities in India, Mumbai Police encompasses a Different system altogether. Govind Nihalani creates a very practical Outlay with real life approach of Mumbai Police Environment.<br /><br />Amongst various Police officers & colleagues, the film describes the story of Anand Velankar, a young hot-blooded Cop coming from a poor family. His father is a harsh Police Constable. Anand himself suffers from his father\'s ideologies & incidences of his father\'s Atrocities on his mother. Anand\'s approach towards immediate action against crime, is an inert craving for his own Job satisfaction. The film is here revolved in a Plot wherein Anand\'s constant efforts against crime are trampled by his seniors.This leads to frustrations, as he cannot achieve the desired Job-satisfaction. Resulting from the frustrations, his anger is expressed in excessive violence in the remand rooms & bars, also turning him to an alcoholic.<br /><br />The Spirit within him is still alive, as he constantly fights the system. He is aware of the system of the Metro, where the Police & Politicians are a inertly associated by far end. His compromise towards unethical practice is negative. Finally he gets suspended.<br /><br />The Direction is a master piece & thoroughly hard core. One of the best memorable scenes is when Anand breaks in the Underworld gangster Rama Shetty\'s house to arrest him, followed by short conversation which is fantastic. At many scenes, the film has Hair-raising moments.<br /><br />The Practical approach of Script is a major Punch. Alcoholism, Corruption, Political Influence, Courage, Deceptions all are integral part of Mumbai police even today. Those aspects are dealt brilliantly.<br /><br />Finally, the films belongs to the One man show, Om Puri portraying Anand Velankar traversing through all his emotions absolutely brilliantly."'],
 ['32,"My first exposure to the Templarios & not a good one. I was excited to find this title among the offerings from Anchor Bay Video, which has brought us other cult classics such as ""Spider Baby"". The print quality is excellent, but this alone can\'t hide the fact that the film is deadly dull. There\'s a thrilling opening sequence in which the villagers exact a terrible revenge on the Templars (& set the whole thing in motion), but everything else in the movie is slow, ponderous &, ultimately, unfulfilling. Adding insult to injury: the movie was dubbed, not subtitled, as promised on the video jacket."'],
 ['33,"One of the most significant quotes from the entire film is pronounced halfway through by the protagonist, the mafia middle-man Titta Di Girolamo, a physically non-descript, middle-aged man originally from Salerno in Southern Italy. When we\'re introduced to him at the start of the film, he\'s been living a non-life in an elegant but sterile hotel in the Italian-speaking Canton of Switzerland for the last ten years, conducting a business we are only gradually introduced to. While this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene takes place employees of the the Swiss bank who normally count Di Girolamo\'s cash tell him that 10,000 dollars are missing from his usual suitcase full of tightly stacked banknotes. At the news, he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account. Meanwhile he tells us, the spectators, that when you bluff, you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of being caught out or appearing ridiculous. He says: you can\'t bluff for a while and then halfway through, tell the truth. Having eventually done this - bluffed only halfway through and told the truth, and having accepted the consequences of life and ultimately, love - is exactly the reason behind the beginning of Titta Di Girolamo\'s troubles. <br /><br />This initially unsympathetic character, a scowling, taciturn, curt man on the verge of 50, a man who won\'t even reply in kind to chambermaids and waitresses who say hello and goodbye, becomes at one point someone the spectator cares deeply about. At one point in his non-life, Titta decides to feel concern about appearing ""ridiculous"". The first half of the film may be described as ""slow"" by some. It does indeed reveal Di Girolamo\'s days and nights in that hotel at an oddly disjoined, deliberate pace, revealing seemingly mundane and irrelevant details. However, scenes that may have seemed unnecessary reveal just how essential they are as this masterfully constructed and innovative film unfolds before your eyes. The existence of Titta Di Girolamo - the man with no imagination, identity or life, the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least thought you would - is also conveyed with elegantly edited sequences and very interesting use of music (one theme by the Scottish band Boards of Canada especially stood out). <br /><br />Never was the contrast between the way Hollywood and Italy treat mobsters more at odds than since the release of films such as Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore or L\'Imbalsamatore. Another interesting element was the way in which the film made use of the protagonist\'s insomnia. Not unlike The Machinist (and in a far more explicit way, the Al Pacino film Insomnia), Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore uses this condition to symbolise a deeper emotional malaise that\'s been rammed so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious, it\'s almost impossible to pin-point its cause (if indeed there is one). <br /><br />The young and sympathetic hotel waitress Sofia (played by Olivia Magnani, grand-daughter of the legendary Anna) and the memory of Titta\'s best friend, a man whom he hasn\'t seen in 20 years, unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that Titta eventually (though tentatively at first) accepts to look through again. Though it\'s never explicitly spelt out, the spectator KNOWS that to a man like Titta, accepting The Consequences of Love will have unimaginable consequences. A film without a single scene of sex or violence, a film that unfolds in its own time and concedes nothing to the spectator\'s expectations, Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore is a fine representative of that small, quiet, discreet Renaissance that has been taking place in Italian cinema since the decline of CinecittÃ\xa0 during the second half of the 70s. The world is waiting for Italy to produce more Il Postino-like fare, more La Vita è Bella-style films... neglecting to explore fine creations like Le Conseguenze dell\'Amore, L\'Imbalsamatore and others. Your loss, world."'],
 ['34,"I watched this film not really expecting much, I got it in a pack of 5 films, all of which were pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could I expect? and you know what I was right, they were all terrible, this movie has a few (and a few is stretching it) interesting points, the occasional camcorder view is a nice touch, the drummer is very like a drummer, i.e damned annoying and, well thats about it actually, the problem is that its just so boring, in what I can only assume was an attempt to build tension, a whole lot of nothing happens and when it does its utterly tedious (I had my thumb on the fast forward button, ready to press for most of the movie, but gave it a go) and seriously is the lead singer of the band that great looking, coz they don\'t half mention how beautiful he is a hell of a lot, I thought he looked a bit like a meercat, all this and I haven\'t even mentioned the killer, I\'m not even gonna go into it, its just not worth explaining. Anyway as far as I\'m concerned Star and London are just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of London (who was actually quite funny) it wasn\'t because of their acting talent, I\'ve certainly seen a lot worse, but I\'ve also seen a lot better. Best avoid unless your bored of watching paint dry."'],
 ['35,"I bought this film at Blockbuster for $3.00, because it sounded interesting (a bit Ranma-esque, with the idea of someone dragging around a skeleton), because there was a cute girl in a mini-skirt on the back, and because there was a Restricted Viewing sticker on it. I thought it was going to be a sweet or at least sincere coming of age story with a weird indie edge. I was 100% wrong.<br /><br />Having watched it, I have to wonder how it got the restricted sticker, since there is hardly any foul language, little violence, and the closest thing to nudity (Honestly! I don\'t usually go around hoping for it!) is when the girl is in her nightgown and you see her panties (you see her panties a lot in this movie, because no matter what, she\'s wearing a miniskirt of some sort). Even the anti-religious humor is tame (and lame, caricatured, insincere, derivative, unoriginal, and worst of all not funny in the slightest--it would be better just to listen to Ray Stevens\' ""Would Jesus Wear a Rolex on His Television Show""). This would barely qualify as PG-13 (it is Not Rated), but Blockbuster refuses to let anyone under the age of 17 rent this--as if it was pornographic. Any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of Requiem for a Dream, but they insist that Zack and Reba is worse.<br /><br />It is, but not in that way.<br /><br />In a way, this worries me--the only thing left that could offend people is the idea of the suicide at the beginning. If anybody needs to see movies with honestly portrayed suicides (not this one, but better ones like The Virgin Suicides), it\'s teenagers. If both of those movies were rated R purely because of the suicide aspect, then I have little chance of turning a story I\'ve been writing into a PG-13 movie (the main characters are eleven and a half and twelve). Suicide is one of the top three leading causes of death in teenagers (I think it\'s number 2), so chances are that most teens have been or will be affected by it.<br /><br />Just say no to this movie, though. 2/10."'],
 ['36,"The plot is about the death of little children. Hopper is the one who has to investigate the killings. During the movie it appears that he has some troubles with his daughter. In the end the serial killer get caught. That\'s it. But before you find out who dunnit, you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actors. It is unbelievable how bad these actors are, including Hopper. I could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time. Just don\'t watch the movie. I\'ve warned you."'],
 ['37,"Ever watched a movie that lost the plot? Well, this didn\'t even really have one to begin with.<br /><br />Where to begin? The achingly tedious scenes of our heroine sitting around the house with actually no sense of menace or even foreboding created even during the apparently constant thunderstorms (that are strangely never actually heard in the house-great double glazing)? The house that is apparently only a few miles from a town yet is several hours walk away(?) or the third girl who serves no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just as the tedium becomes unbearable? Or even the beginning which suggests a spate of 20+ killings throughout the area even though it is apparent the killer never ventures far from the house? Or the bizarre ritual with the salt & pepper that pretty much sums up most of the films inherent lack of direction.<br /><br />Add a lead actress who can\'t act but at least is willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scenes and this video is truly nasty, but not in the way you hope.<br /><br />Given a following simply for being banned in the UK in the 80\'s (mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder) it offers nothing but curiosity value- and one classic \'daft\' murder (don\'t worry-its telegraphed at least ten minutes before).<br /><br />After a walk in the woods our victim comes to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up. Halfway through they see a figure at the top dressed in black and brandishing a large scythe. What do they do? Slide down and run like the rest of us? No, of course not- they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon.<br /><br />It really IS only a movie as they say.."'],
 ['38,"Okay, so this series kind of takes the route of \'here we go again!\' Week in, week out David Morse\'s character helps out his ride who is in a bit of a pickle - but what\'s wrong with that!? David Morse is one of the greatest character actors out there, and certainly the coolest, and to have him in a series created by David Koepp - a great writer - is heaven!!<br /><br />Due to the lack of love for this show by many, I can\'t see it going to a season series - but you never know? The amount of rubbish that has made it beyond that baffles me - let\'s hope something good can make it past a first series!!!"'],
 ['39,"After sitting through this pile of dung, my husband and I wondered whether it was actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie. It was that listless and formulaic. But the U.S. propaganda thrown in your face throughout the film proves--disappointingly--that it\'s the work of humans. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but quotes like, ""We have to steal the Declaration of Independence to protect it"" seem like ways to justify actions like the invasion of Iraq, etc. The fact that Nicholas Cage spews lines like, ""I would never use the Declaration of Independence as a bargaining chip"" with a straight face made me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast took Valium before shooting each scene. The ""reasoning"" behind each plot turn and new ""clue"" is truly ridiculous and impossible to follow. And there\'s also a bonus side plot of misogyny, with Dr. Whatever-Her-Name-Was being chided by all involved for ""never shutting up."" She\'s clearly in the movie only for looks, but they felt the need to slap a ""Dr."" title on her character to give her some gravity. At one point, Cage\'s character says, ""Don\'t you ever shut up?"" and the camera pans to her looking poutily down at her hands, like she\'s a child. Truly grotesque. The only benefit to this movie was that it\'s so astonishingly bad, you do get a few laughs out of it. The really scary thing is that a majority of the people watching the movie with us seemed to enjoy it. Creepy...."'],
 ['40,"It had all the clichés of movies of this type and no substance. The plot went nowhere and at the end of the movie I felt like a sucker for watching it. The production was good; however, the script and acting were B-movie quality. The casting was poor because there were good actors mixed in with crumby actors. The good actors didn\'t hold their own nor did they lift up the others. <br /><br />This movie is not worthy of more words, but I will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten lines. James Wood and Cuba Gooding, Jr. play caricatures of themselves in other movies. <br /><br />If you are looking for mindless entertainment, I still wouldn\'t recommend this movie."'],
 ['41,"This movie is based on the book, ""A Many Splendored Thing"" by Han Suyin and tackles issues of race relations between Asians and Whites, a topic that comes from Han\'s personal experiences as an Eurasian growing up in China. That background, and the beautiful Hong Kong settings, gives this love story a unique and rather daring atmosphere for its time.<br /><br />Other than that, the story is a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that is perhaps more remembered than the movie itself. The beautiful Jennifer Jones looks the part and gives a wonderful, Oscar nominated performance as a doctor of mixed breed during the advent of Communism in mainland China. William Holden never looked better playing a romantic lead as a journalist covering war torn regions in the world. The acting is top notch, and the chemistry between the two lovers provides for some genuine moments of silver screen affection sure to melt the hearts of those who are romantically inclined.<br /><br />The cinematography really brings out fifty\'s Hong Kong, especially the hilltop overlooking the harbor where the two lovers spend their most intimate moments. The ending is a real tear-jerker. Some may consider sentimental romances passé, but, for those who enjoy classic Hollywood love stories, this is a shining example."'],
 ['42,"Of all the films I have seen, this one, The Rage, has got to be one of the worst yet. The direction, LOGIC, continuity, changes in plot-script and dialog made me cry out in pain. ""How could ANYONE come up with something so crappy""? Gary Busey is know for his ""B"" movies, but this is a sure ""W"" movie. (W=waste).<br /><br />Take for example: about two dozen FBI & local law officers surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer. Inside the jeep is MA and is ""confused"" as to why all the cops are about. Within seconds a huge gun battle ensues, MA being killed straight off. The cops blast away at the jeep with gary and company blasting away at them. The cops fall like dominoes and the jeep with Gary drives around in circles and are not hit by one single bullet/pellet. MA is killed and gary seems to not to have noticed-damn that guy is tough. Truly a miracle, not since the six-shooter held 300 bullets has there been such a miracle."'],
 ['43,"I had heard good things about ""States of Grace"" and came in with an open mind. I thought that ""God\'s Army"" was okay, and I thought that maybe Dutcher had improved and matured as a filmmaker. The film began with some shaky acting, and I thought, ""well, maybe it will get better."" Unfortunately, it never did. The picture starts out by introducing two elders -- Mormon missionaries -- and it seems that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them. Instead, the story degenerates into a highly improbable series of unfortunate events highlighting blatant disobedience by the missionaries (something that undeniably exists, but rarely on the level that Dutcher portrays) and it becomes almost laughable.<br /><br />Dutcher\'s only success in this movie is his successful alienation of his target audience. By unrealistically and inaccurately portraying the lives of Mormon missionaries, Dutcher accomplishes nothing more than angering his predominantly Mormon audience. The film in no way reflects reality. Missions are nothing like what Dutcher shows (having served a Mormon mission myself I can attest to this fact) and gang life in California certainly contains much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity.<br /><br />The conclusion, which I\'m assuming was supposed to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness is available to all, was both unbelievable (c\'mon, the entire mission gathers to see this elder sent home -- and the mom and the girl are standing right next to each other!) and cheesy. Next time, Dutcher, try making a movie that SOMEONE can identify with."'],
 ['44,"This movie struck home for me. Being 29, I remember the \'80\'s and my father working in a factory. I figured, if I worked hard too, if I had pride and never gave up I too could have the American Dream, the house, a few kids, a car all to call my own. I\'ve noted however, without a degree in something (unlike my father that quit at ninth grade) and a keen sense of greed and laziness, you can\'t get anywhere.<br /><br />I would like to know if anyone has this movie on DVD or VHS. it\'s made for TV, and I just saw it an hour ago. Ic an\'t find it anywhere! I\'d love to show this to my friends, my pseudo friends, family and other relatives, see what they think and remind them that once upon a time, Americans WOULD work for the sake of feeling honor and that we had pride in what we accomplished!! I think the feeling is still there, but in a heavy downward spiral with so many things being made overseas..."'],
 ['45,"As a disclaimer, I\'ve seen the movie 5-6 times in the last 15 years, and I only just saw the musical this week. This allowed me to judge the movie without being tainted by what was or wasn\'t in the musical (however, it tainted me when I watched the musical :) ) <br /><br />I actually believe Michael Douglas worked quite well in that role, along with Kasey. I think her \'Let me dance for you scene\' is one of the best parts of the movie, a worthwhile addition compared to the musical. The dancers and singing in the movie are much superior to the musical, as well as the cast which is at least 10 times bigger (easier to do in the movie of course). The decors, lighting, dancing, and singing are also much superior in the movie, which should be expected, and was indeed delivered. <br /><br />The songs that were in common with the musical are better done in the movie, the new ones are quite good ones, and the whole movie just delivers more than the musical in my opinion, especially compared to a musical which has few decors. The one bad point on the movie is the obvious cuts between the actors talking, and dubbed singers during the singing portions for some of the characters, but their dancing is impeccable, and the end product was more enjoyable than the musical"'],
 ["46,Protocol is an implausible movie whose only saving grace is that it stars Goldie Hawn along with a good cast of supporting actors. The story revolves around a ditzy cocktail waitress who becomes famous after inadvertently saving the life of an Arab dignitary. The story goes downhill halfway through the movie and Goldie's charm just doesn't save this movie. Unless you are a Goldie Hawn fan don't go out of your way to see this film."],
 ['47,"How this film could be classified as Drama, I have no idea. If I were John Voight and Mary Steenburgen, I would be trying to erase this from my CV. It was as historically accurate as Xena and Hercules. Abraham and Moses got melded into Noah. Lot, Abraham\'s nephew, Lot, turns up thousands of years before he would have been born. Canaanites wandered the earth...really? What were the scriptwriters thinking? Was it just ignorance (""I remember something about Noah and animals, and Lot and Canaanites and all that stuff from Sunday School"") or were they trying to offend the maximum number of people on the planet as possible- from Christians, Jews and Muslims, to historians, archaeologists, geologists, psychologists, linguists ...as a matter of fact, did anyone not get offended? Anyone who had even a modicum of taste would have winced at this one!"'],
 ['48,"Preston Sturgis\' THE POWER AND THE GLORY was unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty years until the late 1990s when it resurfaced and even showed up on television. In the meantime it had gained in notoriety because Pauline Kael\'s THE CITIZEN KANE BOOK had suggested that the Herman Mankiewicz - Orson Welles screenplay for KANE was based on Sturgis\' screenplay here. As is mentioned in the beginning of this thread for the film on the IMDb web site, Kael overstated her case.<br /><br />There are about six narrators who take turns dealing with the life of Charles Foster Kane: the newsreel (representing Ralston - the Henry Luce clone), Thatcher\'s memoirs, Bernstein, Jed Leland, Susan Alexander Kane, and Raymond the butler. Each has his or her different slant on Kane, reflecting their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man. And of course each also reveals his or her own failings when they are telling their version of Kane\'s story. This method also leads to frequent overlapping re-tellings of the same incident.<br /><br />This is not the situation in THE POWER AND THE GLORY. Yes, like KANE it is about a legendary business leader - here it is Tom Garner (Spencer Tracy), a man who rose from the bottom to being head of the most successful railroad system in the country. But there are only two narrators - they are Garner\'s right hand man Henry (Ralph Morgan) and his wife (Sarah Padden). This restricts the nearly three dimensional view we get at times of Kane in Garner. Henry, when he narrates, is talking about his boss and friend, whom he respected and loved. His wife is like the voice of the skeptical public - she sees only the flaws in Henry.<br /><br />Typical example: Although he worked his way up, Tom becomes more and more anti-labor in his later years. Unions are troublemakers, and he does not care to be slowed down by their shenanigans. Henry describes Tom\'s confrontation with the Union in a major walk-out, and how it preoccupied him to the detriment of his home life. But Henry\'s wife reminds him how Tom used scabs and violence to end the strike (apparently blowing up the Union\'s headquarters - killing many people). So we have two views of the man but one is pure white and one is pure black.<br /><br />I\'m not really knocking THE POWER AND THE GLORY for not duplicating KANE\'s success (few films do - including all of Orson Welles\' other films), but I am aware that the story is presented well enough to hold one\'s interest to the end. And thanks to the performances of Tracy and Colleen Moore as his wife Sally, the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair is fully brought home.<br /><br />When they marry, Tom wants to do well (in part) to give his wife and their family the benefits he never had. But in America great business success comes at a cost. Tom gets deeply involved with running the railroad empire (he expands it and improves it constantly). But it takes him away from home too much, and he loses touch with Sally. And he also notices Eve (Helen Vinson), the younger woman who becomes his mistress. When Sally learns of his unfaithful behavior it destroys her.<br /><br />Similarly Tom too gets a full shock (which makes him a martyr in the eyes of Henry). Eve marries Tom, and presents him with a son - but it turns out to be Eve\'s son by Tom\'s son Tom Jr. (Philip Trent). The discovery of this incestuous cuckolding causes Tom to shoot himself.<br /><br />The film is not a total success - the action jumps at times unconvincingly. Yet it does make the business seem real (note the scene when Tom tells his Board of Directors about his plans to purchase a small rival train line, and he discusses the use of debentures for financing the plans). Sturgis came from a wealthy background, so he could bring in this type of detail. So on the whole it is a first rate film. No CITIZEN KANE perhaps, but of interest to movie lovers as an attempt at business realism with social commentary in Depression America."'],
 ['49,"Average (and surprisingly tame) Fulci giallo which means it\'s still quite bad by normal standards, but redeemed by its solid build-up and some nice touches such as a neat time twist on the issues of visions and clairvoyance.<br /><br />The genre\'s well-known weaknesses are in full gear: banal dialogue, wooden acting, illogical plot points. And the finale goes on much too long, while the denouement proves to be a rather lame or shall I say: limp affair.<br /><br />Fulci\'s ironic handling of giallo norms is amusing, though. Yellow clues wherever you look.<br /><br />3 out of 10 limping killers"'],
 ['50,"Return to the 36th Chamber is one of those classic Kung-Fu movies which Shaw produces back in the 70s and 80s, whose genre is equivalent to the spaghetti westerns of Hollywood, and the protagonist Gordon Liu, the counterpart to the western\'s Clint Eastwood. Digitally remastered and a new print made for the Fantastic Film Fest, this is ""Presented in Shaw Scope"", just like the good old days.<br /><br />This film is a simple story of good versus evil, told in 3 acts, which more or less sums up the narrative of martial arts films in that era.<br /><br />Act One sets up the premise. Workers in a dye-mill of a small village are unhappy with their lot, having their wages cut by 20% by incoming manchu gangsters. They can\'t do much about their exploitation because none of them are martial arts skilled to take on the gangsters, and their boss. At first they had a minor success in getting Liu to impersonate a highly skilled Shaolin monk (one of the best comedy sequences), but their rouse got exposed when they pushed the limit of credibility by impersonating one too many times.<br /><br />Act Two shows the protagonist wanting to get back at the mob. However, without real martial arts, he embarks on a journey to Shaolin Temple, to try and infiltrate and learn martial arts on the sly. After some slapstick moments, he finally gets accepted by the abbot (whom he impersonated!) but is disappointed at the teaching methods - kinda like Mr Miyagi\'s style in Karate Kid, but instead of painting fences, he gets to erect scaffoldings all around the temple. Nothing can keep a good man down, and he unwittingly builds strength, endurance and learns kung-fu the unorthodox way.<br /><br />Act Three is where the fight fest begins. With cheesy sound effects, each obvious non-contact on film is given the maximum impact treatment. But it is rather refreshing watching the fight scenes here, with its wide angled shots to highlight clarity and detail between the sparring partners, and the use of slow-motion only to showcase stunts in different angles. You may find the speed of fights a tad too slow, with some pause in between moves, but with Yuen Wo Ping and his style being used ad-nausem in Hollywood flicks, they sure don\'t make fight scenes like they used to! Return to the 36th chamber gets a repeat screening on Monday, so, if you\'re game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, what are you waiting for?"'],
 ['51,"***SPOILERS*** All too, in real life as well as in the movies, familiar story that happens to many young men who are put in a war zone with a gun, or rifle, in their hands. The case of young and innocent, in never handling or firing a gun, Jimmy Davis, Franchot Tone, has been repeated thousands of times over the centuries when men, like Jimmy Davis, are forced to take up arms for their country.<br /><br />Jimmy who at first wanted to be kicked out of the US Army but was encouraged to stay, by being belted in the mouth, by his good friend Fred P. Willis, Spencer Tracy, ended up on the front lines in France. With Jimmy\'s unit pinned down by a German machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission picking off some half dozen German soldiers from the safety of a nearby church steeple. It was when Jimmy gunned down the last surviving German, who raised his arms in surrender, that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wounding him.<br /><br />Recovering from his wounds at an Army hospital Jimmy fell in love with US Army volunteer nurse Rose Duffy, Gladys George. Rose was really in love with Jimmy\'s good friend the happy go lucky Fred despite his obnoxious antics towards her. It\'s when Fred was lost during the fighting on the Western Front that Rose, thinking that he was killed, fell in love and later married Jimmy. When Fred unexpectedly showed up in the French town where Jimmy, now fully recovered from his wounds, was stationed at things got very sticky for both him and Rose who had already accepted Jimmy\'s proposal of marriage to her!<br /><br />With WWI over and Jimmy marrying Rose left Fred, who\'s still in love with her, a bitter and resentful young man. It was almost by accident that Fred ran into Jimmy on the streets of New York City and discovered to his shock and surprise that he completely changed from the meek and non-violent person that he knew before he was sent to war on the European Western Front. Smug and sure of himself, and his ability to shoot a gun, Jimmy had become a top mobster in New York City\'s underworld! Not only that but as Fred later found out his wife Rose had no idea what Jimmy was really involved in with Jimmy telling her that he works as a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster.<br /><br />Jimmy\'s life of crime came full circle when Rose, after she found out about his secret life, ratted him out to the police to prevent him from executing a ""Valentine Day"" like massacre, with his gang members dressed as cops, of his rival mobsters. While on trial Jimmy came to his senses and admitted his guilt willing to face the music and then, after his three year sentence is up, get his life back together. <br /><br />***SPOILER ALERT*** Hearing rumors from fellow convicts that Rose and his best friend Fred were having an affair behind his back Jimmy broke out of prison ending up a fugitive from the law. It\'s at Fred\'s circus, where he works as both manger and barker, that Jimmy in seeing that Rose as well as Fred were true to him that he, like at his trial, had a sudden change of heart. But the thought of going back to prison, with at least another ten years added on to his sentence, was just too much for Jimmy! It was then that Jimmy decided to end it all by letting the police who by then tracked him down do the job, that he himself didn\'t have the heart to do, for him!"'],
 ['52,"Bela Lugosi appeared in several of these low budget chillers for Monogram Studios in the 1940\'s and The Corpse Vanishes is one of the better ones.<br /><br />Bela plays a mad scientist who kidnaps young brides and kills them and then extracts fluid from their bodies so he can keep his ageing wife looking young. After a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he is responsible for the brides\' deaths, the following morning they report these murders to the police and the mad scientist is shot and drops dead shortly afterwards.<br /><br />You have got almost everything in this movie: the scientist\'s assistants consist of an old hag, a hunchback and dwarf (her sons), a thunderstorm and spooky passages in Bela\'s house. Bela and his wife find they sleep better in coffins rather than beds in the movie.<br /><br />The Corpse Vanishes is worth a look, especially for Bela Lugosi fans. Great fun.<br /><br />Rating: 3 stars out of 5."'],
 ['53,"I cannot believe I enjoyed this as much as I did. The anthology stories were better than par, but the linking story and its surprise ending hooked me. Alot of familiar faces will keep you asking yourself ""where I have I seen them before?"" Forget the running time listed on New Line\'s tape, this ain\'t no 103 minutes, according to my VCR timer and IMDB. Space Maggot douses the campfire in his own special way and hikes this an 8."'],
 ['54,"The 33 percent of the nations nitwits that still support W. Bush would do well to see this movie, which shows the aftermath of the French revolution and the terror of 1794 as strikingly similar to the post 9/11 socio-political landscape. Maybe then they could stop worrying about saving face and take the a**-whupping they deserve. It\'s really a shame that when a politician ruins the country, those who voted for him can\'t be denied the right to ever vote again. They\'ve clearly shown they have no sense of character.<br /><br />What really stands out in this movie is the ambiguity of a character as hopelessly doctrinaire as Robespierre; a haunted empty man who simplistic reductive ideology can\'t help him elucidate the boundaries between safety and totalitarianism. Execution and murder. Self-defense and patriotism. His legalistic litmus tests aggravate the hopeless situation he\'s helped create. Sound like any belligerent, overprivileged, retarded Yale cheerleaders you know of? <br /><br />Wojciech Pszoniak blows the slovenly Deparidieu off the screen. As sympathetic as Robespierres plight is, it\'s comforting to know that shortly after the film ends he\'ll have his jaw shot off and be sent to the guillotine."'],
 ['55,"As someone has already mentioned on this board, it\'s very difficult to make a fake documentary. It requires tremendous skill, pacing, patience, directorial \'distance,\' a plausible premise, a narrative \'flow,\' and REALLY believable acting (aka GREAT acting). <br /><br />Such is not the case with \'Love Machine\'. It starts to show its faux hand about the 20-minute mark (with 60 minutes left to watch), and the viewer starts to realize that he or she is being taken in. It\'s downhill from there.<br /><br />Director Gordon Eriksen simply peaked too soon. But to be fair to Eriksen, his problems started early: as he explains in the extras, he began wanting to do a REAL doc, couldn\'t get funding, and settled for a cheaper way of making his film.<br /><br />The premise -- people who have secret lives by posting themselves on a porn website -- was perhaps more interesting in 1997-98, when the film was made. Eriksen does a lot of tricky stuff -- a pushy \'host,\' hand-held cameras, zooms, grainy blacks and whites -- all, I guess, to elicit a sense of authenticity, but it just doesn\'t work. The film is confusing and forced, but what ultimately brings it down is the believability of the actors and the pretty awful dialogue."'],
 ['56,"The Hills Have Eyes II is what you would expect it to be and nothing more. Of course it\'s not going to be an Oscar nominated film, it\'s just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for 90 minutes.<br /><br />The plot is basically about a group of National Guard trainees who find themselves battling against the notorious mutated hillbillies on their last day of training in the desert. It\'s just them fighting back throughout the whole film, which includes a lot of violence (which is basically the whole film) as blood and guts are constantly flying around throughout the whole thing, and also yet another graphic rape scene which is pointlessly thrown in to shock the audience.<br /><br />I\'d give the Hills Have Eyes II 4 out of 10 for pure entertainment, and that only. Although even then I found myself looking at my watch more and more as the film went on, as it began to drag due to the fact it continued to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stays awake. The Hills Have Eyes II is just decent entertainment, something to pass time if you\'re bored, and nothing else.<br /><br />4/10"'],
 ['57,"I laughed all the way through this rotten movie. It\'s so unbelievable. A woman leaves her husband after many years of marriage, has a breakdown in front of a real estate office. What happens? The office manager comes outside and offers her a job!!! Hilarious! Next thing you know the two women are going at it. Yep, they\'re lesbians! Nothing rings true in this ""Lifetime for Women with nothing better to do"" movie. Clunky dialogue like ""I don\'t want to spend the rest of my life feeling like I had a chance to be happy and didn\'t take it"" doesn\'t help. There\'s a wealthy, distant mother who disapproves of her daughter\'s new relationship. A sassy black maid - unbelievable that in the year 2003, a film gets made in which there\'s a sassy black maid. Hattie McDaniel must be turning in her grave. The woman has a husband who freaks out and wants custody of the snotty teenage kids. Sheesh! No cliche is left unturned."'],
 ['58,"NO SPOILERS!!<br /><br />After Hitchcock\'s successful first American film, Rebecca based upon Daphne DuMarier\'s lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue, he returned to some of the more familiar themes of his early British period - mistaken identity and espionage. As the U.S. settled into World War II and the large scale \'war effort\' of civilians building planes, weaponry and other necessary militia, the booming film entertainment business began turning out paranoid and often jingoistic thrillers with war time themes. These thrillers often involved networks of deceptive and skilled operators at work in the shadows among the good, law abiding citizens. Knowing the director was at home in this espionage genre, producer Jack Skirball approached Hitchcock about directing a property he owned that dealt with corruption, war-time sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity. The darker elements of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven Dorothy Parker (during her brief stint in Hollywood before returning to her bohemian roots in NYC) who co-authored the script were a perfect match for Hitchcock\'s sensibilities.<br /><br />This often neglected film tells the story of the unfortunate 25 year old Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) who, while at work at a Los Angeles Airplane Factory, meets new employee Frank Frye (Norman Lloydd) and moments later is framed for committing sabotage. Fleeing the authorities who don\'t believe his far-fetched story he meets several characters on his way to Soda City Utah and finally New York City. These memorable characters include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful \'freaks\' and a popular billboard model Patricia Martin (Priscilla Lane) who, during the worst crisis of his life as well as national security, he falls madly in love with! Of course in the land of Hitchcock, Patricia, kidnapped by the supposed saboteur Barry, falls for her captor thus adding romantic tension to the mix.<br /><br />In good form for this outing, Hitchcock brews a national network of demure old ladies, average Joes, and respectable businessmen who double as secret agent terrorists that harbor criminals, pull guns and detonate bombs to keep things moving. It\'s a terrific plot that takes its time moving forward and once ignited, culminates in one of Hitchcock\'s more memorable finales. Look for incredibly life like NYC tourist attractions (all of which were recreated by art directors in Hollywood due to the war-time \'shooting ban\' on public attractions). While Saboteur may not be one of Hitchcock\'s most well known films, it\'s a popular b-movie that is certainly solid and engaging with plenty of clever plot twists and as usual - terrific Hitchcock villains. Remember to look for Hitchcock\'s cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film. Hitchcock\'s original cameo idea that was shot (him fighting in sign language with his \'deaf\' wife) was axed by the Bureau of Standards and Practices who were afraid of offending the deaf!"'],
 ['59,"I just watched The Dresser this evening, having only seen it once before, about a dozen years ago.<br /><br />It\'s not a ""big"" movie, and doesn\'t try to make a big splash, but my God, the brilliance of the two leads leaves me just about speechless. Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay are nothing less than amazing in this movie.<br /><br />The Dresser is the story of Sir, an aging Shakespearean actor (Finney), and his dresser Norman (Courtenay), sort of a valet, putting on a production of King Lear during the blitz of London in World War II. These are two men, each dependent upon the other: Sir is almost helpless without the aid of Norman to cajole, wheedle, and bully him into getting onstage for his 227th performance of Lear. And Norman lives his life vicariously through Sir; without Sir to need him, he is nothing, or thinks he is, anyway.<br /><br />This is a character-driven film; the plot is secondary to the interaction of the characters, and as such, it requires actors of the highest caliber to bring it to life. Finney, only 47 years old, is completely believable as a very old, very sick, petulant, bullying, but brilliant stage actor. He hisses and fumes at his fellow actors even when they\'re taking their bows! And Courtenay is no less convincing as the mincing dresser, who must sometimes act more as a mother than as a valet to his elderly employer. Employer is really the wrong term to use, though. For although, technically their relationship is that of employer and employee, most of the time Sir and Norman act like nothing so much as an old married couple.<br /><br />Yes, there are others in the cast of this movie, but there is no question that the true stars are Finney, Courtenay, and the marvelous script by Ronald Harwood. That is not to say that there aren\'t other fine performances, most notably Eileen Atkins as the long-suffering stage manager Madge. There is a wonderful scene where Sir and Madge talk about old desires, old regrets, and what might have been.<br /><br />Although it doesn\'t get talked about these days, it is worth remembering that The Dresser was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actor nominations for both Finney and Courtenay, Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Yates), and Best Adapted Screenplay.<br /><br />I had remembered this as being a good movie, but I wasn\'t prepared to be as completely mesmerized as I was from beginning to end. If you want to see an example of what great acting is all about, and be hugely entertained all the while, then I encourage you to see The Dresser."'],
 ['60,"What happened? What we have here is basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast, but somewhere the movie loses it. Actually, it never really got going. There was a little excitement when we find out that Angie is not really pregnant, then find out that she is after all, but that was it. Steve Martin, who is a very talented person and usually brings a lot to a movie, was dreadful and his entire character was not even close to being important to this movie, other than to make it longer. I really would have liked to see more interactions between the main characters, Kate and Angie, and maybe try not for a pure comedy, which unfortunately it was not, but maybe a drama with comedic elements. I think if the movie did this it could have been very funny since both actresses are quite funny in their own ways and sitting here I can think of numerous scenarios that would have been a riot."'],
 ['61,"I\'ve just watched Fingersmith, and I\'m stunned to see the 8/10 average rating for the show.<br /><br />Not only was the plot was difficult to follow, but it seems character development was randomly applied.<br /><br />The actors were adequate, but in the process of attempting to create twists and turns, their characters are rendered entirely one dimensional. Once this happens, the story really falls flat and becomes tedious.<br /><br />And just in case anyone didn\'t see the predictable lesbian undertones from miles way, this is hammered home in the most banal terms at the end of the film.<br /><br />The end scene is disappointing and phoned in, and anyone who sat back and went ""Ohhh, so they were carpet munchers all along!"", must have been out for the evening.<br /><br />Two stars for the tonsil hockey in the earlier scene which was at least a bit raunchy, none for the rest of it..."'],
 ['62,"So let\'s begin!)))<br /><br />The movie itself is as original as Cronenberg\'s movies would usually appear...<br /><br />My intention to see it was certainly JJL being one of my favourite actresses. She is as lovely as usual, this cutie!<br /><br />I would not say it was my favourite movie of hers. Still it\'s quite interesting and entertaining to follow. <br /><br />The rest of the cast is not extremely impressive but it is not some kind of a miscast star array. ;)<br /><br />Recommend with confidence!))))"'],
 ['63,"Besides being boring, the scenes were oppressive and dark. The movie tried to portray some kind of moral, but fell flat with its message. What were the redeeming qualities?? On top of that, I don\'t think it could make librarians look any more unglamorous than it did."'],
 ['64,"An unmarried woman named Stella (Bette Midler) gets pregnant by a wealthy man (Stephen Collins). He offers to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turns him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own. Things go OK until the child named Jenny (Trini Alvarado) becomes a teenager and things gradually (and predictably) become worse.<br /><br />I\'ve seen both the silent version and sound version of ""Stella Dallas"". Neither one affected me much (and I cry easily) but they were well-made if dated. Trying to remake this in 1990 was just a stupid idea. I guess Midler had enough power after the incomprehensible success of ""Beaches"" to get this made. This (predictably) bombed. The story is laughable and dated by today\'s standards. Even though Midler and Alvarado give good performances this film really drags and I was bored silly by the end. Stephen Collins and Marsha Mason (both good actors) don\'t help in supporting roles. Flimsy and dull. Really--who thought this would work? See the 1937 Stanwyck version instead. I give this a 1."'],
 ['65,"DON\'T TORTURE A DUCKLING is one of Fulci\'s earlier (and honestly, in terms of story-line, better...) films - and although not the typical ""bloodbath"" that Fulci is known for - this is still a very unique and enjoyable film.<br /><br />The story surrounds a small town where a series of child murders are occurring. Some of the colorful characters involved in the investigations - either as suspects, or those ""helping"" the investigation (or in some cases both) - include the towns police force, a small-time reporter, a beautiful and rich ex-drug addict, a young priest and his mother, An old man who practices witchcraft and his female protégé, a mentally handicapped townsman, and a deaf/mute little girl. All of these people are interwoven into the plot to create several twists and turns, until the actual killer is revealed...<br /><br />DON\'T TORTURE A DUCKLING is neither a ""classical"" giallo or a typical Fulci gore film. Although it does contain elements of both - it is more of an old-fashioned murder mystery, with darker subject matter and a few scenes of graphic violence (although nothing nearly as strong as some of Fulci\'s later works). This is a well written film with lots of twists that kept me guessing up until the end. Recommended for giallo/murder-mystery fans, or anyone looking to check out some of Fulci\'s non-splatter films - but don\'t despair, DON\'T TORTURE still has more than it\'s fair share of violence and sleaze. Some may be put off by the subject of the child killings, and one main female character has a strange habit of hitting on very young boys, which is also kind of disconcerting - but if that type of material doesn\'t bother you, then definitely give this one a look. 8.5/10"'],
 ['66,"Busty beauty Stacie Randall plays PVC clad, bad-ass bitch Alexandra, the faithful acolyte of Faust, an evil entity trapped in hell. Determined to free her master, the malevolent minx breaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success; but whilst conducting a satanic ritual to summon Faust, the silly mare accidentally enters the pentagram she has drawn on the floor, which results in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive, troll-like creatures called Lite and Dark.<br /><br />Now Alexandra must find a replacement gem, which isn\'t going to be easy: the only other stone that will do the trick is worn around the neck of her ex-lover, police detective Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis), who is investigating the warehouse robbery and who knows only too well what evil Alexandra is capable of. Meanwhile, wise-cracking inter-dimensional half-pints Lite and Dark get into all sorts of zany trouble as they try to find a way back home.<br /><br />In the warped movie world of Jim Wynorski, all females are big-breasted babes with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker. Ghoulies IV is no exception: every woman in this film—whether she be a police captain, a curator of antiquities, or a mental patient in an asylum—is hot, hot, hot and wears not a lot, and it\'s this fact that makes this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of STV crap just about bearable.<br /><br />But be warned, even though the presence of semi-naked, quality crumpet makes the going slightly easier, there is still plenty about this film to warrant it being labelled as an ordeal: the acting is wooden and the dialogue is painful; the black humour (as the DVD blurb describes it) is about as funny as a knee to the knackers, with the comedic banter of Lite and Dark being particularly cringe-worthy; and the special effects are bargain basement, consisting of rubbery creatures and visual effects that would have looked dated ten years earlier.<br /><br />3/10 solely for the high bimbo quotient."'],
 ['67,"I really like Salman Kahn so I was really disappointed when I seen this movie. It didn\'t have much of a plot and what they did have was not that appealing. Salman however did look good in the movie looked young and refreshed but was worth the price of this DVD. The music was not bad it was quite nice. Usually Indian movies are at least two to three hours long but this was a very short movie for an Indian film. The American actress that played in the movie is from the television hit series Heroes, Ali Larter. Her acting had a lot to be desired. However she did look good in the Indian dresses that she wore. All the movie had not a lot to be desired and I hope Salman does a lot better on his next movie. Thank you."'],
 ['68,"I\'m not sure why the producers needed to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggests that it is a sequel to the first three movies..which it is not. Even though Marques Houston did appear in ""HP3"", he played a totally different character (he was, eight years older) in this film. Okay...so Reid and Martin weren\'t the most talented and couldn\'t carry a film all by themselves..but to trade on the HP franchise seems to me that there could have made some sort of reference (albeit minor) to the earlier movies. I\'m sure everyone who wanted to see it was ""hoodwinked""--into thinking that they were seeing a sequel--not a totally different film with a familiar name. And I\'m sorry...Kym Whitley is not funny, and could not hold a candle to the late Robin Harris, Ketty Lester, or DC Curry in the earlier films. Although Meagen Good and Mari Morrow are a substantial visual diversion...I have to give this a THUMBS DOWN!! Just naming the film ""Down to the Last Minute"" would have been OK. Furthermore, the Hudlin brothers (who produced the first three movies) were not involved in the making of this film."'],
 ['69,"This film laboured along with some of the most predictable story lines and shallow characters ever seen. The writer obviously bought the playbook ""How to write a space disaster movie"" and followed it play by play. In particular, the stereo-typical use of astronauts talking to their loved ones from outer space - putting on a brave show in the face of disaster - has been done time and time again.<br /><br />Max Q appears to have been written in the hope that the producers would throw $50 million at the project. But, judging by the latter half of the film which contained numerous lame attempts at special effects, the producers could only muster $50 thousand. To learn that the film was nominated for a ""Special Visual Effects"" Emmy has me absolutely gob-smacked.<br /><br />I think a handful of high school students with a pass in Media Studies could have created more believable effects!<br /><br />And the plot holes are too numerous to mention. But I will pick one out as an example. Now, I\'m no NASA expert, but surely it\'s highly implausible that a worker attached to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when things start to go pear-shaped with the program. Surely there is someone more experienced at Mission Control who the Program Director would call on rather than a twenty-nine year old who has not been in the control room before.<br /><br />The only saving grace for this film is the work of Bill Campbell. He manages to make a good attempt at salvaging something out of the train wreck that is this script.<br /><br />I give this film 2 out of 10, with the above-average work of Bill Campbell in the lead role saving it from a lower mark."'],
 ['70,"Caddyshack Two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up. Robert Stack is a horrible replacement for Ted Knight and Jackie Mason, while funny just cant compete with Rodney Dangerfield. Ty Webb is funny, being the only character from the original. Most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original (Henry Wilcoxon for example) except for the hystericly funny lawyer Peter Blunt, being played by Randy Quaid. Every line he says reminds me of the originals humor, especially the scene at his office (I don\'t go in for law suits or motions. I find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f***ing baseball bat, make a bonfire with the chippindale,maybe roast that golden retriever (arff arff arff) then eat it. And then I\'m comin\' upstairs junior, and I\'m grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs, and cramming your brand new BMW up your tight a**! Do we have an understanding?). Offsetting his small role however, is Dan Acroyd, who is obviously no replacement for Bill Murray. His voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny, its just stupid. Overall Caddyshack II is a good movie, but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it."'],
 ['71,"Honestly - this short film sucks. the dummy used in the necro scene is pretty well made but still phony enough looking to ruin the viewing experience. the Unearthed DVD is crisp and clear and I haven\'t made up my mind if this helps or hinders it. If the film was a little grainy it might have added some ""creepiness factor"" to what was going on. I have no idea why this film has so much hype surrounding it other than the subject matter - but to be honest the necrophilia scenes in films like NEKROMANTIK and VISITOR Q among others, are more shocking than in AFTERMATH. All this talk about the film being about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy is bull****. This is an expensive, beautifully filmed turd. It\'s not that shocking, it\'s not that disgusting. if you insist on viewing it - rent it. I give it a 3 for the fact that not many people make explicit movies about necrophilia (there should definitely be a bigger selection for us sickos ;) - the filming is good and it does have some ""gore"" (if watching a rubbery looking doll get cut open is considered gore...) but other than that - absolutely nothing going for this over-hyped mess. On the other hand - GENESIS - Cerda\'s ""sequel"" to AFTERMATH (now available as a ""double feature"" released by Unearthed films) is an absolute masterpiece of a short film, really showing what a good director Cerda really is when given the right material. Although I don\'t care for AFTERMATH at all, GENESIS is so well made that I will forgive Cerda and Definitely keep an eye out for him in the future..."'],
 ['72,"I thought that Mukhsin has been wonderfully written. Its not just about entertainment. There\'s tonnes of subtle messages that i think Yasmin was trying to bring across. And yes, it might be confusing to some of you(especially if you didn\'t watch Sepet and/or Gubra for 76 times).<br /><br />I bet u noticed how they use characters from the two movies before right? Its really ironic how the characters relate. Like the bossy neighbour is that prostitute from Gubra. And the chick at the snooker pad turns out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future. <br /><br />And i absolutely love the voice-overs. Its crude yet awakeningly fresh. Like, when they took a shot of the Rumah Tumpangan Gamin signboard, then there was suddenly Mukhsin\'s voice saying \'Bismillahhirrahmannirrahim..\' (the scene when he climbed the tree).<br /><br />It captured Malaysian\'s attitude(and in some mild way, sniggering at how pathetic it is) portrayed in the character. For example, even the kids can be really sharp tongued(complete with the shrill annoying voice) and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long. And how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl, when ur own life isn\'t sorted out. <br /><br />All i can say is, this movie totally reached my expectation if not exceeded it. <br /><br />It kept me glued to the screen, i couldn\'t even take my eyes off it. Not even to make out in the cinema. Ha ha."'],
 ['73,"I am not a golf fan by any means. On May 26 about 10:30 PM the movie started with a scene in the late 1800\'s. Old movies I like but not golf however, within the first scene a young boy (Harry Vardon) is awaken by the voices of men. He goes outside to inquire what they are doing and is told they are going to build a golf something... So , then I turned the television off but something stirred me and it was back on. The movie is excellent. We then see this young boy now a man; professional golf player who is haunted with visions from his childhood. Then we meet the true focus of the movie Francis and the decisions he makes for golf. You meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that is so obvious during the period. Then there is little Eddie Lowery his caddy with encouraging words and little pushes that are instrumental in Francis winning. Don\'t want to give away too much . I was up until 2 A.M. This is super please see the movie."'],
 ['74,"Upon viewing Tobe Hooper\'s gem, Crocodile, in 2000, I developed a great interest in the college/crocodile niche of the exploitation/monster genre. I look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequels to these delightful bonbons of camp goodness. If only Ed Wood could bring his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable scripts. With Ed writing the scripts, and a room full of monkees creating crocodile special effects on a computer, all we\'d need would be a cast of crocky fodder with Russ Meyer breasts and Ren Hoek pectoral implants.<br /><br />While Tobe Hooper\'s crocky opus referenced his own movies, Blood Surf chose to dish out a bunch of aging themes from the chum bucket of other movies. See if you can look past the Revenge of the Nerds sequel sets to find the allusions/homages?/rip-offs to Jaws, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones\' Last Crusade, The Convent, Godzilla 2000, and any James Bond movie. Also, try to find the ready-for-tv fade where the editor gave up on making sense of the stock.<br /><br />I was disappointed the crock didn\'t get to try out its sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism...or crocky appreciation, but the quasi-Captain Ahab of the story does get his tour de force speach. Perhaps, in the coming years, we\'ll see a crock galloping off after a shootout into a golden sunset. Or hopefully, a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midgets and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zero-G monkey/midget/crocodile bloodshed.<br /><br />All-in-all, the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irked me."'],
 ['75,"It tries to be the epic adventure of the century. And with a cast like Shô Kasugi, Christopher Lee and John-Rhys Davies it really is the perfect B-adventure of all time. It\'s actually is a pretty fun, swashbuckling adventure that, even with it\'s flaws, captures your interest. It must have felt as the biggest movie ever for the people who made it. Even if it\'s made in the 90s, it doesn\'t have a modern feel. It more has the same feeling that a old Errol Flynn movie had. Big adventure movie are again the big thing in Hollywood but I\'m afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same as these old movies had. This on the other hand, just has the real feeling. You just can\'t hate it. I think it\'s an okay adventure movie. And I really love the soundtrack. Damn, I want the theme song."'],
 ['76,"The Last Hard Men finds James Coburn an outlaw doing a long sentence breaking free from a chain gang. Do he and his friends head for the Mexican border from jail and safety. No they don\'t because Coburn has a mission of revenge. To kill the peace officer who brought him in and in the process killed his woman.<br /><br />That peace officer is Charlton Heston who is now retired and he knows what Coburn is after. As he explains it to his daughter, Barbara Hershey, Coburn was holed up in a shack and was involved in a Waco like standoff. His Indian woman was killed in the hail of bullets fired. It\'s not something he\'s proud of, she was a collateral casualty in a manhunt.<br /><br />Lest we feel sorry for Coburn he lets us know full well what an evil man he truly is. Heston is his usual stalwart hero, but the acting honors in The Last Hard Men go to James Coburn. He blows everyone else off the screen when he\'s on. <br /><br />Coburn gets the bright idea of making sure Heston trails him by kidnapping Hershey and taking her to an Indian reservation where the white authorities can\'t touch him. He knows that Heston has to make it personal then.<br /><br />Coburn\'s gang includes, Morgan Paull, Thalmus Rasulala, John Quade, Larry Wilcox, and Jorge Rivero. Heston has Chris Mitchum along who is his son-in-law to be.<br /><br />The Last Hard Men is one nasty and brutal western. Andrew McLaglen directed it and I\'m thinking it may have been a project originally intended for Sam Peckinpaugh. It sure shows a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence. Of which there is a lot. <br /><br />For a little Peckinpaugh lite, The Last Hard Men is your film."'],
 ['77,"Maybe it was the title, or the trailer (certainly not the interview on the DVD, which is with the director as he keeps saying ""hi, kids"" into the camera like a buffoon), but I had expectations for Entrails of a Virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scenes and brutal, bloody killings by a weird Japanese penetrator. Turns out it\'s way too sleazy for its own good, or bad, or whatever. There\'s a problem- and one can see this also in the Italian sexploitation flick Porno Holocaust, similar to this in many respects- in not having balance to the sex and violence. Too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno, and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movies! And with the killing scenes, there has to be at least a little tack, and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity, in creating the creature/killer/whatever. Entrails of a Virgin has neither. It\'s safe to say it\'s a pretty soulless movie, even if isn\'t one of the very worst ever made- it\'s there just for horn-dog Japanese fetishists to get off on girls in trouble and men who have all their brains in their \'other\' heads.<br /><br />In this case, we\'re given a photo team where the guys are taking some shots of some girls, nothing too salacious, and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and are picked off one by one by ""A Murderer"" as he\'s credited. First off, the director Kazuo \'Gaira\' Komizu decides he has to put in a quota of random sex scenes early on- we get spliced in (or phoned in, take your pick) clips of one of the photographers having sex with one or more of the girls elsewhere. It looks like it\'s from another movie. Then once settled into the house, there\'s a \'wrestling\' scene that\'s poorly choreographed and shot (yeah, we really need to see him \'all\' there), and then on to the rape and killings. First the rape, by the photographers, who promise the girls some jobs for their time. Then the Murderer, who like D\'Amato\'s creature is simply covered in mud and given a stupid facial, and who for an unknown reason kills the men and/or rapes the women one by one.<br /><br />Now, the latter of those, taken by themselves, should be considered the highlights of the movie. This is like saying, however, that the croûtons are the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad. An eye-gouging scene, a spike thrown like an Olympic event (that scene, actually, is kind of cool), and finally the entrailing of the overly sex-crazed girl, whose inconsequential name I can\'t remember. Even *this* becomes disappointing just by not being correct to the title! On top of this, the sex scenes, which become tedious through \'Gaira\' and his indulgence in long-takes-without-cutaways where everything by the Japanese censors is blurred anyway, are dubbed over by the actors (you\'d think that they seem to be enjoying themselves enough, hence the need to let them \'speak\' for themselves). But the overall feeling from Entrails of a Virgin is that of a lumpy one, where it\'s just there to be gawked at and without a shred of suspense or true horror (watch as the last girl left alive, the virgin of the picture, tries to stop the murderer from getting to her, which lasts five minutes as she keeps throwing sticks at him!) You just want it to be done with, for the \'I hate women\' mantra to ease up or be rid altogether."'],
 ['78,"The few scenes that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute Boy Scout troop meandering tentatively between swimming holes. When Sharif or, please God, Palance try their hand at fiery oratory, they sound like Kurtz swallowing a bug. The displays of strategic brilliance incorporate a map of Cuba replete with smiling fishies in the ocean, and a positively Vaudevillian hypothesis on how the Bay of Pigs came to pass. What does that leave us with? One comical dentistry scene; a surfeit of uppity Hollywood peasants who address the camera as though it were a moving train; and, just for kicks, a passel of homoeroticism that is not limited to Castro\'s manic and unremitting cigar-fellatio. Never trust a Medved, but even a busted clock is right twice a day: this is a HISTORICALLY awful movie."'],
 ['79,"This film took me by surprise. I make it a habit of finding out as little as possible about films before attending because trailers and reviews provide spoiler after spoiler. All I knew upon entering the theater is that it was a documentary about a long married couple and that IMDb readers gave it a 7.8, Rotten Tomatoes users ranked it at 7.9 and the critics averaged an amazing 8.2! If anything, they UNDERRATED this little gem.<br /><br />Filmmaker Doug Block decided to record his parents ""for posterity"" and at the beginning of the film we are treated to the requisite interviews with his parents, outspoken mother Mina, and less than forthcoming dad, Mike. I immediately found this couple interesting and had no idea where the filmmaker (Mike & Mina\'s son Doug) was going to take us. As a matter of fact, I doubt that Doug himself knew where he was going with this!<br /><br />Life takes unexpected twists and turns and this beautifully expressive film follows the journey. It is difficult to verbalize just how moved I was with this story and the unique way in which it was told. Absolutely riveting from beginning to end and it really is a must-see even if you aren\'t a fan of the documentary genre. This film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memories that you thought were long forgotten. ""51 Birch Street"" is one of those rare filmgoing experiences that makes a deep impression and never leaves you. The best news of all is that HBO had a hand in the production so instead of playing to a limited art house audience, eventually, millions of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work. BRAVO!!!!!!!!"'],
 ['80,"Stephen Hawkings is a genius. He is the king of geniuses. Watching this movie makes me feel dumb. But it\'s a great movie. Not highly entertaining, but very very intriguing. The movie centers around wheelchair bound Stephen Hawkings, a man who makes Einstein look average, and his theories and scientific discoveries about the universe, time, the galaxy, and black holes. Everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high comes to a moment when they think they\'v got the universe and the cosmos figured out and they swear as soon as they sober up they\'ll write it all down. Well here is a man who actually held that feeling for more then six hours. Here is a man who despite suffering from Lou Gehrig\'s disease has become the greatest mind the world has yet seen. Watch this and listen in on how he has formulated theories on black holes. Awesome. You won\'t be the same after you see it."'],
 ['81,"The story is about a psychic woman, Tory, who returns to her hometown and begins reliving her traumatic childhood past (the death of her childhood friend and abusive father). Tory discovers that her friend was just the first in a string of murders that are still occurring. Can her psychic powers help solve the crimes and stop the continuing murders? <br /><br />You really don\'t need to find out because, Oh My God! This was so so so so bad! I know all the Nora Roberts fans will flock to this movie and give it tons of 10\'s. Then the rest of us will see an IMDb score of 6 and actually think this movie is worth watching. But do not be fooled. The ending was predictable, the acting TERRIBLE (don\'t even get me started about the southern accents *y\'all*) and the story was trite. Just remember....you were warned!"'],
 ['82,"Oh God, I must have seen this when I was only 11 or twelve, (don\'t ask how) I may have been young, but I wasn\'t stupid. Anyone could see that this is a bad movie, nasty, gross, unscary and very silly. I\'ve seen more impressive effects at Disneyland, I\'ve seen better performances at a school play, And I\'ve seen more convincing crocodiles at the zoo, where they do nothing but sit in the water, ignoring the children tapping on the glass.<br /><br />The story is set in northern Australia. A handful of ambitious young people, are trying out a new water sport, surfing in shark filled waters. It soon becomes evident that something more dangerous is in the water. After they learn what, they get the help of a grizzly middle aged fisherman, who wants to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family.<br /><br />I think I have seen every crocodile film made in the last fifteen years, the best of which is Lake Placid, and the worse of which is its sequel. Blood Surf would have to be the second worst croc flick I think, with Primeval and Crocodile tailing closely behind.<br /><br />The Australian Saltwater Crododile is one of the most dangerous creatures out there, resulting in more than a hundred injuries or deaths every year. Movies like Blood Surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature, but a good hour and a half of the viewer\'s life. Unless you really want to see it, avoid Blood Surf."'],
 ['83,"""Fate"" leads Walter Sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that has eerie similarities and connections to his life, all based around the number 23. As the story unfolds in real life and fiction, Sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end.<br /><br />The Number 23 offers an intriguing premise that is undone by a weak execution. The film just failed on many different levels which is pretty disappointing because it held so much potential. The screenplay was probably the worst part about it. It was filled with silly sequences and laughable dialog that just killed the mood of the movie. It seemed like the screenwriter had a good idea, he just didn\'t know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute running time. The second half of the film was running low on ideas, the twist was pretty obvious and the ending was awful.<br /><br />Joel Schumacher is responsible for one of the worst movies ever and he did redeem himself a little with Phone Booth and a few other films but The Number 23 reminds me that he\'s still capable of making a stinker. He has the movie drenched in style but he just can\'t get a good focus. He moves the film at a clunky and slow pace. He switches from reality to what\'s actually happening in the book which quickly got annoying. The actual book in the film that\'s titled ""The Number 23"" is an awful detective story and the audience gets stuck listening to Carrey narrate it which just bored me to tears. When Carrey is finally done with book, we get stuck watching him run around trying to solve the mystery. At this point, the audience has lost interest and there is no real tension. We impatiently wait for the movie to reach it\'s horrible ending and unconvincing explanation before celebrating that film has finally finished.<br /><br />The acting was mostly average and pretty forgettable. Jim Carrey was clearly just sleepwalking through his performance and he didn\'t even seem to be trying. He was either completely over the top in some scenes or just very wooden. His narration was a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character. Virginia Madsen did the best she could with a limited role but she needs to pick better scripts. Logan Lerman was pretty bland as was Danny Huston. Overall, The Number 23 was an awful thriller that offered more laughs than suspense or thrills. Rating 3/10"'],
 ['84,"We brought this film as a joke for a friend, and could of been our worst joke to play. The film is barely watchable, and the acting is dire. The worst child actor ever used and Hasslehoff giving a substandard performance. The plot is disgraceful and at points we was so bored we was wondering what the hell was going on. It tries to be gruesome in places but is just laughable.<br /><br />Just terrible"'],
 ["85,This was probably the worst movie i have ever seen in my life!! It was stupid there was no plot and the special affects were ridiculous!! And i have never seen such bad acting in my life! The only good part about the movie were all the hot guys(especially Drew Fuller). I don't know what these people were thinking when they made this movie!! I didn't even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guys are all in bed touching themselves. I mean it was like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn! I would advise anyone who has heard of this movie and was interested in seeing it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch! I was very disappointed!! The whole movie was a complete waste of time in my opinion."],
 ['86,"This is a typical Steele novel production in that two people who have undergone some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds. I wouldn\'t call this a spoiler because anyone who has read a Steele novel knows how they ALL end. If you don\'t want to know much about the plot, don\'t keep reading.<br /><br />Gilbert\'s character, Ophelia, is a woman of French decent who has lost her husband and son in an accident. Gilbert needs to stop doing films where she is required to have an accent because she, otherwise a good actress, cannot realistically pull off any kind of accent. Brad Johnson, also an excellent actor, is Matt, who is recovering from a rather nasty divorce. He is gentle, convincing and compelling in this role.<br /><br />The two meet on the beach through her daughter, Pip, and initially, Ophelia accuses Matt of being a child molester just because he talked art with the kid. All of them become friends after this episode and then the couple falls in love.<br /><br />The chemistry between the two leads is not great, even though the talent of these two people is not, in my opinion, a question. They did the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that borders on stereotypical. Two people meet, tragedy, bigger tragedy, a secret is revealed, another tragedy, and then they get together. I wish there was more to it than that, but there it is in a nutshell.<br /><br />I wanted mindless entertainment, and I got it with this. In regard to the genre of romantic films, this one fails to be memorable. ""A Secret Affair"" with Janine Turner is far superior (not a Steele book), as are some of Steele\'s earlier books turned into film."'],
 ["87,Oh noes one of these attack of the Japanese ghost girl movies... i don't even remember how many i've seen. maybe it sells... but not to me. not scary at all. the japanese horror movies are have been very similar since the first one of these... also the pulling of the kid. i have seen that pulled under scene so many times in so many horror movies. cellphone scene is also nothing new... the dramaticness of the guy getting hit by a train kinda sucked... i mean it lacked all dramaticness... OK this is for kids 14-16 who listen to japanese rock and think they are so unique... we'll let me tell you. there's a million of you =D this is one of them. 3/10 i've seen worse but you won't be missing anything by NOT seeing this!"],
 ['88,"Nicholas Walker is Paul, the local town Reverand who\'s married to Martha (Ally Sheedy), but also is a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair, Veronica (Dara Tomanovich). However in so doing, he gets a bout of amnesia (hence the name of the film). Sally Kirkland is also on hand as a crazy old coot who pines for the good Reverand in a shades of ""Misery"" type of way. It\'s sad to see a pretty good cast wasted like this. Not the least bit John Savage in a horridly forgettable role as a shoddy private investigator. In a film billed as a \'black comedy\', one has to bring BOTH elements into said movie. While this does bring the former in spades, it sadly contains none of the latter. Furthermore you can\'t emphasize with any of the characters and as thus, have absolutely no vested interest in them. Technically not an all-together bad movie just an extremely forgettable one.<br /><br />Eye Candy: Dara Tomanovich gets topless; Sally Kirkland also shows some skin <br /><br />My Grade: C- <br /><br />Where I saw it: Showtime Showcase"'],
 ['89,"Hollywood movie industry is the laziest one in the entire world. It only needs a single hit to flood theaters with the same old crap re-invented over and over again. Take superheroes for example, for each X-Man and Spiderman, there are Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider and Hulk. Japanese horror remakes are even worst. It only took The Ring, which was pitch-perfect (mostly because of Mr. Gore Verbinsky), to bring a ton of look-alike creepy-woman based horrors, e.g. The Ring 2, The Eye, Dark Water (which was fine, but pointless), and the grudges.<br /><br />The first Grudge wasn\'t entirely bad. It was scary most of the way, which is what one could expect from it. Plus, the plot had some brains mixing narratives. Grudge 2 is exactly like the previous; this could be a good thing, but hey, what boy Men in Black II? Was it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain? For the Grudge 2, the critic goes the same way.<br /><br />Tired scares, bad acting (except for Amber Tamblyn), and clichés all over the place. Three stories take place, on different places and time. There is Aubrey (Tamblyn) investigating what drove her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) to death; Allison (Arielle Kebbel) who is taken by colleagues to visit the house where the incident depicted in the first movie took place; and finally, an American family that witness strange stuff happening on the apartment next door. Glad to say (and I mean it) that everything is tied up at the end, but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture, when everything else is simply tiresome and dull.<br /><br />The chills are all over there, a girl alone in the lockers, someone who shouldn\'t enter a house, others that dig too deep. Meanwhile, ghosts keep killing and killing and killing, which seems even more deadlier than ten world wars or the Ebola epidemic. Hey, doesn\'t that seem just like another bad Japanese remake, something called Pulse? Yeah, day after day it\'s getting easier to hold a grudge... against Hollywood bullshits."'],
 ['90,"""Down Periscope"" has been in our library since it first arrived in VHS. Since then, we have acquired the DVD and a digital from Cinema Now.<br /><br />It is a quirky flick that does not go militarily overboard as either pro or con. It is first and foremost a comedy and as a vehicle for the main characters, I am quite surprised that a sequel has never been offered.<br /><br />The movie has gained a following that borders on a cult obsession, even among the very young. I became aware of this while visiting the USS Drum in Mobile, Alabama in 2002. A group of Cub Scouts, my grandson among them, had all taken up the roles from the movie and planned to relive it during their overnighter on board.<br /><br />It is a fun romp that makes you proud both of our Navy and Hollywood... which is rare company.<br /><br />Thanks to Kelsey Grammar, Lauren Holly and Rob Schneider for making what could have been an otherwise unremarkable movie, such great entertainment!"'],
 ['91,"If you came here, it\'s because you\'ve already seen this film and were curious what others had to say about it.<br /><br />I feel for you, I *really* do. And I profusely apologize as a Canadian (because that\'s what we do) that this film ever had to cross your eyes, if only for a moment. I hear there is no cure for the retinal bleeding reported out of every dozen cases.<br /><br />I, like everyone else, rented this movie believing it to be some stupid B-movie ripoff of Blade. I thought, ""sure I could use a good laugh at a stupid movie."" I\'ll give the creators of this film ONE positive comment about their \'creation\': Thanks for removing the REC XX/XX/XX from the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. I can see how that would have been a distraction from seeing this movie.<br /><br />And for the record, I *saw* the movie, but did not watch it. The dialogue was incoherent and most of the scenes took place in my grandmother\'s trailer, I swear to God.<br /><br />You know what? I\'m not writing anymore about this. It\'s just too painful."'],
 ['92,"Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey and Barbara Read are ""Three Smart Girls"" in this Universal film from 1936, which introduces Deanna Durbin to film audiences. It also stars Ray Milland, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, John King, Binnie Barnes and Alice Brady. It\'s a sweet story about three young women, now living in Switzerland with their divorced mother, who hear their father (Winninger) is marrying again. Not having seen him in 10 years and knowing their mother still loves him, they board a ship to America, with the help of the housekeeper/nanny, determined to stop the wedding. Realizing that the intended, called ""Precious"" (Barnes) is nothing but a gold-digger aided and abetted by her mother (Brady), they arrange for her to be introduced to a wealthy Count. This is arranged by their father\'s accountant (King). The man he chooses is a full-time drunk (Auer), but the girls mistake him for an actual wealthy count (Milland). What a mess.<br /><br />This is a delightful film, not cloying or overly sugary at all, with some nice performances, particularly by Auer, Milland, Barnes and Brady. The young women are pretty and all do good work. The emphasis, of course, is on young Durbin, who is a natural actress and a beautifully-trained singer. In fact, her voice as a youngster is much more even than it would be as an adult - she has no trouble with the high notes, as she did later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice. She sings a delightful ""Il Bacio"" in a police station.<br /><br />One of the nicest things about the film is to see the father, played by Charles Winninger, not want his children around - until he sees them and gets to know them. Barnes as the gold-digger isn\'t all that young, but the girls\' mother looks way up there, so the inference probably was the older man seeking his youth with a younger, more glamorous woman. In fact, he finds the youth he was seeking in his daughters.<br /><br />Universal gives Durbin the big star buildup here - she has the final shot in the movie. Ray Milland at this point was still paying his dues, and it will probably be a surprise even to film fans how young and attractive he is.<br /><br />Very entertaining and of course, this led to a sequel and big stardom for Deanna."'],
 ['93,"If anyone is wondering why no one makes movies like they used to, with conversation, character and a simple theme of friendship struggling to evolve into something new, better and different, those folks need to take in this film and see top notch writing, directing, and acting that melds into a wonderful evening of observation on how things used to be in Italy and England. Other days, other times funneled into a terrific comedy of entertainment, made in 1992 with Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Polly Walker, Josie Lawrence, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, and Michael Kitchens in the major roles. Under the brush stroke direction of Mike Newell, these actors accomplish vividly memorable performances that are photographed with a sublimely subtle painter\'s eye. Reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century, this film might be called a friendship farce that becomes a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character, and the viewer, too. An artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us."'],
 ['94,"I watched this series out of curiosity,wanting to see if they could possibly and with ALL this modern technology,out do Cecil B. DeMille\'s classic epic of 1956, starring Charleton Heston,Yul Brenner and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Of course, I was let down. Yes, they had all the Biblical characters correct, but they didn\'t give us any of the spectacular theatrical scenes, that held your interest throughout the first movie. If you going to have a mini-series, you have to have some ""rivoting"" scenes, the ""Burning bush"", Parting the ""RED Sea"",drowning ""Pharohs Armies"", ""building Sethi\'s Pyramids"", could have been done with todays\' technology on the scale of blockbuster movies such as ""Lord of the Rings"" or the Matrix. Obviously, they didn\'t want to leave a LASTING impression of ""faith and sacrifice"", which is much needed in these trouble times."'],
 ['95,"Daniel Day-Lewis is the most versatile actor alive. English aristocratic snob in A Room With a View, passionate Irish thief in In the Name of the Father, an impudent, violent butcher in Gangs of New York (in a performance ten times stronger than Adrian Brody\'s in the Pianist) and as the outrageous Cristy Brown with cerebral palsy in My Left Foot (just to name a few). His roles all influence eachother, but each is seperate, and utterly unique. He changes completely, with each character he takes on. And I\'m beginning to believe that he can act as anything. Anything.<br /><br />As Cristy Brown he is stunning. He does not ridicule the character, and he does not pity the character. A difficult achievement. And Cristy Brown comes to life. A smart man. An outrageous man. Human.<br /><br />This movie, despite small scene-transition faults and the like, is an inspiration. Yes, it\'s predictable. But is it stupidly sentimental? No. I laughed. I cried. Not a single moment of cheese. Proof that this isn\'t a Hollywood movie.<br /><br />My favourite scene is the scene in the restaurant, when Cristy is discussing painters with Eileen, Peter and her friends. Here\'s where Daniel Day-Lewis reaches an acting climax. ""I\'ll kick you in the only part of your anatomy that\'s animated."" ""Wheel out the cripple!"" And his performance never slows down, never falters, and is beautiful. Simply. He has a lot of screen time here. I watch it again again, and I never get tired of Cristy\'s perspicacious eyes, twitching and guttural speeches.<br /><br />A must-see. Fo sho, yo!"'],
 ['96,"My guess would be this was originally going to be at least two parts, and thus at least a quarter longer, because otherwise how can one explain its confused, abbreviated storyline. I was never completely lost, but I was often partially lost and usually unclear on character motivation. The movie feels as though joining plot points were dropped to squeeze it into its time slot.<br /><br />If it were longer, it might make more sense, but it still wouldn\'t be much good. The movie\'s most interesting idea is of the war between Zeus and Hera as being a war between the male and female, but the movie drops the ball on this, making Hera\'s followers fairly horrible while not being clear on what Zeus\' followers do or believe. The movie is also interesting because you don\'t see the gods and there\'s no real certainty that they exist. So it\'s got a couple of intriguing ideas, but it doesn\'t do anything useful with them.<br /><br />Bad dialog, cardboard characters, and one interesting scene involving Hercules and his three antagonistic sons. Not unwatchable but also not worth watching."'],
 ['97,"Well, I like to watch bad horror B-Movies, cause I think it\'s interesting to see stupidity and unability of creators to shoot seriously good movie. (I always compare this movies to - for example - some Spielberg\'s works and again-and-again don\'t understand the huge difference in what I see.) I like Ed Wood\'s movies cause it\'s so inept it\'s very funny. But people!!! ""The Chilling"" is not funny and is not even ""interesting"". It\'s EXTREMELY BORING horror movie without ANYTHING what makes even bad movies watchable. There\'s no acting, no screenplay, no direction, no thrills and not even blood. It\'s extremely inept amateurish film. It\'s definitely the WORST movie I had ever seen (and I had seen a lot of ""worst movies"" - believe me). I warned you !!! 1/10"'],
 ['98,"This IS the worst movie I have ever seen, as well as, the worst that I will probably EVER see. I see no need to rehash what all the others have said previously, just be forewarned...<br /><br />This IS NOT one of those bad movies you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it, its just plain BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD.<br /><br />This movie is the equivalent to having a ""pet rock"" as your friend. You wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen. Unfortunately, it never does. At least with a pet rock you knew what you were getting into. Lion\'s Gate completely deceives on this bombshell... No...this is a disaster. After watching this film, you would swear George W. Bush had his hands all over the making of this film... yes its that idiotic.<br /><br />Stay away, unless of course you just want to watch the worst movie of all time. Its probably how Lion\'s Gate figured it would make some money off this piece of tripe."'],
 ['99,"I have been a Mario fan for as long as I can remember, I have very fond memories of playing Super Mario World as a kid, this game has brought back many of those memories while adding something new. Super Mario Galaxy is the latest installment in the amazing Mario franchise. There is much very different about this game from any other Mario before it, while still keeping intact the greatest elements of Mario, the first noticeable difference is that the story takes place in space.<br /><br />The story begins much like any other Mario game, Mario receives a letter from Princess Peach inviting him to a celebration at her castle in the Mushroom Kingdom. Upon arriving at Peach\'s castle Mario finds Bowser and his son (Bowser Jr.) attacking the castle with their airships. Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach and then lifts her castle up into space. In the midst of the castle being lifted into space Mario falls off and lands on an unknown planet. Mario is found by a talking star named Luma and is taken back to the Luma\'s home, a floating space station, here Mario meets many other Lumas and also meets their leader, a woman named Rosalina. Rosalina tells Mario that Bowser has taken away the space station\'s Power Stars and scattered them across the universe, it is up to Mario to help the Lumas find them and save Peach, thus the adventure begins.<br /><br />The way you play the game is by flying from the space station to other galaxies, each galaxy consists of multiple planets that Mario travels amongst in levels via these shooting stars to retrieve the Power Stars. Mario can at many times walk all the way around planets without losing gravity, some planets are small and others are big, many planets are similar to classic Mario environments. The best thing about the game are the controls, all of the stuff like jumping and such is still the same, but the wiimote is used in many unique ways in this game. You shake the remote Mario will perform a spin that is used as the primary attack in the game, and it will as well activate the shooting stars. You can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bits at enemies or objects in the environment. Then there is the graphics, these are by far the best graphics on the Wii, it is just so hard to describe how great this game looks, you could probably almost say it looks as good as some 360 games.<br /><br />My only minor gripes is that the going upside down effect takes some getting used to, and also the story is pretty weak. The worst part is that you lose all of your lives when you turn off the game, no matter how many you had when you last quit you restart at 4 lives. Still these minor problems aside it\'s a superb game that is highly entertaining and is very challenging. This is the type of game that we\'ve been waiting for on the Wii.<br /><br />A perfect 10 out of 10!"'],
 ['100,"This short film that inspired the soon-to-be full length feature - Spatula Madness - is a hilarious piece that contends against similar cartoons yielding multiple writers. The short film stars Edward the Spatula who after being fired from his job, joins in the fight against the evil spoons. This premise allows for some funny content near the beginning, but is barely present for the remainder of the feature. This film\'s 15-minute running time is absorbed by some odd-ball comedy and a small musical number. Unfortunately not much else lies below it. The plot that is set up doesn\'t really have time to show. But it\'s surely follows it plot better than many high-budget Hollywood films. This film is worth watching at least a few times. Take it for what it is, and don\'t expect a deep story."'],
 ['101,"Okay, last night, August 18th, 2004, I had the distinct displeasure of meeting Mr. Van Bebble at a showing of the film The Manson Family at the Three Penny in Chicago as part of the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Here\'s what I have to say about it. First of all, the film is an obvious rip off of every Kenneth Anger, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone and Terry Gilliam movie I\'ve ever seen. Second of all, in a short Q & A session after the show Mr. Van Bebble immediately stated that he never made any contact with the actual Manson Family members or Charlie himself, calling them liars and saying he wanted nothing to do with them, that the film was based on his (Van Bebble\'s) take on the trial having seen it all from his living room on TV and in the news (and I\'m assuming from the Autobiography and the book Helter Skelter which were directly mimicked through the narrative). So I had second dibs on questions, I asked if he was trying to present the outsider, Mtv, sex drugs and rock \'n roll version and not necessarily the true story. This question obviously pissed off the by now sloshed director who started shouting ""f*** you, shut the f*** up, this is the truth! All those other movies are bullsh**!""<br /><br />Well anyway, I didn\'t even think about how ridiculous this was until the next day when I read the tagline for the film, ""You\'ve heard the laws side of the story...now hear the story as it is told by the Manson Family."" Excuse me, if this guy has never even spoken to the family and considers them to be liars that he doesn\'t want to have anything to do with, how in God\'s name can he tell the story for them!? This is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard! The film was obviously catered to the sex drugs and rock \'n roll audience that it had no trouble in attracting to the small, dimly lit theatre, and was even more obviously spawned by the sex drugs and rock \'n roll mind of a man who couldn\'t even watch his own film without getting up every ten minutes to go get more beer or to shout some sort of Rocky Horroresque call line to the actors on screen. This film accomplishes little more than warping the public\'s image of actual events (which helped shape the state of America and much of the world today) into some sort of Slasher/Comic Book/Porno/Rape fantasy dreamed up by an obviously shallow individual.<br /><br />The film was definitely very impressive to look at. The soundtrack was refreshing as it contained actual samples of Charlie\'s work with the Family off of his Lie album. The editing was nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music videos. All in all this film would have made a much better addition to the catalogues at Mtv than to the Underground Film Festival or for that matter the minds of any intellectual observers. I felt like I was at a midnight Rocky Horror viewing the way the audience was dressed and behaving (probably the best part of the experience). The cast was very good with the exception of Charlie who resembled some sort of stoned Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast more than the actual role he was portraying. The descriptions the film gave of him as full of energy, throwing ten things at you and being very physical about it all the while did not match at all the slow, lethargic, and chubby representation that was actually presented.<br /><br />All in all the film basically explains itself as Sadie (or maybe it was Linda) declares at the end, ""You can write a bunch of bullsh** books or make a bunch of bullsh** movies...etc. etc."" Case in point. Even the disclaimer ""Based on a True Story"" is a dead giveaway, signalling that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and has made a difference in the world. All you have to do is a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap, or actually, maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead.<br /><br />All I can say is this, when the film ended I got a free beer so I\'m glad I went, but not so glad I spent fifteen dollars on my ticket to be told to shut the f*** up for asking the director a question. Peace."'],
 ['102,"I bought this game on an impulse buy from walmart. I am glad I did. It was very entertaining listening to Sean Connery and playing the game. I thought the graphics were the best I have ever seen in a movie/game remake. The bonus levels were very hard! The sniper one I think was too hard, it made me so frustrated I didn\'t play the game for a week and a half. There were too many people shooting at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it. <br /><br />The only thing I might change was the upgrade system. I didn\'t notice any difference from un-upgraded equipment to the upgraded, such as buying an armor upgrade didn\'t seem to make the armor stronger or more filling on my life meter. I really liked the Q copter. I think the developers did a good job."'],
 ['103,"No, this hilariously horrible 70\'s made-for-TV horror clinker isn\'t about a deadly demonically possessed dessert cake. Still, this exceptionally awful, yet undeniably amusing and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reaches a breathtaking apex of absolute, unremitting silliness and atrociousness that\'s quite tasty in a so-execrable-it\'s-downright-awesome sort of way. Richard Crenna, looking haggard and possibly inebriated, and Yvette Mimieux, who acts as if she never got over the brutal rape she endured in ""Jackson County Jail,"" sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint, dull, sleepy small town existence gets ripped asunder when the cute German Shepard they take in as the family pet turns out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit. Pretty soon Mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kids Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann (the psychic alien moppets from the Disney ""Witch Mountain"" pictures) are worshiping a crude crayon drawing of the nasty, ugly canine entity in the den. Boy, now doesn\'t that sound really scary and disturbing? Well, scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain\'t, but it sure is funny, thanks to Curtis (""Night Tide"") Harrington\'s hopelessly weak direction, cartoonish (not so) special effects, an almost painfully risible\'n\'ridiculous plot, and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story (besides the leads, both Martine Beswicke and R.G. Armstrong briefly pop up as members of a Satanic cult and Victor Jory has a nice cameo as a helpful Native American shaman). Favorite scene: the malicious Mephestophelion mutt puts the whammy on Crenna, practically forcing him to stick his hand into a wildly spinning lawnmower blade. While stuck-up snobby fright film fans may hold their noses at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock, devout TV trash lovers should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to Alpo."'],
 ['104,"It is easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen, and who will die. It is about 4 women and a man who on a vacation. This was made during the end of the ultra Nazi seventies, when blonde women were supposedly ultra American survivors and brunettes were all deserving of death.<br /><br />This movie, like the others of that era, contrives to bring this about, and the viewer knows this. There is no mystery or suspense. The people squabble, but everything is so predictable for the prejudices of the time, it is laughable.<br /><br />The five people happen upon two savage young characters, and go nuts. Everyone is nuts, so that the director-writer team can justify their Nazi propaganda.<br /><br />For some reason, the guy is attracted to the blonde, who is really not much to look at, and ignores a super hot looking brunette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over. One must remember that in the seventies, movies were meant to appeal to women and not men.<br /><br />Totally crap and totally depressing."'],
 ['105,"Marion Davies stars in this remarkable comedy ""Show People"" released by MGM in 1928. Davies plays a hick from Savannah, Georgia, who arrives in Hollywood with her father (Dell Henderson). The jalopy they arrive in is a hoot - as is Davies outrageous southern costume. Davies lands a job in slapstick comedy, not what she wants, but it brings her success. She meets fellow slapstick star William Haines, who is immediately smitten with her. Well, Davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio (""High Art Studios"") and lands a job in stuffy period pieces. A handsome but fake actor (Andre Telefair) shows her the ropes of how to be the typical pretentious Hollywood star. Davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life, but of course learns that is not who she really is. Marion Davies is wonderful throughout, as she - outrageously - runs the gamut of emotions required of a ""serious"" actress. William Haines is his usual wonderful comedic self, and there are cameos by Charles Chaplin, John Gilbert, and other famous stars of the day, including the director of the film, King Vidor. This is a silent film with a few ""sound effects"" as sound pictures were just coming into their own. A treasure of a film."'],
 ['106,"The performance of every actor and actress (in the film) are excellently NATURAL which is what movie acting should be; and the directing skill is so brilliantly handled on every details that I am never tired of seeing it over and over again. However, I am rather surprised to see that this film is not included in some of the actors\' and director, Attenborough\'s credits that puzzles me: aren\'t they proud of making a claim that they have made such excellent, long lasting film for the audience? I am hoping I would get some answers to my puzzles from some one (possibly one of the ""knowledgeable"" personnel (insider) of the film."'],
 ['107,"While Star Trek the Motion Picture was mostly boring, Star Trek The Final Frontier is plain bad. In this terrible sequel, the crew is on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the Federation that ambassadors representing Earth, Romulus and Kronos (the Klingon home world) have been kidnapped by a renegade Vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier. There, he hopes to find God. Using mysticism and bad writing, he persuades many of the senior officers of the Enterprise to betray Kirk and get a hold of the ship. They do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a god-like alien. This one is so bad it is hard to figure out where to begin. At the core is a good idea that is never really developed. The plot goes nowhere instead of where no man has gone before. It is almost like the writers had no idea how to end this fiasco. The action scenes don\'t have the suspense of Wrath of Kahn, the philosophy is boring, and the humor is stale. Now I will focus most of my anger on William Shatner. When he takes the director\'s chair, the ego gets bigger. Most of the focus is on him, Spock, and McCoy, but does not give the others enough to do. Moreover, whereas Shatner is usually guilty of over-acting in previous movies and television spots, he is just plain bad in this one. Now Kirk is reckless, a practical jokers, and silly. One of the worst scenes involves the three leaders singing the song, ""Row Row Row your Boat"" in a round by a campfire. In any case, this is the worst of the Star Trek franchise. I should have given it three out of ten instead of five."'],
 ['108,"Despite later claims, this early-talkie melodrama has very little in common with ""Citizen Kane"": It\'s a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat, told in flashback but hopping around time. The scriptwriter, Preston Sturges, shows none of his later gift for sparkling dialog, and none of the myriad cinematic innovations of ""Kane"" are evident. Still, it\'s very watchable, with a young Spencer Tracy (his old-man makeup makes him look just like, well, an old Spencer Tracy) showing depth and authority, and Colleen Moore -- a little past her prime, and not physically well matched -- playing a multifaceted woman-behind-the-man. There\'s also Helen Vinson as one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history, sending the final third into ecstatic soap-opera reverberations. The surviving print is jumpy and has missing audio snippets, and there are some plot holes left open (how would she know whose son it was if she\'s sleeping with both of them?), and the music is awfully hokey. For all that, I was quite fascinated."'],
 ['109,"This is the best version (so far) that you will see and the most true to the Bronte work. Dalton is a little tough to imagine as Rochester who Jane Eyre declared ""not handsome"". But his acting overcomes this and Zelah Clark, pretty as she is, is also a complete and believable Jane Eyre. This production is a lengthy watch but well worth it. Nearly direct quotes from the book are in the script and if you want the very first true \'romance\' in literature, this is the way to see it. I own every copy of this movie and have read and re-read the original. The filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this."'],
 ['110,"Apparently, the people that wrote the back of the box did not bother to watch this so-called ""movie."" They described ""blindingly choreographed intrigue and violence."" I saw no ""intrigue."" I instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a supposed kung fu movie. I saw no ""violence."" At least, I saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief as to what could possibly hurt a man with ""impervious"" skin--but here I am perhaps revealing too much of the ""plot."" Furthermore, as a viewer of many and sundry films (some of which include the occasional kung fu movie), I can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid is unwatchable. Whatever you may choose to do, I will always remain<br /><br /> Correct,<br /><br /> Jonathan Tanner <br /><br /> <br /><br />P.S. I was not blinded by the choreography."'],
 ['111,"I liked Boyle\'s performance, but that\'s about the only positive thing I can say. Everything was overdone to the point of absurdity. Most of the actors spoke like you would expect your 9-year-old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded, stone-hearted cop, or an ultra-evil villain. The raspy voice-overs seemed amateurish to me. I could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music. And what\'s with the whole 1984ish police torture stuff? It was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story. Cox added a lot of things, in fact, that he apparently thought would be really cool, but had nothing to do with the story. That\'s a big disappointment because one of the things that makes Borges\' stories so good is his minimalism -- they are tightly bound, with no superfluous details. This movie is just the opposite. I stopped watching after the scene where Lonnrot is questioning the guy from the Yidische Zaitung, or thereabouts. I wasted $4 renting this, but at least I can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake."'],
 ["112,It's terrific when a funny movie doesn't make smile you. What a pity!! This film is very boring and so long. It's simply painfull. The story is staggering without goal and no fun.<br /><br />You feel better when it's finished."],
 ['113,"So well made, no CGI crap. Has anyone else been on the ""Jumping Crocs"" tour of Darwin\'s Adelaide River before? Black Water was WAY realistic; Rogue was a bit cringeworthy.<br /><br />Thought the blonde chick was excellent in it - haven\'t really seen her before. And the other chick is a babe, she is always excellent. <br /><br />V. suspenseful - I would compare it to Jaws over any other man eating animal flick. <br /><br />Got the hole Aussie thing down pat without going OTT with struths and crikeys, as well. <br /><br />Loved it!"'],
 ['114,"The Assignment is an outstanding thriller with several plot twists driven by character, rather than star turns, the need to stage special effects, obligatory romance, and endless car chases. However, there is a car chase in here, and a dandy it is. Aidan Quinn is wonderful as both the terrorist and the naval officer ""recruited"" to eliminate him. It is rare that a second or third tier actor, such as Quinn, is given an important starring role like this that carries a film. Usually, such a role is given to an A-list actor with box office draw, which is probably why I never heard of this film before I saw it. Donald Sutherland is great as the morally ambiguous, somewhat creepy at times, agent that recruits Quinn. Ben Kingsley is fine also as the Israeli agent. The plot is very complex and there are multiple story lines, which converge in gradual fashion toward the end, and not all at once as we\'re used to seeing. The paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thrillers is captured and portrayed with both moral ambiguity and frightening intensity. The locations are convincing and effective. The soundtrack is nothing special, but rarely do we get all of the above mentioned qualities these days, without dumb and/or meaningless plot developments; unconvincing star turns; loud, annoying, music video type soundtracks; a villain that hams it up; and repeatedly a cast, costumes, and plot that cater mostly to an audience under 25. This is an outstanding thriller, which most assuredly did not get its just due upon its release. ***1/2 of 4 stars."'],
 ['115,"this is one of the finest movies i have ever seen....the stark scenery...the isolation...the ignorant bigoted people hiding behind their religion...a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication...the acting is completely natural...but for me as a""foodie\' the best is the actual choosing and preparation of the feast..i have spent time in paris and know the cuisine well...whether or not the cafe anglais really exists i don\'t know but i do know of similar establishments and babette\'s menu and choice of wines are authentic...and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellows them back to friendship is the only ending there could be..this is a 10 out of 10 film and should be seen by anyone with enough brain and taste to understand it"'],
 ['116,"Set in the 1794, the second year of the French republic formed after the execution of Louis XVI, this film portrays the power struggle between the revolutionary leaders Danton (Gerard Depardieu, at his finest) and Robespierre (a commanding performance by the Polish actor Wojciech Pszoniak). The moderate revolutionary Danton has returned to Paris from his country seat where he has been since being deposed as leader of the Committee of Public Safety in the previous year by Robespierre. He is opposed to ""The Reign Of Terror"" which has resulted in the executions of thousands of citizens, mainly by guillotine, who are thought to be opposed to the Revolution. Danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade Robespierre to curb the bloodletting. But Robespierre and the Committee are afraid that the popularity of Danton will lead to them being overthrown, and put Danton and his supporters on trial for being traitors. This was the first French language film made by Andrzej Wajda after he had arrived in France from Poland. His Polish film company was closed down by the government due to his support for the Solidarity trade union, which had opposed the Polish government in the late seventies and early eighties. His previous film ""Man Of Iron"" (1981) had dealt with the Solidarity union and its leader Lech Walesa, and it is easy to draw comparisons between the relationship of Walesa and the Polish leader General Jaruselski, and that between Danton and Robespierre. Danton/Walesa are the voice of reason opposed to Robespierre/Jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite having lost the support of the people they claim to represent. The film is based on the Polish play ""The Danton Affair"" written by Stanislawa Przybyszewska in the 1930s, and on its release the film was criticised by some for being static and theatrical. But what the film does is to concentrate on the behind-the-scenes meetings of the Committees and the scenes in the National Assembly and the courtroom rather than the activities on the streets of Paris."'],
 ['117,"Usually I\'m a bit of a fan of the bad eighties & early nineties film featuring now has beens...but this film is so incredibly terrible that it was a real endurance test to sit through. Guys dressing up as girls has been done to death - but never so pathetically. Corey Haim\'s performance was abysmal as usual, Nicole Eggert was not much better. This has no redeeming qualities, even if you are a number #1 fan of an actor/actress in this piece of trash - stay away!"'],
 ['118,"I have now seen quite a few films by Pedro Almodóvar, but this would have to be the most disappointing so far. This film seemed to lack the zaniness that is usually everywhere in his films, and the story just never got me interested. Many Almodóvar regulars appear in this film, so it\'s not like there was a lack of on-screen talent, but this film just seemed more serious than his other films. If there was a comedic edge to this movie, I certainly couldn\'t find it, and it made for one surprisingly weak movie."'],
 ['119,"I greatly enjoyed Margaret Atwood\'s novel \'The Robber Bride\', and I was thrilled to see there was a movie version. A woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder, and his buddy, an ex-cop journalist, tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman\'s crazy female friends. It\'s fortunate that the movie script fixes Ms. Atwood\'s clumsy plotting by focusing on the story of these two men, victims of scheming women...<br /><br />Heh. Okay, you got me. If these guys are mentioned in the book, and I\'m pretty sure they\'re entirely made up for the movie, I\'ll eat the dust cover of my hardback copy. Apparently, the three main female characters of the novel aren\'t enough to carry the movie. Zenia\'s manipulations aren\'t interesting unless we see them happen to a man, and a man\'s life is screwed up. Roz, Charis, and Toni tell their stories -- to a man. Because it\'s not important if a man doesn\'t hear them.<br /><br />I liked the characters in the book. It hurts to see them pushed off to the side for a man\'s story. I normally do not look for feminist angles on media, and I tried to enjoy the movie as is. If I hadn\'t read the book, I might have enjoyed the movie a lot more. So if you like the cop and the ex-cop, and you want to read more about them, you\'re out of luck. Read the novel, if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layered through a plot. It\'s the same plot: the movie excavated it, ironed it, and sprinkled it with male angst. It\'s like Zenia\'s revenge on Margaret Atwood."'],
 ["120,this movie gets a 10 because there is a lot of gore in it.who cares about the plot or the acting.this is an Italian horror movie people so you know you can't expect much from the acting or the plot.everybody knows fulci took footage from other movies and added it to this one.since i never seen any of the movies that he took footage from it didn't matter to me.the Italian godfather of gore out done himself with this movie.this is one of the goriest Italian movies you will ever see.no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection.buy this movie no matter what it is a horehounds dream come true."],
 ['121,"Ingrid Bergman, playing dentist Walter Matthau\'s faithful receptionist who harbors a little crush on her boss, is absolutely wonderful in this film. She handles the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steals a terrific scene where she and Goldie Hawn talk in a record booth (Ingrid\'s monologue is a front, but her face tells you she believes in it with all her heart). Matthau is an odd choice for the leading man (he\'s too old for Goldie Hawn and too unrefined for Bergman, not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist), but I liked the way he tries hard to please Goldie and stumbles around trying to free himself from a lie. Hawn (who won a Supporting Oscar) is just as fresh and bubbly as she is today. This bedroom farce isn\'t terribly sophisticated (and faintly reminds one of ""Any Wednesday"" besides), but it\'s a welcome relief from the noisy, teen-oriented comedies they turn out today. ""Cactus Flower"" is a lovely sigh! *** from ****"'],
 ['122,"""A bored television director is introduced to the black arts and astral projection by his girlfriend. Learning the ability to separate his spirit from his body, the man finds a renewed interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing. Unfortunately, the man discovers while he is sleeping, his spirit leaves his body and his uncontrolled body roams the streets in a murderous rampage,"" according to the DVD sleeve\'s synopsis.<br /><br />The synopsis isn\'t entirely correct, as it turns out.<br /><br />Anyway, the movie opens with a dizzying ""out-of-body"" example of handsome director Winston Rekert (as Paul Sharpe)\'s newly discovered ""astral body"" experience; it also foreshadows an upcoming dogfight. Young Andrew Bednarski (as Matthew Sharpe), being a kid, draws pictures of ""The Blue Man"", as his murder spree begins. Handsome detective John Novak (as Stewart Kaufman) discovers the victims are connected to Mr. Rekert. Mr. Novak\'s investigation leads to the supernatural; a prime example of which is Karen Black (as Janus), with whom Rekert fears he is falling in love.<br /><br />Several in the cast perform well; but, ""The Blue Man"" winds up tying itself up in a knot. Aka ""Eternal Evil"", its unsatisfying story tries to be far too clever for its own good."'],
 ['123,"Ah yes the 1980s , a time of Reaganomics and Sly , Chuck and a host of other action stars hiding in a remote jungle blowing away commies . At the time I couldn`t believe how movies like RAMBO , MISSING IN ACTION and UNCOMMON VALOR ( And who can forget the ridiculous RED DAWN ? ) made money at the box office , they`re turgid action crap fests with a rather off putting right wing agenda and they have dated very badly . TROMA`S WAR is a tongue in cheek take on these type of movies but you`ve got to ask yourself did they need spoofing in the first place ? Of course not . TROMA`S WAR lacks any sort of sophistication - though it does make the point that there`s no real difference between right wing tyrants and left wing ones - and sometimes feels more like a grade z movie than a send up . Maybe it is ?"'],
 ['124,"This tale based on two Edgar Allen Poe pieces (""The Fall of the House of Usher"", ""Dance of Death"" (poem) ) is actually quite creepy from beginning to end. It is similar to some of the old black-and-white movies about people that meet in an old decrepit house (for example, ""The Cat and the Canary"", ""The Old Dark House"", ""Night of Terror"" and so on). Boris Karloff plays a demented inventor of life-size dolls that terrorize the guests. He dies early in the film (or does he ? ) and the residents of the house are subjected to a number of terrifying experiences. I won\'t go into too much detail here, but it is definitely a must-see for fans of old dark house mysteries.<br /><br />Watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room.<br /><br />Dan Basinger 8/10"'],
 ['125,"I am so happy and surprised that there is so much interest in this movie! Jack Frost was my introduction into the films produced and distributed by A-pix entertainment, and without exception, everything this company deals with is pure crap! First, and this is very important, never ever watch this movie sober! Why would you? Unlike many other entertaingly bad movies, this one I feel was made intentionally bad. I just can\'t get over how fake the snowman is, which is why its always shown only briefly, the way it moves is the best! This movie is Waaaaaaaaaaay better than the Michael Keaton piece of crap, becuz that was made too be a good movie, and that version is as bad as this."'],
 ['126,"""Revolt of the Zombies"" proves that having the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesn\'t necessarily make lightning strike twice.<br /><br />The Halperin brothers, responsible for the horror classic ""White Zombie"", made this trite piece of garbage a mere few years later to cash in on its popularity and even recycled close-ups of Lugosi\'s eyes from that previous film. There was a court battle with the ""White Zombie"" film\'s rights owners, who didn\'t want the Halperins to be able to use the word \'zombie\' in this title. That word was the only thing that could help this film, because, as everyone knows, bad films can make much more money simply by having the word \'Zombie\' appear in the title. Knowing what Victor Halperin was capable of a few years before only makes this uninteresting film more insulting. It seems he never directed another horror film after this debacle. The zombies here seem not to be true walking dead, but simply hypnotism victims.<br /><br />Wanna create a mind-controlled army of zombies? Be ready to crack a few eggs, including your own.<br /><br />THE LAME PLOT: Man falls in love with scheming woman who plays with his heart and becomes engaged to him only to make his friend, whom she loves, jealous. This sends man into a spiral of madness in which he tries using zombie mind-control techniques to change things to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isn\'t worth spit.<br /><br />This includes one of the most blatantly obvious plot developments I\'ve ever seen. You\'d have to be blind or stupid not to see the ending coming. The acting isn\'t even good. This movie makes the racially insensitive ""King of the Zombies"" (which appeared on the same double bill DVD I bought) seems like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and reminds us that not every black and white film is a classic. It makes the atomic age sci-fi alien zombie cheese fest ""Invisible Invaders"" seem like a serious drama. This is one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a Korean film fan twitch (South Korean films are often known for their use of melodrama). The credits list the ironically named company Favorite Films. I\'m not sure whose favorite film this would be, but they\'re obviously an idiot.<br /><br />Not recommended for fans of: zombies, romance, or classic films."'],
 ['127,"The complaints are valid, to me the biggest problem is that this soap opera is too aimed for women. I am okay with these night time soaps, like Grey\'s Anatomy, or Ugly Betty, or West Wing, because there are stories that are interesting even with the given that they will never end. However, when the idea parallels the daytime soaps aimed at just putting hunky men (Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, and Chris Lowell) into sexual tension and romps, and numerous ridiculous difficult situations in a so-called little hospital, it seems like General Hospital...or a female counterpart to Baywatch. That was what men wanted and they had it, so if this is what women want so be it, but the idea that this is a high brow show (or something men will watch) is unrealistic."'],
 ['128,"This movie was one of the best movies that I have seen this year. I didn\'t see any cameos in the movie, but it is still pretty good. It is similar to Anchorman in the humor department, but I think this is a better put together movie. It actually has a point. If you are going to see a whole bunch of T&A you will be disappointed. Just a well put together movie!!!! If you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor, you will find this to be a really good movie. I definitely think that Ebert and Roeper\'s review of this movie is right on. I mean, I don\'t really like Ebert on most movies, but this is the movie that I will agree about. The movie contains a good enough story that it is actually believable that these type of people are out there. There is definitely something to be said about how they treat virginity in this movie. Yea, sure, you get laughed at when it is found out about, but it still suggests that you wait. Steve did a wonderful job of portraying the person that he did in this movie and yet, it is still funny."'],
 ['129,"I remember seeing this film in the mid 80\'s thought it a well paced and well acted piece. I now work quite often in Berkeley Square and the had to get a copy of DVD to remind myself how little the area has changed, although my office is newish it just 30 seconds away from ""the bank"". Even Jack Barclays car dealership is still there selling Bentleys and Rolls Royces.<br /><br />It\'s look like the DVD is due a Region 2 release soon. The region 1 copy I is very poor quality. Let\'s hope they\'ve cleaned it up.<br /><br />Only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoils what would otherwise be a great film but I guess is in line with the caper tag the film goes with."'],
 ['130,"Two hours ago I was watching this brilliant movie which overwhelmed me with its imprisoning photography. It is quite understandable how it won the prize of Best Camera in Cannes 2000. Close ups predominated it. Close ups of walls, humans and of many other things. The warm colored lighting (which is also usually by the director) gave the movie a warm atmosphere. Only two persons are principally to be seen in most of it. An interesting music and especially three songs or themes accompanied the movie nearly all the time. Each one of these themes represented a certain atmosphere during the whole movie. Silence and slow movements characterize the movie. Some scenes were extended moments or a serious of close-ups. Not only Tony Leung deserves a prize for his superb acting since Maggie Cheung was also so brilliant. I wonder how many dresses she was wearing in the different scenes. The story was also connected somehow with the history of Hong Kong and the region the 1960s. This prevented me from understanding some details of the it especially at the end. In short I would recommend the fans of artistic movies to watch it in the cinema."'],
 ['131,"Luckily for Bill Murray this is such a light-weight project since he pretty much has to carry it. Meatballs is the story of low-rent Camp Northstar and how its counselors deal with the campers as well as one another. Then there is much made of their wealthy rivals from across the lake named Camp Mohawk which culminates in a two-day Olympiad competition. Above it all is Bill Murray clowning around and making a pretty memorable film debut.<br /><br />The film is sprinkled with medium-sized laughs, chuckles, and more than a few guffaws along the way. The biggest laughs come from the pranks played on the nerdy camp director. Three of them involve the counselors moving his bed outside in various locations while he\'s sleeping. Morty, or ""Micky"" as everyone calls him, wakes up along the side of a road, strung up in some trees several feet above the ground, and finally floating on a raft in the middle of the lake! There are also some funny moments involving the counselors hitting on one another, but this is a PG rated film with little in the way of raunchiness.<br /><br />The film takes a serious note involving a shy camper named Rudy who is played by Chris Makepeace. Of course it\'s up to Murray to teach the kid how to open up, and give him the confidence he needs to run a marathon during the Olympiad. The sentimentality of Rudy\'s situation seems tacked on to a great degree. Notice how when Murray first sees the kid sitting alone in the grass after getting off the bus he tells him, ""you must be the short depressed kid we ordered."" Makes you wonder if that line was really in the script or Murray was just ad-libbing while the cameras were rolling. In other words, Murray might as well have said to Makepeace, ""you must be that actor we hired to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp films who doesn\'t fit in."" But before it\'s all over, Murray\'s performance makes this plot device more than bearable. He really seems to have some good chemistry with Makepeace.<br /><br />The film culminates with the games between the two rival camps. Very little of the events we are shown are even slightly believable, but ""it just doesn\'t matter"". This is a pretty good film on many levels. Don\'t let the absurd 5.6 rating this film is currently getting scare you off. Murray will keep you laughing throughout. Just be warned..... avoid the sequels!!!! Especially the one with Corey Feldman!! 8 of 10 stars.<br /><br />The Hound."'],
 ['132,"""The Danish Bladerunner"" is boldly stated on the box. Are you kidding me?! This film is a complete drag. When I\'m thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen, I usually pause the vcr, so I won\'t miss anything. Not this time. I actually found myself looking long and hard in the fridge, just so I wouldn\'t have to go back. Why the hell is there not ONE sciencefiction-scriptwriter out there who has the vaguest clue about how computers work? It\'s mindboggling. One of the premises of film, is that our hero (who\'s a hacker), has a little computerassistant to help him (the Microsoft Office paperclip finally caught on in the future). When he loses the assistant in the movie, he\'s helpless and can\'t get into any computers. HE\'S A HACKER! It\'s like saying, that you can\'t drive your car, if you don\'t have your lucky ""driving-cap"" on. I won\'t even go into the lightning-effect when he recieves electroshock..."'],
 ['133,"This movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off. I know these horrible things happen in the world, but Im watching movies based on the fact that what Im watching is not actually happening on the screen. These live animal clips are not meant to be in movies, they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species.<br /><br />This should be banned and destroyed. I have also contacted Netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market!!<br /><br />This movie should be removed from the public. The person who made this movie needs psychological help."'],
 ['134,"Anyone who thinks Kool Moe Dee, Carol Alt, and Corey Feldman comprise a list of good actors must be smoking something I\'d love to try sometime. Where to begin: lousy soundtrack, hammy acting, ""action"" in places. This is the typical amateurishly written hack fodder that washed-up has-been and never-was\'s love to star in. I actually felt embarrassed for the ""stars"" in this ""film"". The only thespian missing to top this turd was Gary Coleman, who if he would have been in the movie, would have made it at least somewhat howlingly bad, rather than just plain bad.<br /><br />There was one part in the film where Carol Alt screamed, ""DO YOU THINK I\'M AN IDIOT?!?"" Yes, Carol, I do, your agent does, and PLEASE for the love of all that is decent and holy... GO AWAY and stop degrading yourself like this! This film is something Anna Nicole Smith would take part in.<br /><br />I would tell you what the plot was, but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article, plus my mind drifted many times during the movie anyway, so I barely paid attention."'],
 ['135,"This film could have been a decent re-make, and gosh knows it tried (or Ms. English tried). Assembling talented actors together with a successful & experienced writer/director should be a formula for a decent film. But Ms. English\'s experience - according to her IMDb bio - is exclusively limited to television work, and it is glaringly obvious throughout this film.<br /><br />I am surprised that none of the reviews I have read mention what I found most unlikeable about this film, and what kept it from reaching even a portion of its potential: it looked and felt like it was made for television. To give some credit to Ms. English, many of the jokes that simply did NOT work on a movie screen would have been terrific on TV (and maybe a laugh track would have helped). So much of the camera usage and the lighting would have played out fine on TV but looked awkward or odd on a big screen. If the whole film had been chopped up into a mini-series or a sit-com, I think it could have worked. But this is cinema and sadly Ms. English\'s talents didn\'t translate. I cringed at so many different points in my embarrassment for the actors & the writers that I felt like I came out of the theater half shriveled! Meg Ryan is her usual perky, cute self (except for the awful plastic surgery she has had on her face), but where did she have a chance to use her talent?! She has made films where she doesn\'t recreate her stereo-typed role and done them well... but not here. Annette Bening seemed to simply go through the motions - such a great talent and yet such a poor performance! I enjoyed the other women characters but they were more caricature than substance, and it was sad to see. What worked in this film in the 1930s doesn\'t translate to the 2000s, and no one helped Ms. English get the changes & updates or subtleties right. If only she (as writer, director AND producer) had reached out for some assistance, I think it could have been good. But it was not.<br /><br />It\'s so frustrating to go to a movie that has good stars and a good writer or director and come away feeling it was a waste of everyone\'s time & money! This New Yorker cartoon I saw yesterday is appropriate: A few movie execs are having a meeting & the caption reads: ""Let\'s remake a classic with worse everything!"""'],
 ['136,"I find it very intriguing that Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy\'s sister and the cousin of these women, would encourage the Maysles\' to make ""Big Edie"" and ""Little Edie"" the subject of a film. They certainly could be considered the ""skeletons"" in the family closet. The extra features on the DVD include several contemporary fashion designers crediting some of their ideas to these oddball women. I\'d say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designers fascinating. (i.e. ""Are they nuts? Or am I missing something?""). This movie is hard to come by. Netflix does not have it. Facets does, though."'],
 ['137,"C\'mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode. It\'s just an old 60\'s TV show ! This episode of Star Trek is notable because of the most serious babe (Yeoman Barrow\'s) ever used on Star Trek and the fact that it was filmed in a real outdoor location. Unlike the TNG and Voyager series which were totally confined to sound stages.<br /><br />This use of an outdoor location (and babe) gives proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show.<br /><br />Except a few notable exceptions i.e ""The city on the edge of forever"" , ""assignment Earth"" and ""Tomorrow is Yesterday"" The old series of Star Trek needs to be seriously moth-balled and put out of it\'s boring misery. Half a dozen good episodes from 79 is quite a poor batting average.<br /><br />This is typical of the boring stuff Gene Roddenberry produced back then actually, contrary to popular belief where some people worshiped the ground he walked on, he actually made a LOT of rubbish! He doesn\'t deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Irwin Allen for example.<br /><br />Just look at the set of the bridge of the Enterprise from a modern point of view. They used wobbly plywood for the floor, cafeteria chairs with plastic backs and cheap cardboard above the instrument panels. You can clearly see the folds in the paper ! Every expense spared or what !"'],
 ['138,"I just watched this movie on it\'s premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia. I liked (not loved) ""Mork & Mindy"" as a kid, mostly for Robin William\'s zany energetic performance. This movie made me remember why. Was the original show great? Not really, but Robin certainly was. Which brings me to this movie.<br /><br />I was pleasantly surprised, expecting nothing more than a paint by numbers chronological retelling of the show (which in a way it was). But, of course, the real focus was on Robin. It was interesting to see Robin\'s journey from struggling street jester to national t.v star, and how such a drastic difference affected him and his long suffering wife. And my hat is off to star Chris Diamantopoulos as he portrayed Mr. Williams with integrity, sensitivity, and heart; not just a cute impression, although it was even dead-on. (On an unrelated note, I noticed that Robin\'s struggles were in some ways similar to Andy Kaufman, who was under-appreciated by network t.v. and held back creatively, but that\'s the ""Taxi"" behind the scenes biopic.)<br /><br />All in all, this was a very enjoyable flick, in which I felt I got to know a little more of the man behind the Orkan. The acting was solid by all- never melodramatic like I suspected- and the story moved along well. Performances that were particularly good were by those who played Garry Marshall and John Belushi (the scene in which Belushi heckles Robin was a hoot!). Not a great masterpiece by any means (I would have liked to have seen a tad more about Pam Dawber), but definitely watchable, especially for those Robin Williams and ""Mork & Mindy"" fans out there. Nanoo, nanoo!"'],
 ['139,"I caught this film on AZN on cable. It sounded like it would be a good film, a Japanese ""Green Card"". I can\'t say I\'ve ever disliked an Asian film, quite the contrary. Some of the most incredible horror films of all time are Japanese and Korean, and I am a HUGE fan of John Woo\'s Hong Kong films. I an not adverse to a light hearted films, like Tampopo or Chung King Express (two of my favourites), so I thought I would like this. Well, I would rather slit my wrists and drink my own blood than watch this laborious, badly acted film ever again.<br /><br />I think the director Steven Okazaki must have spiked the water with Quaalude, because no one in this film had a personality. And when any of the characters DID try to act, as opposed to mumbling a line or two, their performance came across as forced and incredibly fake. I honestly did not think that anyone had ever acted before...the ONLY person who sounded genuine was Brenda Aoki.. I find it amazing that this is promoted as a comedy, because I didn\'t laugh once. Even MORE surprising is that CBS morning news called this ""a refreshing breath of comedy"". It was neither refreshing, nor a breath of comedy. And the ending was very predictable, the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things.<br /><br />AVOID this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting. I actually think that ""Spike of Bensonhurst"" is a better acted film than this...and I walked out half way through that film!"'],
 ['140,"Before I begin, let me get something off my chest: I\'m a huge fan of John Eyres\' first film PROJECT: SHADOWCHASER. The film, a B-grade cross of both THE TERMINATOR & DIE HARD, may not be the work of a cinematic genius, but is a hugely entertaining action film that became a cult hit (& spawned two sequels & a spin off).<br /><br />Judge and Jury begins with Joseph Meeker, a convicted killer who was sent to Death Row following his capture after the so-called ""Bloody Shootout"" (which seems like a poor name for a killing spree – Meeker kills three people while trying to rob a convenience store), being led to the electric chair. There is an amusing scene where Meeker talks to the priest about living for sex but meeting his one true love (who was killed during the shootout), expressing his revenge for the person who killed her – Michael Silvano, a washed-up football star who spends his days watching his son Alex practicing football with his high school team (and ends up harassing his son\'s coach). But once executed, Meeker returns as a revenant (or as Kelly Perine calls ""a hamburger without the fries""), whose sole aim is to get his revenge, which basically means making Silvano\'s life a misery.<br /><br />Let me point out the fact that Judge and Jury is not a true horror film. It is a supernatural action film, with Meeker chasing Silvano, using his ability to change form (which amounts to David Keith dressing up as everything from an Elvis impersonator, a French chef (with an accent as bad as his moustache), a drag queen, a clown & a stand-up comedian), a shotgun which fires explosive rounds & an invulnerability to death (although that doesn\'t stop Martin Kove from shooting Keith with a Desert Eagle), to pay Silvano back for killing Meeker\'s wife.<br /><br />Director John Eyres does not seem interested in characterisations, instead focusing solely on action scenes, which the film has plenty of. But that is the film\'s main flaw, since there\'s nothing to connect the action scenes together. The acting is surprisingly good, with Keith delivering the best performance, supported ably by Kove, as well as Paul Koslo, who plays the washed-up cop quite well. Kelly Perine is annoying as the cabbie who tries to help but makes the situation worse."'],
 ['141,"Ye Lou\'s film Purple Butterfly pits a secret organization (Purple Butterfly) against the Japanese forces in war torn Shanghai. Ding Hui (Zhang Ziyi) and her ex-lover Hidehiko Itami (Toru Nakamura) find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict after a chance meeting.<br /><br />I agree with the reviewer from Paris. The film substitutes a convoluted, semi-historical conflict for a plot, without giving the audience a single reason to care about the characters or their causes. The sudden time shifting doesn\'t help matters as it appears completely unwarranted and pointless. Normally I don\'t mind dark movies, but the absence of light, the bone-jarringly shaky camera footage, and the generally bad film-making techniques really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in. I also agree with the viewer from Georgia that this film ""has a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography"", but I don\'t think that helps the movie. The backdrop to the film is one of the most potent events of the 20th Century, and I don\'t believe you can do it any justice by editing it as if it were a Michael Bay film. The overly melodramatic moments don\'t add to its watchability.<br /><br />The actors are all suitably melancholy. Zhang Ziyi once again shows that she has an exceptionally limited acting range as she spends the entire movie doing what she seems to do best in all her films, brooding and looking generally annoyed. However, at least she adds some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engaging in the worst love-making scene since Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton in The Terminator.<br /><br />All in all, a very disappointing film, especially seeing as how it comes from the director of Suzhou He. 2/10"'],
 ['142,"After hearing about George Orwell\'s prophetic masterpiece for all of my life, I\'m now 37, but never having read the book, I am totally confused as to what I\'ve just seen.<br /><br />I am very familiar with the concepts covered in the novel, as i\'m sure most are, but only through hearsay and quotes. Without this limited knowledge this film would have been a complete mystery, and even with it I\'m still no more educated about the story of 1984 than I was before I watched it.<br /><br />On the plus side...<br /><br />The cinematography is amazing, Hurt & Burton deliver fine performances and the overall feel of the movie is wonderfully grim and desolate. The prostitute scene was a fantastically dark piece of film making.<br /><br />Now for the down sides, and there are plenty...<br /><br />There is a war going on, (at least as far as the propaganda is concerned), but why & with who? Nothing is explained. There are a couple of names bandied about (Eurasia etc), but they mean nothing without explanation.<br /><br />Who is Winston? what does he do? where does he come from? where does he work? why is he changing news reports? why isn\'t he on the front line? Why doesn\'t he eat the food in the canteen? What is that drink he\'s drinking through the entire film? Why is he so weak & ill? Why isn\'t he brainwashed like the rest of them? What\'s the deal with his mother & sister? What happened to his father? A little back story would have been nice, no scrub that, essential for those like myself that haven\'t read the book. Without it, this is just a confusing and hard to follow art-house movie that constantly keeps you guessing at what is actually going on.<br /><br />The soundtrack was dis-jointed and badly edited and the constant chatter from the Big Brother screens swamps the dialogue in places making it even harder to work out whats going on. I accept that this may have been an artistic choice but it\'s very annoying all the same.<br /><br />Also, I know this has been mentioned before, but why all the nudity? It just seemed totally gratuitous and felt like it had been thrown in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage.<br /><br />I personally can\'t abide the way Hollywood feels it has to explain story lines word for word these days. We are not all brainwashed simpletons, but this is a few steps too far the other way. I can only imagine that it totally relies on the fact that you\'ve read the book because if this film really is the \'literal translation\' that I\'ve seen many people say, I would find it very hard to understand why 1984 is hailed as the classic it is.<br /><br />There\'s no denying that it was light years ahead of it\'s time and has pretty much predicted every change in our society to date, (maybe this has been a sort of bible to the powers that be?), but many sci-fi novelists have done the same without leaving gaping holes in the storyline.<br /><br />I guess I have to do what I should have done from the start and buy a copy of the book if i\'m to make any sense out of this.<br /><br />All in all, very disappointed in something I\'ve waited for years to watch."'],
 ['143,"This cute animated short features two comic icons - Betty Boop and Henry.<br /><br />Henry is the bald, slightly portly boy from the comics who never speaks.<br /><br />Well here he does speak!<br /><br />He wants to get a puppy from Betty Boop\'s pet store, and when he is left to mind the store - some hilarious hijinks ensue.<br /><br />Betty sings a song about pets, Henry gets in a battle with birds and a monkey, but everything works out in the end."'],
 ['144,"I just got back from this free screening, and this ""Osama Witch Project"" is the hands-down worst film I\'ve seen this year, worse than even ""Catwoman"" - which had the decency to at least pass itself off as fiction.<br /><br />In ""September Tapes,"" a ""film crew"" of ""documentary journalists"" heads to Afghanistan - despite being thoroughly unprepared for the trip, the conditions and, oh yeah, the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wife\'s death on Sept. 11 - to track down Osama bin Laden.<br /><br />They ""made"" eight tapes on their journey, which now ""document"" their travels and, of course, their attempts to kill the terrorist leader. (The eight tapes, thankfully, all end at points significant in the narrative, which is convenient for a ""documentary."")<br /><br />The psychotic, idiotic protagonist - who is given to long, significant speeches that he probably learned watching ""MacGyver"" - cares nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew as he gets them further and further into danger through a series of completely dumb mishaps. I don\'t know why he didn\'t just wear a sign on his back that said ""Shoot me.""<br /><br />The crew\'s translator, supposedly their sensible voice-of-reason, does little more than whine and gets baffled as the idiot hero leads them into doom. <br /><br />You wish they\'d brought along someone on their trip to call them all morons.<br /><br />Around ""Tape 4,"" I began rooting for the terrorists to shoot the film crew."'],
 ['145,"I remember seeing this film in the theater in 1984 when I was 6 years-old (you do the math). I absolutely loved it. I was Tarzan for the 2 weeks after seeing it (climbing the furniture, jumping around making monkey sounds). It started a fascination with Tarzan and monkeys, but oddly enough a longer lasting love for Christopher Lambert (keep in mind that I saw Highlander very shortly after this). 1984 was the last time I saw that film, until about a month ago. It happened to be on cable as I was getting ready for bed at 3:30 am and even though it was late and I was tired and I had to be at work at 9:00 am, I stayed up to watch this movie that I loved as a kid. <br /><br />Upon viewing it I realized that it was not that great of a film and even odder then that, that Andie MacDowell\'s voice was dubbed by someone else. Ian Holme was of course solid as usual, and surprisingly the monkey suits still kind of held up, but what was most surprising was how good Lambert was as Tarzan. He was great! The depth he managed to capture in so few lines, his primal body language and most importantly his ability to bring this character through its extremely large ark, were just amazing.<br /><br />As I stated earlier I am Lambert fan, but I\'m used to Highlander, The Hunted and Fortress. In this film he was really quite good and it is a shame that he never got a chance to portray a character with such depth again.<br /><br />So to make a short story way too long, I was a little disappointed that the film was not that good, but I was glad to see that Lambert was good and I do not regret staying up until 6:00am to see it."'],
 ['146,"A family is traveling through the mid West. There\'s widower Ben (Charles Bateman), his girlfriend Nicky (Ahna Capri) and Ben\'s little daughter K.T. (Geri Reischl). Then hit a town named Hillsboro where everyone acts more than a little strangely. Their car breaks down and they\'re forced to stay. They soon find out a witches coven has a spell over the town and is up to incredible evil.<br /><br />The story is not that good. People just figure things out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witches are at the end. Also there are a lot of loopholes left dangling at the end. The acting is pretty poor too. Bateman and Capri are bland and everybody else is about the same. Only old pros Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones give good performances. Still this movie does work. It forgoes blood and gore (there\'s some but this is PG) and manges to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere. The acting hampers a lot of it but it still works. Martin especially chews the scenery in his role. I can\'t explain exactly why I (sort of) like this movie but it did work on me. It\'s a quiet kind of horror that isn\'t made anymore. Hardly a masterwork but this deserves to be rediscovered. A 7."'],
 ['147,"Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed this stunningly personal story of a married woman\'s flight from her husband--and the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her younger years are behind her. We learn little about this woman\'s marriage except that she has been feeling her independence slipping away as of late; she\'s also recently learned she\'s pregnant, which has further complicated her heart (she doesn\'t want to be a complacent wifey, despite the maternal way she speaks to her husband over the phone). She meets two men on her journey: a former college football hero who--after an accident during a game--has been left with permanent brain damage, and a sexy, strutting motorcycle cop who has a great deal of trouble in his own life. The clear, clean landscapes (as photographed by the very talented Wilmer Butler) are astutely realized, as are the characters. Shirley Knight, James Caan, and Robert Duvall each deliver strong, gripping performances, most especially since these are not very likable people in conventional terms. Some scenes (such as Knight\'s first call home from a pay-phone, or her first night alone with Caan where they play \'Simon Says\') are almost too intimate to watch. Coppola toys with reality, turning the jagged memories of his characters into scrapbooks we\'ve been made privy to. He allows scenes to play out, yet the editing is quite nimble and the film is never allowed to get too heavy (there are at least two or three very frisky moments). It\'s a heady endeavor--so much so that the picture was still being shown at festivals nearly five years later. Some may shun Coppola\'s unapologetic twisting of events in order to underline the finale with bitter irony, however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate its shortcomings. *** from ****"'],
 ['148,This movie was not very well directed. they almost totally disregarded the book.I guess they were trying 2 save time. the only upside 2 me was that the actor who played finny was cute. Some of the dialog between the main characters appeared a little gay which was not the case in the book. Major parts of the book were once again chopped out.You lost the over all effect it was not as haunting as the book and left me lacking severely. Also the strong language although it was brief was very unnecessary. Also i was surprised ( not pleasantly) by a new character that was no where in the book.One of my favorite characters (leper) was poorly interpreted and portrayed. He seemed more sinister in the movie than the real leper was in the book. Over all disappointing.'],
 ['149,"The buzz for this film has always been about the fabulous graphics that make Kevin Bacon disappear. Sadly, they stopped there. They should have continued to make the script disappear, then the silly set, and finally every visible element of this film. Because, there\'s nothing else there to show.<br /><br />Gary Thompson and Andrew Marlowe are listed as the writing credits for this film. I don\'t really think they exist. I think they bought this script at ""Scripts-R-Us"", where you buy a standard blank ""Monster Movie"" script and just fill in the blanks. There\'s a monster stalking us. Let\'s split up. (They actually ""let\'s split up"" in this movie). Hit Alien/Giant-bug/Monster/Invisible-man with crowbar. Not dead yet. Burn Huge-rabbit/Shark/Invisible-man in unsurvivable fire. Not dead yet. You know, the standard stuff. Even the minimum number of elements that were specific to an invisible man movie (IR glasses, spraying with something like paint) were handled badly. <br /><br />What is sad is that there were lots of possibilities for this to be a fascinating movie. They psychological issues for the subject, the deterioration of the mind due to the process, treating an invisible subject, and many other ideas were touched on for usually less than 2 seconds and would have been far more interesting. Had there been any desire to save Kevin Bacon in the end, it would have been a much better movie. All in all, it stunk.<br /><br />I would mention some of the incredibly stupid elements of the ending of the movie, but I don\'t want to do any spoilers. Suffice it to say that these characters are so stupid they don\'t think about pulling the plug on a machine rather than..."'],
 ['150,"A young girl becomes a war-time marine\'s pen-pal, and when he visits at war\'s end expecting someone a bit more ""available,"" comic complications ensue. All ultimately works out well, naturally, but not before everyone involved has thoroughly chewed the scenery. Errol Flynn\'s dead-on impression of Humphrey Bogart from ""Casablanca"" is a highlight, as are various send-ups of his own swashbuckling image (the ""jumping"" scene in the kitchen with Forrest Tucker is a riot). It is Tucker, though, who ""tucks"" the movie under his arm, lowers his head and barrels over the goal line. He demonstrates the comic flair more fully developed twenty years later in ""F-Troop"" and imparts a liveliness and energy that Flynn repeatedly plays off to raise his own performance. Eleanor Parker does a fine job as the woman being pursued, and little Patti Brady charms as Tucker\'s actual pen-pal friend. A fine, lightweight ""coming home"" comedy in a genteel setting that children and romantics of all ages should find entertaining."'],
 ['151,"This movie is a perfect adaptation of the English Flick Unfaithful. Ashmit plays the role of Richard Gere, Emran that of Olivier and Malikka the perfect cheating wife role of Lane.They have changed the second half of the film to adapt for the Indian masses. <br /><br />Even then the movie has got the full traces of Unfaithful, though it couldn\'t catch up with the original. It was a cheap soft porn of the Bollywood lovers, where Mallika showed a lot more skin than anyone dared to show. Emran did more roles like this and was even nicknamed the serial killer. In the future if the Indian Directors plan to remake a English movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the Indian Censors. Though the film bombed at the box office, the actors got the undue recognition. In future the directors should be a little more careful in remaking a Oscar nominated film. <br /><br />All said, this is not a family film, so take the extra caution while watching it at home with family."'],
 ['152,"Robert Altman\'s downbeat, new-fangled western from Edmund Naughton\'s book ""McCabe"" was overlooked at the time of its release but in the past years has garnered a sterling critical following. Aside from a completely convincing boom-town scenario, the characters here don\'t merit much interest, and the picture looks (intentionally) brackish and unappealing. Bearded Warren Beatty plays a turn-of-the-century entrepreneur who settles in struggling community on the outskirts of nowhere and helps organize the first brothel; once the profits start coming in, Beatty is naturally menaced by city toughs who want part of the action. Altman creates a solemn, wintry atmosphere for the movie which gives the audience a certain sense of time and place, but the action in this sorry little town is limited--most of the story being made up of vignettes--and Altman\'s pacing is deliberately slow. There\'s hardly a statement being made (just the opposite, in fact) and the languid actors stare at each other without much on their minds. It\'s a self-defeating picture, and yet, in an Altman-quirky way, it wears defeat proudly. ** from ****"'],
 ['153,"What seemed at first just another introverted French flick offering no more than baleful sentiment became for me, on second viewing, a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation.<br /><br />Spoiler of sorts follows.<br /><br />Poor Cedric; he apparently didn\'t know what hit him. Poor audience; we were at first caught up in what seemed a really beautiful and romantic story only to be led back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch. These two guys just didn\'t belong together from their first ambiguous encounter. As much as Mathieu and Cedric were sexually attracted to each other, the absence of a deeper emotional tie made it impossible for Mathieu, an intellectual being, to find fulfillment in sharing life with someone whose sensibilities were more attuned to carnival festivities and romps on the beach.<br /><br />On a purely technical note, I loved the camera action in this film. Subtitles were totally unnecessary, even though my French is ""presque rien."" I could watch it again without the annoying English translation and enjoy it even more. This was a polished, very professionally made motion picture. Though many scenes seem superfluous, I rate it nine out of ten."'],
 ['154,"I don\'t think I\'ve ever gave something a 1/10 rating, but this one easily gets the denomination. I find it hard just to sit through one of his jokes. It\'s not just that the jokes are so bad, but combine that with the fact that Carson Daily has zero charisma, can\'t set up or finish a punchline, and you\'ve got a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach.<br /><br />I have watched the show, never in its entirety, but many times still. It just creeps up on me after Conan. I usually watch a minute or two just to see if Carson daily is still the worst talk show host ever.<br /><br />Actually if you ever do see him interviewing a guest, it\'s just that, an interview. I feel so sorry every time he has a guest on and their confused smiles try to mask their body language that\'s screaming, ""get me the hell away from this freak!"" I do recommend watching the show, not for a laugh, but to ponder, how he got on the air and what he\'s still doing there. Watch as much as you can, I think you will find its complete awkwardness...interesting."'],
 ['155,"In the standard view, this is a purely awful movie. However, it rates a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale. I can think of few actual comedies that make me laugh as hard as I did watching this movie. Andy Griffith\'s ghost dressed in Native American garb dancing sends me into hysterics everytime. I wouldn\'t waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it, but if you happen to be laying on the couch at 3 in the morning and it comes on TV, check it out."'],
 ['156,"From the film\'s first shot - Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet wandering reading through a field at dawn, thus invoking all the clichés cinema has developed to address the phenomenon of the strong-minded rebellious female character in period drama - I knew I was in for something to make me want to kill myself.<br /><br />Joe Wright seemed not only to have not read the book, but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he was filming was not in fact Jane Austen\'s subtle, nuanced comedy of manners conducted through sparkling, delicate social interaction in eighteenth century English drawing-rooms, but a sort of U-certificate Wuthering Heights. Thus we were treated to every scene between Elizabeth and Darcy taking place outside for no apparent reason, in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain. Not to mention that Jane Austen, and in particular P & P, is not about passion, sexual tension or love. It\'s about different strategies of negotiating the stultification of eighteenth century society. Which was completely ignored, so that the Bennets\' house was a rambunctious, chaotic place where everybody shouts at once, runs around, leaves their underwear on chairs, and pigs wander happily through the house; the society balls become rowdy country dances one step away from a Matrix Reloaded style dance-orgy; and everybody says exactly what they think without the slightest regard for propriety.<br /><br />The genius of Jane Austen lies in exploring the void created by a society in which nobody says what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety, and the tragic predicaments of her characters arise from misunderstandings and miscommunications enabled by that speechless gap. So both the brilliance of Jane Austen and the very factor that allows her plots - particularly in this film - to function was completely erased. Subtlety in general was nowhere int his film, sacrificed in favour of an overwrought drama which jarred entirely with the material and the performances.<br /><br />It was so obviously trying to be a *serious* film. The humour - which IS Pride & Prejudice, both Austen\'s methodology and her appeal - was almost entirely suppressed in favour of all this po-faced melodrama, and when it was allowed in, was handled so clumsily. Pride & Prejudice is a serious narrative which makes serious points, yes, but those serious points and weightier themes are not just intertwined with the humour, they are embedded in it. You can\'t lose Jane Austen\'s technique, leaving only the bare bones of the story, and expect the themes to remain. Not even when you replace her techniques with your own heavy-handed mystical-numinous fauxbrow cinematography.<br /><br />Elizabeth Bennett is supposed to be a woman, an adult, mature and sensible and clear-sighted. Keira Knightley played the first half of the film like an empty-headed giggling schoolgirl, and the second half like an empty-headed schoolgirl who thinks she is a tragic heroine. Elizabeth\'s wit, her combative verbal exchanges, her quintessential characteristic of being able to see and laugh at everybody\'s follies including her own, her strength and composure, and her fantastic clear-sightedness were completely lost and replaced with ... what? A lot of giggling and staring into the distance? Rather than being able to keep her head when all about her were losing theirs, she started to cry and scream at the slightest provocation - and not genuinely raging, either; no, these were petulant hissy fits. And where the great strength of Austen\'s Elizabeth (at least in Austen\'s eyes) was her ability to retain integrity and observance while remaining within the boundaries of society and sustaining impeachable propriety, Knightley\'s Elizabeth had no regard whatsoever for convention. Furthermore, she seemed to think that wandering around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overalls established her beyond doubt as spirited and strong-minded, and therefore nothing in the character as written or the performance had to sustain it. An astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance. In which quest for blandness and weakness, she was ably matched by Matthew Macfayden.<br /><br />Donald Sutherland as Mr Bennet seemed weak, ineffectual and permanently befuddled without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationships that makes Mr Bennet so fascinating and tragic. His special bond with Lizzie, as the only two sensible people in a world of fools, was completely lost, not least because both of them were fools in a world of fools, and that completely deprived the end of the film of emotional impact. Mr Bingley was no longer amiable and well-meaning to the point of folly, but was played as a complete retard for cheap laughs, and the woman who was playing Jane was so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have tried to do anything with the character at all. The script veered wildly between verbatim chunks of Jane Austen - delivered with remarkable clumsiness - and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy.<br /><br />Just get the BBC adaptation on DVD and save yourself the heartache."'],
 ['157,"I\'ve always enjoyed films that depict life as it is. Life sometimes has boring patches, no real plot, and not necessarily a happy ending. ""A River Runs Through It"" is the perfect name for this film (and Norman Maclean\'s novel). Life ebbs and flows like a river, and it has it\'s rough spots, but it is a wonderful trip.<br /><br />Robert Redford brings a lot to the film. His narration has a friendly feel that fits the picture perfectly. As a director, he is restrained and calm, and captures some incredibly beautiful scenes. As for the acting, Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt work surprising well as brothers. I don\'t know quite how to describe Tom Skerritt and Brenda Blethyn\'s performances, except that they truly feel real. ""A River Runs Through It"" is a wonderful film.<br /><br />8.6 out of 10"'],
 ['158,"The story is very trustworthy and powerful. The technical side of the movie is quite fine.. even the directing of it. The main problem is with the castings, that turned that movie into almost another local and regular cliché with a great lack of impact and even greater lack of impression. Beside the small role of the father, Rafael (played impressively by Asi Dayan), all other actors were unfortunately not in their best. The role of the elder Blind girl, played by Taly Sharon, was fresh but without any intensity as the leading role. therefore the figure she acted had become mild and low profile. There were moments and episodes that looked more like a rehearsal then a real movie. But after all it\'s a good point to begin from and to make big improvements in the future."'],
 ['159,"This movie was not so much promoted here in Greece,even though it got good actors , great script and rather good photograph was not a so called ""blockbuster"" movie in my Country. The movie itself is very powerful,it\'s about the hard time that a newcomer had to go through when he returns in his home-village after been released from a 5yo prison time(drugs) The end is rather sad.... Mourikis is trying to keep up with his part and he handles it pretty well... Lambropoulou is great and very sexy in a strange way and of course Hatzisavvas is for one more time close to excellency... 7 out of 10 because very few Greek movies can make such an impression!"'],
 ['160,"MYSTERY MEN has got to be THE stupidest film I\'ve ever seen, but what a film! I thought it was fabulous, excellent and impressive. It was funny, well-done and nice to see ridiculous Super Heroes for a change! And being able to pull it off! This was great! I\'ll definitely watch it again!"'],
 ['161,"You know that mouthwash commercial where the guy has a mouth full of Listerine or whatever it is and he\'s trying really hard to keep from spitting it up into the sink? That\'s a great metaphor for this movie. I kept watching, even though it was really difficult. But keeping mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling. This movie left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I should have spit it out when I had the chance.<br /><br />The premise is corny enough to be fun. For the first time in like a thousand years, Gargoyles have returned to Romania, and all of the priests who knew how to fight and kill these things are long dead. It\'s up to Michael Pare and some other secret agents to get to the bottom of things before the Gargoyles run amok. Unfortunately, the premise is completely lost in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic acting on the part of the human leads. The best acting is done by the CG Gargoyles.<br /><br />In the end, this movie feels like a poor man\'s Van Helsing. If you check your brain at the door, this might get you through a dreary Monday night. I gave it 3 out of 10 stars."'],
 ['162,"I can\'t believe it that was the worst movie i have ever seen in my life. i laughed a couple of times. ( probably because of how stupid it was ) If someone paid me to see that movie again i wouldn\'t. the plot was so horrible , it made no sense , and the acting was so bad that i couldn\'t even tell if they were trying. that movie was terrible rating: F"'],
 ['163,"This is one of a rarity of movies, where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka. To be completely honest we are a group of people who actually know the man, Mo Ogrodnik, and decided to drink ourselves stupid to this film.<br /><br />The cinematic aspect of Wolfgang Something\'s photography seems to have left out both close-ups and breasts. Mo and Wolfgang\'s collaborative effort revealed the passion of the two actresses, plastic peens holding passion. There\'s also beetle banging. As Violet would have put it: ""This (plastic peen) goes up your butt"". The rat porn and subsequent rat smashing is awesome. <br /><br />Alright. So if you are still reading, let us explain who we are. Mo Ogrodnik teaches at NYU and we are a group of her students, who, finishing a film class with her, decided to get poop- faced and watch here directorial debut. She also wrote Uptown Girls. I can\'t tell you how much that\'s been hammered into our skulls. So this movie is quite the experience. At the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we created for this movie. <br /><br />About 13 minutes into this game, none of us could see straight. The sheer amount of Dido\'s in the first thirty minutes created enough reasons to drink to pacify an elephant.There was something secretly pleasurable about seeing two underage girls hit on a Kurt Cobain lookalike with absolutely no context, save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he was oh-so-naturally reading a local newspaper. Because that\'s what we all do. The heart-shaped glasses were delightfully derivative of Lolita. And something about that provocative scene of the nude chin-up boy suggests the director\'s history of homosexual pornographic experiments. We wish we were kidding.<br /><br />Enough intellectual contemplation. ON TO THE DRINKING GAME! This will ensure that the viewing experience is a positive one. It\'s very simple, and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care.<br /><br />The Mo Ogrodnik/Ripe Drinking Game: 1. Every time you see anything related to pornography, take a drink. 2. Every time you see auteur Mo Ogrodnik\'s name appear, take a drink. 3. Sex. 4. (plastic peen) require two drinks. 5. Any time somebody points a gun at another character, take a drink. -At this point you will probably need to refill/pee pee any remaining sobriety from your body.- 6. Any time there is blood (INCLUDING ""LADY BLOOD""), please take a sip! 7. The underused hula-hoop girl requires one drink per second. 8. Gratuitous use of the ""magic black man"" requires one drink. 9. If you can\'t figure out the through-line, KEEP DRINKING, Beyotch. 10. Whenever you are able to predict a line, take a drink. Trust us. It\'s easy. <br /><br />That\'s it, internet! Keep drinking, and try not to get riped.<br /><br />-Hawaiian Smirnoff Punch, Jr."'],
 ['164,"Even though I\'m quite young, The Beatles are my ABSOLUTELY FAVOURITE band! I never had the chance to hear their music as it was releases but have loved them since I can remember.<br /><br />It\'s the sort of film that is worth trying the once. I can see why it wasn\'t released in the cinema but it is certainly a great film to put on the TV. I was flicking through my TV guide and happened to see this film, it didn\'t much details except something like, \'John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet after The Beatles have broken up, Jared Harris Stars\'. I\'d never heard of him (he played John) or Aiden Quinn who played Paul. However they are certainly underestimated actors!<br /><br />The film had a slow start but as it developed, I could see how well Quinn but especially Harris played their characters. As a huge fan, I sort of know what the real Lennon and McCartney are like. The script was brilliant and Harris got Lennon\'s accent, personality and mannerisms spot on! Quinn played McCartney quite well but sometimes went into his Irish accent. THe make-up artists made them look excellent.<br /><br />THIS PARAGRAPH MAY BE COUNTED AS A *SPOILER*:<br /><br />As I mentioned before, it got off to a slow start but soon developed and became quite an emotional film. I found the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musicians. As for Lennon\'s rude line in the Italian restaurant, totally unnecessary. The ending was very poignant and brings a tear to my eye whenever I watch it.<br /><br />It is quite different from the other biographical films I\'ve seen where it\'s about how The Beatles got together and became famous, and those never really did the characters that well. E.g. \'Backbeat\'.<br /><br />In conclusion, I would say, if you\'re a Beatles or John Lennon or Paul McCartney fan, give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise. At only about 95 minutes long, it\'s worth waiting for the film to develop.<br /><br />If anyone does know whether the meeting of 1976 really did happen please send it to the \'comments page\' for this film, I\'d be very interested."'],
 ['165,"An American Werewolf in London had some funny parts, but this one isn\'t so good. The computer werewolves are just awful: the perspective is all off, it\'s like seeing them through a distorting mirror. The writers step on the throat of many of their gags. American boy says to Parisian girl, ""Is there a cafe\' around here?"" Instead of just leaving it at that, they have to have the girl sigh and respond, ""This is Paris."""'],
 ['166,"Originally I was a Tenacious D fan of their first album and naturally listened to a few tracks off The P.O.D. and was rather disappointed. After watching the movie, my view was changed. The movie is pretty funny from beginning to the end and found my self engaged in it even though it was really was a stupid storyline because of the attitudes that KG and Jaybles portray in the movie. <br /><br />Much more entertaining and enjoyable than movies I have seen in the theaters lately. ex. Saw III (dull and dragging), Casino Royale (way to homo-erotic) which in prior installments I have really enjoyed <br /><br />If you enjoyed Borat, you will enjoy the tale of The Greatest Band on Earth"'],
 ['167,"This is just one more of those hideous films that you find on Lifetime TV which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgusting woman in an empathetic manner. Along with other such nasty films as ""The Burning Bed,"" ""Enough,"" or ""Monster,"" this film takes a disgusting criminal and attempts to show the viewer why she\'s not such a bad person after all. Give us a break! Here\'s my question to the filmmakers: If LeTourneau were a man, and Vili were a 12 year old girl, would you have made a picture sympathizing and empathizing with this person? Answer: Hell no.<br /><br />Imagine switching the genders in this film, and then you\'ll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage. Were the genders switched, there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal. Instead, we\'d likely be treated to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man preying upon a young girl, his lascivious behavior landing him in prison, and his brainwashed victim suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. The only reason LeTourneau does not receive the same treatment in this film is by virtue of her sex.<br /><br />Let\'s call a spade a spade. LeTourneau is a pedophile. Plain and simple. No ifs, ands or buts. She\'s a criminal who belongs in prison, and deserves our derision and contempt, but certainly not our pity or empathy."'],
 ['168,"The premise of this movie was decent enough, but with sub par acting, it was just bland and dull.<br /><br />SPOILERS The film does not work because of the nature of the death, it was accidental, so although it was a murder it wasn\'t like the guy set out to do it. Also through some flashbacks there is a secret that is revealed that sort of makes the events like justice to a degree. There is no emotion in this film. The first 20 minutes or so is just this woman calling her sister, and hearing her message. It was dull and boring.<br /><br />With some polishing, and better acting it could have been pretty good."'],
 ['169,"The Lives of the Saints starts off with an atmospheric vision of London as a bustling city of busy, quaint streets and sunshine. I was hoping it would maintain this atmosphere, but it gets bogged down in a story that goes pretty much nowhere.<br /><br />Othello works for big, fat Mr. Karva, his crime-boss step-dad (at least I think that is what he is supposed to be because it\'s never really defined, but he does drop kittens into deep fat friers, so trust me, he\'s a prick) doing scrappy little errands while his skanky girlfriend gives daddy hand-jobs. One of his colleagues is Runner, a black dude who is always dashing from A to B. Until the day he comes across almost mute homeless child who grants him his wish of being able to stop running. Runner dumps the lost boy in Othello\'s flat, where he promptly starts granting more wishes. Keen to have some of his own desires fulfilled, Karva has the boy kidnapped. But he isn\'t sure of what would really bring him happiness. Is it the innocence of being a child again or is it another hand-job? Either way, I don\'t want to see the little boy grant him the second.<br /><br />It just takes ages to get going and there are loads of repetitive scenes. The ending tries to be shocking but since there\'s hardly any back-story on investment in any of these characters it only serves as a release for the bored audience.<br /><br />Writer Tony Grisoni, a favourite of Terry Gilliam, tries to blend in some kind of religious allegory which ends up being pretentious as all hell, ironically. If he gave us something more accessible or at least had better explanations for the characters suddenly acting all weird then it would have been a more enjoyable film. As it is, we are introduced to a bunch of annoying loudmouths who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confronted by the mysterious boy. Who\'s origins are never revealed. That\'s just plain irritating! <br /><br />Aside from sporadic moments of atmosphere and a moody score, this film has little to recommend."'],
 ['170,"I can\'t emphasize it enough, do *NOT* get this movie for the kids.<br /><br />For that matter, you\'d best spare the adults from it as well.<br /><br />All right, perhaps I\'m overexaggerating a little. This isn\'t the worst kids\' movie... no, let me rephrase that. This isn\'t the worst movie made by dissilusioned adults FOR dissilusioned adults and somehow marketed towards kids (that would be ""Jack"", which I\'ve been meaning to review / gut like a fish).<br /><br />Adults won\'t learn anything surprising (well, if you must, fast-forward to just before the end credits for a Educational Bit about an Interesting Cosmic Phenominon). We don\'t usually end up doing as adults what we wanted to do as kids as reality tends to get in the way. Well, duh, I could have told you that (so can four years of college at an art school, but I degress).<br /><br />I have no idea what the heck kids could possibly get out of this movie. Most likely it will only upset them (we get to watch the moment when Russ was traumatized at eight years old). There\'s a better movie, ""Kiki\'s Delivery Service"", that has essentially the same message but handles it litely instead of drilling it into your head. And the adults will like it too!<br /><br />By the way, there is a moment in the movie made with amature MST3K-ers in mind, if they think of that OTHER Bruce Willis movie with a sad little kid in it."'],
 ['171,"Is nothing else on TV? Are you really bored? Well, then watch Phat Beach. However, don\'t rent it and definitely DO NOT buy it. That would be a big mistake.<br /><br />I watched this on TV and found myself laughing at certain points. I did not laugh long and I did not laugh hard. However, there were subtle jokes and comments I laughed at. If you are looking for an extremely funny ""hood"" movie then watch Friday. If you are looking for a powerful emotional movie (something that this movie tries at..kind of) watch something like hoop dreams or Jason\'s Lyric. If you are lookin for some good black ""booty"" go watch a Dominique Simone porn flick, because the nudity in this movie is nearly non-existent. However, if you have nothing better to do and this is on cable, go ahead and watch it. You will be slightly amused.<br /><br />***3 out of 10***"'],
 ['172,"The Elegant Documentary -<br /><br />Don\'t watch this movie ... if you\'re an egotistical know-all student of physics. This much less than one percent (miniscule fraction) of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know.<br /><br />Do watch this movie! - If you\'re one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than 99% of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including Relativity, Quantum, String and M-theory.<br /><br />What a brilliantly architected documentary. Starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a Universe of pure magic - and dimensions beyond. I have always had a huge appreciation of Mathematics. This movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you\'re about to fail the grade.<br /><br />The show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini-series split over three shows. It therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented. I found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence.<br /><br />We are all (and everything around us) is vibrational-energy with a natural tendency towards harmony. This movie may blow your mind - or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us (even with the Hubble Telescope) and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high-school. M-theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of \'possibility\'.<br /><br />It just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it\'s very nature move (by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting) out of the realm of Science and into the realm of Philisophy.<br /><br />You do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to God.<br /><br />Bravo Brian Greene. Well done indeed.<br /><br />P.S. If you\'re interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the Universe and would like some more insight into the \'possibilities\' Quantum mechanics blended with Spirituality (of all things) can bring then I highly recommend that you also watch ""What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole"". Yes I know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a Shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn\'t seen one before (my eyes process light reflections just fine - I see things everyday that I\'ve never seen before) and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don\'t divide. But if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don\'t like and hang on to those that you do - there is a lot to like about this film.<br /><br />Then watch ""The Secret"" (2006 documentary about The Law of Attraction - search for IMDb title ""tt0846789""). This information just might change your life profoundly - forever. If you search deeper you might even find the Universe is talking to us with thought (if you\'ll listen) - and some are - and that is truly incredible. There is a modern day Jesus/Mohammad/Buddha (those, among others, that history suggests have communicated with the non-physical) alive today and she lives in Texas. I know some of you know what I\'m talking about.<br /><br />I do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but I have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the Universe as I do now."'],
 ['173,"In 1993, with the success of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, Warner Brothers commissioned the team responsible for the hit-show with producing a feature-length movie, originally slated for Direct-To-Video, but bumped up to theatrical status. It would become known as Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Ten years after Phantasm, we have had an additional three feature-films released from the boys at the WB, Sub-Zero, Return of the Joker, and now, Mystery of the Batwoman joins the family.<br /><br />The plot is basic and in many ways similar to Mask of the Phantasm: A new female vigilante modeling herself after Batman has begun targeting operations run by Gotham mob boss Rupert Thorne and Oswald Cobblepot AKA The Penguin. Now, Batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the Batwoman before she crosses the line.<br /><br />The animation is the sleeker, futuristic style that was utilized for Batman: The Animated Series\' fifth and sixth seasons (AKA The New Batman Adventures). , it\'s quite nicely done, and just as sleek as Return of the Joker\'s animation. There is also some use of CGI, but it\'s minor compared to the overabundance of it in Sub-Zero. The music was alright. Different and exotic and similar to the Justice League score, although the points in the score when the old animated Batman theme comes up will be sure to send waves of nostalgia through the older fans\' rodent-shaped hearts.<br /><br />Kevin Conroy, as always, does a wonderful job as Bruce Wayne and Batman. It\'s also great to have the old Batman: The Animated Series alumni back; that includes Bob Hastings (Commissioner Gordon), Robert Costanzo (Detective Bullock), Tara Strong (Barbara Gordon/Batgirl; her cameo hints at the romantic-relationship between her and Bruce that was mentioned in Batman Beyond), and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.(Alfred).<br /><br />Villains were also great - especially given that Rupert Thorne, the old mob boss from the original series, appears for the first time since the fourth season.<br /><br />Overall, while not quite reaching the standard set by Mask of the Phantasm ten years ago, MOTB carries on the torch quite nicely for the animated Batman films. And if you have the DVD and are a hardcore fan, you will love the five-minute short Chase Me."'],
 ['174,"I think this movie was supposed to be shocking. But the only way in which it is indeed shocking is how shocking badly it\'s been made ...and simply is. It\'s one-and-a-half hour of torment. Even more so for the viewer than for the characters in the movie (the five girls).<br /><br />Sure the main characters get their bloody piece in a bad way, which is basically fine, since it\'s a horror-movie. And I (usually) like horror-movies. I\'ve no problem with violence in these type of movies per se. However all the violence in this film serves no end whatsoever. It\'s no spectacle other than that it\'s simply grotesque. It\'s so lame it even gets boring, and really quick too.<br /><br />The worst thing (if the above wasn\'t bad enough for ya) about this movie is that they\'ve tried to copy the Blair Whitch Project, by filming with cheap hand-held-cameras. But (again, this too) serves no end whatsoever. In the ""Blair Which"", sure enough, there\'s an explanation, namely they are their with a camera looking for the blair witch. In this film, there\'s no other explanation than: ""Hey ya\'ll we wanted this to LOOK LIKE the Blair Whitch!!"" The sound in the movie is also something to get depressed about. The girls are screaming so hysterically that many a time you can\'t make out what they\'re saying. Also, no effort has been made to make anything any better, sound-wise or other wise.<br /><br />Than finally, there\'s the soundtrack, which is just as bad as the rest, and varies from cheap euro-house to the worst grungy hard-rock...<br /><br />My advise: Don\'t watch this under ANY circumstances."'],
 ['175,"Why can\'t a movie be rated a zero? Or even a negative number? Some movies such as ""Plan Nine From Outer Space"" are so bad they\'re fun to watch. THIS IS NOT ONE. ""The Dungeon of Horror"" might be the worst movie I\'ve ever seen (some of anyway. I HAD to fast forward through a lot of it!). Fortunately for the indiscretions of my youth and senility of my advancing age, there may be worse movies I\'ve seen, but thankfully, I can\'t remember them. The sets appeared to be made with cardboard and finished with cans of spray paint. The special effects looked like a fifth grader\'s C+ diorama set in a shoebox. The movie contained unforgivable gaffs such as when the Marquis shoots and kills his servant. He then immediately gets into a scuffle with his escaping victim, who takes his flintlock and shoots him with it, without the gun having been reloaded! This movie was so bad my DVD copy only had name credits. I guess no company or studio wanted to be incriminated. Though I guess when you film in your garage and make sets out of cardboard boxes a studio isn\'t needed. This movie definitely ranks in my cellar of all time worst movies with such horrible sacrileges as ""The Manipulator"", the worst movie I have ever seen with an actual (one time) Hollywood leading man-Mickey Rooney. The only time I would recommend watching ""The Dungeon of Harrow"" (or ""The Manipulator"" for that matter) would be if someone were to pay you. (I\'m kind of cheap) I\'d have to have $7 or $8 bucks for ""Dungeon"" and at least ten for ""Manipulator"". phil-the never out of the can cinematographer"'],
 ['176,"This movie took me by surprise. The opening credit sequence features nicely done animation. After that, we\'re plunged into a semi-cheesy production, betraying its low budget. The characters, typical American teens, are introduced slowly, with more personal detail than is usually found in movies like this. By the time the shlitz hits the fan, we know each one of the characters, and either like or hate them according to their distinct personalities. It\'s a slow uphill set-up, kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster. Thankfully, once the action kicks in, it\'s full blown old school HORROR! Steve Johnson\'s make-up effects are awesome. Equal in quality to much bigger budgeted films. And the scares are jolting. Kevin Tenney delivers his best movie ever, with heart-stopping surprises and creepy suspenseful set-ups. The tongue-in-cheek, sometimes cheesy, humor marks this film as pure 80s horror, as opposed to the sullen tone of earlier genre fare like ""Night of the Living Dead"" or ""Hills Have Eyes."" But for true horror fans, this one is worth checking out. Play it as the first entry on a double bill with the 1999 remake of ""House on the Haunted Hill."" The set-up and character dynamics are so similar that you really have to wonder what film they were actually remaking?"'],
 ['177,"Though I\'d heard that ""Cama de Gato"" was the worst Brazilian movie of the decade, I watched it giving it a chance; after all, first-time director/producer/writer Alexandre Stockler managed to make his debut feature (shot in video) for just US$ 4,000 and -- though it looks even cheaper -- I can\'t begin to imagine all he went through to finally get it exhibited in theaters with no big sponsors or production companies behind it (then as I watched it I realized why). But whatever chances you\'re ready to give to ""Cama de Gato"", they shrink to zero within 10 minutes: it\'s an unbelievably preposterous, verbose, ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray Brazilian upper-middle class youth as a bunch of spoiled neo-Nazis hooked on bad sex, drugs and violence (and they\'re made to look like closeted gays too), made with no visible trace of talent, imagination, expertise or notion of structure. Visually and aurally, it recalls the worst amateur stuff you can find on YouTube -- only here it lasts NINETY TWO (count\'em) minutes of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness, and it\'s not even funny-bad.<br /><br />We\'ve all seen the story before: bored young guys want to have fun, go partying, take drugs and everything goes wrong -- there\'s gang-rape, spanking, murder, the accidental death (falling down the staircase!!) of the mother of one of the boys, culminating with the boys deciding to burn the corpses of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill. Moral and literal garbage, get it? The film is heavily influenced by Larry Clark (especially ""Kids"" and ""Bully""), but Clark\'s films -- though also moralist and sexploitative -- are high-class masterworks compared to this crap.<br /><br />I don\'t think there was ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his ideas down the audience\'s throat: Stockler grabs us by the collar and tries to force his non-stop moralist rant into our brains by repetition and exhaustion -- you DO get numb-minded with so much babbling, yelling, inept direction, shaky camera and terrible acting going on. Stockler doesn\'t care a bit about technique (the quality of the images, framing, sound recording, soundtrack songs, dialog, sets, editing, etc is uniformly appalling), but he\'s a narcissistic control-freak: he anticipates the criticisms he\'s bound to get by adding subtitles with smartie/cutie comments, and by making the protagonists comment at one point how far-fetched and phony it all is (I could relate to THAT). <br /><br />Despite his megalomaniac ambitions, Stockler seems incapable of giving us a minimum of visual or narrative structure -- he can\'t even decide if he wants gritty realism (hand-held video camera etc) or stylization (repetition of scenes, use of alternate takes, etc). Damn, he can\'t even decide WHERE to put his camera (there\'s use of subjective camera for the THREE leads)! The dialog features some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever; the plot exists simply to justify the director\'s profound hatred for his characters and what they stand for. All you see is a filmmaker being hateful, preachy, condemning, moralizing without the benefit of a minimum of talent (or technique) to go with it.<br /><br />It\'s very disappointing to find Caio Blat in this mess. Certainly one of the most promising young film actors in Brazil, with his sleepy-eyed puppy dog looks and emotional edge that often recall Sal Mineo\'s, Blat can be highly effective under good direction (as in ""Carandiru"", ""Lavoura Arcaica"", ""Proibido Proibir""). Here, he\'s told to go over the top and he has to play with some of the most embarrassingly under-equipped ""actors"" in recent memory. He also enters the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scenes (so goddawful they look rather like web-cam porn).<br /><br />The film opens and ends with real interviews with ""typical"" (?) middle-class youth -- Stockler wants us to take those interviews as ""proof"" of what he\'s trying to preach in fiction. But he blatantly despises and makes fun of his interviewees, selecting a highlight of abject, racist, sexist, stupid statements (which only shows assholes exist everywhere). Stockler wants to prove that Brazilian middle-class youths are ALL present or future fascists BECAUSE they\'re middle-class and enjoy recreational drugs (is he saying all neo-fascists are on drugs?? Or that drugs potentialize fascist behavior?? I couldn\'t tell). <br /><br />With its dogmatic self-righteousness, headache-inducing technique and mind-bending boredom, ""Cama de Gato"" is bad for a 1,000 reasons but, above all, it\'s harmful in a very insidious manner: it gives detractors of Brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument. ""Cama de Gato"" is best unwatched, unmentioned, buried and forgotten."'],
 ['178,"An unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of The Secret of Nimh and The Land Before Time, this was a very touching bittersweet cartoon. I remember this very well from my childhood, it was funny and sad and very beautiful. Well it starts out a bit dark, a dog who escaped the pound, and gets killed by an old friend, ends up in Heaven, and comes back. But it becomes sweet when he befriends an orphaned girl who can talk to animals. Some scenes were a bit scary contrary to other cartoons, like the dream sequence of Charlie, but everything else was okay,and the songs were fair. A memorable role of Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise, I just love that guy, ahehehe. And Judith Barsi of Jaws The Revenge, may God rest her soul, poor girl, she didn\'t deserve to die, but she is in Heaven now, all good people go to Heaven. Overall this is a very good animated movie, a Don Bluth classic enough to put anime and Disney to shame. Recommended for the whole family. And know this, if you have the original video of this, you\'ll find after the movie, Dom DeLuise has a very important and special message, gotta love that guy, ahehehe."'],
 ['179,"This movie was a failure as a comedy and a film in general. It was a very slow paced movie that seemed to be trying to convey a message, but the message was a cliché, hopeless mess to begin with. This movie falls on shameless environmental point, even making a self-righteous point of destroying an SUV and promoting Animal Planet.<br /><br />In sitting through this, I couldn\'t help but notice that Steve Carell got no more than a single truly funny line. The only thing that could hypothetically mark this as a comedy is the pitiful attempt to give comic relief lines to Wanda Sykes. Her character gets frequent, cringe-worthy lines where they absolutely do not fit.<br /><br />Far from the brilliance of Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty blows its whole record-breaking budget on special effect plot devices that turn out to barely advance the plot. The movie spends the first half building up to the construction of Evan\'s ark, but by the end, we learn that the ark was completely meaningless, and the whole plot was a just a vessel for the stupid gags and even stupider messages. The movie concludes when we learn that the whole ark, flood, and animal gathering was just a weak political statement by none other than God. Yes, God was trying to influence politics."'],
 ['180,"It is so gratifying to see one great piece of art converted into another without distortion or contrivance. I had no guess as to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreated as a film worth seeing. If you loved Bulgakov\'s book you would be, understandably, afraid of seeing some misguided interpretation done more for the sake of an art-film project than for actually bringing the story\'s deeper meaning to the screen. There are a couple examples of this with the Master and Margarita. As complex and far-fetched as the story is, the movie leaves out nothing. It is as if the filmmaker read Bulgakov\'s work the same way an orchestral conductor reads a score--with not a note missed. Why can\'t we find such talent here in the U.S. ? So now my favorite book and movie have the same title."'],
 ['181,"This movie is very violent, yet exciting with original dialog and cool characters. It has one of the most moving stories and is very true to life. The movie start off with action star Leo Fong as a down and out cop who is approaching the end of his career, when he stumbles on to a big case that involves corruption, black mail and murder. This is where the killings start. From start finish Fong delivers in this must see action caper. This movie also co-stars Richard Roundtree.<br /><br />I really enjoyed this film as a child but as I got older I realized that this film is pretty cheesy and not very good. I would not recommend this film and the action is very, very bad."'],
 ['182,"The day has finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of Azumi\'s fate as an assassin, fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deeper into the world she rampaged through so mercilessly during the first saga.<br /><br />That\'s as poetical as I\'ll get when talking about Azumi 2: Death or Love, because when I cringed over the heavy sentimentality of House of Flying Daggers and complained about the credibility of Aya Ueto portraying a blood-driven assassin, after watching Azumi 2 I started to appreciate the previously mentioned shortcomings more than ever before.<br /><br />Not only does the determination of each assassin feels sluggish and uninspiring but also many important elements are omitted from the entire experience. In Azumi 1 we saw the assassins use various stealth tactics (which is their number one priority) as well as logic to make easy work of their marks with swift executions and quicker abilities to escape. But I won\'t hold that against this movie too much since the story is slightly tweaked this time around and many more obstacles are planted in Azumi\'s way to prevent her from reaching the warlord and displaying any signs of charisma. By the way, Chiaki is foolishly shelved for the most part of the film and is basically playing a toned down version of Go Go, minus the cool weapon and sense of menace.<br /><br />This brings me to the final blow which is the action, simply disguised in the title as the \'Death\' side of the epic. In the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversaries with flashy looks and even flashier weapons. To no one\'s surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film falls short when each of them start dying too fast and too easily. In Azumi 1, the young assassins were mostly overpowering the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battles and the final showdown between Azumi and Bijomaru in comparison to the fights in Azumi 2 was at least climaxed and worthwhile. Some interesting effects were introduced but they were unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter. I am in no way knocking down the conventional style of samurai films with their quick and realistic battles but characters in both Azumi films were so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rules could have been broken and the action should have been further enriched.<br /><br />The romance side of Azumi is there to fill in time between the fight scenes and unfortunately at the end it serves no purpose nor provides a much needed resolution.<br /><br />As a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movies and animation, I won\'t lie and I\'ll admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first Azumi film, but I\'ll step right up and say that after watching Azumi 2, the original was made to look like a flawless masterpiece. For what it\'s worth, Azumi 2: Death or Love could have gone straight to video, with its invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassins, doing their best to restore the peace, with an unwavering courage to die trying."'],
 ['183,"This has to be the worst piece of garbage I\'ve seen in a while.<br /><br />Heath Ledger is a heartthrob? He looked deformed. I wish I\'d known that he and Naomi Watts are an item in real life because I spent 2 of the longest hours of my life wondering what she saw in him. <br /><br />Orlando Bloom is a heartthrob? With the scraggly beard and deer-in-the-headlights look about him, I can\'t say I agree.<br /><br />Rachel Griffiths was her usual fabulous self, but Geoffrey Rush looked as if he couldn\'t wait to get off the set. <br /><br />I\'m supposed to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderers? This is a far cry from Butch Cassidy, which actually WAS an entertaining film. This was trite, cliche-ridden and boring. We only stayed because we were convinced it would get better. It didn\'t.<br /><br />The last 10-15 minutes or so were unintentionally hilarious. Heath and his gang are holed up in a frontier hotel, and women and children are dying because of their presence. That\'s not funny. But it was funny when they walked out of the hotel with the armor on, because all we could think of was the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I kept waiting for them to say ""I\'ll bite yer leg off!"" We were howling with laughter, as were several other warped members of the audience. When we left, pretty much everyone was talking about what a waste of time this film was.<br /><br />I may not have paid cash to see this disaster (sneak preview), but it certainly wasn\'t free. It cost me 2 hours of my life that I will never get back."'],
 ['184,"A very ordinary made-for-tv product, ""Tyson"" attempts to be a serious biopic while stretching the moments of angst for effect, fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing, and muddling the sensationalistic stuff which is the only thing which makes Tyson even remotely interesting. A lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to boxing fans."'],
 ['185,"I\'m sure deep in the recesses of Jack Blacks mind the character of Nacho Libre is absolutely hilarious but no it isn\'t. You can tell ol Jacks having a whale of a time hammin it up playing a smarmy, slimy Mexican friar with dreams of becoming a wrestler but this movie is a total misfire in just about every single department.<br /><br />I just sat there through most of the movie thinking ""Is this supposed to be funny"" and ""This is the guy from Tenacious D right?"". The truth is this film has NOTHING to offer. AT ALL! It\'s a lousy script with crappy characters and really naff acting and direction. You\'ll watch endless moments where you think something funny is surely about to happen but it just doesn\'t. I was bored stupid about 10 minutes in but though it would surely pick up. It didn\'t. 90 minutes later I\'d barely managed to stave off an aneurism it was that painful.<br /><br />It\'s like, remember years ago when you\'d see anything with your fave actor in it, even some of their really early pap from before they were famous, and you\'d be really embarrassed that said actor was actually in such a load of plop. Yeah it\'s like that.<br /><br />I\'ve enjoyed some of Jack Black\'s earlier movies like Shallow Hall and I\'m really looking forward to seeing Pick of Destiny but come on man. If you do this to us again Jack I\'m gonna have to come round there and hammer your kneecaps or something. At the least give you a serious talking to.<br /><br />I know it\'s a cliché but this is one of the worst movies I\'ve ever seen and for so many reasons...."'],
 ['186,"I haven\'t read the Anne Rice novel that this movie was based on, but who knows, maybe reading the book is cheaper than renting QUEEN OF THE DAMNED and is probably better for your health. It isn\'t that this movie is necessarily bad for your health, but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercises the active part of your brain more so than this movie. You can count the number of pages by Anne Rice that I\'ve read on one hand, but after seeing this movie and Interview with a Vampire, I get the feeling that she writes really good novels. The plots for both movies hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history.<br /><br />Still, Stuart Townsend\'s voice-over narration gets a heck of a lot more annoying than Brad Pitt\'s vampire narrative ever did, and you can tell that QUEEN OF THE DAMNED\'s limited production resources barely give enough flesh to the Anne Rice storyline. While Interview decided to go with lace and elegance, QUEEN relies on low budget special effects that try really hard to be taken seriously. One can see that the original novel had potential as a movie and that the production team focused its attention in the wrong places. The costumes and rock & roll stage could have been replaced with more blood and an eerier soundtrack.<br /><br />However, I\'ll give credit where credit is due. The soundtrack is excellent. Korn and Disturbed had me down with the sickness bobbing my noggin like Butthead.<br /><br />The film opens with a very cool Goth-rock zoom & splice montage, but after the first ten minutes or so, the directing degenerates quickly. It\'s as if the movie was so long that the director realized that there wasn\'t enough time and enough money to do an Anne Rice novel justice. What results are some mediocre vampire scenes and plenty of cheesy special effects. Unfortunately, QUEEN OF THE DAMNED fails to do the genre justice just as its John Carpenter counterparts fail to impress. Where are the yellow contacts? Where\'s the pale blue make-up? Scene after scene, I shook my head reminiscing about the days of Salem\'s Lot and Fright Night when low budget was done right.<br /><br />There are redeeming qualities though that save this movie from being garbage. Props to Aaliyah, and may her soul forever rest in peace. She might have become a renowned actress, had her life not been taken from us so prematurely, for she did give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dancing. Did I mention that the soundtrack was good? Let\'s see, what else can I say? It wasn\'t too long. The Anne Rice novel could have easily been a three hour movie if an ambitious director like Francis Ford Coppola got his hands on it. There are a few twists and turns here and there in the plot. But all in all it was a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of second-rate vampire movies out there. The director of this movie went on to direct a new Battlestar Galactica mini series if that tells you anything.<br /><br />JY<br /><br />Jimboduck-dot-com"'],
 ['187,"While I count myself as a fan of the Babylon 5 television series, the original movie that introduced the series was a weak start. Although many of the elements that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series are there, the pace of The Gathering is slow, the makeup somewhat inadequate, and the plot confusing. Worse, the characterization in the premiere episode is poor. Although the ratings chart shows that many fans are willing to overlook these problems, I remember The Gathering almost turned me off off what soon grew into a spectacular series."'],
 ['188,"Leonard Maltin gave this film a dreaded BOMB rating in his 1995 Movie and Video Guide. What film was he looking at? Kid Vengeance or God\'s Gun are bombs. This film is a delight. It is fantastic. It is literate. It is well mounted. It is beautiful photographed, making a brilliant use of colors. Right from the opening scene the film grabs your attention and tips you off that this film is a well-done satire of the whole Spaghetti Western genre. The film is played for laughs from the beginning to the end with homages to Douglas Fairbanks, 77 Sunset Strip, and the famous showdown in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Edd Byrnes, George Hilton, and Gilbert Roland work brilliantly together to make the satire work. It is too bad Mr. Maltin rated this film so poorly as it is undeserved. One can only guess as to his reason. I suspect that he missed the point of the movie entirely and was expecting something more serious than this film is meant to be. Kudos belong to everyone involved in this project. This film is a little gem waiting to be discovered by people who care about literate movies and appreciate satire."'],
 ['189,"I don\'t believe there has ever been a more evil or wicked television program to air in the United States as The 700 Club. They are today\'s equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan of the 20th century. Their hatred of all that is good and sweet and human and pure is beyond all ability to understand. Their daily constant attacks upon millions and millions of Americans, as well as billions of humans the world over, who don\'t happen to share their bigoted, cruel, monstrous, and utterly insane view of humanity is beyond anything television has ever seen. The lies they spout and the ridiculous lies they try to pass off as truth, such as the idea of ""life after death"" or ""god"" or ""sin"" or ""the devil"" is so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill, so lost are they in their fantasy. Sane people know that religion is a drug and shouldn\'t let themselves get addicted to that type of fantasy. However, The 700 Club is in a class by itself. They are truly a cult. While I believe in freedom of speech, they way they spread hatred, lies, disinformation, and such fantastic ideas is beyond all limits. I hope that one day the American Psychiatric Association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way, people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all. Treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country, as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion. The 700 Club though, is even more horrible as it rises to the legal definition of \'cult\' but due to The 700 Club\'s vast wealth (conned daily from the millions of Americans locked in their deceitful grip) they are above the law in this country. For those of you who have seen the movie ""The Matrix"" you know that movie was a metaphor for religion on earth: the evil ones who are at the top of each of the religions who drain the ones they have trapped and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purposes, and those millions who are held in a death sleep and slowly being drained of their life force represent those many people who belong to religions and who have lost all ability to perceive what is really going on around them.<br /><br />In less civil times, the good townsfolk would have run such monsters as those associated with The 700 Club out of town with torches and pitchforks. But in today\'s world where people have lost all choice in their choices of television that is presented to them, we have no way to rid ourselves of the 700 Club plague. <br /><br />The television ratings system and the ""V"" chip on TV\'s should also have a rating called ""R"" for religion, so that rational people and concerned parents could easily screen such vile intellectual and brutal emotional rape, such as presented by The 700 Club every day all over our country, from themselves and their children."'],
 ['190,"If you wish to see Shakespeare\'s masterpiece in its entirety, I suggest you find this BBC version. Indeed it is overlong at four and a half hours but Jacoby\'s performance as Hamlet and Patrick Stewart\'s as Claudius are well worth the effort.<br /><br />It never ceases to amaze me how clear ""Hamlet"" is when you see it in its length and order as set down by the Bard. Every film version of ""Hamlet"" has tinkered with its structure. Olivier concentrated on Hamlet\'s indecision, Gibson on his passions. Jacoby is able to pull all of these aspects of Hamlet\'s character together with the aid of Shakespeare\'s full script.<br /><br />Why does Hamlet not kill Claudius immediately? Hamlet says ""I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious..."" Hamlet is extremely upset, not only for his father\'s death (and suspected murder), or his mother\'s marriage to his uncle, but also, and mostly, because Claudius has usurped the throne belonging to Hamlet. He is furious at his mother for marrying Claudius (marriages between royal kin is not unknown; done for political reasons) but that her marriage solidified Claudius\' claim to the throne before he could return from Wittenburg to claim it for himself. He is, therefore, impotent to do anything about it. And this is true even after he hears his father\'s ghost cry vengeance. He cannot simply kill the King or he will lose the throne in doing so. He must ""out"" the King\'s secret and here is the tragedy! At the moment Hamlet is successful in displaying Claudius\' guilt in public, he has opportunity to kill him and does not. WHY? He wants it ALL! He wants revenge, the throne AND the damnation of Claudius\' soul in hell. Hamlet OVERREACHES himself in classic tragic form. His own HUBRIS is his undoing. He kills Polonius thinking it is Claudius and the rest of the play spirals down to the final deaths of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Laertes, Gertrude, Claudius and Hamlet himself."'],
 ['191,"The Golden Door is the story of a Sicilian family\'s journey from the Old World (Italy) to the New World (America). Salvatore, a middle-aged man who hopes for a more fruitful life, persuades his family to leave their homeland behind in Sicily, take the arduous journey across the raging seas, and inhabit a land whose rivers supposedly flow with milk. In short, they believe that by risking everything for the New World their dreams of prosperity will be fulfilled. The imagery of the New World is optimistic, clever and highly imaginative. Silver coins rain from heaven upon Salvatore as he anticipates how prosperous he\'ll be in the New World; carrots and onions twice the size of human beings are shown being harvested to suggest wealth and health, and rivers of milk are swam in and flow through the minds of those who anticipate what the New World will yield. All of this imagery is surrealistically interwoven with the characters and helps nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfolds to the audience. The contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the Sicilian people helps provide hope while they\'re aboard the ship to the New World.<br /><br />The voyage to the New World is shot almost in complete darkness, especially when the seas tempests roar and nearly kill the people within. The dark reality I referred to is the Old World and the journey itself to the New World. The Old World is depicted as somewhat destitute and primitive. This is shown as Salvatore scrambles together to sell what few possessions he has left (donkeys, goats and rabbits) in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he needs to enter the New World. I thought it was rather interesting that these people believed they had to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accepted in the New World; it was almost suggesting that people had to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognized as morally fit. The most powerful image in the film was when the ship is leaving their homeland and setting sail for the New World. This shot shows an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another, depicting the separation between the Old and New Worlds. This shot also suggested that the people were being torn away from all that was once familiar, wanted to divorce from their previous dark living conditions and were desirous to enter a world that held more promise.<br /><br />As later contrasted to how the New World visually looks, the Old World seems dark and bleak as compared to the bright yet foggy New World. I thought it was particularly interesting that the Statue of Liberty is never shown through the fog at Ellis Island, but is remained hidden. I think this was an intentional directing choice that seemed to negate the purpose of what the Statue of Liberty stands for: ""Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry"" seemed like a joke in regards to what these people had to go through when arriving at the New World. Once they arrived in the Americas, they had to go through rather humiliating tests (i.e. delousing, mathematics, puzzles, etc.) in order to prove themselves as fit for the New World. These tests completely changed the perspectives of the Sicilian people. In particular, Salvatore\'s mother had the most difficult time subjecting herself to the rules and laws of the New World, feeling more violated than treated with respect. Where their dreams once provided hope and optimism for what the New World would provide, the reality of what the New World required was disparaging and rude. Salvatore doesn\'t change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the New World would be like versus what the New World actually was seemed disappointing to him. This attitude was shared by mostly everyone who voyaged with him. Their character arcs deal more with a cherished dream being greatly upset and a dark reality that had to be accepted.<br /><br />The film seems to make a strong commentary on preparing oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society. Cleanliness, marriage and intelligence are prerequisites. Adhering to these rules is to prevent disease, immoral behavior and stupidity from dominating. Perhaps this is a commentary on how America has learned from the failings of other nations and so was purposefully established to secure that these plagues did not infest and destruct. Though the rules seemed rigid, they were there to protect and help the people flourish."'],
 ['192,"Nifty little episode played mainly for laughs, but with clever dollop of suspense. Somehow a Martian has snuck aboard a broken-down bus on its way to nowhere, but which passenger is it, (talk about your illegal immigrants!). All-star supporting cast, from wild-eyed Jack Elam (hamming it up shamelessly), to sexy Jean Willes (if she\'s the Martian, then I say let\'s open the borders!), to cruel-faced John Hoyt (the most obvious suspect), along with familiar faces John Archer and Barney Phillips (and a nice turn from Bill Kendis as the bus driver). Makes for a very entertaining half-hour even if the action is confined to a single set."'],
 ['193,"I had before a feeling of mislike for all Russian films. But, after seeing this film I haven´t. This is a unique masterpiece made by the best director ever lived in the USSR. He knows the art of film making, and can use it very well. If you find this movie: buy or copy it!"'],
 ['194,"I watched mask in the 80\'s and it\'s currently showing on Fox Kids in the UK (very late at night). I remember thinking that it was kinda cool back in the day and had a couple of the toys too but watching it now bores me to tears. I never realised before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really was. It\'s just plain awful! It is no where near in the same league as The Transformers, He-man or Thundercats and was very quickly forgot by nearly everyone once it stopped being made. I only watch it on Fox Kids because Ulysses 31 comes on straight after it (that\'s if mask doesn\'t put me to sleep first). One of the lesser 80\'s cartoons that i hope to completely forget about again once it finishes airing on Fox Kids!"'],
 ['195,"Phantasm ....Class. Phantasm II.....awesome. Phantasm III.....erm.....terrible.<br /><br />Even though i would love to stick up for this film, i quite simply can\'t. The movie seems to have ""sold out"". First bad signs come when the video has trailers for other films at the start (something the others did not). Also too many pointless characters, prime examples the kid (who is a crack shot, funny initially but soon you want him dead), the woman who uses karate to fight off the balls (erm not gonna work, or rather shouldn\'t) and the blooming zombies (what the hell are they doing there, there no link to them in the other Phatasms). Also there is a severe lack of midgets running about.<br /><br />The only good bits are the cracking start and, of course, Reggie B.<br /><br />(Possible SPOILER coming Up)<br /><br />To me this film seems like a filler between II and IV as extra characters just leave at the end so can continue with main 4 in IV.<br /><br />Overall very, VERY disappointing. 3 / 10"'],
 ['196,"Ludicrous. Angelic 9-year-old Annakin turns into whiny brat 19-year-old Annakin, who somehow seems appealing to Amidala, 5 years his senior. Now 22-year-old Jedi warrior hero Annakin has a couple of bad dreams, and so takes to slaughtering children, his friends, and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convinced him a) his precious wife might really die, and b) only he can prevent this. Ludicrosity squared.<br /><br />I think the people who like this movie are not paying attention. The story is ridiculous. The characters are unbelievable (literally, not the perverted sense of ""fantastic"", ""wonderful"", etc.).<br /><br />Obi-wan Kenobi was the wise and kind anchor for the entire series, but in the climax, he hacks off Annakin\'s legs, lets him burn in the lava, and leaves him to suffer. Doesn\'t anyone think that\'s a little out of character? Not to mention it was pretty stupid to take a chance on him living, as it turns out.<br /><br />I was expecting at least a story that showed consistent characters with plausible motivations. None of that here. The story could have been written by a 10 year old.<br /><br />Oh yeah, the CGI is pretty cool."'],
 ['197,"Scotty (Grant Cramer, who would go on to star in the great B-movie ""Killer Klowns from outer space"") agrees to help three middle-aged guys learn how to \'dialog\' the ladies in this bad \'80\'s comedy. Not bad as in \'80\'s lingo, which meant good. Bad as in bad. With no likable characters, including, but not limited to, a kid who\'s the freakiest looking guy since ""Friday the 13th part 2""\' a girl who leads men on and then goes into hissy fits when they want to touch her, and the token fat slob, because after all what would an \'80\'s sex comedy be without a fat slob?? Well this one has two. This movie is pretty much the bottom of the barrel of \'80\'s sex comedies. And then came the sequel thus deepening said proverbial barrel.<br /><br />My Grade:D- <br /><br />Eye Candy: too numerous to count, you even see the freaky looking kid imagined with boobs at on point, think ""Bachlor Party"" but not as funny, and VERY disturbing.<br /><br />Where I saw it: Comcast Moviepass"'],
 ['198,"If you keep rigid historical perspective out of it, this film is actually quite entertaining. It\'s got action, adventure and romance, and one of the premiere casting match-ups of the era with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the lead roles. As evident on this board, the picture doesn\'t pass muster with purists who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story telling. To get beyond that, one need only put aside the history book, and enjoy the story as if it were a work of fiction. I know, I know, that\'s hard to do when you consider Custer\'s Last Stand at the Little Big Horn and it\'s prominence in the history of post Civil War America. So I guess there\'s an unresolved quandary with the picture, no matter how you look at it.<br /><br />There\'s a lot to take in here though for the picture\'s two hour plus run time. Custer\'s arrival at West Point is probably the first head scratcher, riding up as he does in full military regalia. The practical joke by Sharp (Arthur Kennedy) putting him up in the Major\'s headquarters probably should have gotten them both in trouble.<br /><br />Ironically, a lot of scenes in this military film play for comedy, as in Custer\'s first meeting with Libby Bacon, and subsequent encounters that include tea reader Callie (Hattie McDaniel). I hadn\'t noticed it before in other films, but McDaniel reminded me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the Forties, Mantan Moreland. So much so that in one scene it looked like it might have been Moreland hamming it up in a dress. With that in mind, the owl scene was a hoot too.<br /><br />As for Flynn, it\'s interesting to note that a year earlier, he portrayed J.E.B. Stuart opposite Ronald Reagan\'s depiction of General Custer in ""Santa Fe Trail"", both vying for the attention of none other than Olivia de Havilland. In that film, Reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of Custer that history remembers, while in Flynn\'s portrayal here it\'s more than evident. But it doesn\'t come close to that of Richard Mulligan\'s take on the military hero in 1970\'s ""Little Big Man"". Let\'s just say that one was a bit over the top.<br /><br />The better take away the picture had for me was the manner in which Custer persevered to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture. That and his loyalty to the men he led in battle along with the discipline he developed over the course of the story. Most poignant was that final confrontation with arch rival Sharp just before riding into the Little Big Horn, in which he declared that hell or glory was entirely dependent on one\'s point of view. Earlier, a similar remark might have given us the best insight of all into Custer\'s character, when he stated - ""You take glory with you when it\'s your time to go""."'],
 ['199,"The film quickly gets to a major chase scene with ever increasing destruction. The first really bad thing is the guy hijacking Steven Seagal would have been beaten to pulp by Seagal\'s driving, but that probably would have ended the whole premise for the movie.<br /><br />It seems like they decided to make all kinds of changes in the movie plot, so just plan to enjoy the action, and do not expect a coherent plot. Turn any sense of logic you may have, it will reduce your chance of getting a headache.<br /><br />I does give me some hope that Steven Seagal is trying to move back towards the type of characters he portrayed in his more popular movies."'],
 ['200,"Interesting and short television movie describes some of the machinations surrounding Jay Leno\'s replacing Carson as host of the Tonight Show. Film is currently very topical given the public drama surrounding Conan O\'Brien and Jay Leno.<br /><br />The film does a good job of sparking viewers\' interest in the events and showing some of the concerns of the stakeholders, particularly of the NBC executives. The portrayal of Ovitz was particularly compelling and interesting, I thought.<br /><br />Still, many of the characters were only very briefly limned or touched upon, and some of the acting seemed perfunctory. Nevertheless, an interesting story."'],
 ['201,"Any film about WWII made during WWII by a British production company has no latter-day peer in my opinion, respectfully. The confluence of so many things near and dear to my heart are in At Dawn We Dive: as a descendant of Admiral Horatio Nelson and student of all aspects of World War Two and particularly naval warfare, I favor depictions of subs and action in the North Atlantic and especially those which include the German side of things. For those unacquainted with target priorities, an attack on an enemy warship is the greatest event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here. The pacing is deliberate and typical of the works coming out of the Ealing, Rank and British-Gaumont studios back in the day: frankly I prefer its quieter, more cerebral approach for its humanity and realism that engages far better than any over-produced Hollywood movie ever could. This reminds me of Powell and Pressburger\'s The 49th Parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive Eric Portman, a favorite of mine. John Mills receives second billing and a smaller font in the titles, so this is clearly meant to be Mr. Portman\'s film but the whole cast shines. As for the title sequence, am I the only one who is utterly charmed by Gainsborough Production\'s lovely pre-CGI Gainsborough Girl?"'],
 ['202,"A brilliant horror film. Utterly gruesome and very scary too. The Thing is a remake from John Carpenter, but please, do not let that put you off this film. It is simply brilliant. The start of the film has the alien\'s spacecraft hurtling towards the Earth centuries before mankind walked the planet with an explosion that unleashes the film\'s title in amazing shining white and blue stating \'THE THING\'. One of the best opening credits for a horror film ever.<br /><br />The cast of actors who play the twelve man science team are a joy to behold and the locations for the setting of their Station in Antartica is visually impressive on DVD widescreen. It must have been great in the cinema. I regret not seeing this on the big screen.<br /><br />Kurt Russell is excellent as Macready, the helicopter pilot who reluctantly becomes the leader of the men trying to combat a lethal shape changing monstrosity that has infiltrated their base. All the actors in this are really good and create terrific scenes of paranoia and tension as to who the thing has infected. My favourite scene in the whole film has to be when Macready tests everyone thats still alive for infection, it is tense, scary and finally spectacular. I love it because its funny as well.<br /><br />Special mention must go to Rob Bottin for his truly amazing make up effects and shape changing designs of the alien itself. If he didn\'t get an Oscar for best visual effects at the time then he damn well should have. This is also debatable as to whether this is John Carpenter\'s greatest film...its certainly a gruesome masterpiece.<br /><br />Wait for a cold winter night. Get some Budweiser from the fridge. Sit down and watch The Thing, a horror masterpiece of flame throwing heroes fighting shape changing towers of gore and slime.<br /><br />Utterly brilliant.<br /><br />Ten Out Of Ten."'],
 ['203,"I absolutely love this film. Everything about it. It almost felt like watching me and my friends on screen. The way this movie was filmed was a pure masterpiece, very original and creative. I related to these characters and even had the same thoughts as some. I\'m really glad I ran across this movie. If only there were more genius\' like justin out there!"'],
 ['204,"No one can say I wasn\'t warned as I have read the reviews (both user & external), but like most of us attracted to horror movies... curiosity got this cat. (Come on, we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room, but you know that\'s horror aficionados are always dying to know what\'s in there even if we know it\'ll be bad).<br /><br />The bottom line is that this movie left me angry. Not because it pretends to be real (who cares...gimmicks are allowed), or because the actors and dialogue are so lame (is this an unusual event in horror movies?) or even because the movie is so bad (and I am being polite here). What really got me mad is that the film is not only a rip off of BWP, but also a half-hearted lazy rip off at that.<br /><br />I don\'t believe in sacred cows and if they thought they could outdo BWP then kudos to them, but they didn\'t even try. The movie was made with little effort or care and that is the most unforgivable sin in horror (or any) movie!"'],
 ['205,"A new way to enjoy Goldsworthy\'s work, Rivers and Tides allows fans to see his work in motion. Watching Goldsworthy build his pieces, one develops an appreciation for every stone, leaf, and thorn that he uses. Goldsworthy describes how the flow of life, the rivers, and the tides inspires and affects his work. Although, I was happy the film covered the majority of Goldsworthy\'s pieces (no snowballs), I do feel it was a bit long. The film makers did a wonderful job of bringing Goldsworthy\'s work to life, and created a beautiful film that was a joy to watch."'],
 ['206,"If you liked William Hickey in ""Prizzi\'s Honor"", he resurrects his character, as Don Anthony in ""Mob Boss"". This is a very weak ""Godfather"" satire with few laughs. Stuart Whitman looks perplexed as to what he\'s doing in this schlock-fest? Morgan Fairchild\'s performance is one of the better efforts in the movie, and that alone is not a good sign for sure. Eddie Deezen vacillates between ""Three Stooges"" slapstick and a bad Woody Allen imitation. Fatally flawed, ""Mob Boss"" is so derivative that boredom quickly overcomes comedy and the film drags on with car chases, hidden weapons in a restaurant bathroom, and numerous other nonsense. - MERK"'],
 ['207,"I have seen most, if not all of the Laurel & Hardy classic films. I have always enjoyed there comical stupidly, even after watching it over and over again. This new film attempts to bring back the classic with two new actors who resemble both Laurel & Hardy, however fails miserably for various reasons. One of which is how out of place their cloths are (still early 20th century) however are both portrayed in the 90\'s setting. Some of the former dialogue was brought back, however it also fails miserably to come close to the classic series. This film could very well be the worst film I have ever seen and should be pulled off the shelf and locked away forever. The real Laurel & Hardy are surly spinning in their graves at such a bad imitation."'],
 ['208,"I just started watching The Show around July. I found it by mistake, I was channel surfing during a Vacation. It is a great show, I just wish it wasn\'t on so late at night. It\'s on at 12:30 AM. As a working person it makes it hard to watch all the time.<br /><br />I read some comments. I did not agree with the late one about not growing up in the 60\'s and not believing that this stuff can happen.<br /><br />I grew up in the 60\'s. I\'m Hispanic and I had a ""White"" boyfriend plus we had black friends in High School. I believe people get along because of their interests and personalities and it has nothing to do with being a certain race or color.<br /><br />I can\'t wait till the show goes on DVD so I can buy it. This way I can see it from the beginning."'],
 ['209,"This film is well cast, often silly and always funny. Lemmon and Matthau work their tag team magic to perfection. Brent Spiner is just a riot as the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director. From the first ""hare krishna"" to the last ""you ought pay him fifty bucks for calling you two studs"", I thought this was a totally entertaining fun comedy"'],
 ['210,"I have just given a 10 for Thieves Highway, I mention this for two reasons one to prove I\'m not a git who only gives bad reviews but 2 because the theme of the film has the same thread namely the falling in love with a woman of the night.<br /><br />We all know pretty Woman is a chick flick but you can\'t avoid them all, they\'ll eventually get you. Pretty Woman for me does two things, two terrible horrible ghastly things, firstly it portrays prostitution as a career more akin to that of a dancer, you know with absolutely great friends, leg warmers lots of giggling, borrowing each others make up. You see in the reality of Pretty Woman the prostitute and this is a street walker Prostitute we\'re talking about here, has a great life, she\'s healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament. My feeling is this \'happy Hooker\' type protagonist is a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character, which for me begs the question if you make a movie about a type of person but are too chicken scared to adorn that player with the characteristics familiar to that role then why do it? If I make a film about a chef but don\'t want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place? By bailing out and turning the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story misses the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social questions that it could have, what a cop out, really really lame. <br /><br />Secondly, \'Pretty Woman\' insults romance itself, Edward Lewis played by Richard Gere has no clue how to seduce or romance this \'lady\' that is without his plastic friend, yep don\'t leave home without it, especially if you are a moron in a suit who has no imagination. 8 out of 10 of his romantic moments involve splashing cash in one way or another, even when he first meets her it\'s the Lotus Esprit turbo that does all the work, necklaces here diamonds there limos over there, money money money, where\'s the charm? where\'s the charisma, don\'t mention that attempt at the piano please.<br /><br />Girls who like this film will also be girls who like shopping more than most. Guys who like this film will not even have realized that old Eddy has less charm than a calculator, as they probably don\'t either so it wont have registered. More importantly anyone who likes this film will hate \'Thieves Highway\' a wonderful story of which part is based on the same subject.<br /><br />I\'ll finish on a song:<br /><br />Pretty woman hangin round the street Pretty woman, the kind I like to treat Pretty woman, I don\'t believe you You\'re not the truth No one could spend as much as you Mercy<br /><br />Pretty woman, wont you pardon me Pretty woman, I couldn\'t help but see Pretty woman, and you look lovely as can be do you lack imagination just like me<br /><br />Pretty woman, shop a while Pretty woman, talk a while Pretty woman, sell your smile to me Pretty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah Pretty woman, look my way Pretty woman, say you\'ll stay with me..and I\'ll pay you..I\'ll treat you right"'],
 ['211,"This movie was terrible. The plot was terrible and unbelievable. I cannot recommend this movie. Where did this movie come from? This movie was not funny and wasted the talent of some great actors and actresses including: Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates, Joey Lauren Adams, and Jennifer Tilly."'],
 ['212,"I strongly dislike this show. I mean, like, basically everyone at that school is perfect, and rich, and I doubt a boarding school would look as cool as that. And why do they suddenly allow girls into the school? Isn\'t that just a little weird? anyways, Jamie Lynn spears CANNOT act. She always has the same facial expression, which really annoys me. She is basically emotionless, and all the guys seem to like her.<br /><br />and shouldn\'t chase tell her he likes her? its not that hard! really! None of this show is real life, and she isn\'t ""a girl like me"" because majority of the regular girls do NOT go to boarding school, do not have designer clothes, and do NOT live by the beach.<br /><br />fake fake fake."'],
 ['213,"Normally I don\'t like series at all. They\'re all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast.<br /><br />These series however, are well played, the story follows through all episodes and even if you miss one, the story will still be catching your mind.<br /><br />The episodes are all filmed on a hospital and takes you further and further in to the mysteries of dark and old secrets that lies just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital."'],
 ['214,"holy Sh*t this was god awful. i sat in the theater for for an hour and ten minutes and i thought i was going to gouge out my eyes much in the manor Oedipus Rex. dear god. this movie deserves no more credit than anything done by a middle school film buff. please save your money, this movie can offer you nothing. unless you enjoy sideshows and sleeping in movie theaters. you know, h3ll, bring your girlfriend and make things interesting. you will be the only ones there anyway. F@ck this slide show. <br /><br />Ye Be Warned.<br /><br />I recommend not watching this.<br /><br />hello.<br /><br />how are you?<br /><br />I\'m pretty good.<br /><br />enjoying this day?<br /><br />I am.<br /><br />this comment was one-hundred times more fun than pretending to watch this daym movie. this is sad."'],
 ['215,"This movie is without a doubt a perfect 10/10.. for all you people out there who are rating this film low grades because it has no ""good plot"" or anything like that, thats ridiculous, saying that a Jackie Chan movie is bad because of its plot is like saying a porn movie is bad because it has no plot! you watch Jackie Chan FOR THE FIGHT SCENES, for the action its not so much concentrated on a good story or anything like that, if you look at how he makes movies and compare it to other American films from that era and even later you will realize that Jackie Chan\'s movies had over the top fights scenes and not really good plots while American movies had good plots but shitty action scenes compared to what Jackie Chan was doing at the time. Porn is watched for the porn, Jackie Chan is watched for the ACTION, i think you people are rating it bad because there\'s no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it is a good movie is a movie that can keep me entertained. Sure the middle of the movie was boring, VERY BORING, but put it this way the rest which is all action scenes and stunts very much do pay for all of that. This did change the way how American action movies were created, they have even stollen scenes from this movie. If you want a true man, a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of Jackie Chan\'s, hes pure in everyway. He literally makes American movies look like a walk in the park, and even in TODAYS movies. American movies rely so much on special effects and safety wires and stunt doubles and so much more. Police Story and many other Jackie Chan films are pieces of work of a true entertainer who just goes all out and is very talented in what he can do. a masterpiece"'],
 ['216,"I saw this at the London Film Festival last night, apparently the shorter version. James McNally\'s summary of the content of the film is very good. Nossiter very deftly blends his investigation of the wine business into wider concerns about globalisation, homogenisation, the effect of the mass media, the power of capital and the need for diversity.<br /><br />The film is shot on hand-held DV which some might find offputting, but which does enable Nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasions which probably would not have been possible using more conventional equipment.<br /><br />Despite the sprawling feel of the film, the editing is very sharp, not only giving us a parade of the world\'s dogs, but also undercutting a number of interviewees\' comments with somewhat contradictory visual images, and giving others sufficient rope to hang themselves. To a degree this evoked Michael Moore\'s recent work (although Nossiter operates in a more subtle way), but probably the roots of the film go back to Marcel Ophuls\' ""The Sorrow and the Pity"", both in the way the film is constructed and in the emergence of \'salt of the earth\' French peasants as the stars. De Montille pere et fils were present at the LFF screening and answered questions afterwards. We do indeed all need a little disorder - bravo Hubert!<br /><br />Overall an excellent film with implications that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves as people, and organise our world."'],
 ['217,"I can\'t believe this movie managed to get such a relatively high rating of 6! It is barely watchable and unbelievably boring, certainly one of the worst films I have seen in a long, long time.<br /><br />In a no-budget way, it reminded me of Star Wars Episodes I and II for the sheer impression that you are watching a total creative train wreck.<br /><br />This film should be avoided at all costs. It\'s one of those ""festival films"" that only please the pseudo-intellectuals because they are so badly made those people think it makes it ""different"", therefore good.<br /><br />Bad film-making is not ""different"", it\'s just bad film-making."'],
 ['218,"This movie really woke me up, like it wakes up the main male character of this bravely different movie from his life slumber.<br /><br />This guy John (Ben Chaplin) leads his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial English town, until the stunningly gorgeous, wild, girl-to-die-for Nadia (Nicole Kidman), ordered by email from Russia, enters his life to become his beloved wife, by Johns plan. However a glitch turns up - Nadia does not speak a word of Johns language. Although calm and emotionless on the outside, John becomes so interested in beautiful Nadia that instead of using the full refund policy of the matching service, he buys her a dictionary to start the communication process.<br /><br />What happens henceforth in the plot really shakes poor John from his slumber of a decently-paid safe-feeling clerk into a decision-making decently thinking action figure, giving the viewer a subliminal message ""you would have probably acted likewise"".<br /><br />Kidman, Cassel & Kassovitz make a great team acting Russians and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing, ""almost"" only due to the slight accent present in their Russian dialogues, however slight enough to amaze a native Russian by the hard work done to get the words sound right. Nicole Kidman proves her talent once again by playing a character quite different from the previous roles, at least from the cultural background.<br /><br />The pace of the film is fast and captivating, and you certainly are not ready to quit watching when the end titles appear, you rather feel that you\'re in the middle of the plot, and are left with a desire to see the sequel as soon as it comes out.<br /><br />My advice is to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy. To sum it up, it has an unusual plot, great acting, and ideas below the surface. Like the idea of the ""rude awakening"" from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a Society\'s machine, the life which members of the Fight Club were so keen to quit and the machine of which Pink Floyd sings (""Welcome to the machine!""). I bet that in the end, John was rather off with Sophia on their way to the unknown than not having met her at all.<br /><br />Thank you, writers, for the great story, and everyone else for this great movie! Please make a sequel! And you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever, because the authenticity of the place is irrelevant to the 99.9999 percent of the potential viewers, I am sure of it."'],
 ['219,"Ed Wood rides again. The fact that this movie was made should give any young<br /><br />aspiring film maker hope. Any screenplay you might have thought of using to<br /><br />line a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad. Do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of Tylenol or Rolaids. Watching this<br /><br />movie made me realize that Boa vs. Python was not that bad after all. It probably would have been better to do this movie in Claymation as at least that way no actor would have had to take credit for being in this film. It is understandable why this director has so many aliases. There is a bright side to watching this movie in that if you can get someone to bring you a bag of chips, then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surrounds you enabling you to<br /><br />make your toward your TV set\'s cocoon of cheese that surrounds it."'],
 ['220,"This sports a nice, deep cast but for a thriller you better deliver more than name actors and talk. The first third of this movie was nothing but talk, and more talk. Most of that was a bunch of women bitching about everything to each other. <br /><br />The first five listed actors in here are women so that verifies that it\'s really a ""chick flick"" and little else. This probably plays on the Lifetime network.<br /><br />There was a quick murder scene and then more talk. By halfway through, they had lost me. <br /><br />By the way, Sally Field looked about 15 years old in here."'],
 ['221,"I think this movie has got it all. It has really cool music that I can never get out of my head. It has cool looking characters. IS REALLY funny(you know, the kind that you\'ll crack up on the ground and you\'ll keep saying the funny parts over every day for three weeks).Despite the bad acting, bad cgi, and bad story(about cops going after a robot), its really cool. Its one of those movies you and all of your family can watch, get together, eat pizza, laugh like crazy, and watch it two more times.<br /><br />There are so many funny parts, like when Kurt was trying to get Edison\'s attention and gave him the finger, and then threw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball. On that part, I kept saying ""Remember, Remember?""to my cousins who saw it and showed them what happened. There was also a really funny part when Edision ran into the room and Kurt was there(just before they fought) and Kurt was talking about his ""Strange dream"" and how he was ""Superman"". I LOVED that part, although it has been a while since I saw it, so I don\'t remember that part. Everything the actors said were funny, like how Kurt says, ""I worship you, like a GOD!"" to the robot.<br /><br />Although there was some bad things, in all it was a GREAT movie. Man, I can\'t stop laughing. I wish I had that movie. );"'],
 ['222,"Howard (Kevin Kline) teaches English at the high school in a small Indiana city. He is finally getting married to Emily (Joan Cusack), much to his parents delight. The town is abuzz, too, because one of its own, Cameron (Matt Dillon) has been nominated for an acting Oscar. Everyone, including Howard and Emily, is watching the Academy Awards on television as Cameron is declared the winner! In his acceptance speech, Cameron announces that he was able to fulfill his role as a gay military man, in part, because of lessons he learned from a gay teacher he had in high school. You guessed it, its Howard! But, Howard has never ""come out""; in fact, he believes he is straight! With the whole town, and members of the media, waiting and observing the happenings, will Howard and Emily go ahead and get married? Or, is Howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony? This is a wonderful, funny, and humane film about a gay man and his situation. As the man-who-did-not-realize-he-was-gay, Kline is excellent and touching. The rest of the cast is equally fine, with Cusack a stitch as the mixed-up fiancé and Dillon, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, Tom Selleck, and others on hand to delight the audience as well. The costumes are very nice and the setting in the lovely Indiana heartland is beautiful. Then, too, the script, the direction, and the production are very, very nice. But, the insightful, humorous, and the thoughtful look at the gay population is the film\'s best asset, no doubt. For those who would be offended by a gay-themed film, yes, just skip over this one. But, for everyone who wants to laugh heartily, and gain a better understanding of the gay situation at the same time, this is definitely the best film out there."'],
 ['223,"When the opening shot is U.S. Marines seriously disrespecting the U.S. flag, a movie has a tough road ahead, but unfortunately it was downhill from there. There is a military adviser credited, who is also apparently a retired U.S. Marine, making it even more baffling that this incredible breach of protocol, and law, went unnoticed. Even more baffling is the way they simply glossed over how a Marine is reported KIA, then buried, in very short order, without the slightest explanation of how they identified the body, or if there even was a body. The U.S. government is still finding the missing from WWII, and it takes months to identify the remains. Military shot down remain MIA for months or years and are only declared KIA when the remains have been positively identified, or after years of red tape. Here we are expected to believe that it happens within a matter of days or weeks. Maybe this happens in Denmark, but not in the U.S. Clearly none of the people involved ever had the slightest involvement with, or respect for, the U.S. military.<br /><br />Beyond that, there are a number of other utterly laughable moments when characters come up with zingers out of nowhere. There must have been some really extended meetings between auteur and actors as they struggled to find their motivation for such hogwash. Having a script that worked might have helped, but this one seems to have been made up on the spot, working from Cliffs Notes. There\'s no way to know if the script was this awful originally, or if it was the auteur, or the middle-management kids at the studio who bear responsibility. Either way, this is an awful movie that should have never been made."'],
 ['224,"We usually think of the British as the experts at rendering great adventure from the Imperial age, with the likes of The Four Feathers (1939) and Zulu, simply because the Imperial age was, for the most part, British. Here, in The Wind and the Lion, we see a wonderful rendering of America\'s own Imperial age.<br /><br />America\'s projection of power under Teddy Roosevelt is the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who, despite her gentility, is smitten by the rough, manly nobility of her captor, who in turn is disarmed by her beauty and scorn. (Politically correct prigs eager to see some slight of ""native"" peoples or cultures can rest assured, that the way Arabs and Muslims are depicted here is far more flattering than the way their modern counterparts depict themselves on the current world stage.) What makes this story different are the terrific production values - faultless photography, composition and editing - the terrific casting - the underappreciated Brian Keith playing a bully Teddy - and vivid history.<br /><br />Though The Wind and the Lion is told largely through the eyes of the son, every member of the family can identify with one of the characters, whether it be Sean Connery\'s noble brigand, Candace Bergen\'s feisty heroine, John Huston\'s wily John Hay or Steve Kanaly\'s spiffy, radiant, ruthless can-do lieutenant, Roosevelt\'s ""Big Stick"". There is a transcendent scene at the end, when the little boy is symbolically swept away by the dashing Moor on his white steed. This is high adventure at its best."'],
 ['225,"I had been looking forward to seeing Dreamgirls for quite a while...what with all it\'s raving reviews, nominations and media attention. And I must say, the first quarter of the movie was good! It really portrayed the black music scene back then. However, as the movie wore on, me and my whole family were bored out of our wits. The singing just kept coming, one after the other. I mean seriously, just one more music number and it would have broke even with RENT.<br /><br />Furthermore, I noticed hardly any character development in any of the characters; I just didn\'t care what happened to them! Even when Eddie Murphy\'s character died of a drug overdose, I knew I should have been sad, but I just couldn\'t feel any emotion for that character. The characters were given a flimsy background about singing in their childhood and whatnot, but there personalities were not revealed enough to draw me in.<br /><br />Finally, the conflict was simply not significant enough to make the viewer care, which goes along with the lack of character development. This movie reminded me of a copy-cat movie based on Ray, Chicago, and Rent (Ray and Chicago were wonderful movies in my opinion). Overall I think this movie would best suit someone who doesn\'t really care about an overall story, yet would enjoy two hours of entertaining and fun singing performances."'],
 ['226,"One of Starewicz\'s longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange. The dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold, but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters. With the help of a stuffed cat, the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death. The Mascot features new techniques I have not yet seen in Starewicz\'s films. The addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stop-motion animation makes for a new twist on Starewicz\'s old style of puppetry. Live scenes of moving cars and people\'s feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh. The honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and Starewicz\'s utilization of the new technology seems like old hat. New puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devil\'s club scene. Twigss and newspaper shreds come to life. Skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks. Characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses. A new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene. Overall, Starewicz is able to update his style of film-making to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work."'],
 ['227,"Nice character development in a pretty cool milieu. Being a male, I\'m probably not qualified to totally understand it, but they do a nice job of establishing the restrictive Victorian environment from the start. It isn\'t as bleak as it really was and the treatment of women was probably even harsher. What makes this go is a wonderful chemistry among the principal characters. Each has their own ""thing"" that they contend with. Once they come out of the rain and break out of the spider webs, they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion. What I enjoyed about this movie is that it didn\'t go for cheap comedy when it could have. It didn\'t try to pound a lesson into us. The people who seem utterly without merit are really nicely developed human beings who get to see the light. I did have a little trouble with the Alfred Molina character having such an epiphany so quickly, but, within this world, it needed to happen. Good acting all around with something positive taking place in the lives of some pretty good people."'],
 ['228,"Prussic gas, a murderer donning a red clansman suit and hood wielding a white whip, and the murders of college school girls at the hands of paid convicts enlisted by a mysterious mastermind who keeps his face hidden within an office containing aquariums of turtles and fish. The inspectors at Scotland Yard, Higgins(IJoachim Fuchsberger)and his superior Sir John(Siegfried Schürenberg)certainly have their hands full with this case. It all seems to center around student Ann Portland(Uschi Glas), who, when she turns 21, is to inherit a great deal of wealth. The girls who are targeted share a room with Ann, but the reason for their murders remains a mystery SY\'s finest must figure out. The staff of the girls\' dormitory all seem to be hiding something and certain members of the faculty are falling prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise, talented enough to precisely strangle the necks of those attacked with the whip. Two prisoners are commissioned by a mystery man to use the newly created toxic gas created by a scientist murdered at the beginning of the film during what was supposed to be a monetary exchange for his creation. It\'s a clever scheme where a driver, Greaves(Günter Meisner)meets the convicts(..who hide in a barrel)who are assisted by a corrupt prison guard. Taken blindfolded to the secret room of the mastermind, he gives them orders on who to kill and how. Uncovering this operation is a top priority for Higgins and Sir John for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regards to the murders and why they are happening. Under suspicion are girls\' dormitory headmistress, her author brother, a sweaty, incredibly nervous chemistry teacher, a snooping gardener, and the Bannister. Some are red herrings until they are disposed of, throwing the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind is discovered. The ending features multiple twists. <br /><br />Out of the Krimi films I\'ve seen, THE COLLEGE GIRL MURDERS is the closest to a giallo with it\'s colorful killer, a convoluted plot yielding lots of surprises and potential suspects, & sordid shenanigans between adults and the college girls at the dormitory. I think you can also see the influence of James Bond on this particular Krimi film with the villain mastermind\'s secret hideout with an alligator pit(..which isn\'t used), the fake bible/water pistol, when opened, fires the gas into the face of startled victims, the Greaves\' Royles Royce which has latches that cause flaps to darken the windows without revealing the passenger in the back seat, and the peep holes used to spy on the girls in their rooms and while swimming. Many might consider Sir John a liability due to his bumbling, buffoonish behavior and how he often undermines Higgins\' abilities to get at the truth(..perhaps poking fun at know-it-all British inspectors who harm a case more than solve it)..I felt he was used as comedy relief, particularly with his attempts at psychoanalyzing suspects and potential victims, often misunderstanding what are told to him. Higgins, using the skills adopted over his years as an investigator, instead follows the clues/facts, often avoiding Sir John as much as possible. Capable direction by the reliable Alfred Vohrer who keeps the pace humming at a nice speed, and the screenplay is full of interesting characters and lurid content..the fact that so many of the adults surrounding the dormitory are suspect, any of them might be the one wielding the whip or calling the shots behind those murdered girls\' executions. I\'d say this may be one of the best(..if not the best)examples of the Krimi genre, for it keeps you guessing, always one more ace up it\'s sleeve..the revelations unearthed at the very end are quite eye-opening(..and, you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pulling the strings to top it all off)."'],
 ['229,"I was very lucky to see this film as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival 2005 only a few days ago. I must admit that I am very partial to movies that focus on human relations and especially the ones which concentrate on the tragic side of life. I also love the majority of Scandinavian cinematic offerings, there is often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the characters are drawn. Character building in this film is extraordinary in its details and its depth. This is despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of characters all with very particular personal situations and locations within their community. The audience at the end of the screening was very silent and pensive. I am still playing some of those scenes in my mind and I am still amazed at their power and meaningfulness."'],
 ["230,This movie is really bad. Most of it looks like it was filmed either in a park or a basement. There's a giant spider but all we see of it is one leg. There are some worms that live in a cave that are just cheap sock puppets with cardboard teeth. And the plot is a bunch of post-apocalyptic mumbo jumbo that makes no sense at all. The whole thing is just laughable."],
 ['231,"I think this is one hell of a movie...........We can see Steven fighting around with his martial art stuff again and like in all Segal movies there\'s a message in it, without the message it would be one of many action/fighting movies but the message is what makes segal movies great and special."'],
 ['232,"I saw this movie in the theater, and was thoroughly impressed by it. Then again, that was when Claire Danes was a good actress, not the foolish, arrogant, Hollywood-ized bitch she is today. Anyway, this film really struck me as one of the more raw, realistic, beautiful friendship films. How far would you really go for your best friend? I was moved to tears at the end, and still tear up when I watch it now (I own it). I remember as soon as I left the theater, I called my best friend and sobbed to her how much I loved her. This is a great film to watch with your best girlfriend. However be prepared for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turns to you and asks if you\'d do something like that for her...."'],
 ['233,"I\'ve seen this film literally over 100 times...it\'s absolutely jam-packed with entertainment!!! Powers Boothe gives a stellar performance. As a fan of actors such as William Shatner (Impulse, 1974) and Ron Liebmann (Up The Academy, 1981)I never thought an actor could capture the ""intensity"" like Shatner and Liebmann in those roles, until I saw Boothe as Jim Jones! As far as I\'m concerned, Powers Boothe IS Jim Jones...this film captures his best performance!!!"'],
 ['234,"The three main characters are all hopeless, and yet you only feel sorry for one of them: Ernesto, hopelessly devoted to Mercedes. This was part of the frustration: screaming at Mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no-good Harry, to no avail.<br /><br />Then there\'s the satisfaction: Steve Buscemi has a great part as a transvestite, and Harvey Keitel\'s moving story of his indignity playing a gorilla for a cheap TV movie is incredible. When you least expect it, Quentin Tarintino is doing half a monologue, and Anthony Quinn turns Ernesto into a wealthy man.<br /><br />Time and again great moments appear in the story, but in the end it\'s hard to know what to feel about this movie. It doesn\'t have a happy ending, or even a complete one, but it somehow feels right.<br /><br />This movie is strange, but then so am I; no wonder I liked it."'],
 ['235,"Reese Witherspoon first outing on the big screen was a memorable one. She appears like a fresh scrubbed face ""tween"" slight and stringy, but undeniably Reese.<br /><br />I have always liked her as an actor, and had no idea she started this young with her career, go figure. I actually gained some respect for Reese to know who she was so early on. I say that because whenever I have watched her perform, the characters thus far, in each portrayal she also seemed to have her own persona that lived with that character, quite nicely in fact.<br /><br />Anyway, my first film experience with Reese was the Little Red Riding Hood parody Reese did with Kiefer Sutherland, somehow I assumed that was her first time up ""at bat"" Not so, well done Reese"'],
 ["236,This game ranks above all so far. I had the honor of playing mine on PS2 so the graphics were really good. The voice acting was above standard. The difficulty level is just right. Wesker has to be the best characters in the RE series in my opinion. The story amazed me and took many different twist that I wasn't expecting. The only rating this game deserves is great."],
 ['237,"This movie is not worth anything. I mean, if you want to watch this kind of stuff, flip to Hollywood movies! This totally is a disgrace to the Bollywood name. Neal N Nikki seriously sucked! Never watch this movie. As for the actors, it appears the acting genes skipped a generation. Tanisha couldn\'t have worn less and Uday Chopra obviously was just picked because he was the director\'s spoiled son. (All of that Halla Re was amazingly stupid) The songs are eh, and I hope the director did not spend to much money on it...... Bottom line, I hated the movie. Do not let your kids watch it, and if you have it in your house it is a stupid movie so discard it! Buy the CD, if you must. (As I said, the songs are eh.) At least it is better then the movie."'],
 ['238,"This is yet another western about a greedy cattle baron looking to push out small ranchers and farmers. It\'s certainly all been done before and since. But The Violent Men is something special.<br /><br />What makes it special is Barbara Stanwyck playing the role of vixen as she often did in her later films. She\'s married to the crippled Edward G. Robinson who\'s the cattle baron here, but Robinson is crippled and there is some hint that his injuries may have left him impotent. No matter to Barbara, whose needs are being met by her brother-in-law Brian Keith. That doesn\'t sit well with either Dianne Foster who is Robinson and Stanwyck\'s daughter, nor with Lita Milan who is Keith\'s Mexican girl friend.<br /><br />The infidelity subplot almost takes over the film, but Glenn Ford as the stalwart small rancher who is a Civil War veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here. He\'s every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of pushing once too often. I almost expect those famous words from Wild Bill Elliott to come out of Ford\'s mouth, ""I\'m a peaceable man."" Would have been very applicable in The Vioilent Men.<br /><br />The Fifties was the age of the adult western, themes were entering into horse operas that hadn\'t been explored before. The following year Glenn Ford would do another western, Jubal, one of his best which also explores infidelity as a plot component.<br /><br />There\'s enough traditional western stuff in The Violent Men and plenty for those who are addicted to soap operas as well."'],
 ['239,"Apparently, The Mutilation Man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self-mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood. I use the word \'apparently\' because without listening to a director Andy Copp\'s commentary (which I didn\'t have available to me) or reading up on the film prior to watching, viewers won\'t have a clue what it is about.<br /><br />Gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching The Mutilation Man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real-life footage, but unless they\'re also fond of pretentious, headache-inducing, experimental art-house cinema, they\'ll find this one a real chore to sit through.<br /><br />82 minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis-chordant sound, terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue, this mind-numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one\'s sanity: if you\'ve still got all your marbles, you\'ll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead (I watched the whole thing, but am well aware that I\'m completely barking!)."'],
 ['240,"This movie was absolutely pathetic. A pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just left me watching three losers drool over bikini babes. At times I felt like I was watching an episode of Beavis and Butthead. I couldn\'t even sit through the whole movie. Emran Hashmi disappoints, and Hrshitta Bhatt is not impressive at all. Celina Jaitley was not bad. The only worthwhile part of the film is the spoof on Anu Malik and his obsession of shayaris. It was pretty hilarious. The songs ""Sini Ne"" and its remix version were really good. You can always count on Emran lip-locking and lip-synching a chartbuster. All in all, it seems Emran doesn\'t have a good script from the Bhatts to back him up this time."'],
 ['241,"I Feel the Niiiiiight Heat! I feel your HEEAAAAAAAAAART-beat! Something ain\'t right!"" Theme song written by B.J. Cook from Skylark- David Foster\'s old band and wife. She also wrote the memorable theme from CBC\'s ""Airwaves."" OH Night Heat! What a program! Well-written, well-acted and totally classic. Crime solvers and a good team and a dash of humour at the end. I\'d like to think this is really what detectives do/did. Giambone was a real favourite! On a Canadian tip, I learned EVERY Canadian actor\'s name and style from guest spots done on Night Heat. Everyone passed through the Night Heat set and like Law & Order, it was story-driven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama."'],
 ['242,"This movie fails miserably on every level. I have an idea, let\'s take everyone involved in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east. Maybe if we\'re lucky they\'ll all be shot and killed and we won\'t have to ever have our time wasted by them again. Did I mention that I have never been so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life? My god, I can\'t think of anything I\'ve ever seen that was this bad. I\'d rather watch Ishtar 25 times in a row than sit through 10 minutes of this sorry excuse for a film. If I ever happen to meet anyone who was involved in this film, I\'ll spit in their face and then beat them senseless. That\'s my two cents."'],
 ['243,"Yes i\'ll say before i start commenting, this movie is incredibly underrated.<br /><br />Sharon Stone is great in her role of Catherine Trammell as is Morrissey as Dr glass. He is an analyst sent in to evaluate her after the death of a sports star. Glass is drawn into a seductive game that Trammel uses to manipulate his mind.<br /><br />The acting was good (apart from Thewlis)<br /><br />Stone really has a talent with this role. She\'s slick, naughty and seductive and doesn\'t look a day older than she did in the first.She really impressed me(like in Casino). Morrisey was also good. He showed much vunerablitity in a role that needed it. Thewlis however was lame. He ruined his character and was over-the-top the whole way. He really sucked.<br /><br />Overall, this movie not as good the first but Stone is a hoot to watch. Just ignore Thewlis."'],
 ['244,"Based on a Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, AT THE EARTH\'S CORE provides little more than means to escape and give your brain a rest. A Victorian scientist Dr. Abner Perry(Peter Cushing)invents a giant burrowing machine, which he and his American partner(Doug McClure)use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold. They soon discover a lost world of subhuman creatures having conflict with prehistoric monsters.<br /><br />Cushing comes across as an absent minded professor to the point of being annoying. Instead of being a bold adventurer, he comes across effeminate. On the other hand McClure overacted enough to make himself also laughable. Caroline Munro plays the pretty Princess Dia that refuses to leave her world near the center of the earth. Also in the cast are: Godfrey James, Cy Grant and Michael Crane."'],
 ['245,"I have seen this film at least 100 times and I am still excited by it, the acting is perfect and the romance between Joe and Jean keeps me on the edge of my seat, plus I still think Bryan Brown is the tops. Brilliant Film."'],
 ['246,"This show makes absolutely no sense. Every week, two ladies go to an estate to do some gardening, and every week without fail, they somehow stumble upon a murder. Because everyone who owns a big house with a large garden is involved in a murder, right? But even if they did somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder, wouldn\'t the smart thing to do be to tell the police? You know, the people who can actually do something about it... But every week, these two fools go around, polluting evidence, committing crimes of their own, and, in some cases, causing more murders. Once they do miraculously solve the murders, there is no way the murderer could ever be convicted. All the evidence has been sabotaged. And you\'d think people who are covering up murders would think not to hire these two, wouldn\'t you? Yay! We\'ve solved the murder! Now like every other week, let\'s go and confront the murderer ourselves and, with no back-up, tell them that we know about it. There is no way we could get ourselves into any danger, is there? Rosemary and Thyme is one of the worst shows on television, and certainly the most ridiculous."'],
 ['247,"This movie was so bad it was funny! For awhile there I thought I was actually watching a parody of a bad movie (a la ""For Your Consideration""). The ""cliffhanger"" scene at the end had me laughing until my insides hurt. The script was dreadful enough, but coupled with Sean Young\'s terrible acting -- especially while she explains the entire plot in great detail (complete with flashbacks) while dangling off a cliff -- makes it a truly classically bad movie worth watching! In fact the fakey shots in this scene reminded me of an Ed Wood movie. I still can\'t believe how this thing got made. First of all, how did such a bad script get the green light? How did star actors get attached? Were they at low points in their careers? Questions, questions."'],
 ['248,"Meryl Streep is such a genius. Well, at least as an actress. I know she\'s been made fun of for doing a lot of roles with accents, but she nails the accent every time. Her performance as Lindy Chamberlain was inspiring. Mrs. Chamberlain, as portrayed here, was not particularly likable, nor all that smart. But that just makes Streep\'s work all the more remarkable. I think she is worth all 10 or so of her Oscar nominations. About the film, well, there were a couple of interesting things. I don\'t know much about Australia, but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public played a big part in the story. I had largely missed this when I first saw the film some years ago, but it came through loud and clear yesterday. And it seems the Australian press is just as accomplished at misery-inducing pursuit and overkill as their American colleagues. A pretty good film. A bit different. Grade: B"'],
 ['249,"\'Airport 4\' is basically a slopped together mess for Universal Studios to try and work a new twist - the Concorde supersonic airliner - into their \'disaster-in-the-sky\' formula.<br /><br />Bogged down with unintentional humor, the best of which is when George Kennedy sticks his hand out of Concorde\'s window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heat-seeking missile following the aircraft\'s flight path, and the simple fact that these dumb passengers keep re-boarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problems in the air. Many stars in this one including Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, Alain Delon, and Martha Raye as a nervous passenger. <br /><br />Not really related to the other \'Airport\' films."'],
 ['250,"Supposedly a ""social commentary"" on racism and prison conditions in the rural South of the 1970\'s, ""Nightmare"" is full of bad Southern stereotypes, complete with phoney accents. Not only would it be offensive to the sensibilities of most American Southerners, this tawdry piece of work comes off as just a thinly-disguised ""babe in prison"" movie--especially in its uncut original version. Nevertheless, acting is generally above average and the late Chuck Connors, in particular, does a good job of making viewers hate him--even though he looks somewhat uncomfortable in several scenes. There\'s also a change-of-pace role for the late Robert Reed, who appears as the lecherous warden, and Tina Louise (previously Ginger of ""Gilligan\'s Island"") made a rather believable sadistic prison guard. My grade: D. <br /><br />"'],
 ['251,"OK, I bought this film from Woolworths for my friend for a joke present on his birthday, because the front cover had a sexual innuendo in it.<br /><br />But we decided it to watch it anyway. Just for hilarity purposes.<br /><br />And I\'m sorry, but this has got to be, one of THE worst films in history.<br /><br />It began off alright, and we thought ""Ok this might actually be OK"". But after about 10 minutes, we were sadly mistaken.<br /><br />It began when the ""mysterious paint baller"" turned out to be the most obvious character, the Scouser/Australian (I say that because he had an accent which couldn\'t be identified), who\'s acting might I just say, was abysmal.<br /><br />Then it got to the end, and by that time, we had all lost the will to live. The paint ball finals.<br /><br />The only thing I did like about this plot is that they didn\'t actually win, but annoyingly enough they won by default.<br /><br />And I know this has nothing to do with it, but the name the team were given was just awful. Critical Damage. I mean they could of picked a more awesome name, like ""The Destroyers of the Anti-Christ"" or something. Or that\'s what the film should of been called anyway."'],
 ['252,"Insignificant and low-brained (haha!) 80\'s horror like there are thirteen in a dozen, yet it can be considered amusing if you watch it in the right state of mind. The special effects are tacky, the acting atrocious and the screenplay seems to miss a couple of essential paragraphs! ""The Brain"" takes place in a typical quiet-American town setting, where every adolescent works in the same diner and where the cool-kid in high school flushes cherry bombs down the toilet. It is here that a TV-guru named Dr. Blake and his adorable pet-brain begin their quest for nation-wide mind controlling. Under the label of ""independent thinkers"", a giant cheesy brain sends out waves through television sets and forces innocent viewers to kill! How cool is that? Now, it\'s up to the Meadowvale teen-rebel to save the world! The funniest thing about the plot is that it never explains where Dr. Blake and his monstrous brain actually come from. There are obvious references towards extraterrestrial life but that\'s about it. Meh, who needs a background in a movie like this, really? There\'s not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the ""evil"" brain looks like an over-sized sock-puppet. The only more or less interesting element for horror buffs is taking a look at the cast and crew who made this movie. Director Ed Hunt and writer Barry Pearson are the same men who made ""Bloody Birthday"" (guilty pleasure of mine) and ""Plague"". Both those are much better movies and they wisely decided to resign the film industry. The most familiar face in the cast unquestionably is the great David Gale, whom horror fans will worship forever for his role in Re-Animator. A girl named Christine Kossak provides the nudity-factor and she\'s obviously a great talentÂ… She has exactly 3 movies on her repertoire of which THIS is her ""masterpiece"". In her debut, she was credited as \'runaway model\' and in ""3 men and a baby"", her character is referred to as \'one of Jack\'s girls\'. I really wonder how she feels about her career as an actressÂ…"'],
 ['253,"Does anyone remember the alternative comedy show THE COMIC STRIP PRESENTS . One edition featured Charles Bronson ( Robbie Coltrane ) being interviewed about his new movie GLC :<br /><br />"" It\'s about a man , an ordinary man whose wife and family gets wiped out by creeps and I have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner "" <br /><br />"" And after GLC what next for Bronson ? "" <br /><br />"" We\'re using a new angle . My family don\'t get wiped out but I go after creeps just the same "" <br /><br />This accurately describes THE EVIL THAT MEN DO . It\'s a Bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isn\'t down to a blood feud but this leads to credibility becoming strained <br /><br />Bronson is a retired hit-man who isn\'t giving up his retirement for anything until someone shows him a video tape featuring interviews with the victims of "" The Doctor "" , not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture . It\'s never really explained why The Doctor is so infamous since any police state has a myriad of these sadists nor is it explained why The Doctor and his sister have ridiculous English accents <br /><br />As you may guess it\'s a lazily written movie and incidents happening because the screenwriter needs things to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they are like one of the bad guys getting invited to a threesome so he can be killed or things being revealed like The Doctor\'s sister being a lesbian so some T&A can be included <br /><br />In many ways it\'s like one of those nasty Chuck Norris vehicles that were being released at the same time , but the most disappointing thing is that the director is also the same man who made ICE COLD IN ALEX and THE GUNS OF NAVERONE two very well regarded war dramas that are often shown on Sunday afternoons . Believe me this movie won\'t be shown until well after the watershed"'],
 ['254,"Well, here\'s another terrific example of awkward 70\'s film-making! The rudimentary premise of ""What\'s the matter with Helen?"" is quite shocking and disturbing, but it\'s presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion! In the hands of any other movie crew, this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale, but with director Curtis Harrington (""Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?"") and scriptwriter Henry Farrell (""Hush…Hush…Sweet Charlotte"") in charge, it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres. The basic plot of the film is definitely horrific, but there\'s a lot more to experience, like love stories, a swinging 1930\'s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tap-dancing! The setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique. We\'re literally catapulted back to the 1930\'s, with a sublime depiction of that era\'s music, religion, theatrical business and wardrobes. Following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to life-imprisonment for murder, Adelle (Debbie Reynolds) and Helen (Shelley Winters) flee to California and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls. Particularly Adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment, as she falls in love with a local millionaire, but poor old Helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia. She only listens to the ramblings of a radio-evangelist, fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies. The script, although not entirely without flaws, is well written and the film is adequately paced. There\'s never a dull moment in ""What\'s the matter with Helen"", although the singing, tap-dancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot. But the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of Shelley Winters. She\'s downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady who\'s about to snap any second and, especially during the last ten minutes or so, she looks more petrifying than all the Freddy Kruegers, Jason Voorhees\' and Michael Myers\' combined! There are several terrific supportive characters who are, sadly, a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential, like Michéal MacLiammóir as the cocky elocution teacher, Agnes Moorehead as the creepy priestess and Timothy Carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies\' house. There are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the Grand Guignol fanatics among us, but particularly the set pieces and costume designs (even nominated for an Oscar!) are breathtaking."'],
 ['255,"Resnais, wow! The genius who brought us Hiroshima Mon Amour takes on the challenge of making a 1930s French musical in vibrant colour. The opening voice-over with old, embellished inter-titles was a nice touch. Then the camera aperture opens (like the old hand crankers) on a black & white placard. The camera backs off (or rather, up), suddenly showing us the surprisingly brilliant colours of an elegant table set for a tea party. This is all in the first 60 seconds.<br /><br />Then the music starts. A rather banal and forgettable diddy featuring an unconvincing chorus of 3 girls blabbering some nonsense which has no relevance to the film (and yes, I speak French, so I can\'t blame it on the subtitles). Those characters whiz out the door and are replaced by more people who break into an even more forgettable song. Then they leave, and finally Audrey Tautou appears and we hear our first appreciable dialogue 15 minutes into the film.<br /><br />I\'m not sure what Resnais intended by starting off with such a yawning waste of time & musical cacophony. But the effect on the viewer is to make you want to hurl skittles at the screen and storm out. I endured.<br /><br />It didn\'t get much better. I\'ll tell you why. There is absolutely no familiarity with any of the characters. We don\'t even see their faces half the time (as Resnais seems too intent on showing off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera). People flit on & off stage like moths around a lamp, and we the audience are unable to focus on any particular person or plot. It\'s as if you were to take every episode of the Brady Bunch and cram it into a 2 hour movie. With bad songs.<br /><br />The only thing that kept me watching as long as I did (1 hour) was that I was looking at the camera techniques, lighting and scenery which were all, I admit, excellent. But is that enough to hold your attention for 2 hours? Not me. Maybe tomorrow I\'ll try watching the end. Aw, who am I kidding. I have more important things to do. I\'m sure you do, too. Skip this."'],
 ['256,"I saw this movie in the middle of the night, when I was flipping through the channels and there was nothing else on to watch. It\'s one of those films where you stop to see what it is - just for a moment! - but realize after twenty minutes or so that you just can\'t turn it off, no matter how bad it is. One of those movies that is somewhere in between being so bad it\'s good and so bad it\'s, well, just plain BAD, it\'s worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realizing that it\'s both! Great middle-of-the-night fare, if only for the fabulous tennis drag. Don\'t even bother asking yourself why nobody can tell that Chad Lowe is so obviously male, because logic does not apply."'],
 ['257,"This movie takes the plot behind the sci-fi flick ""Doppelganger"" (an astronaut from our Earth crashing on a \'counter-Earth\' on the opposite side of the Sun, and the Cold War totalitarian vibes on that world) and tries to turn it into a pilot for a TV series. However, the whole thing sank without a trace, and TV is probably better off for it.<br /><br />Everyone here is perfectly adequate in a \'made for TV\' way. Cameron Mitchell turns in his usual solid performance. So does Glenn Corbett (who seems to be a kind of poor man\'s John Saxon) who plays the rugged individualist whose very existence poses a threat to the foundation of the \'World Order\' on counter Earth.<br /><br />But the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set designs and cinematography keep this Sci-Fi adventure firmly tethered on the launch pad.<br /><br />I\'ll give one example: in the original template for this pilot, (""Doppleganger""), the astronauts lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm, and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence (it was obvious that their ship was never going to fly again). Then the two astronauts stagger helplessly from the smoking remains of their vehicle in the middle of howling rains and winds, only to be smacked down and overcome by faceless men yelling through loudspeakers.<br /><br />In ""Stranded in Space"", the astronauts are sitting in their seats when buzzers sound, things start shaking, and the camera blurs into a blackout (and as a friend pointed out, it was pretty obvious that the actors were simply shaking themselves on their seats, the director wasn\'t even shaking the camera or the set). I\'ve seen episodes of ""The Twilight Zone"" and ""The Outer Limits"" that took more effort to establish mood and setting than this made-for-TV mediocrity.<br /><br />And that, in essence, is what\'s wrong with ""Stranded In Space"". No budget, no time, no imagination...just making the token gestures and hoping the sci-fi Fan Boys\' imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest. Sorry, guys, it didn\'t work. <br /><br />I\'m sure that everyone here just finished their work on this one and walked away, and never thought of it again, except as a listing on their C.V. And that\'s what you, the viewer will do. You\'ll remember, if pressed, that you once watched a TV movie called ""Stranded In Space"", but it made no lasting impression on you, and you can\'t recall too much about it."'],
 ['258,"Black comedy isn\'t always an easy sell. Every now and then you get a black comedy that is hugely successful, like Fargo, for example. But usually they don\'t often find big audiences. People seem to either set their minds for comedy, or for serious mayhem. There doesn\'t seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both. Throw Momma From the Train was a fairly decent hit, yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age. Danny DeVito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in 1987.<br /><br />DeVito plays an odd mamma\'s boy named Owen looking to rid himself of his outrageously overbearing and unpleasant mother whom he still lives with. The mother is played by Anne Ramsey, who passed away shortly after this was released, and she is quite a caricature. She is loud, ugly, rude, and overbearing. Though Owen hardly seems like he could take care of himself, he wants desperately to have his mother offed. He fantasizes about it in some truly weird scenes, but he clearly doesn\'t have the guts to actually do it himself. That\'s where Billy Crystal comes in. Crystal plays Larry Donner, Owen\'s creative writing teacher at a nearby community college. Larry is a paranoid would-be intellectual novelist who claims his ex-wife stole his novel and made millions off it. He is currently trying to write a new one, but cannot even come up with a decent first sentence. ""The night was...."" Owen hears Larry wish his ex-wife were dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria. And borrowing the idea from Strangers on a Train, Owen decides to travel to Hawai\'i and murder Larry\'s ex-wife. Once it appears he has done so, he expects Larry to return the favor and kill his mother. The resulting action is often quite funny, and even poignant. It\'s certainly never dull and often full of surprises.<br /><br />The acting is exceptional, even if Ramsey was a bit over the top. Crystal is as good as he can be, and DeVito has always been undervalued as a performer. The film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually works, often painfully so. The film makes use of some truly innovative editing techniques in some scenes, and the off-beat tone is truly refreshing. I have often been critical of the late 1980s as being a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy film-making. Throw Momma From the Train takes chances. Both in how its characters are drawn as well as its general plot. How many comedies revolve around a son having his mother murdered? The film isn\'t too long, and it is chock full of laughs. Writers are apt to find it more interesting than the general public, but it can still be enjoyed by just about anyone. 9 of 10 stars.<br /><br />The Hound."'],
 ['259,"Back in 1994, I had a really lengthy vacation around the Fourth of July - something like 17 days off in a row what with two weeks paid vacation, weekends and the holiday itself. I stayed in town during that time, hanging out at my parents\' house a lot.<br /><br />I didn\'t have a TV in my apartment so I used to watch my parents\' tube. I had just finished watching a segment of the X Files when a program came on called Personal FX. I was hooked instantly. I had always been fascinated with items in our home that had come from my parents\' family homes and through inheritances from relatives\' estates, and often wondered about their history, value, etc.<br /><br />After my long vacation, I used to go to my folks\' house on my lunch-hours just to catch Personal FX.<br /><br />I can remember one episode during which co-host Claire Carter announced that the New York apartment in which the series was filmed was being renovated and that once said renovations were complete that Personl FX would return to the air.<br /><br />It never did! Personal FX was the first -and best - of the collectible shows. And it vanished from the air! Almost fifteen years later, I\'m still sore.<br /><br />Way to go, FX."'],
 ['260,"Paul Verhoeven\'s predecessor to his breakout hit \'Basic Instinct\' is a stylish and shocking neo-noir thriller. Verhoeven has become known for making somewhat sleazy trash films, both in his native Holland and in America and this film is one of the reasons why. The Fourth Man follows the strange story of Gerard Reve (played by Jeroen Krabbé); a gay, alcoholic and slightly mad writer who goes to Vlissingen to give a talk on the stories he writes. While there, he meets the seductive Christine Halsslag (Renée Soutendijk) who takes him back to her house where he discovers a handsome picture of one of her lovers and proclaims that he will meet him, even if it kills him.<br /><br />Paul Verhoeven twists the truth many times in this film, and that ensures that you never quite know where you are with it. Many of the occurrences in The Fourth Man could be what they appear to be, but they could easily be interpreted as something else entirely and this keeps the audience on the edge of their seats for the duration, and also makes the film work as this narrative is what it thrives on. Paul Verhoeven is not a filmmaker that feels he has to restrain himself, and that is one of things I like best about him. This film features a very shocking scene that made me feel ill for hours afterwards (and that doesn\'t happen very often!). I wont spoil it because it needs the surprise element to work...but you\'ll see what I mean when you see the film (make sure you get the uncut version!). There is also a number of other macabre scenes that are less shocking than the one I\'ve mentioned, but are lovely nonetheless; a man gets eaten by lions, another one has a pipe sent through his skull, a boat is smashed in half...lovely.<br /><br />The acting in The Fourth Man isn\'t anything to write home about, but it\'s solid throughout. Jeroen Krabbé holds the audience\'s attention and looks the part as the drunken writer. It is Renée Soutendijk that impresses the most, though, as the femme fatale at the centre of the tale. Her performance is what Sharon Stone would imitate nine years later with Basic Instinct, but the original fatale did it best. Paul Verhoeven\'s direction is solid throughout as he directs our attention through numerous points of view, all of which help to create the mystery of the story. Verhoeven has gone on to make some rubbish, but he obviously has talent and it\'s a shame that he doesn\'t put it to better use. Of all the Verhoeven films I\'ve seen, this is the best and although it might be difficult to come across; trust me, it\'s worth the effort."'],
 ['261,"I accept that most 50\'s horror aren\'t scary by today\'s standards, but what the hell is this? When you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast. Instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either wants to take over the world or live in peace on Earth....yeah which is what the people wanted.<br /><br />The overall story is fine with the astronaut coming back to life and being one with the beast....but the title really kills the movie. Night of the Beast would have made the fans more happy because there really isn\'t any blood to speak of.<br /><br />I like how the 50\'s movies had endings that left room for a sequel but wisely never made one. This movie isn\'t the worst i\'ve ever seen but its almost up there.<br /><br />2 out of 10"'],
 ['262,"Demon Wind is about as much fun as breaking your legs. It is definitely an awful example of a film. So awful in fact that I don\'t even consider it a movie. I describe it more as a thing ... a monstrous thing. A thing that must be stopped at all costs. My friends and I first discovered this ... thing buried under a big box of video tapes at my friend\'s house. It was a late night and we had nothing better to do so we decided to watch some cheesy horror movies (we unfortunately picked this one.) Well, during the 90 minutes that this thing played we ended up laughing so hard that we almost threw up. The thing is literally pointless in every sense of the word. It\'s just a cheap, poorly done rip-off of Evil Dead. The whole ""story"" seems to be nothing more than some guy wanting to knock off his friends by inviting them to an abandoned house and letting demons rip them to pieces. I have a bet that the writers were actually writing the story while it was being filmed. I\'ve seen bad horror movies before (Manos, Troll 2, HOBGOBLINS!!!) (shudder) I would have to say that Demon Wind could definitely contend with any and all of these films on terms of sheer stupidity. Watch it only if you enjoy laughing at stupid films.<br /><br />Fun fact: This film is like a cockroach on steroids! Much like the ouija board, every time we try to get rid of it, it always seems to mysteriously reappear. Kind of scary huh?"'],
 ['263,"There is a difference between a ""film,"" and a ""movie."" A film, regardless of quality, is ready for public consumption. A movie is what a group of friends gets together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder. In my time as a viewer, I have seen may examples of both.<br /><br />On September 19, I attended a screening of writer/director Jon Satejowski\'s ""Donnybrook."" Now having read the script and having seen two different cuts (a rough cut and the ""finished"" product) of this piece, I can safely say it is a movie. And a student movie, at that. It is, for lack of a better word, competent, which is to say, the director knew how to push record on a camera and capture moving images. The visuals are, for the most part, static and unimpressive, and dialog scenes are reduced to mostly long shots, with little to no close up shots to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the characters. I understand that this is a modestly budgeted film, but some visual flair would have been appreciated, and it would have gone a long way toward keeping the audience interested.<br /><br />Granted, there have been independent pictures that have shown that limited camera work can be over come with well a well written, engrossing story and some sharp dialog. Steven Soderbergh\'s ""sex, lies, and videotape"" comes immediately to mind. This movie, however, has neither. The main story is weak and unfocused. If the main plot is Davie trying to mend his relationship with his father, then I feel this movie misses the point. What I got out of it is that Davie\'s main aspiration is to ""change the face of rock \'n\' roll."" However, we see very little activity on his part to show this. While there is one dream sequence at the beginning, and an impromptu performance of his at the end, all we seem to get are scenes of Davie listening to music or casually strumming a guitar. We are simply told that Davie has played a lot of gigs, but we never see him in full rock out mode. Next time, SHOW don\'t TELL the audience. Anyone who has taken a creative writing class knows this. Also, Davie doesn\'t look like someone that would have been big in the glam rock era of the 1970\'s; he looks like he\'d be more comfortable in the early days of rock \'n\' roll, posing as James Dean\'s less talented brother. In the meantime, the rest of the movies events seem to happen at random to rather cliché characters, and story threads, that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story, are brought up and abandoned with alarming frequency (i.e. the subplot involving Terry\'s father). If I want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction, I will consider watching ""Napolean Dynamite"" again, a film I could barely make it through the first time.<br /><br />As for the above mentioned dialog scenes, I guess I should mention that they are few and extremely far between. Is it too much to ask for characters who do speak? I don\'t think it is. When the characters do speak, it is in short, choppy sentences; collections of oh so insightful questions, angered grunts or wildly over-the-top outbursts. These characters simply do not behave like normal, rational people. Working with material like this, it is easy to understand why there is only one good performance in the film, Al Hudson\'s, and that\'s just because he\'s doing a poor imitation of Sam Elliott for his time on screen. A good director, or at least one who is ready for the challenge of a feature director, would have been able to spot these problems and get the writer and camera people to correct them. However, with Satejowski being so close to the material, he simply doesn\'t see them, or, if he does, he is unwilling to take the necessary steps to fix them because it\'ll hurt his creative vision. Being unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner, is the mark of a self-indulgent, misguided fool. Just ask Rob Schneider. <br /><br />In the end, we are left with a poor, high-school-set, knock-off of Zach Braff\'s amazing ""Garden State"" combined with the equally amazing ""Velvet Goldmine,"" two films far more worthy of your time.<br /><br />Now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review, allow me to offer this. The best I can do is compliment Mr. Satejowski for having the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see. However, the hopes that this movie will be picked up and distributed are simply deluded visions of grandeur. This is a student movie, nothing more, nothing less. If the movie holds any promise (and let\'s face it, at this point, it isn\'t going to come from the acting, writing, or directing), it is this: If, IF, the people associated with this film are willing, then, please, learn from this movie, file it away, and use the lessons learned on your next attempt; don\'t attack your critics, or have friend or family do it for you. If you are able to do this, maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution, worthy of being called a ""film.""<br /><br />I am your audience, and I am willing to watch."'],
 ['264,"please re-watch all 3 series and do not go see this movie, the trailer is completely misleading and the 3 weakest characters in the series stretch a badly thought out 25min TV episode into the most painful 2hrs of my life, truly an awful film. tubbs and edward are in it for a few mins, micky has 1 line, and her lipp just reels out the same tired old puns, also mr briss\'s accent just changes about 5 times in the film tons of badly acted extras, and really a few laughs that they seem to recycle for 2 hrs i honestly feel this series has been completely ruined by this god-awful piece of crap..........batman and robin all is forgiven"'],
 ['265,"Finally! An Iranian film that is not made by Majidi, Kiarostami or the Makhmalbafs. This is a non-documentary, an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girls subtly kicking the \'system\' in its ass. It\'s all about football and its funny, its really funny. The director says ""The places are real, the event is real, and so are the characters and the extras. This is why I purposely chose not to use professional actors, as their presence would have introduced a notion of falseness."" The non-actors will have you rooting for them straightaway unless a. your heart is made of stone b. you are blind. Excellently scripted, the film challenges patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness. It has won the Jury Grand Prize, Berlin, 2006. Dear reader, it\'s near-perfect. WHERE, where can I get hold of it?"'],
 ['266,"Sometimes you just have to have patients when watching indie horror. If you can just toe-tap your way through the slow-paced early scenes, sometimes a real gem will present itself... This (unfortunately) was not the case with ""Satan\'s Whip"".<br /><br />Written and directed by Jason Maran, ""Satan\'s Whip"" attempts to drag us along on a boring snore-fest of a film, with no real pay off at the end. I\'m guessing that the black & white (and blue) cinematography must have been for a reason, however it is never explained why the majority of the blood is blue, and I found this increasingly annoying as the film went on. The story in itself is not that bad, and actually had some originality and decent content but the acting is simply pathetic. This, combined with the slow-pacing and lack of any real (red) gore made ""Satan\'s Whip"" one to forget quite quickly. I will give it a ""4"" rating for some witty dialog that made me chuckle, but alas that could not save this boring waste of my time."'],
 ['267,"Tainted look at kibbutz life<br /><br />This film is less a cultural story about a boy\'s life in a kibbutz, but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general. In the first two minutes of the movie, the milk man in charge of the cows rapes one of his calves. And it\'s all downhill from there in terms of the characters representing typical ""kibbutznikim."" Besides the two main characters, a clinically depressed woman and her young son, every one else in the kibbutz is a gross caricature of well…evil. <br /><br />The story centers on how the kibbutz, like some sort of cult, slowly drags the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follows. There is no happiness, no joy, no laughter in this kibbutz. Every character/situation represents a different horrific human vice like misogyny, hypocrisy, violence, cultism, repression etc. For example, while the protagonist is a strikingly handsome European looking 12 year old boy – his older brother is a typical kibbutz youth complete with his ""jewish"" physical appearance and brutish personality. He cares more about screwing foreign volunteers than the health of his dying mother. He treats these volunteers like trash. After his little brother pleads of him to visit his dying mother whom he hasn\'t seen in a long time due to his military service, he orders, Quote – ""Linda, go take shower and I cum in two minutes."" <br /><br />There is one other ""good"" character in this movie – a European foreigner who plays the mother\'s boyfriend. When the animal rapist tries to hit the mother\'s son, the boyfriend defends him by breaking the rapist\'s arm. He is summarily kicked out of the kibbutz then for ""violent"" behavior against one of the kibbutz members. More hypocrisy: The indescribably annoying French woman who plays the school teacher preaches that sex cannot happen before age 18, or without love and gives an account of the actual act that\'s supposed to be humorous for the audience, but is really just stupid. She of course is screwing the head of the kibbutz in the fields who then in turn screws the little boy\'s mom when her mental health takes a turn for the worse. <br /><br />The film portrays the kibbutz like some sort of cult. Children get yanked out of their beds in the middle of the night and taken to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the fields overseen by the kibbutz elders. The mother apparently can\'t ""escape"" the kibbutz, although in reality, anyone was/is always free to come and go as they choose. It\'s a mystery how the boy\'s father died, but you can rest assured, the kibbutz ""drove him to it"" and his surviving parents are another pair of heartless, wretched characters that weigh down on the mother and her son. <br /><br />That\'s the gist of this movie. One dimensional characters, over dramatization, dry performances, and an insidious message that keeps trying to hammer itself into the audience\'s head – that kibbutz life was degrading, miserable and even deadly for those who didn\'t ""fit in."" I feel sorry for the guy who made this film – obviously he had a bad experience growing up in a kibbutz. But I feel as though he took a few kernels of truth regarding kibbutz life and turned them into huge atomic stereotyped bombs."'],
 ['268,"(When will I ever learn-?) The ecstatic reviewer on NPR made me think this turkey was another Citizen Kane. Please allow me to vent my spleen...<br /><br />I will admit: the setting, presumably New York City, has never been so downright ugly and unappealing. I am reminded that the 70\'s was a bad decade for men\'s fashion and automobiles. And all the smoking-! If the plan was to cheapen the characters, it succeeded.<br /><br />For a film to work (at least, in my simple estimation), there has to be at least ONE sympathetic character. Only Ned Beaty came close, and I could not wait for him to finish off Nicky. If a stray shot had struck Mikey, well, it may have elicited a shrug of indifference at the most.<br /><br />I can\'t remember when I detested a film as strongly. I suppose I\'m a rube who doesn\'t dig ""art"" flicks. Oh, well."'],
 ['269,"""Lost"", ""24"", ""Carnivale"", ""Desperate Housewifes""...the list goes on and on. These, and a bunch of other high-quality, shows proves that we\'re in the middle of a golden age in television history. ""Lost"" is pure genius. Incredible layers of personal, and psychologically viable, stories, underscored by sublime cinematography (incredible to use this word, when describing a TV-show), a killer score, great performances and editing. Anyone who isn\'t hooked on this, are missing one of the most important creative expressions in television ever. It may have its problems, when watching only one episode a week, but the DVD format is actually an incredible way to watch this. Hope they keep it up (as I\'m sure they do)."'],
 ['270,"Clifton Webb is one of my favorites. However, Mister Scoutmaster is not one of his best. His patented curmudgeon role seems forced and even unpleasant rather than funny. The film itself is overflowing with mawkish sentimentality. In addition, the viewer is presented with numerous ham-handed references to religious faith and U.S. patriotism that come off as over-reverent rather than genuine. Clifton Webb does his best with a poor script. Edmund Gwenn plays yet another jovial clergyman and is given nothing to do. The child actor lead is played by a talentless child who displays a flat affect throughout the entire film. His sole claim to fame as a performer evidently is a bullfrog-like low voice unusual for someone of his age. However, once you\'ve heard it, you\'ve heard it and you don\'t need to hear it again. Unfortunately, he is in the majority of the film\'s scenes. I find this child so irritating that I fast forward whenever he shows up. Since he has a lot of scenes in this film, this means that I fast forward through a lot of the film. There were and are so many talented child actors; it\'s a pity this film doesn\'t have any of them in it. Still, Clifton Webb in the traditional broad-brimmed hat and shorts is a sight worth seeing."'],
 ['271,"This is a must-see documentary movie for anyone who fears that modern youth has lost its taste for real-life adventure and its sense of morality. Darius Goes West is an amazing roller-coaster of a story. We live the lives of Darius and the crew as they embark on the journey of a lifetime. Darius has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease which affects all the muscles in his body. He is confined to a wheelchair, and needs round-the-clock attention. So how could this crew of young friends possibly manage to take him on a 6,000 mile round-trip to the West Coast and back? Watch the movie and experience the ups and downs of this great adventure - laugh and cry with the crew as they cope with unimaginable challenges along the way, and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three weeks later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprises!"'],
 ['272,"The message of a world on the brink of war is disregarded by the masses; the mythical city of Everytown in 1940 represents England in general, but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world. When war finally does arrive, it\'s ravages continue not for another five years, but until 1966 at which time Everytown is completely destroyed. Adding to the desolation and toll on humanity is the ""wandering sickness"", a pestilence that continues for another four years.<br /><br />""Things to Come"" balances both a fatalistic and futuristic world view, where science holds out a hope for a revived civilization. The ""Wings Over the World"" concept plays out a bit corny, though it\'s spokesman Cabal (Raymond Massey) is unwavering in his mission and dedicated to his cause. If he fails, others will follow. This message is continually reinforced throughout the film, brought home convincingly in Massey\'s end of movie speech. Man\'s insatiable need to test the limits of knowledge and achievement requires an ""all the universe or nothing"" mindset.<br /><br />The film\'s imagery of automation and machinery in the second half is reminiscent of the great silent film ""Metropolis"". As Everytown is rebuilt and transformed by the year 2036, the spectacle of the city\'s rebirth strikes a resonant chord, as architecture of modern cities of today suggest the movie\'s eerily prophetic vision is coming to fruition. Where the movie gets it wrong by sixty seven years though is man\'s first mission to the moon, but in 1936, a hundred year timetable probably seemed more legitimate than 1969.<br /><br />""Things to Come"" is one of those rarities in film, a picture that makes you think. Which side will you come down on, the forces for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo? It\'s not a comfortable question, as both choices offer inherent dangers and unknowable outcomes. Those who choose to be bystanders risk being swept away by forces beyond their control."'],
 ['273,"Fulci... Does this man brings one of the goriest and weirdest movies ever made? Answer: yes! Cat in the Brain, also known as Nightmare Concert is Fulci\'s last masterpiece. Yes it is, no matter what some people will say about it. There are few facts why this movie is one of the best Fulci\'s movies.<br /><br />Fulci make a fun of himself and his movies with this one. Lead roll in this movie is no other then Fulci himself, who plays... well horror-splatter-gore director, who thinks he is slowly going insane. It\'s filled with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movies works here. Being Fulci flick, you need to know it\'s gory. How much? Well pretty much. I always loved gore in the movies and I never get enough of it, but Cat in the Brain actually stopped my thirst for gore, and believe me, it\'s a hard to archive. Even the Braindead didn\'t stop it. CITB is all about gore. Almost every scene revolves about Fulci, who after being hypnotized by *khmmm* evil psychiatrists is seeing all kinds of horrors for everything that happens to him or everything he sees. Some of the scenes involves him accidentally dropping the whiskey, and instead of that he sees rotten corpse lying on the floor, which starts to spit some ooze from it\'s wounds. Forget the Beyond or Zombie 2, this IS the goriest Fulci movie! Now I like how Fulci manage to apply all those comic parts in the gorefest movie. He is such a brilliant director. Some funny moments and lines happens from time to time, like one where Fulci says ""making gore movies is kind of a sickness"" Ending is very good considering that Fulci (and most of the Italian horror masters) is know for making ending with no sense or many plot holes. If you are fun of the Fulci, make sure you check it out. If you have a weak stomach, avoid this and repeat ""Its only a movie"" ps. some of the gore scenes within this movie: Chainsaw dismemberment (full), tongue torn out, eyeballs torn out, maggot infested corpses, zombies, decapitations, face being putted in boiling water, stabs in the shower (to head), throat slit, many parts of the body and organs being toast aside, hammer smashed face..."'],
 ['274,"What an incomprehensible mess of a movie. Something about a cop who extracts bullets from himself after he gets shot and keeps them in a glass jar in his bathroom (and from the size of the jar he\'s been shot about fifty times by now) and a top secret tank guarded by five or six incompetent soldiers who for some reason drive it into Mexico. Whether they were sent there intentionally or just got really really lost is never made clear. And you\'ll never hear another screenplay feature the word ""butthorn"" either. Gary Busey tries out the Mel Gibson role from ""Lethal Weapon"" and while Busey is a serviceable actor the screenplay damns the whole movie to mediocrity. William Smith does another turn as a Russian soldier, the same character he played in ""Red Dawn"" a few years earlier. After playing biker heavies for most of the 70s it was sort of nice to see him expand his range playing Communist heavies. Sadly he\'ll probably always be remembered best as the guy who Clint Eastwood whupped in ""Every Which Way You Can."""'],
 ["275,I love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scenes about the raptors. I like raptors because they are scary. My favorite parts are the ones where the raptor looks behind the pillar because it reminds me of a scene from the Friday the 13th movie with the girl who eats the banana.<br /><br />I really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphics seem a little fake but it's okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what is going on and I think it's got a good ending even though I didn't really understand what was going on on my first couple viewings I figured it out over time and that's the important part. The other important part is how scary the dinosaurs can be if you're watching it the first time.<br /><br />THIS IS BEST MOVIE."],
 ['276,"WARNING: REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS<br /><br />A couple of years back I managed to see the first five films in this franchise, and was planning to do an overview of the whole Elm St. series. However, just two years on and I find I can\'t remember enough about them in order to do it – I guess they couldn\'t have made much of an impression. From what I do recall, some of the sequels – Dream Warriors in particular – weren\'t as bad as is often made out, though even the original was no classic. Generally, the predictability of the premise (if people fall asleep they get murdered in their dreams) doesn\'t lend itself to narrative tension. But while I cannot recall much of the first five films, I do know they never plumbed the depths of Freddy\'s Dead.<br /><br />An indication of how sick of Freddy the public was at this point can be judged by the fact that the film was promoted solely on the character\'s demise. The fact that the movie\'s conclusion is not even hidden, but in fact the entire purpose for the film\'s being goes to illustrate how vacant, soulless and cynical this venture was.<br /><br />Taking the morally questionable idea of having a child molester as the charismatic villain, Robert Englund\'s in-no-way-scary interpretation booms with laughter. I always thought Freddy\'s mockery of the teenage victims was less aimed at the characters than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe. It\'s like Englund\'s crying out ""we know this is garbage – but you\'re paying to see it, so who\'s the one laughing?"" And I\'m sure victims of child abuse would be disheartened to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight. Was Freddy\'s appearance in the films always so rudimentary? All he gets to do here is a few ""haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr – har – har – hars"" and that\'s it. If this was the only Elm St. film you\'d ever seen you wouldn\'t get to know the character at all. Even as the character pre-death in a flashback Englund plays him as a boo-hiss pantomime villain with a slop of Transatlantic (ie. overstated, misplaced and not at all funny) irony.<br /><br />Acting is almost universally poor. Just look at how many times Breckin Meyer overacts with his hand gestures and body language. Only Kananga himself, Yaphet Kotto, keeps his dignity. And when Roseanne, Tom Arnold and Alice Cooper show up, you can almost visibly see the film sinking further into the mire. The script, too, is absolutely lousy, almost wholly without merit. Carlos (Ricky Dean Logan) opens a road map, upon which the Noel Coward-like Freddy has wittily written ""you\'re f**ked"". When prompted for the map, Carlos responds ""well the map says we\'re f**ked"". Who wrote the screenplay, Oscar Wilde?<br /><br />Or how about the scene where Carlos is tortured by Freddy, his hearing enhanced to painful levels? So Freddy torments him by threatening to drop a pin – a potentially fatal sound, given that all sounds are magnified. Oddly, the fact that Carlos shouts at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seems to have no effect. ""Nice hearing from you, Carlos"", quips Freddy, hoping some better lines will come along. It\'s also worth noting that dream sleep doesn\'t occur instaneously, so being knocked unconscious wouldn\'t allow instant access into Freddy\'s world. Though as part of the narrative contains a human computer game and a 3-D finale plot logic isn\'t that high on the list of requirements.<br /><br />The teenagers heading the cast this time are really the most obnoxious, dislikeable group in the whole series. Tracy (Lezlie Deane) is the only one who gets to greet Freddy with ""shut the f**k up, man"" and a kick in the scallops. And was incongruous pop music always part of the ingredients? Freddy\'s Dead. No laughs. No scares. No interest. No fun.<br /><br />"'],
 ['277,"Some comments here on IMDb have likened Dog Bite Dog to the classic Cat III films of the 90s, but although it is undoubtedly brutal, violent and very downbeat, this film from Pou-Soi Cheang isn\'t really sleazy, lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison. However, it still packs a punch that makes it worth a watch, particularly if gritty, hard-edged action is your thing.<br /><br />Edison Chen plays Pang, a Cambodian hit-man who travels to Hong Kong to assassinate the wife of a judge; Sam Lee is Wai, the ruthless cop who is determined to track him down, whatever the cost. With Wai closing in on his target, Pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escape—until he meets Yue, a pretty illegal immigrant who needs his help to escape her life of abuse.<br /><br />A relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography, amazing sound design, a haunting score, and solid performances from Chen and Lee (as well as newcomer Pei Pei as Pang\'s love interest), Dog Bite Dog is one for fans of hard-hitting Asian hyper-violence (think along the lines of Chan-wook Park\'s Vengeance trilogy). Stabbings, shootings, merciless beatings: all happen regularly in this film and are caught unflinchingly by director Cheang.<br /><br />Of course, this is the kind of tale that is destined to have an unhappy ending for all involved, and sure enough, pretty much everyone in this film dies (rather nasty deaths). Unfortunately, there is a fine line between tragedy and (unintentional) comedy, and in its final moments, Dog Bite Dog crosses it: in a laughably over-dramatic final scene, Pang and Wai are locked in battle as a pregnant Yue looks on. Eventually, after all three have suffered severe stab wounds during the fracas, a wounded Pang performs a DIY Ceasarean on (a now dead) Yue, delivering their baby moments before he himself dies.<br /><br />Whilst this film might not be a \'classic\' slice of Hong Kong excess, with its deliriously OTT action and stylish visuals, it\'s still worth seeking out."'],
 ['278,"I watched this movie for the hot guy--and even he sucked! He was the worst one--well, okay, I have to give props to that freaky police officer rapist guy too, he was even worse. The guy wasn\'t that cute in the end, he had the most terrible accent, and he was the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that can\'t stand up to his mom for the one he ""loves"" there\'s ever been. Overall, and if this makes any sense to you, when I go to pick up movies at the video store, I think to myself as I read the back of a movie that looks so/so, ""Well, at least it can\'t be worse than Carolina Moon."" The most terrible movie, and the most terrible writing, acting, plot--everything in it made my gag reflexes want to do back flips. It was THE most horrid movie I will ever see, with Gabriela way up there too. I hated it, and trust me, if there was any number under 1 IMDb had for rating, I\'d choose that in a heartbeat."'],
 ['279,"Absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in getting to the bottom of this story. Told with unflinching eye and with gripping style. If you think conspiracy theories are for paranoid disturbed people, this could change your mind. Something for you feds too: A good model for government coverups! If you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this is not for you."'],
 ['280,"I have decided to not believe what famous movie critics say. Even though this movie did not get the best comments, this movie made my day. It got me thinking. What a false world this is.<br /><br />What do you do when your most loved ones deceive you. It\'s said that no matter how often you feed milk to a snake, it can never be loyal and will bite when given a chance. Same way some people are such that they are never grateful. This movie is about how selfish people can be and how everyone is ultimately just thinking about oneself and working for oneself. <br /><br />A brother dies inadvertently at the hands of a gangster. The surviving brother decides to take revenge. Through this process, we learn about the futility of this world. Nothing is real and no one is loyal to anyone.<br /><br />Amitabh gave the performance of his life. The new actor Aryan gave a good performance. The actress who played the wife of Amitabh stole the show. Her role was small but she portrayed her role so diligently that one is moved by her performance. Chawla had really great face expressions but her role was very limited and was not given a chance to fully express herself.<br /><br />A great movie by Raj Kumar Santoshi. His movies always give some message to the audience. His movies are like novels of Nanak Singh (a Punjabi novelist who\'s novels always had a purpose and targeted a social evil) because they have a real message for the audience. They are entertaining as well as lesson-giving."'],
 ['281,"After a very scary, crude opening which gives you that creepy ""Chainsaw massacre""-feeling, everything falls apart.<br /><br />SPOILER ALERT: As soon as the two FBI-officers start jabbing, you know they are the real killers. Anyone who have seen enough of these ""fooled-ya""-movies can figure this out.<br /><br />This movie is mader with one thing in mind: To depict brutal murders. Why, then, is not the little girl tortured and murdered as well? Will this be next for us movie-goers? The torture and abuse of children? Whats wrong with you people? Lynch is truly has a disgusting, ugly mind."'],
 ['282,"I can\'t say much about this film. I think it speaks for itself (as do the current ratings on here). I rented this about two years ago and I totally regretted it. I even /tried/ to like it by watching it twice, but I just couldn\'t. I can safely say that I have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever, ever again. And I\'m not one to trash a movie, but I truly believe this was awful. It wasn\'t even funny in the slightest. The only bits I enjoyed were the few scenes with Christopher Walken in them. I think this film ruined both Jack Black and Ben Stiller for me. All I can think of when I see one of their films now-a-days is this terrible movie, and it reminds me not to waste my money. Amy Poehler is so very annoying, too.<br /><br />Overall, well, I think you get my point. The stars are for Walken, by the way."'],
 ['283,"I am not so old that I can\'t remember laughing at Bobcat Goldthwait a couple times. But some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells.<br /><br />From the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead. Neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line. Goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better- even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades. <br /><br />If you ever saw Shakes the Clown you know how unfunny Bobcat was 15 years ago...this movie is worse. It was not even funny by accident It is sad, pathetic and a total waste of time. May Goldthwaits\' hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script. Strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene. He is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into Hollywood"'],
 ['284,"In New Orleans, an illegal immigrant feels sick and leaves a poker game while winning the smalltime criminal Blackie (Walter Jack Palance). He is chased by Blackie and his men Raymond Fitch (Zero Mostel) and Poldi (Guy Thomajan), killed by Blackie and his body is dumped in the sea. During the autopsy, the family man Lieutenant Commander Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) of the U.S. Public Health Service finds that the dead man had pneumonic plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty-eight hours to avoid an epidemic. The City Mayor assigns the skeptical Captain Tom Warren (Paul Douglas) to help Dr. Clint to find the killers that are infected with the plague and inoculate them.<br /><br />""Panic in the Streets"" discloses a simple story, but it is still effective and with a great villain. The engaging plot has not become dated after fifty-seven years. Jack Palance performs a despicable scum in his debut, and the camera work while he tries to escape with Zero Mostel is still very impressive. My vote is seven.<br /><br />Title (Brazil): ""Pânico nas Ruas"" (""Panic in the Streets"")"'],
 ['285,"The box is why I originally picked up this movie and the back is why I rented it. But I soon learned that I had been duped. I had thought this movie would be something like a Road Trip/Eurotrip/American Pie deal. But I was wrong. This movie is one of the dumbest I\'ve seen in a long time. The unrated version teases you in to watching but will completely disappoint you. The acting was terrible and sound effects just gaudy. It appeared very low budget with the entire setting taking place in the same building. Go out and get Eurotrip or Road Trip instead. I can\'t believe National Lampoon put its name on this. DON\'T BUY IT, DON\'T RENT IT. Don\'t waste 2 hours of your life on this."'],
 ['286,"There have been many documentaries that I have seen in which it appeared that the law was on the wrong side of the fence - The Thin Blue Line and Paradise Lost come to mind first and foremost. But this is the first film that had me seething with anger after I saw it. It seems blatantly clear to me from the evidence presented in this film that what happened at Waco was at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the FBI and AFI, and at the very worst an act of murder. Like most people, when the siege at Waco was occurring I assumed that David Koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult. After seeing this, I think that Koresh was more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently caught the attention of the U.S. government through his eccentric actions. Sure, there were lots of weapons at the Branch Davidian compound. But none of it was illegal. It was absolutely heartbreaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound, all of them seeming to be very nice and harmless. And it was angering to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government forces on the Waco site, the clueless testimony of Janet Reno, and the partisan defense of the attack on Waco, a defense led by a few of the committee Democrats. Standing out most in my mind was NY representative and current U.S. senator from NY Charles Schumer. I voted for the man when I lived in NY state - I\'m a Democrat, pretty left-leaning too. After seeing his actions on this committee, I wish I could go back in time and vote for D\'Amato instead! For anyone remotely interested in the government, this is a very crucial film, a must see. I even think this should be shown in classes - it\'s that important."'],
 ['287,"I saw this movie last night and thought it was decent. It has it\'s moments I guess you would say. Some of the scenes with the special ops forces were cool, and some of the location shots were very authentic. I won\'t be putting this movie in my DVD collection but it is fair enough to recommend for renting. I guess nothing set the movie at another level compared to others of the same genre. The action is good, the acting is decent, the women are extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion, and the story is pretty interesting. 7 out of ten"'],
 ['288,"Yes, I call this a perfect movie. Not one boring second, a fantastic cast of mostly little known actresses and actors, a great array of characters who are all well defined and who all have understandable motives I could sympathize with, perfect lighting, crisp black and white photography, a fitting soundtrack, an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that is engaging and works. It\'s one of those prime quality pictures on which all the pride of Hollywood should rest, the mark everyone should endeavor to reach.<br /><br />Barbara Stanwyck is simply stunning. There was nothing this actress couldn\'t do, and she always went easy on the melodramatic side. No hysterical outbursts with this lady - I always thought she was a better actress than screen goddesses like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford, and this movie confirmed my opinion. Always as tough as nails and at the same time conveying true sentiments. It is fair to add that she also got many good parts during her long career, and this one is by far the least interesting.<br /><br />The title fits this movie very well. It is about desires, human desires I think everyone can understand. Actually, no one seems to be scheming in this movie, all characters act on impulse, everybody wants to be happy without hurting anybody else. The sad fact that this more often than not leads to complications makes for the dramatic content into which I will not go here.<br /><br />I liked what this movie has to say about youth, about maturing and about the necessity to compromise. The movie I associate most with this one is Alfred Hitchcock\'s Shadow of a Doubt, it creates a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricatured Small Town America. The story has a certain similarity with Fritz Lang\'s considerably harsher movie Clash by Night, made one year earlier, where Stanywck stars in a similar part. I can also recommend it."'],
 ['289,"I would like to know if anyone know how I can get a copy of the movie, ""That\'s the way of the World"". It\'s been about 30 years since I\'ve seen this movie, and I would like to see it again. Earth Wind & Fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and themes. It was unfortunate that this group didn\'t take off like their counterparts in the early 70\'s, but as previously stated, racial tension existed in the United States which prohibited equalized exposure for the African American musical groups. It is good to see that Earth Wind & Fire continuing their success. I would like to add this movie to my collection. Someone please help me if possible. Thank you for your attention. Milton Shaw"'],
 ['290,"I saw the movie ""Hoot"" and then I immediately decided to comment it. The truth is that NATURE needs protection from us because we are the dominant specie of this planet. Some people think that if they have money, they can do whatever they want to, which probably is like, but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful! This movie is not just about kids, this movie is showing us that the kids are usually the ones that care more about it then the adults do. When I was twelve, I saw some waterlilies and I knew they are protected by law and didn\'t even dare to touch them not fearing of the law, but fearing that I might harm them actually. (I am currently 15) What so ever, the acting was great, the 3 main characters are well interpreted and we all have to learn from them. I hope you all think about what you saw in that movie!!! and Enjoy!"'],
 ['291,"I had some reservations about this movie, I figured it would be the usual bill of fare --- a formula movie about Christmas. Being in the middle of a heat wave in late June, we decided to give it a shot anyway, maybe we would see some snow.<br /><br />This movie turned out to be one laugh after another. Ben Affleck was believable in his character, but the real star of this one is James Gandofini. He delivered his lines with a real wit about him and made a great ""dad"".<br /><br />If you want to have an enjoyable couple of hours, definitely check this one out."'],
 ['292,"When I first saw this film around 6 months ago, I considered it interesting, but little more. But it stuck with me. That interest grew and grew, and I wondered whether my initial boredom and response had more to do with the actual VHS quality rather than the film itself. I purchased the Criterion DVD box set, and it turns out that I was right the second time. Alexander Nevsky is a great film. It is rousing, and I\'m sure it succeeded in its main aim: propaganda against the Germans.<br /><br />That is the most common criticism against this film, and against Eisenstein, that it is merely propagandist and nothing else. It\'s untrue. He is an amazing film artist, one of the most important whoever lived. By now, the world is far enough beyond Joseph Stalin to be able to watch Eisenstein\'s films as art."'],
 ['293,"Focus is another great movie starring William H. Macy. I first discovered Macy in Fargo and I\'ve seen a few of his films and he hasn\'t yet deceived me. Macy is the archetypal ""nice guy with something to hide"". In Focus, he plays the role of Lawrence Newman, a loyal and hard-working stiff, who harbours his handicapped mother at home. The scene is set after World War II, at the height of McCarthyism. Newman is the head of Human Resources for a company which is basically, anti-Semite. After he accidentally hires a woman of Jewish descent, he is asked to buy a pair of glasses, to improve his failing eyesight.<br /><br />Unbelievably, the simple act of buying glasses has great repercussions on his life and that of Gertrude Hart, his wife (played by a great Laura Dern). As the film unravels, Newman will begin to see a whole different world, where being Jewish is akin to being an animal.<br /><br />The movie is disturbing in the way it shows that being racist was something fairly normal. The chilling thought is that in some places, it probably still is."'],
 ['294,"In ""Brave New Girl,"" Holly comes from a small town in Texas, sings ""The Yellow Rose of Texas"" at a local competition, and gets admitted to a prestigious arts college in Philadelphia. From there the movie grows into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty. I loved this movie. It was full of great singing and acting and characters that kept it moving at a very nice pace. The acting was, of course, wonderful. Virginia Madsen and Lindsey Haun were outstanding, as well as Nick Roth The camera work was really done well and I was very pleased with the end (It seems a sequel could be in the making). Kudos to the director and all others that participated on this production. Quite a gem in the film archives."'],
 ['295,"Despite a totally misleading advertising campaign, this flick turns out to be an irritatingly clichéd, sub-par haunted house flick with a totally implausible ending. Clue #1 for all considering seeing this turkey: Sam Raimi didn\'t direct it. Although commercials for the movie play up his involvement, in truth he is one of four producers. It\'s too bad that someone as talented as Raimi has allowed his name to be used in conjunction with such a poor movie. I don\'t think he would ever have directed something like this; that task was left to the Pang Brothers.<br /><br />The screenplay for this film seems to have been cobbled together from numerous other ""horror"" films, so you\'ll find absolutely zero original content in ""The Messengers."" What we get are a scene here and there that was plucked straight out of ""Pulse,"" a couple that could have come from ""The Birds,"" one or two from ""The Others,"" etc. Nearly every scene, almost every line of dialogue, is one that has been lifted from any number of other movies. The whole thing makes for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the ""surprise ending"" long before it comes.<br /><br />Right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign, centered on the idea that only children can see ghosts, has nothing to do with this movie. In fact, everyone can see the ghosts. The teenage daughter and mother characters certainly see them, even quite early in the movie. I\'m sure that whomever was in charge of marketing came up with this campaign because the film needed a unique angle to have any box office appeal, which otherwise is entirely absent. Now you know, so don\'t be fooled! Perhaps what this movie lacks most of all is anything resembling chemistry between the actors. It simply isn\'t there. All of the interactions come across as awkwardly stilted. Coupled with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot holes (just what is a guy who murdered his whole family doing still lurking around the small town where the murder happened, anyhow? Didn\'t anyone think to maybe arrest him?), it all adds up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manages to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shots: loud noises, visual flashes, and anything short of a sheeted figure jumping out of a closet and yelling ""Boo!"" All we get for our buck this time around is yet another poorly-made film about spirits attempting to warn people away from a house. If there\'s any message that ""The Messengers"" delivers, it\'s ""Don\'t waste your time on this movie."""'],
 ['296,"This movie sucks ass. Something about a heatwave in some European country, complete trash. There\'s nothing going for this movie whatsoever. maybe 30 seconds of sex but that\'s it. There is a very annoying chick who hitches rides with people and really pisses me off. This movie is complete rash and you shouldn\'t subject yourself to watching it. I regret it it\'s very boring. I would rate it zero but i can\'t. No body in their right mind should see this. i\'m sure you\'ll regret it completely i did. How could they think up something this bad. Even Mystery men was better. MYSTERY MEN. That sucks. That movie wasn\'t worth being made. complete waste of time. The characters in this are very hard to understand and i good very very very bored."'],
 ['297,"I was looking forward to The Guardian, but when I walked into the theater I wasn\'t really in the mood for it at that particular time. It\'s kind of like the Olive Garden - I like it, but I have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it.<br /><br />I\'m not exactly sure what was dampening my spirit. The trailers looked good, but the water theme was giving me bad flashbacks to the last Kevin Costner movie that dealt with the subject - Waterworld. Plus, despite the promise Ashton Kutcher showed in The Butterfly Effect, I\'m still not completely sold on him. Something about the guy just annoys me. Probably has to do with his simian features.<br /><br />It took approximately two minutes for my fears to subside and for my hesitancies to slip away. The movie immediately throws us into the midst of a tense rescue mission, and I was gripped tighter than Kenny Rogers\' orange face lift. My concerns briefly bristled at Kutcher\'s initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort was made to paint him as ridiculously cool and rebellious. Sunglasses, a tough guy toothpick in his mouth, and sportin\' a smirk that\'d make George Clooney proud? Yeah, we get it. I was totally ready to hate him.<br /><br />But then he had to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jabs. <br /><br />Darn you, ape man! Efficiently mixing tense, exciting rescue scenes, drama, humor, and solid acting, The Guardian is easily a film that I dare say the majority of audiences will enjoy. You can quibble about its clichés, predictability, and rare moments of overcooked sappiness, but none of that takes away from the entertainment value.<br /><br />I had a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when Costner started training the young guys, but on the contrary, the training sessions just might be the most interesting aspect of the film. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers are heroes whose stories have never really been portrayed on the big screen, so I feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it is to make it is very informative and a great way to introduce audiences to this under-appreciated group.<br /><br />Do you have what it takes to be a rescue swimmer? Just think about it -you get to go on dangerous missions in cold, dark, rough water, and then you must fight disorientation, exhaustion, hypothermia, and a lack of oxygen all while trying to help stranded, panicked people who are depending on you for their survival. And if all that isn\'t bad enough, sometimes you can\'t save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who lives and who dies.<br /><br />Man, who wants all that responsibility? Not me! I had no idea what it was really like for these guys, and who would have thought I\'d have an Ashton Kutcher/Kevin Costner movie to thank for the education? <br /><br />Not only does The Guardian do a great job of paying tribute to this rare breed of hero, but lucky for us it also does a good job of entertaining its paying customers.<br /><br />THE GIST <br /><br />Moviegoers wanting an inside look at what it\'s like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give The Guardian a chance. I saw it for free, but had I paid I would\'ve felt I had gotten my money\'s worth."'],
 ['298,"Going into see Seven Pounds i wasn\'t clearly sure what to think because the previews left to much open to grasp what the movie was really about. So within the first 20 min or so you are completely lost in the plot, have no idea what is going on and you think Tim, who claims to be Ben, is just a big asshole. All of this comes to an end when the ""twist"",so to speak, is unraveled at the very last minute of the movie. Basically Tim (will smith) was troubled and haunted by a big accident he made causing the end of seven peoples lives. By this he decides to scope out seven new people who are in need of help badly who he in turns gives his life to.<br /><br />The acting of this film is great, as i feel will smith no matter what part he seems to impress. Rosario Dawson, to me, this is one of her better movies, aside from eagle eye which i think is up there to. She has been in some bad some good but she does deliver in this film. Other actors, such as woody Harrelson, have very small roles and not a big enough role to grasp the character. Although the casting of the film was still good.<br /><br />This movie was definitely not what i expected and certainly a lot slower pace in which i hoped. The movie, however, was still pretty good. Nothing is revealed until the last 5 min of the movie and everything falls into place. Up until then it just seems like a pointless love story. Final thought seven pounds=seven Stars."'],
 ['299,"I saw Brother\'s Shadow at the Tribeca Film Festival and loved it! Judd Hirsch and Scott Cohen are great as father and son. The film follows Scott Cohen from parole in Alaska back to his family in Brooklyn. He shows up there because his brother has died, and he embarks on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationships with his brother\'s wife and child and his father who has never forgiven him for being the black sheep of the family. The story takes us deep into the hearts and minds of this family and allows you to more deeply understand the complexity of their lives. Also, the imagery of the woodworking business and the Brooklyn backdrop sets the tone for this rich and revealing family portrait."'],
 ['300,"""MararÃ\xada"" really disappointed me. I can\'t consider it as a bad movie, but the development just seemed too rushed and non-believable for it to evoke any emotions. Dr. FermÃ\xadn displays some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one can\'t really understand where it was born from. I mean, how many times does he ever have a conversation with MararÃ\xada?? Maybe once? Also, MararÃ\xada never appeared to be a real character, instead more like a film stereotype that just needed to be in the movie (...or else another title was needed?). Some of the best acting came from a role that wasn\'t really important to the story, that of Marcial, the sub-intelligent yet humble drunkard. Of course, the scenery, the cultural tidbits of the Canary Islands, and other ""wow"" moments were interesting, but the movie fell short of a documentary (in case this was its real intention), and most importantly, as a solid drama."'],
 ['301,"Serum is about a crazy doctor that finds a serum that is supposed to cure all diseases through the power of the mind. Instead it creates some kind of monster that needs to eat human flesh and brains. The mad doc creates some zombies out of cadavers and has some problems. There is a very long lead into all the action with many scenes getting you acquainted with the characters. The mad doctor\'s nephew gets into a car accident and the mad doc tries to use his new serum on the boy. The results are not good. This is a class C film with OK acting but some troubles directing and some continuity errors. There isn\'t much zombie action in this one and the effects, while adequate, are nothing special. You can fast forward through the slow parts and get some enjoyment out of the action scenes. Watch out for some nudity and bad language."'],
 ["302,witty. funny. intelligent. awesome. i was flipping channels late one night years ago. came across this and a wildfire started. i was staying up late every night and taping it for everyone i know. a few. like 3 people out of the almost 100 people i made watch this didn't think it was as awesome as i did. the others were laughing out loud so hard they were crying and thanking me at the same time. please do yourself a favor. run don't walk. watch this and enjoy. intelligence and humor. it's a win-win situation. i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we as a society need more of....sanechaos."],
 ['303,"It\'s a unique film, as it gives us our only chance to see the young Noel Coward in all his ironic glory. Because he seems so reserved & detached he\'s perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matter-of-factly uses all those around him. However in the deadly serious (no pun intended) last act, when Coward must make like the Flying Dutchman, he\'s much less comfortable.<br /><br />But his way with an epigram is peerless, and Hecht & Macarthur have given him some gems (Macarthur, really -- he was the wit of the pair).<br /><br />The film is superbly lighted by the great Lee Garmes, but has little camera movement aside from a storm sequence. Hecht and Macarthutr cared about one thing -- getting their dialogue on screen. (NOTE: H&M themselves have blink-and-you\'ll-miss-\'em cameos as bums in the flophouse scene).<br /><br />The most notable supporting player is the one and only Alexander Woolcott, notorious Broadway columnist and close friend of both Macarthur and Coward, who appears as one of the bitchy authors always kept waiting in the reception room of publisher Coward.<br /><br />Curious that Woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoons the legendary Algonquin Round Table, of which he was a founder, and Macarthur something of an auxiliary member.<br /><br />The Scoundrel actually won an Oscar for best story, though that victory is probably due more to Coward\'s imposing presence than any brilliance in the plot. It\'s Coward, Woolcott, and the dialogue you remember..."'],
 ['304,"This is definitely a ""must see"" film. The excellent Director Alain Chabat (also acting as Ceasar) has managed to capture the very essence of the ""Adventures of Astérix"" (the French comic books it\'s based upon) and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy, which is also an homage to the world of animated films. This movie is so funny, so full of jokes (both visual and spoken) that it might take you two or three screenings before you notice them all, between your bursts of laughter. The only drawback is that a non-French audience (or at least a non-French speaking audience) might not get all the ""private jokes"". There are so many dialogues impossible to translate, so many situations directly related either to the comic books or to the French way of life, that the fun might be lessened. However, it\'s still totally worth seeing for the beautiful picture, the amazing stunts, the music, the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent acting. All actors are great, but the film would not be the same without Jamel Debouze, Gérard Darmon and Edouard Baer. And please don\'t EVER compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one based on the same comic books : ""Astérix et Obélix Contre César"" and directed by Claude Zidi."'],
 ['305,"I thought this movie was stunning, with completely outstanding performances by Valentina Cervi (Artemisia Gentileschi).<br /><br />Cervi portrays Artemisia so beautifully, with tentative yet confidant mannerisms, her hands mapping out an idea before moving her models into place. The passion to which Artemisia gives to her art is just spectacular to watch.<br /><br />Although not each character was overtly beautiful, this made the film more realistic as the facial hair and clothing was perfect for that point in time.<br /><br />Overall i thought this film was fantastic."'],
 ['306,"I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of boxing movies and as such there is only one thing that prevents me from calling ""Gentleman Jim"" the best boxing movie ever made. That is the Robert Wise/Paul Newman flick ""Somebody Up There Likes Me."" That movie might be number 1, but ""Gentleman Jim"" is a close number 2.<br /><br />The movie doesn\'t just chronicle the rise of James J. Corbett, it also shows the sport of boxing at a crucial time of transition. In the late 1800s boxing was moving away from the brutal days of bare-knuckle rules to the more ""gentlemanly"" days of the gloved, Marquis of Queensbury rules. And the sport was moving away from the days when it was an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability.<br /><br />""Gentleman Jim"" is not a realistic look at those days. It is romanticized and, yes, even a bit hokey at times. But always delightfully so. Errol Flynn is perfect as the ""Gentleman"" Jim who really isn\'t a ""gentleman"" at all but merely a fast talker from a working class family. Alexis Smith is quite ravishing as the upper class woman with whom he has a love/hate relationship (and we all know it is, of course, love that will win that match in the end).<br /><br />At the end of ""Gentleman Jim"" the great John L Sullivan (whose famous line was NOT ""I can lick any man in the world"" of course...romanticism again) hands over his belt to Corbett. This is truly one of the best scenes in any sports move ever made. Realistic? No. But wonderful. Hey, if you want realism watch ""Raging Bull"" instead. That is a much more realistic boxing movie. But ""Gentleman Jim"" is a lot more fun."'],
 ['307,"That this movie has been stapled to the wall of a chapel as proof that God is truly dead. Am I the only one that really saw (rather sleptwalked) through this ""film""? This is the only movie I\'ve ever seen in the theater that I regret not walking out on and demanding my money back -- it was just that dull. And I even saw ""Highlander 2: The Quickening"" at the local cinema. From beginning to end, Gibson and Downey have absolutely no chemistry as two unlikelies, cast together by circumstance, who eventually work together as best buddies. The action (what little there is) is goofy and as dull as the skullbone of the writer. Thank whatever deity is chortling down at us as it observes our ""cinema"" that there\'s no chance for an ""Air America 2."""'],
 ['308,"Well, there\'s no real plot to speak of, it\'s just an excuse to show some scenes of extreme violence and gratuitous sex (which can sometimes be fun, too, but it\'s not in this case). What else can I say about this...? The action, when happening, is inventive and there\'s a cool scene where two characters are falling from a skyscraper (one that has to be several miles high), but overall there\'s not much to recommend ""Kite"". Watch it if you want, but you\'re not missing much if you skip this one..."'],
 ['309,"This is the best film the Derek couple has ever made and if you think this is a recommendation then you haven\'t seen any of the others. There are the usual ingredients: it is just as poorly acted as their other efforts, we can watch Bo disrobing or auditioning for wet T-shirt contests quite frequently, the story is just laughably idiotic, and the film takes itself much too seriously. And then: Orang Utans in Africa?<br /><br />But it has a few things going for it. Bo looks great, the production values (sets, costumes, etc.) are quite good, and this greatly enhances its camp value. In a strange way it is actually quite funny, simply because it tries to be serious and fails so badly."'],
 ['310,"Some people drift through life, moving from one thing or one person to the next without batting an eye; others latch on to a cause, another person or a principle and remain adamant, committed to whatever it is-- and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it. But we\'re all different, `Made of different clay,\' as one of the characters in this film puts it, which is what makes life so interesting. Some people are just plain crazy, though-- and maybe that\'s the way you have to be to live among the masses. Who knows? Who knows what it takes to make things-- life-- work? Writer/director Lisa Krueger takes a shot at it, using a light approach to examine that thin line between being committed-- and how one `gets\' committed-- and obsession, in `Committed,\' starring Heather Graham as a young woman who is adamant, committed, obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy, too. Her name is Joline, and this is her story.<br /><br />',
  "Admittedly, Joline has always been a committed person; in work, relationships, in life in general. She's a woman of her word who sticks by it no matter what. And when she marries Carl (Luke Wilson), it's forever. The only problem is, someone forgot to tell Carl-- and 597 days into the marriage, he's gone; off to `find' himself and figure it all out. When Joline realizes he's not coming back, she refuses to give up on him, or their marriage. Maybe it's because of that `clay' she's made of. Regardless, she leaves their home in New York City and sets off to find him, which she does-- in El Paso, Texas, of all places. But once she knows where he is, she keeps her distance, giving him his `space' and not even letting him know she's there. She considers Carl as being in a `spiritual coma,' and it's her job to keep a `spiritual vigil' over him until he comes to his senses. And while she watches and waits, her life is anything but dull, as she encounters a young woman named Carmen (Patricia Velazquez), a waitress at one of the local eateries; Carmen's `Grampy,' (Alfonso Arau), who is something of a mystic; T-Bo (Mark Ruffalo), a truck driver who has issues concerning Carl; and Neil (Goran Visnjic) an artist who makes pinatas and takes a fancy to her. For Joline, it's a journey of discovery, during which she learns a lot about Carl, but even more about herself.<br /><br />",
  "There's a touch of humor, a touch of romance, and some insights into human nature in this quirky film that is more about characterization and character than plot. And Krueger presents it all extremely well, delivering a film that is engaging and entertaining. Her characters are very real people, with all the wants, needs and imperfections that make up the human condition; a rich and eclectic bunch through which she tells her story. We see it from Joline's point-of-view, as Krueger makes us privy to Joline's thoughts and therefore her motivations, which puts a decided perspective on the events as they unfold. That, along with the deliberate pace she sets that allows you to soak up the atmosphere and the ambiance she creates, makes for a very effective piece of storytelling. There's an underlying seriousness to this subject matter, but Krueger chooses to avoid anything heavy-handed or too deep and concentrates instead on the natural humor that evolves from the people and situations that Joline encounters. And the result is a well textured, affecting and upbeat look at that thing we call life.<br /><br />",
  "Heather Graham takes hold of this role from the first frame of the film to make Joline a character totally of her own creation. She immerses herself in the part and gives a performance that is convincing and believable, adding the little personal traits and nuance that makes all the difference between a portrayal that is a mere representation of a person, and one that is real. And for this film to work, it was imperative that Joline be viable and believable-- and Graham succeeds on all fronts. Her screen presence has never been more alluring, and her vibrant personality or even just the way she uses her eyes, is enough to draw you in entirely. it's all a part of the character she creates; there's an appeal to Joline that exudes from her entire countenance, who she is inside and out. She's a likable, agreeable person, and because you've shared her innermost thoughts, you know who she is. It's a good job all the way around, beginning with the way the character was written, to the way Graham brings her so vibrantly to life.<br /><br />",
  'As Carmen, Patricia Velazquez is totally engaging, as well. Her performance is very natural and straightforward, and she uses her instincts to effectively create her character. She has a charismatic presence, but is less than flamboyant, and it gives her an aspect that is attractively down-to-earth. She is refreshingly open and up-front; you get the impression that Carmen is not one to hold anything back, but is totally honest on all fronts, and that, too, is part of her appeal. And, as with Joline, this character is well written, and Velazquez brings her convincingly to life.<br /><br />',
  "Overall, there is a number of notable performances that are the heart and soul of this film, including those of Luke Wilson, Casey Affleck (as Joline's brother, Jay), Goran Visnjic, Alfonso Arau and especially Mark Ruffalo as T-Bo, who, with very little actual screen time, manages to create a memorable character.<br /><br />",
  'The supporting cast includes Kim Dickens (Jenny), Clea Du Vall (Mimi), Summer Phoenix (Meg), Art Alexakis (New York Car Thief), Dylan Baker (Carl\'s Editor), and Mary Kay Place (Psychiatrist). A film that says something about the value of stepping back to consider The Big Picture-- reflecting upon who we are, where we\'re going and what we really need-- `Committed\' is an enjoyable experience; a ride definitely worth taking. 8/10."'],
 ['311,"Ho-hum. An inventor\'s(Horst Buchholz)deadly biological weapon is in danger of falling into the wrong hands. Unknowingly his son(Luke Perry)has been working on the antedote all along. Enter CIA agent Olivia d\'Abo and the cat-and-mouse car chases and gunfire begins. Also in the cast are:Tom Conti, Hendrick Haese and an aging Roger Moore. Moore seems to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his better efforts. Perry fans will be accepting. d\'Abo is wrong for the role, but nice to look at."'],
 ['312,"Note to self. Never ever ever again watch a serious movie with Charlie Sheen in it. Great comedian, horrible seal. This movie makes Navy SEALS look like a reckless group of rangers when, in fact, they are the most elite form of military in the world. Charlie Sheen helps destroy the Navy SEAL reputation. Thank you for making such an incredibly select group of individuals look awful in one of the worst action movies I have ever seen. This is a great story which could be made into an amazing action movie, but why Charlie Sheen? There are possibilities for a very passionate story here, but Sheen decides to wreck them with ""funny"" comments."'],
 ['313,"This movie is stupid. There\'s no getting around it. But so is Dumb and Dumber. Mind you, Dumb and Dumber is significantly more funny than this. However, I for one love seeing stupid movies (Tail Sting) and laughing with a group of good friends over how bad it is. Call me callous, but see this movie, and you\'ll find that the only way you can laugh at it is if you laugh at it instead of with it."'],
 ['314,"I was looking forward to this so much, being a big fan of the book. However, when it came out I remember thinking it was one of the biggest wastes of money and time I\'ve ever spent at the cinema.<br /><br />In principle, the acting, the sets and the music were excellent, and are the main reason why I\'m rating this a 4.<br /><br />In this version, Sara is a little too self-sacrificing for my taste. There is no way she would have deliberately lied to Miss Minchin just to stop her punishing the other girls; in the book she makes a point of describing lies as ""not just wicked, but vulgar."" <br /><br />There\'s also far too much of a Disneyfied ending for me; Sara\'s father coming back from the dead and all of them trotting off into the Indian sunset. While the book does have a happy (and critics might say equally improbable) ending, it doesn\'t leave you thinking, ""Oh puh-leeze.""<br /><br />About the only things true to the book were:<br /><br />1. Sara\'s father being a soldier 2. The lines between Sara and her father (""Are you learning me by heart?""/""No. I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."") 3. Sara\'s friendship with Becky, and her \'adopting\' Lottie (although this last one wasn\'t developed as much as it could have been) 4. The changing of her room by adding various luxury items. That part was brilliantly done. 5. The basic core - a rich girl being flung into poverty suddenly - is there, but that\'s about all that is.<br /><br />People might say that this adaptation is more for the younger audience. Possibly. All I can say to that is I have two cousins - aged 7 and 12 respectively - who were big fans of this film until they read the book.<br /><br />If all you want is a \'feel-good\' family film, then this delivers. If you\'re looking for a film that actually tells the story of A Little Princess (in fact, if you\'ve read the book) don\'t waste time with this one. It\'s such a shame; with a cast like this, if they\'d stuck to at least the basic story it could have been fantastic.<br /><br />Am I harping on about \'read the book\' this and \'read the book\' that a little too much? Very probably. But if someone attempts to adapt a book - especially such a classic - into a movie, then they should at least have done the same thing. Preferably more than once."'],
 ['315,"as always this is an inaccurate picture of the homeless. TV told a lot of lies about panhandlers in the early 1990s and made everyone look bad, and claimed we all made over $100 a day when $20-40 a day was much closer to reality. when someone drove by where i held up a sign offering to work, and offered me work, i actually went and took the work if i was physically able.and if i would been offered the $100,000 id damned sure invested in in apt prepaid for at least 2 years, and kept most in the bank and still left myself $10-20000 for NL $1-2 and $2-5 cash games at the casinos. i usually always win and could win decent if i just had a bankroll. instead i win about $1000 a month is all playing in always minimum buying in due to not wanting to risk losing it all. i was only homeless cause i didn\'t wanna risk spending all my money and going broke, sometimes i had over $1000-2000 in my sock while i slept outside. anyone wanting to talk contact sevencard2003 on yahoo messenger.i admit i was different than most homeless people though, due to the fact i never drank smoke or took drugs. im no longer homeless, am now in govt housing for $177 a month and getting SSI and spend most of my time winning at online poker. mom and sunflower diversified worked hard to get me SSI. glad my days of hiding in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleeping, worrying about getting caught by security are finally over. had this TV crew picked me theyd been over a lot sooner. its a shame how they don\'t better select who they pick."'],
 ['316,"i really in enjoyed watching this movie. like most of the people that watched it. i wasn\'t sure that i was getting. Whoopi Goldberg is a very funny comedian and she has done a lot of funny movies; i.e. sister act.<br /><br />however this was not really comedy. it is a drama with comedic moments. so if your looking for a laugh riot then keep looking.<br /><br />this movie is about a black family moving up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood. i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie. this movie does not just deal with race relations between whites and blacks, but also about relations with in the black community. i do think that it is worth a chance. if your not really interested in see another movie about race relations then this movie isn\'t for you"'],
 ['317,"Having been a Marine, I can tell you that the D.I. is as accurate a portrayal to date depicting Marine Corp boot camp and how boys are turned into men. Jack Webb is excellent as Sgt.Jim Moore, a tough, but fair drill instructor in Paris Island North Carolina. The film centers on one recruit who doesn\'t seem to ""get with the program."" A more recent film, Full Metal Jacket, also shows life in basic training and is well worth viewing."'],
 ['318,"Every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie. This movie is the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be.<br /><br />The plot seems to be a bit confusing at first viewing but it will definitely explain a bit about what\'s going on and you really want to view it for the second time. But after second viewing you will start to join the pieces together and then you will know how amazing a movie can be.<br /><br />A word of advice for slasher flick fans stay away from this movie. This is not your dumb ass teenage slasher movie, in which you just switch off your brain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b**bs and lots of blood.<br /><br />If you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that supports Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1ch, without any of your ill mannered friends that crack jokes on a really tense situation. And don\'t forget to switch the light off.<br /><br />My points on different aspects:-<br /><br />Direction = 9/10 Acting = 8/10 Atmosphere = 10/10 Sound Effect = 9/10<br /><br />Total = 9/10"'],
 ['319,"Ken Burns\' ""Baseball"" is a decent documentary... it presents a clear origin of the game, a great depiction of baseball\'s early years and heroes. There\'s plenty in this movie for any baseball fan... that said, the film has several glaring flaws.<br /><br />18 hours is simply too long for the human attention span. It\'s clear that Burns stretched his film out to fit his ""nine inning"" concept. It\'s not even a tight 18 hours... the pace on every segment is slow, almost morose... the music always nostalgic and wistful. Isn\'t baseball ever exciting and fun? Why is every player and their accomplishments presented in the form of a tragedy? Talking head after talking head turn every pitch into an emotional heartbreak, yakking about baseball as a metaphor, baseball as Americana, the psychology and theology of baseball... enough! This is syrupy, mawkish drivel. Billy Crystal is here to sell us all the Yankee hokum he\'s sold us before. Ken Burns uses the National Anthem as the series\' theme song, and manages to play ""Take Me Out To The Ballgame"" so many times you might vomit. We get it, dude.<br /><br />Clearly Burns is a neo-Hollywood faux-liberal, so he spends probably a third of the film on the Negro leagues... these segments are spent chastising whites of yesterday for not being as open-minded as Kenny is today. For shame! He chides baseball for being segregated in the thirties and forties but fails to realize that America was segregated in those times! Burns falls head over heels in love with Buck O\'Neil, a former negro-league player, and drools over every piece of footage in which the elderly O\'Neil waxes poetic about his playing days. Nonsense...<br /><br />Burns would have been better off with an adult to help him edit his creation down. ""Baseball"" winds up as mushy, gushy, civil-rights propaganda disguised as Americana. Its clear that Burns is not a baseball fan... otherwise he would know we watch games laughing and cheering, not weeping and reciting soliloquies... are you listening, Mr. Burns? There\'s no crying in baseball."'],
 ['320,"""Quitting"" may be as much about exiting a pre-ordained identity as about drug withdrawal. As a rural guy coming to Beijing, class and success must have struck this young artist face on as an appeal to separate from his roots and far surpass his peasant parents\' acting success. Troubles arise, however, when the new man is too new, when it demands too big a departure from family, history, nature, and personal identity. The ensuing splits, and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic are the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other. Hongshen slips into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim.<br /><br />But what an exceptionally convincing particularity, honesty, and sensuousness director Zhang Yang, and his actors, bring to this journey. No clichés, no stereotypes, no rigid gender roles, no requisite sex, romance or violence scenes, no requisite street language and, to boot, no assumed money to float character acts and whims. <br /><br />Hongshen Jia is in his mid-twenties. He\'s a talented actor, impressionable, vain, idealistic, and perhaps emotionally starved. The perfect recipe for his enablers. Soon he\'s the ""cool"" actor, idolized by youth. ""He was hot in the early nineties."" ""He always had to be the most fashionable."" He needs extremes, and goes in for heavy metal, adopts earrings and a scarf. His acting means the arts, friends--and roles, But not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input. And his self-criticism, dulled by the immediacy of success, opens the doors to an irrational self-doubt, self-hatred-- ""I didn\'t know how to act"" ""I felt like a phony""--and to readily available drugs to counter them. He says ""I had to get high to do what director wanted."" So, his shallow identity as an actor becomes, via drugs, an escape from identity. <br /><br />Hongshen\'s disengagement from drugs and his false life is very gradual, intermittent--and doggedly his own. Solitude, space, meditative thinking, speech refusal, replace therapy. The abstract is out. And a great deal of his change occurs outdoors---not in idealized locations but mainly on green patches under the freeways, bridges, and high-rises of Beijing. The physicality is almost romantic, but is not. The bike rides to Ritan Park, the long spontaneous walks, the drenching sun and rain, grassy picnics, the sky patterns and kites that absorb his musing are very specific. He drifts in order to arrive, all the while picking up cues to a more real and realistic identity. ""I started to open up"" he says of this period in retrospect. And the contact seems to start with his lanky body which projects a kind of dancer\'s positioning (clumsy, graceful, humorous, telling) in a current circumstance. If mind or spirit is lacking, his legs can compel him to walk all night. <br /><br />Central to his comeback is the rejection of set roles. To punctuate his end to acting and his determination to a new identity, he smashes his videos and TV, and bangs his head till bloody against his ""John Lennon Forever"" poster. He has let down his iconic anti-establishment artist---but he\'s the only viable guide he knows. He even imagines himself as John\'s son (Yoko Ono), and adopts his ""Mother Mary"" as an intercessor in his ""hour of darkness"" and ""time of trouble."" (the wrenching, shaking pain in the park--hallucinatory and skitzoid ordeals) ""Music is so much more real than acting"" he says. And speaks of Lennon\'s influence as ""showing me a new way."" In the mental institute, the life-saving apples (resistance, nourishment) reflect Lennon\'s presence, as does Hongshen\'s need to re-hang his hero\'s poster in his redecorated room.<br /><br />If Lennon\'s influence is spiriting, Hongshen\'s father\'s influence is grounding. Although father and son are both actors and users (drugs and drink), it is Fegsen\'s differences from his son that underwrites his change. For the father is more secure in himself: he accepts that he\'s Chinese, a peasant in a line of peasants, a rural theater director. And he exercises control over both his habit and his emotions. It\'s this recognizable identity that drives Hongshen to treat him like a sounding board, sometimes with anger and rage, sometimes with humor (the blue jeans, Beatles) and passivity. In his most crazed, and violent exchange with his father in which he accuses him of being a liar, and a fake, he exposes more of himself than his father: ""all the acts I acted before were bullshit... life is bullshit."" And to Hongshen\'s emphatic ""you are NOT my father,"" he softly replies, ""why can\'t a peasant be your father?"" <br /><br />Under these two teachers and with much additional help from his mother, sister, friends, inmates at the rehab inst., he makes some tangible connection to a real (not whole) self. As the long term drug effects recede, so does his old identity. Indebtedness replaces pride, trust distrust. Integrity banishes his black cloud. All his edges soften. ""You are just a human being"" he repeats endlessly after being released from the strap-down incurred for refusing medicine. Back home, lard peasant soap is fine with him now. And his once ""rare and true friendships"" begin again as is so evident in the back to poignant back-to-back fence scene with his musician buddy. Hongshen says of this movie: ""it\'s a good chance to think about my life."" And I might add, become a New Actor, one bound to art and life. Like Lennon, he has gained success without a loss of identity."'],
 ['321,"I have watched this movie countless times, and never failed to be charmed by it\'s homely simplicity, sincerity and goodness. Great characterizations by all of the cast, and the lovely little steam trains that play a such an important supporting role.I confess I fell in love with Roberta in 1970, and she still touches me today. Shown on TV in New Zealand on Christmas day, the nicest present I could have had."'],
 ['322,"If only I had read the review by Alex Sander (sic) on here rather than looking at the rating of over 6 from a select choice of the ignorant viewing public I would not have seen this desecration. Alien was a fantastic, dramatic and well made horror/sci-fi. Predator was a great sci-fi/action mess-about. I do really have only myself to blame though as I saw \'Alien versus Predator\'. It too has an average grading of over 6 stars from the connoisseurs of film that frequent this site.<br /><br />STOP READING NOW IF YOU HAVE ANY FEAR OF THIS EVER SO SUSPENSE RIDDEN PLOT BEING RUINED FOR YOU.<br /><br />Right from the beginning this film was ridiculous. No explanation was offered for the Predator ship overrun/not overrun by Aliens. OK so maybe they were again going to throw aliens down to Earth to hunt them and something went wrong but how did this result in an Alien/Predator hybrid and why did the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology? The start was actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we had some idea of who was who or what was what and perhaps why. From then on it gets really ridiculous. I always leave my disbelief strictly suspended above the door of the screen before entering and collect it on the way out. I couldn\'t here.<br /><br />A father and son are hunting in the woods. The damaged ship crash lands to (from the view given) I would calculate at the very least 10 odd miles away through thick woodland. The man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hugged. Even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face huggers are almost comical rather than scary in their movement and actions and the father seems like such an irresponsible, dumb redneck muppet.<br /><br />An edgy, thriller-type scenario is introduced with an ex-con returning to the town near the crash site to be met by his somewhat emotionless, dull now cop friend from the bus. When I say introduced I mean a feeble attempt with crap actors and no feeling is played out. A slasher/horror element is then introduced with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who gets beaten up by the over protective, crazy, nasty Jock type (American sportsman not a Scottish man). Oh the cute/not cute boy is the ex-con\'s brother by the way. Yes they\'re clever these director brothers whose name I will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again. Then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at PC, Ripley credential type character introduction comes with a female soldier returning home to her husband and child.<br /><br />Guess what happens next? I won\'t tell you much more about the actual (smiles sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent films) plot just in case you have got this far and are not the brightest star in the Alien-ridden universe.<br /><br />The Predator is stupid for the reasons stated by the previous poster whose post I read too late. The Aliens are boring. The Predator-Alien is ridiculous. The action is at times exploitative, gratuitous, disgusting nonsense. The hospital scene with the pregnant mothers?!?! Oh I was shocked alright. Shocked at how low some people will go to get what? A scare? Some shock? To titillate the perverse? What? If you really wanted to shock, titillate and scare people who are not pregnant or expecting fathers or who have no souls why not just have the Alien/Predator shagging the saucy women and teenage girls rather than killing them? The characters have no depth and neither does the plot. It\'s filmed and paced badly. It\'s acted by disinterested people not that I can blame them. It further tarnishes two rather interesting and good sets of sci-fi characters. This film was rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it I really have to worry about you. If you haven\'t seen it then well please make your own decision.<br /><br />PS Did I even mention the way that trained soldiers are all killed in about 20 seconds while amateur civilians survive throughout?"'],
 ['323,"Even though I saw this film when I was very young, I already knew the story of Wild the Thief-Taker and Shepherd who famously escaped from Newgate prison.<br /><br />Apart from the liberty taken right at the end, the film more or less faithfully follows the true story. The temptation to bend the facts which is the hallmark of so many so-called historical films is resisted in this film and the film makers must be praised for that.<br /><br />Of the performances, There is scarcely a poor performance, and Tommy Steele is ideally cast. Also good is Stanley Baker as the Thief-Taker and Alan Badel is good as always.<br /><br />Because the film sticks to the facts, it makes it suitable to be watched by all the family."'],
 ['324,"Gone is the wonderful campiness of the original. In place is a c-grade action no-brainer, wich is not all bad, but pales in comparison to the original. All the meaningless sex and violence is gone, and replaced with crappy jokes and unexplained plot pointers. See it, but don\'t expect the thrills of the first."'],
 ['325,"Although most Americans have little knowledge of his work other than Star Wars, Alec Guinness produced an amazing body of work--particularly in the 1940s-1950s--ranging from dramas to quirky comedies. I particularly love his comedies, as they are so well-done and seem so natural and real on the screen--far different from the usual fare from Hollywood.<br /><br />This being said, this was the film that sparked my interest in these movies. It\'s plot was so odd and cute that it is very unlikely the film would have been made anywhere--except for Ealing Studios--which had a particular fondness for ""little"" films like this one.<br /><br />Guinness is a nerdy little scientist that works for a textile company. He wants to experiment in order to create a synthetic fabric that is indestructible, though he is not working for the company as a researcher but for janitorial work! So, he tends to sneak into labs (either during the day if no one suspects or at night) and try his hand at inventing. Repeatedly, he is caught (such as after he blew up the lab) and given the boot until one day he actually succeeds! Then, despite the importance of the discovery, he sets off a completely unanticipated chain of events--and then the fun begins.<br /><br />The film is a wonderful satire that pokes fun at industry, unions, the government and people in general."'],
 ['326,"Victor McLaglen\'s performance is one of the finest in film history.<br /><br />I think we can all feel for ""Gypo"" because we\'ve all struggled with what is right and what isn\'t and been wrong. This was one of the first art-house pictures to be released by a major American movie studio (RKO Radio Pictures).<br /><br />Joseph H. August\'s cinematography is at its very best here. However, August\'s stunning portion was mostly overlooked; he didn\'t receive the Oscar nomination he rightly deserved.<br /><br />This is a psychological drama, with thought, philosophy, sadness, all conveyed with as little words as possible."'],
 ['327,"How do you take a cast of experienced, well-known actors, and put together such a stupid movie? Nimrod Antel has the answer: Armored. Six co-workers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves. But, just as they get to first base with their plans, everything unravels quickly. With a plot like this, you\'d think it couldn\'t be too bad, at least for an action movie. However, in the first 40 minutes or more of this movie we see what appear to be 6 normal, everyday kind of guys. They joke, they laugh, have a few drinks together, etc. Then, we suddenly learn they\'re planning to rob their own business. The hero Ty, (Columbus Short), is sucked into the scheme because of the cold, cruel world, even though he\'s a decorated veteran, nice guy, and reliable employee. Oh my, oh my! Then in the last 40 minutes of the film, these former regular guys nearly all turn into money-crazed psychos, willing to butcher each other for cash. In the last scenes Mike, (Matt Dillon), goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend. The viewer has no hint before this ending that these men are this ruthless and bloodthirsty. It\'s utterly unbelievable and ""B movie"" is almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot. I would say don\'t waste your time--too bad no one gave Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno or Fred Ward the same advice before making this picture."'],
 ['328,"The sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn. It\'s peak years were between 1968 and 1972. One of the most loved and talented actresses of the era was Monica Gayle, who had a small but fanatic cult of followers. She was actually able to act, unlike many who filled the lead roles of these flicks, and her subsequent credits proved it. And her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career was taking off only heightens her mystique.<br /><br />Gary Graver, the director, was also a talent; probably too talented for the sexploitation genre, and his skill, combined with Monica Gayle\'s screen presence, makes Sandra, the Making of a Woman, a pleasantly enjoyable experience. The film never drags and you won\'t have your finger pressed on the fast-forward button."'],
 ['329,"What a surprisingly good movie this one turned out to be. This is the type of film that I\'ve been looking for ages. Particularly important for me was the fantastic-looking Chicago, which I still keep thinking about. The back cover doesn\'t do this film justice, it\'s superb, and in my top-5 for sure."'],
 ['330,"I did not expect much from this film, but boy-o-boy, I did not expect the movie to be this bad. Chris Rock is not showing a good act here, you can\'t get the feeling that his caracter is real, I think the movie would have been a bit better if it\'s drama or romantic scenes would have been a less part of the movie and more/better humor was involved. The movie is like the film makers were having a bad hangover making it. In the ""making of"" they don\'t show a single smile. This is a very bad film! I gave it three out of ten because of few smiles it gave me, but I did never laugh!"'],
 ['331,"I cant believe there are people out there that did not like this movie! I thought it was the funniest movie i had ever seen. It my have been b/c i am Mel Brooks biggest fan... I know almost all the words and get very discouraged when they censor them, when it is played on a Family Channel. :) this is one of my favorite movies, so i dont know why any one would disagree! thanks Kristina"'],
 ['332,"Flynn, known mostly for his swashbuckling roles (and his bedroom antics!) takes a different tack with this film and it works beautifully. Playing real-life boxing champ Jim Corbett, Flynn turns on the charm full blast as he makes his way from a stifled San Francisco bank teller to a celebrated pugilist, all the while setting one eye on society deb Smith. He and best pal Carson attend an illegal bare-knuckle fight and are arrested along with scores of other men (and a dog!) including a prominent judge. The next day, he gets a chance, via Smith, to gain entrance to the judge\'s private club. He uses this opportunity to weasel his way into the good graces of its exclusive members and land a spot as the club\'s resident boxer. His unusually adept skill in the sport soon has him taking on all comers, up to and including the world champion John L. Sullivan (Bond.) Flynn is downright magical here. He is the epitome of charm, charisma and appeal in this role. He looks terrific (especially in a hangover scene with his hair mussed and wearing a white union suit) and does virtually all of his own stuntwork (impressively!) His line delivery is delicious and he is credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally. Smith exudes class and taste from every pore and is a good match for Flynn. At this stage, he needed a female costar who could stand up to his advances and reputation (he was undergoing statutory rape charges at the time) and she does so admirably. She is repulsed by his freshness and cavalier attitude, yet can hardly help but fall under his enchanting spell. Bond is incredibly burly, brawny and towering, yet tender when the script calls for it. Amusing support is provided by a young and ebullient Carson. Frawley is his dependably cantankerous self as Flynn\'s manager. The rest of the cast is excellent as well including Flynn\'s rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy Nob Hill types. The whole thing is beautifully appointed and securely directed. A few of the sets are amazingly presented. Some of Smith\'s gowns border on the garish, but she suits the upswept hairstyles very well. It\'s a terrific glimpse into the earliest days of championship boxing, but it\'s also so much more. Some of it (like the character traits shown by Flynn) is enhanced or exaggerated for entertainment purposes, but a lot of it is authentic (like the methods and costumes shown in the fight scenes.) One line is particularly memorable: ""I believe you like me more than I like you, but it\'s entirely possible that I love you more than you love me."" It\'s classic romantic dialogue (and there are more than a few zingers sprinkled throughout the script as well.)"'],
 ['333,"Often laugh out loud funny play on sex, family, and the classes in Beverly Hills milks more laughs out of the zip code than it\'s seen since the days of Granny and Jed Clampett. Plot centers on two chauffers who\'ve bet on which one of them can bed his employer (both single or soon to be single ladies, quite sexy -- Bisset and Woronov) first. If Manuel wins, his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang -- if he loses, he must play bottom man to his friend! <br /><br />Lots of raunchy dialogue, fairly sick physical humour, etc. But a lot of the comedy is just beneath the surface. Bartel is memorable as a very sensual oder member of the family who ends up taking his sexy, teenaged niece on a year long ""missionary trip"" to Africa.<br /><br />Hilarious fun."'],
 ['334,"Thought provoking, humbling depiction of the human tragedies of war. A small, but altruistic view of one family\'s interactions with the enemy during the civil war in Kentucky. This movie lessens the ""glamor"" of war; showing it\'s effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit.<br /><br />A lot of today\'s movies show war as an opportunity to highlight the ""hero\'s"" and other glamorous features of war, but very little attempts to show the true effect war actually takes on a community. This movie attempts this through a retelling of a person\'s memory of those days. This movie is stated to be loose translation of an actual events, when in reality, this movie is probably a factual reality of hundreds, perhaps thousands of ""actual events"" during the civil war. I highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie."'],
 ['335,"Or anyone else have noticed the fact that first bunch of episodes are inspired too much by 90\'s flicks?<br /><br />I mean seriously wife who is trying get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his assets. Med students who are temporarily stopping their hearts to reach memories that are lost; Flatliners. Bunch of college bodies getting together again to reminisce on the old days but are not fully comfortable because they did something in the past, Very Bad Things? Groundhog day is one of my all time favorite movies. Sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd is bunch of lazy bastards who can not come up with their original scripts.<br /><br />Noble idea totally fubarred in it\'s execution."'],
 ['336,"elvira mistress of the dark is one of my fav movies, it has every thing you would want in a film, like great one liners, sexy star and a Outrageous story! if you have not seen it, you are missing out on one of the greatest films made. i can\'t wait till her new movie comes out!"'],
 ['337,"I saw this movie on the Hallmark Channel and thought it was wonderful, especially since it was based on a true man. Pierce Brosnan was very good as the loner English man who took on the persona of the half breed Grey Owl. The photography was beautiful.<br /><br />This movie made me do more research into this character Archie Belaney known simple as Grey Owl. I want to read as much as I can about him. At the time I did not know Richard Attenborough had directed it. But I am not surprised. I like all his movies whether he is acting or directing. I gave it the highest rating. However, I would have liked to have seen more in the movie about WHY he took on this persona as it only showed the two aunts who raised him and his room in their house.<br /><br />You can\'t go wrong with this movie if you are like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hearing foul language and contrived special effects every few minutes."'],
 ['338,"Despite having an absolutely horrid script (more about that later), this film is still vaguely watchable just because it stars two excellent actors, Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. Aside from one or two REAL stinkers, I\'d probably watch just about anything with them in the film, as I am a huge fan of Hollywood\'s golden age of the 1930s and 40s. However, no matter how much I love their films, I just can\'t recommend this film.<br /><br />The movie begins with Fonda and Stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort. The two haven\'t yet met, but the film begins loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which Fonda horribly yodels while skiing. It was done so unsubtly and made my teeth grind but I stuck it out--especially when Fonda fell into a snow bank and this stopped the yodeling!! In hindsight, perhaps I should have just turned it off then! Fonda is knocked out in the fall and Barbara goes for help. Back at the ski lodge, he seems okay but fortunately she is ALSO a doctor and has him x-rayed and nurses him back to health. He, in turn, becomes infatuated with her and proposes to her. Despite hardly knowing each other, they marry and so far the film seems like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy.<br /><br />Once home, however, all isn\'t rosy as she jumps right back into her job as a family doctor and he begins exhibiting signs that he is a controlling and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy. The film plays it all for laughs, but frankly Fonda\'s behaviors were really creepy--spying on her and her male patients, attacking or threatening ANY man she treats, tripping a patient who already has a back injury and stomping into a surprise party and insisting that everyone there (men and women) are out to steal away his wife. He comes off as a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic, but it\'s all supposed to be for laughs. Considering that he seems like a dangerous nut, you would think that Stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restraining order! But, oddly, she gets mad but just can\'t stay mad at Fonda because he\'s so........? I can\'t think of the right word--\'creepy\' is all that comes to mind!!! Later, out of the blue, multi-millionaire Fonda gets a job working the counter at a department store. Then, through magical thinking, he and Babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy is all a thing of the past--so a job apparently cures anger and suspicions. When this job falls through, the film ends with Fonda buying his own hospital, giving Barbara a job there and they live happily ever after. They don\'t go any further with the story, but I assume based on Fonda\'s character that he then spent most of his time as hospital administrator beating up all the male patients.<br /><br />The first portion at the ski lodge and the next did NOT fit well together, nor did the final ""Horatio Alger"" inspired section where the rich boy made good in the business world. They were like three separate plots but despite this, the most serious problem with the film was its seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy! What a creepy little film! Thank goodness neither Fonda nor Stanwyck are known for this yechy film but for all their other lovely films."'],
 ['339,I find the critique of many IMDb users a little harsh and in many cases find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that wants to sit and watch something just to GET AWAY from it all.<br /><br />In this case however I have to say it was BAD. I am a SciFi junkie and there was NOTHING in this movie that grabbed me for even one second.<br /><br />There was no proper storyline. I may be an idiot but I still do not know where the GOVERNMENT was that was so worried about these pieces.<br /><br />The pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these 3 pieces is scary. Half the time the two pieces were already in place and he simply had to add the third. A 3 year old kid would have been able to put them together.<br /><br />This movie was BAD.<br /><br />Dominic'],
 ['340,"I was debating between this movie and 2012 but chose Inglourious Basterds due to it\'s amazingly high IMDb rating. I must say now, what a disappointment. I expected a certain amount of gratuitous violence, but I also expected a lot of witty dialog. I got a huge dosage of the former, but not nearly enough of the latter. I felt shortchanged. The ratio between violence to plot is very important and I think this movie gets it totally wrong. And the plot? It\'s that believable or really all that entertaining either. Save your time and money. I can\'t believe what this rating says for the gory and violent tastes of the modern masses."'],
 ['341,"Bend it like Beckham is packed with intriguing scenes yet has an overall predictable stroy line. It is about a girl called Jess who is trying to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally gets the chance when offered a position on a local team. there are so many boundaries and limits that she faces which hold her back yet she is still determined and strives. i would recommend it for anyone who likes a nice light movie and wants to get inspired by what people can achieve. The song choices are really good, \'hush my child, just move on up...to your destination and you make boundaries and complications.\' Anyway hope that was at help to your needs in a review. Bend it like Beckham great flick"'],
 ['342,"Directed by Diane Keaton and adapted from a book by Franz Lidz. A young mother Selma Lidz(Andie MacDowell)is battling a very serious illness and her self proclaimed inventor husband Sid(John Tururro)is a little lacking in the emotions department. Unhappy with the new home situation, their sensitive son Steven(Nathan Watt)decides he wants to stay with his two eccentric uncles Danny(Michael Richards)and Melvin(Lou Cutell)until his mom is well. Steven seems to be happier and even takes interest in his strange uncle\'s living habits; he even decides he wants to change his name to Franz. Set in the early 60\'s, this drama is a bit comedic...change that to zany. Not being a MacDowell fan, UNSTRUNG HEROES assures my attitude; albeit I enjoyed the film and it is not a total waste."'],
 ['343,"Perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movies is Otto Preminger\'s \'Where the Sidewalks Ends,\' from a really excellent script by Ben Hecht based on the novel \'Night Cry\' by Frank Rosenberg...<br /><br />Dana Andrews is the honest, tough New York policeman, always in trouble with his superiors because he likes his own strong-arm methods as much as he detests crooks... When he hit someone, his knuckles hurt... And the man he wants to hit is a smooth villain (Gary Merrill) who points up the title. \'Why are you always trying to push me in the gutter?\' he asks Andrews. \'I have as much right on the sidewalk as you.\'<br /><br />Dana Andrew\'s obsession and neurosis are implanted in his hidden, painful discovery that he is the son of a thief... His deep hatred of criminals led him to use their own illegal methods to destroy them, and the pursuit of justice became spoiled in private vendetta...<br /><br />By a twist of irony unique to the film itself, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney of \'Laura\' are united once more, and Andrews now seems to be playing the same detective a few years later, but no longer the romantic, beaten down by his job, by the cheap crooks... This time, he goes too far, and accidentally kills a suspect... The killing is accidental, the victim worthless, yet it is a crime that he knows can break him or send him to jail...<br /><br />Using his knowledge of police procedure, he covers up his part in the crime, plants false clues, and tries to implicate a gang leader, but cannot avoid investigating the case himself... The double tension of following the larger case through to its conclusion without implicating himself in the murder, is beautifully maintained and the final solution is both logical, satisfying, and in no way a compromise...<br /><br />The film is one of the best detective films of the 50\'s, with curious moral values, also one of Preminger\'s best... <br /><br />Preminger uses a powerful storytelling technique, projecting pretentious camera angles and peculiar touches of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism..."'],
 ['344,"In sum, overlong and filled with more subplots than swiss cheese has holes! The director and co-writer says he wanted to mix genres - in this case drama and comedy. Well, at least here, these two mix like vinegar and oil. To boot, the comedy is not very funny and juvenile. Additionally, the film is not really realistic. Liberties are taken regarding the legal system in committing French Citizens against their will and the apparent ease of absconding with drugs in French Hospitals. I watched this film on my big screen TV at home and found myself shouting at the film to move on. Eventually toward the end I fast forwarded the final long speech one of the main characters makes to his ex-lover\'s son. By that time I was worn out by the preposterous confused plot that deals with a dead lover, marriage of convenience and a nutty ex-lover. At times the plot diverts to the families of the two main characters and then reverts back to one of them - either Ismael or primarily Nora. To the detriment of the audience, viewpoints keep changing from Nora and Ismael, her ex-lover confined against his will in a psychiatric hospital. There probably are two potentially interesting films here neither of which are well developed. The epilogue does not really wrap up many of the sub-plots and seems to want the viewer to believe Nora somehow will find happiness although given her circumstances in real life the chances are equivalent to a snow ball\'s chance in hell. The actors do their best and are appealing, but this is not enough to overcome all the glaring faults of poor writing, editing and lack of focus."'],
 ['345,"Incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all Roman emperors who went insane, leaving infamous party orgies and ruthless killings in his path... I know there are several versions of this, and this is based on the 102 min\' one that I watched - but I can\'t fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck!<br /><br />I\'d heard for long about the alleged ""shocking"" content of sex/nudity (which honestly there isn\'t much of here at all - and boring when there is) and blood, but beware - it\'s the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shocks here: Everything looks plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project! Camera-work is hopelessly inept, full of strange zooms, failed framing and confusing pans (to and from what mostly looks like a huge theater stage!) complete with a grainy, cheapish photo quality. Lighting and color schemes are terrible and uneven - is it day or night? Are they in- or outside? Have they changed scenes? Who is, or is meant to be in the shot? Editing is the final sin here, making a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaways, continuity flaws and random transitions that destroy any chance of momentum, story progression - and involvement. There is potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story... but these faults distract so much it\'s tragic.<br /><br />A story with SO many possibilities to be great is just one gargantuan, burnt (and Fellini-like) turkey that\'s only good for a few gobble-laughs and Peter O\'Toole, who makes a most memorable Tiberius. Oh yes, which brings us to the big-name actors. I\'d like to line them all up one by one and just ask: Who did you get free access to bonk in the orgies to be a part of this? There, I\'ve wasted enough lines on one of the truly worst films of all time - period!<br /><br />1 out of 10 from Ozjeppe"'],
 ['346,"Did anyone edit this film? Or was it only the DVD release that had huge thirty second gaps between scenes? It\'s OK though, I fell asleep watching it the first time. Then I fell asleep the second time and the third time. The plot is actually not the worst I\'ve seen, but it\'s close. The acting is not the worst I\'ve seen either...but it\'s close. The production .... well, I can honestly say that it was the worst I had ever seen in my life! Not trying to be spiteful, but Unhinged could have used some more production.<br /><br />Please don\'t think I\'m a hater of horror films, or even that I didn\'t enjoy this film. I just felt I was laughing at the film much more than I felt I was laughing along with it. The gruesome moments were not too poorly done, but could have been done better even with a shoestring budget.<br /><br />Characters seemed awkwardly developed, or ignored all together, twist ending was pretty bad, and the exposition took forever without exposing much.<br /><br />I\'d recommend avoiding this movie.<br /><br />1/10"'],
 ['347,"Riding high on the success of ""Rebel Without a Cause"", came a tidal wave of \'teen\' movies. Arguably this is one of the best. A very young McArthur excels here as the not really too troubled teen. The story concentrates more on perceptions of delinquency, than any traumatic occurrence. The supporting cast is memorable, Frankenheimer directs like an old pro. Just a story of a young man that finds others take his actions much too seriously."'],
 ['348,"Most of the comments on this movie are positive so I thought I would try and redress the balance. I came out of this movie wondering what was going on. I now know and still consider it to be a poor movie. I intially discounted a dream sequence as that seemed too obvious. I was glad that I had a free ticket to the movie or I would have asked for my money back. Movie reviewers and critics love this movie, which only confirms to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film. The 8+ rating this movie has is so misleading. In 20 years time this film will not compare to true greats such as The Godfather. The film does have fine performances from both the leads but that isn\'t enough to save the film. (nor are the lesbian scenes!)"'],
 ['349,"Pepe le Moko, played by Charles Boyer, is some sort of international criminal mastermind wanted in countries throughout Europe, and to stay free he holes himself up in the Casbah, a mysterious part of Algiers where even the police are reluctant to go, until a senior officer is sent from Paris to capture le Moko once and for all. For le Moko, although the Casbah allows him to remain out of police custody, it also becomes a sort of prison at the same time - a place he can\'t leave, because the moment he does, he knows he\'ll be arrested.<br /><br />Boyer\'s performance was good, and I can understand why he was nominated for an Oscar. He captures the essence of such a character - a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time. The movie itself, unfortunately, was quite a letdown. A number of parts of the story seemed inconsistent, of which I\'ll mention two. First was the idea that the police wouldn\'t enter the Casbah. That was stated pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander, and yet repeated references in the movie suggest that in fact the police did enter the Casbah fairly regularly. So, neither the suggestion by Commissioner Janvier that the police wouldn\'t enter, nor the statement by Inspector Slimane (also a decent performance by Joseph Calleia) that they could get into the Casbah but not out seemed to make much sense. I also found it difficult to believe that le Moko - hardened criminal mastermind that he was - could be so quickly swept off his feet by Gaby (Hedy Lamarr) to the point where he entertains the local populace by singing love songs and then leaves the Casbah to find her, essentially giving himself up. I understand the irony of the final few scenes, of course, as Pepe leaves the freedom of his prison (the Casbah) only to find real freedom in his capture (because he\'s shot and killed by the police.) I just found it impossible to believe that someone like le Moko would fall into such a trap.<br /><br />This is worth watching for Boyer, and to a lesser extent Calleia, but the story is disappointing and inconsistent. 3/10"'],
 ['350,"Man with the Screaming Brain certainly isn\'t a perfect movie, but I\'m pretty sure it was never meant to be anything more than a star vehicle for Bruce Campbell, meaning it works as kind of a summary of his entire career: slapstick, sarcasm, cheese, action, and happy endings. Campbell is, as a writer, uneven--there are lots of things in the story that don\'t make a great deal of sense (why does the robot suddenly have breasts merely because a female brain has been implanted into it?), and some of the scenes feel like retreads of other, better incarnations (the scene in the restaurant, where Yegor and William battle for control of William\'s body, is straight out of Evil Dead II). There are, however, lots of little touches and non-sequiturs that feel rather brilliant, such as when William is in the height of his panic and screams at a statue, ""What are you looking at?!"" The movie looks like a Sci-Fi Channel original, probably because it was. The acting is actually pretty good. I particularly enjoyed Tamara Gorski as Tatoya; she was ruthless and cunning, yes, but seemed to have a tragic air about her in certain moments that the story never explored. Ted Raimi handled the standard ""bumbling assistant"" role admirably enough, and Bruce is funny as the arrogant, sardonic, condescending American jerk. (Now that he\'s writing his own films, you\'d think he\'d give himself a role that he hasn\'t been typecast in already.) Man with the Screaming Brain is a bizarre, nonsensical B-movie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid taking a cinematic experience too seriously."'],
 ['351,"You should never ever even consider to watch this movie! It is absolutely awful! This isn\'t an overstatement!! It is so unbelievable and exaggerated, it gets boring. It is just a movie where they have taken stories and plots from several movies and put it together in one. They writer hasn\'t been able to pull it off in a good way.<br /><br />If you\'d like to see pretty girls in bikinis and no brain this might be the movie for you, but still, you should plug your ears and just watch. It\'s not worth listening:p There are so many great movies out there, and if I could choose one, this would be the last movie I would pick. But all in all, it\'s your choice!!! <br /><br />Enjoy!"'],
 ['352,"Tell the truth I’m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people, which is also the main reason why I actually decide to see this movie. And after having seen it, I was really a disappointed, and this comes from the guy that loves this genre of movie.<br /><br />I’m surprise at this movie all completely – it is like a kid’s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little children cursing and swearing. I’m not at all righteous but this has really gone too far in my account.<br /><br />Synopsis: The story about two guys got send to the big brother program for their reckless behavior. There they met up with one kids with boobs obsession and the other is a medieval freak.<br /><br />Just the name it self is not really connected with the story at all. They are not being a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have done. The story is very predictable (though expected) and the humor is lame. And haven’t we already seen the same characters (play by Mc Lovin’) in so many other movies (like Sasquatch Gang?). I think I laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep.<br /><br />Well the casting was alright after all he is the one that produce the screenplay. And the acting is so-so as expected when you’re watching this type of movie. And the direction, what do one expect? This is the same guy who brought us Wet Hot American Summer, and that movie also sucks. But somehow he always managed to bring in some star to attract his horrendous movie.<br /><br />Anyway I felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time. Only the naked scenes seem to be the best part in the movie. Can’t really see any point why I should recommend this to anyone.<br /><br />Pros: Elizabeth Bank? Two topless scenes.<br /><br />Cons: Not funny, dreadful story, nudity and kids do not mix together.<br /><br />Rating: 3.5/10 (Grade: F)"'],
 ['353,"This film held my interest enough to watch it several times. The plot has holes, but the lead performers make it work.<br /><br />Catherine Mary Stewart (Julia Kerbridge), does a great job as a woman of 37 who has sacrificed everything else to become a physician. She worked years to earn the money to go to medical school. She is performing brilliantly in her residency and is just about to take her board exam and realize her dream.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Julia\'s sister and brother-in-law are murdered and as the nearest living relative she is compelled to take in her niece Amanda (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) to avoid having her become a ward of the state. Amanda is about 7 years old from her appearance. Amanda is so traumatized from her parent\'s murder that she has become mute. Needless to say, Julia\'s 16-hour days get longer caring for Amanda.<br /><br />Rob Lowe plays Kevin Finney, a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who works his way into the lives of Julia and Amanda. He is always there with a trick or a joke to help Amanda deal with her distress. Amanda really starts to warm up to Kevin as the film progresses, perhaps more than to her aunt. Julia starts to rely on Kevin to take some of the load of caring for Amanda as she attempts to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination. Kevin is always there whenever some crisis erupts for Julia.<br /><br />The chemistry between Rob and Catherine Mary was great. You keep watching to see them get together before the end of the film. The chemistry between Rob and Arlen was good as well. Arlen managed to convey quite a lot without the benefit of words. The plot had Julia and Amanda gradually warming up to each other. You can see them working out a relationship as the film progresses.<br /><br />We discover that Julia\'s sister and brother-in-law (the Meyers) were involved in industrial espionage. They stole an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer. They had three associates who intended to share the proceeds of the theft. Julia discovers that the Meyers were planning to skip the country under assumed identities. The plot is unclear whether the Meyers intended to double cross their associates or were themselves double crossed.<br /><br />In any case the Meyers are murdered in their home by 2 of their former associates. The killers make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the Meyers before killing them. The killers search the home and fail to find their prize. They leave a living witness to their crime, Amanda. The killers then spend the remainder of the film making clumsy attempts to extract the microchip from Julia and Amanda who have no idea where the prize is located. Eventually, the killers kidnap Amanda in hopes she knows something about the microchip\'s location.<br /><br />Eventually Julia discovers the truth about Kevin. He is an investigator hired to recover the stolen microchip. After some rough moments in the relationship they manage to rescue Amanda and dispatch the bad guys. The predictable ending has the three forming a family and moving happily into a future together.<br /><br />What struck me about the plot were major holes. Kevin moves into the same apartment building as Julia and Amanda the day after the murder of the Meyers. How does he know that the microchip is not already in the hands of the killers? The killers blithely leave fingerprints at the murder scene, with no concern for concealing their identity. The killer that pretends to be a psychiatrist is revealed to Amanda by the remnants of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe soles. He was not shown in the murder scene at the start of the film. There are other weaknesses along these lines too numerous to mention.<br /><br />The film could have been a lot better if the script had been refined more before filming. Filling in the plot holes would have added little expense and greatly improved the effort."'],
 ['354,"Like the previous poster, I am from northern Vermont, and I was inclined to like this film. However, not since ""Red Zone Cuba"" have I seen such a confusing plot. The things the people to bootleg make no sense. Two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car. Uhm, why? Then they meet two others, and drive up at night in to the bad guy\'s hideout in a luxury Packard. --Wouldn\'t just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense? Then, parked outside the garage that holds the targeted hooch, the four fall asleep! When they waken in the morning and and start hauling the whiskey out, of course they\'re spotted and shot at, losing some of their precious cargo in the process. Then two of the smugglers put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border. Again, why? I am told by someone whose great uncle really did smuggle in the area, all one needed was to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the U.S. Canada Border Patrol, which back then had a fraction of the resources it has now. <br /><br />And don\'t get me started on the last half hour, which made no sense whatsoever.<br /><br />The only good thing I can say about the film is that Kris Kristopherson has actually grown some charisma with the years."'],
 ["355,MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. This movie was the worst movie ever. I couldn't even watch it all it was so bad. This film is actually worse than scarecrow slayer which is saying a whole lot. This was worse than terror toons which at least terror toons was funny at times. Not even the gore in the film was good. The shootings were fake and the acting was worse. Please do yourself a favor and skip this one. If you see it at the rental store then run the other way. There is nothing good about this film at all. If you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch Night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head. If you want to see an OK new cheesy movie then watch Scarecrow. I rate this movie a 0.2 out of 10. That's how horrible this film really is. THE WORST MOVIE EVER."],
 ['356,"Watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line, the excellent character development, and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole.<br /><br />Without giving away too much of the plot, it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to take dance lessons. Along the way the protagonist and the assorted characters he meets in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lessons about others and about themselves. <br /><br />The story has a prologue about what dancing in Japan symbolizes sociologically, so it isn\'t exactly as simple to learn to dance in Japan as it is here in the U.S. <br /><br />The film is lighthearted; you\'ll laugh out loud at some of the sight gags. Yet it is also dignified in a way hard to describe. All of the film\'s characters are taken seriously, as they are, and none are diminished because of their ""imperfections.""<br /><br />I\'ve been thinking about taking social dance classes with some friends. It just so happened a friend lent me the video on learning to dance. Is this synchronous or what? I think so because now I\'m really geeked to give it a try. <br /><br />Watch this wonderful family film (small children might not get it, but teens certainly would) and smile at the genuine caring you see shown in it time and again.<br /><br />Why they would make a remake of Shall We Dance is a mystery, as it is perfect as-is."'],
 ['357,"Recap: Something mysteriously dense that transmits radio signals is discovered in the ice of Antarctica. The mysterious block is dug out and brought to a research station on Antarctica. Julian Rome, a former SETI-worker, is brought in to decipher the message. Problem is that one of the researchers is a old girlfriend of his, and the situation quickly turns awkward, especially since the other female researchers practically throw themselves at him. And the block of ice with the thing inside is melting unnaturally quickly. Soon the object is in the open. The mystery continues though as the object generates a huge amount of electricity. It is decided to open the object, but just before that is done, Julian decodes the signal. ""Do not open"". But too late, and the object explodes as it is finally breached, and two things unleashed on earth. The first is an alien, that had been dormant in the object, and the other is a virus that instantly kills the research staff. And Washington, that is suspiciously updated on this historic event, decides that those things can not be unleashed upon the earth. So a Russian nuclear submarine, carrying nuclear weapons is sent to Antarctica.<br /><br />Comments: The movie holds a few surprises. One is Carl Lewis who surprisingly puts in a good acting performance, and the other is that the special effects that are beautiful, well worked through and a lot better than expected. Unfortunately the story holds a lot of surprises of its own, and this time not in a good way. Actually it is so full of plot holes that sometimes the movies seem to consist of almost randomly connected scenes. It is never really explained why Washington know so much, why Washington is able to command Russian submarines, why the object is in the Antarctic and has woken up now. It is really puzzling that the alien pod is transmitting in understandable English. Some might want to explain this with that the alien had been to Earth before and knew the language (and obviously chose English, why?). But then it is very confusing why the nice aliens that apparently want to save the Earth from the virus, send their ""Do not open"" message encoded! And finally the end is as open as an end can be.<br /><br />The movie is a little entertaining but too much energy (from me) must be diverted to fill in the voids in the plot. Therefore the total impression of the movie is not too good.<br /><br />3/10"'],
 ['358,"This movie features Charlie Spradling dancing in a strip club. Beyond that, it features a truly bad script with dull, unrealistic dialogue. That it got as many positive votes suggests some people may be joking."'],
 ['359,"Had I checked IMDb BEFORE renting this DVD from Netflix, I\'d have a couple of hours of my life back. I\'m frankly suspicious when I see that a film\'s director also wrote it. In this case, according to the credits, the same guy was ""writter and director"" - unfortunately, an indication of the overall quality of this production. There were a few interesting moments (e.g., Judy Tenuta\'s scene reminded of her early comedy routines touting Judy-ism) which led me to rate this two stars rather than one. Those moments, however, were few and far between ... and I almost did not get to see them because the opening sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me, not to mention reprehensible in its violence. I admit I went back to watch that part again to see if I had missed something that would help me figure it out once I\'d seen the whole thing. Nope, though I at least recognized who the characters were who would turn out to be important later. The ""spinning camera"" technique was overused and essentially pointless. I found myself talking to the TV screen: ""What?!?"" or ""For goodness sake, get ON with it!"" Not recommended."'],
 ['360,"The endless bounds of our inhumanity to our own kind never fails to stun me. This truly astonishing story of a horrifically abused and largely unheard-of population is compelling, well-documented and enraging. As an American, I am constantly humiliated by my country\'s behaviour and this is just another in our long catalogue of international debasement. We suck. This is probably the first John Pilger documentary I\'ve seen, but it immediately made me want to see what else he\'s done. My only complaint, and the reason I gave this film only 8 out of 10, is that Pilger shows us this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the US and UK governments, demands that we viewers/citizens are complicit in our own inaction...but makes no suggestion of how to help. I don\'t know about Britain, but America\'s made it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government\'s doings. A gesture in the right direction might help these islanders\' cause."'],
 ['361,"This flick is so bad its beyond belief.Even for an independent low budget film...it just, well, sucks.I can\'t even believe even Troma would put out such crap.I have been a fan of some Troma flicks for years(Toxic Avenger,Squeeze Play,Rockabilly Vampire to name a few).But LLoyd, come on,this goes way beyond the boundaries of any taste.It features some of the worst acting imaginable.I think it would have been possible to find unemployed street people who could have been as good...oh,wait, that is what they did.I mean it,these characters have negative charisma.With any luck, the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity.As will the special effects people.But beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effects,the dialogue is absolutely traumatic to the ears.The script is full of plot holes the size of Alaska, and there are severe continuity problems.The worst part however, is that it not entertaining in even the smallest way.And this is the most unforgivable sin in film making.But, don\'t take my word for it.Go out and waste four bucks renting it.Just don\'t say I didn\'t warn you."'],
 ['362,"This is a very memorable spaghetti western. It has a great storyline, interesting characters, and some very good acting, especially from Rosalba Neri. Her role as the evil villainess in this film is truly classic. She steals every scene she is in, and expresses so much with her face and eyes, even when she\'s not speaking. Her performance is very believable. She manages to be quite mesmerizing without being over the top (not that there\'s anything wrong with being over the top). Mark Damon is surprisingly good in this movie too.<br /><br />The music score is excellent, and the theme song is the kind that will be playing in your head constantly for days after seeing the movie, whether you want it to or not. There are a couple of parts that are very amusing. I especially like the part where Rosalba Neri undresses in front of the parrot. There\'s also lots of slick gun-play that\'s very well done.<br /><br />I would probably have given this movie 8 or 9 stars if it wasn\'t for two things. The first being a silly bar room brawl that occurs about 25 minutes into the film. This is one of the most ridiculous looking fights I have ever seen in a movie. It is very poorly choreographed, and looks more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight. One might be able to overlook this if it were a Terence Hill/Bud Spencer comedy, but this is a more serious western, and the brawl really needed to be more realistic. The other thing that annoyed me about this movie was Yuma\'s cowardly Mexican sidekick. I guess he was supposed to be comic relief or something, but the character was just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this, and he wasn\'t at all funny. All I can say is where is Tuco when you need him? <br /><br />All that having been said, let me assure everyone reading this that Johnny Yuma is a classic spaghetti western despite the faults I have mentioned, and all fans of the genre need to see this movie."'],
 ['363,"The plot: Michael Linnett Connors has done everything in films but direct, and is looking for his 1st big chance. He discovers Molly in a play and at once knows she will be a big film star. He signs her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct. The producer agrees and their big time careers are under way. What follows is a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movies with great emphasis on comedy. And, oh yes, there\'s romance, and a little sadness too. The performances by Don Ameche and Alice Fay are top notch. The music is a real plus too with some old familiar tunes heard. Lots of DVD extras as well in this restored version released in 2008. It must be emphasized that this movie is a story 1st, not just a tribute to silent films. Later years would bring similar films such as, Singin\' in the Rain(1952) & Dick Van Dyke-Carl Reiner\'s, The Comic(1969). What is special about this film, though, is recreating silent movies in 1939. We see portions of them as the cinema audience would in that bygone era(although some sound effects are included)in glorious b&w, while the rest of the movie is in pristine color. One of the greatest in the silent era, Buster Keaton, who at this point was on an uphill climb, is used superbly in 2 silent film recreated scenes and he is on the top of his game! It is said that he had some input on his scenes as well. But the real reason to watch the movie, if your a motion picture history fan, is that beyond everything else, Hollywood Cavalcade is Mack Sennett\'s film legacy. It doesn\'t take a genius to realize this movie is a ""positive"" reworking of Mack Sennett\'s and Mabel Normand\'s life. The character Michael ""Linnett"" Connors is Mack Sennett, whose real name was Michael Sinnott. And Molly, of course is Mabel. Sennett had the pie throwings, the bathing beauties and Keystone Cops. He worked with Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin(cameo), Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle(body double) and fell in love with his leading lady. Not only all that, but Sennett was technical adviser for this film and appears in it as well. As most film viewers today prefer sound features, those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture. As Mack Sennett fell into that category, it is fortunate that there is Hollywood Cavalcade! Sennett was of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movies. His career started in 1908 as an actor, then writer, director & producer. He semi retired in 1935 with about 500 films to his credit. He had worked with the best, such as Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Keaton, Harry Langdon, Arbuckle, and even Roy Rogers(in Way Up Thar).As film comedy is an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career, Mack played it wise & did only selective work for the next 25 years. In 1931 he had receive an academy award in the short subject category, and another in 1937 for a lifetime of work. In the 1940\'s his presence was still felt, e.g. Here Come the Co-Eds(1945)where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in Mack\'s Wandering Willies(1926)is done. In 1947, The Road to Hollywood, used some of Sennett\'s Crosby films. 2 years later brought some nostalgia with the film Down Memory Lane in which he participated. With his knack of always associating with the right people, a guest role with the eternally popular Lawrence Welk & his radio show came about later in the year. 1950 brought a re-release of his greatest triumph, Tillie\'s Punctured Romance(1914) with sound. In 1952 he was honored on TV\'s, This Is Your Life, then his autobiography, The King of Comedy(1954), which is a great companion piece to Hollywood Cavalcade, was published. 1955 brought a more concrete association with Abbott & Costello, as he had a cameo in A&C Meet the Keystone Kops. Finally in 1957, another tribute with the compilation film, The Golden Age of Comedy. So when you watch Hollywood Cavalcade it is the legacy of a motion picture pioneer. In the film at the banquet scene the camera pans over the guests at a long table. As we get to the silver haired Mack, he alone turns his head to the camera as if to say, ""here I am!"". When he rises to give a speech a short while later, he is at his most subdued, underplaying the words given him as if to mentally convey, ""I know my influence on comedy will never end, but will people forget Mack Sennett the individual. Maybe this movie will help."""'],
 ['364,"It got to be a running joke around Bonanza about how fatal it was for any women to get involved with any Cartwright men. After all Ben Cartwright was three times a widower with a son by each marriage. And any woman who got involved with Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe were going to end up dying because we couldn\'t get rid of the formula of the widower and the three sons that started this classic TV western.<br /><br />Perhaps if Bonanza were being done today the writers would have had revolving women characters who came in and out of the lives of the Cartwrights. People have relationships, some go good, some not so good, it\'s just life. And we\'re less demanding of our heroes today so if a relationship with one of them goes south we don\'t have to kill the character off to keep the survivor\'s nobility intact. But that\'s if Bonanza were done today.<br /><br />But we were still expecting a lot from our western heroes and Bonanza though it took a while to take hold and a change of viewing time from NBC certainly helped, the secret of Bonanza\'s success was the noble patriarch Ben Cartwright and his stalwart sons. Ben Cartwright was THE ideal TV Dad in any genre you want to name. His whole life was spent in the hard work of building that immense Ponderosa spread for his three children. The kids were all different in personality, but all came together in a pinch.<br /><br />The Cartwrights became and still are an American institution. I daresay more people cared about this family than the Kennedys. Just the popularity that Bonanza has in syndication testifies to that. <br /><br />Pernell Roberts as oldest son Adam was written out of the show. Rumor has it he didn\'t care for the noble Cartwright characters which he felt bordered on sanctimonious. Perhaps if it were done now, he\'d have liked it better in the way I describe.<br /><br />This was just the beginning for Michael Landon, how many people get three hit TV shows to their credit. Landon also has Highway to Heaven and Little House On the Prarie where he had creative control. Little Joe was the youngest, most hot headed, but the most romantic of the Cartwrights. <br /><br />When Roberts left. the show kept going with the two younger sons, but when big Dan Blocker left, the heart went out of Bonanza. Other characters had been added on by that time, David Canary, Tim Matheson, and Ben Cartwright adopted young Mitch Vogel. But big, loyal, but a little thick Hoss was easily the most lovable of the Cartwrights. His sudden demise after surgery left too big a hole in that family.<br /><br />So the Cartwrights of the Ponderosa have passed into history. I got a real taste of how America took the Cartwrights to heart when I visited the real Virginia City. It doesn\'t look anything like what you see in Bonanza. But near Lake Tahoe, just about where you see the Ponderosa on the map at the opening credits, is the Cartwright home, the set maintained and open as a tourist attraction. Like 21 Baker Street for Sherlock Holmes fans, the ranchhouse and the Cartwrights are real.<br /><br />And if they weren\'t real, they should have been."'],
 ['365,"Years ago, when DARLING LILI played on TV, it was always the pan and scan version, which I hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format. So when I saw an inexpensive DVD of this Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards opus, I decided to purchase and watch it once and for all.<br /><br />Boy, what a terrible film. It\'s so bad and on so many levels that I really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong. Looking at it now, it\'s obvious to any fans of movies that Blake Edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with Andrews in musicals (MARY POPPINS, SOUND OF MUSIC, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, etc) but also because Andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by Julie herself (CAMELOT, MY FAIR LADY, etc) because Hollywood thought she wasn\'t sexy or glamorous enough. So Blake created this stillborn effort, to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story/war movie/romance/slapstick comedy/musical. DARLING LILI suffers from multiple personalities, never knowing who or what it is. Some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole, it just doesn\'t work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing.<br /><br />Mind you, the version on the DVD is the ""director\'s cut"", or in this case, ""let\'s salvage whatever we can"" from this notorious box office flop. In releasing the DVD, Edwards cut 19 scenes (19!!!!!!!!) from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version. The film moves along with no idea of what it is. We are 25 minutes into it and we still don\'t know what\'s going on or why we\'re watching what\'s going. What kind of spy is Lili? How powerful is she? Was she ever responsible for someone\'s death? Instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking Rock Hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking Julie Andrews. Things aren\'t helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love. Why does Julie fall for Hudson? Why him and not other men she got involved with? There should have been one of her ex hanging around, trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret. This would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action. It would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings. There\'s no catalyst in this story.<br /><br />One only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that Edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by Andrews\' (and Edwards\') previous successes. The best (or worst) example is the scene when Andrews and Hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest. Edwards channeling SOUND OF MUSIC. It\'s no wonder he removed it from the DVD. Back in 1970, that scene might have worked on a certain level but today, that moment reeks of desperation. There are other plot elements directly inspired by Andrews/Edwards other films. The endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better MODERN MILLIE. The musical moment ""I\'ll give you three guesses"" was created just to make fun of Julie\'s MARY POPPINS persona, which is turned ""raunchy"" with Julie doing a striptease in the act. The ending, bird\'s eye view of Julie running towards Hudson\'s plane, is another ""wink"" at SOUND OF MUSIC.<br /><br />The whole thing is confusing. Julie plays a singer, born from a German father and British mother, who lives in England but sings her (English) songs in Paris. You never know exactly where the story takes place. Some moments are just badly edited. Like when Julie and her ""uncle"" are on horseback. They talk and talk and then Julie suddenly sprints off in mid-sentence. I\'m like ""what happened here?""<br /><br />The comedy bits are unfunny and cringe-worthy. Every scene with the French police are pathetic. Where\'s Peter Sellers when you really need him. The action is stupid beyond belief. When Julie and her ""uncle"" are on their way to Germany on that train, Hudson\'s squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train, almost killing Lili in the process. Brilliant. What\'s also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but Hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning. That\'s one slow moving train there. <br /><br />The musical moments. The beginning is the best part of the entire film (and the reason I gave this film 3 stars) but it\'s effect is diminished considerably because it\'s repeated at the end. Speaking of redundant, did we really need to see a can-can dance, Crepe Suzette stripping scene and Julie stripping too? The ""Girl in no man\'s land"" is OK even if it\'s bleeding obvious, but that moment just doesn\'t make any sense whatsoever because Lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a French hospital, making me wonder: how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying?<br /><br />The whole project is listless and without energy. The romance is 100% unbelievable. Rock Hudson is way too old and tired looking (check out the museum scene). Julie looks dazed, like she\'s on Valium. But what really kills this ill-conceived project is Julie playing a German spy. Edwards desperately wanted to dispel the Mary Poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision. As much as I like Julie, she\'s no Greta Garbo, who pulled it off so beautifully in MATA HARI. Funny enough, even if Julie plays a German spy, she still comes across as cloying and cute.<br /><br />How bad is DARLING LILI? Even after 37 years since its release, Blake Edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its DVD release."'],
 ['366,"This series, made for Televisión Española (TVE) is basically a series of chapters in the life of an ordinary family in 1968, primarily as seen through the eyes of the youngest son.<br /><br />Based on a background of historical events, such as the May 1968 student uprising in France, the decaying Franco regime, the war in Viet-Nam, the rise of imperialism, and others specifically related to Spanish life at that particular moment, one might regard this series as a simple compilation of characteristic foibles which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment.<br /><br />Generally treated in a lightweight vein though not lacking in certain moments which might be called dramatic, the series would seem to be aimed at people of around fifty who can rember those times, as, it should be stated, anyone younger either chooses to ignore such happenings or is busily occupied in other things.<br /><br />The best thing that can be said of this series is Ana Duato\'s rôle as mother of three children: she plays the part of the total housewife of the times really well, manifesting that peculiar Spanish penchant, especially noticeable among women, of letting all her thinking and her doings be carried forward by the impetus of her heart, without any resorting to the use of the brain. As we say in Spain, common sense is one of the least common senses. Imanol Arias offers very little, apart from not being his usual stereotyped hard policeman as in other television series. Indeed, as an actor, he should not be trusted in anything which is not a TV series. His resources are too limited; however, his part as father of the working-class household is not at all bad.<br /><br />Not really recommendable for other audiences, even Spanish-speakers in Latin America: the themes are all too parochially related to a specific spot in contemporary Spanish history, such that if the viewer was not living here at that time he will miss most of the references. It is even probable that certain situations which cause a few Spanish smiles would not mean anything to other viewers."'],
 ['367,"I want the 99 minutes of my life back that was wasted on this pathetic excuse for a movie. The acting was horrific! I used to be a fan of Cameron Diaz and Vincent D\'Onofrio. I will never look at them the same again. Keanu Reeves and Dan Aykroyd were not a surprise. Everyone knows they never could act. Thankfully, only Dan attempted an accent. His accent was a disaster as expected. I think he was either confused about the location of the film or had never actually spoken to anyone from Minnesota. I hope this review helps anyone who is undecided about what to do with their precious time. The only reason I was able to sit through the whole movie was because I was stuck somewhere without anything better to watch or read."'],
 ['368,"One of my favorite movies which has been overlooked by too many movie goers, an observation which mystifies me. Not only directed by the acclaimed Ang Lee,it had many young actors who were to become major stars, e.g., Tobey Maguire (before Spiderman), Skeet Ulrich (before Jericho), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (before Tudors), James Caviezel, Simon Baker, Mark Ruffalo, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Wilkinson, and Jewel. All of the acting was superb and each of the actors mentioned gave memorable performances, especially Meyers who portrayed an evil villain who killed for the sake of killing.<br /><br />When the biographies and accomplishments of the director ( even when he won an academy award) and the actors are listed, this film is usually omitted from their past performances. I discovered the film on DVD by accident and it became one of my most often watched films. However, it is seldom every seen on cable. I look forward to reading what others suggest are the reasons this film is not well known."'],
 ['369,"It\'s nice to see a romantic comedy that does not have the prissy man lead, this has solid acting from both male leads and also from the female lead and although the story is a little long and a little cliché you cant help but like it.<br /><br />I think the story was a little rushed at the end, but extending that would have made the story even longer. Superior to other romantic comedies such as 100 days with Mr arrogant, and possibly tied with my tutor friend.<br /><br />It would make an interesting introduction to Korean cinema, not as great as My sassy girl, but still good."'],
 ['370,"Of all the movies of the seventies, none captured to truest essence of the good versus evil battle as did the Sentinel. I mean, yes, there were movies like the Exorcist, and other ones; but none of them captured the human element of the protagonist like this one. If you have time, check this one out. You may not be able to get past the dated devices as such, but this is a story worth getting into.Then there are all the stars and soon-to-be stars. My absolute favorites were Eli Wallach, Sylvia Miles, and Burgess Meredith. Then there are the subtle clues that lead to what\'s going on too. Pay close attention. I had to watch it four times to catch on to all the smaller weird statements like \'black and white cat, black and white cake\'. Plus, the books are really good as well. I\'m just sorry that they\'re not going to turn the second book into a film. It\'s so scary that it would outdo this movie."'],
 ['371,"This is apparently the second remake of this film, having been filmed before in 1911 and 1918. And, in so many ways it reminds me of the later film, A YANK AT OXFORD. Both films concern a conceited blow-hard who arrives at one of the top schools in the world and both, ultimately, show the blow-hard slowly learning about teamwork and decency. In this film, William Haines is ""Tom Brown"" and his main rival, ""Bob"" is played by Frances X. Bushman. And, in a supporting role is Jack Pickford--always remembered as the brother of Mary. Of these three, Pickford comes off the best, as the sympathetic loser who becomes Tom\'s pal--he actually has a few decent scenes as well as a dramatic moment just before the Big Game! All the standard clichés are there and the movie, because it was done so many times before and since, offers few surprises. However, it is pleasant film and is enjoyable viewing.<br /><br />In my opinion, for a better silent college film, try Harold Lloyd\'s THE FRESHMAN--it\'s football scenes are frankly more exciting and Harold is far more likable and sympathetic than the annoying Tom Brown. THE FRESHMAN is probably the best college picture you can find from the era. Another reason why BROWN AT HARVARD is a lesser picture is that William Haines played essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again (such as in WESTPOINT and THE SMART SET, among others)--and if you\'ve seen one of these films, you\'ve seen them all. Well made, but certainly NOT original! And, because it is just a rehash of his other films, anyone giving the film a score of 10 is STRONGLY advised to see these other films.<br /><br />4/25/08==I just checked and saw this this small film was the highest rated film on IMDb from the 1920!! Talk about over-rated! There are dozens and dozens of better films--how this film got to be #1 is anyone\'s guess."'],
 ['372,"This movie illustrates like no other the state of the Australian film industry and everything that\'s holding it back.<br /><br />Awesome talent, outstanding performances (particularly by Victoria Hill), but a let down in practically every other way.<br /><br />An ""adaptation"" of sorts, it brought nothing new to Macbeth (no, setting it in present-day Australia is not enough), and essentially, completely failed to justify its existence, apart from (let\'s face it, completely unnecessarily) paying homage to the original work. If there\'s one body of work that has been done (and done and done and done), it\'s Shakespeare\'s. So any adaptation, if it\'s not to be a self-indulgent and pointless exercise, needs to at least bring some new interpretation to the work.<br /><br />And that\'s what this Macbeth fails to do. As it was done, this film has no contemporary relevance whatsoever. It\'s the same piece that we have seen countless (too many!) times before. Except with guns and in different outfits.<br /><br />Apart from the fundamental blunder (no other way to put it) of keeping the original Shakespearian dialogue, one of the more cringeful moments of the movie is the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end, during which I completely tuned out, even though I was looking at the screen. I never thought I had a short attention span, but there you go.<br /><br />I suppose the movie succeeds on its own, very limited terms. But as Australia continues to produce world-class acting talent, its movie-makers need to stop being proud of succeeding on limited terms, and actually set high enough standards to show that they respect for the kind of acting talent they work with.<br /><br />A shame. An absolute shame."'],
 ['373,"Owen loves his Mamma...only he\'d love her better six feet under in this dark, laugh-out-loud comedy that both stars and is directed by Danny DeVito, with admirable assists from Billy Crystal and Anne Ramsey in the title role.<br /><br />""Throw Momma From The Train"" is a terrific comedy, even if it isn\'t a great film. It\'s too shallow in parts, and the ending feels less organic than tacked on. But it\'s a gut-splitting ride most of the way, with Crystal and DeVito employing great screen chemistry while working their own separate comic takes on the essence of being a struggling writer (DeVito is avid but untalented; Crystal is blocked and bitter).<br /><br />Crystal\'s Professor Donner believes his ex-wife stole his book (the unfortunately titled ""Hot Fire"") and can\'t write more than the opening line of his next book, which doesn\'t come easy. He teaches a creative writing class of budding mediocrities, including a middle-aged woman who writes Tom Clancy-type fiction but doesn\'t know what that thing is the submarine captain speaks through; and an upholstery salesman who wants to write the story of his life. Mr. Pinsky is probably the funniest character for laughs-per-minutes-on-screen, an ascot-wearing weirdo who sees literature as an excuse to write his opus: ""100 Girls I\'d Like To Pork.""<br /><br />Then there\'s DeVito\'s Owen Lift, who calls himself Professor Donner\'s ""star pupil"" even though the teacher won\'t read his work in class. Owen is a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie, a man-child in his late 30s who lives with his overbearing mother, Anne Ramsey, who calls him ""lardass"" and other endearing sentiments. In any other movie, we\'d be asked to feel sorry for Owen, but ""Throw Momma From The Train"" piles life\'s cruelties onto this sad sack for laughs and expects us to go along. That\'s one big reason why this film probably loses a lot of people.<br /><br />For those of us who enjoy the humor of this character, even identifying with him, and take the rest of what we see here as a lark, it\'s not as big a stretch to go along with the bigger gambit this comedy takes, asking us to watch in amusement while Owen enlists Professor Donner\'s help in a plan to kill his mother. Actually, he first goes to Hawaii to kill Donner\'s hated ex, then tells the professor it\'s his turn to kill Mrs. Lift, ""swapping murders"" as seen in Hitchcock\'s ""Strangers On A Train.""<br /><br />As a director, DeVito not only complements his actors\' performances with scene-setting that places the accent on dialogue, he makes some bold visual statements, throwing in bits of amusing unreality to keep the audience on its toes (and away from taking things too seriously.)<br /><br />Also helping matters is writer Stu Silver, who keeps the laughs coming with his quotable patter. ""You got rats the size of Oldsmobiles here."" ""She\'s not a woman...She\'s the Terminator."" ""One little murder and I\'m Jack the Ripper."" Those are all Crystal\'s words, but some of the funniest lines, which work only in context but absolutely kill, are DeVito\'s and Ramsey\'s. Apparently Silver never wrote another screenplay after this, according to the IMDb, and that\'s a shame, because he had real talent for it.<br /><br />The best scene in this movie, when Crystal meets Ramsey, was actually used in its entirety as a theatrical \'coming attraction\' presentation, the only time I\'ve seen a movie promoted that way. Owen introduces the professor to his mother as \'Cousin Patty,\' and when Momma says he doesn\'t have a Cousin Patty, panicky Owen loses it. \'You lied to me,\' he yells out, slamming the professor\'s forehead with a pan.<br /><br />Of course, in reality the professor wouldn\'t groan out something witty from the floor, but \'Throw Momma From The Train\' works effectively at such moments, when playing its Looney Tunes vibe for all its worth. DeVito hasn\'t disappeared from films, of course, but it\'s a mystery why he hasn\'t really followed up on the directorial promise of this movie. Maybe it\'s because, as \'Throw Momma From The Train\'s lack of mainstream success shows, his kind of vision isn\'t to everyone\'s tastes. That\'s too bad for those of us who can watch this over and over, and like it."'],
 ['374,"A Compelling Thriller!!, 10 December 2005 Author:littlehammer16787 from United States<br /><br />Just Cause<br /><br />Starring:Sean Connery,Laurence Fishburne, and Blair Underwood.<br /><br />A liberal,though good-hearted Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong is convoked to the Flordia Everglades by unjustly convicted black guy Bobby Earl.Confessing that sadistic,cold-hearted cops vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl. As he digs further and further into the mysterious case he realizes that Bobby Earl is a victim of discrimination.That the black police detective Lt.Tanny Brown of the small community is corrupt and villainously mean. When the infamous,psychotic serial killer Blair Sullivan is introduced.He discovers that he knows the location of the murder weapon that butchered the little girl.When Armstrong finds that there are lucid coincidences of Sullivan\'s road trip through the small town and the letter he personally wrote. Bobby Earl gets a re-trial.Is unfettered from prison and eludes his horrific punishment. All seems swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer Sullivan comes into focus.Armstrong discovers a lurid double killing which happens to be Sullivan\'s parents.Whom he immensely detests.Sullivan divulges to Armstrong the truth of Joanie Shriver\'s heinous murder and why he was brought here.It turns out that Bobby Earl is a psychopathic murderer and he really did rape and kill Joanie Shriver.He just merely struck a bargain with fiendish psycho Sullivan. To get loose so he could kill again for revenge.Upon Armstrong\'s beautiful wife and daughter.Now Sullivan is executed to his death. Armstrong and tough good guy Brown chase the malevolent villain to the Everglades in order to thwart him.When they arrive Armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko Bobby Earl plans to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably made him endure agonizing pain and castration.But good,virtuous cop Brown emerges and thwarts the brutal baddie.Is stabbed and eaten by ruthless,man-eating alligators.Paul Armstrong,Tanny Brown,his wife,and daughter survive and live happily ever after. A good thriller that works.Delivers both mystery and subterfuge.How reluctant blacks are hazed by racist lawmen.Sentenced to unfair penalties.Even though sometimes the wrongfully convicted innocent, friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie. Sean Connery is great as the oblivious,holier than thou hero.Laurence Fishburne is watchably amazing as the mean,arrogant,but good guy cop. Underwood and Harris are over the top and invigorating as the malevolent psychos.Capeshaw is okay.Ruby Dee is great as the tenacious grandmother.The rest of the cast is wonderful as well."'],
 ['375,"Filmfour are going to have to do a lot better than this little snot of a film if they\'re going to get the right sort of reputation for themselves.<br /><br />This film is set in Glasgow (although only a couple of secondary characters have anything approaching a Scottish accent). The premise, about people who\'s lives are going nowhere, who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hours of the morning as they have night jobs, COULD have made for a really funny, insightful, quirky, cultish film. Instead we have a group of self-obsessed saddos and a plot which has been so done to bits I\'m suprised it hasn\'t been banned. X and Y are friends. X is sleeping with Z. Y sleeps with Z as well. Oh you figure it out.<br /><br />A total waste of time. Painful dialogue - it sounded like something that a group of 16 year olds would have written for a GCSE drama project. The female character was completely superfluous - just written in as a token female in the hope that women would be cajoled into seeing it.<br /><br />If you\'re the sort of thicko lad who laughs at beer adverts and can usually be found wandering round in packs shouting on Saturday nights in nondescript town centres then you will love this film and find it ""a right laff"". Everyone else, run, don\'t walk away from this sorry little misfit.<br /><br />And one question, when the group left the ""boring"" seaside town (Saltcoats incidentally although they changed the name on the film), to go back to Glasgow, WHY did they do it via the Forton motorway services at LANCASTER which is in England?"'],
 ['376,"Doctor Mordrid is one of those rare films that is completely under the radar, but is totally worthwhile. It really reminds me of the old serials from the 30s and 40s. Which is why I\'d have loved to see follow-up movies... but judging by the rest of Full Moon\'s output there simply weren\'t enough tits to satisfy the typical audience. Unfortunately, thanks to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience - which is unfortunate, because without em\' this could have been a Harry Potter-style magicfest that kids would have eaten up. Both Jeffrey Combs and Yvette Nipar are great - I wasn\'t sure if Ms. Nipar hadn\'t wandered off an A-list picture onto this film, she was very believable. No, seriously! Anyway - it\'s a shame they didn\'t have the bucks to license Dr. Strange, because I think this could have been a total kiddie phenom."'],
 ['377,"A truly muddled incomprehensible mess. Most things in the film look more or less like 1987, but then there are futuristic things just thrown in, like the policeman\'s ray gun. And that car! The director seemed to be in love with colored lights. The only really notable performance was the girl who played Valerie, but since there was no cast listing, I don\'t know which actress that was. This one is worth missing. Grade: F"'],
 ['378,"It doesn\'t happen very often, but occasionally one man can make a difference -- a big difference.<br /><br />George Crile\'s 2003 best seller, CHARLIE WILSON\'S WAR, is a fascinating and eye-opening account of the most unlikely ""difference maker"" imaginable. A relatively obscure Congressman from the Second District of Texas, ""Good Time Charlie"" was known more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation. Likable and licentious (even for a politician), Charlie Wilson served his constituency well since the good folks of Lufkin only really wanted two things, their guns and to be left alone. It\'s Easy Street replete with his bevy of beltway beauties known, appropriately enough, as Charlie\'s Angels.<br /><br />When asked why his entire office staff was composed of attractive, young aides his response is a classic, ""You can teach \'em to type, but you can\'t teach \'em to grow tits."" No argument there.<br /><br />But even the most rakish rapscallion has a conscience lurking somewhere underneath, and for Charlie Wilson the unimaginable atrocities being committed in Afghanistan moved him to muster his entire political savvy toward funding the utter, humiliating defeat of the Russian military and, possibly, to even help hasten the end of the Cold War as a result. Fat chance, huh?<br /><br />Under the skillful direction of Mike Nichols and a smart, snappy screenplay by Adam Sorkin, CHARLIE WILSON\'S WAR is a sparkling, sophisticated satire that chronicles the behind-the- scene machinations of three colorful characters comprising ""Charlie\'s Team.""<br /><br />The on-screen ""Team,"" is composed of three marvelous actors with four (4) Academy Awards and nine (9) nominations between them. Charlie is beautifully portrayed by Tom Hanks in a solid, slightly understated fashion that is among his best work in years. He\'s aided, abetted and abedded by Joanne Herring, a wealthy Houston socialite played by the still-slinky Julia Roberts. Hey, why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this? By all accounts Ms. Roberts looks good and holds her own, but the screenplay never gives us even a hint why Kabul and country is so important to her character. Maybe the two Afghan hounds usually by her side know -- but we as an audience never do. As for the third member of the ""Team,"" Philip Seymour Hoffman steals every scene he appears in as Gust Aurakotos, a smart, street- wise (i.e. non Ivy League graduate) CIA malcontent who knows the score -- both in the Agency\'s boardroom and in Wilson\'s bedroom.<br /><br />For the Mujahideen to succeed, the most important assistance the U.S. can provide is the ability to shoot down the dreaded MI-21 helicopter gunships which rule the skies. This takes money, lots of money, and eventually ""Charlie\'s Team"" covertly coerces those in Congress to fund the effort to the tune of $1 billion dollars for advanced weaponry to arm the Afghan rebels. This includes top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets as well as other highly sophisticated killing devices. Nasty, nasty stuff.<br /><br />That this kind of multi-billion dollar illicit activity can and does take place behind Congressional doors is truly alarming. Every American should see this movie or read this book because it reveals a truly frightening aspect of the business-as-usual political scene rarely seen outside the walls of our very own government. Oh momma, I wish it weren\'t so...<br /><br />Even though the initial outcome for ""Team Charlie"" was an unqualified success, the unimaginable, unanticipated final result is that these sophisticated weapons are now used against our troops by the Taliban and others. Since the funding was entirely ""covert,"" the young generation in this part of the world has no idea the fall of Soviet oppression and the end to Russian barbarity was the direct result of American intervention. Yes, once the Russkies left, so did our aid -- zip for schools, zip for infrastructure, zip on maintaining meaningful relationships with the Afghan people. As a result, the overall consequence is an unmitigated disaster -- it\'s like the forerunner to ""Mission Accomplished.""<br /><br />As Nichol\'s film so pointedly points out, ""The ball you\'ve set in motion can keep bouncing even after you\'ve lost interest in it."" Mike Krzyzewski knows this, Eva Longoria Parker knows this, little Lateesha in Lafayette knows this, but the typical American politician doesn\'t. So we go from good guys to bad guys because we couldn\'t let the world know we were the good guys. Talk about a Catch-22 (another Mike Nichols film).<br /><br />Perhaps Charlie Wilson said it best, ""We f&%ked up the end game.""<br /><br />Again."'],
 ['379,"I\'m a big fan of surrealist art, but this film by Bunuel (with some ideas from Dali) left me cold. Bunuel had a life-long grudge against the Catholic church and delighted in trying to offend Catholics in fairly silly ways. This is one of the silliest; almost like what you\'d expect from a smart-aleck 18-year-old in film class. The last few minutes of the movie, which have nothing to do with anything else, are a final nose-thumbing at religion.<br /><br />If you read the ""scholars"" regarding this slow-paced, occasionally amusing film, it\'s all about how the church and society are guilty of sexual repression. If that is indeed the point, then Bunuel expresses it in the most roundabout fashion possible. The central male character is a nasty brute who loves kicking dogs and knocking blind men down in the street, and who mentally turns billboard ads into strange sexual fantasies. Is this behavior the church\'s fault (for interrupting his lovemaking), or is he just a jerk? I vote for the latter. I think Bunuel must have had a lot of personal hangups and chose the Catholics as the ones to blame.<br /><br />There are a few moments where you might cry, ""Aha! surrealism!"": a cow in a bed, a giraffe falling out a window (a poor model), a man shredding a feather pillow, a woman flushing a toilet while we watch pictures of seething lava (or a mud pit...hard to tell in B/W). The rest is forgettable self-indulgence. Unfortunately, Bunuel was still chasing the same bogey-men through the rest of his career (Viridiana, Discreet Charm...). If you\'re interested in seeing surrealism on the screen, check out Jean Cocteau\'s early work."'],
 ['380,"This ludicrous film offers the standard 1970\'s ""hippie mentality"" in a nut shell and bores us in the process. Its an attempt to rationalize absurd marriages of young, innocent women with old age sex fiends and wash ups. A naive young hippy played by the waif-like ( Kay Lenz ) hitch hikes and sleeps with all the wrong guys, and then one day she meets the ridiculous (Holden), already in old age, hard liquor drinking and washed up as an actor, and she decides that she is in ""love"" with him. If you think that is superficial, the whole film encapsulates such scenes. She keeps saying how much she ""loves"" him and she only met him, it wears thin and really quick. I couldn\'t help but laugh throughout the film. Its obvious she\'s just using him as a meal ticket but the director is immature enough to think we are going to buy that there is actually any love taking place. A disgusting scene is where the two are naked and having sex, I had to fast forward it because it almost inspired me to vomit. A corny offering of music from the 70\'s is also spread through the film. Avoid this if you can. Grade D."'],
 ['381,"This film was pretty good. I am not too big a fan of baseball, but this is a movie that was made to help understand the meaning of love, determination, heart, etc.<br /><br />Danny Glover, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brenda Fricker, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza, and Milton Davis Jr. are brought in with a variety of talented actors and understanding of the sport. The plot was believable, and I love the message. William Dear and the guys put together a great movie.<br /><br />Most sports films revolve around true stories or events, and they often do not work well. But this film hits a 10 on the perfectness scale, even though there were a few minor mistakes here and there.<br /><br />10/10"'],
 ["382,For his first ever debut this film has some riveting and chilling moments. In the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tightens every moment during this film. The ending is superb. The makers of Blaire Witch obviously watched this film it's ending wasn't an end but a beginning of the end. A great movie and only a piece of Japan's great as far as scare factor a perfect score it makes you think and scared out of your mind."],
 ['383,This film contain far too much meaningless violence. Too much shooting and blood. The acting seems very unrealistic and is generally poor. The only reason to see this film is if you like very old cars.'],
 ['384,"Pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion/philosophy. The two have nothing to do with each other and much of what is said about Quantum Physics in this mess is just plain wrong.<br /><br />Examples? Quantum theory supports the ideas in eastern religions that reality is an illusion. How? Well, in the world of the subatomic, you can never definitely predict a particles location at a specific time. You can only give the odds of it being precisely at one spot at one time. Also, the act of observation seems to affect the event. Solid particles can pass through barriers. All of this, so far, is accurate. But then they assert that that means that if you believed sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall, you could indeed do it. This is complete poppycock. Instead, the theory asserts that at our level, it is possible for you to walk through a wall, but it is merely by chance and has nothing to do with belief. Also you\'d have to keep walking into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remotest chance of passing through the wall, the odds are so astronomically against it.<br /><br />This is but one example of how they misrepresent the science. But much more annoying is the narrative involving an unhappy photographer, played by Marlee Maitlan. About halfway through the picture it becomes so confused as to be incomprehensible. Something to do with negative thoughts leading to addiction and self-hate. There may be some truth to that, but Quantum physics has nothing to do with it.<br /><br />Plus, string theory is the hot new thing in physics nowadays. Instead of wasting your time with this dreck, I suggest you rent The Elegant Universe, an amazing series done for NOVA on PBS that gives you a history of physics from Newton and gravity to Ed Witten and M Theory in only 3 hour-long episodes. Quantum mechanics is explained there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation."'],
 ['385,"I was truly looking forward to this title. It sounded and looked fun. The idea of someone making a cheesy 50s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs, but instead this title only bores. First off, there is almost no Froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment. I have to sit through 75+ minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the Froggg humping a bare breasted chick. Why? On top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot. I mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads. I wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp, I wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue (Creature from the Black Lagoon stuff), I wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the Froggg going on a killing spree, or it maybe escaping a silly trap. Something exciting! Geez, have fun with it, be creative! Who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick? My advice to the filmmakers: Keep going, your concepts are good, but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired. Have some fun with the creature, put the humor in the action and most important...put more creature in a creature movie!!!"'],
 ['386,"One of my sisters friends lent me this game, and it is too damn hard! It carries the appearance of a kids game, but you have to learn how to do tons of intricate moves that require you to twist and turn your hands into all sorts of awkward positions, and you have to search seemingly endless levels for 100 notes, to improve your \'score\'! You also have to find these impossibly hidden jigsaw puzzle pieces, that require you to do almost impossible tasks to get them! AND I AM ONLY UP TO STAGE THREE!!!!! Maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this, but otherwise keep away! AND IT IS DEFINATELY NOT RECOMMENDED FOR KIDS - THEY WILL PULL THEIR HAIR OUT WITHIN THE HOUR!"'],
 ['387,"Chuck Jones\'s \'Rabbit Seasoning\', the second in the much beloved hunting trilogy, is often considered to be the best of the three. While I find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoons, I would have to concede that \'Rabbit Seasoning\' is the most finely honed script. Here, the emphasis is placed on language as Bugs and Daffy run through a series of complex dialogues in the grand tradition of Abbot and Costello\'s \'Who\'s on next\' routine. As a long term Daffy fan, I have always been delighted by the hunting trilogy because it is consistently Daffy who gets all the best lines (the famous ""Pronoun trouble"" being one of the all time classics) and does most of the work. Bugs plays the role of cool manipulator while Elmer, as always, is the befuddled dupe. Part of what makes the hunting trilogy so much fun is that Daffy and Elmer pose so little threat to Bugs that he is basically just kicking back and having some easy laughs. Elmer falls into every trap that is laid for him but it is poor old Daffy who comes off worst, being shot in the face again and again, his beak ending up in more and more ridiculous positions. It all builds to the inevitable climactic declaration ""You\'re despicable"". As intricate an example of Chuck Jones\'s impeccable timing as you\'ll come across, \'Rabbit Seasoning\' is a true classic."'],
 ['388,"A lovely little B picture with all the usual Joe Lewis touches.... people ripping up pillows and auras of lurking fear. Also, alas, an ending that comes out of nowhere, because, apparently, the auteur has lost interest in the movie, or perhaps because as a B picture it has to fit into a slot."'],
 ['389,"""Crossfire"" is a justifiably famous 1947 noir that\'s a murder mystery with a strong message. It stars Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Sam Levene, and Gloria Grahame, and is strongly directed by Edward Dmytryk. We witness the murder in shadow at the beginning, and for the rest of the film, Young, as the detective, Finlay, in charge of the case, seeks to figure out which of three soldiers is responsible for the death, and just as important, why. The victim, Joseph Samuels (Sam Levene) is someone the soldiers meet in a bar; they go up to his apartment to continue their visit, and Samuels winds up dead.<br /><br />I don\'t know about 1947, but seeing ""Crossfire"" today, one knows who did it and why the minute we see the suspects. I don\'t suppose it was so apparent back then, as these actors were just getting started. Nevertheless, the film packs a big punch with its powerful acting, good direction, violence, and unsparing anti-Semite language.<br /><br />The characterizations are vivid, including that of Gloria Grahame in a smallish role - she\'s a woman who meets Mitchell (George Cooper), one of the suspect soldiers, in a bar and can provide him with an alibi. The big performance in the film belongs to Robert Ryan, but everyone is excellent. Robert Young especially is effective as a tough but intelligent police detective. Mitchum is very likable as a soldier trying to help his confused friend Mitchell, a lonely man unsure if he still has feelings for his wife.<br /><br />Truly excellent, and a must see."'],
 ['390,"AWWWW, I just love this movie to bits. Me and my cousins enjoy this movie a lot and I am just such a HUGE FAN!!! I hope they bring the TV series out on DVD soon. Come to mention it, I have not see the TV show in a LONG time. Such geart times! Where I come from Australia The Chipmunk Adventure is only known by people in their late teens and adult years which is kinda sad because the young kids don\'t know what there missing.<br /><br />The songs in this film are ace the ones I love the most Boys/girls of rock n\'roll, Diamond Dolls and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry My Mother.<br /><br />This film is sure to excite both young and old GET THE CHIPMUNK ADVENTURE TODAY!!! 10 out of 10, such an excellent movie."'],
 ['391,"Skippy from ""Family Ties"" plays Eddie, a wussy \'metal\' nerd who gets picked on. When his favorite wussy \'metal\' singer, Sammi Curr, dies, he throws a hissy fit tearing down all the posters on his bedroom wall. But when he later gets an unreleased record that holds the spirit of his dead \'metal\' idol. He first gets sucked into ideas of revenge, but then he doesn\'t want to take it as far as Sammi does. Which isn\'t really that far as his main victims only seem to go to the hospital. This movie is utterly laughable and has about as much to do with real metal as say, ""Rock Star"". OK, maybe a tad more than that piece of junk, but you get my point. And how ANYone can root for a guy played by Skippy from ""Family Ties"" I haven\'t a clue. The cameo by Gene Simmons is OK, and Ozzy Osbourne reaches coherency, I applaud him for that, but otherwise skip this one.<br /><br />My Grade: D <br /><br />Eye Candy:Elise Richards gets topless, an a topless extra at a pool party"'],
 ['392,"Of course I would have to give this film 10 out of 10 as my uncle was the main screenplay writer of Once upon a Crime. Rodolfo Sonego wrote screenplays for over 50 years living in Italy. He was a great story teller and someone suggested that he put his stories into writing. So Rodolfo Sonego did. If you check out his biography, you can see the number of movies that have been made in Italy. Alberto Sordie was the main actor that starred in his stories. My uncle visited Australia and my town, in 1968 to check out locations for ""A girl in Australia"" and created a great movie about a proxy bride after the second world war. You can see his humor in all his movies. I found a copy of this movie on DVD recently. GREAT"'],
 ['393,"Goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary games in VG history. Their is no doubt about that. But this game, although quite different, could quite possibly be the modern-day Bond champ, of its time.<br /><br />This was not a bond game based on material from another medium. This was a completely new; scripted game. Which even had its own theme song! (wouldnt be bond without it, haha!) Gameplay was excellent, and if you\'re a fan of the bond games or films alike, you\'ll enjoy it.<br /><br />Unlike some/most games, these cast members portrayed their characters themselves, as opposed to fictional creations for the game. Which gives it that more cinematic feel. With a very \'bond\'-able storyline, you feel like you\'re in the game as much as you get lost in a movie.<br /><br />Enjoyable in all aspects, from start to finish. Even after beating the game there\'s still plenty more to be done. With the ranking system and unlockables to be achieved, as well as its multi-player missions, this is a stand-out game. Despite being quite old now, in video game years. It\'s still a good game that you can pick up & play whenever you feel the need to get a little more Bond in your life. Even now just thinking about it, I\'ve got the theme song stuck in my head. Such a great cast and well-written storyline.<br /><br />The story comes to life on the screen, almost as if the actors were their in front of you, and is every bit as entertaining as the game itself. Superbly done, in true bond fashion. Which can only be named Awesome, Completely Awesome.<br /><br />I\'ve gotta go throw this game on now. If you haven\'t played it yet, you\'re missing out!"'],
 ['394,Helena Bonham Carter is the center of this movie. She plays her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still brings across her traditional intensity. Kenneth Branagh was tolerable. The movie itself was good not exceptional. If you are a Helena Bonham Carter fan it is worth seeing.'],
 ['395,"I commented on this when it first debuted and gave it a ""thumbs in the middle"" review, remarking that I\'d give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode. I\'ve seen a total of six episodes now up to this point in June 2006. And as a lifelong Batman fanatic, I can say without hesitation: this show is utter crap.<br /><br />Everything\'s wrong with it. Everything. Getting past just the lousy animation and design, the stories are ridiculously convoluted and with no character development or apparent interest by the writers of this dreck to give any substance to any stories.<br /><br />And for God\'s sake...is it just me, or is the Joker in EVERY EPISODE?? Is Gotham that much of a revolving-door justice system? Or, again, is it just a complete lack of interest in the writers to put any effort into other villains (see ""no character development"", above).<br /><br />And to make matters worse, every single Joker tale is the same 3-part formula.<br /><br />1) Joker gasses people.<br /><br />2) Joker sets out to gas the whole city.<br /><br />3) Batman saves the day.<br /><br />Pfeh.<br /><br />There was one episode I saw that wasn\'t a Joker story. The title escapes me, but the villain was that nefarious Cluemaster...the ""Think Thank Thunk"" episode with the quiz show. That was the single-worst Batman story I\'ve ever seen, heard or read. Yes, worse than ""I\'ve Got Batman in My Basement."" <br /><br />I can\'t really say what I feel this show is because it\'s probably against the ToS, but it starts with ""B"" and rhymes with ""fastardization"". Thank goodness for the existence of the Timm/Dini/etc. era of Bat-entertainment, back from the Fox and Kids WB days. Stuff that good, and I should have known this, just couldn\'t possibly have lasted forever, unfortunately."'],
 ['396,"Just because someone is under the age of 10 does not mean they are stupid. If your child likes this film you\'d better have him/her tested. I am continually amazed at how so many people can be involved in something that turns out so bad. This ""film"" is a showcase for digital wizardry AND NOTHING ELSE. The writing is horrid. I can\'t remember when I\'ve heard such bad dialogue. The songs are beyond wretched. The acting is sub-par but then the actors were not given much. Who decided to employ Joey Fatone? He cannot sing and he is ugly as sin.<br /><br />The worst thing is the obviousness of it all. It is as if the writers went out of their way to make it all as stupid as possible. Great children\'s movies are wicked, smart and full of wit - films like Shrek and Toy Story in recent years, Willie Wonka and The Witches to mention two of the past. But in the continual dumbing-down of American more are flocking to dreck like Finding Nemo (yes, that\'s right), the recent Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and eye-crossing trash like Red Riding Hood."'],
 ['397,"""Hey Babu Riba"" is a film about a young woman, Mariana (nicknamed ""Esther"" after a famous American movie star), and four young men, Glenn, Sacha, Kicha, and Pop, all perhaps 15-17 years old in 1953 Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The five are committed friends and crazy about jazz, blue jeans, or anything American it seems.<br /><br />The very close relationship of the teenagers is poignant, and ultimately a sacrifice is willingly made to try to help one of the group who has fallen on unexpected difficulties. In the wake of changing communist politics, they go their separate ways and reunite in 1985 (the year before the film was made).<br /><br />I enjoyed the film with some reservations. The subtitles for one thing were difficult. Especially in the beginning, there were a number of dialogues which had no subtitles at all. Perhaps the conversational pace required it, but I couldn\'t always both read the text and absorb the scene, which caused me to not always understand which character was involved. I watched the movie (a video from our public library) with a friend, and neither of us really understood part of the story about acquiring streptomycin for a sick relative.<br /><br />This Yugoslavian coming of age film effectively conveyed the teenagers\' sense of invulnerability, idealism, and strong and loyal bonds to each other. There is a main flashforward, and it was intriguing, keeping me guessing until the end as to who these characters were vis-a-vis the 1953 cast, and what had actually happened.<br /><br />I would rate it 7 out of 10, and would like to see other films by the director, Jovan Acin (1941-1991)."'],
 ['398,"After a snowstorm, the roads are blocked and the highway patrolman Jason (Adam Beach) comes to the diner of his friend Fritz (Jurgen Prochnow) and advises his clients that they will only be able to follow their trips on the next day. Among the weird strangers, Jason meets his former sweetheart Nancy (Rose McGowan), who has just left her husband in Los Angeles. Along the night, without any communication with his base, Jason faces distressful and suspicious situations with the clients, and finds some corpses, indicating that among them there is a killer.<br /><br />""The Last Stop"" could be an average thriller, but the screenplay is simply awful. Most of the characters are despicable persons and the motives of the surprising serial killer are never disclosed, and the viewers have no further explanation why the killer decided to kill the guests. My vote is four.<br /><br />Title (Brazil): ""Encurralados"" (""Trapped"")"'],
 ['399,"This movie was a fairly entertaining comedy about Murphy\'s Law being applied to home ownership and construction. If a film like this was being made today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional. Since it was set in the \'simpler\' forties, we get what is supposed to be a typical family of the era. Grant of course perfectly blends the comedic and dramatic elements and he works with a more than competent supporting cast highlighted by Loy and Douglas. Their shenanigans make for a solid ninety minutes of entertainment, 7/10."'],
 ['400,"What can you say about the film White Fire. Amazing? Fantastic? Disturbing? Hilarious? These words are not big enough to describe the event which is White Fire. From wobbly, garbled beginning to profound end, this movie will entertain throughout.<br /><br />Our movie begins in the woods of a country somewhere in the world. A family is hiding from unmarked soldiers in costume shop uniforms. When the father separates from the mother and their childen, you get a real sense of what kind of movie you\'re about to watch. Father makes sure to roll down hills in his all white outfit, and is polite as he gets people\'s attention before he shoots them, but alas, dad is burned alive in what looks like a very unsupervised, unsafe stunt. Meanwhile, mom and the kids are running down a beach with an armed soldier trailing about 5 feet behind them. He too gives a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre ""HALT!"", and then promptly wastes the mother. This action sequence sets up the happy childhood of our heroes Bo and Ingred.<br /><br />So now we fast forward about 20 years (30 if you\'re honest about the hero\'s age) to beautiful Turkey, where Bo and Ingred have settled as professional thieves, or diamond prospectors, or something. Ingred works at a diamond mine where she helps herself to the goods, while Bo (masterfully played by the dynamic Robert Ginty) drives around the desert in his denim outfits. Bo and Ingrid have an interesting relationship. They don\'t seem to have any friends other than each other, and they spend all of their time together. That coupled with the fact that Bo has expressed his desire to sleep with his sister as evidenced in lines such as ""you know its a shame you\'re my sister"" he says to her while she\'s stark naked, make for a very dynamic duo. Bo is then crushed when Ingrid is killed, as he wanders the beaches of Turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf. A renewal of hope occurs when Bo finds a girl who looks like Ingrid, and gives her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like Ingrid. This opens the door for Bo to have sex with his sister without it being technically wrong. Bo is a real fan of ethical grey areas, and he is overjoyed with his new love.<br /><br />So anyway, there\'s a lot of fun action scenes, ridiculous violence, great acting, impossible to follow plot-lines, Fred ""the hammer"" Williamson (for some reason), and a big chunk of dirty ice which is supposed to be a giant diamond (which later explodes). All of these things are great, but the Bo and Ingrid relationship is what makes this movie special....really special. So I heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that is White Fire. You may be glad you did..or not."'],
 ['401,"I am so disappointed. This movie left me feeling jipped out of my time and mental energy. Here was the quintessential Woody Allen film all over again: the neurotic upper-class Manhattanites debating whether or not they will cheat on their spouses. Woody, I\'ve seen these characters already, I\'ve seen the storyline from you ten times already. Where did your creativity go??? You need to open your eyes and look around you. The world has changed dramatically since Annie Hall - and you need to change along with it.<br /><br />There are far more interesting and funny scenarios to which you can apply your brand of angst and neuroticism - why not try them out instead of rehashing the same old slop over and over and over again.<br /><br />When I hear that Woody Allen has a new project coming out, it does nothing for me - because now I\'ve come to expect his old standby: the couple who are growing tired of each other and end up cheating. Depressing and same old, same old.<br /><br />If Woody wants to win his fans back, then he has to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence has to be stimulated - not insulted."'],
 ['402,"This movie is all ultra-lightweight fluff, predictable from beginning to end. As a Don Knotts vehicle, ""The Incredible Mr. Limpet"" was much better, with Knott\'s character there not nearly as incompetent or ignorant. His performance there was toned down, with none of his trademark goggle-eyed stare, although that may have something to do with him being replaced for most of the movie by a cartoon fish. Knotts made a living of playing the likable imbecile, much as Bob Denver did. Neither really seemed to be able to break out to other types of roles, assuming they were simply typecast. It was probably because of the slouch, the wild stare and the high-pitched voice. John Ritter, whom Knotts worked with in ""Three\'s Company,"" was able to transcend his genre, branching out successfully into dramatic roles like ""The Dreamer of Oz,"" but the closest Knotts ever got was a small role in ""Pleasantville."" Even Leslie Nielsen was a bad fit here, uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor as he was at the time nor deadpan comedic actor as he later became in ""Airplane!"" and ""Police Squad.""<br /><br />There\'s also no way the then-43 year-old Knotts could pass for a 35 year-old, as his character insisted he was. It was as ludicrously unbelievable as Tom Hanks at 38 playing the college-age Forrest Gump.<br /><br />The film was clearly made on a shoestring budget, very much looking like a hastily-filmed TV episode. It\'s especially evident in the ""exterior"" scenes of the ""town"" where Roy goes after he\'s fired. It\'s unlikely even a pre-schooler would be fooled by the Mayberry-like soundstage artificiality.<br /><br />Even viewing this strictly as a children\'s movie, it\'s very disappointing. It\'s not because it lacks action or special effects, although it does. The pace is much too slow, the situations repetitive. How many times can you watch Roy getting onto a bus? A comedy for kids should at least sometimes be madcap, with breakneck gags, otherwise you risk boring them (and any adults in the theater as well). Movies, even kid\'s movies, have improved quite a bit in the intervening decades. Even many contemporary comedies were better filmed and written. Disney\'s ""The Love Bug,"" for instance, at least had some interesting race action."'],
 ['403,"If you are interested in learning more about this sort of thing happening in modern civilization, there is an excellent book called ""Outlaw Seas"" or ""The Outlaw Sea"", and it describes, in story after story, how these things do happen. The lawlessness of the high seas is a reality for a number of reasons. One, many of the world\'s freighters are of questionable registry (nationality) and it\'s difficult to impossible to enforce international laws when the ships owners don\'t have an office in a real country. Two, many ship lines employ crews from dirt poor third world countries. The crews are often (like illegal immigrant workers) threatened and bullied into complying with questionable or illegal practices. Three, there is often a language barrier, not only between the officers and the crew, but also between the crew members themselves. The crew are rewarded for their compliance and their silence. Four, once committing an illegal act, the ships are able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint. Anyway, it\'s fascinating reading.<br /><br />Horrifying story, excellent movie. Does anyone else notice how HBO seems to make the best and most important movies? Hollywood has trouble releasing enough Oscar worthy movies in any given year, so that several of the top 5 contenders usually come from Britain. Jerry Bruckheimer = the end of quality cinema.<br /><br />I loved the thoroughly evil performance by Sean Pertwee. I also, as usual, loved Omar Epps."'],
 ['404,"Gamers: DR is not a fancy made movie, it\'s more like amateur video. Horrible magic effect, really fake fireball, terribly made dungeon, castle, village...... sword, axe, shield, robe, plate..... okok... everything. You will need about 10 minutes to adjust your expecting on visual, then you will get 105 minutes of fun.<br /><br />I\'m from Hongkong and it\'s really hard to find RPers, none of my friends play RPG and I always fancy to be one of the character in the world of D&D. Watching Gamers: DR just show me what would it be like to be a gamer. You see rule books, dices, game set, etc etc etc; You hear terms like ""fighter"", ""wizard"", ""hit point"", ""level"", ""character"", ""flaming hand"", ""Chaotic Evil"".<br /><br />What RPG fancy me is that it let you do anything u want to, not bonded by software RPG. Gamers: DR provide the same element, you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead. The movie goes both gamers\'s real life as well as in the D&D world. You will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action, which make you feel you really participle in the game.<br /><br />I don\'t want to spoil anything, but in short, Gamers: DR is a must watch movie for RPG lovers. For people never play RPG game, I\'m sure you still get many fun from it."'],
 ['405,"In all honesty, I haven\'t seen this film for many years, but the few times I have tend to make parts of it stick in my memory, as anyone who has seen it will understand. I first saw it as a child at a YMCA Halloween party in the early Sixties, and it scared the hell out of us kids, in a fun way. I remember feeling genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze. I can\'t risk giving away the ending, except to say that it was surprising, to say the least. I remember vaguely the entire audience of young boys letting out a big scared holler, followed by laughter when the terrible secret was revealed. The ending has been seen by most viewers as one of the greatest unintentionally funny climaxes to a movie in film history, and yet oddly moving, in a way. You have to see it for yourself, which is not easy these days. I don\'t know if it\'s available on home video or not, but it would still make a great Halloween feature for both kids and adults."'],
 ['406,"This is the only thing I will be able to look back on from the year 2006 and say now that rocked. It rocked hard, and yet it also rocked tasty. Mr.MEATLOAF added a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credits even rolled. Now that tells you something, this filmed rocked even before it STARTED! Now I don\'t want to give to much away or be a ""spoiler"" but this movie ROCKED! If you have heard the new album and thought to yourself ""this seems a bit substandard Tenacious material,it is like I a merely playing badminton with Satan, what gives?"" Then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece. For those who would want it better do not know what they want,because better would no longer be the D. This movie is the D period.!So venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your socks rocked."'],
 ['407,"You\'d think you\'re in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie takes place primarily between two characters as they travel 3000 miles or so from France to Saudi Arabia, going through most of Europe - Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, before arriving in the Middle East. But this is not a tour, and there are no stopovers for soaking in the sights.<br /><br />Reda\'s father is in his twilight years, and wishes to do the Haj. However, since walking and taking the mule is out of the question, he chooses to travel to Mecca by car. He can\'t drive, and therefore enlists the help of Reda, to his son\'s protest, to get him there in their broken down vehicle.<br /><br />But Reda doesn\'t see the point of having him go along, when his dad could opt for the plane. He resents the idea of having put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldn\'t understand. And hence, we set off in this arduous journey with father and son, being not the best of pals.<br /><br />The beauty of this movie is to witness the development of the father and son pair, the challenges they face, the weird people they meet, having to duke it out in varied weather conditions, and alternating rest stops between motels and sleeping in the car. We see an obvious generation gap in them trying to communicate to each other, the father trying to impose on his son, and the son trying to assert himself as an adult, but circumstances we see, reveal that Reda is quite a fish out of water. Through the many encounters, they actually team up quite well despite their differences.<br /><br />It\'s perhaps quite apt to have this film released here last week to coincide with Hari Raya Haji, and having the opportunity to watch our protagonists join the other pilgrims in their Haj. The final scene in Mecca is truly a sight to behold, and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear as Reda tries to hunt down his dad amongst the thousands of people congregating. The sights of Europe were perhaps deliberately not dwelled upon, so as to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination.<br /><br />It certainly rang home the thought of telling and showing loved ones how much you appreciate them for who they are. Don\'t miss this, and yes, book early - I was pleasantly surprised that this evening\'s session was still a full house."'],
 ['408,"I watched this movie based on the good reviews here, and I won\'t make that mistake again.<br /><br />The first couple minutes shows that a group of people have been brought together by some tragedy, but you don\'t see what it is. Flashback 12-hours and we get to see the boring lives of each of these people, which in the end are totally meaningless to what is about to happen. When the ending is finally reveled, you realize that you just wasted an hour of your life waiting for a big payoff that doesn\'t happen and means nothing to what you have been watching. The only connection these people have is that they have all had a ""bad day""--but even that continuity gets lost in the boredom.<br /><br />If this was supposed to be a ""Crash"" clone, it\'s a complete failure."'],
 ['409,"A great Bugs Bunny cartoon from the earlier years has Bugs as a performer in an window display at a local department store. After he\'s done for the day the manager comes in to tell him that he\'ll be transferring soon. Bugs is happy to oblige into he figures out that the new job is in taxidermy...and that taxidermy has to do with stuffing animals. Animals like say, a certain rabbit. This causes a battle of wits between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer. I found this short to be delightful and definitely one of the better ones of the early 1940\'s. It still remains as funny nearly 60+ years later. This animated short can be seen on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.<br /><br />My Grade: A-"'],
 ['410,"I firmly believe that the best Oscar ceremony in recent years was in 2003 for two reasons: <br /><br />1 ) Host Steve Martin was at his most wittiest: "" I saw the teamsters help Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo "" and "" I\'ll better not mention the gay mafia in case I wake up with a poodle\'s head in my bed "" <br /><br />2 ) Surprise winners: No one had Adrien Brody down for best actor ( Genuine applause ) or Roman Polanski for best director ( Genuine jeers and boos ) but they won <br /><br />Last year\'s award ceremony wasn\'t too bad but there was little in the way of surprises and I was happy to see RETURN OF THE KING sweep the awards even if it wasn\'t the best in the trilogy ( FELLOWSHIP was much better )but what let the BBC coverage down was Jonathan Ross getting a few of his sycophantic mates round and pretending they were hilarious when they were anything but . So when I heard Sky were doing the coverage for British TV I was expecting Barry Norman and Mark Kermode to be doing the links , but instead we ended up with Jamie Theakston and Sharon Osbourne ! Oh gawd if British TV are desperate for film critics ( Obviously they are ) I\'m sure both Bob The Moo and Theo Robertson will happily fly over to LA to give their honest opinions on the winners and losers <br /><br />Chris Rock wasn\'t too bad , but he\'s no Steve Martin while the location seemed to resemble a sports hall with seats put in ! Not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion . The main problem I had with the ceremony was the format with the "" minor "" Oscars handed out to the winners who were sitting in their seats ! There\'s no such thing as a "" minor "" Oscar and just because the award is for Best Animated Short or Best Costume Design they\'re as well deserved as Best Picture or Best Director . All the winners should be allowed to march up to the podium . What a bunch of arrogant snobs the Academy are becoming and I quite agree with the comments that this format is disgraceful and if it wasn\'t for the surprises this could possibly have been the worst ceremony in history . As for the awards themselves <br /><br />Best Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett . No great surprise for a competitive category <br /><br />Best Supporting Actor - Morgan Freeman . No real complaints since Freeman is one of America\'s greatest living character actors <br /><br />Best Actor - Jamie Foxx . Most predictable award of the night . Yawn <br /><br />Best Actress - Hilary Swank . Major surprise since everyone thought Annette Benning was going to win simply down to academy politics but Swank did deserve it and gave the best speech of the night <br /><br />Best Director - Clint Eastwood . Major surprise since everyone thought Scorsese was going to get the award simply because he\'d never won one . Actually I\'m glad about this because if he didn\'t deserve it for TAXI DRIVER , RAGING BULL or GOODFELLAS he didn\'t deserve it for THE AVIATOR <br /><br />Best Film - MILLION DOLLAR BABY . Again another major surprise since everyone thought the academy would split the awards for best director and best picture while I thought the Hollywood friendly plot of THE AVIATOR would have made it a dead cert for Best Picture while MDB\'s controversial subject matter would have turned a lot of voters off <br /><br />What these awards perhaps illustrate is that this year the voters have decided to ignore Oscar politics and genuinely give out awards to people who deserve it something they haven\'t done in the past , I mean A BEAUTIFUL MIND beating THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING for gawd\'s sake ! And long may the academy vote with their heads instead of their hearts"'],
 ['411,"While in a plane, flicking through the large choice of movies, I came across Live! almost accidentally. oh boy! what a choice.<br /><br />I remembered vaguely seeing the trailer over a year ago and completely forgot about it expecting no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show. Now I can easily say this has been a hell of a ride. I don\'t remember last time I have been so excited, terrified. Not sure if it was the high altitude playing with my senses, but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reaching a climax where you can\'t turn away from the screen, literally sitting on the edge of your seat and biting the remaining nails you\'ve got.<br /><br />You will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show. You will drift from thinking ""how come the human being can be so vicious"" to ""why not after all?"".Ask yourself would you do it. Then learn about the contestants, their motives and start guessing. You will then watch contestant pulling the trigger one by one and get excited even though you know the first candidate is safe.<br /><br />Good acting, good directing, with a movie experience that reminds you those old movies where you knew what would happen in the next scene but still were craving for more.<br /><br />*Spoilers* couple of things i would have changed:<br /><br />- the casting of the contestants. i have really been moved by the farmer and we should have had a bit more like him. The idea of a rich writer who wants to be famous is a bit stupid, it felt like you didn\'t care about some of the contestants. Although this might have been done on purpose, i think the audience should have been able to associate with the majority of the contestants. - game rules, a big glitch :<br /><br />what happens if the 5th contestants doesn\'t die when he pulls the trigger. do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself!!! they should have given a chance to all contestants to live, ie: if 5th is a blank too, then no one dies.<br /><br />interestingly I haven\'t been bothered too much by this bad points cause i really had a good time. just wish i had some popcorn with me!"'],
 ['412,"Ah, another movie with motorcycles, hell\'s angels posse and Steve A-Lame-o as the not-so-cool car driver. This movie does not rely on story but lots of drinking, pot smoking, and lots of moronic acts. Steve\'s rendition of a dying cat during his ""I love what I know"" serenade had me vomiting for hours. Bike chick Linda (rrrr) makes out with everyone! Fats did the best acting since he just grunts and makes sounds. I also dare you to try to make out what Banjo is saying. ""You messin\' wit private stock."" This is scriptwriting folks.<br /><br />I liked the ending. What better place to have the climax than a lighthouse! You have to see this to detest it.<br /><br />DIE Jeter, DIE!!!"'],
 ['413,"A rating of ""1"" does not begin to express how dull, depressing and relentlessly bad this movie is."'],
 ['414,"I feel dumber after watching the first 20 min,luckily i walked out and saved the rest of my brain, people should watch better films and take notes on why they are rated highly,not because of the budget of the film or the special effects, just simply good acting and getting simple things right,and MOst importantly--not being LAME--, but i guess this was produced for those Sheeple without taste and not a clue of what is \'\'A good Movie\'\'don\'t be scared of rating films low,save your under-appreciated high scores for \'\'once in a life time movies\'\'. Keep in mind that many use IMDb for trusted reviews and opinions,don\'t spoil the broth by sugarcoating turds Peace & love"'],
 ['415,"The most self-indulgent movie I have every had the misfortune to<br /><br />rent. Unwatchable. Much of the movie is obviously improvised,<br /><br />and not well. It looks like Toback took the first take of<br /><br />everything. The movie gets good for a couple of minutes when<br /><br />Robert Downey Jr. shows up, then goes to hell again real<br /><br />quickly."'],
 ['416,"This has got to be the worst movie I haver ever seen Nielson in. This movie just does not have what he needs to be funny. I think the reasons that the Naked Gun and the like movies is that they did not require Nielson to be funny. He just played the roles as straight as he could while all of the comedy that went on was mostly visual. But when you put him in a movie where he has to be funny, he isn\'t. The movie had only one good part, and this may be considered a spoiler by some, and that the beginning credits were animated. If the whole movie had been animated, it might have been good. I had no intention of seeing this movie when I saw the ads for it, and the only reason I did see it was because the tickets were given to me by someone who won them in a radio contest. This is the first and probably only movie I have ever walked out on. On a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a score of -100."'],
 ['417,"I like Ghost stories. Good ghost stories of bumps in the night, voices that cannot be explained. Now I\'ve see many of them. As special efx have a ever more grip on todays films, some times to find a real gem , you gotta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories. Now this one, very rare , pilot episode for the TV series Ghost Story called "" The New House "" was one of the most scariest films I ever saw. It was on once in 1972,...I was only 9,..but nothing since then even compared to it. With all the remake going on in Hollywood, some one should do this one "" as is "" with no more special efx than the original. This episode was down right creepy as hell. I\'m lucky to find it finally on DVD today and very rare and hard to find. The only other 2 Ghost Stories to even come close was the ORIGINAL "" The Haunting "" and George C. Scott in "" The Changling "" . Wish someone would do more ghost stories like these."'],
 ['418,"Okay, I\'ve watched this movie twice now, I have researched it heavily on the net, I have asked several people on there opinions. I have even gone to the length of reading the original Sheridan Lafanu Classic \'Carmilla\', a book that this movie is supposed to be based on. I feel that the best way to review this movie is to describe a game to play whilst watching it. As the plot of the movie doesn\'t seem to make any sense at all, here is the plot of the book.<br /><br />Laura lives in a castle in Syberia with her Father, Mr De Lafontaine. They carry on with their lives blissfully and peacefully. One day they get a letter from the \'General\' a man who has made it his mission in life to avenge his daughters death. He makes claims of supernatural powers being at work, and explains that he will visit them soon. Meanwhile, a chance encounter with a strange woman results in the Lafontaines looking after her Daughter, Carmilla, for several months. Soon Laura starts to be overwhelmed by strange dreams, and begins to come down with a strange illness. Who is this mysterious Carmilla? And just what has she to do with Laura\'s condition, and the General?<br /><br />I have invented this game and would like as many people as possible to play it, and let me know what their results are. I even have a catchy name, and would have a jingle too, but I can\'t be bothered with that. It\'s called the ""this movie doesn\'t make any sense"" game.<br /><br />All you have to do is, whilst watching the movie, try to come up with a complete plot that explains what is happening. I mean complete, all questions answered, everything makes sense, absolutely complete.<br /><br />It will have to answer such questions as ... <br /><br />* Why can vampires walk around in day light?<br /><br />* Why are they all lesbians?<br /><br />* Why is a girl called Bob? and why does she shoot herself?<br /><br />* When is the movie a dream and when is it real?<br /><br />* Why does killing zombies appear to be an accepted part of life that doesn\'t make anyone bat an eyelid?<br /><br />* Why does Travis Fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slowing down whilst driving his car, yet when faced with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car, accept the excuse that she is a zombie too?<br /><br />* And why does he then let a girl, which he later openly reveals that he knows is the head vampire, drive with him in his car?<br /><br />* And then let her drive off, alone with his daughter in a stolen car?<br /><br />What the hell is the asylum scene all about?<br /><br />* What the hell is the green goo all about?<br /><br />* Why does the head vampire suddenly start dressing like a nurse?<br /><br />* Why are there never any vampires fighting Zombies?<br /><br />* What is the significance of the necklace? what is it made of? why does it kill vampires? and how does Jenna know that?<br /><br />In fact sod it, it\'s just as much fun trying to come up with as many questions about this movie too.<br /><br />I have my plot, and I have to admit it is not quite there, but it is a pretty good effort.<br /><br />In Conclusion<br /><br />\'Vampires vs Zombies\' has no moment in it where there are actually Vampires fighting Zombies. Everyone in the movie seems to know exactly what is going on, yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this. And somehow it is based on a classic 19th century horror novel. How? Why? What the hell is going on?"'],
 ['419,"This would\'ve been a *great* silent film. The acting really is good, at least in a Look Ma, I\'m Doing Really Big Acting! sort of way.<br /><br />Everything is HUGE. Every line is PROFOUND! Every scene is SHATTERED BY HUMAN TRAGEDY!<br /><br />Mostly, I felt like gagging. Yet, like any train wreck, I couldn\'t tear my eyes away. This dialogue might\'ve worked on the stage, although I doubt it. On the screen, it was cluttered, haphazard, hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work.<br /><br />If you enjoy your melodrama in huge, heaping doses, you *might* enjoy the movie. Be prepared to wait, however. For all that melodrama, this thing sure plods along at its own pace.<br /><br />This script must\'ve sounded a lot different when the actors involved were reading it to themselves. It simply doesn\'t work once they get around to delivering it in front of the camera.<br /><br />IMDB does us a great disservice, at times, when it uses its goofy computer-controlled ""weighted score"". Curse of the Starving Class deserves less than a 1.<br /><br />Character-driven fiction is great, but when you develop your characters by simply pushing them through hoops with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution, it isn\'t character development! Your characters must have a motivation. Being drunk for a while and waking up in a field is *not* character development. That\'s a plot contrivance.<br /><br />Stay away from this movie. Or at the very least, watch it muted. Perhaps you\'ll get some amusement from all the arm-waving the characters do.<br /><br />Oh, and word to the wise -- to prove that this is truly an artsy film, you see James Woods in all his dangly male ""look-at-me, I\'m-the-figurative-and-literal-representation-of-the-naked-vulnerability-of- man"" glory.<br /><br />Don\'t say you weren\'t warned."'],
 ['420,"This movie starts with the main character lying in a coma in a hospital ward, attended by two orderlies. The unconscious main character is heard in a voice over, saying that the orderlies are gay. The orderlies kiss. I watched this in a DVD version and I have the suspicion that this is supposed to be funny – it said „comedy"" on the DVD case, after all and it goes on like that. Had I seen this in a movie theater I probably would have heard part of the audience roar with laughter, because it is so funny – and because they are supposed to sit in a comedy. While it is fascinating to think about what it is funny and what isn\'t, this movie unfortunately only delivers arguments about what isn\'t.<br /><br />Brilliant brains can MAKE anything funny, people like Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder or Mel Brooks have proved that fact. But you have to know the „mechanics"", I suppose. Director and co-scriptwriter Dani Levy does not bother about those mechanics, he thinks that certain things simply ARE funny, the fact that two orderlies are gay and kiss over a man in a coma, for example. Do not get me wrong, some people can MAKE that funny, Dani Levy can\'t, not for me, anyway.<br /><br />The main problem I have with this movie is that I can\'t see a reason behind the way the main characters behave. I could not understand why the two brothers, one an orthodox Jew from West Germany one a third class carbon copy of Fast Eddie Felson from former East Germany so strongly disliked each other. They are both rather bland characters. Their children are boring apart from the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other (well, one is a lesbian now but raises the daughter she has with her cousin). But even these incestuous relationships – if anything they are embarrassing - just come through as an excuse because the scriptwriters could not come up with anything better.<br /><br />The acting is not bad, Udo Semel I actually came to like quite a lot although he reminded me more of ex chancellor Helmut Kohl (a lighter version) than of a venerable Orthodox Jew. The direction in itself is not really bad either, but maybe Levy should stick to directing movies, leaving the scriptwriting to someone else. Now I heard he did a comedy about Hitler. Oi, Vai!"'],
 ['421,"This story about three women is a very sensitive study about: Muriël (Charlotte Van Den Eynde) the youngest, Laura (Els Dottermans) who is about 37 and Martha (Frieda Pittors) the oldest who is the mother of Muriël. They live together in the same building. They have different expectations of life. The vital Laura wants a child. Muriël comes from a village and wants to change her life in Brussels. Martha dreams about her youth when she was a young girl. In fact nothing happens in this movie so you wait for something - for instances an accident - which could dramatize this story. As times goes on, you discover that the director Dorothée Van Den Berghe only wants to develop a psychological portrait of the three women and nothing more. This movie is disappointing because you expect the women to learn from their experiences which is not the case, so one is left with a feeling of emptiness."'],
 ['422,"First and foremost, I loved the novel by Ray Bradbury. It\'s the kind of horror that gets under your skin and sticks with you later. It was one of his best books, with, you know, Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine. I as just hoping that this movie would be all right. It had lots of chances, with a great cast, like Jason Robards and Jonathn Pryce. And Bradbury even wrote the script himself. And on top of all that, it has PAM GRIER!<br /><br />How could it fail?<br /><br />There may be spoilers within.<br /><br />First of all, it was dumbed down. Much of the horror from the book was lost as Bradbury must have been forced to keep the violence to a minimum. All the visuals from the book...gone. Everything that made you squirm...gone.<br /><br />And then there\'s the acting. Like a lot of movies that Disney threw out in the 80s, the kids in this movie cannot act. And, this bugged me a lot, neither of them looked 13 but 9 or 10. Their strong friendship wasn\'t addressed. It was more like they were acquaintaces. <br /><br />You\'d think Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce could pull this off in their roles of Mr. Halloway and Mr. Dark. But here it\'s like they just don\'t care. All they want to do is somehow pay off some mortgage or something. This is far from being some of their best performances. <br /><br />Pam Grier was fine as the witch, but the charecter of the Dust Witch herself wasn\'t well pulled off. She\'s a lot less evil and doesn\'t have the presence as she did in the book. <br /><br />And everything that was left out of the book. The ballon night chase, the marking of Jim\'s house, the real death of Mr. Dark, what happened to Mr. Coogan on the merry-go-round, the fate of the lightening rod salesman, the real death of the witch, and oh so much more. <br /><br />And the special effects were bad, even for the 80s. The merry-go-round of doom for one thing with the superimposed horses going around wasn\'t really creepy, and that weird green mist that really had nothing to do with anything. <br /><br />I could keep going about how this movie ripped apart the original novel, but it makes blood boil. Don\'t see this movie but read the book. It\'s a classic of Bradbury."'],
 ['423,"This film is so old I never realized how young looking Ray Milland looked in 1936, I remember him playing in a great film, ""Lost Weekend"". Ray plays the role of Michael Stuart, who is a very rich banker. There are three girls in this picture who are not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father is going to get married to a young blonde who is a gold digger only looking for a rich sugar daddy. They hire a man to pose as a very rich Count, his name is Count Ariszted, (Misha Auer) who is drunk all the time and is penniless and gives plenty of comic laughs throughout the picture. Deanna Durbin, (Penny Craig) surprised everyone when she was booked in a police station and told the chief of police that she was an opera star and then Penny starts singing with the most fantastic soprano voice I have every heard, the entire police department and convicts started applauding, which was a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film. This is Deanna Durbin\'s first film debut and she became an instant success over night and went on to become a great movie star with Universal Studios after leaving MGM."'],
 ['424,"I had eagerly awaited the first screening of this film ever since it was given to me on DVD at Christmas. Having reserved a special slot for it last night, I sat down to watch it with my daughter (aged 17 and a Film Studies student), with chocolates of course, in eager anticipation. We love Jane Austin.<br /><br />After just the first two minutes we knew we were sunk. The shaky camera shots and angles, general poor cinematography, direction and wooden performances had already left us feeling flat and dissatisfied. Despondent, we viewed on.<br /><br />Anne, played by Sally Hawkins, looked oddly and with no particular purpose, directly at the camera on several occasions, breaking our hard-won \'fantasy of the moment\' and engaging us directly in an almost \'I\'ll find you\' stalking fashion.<br /><br />Poor Rupert Penry-Jones, who played Captain Wentworth, did his best with the script and direction, bless him. I hope they paid him well, however, as he was practically drowned on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably breached the seawall, drenching him and his co-actor. They were nearly swept out to sea. Health and Safety would have had a field day! Poor Rupert was left spitting out sea water in order to deliver his line. Presumably there was not enough money left in the kitty for a re-shoot of this scene. Anyone with any sense would have not attempted it on such a day in the first place.<br /><br />Other than Mr. Penry-Jones, Alice Krige gave the only convincing performance as Lady Russell but her efforts were soon counterbalanced by those of Anthony Head\'s unconvincing portrayal of annoying Sir Walter Elliott.<br /><br />Towards the long-awaited end of the film, Captain Wentworth appeared to oddly grace Anne with a visit every two seconds having taken great pains to avoid her for the majority of the movie. It was as if he had developed a memory impediment which caused him to forget his very reason for being. In contrast, Anne ran, hyper-ventilating, from pillar to post in search of the good Captain who, in the meantime, had managed to call upon almost the entirety of Bath we are told, in the course of only three or four minutes, without even having worked up a sweat.<br /><br />We experienced none of Anne\'s charms crossing the screen. Indeed, we were left wondering what charismatic Captain Wentworth had ever seen in plain, spineless, opinion-less Anne and why someone, anyone, did not tell mean, winging Sir Walter to just shut the heck up.<br /><br />The crucial kiss, normally our favourite girlie moment, was painfully drawn out. As they moved in closer, Anne kept opening and closing her mouth which had the effect on screen of making her look as if she were chewing gum before lips finally met. Eww! <br /><br />The most enjoyable thing about last night was the chocolates and the half hour exchange of views between mother and daughter on just how bad the film had been.<br /><br />What a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engaging story, filmed in some of England\'s finest scenery.<br /><br />Sorry Jane."'],
 ['425,"If you like Sci-Fi, Monsters, and Ancient Legends, then you will love this movie!! <br /><br />The Special Effects are by far the best I have seen since Juarassic Park hit the big screen years ago. While the acting may have been a little less than desirable, the story line and effects adequately compensated for it.<br /><br />I wish now I had seen this at the movies on a theater screen instead of our 42 inch big screen TV.<br /><br />If you like non-stop action, awesome visuals, and taste for myth and lore....you have to see this movie!!"'],
 ['426,"A rather silly little film you just may love.<br /><br />Although rather corny and cliché at times, it nonetheless works and makes for good clean fun. Five teams are engaged on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wits to win the all night contest - just for the sheer joy ""knowing yours is the best team.""<br /><br />Notable for several screen debuts including David Naughton\'s first film role after his Dr. Pepper ""Be a Pepper"" commercials and before his major 1981 hit ""American Werewolf in London"". Also features Paul Ruebens in what I believe is his first Pee Wee Herman-esquire roll a year before he became known for it. And last but not least, Mr. Spin City and Alex Keaton himself, Michael J. Fox gets his first film role here. Fans will remember Stephen Furst as Flounder in Animal House. Outside of that, no names, but all funny characters.<br /><br />Doubt it has ever made it to DVD, but there are still probably some VHS copies floating around and you might even catch on a late, late show sometime. If you do, is worth your watch. You may hate it, but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love."'],
 ['427,"This is an OK adaptation of the breath taking book of Dan Brown. I can\'t say it is novel or very good but they made a movie that you can enjoy. Given the excellent story, the result could have been better though. The movie is pretty long but at the end I was feeling like some things were missing. Sound effects and sound tracks were very good. Acting was well done but the character development phase was very weak. For people who didn\'t read the book, things may look happening too quickly. From my point of view, instead of trying to put as much as stuff from the book, they could have tried to do the important scenes more proper. What makes the book very good was all the puzzle like story combined with the excellent portrait of Vatican. You see neither of it in the movie. Too much rush and using the time not in a good way, these are main problems of the movie. So, it is worth watching but could have been done better."'],
 ['428,"I never fell asleep during a movie. Never. This movie did the impossible.<br /><br />While many people claim the superiority of Japanese horror films over their American counterparts, this movie was a lesson in over abundance. As in, the movie was 30 minutes too long. It would have helped if the movie had a little more movement in the plot and the camera work, but instead, all we got were awkward silences and a lot of slow movement. The acting was absolutely terrible, bordering on bad student film levels while everyone struggled to ad-lib something called a script. Did these people even get any direction? Were they coaxed to be boring and dull? Either therory wouldn\'t surprise me.<br /><br />What was even worse was the rather unscary make-up involved with the creatures from the other side. Either way, they all stunk. Don\'t watch this film. That\'s all I can say (unless you\'re an insomniac)."'],
 ['429,"What can I say? Not as bad as many here have made it out to be. The only reason I even watched this film that I had previously never heard of before, was strictly for IAN McSHANE.<br /><br />I was not disappointed in the least. IAN McSHANE was absolutely brilliant and brings an amazing subtlety to his role. He\'s always great to watch and for my money... an extremely underused actor.<br /><br />As for the rest of the film.... Every other actor in the movie delivered strong, solid performances. These people certainly weren\'t being paid huge amounts of cash for their participation (as this was a fairly low budget film) but this did not mean that any of them ""mailed"" their appearances in. Everyone was convincing and compelling with the parts given to them.<br /><br />I was even pleasantly surprised at ADRIAN PAUL\'s performance though I must admit I have only ever seen him in the HIGHLANDER Television series before this movie.<br /><br />The plot was well paced and the storyline intriguing and much like real life, not everything ends up tied in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film. Anybody who expected a clear-cut, by-the-numbers, connect the dots ""conclusion"" or ""answer"" at the end of the movie... CLEARLY wasn\'t watching the film closely enough! This film is not going to tell you what the ""meaning of life"" is! The idea is that after seeing the film, you might go and discuss the unanswered questions with your friends over a coffee. I certainly did.<br /><br />No car chases... No explosions... No bar room brawls.... (sounds pretty dull, huh?) But the reality is that I was completely absorbed by the film and it\'s just a well written little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performances by all parties involved.<br /><br />****** WARNING...****** If you\'re the kind of person who dislikes movies that dangle an enormous ""question"" as the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answering that particular question directly...<br /><br />YOU MIGHT NOT ENJOY THIS FILM."'],
 ['430,"Originally harped as a sequel to ""The Slumber Party Massacre"" series, this film falls flat on it\'s face with a new title. First off, if you are going to include the word ""massacre"" in your film\'s title, you better deliver. This one certainly does not. There is no gore, no on screen murders and no chainsaw, as the box art would lead you to believe. Instead, we get a paper thin, overdone plot about a group of cheerleaders who get stranded in an abandoned cabin on the way to a football game, only to be offed one by one. Again, this film could have been OK if the gore quotient was upped a bit. Why directors, especially those doing direct-to-video flicks, are afraid to show ANY gore is beyond me. Now, I am not a huge fan of excessive gore, but come on...why else would anyone rent a movie called ""Cheerleader Massacre??"" Besides that problem, the film suffers from a shot-on-a-home-video-camera cheapness. It looks cheap, sounds cheap, and the actors aren\'t all that good. It tries to throw us off track to who the killer may be, but even that fails. The ending ends up being a ridiculous mess. Folks, if you run across this film, walk away and go find the original ""Slumber Party Massacre."" 2 out of 10."'],
 ['431,"A killer, cannibal rapist is killed by a crazed cop on the scene of his latest murder. At his grave a cult have gathered with plans to resurrect him by peeing onto the grave. This of course works and he awakes ripping the guys penis off and he is back into his old killing ways with an all new zombie look. The two cops one of who is going a little crazy about the scum of the city and has a drug problem, are back on the case. Two of the original cult member also tries to stop the killer by resurrecting some other kind of dead thing. Thinking they have filed they leave but out from the grave comes a plastic baby doll that was used in the original resurrection. Sounds a bit confusing really but no its just rubbish.<br /><br />The acting is terrible and one of the cops is the same guy that plays Dr Vincent van Gore in the faces of gore series and he is just as terrible as the annoying cop in this film. The other cop just about struggles to get his terrible lines out. Now I\'m all for low budget cinema but this film is just terrible. If it wasn\'t for the very easy on the eye ladies and their nakedness I would probably have fallen asleep. There is a bit of gore but it\'s never more than some animal guts placed on the stomach of the victims. The zombie makeup on the other hand looks great and his foot long penis that he uses to rape his victims with is kind of funny at times. There is also a half decent scene where the killer falls in love with a sex doll. The doll with the chipmunks voice is the stupidest thing I have ever seen in a film. It is just a plastic toy on a fishing line.<br /><br />The ending is extremely bad. You would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he does. God knows how they made enough money to make a sequel. <br /><br />4/10"'],
 ['432,"Days of Heaven is one of the most painfully boring and pointless films I have ever seen. In no way, shape, or form would I recommend it to anyone...unless you\'re trying to put your kids to sleep or, God forbid, give someone an aneurysm. If I could go back in time and do one thing, I would set fire to the reels before they were sent to theaters. Why? Days of Heaven\'s plot is simple, but extremely vague. Long sequences devoid of dialogue compose much of the film. The characters are too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with. The climax of the story does not touch you: by this time your brain has worked so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphors that your ability to think is gone. The only things working are your eyes, and unfortunately, your ears, who must listen to the sound of Linda, the little girl in the story, who talks like a man. I am now dumber for seeing this movie. Don\'t let it happen to you."'],
 ['433,"In 1929, director Walt Disney and animator Ub Iwerks changed the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their ""Silly Symphonies"" series, ""The Skeleton Dance"". Iwerks and Disney had been collaborating together since the early 20s, in Disney\'s ""Laugh-O-Gram"" cartoon series; however, their friendship suffered a tremendous blow when Iwerks accepted an offer by a competitor to leave Disney and start his own animation studio. That was the birth of Celebrity Productions, where Iwerks continued developing his style and technique (and where he created the character of Flip the Frog). While his work kept the same high quality, it wasn\'t really popular and by 1936 the studio was closed. Later that year, Iwerks was hired by Columbia Pictures, and Iwerks decided to return to his old skeletons for another dance, this time in color.<br /><br />1937\'s ""Skeleton Frolics"" is essentially, a remake of the 1929 classic ""The Skeleton Dance"", the movie that borough him fame and fortune. Like that short film, it is set on an abandoned graveyard, where at midnight the creatures of the night come alive and begin to play. The dead rise from their coffins, ready for the show that\'s about to begin, as a group of skeletons has formed an orchestra, and begin to play a happy tune. Now, it\'s not easy to be a musician made of just bones, as some of the orchestra members have problems with their body parts, however, the band manages to put a good show and another group of skeletons begin to dance. A lovely couple of them faces the same problems that troubled the orchestra: it\'s hard to dance with loose body parts. Everything ends at dawn, and just when the sun is about to rise again, the skeletons run towards their graves.<br /><br />Directed and animated by Ub Iwerks himself, ""Skeleton Frolics"" follows faithfully the pattern set by ""The Skeleton Dance"" years before, although with a crucial difference: Iwerks did the whole film in Technicolor. The bright tonalities allowed Iwerks to create a more visually appealing film, and also to use the many new techniques he had been practicing since leaving Disney, creating even better effects of depth and dynamism than those he conceived before. It is certainly a more experimental film than ""The Skeleton Dance"", although sadly, this doesn\'t mean it\'s necessarily a better film. For starters, the film is practically identical to the one he did with Disney, with the only differences being the music (more on that later) and the color effects. It looks beautiful, no doubt about it, but it definitely feels kind of unoriginal after all.<br /><br />However, it is not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurts the film (after all, Iwerks executes it in a wonderful way), but the fact that the musical melody created by Joe DeNat for the film is pretty uninteresting and lacks the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one done by Carl W. Stalling for ""The Skeleton Dance"". In other words, while DeNat\'s tune is effective and appropriate for the theme, it\'s easy to forget about it rapidly while Stalling\'s song has a unique personality that makes it unforgettable. Being a musical film, this is of high importance, and so the mediocrity of the music brings down Iwerk\'s flawless work of animation. Personally, I think that with a better musical accompaniment, ""Skeleton Frolics"" would be remembered as fondly as ""The Skeleton Dance despite not being as groundbreaking, as it\'s still a fun film to watch.<br /><br />It\'s kind of sad that most of the work Iwerks did after leaving Disney is now forgotten due to his poor success, however, it must be said that if Iwerks lacked the popularity of Disney or Fleischer (Disney\'s main rival), he did not lack the quality of those companies\' films. It was probably just a case of bad luck what made the man who gave life to Disney\'s mouse for the first time to face failure out of Disney. Despite its shortcomings, ""Skeleton Frolics"" is a very funny and visually breathtaking film, that while not exactly the most original and fresh film (one just can\'t help but thinking of ""The Skeleton Dance"" while watching it), it definitely reminds us that Iwerk\'s skeletons are still here to haunt us, and inspire us.<br /><br />8/10"'],
 ['434,"Yes, indeed, it could have been a good movie. A love biangle, (sorry for the poetical license, but is not a triangle!) an interesting story, unfortunately badly told. The image is sometimes weird, sometimes OK, the picture looks crowded and narrow-sighted. The sound needs more attention (it usually does in Romanian movies), the light and color filters are sometimes badly chosen. The soundtrack is short and is not helping the action. About the acting... sorry but the best actress is the landlady. The others are acting immaturely and cannot convince the viewer. The acting is poetical when it should be realistic, and realistic when it should be poetical. It\'s a picture for adults, told by the children. Bother only if extremely curious."'],
 ['435,"You wear only the best Italian suits from Armani, hand stitched and fitted to your exact measurements. Your automobile is the finest that German engineering has to offer, and is equipped with as many gadgets as horses under the hood. You\'re a member of the finest polo clubs, frequently dine at restaurants such as Spago, and are always accompanied by at least two of the most beautiful women in the world. Your pocket watch doubles as a nuclear explosive, while your trusty pen can also be used as a semi-automatic .22 caliber gun. You snow ski in the Alps, go deep sea diving in the Caribbean, sky dive over the Andes, and all the while your hair is never, ever, out of place. You are Bond, James Bond, the world\'s most renown spy, favorite son of the good Queen, bad boy of the British SS, and perhaps the most desired man in the world. The character of James Bond was created by Ian Fleming, and is the movie industry\'s longest lasting icon, being the subject of over fifteen films spanning over four decades. The latest man to play the role is Pierce Brosnan, who took over the role of James Bond from Timothy Dalton in 1996, and made his 007 debut in Goldeneye.<br /><br />This is the setting for the first major title developed by a third party on the Nintendo 64. Goldeneye, developed by Rare for Nintendo, has been on the market for some time. Its continued dominance in the sales charts is just one testament to how good this game is, and no review library would be complete without it.<br /><br />Let\'s face it -- most of the time movie-licensed games are flops. Although the two seem like a good mix, the results, for the most part, have been horrendous. Games like Cliffhanger, True Lies, Lethal Weapon, and not to mention all the Star Trek flops, are ammunition enough against this mix. And for the record I am not a fan of movie licensed games, especially if I\'ve seen the movie. At least that\'s how I used to think. In the case of Goldeneye, I had more reservations than normal. While not a bad movie, Goldeneye the film didn\'t have that much appeal to it, and I don\'t rank it in the top ten amongst Bond movies. As a game, however, let\'s just say it\'s a completely different story.<br /><br />The game is a first-person shooter, and in order to be successful, you\'ll need at least as much brains as brawn. For those who have seen the movie, which I imagine is most of you reading this, the story is very consistent and follows the path of the movie with little variation. A plot to control the world\'s most dangerous satellite, Goldeneye, has begun in the USSR, and in the process a beautiful woman has been captured. Your missions will be many, the danger extreme. You will have to rely on your wits and experience to get you through the most grueling missions the world has ever known. M will brief you as soon as you\'re ready. Good day, James."'],
 ['436,"This is an excellent film about the characters in a adult swimming class, their problems, relationships and interactions with each other. It should have managed a wider distribution as it\'s much better than similar films from major studios out at the same time.<br /><br />The swimming instructor is an almost-Olympian, reduced to teaching adults basic lessons, and often the target of horndogging from his female students. He attempts, more or less, to fend them off, with varying results.<br /><br />The students characters are mainstream U.S.A; teachers, policemen, college students and retired people, all of whom haven\'t learned to swim for some reason. The movie covers their relationships, including friends, relatives and romantic conquests as they go through the class. Several subplots provide amusing fodder, including a teacher going through a divorce, some high school students making a documentary, and a girl who is only in the class to meet guys.<br /><br />This is a good date movie, or just one to watch when you\'re in the mood for a romantic drama with overtones of reality."'],
 ['437,"This mostly routine fact-based TV drama gets a boost from the fine performance by Cole. This is the story of a highly trained military man, unhappy with his wife and children, fakes his demise and runs off with the other woman. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed he robs banks. Predictable, but not a bad watch."'],
 ['438,"I watched Six of a Kind for W.C. Fields - he\'s only in it for around 10 minutes and has one long scene, the infamous pool sequence he made famous in vaudeville, and several other great moments. The reamaining 55 minutes are also delightful, thankfully, mostly due to the hilarious Charlie Ruggles as the bumbling banker J. Pinkham Whinney. He is everyone\'s foil. He stutters and stumbles about to our pleasure. Also, his comedy partner, Mary Boland plays his wife, Flora. Joining in the proceedings are George Burns and Gracie Allen. Boland is particularly funny near the beginning and near the end, but Gracie and Ruggles use up most of the picture. Gracie\'s funny, quite, but she can also get tiring. And poor George Burns has absolutely nothing to do except repeat Gracie all the time. I don\'t remember laughing at him once (although he has one great scene with Ruggles, where Ruggles tries desperately to get George to take Gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while, and one with Fields, where he asks Fields to sell him a sweater; that bit is exclusively Fields\', though). The situation is constantly funny: the Whinneys are going to drive to California, but to help them with expenses, George and Gracie are recruited. 8/10."'],
 ['439,"EDMUND LOWE (who reminds me somewhat of Warren William), heads the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that moves at a brisk pace and runs just a little over an hour.<br /><br />Douglas Walton plays the unlucky jockey who appears to be intent on his own demise (hypnotism, anyone?), and the suspects include a good number of the supporting cast--everyone from Virginia Bruce, Kent Smith, Frieda Inescourt, Gene Lockhart, Jessie Ralph, Benita Hume, Rosalind Ivan and H.B. Warner. As an added bonus, there\'s Nat Pendleton as a dimwit detective--and furthermore, get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interiors of a wealthy home. Must have been a set that was used in many a subsequent film.<br /><br />On the plus side, the mystery is not so complicated that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not being too baffled. It\'s all suddenly clear to detective Philo Vance--and then he has a final confrontation with the murderer that gives the film a nifty five minutes of unmitigated suspense.<br /><br />Nicely done and passes the time in an entertaining manner."'],
 ['440,"This movie is lame and not funny at all. The plot doesn\'t even make sense. Some scientist who works on the fringes of science opens a doorway to another dimension (maybe hell???) and his daughter gets sucked through it or something, then one day for no apparent reason she comes back and now she has big breasts and wears a skimpy outfit (I guess the demons in the other dimension made it for her?) The main character is a guy who wants to marry his girlfriend but she is gay so obviously she\'s more interested in her new girlfriend, and they stumble upon this witch spell book (they want to be witches or something???) and the evil spell ends up getting read again which is how the evil demon comes to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently. There is topless scenes for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend says is a well known wrestler but his part is completely unnecessary, obviously they made something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestling fans will actually watch this pointless movie. I\'m sure the topless girls doesn\'t hurt there either. The extra features on the DVD were even more confusing than the rest of the movie, I thought it might help explain what was going on but it actually just made things more confusing. Who are these people and what are they doing? Basically this is a go-camping-to-make-out-then-fight-a-monster movie but there are a bunch of things (like the other dimension and book seller) than make it confusing. I didn\'t like the movie but it was only like five bucks so big deal. I don\'t recommend watching it though it was just too stupid, I can\'t think of any part of the movie that was good."'],
 ['441,"Although I was hoping that I\'d like it a little more, this was still certainly an impressive film. There were great performances by all the leads, and the story, while not what I\'d call chilling, was still effective and it kept me interested. For me, the best part of this film was the look of the picture, for it always looked cold and damp and it just really seemed to suit the film well. I also thought that the low budget suited this movie, for I don\'t think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have worked as well in a film this grim. All things considered, it fell a little short of my expectations, but I\'m still very glad that I finally sat down to watch this movie."'],
 ['442,"Imagine this: a high school. Except it\'s boarding school, and the kids don\'t have parents around. Oh, and it\'s in Malibu. And the kids are all thin, white, and gorgeous, with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the ""weird"" outcast. And there aren\'t any reasonable rules, like how they have co-habitation, nuclear weapons in their dorms, coffee stands, a sushi bar, and a complimentary laptop per student.<br /><br />Here\'s the story: A girl, Zoey Brooks, attends PCA, a formerly all-boys school. Absolutely perfect in every possible way, she is smart, pretty, thin, athletic, creative, and everything a perfectionist wants to be. Almost all the boys in school want her, and every girl wants to be her friend. She\'s the one everyone comes to for advice, the one who saves the day with a simplistic plan, and is just wonderful. Too bad none of this makes her likable.<br /><br />Are we supposed to believe that if we don\'t even come close to Zoey\'s perfection, we\'re bad people? In the show, nothing\'s her fault, and if anyone contradicts her, they\'re portrayed as the bad guy(Logan). He may be a jerk, but at least he has some kind of brain that thinks for himself instead of simply agreeing with the princess every time.<br /><br />Her loyal group of blind followers are: Chase, the average dumb ass that has a secret crush on her, Michael, the token black guy (and the only decent actor on the set), Lola, a wannabe actress and anorexic, snobby airhead, Quinn, the smart but clueless girl when it comes to teen stuff, and Logan, the rich jerk who has a soft side. Yeah, this show basically spews out stereotypes.<br /><br />What ticks me off, though, is that they all try to pretend they\'re normal kids. They complain that Logan gets too much money while they have to work themselves, even though they already go to a too-good-to-be-true boarding school and have relatively nice things that many teenagers can\'t afford. They drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis, hardly have homework, and suntan almost every day. Wow, they have it hard! Any other problems? I\'m too good-looking, rich, and stress-free! I guess Zoey 101 (what\'s the 101 for, anyway?) is Nick\'s attempt at trying to portray teens realistically. Except they caught a glimpse of reality, didn\'t like it, and decided to give the kids lives like the asses on The Hills.<br /><br />But hey, at least the set\'s pretty."'],
 ['443,"I had been amazed by director Antal\'s Kontroll back in 2003. His first American project, Vacancy, was less impressive but a decent start. Armored is his second feature and while the visual signature is recognizable, the film never rises above the level of a B movie. <br /><br />It\'s a shame because the main premise has all the ingredients for twists and turns and the ensemble cast featuring many quality actors should be able to deliver. Antal could have made a great heist film but instead goes for an action flick. Then again he could have shot a cool action flick but it doesn\'t really deliver in that department either. <br /><br />What you are left with is one implausible situation after another, a group of poorly sketched characters bicker and fight over a sum of money. If you look past the sharp cinematography, cast and the tight music score, you\'re left with what could have been a below average direct-to-video featuring Van Damme or Seagal. <br /><br />This was probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time."'],
 ['444,"First of all, the reason I\'m giving this film 2 stars instead of 1 is because at least Peter Falk gave his usual fantastic performance as Lieutenant Columbo. He alone can get 10 stars for trying to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at making a movie.<br /><br />I was initially all fired up at reading one poster\'s comment that Andrew Stevens in this movie gave ""the performance of his career."" To me, it was the abysmal performance by Stevens that absolutely ruined this movie, and so I was all prepared to hurl all sorts of insults at the person who made the aforementioned comment. Then I thought to myself, what else has Stevens done? So I checked and, you know, that person was absolutely right. In the 17 years since this Columbo movie was made, apparently every one of the 33 projects that Stevens has been in since then has been utter crap, so it is doubtful that anybody has even seen the rest of his career.<br /><br />If you like Columbo, see every other of the 69 titles before watching this one. Do yourself a favor and save the worst for last."'],
 ['445,"This movie must be in line for the most boring movie in years. Not even woody Harrison can save this movie from sinking to the bottom.<br /><br />The murder in this movie are supposed to be the point of interest in this movie but is not, nothing is of any interest. The cast are not to bad but the script are just plain awful , I just sat in utter amazement during this movie, thinking how on earth can anyone find this movie entertaining <br /><br />The producers of this movie were very clever. They made a boring movie but hid it well with the names of good actors and actresses on their cast. People will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think, Woody Harrison ,Kristin Scott Thomas and Willem Dafoe this must be good and rent this movie.(boy are they in for a horrible time)<br /><br />If you like getting ripped off go and rent this movie, some people actually did enjoyed this movie but I like to watch a movie with meaning"'],
 ['446,"Down at the Movie Gallery, I saw a flick I just had to see. It looked like a fun low-budget horror/action/western that I could get into. Yeah, I knew it would suck, but I rented it anyway hoping for laughs. Only a few laughs were to be found. This was an extremely stupid movie. It begins with a bounty hunter, our protagonist, who is possibly the weakest main character in the history of film. He looks/acts like he could take on Chuck Norris, but he can\'t. His dialogue sucks too. Anyway, he goes into a village, shoots some zombies. You could tell they tried to make this longer by putting in these boring scenes where he takes 3-5 minutes to reload or watch some zombies. At least the zombies look cool. So anyway, some people get shot, some zombies die, and in the end, everyone is dead except our main character, who should have died at the beginning when he was shot down by four people."'],
 ['447,"i am finally seeing the El Padrino movie, from what I can see it is an incredible film, and lots of action Damian Chapa is good director, But I must admit I love his acting the Best.<br /><br />Also I saw the behind the scenes it was edited by some lady named kinga, she needs to go back to school and learn how to edit.<br /><br />However the film El Padrino is a pure 10 action epic. Why cant most people who direct put together films that keep you wondering what the plot is? I am so happy to see someone I know to be a real great actor become a great director also.<br /><br />I am one of those people who love to see artists make it.<br /><br />B.S."'],
 ["448,I thrive on cinema....but there is a limit. A NAME isn't enough to make A MOVIE!. The beginning of the movie puts us in a mood to expect the unseen yet. But we remain hungry ( or angry..) till the end . Things are getting so confused that I admit that I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE END or was there an end to this nonesense. The opportunity to make an outstanding movie was there but the target was totally missed. Next..."],
 ['449,"Michael Callan plays a smarmy photographer who seems, nonetheless, to be regarded as a perfect ""catch"" by any woman that runs across him; could this have anything to do with the fact that he also co-produced the film? He\'s a ""hero"" whom it\'s very difficult to empathize with, so the movie is in trouble right from the start. However, it\'s troubles don\'t end there. It has the production values of a TV-movie (check out that head made of clay or something, near the end), and the ending cheats in a way that I can\'t reveal, in case anyone wants to see the movie (highly unlikely). Let\'s just say that the killer knows more than we were let to know he knows. (*1/2)"'],
 ['450,"I was drawn to ""Friends"" by the soundtrack scored by a very young and yet to be famous Elton John whom I had see in a club in nearby Houston. I had no idea of the emotions and impact the movie would make. Recently I was brought back to the movie by a song that Heart did called ""Seasons"", then I found the Elton John song ""Friends"" thinking it was the same song...it\'s been 35 years of so. Anyway, the flood of the emotions of ""Friends"" came back like seeing an old photograph of your first real love. I have more recall of the way the movie hit me than I do of the actual details of the production, plot, etc. so forgive me for a rather poor review. I remember taking a couple of special friends on a date to see the movie and them being as moved and teary-eyed at the end as I was. I\'m both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now. So many movies which seemed so important to me back then (i.e. ""The Graduate"" ""Easy Rider"") now just seem silly and I don\'t want this to fall into the same category. But, I will find it and if it turns out silly, then at least I\'ll be able to turn my wife onto a great...no..outstanding soundtrack. When we met, we went through this with ""Last Tango in Paris"". The youngsters I work with (I\'m 56) respect my opinions but it\'s hard to explain the feelings of the sixties and the movies and songs that reflect such strong feelings but seem a little ""aged"" now. I just can\'t figure out if the the aging process is the movies... or me. ""Friends"" is a very special, sensitive and wonderful movie. It will bring back a lot of special feelings I\'m sure. By all means, rent or buy a copy... Indies were not near the strong genre then that they are today."'],
 ['451,"During the Clete Roberts preface, I was beginning to think this was an Ed Wood production, however, what rolls out here is some pretty hard hitting stuff. The story of crime and corruption in a Southern town is told using a cast culled from Hollywood\'s Poverty Row, and this makes the movie all the more realistic. There are no punches pulled here, and at times the film is reminiscent of ""The Well""(1951). The Black and White texture gives a newsreel-like quality. For certain, younger viewers will be reminded of ""The Blair Witch Project"" but this one IS based on REAL events!"'],
 ['452,"I decided to watch this one because it\'s been nominated for Oscar this year. I guess as many folks here I really wanted to like this movie, but ended up bored and disappointed. First scene was OK but the whole rest of the movie in ""shaky hands"" camera mode is really annoying.<br /><br />i guess the main reason for making such a movie and nominating it for Oscar is this:<br /><br />American ""military machine"" (people, who makes money on war) urgently need an excuse or justification of war in Iraq by bungling up something (sort of) patriotic.<br /><br />why these ""heroic"" efforts of director and the main character to _inspire_ the audience with an idea of ""loving-war-like-a-drug""?.. Oh, please, come on! what a bore! <br /><br />watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall..."'],
 ['453,"Mom should really be given a different title to distinguish it from all the other movies out there called Mom or with the word Mom in the title.<br /><br />This is a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that gets churned out time after time and all end up much the same as every other zombie movie out there.<br /><br />It is so different and refreshing it almost defies categorisation.<br /><br />The kind old lady who takes in a creepy lodger, who just happens to be a flesh eater, who then infects the old lady who also turns into a flesh eating zombie, or ghoul, quite which exactly is not defined.<br /><br />There is pathos in the story as her son realises what she has become and while at first horrified, attempts to help her by supplying \'food\'. (I shall say no more about that, for fear of inserting a spoiler!) It is one of those \'quiet\' movies as opposed to guns blasting, explosions raging, car chases, etc boring etc that makes so many movies all the same rubbish, but still with enough gory moments to satisfy horror fans, whilst also inserting sadness into the story, along with nice touches of humour as opposed to downright silliness of some so-called \'horror\' movies.<br /><br />There is a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film, where the old lady is sitting alone in her room with only her Christmas tree for company and looks so \'innocent\', but, what she becomes!! Oh my! <br /><br />A gem of a movie and even if not your thing, should at least be viewed if only once by any true horror fan."'],
 ['454,"Empire of Passion starts out deceptively - that is, if you\'re immediately expecting it to be a horror movie. It\'s like a riff on James M. Cain\'s The Postman Always Rings Twice, at first: Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) is a mother of two and a dutiful, hard-working wife to rickshaw driver Gisaburo (Takahiro Tamura). But when he\'s not around, and she\'s at home with the baby, the feisty and aimless young man Toyoji (Tatsuya Fuji) comes around to bring some goodies for Seki... and a little extra. They\'re soon sleeping together, but after he does something to her (let\'s just say a ""shave""), he knows that he\'ll find out, and immediately proposes that they kill Gisaburo. They drink him up, strangle him, and then toss him down a well. Naturally, this will come back to haunt them - but that it\'s literally, at least to them (at first super-terrified Seki and then only later on skeptical Toyoji), changes gears into the \'Kaidan\', a Japanese ghost story.<br /><br />This is a film where the horror comes not simply out of ""oh, ghost, ah"", but out of the total dread that builds for the characters. In a way there\'s the mechanics of a film-noir at work throughout, if only loosely translated by way of a 19th century Japanese village as opposed to an American city or small town (i.e. the snooping cop, the ""evidence"" found possibly by another, word getting around, suspicions aroused, etc). It\'s compelling because Seiko actually was against the plan from the start, manipulated by the lustful but ill-prepared Toyoji, and her reactions to Gisaburo\'s re-appearances are staggering to her. Take the one that comes closest to poetry: Gisaburo\'s ghost, pale-blue face and mostly silent, chilling stare, motions for Seiko to get on the rickshaw. She does, reluctantly, and he pushes her around on a road she doesn\'t know, in the wee hours before dawn, surrounded by smoke. Most Japanese ghost stories wish to heavens they could get this harrowingly atmospheric.<br /><br />While it starts to veer into hysterics towards the end, there\'s so much here that director Oshima gets right in making this a distinctive work. After hitting it huge in the international cinema world with In the Realm of the Senses (which, ironically, got banned in his own country), he made something that, he claimed, was even *more* daring that \'Senses\'. Maybe he was right; Empire of Passion has less graphic sexual content by far than its predecessor (also starring Tatsuya Fuji, a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range), but its daring lies in crafting a world of dread. You can believe in ghosts in this story, but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hells these two would-be lovebirds will go. The snooping detective or the gossiping townspeople are the least of their worries: the fate of their very souls is at stake.<br /><br />And Oshima takes what in other hands could be merely juicy pulp (sadly, it wouldn\'t surprise me if an American remake was already in the works) and crafts shot after gorgeous shot, with repetition working its way into the mis-en-scene (i.e. the shots of Seiko and Toyoji walking on that road, the camera at a dutch angle, the world tilted and surrounding them in a grim blue hue) as well as some affecting movements that will stay with me long after I finish typing this (i.e. Toyoji throwing the leaves by one hand into the well in slow motion, or how Seiko\'s nude body is revealed after she becomes blind). It\'s daring lies in connecting on a level of the spirit- not to be confused with the spiritual, though there may be something with that as well- about life and death\'s connections to one another, inextricably. It\'s a classic waiting to be discovered."'],
 ['455,"I am not a big music video fan. I think music videos take away personal feelings about a particular song.. Any song. In other words , creative thinking goes out the window. Likewise, Personal feelings aside about MJ, toss aside. This was the best music video of alltime. Simply wonderful. It was a movie. Yes folks it was. Brilliant! You had awesome acting, awesome choreography, and awesome singing. This was spectacular. Simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady dating a man , but was he a man or something sinister. Vincent Price did his thing adding to the song and video. MJ was MJ , enough said about that. This song was to video , what Jaguars are for cars. Top of the line, PERFECTO. What was even better about this was ,that we got the real MJ without the thousand facelifts. Though ironically enough, there was more than enough makeup and costumes to go around. Folks go to Youtube. Take 14 mins. out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really is."'],
 ['456,"Oh, my goodness. I would have never thought it was possible for me to see a thriller worse than Domestic Disturbance this soon, but here it is. Armed with rotten plot, terrible editing, stilted acting, and headache-inducing \'style\' (sorry, I have no other words for it), Sanctimony is the kind of movie that almost forces you to re-evaluate an entire genre; that is, this film is so bad that even the thrillers I condemned as complete failures now seem a little better.<br /><br />Now, not only Sanctimony is a terrible film in itself, it also succeeds in the difficult task of ripping off better movies and do a pathetic job with it. Right from the main titles -- nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the ones from Se7en -- I was under the impression that something didn\'t smell quite right. As soon as the movie started with a series of corny, wanna-be hip quick-cuts full of gory images and bombastic colors, I knew where that smell was coming from.<br /><br />It turns out that two policemen, or rather policeman Jim Renart (Michael Paré) and policewoman Dorothy Smith (Jennifer Rubin), are investigating on a murder spree in Vancouver. A serial killer, known as ""Monkey Killer"" (what a menacing, chilling nickname, uh?) for his working methods, has killed quite a lot of people. You see, this nut apparently works following the proverb ""see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"" and cuts eyes, ears, and tongues out of his victims. So far, six eyes, six ears, and three tongues. In very ingenious fashion, Renart and Smith figure out that the Monkey Killer is probably going to kill other three people... well, because he probably wants to complete the number 666. So suddenly the film focuses on Tom Gerrick (Casper Van Dien), a young, successful, good-looking businessman, with a dreadful temper. And that\'s where the rip-off of American Psycho kicks in.<br /><br />So we follow the life of the two police officers and the young psychopath, none of which is interesting in the least, until they finally meet. Along the way to that, a disco where Renart barely misses Gerrick unintentionally offers us one of the funniest scenes in recent memory: Renart goes in the back of the disco club, because... well, just because the script tells us it\'s a suspect place; then, with one single punch in the stomach, Renard gets rid of a big guard who blocks the path, and the guard is never heard of again? Does this scene strike anyone else as completely unrealistic?<br /><br />Anyway, after another murder, Gerrick turns in as a witness, but Smith and especially Renart immediately suspect he might be the killer. In typical Basic Instinct fashion, Smith gets some dates with the young businessman, under the assumption that she might discover his true identity.<br /><br />I won\'t spoil the ending but it is, quite simply, an embarrassment; there are contradictions, some plot holes, issues that never get resolved, and especially there is one last scene where a brutal mass murder, supposed to be shocking and sad, comes off as such laughably overdone and nonsensical that I frankly can\'t imagine how anyone could not laugh at it.<br /><br />At 87 minutes, Sanctimony is really pushing it. You never care about one single character, because they are all so flat (not to mention boring) that you know exactly who is who the first time you meet them. You are never pulled into the story, because the scenes are connected through weak plot devices when not downright unnecessary and out of place. The acting ranges from average (Van Dien) to downright atrocious (Rubin, and most of the supporting cast); the music is abysmal generic techno, and the photography is one of the worst I have ever seen. Of course, like every fiasco of the genre, we are provided with a little bit of gratuitous nudity.<br /><br />3/10"'],
 ['457,"The Man With a Golden Arm was one of a trio of great films around that same time that dealt with drug addiction. The other two were Monkey On My Back and A Hatful of Rain. But I think of the three this one is the best.<br /><br />Maybe if Otto Preminger had shot the thing in the real Chicago instead of those obvious studio sets the film might have been better yet. Who knows, maybe Preminger couldn\'t get enough money to pay for the location. It\'s the only flaw I find in the film.<br /><br />Frank Sinatra is a heroin addicted card dealer who was busted for covering for his boss Robert Strauss when the game was raided. He took the cure while in jail and wants a new life as a jazz drummer. But a whole lot of people are conspiring against him.<br /><br />First Bob Strauss who wants him back dealing, especially because a couple of heavyweight gamblers are in town. He uses a few underhanded methods to get Sinatra\'s services back. Secondly Darren McGavin is the local dope dealer who wants Sinatra good and hooked as a customer again. And finally Eleanor Parker his clinging wife who\'s working a con game to beat all, just to keep him around.<br /><br />Frank Sinatra got a nomination for Best Actor for this film, but lost to Ernest Borgnine in Marty. Sinatra might have won for this one if he hadn\'t won for From Here to Eternity in the Supporting Actor category a few years back and that Marty was such an acclaimed film in that year. His scenes going through withdrawal locked up in Kim Novak\'s apartment will leave you shaken.<br /><br />Eleanor Parker does not get enough credit for her role. She\'s really something as the crazy scheming wife who wants Sinatra tied to her no matter what the cost. If she had not been nominated that same year for Interrupted Melody, she might have been nominated for this. 1955 marked the high point of her career. <br /><br />Darren McGavin got his first real notice as the very serpentine drug peddler. His performance is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl.<br /><br />Elmer Bernstein contributed a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak Chicago neighborhood the characters live in. Not a place you\'d want to bring up your family."'],
 ['458,"This film was basically set up for failure by the studio. One, Anne Rice (author of the book) offered to write the screen play but was refused by the studio. Two, they tried to stuff 2 in depth novels in to a 2hour movie.<br /><br />I maintain the only way for these two books -Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned- to work in a live action form would be through a mini-series. First off the the Vampire Lestat alone takes place from the 1700\'s to the 1980\'s and has a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character, Lestat. The entire book Vampire Lestat sets up the events of the second part Queen of the Damned. Without that full understanding the premise of a movie is destroyed.<br /><br />Lestat was not cruel and vicious to all, he was not wanting to go along with Akasha\'s plans, Marius did not make Lestat, Lestat did not love Jesse or make her, Lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light, Marius was not after David nor the other way around, every character was completely represented wrong, BASICALLY same names different story.<br /><br />If they wanted to make a vampire movie, fine. Even if you wanted to be inspired by these novels, fine. But don\'t piggie back into the theaters off the success of Rice\'s great novels and characters just to destroy what her loyal readers have come to love.<br /><br />If you haven\'t read the books you won\'t understand the film really, if you have read the books you will be insulted. That being said, I am such a huge fan I had to see the movie knowing full well this was going to be the case and still went for it. Catch 22, must see it, will hate it."'],
 ['459,"Have previously enjoyed Wesley Snipes in several action flicks and I had expected a lot more, even from a score of 5.8 IMDb, the movie fails to entertain and even though the story is thin and unoriginal, the acting is most unfortunately thinner and goes to mimic a ""worst case scenario"" of playing ""strong"" feelings accompanied by some bad acting... Don\'t waist your time this movie Ã\xadsnt entertaining, if you wanna cry it might suffice though, even though your tears will be wept due to seeing Wesley Snipes in the tragic action film wannabe comedy...<br /><br />I give this 2/10 it really was awful, if you wanna see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it, its all the good things this movie isn\'t."'],
 ['460,"An intense thriller about a mute movie make-up artist who witnesses a snuff film being made when she is working late in the studio one night. After she tries to get away from the murder scene, she realizes she is in for more than she bargained for when the entire mafia is out to kill her for being a witness. This movie leaves you on the edge of your seat."'],
 ['461,"Don\'t listen to most of these people. ill give you a better review of this movie which me and my friend love! Its about Jill Johnson, played by Camilla Belle, who babysits at the Mendrakis\' house and someone breaks in. if you\'re wondering how he got in the house, he went through the garage most likely. so anyway, don\'t listen to, ""the worst acting"". it has amazing acting. with a great story. I think that there are 2 benefits that Jill has. 1. shes a fast runner and is on the track team. 2.she got out alive! lol.<br /><br />it is a cool movie and quite scary. check it out, you will be happy with this masterpiece. don\'t listen to the other people on the site. its very good. trust me, i am good at reviewing movies. I\'m a future movie critic. i totally want to buy this movie. and you will too when you see it. it is amazingly awesome."'],
 ['462,"What a frustrating movie. A small Southern town is overflowing with possibilities for exploring the complexities of interpersonal relationships and dark underbellies hidden beneath placid surfaces, as anyone who has read anything by Carson McCullers already knows. This does none of that. Instead, the writers settled for cutesy twinkles, cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama. The thing looks like a made-for-TV movie, and was directed with no particular distinction, but it\'s hard to imagine what anyone could have done to make this material interesting.<br /><br />The most frustrating aspect, though, is the fact that there are a lot of extremely competent and appealing actors in this cast, all trying gamely to make the best of things and do what they can with this--well, there\'s no other word for it--drivel. A tragic waste of talent, in particular that of the great Stockard Channing."'],
 ['463,"This movie starred a totally forgotten star from the 1930s, Jack Pearl (radio\'s ""Baron Munchausen"") as well as Jimmy Durante. However, 7-1/2 decades later, it\'s being billed as a Three Stooges film because they are the only ones in the film who the average person would recognize today. Film fanatics will also recognize the wonderful Edna May Oliver as well as Zazu Pitts.<br /><br />As for the Stooges, this is a film from there very early days--before MGM had any idea what to do with the team. At this point, they were known as ""Ted Healy and his Stooges"" as Healy was the front man. Fortunately for the Stooges, they soon left this nasty and rather untalented man (read up on him--you\'ll see what I mean) and the rest is history. Within a year, they were making very successful shorts for Columbia and executives at MGM were soon kicking themselves for losing the team. This sort of thing was a common occurrence at MGM, a great studio which had no idea what to do with comedy (such as the films of Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello and others). In fact, up until they left for Columbia, MGM put them in a wide variety of odd film roles--including acting with Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in DANCING LADY. And, oddly, in this film they didn\'t act as a team--they just did various supporting roles, such as Larry playing the piano!<br /><br />This particular film begins with Pearl and Durante lost in the African jungle. When they are rescued and brought home, all sense of structure to the film falls apart and the film becomes almost like a variety show--punctuated by scenes with the leads here and there. As for Pearl, I could really see why he never made a successful transition to films, as he has the personality of a slug (but slightly less welcome). As for Durante, I never knew what the public saw in him--as least as far as his films are concerned--he was loud and...loud! He apparently took time off from helping MGM to ruin Buster Keaton\'s career to make this film. Together, Pearl and Durante rely on lots of verbal humor(?) and Vaudeville-style routines that tend to fall rather flat.<br /><br />In this film, the Stooges they didn\'t yet have the right chemistry. Seeing Healy doing the job that Moe did in their later films is odd. What they did in the film was pretty good, but because all the segments were short, they came on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routines. Stooges fans might be very frustrated at this, though die-hard fans may want to see this so that they can complete their life-long goal of seeing everything Stooge--even the rotten Joe DeRita and Joe Besser films (oh, and did they got bad after the deaths of Shemp and Curly).<br /><br />Overall, the film is rather dull and disappointing. However, there are a couple interesting things to look for in the mess. At about the 13 minute mark, you will see a brief scene where a tour guide on a bus is singing. Look carefully, as this is Walter Brennan in a role you\'d certainly never expect! Another unusual thing to look for in the film is the ""Clean as a Whistle"" song starting at about 22 minutes into the film. This song and dance number is clearly an example of a so-called ""Pre-Code"" scene that never would have been allowed in films after 1934 (when the Production Code was strengthened). Despite the word ""Clean"" in the title, it\'s a very titillating number with naked women showing lots of flesh--enough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything! It\'s quite shocking when seen today, though such excesses were pretty common in the early 1930s. Finally, at the 63 minute mark, see Jimmy Durante set race relations back a few decades. See the film, you\'ll see that I mean!"'],
 ['464,"When Carol (Vanessa Hidalgo) starts looking into her brother\'s death, she begins to suspect something more sinister than ""natural causes"". The closer she gets to the truth, the more of a threat she becomes to her sister-in-law, Fiona (Helga Line), and the rest of the local Satanists. They\'ll do whatever is necessary to put a stop her nosy ways.<br /><br />If you\'re into sleazy, Satanic-themed movies, Black Candles has a lot to offer. The movie is filled with plenty of nudity and ritualistic soft-core sex. One scene in particular involving a young woman and a goat must be seen to be believed. Unfortunately, all the sleaze in the world can\'t save Black Candles. Most of the movie is a total bore. Other than the one scene I\'ve already mentioned, the numerous sex scenes aren\'t shocking and certainly aren\'t sexy. The acting is spotty at best. Even genre favorite Helga Line gives a disappointing performance. The plot really doesn\'t matter. Its main function seems to be to hold the string of dull sex scenes together. I\'m only familiar with one other movie directed by Jose Ramon Larraz. Compared with his Daughters of Darkness that masterfully mixes eroticism and horror, Black Candles comes off as amateurish. 3/10 is about the best I can do."'],
 ['465,"One of the more intelligent serial killer movies in recent history. ZODIAC KILLER offers an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killers. The filmmakers create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer, and anyone who remembers Zodiac will be intrigued. Others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal. Unlike many serial killers, Zodiac was not insane at all but very methodical and a self-promoter. The director here plays viewer expectations and pulls it off. The film is constructed as a murder mystery, or a ""cold case""-style thriller. It is an intelligent investigative/procedural-style horror film that will put-off gore-hounds in search of cheap thrills.<br /><br />Some people dislike any movie that is shot on video. This attitude is very old-style and provincial. It is an attitude and view of movies that puts technical issues above entertainment value or artistic value. These attitudes are on the way out. ZODIAC KILLER is a low-budget film, no doubt, but discerning viewers will look beyond that and find a carefully-crafted gem."'],
 ['466,"I\'ve read the other reviews and found some to be comparison of movie v real life (eg what it takes to get into music school), Britney Bashing, etc, etc. so let\'s focus on the movie and the message.<br /><br />I have rated this movie 7 out of 10 for the age range 8 to 14 years, and for a family movie. For the average adult male.... 2 out of 10.<br /><br />I like pop/rock music, i\'m 45. I know of Britney Spears but never realised she actually sang Stronger until i read the credits and these reviews. I didn\'t recognise her poster on the wall so I was not worried about any \'self promotion\'.<br /><br />I watch movies to be entertained. i don\'t care about casting, lighting, producers, directors, etc. What is the movie and does it entertain me.<br /><br />I watched this movie for the message. The world\'s greatest epidemic is low self-esteem (which is a whole other story) so watched with the message in mind, as that is an area of interest. The movie is light, bright and breezy, great for kids. I found the Texan twang began to fade throughout the movie and of course there are only so many ways to convey the give up/don\'t give up message, so yeh, it was a bit predictable. Great message though...should be more of them.<br /><br />This movie is a great family movie, but for a bloke watching by himself, get Hannibal."'],
 ['467,"I like this movie because it is a fine work of cinema, made by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movies. It is filled with Super-surfer Greg Noll\'s home movies, and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his 50-year passion. Nevertheless, it has been expanded to the degree that it approaches aesthetic glory. It is filled with artistic talent, and athletic talent, however trivial you might think surfing to be athletic. Surfers are not astronauts nor test-pilots. Nor are they surgeons(perhaps) or Ph.d\'s(again, perhaps). It believes in the quest of the surfer. It believes in the beauty of human goofiness. It believes in the great gift of peace, which comes from the cessation of war. Surfers celebrate the cessation of war on the north beach of an Hawaiian island attacked by Japanese zeroes fifteen years before. It celebrates the down-time of a country which fought a cold war-instead of a hot-war - with the Russian socialists. Surfing is the ultimate narcissism. It is dangerous, but only slightly historical. I suspect Alexander the Great would not be celebrated for his surfing technique. He had to go out and conquer a few dozen countries to get the favorable press he has received. This movie has no military heroes. It has no guns. The only beach-head surfers conquer has a beer-stand and and a surfboard shop. This is not a problem. Peace is not desperate. It is the joy of exhalation."'],
 ['468,"I had a hard time staying awake for the two hour opening episode. It was dumbed down to such an extent, I doubt if I learned a single thing. The graphics were rudimentary. Any small idea was repeated ad nauseum. Contrast this to the Cosmos series hosted by Carl Sagan. That had a good musical theme. There was NO music coming from these infernal 10-dimensional Strings."'],
 ['469,"Although the plot of this film is a bit far-fetched, it is worth seeing just for the performances of Michaels Caine and Gambon. The latter delivers a truly wonderful Dublin accent. Caine hams it up...which is exactly what the character he is playing should do. Entertaining and fun, this is a hour and a half of easy watching."'],
 ['470,"This movie was so badly written, directed and acted that it beggars belief. It should be remade with a better script, director and casting service. The worst problem is the acting. You have Jennifer Beals on the one hand who is polished, professional and totally believable, and on the other hand, Ri\'chard, who is woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece. Peter Gallagher and Jenny Levine are just awful as the slave owning (and keeping) couple, although both normally do fine work. The actors (and director) should not have attempted to do accents at all--they are inconsistent and unbelievable. Much better to have concentrated on doing a good job in actual English. The casting is ludicrous. Why have children of an ""African"" merchant (thus less socially desirable to the gens de couleur society ) been cast with very pale skinned actors, while the supposedly socially desirable Marcel, has pronounced African features, including an obviously dyed blond ""fro""? It\'s as if the casting directors cannot be bothered to read the script they are casting and to chose appropriate actors from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actors of color. It\'s just so weird! This could be a great movie and should be re-made, but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actors. There are plenty of good actors out there, and it would be fun to see how Jennifer Beals, Daniel Sunjata and Gloria Reuben would do with an appropriate cast, good script and decent direction."'],
 ['471,"When I was a younger(oh about 2)I watched Barney for the first time, and liked it. BUT, back then I didn\'t exactly have a brain, either. And now I look back and see what a horrible show ""Barney"" really is: First of all, EVERYTHING on that show is creepy. Barney, the main character, is a horrendous 9-foot tall talking, purple dinosaur that teaches 13-year-olds about ""imagination....""(*shudders*) B.J.(I know what your thinking about his name.)Is a smaller yet creepier yellow dinosaur that is put in to be ""supposudly"" cool. But in fact, he is the exact opposite. After watching a few episodes with B.J. dumbly trudging in with his slightly turned back cap, and making a few no-so-funny jokes, I wanted to scream. Baby Bop-oh-oh-god!(*vomits*)oh-oh-OH-anyway Baby Bop is the worst idea of a character EVER. She is a green triceratops(it\'s a dinosaur) that carries a yellow blanket. Her remarks of ""hee-hee-hee"" and Barney\'s praises cries of \'super-deeee-doooper"", make it hard to sit through each episode, as the Seventh graders learn about shapes and manners.<br /><br />And that, my friend, is what makes this show truly horrible."'],
 ['472,"Steve McQueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there. He certainly was a charismatic fellow, one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew. But even McQueen can\'t save this turkey of a film, shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in St. Louis.<br /><br />McQueen\'s a new kid with no criminal record brought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang. There\'s more than a broad hint that there\'s a gay relationship going on between young Steve and David Clarke. He\'s not liked at all by the other heist members, mainly because of his lack of criminal resume. <br /><br />Steve also has a girl friend in Molly McCarthy and she suspects something afoot, especially when he starts hanging around with Crahan Denton and James Dukas as well as Clarke, all pretty rough characters. That would certainly get my suspicions aroused.<br /><br />The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery had two directors Charles Guggenheim and John Stix. Guggenheim did mostly documentaries and Stix didn\'t do much of anything. One of those two jokers decided Steve\'s performance was best served by doing a bad Marlon Brando imitation. <br /><br />This film may go down as the worst ever done by Steve McQueen. I\'m willing to bet that Dick Powell and Four Star Productions had already signed him for Wanted Dead or Alive because I can\'t believe they would have if they saw this.<br /><br />Or they would have seen something the public would have overlooked except for the dressing for this turkey."'],
 ['473,"This is a bad film, as its central message is very muddled and the plot seems like it was the result of merging several disparate scripts. As a result, it often makes absolutely no sense at all and certainly is not a film Miss Dunne or Mr. Huston should have been proud of making. However, the film IS worth watching if you are a fan of ""Pre-Code"" films because it features an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly says that nice girls DO put out--even if they aren\'t married and even if their partner IS!! <br /><br />The film begins with Miss Dunne as a social worker assisting troops heading to Europe for WWI. In the process, she meets a scalawag (Bruce Cabot) who eventually convinces her to sleep with him. She becomes pregnant and he then goes on to the next unsuspecting woman. However, Miss Dunne does NOT want him back, as she realizes he\'s not worth it, but later her baby dies at child birth. While all these very controversial plot elements are used, they are always alluded to--almost like they wanted the adults in the audience to know but hoped that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way, kids in the audience will be clueless (after all, films were not rated and kids might attend any film at this time).<br /><br />Surprisingly, this entire plot involving a stillborn baby and Cabot ends about 1/4 of the way through the film and is never mentioned again or alluded to. It was as if they filmed part of a movie and abandoned it--tacking it on to still another film. In this second phase of the film, Miss Dunne unexpectedly begins working at a women\'s prison (though we actually never really get to see her doing anything there). What we do see are countless horrible scenes of severe abuse and torture that were probably designed to titillate. And, as a result of all this violence, Miss Dunne goes on a crusade to clean up the prison and becomes a reformer and famous writer.<br /><br />But then, out of the blue, another type of film emerges and the women\'s prison reform business goes by the wayside. Dunne meets a judge (Walter Huston) who is married but he desperately wants her. Now throughout the film, Dunne is portrayed as a very good girl--even though she did have unmarried sex with Cabot (she was more or less tricked into it). But now, single Irene, who is a tireless reformer and good lady begins sleeping with a married man. He tells her that he and his wife are estranged and are married in name only, but she never thinks to investigate if this is true, and with his assurance, off flies her clothes and they are in the baby making business! BUT, while she\'s pregnant with his love child, he\'s indicted for being a crooked judge. He assures her he\'s innocent, but he\'s convicted and it sure sounds like he\'s a scoundrel--using inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune. Then, in the final moments of the film, Miss Dunne tries in vain to get him freed and vows to wait with the child until Huston is released. The film then ends.<br /><br />So, we basically have three separate films AND a bizarre early 30s idea of what a nice girl should be like. I gathered that she should be a strong-minded working girl who instantly becomes an idiot in her personal relationships! This really undoes all the positives about Dunne\'s character and it\'s really hard to imagine anyone liking the film. A strong women\'s rights advocate might easily be offended at how weak-minded and needy she was and religious people might see her as totally amoral or at least morally suspect! With a decent re-write, this could have been a good film or at least interesting as a lewd and salacious film, but it couldn\'t make up its mind WHAT it wanted to be and was just another dull Pre-Code film."'],
 ['474,"I caught this movie on the Sci-Fi channel recently. It actually turned out to be pretty decent as far as B-list horror/suspense films go. Two guys (one naive and one loud mouthed a**) take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the worst possible luck when a maniac in a freaky, make-shift tank/truck hybrid decides to play cat-and-mouse with them. Things are further complicated when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker. What makes this film unique is that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie, unlike so many others. The two guys are likable enough and there are some good chase/suspense scenes. Nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror/slasher buff. Definitely worth checking out."'],
 ['475,"(Very mild spoilers; a basic plot outline, no real details) <br /><br />IF you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectations. I saw this film at a free screening a few days ago in Maryland, and the only reason I agreed to go...was because it was free. I expected a few chuckles, but as I have never been a huge fan of Tenacious D, not much more then that.<br /><br />The first ten minutes of the film are hilarious, as we are given a look at Jack Black\'s humble Christian origins in a Midwest American town. The film then takes us years into the future, to the first meeting between JB and Kyle Gass, the second half of Tenacious D. We see the formation of the band and the genesis of its name. Finally, as the title suggests, the second half of the film details their quest to obtain the fabled ""Pick of Destiny."" Again, the beginning of the film was laugh out loud funny, and most of the movie at least kept a smile on my face. That said, there were times it felt a bit long; it\'s only 100 minutes, but it still felt like it should have been a bit shorter. The story is every bit as absurd as it sounds, and this is not a film you see if you want a real plot. Which is fine, except it means that many of the jokes are very hit or miss...and when they miss, they miss bad. Same thing with the songs; it is a musical, but many of the songs lost their appeal after the first minute or so...then kept going anyway.<br /><br />I will say that the R-rating really saved this movie from bombing; The D\'s humor simply couldn\'t work without cussing, sex, and drug references. But unless you\'re a real fan of the band, or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy, I would recommend you save yourself some money and rent. ""Pick"" will make you giggle a bit...but is it worth 9 bucks? I don\'t think so. I was tempted to rate it a 6, but since I do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify seeing it in theatres, a 7 seems more appropriate. Just be sure it\'s your style."'],
 ['476,"I shall begin with a disclaimer: This movie is NOT recommended for anyone who lack interest or have never played FF7 the game before watching. The movie relies on the audience\'s knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot elements. And it does so very subtly. Do your homework before watching this wonderful piece of CG film and I promise it\'ll be that much better.<br /><br />With that in mind, this film has some of the most spectacular CG sequences I have ever witnessed. The whole experience felt like an extra long FMV sequence from the game, on steroids. Yeah. The attention to detail in each scene, especially in the heavy action oriented ones, is so impeccable it left me with a sense of awe.<br /><br />I believe the soundtrack is simplified so as to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music. Again, for those who are familiar with the FF7 story and background, the music should not surprise anyone (although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhances the animation).<br /><br />Once again, I myself having only played through FF7 once, thoroughly enjoyed this piece of art from Square Enix. And that is the feel in most scenes, choreographed and organized. Like a dance.<br /><br />In short, if you enjoyed the music or the game Final Fantasy 7, this film will blow you out of the water. If you\'re in the unfortunate majority who has not experienced the goodness known as FF7 on Playstation or PC, doing so before watching the movie will allow for an exponentially greater experience.<br /><br />Finally, I just want to make a note of the quality in animating this film. Characters move with fluidity. Each scene background comes to life and tells its own story. For those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot, I urge you to reexamine the animation. Facial reactions, subtle clues that bring about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery.<br /><br />Square Enix and the great Tetsuya Nomura has set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling. Advent Children has ushered in a new era for CG animations, allowing the subtleties that lie in each character to speak volumes in and of themselves.<br /><br />Thanks Square Enix. The wait was well worth it."'],
 ['477,"This is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made. Everything about it--acting, directing, script, cinematography--is dreadful. The alien (a human in sparkly suit) claims to be from a nearby universe; one assumes the scriptwriter meant ""galaxy"" but didn\'t bother to get a dictionary to check his terms. A better title for the film would be ""It Came From the Planet of Plot Contrivances."" The plot is excessively silly and nearly nonexistent. The humans are all given magical MacGuffins that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restrictions just to move the bare plot. Any thought to the passage of time is ignored. Now it\'s a couple days after meeting the alien, then BAM! all of a sudden there\'s only a couple hours left until zero hour. Do yourself a favor and miss this movie. You will make yourself stupider for having watched it. The ending is particularly silly, and should have been accompanied by someone going ""Ta-Da!!!!"" as the scriptwriter just pulls something random out of his butt. I think the real alien plot is that this movie sucks so bad you\'ll get cancer watching it. If you can watch the last 10 minutes without crapping yourself (""enemies of freedom""--honestly) laughing, you\'re retarded."'],
 ['478,"If you really really REALLY enjoy movies featuring ants building dirt-mirrors, eating non-ants, and conquering the world with a voice-over narrative, then this is the movie for you. Basically, a couple of scientists working out of a bio-dome communicate with highly intelligent ants (the most intelligent actors in this film) in an attempt to try to thwart their plans of conquest and extermination. Throughout the movie the two scientists (and a girl they rescued from the ants) use everything at their disposal (computers, green dye, and horrid acting), but to no avail. I guess they just couldn\'t afford any pesticides because the movie would be over too quickly.<br /><br />The title of the movie ""Phase IV"" is something of a mystery. This is not a spoiler, but ""Phase I"" starts right after the opening credits whereas you don\'t reach ""Phase IV"" until the end credits roll. Apparently the director knew the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed Phases 1 - 3 throughout the movie as a kind of progress report: ""Hang in there buddy! Only 1 more phase until final credits!"" As a MST3K episode, this one wasn\'t very good for two reasons: 1) This one is from the Season 0 on KTMA when they were first starting out so the riffing is not as good as in later seasons; and 2) This movie is so bad not even J&TB can lighten it up. There are one or two Gamera references as they had just finished riffing 5 Gamera movies.<br /><br />The movie does have a trick/surprise ending, but I was so glad to reach the end the effect was lost on me."'],
 ['479,"Joseph Brady and Clarence Doolittle are two sailors, who have a four-day shore leave in Hollywood.Joe knows everything about girls and can\'t wait to see Lola, while Clarence is shyer and needs some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls.They then run into a little boy, Donald Martin, who has ran away in order to join the navy.They take him home and meet his beautiful aunt Susan, who wants to be a singer.Clarence wants Susie to be his girl, but his shyness gets in the way.But he doesn\'t feel shy with a waitress, who comes from Brooklyn, like he does.Soon Joe notices he\'s in love with Susie.The boys are in a fix when they lie to Susie on meeting with a big time music producer they don\'t even know.As they are in a fix with their feelings.George Sidney\'s Anchors Aweigh (1945) is a great musical comedy.Gene Kelly is top-notch, once again, in his singing and dancing routines.Frank Sinatra is terrific as the shy guy from Brooklyn.Shy isn\'t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Frank Sinatra, but he plays his part well.Kathryn Grayson is fantastic as Susan Abbott.We sadly lost this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of 88.The 9-year old Dean Stockwell does amazing job as the little fellow wanting to become a sailor.Jose Iturbi does great job performing himself.It\'s magic what he does with the piano.Edgar Kennedy plays Chief of police station.Sara Berner is the voice of Jerry Mouse.There\'s a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dancing numbers.Just look at Kelly and Sinatra performing ""We Hate to Leave"".It\'s so energetic.""If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)"" is quite funny.It\'s a nice moment when Frank sings Brahms\' Lullaby to little Dean Stockwell.It\'s lovely to listen to Grayson singing the tango ""Jealousy"" .The most memorable sequence is the one that takes into the animated fantasy world, and there Gene sings and dances with Jerry Mouse.Also Tom Cat is seen there as the butler.They originally asked Mickey Mouse but he refused.The movie was nominated for five Oscars but Georgie Stoll got one for Original Music Score.Anchors Aweigh is some high class entertainment."'],
 ['480,"From director Barbet Schroder (Reversal of Fortune), I think I saw a bit of this in my Media Studies class, and I recognised the leading actress, so I tried it, despite the rating by the critics. Basically cool kid Richard Haywood (Half Nelson\'s Ryan Gosling) and Justin Pendleton (Bully\'s Michael Pitt) team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police finding them. Investigating the murder is homicide detective Cassie \'The Hyena\' Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) with new partner Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin), who are pretty baffled by the evidence found on the scene, e.g. non-relating hairs. The plan doesn\'t seem to be completely going well because Cassie and Sam do quite quickly have Richard or Justin as suspects, it is just a question of if they can sway them away. Also starring Agnes Bruckner as Lisa Mills, Chris Penn as Ray Feathers, R.D. Call as Captain Rod Cody and Tom Verica as Asst. D.A. Al Swanson. I can see now the same concept as Sir Alfred Hitchcock\'s Rope with the murdering for a challenge thing, but this film does it in a very silly way, and not even a reasonably good Bullock can save it from being dull and predictable. Adequate!"'],
 ['481,"Things to Come is an early Sci-Fi film that shows an imagined world, or ""Everytown"" through 100 years. You can break it up into about 4 different scenes or parts. The film spans from 1940 to 2036 and is mainly about how this ruler or the ""Boss"" wanted to get the capability to fly in airplanes again, after Everytown was bombed and war broke out.<br /><br />This film only has about 3 faults: it\'s audio is muddy and video had some quirks, the characters aren\'t deep at all, and the overall plot isn\'t altogether solid. The plot is lacking something that I can\'t put my finger on... it just seems a little ""fluffy."" But if you love sci-fi and are interested in what H.G. Wells though might happened in the next hundred years, this is a must see. It\'s worth seeing just to learn of what everyone was fearing: a long, drawn-out war, because they were just about to go to war with Germany, and there was a threat of biological weapons and everything.<br /><br />Things to Come is a pretty good movie that most people need to see once."'],
 ['482,"Weak,stale, tired, cliched; wants to be Basic Instinct, but misses opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspectives, new insights. Insipid, trite, grotesque, and without the possibly-redeeming value of brevity; oh, wait...it was only 90 minutes long...it must have just *seemed* a lot longer! I\'d rather clean bus station toilets with my toothbrush than have to sit through this again. I\'m expressing an opinion here: I guess this means I didn\'t like it."'],
 ['483,"One word can describe this movie and that is weird. I recorded this movie one day because it was a Japanese animation and it was old so I thought it would be interesting. Well it was, the movie is about a young boy who travels the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge. On the way he meets very colorful characters and must ultimately decide if he wants the body or not. Very strange, if you are a fan of animation/science-fiction you might want to check this out."'],
 ['484,"While i was the video store i was browsing through the one dollar rentals and came upon this little gem. I don\'t know what it was about it but i just had a gut instic about it and wow was i ever right.<br /><br />The story centers around two girls who have just survived a school shooting. One of the girls is Alicia a teenage reble who is the only witness for the full attack and another is Deanna another survivor who survived a bullet to the head by some miracle. Thrown together by fate, they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and moving on.<br /><br />I just hate it when amazing movies fall through the cracks. Because wow what a performance by Busy Phillips and Erkia Christensen not to mention the rest of the cast! My only complaint is that the DVD was sorely lacking in special features. Oh and some of the jump cuts in the movie were kind of jarring. But all in all a excellent movie."'],
 ['485,"this film is quite simply one of the worst films ever made and is a damning indictment on not only the British film industry but the talentless hacks at work today. Not only did the film get mainstream distribution it also features a good cast of British actors, so what went wrong? i don\'t know and simply i don\'t care enough to engage with the debate because the film was so terrible it deserves no thought at all. be warned and stay the hell away from this rubbish. but apparently i need to write ten lines of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot. A nob of a man is setup by his evil friend and co-worker out of his father\'s company and thus leads to an encounter with the Russian mafia and dodgy accents and stupid, very stupid plot twists/devices. i should have asked for my money back but was perhaps still in shock from the experience. if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspects or the godfather, what about lock, stock.... thats the peak of the contemporary British crime film....."'],
 ['486,"I\'ll not comment a lot, what\'s to??? Stereotype characters, absolute ignorance about Colombia\'s reality, awful mise en scene, poor color choice, NOT funny (it supposed to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it\'s beside the nonsense scenes), Very poor actors direction (if you see somewhere those people, I mean the interpreters, you\'ll know they are at least good, but seeing this so call film, it is impossible to guess it), you get tired of the music... this ""comedy"" has no rhythm, the only good rhythm in it, it\'s the rap sing in the final credits....pathetic, doesn\'t it? etc...etc... It has been a long time I haven\'t seen a movie so bad!!"'],
 ['487,"This movie is a riot. I cannot remember the last time I had such a great time at the movies. I\'ve seen a few good comedies in my time and usually they are pretty funny. But this one is wall to wall great lines. I think Best in Show is the last movie that I laughed so hard and so much in. The movie was non-stop until the end when they did the 5 minutes of sentimental plot clean up. Other than that it\'s a constant barrage of one liners and goofy situations. I\'d like to see it again before it leaves the theater because this is like the Zucker movies where you don\'t get all the jokes the first time around. You have to see it two or three times to get it all in.<br /><br />As far as the actual film goes, it could have used a better edit, it\'s choppy at times but we have to be forgiving for that. All the characters are great. It\'s not like an Adam Sandler movie where he tries to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and is the butt of the joke. I think I will remember all the main characters for years to come because they are all so likable. No victims in this movie. Also, thank God they got a 45 year old actress to play his girlfriend. Catherine Keener plays her and she is a sweetheart in this film. You just wish that women like her really existed. She\'s not a ""10"" like some of the other leading ladies but somehow her smile is warmer than Julia Roberts overdone overbite.<br /><br />If you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it. I assure you, the trailer does not do it justice. They do not give away all the good jokes. Just some of the mediocre ones.<br /><br />Oh and one more thing. I hope critics put this on their top ten list. Many of them complain that comedies don\'t get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they don\'t put it on their list. This means you Ebert!!!"'],
 ['488,"A fey story of a Martian attempt to colonize Earth. (Things must be pretty bad back on Mars.) Two state troopers investigate the scene of a reported UFO crash. Whatever landed is buried under the ice at Tracy\'s Pond but there are footsteps in the snow leading to a nearby diner.<br /><br />The diner has had no customers since eleven o\'clock that morning. Now there are a handful of bus passengers sitting around waiting for permission to cross a structurally weak bridge. The bus driver insists that six passengers were aboard the bus, although he didn\'t notice who they were. The problem is that there are now SEVEN people waiting for the journey to be resumed. One of them is an alien, but which one? All of them are suspect. There\'s the crazy old man (Jack Elam), of course, who seems to exercise a sub rosa wit. There\'s a blustering businessman who must get to Boston (John Hoyt). A young couple on their honeymoon. (Execrable performance by the husband, Ron Kipling.) Except for the couples, nobody has noticed anyone else. And even the couples are suspicious of each other. Bride to newly minted husband: ""I could have sworn you had a mole on your chin."" The story continues in a sprightly but slightly spooky way -- the phone rings for no reason, the lights go on and off, the juke box turns itself on -- and none of it is to be taken seriously.<br /><br />It\'s a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation is worth a chuckle. There is no discernible ""depth"" to it. It\'s not a moral message about pod people masquerading as normal citizens. It\'s not a warning of any kind, just a fairy tale that diverts and amuses.<br /><br />I always enjoy it when it\'s on. It\'s especially interesting to see John Hoyt as the irritable and impatient businessman, knowing that in 1954 he was the Roman Senator who masterminded the assassination of Julius Caesar in MGM\'s version of Shakespeare\'s play. And here he is -- with three arms.<br /><br />Oops."'],
 ['489,"It\'s rare that I feel a need to write a review on this site, but this film is very deserving because of how poorly it was created, and how bias its product was.<br /><br />I felt a distinct attempt on the part of the film-makers to display the Palestinian family as boorish and untrustworthy. We hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression, yet the film is shot and arranged in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population is the Jewish Israeli population. We see no evidence that parallels the position of the Palestinian teenager. We only hear from other Palestinians in prison. I understand restrictions are in place, but the political nature of the restrictions are designed to prevent peace.<br /><br />I came out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim was selfish in her mourning and completely closed minded due to her side of the fence, so to speak. She continued to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber\'s parents, and her angry and closed-minded words caused the final meeting to spiral out of control. It is more realistic, in my mind, to see the Israeli mindset to be a root of the problem; ignored pleas for understanding and freedom, ignored requests for acknowledgment for the process by which the Jewish population acquired the land.<br /><br />I have given this a two because of these selfish weaknesses of the mother, which normally would be admirable in a documentary, however in the light of the lack of impartiality, it all seems exploitative. Also for the poor edits, lack of background in the actual instance, and finally the lack of proper representation of the Palestinian side. Ultimately, it is a poor documentary and a poor film. I acknowledge this is partially the result of the political situation, but am obliged to note the flaws in direction regardless of the heart-wrenching and sad subject matter."'],
 ['490,"Relentless like one of those loud action movies. The entire cast seems to be on speed. I didn\'t quite get the director\'s intentions if any. I wonder if she\'s ever seen a Stanley Donen, Vincent Minnelli or even a George Sidney musical. Structure, please! This is one hell of a mess and I loved Abba. The costumes the unflattering photography - unflattering towards the actors but loving towards the locations) The one thing that makes the whole thing bearable is the sight of Meryl Streep making a fool of herself. No chemistry with her friends (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters) think of Streep with Lily Tomlyn in the Altman film and you\'ll understand what I was hoping for. I was embarrassed in particular by Pierce Brosnam and Colin Firth. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy it so it probably it\'s just me."'],
 ['491,"This movie does a great job of explaining the problems that we faced and the fears that we had before we put man into space. As a history of space flight, it is still used today in classrooms that can get one of the rare prints of it. Disney has shown it on ""Vault Disney"" and I wish they would do so again."'],
 ['492,"In an alternate 1950s, where an outbreak of the undead (caused by a mysterious \'space-dust\') has been contained through the use of special electronic collars, a young loner, Timmy, finds a friend in Fido (Billy Connelly), his family\'s recently acquired domesticated zombie.<br /><br />Fido quickly becomes a surrogate father to Timmy, whose real dad is unable to adequately express his love for his son (or for his hot-to-trot wife, played by the gorgeous Carrie-Anne Moss) having been psychologically scarred as a child (when he was forced to shoot his own father, who tried to eat him!).<br /><br />Timmy runs into a spot of bother, however, when his putrid pal\'s collar goes on the blink, and he attacks and kills an elderly neighbour. With the authorities on Fido\'s trail, trouble brewing with a pair of local bullies, and his mother forming a bond with their undead house-help, will Timmy be able to hold on to his new found friend?<br /><br />A refreshing take on the whole zombie schtick, Fido is a thoroughly entertaining, deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour. Taking the Romero zombie-verse and transplanting it into 1950s small town America is a stroke of genius, and the result is simply one of the most original films to tackle the whole \'reanimated dead\' theme that I have seen.<br /><br />Connelly\'s Fido is a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the Undead Movie Hall of Fame, along with Day Of The Dead\'s Bub, and Return Of The Living Dead\'s Tarman; it is not often I feel empathy for a walking corpse, but The Big Yin\'s performance is so fine that I actually found myself rooting for the big blue bag of pus! The rest of the cast also give commendable performances, with young K\'Sun Ray (as Timmy) and Ms.Moss deserving special mentions—Ray, because, for one so young, he puts in a particularly assured turn, and Moss because she is so bloody yummy!<br /><br />This is the third zombie film that I have watched this week (the others being the somewhat disappointing Planet Terror and the rather fun Flight Of The Living Dead), and, to my surprise, it is also the best. Director Andrew Currie has given fans of the genre something truly original to treasure and is a talent to be watched in the future.<br /><br />8.5 out of 10, rounded up to 9 for IMDb."'],
 ['493,"An extremely down-to-earth, well made and acted ""Rodeo"" Western. No gussied up stars needed here as all cast members were regular people telling a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the 60\'s and 70\'s West. But hats off particularly to Slim Pickens for giving what I think was his signature performance, especially given the fact that he had been a rodeo clown in real life. His role went far beyond the mere clown role as he deeply dealt with all the ""ups and downs"" of the hard-nosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surrounds such a life style. He and Mr. Coburn teamed up extremely well as partners, not only on the circuit itself, but also in the real world outside the corral. Also, check out Anne Archer as Coburn\'s Native American love interest in the latter part of the movie. Must have been one of her first roles. <br /><br />Not as flashy, perhaps, as ""Junior Bonner"", but equally heart rendering and impacting in its portrayal. Thanks to the Encore Western Channel for showing this true grit of an under-rated movie from time to time."'],
 ['494,"Despite some reviews being distinctly Luke-warm, I found the story totally engrossing and even if some critics have described the love story as \'Mills and Boon\', so what? It is good to see a warm, touching story of real love in these cynical times. Many in the audience were sniffing and surreptitiously dabbing their eyes. You really believe that the young Victoria and Albert are passionately fond of each other, even though, for political reasons, it was an arranged marriage. I did feel though that Sir John Conroy, who was desperate to control the young Queen, is perhaps played too like a pantomime villain. As it is rumoured that he was in fact, the real father of Victoria (as a result of an affair with her mother The Duchess of Kent) it would have been interesting to explore this theory. Emily Blunt is totally convincing as the young Princess, trapped in the stifling palace with courtiers and politicians out to manipulate her. She brilliantly portrays the strength of character and determination that eventually made Victoria a great Queen of England, which prospered as never before, under her long reign. I believe word of mouth recommendations will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful looking movie."'],
 ['495,"""American Nightmare"" is officially tied, in my opinion, with ""It\'s Pat!"" for the WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME.<br /><br />Seven friends (oddly resembling the K-Mart version of the cast of ""Friends"") gather in a coffee shop to listen to American Nightmare, a pirate radio show. It\'s hosted by a guy with a beard. That\'s the most exciting aspect of his show.<br /><br />Chandler, Monica, Joey, and... oh wait, I mean, Wayne, Jessie, and the rest of the bad one-liner spouting gang all take turns revealing their biggest fears to the bearded DJ. Unbeknownst to them, a crazed nurse/serial killer is listening...<br /><br />Crazy Nurse then proceeds to torture Ross and Rachel and... wait, sorry again... by making their fears come to life. These fears include such stunners as ""voodoo"" and being gone down on by old ladies with dentures.<br /><br />No. Really.<br /><br />This movie was, in a word, rotten. Crazy Nurse\'s killing spree lacks motivation, there\'s nothing to make the viewer ""jump,"" the ending blows, and--again--voodoo?<br /><br />If you have absolutely no regard for your loved ones, rent ""American Nightmare"" with them.<br /><br />If you care for your loved ones--even a little bit--go to your local Blockbuster, rent all of the copies of ""American Nightmare"" and hide them in your freezer."'],
 ['496,"First off, I have to say that I loved the book Animal Farm. I read it with my 9th grade class, and it was great. We also decided that watching the movie would be beneficial. The movie was so disappointing to me. The movie cuts out some characters, and misses a lot of the main points of the book. It skips around a lot, and doesn\'t explain anything in detail. If someone was watching this movie without having first read the book, they would be confused. The most disappointing thing in this movie to me, was the ending. The ending in the book was the most powerful, and in the movie, they changed it! It was supposed to be the pigs and men in an alliance and sort of ""melting"" together, but instead, the movie made it seem like the animals were going to rebel against the pigs. To sum up, I don\'t think that this movie captured the real meaning that Orwell portrayed in his book."'],
 ['497,"This movie was extremely boring. I only laughed a few times. I decided to rent it when I noticed William Shatner\'s name on the cover. It\'s all about this little kid who gets picked on all the time by his classmates. When wandering the streets looking for old ladies to assist, he meets a prostitute. She takes him to a club called the Playground, where he befriends several pimps. When mayor Tony Gold (Shatner) decides to take over the pimp business, Lil\' Pimp must lay down for his homies.<br /><br />The animation isn\'t very good in this. It looks like it was made with Macromedia, which I\'m sure it was. It doesn\'t suck, it\'s just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have gotten used to over recent years. The humor in this is not very good, I didn\'t think any of it was funny."'],
 ['498,"I was disgusted by this movie. No it wasn\'t because of the graphic sex scenes, it was because it ruined the image of Artemisia Gentileschi. This movie does not hold much truth about her and her art. It shows one piece of art work that she did (Judith Beheading Holofernese) but shows that being entered as testimony in the rape trial when she did not paint her first Judith for a year after the trial.<br /><br />I don\'t know if you understood this from the movie, probably not, Tassi was not a noble character. He RAPED Artemisia. It was not love, it was rape. He did not claim to accept false charges of rape to stop her from suffering while she was tortured. According to the rape transcripts he continued to claim that he never carnally knew Artemisia (aka had sex with) while she states over and over again ""It\'s true"".<br /><br />I encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real Artemisia and see what she is really about. Don\'t base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie. I encourage you to do some research, Artemisia really does have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work.<br /><br />Don\'t see the movie, but find out the true story of Artemisia."'],
 ['499,"Such a joyous world has been created for us in Pixar\'s A Bug\'s Life; we\'re immersed in a universe which could only be documented this enjoyably on film, but more precisely a universe which could only be documented through the world of animation. For those who have forgotten what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer – when it\'s in the right hands that is – A Bug\'s Life is a warm reminder. We walk out of the film with an equally-warm feeling, and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only high-calibre film productions.<br /><br />It is only Pixar\'s second animated feature. The sub-group of Disney made their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three years prior in 1995, with their landmark movie Toy Story. It was a movie which defied convention, re-invented and breathed new life into animation and defined a whole new level of excellence. Now, they return with their sophomore effort which, to be honest, draws a creeping sense of cynicism in us all prior to seeing the film.<br /><br />After all, it\'s a film about ants. Well, all walks of the insect and bug world are covered in A Bug\'s Life, but it is the ant which is the focal point in this film, as humans are the focal point in dramas, romances and so on. How can such an insignificant species of animal such as an ant act as the protagonist of a movie, let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film? Surely they jest. However, we forget that in Toy Story, a bunch of toy-box items were able to become the grandest, most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated heroes and villains ever concocted. The guys at Pixar manage to pull off the same feat, and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bugs into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin you\'ll probably ever encounter.<br /><br />Not only are they all entirely amiable and likable – there isn\'t an unpleasant character in sight; even the villains are riveting characters – but they\'re colourful, they\'re eclectic, and they\'re idiosyncratic. And the array of characters is also gargantuan for lack of a better term, only adding the rich layers of distinctiveness already plastered onto A Bug\'s Life from the beginning. We shall start with our main character, and our hero. His name is Flik (David Foley), and his character is rather generic to say the least. Out of the thousands of faithful and obedient worker ants residing on the lush, beautiful Ant Island, he is the one considered the \'black sheep\' of the clan, as seen in the opening moments of the movie when he inadvertently destroys the season\'s harvest with his antics.<br /><br />The problem arises in the fact that the ants\' harvest is for a bunch of greedy grasshoppers led by Hopper (Kevin Spacey), who are eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ants; when they show up to Ant Island for their annual banquet and see that their offering is gone, they go insane, for lack of a better term. Hopper offers a proposition to save the ants from total extinction at his pack\'s hands; however, it\'s a negotiation which is simply impossible to fulfil. The cogs and clockwork in Flik\'s mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame, and he offers to leave Ant Island in search of some mighty bug warriors who can come to the colony\'s rescue and fight off Hopper and the grasshoppers.<br /><br />If you think about it, A Bug\'s Life bears some heavy resemblance to the plot line\'s of Akira Kurosawa\'s classic Seven Samurai, or the American remake The Magnificent Seven, in which a village of hapless but good-hearted folk are threatened by malevolent and wicked enemies – one lone village-dweller goes in search for help in the big city, finds it and returns to the colony to drive off evil. In A Bug\'s Life, the help comes in the form of a down-and-out circus troupe who is mistakenly perceived by Flik as warriors in a bar-room brawl.<br /><br />Much amusement comes out of these scenes, and much amusement comes out of these circus troupe bugs. Among them are an erudite stick insect (David Hyde Pierce), a side-splitting obese German caterpillar by the name of Heimlich and a quasi-femme fatale ladybug who\'s in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug (Dennis Hopper). It\'s exceedingly enjoyable watching these bugs on-screen, as it is watching the bugs and the insects interact on-screen, as is the entire movie collectively.<br /><br />As I\'ve said, much amusement and mirth comes out of their characters and joyous interactions with one another, which give way to a bevy of hilarious lines, wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situations and overall a dazzling movie. What makes A Bug\'s Life even better is that the film isn\'t restricted simply to children as many may perceive it to be, although children would indeed find more entertainment out of this film – the clichéd kid-friendly situations are a bit more abundant than we\'d like. However, it\'s easy to ignore this fault, and it\'s incredulously easy to enjoy this film.<br /><br />Although A Bug\'s Life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standards set by its predecessor, this is still a superb movie, and the start of something promising here. Pixar have proved that they\'re not just a one-hit wonder, but instead a much-gifted and talented group of film artists in Hollywood. They raise the bar endlessly, and when someone always manages to top their standards, it\'s only always by themselves. What more is there to say about A Bug\'s Life other than: see it; it\'s not quite the best which we\'ve seen from the folks at Emeryville, California, but this beats out the lot of its year – and I\'ll be damned if this isn\'t the best animated feature of 1998.<br /><br />8.5/10"'],
 ["500,What an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel. I do wish people would stop messing about with classics when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original. This version is no different. I felt that the Ralph Fiennes version is much worse though as the casting of Juliette brioche as Kathy has got to be the worst casting decision EVER...anyway back to this version. It aims to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style. It succeeds in both but high art it is nit. Throwaway viewing for a rainy day maybe...The direction was average and the editing abysmal. Worse than the old Quincy. Deepak Verma does a great turn as Hindley and is in fact one of Britains wasted talents. The part of Heath was played with great charm and belief and I think that the casting is the strongest point of this project. Although a more talented director would have made better use of the facilities he had. Its clear that he was a director for hire and didn't instill the project with the passion that it deserved."],
 ['501,"My Father The Hero used to be my favorite movie when I was Younger. It\'s about Andre, a divorced french man who wants to take his beautiful daughter (katharine heigl} on a vacation, hoping to get a little closer to her. But of course, Nicole isn\'t that easy to get along with, she just started puberty, i\'m guessing. She is angry and hurt that her father was never there for her and decides to give him a hard time. One day at the beach, Nicole meets handsome Ben, and she makes up a wild story about her and her dad. The whole island gets involved and the movie turns into a hilarious wild entertaining movie. I would give My Father The Hero 8/10"'],
 ['502,"It is surprising that a production like this gets made these days, especially for television. Considering the strong sexual themes and explicit lovemaking scenes, not to mention lesbianism, this has been given superb treatment and direction.<br /><br />The sets and costumes are flawless, the direction is stylish and the characters are likeable. There is a fair amount of humor but it has surprisingly dark interludes. The protagonist is really a tragic figure, but not devoid of happiness. Also, this production avoids the mistake most films/shows make when dealing with homosexuality/lesbianism. The characters are very human. It seems that to allow people to be comfortable with watching gays and lesbians on TV and movies most shows fill it full of cliches and make the characters obsessed with being gay. Not so with this. In Tipping the Velvet, the protagonist is hardly aware of what being lesbian means!<br /><br />The BBC have made some wonderful productions in the past, and this adventurous period piece only confirms their standard of excellence on all fronts."'],
 ['503,"I just don\'t get some of the big premises of this episode - that Miranda is so remarkable, and that there\'s anything so ugly it would make you insane. Someone here made the remark that maybe it\'s the frequency of the light waves or something rather than it being ugliness. Miranda is just a jerk. The episode is slow, inconsistent and way too talky. I also don\'t quite understand why Kolos is an ambassador - why doesn\'t the Federation just leave the damn Medusans be? There\'s one part I do like, when Kolos is speaking through Spock about the loneliness of the human experience. Overall, I love TOS and even at its lamest, I\'ll always tune in. This episode though - mmm, I wouldn\'t purchase it except for a used copy under $3."'],
 ['504,"This is one of my all time favorite movies and I would recommend it to anyone. On my list of favorite movies (mental list, mind) the only ones on par with it are movies such as The Lord of the Rings series, Spirited Away and Fly Away Home.<br /><br />I can really relate to the main character Jess. At the start of the movie she\'s a shy girl with a slightly odd background who has a lot more friends who are boys than that are girls. She really sucks you into her life. I also certainly can\'t fault any of the protagonist\'s acting, or anyone else\'s in the film.<br /><br />The soccer was interesting to watch even for someone like me who has no idea of the rules. The movie is never boring. The romance is really cute and didn\'t make me blush tooooo hard! One thing that really made it though was the Indian factor. Jess\' parents are Indian and there are many colourful Indian conventions throughout the film providing a very interesting cultural insight as well as everything else. The Indian people are also hilarious! Essentially this is a coming of age film about choosing the path you want and fighting for it.<br /><br />Feel good comedies are becoming my favorite movie genre thanks to this film. They\'re funny, they\'re refreshing and they make you feel good! ^_~"'],
 ['505,"I know that you\'ve already entered this in film festivals (or at least I think you have, I may just be making that up) but I think this should get ""best animated short film"" in every one. Bravo. I can\'t wait for the full film. I realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animations, but hear it now and accept it as the truth. Kudos, my friend. Okay, now I\'m just trying to get ten lines of text... Though I still mean it. And here comes yet another -SHOE!- and I cannot stop here yet. This is extremely annoying and yet at the same time I have nothing better to do. In fact, I\'ll probably watch all of your movies in yet another spasmodic ""Jason Steele Marathon."" I do have a lot of those.<br /><br />-R"'],
 ['506,"This is probably the first entry in the ""Lance O\'Leary/Nurse Keat"" detective series; in subsequent O\'Leary films, he was played by much younger actors than Guy Kibbee.<br /><br />A group of relatives (all played by well-known character actors) gathers in an old house (on a rainy nite, of course!) to speak to a wealthy relative, who goes into a coma.<br /><br />While they wait for him to recover, all sorts of mysterious goings-on happen, including a couple of murders.<br /><br />A creepy film; worth seeing!"'],
 ['507,"This animation has a very simple and straightforward good vs. evil plot and is all about action. What sets it apart from other animation is how well the human movements are animated. It was really beautiful seeing the fleeing woman running around on the screen from left to right and look around, her movements were done so well. Why don\'t they use this rotoscopic technique more these days? It\'s quite effective.<br /><br />Fire and Ice, in it\'s prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed women, was clearly devoted to showing the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy ways, her voluptuous body serving as pure eyecandy. Some may hate this and regard it as yet another moronic male sexual fantasy, others (including plenty of women) will adore it\'s esthetic quality. I for sure did not mind! Bakshi just loves animating lushious, voluptuous babes, as can also be seen in Cool World, and I don\'t think he has to apoligize since it\'s pretty much animation for adults. But I had also enjoyed this animation as a child and I never forgot it.<br /><br />This one was just special, so different from the standard Disney or Anime fare, and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it\'s possibly Bakshi\'s finest. For those who like animations with lushious women: try Space Adventure Cobra as well.<br /><br />I give Fire and Ice 8 out of 10."'],
 ['508,"My ratings: Acting - 3/10 Suspense - 2/10 Character Attachment - 1/10 Plot - 2/10 Character Development - 2/10 Overall - 2/10<br /><br />This show sucks very much officially. For me, CSI Miami is the best, CSI NY 2nd and CSI 100th. I don\'t know, in the other CSIs you get into the episode you\'re watching. But in this one, you just can\'t get into the episode, no matter how much you try, so in my opinion, this show is not worth watching. I know people have different opinions, and I respect that, but for me, this CSI ain\'t good enough. So if you like suspense, real acting/performance, good plot, direction, character development/attachment and you an overall good show, I suggest you to watch CSI Miami."'],
 ['509,"I am not a Faulkner fan (which is considered sacrilegious, especially since I grew up near the author\'s hometown); however, I think this is an excellent movie. On par with the quality of the movie ""To Kill a Mocking Bird"". If you haven\'t seen it, buy it anyway. It\'s well worth having in your permanent collection. TCM recently played the movie as a part of the Race on Film series. I wish they\'d play it more often. Very moving.<br /><br />On a side note, the folks from Oxford, Mississippi, will also enjoy seeing the footage of the town square as it was back in the 1940\'s. The Courthouse, City Hall, etc.: They\'re all on screen. I never knew the movie was filmed there until I noticed the familiarity of the buildings. When I saw the arch in the front of City Hall, I began to get suspicious. Look closely at the pennants on Chick\'s wall: You\'ll see two for Ole Miss !"'],
 ['510,"Chinese Ghost Story III is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films. The film delivers the spell-casting special effects that one can expect, but fails painfully on all other fronts. The actors all play extremely silly caricatures. You have to be still in diapers to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny. The plot is predictable, and the development is sometimes erratic and often slow. Towards the end, the movie begins to resemble old Godzilla films, including shabby larger-than-life special effects and a (well, yet another) ghost with a Godzilla head. Maybe I would have grinned if I was expecting camp.<br /><br />It is astonishing to see what trash fantasy fans have to put up with - in this case because somebody thought they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula. They won\'t be able to do it again: the cash cow is now dead as a dodo."'],
 ['511,"I can\'t stand most reality shows and this one is worst than the one with Paris Hilton, and sure it\'s his company. But ""you\'re fired"" or ""you\'re hired"", for how many seasons now? After watching the show I wouldn\'t want to work for the guy with his ego and all and I think watching paint dry has more entertainment valve.<br /><br />I\'d love to hear just one person get up and say ""Donald I quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo"". I see he\'s even trying to buy fame in the wrestling WWE. I hope he gets hurt so I don\'t have to see his pathetic face anymore. It must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an ass of yourself trying to buy it. I\'d give this show a negative mark if I could but it gets a 1 and it doesn\'t deserve that."'],
 ['512,"If I had known this movie was filmed in the exasperating and quease-inducing Dogme 95 style, I would never have rented it. Nevertheless, I took a dramamine for the seasickness and gave it a shot. I lasted a very, very, very long forty minutes before giving up. It\'s just boring, pretentious twaddle.<br /><br />The last French movie I saw was ""Romance"" and it too was pretty dismal, but at least the camera was steady and not breathing down the necks of the characters all the time. I am baffled at the continuing popularity of Dogme 95 overseas -- it\'ll catch on in America about the same time as the next big outbreak of leprosy. (It\'s called Dogme 95 because that\'s the average number of times the actors are poked in the eye by the camera.)<br /><br />"'],
 ['513,"The story and the show were good, but it was really depressing and I hate depressing movies. Ri\'Chard is great. He really put on a top notch performance, and the girl who played his sister was really awesome and gorgeous. Seriously, I thought she was Carmen Electra until I saw the IMDb profile. I can\'t say anything bad about Peter Galleghar. He\'s one of my favorite actors. I love Anne Rice. I\'m currently reading the Vampire Chronicles, but I\'m glad I saw the movie before reading the book. This is a little too""real"" for me. I prefer Lestat and Louis\'s witty little tiffs to the struggles of slaves. Eartha Kitt was so creepy and after her character did what she did The movie was ruined for me; I could barely stand to watch the rest of the show. (sorry for the ambiguity, but I don\'t want to give anything away) Sorry, but it\'s just not my type of show."'],
 ['514,"First, let me just comment on what I liked about the movie. The special effects were fantastic, and very rarely did I feel like I was watching a video game. There, that is the last nice thing I have to say about this film. In fact, I would just like everyone reading this to take note that I can\'t even put into words how hard it was for me to write this review without swearing. <br /><br />I have innumerable complaints about the film, but four major complaints jump to mind. My first major complaint has to do with the incredible cheesiness of the ""plot twist"" (if you can call it that since most people probably saw it coming a mile away) where Lois\'s 5 year-old son turns out to be the super-powered child of Superman. When the crying super-child throws a piano at Lex\'s henchman to save his mother, I almost got up and left the theater. Singer could have made a much better Superman movie without resorting to cheap gimmicks like a seemingly fragile but latently super-powered illegitimate child. It\'s been 5 days since I saw the movie and I still want to vomit. <br /><br />My next major complaint has to do with the fact that Superman lifts a continent made out of kryptonite up into outer space. It doesn\'t take comic book guy from the Simpsons to point out what\'s wrong with that. I don\'t know how many comic books Brian Singer has read, but when Superman is exposed to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely has the strength to stay on his feet. Whoever had the idea to have him fly a large island made out of his greatest weakness into space has no business being associated with any Superman-related projects ever again. The concept is as ridiculous as making a Dracula movie where the title character has a stake through his heart and still manages to fly a spaceship made out of garlic into the sun. Why not just have Superman eat kryptonite? He can eat it and then brush his teeth with it, and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajamas. That\'s not any more absurd then having him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burning up in re-entry or splattering all over central park when he hits the ground. <br /><br />My third major complaint has to do with the fact that Singer slaps movie-goers across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie. I have to take issue with his characterization of Superman as the only son of a God-like Jor-el sent to Earth to be a savior. Jor-el wasn\'t all-wise, he was just a scientist. And he didn\'t send his son to earth to be a savior, he threw him in a rocket and hurriedly fired it into space because his planet was about to explode. I\'ll buy the Christ allegory if Brian Singer can show me the part in the Bible where God sends Christ to Earth because Heaven was about to explode, and then radioactive pieces of Heaven become Christ\'s primary weakness. Furthermore, the ""crucifixion"" scene where Luthor stabs Superman in the side with a kryptonite ""spear"" just makes me want to slam my face into a brick until I\'m too brain-dead to notice the brazenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be tainting the man of steel for the foreseeable future. They might as well rename this movie ""Superman Returns: the Passion of the Christ.""<br /><br />And speaking of Luthor, my last major complaint has to do with Singer\'s depiction of Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor is a shrewd, cold-hearted business tycoon who is more apt to run for President (which he does in the comics) than try to destroy the world. The man wants money and power; he wants to be in charge, not wreck everything. Yet the Luthor we see Superman Returns, as well as all the previous Superman movies, is a wacky theatrical dunce who comes up with zany schemes to destroy the world. If Singer had the slightest loyalty to the characters instead of the (quite awful) previous Superman movies, this film might not be such an unbearable travesty. Maybe Singer\'s next project can be a Batman movie where he focuses on the interpretation of Batman from 1960s TV show. ZAM! WHAP! POW!!<br /><br />To summarize, I don\'t know what I hate more, the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be giving it good reviews. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you don\'t hate this movie then your opinion is wrong. I sincerely encourage anyone who reads this not to see this movie if you haven\'t already. Don\'t see it, don\'t buy it when it comes out on DVD, don\'t rent it...basically don\'t contribute any money towards it in any way. This movie does not deserve to make any money. In fact, I think that for every person that sees this movie, Bryan Singer should be fined 45 billion dollars. If you\'re a Superman fan and you really want to see this movie, just bend over and have someone kick you in the balls and you\'ll get the same experience without having to waste 2 hours of your time."'],
 ['515,"This is one of the best TV productions of a musical ever. I have heard the Merman cast album, the Angela Lansbury album, I have seen Tyne Daly live, and I\'ve seen the Rosalind Russell movie countless times. I think Bette is if not the best, then tied with the best. She captures not just the bravura, but also the pathos of Mama Rose. I was never a Natalie Wood fan, so I really enjoyed Cynthia Gibb, in what is arguably her best role. Everything from the costumes to the sets to the supporting performances is wonderful. The three strippers, led by the always-dependable Christine Ebersole are hard to top. There was supposed to be a TV production of Mame a few years back, with Cher, but I think Bette would be the best bet (pun intended) for Auntie Mame."'],
 ['516,"I am sorry to say that this film is indeed bad. It reminds me of a c-grade porn movie with one major difference: no porn.<br /><br />The story and dialogue needs a complete overhaul. Maybe then the bad acting would not have been as noticeable. At the very least, the pacing should have been picked up.<br /><br />While I accept that this had a low budget and the director did a good job visually given what little resources he had, he should have spent more time on the story or better yet, get someone else to write it. Many of the action scenes were just pointless.<br /><br />It was a complete waste of my time."'],
 ['517,"Is it a perfect movie? No. It is a weird adaptation from a sci-fi book and it features vampires from space, naked beauties and the British army efficiency.<br /><br />When I first saw this movie I was rather young and all I can remember is the feeling of awe for the movie and Mathilda May. Actually, if it weren\'t for this gorgeous lady being naked the whole movie, I probably wouldn\'t have rated it so high, but given her sheer magnificence, I am now actually considering voting it up!<br /><br />Lucky for me I got reminded of the movie and watched it again now. Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark or Poltergeist special effects splattered unto a rather decent sci-fi story, but with completely over the top performances. I still enjoyed the movie tremendously (as well as Mathilda May), but it was a mixture of nostalgia, comparing with the crap movies they make today and actually wanting more when it ended.<br /><br />Bottom line: if you are a sci-fi fan you are not allowed to miss this movie. Oh, and did I mention Mathilda May is young, beautiful and naked?"'],
 ['518,"Overall I was rather impressed with the pilot. The initial first fifteen minutes were worrying, as it did feel the creators were trying to create a science fiction version of The O.C but this fear is rectified when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show steps into themes and situations that I very rarely see television tackle.<br /><br />BSG dealt with themes such as monotheism, existentialism, reality, death and terrorism but they were primarily subtext, there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose. Here on the other hand these subjects are the focus of the show and I personally found myself evoking such works as Ghost In The Shell and The Matrix as reference points while watching and being surprised by how well the themes were being discussed. I think if you are a fan of the two I just mentioned or other films/television shows, which deal with the subjects I referenced, I think you will find at least something here.<br /><br />In terms of a starting point to explain how the situation we know in BSG came about I believe they handled it in a very interesting way, I especially liked how they explained where the Cylon\'s belief in one God came from and the creation of Caprica had just enough advanced and contemporary technology thrown in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to us as viewers.<br /><br />The only real weak points I noticed were the relationship between the Greystone parents and the actress who plays \'Lacy Rand\'. While I like Eric Stoltz and Paula Malcomson individually, together their scenes seemed to lack chemistry, at this point it could simply be down to developing their characters, but this is something I think needs work. I also found Magda Apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role. This again could be down to experience and time needed to develop, but throughout the episode her acting appeared forced and not completely confident.<br /><br />Based on the pilot I greatly look forward to seeing where \'Caprica\' goes in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that BSG once did."'],
 ['519,"I\'m the type of guy who loves hood movies from New Jack City to Baby Boy to Killa Season, from the b grade to the Hollywood. but this movie was something different. i am no hater and this movie was kinda enjoyable. but some bits were just weird. well the acting wasn\'t to good, compared to Silkk The Shockers performance in Hot Boyz (quite good) and Ice-T in new Jack and SVU (great). the scene where Corrupt (Ice-T) kills the wanna be Jamaican dude he says something and lights himself on fire burning both Ice-T and the other dude, this kills the Jamaican, however Ice-T is unharmed, very similar to Ice\'s other movie Urban Menace (which stars both of these actors) were Snoops character is supernatural, however after this there is nothing suggested that Corrupt is like a demon. When MJ (Silkk) gets stabbed at first he struggling but after that he fights normally and was stabbed in the thigh-WITH OUT BLOOD. and when MJ confesses killing a cop cos the cop was beating up his friend Benny was weird, Benny isn\'t introduced in this movie and the scene isn\'t in the film. it does hold weight to the fact why Corrupt wants to kill MJ but is still makes u scratch your head. wen Jody writes a letter to Miss Jones character explaining what happened to them afterwords doesn\'t mention what happen 2 other main characters MJ and Lisa. the film did show the horror and poverty of the ghetto-which plagues the lives of Latinos and Blacks word wide-was a good part of the film, even though the clip of the projects was re-used thousands of times. and the scene where Miles kills the Latino brother by crashing his bike at full speed (not wearing a helmet) and running into my Latino brothers car would of killed him. the movie was similar to the film Urban Menace and half the actors were in both of these movies as well as the production team. it was OK tho. but me being from poverty i love hood films, however if u don\'t love em like i do Don\'t WATCH IT. only thing saving me from walking out is it reminded me of the first movie i made which was made with 100 dollars, and my love of the genre.<br /><br />Nathaniel Purez"'],
 ['520,"I am a huge fan of the Farcry Game, HUGE fan. It still holds a place in my top-10 games list of all time! The story line was new, fresh... A truly brilliant foundation to base a movie on... or so i thought...<br /><br />Farcry the Movie is no less than another directors attempt at cashing in on a successful game franchise (see Doom: The Movie, and many more...).<br /><br />The Video Game begins as the player (Jack Carver) awakes in a sea side cave after been shot off his boat by an RPG from an unknown soldier. Jack then finds a communication device where (Harlan Doyle) guides him across islands, shipwrecks, jungles, installations and VOLCANOES, to find his (lady friend?) (Valerie Constantine), all the wile battling mutated super soldiers, and genetically enhanced animals.<br /><br />The Movie plays out very, very differently: 1: There\'s a needless 30 mins (1/3 of the movie) of ""backstory"" before we even get to the \'boat blowing up\' scene. 2: Jack then walks onto the beach, kills some goons, then drives off... Nothing like the game... 3: There is no communicator with Doyle on the other end... 4: The \'Modified Soldiers\' look like albinos with singlets on... And there was no mutated \'monkey-like\' creatures jumping out of the bushes. A part of the Farcry game i enjoyed allot... 5: There is no sun filled beach scenes, no aircraft carrier, no communications stations on huge cliffs, LITTLE reference to any in-game contents (characters/items/vehicles), in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all. 6: The climactic Volcano scene from the game is replaced with an old industrial building. 7: There\'s an Ending scene... where everyone (except Krieger) live happily ever after... WHAT THE!<br /><br />I recommend avoiding this movie at all costs! If you are a Gamer, you will HATE this movie will all your soul. It is a movie clearly intended for males, so girls, stay away... So if your a male, 12-29 years of age, have never played Farcry, and are not disgusted by directors attempts at porting books/games to the cinema... then this is for you..."'],
 ['521,"one of the best ensemble acted films I\'ve ever seen. There isn\'t much to the plot, but the acting- incredible. You see the characters change ever so subtly, undr the influence of the rented villa in Italy, and love. And happiness. The film casts a mesmerizing spell on you, much as the villa does on all the women. Truly ""enchanted""."'],
 ['522,"I haven\'t seen this movie in about 5 years, but it still haunts me. <br /><br />When asked about my favorite films, this is the one that I seem to always mention first. There are certain films (works of art like this film, ""Dark City"", and ""Breaking the Waves"") that seem to touch a place within you, a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive, that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer, not unlike a life-changing event, such as the ending of a serious relationship or the death of a friend... This film ""shook"" me when I first saw it. It left me with an emotional hangover that lasted for several days."'],
 ['523,"Today, I wrote this review in anger at Uwe Boll and Hollywood.<br /><br />Hollywood has produced movies based on one of the darkest days of our nation. 911 changed everything. It changed our perception of security. It changed our understanding of the evil of man and humanity. Most importantly and devastatingly , it changed our world.<br /><br />However, I can\'t not stress how utterly repulsed, disillusioned, and angry I am at the careless, blatant ignorance of Hollywood seeking to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction. This film and those like it are bound to cause controversy amid word-of-mouth among moviegoers and critics alike; most surely to be echoed by the mainstream press. Hollywood has sunk to a new low. Even lower than the low-down bastards who perpetrated the most barbaric acts of savagery and unrelenting cruelty. Behind it all is Uwe Boll. I am very angry at this movie. How dare they disrespect the memories of families of those lost? How dare they mock the lives of the brave men and women who risked their lives to save those trapped in the doomed towers on that fateful day of infamy?!?!? How dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post-911 world?!?!?! How...dare...they? <br /><br />To those who have the gall to even think of seeing this morally appalling travesty, I say this with a heavy heart with all my strength: Remember. Think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you are a sane and moral person. Think back to that day, ask yourself whether or not this film is a disgrace and dishonor to the lives lost on that day. Think back to that day of the outcry of families of loved ones. Think back to that day of the lives lost on those two planes. Think back to the further carnage it caused following the attacks.<br /><br />Ask yourself if you have a soul.<br /><br />Think. Remember. Respect the memories of the lives lost on 911 by not seeing this film at all."'],
 ['524,"You cannot deny that we have an affinity for speed. That\'s why movies like Fast and the Furious, Dhoom, Rempit get made to play to the satisfaction of audiences, especially local ones. We live on a tiny island, and I cannot fathom why, for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system, most of us want to get into debt by owning a set of wheels which come with 100% tax when they reach our shores, and the myriad of taxes and bills to pay when operating one. Not only that, the high end sports cars were once quipped by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear, lest they reach the sea.<br /><br />And these movies are relatively easy to make. Hot wheels and hot chicks always go down well together in targeting the required demographic. For once, those plunging necklines exposing uncanny buxom and short skirts accentuating legs two meters long, can\'t compete with the attention given to those beautiful curves that exotic cars possess in movies such as these. Of course there are amongst us (ahem) those that go for the sexists portrayal of women as mere sexual objects (otherwise explain why motor shows come with truckloads of models, and movies such as these cannot do without a leggy model in a frame), however, they don\'t warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sighs whenever the four wheelers come on screen, even when they do exactly nothing and have their gears into Park. The guy sitting beside me, I swear he wet his pants every time his dream car(s) appear, and creamed his pants even more when he hears those growling engine moans.<br /><br />So there we have it, the fan boys who turned up in droves just to watch which of the latest cool cars get featured in the movie. With the Fast and the Furious franchise, the Japanese models like the Evos and the Skylines take centerstage, as does the GT. Here, the Ford GT takes on an incredibly drool-worthy facade modification, that even I\'m impressed, alongside the latest models like the Ferrari Enzos, Porshe Carerra GTs, Koenigsegg CCXs, and every car out there that has wings for doors. But seriously, my heart goes out to the cars each time they\'re mercilessly wrecked just for entertainment. I mean, this are perfectly fine, high performance models that are at the apex of motoring, but yet because whoever financed the movie had millions to blow, they do so because they can,<br /><br />There\'s no story in Redline, just excuses to put together a movie full of beauties (the cars that is) that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible, and with the usual shots of pedals (always the accelerator, mind you, tapping the brake pedal is tantamount to blasphemy, and earn you no respect), steering wheels, gear shifts (always shifting up and not down), all these while having the actors make pretend that they\'re the baddest asses with an engine, snarling and giving each other dirty looks. Not a very tall order for an actor, and that\'s why we get the most woeful performances ever, with lines that seem to be written by elementary schoolkids.<br /><br />The heroine (yes, it made a statement that girls can drive) Natasha (a very plasticky looking Nadia Bjorlin) is one of those million dollar finds - a girl with model looks who don\'t mind getting down on fours and immersed in oil, who has racing pedigree within her, and performs with a rock band singing songs with lyrics that are just plain laughable (every line had to do with cars, and when singing about love, just had to string those innuendos like shifting gear shafts, lubricants and going for rides). Introduced against her wishes to illegal racing by a gangsta called Infamous (Eddie Griffin), she gets drawn into family squabbles involving a Leo DiCaprio lookalike Iraq war veteran, and some sleazy lecherous looking rich uncle. Everything else, well like I said, just serves as an excuse for the movie to go from race to race.<br /><br />And it\'s almost always the same, as there\'s very limited to what you can do to heighten tension between race cars, especially when you know the race is rigged (for narrative reasons) and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line. While Fast and Furious had quite charismatic actors, and I will put my head on the chopping block by naming Paul Walker, Sun Kang, and of course, the star it created - Vin Diesel, Redline had none, just pretty faces with lots of air unfortunately. It looks like a TV movie in its treatment from the get go, with a very insipid opening sequence where it\'s one man, one car, and a 105 minutes race against time to get to Vegas.<br /><br />If not for the cars, then this movie seriously is a piece of junk, with bad acting, bad lines and bad action. Strictly for the car fans, or those who like their movies with countless of bevy beauties who pimp their bodies without any speaking lines."'],
 ['525,"Im the type of person who always goes 2 to horror section when I\'m picking a film, so i picked five across the eyes, i was disgusted with this film and thought there was no story line and no point that you could enjoy it,it made my skin crawl to think that people like to watch films that just encourage violence for the hell of it it was low budget and very rubbish! i think i could of done better myself. i think that it was the worst film i have ever seen in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actors were rubbish the camera was awful the picture was bad and the sound was not up to scratch, i think it was a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it has not worked at all it was foul."'],
 ['526,"Seven Ups has been compared to Bullitt for the chase scene, but does not come anywhere near matching Bullitt. Bullitt has a beginning that builds builds builds. When McQueen leaves the seedy hotel, gets into his Mustang, which is parked under the Embarcadero Freeway (now torn down) and notices the Charger sitting nearbye, you know you are about to see something spectacular. From that moment on, when McQueen starts that car, begins the best car chase sequence ever filmed. Adding to it is a terrific Lalo Schriffin If I remember correctly sound track. This goes on for a long time before you actually hear the first tires squealing. That shot of McQueen\'s Mustang suddenly appearing in Bill Hickman\'s rear view mirror is unmatched for visual impact. Hickman\'s look of surprise and double take really adds to the effect. Then of course, San Francisco is unmatched for the setting of cars racing up and down hills and around bends. Also, Bullitt being filmed in the 60s when cars were still ""Hot"" (Mustang GT and Dodge Charger) made for a better set of wheels then two boring, smog device laden Pontiacs in the 1970s Seven Ups. Bill Hickman was the driver of the bad guy car in both movies. I saw him sitting at an insider movie preview once on the Univeral lot when I was doing movie reviews for a paper. They gave it a good try in Seven Ups though with the chase scene. Seven ups had a few ""jumps"" over little hills, (Yawn) but of course they were not San Francisco hills. The Seven Ups chase, where they are actually going fast, is longer than the go fast sequence in Bullitt. But the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blowing the hood OFF of Roy Schieders Pontiac is the height of absurdity. Strictly Hollywood, I would say, except that it was filmed in New York."'],
 ['527,"Have you ever heard the saying that people ""telegraph their intentions?"" Well in this movie, the characters\' actions do more than telegraph future plans -- they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head. This could be forgiven if the setting had been used better, or if the characters were more charismatic or nuanced. Embeth Davidtz\'s character is not mysterious, just wooden, and Kenneth Branagh doesn\'t succeed in conveying the brash charm his character probably was written to have.<br /><br />The bottom line: obvious plot, one-note performances, unlikeable characters, and grotesque ""Southern"" accents employed by British actors."'],
 ['528,"""Night of the Living Homeless"" was a fairly strong finish to the first half of Season 11. Obviously a parody of various zombie movies, most notably Dawn of the Dead, this episode parallels the homeless with the living dead, as creatures who feed and thrive off of spare change rather than brains.<br /><br />Kyle is blamed for the sudden mass outbreak of homeless people when he, out of the goodness of his heart, gives a $20 to a homeless man in front of his house. More homeless people begin to infiltrate South Park, until the town is completely overrun with them. This is a very strong Randy Marsh episode, as he assumes the role of the shotgun-wielding leader of the adults who take refuge on the roof of the Park County Community Center. But before Randy makes it to the community center, he is accosted by hundreds of homeless people while hilariously screaming ""I don\'t have any change!!"" Unfortunately, the refugees end up losing Gerald Broflofski to the homeless, when he tries to escape by catching a bus out of town, and unwittingly tosses away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people. Then he becomes one of them, asking everyone for change.<br /><br />The boys attempt to find out why there are so many homeless people in South Park, and find a man who is a director of homeless studies. They find out that the nearby city of Evergreen used to have a similar problem with the homeless, so they escape to Evergreen to find out what they did to solve the problem. Unfortunately, homeless people break into the man\'s house, and he attempts to take the easy way out by shooting himself. However, he fails several times, as he shoots himself in the jaw, in the eye, in the chest, in the neck, in the shoulder, screaming horribly until he finally dies. This scene may have been funnier had a similar scene not happened in ""Fantastic Easter Special"" two weeks ago.<br /><br />Meanwhile, a member of the refugees discovers that due to the homeless problem, the property values have nosedived, thus the bank has foreclosed on his house, making him homeless. Randy immediately turns on him, holding the gun to the man\'s head. When the man finally begs the others for a few bucks to help him out, Randy pulls the trigger.<br /><br />In Evergreen, the boys find out that the citizens of the town sent the homeless to South Park, and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country. The boys modify a bus that leads the homeless out of South Park and takes them all the way to Santa Monica, California.<br /><br />The zombie movie parallels and the great Randy Marsh lines make this one definitely re-watchable. 8/10"'],
 ['529,"<br /><br />I\'m not sure who decides what category a movie fits into, but this movie is NOT a horror movie. As for the story, it was fairly interesting, but rather slow. I was especially disappointed with the ending though.<br /><br />**spoiler**<br /><br />Tell me why on Earth does she run over to her uncle\'s(?) home without at least calling the detective or the police first? She knows exactly what\'s going on at that point, plus she has a video tape as proof. Instead, she runs over there and starts going nuts and saying ""I know everything, I have proof! You didn\'t expect proof, did you?!"" Then she acts surprised when her uncle stands up and starts walking over to her as if he\'s going to harm her. Well DUH! Of course he\'s going to harm you idiot, you just told him you know everything and have proof to expose everything. What a dumb ending."'],
 ['530,I gave this a 1. There are so many plot twists that you can never be sure to root for. Total mayhem. Everyone gets killed or nearly so. I am tired of cross hairs and changing views. I cannot give the plot away. Convoluted and insane. If I had paid to see this I would demand my money back. I wish reviews were more honest.'],
 ["531,Not an easy film to like at first with both the lead characters quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film is Paula Sage's touching performance which drives the film into uncharted waters and transcends the rather awkward storyline. This gives the film a feeling of real truth and makes you think you've seen something special.(7/10)"],
 ['532,"I read the book before seeing the movie, and the film is one of the best adaptations out there. Very true and faithful to the book. Sean Penn and Sarandon are amazing. Robbins is a talented filmaker and I wish he would add more to his repetoire. He made the film very haunting and intentionally slow-paced to add depth. An especially brilliant bit of filmaking was the reflection of the victims appearing in the glass of the execution room at the very end."'],
 ['533,"DOCTEUR PETIOT, starring Michel Serrault, is a brutal story about a brutal man. A doctor who heals the sick in occupied France, even if their ability to compensate is not there. Yet, he preys on the weakest amidst the populace. The imagery and cinematography are superb, and lend an additional macabre feeling to this complex story. He is the perfect psychopath. Seductive and altruistic, intelligent and caring, calculating and murderous. A movie certain not to be forgotten soon by the viewer. Kudos to Mr. Serrault, for his chilling portrayal."'],
 ['534,"I just got this video used and I was watching it last night. The acting started out extremely bad (hey------hey------twister) but got very good soon after wards. The tornadoes looked extremely fake, and many of the CGI effects were very dodgy, but the scene with the house cracking apart and the contents inside being blown around and sucked out were extremely well done, and just about on par with movies like Twister. The scenes of devastation were also extremely well done too. The story was very well written, and it\'s refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old ""disaster formulas"" movies of this genre seems to have been stuck in for 30 years.<br /><br />While this movie had a very weird mix of FX and acting quality, this merits an A in my book."'],
 ['535,"This film is really vile. It plays on the urban paranoia of the 70s/80s and puts it into a school context. I\'m not saying that urban crime wasn\'t a problem for a lot of people or that schools weren\'t/aren\'t problem areas but this vile piece of exploitation takes the biscuit. Violence is beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it\'s not a case of social issues but a white, upper-middle class student uses it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol. And of course he knows how to play the system. Does that sound familiar. Yes. This turd is pure violent exploitation, a really nasty piece of work. It\'s disturbing brutality dressed up as a social comment. This belongs in the same category as trash like Exterminator, Death Wish 2-5 and so on and so on. The only remarkable thing is that Michael Fox was so broke at the time that he had to do stuff like this."'],
 ['536,"What a horrible, horrible film. The worst collection of cliches I have seen in a long time. Not that I saw much. I left the theatre screaming after about 40 minutes in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerves. Meryl Streep was awful as usual. How many hurt and tortured expressions can 1 person have? Aidan Quinn\'s talents were - as so often - totally wasted. And who told Gloria Estefan she could act? Trying to be polically correct this movie still enforces racial stereotypes. (Brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teaches underprivilegded kids violin in poor neighbourhood school). The kids weren\'t even cute! Just written in to suit the appalling script. Aaargh! Wes Craven really made me cringe for once. real horror this one!"'],
 ['537,"Motocrossed was fun, but it wasn\'t that great. I guess I just didn\'t understand a lot of the Motocross racing ""lingo"" (and there was A LOT of that in the film)! The plot wasn\'t what I expected from the Disney Channel previews, so that could account for some of my disappointment."'],
 ['538,"Sixth escapade for Freddy Krueger in which he has finally managed to kill off virtually every youth in Springwood; now he wants to broaden his horizons and (**SPOILER**) needs a family member in order to do it.<br /><br />A failure as a horror movie because it simply ain\'t scary at all. Works better as a dark, macabre black comedy, to tell you the truth. Freddy Krueger has now been stripped of all of his ability to chill this viewer. (Too many wisecracks, that\'s for sure.) The actors aren\'t interesting (save Robert Englund, as always, and an obviously slumming Yaphet Kotto) and there are simply far too many visual effects. The finale is OK but doesn\'t provide as many sparks as I think one might hope.<br /><br />In adding a new twist to the familiar dream killer\'s story, it provides Englund the opportunity to do more non-makeup scenes than ever before.<br /><br />There are cameos worth noting: a joint cameo by then-couple Roseanne and Tom Arnold that is devoid of entertainment value, an appropriate appearance by veteran shock-rocker Alice Cooper, and a funny cameo by Johnny Depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he had become.<br /><br />Film debut of Breckin Meyer, who plays Spencer.<br /><br />One of the best things about it is the replaying of key scenes from earlier entries during the closing credits.<br /><br />4/10"'],
 ['539,"OK, I\'m Italian but there aren\'t so many Italian film like this. I think that the plot is very good for 3/4 of the film but the final is too simple, too predictable. But it\'s the only little mistake. The Consequences of Love in my opinion have great sequences in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack. I\'d like very much the lighting work on it. The best thing on it is a great, great actor. You know, if your name were Al Pacino now everybody would have still been talking about this performance. But it\'s only a great theater Italian actor called Toni Servillo. Yes, someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it\'s too slow, it\'s so boring, so many silences, but i think that this components its fantastic, its the right way for describing the love story between a very talented young girl, the grand-daughter of the Italian actress Anna Magnani, Olivia and the old mysterious man Toni. One of my favorite Italian films."'],
 ['540,"If you only see one Ernest movie in your life, make it this one! This is by far the best in the series, with its nonstop laughs and clever humor that is suitable for all ages. The other ""Ernest"" flicks were good too, but most people tend to get tired of him quickly (not ME, however.).<br /><br />In this movie, Ernest P. Whorrel is assigned jury duty for a murder case. The murderer, Nash, just happens to look EXACTLY like our bumbling hero Ernest. Mr. Nash finds this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knocking him out switching identities with him, and so we get to see how Ernest reacts in the slammer.<br /><br />A great flick! If you haven\'t already seen it, watch it!"'],
 ['541,"An idiotic dentist finds out that his wife has been unfaithful. So, no new story lines here. However, the authors managed to create a stupid, disgusting film. If you enjoy watching kids vomiting, or seeing a dentist imagining that he is pulling all his wife\'s teeth out in a bloody horror-type, go see (or rent) the film. If not, move on to something else (MY FAIR LADY, anyone?)"'],
 ['542,"The first Cube movie was an art movie. It set up a world in which all the major archetypes of mankind were represented, and showed how they struggled to make sense of a hostile world that they couldn\'t understand. It was, on the non-literal level, a ""man vs. cruel nature"" plot, where the individual who represented innocence and goodness came through in the end, triumphing to face a new, indefinable world beyond man\'s petty squabbles; a world where there were no more struggle, but peace. I rated Cube a 10 out of 10, and it\'s a movie that was never meant to have any sequels.<br /><br />The second movie, Hypercube was a massive disappointment. Some of the ideas were kind of cool, but in the context of the original movie, both the story and the setting made no sense and had no meaning. Still, for being fairly entertaining, I rated it a 5 out of 10.<br /><br />The third movie, Cube Zero, while ignoring the second, plays like a vastly inferior commercial B-movie rehash of the first, sans the symbolism. There is no ""homage"" or ""tribute"" here; there is only ripping off. The same kind of plot, with some elements idiotically altered (like having letters instead of prime numbers between the cubes - an idea which shows more clearly than anything else that this is a rip-off with absolutely no originality and nothing to say).<br /><br />That we see something from ""behind the scenes"" means nothing, because the watchers are just part of the Big Bad Experiment, the architects of which we hear nothing of. And, in this movie, those who get through to the exit (like Kazan did at the end of the first movie) are just killed - where the *bleep* is the sense in that?! That\'s just flippin\' stupid. I\'m glad I didn\'t pay to see this.<br /><br />The production values and acting in Cube Zero are not too bad, but the story and the ideas are so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of 3 out of 10."'],
 ['543,"I have just watched this movie on DVD late this morning and was so disappointed that even thought it was a good joke for the audience. In other words - the creators planed to make comedy not drama. Howsoever, at the end I realized that Mr. Tony Giglio was earnest about this movie. It\'s a pity because: the dialogue is ridiculous, the acting is poor and lifeless, the story is a fishy tale! Poor Ryan Phillippe - despite of his efforts his character in the movie remains probably his worst performance! What to say for Jason Statham - lack of all kinds of skills to develop the role which is an imaginary fiction... For this reasons I vote: 3/10"'],
 ['544,"I believe Shakespeare explained what I just read beautifully. Me thinks he (the lady) doth protest too much. The whole thing sounded to me as if the author was trying to convince himself! He sites profane literature (writings from the same time period but not connected with the bible) a number of times however I can think of at least three references off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to events contained in the bible. Anyone can skew data & prove anything they like but it doesn\'t make it true. Customs change, word definitions change over time (look at English & German where it is very obviously a common root) nothing stays the same, it\'s always growing and changing. The bible has many different translations but the King James version is the one I\'ve found to be the best when it comes to any kind of research. In the King James version you will notice there are certain words written in italics. These words have been added by the translators and can be dropped & the mean of the entire verse changes. Writings from around the time of Christ were written without spaces, without punctuation, without paragraphs & without numeric verses. These writings look like one long word & the translators added all of the above. For example how would you read this: GODISNOWHERE do you read it as God is nowhere or do you read it as God is now here? Same string of letters two entirely different meanings. This is why many biblical researchers use a \'Lexicon\' to assist them in translation as it provides a word for word translation from the original Arabic, Greek or Hebrew depending on the language in which the scripture was originally written. It\'s also interesting to note that when translated into symbolic logic you can prove God exists but you can not prove He doesn\'t exist! In the end I just love listening to people who think they are so smart that they are qualified to judge the almighty. Talk about ego! Putting soapbox away, God Bless Maegi"'],
 ['545,"""I presume you are here for damage to your mental circuitry."" - VAL<br /><br />Mike Nelson made me watch this...he mentioned it in his book, ""Movie Megacheese."" I asked myself, ""Why would Mike Nelson steer me wrong?"" I now know why the bots never trusted Mike Nelson.<br /><br />The music is by John Williams, which is probably part of his payment to the Devil. In fact, I\'m sure anyone who worked on this movie is probably in league with ol\' Slewfoot, or is now cursed, from the Executive Director down to the guy who ran the catering truck outside the studio. Don\'t watch...for the love of God...don\'t watch!!! Not even making a copy and showing someone else will un-curse you...I\'m doomed now, I understand this. I accept this. But save yourself..."'],
 ['546,"This movie was Flippin Awful....I wanted those hours of my life back. For god\'s sake, -stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all costs. Its not worth mentioning the title, but the ratings on this movie are pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this. And where do I begin? The dumb A** kids in the movie.....The zero plot or story?...the garden-variety college/frat boy-esquire scenes of towel slapping? Or the VERY bad acted, teen angst innuendo? $$$#@%@! My god, It NEVER ended!.....I remember thinking I would have rather kissed the movie theater floor, then sit through this one again.<br /><br />But what do you expect? Most people with the brain power to look up reviews, are not going to be the target audience here at all- so GO SEE Pirites 2 again, or the Jet Lee one, -If your debating to yourself. Look, This movie will just cost you your soul, your money, your energy, and your brain cells. HEED THE WARNING."'],
 ['547,"This is a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tired of it, it has lot\'s of laughs, guns, action, crime,, good one liners, and a decent plot, with an over the top, Donald Sutherland in a rather comedic role as an Assasain. Tia Carerra looks as hot as she ever did and can act too, Thomas Ian Griffin is great in this as the lead character ""Max"" a DEA agent Diane is the FBI agent, played by Carerra, and John Lithgow from Frazier on TV, plays the bad guy,, ""Livingston"". The plot centers around Max and Diane trying to capture Livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who gets the money for the respective agencies, throw into the mix the Assassain Sutherland, who pretty much has all the good one liners, this is the perfect crime caper, there is the usual love story,, but played very differently than you would think by Carerra and Griffith. You also have the Russian mafia, Italian Mafia, and Chineese Mafia here thrown into the mix,, the film is shot in Boston,, where you have some great shots , and locals,, great photography and music in this film, this movie is just the epitome of a crime comedy,, it has everything that one could ever want. Check out Sutherland\'s toilet in a particular scene,, very unusual. this film is a riot and will make you laugh real hard 10 plus for me."'],
 ['548,"If you like to see animals being skinned alive, their heads smashed, dogs throats being crushed my men stomping on them, then this one is for you! But if you are somewhat normal, and don\'t need to see real footage of animal cruelty, pass this one up. This movie tries to shock the viewer, and it sure does.With the animal snuff at the beginning, and the killing of babies in the movie (fake at least)its was enough to make myself turn it off.I\'ve seen movies like this before that show slaughterhouse footage (BTK movie) and this kind of footage should not be allowed in a horror movie.We watch gore and horror because we know its just make-up, and special effects, so we shouldn\'t sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animals, its not what we rented the movie for.If anything, there should be a large warning label put on these types of garbage movies so people won;t be surprised by it. As a very hardcore horror fan, this one turned my stomach. The entire movie cast and crew need their heads checked."'],
 ['549,"Another Spanish movie about the 1936 Civil War. This time we\'re told about the story of Carol (lovely played by débutant Clara Lago), a little girl which comes to live to a little Spanish village from New York. It is such an initiating trip, and soon she\'ll find about the injustices of the human race, their stupid fights and conflicts, their contradictions.<br /><br />Imanol Uribe makes his best film since ""DÃ\xadas Contados"" (1994) with such a sober pulse, a beautiful photography, and a nice script. He tries not to take part in the conflict, he just shows us some facts and let us decide (ok, the facts are explicit enough to make us decide in which band are we in) and he takes a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young starring couple: Clara Lago and Juan José Ballesta.<br /><br />A well cared production.<br /><br />My rate: 7/10"'],
 ['550,"A response to previous comments made by residents of the region where this motion picture was lensed: One person suggested that the closing and destruction of the Ocean View Amusement Park led to a downturn in the surrounding neighborhoods. This is simply not true. Prior to the construction of Interstate 64, which bypasses the Ocean View area, the primary route for traffic went through the heart of Ocean View. Once the interstate was completed, Ocean View rapidly became a ghost town with businesses closing up and an increase in crime. This led to a huge reduction in revenues for the park, which also faced new competition from nearby Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. Meanwhile, in the past few years, the City of Norfolk has done a remarkable job of fostering redevelopment so that the area has become a sought-after location for construction of high-end housing.<br /><br />It has also been said that the destruction footage of the roller coaster was used in the film ""Rollercoaster"". This is also untrue. Footage was shot of two coaster cars careening off the ride for that film, but the actual explosions and collapse are exclusive to ""Death of Ocean View Park"".<br /><br />As to the film itself, the storyline of a ""supernatural"" force in the water adjacent to the park was certainly silly, but somewhat typical for B-grade movies of the time. With the cast involved, there should be no surprise that the scenery was gnawed in almost every scene by the primary actors. I don\'t believe this film was intended to be another ""Citizen Kane""; I believe Playboy was experimenting with a new non-nude format to determine if this was an area for the company to expand into (apparently not!). A strange force in the water causing strange events in an old amusement park probably sounded good at the conference table, but proved unmanageable in execution. The roller coaster and the rest of the park was destined for the wrecking ball anyway; ""let\'s come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise!"".<br /><br />For the casual movie viewer, this would be a ""see once and forget about it"" film (except for Diana Canova fans); but for the thousands of people who live in the region and have fond memories of the park, this movie is like a ""walk down memory lane"" for footage of the park as well as old footage of downtown Norfolk, the first ""Harborfest"", and Old Dominion University. Even a limited release of this film on DVD would be welcome."'],
 ['551,"I was expecting a lot from Mr.Amitabh Bachan\'s role of SARKAR, but am disappointed. Being a Ram Gopal Verma\'s direction i was not ready for this kind of a movie. Sarkar is supposed to be a strong character, but the movie shows that Amitabh is too dependent on others power rather than his. There is a movie in Tamil called Nayakan based on the theme of GOD FATHER and Kamala Hassan has played the lead. The movie is well directed and the power till the end remains in the hands of Kamala Hassan, not his son. Amitabh Bachan seems to be too helpless in the movie and he just accepts everything instead of changing things. The movie fails to show the strong impact of God Father."'],
 ['552,"A trio of buddies, sergeants all in the British Army, carouse & brawl their way across Imperial India. Intensely loyal to each other, they meet their greatest & most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult & its demented, implacable guru. Now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment, the water carrier GUNGA DIN, to save scores of the Queen\'s soldiers from certain massacre.<br /><br />Based more on The Three Musketeers than Kipling\'s classic poem, this is a wonderful adventure epic - a worthy entry in Hollywood\'s Golden Year of 1939. Filled with suspense & humor, while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum, it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the (sentimental) conclusion.<br /><br />It is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen & Douglas Fairbanks Jr., as they are really all thirds of a single organism - inseparable and, to all intents & purposes, indistinguishable. However, this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious time.<br /><br />(It\'s interesting to note, parenthetically, that McLaglen boasted of a distinguished World War One military career; Fairbanks would have a sterling record in World War Two - mostly in clandestine affairs & earning himself no fewer than 4 honorary knighthoods after the conflict; while Grant reportedly worked undercover for British Intelligence, keeping an eye on Hollywood Nazi sympathizers.)<br /><br />The real acting laurels here should go to Sam Jaffe, heartbreaking in the title role. He infuses the humble man with radiant dignity & enormous courage, making the last line of Kipling\'s poem ring true. He is unforgettable.<br /><br />Montague Love is properly stalwart as the regimental major, whilst Eduardo Ciannelli is Evil Incarnate as the Thuggee guru. The rest of the cast, Joan Fontaine, Robert Coote, Lumsden Hare, are effective but have little to do. Movie mavens will recognize Cecil Kellaway in the tiny role of Miss Fontaine\'s father.<br /><br />The film picks its villains well. The demonic Thuggee cult, worshipers of the hideous, blood-soaked Kali, Hindu goddess of destruction, was the bane of Indian life for 6 centuries, ritualistically strangling up to 30,000 victims a year. In 1840 the British military, in cooperation with a number of princely states, succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion. Henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels & nightmares."'],
 ['553,"This movie pretty much sucked. I\'m in the Army and the soldiers depicted in this movie are horrible. If your in the Military and you see this movie you\'ll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they acted as a squad. It was ridiculous. They acted like a bunch of normal people with Army uniforms on not knowing what to do. It was a pretty gory movie I\'d have to say the least. There was a couple scenes where they try to make you jump. I\'d recommend seeing it if you are bored and want to see a violent, gory movie. It will be a better movie also if your not in the Military. I also would have to say I liked the first one better than this one."'],
 ["554,If you watched Pulp Fiction don't see this movie. This movie is NOT funny. This is the worst parody movie ever. This is a poor attempt of parody films.<br /><br />The cast is bad. The film is bad. This is one of the worst pictures ever made.<br /><br />I do not recommend Plump Fiction. I prefer the original Pulp Fiction by the great Quentin Tarantino. This is one of the worst parody films ever made.<br /><br />Plump Fiction is not a good movie. It is not funny. It is so dumb and vulgar."],
 ['555,"I went to see ""Passion of Mind"" because I usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romances, i.e. ""Sliding Doors,"" ""Me, Myself, I,"" etc. <br /><br />But this was the worst one I\'ve ever seen! I had to force myself to sit through it. I didn\'t even stay through the credits which is unheard of for me.<br /><br />The magical realism was completely missing because Demi Moore was grim and the lovers she was two-timing were guys who usually play villains, though each was kind of sexy and appealing.<br /><br />There was actually a psychological explanation provided for the dual lives, with a distasteful frisson of The Elektra Complex; maybe the magic shouldn\'t be explained for this genre to work.<br /><br />(originally written 5/28/2000)"'],
 ['556,"I thought that ROTJ was clearly the best out of the three Star Wars movies. I find it surprising that ROTJ is considered the weakest installment in the Trilogy by many who have voted. To me it seemed like ROTJ was the best because it had the most profound plot, the most suspense, surprises, most emotional,(especially the ending) and definitely the most episodic movie. I personally like the Empire Strikes Back a lot also but I think it is slightly less good than than ROTJ since it was slower-moving, was not as episodic, and I just did not feel as much suspense or emotion as I did with the third movie.<br /><br />It also seems like to me that after reading these surprising reviews that the reasons people cited for ROTJ being an inferior film to the other two are just plain ludicrous and are insignificant reasons compared to the sheer excellence of the film as a whole. I have heard many strange reasons such as: a) Because Yoda died b) Because Bobba Fett died c) Because small Ewoks defeated a band of stormtroopers d) Because Darth Vader was revealed<br /><br />I would like to debunk each of these reasons because I believe that they miss the point completely. First off, WHO CARES if Bobba Fett died??? If George Lucas wanted him to die then he wanted him to die. Don\'t get me wrong I am fan of Bobba Fett but he made a few cameo appearances and it was not Lucas\' intention to make him a central character in the films that Star Wars fans made him out to be. His name was not even mentioned anywhere in the movie... You had to go to the credits to find out Bobba Fett\'s name!!! Judging ROTJ because a minor character died is a bit much I think... Secondly, many fans did not like Yoda dying. Sure, it was a momentous period in the movie. I was not happy to see him die either but it makes the movie more realistic. All the good guys can\'t stay alive in a realistic movie, you know. Otherwise if ALL the good guys lived and ALL the bad guys died this movie would have been tantamount to a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon. Another aspect to this point about people not liking Yoda\'s death.. Well, nobody complained when Darth Vader struck down Obi Wan Kenobi in A New Hope. (Many consider A New Hope to be the best of the Trilogy) Why was Obi Wan\'s death okay but Yoda\'s not... hmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Another reason I just can not believe was even stated was because people found cute Ewoks overpowering stormtroopers to be impossible. That is utterly ridiculous!! I can not believe this one!! First off, the Ewoks are in their native planet Endor so they are cognizant of their home terrain since they live there. If you watch the movie carefully many of the tactics the Ewoks used in defeating the stormtroopers was through excellent use of their home field advantage. (Since you lived in the forest all your life I hope you would have learned to use it to your advantage) They had swinging vines, ropes, logs set up to trip those walkers, and other traps. The stormtroopers were highly disadvantaged because they were outnumbered and not aware of the advantages of the forest. The only thing they had was their blasters. To add, it was not like the Ewoks were battling the stormtroopers themselves, they were heavily assisted by the band of rebels in that conquest. I thought that if the stormtroopers were to have defeated a combination of the Star Wars heros, the band of rebels, as well as the huge clan of Ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain, that would have been a great upset. Lastly, if this scene was still unbelievable to you.. How about in Empire Strikes Back or in A New Hope where there were SEVERAL scenes of a group consisting of just Han Solo, Chewbacca, and the Princess, being shot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blasters missed while the heros were in full view!! And not only that, the heroes , of course, always hit the Stormtroopers with their blasters. The troopers must have VERY, VERY bad aim then! At least in Empire Strikes Back, the Battle of Endor was much more believable since you had two armies pitted each other not 3 heroes against a legion of stormtroopers. Don\'t believe me? Check out the battle at Cloud City when our heroes were escaping Lando\'s base. Or when our heros were rescuing Princess Leia and being shot at (somehow they missed)as Han Solo and Luke were trying to exit the Death Star.<br /><br />The last reason that I care to discuss (others are just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here.) is that people did not like Darth Vader being revealed! Well, in many ways that was a major part of the plot in the movie. Luke was trying to find whether or not Darth Vader was his father, Annakin Skywalker. It would have been disappointing if the movie had ended without Luke getting to see his father\'s face because it made it complete. By Annakin\'s revelation it symbolized the transition Darth Vader underwent from being possessed by the dark side (in his helmet) and to the good person he was Annakin Skywalker (by removing the helmet). The point is that Annakin died converted to the light side again and that is what the meaning of the helmet removal scene was about. In fact, that\'s is what I would have done in that scene too if I were Luke\'s father...Isn\'t that what you would have done if you wanted to see your son with your own eyes before you died and not in a mechanized helmet?<br /><br />On another note, I think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people is that the sequel MUST be worse (even if it is better) that preceding movies is another reason that ROTJ does not get as many accolades as it deserves. I never go into a film with that deception in mind, I always try to go into a film with the attitude that ""Well, it might be better or worse that the original .. But I can not know for sure.. Let\'s see."" That way I go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into thinking that a clearly superior film is not as good as it really was.<br /><br />I am not sure who criticizes these movies but, I have asked many college students and adults about which is their favorite Star Wars movie and they all tell me (except for one person that said that A New Hope was their favorite) that it is ROTJ. I believe that the results on these polls are appalling and quite misleading.<br /><br />Bottom line, the Return of the Jedi was the best of the Trilogy. This movie was the only one of the three that kept me riveted all throughout its 135 minutes. There was not a moment of boredom because each scene was either suspenseful, exciting, surprising, or all of the above. For example, the emotional light saber battle between Luke and his father in ROTJ was better than the one in the Empire Strikes Back any day!!!<br /><br />Finally, I hope people go see the Phantom Menace with an open mind because if fans start looking for nitpicky, insignificant details (or see it as ""just another sequel"") to trash the movie such as ""This movie stinks because Luke is not in it!"" then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like ROTJ suffered unfortunately.<br /><br />"'],
 ['557,"Crossfire remains one of the best Hollywood message movies because, unlike the admirably intentioned Gentleman\'s Agreement, which it beat to theatres by a few months, it chooses to send its message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outraged star constantly saying ""It\'s because I\'m Jewish, isn\'t it?"" It\'s much easier to get the message that hate is like a loaded gun across when the dead bodies are actual rather than metaphorical. Somewhat shamefully, the brief featurette on the Warners\' DVD doesn\'t mention that novelist Richard Brooks disowned the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an anti-Semitic one, but it\'s interesting to note that while the victim is killed primarily because he is Jewish, there\'s little doubt in Sam Levene\'s performance that the character is in fact also gay – not a mincing caricature, but there\'s definitely a two lost souls aspect to his scenes with George Cooper\'s confused soldier. There\'s not much of a mystery to who the murderer is: even though the killing is carried out in classic noir shadows, the body language of the killer is instantly recognisable, but then the film has its characters drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point: the tension comes from proving it and saving the fall guy.<br /><br />There\'s an element of Ealing Films to the gang of soldiers teaming together to get their buddy out of a fix (you could almost see that aspect as a blueprint for Hue and Cry), but the atmosphere is pure RKO noir. Set over one long sweltering night, the film has a great look filled with deep dark blacks and shadows born as much out of economy as style (it cut back on lighting time and allowed director Edward Dmytryk more time to work with the actors) and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script: a laid-back but quietly charismatic Robert Mitchum, Robert Young\'s Maigret-like detective, Gloria Grahame\'s tramp and the perpetually creepy Paul Kelly as her compulsive liar admirer, a guy who tries on stories the way other people try on ties. But the lasting impression is of Robert Ryan\'s excellent performance as a guy who could do with a good leaving alone as he does his best to help the wrongly accused man all the way to death row. A big surprise hit in 1946, as a reward, Dmytryk and producer Adrian Scott found themselves investigated by the HUAC, which itself had a notable tendency to target Jews. So much for crusading…"'],
 ['558,"This movie basically is a very well made production and gives a good impression of a war situation and its effects on those involved. It\'s always interesting to see the story from the \'other\' side for a change. This movie concentrates on a group of German soldiers who after fighting in the North Africa campaign are send to Stalingrad, Russia, where one of the most notorious and bloodiest battles of WW II is being fought.<br /><br />It\'s interesting to see the other side of this battle, since we mainly just always see the Germans simply as the \'villains\'. In this movie those \'villains\' are given an humane face and voice and it sort of makes you realize that the only true enemy in war is war itself and not necessarily those who you\'re fighting against. At first it\'s kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the German\'s are the evil villains. But of course you get accustomed to it quickly and you soon adapt the Germans as the main characters of the movie and you even start to care -and be interested in them.<br /><br />The way this story is told isn\'t however the best. It\'s hard to keep track of the story at times, as it jumps from the one sequence and location to the other. The movie isn\'t always logic in its storytelling and features a bit too many sequences that remain too vague. It also is most of the time pretty hard to keep the characters apart and see who is who. It doesn\'t always makes this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand, there are plenty enough sequences and moments present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one, just not the most coherent one around. In that regard Hollywood movies are always better than European movies.<br /><br />The production values are high and features some good looking sets and locations, though the movie wasn\'t even shot in Russia itself. It helps to create a good war time situation atmosphere.<br /><br />The character are mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic. But I don\'t know, for some reason formulaic characters always work out fine in war movies and strenghtens the drama and realism. It also helps that they\'re being played by well cast actors. All of the actors aren\'t the best known actors around (Thomas Kretschmann was also at the time still a fairly unknown actor) but each of them fit their role well and gives its characters an unique face and personality.<br /><br />All in all not the best or most consistent WW II drama around but definitely worth a look, due to its original approach of the German side of the battle of Stalingrad and its good production values.<br /><br />7/10"'],
 ['559,"So I rented this from Netflix because somebody gave me Roger Ebert\'s book ""I hated, hated, hated this movie"" and he gave this one a rare zero-star rating in the book and said at the end of his original review ""Mad Dog Time should be cut up to provide free ukulele picks for the poor"". So I figured from Ebert saying that I would see if it was really as bad as he said it was. I know most society says not to listen to critics and to judge for yourself but I could not express how much I hated this piece of junk like Ebert did and never since Ebert\'s review of Rob Reiner\'s ""North"" where he said he hated that movie ten times had I ever heard such a brilliant hatred movie review. Here we have Richard Dreyfuss as a gangster which I don\'t think it would be terrible to see Dreyfuss as a gangster if the screenplay for this movie were written well. But above all the other things that were awful about this ""movie"" I can certainly tell you the script was not written well at all. While the movie starts off with Jeff Goldblum saying that he enjoyed watching Dreyfuss\'s girlfriend while Dreyfuss was at a criminal hospital the movie starts off with some decent dialog after the opening credits. But after that first 4 or 5 minutes the other 85 minutes just consists of dumb characters talking pointless garbage for 30 seconds then someone gets shot. Then there are a whole bunch of jokes about Dreyfuss being mentally ill. Haha. Not funny. Then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parodying Frank Sinatra\'s ""My Way"" sang by Gabriel Byrne apparently to insult Dreyfuss. Of course because the screenplay was written on the level of a sixth grader Dreyfuss shoots Byrne over five times and Byrne just will not die. Are we as the audience supposed to even care or find that mildly funny? I can certainly tell you I did not care or find that funny. Not only am I disappointed in Dreyfuss (who I admire much as an actor) for producing and starring in this tripe but I am also extremely disappointed in Jeff Goldblum because this was released the same year that ""Independence Day"" was the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful films in history. Did Goldblum feel that ""Independence Day"" would be a flop and then just take the next role that was offered to him to make some money if ""Independence Day"" were a bomb? What did an Oscar winner and the star of two of the biggest money making films in history find remotely enjoyable about this? The opening sequence of ""Mad Dog Time"" says that the movie is set on another planet. I only wish now that I have wasted 93 minutes watching this trash that it would have stayed and opened in theaters on the planet where it supposedly takes place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of 93 minutes out of my life that I will never get back. Ebert saying the movie should have been cut up is not good enough I am afraid. Every copy of ""Mad Dog Time"" should have gasoline poured all over it and be lit on fire. I have yet to top a worst movie I have ever seen because this one has won it\'s honor as the worst movie ever."'],
 ['560,"What a boring film! To sum it all up, its was basically just Nana Patekar beating up his daughter-in-law Karisma Kapoor, while she tried to flee from the village, with her son. Can someone say BORING??? The concept wasn\'t too bad, but it was poorly executed. The Canadian locales, and some of the village scenes were nicely shot. However, overall the cinematography came up short. The story could have been great, but the movie just seemed to drag on. There is only so much stupidity a person can take, let alone three bloody hours of it.<br /><br />The best part of the whole movie was the song ""Ishq Kamina"", and that was only five minutes long. Other than that, this movie was a piece of crap."'],
 ['561,"{rant start} I didn\'t want to believe them at first, but I guess this is what people are talking about when they say South Korean cinema has peaked and may even be going downhill. After the surprisingly fun and moving monster movie ""Gwoemul"" (aka ""The Host"") of 2006-- which actually succeeded in making a sharp satire out of a B-movie genre-- successive Korean blockbusters have become more and more generic, even though their budgets (mainly spent on special effects) have become more and more fantastic. Do South Korean movie-makers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill, which their industry has built up since the 1999 break-out film ""Shiri/Swiri"", by making a whole series of big budget mediocre movies like mainland China did? {rant end}<br /><br />The only ""reason"" I can fathom for making this movie is to dupe the investors into financing the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a Korean/ East Asian-styled dragon I have seen to date, for the final scenes. Now if they had introduced that dragon at the beginning and given it more personality and purpose like in the 1996 ""Dragonheart"", the movie might have had a few more redeeming qualities other than having lots of digitally animated dragons. Remember ""Dungeons & Dragons"" in 2000? Hasn\'t anyone learnt that the trick is not how MUCH special effects you use, but how WELL you use it? I hope there are more (and better) Korean legends they can use, because they have just killed a lot of international interest in Korean dragon legends with the way they filmed this one.<br /><br />In short, I agree with all the negative reviews gone before and wonder how Koreans felt about having their folk anthem ""Arirang"" being played at the very end. As a creature feature, I would have given it at least 5 stars out of 10 if the special effects or action sequences had been worth it, but I\'ve seen many video games with better camera work and scripting (just less dragons)."'],
 ['562,"As a native Chinese, I can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a \'better world\'. I said \'better world\' because it is a lie that Chinese people have been indoctrinated for thousand years! <br /><br />I guess most western audience may don\'t know Qin Shihuang(means the first emperor), the king in this film is the most notorious tyrant in ancient China. The Tianxia(Chinese word was spoken by the king, means \'the land and the people\') spoken from his mouth is totally lie. From then on, one after another, all the king in ancient china spoke the same thing but very few of them did as what they said.<br /><br />Another fact is, Qin Shihuang\'s empire only lasted about twenty years before it was destroyed by people.<br /><br />Well, I do like the beautiful scenes of this movie, but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant."'],
 ['563,"This had a great cast with big-name stars like Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Henry Hull and Brian Donlevey and a bunch more lesser-but-known names with shorter roles. It also had Technicolor, one of the few movies made with it in 1939.<br /><br />Now the bad news.......regrettably, I can\'t say much positive for the story. It portrayed the James boys in a totally positive light....and Hollywood has done that ever since. Why these criminals are always shown to be the ""good guys"" is beyond me. This film glamorizes them and made their enemies - the railroad people - into vicious human beings. The latter was exaggerated so much it was preposterous. Well, that\'s the film world for you: evil is good; good is bad.<br /><br />Hey Hollywood: here\'s a news flash - The James boys were criminals! Really - look it up!"'],
 ['564,"I remember watching this series avidly, every Saturday evening. It was the highlight of the week. I loved everything about it, the location, the costumes, the actors and the wonderful music by Clannad (I still have their Legend album). I loved the way they solved the problem of Michael Praed leaving by creating another Robin, this time the Earl of Huntingdon. I believe there were legends of several Robins in medieval times. Another thing I loved was the fact that it was filled with young actors, I\'m sure Robin and his men would have young, after all people didn\'t live that long in those days. Other Robins always look too old (Kevin Costner with his ridiculous accent looked like Robin\'s granddad). The only sad thing was the ending, it\'s a shame they couldn\'t at least have done a one off special to tie up all the loose ends and give it a happier ending."'],
 ['565,"I don\'t normally write reviews, but this ""film"" was special. I couldn\'t turn it off. I don\'t believe I\'ve ever seen a worse movie, but there I sat, watching. It was like a horrible car wreck with blood flowing all over the highway. It was disgusting, but I couldn\'t turn away. Where do I start? The movie seems to think it\'s a sports thriller, but it\'s so utterly ridiculous, it can only be a comedy, but it\'s not funny, not even in a dumb/silly way. It\'s like watching your cousins try to act out a skit on family get-togethers. It\'s painful to watch, but at least it\'s only for a minute or two. Second String went on for over an hour. <br /><br />Whoever was involved with making this movie should not work again. The writing, directing, acting, and everything was just terrible. The problem is I can\'t describe how bad it was; you just had to see it. And I\'m sure this will NEVER be shown again, so unless you saw it, you\'re out of luck. I mean it was almost worth seeing just for the fact that it gave me some appreciation for every other ""bad"" film I\'ve seen over my lifetime. And for every film I see in the future that I can\'t stand, I will think to myself, well, at least it wasn\'t bad as the Second String."'],
 ['566,"Few would argue that master animation director Hayao Miyazaki is one of the few to hold this ability.<br /><br />(No. Too many are focused on John Lassiter\'s ""amazing"" ability to steal other movies plots, turn them into pretty puppet shows and then be lauded as a genius . . . but i digress.)<br /><br />Miyazaki has given us film after film that deals with important mature issues (usually ecologically themed), and has an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that was animated could thoroughly enjoy if given the chance. Still, Miyazaki (almost) never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movies- children.<br /><br />That said, I am at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability. Where else are you going to have a film where a three year old (my nephew Link) will sit still throughout the move, enthralled, a 7 year old (my niece Amber) loving it all her own (and able to appreciate the ""star power"" of Frankie Jonas and Noah Cyrus, a 12 year old (my nephew Aaron) who\'s review was ""of course it was good! Everything Miyazaki-san does is good!,"" a 32 year old animation fan brought to tears by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation (er, that would be me), and a 58 year old woman (my mother) able to connect with the mother characters (and I\'m betting the older charas too) and loving the ""cuteness"" of the child characters.<br /><br />And that is what I respect most about Miyazaki-san. He seems to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker. On the surface, ""Ponyo"" could be seen as a simple story about a little fish-girl who gets a taste of the human world and wants to join it and the friend she makes there, a little boy names Soske (somewhat like ""The Little Mermaid""), but there is an entire different level at play here. True to form, Miyazaki populates his film with intensely strong female characters Ponyo\'s Mother, Soske\'s mother, the older ladies in a nursing home are all genuine characters with minds of their own and extremely strong willed.<br /><br />But the girl who takes the cake is Ponyo herself. Once she decides that she likes the human world, she simply uses her own will to achieve her dreams. Her father is trying to keep her innocent, and keep her a magical fish, but young Ponyo knows what she wants and becomes human out of simply her own determination. <br /><br />Once human, she teams up with her friend, Soske, whom she loves very much (although maybe not as much as ham). Soske is asked to be the man of the house (at age five) when his mother Lisa decides she has to help the people at the rest home where she works during a typhoon that has been inadvertently caused by Ponyo on her quest to become human. Frankie Jonas (yes. He\'s related to the Jonas brothers. Can we just get past that please?) gives, perhaps, the best performance in the film as young Soske (which is good since he has the most lines). His character is also strong willed, but also very respectful and friendly- characteristics you\'re not likely to find in a child character on THIS side of the Pacific.<br /><br />In the end, Ponyo\'s father, Fujimoto must cope with his daughter\'s decision and his estranges wife\'s wishes to allow her to be human. He hopes that Ponyo and Soske will ""remember him fondly."" And once again, Miyazaki REFUSES to allow a character to become the stereotypical ""bad guy."" Although Miyazaki has (for some reason) received some criticism for this, it is, honestly, what makes his movies magical and yet relatable. No one in real life is completely a ""bad person."" All humans are various shades of gray. And that is exactly what Miyazaki does with his characters. <br /><br />And then there\'s the animation itself. In a time when CGI would certainly have helped with the copious amounts of effects shots in this film, especially the water, Miyazaki has chosen to incorporate NO CGI whatsoever. Certainly the hand drawn animation was colored by digital means, but every film in this was hand-drawn and I, for one, was extremely grateful for that. The character animation was extremely fluid, and there even appeared to be some lip-sync going on (quite unusual for an anime film). The backgrounds seemed to be rendered with colored pencil and had an effect all its own on the audience. This is what animation used to look like- and what it SHOULD look like. <br /><br />In the end, I found Ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable. Certainly not Miyazaki\'s best (in my opinion, that honor is still held by Kiki\'s Delivery Service), but still a 10-star fun movie for the ENTIRE family."'],
 ['567,"Attractive Marjorie(Farrah Fawcett)lives in fear after being accosted by a lone biker. She is mortally shaken with the fact her attacker knows her address. As expected, Joe(James Russo), the attacker forces his way into Marjorie\'s home and subjects her to humiliating terror. Bruised and bloody, Marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker, knocking the living daylights out of the jerk and renders him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eyes and throat. Hog tied and battered himself, Joe tries to explain himself to Marjorie\'s roommates(Diana Scarwid and Alfrie Woodard) when they get home. There is almost a hint of mercy, but it is not coming from Marjorie. Should she continue to render her own punishment? Violence, sexual abuse and rough language makes for an R rating. Fawcett really gets away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career. Kudos to director Robert M. Young."'],
 ['568,"I find it sad that just because Edward Norton did not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it, people automatically think the movie sucks without even watching it or giving it a chance. I really hope Norton did not do this. He is a fine actor and all but he scared people away from a decent movie.<br /><br />I found it entertaining. It wasn\'t mind blowing or anything with crazy special effects, but it was not a bad. It was fun to watch. But yea, definitely not a bad/horrible movie.<br /><br />7/10"'],
 ['569,"I watched this movie on TV last night, hoping for a realistic account of what could happen if there were an outbreak of some highly transmittable disease. I was disappointed, and I think the movie was garbage. It did not seem real to me. Some of the acting was awful, in particular that of the doctor. She was about the worst I\'ve seen. The whole thing played like a CNN \'worst case scenario\'. Even the obligatory disaster movie human relations bits didn\'t seem sincere. I have seen some disaster movies, in particular those weather ones, which are actually so bad they are amusing. This one is almost as bad, but it is not even amusing, it is tedious and boring.Don\'t bother with this one."'],
 ['570,"For those out there that like to think of themselves as reasonably intelligent human beings, who love film, have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movies with funny, smartly written dialogue then this is a film for you.<br /><br />For those with a poor attention span, high expectations and no brains.. well.. um.. you may get bored and find things dragging at times.<br /><br />This is a charming, modest and well paced movie with the actors bestowing a real sense of depth and warmth to their roles. I chuckled to myself pretty much the whole way through..<br /><br />This film is a little gem."'],
 ['571,"THE GREAT CARUSO was the biggest hit in the world in 1951 and broke all box office records at Radio City Music Hall in a year when most ""movergoers"" were stay-at-homes watching their new 7"" Motorola televisions. Almost all recent box office figures are false --- because they fail to adjust inflation. Obviously today\'s $10 movies will dominate. In 1951 it cost 90c to $1.60 at Radio City; 44c to 75c first run at Loew\'s Palace in Washington DC, or 35c to 50c in neighborhood runs. What counts is the number of people responding to the picture, not unadjusted box office ""media spin."" The genius of THE GREAT CARUSO was that the filmmakers took most of the actual life of Enrico Caruso (really not a great story anyway) and threw it in the trash. Instead, 90% of the movie\'s focus was on the music. Thus MGM gave us the best living opera singer MARIO LANZA doing the music of the best-ever historic opera singer ENRICO CARUSO. The result was a wonderful movie. Too bad LANZA would throw his life and career away on overeating. Too fat to play THE STUDENT PRINCE, Edmund Purdom took his place --- with Lanza\'s voice dubbed in, and with the formerly handsome and not-fat Lanza pictured in the advertising. If you want to see THE GREAT CARUSO, it\'s almost always on eBay for $2.00 or less. Don\'t be put off by the low price, as it reflects only the easy availability of copies, not the quality of the movie."'],
 ['572,"I attended an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher; both have delivered less than memorable performances & films. While the underlying ""general"" storyline is somewhat familiar, this film was excellent. Both Costner and Kutcher delivered powerful performances playing extremely well off each other. The human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both; the scene when Costner confronts Kutcher with the personal reasons why Kutcher joined the Coast Guard rescue elite was the film\'s most unforgettable emotional moment. The ""specific"" storyline was an education in itself depicting the personal sacrifice and demanding physical training the elite Coast Guard rescuers must go through in preparation of their only job & responsibility...to save lives at sea. The special effects of the rescue scenes were extremely realistic and ""wowing""...I haven\'t seen such angry seas since ""The Perfect Storm"". Co-star Clancy Brown (HBO\'s ""Carnivale"" - great to see him again) played the captain of the Coast Guard\'s Kodiak, Alaska base in a strong, convincing role as a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his veins. The film wonderfully, and finally, gives long overdue exposure and respect to the Coast Guard; it had the audience applauding at the end."'],
 ['573,"1) I am not weapon expert, but even i can see difference between U.S. army riffles in WWI and WWII. In movie we can see privates, armed with ""M1 Garand"" (invented in year 1932!), not authentic ""1903 Springfield"" (aka ""Silent Death""), who privates use until WWII. Difference - M1 can load 1,5 times more ammunition and 3 times more fire rate! M1 was semi - automatic, Springfield requires reloading after every shot. Little difference?! 2) German army uniforms has borrowed from 1940 Year too. Especially - helmets. German helmets until end of WWI have significant pike on top, we cannot see even one in movie. And if we make little additional search in archives - how much truthful is this ""True Story""? I am surprised, how much ""truthful"" can be film directors in a pursuit of cheap propagation."'],
 ['574,"Do you ever wonder what is the worst movie ever made? Stop wondering. I\'m telling you, Michael is it!<br /><br />It is not ""heartwarming,"" ""entertaining,"" or ""Travolta at his best."" It just sucks. If I had kids, I would let them watch Deep Throat before Michael!<br /><br />A sold-out John Travolta, a washed-up and balding William Hurt, and an about to die any time now Jean Stapleton highlight this turd of a film.<br /><br />But wait...you\'ll get to hear Andie McDowell sing! Yeah. Hollywood really s**t all over us with this one!"'],
 ['575,"The film began with Wheeler sneaking into the apartment of his girlfriend. Her aunt (Edna May Oliver--a person too talented for this film) didn\'t like Wheeler--a sentiment I can easily relate to. The aunt decided to take this bland young lady abroad to get her away from Wheeler. They left and Wheeler invested in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promised to make him their king. At about the same time, Woolsey was in the same small mythical kingdom and he was made king. So when Wheeler arrived, it was up to the boys to fight it out, but they refused because they are already friends--which greatly disappointed the people, as killing and replacing kings is a national pastime.<br /><br />I am a huge fan of comedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood--the silent era through the 1940s. I have seen and reviewed hundreds, if not thousands of these films and yet despite my love and appreciation for these films I have never been able to understand the appeal of Wheeler and Woolsey--the only comedy team that might be as bad as the Ritz Brothers! Despite being very successful in their short careers in Hollywood (cut short due to the early death of Robert Woolsey), I can\'t help but notice that practically every other successful team did the same basic ideas but much better. For example, there were many elements of this film reminiscent of the Marx Brother\'s film, DUCK SOUP, yet CRACKED NUTS never made me laugh and DUCK SOUP was a silly and highly enjoyable romp. At times, Woolsey talked a bit like Groucho, but his jokes never have punchlines that even remotely are funny! In fact, he just seemed to prattle pointlessly. His only funny quality was that he looked goofy--surely not enough reason to put him on film. Additionally, Wheeler had the comedic appeal of a piece of cheese--a piece of cheese that sang very poorly! A missed opportunity was the old Vaudeville routine later popularized by Abbott and Costello as ""who\'s on first"" which was done in this film but it lacked any spark of wit or timing. In fact, soon after they started their spiel, they just ended the routine--so prematurely that you are left frustrated. I knew that ""who\'s on first"" had been around for many years and used by many teams, but I really wanted to see Wheeler and Woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist.<br /><br />Once again, I have found yet another sub-par film by this duo. While I must admit that I liked a few of their films mildly (such as SILLY BILLIES and THE RAINMAKERS--which I actually gave 6\'s to on IMDb), this one was a major endurance test to complete--something that I find happens all too often when I view the films of Wheeler and Woolsey. Where was all the humor?!"'],
 ['576,"I was really hoping that this would be a funny show, given all the hype and the clever preview clips. And talk about hype, I even heard an interview with the show\'s creator on the BBC World Today - a show that is broadcast all over the world.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this show doesn\'t even come close to delivering. All of the jokes are obvious - the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame - and they are not given any new treatment or twist. All of the characters are one-dimensional. The acting is - well - mediocre (I\'m being nice). It\'s the classic CBC recipe - one that always fails.<br /><br />If you\'re Muslim I think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white characters, and if you\'re white you\'d probably be offended a little by the fact that almost all of the white characters are portrayed as either bigoted, ignorant, or both. Not that making fun of white people is a problem - most of the better comedies are rooted in that. It\'s only a problem when it isn\'t funny - as in this show.<br /><br />Canada is bursting with funny people - so many that we export them to Hollywood on a regular basis. So how come the producers of this show couldn\'t find any?"'],
 ['577,"First of all ""Mexican werewolf in Texas"" is not a werewolf movie. This title is bullcrap. The story is actually about a Chupacabra that kills all the local villagers in the little town of Furlough in Texas. I suppose the distributors renamed the original title so that it would make some extra bucks or something. And I guess it actually works because that\'s the reason why I bought this piece of crap, it sounded so stupid. Anyway the movie isn\'t any good. Actually it\'s bloody awful. But I didn\'t expect anything else when I bought it. It\'s a low budget horror movie with a Chupacabra monster. If you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog, actors and some gore then you should check into this movie. But I must warn you, this movie is really baaaaaaad.<br /><br />This movie has some of the worst acting I have ever seen. The actors try to hard and t it gets completely ridiculous. They almost never say a line in a normal way. They always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say. It\'s so stupid it almost looks like a freakin parody. It\'s like they shot each scene only one single time and were happy about it. The worst of them all is the blond girl which is supposed to play a bimbo. She\'s the worst of them all. I have never seen an actor as bad as her (And I\'ve seen Pteradactyl). Even when her boyfriend dies she can\'t stop being a bimbo about it. I hate her.<br /><br />Some of the shots in this movie were actually quite good. The ones that where shot in the daytime are all pretty decent for a low budget project. But most of the movie is shot in the night when the Chupacabra strikes and the lighting is way too dark. The gore scenes are few and short, but really grizzly and violent. The effects are pretty hilarious really, but that\'s the way I like it. The Chupacabra looks pretty messed up, and it\'s easy to see that it\'s a guy in suit.<br /><br />Overall this movie should only be watched by extreme fans of low budget flicks and it\'s very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bored to death. I recommend watching this flick with your friends and some beer."'],
 ['578,"This movie is so God-awful that it was literally a chore to watch. I wanted to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room, but kept thinking (foolishly) that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right. ""You lose, we win, yay!"" This movie should be required viewing for anyone who even once entertained the thought that Jackie Mason was funny. After that, beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape cracks. And if you\'re even considering renting this turd (or worse yet, have!) I have one thing to ask of you: didn\'t you even look at the cover? I mean, with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it is! ""Oy vey!"" This movie sucked."'],
 ['579,"The symbolic use of objects, form editing, the position of characters in the scene... these were all used with such joyous abandon by Hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he had. The way the wife moves from one corner of the ring to the other as the fight progresses, the editing when the wedding ring is placed on her finger... while these may seem a bit obvious by todays standards, in the silent era they spoke volumes about the story without a word being spoken. Even the title has a least four meanings that I can see; the boxing ring, the wedding ring, the bracelet the lover buys, and the love triangle at the heart of the story."'],
 ['580,"I found this movie to be very good in all areas. The acting was brilliant from all characters, especially Ms.Stone and Morissey. Tramell\'s Character just gets smarter and more psychologically twisted by the minute. The plot is interesting even though, this movie is more for the mind playing between the main characters and how Catherine continues her writing with new ways and twists for her novels. The setting was also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie was that mysterious,thriller like masterpiece. Go see this film now , it deserves better than what it got from the audience ,which was misled by some faulty terrible reviews about the movie(Before it even started).....You won\'t regret it,if you go see it..."'],
 ['581,"Rather like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen with their racing car movies this has all the appearance of a ""jollies"" project for Robert Redford, as he gets to ski up hill and down dale in the Alpine sunshine.<br /><br />The story is as light as powdered snow with Redford\'s small-town boy David Chappellet (what kind of lead name is that?) who with his eyes on the prize of Olympic glory, gets up the nose of, in no particular order, his coach, father and team-mates. Women are a mere side-show in his insular world as evidenced by a fairly distasteful pick-up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of, heavens above, a free-thinking, independent woman, played by Camilla Sparv. The ski-ing sequences are fine with some good stunt-work involving numerous bumps and scrapes on the piste but their effectiveness is dimmed by our subsequent familiarity with top TV coverage of skiing events down to the present day. Plus I\'m not convinced that the Winter Olympics has the same mass identification with the general public as the summer games so that when Redford eventually wins his gold medal in the final reel, I couldn\'t really be that excited for him one way or another.<br /><br />Of the actors, Redford, best profile forward, doesn\'t need to do much and indeed doesn\'t, while Gene Hackman does better with equally meagre material. Ms Sparv does well as the chief female interest well who treats Redford the way he\'s doubtless treated every other woman in his chauvinistic way.<br /><br />In truth though, there\'s a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequences don\'t fully compensate and you don\'t care a fig for any of the leading characters. One of those films where the actors probably enjoyed making it more than the viewers did watching it."'],
 ['582,"I would recommend this film to anyone who is searching for a relaxing, fun-filled, thought-provoking movie. The absence of sex, vulgarities and violence made for a most pleasant evening. I especially enjoyed the Buffalo scene, but that\'s probably because I live a short distance from there. Even so, this film could have been produced in any city; it\'s the theme that\'s so important here. I\'m just grateful that Manna From Heaven dropped down on us. Try it...you\'ll like it!"'],
 ['583,"This is an art film that was either made in 1969 or 1972 (the National Film Preservation Foundation says 1969 and IMDb says 1972). Regardless of the exact date, the film definitely appears to be very indicative of this general time period--with some camera-work and pop art stylings that are pure late 60s-early 70s.<br /><br />The film consists of three simple images that are distorted using different weird camera tricks. These distorted images are accompanied by music and there is absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort. This was obviously intended as almost like a form of performance art, and like most performance art, it\'s interesting at first but quickly becomes tiresome. The film, to put it even more bluntly, is a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who made the film, their family and friends and perhaps a few people just too hip and ""with it"" to be understood by us mortals."'],
 ['584,"I read the book and saw the movie. Both excellent. The movie is diamond among coals during this era. Liebman and Selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their characters without flaw. This film should have made them stars. Shame on the studio for not putting everything they had behind this film. It could have easily been a franchise. Release on DVD is a must and a worthy remake would revive this film. Look for it in your TV guide and if you see it listed, no matter how late, watch it. You won\'t be disappointed. Do yourself another favor - read the book (same title). It\'ll blow you away. Times have changed dramatically since those days, or at least we like to think they have."'],
 ['585,"A drifter looking for a job is mistaken for a hit man in a small Wyoming town, leading to all kinds of complications. Cage is perfectly cast as the unlucky schmuck hoping to make a quick buck and get out of town but finding he can\'t escape the title town. Hopper does what he does best, playing a psycho known as ""Lyle from Dallas,"" the real hit man. Walsh as a crooked sheriff and Boyle as a femme fatale round out the fine cast. The script by brothers John and Rick Dahl contains delicious twists and turns, and John\'s direction creates a terrific ""neo noir"" atmosphere. Witty and very entertaining, it sucks the viewer in from the start and never lets up."'],
 ['586,"I really liked this movie. I have seen several Gene Kelly flicks and this is one of his best. I would actually put it above his more famous American in Paris. Sometimes it seems the story gets lost in Gene Kelly movies to the wonderful dance and song numbers, but not in this movie. It is definitely worth renting."'],
 ['587,"Although promoted as one of the most sincere Turkish films with an amateur cast, Ice-cream, I Scream is more like a caricature of sincerity.<br /><br />The plot opens with the dream of Ali, a traveling ice-cream salesman in a Western Anatolia town, in which he sees himself becoming successful using the same marketing methods of big ice-cream companies. He dreams of playing in his product\'s TV commercial with beautiful models in bikinis, dancing around him. As his dream turns into a nightmare, he wakes up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife, who rejects to make sex with him for 6 years with no apparent reason. Is it because he is not successful in his job? Apparently, because he says he was selling better in the old days when there was no pressure from global ice-cream companies. But this is what he says; we actually don\'t see him suffer that much: he still sells good, traveling the neighboring villages while his apprentice stays at the shop, selling ice-cream to the people in the town. Ali blames big companies for using sweetening and coloring agents while he is using real ""sahlep"" (powdered roots of mountain orchids). Ali buys a motorbike with a bank loan to be a traveling vendor, and gives ads to a local TV channel which prefers to broadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect. His wife is not fond of his ways of doing business, they always quarrel, and Ali threatens her that he may do very bad things in a moment of frenzy.<br /><br />In a very successful day, his lousy bike is stolen by the misbehaving little boys of the town. In search of his stolen bike, Ali goes to the police, blames the big companies for the theft, but, of course, nobody takes him seriously. Annoyed by the nagging of his wife, Ali goes to a tavern and becomes drunk. One of his friends at his table, a wannabe socialist of the town, gives a didactic speech and criticizes globalism, and with no real connection, jumps to the subject of global freezing. Ali returns home and decides to kill himself with poison. His wife wakes up and prevents him. An old neighbor takes him to a night walk and advises him about life. According to him, Ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world faces with global freezing. When he returns home, suddenly we see that his wife understood his value, treating him like a hero and praising his manhood. Meanwhile, the thief boys got sick eating too much ice-cream. They confess to the doctor that they stole Ali\'s bike. Ali forgives them and there comes the happy end.<br /><br />Although the plot may look promising in a way, it\'s the story-telling which makes this film insincere and cheesy. First, the director doesn\'t show much of an effort to tell the story visually; everything is based on dialogs. And the dialogs never stop to show us that cinema is actually a visual art. Even Ali\'s troubles are not convincing because we don\'t see it, we just understand it from his words. The director markets his film as a righteous fight of Ali against big ice-cream companies, but there is nothing in the film about big companies. We don\'t see their pressure enough. The film actually ridicules Ali for believing that big companies are behind the theft. And when his motorbike is found, it solves every problem: Ali becomes a happy and powerful husband. Not a real criticism of globalism.<br /><br />Second, the film is cheesy because of the crude humor. Maybe the people of that part of Turkey is cursing so much and making so many vulgar jokes in their daily life, but vulgar language and crude humor are not enough to make a film funny. I may have accepted it if they were both vulgar and ""clever"" but they are not clever jokes at all, they are just cheesy. Maybe I\'m wrong, maybe American people may like oriental version of American Pie style humor. But American Pie never had any claim to be a nominee for the Oscars, or to have a political message! If you think that you can laugh by just seeing a man\'s big erection in his shorts (and we had to endure this joke twice!) or an old villager woman saying ""f**k you,"" then you may find this film funny."'],
 ['588,"Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the most famous comedy duo in history, and deservedly so, so I am happy to see any of their films. Ollie is recovering from a broken leg in hospital, and with nothing else to do, Stan decides to visit him, and take him some boiled eggs and nuts, instead of candy. Chaos begins with Stan curiously pulling Ollie\'s leg cast string, and manages to push The Doctor (Billy Gilbert) out the window, clinging on to it, getting Ollie strung up to the ceiling. When the situation calms down, Stan gets Ollie\'s clothes, as the Doctor wants them both to leave, and he also manages to sit on a syringe, accidentally left by the nurse, filled with a sleeping drug, which comes into effect while he is driving (which you can tell is done with a car in front of a large screen. Filled with some likable slapstick and not too bad (although repetitive and a little predictable) classic comedy, it isn\'t great, but it\'s a black and white film worth looking at. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were number 7 on The Comedians\' Comedian. Okay!"'],
 ['589,"OK I have to admit that I quite enjoyed House of the Dead despite its well documented failings. This however was the worst film I have seen since Demons at the Door. Compared to DATD the effects are vastly superior. However the plot is weak, the acting reminiscent of everyone\'s favourite, the porn film, and the decisions and actions of the ""characters"" consistently verge on the moronic. I feel like trying out Uwe Boll\'s latest cinematic outings just to get some sense of perspective over HOTD2. I am not suggesting that he is really the cure, more a case of a different disease, but when your senses have been insulted in such an abhorrent manner the only way is up. OK there it is. I have managed the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that is House of the dead 2."'],
 ['590,"I was -Unlike most of the reviewers- not born in the 80\'s. I was born on may 14th 1994. Despite this, my life was very much in the style of the 80\'s. When other kids had playstations, I was playing Zelda on my NES etc. Now, this movie holds a special place in my heart already despite me being only 15 years old at the time of writing this review. I, because of my 80\'s style early Childhood, watched many TV shows and saw Many movies that other kids didn\'t see, and this movie was one of those, and one of the greatest too.<br /><br />It starts off in the Los Angeles home of Alvin Seville, Simon Seville, Theodore Seville and David Seville. David, the Chipmunk\'s adoptive father, is in a rush to get to the airport as he is going on a business trip around Europe. His taxi is almost there and The Chipmunks help him pack. While they are talking, Alvin expresses his will to come with Dave and to see the world (Even though, technically Dave is only going to Europe, so to Alvin, apparently only America and Europe qualify as \'\'The World\'\'). David is leaving the Chipmunks in the care of Miss Miller, much to the displeasure of the boys. Soon Dave is off to the airport and the Chipmunks are left at home with Miss Miller. Later, at a local Café the Chipmunks are playing a game of \'\'Around the World in 30 days\'\' against the Chipettes(Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanore). After losing the game to Brittany after having his Hot air Balloon eaten out of the sky by a crocodile, Alvin get\'s in an argument with Brittany about who would really win a race around the world. Two diamond smugglers sitting at a nearby table, Klaus and Claudia Furschtien overhear their argument and, needing a safe way of transporting their diamonds over the world, decide to fool the children into delivering them for them. They set up a race around the world, where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness (Secretely filled with diamonds) at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the opposing team\'s likeness (secretely filled with the payment for the diamonds) to \'\'varify that they were there\'\'. The winning team would then receive a 100.000 dollar reward. They do this because they believe that Jamal (An Interpol agent who has been hot on their heels for some times now) would never suspect them because they are just kids (However, this seems to be redundant, because on their travels, the kids do not have to go through any security checks and are never even questioned about the dolls, I suspect that neither would Klaus or Claudia if they had taken the diamonds there personally.) And so begins a great adventure. This film is a classic and I see no reason why anyone would not like it. It features great animation and top-notch voice acting, not to mention the Kick-ass music (Pardon my french :P). My favorite song is without a shred of doubt \'\'The Girls and Boys of Rock and Roll\'\' An amazing rock song that cannot be topped. It\'s also my favorite moment in the film. Other notable songs include \'\'Getting Lucky\'\'(Kind of Suggestive for a kid\'s film eh?) and \'\'My Mother\'\' as well as \'\'Wooly Bully\'\' and \'\'Off to see the world\'\' Not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credits performed by the Royal London Philharmonic Orchestra. The scene with \'\'My mother\'\' still brings a tear to my eye. In relation to the song \'\'Getting Lucky\'\' I first didn\'t think anything of it, but when I grew older and learned about life, it became clear that that song was a little bit suggestive. That song, along with the fact that the animators insist on the audience knowing the color of the Chipettes panties. This is especially apparent in the scene in Egypt when the Chipettes are being chased by the Arabian Prince\'s men, when Eleanor leans over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely. While this does nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film, it\'s one of those unexplained things like why nobody in the world seems to mind that there are 4-feet tall Chipmunks walking around and speaking in incredibly high-pitched voices and treat them just like they would any human child. Anyway, A bit after that scene, the Chipettes discover the diamonds in the dolls and decide to go find the Chipmunks and get home. The Direction of Janice Karman perfects this movie as she and her husband, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. know the characters better than anyone. They even do the voices of the Chipmunks and the Chipettes. Ross doing the voices for Alvin and Simon (as well as Dave) and Janice doing the voices for All the Chipettes and Theodore. Speaking of male characters that are voiced by female voice actresses, Nancy Cartwright (The voice of Bart Simpson) makes an appearance in this movie. She plays the part of the Arabian Prince, a very small, but important role. The ending is of course, a happy one. The Crooks have been caught, the loose ends tied and The film ends when the Children, Dave and Miss Miller are driving into the sunset, Alvin complaining about not having gotten his 100.000 dollar reward for winning the race, which annoys Dave until he finally yells \'\'ALVIN!\'\' and the screen fades to black<br /><br />Classic ending, by the way. I hope you found my review of this movie useful, and if you haven\'t seen this flick, give it a watch, It\'s worth the money. This Nostalgic classic from the 80\'s gets a solid 10 out of 10. <br /><br />\'\'Headin\' for the top, Don\'t you know! we never stop believing now\'\'"'],
 ['591,"Just when I thought I would finish a whole year without giving a single movie a ""Bomb"" rating, a friend brought this notorious turd to my house last night. I feared the worst knowing its reputation, and it was as God-awful as I\'d anticipated. This is a Mexican-made mess, dubbed into English, and produced by K. Gordon Murray. It\'s got terrible sets and effects, and features a rather frightening Santa who doesn\'t operate at the North Pole, but instead from a cloud in outer space, and who doesn\'t have little elves helping him make his toys but rather all different groups of children from practically every country there is. The opening sequence, where St. Nick chuckles heartily as he observes monitors showing all these kiddies working hard while singing terrible holiday songs in a variety of languages, seems to go on forever, and with no story. Obviously, THIS Santa Claus doesn\'t observe the child labor laws!<br /><br />Eventually we get some nasty and slinky red-suited apprentice of the devil himself traveling from hell to Earth, just to make little kids naughty and turn Santa\'s Christmas Eve rounds into a nightmare. Watching this movie is a trippy and twisted experience, and it\'s bound to frighten little children and turn them off Santa Claus and the holidays forever. Oddly, the name of Jesus Christ is mentioned often in this Christmas film, which somehow makes it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre things that are going on. This easily makes my personal list of the ""Worst Movie I\'ve Ever Seen"", but I\'m sure that\'s nothing unique."'],
 ['592,"As is often the case when you attempt to take a 400 plus page book and cram it into a two hour film, a lot is lost. Here director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) takes on an extremely ambitious project and almost pulls it off. What we get is a charming and emotionally compelling film that seems somehow incomplete.<br /><br />There is much about this film that is wonderful and fantastic. The cinematography by John Toll (Cinematographer for Braveheart and Legends of the Fall, winning Oscars for both) is splendid. Working with Madden, the choices for locations on the Greek island of Kefallonia are superb and the visual images that come from photographing these majestic locations in varying light are lush and beautiful. Madden also uses numerous Greek actors as the townspeople, giving the town an authentic feel. The soundtrack is also terrific and the mandolin passages and vocals by the Italian soldiers are marvelous.<br /><br />Madden does an excellent job of bringing us the Italian occupation and the romance, which take up the greater part of the film. There are numerous sweet and funny moments throughout this segment. However, by the time the serious battle drama is ready to unfold, there isn\'t much film left in the reel and this component is extremely rushed and abbreviated. While the battle scenes are well done, subsequent to the battle it is obvious that increasingly greater compromises are being made to keep the film from running too long. By the time we reach the post war scenes, the treatment is merely skeletal. Another negative is that the DVD is particularly sparse on features.<br /><br />Nicholas Cage is charming in the romantic lead as the sentimental Captain who seems to have joined the army to sing rather than fight. When fight he must, Cage switches gears seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remains believable in both personas.<br /><br />Penelope Cruz, whom the camera loves, gives an uninspired performance as Pelagia. In part this is because Cage so dominates the screen, but Cruz just seems too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic. She allows the character to be objectified as Corelli\'s love interest rather than establishing her as a powerful character in her own right.<br /><br />John Hurt gives a fantastic performance as the wise old doctor, who knows as much about human nature as medicine. However, Christian Bale seems a bit overwrought and stiff as Pelagia\'s fiancé.<br /><br />I rated this film an 8/10. Despite some drawbacks, this is a touching film that is well worth seeing. The photography alone is worth the price of admission."'],
 ['593,"My father grew grew up watching George Reeves as Superman and when I was a little kid he had episodes on VHS and let me view them including this movie (passing them down in the family if you will), and I loved it.<br /><br />Clark Kent and Lois Lane get sent to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and targeted by the town assumed to be deadly and it\'s up to Superman to stop this mayhem.<br /><br />It\'s just so wonderful and fun to view. The old style special effects and sound - the crew pulled off such a beauty with such little technology. George Reeves was my hero when I was a little kid, and I\'m 16 now, it just goes to show how timeless and classic these adventures are."'],
 ['594,This unpretentious Horror film is probably destined to become a cult classic. Much much better than 90% of the Scream rip-offs out there! I even hope they come up with a sequel!'],
 ['595,"I read the book before watching the movie and it left me emotionally drained but I felt that it truly transported me to Afghanistan, a culture I know very little about. I had great hopes for this movie and it did not disappoint. I watched this with someone who didn\'t read the book and he also enjoyed it. They had to shorten some things in the movie but it was a well acted and well shot film. It leaves you thinking about the movie long after it is over. You feel for the characters and their plights. I highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally draining drama and want to experience Afghani culture. There are some disturbing scenes not suitable for children to watch. It is a heavy drama depicting the horrors of life under a restrictive regime."'],
 ['596,"Years ago, Sara, a young girl witnessed her parents being murdered, now as an adult she suffers from various mental ailments (did I mention she has an imaginary friend?) This film lulls the viewer, not into a sense of tension, mind you, but rather a sense of sleepiness. Deathly boring, I found it hard to sit through as I could feel my eyelids growing heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and supposed \'mystery\'. Is Sara going crazy? or is it the paranormal? A better question would be, Who cares? And the answer to that, no one. No one at all. Skip this film, save yourself some time better suited to do other more worthwhile tasks.<br /><br />My Grade: D-"'],
 ['597,"In short if you want to watch Burt Reynolds best films than this one must be included. If you don\'t like Burt you may still like this. If you love Burt this may become one of your favorite movies of all time! Being from Atlanta it does hit home but it\'s also nice to see a cop/action/drama that takes place somewhere other than NY City, Chicago, Miami, or LA. The film is funny at points with & good plot & good performances from a great supporting cast (every character is real & the bad guys are not so one sided they are really well thought out)A nice offbeat romance in the 2nd half & it has some good old fashion shootouts & fistfights (no CGI thank God REAL ACTION!)<br /><br />If Clint Eastwood did his best impression of a Burt Reynolds movie with ""Every Which Way But Loose"" & ""Any Which Way You Can"" then Burt responded with his best Clint type flick with this, & it comes off great!"'],
 ['598,"I have watched Love Jones over thirty times. It is one of the rare films that depict a love story about people who happen to be African-Americans. The dialogue was realistically written, and delivered with honesty. It was so nice to see a film where the story line centered on young professional African-Americans. This is virtually an untapped market. Love Jones was visually captivating as well. The chemistry between Lorenz Tate and Nia Long will bring memories of past and present love. The feeling of the film is jazz and blues, and brings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of Kahlua and Butterscotch. If you hadn\'t guessed, I loved it!"'],
 ['599,"The basic genre is a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menage-a-trois. Fellowes has tried to make a lot more out of this, using the lies of the title in order to bring about all manner of small twists, invariably designed to surprise the characters more than the audience.<br /><br />It\'s really rather messy though. Fellowes doesn\'t seem interested presenting the thriller elements in a fashion that will keep us seat-edged. Rather his focus is on the moral predicaments themselves.<br /><br />The dialogue is inconsistent, stagey here, vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional cliché-landmine. Though there is no fussing over the locations so that the actors can get on with existing in their space the dreadful score can\'t create a further dimension and often works against the emotional momentum of given set pieces. There\'s also a very prosaic, dare I say it British feel to the filming. I didn\'t want to see a document of two successful middle class people caught in an extraordinary situation, I wanted to see some sort of artful recounting of the story.<br /><br />Finally it is, in fact, the story which lets the rest down. Just as the elements of suspense are rather flat so the story is an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shapes and sizes, woven as a vehicle for character examination. Wilkinson and Watson support this meta-essay with good performances and John Warnaby\'s ebullient colleague Simon to Wilkinson is a welcome foil for much of the brow-furrowing.<br /><br />I\'m disappointed; not that it\'s bad, but that it could have been much better. 3/10"'],
 ['600,"This is absolutely the best movie I have ever watched. At the age of 12 I was up late and ran across the movie. It was on the USA channel, Gilbert Godfrey\'s Up All Night. I will never forget. At the time my friends and I were really struggling with different issues, some sexual. You know 12 is a very rough and weird age. It seems you are stuck in between being a little girl, and being a young lady. This movie really helped to answer a lot of questions for me. I now have a daughter that is 12. Have been searching for a couple years for this movie. If it ever does come out on DVD I would be the first to buy. Would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age."'],
 ['601,"Holes is an awesome movie. I love it a lot and it\'s one of my favorite films. It\'s one of the few flicks produced by Disney that isn\'t cheesy. Holes is generally a very cool motion picture. I wish Disney would make more pictures like it. Holes is indeed a rare breed of Disney flicker shows that is cool. Don\'t get the wrong idea, I don\'t mean to bad mouth Disney but most of it\'s stuff is aimed towards kids and THAT\'S OKAY. Children deserve to have their entertainment too. But Disney has been guilty of trying to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail. But not with Holes. It\'s the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it\'s corny. Really, it\'s the kind of movie that even a lot of young hoods might enjoy since there are characters in it that they can relate to.<br /><br />Holes does a good job of being a mix of good family entertainment but not being too cheesy and living a little on the edge. I hope Disney takes more risks and makes more edgy flicks like this."'],
 ['602,"I cannot hate on the show. When the old (and better) tech TV had to hit the bricks, the channel was reformatted and new shows stepped in. ""Attack of the Show"" is the replacement for the Screen Savers, with 3 co-hosts in the beginning. They were Kevin Rose, Kevin Pereira and Sarah Lane. Brendan Moran came to be something of a co-host as well, but he mostly did prerecorded pieces for the show. Kevin Rose decided to leave the show, and eventually there was a contest to see who would be the third host, but that didn\'t pan out for some reason.<br /><br />Eventually (I just learned this from this very IMDb messageboard) Sarah Lane and Brendan Moran moved on because (hey, this is what I read) the two got married. That was a big secret to me! Now there is a new female co-host, the not-as-hot (my opinion) Olivia Munn. She\'s hiding something in those tops she wears, while Sarah Lane had a perfect body and she wasn\'t afraid to show it.<br /><br />AHEM! Sorry.<br /><br />""Attack of the Show"" deals with everything young people want to know about. It\'s music, movies, comic books, the internet and television. This is what\'s great about the show. If you don\'t want to bother with scouring the net or waste time watching MTV, you can get all you want on AOTS. Some segments and bits they do are funny. They have regular guests and contributors who are in the industry, as well as guests who range from insignificant internet stars to actual big names.<br /><br />Even though the hosts aren\'t as geek as I\'d like them to be, I still have found ""Attack of the Show"" to be entertaining, even with its latest lineup."'],
 ['603,"Worst DCOM I have seen. Ever. Well, maybe not as bad as Smart House. This was just bad. The acting and story was fine, but the effects SUCKED!<br /><br />They were so fake! The only good fight scene was between the brother and Shen. That was probably the only scene in which I was excited.<br /><br />Overall, I found this movie very boring and the film kind of ended suddenly. <br /><br />I will give it a four for Brenda Song who is a very funny actress and that one fight scene.<br /><br />4/10"'],
 ['604,"its awful i cant believe that one of the greatest nonsenses in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of millions of people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a movie which has no story,again shahrukh khan has been appeared on the screen with nothing new the same as usual he is trying to make you cry by start scrambling his head for thousands of times,i think this is to much,pretty zinta spouse to act the character of a Pakistani girl i didn\'t know that there is enough facilities in Pakistan for the Pakistani girls to do so many plastic surgeries on their face and also there are enough make up facilities??!! and also i didn\'t know that an Indian can cross the March\'s between both countries,go to Pakistan and start dancing and singing may be Pakistani soldier\'s were sleeping!!!!!!!!!"'],
 ['605,"Some people may call ""Cooley High"" the same sort of thing as ""American Graffiti"", but I wouldn\'t. For starters, in ""AG"", everyone was white, whereas in ""CH"" they\'re all black. Moreover, this one has a Motown soundtrack. Specifically, the movie focuses on several working-class African-American students in 1964 Chicago and their antics. The movie deals mainly with home life and relationships. In their apartments, we see that there\'s never any dad around. But these young men always know how to live life to the fullest.<br /><br />One thing that really distinguishes this movie from most other portrayals of black people is that the teenagers in this movie are portrayed as very responsible, worrying about missing school. Two really funny scenes are the gorilla scene, and the one white guy in the movie. But overall, the main star is the soundtrack. It is truly one of the best soundtracks in movie history (we even have it on vinyl here at home). A classic in the real sense of the word."'],
 ['606,"So wonderful, so quirky, so romantic, so Italian. The film is so feather -light you float off into its refracted reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again. A kitchen sink world of bakeries, and hairdressers, and plumbing, but one that shimmers with a soft luminescence. Should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction? Take your pick -- they\'re both faultless. Let me get back to that New York City that lies just beyond the looking glass."'],
 ['607,"This film is, quite simply, brilliant. The cinematography is good, the acting superb and the story absolutely breathtaking. This is the story of Donald Woods, a white South African who thought himself a liberal until he found out the reality of apartheid. Kevin Kline is completely convincing - so much so that when Donald Woods himself appeared on TV some years later, I recognised him from Kline\'s portrayal. Denzel Washington also turns in a masterful performance, as ever.<br /><br />I urge you to watch this. It is long, but it is worth your patience because it tells such an incredible story. Remember, folks, this really happened."'],
 ['608,"I have recently seen this production on DVD. It is the first time I have seen it since it was originally broadcast in 1983 and it was just as good as I remembered. At first as was worried it would seem old fashioned and I suppose it is a little dated and very wordy as the BBC serials were back then. (I miss those wonderful costume dramas that seemed to be always on Sunday afternoons back then) But that aside it is as near perfect as it could have been. I am a bit of a ""Jane Eyre"" purist as it is my favourite book and have never seen another production that is a faithful to the book as this one. I have recently re-read the book as well and some of the dialogue is just spot on. Reading the scene near the end where Rochester questions Jane about what St John was like I noticed their words were exactly reproduced on screen by Dalton and Clarke and done perfectly. <br /><br />All the other productions that have been done all seem lacking in some way, some even leave out the ""Rivers"" family and their connection to Jane altogether. I also think this is the only production to include the ""Gypsy"" scene done correctly.<br /><br />The casting is perfect, Zelah Clarke is like Jane is described in the book ""small plain and dark"" and I disagree that she looked too old. Timothy Dalton may be a little too handsome but he is absolutely perfect as Rochester, portraying every aspect of his character just right and acting his socks off! I agree with other comment that he even appears quite scary at time, like in the scene when he turns around slowly at the church when the wedding is interrupted, his expression is fantastically frightening. But then in another favourite scene his joy is wonderful to see when Jane runs down the stairs and into his arms the morning after they declare their love for one another. A love that is wonderfully portrayed and totally believable. Oh to be loved by a man like that! There were a couple of scenes that were strangely missing however, like when Jane climbs in to bed with the dying Helen and also when Rochester takes Jane shopping for her wedding things (I thought that one was in it but maybe my memory is playing tricks).<br /><br />Finally if you never see another production of Jane Eyre - you simply most see this one it is simply perfection!"'],
 ['609,"In a time of bad, if not plain awful, comedies, King of Queens is more than just a breath of fresh air, it\'s a complete oxygen tank! It is in my opinion one of the 5 best comedy shows of all times. Nothing has been this good since Married with Children. Kevin James and Jerry Stiller are comic geniuses! And believe me, it takes a lot to make me label someone as comic genius. These guys truly understand what is funny. I could watch ten episodes of Seinfeld and wouldn\'t get half the laughs from seeing KOQ just once. Other funny people in this show are Carrie, Janet Heffernan, Spence and Doug Pruzan (Carrie\'s boss). I\'m so happy they managed to get so many seasons from this gem. The show has been a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic losers. Check it out if you haven\'t!!"'],
 ['610,"PREY <br /><br />Aspect ratio: 1.37:1<br /><br />Sound format: Mono<br /><br />A lesbian couple (Sally Faulkner and Glory Annan) living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man (Barry Stokes) who turns out to be a flesh-eating alien, the vanguard of a massive invasion...<br /><br />Despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing, Norman J. Warren\'s follow-up to SATAN\'S SLAVE (1976) amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts, thanks to a surprisingly complex script by Max Cuff (apparently, his only writing credit): Faulkner and Annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the English countryside (rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by Derek V. Browne\'s eye-catching cinematography), though Annan\'s discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one (or both) of these doe-eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed, which may explain the absence of their respective families, some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and \'left\' under mysterious circumstances. Stokes\' unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray, partly because Faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because Annan is attracted to him, creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence. There\'s an extraordinary, multi-layered sequence in which Faulkner attempts to \'emasculate\' their clueless visitor by dressing him in women\'s clothing, though Stokes\' alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery.<br /><br />In the early scenes, at least, the relationship between Faulkner and Annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity, but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd-pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude, culminating in an explosion of horror when Annan allows herself to be ravished by Stokes following a violent argument with Faulkner. The closing sequences are (quite literally) gut-wrenching, especially Annan\'s final scene, which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in 1977 and never fully restored (what remains is still pretty vivid, so brace yourselves!). Excellent performances by the three leads, bolstered by Warren\'s unobtrusive direction, which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations, thereby compensating for the film\'s budgetary shortcomings. Originally released in the US as ALIEN PREY."'],
 ['611,"The tourist season has just ended on a remote island off the coast of Scotland, winter is beginning to set in and the inhabitants, both humans and sheep alike are settling down to much quieter times ahead. Michael Gaffikin (James Warwick) a former paratrooper in the British Army, is the local dentist, he\'s not an islander by birth and as such his relationship with local artist and cartographer Fiona Patterson (Celia Imrie) is always being viewed with a little suspicion, not maliciously, but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin. The islands serenity is broken when Gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf finds the headless remains of a brutally slain woman. He immediately reports his gruesome find to Insp Inskip(Maurice Roëves) at the islands police station, Inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local GP, Dr Goudry, for closer inspection. A quick search for the killer proves fruitless, as does a search for a missing local woman. Over dinner that night with Michael Gaffikin, Fiona realises that the dead woman might be Sheila Anderson, a woman from the mainland, who lives on the island through the winter months. A quick search at her home Dove Cottage reveals the missing remains of her body, her home proving to be the murder scene, but why did the killer drag her torso over a mile into the woods? Suspicion immediately falls on the one stranger left on the island, one Colonel Howard (Jonathan Newth)who also happened be the last person to see her alive as they came across on the last ferry together.<br /><br />Goudry asks Gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victims body, it reveals that she had been torn apart my somebody or something with great strength, one set of teeth marks on the body seem to point at a human killer, another points to that of an unknown animal of some kind. A sheep is found mutilated and then a Canadian ornithologist is found slain. With a heavy fog rolling in, the island is cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help, the radio also doesn\'t work, seemingly being blocked and the phone lines have been cut. Reports of UFO\'s and the sighting of a camouflaged soldier are compounded by the finding of an odd looking craft hidden behind rocks on the beach. Inskip is confused and refuses to listen to anything but the facts and laughs off Gaffikin\'s idea that aliens might be involved, but a rise in radioactive levels on the island, has him doubting himself.<br /><br />The Nightmare Man is based on the novel, Child of the Vodyanoi by David Wiltshire, it is here adapted by Dr Who and Blake\'s 7 scriptwriter Robert Holmes and directed by Douglas Camfield who also had directing experience on both Sci/Fi classics and the film benefits from having such experienced genre experts on board. The Nightmare Man though is on the whole, a succinctly better crafted piece, that builds its plot alongside solid character development, even down to the minor characters, time is given to giving them all a firm background. The island setting is perhaps a genre cliché that has been used over and over, but its one that I enjoy very much, the remoteness, the sense of being under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it is given an extra oomph by having an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all efforts. In many genre efforts of this kind it is very easy for proceedings to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama, but credit to Camfield, he holds it all together with the emphasis being on believability at all times. There is an authenticity about proceedings, the characters even speaking Gaelic at times to further this point. If there is one negative about the killer its that, we are given his/her/its POV for the killings, an acceptable cliché on its own, but when seen through a red filter and a fish eye lens, it just screams of overkill and dates the film just a little. Still though you will be hard pressed to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the species of the killer, given the clues presented, but it\'s a fun and very well acted piece. The local Scottish cast are exceptional, the local bobbies Roeves and Cosmo in particular spar well off each other and are a delight to behold. Imrie, never one i\'ve taken to in other works, is also pretty good and displays hew womanly physique as if she were in a Hammer production. The outlandish, maybe even preposterous ending may irk some viewers, it disappointed me in some ways, but taking into account when it was made, its an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it, is even more terrifying."'],
 ['612,"This review also contains a spoiler of the first movie -- so if you haven\'t seen either movie and want to but don\'t want the spoilers, please don\'t read this review!<br /><br />While this movie is supposed to be about Christian and Kathryn meeting for the first time, the movie is a poor copy of the first Cruel Intentions. The actors that they had portray Ryan Phillippe\'s Christian and Sarah Michelle Gellar\'s Kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed. Neither can pull off the smarmy, snooty rich-kid attitude that the original actors did. It\'s absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim -- not so much between Christian and Kathryn, but if you listen closely enough you\'ll recognize it. There are also inconsistencies in the plot - if this were truly the first meeting of Christian and Kathryn, then why is it that Christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie? He supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie (with Reese Witherspoon\'s character).<br /><br />Also, the tie-in with the photography/""You could be a model"" comment at the end was totally lame and didn\'t add anything at all. Overall, this movie was a waste of time. I can\'t believe they made a Cruel Intentions 3."'],
 ['613,"This movie is ridiculous. It\'s attempting to be a comedy but the screenplay is horrible. The whole movie is done in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it\'s a comedy. Truly is bad cinematography. You really have to sit there and watch it to realize there\'s a few jokes here and there going on but either way they\'re all inside jokes amongst themselves. This is more like a wannabe drama flick that went bad. It really is a very pointless movie.Their expressions reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turns out that way anyway. Unless you want to be bored out of your ass, I suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie."'],
 ['614,"In dramatising Wilde\'s novel, John Osborne has condensed events, eliminated a number of characters, and generally implied rather than shown Dorian\'s essential wickedness. If you want a more explicit rendering, see the 1945 film. Wilde and Robert Louis Stevenson lived in about the same time frame, but were certainly vastly different men and writers. This story really treats of a theme similar to Stevenson\'s ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", but note that Wilde chose to treat his story as fantasy, whereas RLS took the scientific route. Both the protagonists are men in whom good wars with evil, with evil winning in the end.<br /><br />The actors in this BBC movie, take a different route, too, from those in the 1945 film. John Gielgud says all the same caustic and cynical quips as George Sanders, in his role really projecting Wilde himself, but with a subtle difference. You\'ll suspect that Sanders really believed what he was saying, but Gielgud may be saying what is expected of him rather than what he sincerely believes. Peter Firth, too, shows the two sides of his character in restrained fashion, but then we don\'t get to see as many of his escapades as Hurd Hatfield had a chance to display.<br /><br />It\'s a very good production, with the dramatisation reflecting the essentials of the novel, if not all of its ramifications."'],
 ['615,"It starts out like a very serious social commentary which quickly makes one think of other Clark movies like Kids, Bully, etc. But then just as quickly, it unravels into a direction-less mess. Who is the main character? Is this a serious film or some Gregg Araki-esquire over the top goofy film? Is this a skate documentary with moments of dialog inserted? I have no clue. I found myself watching the clock and wonder when this turd was going to end. I kept thinking there would be some big shocker culmination which never came. I cut a good 20 minutes out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scenes. Yes, it illustrates the changing landscape between the have\'s have not\'s. I got it way back in the beginning. Kids and Bully was done in such a way that I actually felt like I was observing the realities of that group of friends. Wassup felt very staged, poorly constructed and ever worse acting. Teenage Caveman, which Larry didn\'t write but did direct, was terrible. But at least it felt like it was suppose to be a terrible movie that didn\'t take itself seriously. Wassup Rockers was just plain bad."'],
 ['616,"This is my first Deepa Mehta film. I saw the film on TV in its Hindi version with its ""Sita"" character presented as Nita. I also note that it is Radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not Nita/Sita. Yet what I loved about the film was its screenplay by Ms Mehta, not her direction. The characters, big and small, were well-developed and seemed quixotic towards the end--somewhat like the end of Mazursky\'s ""An Unmarried Woman."" They are brave women surrounded by cardboard men. And one cardboard man (Ashok) seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him---carrying his invalid mother Biji. He seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion. <br /><br />Ms Mehta seems to fumble as a director (however, compared to most Indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant) as she cannot use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the Chinese micro-minority in the social milieu of India. She even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter (not her father!) Yet her Radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field. Compare her to Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Muzaffar Ali and she is dwarfed by these giants--given her competent Canadian production team and financial resources! Mehta\'s film of two bisexual ladies in an Indian middle-class household may be sacrilege to some, but merely captures the atrophy of middle-class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space. Kannada, Malayalam, and Bengali films have touched parallel themes in India but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers.<br /><br />Ms Das, Ms Azmi, Mr Jafri and Mr Kharbanda are credible but not outstanding. Ms Azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors (Mrinal Sen\'s ""Khandar"", Gautam Ghose\'s ""Paar"", Benegal\'s ""Ankur"") a brilliance notably absent in this film. Ms Das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability. All in all, the film\'s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema. I am sure Ms Mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays."'],
 ['617,"All the way though i was thinking to myself ""Oh god why!"" At the very beginning i thought ""Right it might be average,"" but the acting and plot on most parts was atrocious.<br /><br />Every part in it was so predictable, even though the first movie seemed to bare a large resemblance to the ring, it was a half decent movie, but this just seemed to take all the good things about the first and made them terrible. Some bits made everyone in the audience wet themselves, Eg. The part were Geller falls off the building had me in stitches. My girlfriend had to keep telling me to quiet down i was kept commenting on what was bound to happen next, and more times than less i was right.<br /><br />Why does going into the house make her come after you, it doesn\'t make sense. It was a poor excuse for a lot of killings, and no really depth was seen at all.<br /><br />You can see everything coming, which just left you feeling that there was no point in watching. Oh shes behind her ... didn\'t see that one coming *yawns*.<br /><br />Surely these people must have thought to... oh i don\'t know, carry a knife round or at least try and fight back, instead of being eaten but someone hair? At best during the movie i was very mildly scared (and i mean mildly), i was just crying out for the credits, as they rolled i exhaled a short ""Oh thank god."" If you haven\'t already, don\'t waste your\' time and money on this; pointless, plot less, sorry excuse for a sequel!"'],
 ['618,"At 2:37, a high school student commits suicide. Not shown who has taken their lives or reasons known, time skips back to the start of the day. From here we follow six separate students; Marcus, Melody, Luke, Steven, Sarah and Sean. Each student is struggling with their own moral dilemmas, all reaching boiling point, hitting to an end for one.<br /><br />After losing a friend to suicide, and surviving his own suicide attempt, writer/director Murali K. Thalluri has created a revetting drama focusing on teen life and the horrible act of suicide. Suicide has been a topic that has been kept in the shadows, 2:37 is Thalluri\'s attempt to bring it to light. If you have been touched by the act of suicide or anyone who has, 2:37 becomes all the harder to view.<br /><br />With heavy and hard subject matter, Thalluri also tackles everyday teenage life crisis\'s. Sex, pregnancy, sexual identity, bullying, friendship, Thalluri manages and shows them in an extremely realistic manner. The factor on Thalluri\'s talent is his subtlety. He respect his subject and the problems that everyone will have suffered through at sometime. It verges near documentary at times, it has such a painful realism; the interviews with each character spliced through the film only heightens this.<br /><br />2:37 has a distinctive similarity to Gus Van Sants film Elephant. While the core of each film is different, both tackle teen life. Like Sant, Thalluri utilizes long tracking shots, with time skipping back and forth, to show each characters interaction from different perspectives. A defining point to Elephant was its ethereal ambiance. With spare conversation, little development of characters, and the long tracking shots, Sant created a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a coming dread. While there resides this dread in 2:37, the emotional connection to the characters reaches a higher level Sant couldn\'t reach. As time goes by, each characters fragility creeps out, dragging you along their emotional roller-coaster.<br /><br />The real hit in this film comes with the inevitable suicide, foretold at the very beginning. The hard part about this scene is the complete intrusion and discomfort we have as an audience watching someones life end in a gruesome fashion. Though many films that have shown suicide, gloss over the act or romanticizes the act. Thalluri shows the pain and agony involved with this act and that its not the best solution. With unknowns in the leads and their first major roles; Teresa Palmereach, Frank Sweet, Joel Mackenzie, Marni Spillane, Charles Baird and Sam Harris all show immense talent and promising acting careers.<br /><br />Compelling and revetting, 2:37 is an absolutely unmissable film."'],
 ['619,"The quote above just about says it all for ""Slipstream"". I should have bailed out of this film after the first half hour, but decided I ought to be fair and give it a chance. I won\'t watch it again, so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clichéd lines in the movie, I\'m sure it will set a record.<br /><br />Some otherwise fine and talented actors got mixed up with this clunker; Mark Hamill portrays a futuristic bounty hunter and Bill Paxton is his quarry. Paxton\'s character has hijacked Hamill\'s prisoner, an android taking his name from the poet Byron (Bob Peck). Tasker (Hamill) shoots Owens (Paxton) with a dart containing a tracking device so he and his companion Belitski (Kitty Aldridge) can keep tabs on the pair. The real question though is why didn\'t he just fire the device at Byron thereby cutting out the middleman.<br /><br />If you enjoy scene after disjointed scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense, then I suppose you\'ll find something of interest here. But you can\'t convince me that the film makes sense on any level. Scenes of a futuristic Stone Age make way for high society snobbery, but the pinnacle of poor taste is reached when Paxton\'s character is displayed following a night of revelry with hickeys all over his torso. If anyone thinks there\'s some hidden meaning here, you\'re really stretching.<br /><br />Patiently waiting for the frame proclaiming ""The End"" to come into view, alas, even that was denied. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is understanding; this movie had neither. Yet there was a single redeeming feature as the closing credits began their run - an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloons. Apparently the film was keeping them afloat."'],
 ['620,"Director Edward Sedgwick, an old hand at visual comedy, successfully leads this Hal Roach road show which tenders a fast-moving and adroit scenario and excellent casting, employing a large number of Roach\'s reliable performers. Although the film was originally plotted as a vehicle for Patsy Kelly, sunny Jack Haley stars as Joe Jenkins, a young Kansan who sells his auto repair business and journeys to Hollywood, where he attempts to wangle a screen role for the girl he loves, star-struck Cecilia (Rosina Lawrence). Sedgwick, who prefers using the entire M-G-M studio as his set, does so here as Cecilia, always ready for an audition, is treated by a would-be paramour, cinema star Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), to behind-the-scenes action of, naturally, a musical comedy, featuring Broadway headliner Lyda Roberti. Laurel and Hardy provide several enjoyable interludes, including their well-known skit involving a tiny harmonica, and we watch fine turns by such as Joyce Compton, Russell Hicks and Walter Long. On balance, one must hand the bays to Mischa Auer, who clearly steals the picture as an emotional movie star, a role which he largely creates, and to the director for his clever closing homage to Busby Berkeley\'s filmic spectacles."'],
 ['621,"The jokes are obvious, the gags are corny, and the characters are walking characatures - but I couldn\'t stop from laughing at his highly entertaining movie. No matter how many times I see it, I still get a kick out of this one, and I recommend it highly for all lovers of mindless entertainment. It contains many quotable moments, and some of the best sight-gags I\'ve seen to this day. If you\'ve had a bad week and you need a chuckle, rent this one on your way home Friday night to give your weekend a good start."'],
 ['622,"These slasher pics are past their sell by date, but this one is good fun.<br /><br />The valentine cards themselves are witty, and well thought out.<br /><br />The film has one Peach of a line... ""He\'s no Angel...."" when he in fact IS Angel!!! Watching Buffy reruns will never be the same!<br /><br />The cast is a sizzling display of young talent, but the story does not give them enough real depth. Denise Richards on the DVD extras seemed to think the girls on set bonded well together and this would give the feeling that you empathised with their characters. Sorry but NO!<br /><br />The direction is very good, managing to show very little actual gore, and relying on your imaginations implied threat. Much can be said also for the similar manner in which Miss Richards and Heigel do not remove their clothes...:-(<br /><br />Essentially, the main directorial plus, lies within the ""borrowing"" of various other ideas from previous slasher flicks. Psycho\'s shower scene is tributed, along with Halloween\'s ""masking"". <br /><br />Murdering someone hiding in a bodybag though is a pretty original one as far as I know!!!<br /><br />Light viewing, not very scary but a few good jump moments. If it was a choice between The Hole and this though, choose The Hole. Slasher movies have had their day, and this is just another slasher. A very good slasher, but nothing groundbreaking!!!"'],
 ['623,"The only reason I gave this episode of ""Masters of Horror"" a 2 instead of a 1 is because the two lead actors are good, and it wasn\'t shot on VHS. The story, the dialog, and the plot are ridiculous. <br /><br />Talking / Driving zombies who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war! Give me a break! What next, zombies who come back to go skydiving? Maybe zombies who come back to host QVC shows? <br /><br />I never supported the Iraq war, but I do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and women of our armed forces; and ""Homecoming"" was disrespectful in that it mocks the TRUE horror of war. <br /><br />With zombies being mass produced in today\'s market... this is the SPAM of zombie-related entertainment. How ""Homecoming"" made it onto ""Masters of Horror"" is beyond me."'],
 ['624,"Like most, I thought \'another crocodile movie\'. So far we\'ve had Primeval and Rogue in the last 12 months, what can they do that\'s new? Where both those films were about action and violence, this one\'s about fear and tension.<br /><br />The performances aren\'t Oscar-worthy when there\'s nothing going on, but in times of distress or terror, these people suffer so much it\'s like torture. There are holes in the plot and maybe crocs don\'t really behave like this as others have pointed out, but the fear is so effective it\'s a stretch to say you\'ll enjoy this movie. It\'ll leave you feeling as uncomfortable as The Passion of the Christ."'],
 ['625,"There are a couple of prior comments here which opine about this flick\'s abundance of clichés throughout -- and I agree completely, both with regard to the characters AND the dialog.<br /><br />I\'d read about Elizabeth Berkly\'s awful performance in the equally-awful ""Showgirls,"" which I\'ve never seen - and her performance here, while not awful, is barely up to the standards of Lifetime\'s worse fare. There was not a hint of depth to her character, but then there probably shouldn\'t have been. If so, it would have placed the film completely out-of-balance, since there wasn\'t a hint of depth or charisma - not a trace - in any one character, performer, or portrayal.<br /><br />The principal\'s handling of Liz\'s initial complaint after her tutee had kissed her in the hall was laughable. Her husband\'s initial reaction and advice were likewise (Forrest Gump, attacking Jenny\'s boyfriend in his car provided a more realistic, intelligent action, and, hell, he was mentally-challenged).<br /><br />The smarmy, unctuous lawyer (excuse the redundancy) father of the lying student actually performed something probably worthy of praise in his performance: he was both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time, no mean feat. Her attorney was more of an insensitive nerd, also not unknown in the profession.<br /><br />Finally (and frankly, I rather enjoyed this part), the police were such a collection of insensitive oafs, that you\'d rather depend upon Barney Fife, without Andy, to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community. I know that most real-like cops fall a bit short of the sharpness, intelligence and empathy of the level displayed by most characters on the ""Law and Order"" series\', and the like -- but dolts of this level seem to be a staple on ""Lifetime.""<br /><br />Finally, I found a kind of ""story within a story"" fascination with Josh\'s concoction of his being the ""victim"" of his teacher. This scripted performance within the story was even worse than his overall performance in the main story. This was something of an achievement, like going from ""F"" to ""F-minus.""<br /><br />This whole lame situation should have been resolved - in real life - in about 15 minutes, following a realistic meeting between teacher and school authorities, with husband involved. But then that would have precluded the contrived drama following, and left an hour\'s blank film in the camera. <br /><br />But the writer(s) here, proved with their ending, they could do even worse. When the situation was finally ""resolved"" and ""righted,"" this was accomplished in all of about 45 seconds, with no indication of what measures might have been forthcoming in any ""real world"" context for the perpetrator and his parents, or whether they might have been able to find some sort of path toward redemption.<br /><br />This one\'s a 2* presentation; the second ""*"" because it does have some mild ""fascination."""'],
 ['626,"If you haven\'t seen this yet, you really should, on DVD. I can\'t believe how much I enjoyed it! It is amazingly realistic and believable. True, much of it is speculated, and I would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts (there aren\'t many of them), but it handles everything quite well with a ""Cruel Mother Nature"" theme. It will remind you of the nature programs that you\'ve seen on Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel, only the animals here are Dinosaurs. They act natural; they eat, kill, mate, play, and fight for survival. You will actually find yourself rooting for some of them and against others.<br /><br />For the most part, the effects are excellent. At times they will look a little too much like CGI\'s, but then you will see them in a different angle that makes them look more realistic. In some cases, you will actually be convinced that you\'ve seen a dinosaur. My favorites were the Coelophysis, the raptors, the diplodocus, the iguanadons, the allosaurus and the arctic bipeds. I was most disappointed with the T-Rex, however, which looked a little too computer generated at times.<br /><br />In any case, you should definitely see this production. It is educational, well made, and very entertaining. For what it is, its an A!"'],
 ['627,"Why is it that Canada can turn out decent to good movies in every genre, other then action? I caught Dragon Hunt on TV the other day and it was like a train wreck. I just could not change the channel, it\'s sheer stupidity sapped my willpower. Its pretty telling that the cast IMDb ""credits"" with this monstrosity apparently never worked again.<br /><br />Bad acting, bad writing, bad narration, bad music, bad hair, bad cinematography. It just goes on and on. The movie really has nothing to recommend it. If you\'re looking for bad action films to enjoy by laughing out, there are a tonne of other films that won\'t require you to scorch out your retinas afterwards.<br /><br />I hope this film didn\'t get money from the government for financing, otherwise I\'m never paying taxes again."'],
 ['628,"Ab Tak Chhappan is a fictitious story surrounding a police department in Mumbai, India. Sadhu Agashe is a hard working, hard-edged cop heading up a plain clothed crime squad who makes a name for himself by killing dangerous criminals in staged police encounters rather than locking them up in prison. His loyal officers obey him without question but a rift forms when one of his officers, Imtiaz, becomes frustrated by Sadhu\'s high ranking status and is secretly competing with him for criminal kills and status. A new recruit is also pushed into the fraternity and Imtiaz is angry when Sadhu allows him to take the lead on his first case. Further change comes in the form of a new police commissioner who disapproves of Sadhu\'s tactics and everyone gets caught up in internal politics.<br /><br />I was surprised to see such a well directed action thriller coming from India. The camera work is excellent, the story is well told and the tension is high when the drama unfolds. The acting, pace and political subterfuge convinces the viewer that they are a fly on the wall witnessing the blood, sweat and tears from a close up and personal view and that the events are based on reality which is no doubt why we are told that it is not at the beginning of the film although it is likely that the director, Shimit Amin, has taken liberties with factual accounts. Nevertheless, Ab Tak Chhappan is an extremely polished piece of film-making."'],
 ['629,"Let\'s keep it simple: My two kids were glued to this movie. It has its flaws from an adult perspective, but buy some jelly-worms and just enjoy it. <br /><br />And the Pepsi girl was excellent!<br /><br />And Kimberly Williams was pretty gosh-darned hot, although she\'s not in the film very much, so don\'t get too excited there.<br /><br />Not that\'s it\'s really a bad thing, but it is the kind of movie you watch just once. Don\'t buy the DVD.<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br />Did I mention Kimberly Williams? (That was for the dads.)"'],
 ['630,"It was 1 a.m. in the morning and I had nothing else to do. Don\'t judge me... please.<br /><br />We\'re back in time during the Spanish settlements. A group have made their way onto an island. It doesn\'t take too long before they encounter a large ""reptile"", which gobbles up their horse. Soon they\'re captured by the natives and in order to gain freedom they must kill the ""reptile gods."" THE CG sucks; it reminds me of the CG of early console video games. The encounters were lame. The only positive thing I have to say about this was the hottie native running around in a skimpy outfit. Otherwise it\'s just a middling effort."'],
 ['631,"Lackawanna Blues is and excellent movie. The casting was perfect. Every actor and actress was perfectly suited for the role they played. Their chemistry together was amazing. The acting was superb. I felt as if i knew the characters. I could almost \'feel\' them. They reminded me of people that I knew as a child growing up in the 50\'s and 60\'s. Oh, the memories!! My personal belief is that this movie should have been on the big screen for all to see. I have watched this movie so many times, that I can almost recite the lines as the characters are saying them. I can\'t even list my favorite part, because I have SO MANY favorite parts. Thank you for bringing back a part of my youth that I never see in this day and age...and that is Black people loving each other, looking out for each other, respecting each other, caring about each other, and doing all we can to help each other. Gotta go now. I have to go watch it again."'],
 ['632,"Saturday June 3, 6:30pm The Neptune<br /><br />Monday June 5, 4:30pm The Neptune<br /><br />Few celebrations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily as Carlos Saura\'s brilliant interpretation of Isaac Albeniz\' masterpiece Iberia Suite. At the approach of its centennial, Saura drew together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the Spanish performing arts community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland. The twelve ""impressions"" of the suite are presented without narrative in stark surroundings, allowing the power of each performance to explode before Saura\'s camera. Creative use of large flats and mirrors, moved throughout the set, combined with screens, shadows, fire, rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effects to the varied selections of song, dance and instrumental performance. Photographs of Albeniz reappear throughout the program, connecting the passion of the music to its great creator. Saura encompasses all Spaniards on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancers in traditional costume to children joyously dancing with their instructors."'],
 ['633,"As most people I am tired of the by the numbers clichéd movies that Hollywood makes. There seems to be no creativity in Hollywood. Companies only want to spend money on remakes are sequels that have an audience built in.<br /><br />This movie is a welcome change. It could be classified as romantic comedy for it\'s genre but don\'t let that turn you off this movie. This is a very original movie which is not like most things Hollywood produces.<br /><br />If you are reading this, you already know the basic plot so I will not bother going over that. The only movies that come to mind to compare this to are ""Interstate 60"" and ""Art of Travel"" which are little known gems that take a different path than most of the Hollywood garbage.<br /><br />This is well worth seeing if you are tired of watching more of the same.<br /><br />Dean"'],
 ['634,"Many of the reviews and comments I have read about this movie say that this is a rather stale film and performance by Clara Bow. Although the story-line was rather typical of Clara\'s later silents, I still find it somewhat heart-stirring and incredibly fun. Clara plays a happy-go-lucky Hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she loves...never mind that this man is married! Clara\'s lack of modesty was shocking in the day, but I believe it lends to the sweetness and general fun of the movie. Though definitely not a brilliant story-line (quite typical, actually), this movie is a nice showcase of Clara\'s ability to make the audience laugh."'],
 ['635,"As the number of Video Nasties I\'ve yet to see dwindles, this little pile of garbage popped up on my ""to rent"" list when I saw it was available.<br /><br />The premise involves a fashion model or something being kidnapped and taken into the jungle to be held for ransom by a motley crew of idiots. Some other goof gets hired to bring her back and is given a sack of money to use as a bargaining chip, though if he returns with the girl and all the money, he gets a significant cut. He\'s brought a helicopter and pilot with him and, wow, that pilot is one of the worst actors EVER! Granted, they are all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood. After stealing away into the jungle, we learn that nearby is a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wanders the woods like a human King Kong looking for tribeswomen to ravage and devour. Now, this fellow is just a naked guy with some of the worst makeup ever, ping-pong balls for eyes and that\'s pretty much it. His growls and groans are an everpresent feature on the soundtrack, and I found myself muting much of those scenes.<br /><br />Oh, did I forget to mention the almost constant nudity? This is probably the main reason this film was banned, though there is one specific scene, about one second long, where the god attacks a girl and pulls her guts out, but it\'s not a redeeming factor for gore fans. Also, Jess Franco goes beyond the usual T and A and shows lengthy close-ups of female genitals, and, sadly, male as well. So, if you want ""fair"" in terms of exploitation, you got it.<br /><br />I can\'t recommend this trash to anyone. It\'s not even the good bad movie. It\'s just atrociously padded trash that only a Video Nasty fan will probably view and even then, if you are making your way through the list, leave this for the very last. If you watch it first, you may get the notion that this is the norm for the list, which is certainly not true."'],
 ['636,"I rented this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case. Judge and Jury started out pretty good killer chasing the man who killed his wife on a bike with a cool gun, but this movie got progressively stupider as it went on. David Keith is awesome actor especially when he plays a role like this too bad the movie was a piece of crap it really wasted his talent. Judge and Jury was well plain dumb I gave it a 3 should have gave it a 2, I gave it an extra star just because David Keith\'s gun was cool."'],
 ['637,"I found out about this film because Jewish Ben Chaplin from Game On was in it. Game On is a funny British sitcom and apparently he left because he wanted to break into Hollywood and star in this film. He failed thank God.<br /><br />The film is a very simple romantic comedy with Janeane Garofalo playing an ugly woman who uses her neighbour Uma Thurman to date Ben Chaplin because she thinks Ben Chaplin won\'t like her because she\'s ugly. The film is just bad for so many reasons. The plot is unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bits to the serious mushy bits: ugh just that montage where all three of them are having fun and then the photograph bit. Those two scenes made me cringe! Janeane\'s character is sickeningly arrogant (and guessing from her role as stand-up ""comedienne"" and arch-feminist is in real life too). She claims that the film is ""anti-feminist"" when in fact it\'s just realistic. Men more often than not go for looks over personality. It\'s interesting to note her hypocrisy too. She\'d been a feminist and ""comedienne"" for years before taking this role and then suddenly decides afterwards that the film was bad. I imagine she hated the idea and script of this film before it was released but she made sure she kept that quiet so she could get paid for this travesty of a film. I mean come on! She acted in it for Heaven\'s sake! What this film was really was anti-men if anything. It portrays men as stupid animals whose brains are in their groins with the men doing stupid things to attract the attention of Uma Thurman\'s character Noelle.<br /><br />There are other bad things about this film too like Ben Chaplin\'s character being the British man every American girl finds cute and Jamie Foxx being the token black best friend of Chaplin and of course Foxx had to try and mimic his accent a few times for good measure. Is that the best the script writers could come up with? Blimey they\'ve never done that before except with every Hugh Grant and Dudley Moore film ever made. There\'s also a truly awful phone sex scene which is just grotesque and proves how cheap the film is. The other comments on here all say how Janeane Garofalo isn\'t ugly but is actually beautiful. Erm was I watching the same film as they were? She\'s certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film was that she was rightly cast as the ugly one. Although having said that, I fail to see the appeal of Uma Thurman as well: she\'s lanky and gaunt looking.<br /><br />I guarantee three things about this film if you\'ve never watched it:<br /><br />You will know what the ending will be;<br /><br />You will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrassing and;<br /><br />You will be bored after ten minutes.<br /><br />Watch at your own peril."'],
 ['638,This movie has everything typical horror movies lack. Although some things are far fetched we are dealing with quality snow man engineers. The only preview i can reveal is that i cant wait for Jackzilla. Dare i say oscar winner. This is a perfect date movie. I advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person.'],
 ['639,"Having just seen Walt Disney\'s The Skeleton Dance on the Saturday Morning Blog as linked from YouTube, I used those same sources to watch a remake done in Technicolor for the Columbia cartoon unit and animated by the same man-Ub Iwerks. The colors, compared to the earlier black and white, are really used imaginatively here and many of the new gags-like when one of the skeletal band players hits a wrong note constantly or when one loses his head and takes another one\'s off or when one dances with the other with part of that other gone-are just as funny as the previous short. It does get a little repetitious near the end. Still, Skeleton Frolics is well worth seeing for any animation buff who wants to compare this with the earlier Silly Symphony."'],
 ['640,"The cast of this film contain some of New Zealander\'s better actors, many of who I have seen in fabulous roles, this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them. The fake American accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong. As another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry, decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot. Most of the cast appear to be from the (great) long running New Zealand soap Shortland Street. It\'s as if this movie was dreamt up at a Shortland Street cast Christmas party, the result of too many gins, and possibly a bit of salmonella. Imagine ""Under Siege"" meets ""The Love Boat"", staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the idea.<br /><br />If you are an actor, I recommend you see this film, as a study on how to destroy your carer."'],
 ['641,"Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson together - what a treat! With Rupert Everett and Linda Bassett rounding off the supporting roles to the foursome of lies and intrigue. Yet at the heart of it all, each character maintains a streak of decency - moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions. ""Contradictions are the source of all movement and of all life."" How true these words are. Watson\'s Anne Manning is at the core of this intrigue - she\'s the central conscience that the other three latched on. She is the decency undeterred. <br /><br />The circumstances of lies are to each its own: one to defend one\'s professional name; one to hold back due to family/partner pressure; one simply don\'t want to face the consequence; one ironically can\'t believe the truth and lies to save friendship. These are all precarious situations. There lies the intrigue - fascinating to watch how each tackles truth and lies. Contradictions, indeed. In spite of the seeming dishonor, decency and heart remain strong. <br /><br />The treatment of the subject involved and how each of the character behaves are masterfully delivered simple with clarity. It\'s not sensational or complex as another film ""Where the Truth Lies"" 2005. Credits due to Fellowes\' writing and the nuanced performances of both Watson and Wilkinson. There is warmth somehow that comes through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lies. Beneath it all, human frailty not excluded, they meant well. And following along with the story, the turn of events provided satisfaction and smiles to how the two Manning\'s seem to have grown and matured in their relationship. <br /><br />You might say there\'s no obvious action drama or thrilling scenes in ""Separate Lies,"" yet the intrigue is there and it will hold your attention. The deserving production efforts include cinematography by Tony Pierce-Roberts (a veteran to the Merchant-Ivory films) and music by Stanislas Syrewicz, with mood and tone reminiscent of composer Zbignew Priesner (of filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski\'s Trois Couleurs, especially: Bleu 1993.) This is a British film you just might not want to miss. <br /><br />Emily Watson (Anne, the wife): Breaking the Waves 1996 debut; Hilary and Jackie 1998; The Luzhin Defence 2000; Gosford Park 2001; Punch-Drunk Love, Red Dragon, Equilibrium in 2002. <br /><br />Tom Wilkinson (James, the husband): The Full Monty 1997; The Governess, Rush Hour (as villain) in 1998; In the Bedroom 2001, Normal (HBO cable movie) 2003, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004, recently as Father Moore in: The Exorcism of Emily Rose 2005 opposite Laura Linney. <br /><br />Rupert Everett (Bill): He is simply delightful in ""My Best Friend\'s Wedding"" 1997 opposite Julia Roberts and marvelous in ""An Ideal Husband"" 1999 d: Oliver Parker, an Oscar Wilde play. Recently as Sherlock Holmes with Ian Hart as Dr. Watson, in PBS Mystery: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stockings 2004 TV. <br /><br />Linda Bassett (Maggie): she was very effective as Ella Khan opposite Om Puri in ""East is East"" 1999."'],
 ['642,"I am amazed with some of the reviews of this film. The only place that seems to tell the truth is RottenTomatoes.com. This film is awful. The plot is extremely lazy. It is not scary either. People out there who think that because it stars Sarah Michelle Geller it is somehow like The Grudge should forget about it. This film is more like Dark Water, except it is even more predictable and slow moving than it. I was extremely disappointed with this film. It didn\'t scare me nor interest me either. Let\'s face it , this type of plot has been flogged to death at this stage e.g. the dead trying to contact the living - Dragonfly, What Lies Beneath, Ghost Story, Dark Water, Darkness, The Changeling etc.etc. It seems to me that the only ones writing original horror films nowadays are the Japanese and the Koreans. The films that are coming out of Hollywood, like this, are cynical exercises in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer. They\'re just being churned out"'],
 ['643,"Angela (Sandra Bullock) is a computer expert but, being shy and somewhat of a recluse, she does all of her work from the confines of her condo. Just as she is about to take a vacation in Mexico, a co-worker sends her a computer disc with disturbing information on it. Angela agrees to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously dies in a plane crash. Angela heads to Mexico but takes the disc with her. While she is sunning on the beach, a terrific looking gentleman named Jack (Jeremy Northam) makes overtures to her. She falls for them and the two end up on a boat to Cozumel. However, Jack works for the folks who generated the secret information on the disc and he is out to get it. Even after Angela escapes from his clutches and lands back in the USA, Jack makes things difficult. He changes Angela\'s identity on every computer across the nation, making her lose her condo, her bank account, everything. Can Angela, a computer whiz, beat Jack at his own game? This very exciting movie has many assets. First, Bullock and Northam are two very beautiful, interesting actors and their presence adds immediate captivation. The script is very clever and sure in its knowledge of the capabilities of computers and their relevance in today\'s world. The costumes, sets, production, and direction of the movie are also quite wonderful. And, despite how it sounds, there is a great deal of exciting action as Angela goes on the run to defeat her enemy. If you love thrillers without unnecessary bloodshed or violence, this is a great choice. It delivers twists and turns with great frequency, making it possible for the viewer to ""net"" a very good evening of entertainment."'],
 ['644,"I rented the DVD in a video store, as an alternative to reading the report. But it\'s pretty much just more terror-tainment.<br /><br />While the film may present some info from the report in the drama, you\'re taking the word of the producers - there\'s no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film. Not one.<br /><br />The acting, all around, is pretty bad - pretty much all of the stereotypes of \'hot shot\' bitchy foul mouthed government agents, each thinking they know more than everyone else. There may be some truth to it, but it really has a bad Hollywood stereotype smell to it.<br /><br />IMDb\'s user community ratings & comments tend to be more right than wrong, and I have started to glance at the ratings before renting whenever I can.<br /><br />I wish I had on this one."'],
 ['645,"Look, this is a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problems that go with low budget movies. But you must see this just to watch Lisa Erickson as Julie. She is SMOKIN\' hot and a great little actress to boot! These types of horror movies often unearth a rare gem and The Power gave us Lisa Erickson! Nothing I enjoy more than sitting down in my studio apartment with a Coke and putting in this film. My friends Bob, Bill and Dennis agree.. Lisa is not only brilliant, she is a hottie. The movie itself often plods along and the rest of the actors are not very helpful in that regard. But as soon as Lisa hits the screen, things really start hopping. The others are clearly not in her league. This is not the Exorcist but as I said, if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress, this is the one to see!"'],
 ['646,"It wasn\'t until I looked at the trivia section that I found out that the original producer/star of this movie Tyrone Power died during its making . This no doubt explains why everyone on screen seems to have their minds on other things , a symptom of which appears in a very early scene involving a battle that can only be described as pathetic . You know when you\'ve been painting a wall until you\'re completely bored ? Well that\'s the sort of expression the combatants have on their face when they\'re swinging their swords in a highly unconvincing manner <br /><br />The plot centres on Soloman the King of Israel having an affair with the Queen of Sheeba and his people not being happy about it . You can\'t really blame them since there\'s few things more beautiful in the world than those Israeli moteks , though the Israeli women here all seem to look like Cherie Blair ! Modern day Israel is also very cosmopolitan with the majority of Israelis being born outside the country but would this have been true a couple of thousand years ago where everyone speaks in European and American accents <br /><br />After much talking and a dance sequence that has to be seen to be believed ( And no that\'s not praise ) we have a climax where the heavily outnumbered Israelis have to defend themselves against a massed Egyptian army who can\'t read a map otherwise they would have known there was a canyon in front of them . This is what I don\'t get - Even though their blinded by the sun the Egyptians spend ten minutes charging towards the Israelis never ever realising they\'re charging towards a gaping ravine ! Isn\'t this somewhat illogical ? It\'s also something of a revealing error since the horses , chariots and men falling into the canyon are obviously miniature figures <br /><br />Anyway the film ends with Soloman killing his treacherous brother and praising God for his victory . But who needs Moshe Dayan , Arik Sharon or God when you\'ve got an idiotic enemy who can\'t see a ravine in front of him or waves a sword like he paints a wall ?"'],
 ['647,"I am a huge Woody Allen fan and so when I saw that this was playing at the cinema I couldn\'t help myself. I wanted to see how Allen would follow up his magnificent film Match Point seeing as this is another one of his films shot in G.B. (which is unique among Allen\'s work) along with what seems to be his new muse Scarlett Johanson. Scoop is much lighter than MP and the humor is Scoop\'s most enjoyable aspect. The plot revolves around Johanson\'s character (a journalism student) who gets a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave. She falls in love with a suspected serial killer (Jackman) and she must decide whether the truth is worth finding. Oh and all of this is done with the help of a bumbling magician turned detective played by Allen.<br /><br />I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed Johanson\'s performance but I am a bit bias, I could watch a three hour film with Johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted. She plays a ditsy, yappy, bumbling sweetheart that is kind of a variation in a sense of Allen\'s stereotypical neurosis stricken character. She adds appropriate body language for comic effect. Needless to say almost anyone who sees this will find Johanson\'s character sickeningly cute and that is a plus.<br /><br />Allen is Allen... He is still playing the same character much like Chaplin and his Little Tramp character. Something that occur in this film makes me wonder if I will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however. He is not in the cast of his next picture and has been spending more time exclusively behind the camera as of late...<br /><br />Jackman is also enjoyable as the suave, millionaire murder suspect. I cannot say that Jackman does anything in particular to make the role his but he suits his character none the less.<br /><br />In terms of the plot I cannot help but feel that this is fresh... In fact it stinks of Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Johanson and Allen are more detective-like than anything. However I must applaud Allen on his ending because it is a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding Hollywood version of this film. Instead of everything being black and white, things are painted in shades of gray. Being entirely innocent has nothing to do with it nor does unequivocal guilt. Though the plot seemed old Woody still has a knack for one liners. I did find his allusions to his last film interesting... Come for the humor, laugh and be merry.<br /><br />Needless to say if you enjoy Allen\'s work watch it. If not watch something else..."'],
 ['648,"I rented this film because of my interest in American history, and especially the somewhat weird story of the Mormons. This movie attempts to make some sense out of how Joseph Smith could turn his ""vision"" into a major world religion. It first focuses on the troubles the Mormons had in their settlement at Navuoo, Illinois. It portrays the trial of Joseph Smith. Within the course of that trial, Brigham Young stands up to tell of his conversion to Mormonism, and of his belief in the spiritual message of Smith. Then Smith is assassinated, and Young must deal with his own doubts about whether he has been chosen to lead the Mormons to a new land. Despite his grave doubts, he perseveres, and finally has a vision (that Utah is the place for his colony) that gives him confidence in the rightness of his leadership. Later, as crops are destroyed by crickets, he again doubts that he has truly been chosen--however, a miracle occurs, which cements his place in history.<br /><br />I found the performances to be moving, and the story to be convincing and interesting. I would love to know whether Mormons believe that this is an accurate portrayal. Polygamy is a part of the story, but the reasons why this is central to LDS are not raised. The issue is not emphasized.<br /><br />I\'m sure people stay away from this movie because of its religious subject-matter, but it has a great cast and will hold your interest throughout."'],
 ['649,"1983\'s ""Frightmare"" is an odd little film. The director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic \'30s/\'40s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then-exploding \'80s slasher genre. It isn\'t totally successful (mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraints, and the less-than-professional caliber of its cast of young actors) but it still has its moments, mostly due to the classy performance (classier than the movie deserves) by the late German actor Ferdinand Mayne, who plays an aging old time horror movie star (ala Vincent Price) named ""Conrad Ratzoff."" At the beginning of the movie we meet the has-been horror star as he\'s shooting a commercial for dentures and we quickly learn that ol\' Conrad is a bit of a hoity-toity, prima donna jerk-off. Just when you think he couldn\'t be any more un-likable, the commercial director berates Conrad for blowing a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat pushes him off a balcony to his death. Nice, huh? Conrad then visits some fans at a college campus horror movie club, unfortunately he suffers a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually ends up back at his mansion waiting to die. Still feisty even at Death\'s door, he manages to do away with a despised business associate by smothering him with a pillow before he finally kicks the bucket himself. Conrad is then laid to rest in true Hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screens above the casket, which will play personal video messages from Conrad himself for visitors who enter to pay their respects.<br /><br />It is at this point that the kids from the college Horror Movie Society decide to pay Conrad\'s grave an after hours visit, breaking into the tomb and taking his body back home with them for an all night party. (Not exactly my idea of fun, but hey, these are characters in an \'80s horror film. Logic has no place here.) The college kids spend the evening having dinner with Conrad\'s body seated in a place of honor, posing for photos with it and even dancing around the room with it, before parking Conrad and his coffin in the attic, planning to return him to his crypt in the morning. In the meantime, Mrs. Ratzoff, distraught over the theft of her husband\'s body, has called in a psychic friend to try and ""reach"" Conrad through a seance. You can pretty much figure out the rest from here. Since Conrad wasn\'t a very nice guy in life, it\'s not much of a stretch to assume that he won\'t be any friendlier in death. Psychic Lady makes contact with Conrad and he re-awakens in predictably ticked off fashion, then spends the rest of the movie strolling around the corridors of the students\' ridiculously huge house, picking off the young grave robbers one by one. This is where the movie falls apart. Endless scenes of teens wandering around empty hallways saying ""Hello? Is anyone there?"" are intercut with occasional bursts of violence (we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene, which is the highlight of the movie) before the last two survivors finally figure out (WAY later than any semi-intelligent people would have figured out the same thing...but again, we\'re in an \'80s horror film!) that the only way to stop the mayhem is to get Conrad\'s body back to its crypt where it belongs. The sluggish pacing is padded out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effects backed by a soundtrack made up almost entirely of sound effects rather than music(thunder, moans and groans, howls, etc.) that becomes severely annoying after a while.<br /><br />I can\'t really recommend ""Frightmare"" to anyone who didn\'t grow up watching cheap movies like this on late night cable back in the \'80s. ""Modern Horror"" fans will doubtlessly find ""Frightmare"" incredibly slow moving and goofy. If you came of age in that magical decade, however, you may get a blast of nostalgia from ""Frightmare."" Fans of Jeffrey (""Re-Animator"") Combs may also want to check it out, as the future Dr. West appears in an early role here as one of the unlucky film students.<br /><br />I will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the EastWestDVD label (paired with Roy Ward\'s ""Vault of Horror"" and sold at dollar stores) because the print quality is terrible. I\'m told the film has gotten a deluxe release via the fine folks at Troma, which seems appropriate. If you\'re a Troma kind of person then ""Frightmare"" will be right up your alley."'],
 ['650,"People watch movies for a variety of different reasons. This movie didn\'t have the big budget, there\'s no special effects, no car chases and there\'s no explosions. Actually reality doesn\'t have much of these either. At least not in my life. <br /><br />This is a very real movie about very real people, none of them perfect in any way but together they are put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what is different and that in turn makes order out of chaos. I am not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology, since I\'m neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own brain.<br /><br />So watch this movie for the characters. It is brim-full of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk. <br /><br />Within the first three minutes Kiefer Sutherland enacts Detective Michael Hayden\'s life superbly and he keeps developing the character throughout the movie. Excellent acting, very believable. <br /><br />Henry Czerny could not have been cast better and the rapport between his \'Harvey\' and Kiefer\'s \'Mickey\' enhances the oppositeness of their characters.<br /><br />I thoroughly enjoyed the cranky landlady, \'Mrs Ramsay\', I\'m sure she and my mother-in-law are good friends!!!<br /><br />There\'s a host more of these wonderful characters but space is limited here so watch the movie and enjoy them."'],
 ['651,"I think that you can not imagine how these people really work...!! Before I came to the studios to watch the guys work there, I actually thought quite the same as you do. But since I saw and did the work the guys on that TV-show have to do, I have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they are doing all day long. That really is no easy work. And also the actors, which in your eyes may be terribly bad, are really great people and a lot of them really can act! I don\'t think that the material given to them can really show that, as I think this material isn\'t very good. But THEY are truly good! So I don\'t think that you, before you haven\'t seen these guys doing there work, can judge over them! And I shouldn\'t have judged over them as well before I met them, but I did and am now terribly ashamed of it. So please, do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you haven\'t seen them doing there job."'],
 ['652,"As usual, I am making a mad dash to see the movies I haven\'t watched yet in anticipation of the Oscars. I was really looking forward to seeing this movie as it seemed to be right up my alley. I can not for the life of me understand why this movie has gotten the buzz it has. There is no story!! A group of guys meander around Iraq. One day they are here diffusing a bomb. Tomorrow they are tooling around the countryside, by themselves no less and start taking sniper fire. No wait here they are back in Bagdad. There is no cohesive story at all. The three main characters are so overly characterized that they are mere caricatures. By that I mean, we have the sweet kid who is afraid of dying. We have the hardened military man who is practical and just wants to get back safe. And then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesn\'t follow the rules but has a soft spot for the precocious little Iraqi boy trying to sell soldiers DVDs. What do you think is going to happen??? Well, do you think the cowboy soldier who doesn\'t follow rules is going to get the sweet kid injured with his renegade ways?? Why yes! Do you think the Iraqi kid that cowboy soldier has a soft spot for is going to get killed and make him go crazy? Why yes! There is no story here. The script is juvenile and predictable! The camera is shaken around a lot to make it look ""artsy"". And for all of you who think this is such a great war picture, go rent ""Full Metal Jacket"", ""Deerhunter"" or ""Platoon"". Don\'t waste time or money on this boring movie!"'],
 ['653,"A group of friends break down in the middle of nowhere (one had a flat tire, the other\'s Jeep mysteriously won\'t start). One of them takes the tire to a run down service station and that is the last anyone sees of him. When the remaining foursome go in search of their friend, they come across nice Mr. Slaussen who offers to help fix the jeep and offers cool drinks and refuge from the heat in his equally run down, hermit-like house, which happens to be occupied by very realistic looking mannequins. He goes with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leaves the 3 girls in the house. Before he goes he warns them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack; he warns them about ""Davy"", his brother who is lurking about and isn\'t all there. Of course, one of them decides to venture out in search of a working phone and is never seen again. Is it Slaussen? Is it Davy? The mannequins?? Tourist Trap has the usual horror requirements (jiggly big boobed girl, goody two shoes girl, curiosity getting the better of people and never working out!), but it stands apart from the rest of the 70\'s genre in it\'s twist of an ending. I started to feel sorry for Slaussen (Chuck Conners is a terrific, creepy, over-the-top performance)at a point in the film, and you almost see the character of Molly doing the same. This is a gem if you can find it; I had taped it off of cable when I was younger, and walking through a used video store I spotted a VHS copy that was totally overpriced, but well worth it. Fans of Tanya Roberts won\'t be disappointed either. Best part of the film for me was the scene with the soup (and crackers!!)<br /><br />I gave it a 7 because some of the movie was and still is hard to explain."'],
 ['654,"Most Lorne Michaels films seem to fail because they\'re essentially just extended versions of skits that barely managed to make people laugh in five-minute segments. ""Tommy Boy"" is a character right from ""SNL"" - a big fat lovable (in their opinion) goof who doesn\'t know anything.<br /><br />David Spade gets the Thankless Overwhelmed Everyman role. He\'s paired with the Annoying Overweight Slob and they endure Miserable Misfortunes as they travel cross country to Save Daddy\'s Business.<br /><br />The plot, for starters, is really faulty. The whole premise - daddy dies and rich stupid son has to save the family biz - can be traced back to just about any movie you want. Like any SNL style film it is reduced to a simple motivation - empty, shallow; just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be ""funny"" together.<br /><br />The movie\'s biggest ""influence"" is the 1987 comedy classic ""Planes, Trains & Automobiles."" That movie is great because the plot isn\'t stale and recycled. It\'s basic, yeah - a guy traveling home for Thanksgiving gets stuck with a slob. But it\'s real, dammit. It makes all the difference. The characters are real, the situations are far more real. ""Tommy Boy"" is pure slapstick and its ridiculous situations undermine the characters - we feel nothing for them, and we don\'t care about what\'s happening on-screen. ""PTA"" walked the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relate-able - ""Tommy Boy"" is simply absurd, with jokes like a simple deer-in-the-headlights turning into a crash turning into a struggle with a dead deer that really isn\'t dead, then awakens and wrecks their car.<br /><br />The whole wrecked car thing is stolen completely from ""PTA"" and it\'s eerie how much stuff in this film actually does resemble the Steve Martin/John Candy movie.<br /><br />Farley is simply way too obnoxious to find likable - I\'ve never enjoyed watching him in any movies and this hasn\'t changed my mind. Spade\'s given very little to do, serving as the movie\'s most thankless character.<br /><br />Dan Aykroyd is wasted as the Evil Baddie who plans to destroy Daddy\'s Business. The ending is a joke, and not in a ""har-har funny"" way. More like a ""oh god are they serious?!"" way.<br /><br />Some people dig it, that\'s cool. But I just can\'t get into it, nor do I appreciate all the stuff it ""borrows"" from - not just counting ""PT&A"" - without any credit whatsoever."'],
 ['655,"Having read during many years about how great this film was, how it established Ruiz among the french critics (specially the snobbish Cahiers crowd), when I finally watched it about a year ago, I found it pretty disappointing (but then, I guess my expectations were sky-high). Shot in saturated black and white, this deliberately cerebral film (made for TV, and mercifully, only an hour long) is told in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an off-screen narrator as they ponder through a series of paintings (which are shown in the style of tableaux vivants) and try to find if they hold some clues about a hidden political crime. (The awful Kate Beckinsale film Uncovered has a similar argument). Borgesian is a word I read a lot in reviews about this movie, but I would say almost any Borges story is more interesting than this film."'],
 ['656,"Many teenage sex comedy movies come and go without much fanfare, however, every so often a movie might come along thats honest, funny, entertaining AND memorable. The Last American Virgin is a special movie that has found its place and has stood the test of time blending all four ingredients. This film follows three friends (Gary, Rick and David ""The Big Apple"") misadventures into the world of first-time sex and true love. Along the way they learn hard lessons and the value of true friendship. We follow hopeless romantic Gary (The main character) on his quest to win over the girl of his dreams which leads him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it\'s ending. If you haven\'t been lucky enough to see this movie yet, by all means take a look...sprinkled with many memorable 80s songs throughout the movie to keep things moving at an even pace. L.A.V. truly is an original film, a rarity among films of it\'s genre."'],
 ['657,"I loved this show from it\'s first airing, and I always looked forward to watching each episode every week. The plot, characters, writing, special affects were outstanding! Then the sci-fi channel screwed up yet again and canceled a very entertaining, well written show. I say bring it back, I know all of the actors would come back. I would suggest buying the DVD\'s, I am. I hope the sci-fi channels executives get word of these comments, and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewers. I only watch one show on that channel now, (Ghost Hunters), but I am fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too."'],
 ['658,"I didn\'t know what to except so I think it was a lot better not having excepted much. Don\'t get my wrong its not a bad short film. Tess Nanavati is a relatively new directer and writer so I think she deserves a lot of kudos for making this film. You can tell that it has been an act of love for her. The acting (outside of Dominic) is a little cheesy and the quality of film is not great either but for a really low budget film its good. There was times when the story line gets convoluted and there are parts that drag on, though I don\'t feel it greatly detracts for one\'s ability to understand the film. If you love Dominic Monaghan as much as I do, I say go for it. The gag reel was fun, I won\'t spoil it but there is a particular scene that makes buying the DVD worth it just so you can watch it over and over. If you like the film then check out The Pink Mirror, a film also done by Jagged Edge. I know fans of Dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven."'],
 ['659,"Did the first travesty actually make money? This is another sequel (along the lines of ANOTHER STAKEOUT) that no one asked for. But we\'ve received it anyway. The sequel is like its predecessor, completely brain-dead. It\'s also pretty disgusting (remember the dinner scene?) To think I almost felt sorry for Ritter, Yasbeck, and Warden. Did they need the money that much?"'],
 ['660,"I was never so bored in my life. Hours of pretentious, self-obsessed heroin-addicted basket cases lounging around whining about their problems. It\'s like watching lizards molt. Even the sex scenes will induce a serious case of narcolepsy. If you have insomnia, rent this."'],
 ['661,"This movie is awesome on so many levels... and none of them are the level that it was intended to be awesome on.<br /><br />Just remember this: When you\'re watching Shaun of the Dead and other recent zombie movies... be they good or bad... THIS is the formula that they are using. THIS is what makes zombie movies so great.<br /><br />And what makes it BETTER than great is the story behind the movie. A simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know.<br /><br />All in all, it doesn\'t linger. There\'s never a point where you think to yourself ""c\'mon, get on with it""... it moves quick and corners nicely. This is the sporty, little Italian number of zombie flicks.<br /><br />So awful, it\'s wonderful! If your tongue spends an ample amount of time in your cheek... rent it, buy it, love it.<br /><br />As a great trivia note: If you\'re watching it on DVD, you\'ll notice that there is sound effects during the menu screen, underneath the musical score... Well... that\'s because that music was lifted straight from the trailer... which is probably the only working print of that music that still exists which is long enough to loop."'],
 ['662,"The Ladies Man is laugh out loud funny, with a great diverse cast as well as having some very stupid but excellent scenes (including the funniest love song ever written).<br /><br />Ferrell is his usual quality self in a brilliant side role.<br /><br />Tim Meadows plays an idiot surprisingly well and has written himself some of the funniest lines you\'ll find in any comedy out there.<br /><br />It is definitely worth a purchase as watching it every 6 months or so will lead to you still laughing as hard as you did first time round.<br /><br />I am distraught to think at the time of writing this that it has a meagre 4.7 /10 and i urge you to vote! <br /><br />And remember kids- ""Theres more motion in the ocean"""'],
 ['663,"when i first heard about this movie i thought it would be like The Duchess(2008), but when i saw the first 30 minutes of The Young Victoria i knew this wouldn\'t just be a solid movie. Almost everything in this movie is great, the costumes are really amazing and the settings are also beautifully shot.<br /><br />The only thing that really let me down are the performances. Emily Blunt(The Devil Wears Prada) is the star of the film, bringing Victoria to life and with this movie she shows that she is a great actress and maybe picking a first Oscar nomination for her performance. Rupert Friend is almost bland as Prince Albert but he has great chemistry with Emily Blunt. Paul Bettany is also solid as Lord Melbourne although i expected more of him. Jim Broadbent and Miranda Richardson both have supporting roles but are forgettable.<br /><br />To me the film feels like unfinished. Maybe that the screenwriters changed too many things in the script, i don\'t know but that\'s how i feel about the movie.<br /><br />But overall it\'s a great movie about the early years of Victoria with a Great performance from Emily Blunt."'],
 ['664,"A flying saucer manned (literally) by a crew of about 20 male space explorers travels hundreds of millions of light years from earth to check in on a colony founded some 25 years ago on a \'forbidden planet.\' What they find is a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth, a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman, and her father, a hermit philologist haunted by more than the demons of the ancient civilization he has immersed himself in.<br /><br />On the surface, this story is a pulp scifi murder mystery. Some compare it to Shakespeare\'s Tempest, but this is a stretch, and, in some ways, an insult to the scifi genre. Stripped of what makes it a scifi film, sure, its The Tempest, but how many hundreds of films can you say something similar about? <br /><br />Underneath, this is a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for its appropriate and safe use. Yet the film still proceeds with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from shows like Star Trek.<br /><br />Anne Francis is not the only reason why this film is best described as beautiful. The special effects, and even the aesthetics of the backdrops are powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven acting almost unnoticeable. If it were not for the goofy retro-art-deco-ness of 1950s sci-fi props, you might think you were watching a 1960s piece.<br /><br />This is a classic of that very special sub-genre of sci fi I like to call 1950s sci-fi, and, though not, in my opinion, the best it is certainly a must see for anybody interested in sci-fi film and special effects. The clever plot, now rendered trite by its reuse in six or seven episodes of Star Trek, Lost in Space, and even Farscape, is worth paying attention to, and will sustain the interest of most scifi fans. Trekkers will be particularly interested in the various aspects of the film which seem to have inspired themes of Star Trek\'s original series aired about 12 years later, though they may find themselves disappointed by the (relatively mild) 1950s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration. While I do not mean to nitpick, the lack of social progress manifest in this film was the one major problem I had with it. <br /><br />Some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young, good-looking Leslie Nielsen in one of his first starring roles. Unfortunately, Nielsen\'s performance is only average, and at times down-right poor (especially at the climax of the film). Walter Pigeon, though quite excellent in other films, over-acts his role as well. Ms Francis, Earl Holliman, and the amazing Robby the Robot are the stand-out actors in this crowd, though on the whole the character actors filling in the ensemble do a good job. The problems with the featured performances, I think, are as much the fault of the director and the editor, as anything. Though they certainly got most of the film quite right."'],
 ['665,"I just saw this film on DVD last night, and decided to check out the reviews this morning. It seems that ""I, Robot"" has polarized the critical viewing community here on IMDb (and given rise to a lot of insults and name-calling, too).<br /><br />I find this somewhat surprising, as this film is not great (or even good), but neither is it terrible (or even really bad). What this film really is, is...depressing. Depressing that the US film-goer population is so ready to lap up insipid, clichéd re-heats, and acclaim them as spectacular new works. This film as ""retread"" written all over it, from the plot line (an uneasy mix of Asimov and modern-day uber-action) to Smith\'s character (a smart-mouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium), to the special effects (that borrowed from Matrix and a few others).<br /><br />""I, Robot"" is, sadly, quite possibly the perfect action movie for today\'s audience: superficial plot, insipidly snappy dialog, and lots and lots of adrenaline. Smith is mediocre, but we already knew that (he seems to be Hollywood\'s latest unsuccessful attempt to create a black Bruce Willis). The story has lots of holes in it, of all sizes, but I don\'t think most people drawn to this film are critically-minded enough to notice. Perhaps a blockbuster by today\'s standards, but very B-movie compared to true winners."'],
 ['666,"This was a fine example of how an interesting film can be made without using big stars and big effects. Just tell a true story about the struggles of two African American women over a turbulent century.<br /><br />This movie challenges us all to look at our own personal prejudices and see that people are people, not white, black, etc.<br /><br />Good movie with a good message."'],
 ['667,"I have bought the complete season of Surface. watched it in 3 days! I was so captured by the the plot, theories and basically everything about this show. The actor who plays Miles is great. Mile\'s sister, mother and father acted like real life family would. You could connect on so many levels it\'s fascinating.<br /><br />I find animals are so wonderful, you can almost connect with them as a parent is to a child. It would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists.<br /><br />Am sadden, that Surface is not having a second season or at least four more shows. I have so many questions that need to be answered and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book.<br /><br />Love the show very much. For those who haven\'t watched Surface, if you like sci-fi you need to watch this!!!!!!!!!!!!!"'],
 ['668,"This must have been one of the worst movies I have ever seen.<br /><br />I have to disagree with another commenter, who said the special effects were okay. I found them pretty bad: it just wasn\'t realistic and they were so fake that it just distracted from the actual story.<br /><br />Maybe that distraction is the reason that I did not fully understand the story. The archaeologists are looking for ""the set"". They do not bother to tell what set, or what is so special about it. That also makes it unclear why they search for it in California, while the intro of the movie takes place in ancient Egypt.<br /><br />If you\'re shooting a movie that takes place in the desert, take the effort to actually go to the desert. The beginning - the ancient ceremony - looks like it was shot inside a studio instead of a desert.<br /><br />The action-level was constant throughout the movie, no ups and downs, no climax. It made the movie look short, and that\'s certainly a pro for this particular movie."'],
 ['669,"Liam Neeson portrays the Scottish legend Robert Roy Macgregor from the early 18th century. He is a true actor. He captivates the audience with his charisma as he does in all his roles. Jessica Lange is excellent as his wife Mary. Mary is such a beautiful woman. It\'s her love that makes Rob Roy the legend, but it\'s his passion that makes her love undying. They need each other. Tim Roth as the evil Cunningham is perfect; in one way or another, upon watching the movie, you will find Cunningham disgusting. The Scotland scenery is beautiful. The environment and conditions of the times are depicted quite well. If you like history, romance, passion and love, you\'ll enjoy Rob Roy. There is violence and blood, but it\'s unavoidable in telling this story as it should be told; no gratuitous violence. And you do have to listen carefully if you\'re not used to a Scottish accent. One important point that makes this movie so good is that no one actor or actress is glamorized; they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scenes. It\'s their skill as actors that attracts you, they don\'t rely on marquee names, popularity or sex symbol appeal. This is something special."'],
 ['670,"When i watch this movie i too get excited when seen bed scenes of miss world. She has beautiful and charming body. When cute lady do bed scenes and show her fully nude body... i think male have hard to resist....i think its time for cute girls like hrishita bhatt also do nude scenes. At least no one wants to c nude body of ugly women like Seema biswas to c in bandit queen.I concur with what mallicka.b has said. The movie is portrayed in a way which appears to be a kind of vilification on the original content. Emotions aren\'t conveyed properly. I guess a couple of not-so-good performances also contributed to its mediocrity. In my view, Tabu would have been a much better choice for such a role instead of Aishwarya Rai. In some of her scenes, she looks a bit lusty, which is not ultimately what the movie should have portrayed. I also noticed a bit of over-acting in some of her scenes. I\'m a bitter critic of Aishwarya Rai :) Can\'t help it; sorry for that. \'Raincoat\' was a good movie by Rituparno Ghosh. And I saw Choker Bali after seeing Raincoat; I was not at all impressed"'],
 ["671,They've shown i twice in a very short time now here in Sweden and I am so very tired of it. The bad acting isn't enough... The story itself is so boring and the effects hardly exists. I love the original from 1953 so I recommend you to go and rent that one instead. Because this one is such a bore."],
 ['672,"Having seen Carlo Lizzani\'s documentary on Luchino Visconti, I was bound to higher expectations before watching this film made three years later by Adam Low. But the viewer like me did get dissatisfied... I faced a need for critical opinion, which I generally don\'t like giving due to the fact there are no documentaries that will satisfy every viewer. There are also no documentaries that will examine a theme totally. But when I read the reviews already written on this title, I also felt a bit confused. People sometimes don\'t know what to criticize. Therefore, to be clear, I\'ll divide this film into two major parts that differ considerably: the former one about Visconti before his director\'s career and latter one about Visconti the director. <br /><br />The aristocratic background, all the hobbies, the wealth that young Luchino experienced and enjoyed are clearly presented. His effort in horse racing is mentioned as well as his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parents\' divorce. We also get a very accurate idea of where Luchino was brought up as a real count of Milano: in riches galore, with nannies, cooks with access to everything, in TRUE ARISTOCRACY. For instance, his father\'s splendid villa at Grazzano and other marvelous villas prove that. There is also an emphasis on Visconti\'s crucial visit in Paris in the 1930s where he met eminent people (""left wingers"") who later had impact on his style and message in art. That clearly explains the idea of a communist with the aristocratic upbringing (a contrast at first sight). <br /><br />However, the part about his director\'s career, which started with OSSESSIONE during WWII and ended with INNOCENTE just before the director\'s death in 1976, is poorly executed. His movies are not discussed well. Why? Because there are very few people who really have something to say. Franco Zeffirelli, the director, remembers the works on LA TERRA TREMA and that is all right. There are also some interviews with Franco Rosi. But later, such movies like IL GATTOPARDO, LA CADUTA DEI REI, LA MORTE A VENEZIA or LUDWIG are mostly discussed by Helmut Berger. Although I liked the actor in the role of Ludwig, I did not like the interviews of his. Moreover, some thoughts he reveals are not accurate to entail in such a documentary... There is no mention of significant works of Visconti like CONVERSATION PIECE, there are no interviews with eminent cast Burt Lancaster. A mention about Silvana Mangano and Romy Schneider should also be made. There is one footage interview with Maria Callas that appears to be interesting but that is only a short bit. Franco Zeffirelli, though I appreciate him as a director, makes fun of it all rather than says something really precious. For instance, he mentions the event how Visconti separated from him after years of service. Therefore, I say: simplified and unsatisfactory. <br /><br />What I find a strong point here are footage interviews with Visconti himself. As a result, we may get his own opinion about his works. For instance, I very much appreciate the words he says about death regarding it as a normal chapter of life and as natural as birth itself. He also discusses his health problems after the stroke while filming LUDWIG.<br /><br />I believe it is better to see LUCHINO VISCONTI (1999) by Carlo Lizzani than this doc. Although it is shorter and condensed as a whole, you will get a better idea of the director. Visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turned people\'s emotions and viewpoints into stone... 4/10"'],
 ['673,"Time is precious. This film isn\'t. I must learn to ignore critics who rave about small films like Fargo and this complete waste of time.<br /><br />The theater was packed and everyone left with the same reaction: Is this the film the critics are raving about? What a piece of crap!<br /><br />The hook of this film is the upwardly mobile black daughter seeking out and finding her white trash family. Get it?<br /><br />The acting is superb.<br /><br />The production (lighting, sets, editing, sound) is about 2 steps above a 60 minutes story. The characters are shallow and unintelligent. I was insulted by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what was blatantly obvious to the audience; the audience was murmuring to the movie screen what the characters should say next.<br /><br />I have had more fun doing the laundry."'],
 ['674,"worst. movie. ever made. EVER. I have no words to say about it.. other then it truly had no point, no plot, no... anything. sheer crap!!! I don\'t know how everyone in the movie didn\'t shoot them shelves after watching it.... .... .... ... .. I love vampire flicks and mysteries, and alternate abstract outside the box films, and.... this was non of those. I mean what the crap!!! I cant even tell you what the film was about cuz I still don\'t know, and I just wasted an hour and ahalf of my life watching it... bottom line.. I think the maker of this film just wants everyone to do drugs. thats the only thing I got from this film. please don\'t watch this... I mean for a "" sultry sensual vampire flick"" there wasn\'t even the to be expected nudity you\'d get from a vamp flick. anyway back to my point.... this movie blows. go set yourself on fire instead.... .. .."'],
 ['675,"Savage Island (2003) is a lame movie. It\'s more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid acting. Not only that the storyline and script was wretched. I don\'t know why this movie was made. I have seen a lot of flicks in my time and the ones I really hate are movies that make me angry. This one made my blood boil. The situations were inane at best. If I made a movie like this it would have been a short. Really because those backwood ""idjits"" wouldn\'t have been in the picture.<br /><br />Don\'t be fooled by the cover on the D.V.D. I am an avid watcher of bad cinema. But this movie is virtually unwatchable. I don\'t mind movies being shot on D.V. but if you\'re going to do that make the movie enjoyable, not some tired retread of superior horror films (sans Wrong Turn).<br /><br />I have to not recommend this waste of disk. If you come across this one in the rental store pass on by.<br /><br />Movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic 1."'],
 ['676,I have to say this is my favorite movie of all time. I have seen it well over 100 times (actually had to buy a new copy as a result of overwatching) It is what the eighties was like and what a romantic story with a few morals thrown in. I highly recommend to anyone wanting to relive the high schools days again. Buy a copy now it is a classic!!!!'],
 ['677,"I saw it at the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in Salt Lake City this morning. I\'m going to assume that one\'s level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be based on one\'s level of acceptance of Joseph\'s story.<br /><br />However, that aside it was very well made, well acted, and had a nice score. If you get to Salt Lake City, it is a must to see it in the Legacy Theater. I have never been in a nicer theater as far as picture quality, sound quality and ambiance in my entire life...I wonder if the Church would let me watch Batman Begins there! Being that I\'m LDS and regard Joseph as a prophet, I was touched in several places and was brought to tears quite a few times...which I presume is expected since they handed out tissues BEFORE the movie started! Anyway, I\'m told that this film is available in several LDS Visitor Centers around the globe, if you have 70 minutes check it out because whether you believe Joseph Smith or not, he tells a fascinating story."'],
 ['678,"Adenoid Hynkel, a lowly soldier in World War One, rises in subsequent years to become the ruthless dictator of Toumania. He creates an aggressive, antisemitic war machine and cultivates a little toothbrush moustache. Sound like anyone you know?<br /><br />From the safety of Hollywood, Chaplin uses this soapbox to exhort Europe to take up arms and defy Hitler and Mussolini. Given that the United States in 1940 had more than a year of neutrality ahead of it, and no strong desire to embroil itself in Europe\'s civil strife (remember, it was Hitler who declared war on the USA, not the other way round) it is surprising that Chaplin was allowed to distribute this immoderate polemic.<br /><br />The story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant Hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly presides, and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person is friendly, humane, brave, etc., etc, Chaplin is Hynkel, and he also plays The Jewish Barber, the little hero of the ghetto (The Tramp in all but name). Needless to say, Chaplin writes, directs, stars, composes the music and does the catering.<br /><br />In 1940 the full truth was not yet known about the Third Reich, and Chaplin can be forgiven for having something less than perfect historical foresight, but even by the standards of the day he gets Hitler badly wrong. A comedian and a sentimentalist, Chaplin tries to ridicule Hitler by making Hynkel silly and hapless. All this does is to humanise him. When Hynkel the not-very-warlike soldier fools around with the big gun and the upside-down aeroplane, he becomes endearing rather than despicable. As dictator, he inspects his subordinates\' technical innovations which don\'t work (the parachute hat, the bulletproof uniform etc.) and these passages are meant to make us think that the real-life Nazis are incompetent and can be swept aside. In fact, Hynkel\'s regime is made cute and likeable by its bumbling bodgery.<br /><br />In truth, Chaplin\'s day had already passed when he made this ill-considered polemic. At heart, he was still a dinosaur of the silent screen (check out the humour, with gags like staggering up and down the street semi-conscious, or the pantomime of the coins in the puddings). The hero Schultz is meant to represent a yardstick of European decency against which Hynkel can be judged, but Schultz looks more like a character from operetta than a Nazi. Is it in any way believable that a Schultz figure (if such had existed) would say to the Fuehrer\'s face, ""your cause is doomed to failure because it\'s built upon the stupid, ruthless persecution of innocent people""? And how does Schultz come to be in the cellars of the jewish ghetto? If he is the object of an exhaustive manhunt, why does he persist in wearing his Ruritanian uniform? Chaplin did not yet know the full horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Treblinka, but the Nazi concentration camp which he offers us is hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age. As usual, Chaplin thinks in terms of \'silent\' comedy set-pieces, loosely pegged onto the narrative clothes line. There is the knockabout scrapping with the stormtroopers, shaving a man to the accompaniment of Brahms, and the globe ballet (watch for the segment filmed in reverse).<br /><br />Paulette Goddard is the unremittingly perfect Hannah. Just as the people of the ghetto are impossibly nice, and the jewish haven in Osterlich is ridiculously idyllic, so Hannah is quite literally too good to be true. Brave, defiant, resourceful, hardworking and (of course) beautiful, she is the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage. ""Gee, ain\'t I cute?"" she asks, after the Barber gives her a make-over. Too cute by far, is the answer. She doesn\'t come close to ringing true, because Chaplin has made her a caricature. The \'wouldn\'t it be wonderful?\' speech which Chaplin puts into her mouth is typical of the author - too wordy, too emotionally cloying.<br /><br />Jack Oakie is great as Napaloni, the fascist dictator of Bacteria. He brings a whiff of much-needed comic brio to the proceedings, but the film\'s underlying weakness remains. If Napaloni is silly and ineffective, how can we fear him? And anyway, the stuttering stop-start of the back-projected train is a fine Chaplinesque example of a gag that is persisted with far beyond its comic worth.<br /><br />And where did the Jewish Barber acquire that immaculate Hynkel uniform?"'],
 ['679,"""Milo"" is yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked.Do we really need more slashers?I for one think we already have more than enough.I guess the professional tall guys overcharged so in this one we deal with a murderous kid that\'s also a zombie or a ghost when he feels like it.A long time ago,he drowned but that didn\'t bother him and he still kills people(""Friday the 13th"",what\'s that?).One day,his survivors have a big reunion and as a surprise twist,Milo comes to pay them a visit.Through some really bad shots that show everything except the murders the cast is thinned out till only the final girl is left to find out Milo\'s dull,I mean dark secret.She and her friends have been dying to know.Once discovered,Milo goes on yet another murderous rampage(isn\'t it his bedtime yet?) and the girl,well she screams a lot.The acting is not even bottom of the barrel,the barrel refuses to be associated with it.Milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time I give him that,but some movies just can\'t be saved without a great script or gratuitous nudity."'],
 ['680,"This is one of the best horror / suspense films that Hollywood has made in years or maybe even decades.Even though in my opinion this movie was predictable in parts, it has everything that a good film in this genre should had CHILL, THRILLS, AND yes a lot of GORE!! HOUSE OF WAX SURE DELIVERS!!! In parts it was sort of far-fetched,the acting was not that great,but my overhaul rating for HOUSE OF WAX is an eight out of ten......if you enjoy being at the edge of your seats, this is just the right movie for you,I have to admit,it was sort of neat seeing the whole town made out of wax...... I myself enjoy these museums, but after seeing this film I will now look at them in a whole new different way!"'],
 ['681,"Never saw the original movie in the series...I only hope it was a much better movie than this or the sequel made in the 1980\'s as if it is not how were these two terrible sequels even justified. This movie had a really good lead in when they were advertising it to be shown on one of those old independent stations that are a thing of the past now. Anyways it looked like it would be a pretty good scary movie. It was, however, a movie that would make some Walt Disney movies look dark. Really, this movie was just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be seen. The only real sighting is near the end when you see its shape during a very heavy rainstorm, other than that there is virtually no sign of the creature which was really disappointing as a kid. The story is basically the old evil hunters must kill anything they see and are after the boggy creek creature and kids are out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the woods that likes to pull random boats through the water. Not really worth watching I would however like to see the original, granted the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the 80\'s, but he also made a very good slasher movie in the 70\'s ""The Town the Dreaded Sundown""."'],
 ['682,"Created in 1928, and originally named Mortimer before Walt Disney changed his name (because his wife convinced him), Mickey Mouse has become the staple of the Disney brand. I always thought this cartoon was the first ever cartoon to feature Mickey, it is in fact his third, but it doesn\'t matter, for a six minute animated short it is enjoyable. The story sees Mickey piloting a steamboat until Captain Pete takes him off the bridge, stopping to pick up cargo, and Minnie Mouse missing the boat. Being lifted on she drops her music sheets and a goat eats them, Mickey helps her crank it\'s tail and play the tune, and getting some other animals to be percussion, until Pete comes along again to stop him, making Mickey peel potatoes. Mickey Mouse was number 53 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons, and he was number 31 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Very good!"'],
 ['683,"Highly regarded at release, but since rather neglected. Immense importance in the history of performing arts. A classic use of embedded plots. One of my favourite films. Why hasn\'t the soundtrack been re-released?"'],
 ['684,"The perfect murder is foiled when a wife(played by Mary Ellen Trainor, once the wife to director Robert Zemeckis, who helmed this episode), who murders her husband with a poker, has the misfortune of receiving a visitor as she is about to move the body outside..an escaped insane madman dressed in a Santa Claus suit(played by a deviously hideous Larry Drake). She fends for her life while trying to find a way of hiding her husband\'s corpse. She decides to use an ax, once she downs the Santa killer who misses several chances to chop off the woman\'s head, to frame the killer for her husband\'s murder. Santa killer locks her in a closet and pursues the woman\'s daughter as she tries desperate to free herself to save the child.<br /><br />This episode of TALES FROM THE CRYPT just recycles tired material involving the old ""Santa kills"" theme while also adding the oft-used(add nauseum)woman-murders-her-husband-for-a-man-she\'s-been-cheating-with routine. It\'s essentially Trainor trying to find a way to avoid being caught with a dead body she kills while also keeping a safe distance from a maniac. There\'s nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much goes through the motions. Not one of the show\'s highlights."'],
 ['685,"The IMDb plot summary in no way describes the essence of this film. It should have read \'Be prepared to be catapulted back to the prison of the 3rd pew from the back of your family\'s church at 8 years old, listening to the preacher drone on about God\'s will while all you can think of is getting back home to your Lego\'.<br /><br />It starts off well intentioned, building intrigue by planting some real and surreal clues such as Renny\'s \'how did the cut on my thumb heal so fast?\' moment. It then slowly morphs into a Christian jamboree, sacrificing its plot completely in a wash of evangelistic-induced babble. I believe I counted the use of the word \'pray\' about 53 times in a five minute span near the end. After the 31st, I tried to twist the context of the word to its synonym, \'prey\'. Sadly, this little mind game of mine made the film at least bearable for the last 20 minutes. Plus it made me laugh whenever a character would say \'prayer\' (\'preyer\' to me) as it became totally zany. Indeed, even my Catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom, almost to the point of ending up on the floor.<br /><br />For all the salivating Christians who ranked this film 8-10 stars, I suggest sticking with your theology-reinforcing safety standards like Circle Square, The Ten Commandments, anything from Narnia, Jesus Christ Superstar and the like. Stay away from more cerebrally challenging subject matter in films such as Jesus Camp, The God Who Wasn\'t There, What Would Jesus Buy, or the soon-to-be released Religulous.<br /><br />Maybe Robert Whitlow\'s book is better."'],
 ['686,"TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY is possibly the best movie of all of Mary Pickford\'s films. At two hours, it was quite long for a 1922 silent film yet continues to hold your interest some 80 years after it was filmed. Mary gives one of her finest performances at times the role seems like a ""greatest hits"" performance with bits of Mary the innocent, Mary the little devil, Mary the little mother, Mary the spitfire, Mary the romantic heroine, etc. characteristics that often were used throughout a single film in the past. The movie is surprisingly frank about one supporting character\'s illegitimate child for 1922 and at one point our Little Mary is thought the unwed mother in question! If the Academy Awards had been around in 1922, no doubt the Best Actress Oscar for the year would have been Mary\'s."'],
 ['687,"I first saw this movie when I was about 10 years old. My mom bought it at our local Kmart because it was on sale for $5 on VHS. She thought that it would be a nice Christmas movie for me and my brothers to watch. This movie, however, scared the hell out of me. You may be asking yourself, how could a movie about Santa Clause scare anyone? The plot of the movie revolves around Satan sending one his minions, Pitch, to earth in an attempt to kill Santa and ruin Christmas. That\'s right, Satan sends a demon up from hell to kill Santa Clause. Pitch stalks Santa throughout Christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rises on Christmas day, for if Santa doesn\'t make it back to his home in space, he turns to powder. Don\'t get me wrong, the movie is funny and fairly entertaining, however, the image of demons and devils dancing in the depths of hell (which occurs at the beginning of the movie) is just downright creepy."'],
 ['688,"Although there are some snippets in this 4-part documentary hinting at the necessity for recreational drug law reform, these are not very well-developed, in contrast to the many snippets from those who feel that the drugs that happen to currently be illegal are a scourge for which the only imaginable solution is incarceration of even those who are guilty even of mere possession of such drugs.<br /><br />Although this program, as a whole, leaves the viewer with the impression that the drug war is largely a futile exercise and a waste of money, and for that it deserves some praise, almost nothing in this documentary addresses the very real problems that total war against those who merely possess illegal drugs obviously causes and contributes to--very real problems that most drug warriors themselves would tell you, if asked, they think the drug war is designed to solve. For example, while many minutes are spent on the surge in violence associated with the rising popularity of crack cocaine in the 80\'s, at no point does this program even hint that the very laws designed to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug sellers to enforce their contracts and business arrangements in courts of law, forcing them to resort to violence to stay in business. But instead of seeing the laws as an important cause of the violence, the drugs themselves seem to take the brunt of the blame. Inexplicably, alcohol prohibition, the violence that ensued, and the subsequent reversal of prohibition, is totally ignored by this program.<br /><br />This program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes of drug users, and it is these that are the primary force in driving the very expensive and very problematic drug war. The possibility of incorporating drugs other than alcohol into a happy and successful life is not really touched on. Use of any drug in excess is probably going to cause personal problems, but not all users do their drugs in excess, just like not all alcohol users are alcoholics.<br /><br />If you want a point of view from someone who believes that adults have a moral right not to be incarcerated and have their lives ruined by the criminal justice system just for using drugs that the government, for mostly very arbitrary political reasons rather than reasons based on sound social policy and legitimate science, has decided to totally prohibit, whose users it has decided to not-so-metaphorically wage war against, just forget about it. None of that is in here.<br /><br />On the other hand, this is hardly in the category of anti-drug propaganda. It is mostly an interesting neutrally-presented history of drugs in 20th century United States like marijuana, LSD, heroin, cocaine, MDMA, and Oxycontin. But there is a significant element of various people\'s points of view with regard to drug laws, and most (but not all) of that is not very thoughtful or well-informed and slanted in favor of the drug warrior mentality, especially with respect to drugs other than marijuana. <br /><br />The criminal justice system, along with its often harsh life-ruining penalties, is obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem, but unfortunately there\'s an epidemic in this nation of an as-yet unnamed disease whose primary symptoms are a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it comes to certain drugs, a lack of compassion for fellow humans, a prejudice against people who use the drugs that are not governmentally-approved, perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison/policing industry, and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity. It\'s morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for doing so, and the mere possession of an arbitrarily selected group of drugs is clearly not such a reason. This is really the primary issue when it comes to drugs, yet this program ignores it.<br /><br />So, in sum, the parts of this program that neutrally present history without feeding stereotypes of drug users that are at the heart of the drug war mentality are pretty good and interesting and entertaining. But when it comes to presenting a rational non-radical point of view with regard to drug policy, and giving the viewer examples not only of people with drug problems but also the many people who successfully incorporate drugs into happy and successful lives, it\'s pretty disappointing."'],
 ['689,"Considering this film was released 8 years before I was born, I don\'t feel too bad for over-looking it for such a long time. Back in January of 98 though, I attended the Second Annual Quentin Tarantino film fest held in Austin,Texas. The particular theme of films this night was ""Neglected 70\'s Crime Films"" and boy was her right. ""The Gravy Train(or The Dion Brothers, as it appeared this print)"" was an absolute gem. Wonderful performances, quirky characters, smart plot, hilarious comedy, and just an all around great time. Rarely do you see a Crime film that is so entertaining and fresh. Margot Kidder in one of her earliest film appearances is extremely sexy as well. I hope some cable network gets a hold of this film and allows many more to see it. In the meantime, go to an indie video store and hope they have it."'],
 ['690,"The movie was actually a romantic drama based on three sisters who had desires to become a famous girl group. In their endeavors, the oldest sister meets a drug dealer and street hustler called Satin, whom Sister goes after because she believes he is the ""big time"" who will give her everything she ever thought she wanted out of life. Though he could be accused of killing her, he really kills only her spirit and will to live, after which she becomes a drug addict and ultimately dies from an overdose. The story isn\'t about the street life or the Italian mobster who tries to buy Stix off, then threatens him, it\'s about how love can overcome even the worst tragedies in life as portrayed in song and style and the character that was the life in the times for young women trying to be ""discovered"" back then."'],
 ['691,"First, I realize that a ""1"" rating is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst. This movie gets that from me because, as one reviewer points out, it\'s not bad in a self-aware, over-the-top sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value. It simply misses its mark on every count. **Contains possible spoilers** The dialog is completely disingenuous. The continuity is so deliberate it\'s painful. Daniel just finishes speaking of his lost love, and with his final word the flamenco dancers start. The mock-shock of what\'s her name (see? I don\'t even remember her character\'s name, let alone the name of the forgettable actress) when her husband (the Baldwin) first tells her that her friend is the bad guy. The car and the motorcycle chases did all the right things. Vegetable carts gone flying. Cars crashing into each other. Motorcycles going down the stairs. People nearly being hit, but remarkably, no one is. Oh, that\'s right... except for the one guy who has been stabbed several times, is obviously stumbling along the curb with knife wounds, and an approaching car apparently didn\'t notice him there. Hmmm. <br /><br />It\'s becoming more and more remarkable to me that movies like this can be made. There is so much pressure in the film industry to make money, you\'d think that someone in Hollywood would think of making good films worth seeing. Now there\'s a novel idea. <br /><br />My suggestion: don\'t see this film. Don\'t rent the DVD. Don\'t watch it on cable. There are lots of other things you could be doing that will leave you feeling more satisfied."'],
 ['692,"Picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriters sit around a table and one says ""lets have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public (also black) in the street and ask him if he is black, then walk away"". The other writers fall about laughing hysterically until one suggests they repeat it in every episode. More laughter. Now if you think the premise is funny, and the show contains many such types of situation, you will enjoy this show. For the rest, use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watching paint dry. Those that have written glowing reports of this show should either get out more or be forced to watch television comedies that are really funny. Another example of the humor in the show, a girl tries to get out of paying at a supermarket checkout by trying to hypnotise the cashier. Marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different shows with different cashiers? I could give other examples but these just might be treated as spoilers, divulging why this comedy just is not funny at all."'],
 ['693,"The year 2005 saw no fewer than 3 filmed productions of H. G. Wells\' great novel, ""War of the Worlds"". This is perhaps the least well-known and very probably the best of them. No other version of WotW has ever attempted not only to present the story very much as Wells wrote it, but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it was supposed to take place: the last year of the 19th Century, 1900 … using Wells\' original setting, in and near Woking, England.<br /><br />IMDb seems unfriendly to what they regard as ""spoilers"". That might apply with some films, where the ending might actually be a surprise, but with regard to one of the most famous novels in the world, it seems positively silly. I have no sympathy for people who have neglected to read one of the seminal works in English literature, so let\'s get right to the chase. The aliens are destroyed through catching an Earth disease, against which they have no immunity. If that\'s a spoiler, so be it; after a book and 3 other films (including the 1953 classic), you ought to know how this ends.<br /><br />This film, which follows Wells\' plot in the main, is also very cleverly presented – in a way that might put many viewers off due to their ignorance of late 19th/early 20th Century photography. Although filmed in a widescreen aspect, the film goes to some lengths to give an impression of contemporaneity. The general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often found in old photographs (rather than black). Colors are often reminiscent of hand-tinting. At other times, colors are washed out. These variations are typical of early films, which didn\'t use standardized celluloid stock and therefore presented a good many changes in print quality, even going from black/white to sepia/white to blue/white to reddish/white and so on – as you\'ll see on occasion here. The special effects are deliberately retrograde, of a sort seen even as late as the 1920s – and yet the Martians and their machines are very much as Wells described them and have a more nearly realistic ""feel"". Some of effects are really awkward – such as the destruction of Big Ben. The acting is often more in the style of that period than ours. Some aspects of Victorian dress may appear odd, particularly the use of pomade or brilliantine on head and facial hair.<br /><br />This film is the only one that follows with some closeness Wells\' original narrative – as has been noted. Viewers may find it informative to note plot details that appear here that are occasionally retained in other versions of the story. Wells\' description of the Martians – a giant head mounted on numerous tentacles – is effectively portrayed. When the Martian machines appear, about an hour into the film, they too give a good impression of how Wells described them. Both Wells and this film do an excellent job of portraying the progress of the Martians from the limited perspective (primarily) of rural England – plus a few scenes in London (involving the Narrator\'s brother). The director is unable to resist showing the destruction of a major landmark (Big Ben), but at least doesn\'t dwell unduly on the devastation of London.<br /><br />The victory of the Martians is hardly a surprise, despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machines. The Narrator, traveling about to seek escape, sees much of what Wells terms ""the rout of Mankind"". He encounters a curate endowed with the Victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality. They eventually find themselves on the very edge of a Martian nest, where they discover an awful fact: the Martians are shown to be vampires who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene. Wells adds that after eating they set up ""a prolonged and cheerful hooting"". The Narrator finally is obliged to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate – who revives just as the Martians drag him off to the larder (cheers from the gallery; British curates are so often utterly insufferable).<br /><br />This film lasts almost 3 hours, going through Wells\' story in welcome detail. It\'s about time the author got his due – in a compelling presentation that builds in dramatic impact. A word about the acting: Don\'t expect award-winning performances. They\'re not bad, however, the actors are earnest and they grow on you. Most of them, however, have had very abbreviated film careers, often only in this film. The Narrator is played by hunky Anthony Piana, in his 2nd film. The Curate is John Kaufman – also in his 2nd film as an actor but who has had more experience directing. The Brother (""Henderson"") is played with some conviction by W. Bernard Bauman in his first film. The Artilleryman, the only other sizable part, is played by James Lathrop in his first film.<br /><br />This is overall a splendid film, portraying for the first time the War of the Worlds as Wells wrote it. Despite its slight defects, it is far and away better than any of its hyped-up competitors. If you want to see H. G. Wells\' War of the Worlds – and not some wholly distorted version of it – see this film!"'],
 ['694,"Of the elements that make this the best at this point, I have to say #1 is Christine McIntire. Shemp\'s scene when poisoned and her reaction are truly magnificent. I imagine that, as one poster suggested, Christine was trying to hold back laughter during that scene, but it actually made her seem even more deliciously evil, to be smiling at Shemp\'s possibly dying.<br /><br />Another character who helps this stand out is the Goon. His look was a great cross between horrific and comedic goof-ball. Hardly a character I would choose to meet in a dark alley or, for that matter anywhere. I would have preferred a bit of true whodunit mystery in this, but hey, when a short is this good, who\'s going to complain. Not I."'],
 ['695,"Okay this is stupid,they say their not making another Nightmare film,that this is the ""last"" one...And what do they do?They go on making another one,not that the next one (part7) was BAD,but why do they play us. Anyway this movie made no sense what-so ever,it was extremelly dull,the characters were highly one dimensional,Freddy was another joker,which is very stupid for such a good series.The plot is very,very bad,and this is even worse than part 2 and 5. I didnt get the movie,its a stupid tale in 3-d,pointless!Id say. I hated this film so much i still rmember all the parts i didnt like which was basically the whole film.This is SO different than the prequels,it tries,and tries,but this one tried the hardest,and got slapped back on the face.Again there were hadly any death scenes,although they were different,they sucked bigtime. How can they have gone this far?Didnt they see they made the biggest mistakes at parts 2 and 5?Yet they make this?Its all bout the money,DO NOT SEE THIS SAD EXCUSE FOR A NIGHTMARE SERIES.<br /><br />I GAVE A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET SIX (6) 3 out of 10.<br /><br />GOOD POINTS OF MOVIE: Had potential with plot.<br /><br />BAD POINTS OF FILM: Terrible acting/lack of deaths/Too funny to be classified as horror/very confusing."'],
 ['696,"Everyone, my name may sound weird, but there was nothing else! <br /><br />Any way, I haven\'t seen anything like this before so it was crazy! Of course that\'s a good thing. It is a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing is how they intertwine other things into one! Like chicken little,, the fish pretending to be King Kong and Runt the pig saying, ""Twas beauty who killed the beast"", War of the worlds scene and more. Walt Disney company has NOT lost his touch maybe not for this one. Also, how they made it like they were watching a movie and it was like a home cinema. <br /><br />However some parts don\'t fit. Like in the original lion king, weren\'t Timon and Pumbaa with Simba when he beat Scar? In this movie, they are not! they were fighting the hyenas backstage. Ther\'s more, the reason being why Pumbaa isn\'t so confident is because he was pushed away by the other animals and also, it\'s just Timon, Timon, Timon. Anybody realise that only Timonn\'s story was told, whereas pumbaa only had flashbacks?<br /><br />But apart from that , IT""S GREAT!"'],
 ['697,"Finally was there released a good Modesty Blaise movie, which not only tells a story, but actually tells the ""real"" story. I admit that it is a bad movie if you expect an action thriller, but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectations. Then you will notice that it is a story that comes very close to the original made by Peter O\'Donnell. You have a cover story just to tell about how Modesty became the magnificent person which she is. It is not a movie to attract new fans, but a movie to tell the real tale. Some things could have been better, but when you cannot forget the awful movie from \'66 then is this a magnificent movie. So are you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story is there with a cover story just to make Modesty tell her story."'],
 ['698,"By now, the game\'s stale, right?<br /><br />The jokes have been done. Its all over. The creative genius which drove this game for the first two games was gone, after all.<br /><br />Wrong.<br /><br />The game is still intact, the jokes are here, folks. Sure, they\'re all rehash, but so was Monkey Island 2. And 1, for that matter.<br /><br />The difficulty is well placed, somewhere between the slightly easy 1 and the ridiculously hard 2. The ship fighting sub-game is badly innappropriate, in the tradition of sub-games. And this game has the best joke of the whole series. When asked for your membership card to an exclusive beach, always select ""You don\'t need to see my identification."" Its worth the price of the game by itself."'],
 ['699,"I decided to watch this movie because I\'d not seen Carol Lombard before in any movie. I\'m sorry it had to be this one because, quite frankly, this is a dog – and even with Jimmy Stewart and Charles Coburn, both of whom were great actors.<br /><br />The problem with the film is simple: it tries to put too much, too quickly, in to a story about a young lawyer (John Manson played by Stewart) who marries Jane (played by Lombard) within an hour of meeting her. What\'s that cliché? Marry in haste, repent at leisure... <br /><br />In short, the story is a series of episodes that show the couples\' worsening financial status, their troubles with John\'s live-in mother, their struggles to pay the bills, John\'s diminished status at the office, the arrival of their baby son, John Jnr (unexpected and causing additional friction at home with mother), the couples\' angst about their marriage, the baby\'s sickness which worsens, thus necessitating an heroic flight by a lone pilot (in a fierce storm) to bring a special serum to save the child, and finally John being accepted as a junior partner at the law firm.<br /><br />How many more clichéd situations could the writers include? Maybe Mother dying soon after? There wasn\'t much comedy; the drama was lacklustre, at best; the dialog was painful to hear. Only the acting of the four main players was adequate.<br /><br />This was the period at the end of the Great Depression with the USA coming out of its long downturn – during which many people experienced all of the events portrayed in the movie.<br /><br />So, it made sense for Selznick to reaffirm good ol\' home spun American values of family, relationships, heroism, perseverance, and initiative – all against the backdrop of the ""average"" American family. Who better to use than Jimmy Stewart and Carol Lombard? <br /><br />And, it should be noted that the film was released in early 1939; so, it was planned in 1938 – soon after the USA began to get production going for the coming World War II. Hence, this sort of film was a great booster for the general public, at that time, many of who would soon have to join England in war. As many here would know, Hollywood and Washington formed an uneasy alliance before, during and after the war.<br /><br />However, I\'m glad I saw it – as a piece of disguised socio-political propaganda. But, I\'ll have to see other Lombard films to gain a better appreciation of her acting range.<br /><br />As another reviewer noted: see this one just to say that you\'ve seen all of Stewart\'s movies; otherwise, don\'t bother."'],
 ['700,"Unfortunately the only spoiler in this review is that there\'s nothing to spoil about that movie.Even if B. Mattei had never done any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that made him a fun Eurotrash director. But for the last 10 years he seemed to have lost it.This film is just empty, nothing at all to wake us up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first 10 min.No sex, no blood(it\'s suppose to be about snuff?),no actors, no dialogs, just as bad as an 90\'T.V film.It\'s even worse than his last cannibals and zombies epics.So Rest in peace Bruno, you will stay in our minds forever anyway, thanks to such unforgettable gems as:Zombi 3, Robowar,Rats, l\'altro inferno,Virus, Cruel jaws and few others.So except if you want to see B Mattei possessed by jess Franco\'s spirit\'s new film, pass on this one.But if you don\'t know this nice artisan\'s career track down his old films and have fun."'],
 ['701,"I Enjoyed Watching This Well Acted Movie Very Much!It Was Well Acted,Particularly By Actress Helen Hunt And Actors Steven Weber And Jeff Fahey.It Was A Very Interesting Movie,Filled With Drama And Suspense,From The Beginning To The Very End.I Reccomend That Everyone Take The Time To Watch This Made For Television Movie,It Is Excellent And Has Great Acting!!"'],
 ['702,"Hypothetical situations abound, one-time director Harry Ralston gives us the ultimate post-apocalyptic glimpse with the world dead, left in the streets, in the stores, and throughout the landscape, sans in the middle of a forgotten desert. One lone survivor, attempting to rekindle his sanity, takes food from the city to his bungalow in this desert. All alone, he hopes for more, but with nobody around, he is left with white underwear, and a passion for a local Indian tribe – until the discovery of a camera which opens up new doors and breaks the barriers of human co-existence. Alan, a man of the book, is left on Earth after an unknown disaster. Thinking he is alone, he begins living life his way – until, Jeri Ryan, appears (like she would in any dream) out of the woods, disheveled, and unhappy to find the final man alive to be ... well ... like Alan. Anyway, they try to co-exist, fail, get drunk, and before creating the ultimate dystopia, they run into Redneck Raphael (played by newcomer – Dan Montgomery Jr). Bonds are torn, confusion sets in, a couple becomes a third wheel, and the battle between physically inept nerd vs. brainless jock. Even with nobody left on the planet, it becomes a truth that even the darkest of human nature will arise.<br /><br />Using a variable film technique, Ralston gives us a mediocre story based loosely on another film entitled ""The Quiet Earth"" (which I will be viewing next) oddly which he never gives any credit towards. With a borrowed story, I guess he does a decent job of reinterpreting it. His punch seems to be lacking at the beginning while Ralston tries to find his stride, borrowing yet again from other film director\'s techniques to attempt to find his own. He opens the film interestingly enough, but fails to answer any direct answers. Sure, the final days have arrived, but could there be a concise answer as to ""how"" or better yet ""why"" these select few survived. A spookier beginning would have led us stronger into a comical film. The juxtaposition would have been like ""Shawn of the Dead"", but instead left us feeling like we were watching a ""made-for-TV"" program. Listening to the audio commentary, I have respect for Ralston because he worked diligently to get this film made, and his passion nearly sells the film, but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasn\'t as happy with his overall final product. There were mistakes, ones that he pointed out and others that he was ashamed to point out. While this does make for decent independent film-making, it sometimes feels cheap, and in Ralston\'s case, it was the latter.<br /><br />I must admit, David Arnott\'s portrayal of Alan hooked me. He played that wimpy, school nerd, adult role very well. He was funny to both watch and listen to, and thus he became sympathetic to the viewer. He was a key player in keeping the film together, alas, I cannot say the same for the rest. This was Dan Montgomery\'s first film, and it was obvious – I mean – really really obvious. There were scenes in which I thought the cue card was about to come out and read the lines for him, perhaps even giving us a more realistic performance, but alas, it wasn\'t the case. Then there was Jeri Ryan. She pulled into her character near the end of the film, which to me, was the culmination of the entire piece of art. She goes from estranged unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end. Confused? Again, she fell into her character by the end, giving us just a glimpse of what she could have probably done as her acting matured. Even as the commentary progressed, all that she contributed was a laugh, giggle, or ""ohhh, look at that color"" moment. While her beauty may sell tickets, one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful. This was her first film, so can I be too harsh? <br /><br />Overall, this film felt like it was missing something. I though the idea was strong – the premise that even with only a peppering of people remaining on the Earth the evil of human nature still exists. Jealousy cannot be killed by bacteria or bombs (maybe because it is consumed by zinc?) and we as a race will always want what we cannot have. Ralston is not a surprising director, his techniques are flawed and pre-used, but he does know how to make a low-budget comedy. I think our idea of ""funny"" is different, so that is why I couldn\'t find myself laughing at many of the bits he found ""hysterical"". His actors provided the level of acting needed for this film, which was lower than average. His film was loose, meaning that there were elements never quite explained or tackled (i.e. anything with wings survived?!?), which overall harmed the intensity of the film. This was a comedy, but it could have been much darker and much much funnier. For those thinking that Roger Avery was a huge element to this film, as we learn from their commentary, all he was there for was money – the was in essence, the bank for ""The Last Man"". Don\'t get your hopes up for any classic Avery moments.<br /><br />Don\'t expect more from Ralston – and that is how I will end it.<br /><br />Grade: ** out of *****"'],
 ['703,"<br /><br />I must admit, I was expecting something quite different from my first viewing of \'Cut\' last night, though was delighted with the unexpected Australian horror gem. I am a true horror fan as true as they come, and found \'Cut\' to not only be the best of the genre Australia has ever produced, but one of the great parody/comedy films of late.<br /><br />My only concern is that mainstream audiences may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements - the film was not overly clever in it\'s application but made me laugh at every turn trying to fit in EVERY possible cliche of the horror genre they could. I am certain this was intended as humour....hoping this was intended as humour.<br /><br />And of course, there was the gore.<br /><br />The use of the \'customised\' garden shears was brilliance - besides the expected stabs and slashes. In short, there was a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent deaths, enough to please even the skeptics of this films worth.<br /><br />The appearance of both Kylie Minogue (short that her appearance was) and Molly Ringwald was just another reason to see the film - both performances were fantastic, as well as Simon Bossell (\'The Castle\') in a brilliant role as the jokey technician.<br /><br />All in all, I think this movie is one of the best horror products of the last couple or years, as well as a beautiful satire/parody - toungue-in-cheek till the very end.<br /><br />Loved it. Go see it!"'],
 ['704,"I am so happy not to live in an American small town. Because whenever I\'m shown some small town in the States it is populated with all kinds of monsters among whom flesh hungry zombies, evil aliens and sinister ghosts are most harmless. In this movie a former doctor, who\'s just done time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash, directs his steps to the nearest small town - he must have never in his life seen a flick about any small towns - which happens to be the Purgatory Flats. And, of course, as soon as he arrives there all the hell breaks loose. He meets a blond chick who out of all creatures most resembles a cow both in facial expressions and in brain functioning and at once falls in love with her. But there is a tiny handicap, she is already married to a very small-time drug dealer who in a minute gets himself shot pitifully not dead. To know what has come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself. I\'ll just tell you that it\'s slightly reminiscent of U Turn by Oliver Stone but is a way down in all artistic properties."'],
 ['705,"Like anyone else who bought this, I was duped by the ""20 pieces of extreme gore"" and ""banned in 20 countries"" or whatever it says in the box. I have to admit I am a huge gore fan and I am always amazed when films can lay it on thick and look convincing doing it. Tom Savini, Rick Baker and Greg Cannom are some of the best in the business. The revolutionized make-up effects in the 80\'s. Today, you don\'t need them as everything is done on computer. But computers cannot compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up. But I digress.<br /><br />Watching fantastically gory films like Fulci\'s Gates to Hell or even Savini\'s crowning achievement, Friday the 13th the Final Chapter, you can appreciate all that goes into making a terrifically gory film. You can\'t tell the difference between reality and magic.<br /><br />I can\'t imagine another reason why anyone would see Cannibal Ferox but the gore that is ostensibly omnipotent in this film. If that is the reason you seek this film, then you are wasting your money. As many other reviewers in here have noted, most of the gore is an aftermath. You don\'t see the torture, or the bloodshed as it happens, you see whatever it looks like afterwords.<br /><br />The gore? Well, it\'s here, but not as much as one would hope, or expect. A man does get castrated and a women does get hanged by her breasts, but other then those two scenes, and one involving a scalping; there is nothing really much else to this film. The scenes of gore even in these three mentioned, are still pretty tame in comparison to what you were hoping for. Maybe it\'s just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre, but I was expecting a bit more. Call me sick or twisted, but isn\'t that the only reason people are watching this film in the first place? I honestly found myself bored in a lot of places.<br /><br />Cannibal Ferox is just another film that tries to capitalize on a craze of a superior film. While Cannibal Holocaust is not exactly a great film, it is much better than this tripe. If you go out of your way to buy this for $20.00, you will feel cheated.<br /><br />3/10"'],
 ['706,"I always felt that Ms. Merkerson had never gotten a role fitting her skills. Familiar to millions as the Lt. on Law and Order, she has been seen in a number of theatrical releases, always in a supporting role. HBO\'s Lackawanna Blues changes that and allows this talented actress to shine as Nanny, successful entrepreneur in a world changing from segregation to integration. But the story is really about the colorful array of characters that she and her adopted son meet in a boarding house in Lackawanna, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.<br /><br />The story could be set in any major African-American community of the 50\'s and 60\'s from Atlanta\'s Sweet Auburn to New York\'s Harlem. But the segregation-integration angle is only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful lives of the folks at Nanny\'s boarding house. The story revolves around Nanny\'s relationships with all kinds of people, played by some of the best actors in the business (I purposely did not say black actors--this ensemble is a stunning array of talent who happen to be black, except for Jimmy Smits, of course) I recommend this film as a fun and colorful look at a bygone day."'],
 ['707,"This will not likely be voted best comedy of the year, a few too many coincidences and plot holes. However we are talking about a movie where a hit-man and a white bread salesman become buddies so a few vagaries shouldn\'t come as too much of a surprise. Brosnan is excellent in this role, gone is the wooden James Bond (a role he was wasted in). If he can maintain this kind of quality I hope he continues to make comedies. Greg Kinnear is also excellent as Brosnan\'s straight man. I\'ve read a few negative comments in here about Hope Davis but I thought she was quite good as a mousy housewife with a dark side buried deep within. There are lots of good chuckles as Brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scenes where I nearly died laughing. My father (a consultant) nearly lost it when Julian describes himself as a ""facilitator"". Much like ""Grosse Pointe Blank"", another hit-man comedy, the humour can be very dark. If you are in to that be prepared to enjoy yourself."'],
 ['708,"As a casual listener of the Rolling Stones, I thought this might be interesting. Not so, as this film is very \'of its age\', in the 1960\'s. To me (someone born in the 1980\'s) this just looks to me as hippy purist propaganda crap, but I am sure this film was not made for me, but people who were active during th \'60\'s. I expected drugs galore with th Stones, I was disappointed, it actually showed real life, hard work in the studio, So much so I felt as if I was working with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film. I have not seen any of the directors other films, but I suspect they follow a similar style of directing, sort of \'amatuerish\' which gave a feeling like the TV show Eurotrash, badly directed, tackily put together and lacking in real entertainment value. My only good opinion of this is that I didn\'t waste money on it, it came free with a Sunday paper."'],
 ['709,"Watch the Original with the same title from 1944! This made for TV movie, is just god-awful! Although it does use (as far as I can tell) almost the same dialog, it just doesn\'t work! Is it the acting, the poor directing? OK so it\'s made for TV, but why watch a bad copy, when you can get your hands on the superb original? Especially as you\'ll be spoiled to the plot and won\'t enjoy the original as much, as if you\'ve watched it first! <br /><br />There are a few things that are different from the original (it\'s shorter for once), but all are for the worse! The actors playing the parts here, just don\'t fit the bill! You just don\'t believe them and who could top Edward G. Robinsons performance from the original? If you want, only watch it after you\'ve seen the original and even then you\'ll be very brave, if you watch it through! It\'s almost sacrilege!"'],
 ['710,"Director Don Siegel really impressed me with this film. It is starkly shot, graphic without being visually graphic, well-acted by all concerned, and covers some of the most taboo issues of any day in a workmanlike, almost expected normalcy hitherto not seen in any other film by this reviewer. I didn\'t know what to expect sitting down to watch this: a civil war movie or some kind of 70\'s soft-core peddling with Eastwood descending on a school for girls in the South. But really is is neither of those things but rather and examination, exploration, and descent into the soul of men and women - a dark commentary on what is at the core of the civilized. as one reviewer previously noted, none - none - of the characters are likable by the film\'s end and yet each one is interesting, complex, and enigmatic. Eastwood plays Cpl. McBurney, a Union soldier found by young Pamelyn Ferdin(you\'ll recognize that voice as soon as you hear it), a girl at a school for manners headed by Geraldine Page amidst the chaos that was the Civil War - particularly in the South. Soon, Page, teacher Elizabeth Hartman, lovely, young seductress Carol, and even Ferdin(Amy)have emotional/sexual ties to Eastwood - each having their own needs and secrets and problems. Eastwood is not a nice man. he plays the girls off of each other always trying to get the sexual advantage. In the unfolding we get some real interesting things revealed from latent lesbianism to incest. The Beguiled, for me, is a masterpiece that far exceeded my expectations on every creative front. This might be(except for Invasion of the Body Snatchers) Siegel\'s best film. It certainly is one of Eastwood\'s best REAL performances. page is always so very good and Hartman, Fe5rdin, et al excellent. the Gothic manse set for the school is effectively claustrophobic. Some of the sexual-laced scenes disturbing. And what happens to Eastwood is a leg up on much of the competition for creepy, eerie, demented film."'],
 ['711,"Anyone who lived through the ages of Revenge of the Nerds and Girlpower will appreciate this film. It is one of those films that delivers everything you want in a ""spring break movie"" PLUS it makes fun of the college film genre. It\'s funny, it\'s got a cast to die for (Amy Pohler! Rachel Dratch!, Sophie Monk!, Parker Posey! Jane Lynch! Amber Tamblyn! Missi Pyle!) and its guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. Writer/ actor Rachel Dratch is a comic genius and Sophie Monk is such a great villain. Wilson Phillips! OMG! (I\'m just repeating myself now...) It will live on with girls who like Miranda July but feel like eating ice cream and pretending they\'re dumb."'],
 ['712,"Arguably the finest serial ever made(no argument here thus far) about Earthman Flash Gordon, Professor Zarkov, and beautiful Dale Arden traveling in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet. Along the way, in spellbinding, spectacular, and action-packed chapters Flash and his friends along with new found friends such as Prince Barin, Prince Thun, and the awesome King Vultan pool their resources together to fight the evils and armies of the merciless Ming of Mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter Priness Aura(now she\'s a car!). This serial is not just a cut above most serials in terms of plot, acting, and budget - it is miles ahead in these areas. Produced by Universal Studios it has many former sets at its disposable like the laboratory set from The Bride of Frankenstein and the Opera House from The Phantom of the Opera just to name a few. The production values across the board are advanced, in my most humble opinion, for 1936. The costumes worn by many of these strange men and women are really creative and first-rate. We get hawk-men, shark men, lion men, high priests, creatures like dragons, octasacks, orangapoids, and tigrons(oh my!)and many, many other fantastic things. Are all of them believable and first-rate special effects? No way. But for 1936 most are very impressive. The musical score is awesome and the chapter beginnings are well-written, lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memories of the former chapter, and expertly scored. Director Frederick Stephani does a great job piecing everything together wonderfully and creating a worthy film for Alex Raymond\'s phenom comic strip. Lastly, the acting is pretty good in this serial. All too often serials have either no names with no talent surrounding one or two former talents - here most everyone has some ability. Don\'t get me wrong, this isn\'t a Shakespeare troupe by any means, but Buster Crabbe does a workmanlike, likable job as Flash. He is ably aided by Jean Arden, Priscella Lawson, and the rest of the cast in general with two performers standing out. But before I get to those two let me add as another reviewer noted, it must have been amazing for this serial to get by the Hayes Office. I see more flesh on Flash and on Jean Rogers and Priscella Lawson than in movies decades later. The shorts Crabbe(and unfortunately for all of us Professor Zarkov((Frank Shannon)) wears are about as form-fitting a pair of shorts guys can wear. The girls are wearing mid drifts throughout and are absolutely beautiful Jean Rogers may have limited acting talent but she is a blonde bombshell. Lawson is also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful. But for me the two actors that make the serial are Charles Middleton as Ming: officious, sardonic, merciless, and fun. Middleton is a class act. Jack ""Tiny"" Lipson plays King Vultan: boisterous, rousing, hilarious - a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism. Lipson steals each and every scene he is in. The plot meanders here, there, and everywhere - but Flash Gordon is the penultimate serial, space opera, and the basis for loads of science fiction to follow. Excellent!"'],
 ['713,"I have to say that the events of 9/11 didn\'t hit me until I saw this documentary. It took me a year to come to grips with the devastation. I was the one who was changing the station on the radio and channel on TV if there was any talk about the towers. I was sick of hearing about it. When this was aired on TV a year and a day later, I was bawling my eyes out. It was the first time I had cried since the attack. I highly recommend this documentary. I am watching it now on TV, 5 years later, and I am still crying over the tragedies. The fact that this contains one of the only video shots of the first plane hitting the tower is amazing. It was an accident, and look where it got them. These two brothers make me want to have been there to help."'],
 ['714,"Perfect movies are rare. Even my favorite films tend to have flaws - Rear Window looks a little stagey at times, Chris Elliot\'s character in Groundhog Day doesn\'t work, the music score in Best Years of Our Lives is too cheesy, the beginning of Nights of Cabiria is a little too slow - but this film is perfectly executed from start to finish. <br /><br />The script is brilliant, the acting is superb all around (although Reese Witherspoon and Sam Waterston are amazing, the whole cast shines), the directing and the photography are inspired, and the music score is touching without being intrusive (like some Miramax scores that are too manipulative). Every sad moment is truly moving, every light moment makes me smile. This truly is one of the best films I have ever seen and I wish there were more films like it. <br /><br />I am glad that Reese Witherspoon has gone on to stardom after this film, but I am sorry to see that her recent movies are so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which is about real people, real feelings and real problems. Brilliant! A must-see."'],
 ['715,"This has to be one of the 5 worst movies ever made. The plot looked intriguing like that of Passenger 57. But with the latter movie it somehow worked a lot better. The plot has been worked out in the worst possible way. Just a few of the awful moments in the movie, A flight attendant is standing in the opened doorway of a flying 747 and trying to close the door without being sucked out by the 250 mile per hour winds?!? Thereafter the lands the aircraft from a few miles out starting at 8000 feet, thats impossible even for 747 pilots with thousands of hour experience. When on the runway (perfectly straight of course) she is instructed to pull on the flaps, HUH!! Come on flaps are there to ensure lift at low speeds, when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engines and give maximum power! I can go on and on about little and mostly big mistakes in the movie, but then my reply would become the size of the English dictionary. This is a movie you want to miss, take my word for it!"'],
 ['716,"regardless of what anyone says, its a b-movie, and the effects are poorly done.. if you\'re a vampire fanatic, I suppose it would be OK, not 10 out of 10, you others here cant sincerely mean that?. we are to view this as a movie, not read it as a book, so the effects and characters are important, as well as the story. The story are good, but it doesn\'t carry the film, no wonder it has a low rating over all. I write this because I chose to see this movie when I saw some good reviews here on IMDb, but got severely disappointed. don\'t get me wrong, I thought the blade movies was awesome, and loved the underworld movies, but this characters aren\'t close. the make up on the vampires is poorly done, and the effects are worse. this sucks. I might not have gotten so disappointed if I had not read reviews here that told me how great it was. the reviewers must have had something to do with the production company or something, seriously, if you think this is awesome, you don\'t care about acting or make up. this is better as a book. 3 out of 10 for an OK story.."'],
 ['717,"I want very much to believe that the above quote (specifically, the English subtitle translation), which was actually written, not spoken, in a rejection letter a publisher sends to the protagonist, was meant to be self-referential in a tongue-in-cheek manner. But if so, director Leos Carax apparently neglected to inform the actors of the true nature of the film. They are all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayals that I have to conclude Carax actually takes himself seriously here, or else has so much disdain for everyone, especially the viewing audience, that he can\'t be bothered letting anyone in on the joke.<br /><br />Some auteurs are able to get away with making oblique, bizarre films because they do so with élan and unique personal style (e.g., David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky). Others use a subtler approach while still weaving surreal elements into the fabric of the story (e.g., Krzysztof Kieslowski, and David Cronenberg\'s later, less bizarre works). In Pola X, Carax throws a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dares him to find fault with it. Well, here it is: the pacing is erratic and choppy, in particular continuity is often dispensed with; superfluous characters abound (e.g., the Gypsy mother and child); most of the performances are overwrought; the lighting is often poor, particularly in the oft-discussed sex scene; unconnected scenes are thrust into the film for no discernible reason; and the list goes on.<br /><br />Not to be completely negative, it should be noted that there were some uplifting exceptions. I liked the musical score, even the cacophonous industrial-techno music being played in the sprawling, abandoned complex to which the main characters retreat in the second half of the film (perhaps a reference to Andy Warhol\'s \'Factory\' of the \'60s?). Much of the photography of the countryside was beautiful, an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city settings. And, even well into middle-age, Cathering Deneuve shows that she still has \'it\'. Her performance was also the only one among the major characters that didn\'t sink into bathos.<br /><br />There was an earlier time when I would regard such films as ""Pola X"" more charitably. Experimentation is admirable, even when the experiment doesn\'t work. But Carax tries nothing new here; the film is a pastiche of elements borrowed from countless earlier films, and after several decades of movie-viewing and literally thousands of films later, I simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal, poorly crafted tripe. At this early moment in the 21st century, one is left asking: With the exception of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, are there *any* directors in France who know how to make a watchable movie anymore? Rating: 3/10."'],
 ['718,"It\'s hard to praise this film much. The CGI for the dragon was well done, but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow. Also, the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious.<br /><br />I was amazed to see ""Marcus Aurelius"" in the acting credits, wondering what an ex-Emperor of the Roman Empire was doing acting in this film! Like ""Whoopie Goldberg"" it must be an alias, and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker.<br /><br />The story might been interesting, but the acting is flat, and direction is tedious. If you MUST watch this film, go around to your friend\'s house and get drunk while doing so - then it\'ll be enjoyable."'],
 ['719,"I remember going to see the movie in the summer of \'78 with my parents, and being pretty into it at the time. Of course, I was seven at the time.<br /><br />Right before the Jackson movies came out, my wife and I rented this movie since she had never seen it and I was feeling nostalgic.<br /><br />Ralph Bakshi ran out of money about mid-way through the animation process for this movie, and was forced to drastically cut corners on this production. Since this movie was done primarily with rotoscoping, the animation technique for people on a budget, this is saying something. Much of this movie is animation only in the very loosest sense of the word. There are some scenes which are very obviously just people standing in front of a screen, with maybe some animation effects superimposed on top of them.<br /><br />Because of budget constraints, the movie -- already a compression of ""The Fellowship of the Rings"" and part of ""The Two Towers"" -- was pared down even more. What you get is sort of like a film-strip version of the Cliff Notes of the books.<br /><br />Its not all bad, though, the animation brings a warmth to it, that I found lacking in the Jackson movies. Its nice to imagine what it could have been like with decent funding.<br /><br />This movie is also noteworthy for having the sequel which never came. Several years later, a half-hearted half-hour long TV special was aired, which was meant to wrap things up. All I will say about that is that it was a musical."'],
 ['720,"Just finished watching 2FTM. The trailers intrigued me so much I actually went to see it on opening weekend, something I never do. Needless to say I was very disappointed. The story has so much potential and it\'s frustrating to see it get screwed up. I really feel the problem with the movie was the directing and Matthew McConaughey. First off I am not a MM hater, I thought he was awesome in both Reign of Fire and Lone Star. I enjoyed his performance in those movies without having to see him with his shirt off 3-4 times. Yes we all get it that he a good-looking guy with a nice body, but I think most people knew this 10 years ago when he came on the scene in A Time to Kill. Showing him with his shirt off pumping iron like a sweaty madman 3-4 times in the movie is totally unnecessary. I think one time would have been sufficient. It wouldn\'t surprise me if they threw those unnecessary scenes in so girlfriends and wives would be willing to tag along with their significant other, no woman wants to see a movie about sports gambling, unless......Enough about that, let\'s get into his role. I feel his acting was very forced and he didn\'t seem very comfortable. I know his character was supposed to be this charming southerner, but his lines were corny and cheesy. It was almost like he was referencing Days and Confused lines a few times! In short, I didn\'t like his character even though I was supposed to. The accent, his shirt off, corny pick up lines, weak sales pitches. His character was just too much of a tool, as Brandon or Jonathan. Pacino and Assante were great, but that\' no surprise. Piven is fun to watch as Arie....oooops I mean Jerry. I just feel this movie was very commercial and put together poorly. It\'s insulting that they could take a great story, and throw in crap ingredients to try and make it a box office success. 1. Cool story that appeals to the male man 2. Hunky Hollywood actor for female women (make sure he has numerous scenes with shirt off lifting weights) 3. Al Pacino with 4 great speech scenes, and 25 great one liners 3. Every character shall be dressed in thousand dollars suites and have an extremely dark tan 4. Jeremy Piven to play the same character he did in Entourage and Old School 4. Throw in Armand Assante to seal the deal 5. Plot, good writing, character development, and intelligent casting are unnecessary<br /><br />This will be good enough for most people, but not me! Anybody who disagrees with me, ask your self this. Would this movie be much better if: A. Directed by Sodeberg B. DeCaprio or Ed Norton as Brandon instead of MM<br /><br />I will probably be part of the minority in thinking this movie sucks. I realized this when the woman next to me started crying during the ridiculous ending scene of Pacino shedding a fake tear while embracing Russo. The financial success of this movie will ensure one thing. The movie going public gets what the movie going public wants, big budget crapola."'],
 ['721,"I was watching the sci-fi channel when this steaming pile of crap came on. While not as bad as Wynorski\'s ""Curse of the Komodo"", this still sucks...BAD. Wynorski uses the same island as in ""Curse of the Komodo"", as well as the same actors and house. The effects are top notch (suprising) but thats about it........I don\'t know what else to say about this movie.......oh yeah! As in ""Curse of the Komodo"", the government gets involved and decides to bomb the island! Also....when i saw this part i laughed hysterically...A KOMANBRA!!! (part man, komodo AND cobra!). Overall this movie is utter crap even on bad movie standards. Just remember if Jim Wynorski had anything to do with a movie....steer clear....to avoid from falling asleep keep repeating ""It\'s almost over..it\'s almost over..."". 0 out of 5."'],
 ['722,"I only heard about Driving Lessons through the ITV adverts, and to be honest, I didn\'t know how much I would like it. I switched on the TV last night and was totally surprised. Driving Lessons is a modest, simple film which draws you in right from the start. Rupert Grint plays the part of socially awkward teenager Ben brilliantly. He\'s definitely one to look out for in the future. Dame Eve Walton is played by the fabulous Julie Walters. I loved the simple plot and the way the actors portrayed their characters with great sensitivity. The highlight of the film, for me was Evie\'s rather colourful poem. It shows how friendships can form between the most unlikely pairs. In my opinion, watching Driving Lessons is a great way to spend 2 hours. The scenery was also striking, especially the countryside. Anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable, I strongly disagree with"'],
 ['723,"For Greta Garbo\'s first talking picture, MGM wisely chose Eugene O\'Neill\'s Pultizer Prize winning 1921 play ANNA Christie. <br /><br />Also wisely, the producers backed Garbo up with not one but two members of the Original Broadway Cast (George Marion as Anna\'s father, Chris, and James T. Mack as Johnny the Priest - transmuted to ""Johnny the Harp"" for films so as not to offend). <br /><br />This little change is interesting. Like too many films accused (by those who want MOVIES to be MOVIES and ignore their origins) of being ""little more than filmed stage plays,"" the problem is not the play but the movie makers who wouldn\'t be more faithful to the property. By diluting a great cinematic stage work so it wouldn\'t offend anyone, or opening it up because they COULD, too many lose the very qualities which made the piece worth filming in the first place. <br /><br />Fortunately, the respect the studio had for both O\'Neill and Garbo allowed ANNA Christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in Frances Marion\'s generally sensitive screen adaptation. Wonder of wonders, Marion even allows the POINT of the scene where Garbo\'s Anna reveals her past on ""the farm"" to the man she badly wants to marry and the father who sent her there in tact! What the League of Decency must have thought of that! <br /><br />The source play\'s greatest problem has always been that Chris\'s friend Marthy tends to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that Anna can take stage - the two sides of the genuinely good woman men don\'t always recognize. <br /><br />The perfectly cast Marie Dressler (who had cut her teeth on the Broadway stage as well before going to Hollywood) is the perfect balance for Garbo\'s Anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only 90 minutes, doesn\'t allow us too much time to miss her - one of the few benefits from atmosphere being shown rather than eloquently described in the original - AND screenwriter Marion is wise enough to stray from O\'Neill to bring Dressler back for a touching scene two thirds of the way through the film that will remind many of Julie Laverne\'s second act appearance in SHOW BOAT. <br /><br />Anna and Marthy\'s early scene together on screen (16 minutes into the film) taking each other\'s measure and setting up all the tension of the rest of the story is among the most affecting scenes in the entire piece. Not to be missed. <br /><br />ANNA Christie is great tragic play and a good film drama. It\'s hard to imagine that a latter day remake, which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this 1930 remake (it was first filmed without sound in 1923 - also with George Marion\'s original Broadway Chris) could improve on this excellent filming. <br /><br />The internal scenes hew closest to the play, but the exteriors shouldn\'t be missed by anyone with an eye to atmosphere. While the background screen work is not to modern technical standards, the backgrounds give a better glimpse than most films of the era of the actual world in which the screen play is set (especially in the New York harbor).<br /><br />Nearly all Garbo\'s naturalistic performances of the sound era have held up superbly (only the too often parodied death scene from CAMILLE, 7 years later, will occasionally draw snickers because of the heavy handed direction and the parodies), but this ANNA Christie, together with the variety of her 1932 films, MATA HARI and GRAND HOTEL, and the sublime Lubitsch touch on her 1939 comedy, NINOTCHKA (""Garbo laughs!""), surely stand as her best.<br /><br />O\'Neill fans who are taken with this play at the edge of his lauded ""sea plays,"" should track down the fine World War II shaped film released in the year before the U.S. entered the conflict, THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940). It is almost as skillfully drawn from those sea plays as this one is from ANNA Christie, and features a youngish John Wayne in one of his rare non-Westerns supporting a fine cast of veteran actors showing him the way."'],
 ['724,"Let me set the scene. It is the school holidays and there is absolutely nothing at the movies. I am with my friend deciding what to see. We look for a movie that is starting soon and ""The Grinch"" comes up. We buy tickets not knowing what to expect. What we got was a roller coaster of fun.<br /><br />Jim Carrey (who may I add is my No.1 actor in the whole world) was absolutely magnificent as the Grinch in this Ron Howard\'s best movie (next to Apollo 13). The way that this movie was made, the scenery, the actors, the props and the music was just amazing. It really brought this childhood movie to life.<br /><br />The story is based upon the story of the grinch. As we all know the Grinch is a horrible person who just can\'t stand christmas. He lives high above whoville and has never mingled well with the townfolk. But one little girl is going to change The Grinch\'s look on life and on others in a drastic way.<br /><br />Cindy Lou Who (played by adorable new actress Taylor Momsem) meets the Grinch as finds the kind part of him straight away. She attempts to break the barrier and to help the Grinch move in and mingle with the towns people.<br /><br />All up this movie is a barrel of laughs for the whole family both kids and parents. A SOLID 10/10. Well done Jim.<br /><br />"'],
 ['725,"As a long-time fan of all the Star Trek series,I found this a disappointing episode, and I wonder if the liberal use of ""flashbacks"" featuring Will Riker\'s exploits, both positive (and largely romantic) and negative (lots of pain, and a crewmate\'s death)was a money-saving device, as were many of their ""bottle shows"" (episodes in which all scenes take place on the Enterprise). Diana Muldaur(who also appeared at least twice on the original series) deserved a better final appearance than this for her character, Dr. Kate Pulaski. Loyal viewers (in the Star Trek world, is there any other kind?) also were shortchanged. This was the last episode of second season; thus, the season ended ""not with a bang"" but with ""a whimper."""'],
 ['726,"This TV-series was one of the ones I loved when I was a kid. Even though I see it now through the pink-shaded glasses of nostalgia, I can still tell it was a quality show, very educational but still funny. I have not seen the original French version, only the Swedish. I have no idea how good the dubbing was, it was too long ago to remember.<br /><br />The premise of the show was to show you how the body works. I swear, school still hasn\'t taught me half of what I know from this show. It also tied in other things, like what happens if you eat unhealthy food and don\'t exercise, with nice examples within the body. Who wants to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tanks can invade you? :D The cartoon looked nice, very kids friendly of course, but done with care. Cells, viruses, electric signals in the brain, antibodies and everything else are represented by smiling cartoon figures, looking pretty much how you\'d expect what they should look like in the animated body.<br /><br />This, and the series about history(especially the environmentally scary finale) were key parts of my childhood. I\'m so happy I found them here."'],
 ['727,"Fans of the HBO series ""Tales From the Crypt"" are going to love this MOH episode. Those who know the basic archetypal stories that most of the classic EC comics were based on, will recognize this one right off the bat.<br /><br />Underrated indie favorite Martin Donovan (also an excellent writer - co-author of the screenplays for APARTMENT ZERO and DEATH BECOMES HER) is the kind of guy whose everyman good looks can go either way. He could play a really nice if misunderstood guy-next-door, or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness. In the case of RIGHT TO DIE, he takes the latter approach, and it definitely works.<br /><br />Donovan is a doctor who has recently had an affair with his slutty office receptionist (Robin Sydney), much to the displeasure of his inconsolable, unforgiving spouse, Abbey (Julia Anderson). When the two of them get involved in a terrible car accident while returning from an unsuccessful weekend of ""making up,"" and she\'s horribly burned in a fire, he\'s reluctant to pull the plug on her, not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazier lawyer and best buddy (Corbin Bernsen, looking the worse for wear these days.) <br /><br />But Abbey\'s never been one to give up without a fight, and that\'s where the EC-theme of the episode comes in. Cuckolded husbands - and wives - have always been the genre\'s favorite subject matter for some spooky (and OOKY) supernatural shenanigans, and this case is definitely no exception. If anything, the ramped-up quotient of sex and gore must have Bill Gaines cackling with glee in his mausoleum somewhere.<br /><br />And that\'s not to mention that John Esposito\'s original script does give the adultery angle just a slight twist. You don\'t realize as you\'re watching that you only know half the story, until close to the end...(think WHAT LIES BENEATH with more guts and gazongas, and you\'re there.)<br /><br />Not a bad effort, but not the best of the lot, either. At least Rob Schmidt does display touches of flair here and there with the direction, especially in a scene that makes cell phone picture messaging into a truly horrifying experience indeed! As with most MOH episodes, this one is following a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment, so the extremely squeamish need not apply."'],
 ['728,"Dirty War is absolutely one of the best political, government, and well written T.V. Drama\'s in the 25 years.<br /><br />The acting is superb, the writing is spectacular.<br /><br />Diry War reveals the true side of why we are not ready to respond to a Nuclear, Biological, and Radiological Terrorist Attack here on American soil.<br /><br />Dirty War should be made into a major motion picture - It\'s that good! I highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth.<br /><br />This T.V. drama reveals how British Intelligence (MI5 & MI6) attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victims -because of England\'s involvement in the Iraq War.<br /><br />The scenes of different parts of London, England are also spectacular.<br /><br />Dirty War is a must see!!!"'],
 ['729,"Some may go for a film like this but I most assuredly did not. A college professor, David Norwell, suddenly gets a yen for adoption. He pretty much takes the first child offered, a bad choice named Adam. As it turns out Adam doesn\'t have both oars in the water which, almost immediately, causes untold stress and turmoil for Dr. Norwell. This sob story drolly played out with one problem after another, all centered around Adam\'s inabilities and seizures. Why Norwell wanted to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child was never explained. Along the way the good doctor managed to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one was dishing out. Personally, I think both of them were one beer short of a sixpack. Bypass this yawner."'],
 ['730,"This is the Who at their most powerful. Although before the masterwork Who\'s Next, which would provide anthems like Baba O\'reily and Wont Get Fooled Again. This film shows the group in transition from mod rockers to one of the biggest live bands of the 70\'s.<br /><br />Daltrey shows what being a front-man is all about, Entwistle steady as ever. <br /><br />Moon is great, check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech, and see him playing ""side saddle"" whilst having a bass drum head replaced!<br /><br />Townsend even looks like he\'s enjoying himself occasionally!<br /><br />Considering they took to the stage at 2am no one in the crowd was asleep! <br /><br />There are not many bands these days could produce a set as tight as this and it is difficult to imagine any of the bands of today producing a concert that in 36 years time will be be enjoyed as much as this one."'],
 ['731,"This filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell -- and did so. Really awful jumble of unlikely/unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line, all without character or clear motivation.<br /><br />We get cliché snapshots instead of characters. One in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss, who projects an overdone ""tough guy"" persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her. Nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase (as in, the smallest from a complete American Tourister set) in a bright, sky blue, without explanation or apology. Otherwise it\'s standard visually -- one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in CT."'],
 ['732,"They filmed this movie out on long Island, where I grew up. My brother and his girlfriend were extras in this movie. Apparently there is some party scene where they are all drinking beer, (which they told me was colored water, tasted disgusting, and was very hard to keep swallowing over and over again, especially in the funnel scenes). Yet none of us ever heard of the movie being released anywhere in any form. It never came out in the theaters (obviously) and it, as far as I knew, was never released on video, and I\'m sure wasn\'t released on DVD. Yet it looks like it was seen by some people, albeit it probably very few. So there must be something. I would absolutely love to purchase this for my brother, yet there is no way I can find it anywhere. Does anybody know anything about when/where/how this movie could be purchased? And which format that would be?"'],
 ['733,"That\'s how Burt Reynolds describes this film, which happens to be his best ever. He plays Tom Sharky, a vice detective who\'s on the trail of an international mobster (Vittorio Gassman) and the man he\'s financing to be the next governor of Georgia (Earl Holliman). In the novel by William Diehl, the story is more complex because the guy\'s running for president. This is a very long movie that feels more like three hours instead of two. The filming in downtown Atlanta and the Peachtree Plaza hotel sets the mood just right for the story. Reynolds doesn\'t do much laughing in this one compared to his comedy films. He\'s very serious here, especially in the beginning of the movie because he gets demoted for a dope bust that goes wrong. At times though, the movie plays more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with Burt trying to get close to the mobster\'s woman. Only towards the end of the film does the violence get cranked up that leads to the bang bang climax. Just like the great jazz score in DIRTY HARRY by Lalo Schifrin, Sharky\'s Machine features an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest stars including Chet Baker, Julie London, Flora Purim & Buddy De Franco, The Manhattan Transfer, Doc Severinson, Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams. Al Capps handles the score with magic. This movie has become one of the best crime dramas ever. Check it out.<br /><br />Score, 8 out of 10 Stars"'],
 ['734,"Human Traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends, it is a fly-on-the-wall view into their lives (and minds) which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other. There are many moments in that every one can relate to, Like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers. The characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie. The situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in, and that is where this film succeeds. The topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other. The story to the film is not all that, but that is not a criticism. This is a film about people. This is a well written film, with a sound track to die for. D.J\'s Pete Tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that I have seen in 1999. After watching this film I felt like I had been out partying all weekend. Fantastic Movie! Jo Brand as the voice of reality - Need I say more!<br /><br />"'],
 ['735,"This early Biograph short was so much fun to watch. The second on disc one of D.W. Griffith\'s ""Years of Discovery"" DVD set (highly recommended) it features three excellent performances by the main leads, and interesting to see Henry B. Walthall (The Little Colonel, Birth of a Nation) as a campy musician giving a Countess the eye (and other things).<br /><br />The Countess\' husband goes berserk at his wife\'s betrayal and has her walled into a little room with her paramour. It\'s kind of incredible that they wouldn\'t hear the wall going up, but hey, maybe the wine had something to do with it. Here Mr. Johnson (father of silent player Raymond Hackett) gesticulates wildly and this adds to the melodrama, but in an unexpectedly comical way. The best moment comes at the end. As the lady passes out from shock and fear, once she realizes she\'s doomed, Henry picks up his instrument and ""fans"" it over her. The way he did it was so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy, and I just lost it, and laughed my head off. The expression on his face! From that moment I was charmed by Henry B. Walthall."'],
 ['736,"Baba - Rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life. This is the movie which caused his downfall. It was released with much hype but crashed badly and laid to severe financial losses for its producers and distributors. Rajinikanth had to personally repay them for the losses incurred. Soon after its release, he tried venturing into politics but failed miserably. Its a very bad movie with horrible acting, bad-quality makeup and pathetic screenplay. Throughout the movie, Rajinikanth looks like a person suffering from some disease. I\'m one of the unfortunate souls who saw Baba, first day first show in theatre. The audiences were so bored that most of them left the theatre before the intermission. Sorry, I\'ll not recommend this one to anyone."'],
 ['737,"Written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, SCARFACE paints a picture not easily forgotten. Al Pacino turns in a stunning performance as Tony Montana, a Cuban refugee than becomes a powerful player in the drug world as he ruthlessly runs his self made kingdom of crime in Florida. This gangster flick is harsh, violent, loud, gross, unpleasant and must hold the record for uttering the word ""f--k"" the most number of times. Almost three hours long, and yes it can get repulsive. A stout hearted constitution keeps you in your seat cheering for the demise of a ruthless crime lord.<br /><br />Also playing interesting characters are Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, F. Murray Abraham and Angel Salazar. Pacino proves to be one of the greatest of his generation. He manages to bring reality to his character that leaves a strong impression. This will not be a movie for everyone for you leave thinking you walked away from a disaster. Is that powerful enough for you? Crime does not pay for long!"'],
 ['738,"First, the CGI in this movie was horrible. I watched it during a marathon of bad movies on the SciFi channel. At the end when the owner of the park gets killed, it\'s probably one of the worst examples of CGI I have even seen. Even Night of the Living Dead had better animation.<br /><br />That said, the movie had almost no plot. Why were they on that island in particular? Well, it wasn\'t stated in the movie. And, why would the people keep coming into the cat\'s area? Makes no sense.<br /><br />One thing that stood out in this movie was moderately good acting. In what could be called a ""B made for TV movie"" movie, the acting was very good. Parry Shen stood out in particular.<br /><br />If you have absolutely nothing to do on a Saturday, watch this movie. It may be good for some memorable quotes."'],
 ['739,"I enjoyed it. There you go, I said it again. I even bought this movie on DVD and enjoyed it a couple of more times. Call me old fashioned but I prefer movies like this to garbage like Die Hard 4 which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy saving America. Van Damme moves well for a guy of his age(47 I think), delivering kicks that reminds one of Kickboxer. If you like old school action and and explosions, this is the movie to watch. This is one of Van Damme\'s best works.<br /><br />Van Damme and Steven Seagal movies get released theatrically where I live so I never miss a chance to watch our old school action stars on the big screen."'],
 ['740,"What a waste of talent. A very poor, semi-coherent, script cripples this film. Rather unimaginative direction, too. Some VERY faint echoes of _Fargo_ here, but it just doesn\'t come off."'],
 ['741,"Although it strays away from the book a little, you can\'t help but love the atmospheric music and settings.<br /><br />The scenes in Bath are just how they should be. Although if you have watched it as many times as I have you notice that the background people are the same in each scene, but that aside, I like the scene where they are in the Hot Baths, but did the men and women really bathe together like that? You could see all the men perched around the outside leering at the women. It also seemed strange that they all had their hats on, but perhaps this was the style at the time. The ballroom scenes were very nice, the dancing and the outfits looked beautiful. I especially liked Catherine\'s dress in the first ballroom scene.<br /><br />Northanger Abbey looked suitably imposing, but I enjoyed the Bath scenes better.<br /><br />Schlesinger gives a good but not exceptional performance as Catherine Morland. Googie Withers gives the best performance as Mrs Allen I feel.<br /><br />Ugh Peter Firth as Mr Tilney, he just talks a load of rubbish, and is not a clergyman as he should be, it\'s hard to think of him being in love with Catherine, but then the book never really gave that impression either.<br /><br />General Tilney is played reasonably well by Hardy, and Stuart also gives a sort of good performance as Isabella. Ingrid Lacey did not give a good performance as Elinor Tilney. As for John Thorpe, well he gives the impression of a seedy and lustful man, perhaps not the character portrayed in the book, but I quite like it.<br /><br />I can handle scenes being cut from a book adaptation, but when new scenes and characters are added it usually annoys me. The marchioness! I hate her. She is not part of the Northanger story and neither is her cartwheeling page boy.<br /><br />some of the script is peculiar. When Catherine is asking Elinor Tilney about her Mothers death she asks ""I suppose you saw the body? How did it appear?"" What a silly thing to say! Elinor\'s calm response is stupid too.<br /><br />anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me"'],
 ['742,"Mario Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has written a definitive 120-page point-by-point, line-by-line refutation of this mendacious film, which should be titled A CONVENIENT LIE. The website address where his debunking report, which is titled ""A SKEPTIC\'S GUIDE TO AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH"" can be found at is :www.cei.org. A shorter 10-page version can be found at: www.cei.org/pdf/5539.pdf Once you read those demolitions, you\'ll realize that alleged ""global warming"" is no more real or dangerous than the Y2K scare of 1999, which Gore also endorsed, as he did the pseudo-scientific film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, which was based on a book written by alleged UFO abductee Whitley Strieber. As James ""The Amazing"" Randi does to psychics, and Philip Klass does to UFOs, and Gerald Posner does to JFK conspir-idiocy theories, so does Mario Lewis does to Al Gore\'s movie and the whole ""global warming"" scam."'],
 ['743,"A lovely little film about the introduction of motion pictures to China. Captures the amazement of film\'s first audiences pretty much as it\'s described to have been worldwide, and uses actual Lumiere films for most of the actualities. I don\'t agree with other people about bad acting on the British fellow\'s part - I thought he was fine, but the Chinese lead really stole the show. In any case, I found myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie. People who fear subtitles might note that a lot of the film is in English (which for some reason is given subtitles as well as the Chinese on the DVD)."'],
 ['744,"Sigh. I\'m baffled when I see a short like this get attention and assignments and whatnot. I saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker got any attention and forgot about it immediately afterwards. It was mildly annoying to see it swiping the Grinch Who Stole Christmas heart gag along with the narration, the set design seen many times before, the whole weak Tim Burton-ish style, and the story that goes nowhere. And we got the ""joke"" about shooting the crows with the 45 the first time, alright?<br /><br />But I guess what\'s really unacceptable is that it even swipes its basic concept from a comic book circa 1999 called LENORE, THE CUTE LITTLE DEAD GIRL by Roman Dirge! As any quick internet search will reveal. I mean, what is this? This is what they base a Hollywood contract on and opens doors in Canada for a filmmaker? ""Give your head a shake"" as Don Cherry might say."'],
 ['745,"Cute idea... salesgirl Linda Smith (Yolande Donlan) inherits a teeny tiny little county of Lampidorra. That country, which wasn\'t even in North America, was made the 49th state... (of course, there were only 48 states at the time, since this was made in 1952...) Linda travels to the country she has inherited, and we follow her along as she tries to figure out what to do with this strange country and its even quirkier people. At one point, she sings a song that she claims is from her people the Navajo, and it gets ever-more sillier from there.... although Yolande Donlan\'s heavy lipstick and omni-present smile never get ruffled or shmeared. There are other songs scattered through-out as the citizens sing to welcome their new princess. Filmed in a glorious British version of technicolor, or some such equivalent, about the only big name here is Dirk Bogarde as British subject Tony Craig, cheese vendor. Bogarde made a big splash in the UK film industry after serving in the war, and was even knighted by QE II. Craig and ""the new princess"" keep bumping into each other, and their adventures become more intertwined as Lampidorra\'s financial problems worsen... Fun little farce....along the lines of Marx Brothers film. Also note that Donlan later married Val Guest, the writer and director of our little project, and stayed married for 50 years! Guest was better known for writing and directing his sci-fi flicks, in both the UK & the US."'],
 ['746,"Back in 1982 a little film called MAKING LOVE shocked audiences with its frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happened to be about two men.<br /><br />I have been waiting for years for a good, old-fashioned romance between two men; LATTER DAYS is all that and more.<br /><br />Yes, it is soapy, melodramatic, cliché-ridden, and quite corny. That is what makes it so wonderful. There is nothing like a good romantic movie, and this movie is romantic in the best sense of the word.<br /><br />As to the issue of religion, sorry folks, but these things do happen and are happening to gay people even now. It is not just the Mormon church that rejects its gay members. Gay people in every religion have faced harsh judgment and rejection.<br /><br />I loved this movie. It has a perfect blend of a fantasy-romance grounded in the reality of the day-to-day lives of the characters. If I could give it more than ten stars I would. Good love stories never go out of style; great love stories like LATTER DAYS are unforgettable.<br /><br />It\'s about time!"'],
 ['747,"The concept of having Laurel & Hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious. It guarantees some funny situations and silly antics, from especially Stan Laurel of course as usual.<br /><br />The movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula. It doesn\'t really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending. It\'s still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless, so it works for the movie.<br /><br />The supporting cast of the movie is surprising good. Sam Adams is great as the stereotypical butler and Lucien Littlefield goes deliciously over-the-top as the nutty professor.<br /><br />The movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences, which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed. It all helps to make ""Dirty Work"" to be one of the better Laurel & Hardy shorts.<br /><br />8/10"'],
 ['748,"This movie came as a huge disappointment. The anime series ended with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain, but I expected Shamballa to tie up all the loose ends. Unfortunately, it didn\'t. It added more plot holes than it resolved, and confused more than it clarified. The animation and voice acting were great, but with an idiotic plot, dull setting (most of the movie doesn\'t even take place in dull WWII Earth rather than the Alchemy world), and disappointing ending (Ed is useless for the rest of his days in a world with no alchemy, and he ditches Winry?), it was altogether pretty lackluster. Do yourself a favor-- disregard the last half of the anime as well as this movie, and read the manga."'],
 ['749,"Maybe I loved this movie so much in part because I\'ve been feeling down in the dumps and it\'s such a lovely little fairytale. Whatever the reason, I thought it was pitch perfect. Great, intelligent story, beautiful effects, excellent acting (especially De Niro, who is awesome). This movie made me happier than I\'ve been for a while.<br /><br />It is a very funny and clever movie. The running joke of the kingdom\'s history of prince savagery and the aftermath, the way indulging in magic effects the witch and dozens of smart little touches all kept me enthralled. That\'s much of what makes it so good; it\'s an elaborate, special-effects-laden movie with more story than most fairytale movies, yet there is an incredible attention to small things.<br /><br />I feel like just going ahead and watching it all over again."'],
 ['750,"I was surprised that "" Forgiving the Franklins "" did not generate more buzz at this years Sundance Film Festival. There were times that the laughter at the screening I saw was so loud that you could barely hear the movie. The movie has some excellent acting and a story that really makes one examine broader issues . You know little issues like Religion, sex and the truth. Lots of comedy\'s seem to rely on the same old corny contrived situations, many leave you thinking "" I know they ripped this off from some sitcom "" .This film takes off on its own unique direction . I really think that Jay Floyd did a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film."'],
 ['751,"They must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmakers arriving at the Hollywood bus station. They then fill in the blanks and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrived. You know exactly what this movie is about from the opening shot, four young boys playing in grainy slow motion, accompanied by voice over narration. Next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boys playing in grainy slow motion. Once they\'re grown, it\'s easy to spot the writer/director among the four. He\'s the quiet, contemplative, long-haired one who is never seen without his composition book tucked in his pants. This means that his superb writing talent will be his ticket from Hickville to Hollywood. Only there\'s no writing, or directing talent on display here. And if you still can\'t figure out which one he is, here\'s a hint: The auteur and his character have the same middle name. It took over an hour to figure out that these twenty-something men were supposed to still be in high school. What looked like a prison was apparently a high school, the warden turned out to be the principal. Once more, the poor, misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement, murder and pillage, but is powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father. How about hitting back, kid, like you do everyone else? Numerous fist fight scenes for no apparent purpose. Howlingly bad dialogue. Many scenes badly out of focus. Cartoon characters keep popping up as bit players and extras, drawing unintentional laughs from the premiere audience. Overacting in the extreme. And if you don\'t quite get the self-important speeches, or the slow-motion scenes, just listen to the overbearing music. It will clue you in and what you\'re supposed to feel. Poor Marisa Ryan must be racking up lots of frequent flier mileage as she travels around the country working in these amateur regional films. The biggest sin is that the audience is supposed to feel sympathy for kids who gun down old ladies, run over puppies chained to a tree, rob and steal, all the while complaining about their sad, sorry lives. But if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college. Yeah, that\'s the ticket. Why is it that every twenty-something filmmaker believes that his life so far is so important, so interesting, that the world can\'t wait to see it onscreen? If this movie is as autobiographical as it seems, then the auteur better be looking over his shoulder for policemen bearing fugitive warrants."'],
 ['752,"I watched this movie so that you don\'t have to! I have great respect for Kris Kristofferson, but what was he thinking? He did this for scale? <br /><br />At least the film\'s title practices truth in advertising, since people and objects routinely disappear throughout the film, adding to the confusion. Kristofferson mentions this in his commentary that even he wasn\'t sure if Genevieve Bujold\'s character really existed. This does not bode well for the viewer being able to follow the story!<br /><br />The ""making of"" feature was far more interesting than the movie itself. It explores the difficulty cobbling together funding for an indie, even as the film is being shot.<br /><br />To it\'s credit, this movie is visually pleasing and doesn\'t in any way look like a movie made with just slightly over 1M. Too bad the money wasn\'t spent on a better project."'],
 ['753,"Just saw this movie on opening night. I read some other user comments which convinced me to go see it... I must say, I was not impressed. I\'m so unimpressed that I feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money.<br /><br />First of all ""The Messengers"" is very predictable, and just not much of a thriller. It might be scary for someone under 13, but it really did nothing for me. The climax was laughable and most of the audience left before the movie\'s resolution.<br /><br />Furthermore the acting seemed a little superficial. Some of the emotional arguments between the family were less convincing than the sub-par suspense scenes.<br /><br />If you\'ve seen previews for this movie, then you\'ve seen most of the best parts and have a strong understanding of the plot. This movie is not worth seeing in the theaters."'],
 ['754,"I went to see this movie (actually I went to see Family Portraits, which contains Cutting Moments + 2 other short films by Douglas Buck) at the Mar del Plata festival (Argentina)... I just couldn\'t watch it! I had to cover my eyes after the 1st half of Cutting Moments and take a peek every once in a while. By the time it was over, my stomach was upside down and I felt light headed. I just HAD to leave the cinema a few minutes after the 2nd short begun (BTW, of course I was not the only one who left the room). It was WAAAAY too violent and disgusting for me! I am impressed by the many brave people who actually loved it. I just don\'t get how you can love that kind of movies! The shocking and bloody and horrible images I saw got really stuck in my head for like two days!! I also try to analyze the story (my boyfriend did see the whole thing and told me about it) and I just don\'t think it makes any sense. I mean, that amount of violence and stuff, makes no other sense than to try to shock people. And that\'s not a good enough reason, I think. There\'s absolutely nothing in this movie that I can say ""Well, at least \'x\' thing about it was good"". But well, I guess I will never understand that kind of films."'],
 ['755,"A well-made run-of-the-mill movie with a tragic ending. Pluses: The way the story moves - begins with Soorya struggling to live followed by a long flashback about why he\'s there. The Music. A disinterested look at the life of policemen. Minuses: The violence and the gore, but I guess they add to the realistic effects. Still, having people\'s heads chopped off and sent in boxes and sacks could have been avoided.<br /><br />No complaints - 7/10"'],
 ['756,"I don\'t understand the positive comments made about this film. It is cheap and nasty on all levels and I cannot understand how it ever got made.<br /><br />Cartoon characters abound - Sue\'s foul-mouthed, alcoholic, layabout, Irish father being a prime example. None of the characters are remotely sympathetic - except, briefly, for Sue\'s Asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence! As desperately unattractive as they both are, I\'ve no idea why either Rita and/or Sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like Bob - but given that they do, why should I be expected to care what happens to them? So many reviews keep carping on about how ""realistic"" it is. If that is true, it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film.<br /><br />I didn\'t like the film at all."'],
 ["757,Steven what have you done you have hit an all new low. It is weird since Steven's last film shadow man was directed by the same director who did this trash. Shadow man was good this was diabolically bad so bad it wasn't even funny Steven is hardly in the movie and feels like he is in a cameo appearance and when he is in the film he is dubbed half the time anyway. As for the action well let's just say the wizard of oz had more action than this trash there is hardly any action in the film and when it does finally arrive it is boring depressing badly shot so called action scenes. Seagal hardly kills anyone unlike his over films where he goes one man army ie under siege 1 and 2 and exit wounds. the plot is so confusing with so many plot holes that it doesn't make scenes sometimes. flight of fury better be good what a shame i wasted 5 pounds on this garbage 0 out of ten better luck next time"],
 ['758,"A call-girl witnesses a murder and becomes the killer\'s next target. Director Brian De Palma is really on a pretentious roll here: his camera swoops around corners in a museum (after lingering a long time over a painting of an ape), divvies up into split screen for arty purposes, practically gives away his plot with a sequence (again in split screen) where two characters are both watching a TV program about transsexuals, and stages his (first) finale during a thunderous rainstorm. ""Dressed To Kill"" is exhausting, primarily because it asks us to swallow so much and gives back nothing substantial. Much of the acting (with the exception of young Keith Gordon) is mediocre and the (second) finale is a rip-off of De Palma\'s own ""Carrie""--not to mention ""Psycho"". The explanation of the dirty deeds plays like a spoof of Hitchcock, not an homage. Stylish in a steely cold way, the end results are distinctly half-baked. ** from ****"'],
 ['759,"*Flat SPOILERS* <br /><br />Five med students, Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon), Rachel Mannus (Julia Roberts), Joe Hurley (William Baldwin) & Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt) decide to attempt an experiment; dying for exactly 5 minutes (it is the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before being risk of brain damage).<br /><br />Almost everyone does this experiment, Randy being the lone exception, but they begin to have unwelcome visitors; David sees a little black girl shouting crude insults to him, Joe sees all the women he has had sex with (and which he videotaped) asking him why from the TV Screen, Rachel relives her father\'s suicide and Nelson faces a little boy with murderous intentions.<br /><br />Why are they here? And how will they get rid of them? This tense and interesting movie, set in an hallucinated city and into a Gothic Med School, is quite the experience, both for the story and the characters, played by then-budding stars such as Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin.<br /><br />The director is Joel Schumacher, who had already worked with Sutherland in \'Lost Boys\', and this second cooperation is even better than the first.<br /><br />A must for psychological-thriller-horror buds and metaphor lovers (this story is about forgiveness and righting of past wrongs), this is one of the minor classics from the \'80s that get respect even today, like the mention by Rebecca Gayheart in \'Scream 2\' or the Tru Calling episode which used the movie\'s premise.<br /><br />Flatliners: 9/10."'],
 ['760,"One of my favorite shows back in the \'70s. As I recall it went to air on Friday (or possibly Saturday)night on the Nine Network (?) here in Australia. Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland were great together.<br /><br />Each episode usually reached a climax with Kolchack having to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent. To their credit, the writers made a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampires and ghosts as much as possible.<br /><br />I remember one episode in which the adversary was the spirit of an ancient Indian Chief which/who \'came back\' as a massive electrical current which started to kill people in a city hospital. The final showdown saw Kolchack trying to short circuit the \'power beast\' amidst an explosion of sparks and billowing flames. Oh well .... you had to be there at the time but it was an interesting idea.<br /><br />McGavin always packed a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his roles and this was one of his best.<br /><br />Definitely deserves a place in TV\'s ""Hall of Fame"". To quote Tony Vincenzo .... \'Kolchack you are ON IT \'... Or, in the case of the Hall of Fame,\'IN it\' !"'],
 ['761,"I think my summary says it all. This MTV-ish answer to the classic Candid Camera TV show features a Gen X (or is that Gen Y) type putting in false choppers and wearing various hats and wigs and glasses, and setting people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situations. Example: Kennedy has a guy invite his parents to his ""wedding."" Kennedy is the bride, done up in a full bridal gown and long wig. The ""joke"" is that the parents immediately understand their son is marrying a man who claims to no longer have his ""bits and pieces."" Problem is, this schtick goes on way too long, obviously to fill out time. And Kennedy is about as funny as a dead cod lying in the sun. Candid Camera would have run three or four scenarios in the time it took Kennedy to get through this one, running around, constantly asking ""Do I look fat?"" I recognize the show was not made for me. It was made for 12-year-old pinheads who think JACKASS is the height of comedy today. So let them laugh. Thank God the show was short-lived."'],
 ['762,"Frownland is like one of those intensely embarrassing situations where you end up laughing out loud at exactly the wrong time; and just at the moment you realize you shouldn\'t be laughing, you\'ve already reached the pinnacle of voice resoundness; and as you look around you at the ghostly white faces with their gaping wide-open mouths and glazen eyes, you feel a piercing ache beginning in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rushing up your throat and... well, you get the point.<br /><br />But for all its unpleasantness and punches in the face, Frownland, really is a remarkable piece of work that, after viewing the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic troubles and mishaps, makes you want to scratch your own eyes out and at the same time, you feel sickenly sorry for him.<br /><br />It would have been a lot easier for me to simply walk out of Ronald Bronstein\'s film, but for some insane reason, I felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film has to offer. If someone sets you on fire, you typically want to put it out: Stop! Drop! And Roll! But with this film, you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body. You endure the pain--perhaps out of spite, or some unknown masochistic curiosity I can\'t even begin to attempt to explain.<br /><br />Unfortunately, mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you. But if you get a chance to catch it, prepare yourself: bring a doggie bag."'],
 ['763,"I saw this movie while surfing through infomercials and late-night 80\'s sitcoms on tv one night at 2 in the morning. I must say, I didn\'t expect much, and I didn\'t get much. Although Rose McGowan is hot, her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast was not Oscar-worthy, to say the least. This movie has its ups and downs, and does have a nice couple of twists at the end, but in all honesty it was awful. Not even a typical slasher movie. No gore, no sex, no nudity, no real violence. Just bad acting. I\'d give it a 3 out of 10."'],
 ['764,"I first saw this film when I was about 8 years old on TV in the UK (where it was called ""Laupta: The Flying Island""). I absolutely loved it, and was heartbroken when it was repeated a while later and I missed it. I was enchanted by the story and characters, but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music. It would have been the original English dubbed version which I saw - sometimes erroneously referred to as the ""Streamline Dub"" (the dub was actually by Ghibli themselves and only distributed by Streamline) which is sadly unavailable except as part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc box-set.<br /><br />Unfortunately I feel that the release has been partly spoiled by Disney. The voice acting is OK but the dialogue doesn\'t have the same raw energy that the ""streamline"" dub or the original Japanese had, and I think James Van Der Beek sounds too old to play the lead. They have made some pointless alterations, such as changing the main character\'s name from ""Pazu"" to ""Patzu"", and added some dialogue. But worst of all I feel that they have ruined many scenes with intrusive music - the opening scene of the airships for example was originally silent but has been spoiled thanks to Disney\'s moronic requirement that there be music playing whenever anyone is not speaking, which I find annoying in many Disney films.<br /><br />This film still blows away most recent animated films, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The plot is simple yet captivating and the film shows a flair which is sadly missing from most modern mass-market, homogenized animation."'],
 ['765,"This film can\'t make up its mind whether its message is ""humans are evil and bad and animals are sweet and blameless"" or ""don\'t ever go in the water again."" A fisherman (Nolan) is out to nab a killer whale, a very bad thing, but when he accidentally (ACCIDENTALLY mark you) hits a pregnant cow instead of her mate, the cow -- and I use the word in all senses -- who is obviously a sick psycho-bitch and the canonical villain of the piece -- throws herself against the propellers trying to chew herself to bits in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of killing herself. (I doubt it was her first.) When her unborn fetus aborts from her hideous self-inflicted wounds, her mate goes mental with revenge and swears to hurt, kill and mutilate every human who even so much as talks to Nolan. Obviously as among humans, total psychos date other total psychos.<br /><br />The film reeks of half-thought out anti-human message, ""the poor poor whale!! the evil men must suffer and die!"" and yet, it does not succeed in demonizing Nolan at all. It\'s true that when he set out his motives were selfish and cruel, but at the first squeal of the first whale he grows a heart and, as the film progresses, he grows more and more compassionate to the whale\'s pain until it seems he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale, just to make it feel a little better.<br /><br />The films final journey, in which Nolan follows the whale on a bizarre journey to the north, reminds me of Melville\'s eerie man-whale connection, and for a moment hinted at a truly interesting conclusion, where these two husbands might connect, understand even respect each other in their own grief, for Nolan lost his wife and unborn child also to an accident. It\'s clear Nolan respects the whale and feels for its loss. However, it never goes there. The whale-character has no compassion or respect for anyone.<br /><br />The final scene loses this focus and becomes Jaws-like where the sea-monster finally kills everybody and Nolan and no-doubt through an oversight, fails to chomp up the whale-hugger (tho he made a good snap for her head a little earlier.) I love animals, and I detest whaling, and what is more I love orca whales, but if this film\'s goal was to make me feel that the whale was the victim and that people are evil and detestable it completely failed. Nolan shows compassion and growth, and feels for others, and all the whale thinks about is killing and maiming.<br /><br />The only message one can walk away with is ""If you see an orca whale, ever, anywhere, run the other way cause if you step on his FIN the wrong way, he will hunt you to the ends of the earth destroying everything around you."""'],
 ['766,"Why, o\' WHY! ...did I pick this one up? Well... i needed a no-brainer in the summer heat, and the cover looked cool.<br /><br />Of course I should\'ve known better. This is a really, really bad movie. And it gets embarasing when the makers know it\'s bad, and try cover it up by adding some sexy/beautiful women, and some sex-scenes to it. Well, folks... it does\'nt cut it, does it!<br /><br />If you WOULD like a cool movie about a big reptile that is actually very, very good, well-played and funny: go rent Lake Placid! (that is an order)"'],
 ['767,"Only a very small child could overlook the absurdities in this bomb; the first difficulty faced by the submarine ""Seaview"" is what appear to be chunks of--rock? falling down through the water and crashing into its hull. But it\'s not rock, they\'re under the North Pole--it is ICE! Everybody, except possibly hitherto mentioned small children (and even some of them) know that ICE FLOATS.<br /><br />Then, disaster strikes--that darn VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT around the Earth catches fire! No one knows how this happened, we are told, which is understandable, because it is utterly impossible for radiation to ""catch fire"", and even if it could, there is NO AIR IN SPACE for it to burn.<br /><br />There is literally no good reason to overlook science concepts basic to 2nd grade school textbooks when making a film; however, Irwin Allen manages to do it again and again; perhaps we are meant to focus on the ""people"" instead, which is pretty easy, as they are CARDBOARD.<br /><br />The cast tries very hard not to look embarrassed in this ridiculous sub-kiddie romp, much like later episodes of his ""Lost in Space"" TV series, the concept of which was swiped outright from writer Ib Melchior and then rushed into production.<br /><br />The sub looks pretty good, though, which is why this one gets a ""2""."'],
 ['768,"Our teacher showed us this movie in first grade. I haven\'t seen it since. I just watched the trailer though. Does this look like a first grade movie to you? I don\'t think so. I was so horrified by this movie, I could barely watch it. It was mainly the scene with Shirley McClain cutting that little girl in half, and then there was the boy with ketchup! I was freaked out by this film. Now today, being 20, I probably would not feel that way. I just wanted to share my experience and opinion that maybe small children shouldn\'t see this movie, even though it\'s PG. Be aware of the possible outcomes of showing this to kids. I don\'t even remember what it was about, once was enough!"'],
 ['769,"A plot that fizzled and reeked of irreconcilable differences in opinions constituted a judgmental havoc with one side pro-life and the other a destroyer of a demon\'s seed. The horror was left out and replaced with an overall dull effect quite possibly meant to be horrific, but, instead demonstrated an ill dose of beliefs which ridiculed each other to death, despite the title itself. Being a fan of Masters of Horror since the beginning, this ridiculous plot twist with it\'s sordid depictions crashed apart like a spindly old rocking chair after being sat upon. I view this episode as being thrown together from the get go, never really taking off anywhere other than to see it through for what its worth and relieved when it finally came to ""The End"".."'],
 ['770,"Scott Menville is not Casey Kasem. That is the first, most important, and most disturbing thing about this attempt at re-imagining Scooby-Doo and company.<br /><br />Shaggy\'s voice is squeaky and does not sound anything like he has ever sounded in any of the previous incarnations of the Scooby shows. They\'ve also changed the outfit and the classic mode of walking from the original.<br /><br />I\'m not sure what they\'re on about yet with the villain angle, but it surely isn\'t following the formula used in any of the previous Scooby shows.<br /><br />And the animation style is very bizarre and distorted. I like it, but it\'s not real Scooby-Doo type animation. But the weird animation used for other WB shows grew on me; this might, too.<br /><br />It\'s worth a glance at -- once -- if you can handle the lack of proper Shaggy voice. That right there is enough to jar one out of enjoying the show properly. Besides, I am trying not to be an inflexible, nitpicking fan. Evolve or die, as the saying goes. We\'ll see how it looks after two more episodes -- by then I\'ll have formed a much more solid opinion."'],
 ['771,"I often wonder how movies like this even get made, and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them.<br /><br />With Aksar it appears as though the director made up the story as he went along, adding twists and turns when he liked, no matter how ludicrous they were. The script was non existent with inane dialogs such as ""Jo Sheena Roy pehenti hai, wahee fashion hota hai"" and ""Yeh Versace hai Madam"" (yeah right).<br /><br />Every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped. Acting was awful. Constumes (lycra for Udita and awful suits for a stocky Emran), locales (the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a Victorian mansion), screenplay etc etc, just one word- rubbish.<br /><br />For those people who love Hashmi and his movies, watch it. As for me, I\'ll never get those two and a half hours back. The only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent."'],
 ['772,This movie is an amazing comedy.. the script is too funny.. if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more. Though the comedy at times is silly but it really makes u laugh!! Salman Khan and Aamir Khan have given justice to their roles. After 1994 i have not come across any hindi movie which was as funny as this.'],
 ['773,"Even this early in his career, Capra was quite accomplished with his camera-work and his timing. This is a thin story -- and quite predictable at times -- but he gets very good performances out of his cast and has some rather intricate camera moves that involve the viewer intimately. The first part looks like a Cinderella story, though anyone with brains can see that the bottom will fall out of that -- the rich \'prince\' will lose his fortune.<br /><br />Nonetheless, because of his good cast and fast pace, it\'s easy to get caught up in the clichés. Then the movie does become more original, as the married couple have to find a way to make a living. The ending is very predictable but satisfying. I also want to compliment the title-writing: very witty and fun."'],
 ['774,"Uwe Boll slips back in his film-making skills once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenaries and reporters taking on super soldiers on a remote island. An okay cast headed by the excellent Udo Keir is cast adrift by Boll who makes the worst of script that should have worked. The mad scientist being investigated by a reporter has been done to death but this script is amusing enough that the plot should have worked, additionally the effects and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eyes have some degree of creepiness, however Boll somehow manages to film everything in an off handed way. Its as if he couldn\'t be bothered to actually figure out what would work and instead rattled off stock camera placements and walked away. Additionally the assembly of scenes has no spark or life, I\'m guessing that Boll only shot one or two takes and just used what he had. It really stinks. Clearly Boll is in one of his periodic retrograde films where anything he\'s ever learned about film gets flushed. The last film he made that was this bad was Seed a serial killer movie that is one of the worst films I\'ve ever seen. This isn\'t that bad, but it is close simply because it should have been better. Then again Udo Keir is good enough that he does make watching his scenes worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad its good film. I\'d take a pass unless it\'s late at night and you\'re catching it on cable."'],
 ['775,"This video is so hilariously funny, it makes everything else<br /><br />by Eddie Murphy seem very disappointing (even Beverly Hills Cop and The Nutty Professor, which just goes to show you how good this really is). To be honest, I don\'t think that I\'ve ever<br /><br />laughed at something as much as this, including Naked Gun and the rarely seen Bargearse. This show is amazing, although it must be said that it is certainly filled with the word beginning with F that is four letters long (plus its extended version beginning with M) but it didn\'t bother me. See it, the funniest thing I\'ve ever seen and probably the funniest you ever have too."'],
 ['776,"This film is dreadful. It has absolutely zero laughs. Hebrew Hammer (Adam Goldberg) sets out to save Hannukah from Evil Santa (Andy Dick). Perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot, in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise. While there are some (far and few) nice touches and the plot is relatively coherent, it is laboured, hackneyed and ultimately, mindlessly boring. This despite the fact that Goldberg, Dick and Greer (Hammer\'s client/love interest) all have quite considerable screen presence. Despite being played for what might be described as whacky over-the-top gags, this film is consistently middle-class middle-of-the-road muck. DO NOT waste 85 minutes of your life on this. (note- the music was good..!)"'],
 ['777,"It\'s amazing that such a cliche-ridden yuppie angst film actually got made in the first place. The characters are so weak, and the acting so uninspired, that it\'s impossible to care about any of them-- especially Brooke Shields. The temptation to fast forward through the slow parts is almost irresistible. If you like this genre, you\'d be better off renting ""Singles,"" or ""Bodies, Rest & Motion."""'],
 ['778,"I never watched the \'Next Action Hero\' show, and until reading the other comments here, did not know that this movie was the \'prize\' from that competition. I was just flipping channels and came across this, and found myself watching, dare eagerly, all the way to the end.<br /><br />Yes, the plot\'s been done (The Most Dangerous Game, etc.) but I was hoping for, and almost received, the \'gotcha\' - how the protagonist was going to beat the hunter in the end. I think the high-tech was overdone (GPS\'s) and gave me cold-sweat flashbacks of Night Rider, but it nevertheless was not too overdone.<br /><br />The basic problem I had with this movie was the degree of SOD (Suspension of Disbelief) that was required of the viewer. Do we really think that someone flying in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenades at a public bridge and NO COPS show up to investigate? Could a limousine do countless donuts in a Las Vegas intersection and NO COPS show up? Pleeease. Way too much of that type of thing - fun to watch, but keep it at least plausible, thank you very much.<br /><br />The final solution was good, but the ending was disappointing, with the after taste of a bad Star Trek episode. At least now I understand why the acting was so cheesy - except for Zane, who doesn\'t get near as much work as he deserves IMHO - they were winners from a reality show.<br /><br />Knock me out."'],
 ['779,"I am a big fan of old horror movies, and since I am middle aged, old to me is a movie made before 1970 with most being made in the 1920\'s to 1960\'s period. I am not a big fan of more modern horror movies, with one exception being Creepshow 1, which I thought was great. I could reminisce about the stories there but I really really enjoyed the monster in the box story with Hal Holbrook, and also the one about the really clean guy was a great ending. All the stories were great though. So why did I like them so much? The characters had some decent development, the lines were very plain about who was good and who was bad, the horror bits were heightened with a close up of a face aghast with fear, and the funny bits were really funny! This sequel is either greatly lacking of these elements or they are totally absent! I am writing this only having watched it partially because the movie was a complete waste of time and I turned it off to do other things like write movie reviews on IMDb.com, lol. When George Kennedy and an old Dorothy Lamoure get top billing it\'s telling you something.....4 of 10. Also, Romero\'s expertise is hard to find here, they must had told him to tone it down to a PG standard (I don\'t know what this was rated at but it looks PG to me), and that\'s not a good thing for a movie with nothing else going on. It\'s shown on the Encore cable channel if your dieing (yuck yuck) to see it."'],
 ['780,"I just wanted to say that. I love Gheorghe Muresan, so I automatically loved this movie. Everything else about it was so-so... Billy Crystal is a good actor, even if he is annoying. But the thing that made this movie was- at least, for a basketball fan- seeing Gheorghe Muresan act."'],
 ['781,"I thought that this movie was incredible. I absolutely loved it, even though my brothers didn\'t that much. The special effects were outstanding, and this movie is about my favorite sport; golf. The only thing that was disappointing about this amazing movie is that it is hard to watch two times or more in a row. This movie just absolutely tops everything else I have ever seen. It was everything I would expect out of a movie. I just loved it. Also, it was pretty kid-friendly. This movie helped me realize that when you put your mind to it, anything is possible. I would give it a pure 10/10! It was better than The Legend of Baggar Vants, and the two Pirates of the Caribbean movies combined. Absolutely amazing. Loved it."'],
 ['782,"This is a funny film and I like it a lot. Cary Elwes plays Robin Hood to a tee. This is, of course, the usual good vs evil with Robin against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. The humor is sort of in your face stuff for the most part, but still works well. A comedy for a night when you don\'t want to have to think much, it\'s well worth a rent!"'],
 ['783,"Some here have commented that this is the WORST Elvis movie ever made. Well, they are only partly right. For me, this IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE PERIOD! I have never seen anything so basely crude, and insulting, and vile, and against human nature as this film. A true embarrassment to the Motion Picture Industry, this isn\'t even so Bad, its good. There is no campy trashy fun to be had here like in some of Elvis\' other bad movies like Clambake. This one is so rotten to sit through its painful. Pure Garbage. Native Americans should sue for their poor clichéd and stereotypical treatment here. Actually, perhaps ALL Human Beings should sue for the crime and disservice this movie does to the species as a whole 0 Stars, seriously. Grade: F"'],
 ['784,"First of all yes I\'m white, so I try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race... anyway... White People Hating Black people = BAD but Black People Hating White people = OK (because apparently we deserved it!!). where do i start? i wish i had something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes: the infamous scene were Ice Cube and co. get in a fight with some really big, really strong, really really angry and scary looking Neo-Nazis and win!!! the neo-Nazi where twice the size :), and the chase! the chase is priceless... This is NOT a movie about race, tolerance and understanding, it doesn\'t deliver... this is a racist movie that re-affirm all the cliché stereotypes, the white wimpy guy who gets manhandled by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead...cmon simply awful I do regret ever seeing it.<br /><br />Save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly written ,poorly acted, dull and clearly biased picture, if you are into the subject, go and Rent American History X, now thats a movie"'],
 ['785,"Donald Pleasance and Peter Cushing united in one horror film; that always sounds like a terrific plan. Two of the most versatile cult actors of their generation, who previously already starred together in terrific genre outings like ""The Flesh and the Fiends"" and ""From Beyond the Grave"", pairing up in a mid-70\'s satanic themed exploitation flick. How can this possibly go wrong? Well, unfortunately, it can. To my deepest regret ""Land of the Minotaur"" can hardly even be called mediocre, and that in spite of the cast, the exotic setting, the appealing title and the potentially great sounding premise. In a remote little area in Greece, more particularly near an archaeological site, multiple tourists vanish because Baron Peter Cushing and his docile followers keep feeding them to a fire-breathing Minotaur statue. Cushing, who never looked more bored and uninterested in any role he played before, owns a giant medieval castle and apparently in Greek this means you also own the complementary archaeological ruins and an underground network of caverns. That is of course quite handy if your hobby is the kidnapping of random campers and amateur archaeologists. When three of his young friends also mysteriously disappear in the same area, Father Roch - the priest of a couple of towns before) - decides to investigate. ""Land of the Minotaur"" is a boring and extremely slow-paced horror effort that never really undertakes any major attempts to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesn\'t bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating elements and pagan trivia details. The titular Minotaur, for example, is an intriguing creature of Greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person, but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepens out the significance. Instead, the film focuses on tedious and overly talkative sequences and loud inappropriate music altered with experimental noises. The only reason to even consider giving this major disappointment of a film a chance is because of Donald Pleasance. His portrayal of rude, bossy and old-fashioned priest who criticizes everything that represents modern youth is powerful and reliable as always."'],
 ['786,"The three shorts included on this compilation issued in 1959 are timeless Chaplin classics, nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either. Chaplin\'s score for these films and the framework added as bridging sections between the shorts are also well done. The problem with this compilation is a minor one, yet annoying. The shorts have been stretch-printed to fit the 24 frame p.s. speed of contemporary films whereas the shorts themselves where shot at 20 frames p.s. This results is jerky motion that doesn\'t look very attractive, and yet this was an excusable solution given the limitations of optical printing technology at the time, it\'s just not excusable that the current DVD version is unrestored, the films look dirty as they did in 1959 and are still stretch printed. There are separate restored versions of these classics available, even on DVD, and it would not be a problem to restore the image, but alas this has not been done.<br /><br />A minor quibble has taken up a lot of space in my article, but I say again a minor quibble, it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detracted one point from my rating. The shorts are still worth \'10\'."'],
 ['787,"1979\'s Tourist Trap is a clever, unique B thriller that stands out as one of the best of it\'s kind.<br /><br />Travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner\'s mannequins are a little too life-like for comfort.<br /><br />While the film has hints of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tourist Trap is mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of The Twilight Zone. Director David Schmoeller gives this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery, that reaches nightmarish proportions. Also, Schmoelloer adds the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings.<br /><br />Venteran actor Chuck Connors is the best of the film\'s decent cast. Pino Donaggio\'s music score is excellent, having both lyrical and solemn themes that are perfect to the movie. A number of the film\'s sequences are quite memorable.<br /><br />For horror and thriller fans alike, Tourist Trap is an unforgettable must-see film.<br /><br />*** 1/2 out of ****"'],
 ['788,"Years ago I saw The Godfather and it made a lasting impression on me, the atmosphere of the movie was first class, the acting memorable and the storyline a classic. Recently I bought the Trilogy and after watching Part 1 again I looked eagerly to viewing Part 2...... I was so pleased to realize early on into Part 2 that here was a fitting follow on to the great Godfather movie, again everything was just about perfect and I could not wait to see Godfather III ........ WRONG!, I wish I\'d stopped at II. The storyline was not good, it seemed to me like a story made up just to have a story, the characters were weak especially the daughter. Pacino\'s protege was a weak character that would have been eaten alive in Godfather 1 or 2. Then scenes such as, Corleone being invested with all the trappings of the Catholic Church with full choir, the assassin on horseback riding away into the sunset, the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting (where the \'goodies\' get away and everyone else is shot),daughter and 1st cousin rolling bits of pasta across a board, the pathetic shooting on the steps ..... Corleone stuffing sweets down him with orange juice for diabetes (a man of his intelligence and guile isn\'t ready for an emergency?)... NO it was not good and with the best will in the world I wont be able to watch it again. But I\'ll watch 1 & 2 many times down the years."'],
 ['789,"This little two-person movie is actually much bigger than it looks. It has so many layers. I\'ve watched it over and over, and always pick up on something new. I am amazed at the depth of the acting, and I feel if this movie had gotten wider release that there would be no question that Alan Rickman is a major star"'],
 ['790,"UK newspaper reviews seem to have concentrated on the fact that the reviewers tend to know Toby Young, the journalist on whose real-life experiences this movie is based. The key word here is ""based"". How To Lose Friends is a fictitious romcom.<br /><br />Sidney Young joins a prestigious gossip magazine in New York, where he proceeds to make gaffe after gaffe before finally Getting It Right and Making It. This involves him selling out, and the movie has some serious points to make about journalistic integrity. However, they are not overdone: the main substance remains a comedy which centres around Sidney\'s misadventures. The script has its cake and eats it in that Sidney is a stupid, well-meaning buffoon at the same time as being a smart, moderately obnoxious skilled writer. This contradiction is never that much of an issue, because Simon Pegg (as Sidney) projects likability too well.<br /><br />Jeff Bridges underplays Sidney\'s editor a little too effectively, and Kirsten Dunst is rather anonymous as the conflicted eventual object of Sidney\'s affections And, with regard to Megan Fox (who plays an airhead bimbo starlet), I can say only this: just say the word, Miss Fox, and I will leave my wife, sell all my belongings, and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side as your consort. Of course, given that I\'m a fat 56-year-old English accountant, you might not find my offer too enticing, but it\'s there on the table anyway. Given how short her career has been so far, one might think it is a little too soon for Megan Fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoons the sort of actress she might be thought to become: however, she does it sweetly, with some skill, and extremely sexily. This girl will go far.<br /><br />There is stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performers - Miriam Margolyes and Bill Paterson from the UK, Gillian Anderson and Danny Huston from the US.<br /><br />There are several laugh-out-loud moments, and I smiled most of the way through. As ever, the F-word makes appearances when it really doesn\'t need to, although at least a couple of these are very funny."'],
 ['791,"Alien Hunter: 5 out of 10: Is it me or does every movie that starts in Roswell, New Mexico suck. Take Alien mixed with The Thing, mixed with Contact, mixed with of all things On the Beach, The Andromeda Strain, the classroom scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark and a throw in a little Stargate to boot. <br /><br />Derivative doesn\'t even begin to describe this movie. Of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right? Nope gore is a blink and you miss it affair and sex is all tease. (James Spader causally mentions he needs a shower and the delectable Leslie Stefanson asks to join him…. he turns her down. AGGH!) <br /><br />In fact if a movie ever needed a shower scene to liven things up this is it. I mean if your going to have impossibly good-looking women in white bathing suits wandering around an Antarctica research base why not go for broke.<br /><br />With about 30 seconds of actual thrill in the entire movie Alien Hunter is remarkable serious and slow going for a sci-fi adventure. Needed a much better plot twist to liven it up and by the way the Alien itself is a horribly clichéd artifice and has virtually no screen time for someone who shares half the title. <br /><br />I also inquired during viewing what is with the Children of the Corn in space motif. (Note that since Jason of Friday the 13th fame, Pinhead from Hellraiser and that Leprechaun have all traveled to space to slay nubile teenagers why not the cornfield?) The characters in the cornfield dress like Logan\'s Run extras and I was just waiting for the stalks to come alive and attack them.<br /><br />That however would have been exciting and apparently against this movies covenant. The acting is mostly fine as Spader reprises his Stargate role while Stefanson and Janine Eser model the latest in Antarctic beachwear. John Lynch however read the whole script and acts the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it.<br /><br />Alien Hunter is a disappointing derivative slog that makes me pine for a proper Children of The Corn in Space movie."'],
 ['792,"I have a hard time putting into words just how wonderful this was. Once in a while you see a film that just sticks with you. ""You Are Alone"" is that movie (for me). The film is constantly in my head and in my heart. I replay the scenes mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotions all over again, as if I am seeing it for the first time.<br /><br />There is nothing I did not like about the movie. Amazing soundtrack!!! The ending was perfect. Very emotionally stirring!!! It was compelling and riveting.<br /><br />I adored Jessica Bohl and her performance was the greatest I have ever witnessed. I admired Brittany\'s strength (what a strong woman).<br /><br />The tag line is ""When your darkest moments come to life"". We never know what we are capable of doing. Everyone says oh I would never do that, when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation. We are very capable of anything and this movies delves straight into that subject. The honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part.<br /><br />Thank you Gorman Becherd for a perfect piece of art!!!!"'],
 ['793,"I love this young people trapped in a house of horrors movie. Not just because I\'m a huge Linnea Quigley-Jill Terashita fan, but because it is a lot of fun and actually scary at times.<br /><br />The special effects are awesome, especially Linnea\'s scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone is dead and possessed.<br /><br />Plenty of nudity provided by Linnea and Jill, plenty of humor, cool soundtrack, high body count, etc...By the way, if you have never seen this one, try and buy/watch the Unrated version which has more gore and some scenes the rated version is missing."'],
 ['794,"i saw the film and i got screwed, because the film was foolish and boring. i thought ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he failed and the whole film got spoiled and they spoiled ""sholay"". the cast and crew was bad. the whole theater slept while watching the movie some people ran away in the middle. amithab bachan\'s acting is poor, i thought this movie will be greatest hit of the year but this film will be the greatest flop of the year,sure. nobody did justice to their work, including Ajay devagan. this film don\'t deserve any audiences. i bet that this film will flop. <br /><br />""FINALLY THIS MOVIE SUCKS"""'],
 ['795,"Lorna Green(Janine Reynaud)is a performance artist for wealthy intellectuals at a local club. She falls prey to her fantasies as the promise of romantic interludes turn into murder as she kills those who believe that sex is on the horizon. It\'s quite possible that, through a form of hypnotic suggestion, someone(..a possible task master pulling her strings like a puppet)is guiding Lorna into killing those she comes across in secluded places just when it appears that love-making is about to begin. After the murders within her fantasies are committed, Lorna awakens bewildered, often clueless as to if what she was privy to within her dreams ever took place in reality.<br /><br />If someone asked me how to describe this particular work from Franco, I\'d say it\'s elegant & difficult. By now, you\'ve probably read other user comments befuddled by what this film is about, since a large portion of it takes place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream. Franco mentioned in an interview that he was heavily influenced by Godard early in his career, as far as film-making style, and so deciding to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of trying to create a whole different type of viewing experience. And, as you read from the reaction of the user comments here..some like this decision, others find the style labouring, dull, and bewildering. I\'ll be the first to admit that the film is over my head, but even Franco himself, when quizzed by critics who watched ""Succubus"", admitted that he didn\'t even understand the film and he directed it! Some might say that ""Succubus"" was merely a precursor to his more admired work, ""Venus in Furs"", considered his masterwork by Franco-faithful, because it also adopts the surreal, dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesn\'t truly know whether he/she is experiencing something real or imagined. In a sense, like the protagonist, we are experiencing the same type of confusion..certainly, ""Succubus"" is unconventional film-making where we aren\'t given the keys to what is exactly going on. And, a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesn\'t help matters. ""Succubus"" is also populated by beatnik types and ""poet-speak"", Corman\'s film, ""A Bucket of Blood"" poked fun at. My personal favorite scene teases at a possible lesbian interlude between Lorna and a woman she meets at a posh party..quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequins are used rather unusually. Great locations and jazz score..I liked this film myself, although I can understand why it does receive a negative reaction. Loved that one scene at the posh party with Lorna, a wee bit drunk, writhing on the floor in a gorgeous evening gown as others attending the shindig(..equally wasted)rush her in an embrace of kisses."'],
 ['796,"This outing of Knotts includes one of his best sidekicks ever, Frank Welker. Welker makes the film. Knotts and Welker compete for the laughs and both receive plenty. Knotts works for a small ""no where"" town where the city is being run by some of the most ignorant officials. When things go wrong the city fathers, allow Knotts to take the fall. Frank Welker\'s character befriends Knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and Knott\'s good name. This film shows the usual Knott\'s scared to death character that made him famous for years on television and film. This may have been Knotts\' last good outing. When you have an extra 90 minutes, get a good old fashioned laugh a great icon, Don Knotts."'],
 ['797,"Emma is a horribly flawed film based on Jane Austens classic novel. I have not read the book so I really didn\'t know that much about the plot, and yet I still predicted nearly the entire plot. There were also many scenes that frustrated me because of the bad writing or directing. The film is though for some reason very entertaining and I loved it. Of course there were all the scenes I disliked but the majority was well acted and funny. Gwyneth Paltrow gives one of her best performances as the heroine in Emma. The film also stars Toni Collette(Who has okay but has been much better) Ewan Mecgreger(Who has also been better but he is still very good here) Alan Cumming(Who I have never really been impressed with and is pretty much the same here) and Jeremy Northam(Who\'s performance is rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle, even if that was not what it needed) There have been much better adaptations of Jane Austen books but this one is still very entertaining and worth watching."'],
 ['798,"Why do I hate this? Let me list the ways:<br /><br />I have nothing against Mary Pickford but a 32 year old woman playing a 12 year old is just stupid.<br /><br />There\'s a fight scene in which kids are throwing bricks at each other and it\'s considered funny---and it goes on for 15 minutes <br /><br />Strange how none of the kids are even remotely hurt<br /><br />The title cards contain plenty of racial and ethnic slurs<br /><br />For a ""family"" film the fights were WAY too violent (loved it when Pickford was punching it out with a little boy!) and the humor was just stupid <br /><br />Seriously, 40 minutes in I gave up and turned it off. The slurs, racism and little kids throwing bricks at each other got to me. Also there was no plot that I could see. The only thing worth seeing in this film was William Haines who was a top leading man in the silent era.<br /><br />Just painful. Avoid."'],
 ['799,"Thank God this wasn\'t based on a true story, because what a story it is. Populated by despicable characters whose depravity knows no bounds, Before The Devil is a mesmerizing, jaw-dropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable (and sometimes is, even with - or perhaps because of - the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout) if it weren\'t carried out with such magnificent, overwhelming conviction by its stars. The excellent script by Kelly Masterson and superb direction by none other than Sidney Lumet doesn\'t hurt either.<br /><br />The main dysfunction here is of a family nature, with the two majorly screwed up brothers (brilliant portrayals from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) deciding to rob their own parents\' jewelry store, an attempt that goes pathetically awry.<br /><br />The story is told with time-shifts (which are noted on screen, such as: ""Charlie: Two Days Before The Robbery"", so no one should be confused); some people have said they didn\'t like this device but I thought it worked perfectly, adding to the skeweredness of the whole affair, considering that the two brothers in question are hardly playing with full decks - between them you couldn\'t make a decent poker hand to save your life. Throw in these cheesy extra tidbits: one of the brothers is a drug addict, married to Gina (Marisa Tomei, also excellent), who is having an affair with the other brother, toss in some monumental sibling rivalry, along with the fact that said drug addict brother hates his father (a wrenching performance from Albert Finney), who has apparently caused him serious past pain, and you\'ve got a Shakespearean/Greek tragedy on your hands. Proceed with caution."'],
 ['800,"If you want just about everything you want to know about WWII from multiple perspectives, this DVD delivers, you WILL learn new things guaranteed, so much so that you won\'t need any other documentary\'s on the subject. Get this, watch it, learn from it. Good for school use as well. As a bonus, watch this with Tora tora tora, saving private ryan, patton, band of brothers, a bridge too far, the longest day and other WWII epics along with this to make your knowledge of WWII even more complete. Sir Laurence Oliver\'s voice adds to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this 26 part series. Seriously you won\'t find a better WWII documentary set on the subject. PERFECT 10!!!"'],
 ['801,"The movie was gripping from start to finish and its b/w photography of the American heartland is stunning. We feel we are right there with them as they cross the big sky country and then into Mexico and back to America again. Near the end of the movie, the reflection of the rain on Robert Blake looks like small rivers of sweat and tears rolling down his face. In the end, we follow them up the stairway to their final moment. <br /><br />The two criminals, performed by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock could be seen on any street in any town. Hickock is a smiling boy next door and Smith, the guy with stars in his eyes from the wrong side of town. This point is made in the movie and it always surprises us that criminals are no different in appearance than anyone else. Evil, even the most vile, is part of the human condition. These two delusional men kill an entire family, looking for a safe that isn\'t there. Once on the run, they start writing bad cheques, carving out a trail for the authorities.<br /><br />There are many fine supporting actors. I like John Forsyth as the detective on the case, Alvin Dewey. Also, Will Geer shines in a brief but excellent scene as the prosecuting attorney.<br /><br />I have often wanted to see this movie all the way through, having only caught it in short snatches; I did finally get to it after buying the DVD. The result is the finest classic crime movie I have ever seen.<br /><br />Don\'t miss this brilliant movie. To me, this is what great film-making is all about."'],
 ['802,"This is a great show with total freshness and innovation. That usual chair (couch for a woman) host, that mandatory band playing monotonous tunes, the same old jokes, the same pattern copied from the days of Nebuchadnezzer ....probably the pattern of Johnny Carson, copied by one and all, Latterman, Leno, Conan... Daly, this show does not seem to have any of these.<br /><br />I fell in love with this show within the first 10 minutes and I am going to stick to it. Though it\'s too early to say that, this show seems to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk shows try so hard to project, and I hope that that is what would make this show different from all the rest. I hope that this show will last long!<br /><br />Returning back after months, I still love this show, and I love his self-deprecating humor (For example, his affirmation that only pothead loners would be home to watch his show at Saturday midnight and thus, the jokes are funny only to the stoned guys) which, however, does not involve the usual monkeying of Conan O\'Brien, for example (I know it\'s a cardinal sin to be repelled by O\'Brien\'s antics; but I do really dislike his style and repetitiveness). <br /><br />I again watched it the other night with Tom Arnold in it. Ferensen\'s spoof of Trading Spouses (and Nanny 911 in an earlier episode) are hilarious. Idiot paparazzi are fun, especially when a security guard cautions them against taking people\'s pictures, and (if I am not mistaken) they start taking his pictures shouting ""Gary Coleman"".<br /><br />Added on 16th April, 2007: Coming back once again, I am left confused by the neighbor and her dog. I cannot decide if it is a joke or a real thing. Either way, it was funny as hell.<br /><br />I do not expect Spike Feresten to read these pages, but maybe he does. He is crazier than a bunch of monkeys and so, I would better write down my suggestion here for him: I would like him to do a full 30 minute show with Crazy Gideon, the star of late night TV commercial. I would like Crazy Gideon to have an interview in Spike\'s talk show, sing a song (and play guitar), do a skit in the line of SNL, and also to answer questions from the audience regarding his potential mayorship of Los Angeles (I know, Crazy Gideon may not be aware of this, but there are websites detailing why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of LA).<br /><br />God willing!<br /><br />Returning back on 14th July, 2007: Someone wrote here that the people who praised Spike\'s talkshow must be bribed by Spike. I confess that Spike really bribed me, but I must also confess that Rockefeller named me in his will and last night I had sex with Cindy Crowford."'],
 ['803,"It\'s all about getting what you want when you want it. And the message of Bluebeard\'s Eighth WIfe is to be careful what you wish for, until what you wish for wishes for you.<br /><br />Most men have heard the stories about what happens when your sexual frustration isn\'t relieved and a certain part of your anatomy turning blue. Misogynistic pirates aside, Cooper plays a very wealthy man who is very accustomed to getting what he wants whenever he wants it, learning only too late that it wasn\'t what he expected and never learning his lesson until he runs into the feisty Claudette Colbert. Through a twisted (in soul and in practice) business deal, he ends up marring/buying her with the intent of bedding her, but she will have none of it (literally) and frustrates him at every turn, and corner, and room, and tourist attraction.<br /><br />The film has definite French sensibilities which means it has strong double-entendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge you\'re not accustomed to (and may not enjoy seeing) in either Cooper or Colbert. The whole reason I watched the film was because they are ""likable"" actors, and the whole point of this movie is that they\'re unlikable people, or at least likable people who have developed unlikable traits to protect themselves, they think, from the world. <br /><br />If you can accept it on its own terms you\'ll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film...and satisfaction, as we said, is what it\'s all about. Such a movie with such a cast only comes around, after all, once in a...ummm...blue moon."'],
 ['804,"Now i have read some negative reviews for this show on this website and quite frankly I\'m appalled. For anyone to even think that the Sopranos is not Television then i\'m afraid i don\'t know what the world has come to. Let me tell u something. I started watching many T.V shows like Lost, Prison Break, Dexter, Deadwood and even Invasion. But all of those shows lost their touch after the first season, especially Lost and Prison Break which i refuse to watch because the companies took 2 genius ideas and butchered them by making more than one season. Then we have The Sopranos. I can honestly say that this is the only television series that i have ever watched where i have been enthralled in all of its season, and more importantly all of its episodes. There is no department that this show doesn\'t excel in. Acting- Nothing short of superb. James Gandolfini is one of my favourite actors and i feel that his acting is absolutely stunning in every episode, after i heard that HBO wanted Ray Liotta to play Tony i felt that it would\'ve been the better choice, however after watching the first few episodes, i knew that HBO had done a great job in casting James as Tony. The raw emotion he displays is superb. Then we have everyone else, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Lorraine Bracco, Dominic Chianese (whom i remembered as Johnny Ola in the Godfather Part 2) and my personal two favourite characters Tony Sirico and Steve Van Zandt Paulie \'Walnuts\' Gualtieri and Silvio Dante. All of these actors perform to the best quality, and all giving an excellent performance in each episode. Then we have the story, never have i been so sucked into a T.V show before. The story is nothing short of excellent. Each episode is directed superbly and the Score of this show is just fantastic. I feel that The Sopranos is one show that i can watch again and again and never get bored of. Its got everything from hilarious humour to brutal violence, but nonetheless it is and will always be the best thing to ever grace the Television, and I challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show. Not just say its too violent, or they feel that the character of Tony is immoral, i mean it is a mafia show at the end of the day, i don\'t think that the characters are going to be very honest or loyal to God. I implore everyone to watch this show because believe me, you\'ll be hooked from the very first episode, i was and i have even gotten a few friends who had firstly refused to watch the show, hooked on it. Trust me when i say that this show is a Godsend compared to the crap that comes on T.V. After you\'ve watched the first season, you\'ll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominates Television, and no T.V show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that is The Sopranos."'],
 ['805,"I\'d give this a negative rating if I could. I went into this movie not expecting much, but I had an open mind. The whole thing is stupid! The snakes are obviously fake and the first two things they bite are a boob and a guys johnson. Oh how original; if I were a 12 year old boy I might laugh at that. I have no idea how this movie became so popular. Seriously,the worst thing I\'ve ever seen. I wasn\'t entertained, it wasn\'t funny,I wasn\'t even bored! I wasn\'t anything. It wasn\'t even so bad it was good, it\'s just bad. Ridiculous actually. Please do not waste your money on this movie. Don\'t even rent this movie. No clue how it\'s getting such a high rating."'],
 ['806,"Most people are totally unaware that this movie exists. Fox, which paid Judge to make it, has kept it in the can for quite awhile and then spent nothing to promote it. I guess that made many people think it was one of the garbage movies being flushed in late summer. Well, I am here to tell you that this is a funny and rather frightening look at a future that is not that hard to believe. Basically, Judge puts forward the notion that the stupid are outbreeding the smart by a wide margin. Then these stupid are getting more stupid, by basically spending all of their time watching TV and having sex, which produces more stupid people. By 2500, a person of average intelligence today, will appear to be a genius, that talks ""all faggy."" Seriously, is this really that hard to believe. Oh sure, this future is painfully funny and ridiculously stupid, but still plausible. Luke Wilson is great as the time traveling army guy, hopelessly trying to get back to a more comfortable time. Where this story will gain its cult status is with the numerous funny one-liners, like ""can we family style her"" and ""hey man, I\'m \'bating here!"" This is a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an American society that seems to be fatuated with self pleasure, comfort and stupidity, and I guarantee you that I will be buying this on DVD the first day it comes out and watching it over and over."'],
 ['807,"This is a great, ridiculous horror movie that captures the essence of the mid to late 80s\' obsession with how evil metal music supposedly was. I can remember being freaked out by metal teens when I was a kid. It doesn\'t help that I found a desecrated grave in my hometown\'s graveyard when I was ten. Turns out this weird metal kid had dug up some old bodies and used their bones in some weird sacrifice to satan. So maybe stuff like deterred me from metal for awhile, but I love it now, as a 24 year old.<br /><br />I bought this DVD used for 6 bucks and I expected it to suck due to the lame cover, but to my surprise, it ruled. It is all about the extreme demonic power of metal. And you gotta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporizes headbangers in the crowd. This movie is awesome, if you love 80s metal and bad movies, this one\'s for you. 9/10!"'],
 ['808,"While not quite as good as A Murder is Announced, which was not only delightful but almost surpassed the book, this is an excellent adaptation. And you know what, it is a huge improvement on the Geraldine McEwan version. Now I don\'t take pride in bad mouthing the Geraldine McEwan adaptations, two or three of them were surprisingly good, but others started off well but ruined by either a poor script, a confusing final solution or both. The Geraldine McEwan version suffered from a plodding pace, and both of the above problems, and I would consider second worst of the ITV adaptations, worst being Sittaford Mystery, which even on its own merits turned out dull and confusing. This adaptation of the book Nemesis is a huge improvement, it not only respects the book, despite a few liberties, but it pretty much rectifies the problems the ITV version had. Despite the added character of Lionel coming across as rather irritating, more to do with how he was written than how he was acted, and one or two moments of sluggish pacing, this is solid as an adaptation of a decent book. It is beautifully filmed, with nice photography and period detail, and the music as always is excellent. The performances are wonderful this time around, and make the most of an in general well-done script, with Joan Hickson brilliant as always as Miss Marple, and solid turns from Liz Fraser, Helen Cherry, Joanna Hole and Anna Cropper. Margaret Tyzack is outstanding though in a chilling and moving performance as Clothilde. Overall, well worth watching, better than the recent version in pretty much all departments. 9/10 Bethany Cox"'],
 ['809,"Good Lord, what were they THINKING??!!!!!! Here is your spoiler warning, even though I don\'t think it\'ll really matter. You won\'t be seeing this piece of trash anyway.<br /><br />A group of handpuppets go chasing after a group of really stupid people, who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them, and the puppets complicate things by letting them live out their really stupid fantasies. In other words, the whole thing is really stupid.<br /><br />You KNOW it has to be bad when even Mike and the Bots can\'t save something!! And they didn\'t! I know, some of their lines were funny, like what to add to the sign ""HIT"" and the hand comments, but, geez, this was pretty dang sad.<br /><br />All I can say is DO NOT WATCH THIS PIECE O CRUD. IT IS NOT WORTH YOUR EYES."'],
 ['810,"I had heard (and read) so many good things about Weeds that I was looking forward to getting hooked on another great cable Series (like Entourage, Sopranos or Mad Men) but that slowly eroded away with each episode I watched from Season One. (didn\'t make it past the first six episodes) <br /><br />The writing was unoriginal, contrived and the portrayal of Blacks embarrassing. The dialog felt forced, like the writers are trying way too hard to be clever and hip . It was a rare moment when I actually emitted an audible laugh.<br /><br />The characters never developed enough for me to care about them, they were selfish and unappealing. I absolutely HATED the addition of the Brother-in-law (who should have been hauled away on To Catch A Predator) and the removal of the Hodes\' daughter Quinn from the cast by sending her to boarding school in Mexico was so unoriginal and cliché, I had to conclude the writers were testing the viewer\'s loyalty.<br /><br />Episode after episode I liked the characters less and couldn\'t get past many of the technical flaws in the story line.<br /><br />Add to that I heard that Season Two wasn\'t as good, so I lost all motivation to continue to watch this play out.<br /><br />If you\'re a fan of good casting and writing, I suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like, unless of course you\'re stoned and then all bets are off."'],
 ['811,"This movie is among my favorite foreign films, some of the others are Amilee and My Life As a Dog. The similarities with those movies as with so many great foreign films, is that it takes a mundane slice of life and transforms it into a profound heartfelt lesson. <br /><br />In Japan, a man who is bored with his mundane life and the rut of his married life, sees a beautiful Japanese woman staring out the window of a dance studio. In the instant that it takes his train to pass, he is enthralled by her. But is it only by her beauty, by her faraway glance, or a connection that they will both discover that they share? <br /><br />Shall We Dance has memorable wonderful characters who have to deal with painful realities by transcending them through the world of dance. Breaking traditional moulds and stereo types of Japanese society, they risk all for happiness and find that joy is not too far away. It is one of those movies that is so magical and meaningful and, in itself, transcends the mundane by showing the true magic and miracle that life can be."'],
 ['812,"As if the film were not of value in itself, this is an excellent way to get an overview of the novel as a preface to reading it. In the summer of 1968 I saw the film in NYC; that fall in graduate school, I read the book for the first time. Some of the pleasure in reading the novel was my memory of the scrupulously detailed film. And for better or worse--and I\'ve now read and taught the novel for over three decades--Milo O\'Shea is still Leopold Bloom."'],
 ['813,"This film is a lyrical and romantic memoir told through the eyes an eleven year old boy living in a rural Cuban town the year of the Castro revolution. It is an obviously genuine worthy labor of love. <br /><br />The names CUBA LIBRE and CUBAN BLOOD are merely attempts to wrongly market this as an action film. DREAMING OF JULIA makes much more sense. It has more in common with European cinema than with RAMBO and the revolution is merely an inconvenience to people\'s daily lives and pursuits. That fact alone makes the film more honest than most works dealing with this time period in Cuban history.<br /><br />The excessive use of the voice-over narrator does undermine the story but the film makes up for it with unqualified clips from Hollywood films that say so much more visually than the narrator could.<br /><br />The comparisons to CINEMA PARADISO and are fair game as the film does wax melancholy about movies, but there is an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpasses lost love. <br /><br />The revolution, like the film JULIE, never seems to have an ending."'],
 ['814,"I saw ZP when it was first released and found it a major disappointment. Its script seemed forced and arch and too fakey \'60s. It\'s politics too upfront and ridiculous. And let\'s face it, I was still under a love-spell known as BLOWUP : and I still haven\'t completely shaken it. Now the ""love"" is twisted up with all sorts of nostalgia it evokes and, oh well . . . Good Luck to me!<br /><br />But time marches on and time has been kind to ZP and time has been a teacher to me. I revisit this film about every ten years and it just gets better and better with age. And ZP is it\'s own ""experience""and is only really linked to BLOWUP through its creator, the late,great Mr. Antonioni.<br /><br />Twelve years ago, I had the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print, projected at its correct size (immense), restored by an Italian government cultural agency who knows a good work of art when they see it and knows the importance of keeping such a thing of beauty in good shape. To this day I remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of Death Valley appeared. It was like a thousand volt visual shock Antonioni had intentionally delivered to wake us up to a new level of awareness. And indeed what follows from that point is an entirely different sort of ""place"".<br /><br />What is astonishing to me is how this film is coming into its own.<br /><br />I remember the second time around seeing it --- the early 80s --- I had begun to feel affection towards the film as a whole and towards Daria and Mark in particular. Whereas, before these two seemed like a smart-alecky shadow version of Zefferelli\'s Olivia and Leonard (read: Romeo and Juliet)they now were engaging me --- particularly The Girl in her insistent slo-motion-ality. She-took-her-time . . . To Live. Everything, EVERYTHING dies around her.<br /><br />Upon exciting the theater the daylight of Reality quickly began to erase my new found ""enjoyment"". The encroaching shoulder-padded, big haired 80s whispered ""But that\'s a hippie fantasy --- let it go""<br /><br />The force of Antonioni\'s vision had, I had realised, already worked itself inside of me the FIRST time around so I answered ""80s"" with an ""Uh-Huh"" and guarded my ""love"" secretly, possessively and jealously.<br /><br />But, this, then is what good art does it lives inside of you, and, if you wish it has its way and ""loves"" you back: secretly, jealously, and possessively. And you get ""changed"".<br /><br />Was thrilled to see that Turner Classic Movies had decided to show ZP in its March lineup. Undoubtedly, ZP must be seen on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into its constructed environment. But, hey, sometimes even a glimpse of the Beloved in a newspaper photo is no better than no glimpse at all.<br /><br />Today reality hit, ZP has been withdrawn mysteriously and replaced with the whiney antics of ALICE\'S RESTAURANT.<br /><br />So, it is still too ""difficult"", too ""disturbing"", too ""what""?<br /><br />Maybe it\'s that, as with all good art, it Lives while everything dies around it. <br /><br />Peace."'],
 ['815,"Very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story, but benefiting from its stunningly ravishing lead actress and a handful of nice, gruesome make-up effects. Daniella is a beautiful twenty-something girl, carrying with her the trauma of being raped at the age of 13. Nightmares and hallucinations lead her further into believing she\'s the reincarnation of a female ancestor who was said to be a werewolf. She kills her brother-in-law during a nightly encounter and gets submitted in a hospital. She escapes again, however, and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detectives, doctors and relatives. It\'s all pretty to look at and listen too (really great soundtrack), but the absence of plot and continuity become irritating quite fast. Luckily enough, leading lady Annik Borel rarely ever wears clothes and she fills up the boring moments by dancing naked around a fire. The film is too long, too weird and too forgettable. The biggest surprise comes at the end, when suddenly and out of the blue, director Rino Di Silvestro tries to make us believe that his movie was based on true facts. Yeah, right..."'],
 ['816,"This is an interesting, hard to find movie from the early 70\'s starring Jan Michael Vincent as a young man who doesn\'t make the cut as a marine. Dressed in \'baby blue\' outfits to humiliate them as they are sent home, the failed recruits are sent packing. Vincent stops at a bar and runs into a very young Richard Gere who has just returned from a tour in the Pacific as a hard-core Marine \'Raider\'. Gere\'s character is already jaded and contemplating desertion, and he takes advantage of Vincent\'s innocence, stealing his \'baby blue\' uniform after getting him drunk and beating him in an alleyway. Vincent\'s character, whose name is Marion, takes Gere\'s outfit and is suddenly transformed into a Marine \'Raider\'. Marion hitch-hikes his way into Wyoming and stops at a little Norman Rockwell-like little town. In the local café he meets Rose Hudkins, who immediately catches his eye. Staying with Hudkins parents, Marion attracts all sorts of attention from the towns folks. Mr Hudkins suspects Marion and wonders how a Marine \'Raider\' could still be so innocent. The story also brings up the Japanese Internment Camps, as the towns folks go \'hunting\' 3 escapees. Marion is shot accidentally during this hunt. But there\'s still a happy ending, which befuddled me a bit. I would have preferred a little more drama! Anyway, this captures JMV at the peak of his 70\'s performances. BUSTER AND BILLIE, BABY BLUE MARINE and WHITE LINE FEVER in the mid-70\'s were amazingly good JMV performances. He was both an action star and a heart-throb all at the same time!!! He made a lot of quality movies during his career, and continued to do so up into the mid 80\'s with the great TV show Airwolf. He does a very good job in this as \'Hedge\', quietly observing the way people treat him (in his uniform) as he travels across the country. He must have performed some of the stunt work as well- there is a harrowing river scene at the end of the movie-and it looks like he\'s the guy getting tossed down the river to me! But really, at the height of his popularity, this movie could have done so much more with JMV\'s talent and his looks. Innocence can only be so interesting. Evil, as explored in ""Buster and Billie"", is much more dramatic! Anyway, Glynnis O\'Connor is delightful as Rose. The whole look of the movie is like a Norman Rockwell painting. The outdoor scenes are gorgeous - must have been filmed in Canada."'],
 ['817,"Johnny and June Carter Cash financed this film which is a traditional rendering of the Gospel stories. The music is great, you get a real feel of what the world of Jesus looked like (I\'ve been there too), and June gets into the part of Mary Magdalene with a passion. Cash\'s narration is good too.<br /><br />But....<br /><br />1. The actor who played Jesus was miscast. 2. There is no edge to the story like Cash puts in some of his faith based music. 3. Because it is uncompelling, I doubt we\'ll see this ever widely distributed again.<br /><br />I\'d love to buy the CD.<br /><br />Tom Paine Texas, USA"'],
 ['818,"Jäniksen vuosi is one of Jarva\'s most political movies. It takes stance strongly against modern day society\'s authority status in the life of the common man, and how it has estranged men from the nature completely. It challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society.<br /><br />Vatanen (Antti Litja) - smothered buy the concrete jungle with all its rules and regulations - tries to rattle the chains of the society by escaping it all in to the wilderness of northern Finland - only to realize that the concept of a \'free country\' isn\'t all that unambiguous, in other words, the society has the common man by the balls.<br /><br />Still the thing that makes Jäniksen vuosi so exceptional - besides the visual and humouristic brilliance - is how it seems to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in Finland in the 70\'s, as well as the whole identity of Finland as a nation. Vatanen is like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness. Since nature has always played such an important role in the national identity of us Finns, the whole idea of that being slowly taken away by the modern society makes Jäniksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally moving."'],
 ['819,"I love Jamie Foxx.<br /><br />And I enjoy 99% of all movies I see.<br /><br />And I walked out of this one.<br /><br />Now, I admit, it may have had something to do with the two middle-aged white women in the back of theatre who laughed at every little thing (""Oh no, Jamie\'s knocking on a door! HEE HEE HEE!""), but... this was just so incredibly annoying. There could be no sustained camera shot, and no camera shot from a conventional angle... everything had to be in-your-face, loud, and annoying.<br /><br />The bad guy tried to be smooth and Malkovich-like, but at this point, it\'s just old and tired. He brought nothing new or interesting. From all the characters, too many lines you saw coming, too many you\'ve heard before, and too many ""tough guy"" lines... and I don\'t mind that sort of thing, really, as long as there\'s a bit of originality to it. In fact, pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked.<br /><br />I love Jamie Foxx, and I think he\'s really funny, and I thought he was funny in this movie... but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else. <br /><br />This movie needed less shoot-em-up, less annoying camera shots, more emotion, more feeling, and more Jamie Foxx. I gave it a 2."'],
 ['820,"After seeing Dick Tracy in the 6.99$ bin at Future Shop I decided to give it a go with no previous knowledge and being a big fan of Mafia and Crime movies. I was very surprised to see a very fun, smart entertaining movie with solid performances throughout. The movie moves along well, it has of course another solid performance from Warren Beatty, but the real standouts of the film are Al Pacino and Madonna. I was happy to find out that Pacino was nominated for his performance as an over the top gangster trying to take down the city. Madonna was great as the damsel in distress, she really impressed me and added depth to her performance. If you go in with the attitude of wanting to watch a fun, smart movie with great acting and a solid script then give Dick Tracy a try. I don\'t think you will be disappointed. And Watch for the cameos from Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Kathy Bates and Dustin Hoffman among others."'],
 ['821,Send them to the freezer. This is the solution two butchers find after they discover the popularity of selling human flesh. An incredible story with humor and possible allegories that make it much more than a horror film. The complex characters defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile - if you can stand it. Definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive.'],
 ['822,"Wow! I picked this off the rental shelf because I loved Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller in \'Trainspotting.\' This is a phenomenal movie; it has action, romance, suspense, intrigue and wit. When I wasn\'t laughing, I was at the edge of my seat. This is definitely a film I would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the 18th century. This film has everything to keep ME happy!"'],
 ['823,"I don\'t know why some people criticise that show so much.<br /><br />It is a great, funny show - probably not the right material for mainstream prime-time, but still...<br /><br />The family dynamics are funny, and all in all the same you see in most comedy shows. The supporting characters are absolutely hilarious. The plots of the individual episodes and the frequent Siegfried & Roy jibes are only just above average, but ever so often you have sub-plots or one-liners that make you roll on the floor laughing.<br /><br />This show was well worth the 8 Pounds I paid for it.<br /><br />rating: 8/10"'],
 ['824,"Mexican Werewolf in Texas is set in the small border town of Furlough where Anna (Erika Fay) lives, her best friend is Rosie (Martine Hughes) & she has a Mexican boyfriend named Miguel (Gabriel Gutierrez) who are determined to track a beast down that has been terrorising the town, killing livestock & several residents including some of their friends. Local Mexican legends speak of the Chupacabra, an evil creature from myth & legend. Erm, I\'m struggling now because not that much else actually happens...<br /><br />Written & directed by Scott Maginnis I won\'t beat about the bush here & simply say that Mexican Werewolf in Texas is awful, period. The script only ever mentions the word Werewolf once & the rest of the time it\'s referred to a Chupacabra, in fact I suspect this wasn\'t really conceived as a Werewolf flick at all. The \'Werewolf\' creature looks mostly hairless & more like some vicious dog, there is no reference to anybody changing during the full moon & it actually attacks during the day on a couple of occasions, there is no transformation scene & at the end when it is killed it doesn\'t change back into anyone either. To be honest apart from the title there\'s nothing here to indicate a Werewolf film at all & even then the title is just a rip-off of the highly popular An American Werewolf in London (1981). This is the type of home made crap that I personally think is killing the horror genre, how long has it been since there was a true low budget horror classic like Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead (1981), Halloween (1978) or Friday the 13th (1980) which were all made on shoe string budgets, maybe The Blair Witch Project (1999) but that\'s it in recent years & crap like Mexican Werewolf in Texas has absolutely no chance of ever being considered a classic. The character\'s are awful & things just happen around them, the dialogue is rubbish, the pacing is terrible, the story sucks & virtually sent me to sleep & as a whole this film is just crap, I\'m sorry but I don\'t know how else to describe it.<br /><br />Director Maginnis does nothing to make this watchable, there\'s the annoying hand held camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache & quick \'blink & you\'ll miss something\' editing which just annoys & irritates in equal measure. It\'s not scary, there\'s no nudity, there\'s no tension or atmosphere & the special effects are awful. The monster really does look poor & it\'s no wonder Maginnis keeps it in the shadows or cuts his scenes so quickly you never get a good look at it. There\'s virtually no colour to the picture either, it\'s either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand oranges which makes the thing an eye sore as well. The gore consists of some fake guts (blink & you\'ll miss them!), a few bloody wounds & a severed arm, big deal.<br /><br />With a supposed budget of about $300,000 I admit the budget was low but I simply refuse to accept that for making such a rubbish film, there are plenty of low budget horror flicks that make their meagre budgets go far. The whole thing has the look of a home movie, it has no style & is throughly bland & dull to look at. The acting sucks too although you probably already knew that.<br /><br />Mexican Werewolf in Texas will probably con a few people into renting/buying/watching it because they might mistakenly think it\'s a sequel to John Landis\' classic which it most certainly isn\'t & it isn\'t even a proper Werewolf flick either. Don\'t be fooled this is awful & I\'m fed up of having to waste time/money on home made amateur crap like this."'],
 ['825,"I found this to be a surprisingly light-handed touch at a 1950\'s culture-clash movie. John Wayne would hardly be one\'s first choice as a cultural attache, being about as diplomatic with his good intentions as a bull-run in Harrods. But this time he was left to play a part that was far more passive than his usual bluff persona, and he accomplished his task with style. The Duke was a guy who really could act well. His facial expressions and body language could be extremely subtle.<br /><br />Despite his considerable presence both as an actor and in terms of screen time, he failed to dominate this movie. Many of his good intentions came a cropper. He had authority over nobody, and the intermittent narrative was provided by the titular geisha to whom he was the barbarian.<br /><br />The story of American attempts to curry favour with an isolationist Japan was one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hell-for-leather battles. I cannot comment on the accuracy of its research but the strangeness of the Oriental culture to western sensibilities was demonstrated well. There was a great deal of minutely-choreographed ceremony entailing what looked to this observer like authentic costume and props. The set pieces were complex and detailed. A lot of money and thought had been applied to it.<br /><br />The fractured romance between Wayne and his geisha added a little extra element, and stopped the movie becoming just a political or flag-waving effort. Script was good without being too wordy. There was a great deal of Japanese dialogue, but the lengthy periods of translation didn\'t interfere with the narrative. It was nice to see plenty of genuine orientals on the set. Whether or not they were Japanese, I couldn\'t say. But anyway they looked the part. At least the leads were not played by cross-dressing Caucasians, unlike other efforts such as \'Blood Alley\' (yes, I know they were Chinese) \'The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness\' or even \'The King And I\'.<br /><br />Frankly, I enjoyed this more than any of those other movies. The script was better for a start. I never liked the songs in \'The King And I\', and wasn\'t impressed by the heavy-laden anti-communist subtext of \'Blood Alley\'. I confess to never having seen this work before and found it compared very favourably to many of The Duke\'s more popular outings.<br /><br />Recommended."'],
 ['826,"I was so glad I came across this short film. I\'m always so disappointed that short films are hard to come across, so when I saw this and saw that it was nominated for the Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards, I was so pleased that I actually had a film that I was rooting for.<br /><br />The plot is pretty simple, the director, writer, and star Nacho Vigalondo tried coming up with a reason people would suddenly break out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musicals. The result is extremely entertaining and the song is actually really catchy.<br /><br />It\'s a well made short film, well edited and the actors all do a great job. And the last shot of the film is perfect.<br /><br />I highly recommend this film."'],
 ['827,"I thought before starting with these movie that it might be a good one, but when i started with it i found it really awful. They said movie is being made in Afghanistan but i think 95% of the movie is shot in India. you can see Indian made cars. you can see lars drinking bisleri(an Indian water brand), Hindi written on the road, you can also see temples in Afghanistan *hahah* its really funny and many more stuff which proves its not shot in Afghanistan. I think one should not waste his/her time watching this movie.. pure time waste.. i would recommend to do something else instead of watching this movie or may be might heart is better idea but don\'t watch this waste of time"'],
 ['828,"Truly appalling waste of space. Me and my friend tried to watch this film to its conclusion but had to switch it off about 30 minutes from the end. And i can count the films I have switched off before the end on one hand.<br /><br />The script and direction are leaden and deeply uninspiring. I wouldn\'t be surprised if they found the script in a pile of cast off scripts from 1983. For example the irritating scroat threatening the real estate guy from his house phone. I mean seriously. The police would be beating his door down in minutes. The scenes and events just wash by you like turds in a river. It is difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film. The narrative flicks between characters in a seemingly random manner breaking up the pathetic attempts at building the characters. Oh and what ""characters"" they are. The protagonist played by Rourke is dreadful. He could have just sent a cardboard cut out of himself and stayed in bed. After 60 or so minutes of the film I had built absolutely zero attachment to this character. He is neither sympathetic nor hateful. Just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blundering through every single scene. His motivation is impossible to discern from his generally mumbled and emotionless delivery. Is he happy? Is he sad? Angry? No idea. Just those same dead eyes staring out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh. And the native American theme is just awful and pointless.<br /><br />The good guys are at best unlikeable. A dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic ex-wife stereotype. Cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy, ""you aren\'t going to shoot me"" that is both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying.<br /><br />The richie nix character seems interesting at first but soon descends into an irritating one sided psycho character. Which seems at odds with the seeming intention of making the bad guys in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated.<br /><br />Roasario Dawsons character starts with some promise but soon descends into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangsters chick scenes from Jackie Brown. You really want me to believe her character was SO attracted to Rourke\'s? Or worse she is just a floozy who sleeps with anything that moves? Realistic female characters FTW! <br /><br />In summary a complete mess of a film. Hopeless characterisations and performances. A leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction. And ultimately extremely dull. Its not even comedy bad either. Laughing at Rourkes haggard face gets pretty old after sitting through the first 15 turgid minutes of the film."'],
 ['829,"In this movie, Chávez supporters (either venezuelan and not-venezuelan) just lie about a dramatic situation in our country. <br /><br />They did not say that the conflict started because of Chávez announcement firing a lot of PDVSA best workers just for political issues.<br /><br />They did not say anything about more than 96 TV interruptions transmitted by Chávez during only 3 days in ""CADENA NACIONAL"" (a kind of confiscation o private TV signals). Each one with about 20 minutes of duration.<br /><br />They did not tell us anything about The quiting announcement made by General en Jefe Lucas Rincon Romero, Inspector General of the army forces, who is a traditional supporter of Chávez. Even now, in despite of his announcement, he is the Ministro de Interior y Justicia. After Chávez return he occuped the Charge of Ministro del Defensa (equals to Defense Secretary in US).<br /><br />They did not say anything about Chávez orders about shooting against a pacifical people concentration who was claiming for elections.<br /><br />They did not say anything about the people in this concentration that were killed by Chávez Supporters (either civilians and Military official forces).<br /><br />They present some facts in a wrong order, in order to lie.<br /><br />They did not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats are even now claiming for an elections in order to solve the crisis and Chávez actions in order to avoid the elections.<br /><br />That\'s why i tell you.... This movie is just a lot of lies or a big lie."'],
 ['830,"One could wish that an idea as good as the ""invisible man"" would work better and be more carefully handled in the age of fantastic special effects, but this is not the case. The story, the characters and, finally the entire last 20 minutes of the film are about as fresh as a mad-scientist flick from the early 50\'s. There are some great moments, mostly due to the amazing special effects and to the very idea of an invisible man stalking the streets. But alas, soon we\'re back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab, which means that the rest of the film is not only predictable, but schematic.<br /><br />There has been a great many remakes of old films or TV shows over the past 10 years, and some of them have their charms. But it\'s becoming clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of putting ol\' classics under the noses of eager madmen like Verhoeven (who does have his moments) is a very bad one. It is obvious that the money is the key issue here: the time and energy put into the script is nowhere near enough, and as a result, ""Hollow Man"" is seriously undermined with clichés, sappy characters, predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever.<br /><br />However, the one thing that actually impressed me, beside the special effects, was the swearing. When making this kind of film, modern producers are very keen on allowing kids to see them. Therefore, the language (and, sometimes, the violence and sex) is very toned down. When the whole world blows up, the good guys go ""Oh darn!"" and ""Oh my God"". ""Hollow Man"" gratefully discards that kind of hypocrisy and the characters are at liberty to say what comes most natural to them. I\'m not saying that the most natural response to something gone wrong is to swear - but it makes it more believable if SOMEONE actually swears. I think we can thank Verhoeven for that."'],
 ['831,"OK, so it owes Pulp Fiction, but in my opinion has it\'s own voice and identity mainly because of the music-video direction style, sketch-like narrative and great performances. Thomas Jane delivers great (the drug-dealer show-down is extraordinary), Aaron Eckhart likewise. James LeGros has a short and effervescent appearance-great humor-""they got the Wong house"". The Porzikova interrogation and rape scene is memorable, as is Mickey Rourke\'s cameo appearance-""take a peak"".<br /><br />Great Hollywood popcorn B-production with strong performances of A-level aspirants and renegades(Rourke).<br /><br />Well, take a peak, it\'s worth."'],
 ['832,"As far as I know the real guy that the main actor is playing saw his performance and said it was an outstanding portrayal, I\'d agree with him. This is a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy/man with a special body part helping him. Oscar and BAFTA winning, and Golden Globe nominated Daniel Day-Lewis plays Christy Browna crippled man with cerebral palsy who spends most of his life on the floor, in a wheelchair and carried by his family. He has a special left foot though, he can write with it, paint with it and hold things with it. He learns to speak later in the film, it is very good for a guy like him. Also starring Home Alone 2\'s Oscar winning, and Golden Globe nominated Brenda Fricker as Mrs. Brown and BAFTA winning Ray McAnally as Mr. Brown. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Director for Jim Sheridan, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and Best Picture, it was nominated the BAFTAs for Best Film, Best Make Up Artist and Best Adapted Screenplay. Daniel Day-Lewis was number 85 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, he was number 20 on The 50 Greatest British Actors, he was number 9 on Britain\'s Finest Actors, and he was number 15 on The World\'s Greatest Actor, and the film was number 28 on The 50 Greatest British Films. Outstanding!"'],
 ['833,"All I ever heard while being raised was equality of the sexes, and here we have a film that not only exemplifies imbalance, but continues through with a whole concept that one sex is better. All the while watching I was hoping for that redeeming quality to make the viewer feel as though there is hope for the future, and there wasn\'t. I\'ll admit to not finishing the film, I had to turn it off at the part where the old man whore told the genetic man Adam that it was ok to be a whore and get, and I quote, ""More tail than any man in the past time."" I know not finishing it is a bad review on myself, but it is the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested, and they failed. This film betrays all true female nature qualities of the mother figure and the need for balance. Instead it exemplifies what America ran by lesbian natzis would be like,and I\'m not against lesbians. Thank you Mr. Director! Someone please give me a redeeming quality... wait I have it! There\'s no sequel!"'],
 ['834,"I do regret that I have bought this series. I expected more action, more objective picture and more consistency. This is just a pure propaganda series, very dark, without any charm, or romanticism, it is just boredom itself. I find the actors work quite weak as well. O\'Donnell might seem charming as Robin (with Batman), but in this picture he lacks any charm. Probably while he becomes older, he is loosing his childish charm but does not gain any charm of a grown up. It comes as no surprise, that it was not shown in a lot of countries and is being sold in the UK for 40% of the recommended price and was not even released in the Netherlands."'],
 ['835,"The story has been told before. A deadly disease is spreading around... But the extra in this film is Peter Weller, his interpretation of Muller on the run is real. He is indeed a desperate person just going home to see his child. This person could be working next to you."'],
 ['836,"This film was very well advertised. I am an avid movie goer and have seen previews for this movie for months. While I was somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be, my friends thought it was going to be great and hyped me up about it. Then I went and saw it, I was sunk down in my seat almost asleep until I remembered that I had paid for this movie. I made myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood I was in, plus I wanted to get my monies worth out of the movie! I always go into a movie with an open mind, not trying to go into them with too many expectations, but this movie was not that funny. Now it wasnt the worst movie I\'ve ever seen, but it is definitely worth waiting for HBO. If you havent seen many previews for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedies you may enjoy it, but for true comedy fans Id say pass. Maybe even check out The Kings of Comedy again. Something told me to go see Meet the Parents instead!!!"'],
 ['837,"As far as I know this was my first experience with Icelandic movies. It\'s such a relief to see something else than your regular Hollywood motion picture. Too bad that movies like this one have a small chance of succeeding in the big world. I can only hope that people watch this by accident, by recommendation or other...<br /><br />Because it\'s really worth while. I left the cinema feeling really sad. I couldn\'t get the tragic destiny\'s of the characters out of my head. And it impressed me even more when I thought of the complexity of the film. Not only was it a tragic story, it had excellent comic reliefs and a very good soundtrack.<br /><br />If you have the opportunity, watch it! It\'s really thought provoking and made me ponder a lot.<br /><br />"'],
 ['838,"Very typical Almodóvar of the time and, in its own way, no less funny than many of his later works. And why is that? There is nothing to be provoked or shocked about, and I guess any such effect is more coincidental than intentional. No, the great humor stems from an underlying, almost surreal, absurdity that is woven into the scenery: The characters\' nearly complete lack of taboo. It\'s the same kind of \'comic suspense\' you find in his later works, though you\'ll find it in a more rough version here. He\'s building up for masterpieces to come, but is not yet there.<br /><br />The sole reviewer who commented on this movie before I did, claimed that it had to be a ""very select"" group of people who\'d find this movie hilarious. I do."'],
 ['839,"Once again, Doctor Who delivers the goods by the bucket load. It has humour (""You\'re just making it up as you go along!"" ""Yup, but I do it brilliantly""), action, monsters (in this case still more kick-ass cybermen), tragedy and scare tactics. In short, just what the doctor ordered (pun intended). The way that the emotions move from one to the other is done so well that there is no feeling of ""get on with it"". So, chalk up 3 out of the last 4 episodes that have made you laugh, then made you cry, and made you go ""eek"".<br /><br />In terms of character development, this is clearly the clincher for Noel Clarke\'s Mickey (and Ricky). Being one of the Doctor\'s companions, you know that he will do the right thing, and may even suspect the manner that he does it. However, it is still an emotional wrench when he confirms his future path.<br /><br />While ""The rise of the Cybermen"" had more of the sinister build up to terror, ""The Age of Steel"" is an all out blast. Like ""Alien"" compared to ""Aliens"" - both true classics, but in different ways. Can the series keep it up at this level? Let\'s hope so."'],
 ['840,"A Brother\'s Promise is a wonderful family film. This is a biography of Dan Jansen, a champion Olympic speed skater. The movie depicts this athlete\'s life from a young age through full adulthood. The love and support of the family members is evident throughout. How Dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing races is a life lesson for all of us. The commitment and determination of Dan\'s coach and his teammates, shows what it takes to make a real team. How Dan and his family deal with a devastating illness of a loved one is depicted without undo sentiment or sugarcoating. The faith of the family is shown in basic terms and is obviously a major part of their lives. This is a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age."'],
 ['841,"Well...now that I know where Rob Zombie stole the title for his ""House of 1,000 Corpses"" crapfest, I can now rest in peace. Nothing about the somnambulant performances or trite script would raise the dead in ""The House of Seven Corpses,"" but a groovie ghoulie comes up from his plot (ha!) anyway, to kill the bloody amateurs making a low-rent horror flick in his former abode! In Hell House (sorry, I don\'t remember the actual name of the residence), a bunch of mysterious, unexplained deaths took place long ago; some, like arthritic Lurch stand-in John Carradine (whose small role provides the film\'s only worthwhile moments), attribute it to the supernatural; bellowing film director John Ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum. The result comes across like ""Satan\'s School for Girls"" (catchy title; made-for-TV production values; intriguing plot) crossed with ""Children Shouldn\'t Play With Dead Things"" (low-rent movie about low-rent movie makers who wake the dead); trouble is, it\'s nowhere near as entertaining or fun. ""The House of Seven Corpses"" is dead at frame one, and spends the rest of its 89 minutes going through rigor mortis, dragging us along for every aching second..."'],
 ['842,"Director Sidney Lumet has made some masterpieces,like Network,Dog Day Afternoon or Serpico.But,he was not having too much luck on his most recent works.Gloria (1999) was pathetic and Find Me Guilty was an interesting,but failed experiment.Now,Lumet brings his best film in decades and,by my point of view,a true masterpiece:Before the Devil Knows You\'re Dead.I think this film is like a rebirth for Lumet.This movie has an excellent story which,deeply,has many layers.Also,I think the ending of the movie is perfect.The performances are brilliant.Philip Seymour Hoffman brings,as usual,a magnificent performance and he\'s,no doubt,one of the best actors of our days.Ethan Hawke is also an excellent actor but he\'s underrated by my point of view.His performance in here is great.The rest of the cast is also excellent(specially,the great Albert Finney) but these two actors bring monumental performances which were sadly ignored by the pathetic Oscars.The film has a good level of intensity,in part thanks to the performances and,in part,thanks to the brilliant screenplay.Before the Devil Knows You\'re Dead is a real masterpiece with perfect direction,a great screenplay and excellent performances.We need more movies like this."'],
 ['843,"I took my 14 year old to see this movie. We left after 15 or 20 minutes. It was absolutely awful! This movie should be rated R at the least. I am not that strict with movies but, this was just too much. It was a waste of money. I thought it would contain some comedy and I knew the comedy would probably be crude but, this was WAY beyond crude. I was sitting there watching and reading (a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie was what really got me) and I could not believe how crudely sexual it was. I could not believe that it would be OK for a 13 year old to read and see this content. I don\'t understand how the rating system works.??"'],
 ['844,"I loved this film. I thought it would be easy to watch, and easy to forget. I ran out after watching this to buy the DVD, obv not easily forgotten!<br /><br />The script is brilliant, and the casting couldn\'t be more perfect. Each character has their moment, and I laughed hard throughout this film, comedic timing was spot-on.<br /><br />"'],
 ['845,"It\'s not easy to find Judas Kiss on VHS (it\'s not available on DVD), but I wanted to add this rather obscure movie to my Alan Rickman movie collection.<br /><br />I can\'t understand how the talented Mr. Rickman gets into these mediocre films? Judas Kiss boasts several wonderful actors, an interesting plot and intriguing twists, but its strange visual wanderings and chopping editing ruined what might have been a great crime drama. Many scenes seem to be missing vital information to explain the character\'s actions: Why was our hero immediately suspicious of his bosses? Why did he mistrust the detective he replaced? There were times when I honestly couldn\'t tell if the director meant Judas Kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof. Why else would he toss in a topless/alien/lesbian porno scene in the first two minutes (that little surprise certainly made me scramble for the remote since my kids were playing nearby!)? Did he purposely instruct his two distinguished English actors (Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson) to use such awful New Orlean\'s accents? As an Alan Freak, I confess that I still thought Mr. Rickman was sexy: in a rumpled, weary, ""take-him-home-and-tuck-him-in"" sort of way.<br /><br />Judas Kiss isn\'t a great movie, but it does have some intriguing moments, but I don\'t recommend it unless you\'re trying to immerse yourself in Alan Rickman."'],
 ['846,"First of all, I should point out that I really enjoyed watching this documentary. Not only it had great music in it, but the shots and the editing were also wonderful. However, all these positive things about the film does not change the fact that it plays to the orientalist ""East meets West"" cliché that bothers many Turks like myself. Okay, this film tells the story of traditional and contemporary Turkish music in a very stylish manner which is a good thing, something that would show ignorant Europeans and Americans that this country is not just about murdering Armenians and Kurds. However, the problematic of the film is that it looks at what it defines as ""east"" from the eyes of the ""west"". I mean, like one jazz musician says in the film, maybe there is no east and west, maybe it is just a myth, a lie created by the ruling leaders of ""western"" countries in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue ruling the world and ""keep the cash flowing""? <br /><br />Why don\'t you think about that?"'],
 ['847,"STMD! is not a terrible movie, but it IS quite forgettable. The lighting is intentionally poor in many scenes and unintentionally poor in all the rest, so you are likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eye-strain. Special effects are imaginative, but obvious. The gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flicks is there, of course, along with the archetypical teenagers, but the whole movie just doesn\'t gel. What was needed was some snappier dialogue and more tongue-in-cheek humor.<br /><br />I can\'t really recommend that you use your time watching this movie. I often give a nod to a movie based on just a scene or two that demonstrates imagination or humor, but these are sadly lacking in this film."'],
 ['848,"First off, I have no idea how this movie made it to the big screen. Its not even the low budget SCI-Fi channel movie, its just awful. Me and my friend who love action movies, Independence day, Jurassic Park, LotR, etc. went to see this movie expecting this movie to me a Transformers with dragons, mindless entertainment. All we got was a mindless hour and a half. The CG was not as bad as I was expecting, but the plot is so awful along with the acting, it made up for it. Its basically a Chinese legged of dragons returning every 500 years...Sounds like a good remake of Rain of Fire? No, The plot tries to be deeper than it should be leaving not only plot holes, but with magic, and a very small actual war between dragons(rather big snakes) it just gets ridiculous. The director attempted to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail. Me and my friend laughed through the whole thing(along with all 5 of the audience), and cant believed we spent money on this. The short trailer on TV makes up for most of the action while crap makes up the rest. I\'ve seen a lot of B movies like Reptilian, The Cave, Spider, and others, but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour, watch this.<br /><br />Story: 1/10 CG: 5/10 Acting:3/10<br /><br />I don\'t drink...but it would have helped before watching this movie"'],
 ['849,"i am not exactly how sure the accuracy is with this movie, but i can tell you that i was thoroughly entertained by this movie. the character of gust,played perfectly by Phillip Seymour Hoffman, was one of the most unique, yet entertaining characters in recent memory. this movie informed,yet managed to avoid preaching to the audience. it made me laugh, made me sad, made me feel alive, and glad to be spending the time to watch the movie. it takes no time to understand what is going on, and takes you on a roller coaster ride of genuine, human emotion. i thought i knew my history, apparently i didn\'t know it at all! i give this move 9 out of 10, and recommend it for all adults, and young adults, and the young at heart, just not the young. but as soon as they are allowed to see ""r"" rated movies, make it a priority."'],
 ['850,"I must have seen this a dozen times over the years. I was about fifteen when I first saw it in B & W on the local PBS station.<br /><br />I bought a DVD set for the children to see, and am making them watch it. They don\'t teach history in School, and this explains the most critical event of the 20th Century. It expands their critical thinking.<br /><br />Impartially, with the participants on all sides explaining in their own words what they did and why, it details what lead up to the war and the actual war.<br /><br />Buy it for your children, along with Alistair Cooke\'s America. Watch it with them, and make them understand. You\'ll be so glad you did."'],
 ['851,"Steven Seagal\'s films of late have not exactly been good, but this is by far the worst since The Patriot. The plot makes no sense what so ever; it is never clear in what the relationships between the characters are, who works for who or who is double crossing who. The film is completely disjointed, each scene seems to confuse the story further rather than carry it forward. Even the action sequences are uninspired and hard to follow. Most of the blame must lie at the director\'s feet for not even understanding the basics of film making, but Seagal does not get off lightly, as one of the producers of this film, he must also share the blame. Oh, and I haven\'t even mentioned how awful the acting is, even by Seagal standards. Even as straight to video fodder, this is not worth a view even for Seagal fans. Give it a wide berth!"'],
 ['852,"and I for one think that is a good thing. I\'ve just never been a Rosalind Russell fan although the original was my favorite RR movie. But I love Bette and was thrilled to hear she was making this.<br /><br />As for the rest of the production, I think it was slightly less than the original movie. One of my favorite minor characters in the original was Mazeppa with her scratchy fingernails-on-the-blackboard voice belting out ""HEY! It takes a lot more than no talent to be a strippah!"" and although I missed it, I was glad to see the producers had the guts not to do a carbon copy.<br /><br />I also liked the fact there are large portions of this movie which were filmed as if you are looking at a stage, it gives a feeling that you are in the theatre, not just at the movies.<br /><br />I think the other thing I liked about this production was that there seemed to be slightly less repetition of the song ""Let me entertain you"", which becomes completely annoying after about the 5th time you hear it."'],
 ['853,"So real and surreal, all in one. I remember feeling like Tessa. Heck, I remember being Tessa. This was a beautiful vignette of a relationship ending. I especially liked the protesters tangent. It is nice to see symbolism in a movie without being smacked over the head with it. If you get the chance to see this, take it. It is well worth the 30 minutes."'],
 ['854,"Thank God I watched this at a friend\'s place and did not pay for it. The plot is horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a TV show. If you have any knowledge of computers or electronics, watch out. You will feel feel like the movie is an insult to your intelligence. <br /><br />Also, actress turned Much Music VJ Amanda Walsh displays the worst acting I have ever seen, excluding porn. She\'s lucky that Matt Lanter is actually decent. He\'s the one that carries the movie. <br /><br />I hate that I wasted nearly two hours of my life watching this movie! It\'s a shame that they got to call it a sequel, because I was a fan of the original, which was actually pretty good."'],
 ['855,"A friend lent me this DVD, which he got from the director at a festival, I think. I went in warned that some of the technical aspects of the movie were a bit shaky and that the writing was good but not great. So maybe that colored my judgment but I have to admit that I liked this movie.<br /><br />The standouts where the actors. Youssef Kerkor was really good as Ernie, the main character, kind of pathetic in a likable way. Adam Jones (who also directed) and Justin Lane were excellent as the roommates who drive Ernie mad. The Bill character (Justin Lane), who spends a lot of the film dressed like a panda, was by far my favorite; he seemed the least one-dimensional, and reminded me of an old college roommate so much I called the guy after watching the DVD. Really kind of lovable, and very funny. Some of the other acting was good, some was so-so, but none of it was bad. I also really liked the vigilante duo. Ridiculous and funny.<br /><br />I\'m giving this one high marks, even though it has some issues, because you can tell when you watch it that these people cared, and decided to make their movie their way. Well done to Adam Jones and crew."'],
 ['856,"Shawshank, Godfather, Pulp Fiction... all good films. Great films. But nothing, and I mean nothing lives up to the greatest Christmas movie of all, Santa Claus.<br /><br />The film is so great and has so many messages, I cried while watching it. Seriously, this is one of those movies you need to watch 10 times. When we see Pitch get told he will have to eat ice cream, we see the sadness in his eyes, and we feel the deep sorrow, and then we wonder... what is so bad about this ice cream? Is it implying that we as humans are treating ice cream as good when all it does is make us evil? Think movie makes you think.<br /><br />This movie has the best rendition of Santa Claus ever. Unlike other Santas, he is a normal person. We see him imprisoning children and spying on kids dreams, and we wonder; is the Santa we believe in really that good? Also, this Santa actually mentions Christ, the whole meaning behind Christmas.<br /><br />You owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece. We should just stop making movies and air nothing but this epic 24/7. Whether it\'s Christmas or not, this movie gets a 500/10. Whoever says this movie is bad is an ignorant fool."'],
 ["857,I really cant think of anything good to say about this film...not a single thing. The script is a nightmare.. the writer blurs the line between chemical and biological traits and doesnt seem to understand the difference. You'd think they would at least get a technical advisor. The performances were bad by most of the cast... although I dont really blame them.. the material really stinks. The editing was equally bad.. I'll just stop now.. its all bad 2/10"],
 ['858,"Cinema\'s greatest period started in post-War Europe with Italy\'s Neo-Realist movement. During the next 2 or 3 decades that followed, France\'s New Wavers caught everyone\'s attention, and there was always Bergman up there on his desolate Scandinavian island somewhere, making bitter masterpieces. But in 1971, Luchino Visconti brought the art-form to full circle, geographically speaking, with his miraculous work *Death in Venice*, which might as well be called *The Death of Europoean Cinema*. After the Sixties wound down, so did the great European filmmakers, who, with some exceptions, generally grew exhausted and passed the torch to a new American generation of Movie Brats (Coppola, Scorsese, & Co.). This movie absolutely feels like a grand summing-up, not just of Visconti\'s particular obsessions, but of the general attempt of European filmmakers to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movies. And rest assured, you will find no sterner task-master than the Visconti revealed here. He\'s not playing to the crowd, folks: either you get behind him and follow along, or you get left behind. The pacing is a challenge: slow, but never without emotional weight. ""Incidents"" are few and far between, but each seems loaded with symbolic significance in a sturm-und-drang cosmos.<br /><br />We will probably never be in such rarefied company again, in terms of the movies: one of the century\'s great writers who inspired the tale (Thomas Mann), one of the greatest filmmakers directing it (Visconti), one of the greatest actors in the lead role (Dirk Bogarde), and swelling almost ceaselessly in the background, Gustav Mahler\'s 5th Symphony. Taking full advantage of Mahler\'s ability to inspire Romanticism in even the most cynical breast, Visconti changes the main character, Aschenbach, into a decrepit composer from his original persona as a writer, even making Bogarde up to LOOK like Mahler (geeky mustache, specs, shaggy hair, duck-like walk). Bogarde, by the way, delivers what is probably greatest performance of an actor in the history of movies: it\'s a largely silent performance, and the actor has to deliver reams of meaning in a gesture or a glance -- a difficult trick without mugging like Chaplin or merely acting like an animated corpse.<br /><br />Cinema just doesn\'t get better than this. I\'ll ignore the complaints from the Ritalin-addicts out there who say that it\'s too slow, but even the more legitimate gripe concerning some of Aschenbach\'s flashbacks with that antagonistic friend of his is misplaced. The flashbacks fit neatly within the movie\'s thematic concerns (i.e., which is the better path to aesthetic perfection: passion or discipline?), and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruptions serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewers. (Of course, some viewers will sleep through this movie, anyway.) A nonstop stream of Mahler and beautiful, dying Venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture; but this movie is actually about something. And what it\'s mostly about is suffering: Romantic (capital R) suffering, in particular. As a suffering Romantic himself, Visconti knew whereof he spoke.<br /><br />[SPOILER . . . I guess] If for nothing else, see *Death in Venice* for its portentous opening credits . . . and for its unforgettable ending, with Bogarde\'s jet-black hair-dye dripping off of his sweaty, dying head and onto his chalk-white face. Meanwhile, off in the distance, young Tadzio, the object of Bogarde\'s dying desire, stands in the ocean and points toward the horizon like a Michelangelo sculpture. The climatic sequence sums up with agonizing economy everything that the movie is about: love, lust, beauty, loss, the ending of a life set against the beginning of another life, and cold death in the midst of warm, sunny beauty. *Death in Venice* is a miraculous work of art. <br /><br />[DVD tip: as with the simultaneously released Visconti masterpiece *The Damned*, I recommend that you turn the English subtitles ON while watching this movie. It\'s ostensibly in English, but the DVD\'s sound seems muddy and there\'s a lot of Italian spoken during the film, anyway.] <br /><br />"'],
 ['859,"This is a stereotype plot. A young fighter tries to enter a competition when he is not ready and is not selected to represent his fighting school. This leads to separation from the fighting school and naturally he finds a strange new master to teach him to fight.<br /><br />The fights are not of high standards. They are way too ""simple"" in a way that 1+1 is simple to every adult. The fighter has trained and enters the ring, but does not do what he trained and gets an ass kicking. The coach yells do this and do that with no success. And after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly does what he is told and hits his opponent once. This results in a turning point in the fight, although our hero has been taking a beating of his life up until that point. Think about the Rocky movies and you\'ll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really takes. The fights are also shot poorly.<br /><br />There final thing that screws this film up is the stupid romance. Cheesy music and awkward moments are not what I call entertainment.<br /><br />These guys really could have made some quality entertainment, but the director wasn\'t up to the task. Or the other crew in my opinion. Maybe they had a small budget, I don\'t know, but what matters in the end is that this movie is bad and deserves the rating of 3 out of 10."'],
 ['860,"This production was quite a surprise for me. I absolutely love obscure early 30s movies, but I wasn\'t prepared for the last 25 minutes of this story. If, by any chance, you\'re not convinced in the first half, hang in there for the finale. Of course, you must look at the blatant racism as being purely topical. A fascinating viewing experience, but I think THE CAT\'S PAW is not available on video/DVD yet. Watch your PBS listings!"'],
 ['861,"It isn\'t TOO bad, but ultimately it lacks the quality that the Australian series has.<br /><br />The jokes are few and far between, the actors are attractive (they shouldn\'t be), the film makers think far too much about the cinematography (it\'s supposed to look like a home video) and it\'s just like a serious version of Kath and Kim... it\'s stupid.<br /><br />It\'s too normal to be Kath and Kim. Kath and Kim are supposed to be two curvy, middle-aged women who think they are hot and wear ridiculous clothes. There are no ""Look at me Kimmy!"" jokes. The fat friend of Kim is not fat at all and she\'s not even slightly stupid. She\'s a stereotypical black/Latino chick.<br /><br />It\'s just not as stupid or funny as the Australian series. It doesn\'t compare. Nothing is the same. I admit, this show is pretty funny at times, but it is NOT anything like the Aussie series. I was looking forward to an American take on a bogan family. They failed. It\'s supposed to be REALLY stupid and hilarious, but the actors don\'t act stupid! To me, this is just a typical American TV show. It\'s a let down if you want it to be anything like the Aussie show.<br /><br />2 Stars because it is an OKAY show, just nothing like what it should be."'],
 ['862,"From the decrepit ranks of the already over-saturated \'Hillybilly Horror\' sub-genre comes this woeful tale of a vacationing family terrorized by inbred rednecks. Sound familiar? Well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre. There is absolutely new here. The film seems content to recycle all thee old worn out clichés (deformed hicks, a peaceful family turned gun-toting killers when push comes to show, the rebellious daughter, the one \'freak\' who\'s good at heart, etcetera...), but does even that half-heartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time. This is forgettable dreck, but humorously enough lead J.D. Hart once starred in a movie called ""Films that Suck"" earlier in his career, quite an ironic omen indeed.<br /><br />My Grade: D-"'],
 ['863,"As a huge baseball fan, my scrutiny of this film is how realistic it appears. Dennis Quaid had all of the right moves and stances of a major league pitcher. It is a fantastic true story told with just a little too much ""Disney"" for my taste."'],
 ['864,"This film takes you on one family\'s impossible journey, and makes you feel every step of their odyssey. Beautifully acted and photographed, heartbreakingly real. Its last line, with its wistful hope, is one of the more powerful in memory."'],
 ['865,"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! I can not stand Ben stiller anymore. How this man is allowed to still make movies is beyond me. I can\'t understand how this happens if I performed at work the way he acts in a movie I\'d get fired and I own the company.....I would have to fire myself. GOD! This movie was just a plain, steaming, stinking pile of POO, that needs to be vapoorized if that were possible. Something else I have to say the guideline about 10 lines of text in a comment is idiotic. What is wrong with just saying a few things about a movie? I will never understand why sites will require a short novel written when sometimes a brief comment is all that is necessary."'],
 ['866,"This show is great for many reasons..The father and mother can communicate with their kids this day in age. Its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family. I watched this one time and became hooked.It so great to see a black family on TV worth watching. This show left too soon but on its way out it dealt with pregnancy, sexy, drugs, bad dates,death etc .The best thing about the show was that it dealt with it in a real humorous sort of way. Great show for the family ..I cant tell you how many times I have sat up watched this show late at night sometimes and laughed my head off. Great pg 13 rated show.I loved everybit of this show."'],
 ['867,"This film is where the Batman franchise ought to have stopped. Though I will concede that the ideas behind ""Batman Forever"" were excellent and could have been easily realised by a competent director, as it turned out this was not to be the case.<br /><br />Apparently Warner Brothers executives were disappointed with how dark this second Batman film from Tim Burton turned out. Apart from the idiocy of expecting anything else from Burton, and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the Sixties TV series, I fail to understand how ""Batman Returns"" can be considered at all disappointing.<br /><br />True, it is not quite the equal of the first film - though it repairs all the minor deficiencies of style found in ""Batman,"" a weaker script that splits the antagonism between not just two but three characters invites unflattering comparisons to the masterful pairing of Keaton and Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the first film. Yet for all this it remains a gorgeously dark film, true to the way the Batman was always meant to be, and highly satisfying.<br /><br />Michael Keaton returns as the Batman and his alter ego Bruce Wayne, tangling with nouveau riche tycoon Max Schreck (Christopher Walken, named in honour of the 1920s German silent actor), his partner-in-crime Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin (Danny DeVito in brilliant makeup reminiscent of Laurence Olivier\'s ""Richard III""), and Selina Kyle, the Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), whom Wayne romances both as himself and as the Batman. The four principals turn in excellent performances, especially Walken and DeVito, while together Keaton and Pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities.<br /><br />There are some intriguing concepts in this film. About the only weakness I can really point out is a certain limpness to the script in some places, which I think is due mostly to the way this film is a four-cornered fight. There simply isn\'t enough time to properly explore what\'s going on.<br /><br />Nevertheless, this is a damn good film. I highly recommend watching this in conjunction with the first, and then weeping for how good the series could have been had it continued under Burton and Keaton."'],
 ['868,"The Quick and the Undead is, finally, the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void. It is, essentially, one gigantic plot hole.<br /><br />Aside from that, the acting was quite bad, character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn\'t a single character worth hanging our hat on. The most interesting cast member (who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist) got snuffed halfway through the proceedings.<br /><br />What the Quick and the Undead DOES serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color-timing. It looked excellent, when you take into account budget considerations.<br /><br />Unfortunately, it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns (most notably The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie... ""you know, they have movies where characters do THIS! Does it fit here? No, but who cares! They do it in other movies so I should do it here!"" <br /><br />Maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists (first-year film-schoolers). Otherwise, a must-miss."'],
 ['869,"I was stunned by this film. Afterwards, I didn\'t even want to see any films for a long time- any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison.<br /><br />For many, it may be the worst of Antonioni- very slow, without an engaging conventional story line, microscopic examinations of human emotions and interactions- and the worst of Wenders- verbose, confused transcendentalism. It is composed of short distinct episodes linked by Wenders\' typical meandering hero\'s stream of consciousness, so it doesn\'t produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema.<br /><br />But for fans, the worst is the best and the disjointed story line is sketching a single poetic image that stretches across the film. Wenders and Antonioni create a discourse between their segments that seeks out the heart of things.<br /><br />"'],
 ['870,"Am I the only person who thinks that the entire Forensics and Scenes Of Crime community in the USA must detest this almighty slap in their faces. A rookie cop is first to a crime scene where her back up is so slow to respond that she has time to send the kid who found the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera. By the time he returns (still no senior cops, SOCOs or other assistance for the lovely Jolie - this is New York isn\'t it??) it has started raining and she gets to work photographing the evidence, only after she\'d stood in front of an Amtrak to stop it disturbing the scene.<br /><br />I want to know the name of that camera as the photographs were so incredibly detailed that no amount of zooming in distorted the images!! The horror continues:- not in the film itself (pretty ordinary I\'m afraid) but in the Lincoln Rhyme character as played by Mr Washington. This man is a highly dedicated Forensic Crime Scene Examiner with years of experience who, instead of the highly trained but invisible local Crime Scene Examiners, entrusts the work to an untrained cop, a rookie cop, who proceeds to find the very obviously placed clues and move them before photographing them thus contaminating every item and making DNA profiling well nigh impossible. Now that was a bright idea eh? I know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film is intelligent must have entirely disengaged their ability to think in order to find this film believable.<br /><br />I have given this film 4/10 for the superb acting of Denzel Washington and for Miss Jolie\'s lips which are the only items requiring my disbelief to be suspended!"'],
 ['871,"The one of the most remarkable sci-fi movies of the millennium. Not only a movie but an incredible future vision, this movie establishes a new standard of s/f movies. hail and kill!"'],
 ['872,"This is the second Hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second Hitchcock film I\'ve seen in full, the first was Rope, which I really enjoyed. With Saboteur Hitchcock was more room to roam free, whereas Rope took place all in one room. I didn\'t enjoy this one as much as Rope but that\'s not saying this is a bad film, it just seems like an average flick that could have been something more.<br /><br />It seems like a film Hitchcock would make as a break in between his more serious ones. As a thriller, I feel it fails to really get my on the edge of my seat or engaged with the lead character who is running around the States. The climax of the film feels like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension. The sound design is almost non existent. You can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them, but the important things are missing, the stitches ripping apart from the sleeve, the need of music to amp of the tension, all missing. Intentional no doubt, yet it lacks the emotional punch one would want from such a scene. Then it ends abruptly leaving you empty inside.<br /><br />The film doesn\'t feel like it should either, they are almost globe trotting from place to place, yet it feels more confined. The script itself is very average and seems to go about the more obtuse ways to get the plot moving.<br /><br />The performances are there, but nothing amazing. Everyone plays their parts to scripted words on the page. The relationship between the two leads is weak and needed more work. The one stand out is Otto Kruger, who has that rich, ego, evil persona down pat.<br /><br />In the end, I wanted more from this one. I understand it\'s one of Hitchcock\'s least exciting films, but I did have a good time watching it. I can recommend it, just not enthusiastically."'],
 ['873,"It is always difficult to bring a 450 pages book down to a three hours film. I read the book before, and I found the BBC production dealing with this difficulty in the best way possible. The qualities of the book haven\'t been lost: the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in London in the 1860s, the cold and obscene cruelty in which Maud is brought up, the characterization of different social groups by different ways of speaking, the unexpected and surprising twists of the story, the way the film makes the spectators look different at the same scenes when they are told first from Sue\'s point of view then from Maud\'s one. The main actors do very good, and especially the growing love between the two women is convincingly developed, with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgiving all the evil they were ready to do and did to each other, because they still love each other.<br /><br />For each of her books the author, Sarah Waters, has thoroughly investigated what life was like in British 19th century. While in Tipping the Velvet it was the world of the vaudeville theaters and the beginning of social movements, in Affinity the dreadful reality of women penitentiaries and the fashionable evocation of spirits, in Fingersmith she depicts the public ceremony of hanging people in London and the inhuman treatment of persons supposed or declared disturbed in asylums based on the reading of sources and scientific research. This is very well transferred to the film so that the corresponding scenes show a high grade of historic truth. I highly recommend this film production because it offers three hours of colorful Victorian atmosphere, vivid emotions, and suspense."'],
 ['874,"This is one of my all time favorite cheap, corny, vampire B movies. <br /><br />Calvin Klein underwear model...oh, I mean, Stefan the Good Vampire, returns to Transylvania to ascend the throne of Vampiric Royalty, but Manicure-impaired and eternally drooling half brother Radu has other plans. Having killed their father the Vampire King, Radu now sets his sights on Stefan, Stefan\'s new mortal girlfriend Michelle and her two pretty friends, and the all-powerful Bloodstone.<br /><br />Okay, the scenery is beautiful, and it should be as it was shot on location in Transyl-fricken-vania for gosh sakes. The actresses are no great shakes and Stefan the Heroic Vampire is about as charming as a refrigerated fireplace poker, but who cares? There\'s only one reason to watch this movie, and his name is RADU! He\'s a physical homage to Nosferatu and he has the best lines in the movie, all spoken in the raspy voice of a man who smokes ten packs of cigarettes a day. The cemetery festival scene is one of the best scenes in the film, as Radu slowly approaches the camera and reveals his grinning, slobbering face for the world to see. I found myself cheering him on as he collected victims and taunted his perfect brother. But maybe I\'m just a sicko. Questionable taste in men aside, I highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiasts. It\'s original, it\'s fun, and Radu is one of the best vampires I\'ve seen in a long time...much more fun than the stiff, tragic, whining Undead brats that endlessly grace the horror screens these days. Radu enjoys his sadism and never apologizes. He\'s what a vampire should be."'],
 ['875,"Let me first off say that I am a believer of ghosts, and I do indeed know they exist. I have had enough experiences with them to know they are there.<br /><br />What I hate is the people who bring the Bible and Religion into all of this. People forget there is more than one ""Bible"", thousands of religions and beliefs, and different ways to interpret what is said in the Bible. Not everyone believes in God, and not everyone believes in stereo-typical religion. <br /><br />Religion does not make everything fact, one of the things I should mention in the Bible that many do not know is that even the most rampant Bible thumper is breaking the very rules written within....you are supposed to never wear more than one fabric at one time, slavery is OK, and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstances. None of this, ""Oh that was the Old testament, and now we have the New Testament."" If the Bible is the word of God, and cannot be changed..there should be no changes, or versions. Religion is full of misinterpretations, mixed facts, and people who so blindly follow it that there, ""Is no other way."" The excuses these said blind followers use are either pathetic, or they themselves cannot explain the discrepancies properly, and instead use excuses handed down to them from either their Pastor or teacher. <br /><br />But anyhow, onto the review. I am a decent fan of ""Ghost Hunters"" and when I heard this show was coming soon, I was pretty excited and thought it had some potential. As much as I like watching ""Ghost Hunters"", I do not like some of their members, and I do not like the way they can dismiss a place as being haunted, yet cannot explain anything that is going on. Just because your investigation equipment does not pick it up, does not mean the camera filming the show did not. I am glad they are skeptical, but it\'s like they do not understand that just because you did not get anything on your recorder and film does not make the place haunted or not. If Ghosts were that easy to capture, it would be known as a fact, not a belief. It\'s more of a ""right place at the right time"" kind of thing, as well as if there is something there, what makes you think it\'s going to ""perform"" for you? This show is kind of silly. It\'s usually boring, and there is lots of talk, lots of psychics, yet hardly anything happens. The main guy\'s filtered narration is usually either boring to listen to, or is basically not needed.<br /><br />Also, the reliance on psychics is too abundant, as I believe VERY few of them are actually gifted. Silvia Brown is one I definitely believe in, but most are sometimes hard to believe.<br /><br />I really wanted to like this show, but of the few I have seen I have yet to be terribly impressed."'],
 ['876,"For a long time, \'The Menagerie\' was my favorite \'Star Trek\' episode though in recent years it has been eclipsed by \'City on the Edge of Forever.\' What I used to prefer about \'Menagerie\' was that it\'s more hard-core Star Trek with this fascinating back-story to the then-current Trek storyline. I still think it\'s fairly ingenious the way Gene Roddenberry incorporated the original pilot into a two-part episode. Though the \'new\' part of the story is largely an excuse for Kirk and a few others (and us) to watch the pilot, the idea of Spock being court-martialed is a clever one. You can poke holes in the plot if you want. For instance, given the Talosians\' mind-control abilities and Captain Pike\'s condition, why is it even necessary to physically bring Pike back to their planet? And there are other confusing questions about Pike and Commodore Mendez... best to not think too hard about the details and just enjoy ST\'s only two-parter."'],
 ['877,"Coen Brothers-wannabe from writer-director Paul Chart relies far too much on ideas lifted from other (better) movies, yet does manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keeps one watching. Robert Forster cuts loose as never before playing a psychopathic psychiatrist (ha ha) who goes on a killing spree in the desert. The film is unusual, but in its attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience, it becomes alienating and off-putting (with a role for Amanda Plummer that is downright humiliating). An admittedly bravura finale, many quirky bits of business--and Forster looking great in the nude--make this a curiosity item, nothing more. Veteran movie-director Irvin Kershner produced, and maybe should directed as well (could Paul Chart be a pseudonym?). *1/2 from ****"'],
 ['878,"When it was released this film caused a sensation. I watched it and was thrilled. Beautiful, usually young, naked women filmed in the classy style we knew so well from director Hamiltons photography. His photographs never become porn and the same is true for this movie. Today I saw it again and was bitterly disappointed. The soft core in extremely slow paced scenes, all filmed with some Vaseline on the lenses, actually is all there is. There is no real story, the characters remain beautiful and beautifully filmed bodies, but they are not real creatures with a soul. Actually nothing happens. It is like Hamilton is photographing using moving pictures rather than stills. And this gets so boring after a while. I even didn\'t watch the whole thing the second time, for I fell vast asleep. That is all that remains of this masterpiece: it is a very good sleeping pill. And you will never become addicted to it!<br /><br />Back then 7 out of 10, now 3 out of 10"'],
 ['879,"Largely forgettable tale in which mercenary Kerman & employer Agren travel into the jungle in search of Agren\'s missing sister.<br /><br />Despite its connection to the cannibal movie family, this film is more of an extreme version of Rene Cardona\'s ""Guyana - Crime of the Century"". Lenzi clearly aims to exploit the (at that time) topical Jonestown massacre, by depicting a rogue, self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania (played with ruthless intensity by Ivan Rassimov) leading his motley crew flock into self inflicted oblivion. With sister in toe, Kerman & Agren attempt to stop the rot, but after several failed coups, they end up fleeing into the ""Green Inferno"", only to run afoul the locals and their notorious appetites.<br /><br />One in a string of excessive gore fests that emerged in the late seventies/early eighties, where every new addition seemed to engage in a one-upmanship contest with its predecessor, by attempting to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever brought to motion pictures. This inferior instalment employs all the motifs and gimmicks of the others, but with much less success.<br /><br />Was it the so called ""Amazonian natives"" who looked like they were Bollywood rejects (this film was made on location in Sri Lanka), or the inept ""decapitation"" and ""castration"" scenes that seriously diminished the authenticity that was apparent in ""Cannibal Holocaust""? You can decide. Without spoiling the conclusion, it appeared as though Lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive ending, where all loose ends are resolved. Most unsatisfying.<br /><br />As with the others, where the extent of the graphic depictions of violence toward humans is limited (thankfully), the filmmakers have spared no extreme in inflicting the worst possible cruelty on hapless animals in their pursuit of the most sadistic shocks. Unfortunately, the only thing shocking about this film is that it rates a mention among others of the ilk, that deal with the subject matter more convincingly.<br /><br />If there are any redeemable features at all, Kerman is an affable if somewhat one-dimensional leading man, and his bevy of scantily clad co-stars (Agren, Lai and Senatore) provide some visual respite from the relentless slayings."'],
 ['880,"Get Smart should be titled Get Stupid. There is not one funny line or gag in the entire film. This film is so bad it makes the Austin Powers films look Shakespearean. A few more films like this and Steve Carell can kiss his career goodbye. As for Anne Hathaway, what is she doing in this film? She\'s a good actress but is just plain terrible.<br /><br />The writing is pathetically lame. There is not one funny, clever, or witty line. There is not one good sight gag.<br /><br />The directing is terrible. Comedy relies on timing. Someone should tell the director that. Every line that is supposed to be funny (and isn\'t) is delivered with absolutely the worst sense of comic timing I\'ve ever seen.<br /><br />0 stars"'],
 ['881,"Herculis Puaro is, in general, a well established \'hero\' we know well from books and movies. This movie or this story don\'t work and i felt its not Agatha\'s mistake. The cast isn\'t good, the actors are over exaggerating and making foolish gestures, the costumes are so clean and tidy that everything (even Arab clothes) look fake and for the serious spectator who thinks twice this movie can be seen as a comedy instead of mystery drama. The actor playing Herculis Puaro is doing a nice job but nothing fantastic. The scenes are, as said before, perfect and looking fake. The story is not very enchanting although a mystery of murder but who cares about the death of a loony and vicious blond 45+ woman in the iraqi desert?! The \'victim\' is not likable."'],
 ['882,How can so many blundering decisions can be made. All that waste of resources!Its an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse.A loose interpretation? Are you kidding! it diminishes my regard for Voight and Coburn.I hope they were paid well.'],
 ['883,"This was by far the worst movie I\'ve ever seen. And thats compared to Alexander, Fortress 2 and The new world.<br /><br />I should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation as it was a truly traumatic experience. For the first ten minutes i was changing the zoom on my widescreen TV because the actors seemed to be out of screen. I didn\'t think it was possible to make such a bad film in this day and age, i was wrong. While typing this message, I\'ve thought of a good reason to buy this movie. A joke present at Xmas. I\'m blaming the Mrs for this one as she picked it, thanks babe.<br /><br />Be warned.......A true shocker all round!!!!!!"'],
 ['884,"If you\'ve read Mother Night and enjoyed it so much (as I did) that you just have to see the movie, understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of Vonngut\'s writing - that beyond his story lies Vonnegut himself, and that you can\'t put a human mind on the screen. His whit and humor just cannot be transcribed by a screenplay or even the best acting performance. I believe that this movie exceeds in asking the key questions that Vonnegut poses in his book, but those frequent cynical moments of satire found on the page are not found on the screen. Does this mean that the movie misses the mark? Of course not. In my opinion, the movie succeeds because it does not try to recreate the experience of reading the book (this is not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page). It succeeds because it takes the fundamental elements of a story created by one of America\'s true artistic treasures and presents it in a a framework without pretense. I\'ve seen other movie versions of Vonnegut books where the director obviously tries to channel Vonnegut\'s genius and loses grip on his own craft. I would not place this movie as one of the best I\'ve seen, but it stands on its own legs as one well worth watching. By taking Vonnegut\'s ""voice"" out of the movie\'s narration or trying to insert it however it can, Mother Night tells his story brilliantly, and preserves the story\'s fundamental lessons without confusion, distraction, or disappointment."'],
 ['885,"This is one of the worst movies, I\'ve ever seen. Not only, that it is a comedy, which isn\'t funny, but it\'s also very badly made with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screens and other effects.<br /><br />The two ""heroes"" with their fantasy language are just annoying and it confused me quite a lot, that they touched each others genitals all the time. But the worst of all that nonsense is the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal, by referring to German history and to show sensitive aspects of the ""heroes"", which finds its climax in showing how Erkan and Stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their ""joyful"" lifestyle (!). But I hadn\'t expect anything better by director Michael ""Bully"" Herbig, who also made two not funny TV-shows, a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny SF-comedy movie. But Erkan and Stefan had been- just a little- better in some of their stand-up programs. For me the only good thing about the movie is Alexandra Neldel, who is very beautiful to me."'],
 ['886,"I sat through this on TV hoping because of the names in it that it would be worth the time...but dear Gussie, whoever thought this script was worth producing? The basic idea is excellent but the execution is appallingly bad, with a constantly illogical sequence of scenes, an ending that is almost laughably melodramatic and poor Rock Hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sagging face. Looks like a bad B movie from the 40\'s..."'],
 ['887,"A number of contributors have mentioned the age difference between Stewart and Novak. She was 25 and he was 50 when this movie was released. I think that the difference didn\'t matter for a suspense drama like Vertigo, but it does matter for a romantic comedy. We can easily understand, that is, why his character would be attracted to hers, but it\'s less clear why hers would be attracted to his.<br /><br />Still, the movie works as a light romantic fantasy. The scene where she stares at him across the cat\'s head, with her dark painted-on eyebrows flaring and the sounds of her humming and the cat purring, is true magic. It\'s a little jarring, therefore, when the scene shifts to the top of the Flatiron Building, and we see the age difference very sharply. As he embraces her, she reaches up to run her fingers through his hair, but stops that motion and just brushes her fingertips lightly against his toupee."'],
 ['888,"Family problems abound in real life and that is what this movie is about. Love can hold the members together through out the ordeals and trials and that is what this movie is about. One man, Daddy, has the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity. The kids grow up,one all be it, in the hard way, to realize that no matter how old they or a parent is, the parent still loves their children and are willing to provide them a cushion when they fall. ALL the actors portraying their characters did outstanding performances. Yes, I shed a tear along the way knowing I had had similar experiences both as a young adult and later as a parent. This true to life is one which every young adult, and parent, would do well to see, although some will not realize it until they too are parents. A must see for those who care about their families."'],
 ['889,"The only conceivable flaw of this film is it\'s title!! Please stop comparing it to the first! I did in my previous review only to separate it from the first. If you haven\'t seen the movie and are curious, TOTALLY forget about the first and invent a different name for this. There is nothing alike and has a mood all its own. This is a great exponent of screwy mid-80s comedy. I seriously doubt such big names in this cast did the movie because they were broke or even wanted to remake the first. Anybody who ever wanted to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus. I maintain, the only reason this is in the IMDB bottom 100 is because of its title. I usually hate movies like these (i.e. adam sandler, will farrell, farrelly bros....), but this movie just keeps me laughing hysterically. I dunno, maybe it\'s like a bad relationship I can\'t get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure. Either way, this is the single most underrated movie of the 80s behind \'The Stunt Man.\'<br /><br />Robert Stack- WE LOVE YOU!!! (1919-2003)"'],
 ['890,"Salva and his pal Bigardo have been at the margin of the law during most of their lives. We see them panhandling in a car of the underground, where their pitch to get donations is so lame, no one gives them anything! Salva, who is a hardened petty criminal doesn\'t even have any redeeming qualities, that is, until he discovers a reality show on television that gives him the idea of what to do next. Religion and show business prove to be a winning combination, something that Salva capitalizes on.<br /><br />He and Bigardo have been in jail after the accidental death of a priest that was critical of the duo. Salva shows he is a natural for the reality show. He transforms himself into a Christ-like figure who is an instant success in the program. Espe, who is a no-nonsense woman who is show\'s producer, can\'t escape from the way Salva pays her unusual attention. Ultimately, Salva is the victim of his own success in the end.<br /><br />Jordi Molla, whose first directorial job this movie is, had some success in the way the film satirizes the role of television. Spain, which was vulnerable to these types of programs, has seen its share of the bizarre, which is what the director felt is an assault on the viewing public and wanted to set his story from the point of view of the people that are making a fortune out of the naive audience.<br /><br />The ensemble cast has some good moments in the film. Mr. Molla, like any actor who decides to direct his first feature, would have been more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera. Candela Pena, a good actress, is one of the best reasons for watching the movie. Juan Carlos Villedo, David Gimenez Cacho, Franco Francescoantonio, Florinda Chico and the rest responded well to the new director."'],
 ['891,"These kinda movies just don\'t get the credit they deserve. This is my 2nd all time favorite movie, (Stand By Me being 1st.) The reason I watched this movie was because Wil Wheaton was in it and he is my most favorite person in the whole world and I think he done an amazing job in this movie and so did Sean Astin. I just watched it last night actually and it just amazed me. Everything in the movie is very exceptional. The script, the acting, the screenplay. I was on the edge of my seat 80% of the time, and if my mom wasn\'t in the room I would have absolutely balled whenever Joey Trotta (Wil Wheaton) died. I did not see that coming!! At all!! I was real surprised when I heard that it wasn\'t real popular back in the 90\'s. I was born a few years after it came out so, of course, I didn\'t go see it in the theaters, but im sure I would have if I would have been alive. If any of my friends watched this, they would be like, ""uhh okay?"" but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this. If you haven\'t seen this movie, or are wanting to watch something that is the bomb, this is the movie for you to watch."'],
 ['892,"As a big-time Prince fan of the last three to four years, I really can\'t believe I\'ve only just got round to watching ""Purple Rain"". The brand new 2-disc anniversary Special Edition led me to buy it. Wow, I was really looking forward to watching it, but I wasn\'t prepared for just how electric it actually is. Prince\'s musical performances throughout the movie are nothing short of astounding - he REALLY has the moves in this one. I am very familiar (from repeated listens) with the classic ""Purple Rain"" album and all its songs, but to see them in the context of the movie completely alters your perception of the tunes and lyrics - like COMPUTER BLUE, THE BEAUTIFUL ONES, WHEN DOVES CRY and PURPLE RAIN itself. There is something indescribably hypnotising about the scenes where Prince and The Revolution perform. The closing songs BABY I\'M A STAR and I WOULD DIE FOR U show how much energy and sheer talent Prince was brimming with in his mid-20s (he\'s overflowing!), it blew me away. It even makes Michael Jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years.<br /><br />Prince shows you how to win the girl of your dreams - drive her to a lake, make her jump in, then drive off - absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight.<br /><br />Some of the scenes are very 1980s and unintentionally hilarious but this adds to the film\'s overall charm. Morris Day is the coolest cat on the block (and hilarious), and when his group The Time perform THE BIRD you get to see Morris Day and Jerome Benton light up the stage Minneapolis funk style - I love their dancing in this bit, and how Benton provides Morris with a mirror mid-performance.<br /><br />I already can\'t wait to watch it again, I really can\'t! Extras are terrific - particularly seeing a young Eddie Murphy pre-Beverly Hills Cop admit he is a ""Prince groupie""."'],
 ['893,"A good ol\' boy film is almost required to have moonshine, car chases, a storyline that has a vague resemblance to ""plot"" and at least one very pretty country gal, barefoot with short shorts and a low top. The pretty gal is here (dressed in designer jeans)-- but the redneck prerequisites stop there. Jimmy Dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff, he comes up way short. Big John is big, but he isn\'t convincing with the ""bad"" part of his moniker. Bug-eyed Jack Elam is a hoot as always and Bo Hopkins has been playing this same part for decades; Ned Beatty also does his part in a small role... but there is no STORY. It smells more like an episode of In The Heat Of The Night than a feature film. Cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment. Perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie is Charlie Daniels singing the theme. You know the one; it was made famous by... Jimmy Dean."'],
 ['894,"After several extremely well ratings to the point of SUPERB, I was extremely pleased with the film. The film was dark, moving, the anger, the pain, the guilt and a very extremely convincing demon.<br /><br />I had initially expected to see many special effects, and like a lover\'s caress, it blew me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it. Brian, I am again blown away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effects. You will go a long way, my friend. I will definitely be the president of your fan club.<br /><br />Eric Etebari, the best actor award, was the number one choice. You made Jr. Lopez look like a child compared to Kasadya. :) <br /><br />Overall, the acting, story line, the high quality filming and awesome effects, it was fantastic. I just wish it were longer. I am looking forward to The Dreamless with extremely high expectations."'],
 ['895,"But it is kinda hilarious, at least if you grew up on Weird Al, like I did. It\'s a mockumentary about his life and career, beginning with superstardom and going back to trace the origins. It\'s uneven in places, but some of the segments are still very funny, particularly when he goes to Japan. Although it\'s not quite as emotionally textured as Lost in Translation, and he doesn\'t find love however fleeting, he does capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that is Tokyo street life.<br /><br />Perhaps Weird Al isn\'t recognized as the insightful cultural commentator that he is; perhaps a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Still, this is a funny movie."'],
 ['896,"One of the two Best Films of the year. A well filmed, well written, well put together film with an outstanding cast. Lau Ching Wan and his friends (Dayo Wong Chi Wa, Anthony Wong Chau Sun, Francis Ng Chun Yu, Jordan Chan Siu Chun, Cheung Man Tat) had great chemistry before the film and their friendship shows in their performances. Theresa Lee plays her comedic role well (Though much like a female version of Michael Wong, her gag seems to be the foreign born Chinese surrounded by native HKers.), and I found myself cheering for innovative explosive scenes, something I haven\'t done since 1. the fan boys took over alt.asian-movies and 2. John woo\'s Hardboiled. Sure the ending was expected, but I feel better cheering for cops than a bunch of young gang members. Highly enjoyable."'],
 ['897,I managed to see this at the New York International Film Festival in November 2005 with my boyfriend. We were both quite impressed with the complexity of the plot and found it to be emotionally moving. It was very well directed with strong imagery. The visual effects were amazing - especially for a short. It had an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic: This film is about a young girl who is visited by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father. There is also a surprise twist at the end which caught me off guard. This leans towards the Gothic feel. I would love to see this as a full feature film. -- Carrie'],
 ['898,"Why else would he do this to me?<br /><br />Not that I expect Dean Cain to produce hit movies. Or even decent movies. I saw Lois and Clark, I am aware of just how... ""good"" Dean Cain is.<br /><br />Obviously this is gonna be a cheesey flick, and each cheesey flick has its own special way to make you scratch your head. I will not call these spoilers as you can\'t really spoil this movie any more than it already is.<br /><br />To begin with... why is that a fake helicopter? I mean... why?<br /><br />How come that one scientist is from Chicago and that other scientist is from LA and neither one could be any more eastern european if they tried? How hard would it have been to get either an american actor, or just change that lame state sheet the movie provides us with to say those people aren\'t american?<br /><br />Why are there 2 occasions when the movie gives us a slug line? We get helipad-day and then mess hall-day later on. And then that\'s it, who cares about the timeline. To be honest, who cared about it even when they mentioned it, but I guess that\'s beside the point.<br /><br />Does a movie really get better if you are able to view it through multiple split screens? The answer is no.<br /><br />That dragon sure can walk down that hall..over..and over...and over....and over...<br /><br />Who on earth was responsible for one of the worst endings in film history? It was straight out of scooby doo. Oh, the dragon\'s dead now...say, wanna get dinner? Sure, but not at some Chinese place....with Dragon in the name!! AH HA HA HA!! HA HA HA!! HAHA HA! I used to be Superman! AHA HA HA! HA HA!<br /><br />fade to black<br /><br />my god, it made me cringe it was so stupid.<br /><br />But never fear..even though the whole building exploded...and no one was left alive..for some reason there\'s a second untouched, unmanned lab that survived pretty well, so they can make a sequel. Hurray for us all.<br /><br />"'],
 ['899,"Minimal script, minimal character development, minimal steady camera. Maximum stretched scenes, maximum headache inducing jerky zooms, maximum characters walking around in the woods doing nothing. Up until the time flashes on the screen of 12:01pm, you can fast forward and miss nothing, since there are three hunters who we know nothing about doing nothing. To be fair, the movie does have some string music that was interesting, so perhaps a music video would have been the way to go with this. Unfortunately that was not to be, and what should have been a twenty minute short is stretched beyond belief. Forget about ""Trigger Man"", I know I am trying to. - MERK"'],
 ['900,"A wonderful film ahead of its time,<br /><br />I think so, In the eighty\'s it was all about winning, Greed is Good ? Remember that one ? I have seen this film more that 20 times, To me this is a real desert island film, I keep watching because there is always something more to learn about these flawed characters that I just love, Jessica Tandy, and Hume Cronin, are simply wonderful,Also Beverly D\'angelo, Beau Bridges come in at a close second, don\'t get me wrong there are many more great performance\'s in this film, and it is also the way it is written that made it for me, and I hope you, a film that you will want to see over and over, I think TV shows like ""Northen Exposure"", and now ""Earl"" owe a lot to this film. but remember it is not a Tom Cruise film."'],
 ["901,it got switched off before the opening credits had even finished appearing. The first joke was just so appallingly lame and dreadfully acted that it had to go. You shouldn't really decide to watch this based on my review or not. I saw so little of it I shouldn't even really be commenting but suddenly it all became clear why the video shop guy was sniggering at us paying money to see it.<br /><br />Couldn't they have just made Earnest does Dallas?"],
 ['902,This is one of the more unromantic movies I have ever seen.<br /><br />Casting: Richard Gere is just too old looking for romantic lead roles anymore. Diane looks a bit eager to please and frowning as usual but she seems unconvinced by the romance herself. Supporting cast not too memorable.<br /><br />Story: The medical drama he has to deal with is unconvincing and is not interesting. The story is weak - not enough happens to make a movie about. There is nothing new to say or no new way to say it here. <br /><br />The setting is a little bleak and the house it is set in is unattractive. <br /><br />NOT destined to be a great one to remember.'],
 ['903,"(Only light spoilers in here)<br /><br />Stealing Sinatra is a half-slapstick comedy about dimwit kidnappers, dimwit victims, and a few other side-stories thrown in to eat up some time.<br /><br />You will see some poor performances all around in this movie. The drama is forced, and the humor makes no sense. Whether you\'re watching the kidnappers threaten the victim who won\'t shut up, or a victim\'s father responding to the criminal\'s death threat with ""Care for some tea?"", none of it is believable. This quite comfortably fits into the ""wannabe movie"" category.<br /><br />You will also be listening to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie. It\'s quite unprofessional, and adds nothing. It\'s really just a sad attempt at making an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty.<br /><br />However, if you\'re able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief, you might be entertained by the adequate storyline.<br /><br />I voted 4/10."'],
 ['904,"Yes, this is one of THOSE movies, so terrible, so insipid, so trite, that you will not be able to stop laughing. I have watched comedies, good comedies, and laughed less than my wife and I laughed at this movie. The other comments give the idea well enough. The characters are so unpleasant you cheer the rats on, the effects are so poorly done you wonder whose elementary school art class was in charge, the acting-- oh the acting-- talk about tired dialogue and embarrassing pauses.<br /><br />But the rat, yes, the big rat. Why we didn\'t get to see the rat until the end rather surprised me. Often the \'big one\' isn\'t shown until the end because the budget is limited and good effects chew up so much money. I surmise, however, that in this case the big rat was hidden until the end because the filmmakers were ashamed that the best they had was a guy running around dressed up like a woodchuck with third-world dentistry.<br /><br />The most sublime part of the whole movie is the elevator scene. After figuring out that the rats couldn\'t stand loud noise (migraines from the bad acting?), the main dude rigs up a fire alarm to send the rats into a frenzy. If you\'ve ever wanting to see a pair of rats waltz while blood squirts out of their heads like a geyser, this film is for you. Really, you need to rent it and see for yourself.<br /><br />But not for more than 99¢, OK?"'],
 ['905,"Well where do I begin my story?? I went to this movie tonight with a few friends not knowing more than the Actors that were in it, and that it was supposed to be a horror movie.<br /><br />Well I figured out within the first 20 minutes, what a poor decision I had made going out seeing this movie. The Plot was crap, and so was the script. The lines were horrible to the point that people in the audience were laughing hysterically.<br /><br />The cast couldn\'t have been more plastic looking. Even some of the scenes seemed like they should have been made much quicker...like they dragged on for no particular reason. Very poor editing.<br /><br />All in all this movie was a giant waste of time and money. Boo."'],
 ['906,"This is one of my favorites. Betty White and Leslie Neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy. One is a business executive who re-evaluates life based on the expectation of her death within a year. The other is a playboy who has tired of gold-digging young women and seeks a relationship with a vital, mature woman. If you\'ve got silver in your hair and/or romance in your heart, microwave the popcorn, curl up with your honey, and prepare yourself for a treat."'],
 ['907,"Following directly from where the story left off in part one, the second half which sets about telling the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man\'s legacy is exactly as such. In direct contrast to the first feature, part two represents a shift from Che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country, to Che—struggling liberator of a country to which he has no previous ties. The change of setting isn\'t just aesthetic; from the autumn and spring greys of the woodlands comes a change of tone and heart to the feature, replacing the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical, battered and bruised reality aligned to an all new struggle. Yet, as Che would go on to say himself—such a struggle is best told exactly as that—a struggle. While Part One certainly helped document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquired through just that, Part Two takes a much more refined, callous and bleak segment of Che\'s life and ambition, and gives it an assertive portrayal that is both poignant and tragic in a tangible, easy to grasp manner.<br /><br />While the movie\'s tone in some regards does stray off and differ quite drastically from Part One however, there still remains that same documented approach taken a month ago that avoids melodrama and fabrication as much as possible. This somewhat distant, cold approach to telling Che\'s story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewers off; indeed, I still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have been named after one man—if anything, the entirety of Che, taken as a whole, delivers a tale that goes beyond mere biography and instead documents a man\'s struggle alongside those who helped carry him along the way. By no means does Soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what Hirschbiegel did with Der Untergang half a decade ago (excuse the ironic contrast); Che is a slow moving, reserved and meditative approach to telling a history lesson that just happens to be narrated by the one man who –arguably- conducted the whole thing.<br /><br />Yet by moving from the lush green landscapes of Cuba and retreating to the bleak, decaying backdrop of Bolivia for Part Two, the story does inevitably take on a distinctly contrasting tone that doesn\'t feel too disjointed from its predecessor, but does enough to give it its own reference points. Here, the basic structure of Part One is echoed back—there\'s the initial struggle, the battles, the fallen comrades and the recruiting of those to replace them, all the while we see some glimpses of the man behind the movement. Yet, as anyone with the vaguest idea of the actual history behind the feature will know, Part Two is destined to end on a much more underwhelming, and disquieting note. This difference, in combination with the similarities to Part One, make a compelling and memorable whole; by all means, both could be digested one their own (and kudos to Soderbergh for achieving as such) and enjoyed as they are, but taken as one statement, Che delivers exactly what it sets out to achieve.<br /><br />Indeed, everything that made Part One the treat that it was one month prior is still evident here from the subtle yet engrossing performances from the central cast to the slow building, realistically structured combat scenes—the drama inherent to the characters on screen is just as vague and indiscernible, but with a feature such as this, Part Two once again proves that avoiding such elements don\'t necessarily hurt a film when there is enough plot and reflection on other elements to keep the viewer engaged. In fact, upon writing this review I was at odds as to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for Part One, and title the review as a whole, yet I felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both films consecutively.<br /><br />With that said, I cannot rightfully decree whether or not Che holds up to the task of engaging an audience for its sprawling four hour plus runtime, but upon viewing both segments I can at least attest to each part\'s ability to do just that. With a reflective, intricate screenplay combined with endlessly mesmerising photography and nuanced performances that do justice to the movie\'s characters without drawing attention to themselves, Che Part Two is every bit as compelling and rewarding as its predecessor, but this time with a tragic but uplifting, reaffirming conclusion fit for the history pages of film.<br /><br />- A review by Jamie Robert Ward (http://www.invocus.net)"'],
 ['908,"Sometimes it\'s hard to be a pirate...............but by golly Miss Jean Peters has a lot of fun trying - and it shows,particularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with Blackbeard (Mr Thomas Gomez - eminently hissable)when the sheer joy of performing is plain on her face. With fifty years of hindsight Feminists seem intent on grabbing this movie as some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of women in a male - dominated society but I have serious doubts that either M.Tourneur or Miss Peters had any such concept in their heads at the time. It was an exciting,entertaining family film with absolutely no pretensions,hidden meanings or alternative agenda.It was fun. M.Louis Jourdan is both winsome and treacherous as her love interest. Mr Herbert Chapman is wise and philosophical as the wise and philosophical doctor.Mr James Robertson Justice is just a tad unbelievable as the bosun. But it is Miss Peters who stays in the memory.Wilfully adolescent,illiterate,tough but vulnerable,wonderfully agile,and ultimately,courageous,she is everybody\'s idea of a lady pirate. There was a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume roles - that she did not choose to seize it is a matter of some regret."'],
 ['909,"I had never seen a film by John Cassavetes up until two years ago, when I first saw THE KILLING OF A Chinese BOOKIE in a Berlin cinema, which I found interesting, to put it diplomatically, but not so special, I instantly wanted to see more of his work. Since then, I tried - with an emphasis on tried - watching his other work, SHADOWS in particular. I must admit, it took me a a while before I actually enjoyed the film. At first the unpolished, raw and improvised way Cassavetes it was shot, put me off somewhat and I thought of it as an original - absolutely - but flawed and dated experiment. But now, upon reviewing, these little imperfections make it look so fresh, even today.<br /><br />Shot on a minimal budget of $40,000 with a skeleton six person crew, SHADOWS offers an observation of the tensions and lives of three siblings in an African-American family in which two of the three siblings, Ben (Ben Carruthers) and Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), are light-skinned and able to pass for white. Cassavetes demanded that the actors retain their real names to reflect the actual conflicts within the group but saw the film as being concerned with human problems as opposed imply to racial ones. Cassavetes shot the film in ten minute takes and jagged editing, a reaction against \'seamless\' Hollywood production values. Cassavetes main inspiration - at least in the cinematic style the film was shot - were the Italian neo-realists whilst also professing admiration for Welles\' pioneering spirit. The use of amateurs and improvisation might resemble some of the Italian neo-realist directors, but with his bebop score by Charles Mingus ans Shafi Hadi, the film feels very different, very American, unlike anything made before really. <br /><br />The song with the feathered girls, ""I feel like a lolly-pop"" (or something) feels like light years back to me, ancient history. But no matter how dated it might look, it still makes a delightful time capsule of late Fifties New York today. I think it\'s this is one of the first films made aspiring filmmakers realize they could shoot an independent film, without Hollywood, improvised and without a real budget. Seymour Cassel, who acted and was involved in SHADOWS, claims it was Jules Dassin\'s THE NAKED CITY (1948) that was the first and inspired them all, but I think this was the one that really opened the eyes of aspiring independent American filmmakers.<br /><br />Camera Obscura --- 8/10"'],
 ['910,"Based on an actual story, John Boorman shows the struggle of an American doctor, whose husband and son were murdered and she was continually plagued with her loss. A holiday to Burma with her sister seemed like a good idea to get away from it all, but when her passport was stolen in Rangoon, she could not leave the country with her sister, and was forced to stay back until she could get I.D. papers from the American embassy. To fill in a day before she could fly out, she took a trip into the countryside with a tour guide. ""I tried finding something in those stone statues, but nothing stirred in me. I was stone myself."" <br /><br />Suddenly all hell broke loose and she was caught in a political revolt. Just when it looked like she had escaped and safely boarded a train, she saw her tour guide get beaten and shot. In a split second she decided to jump from the moving train and try to rescue him, with no thought of herself. Continually her life was in danger. <br /><br />Here is a woman who demonstrated spontaneous, selfless charity, risking her life to save another. Patricia Arquette is beautiful, and not just to look at; she has a beautiful heart. This is an unforgettable story. <br /><br />""We are taught that suffering is the one promise that life always keeps."""'],
 ['911,"This PM Entertainment production is laced with enough bullets to make John Woo say, ""Enough already!"" Of course, it isn\'t nearly as beautiful as Woo can deliver but it gets the exploitive job done in 90 minutes. Eric Phillips (Don Wilson) is an undercover cop in the near future. When his wife is framed for murdering the Governor by a team using a look-a-like cyborg, it is up to Eric to clear her name. Wilson gets to pull Van Damme duty as he plays the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger. Why the Academy failed to take notice is beyond me. Being a PM production, there are tons of car chases, exploding cars (4 in the first 5 minutes!) and shoot outs. I particularly liked the van that flips in midair before it even comes close to touching an exploding truck. My other favorite bit involved a neighborhood girl coming over to perfect her karate in Don\'s simulator. It is merely a chance to show off some cheapo LAWNMOWER MAN effects circa 1995."'],
 ['912,"SHALLOW GRAVE begins with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in PSYCHO. (I\'m leaning toward rip off.) After that it gets worse and then surprisingly gets better, almost to the point of being original. Bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story, but the film already surpasses many in the ""Yankee comes down South to get killed by a bunch of rednecks"" genre because it is actually shot in the South.<br /><br />A group of college girls head to Ft. Lauderdale for summer vacation and are waylaid in Georgia by a flat tire after getting off the main road. (Note to Yankees: stay on the highway when you go to Florida.) Sue Ellen (Lisa Stahl) has to pee so she heads into the woods. When she finally finds a good spot to do her business she witnesses the local sheriff (Tony March) strangle his mistress (Merry Rozelle) to death. (Note to Yankees: do not wander off into the woods when in the South; not because you might witness a murder, but you may run across a marijuana plantation.) This is the point where the story, not the movie, actually comes close to being good.<br /><br />While Tony March will never have to practice his Oscar speech, his Sheriff Dean becomes a creepy facsimile of a normal guy torn by what he has done and what he must do. Tom Law is likable as Deputy Scott and is as authentic a Southern deputy as I\'ve seen since Walton Goggins (Deputy Steve Naish) in HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES.<br /><br />A few scenes in the movie are worth the mention. The girls stop at a BBQ in South Carolina and display their racism when a big black guy checks them out. Sue Ellen runs into a barn to hide behind some hay bales and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake is hiding in the hay with her.<br /><br />And in the strangest scene, Sheriff Dean makes like he\'s about to rape Patty (Carol Cadby) and tells her to take off her clothes. Dean has turned the radio up to drown out the noise of what he\'s about to do. The preacher on the radio needs to go back and read his Bible. His sermon is about how Jezebel is saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. I feel sorry for this preacher\'s flock. Jezebel was in the Old Testament a few thousand years before Christ was born and by no means is she one of the five people you are going to meet in Heaven."'],
 ['913,"Although this film has had a lot of praise, I personally found it boring. There are some nice Brasilian sunsets and the characters are believable, but the story of how they interrelate, even if very unusual by our standards, is not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long. The central woman takes up with one man after another in a close knit way and putting the interests of her children first. As the tolerance of the various men is stretched, we see their characters develop. The story unfolds with dignity and aided by excellent acting. It is a rare glimpse into the Brasilian hinterland, far from the city, but hardly exciting enough to keep one\'s eyes open for."'],
 ['914,"No mention if Ann Rivers Siddons adapted the material for ""The House Next Door"" from her 1970s novel of the same title, or someone else did it. This Lifetime-like movie was directed by Canadian director Jeff Woolnough. Having read the book a long time ago, we decided to take a chance when the film showed on a cable version of what was clearly a movie made for television. You know that when the critical moments precede the commercials, which of course, one can\'t find in this version we watched.<br /><br />The film\'s star is Lara Flynn Boyle who sports a new look that threw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress has gone through. From the new eyebrows to other parts of her body, Ms. Boyle is hardly recognizable as Col Kennedy, the character at the center of the mystery. This was not one of the actress better moments in front of the camera. That goes for the rest of the mainly Canadian actors that deserved better.<br /><br />The film has a feeling of a cross between ""Desperate Houswives"" with ""The Stepford Wives"" and other better known features, combined with a mild dose of creepiness. The best thing about the movie was the house which serves as the setting."'],
 ['915,"Meticulously constructed and perfectly played, To The Ends Of The Earth is a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age.<br /><br />Based on William Golding\'s trilogy, these three 90-minute films chronicle the journey towards both Australia and experience of youthful aristocrat Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) aboard an aging man o\' war in the early 19th century as he heads for a Government position Down Under.<br /><br />Among the crew and hopeful emigrants sharing his passage are a tempestuous, bullying captain (Jared Harris), a politically radical philosopher (Sam Neill), a canny 1st lieutenant who\'s worked his way up from the bottom (Jamie Sives) and, fleetingly, the first brush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman (Joanne Page) whose ship literally passes in the night.<br /><br />Quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy, director David Attwood and screenwriters Tony Basgallop and Leigh Jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manners and stiff etiquette of an earlier time, crafting a totally convincing microcosm of the Napoleonic era.<br /><br />Shipboard life is one brutal, monotonous round of seasickness, squalor and danger after another and as Edmund becomes entangled in the loves, hopes and miseries of his fellow passengers he experiences a delirious whirl of life\'s hardships, Man\'s inhumanities and his noblest sentiments.<br /><br />Those who enjoyed Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World or Patrick O\'Brian\'s series of novels on which it was based will love this – for everyone else, it\'s a whole new world to discover."'],
 ['916,"Wow. This is really not that good. <br /><br />I would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting is good... it is, but it is nothing special.<br /><br />The movie is so precictable and i for one am sick of receiving culture info through movies.<br /><br />*/****"'],
 ['917,"I have to point out, before you read this review, that in no way, is this a statement against Iranian people ... if you really want to read something into it, than hopefully you see, that I\'m against politicians in general ... but if you\'re looking to be offended ... I can\'t help you!<br /><br />Not in Iran as this movie is banned there (see IMDb trivia for this movie). Which is a shame, because the movie is great. Would it not be for ""Grbavica"", this movie would have won at the International Film Festival in Berlin.<br /><br />Rightfully so (it was the runner-up, or second place if you will). Why? Because it is a movie about oppression. It\'s not even that this is a complete women issue. It is about the government trying to keep the people down. An analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie. But by banning it nothing is resolved and/or can they make this movie disappear! <br /><br />Another reviewer had a great summary line: ""Comedy about a tragedy"", that sums it up pretty well!"'],
 ['918,"I know little or nothing about astronomy, but nevertheless; I was, at first, a little sceptical about the plot of this movie. It follows three children that were all born during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion, and thus (naturally) become ruthless serial killers. The plot does sound ridiculous at first, but once you realise that a solar eclipse blocks out Saturn and, as you know, Saturn is the emotion planet, it all falls into place; makes complete sense and it\'s then that you know you aren\'t simply watching another silly 80\'s slasher with a pea brain plot. Thank god for that! Seriously, though, Bloody Birthday is based on a ridiculous premise, but it more than makes up for that with it\'s originality. Having a bunch of kids going round slaughtering people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever seen in cinema, but when given the choice between this and another dull Friday the 13th clone - I know what I\'d choose.<br /><br />Also helping the film out of the hole that some people would think it\'s silly plot dug it into is the fact that it\'s extremely entertaining. Many slashers become formulaic far too quickly and the audience ends up watching simply to see some gore. This film, however, keeps itself going with some great creepy performances from the kids (which harks back to creepy kid classics such as Village of the Damned), a constant stream of sick humour and a small, but impressive for the type of film, dose of suspense and tension. One thing that I liked a lot about this movie was the vast array of weaponry. There\'s nothing worse than a slasher where the killer uses the same weapon over and over again (cough Halloween cough), but that\'s not the case here as Bloody Birthday finds room for everything from skipping ropes to bow and arrows. There wasn\'t any room for a chainsaw, which is a huge shame, but I suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it."'],
 ['919,"After many, many years I saw again this beautiful love story, thinking about how would I, half a century after, react to a film which made so many girls cry and sigh at that time, when I was just an male adolescent trying to understand women\'s behaviors, in a small city in Brazil.<br /><br />This time, however, what caught my attention in the film was something very different, namely the insistence with which the physician Dr. Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) makes clear to the journalist Mark Elliott (William Holden) her special ethically condition as an Eurasian. In fact, she is constantly putting emphasis on this point in their relationship, repeating she is willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a ""occidental way"", provided that, by doing so, she is not betraying her Chinese side. Its seems to the spectator that Suyin is eagerly making efforts to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspects of her culture, for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempts to control them.<br /><br />Therefore, Suyin\'s attitudes always leave poor Elliott – a determined, brave and extremely practical man – anxious and perplexed, without knowing how much importance to give to her words. For him, whose love for her is plain and simple, the situation is totally clear: if we love each other, let us make a couple and begin immediately a life together. ""Not so fast"", is what she seems, verbally and non-verbally, to answer him all the time.<br /><br />In fact, Suyin\'s Chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism. And, as she goes on and on reinforcing this much aimed equilibrium between those two worlds inside herself, she also frequently signals to him that also a very peculiar trait of Chinese culture is deeply rooted in her mind, namely the constant ""raids"" on the real world by invisible beings from an spiritual or non-physical world. For Suyin is always alerting Elliott about how dangerous is life, not because of any objective and concrete threat (as would be the perpetuation of the English colonialism or the eminence of a Japanese invasion), but due to the threats of plenty of cruel and harmful gods and other mystical and mythical beings over the poor, fearful and vulnerable human beings.<br /><br />In fact, it looks like a whole bunch of Chinese deities are permanently on the watch to make people\'s life totally miserable. Because of that, mothers must dress their precious male babies in girls clothes, so that they are not taken away by jealous gods; everyone should always be ready to make loud noises to send the clouds away, in order to avoid their covering the sight of the moon; peasants are advised that they should shout loudly ""The rice is bad! The rice is bad!"" to protect their crops from being stolen by deities; and, in a funeral, it is recommended that the dead\'s family be isolated from the other people by curtains, so that the gods don\'t take advantage of their sorrow and fragility.<br /><br />In other words, Suyin introduces us to a culture in which the supernatural has a real existence, as if a rather disturbing pantheon of malign and sadistic gods are always on the verge of negatively interfering with the most banal acts in anyone\'s daily life.<br /><br />As the story takes place in Hong Kong in 1949, it should be clear that China really was, at that time, almost a semi-feudal society, while the country from which Elliott had come from was not yet dominated by the fierce capitalism that, launched by the USA after the first oil shock in 1973, took charge of the whole world. Therefore, at least in one aspect, both sides of Suyin\'s Eurasian personality were still much more innocent than they would be today.<br /><br />A lot of History came into being since those old days. As to China, the main fact is that, after several phases of a communist regime, the country finally reached, in the last two decades, the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly described as State capitalism. And, what happened to that old spirituality that so much enthralled Suyin in Hong Kong, in 1949, and with which she used to impress so much an impassioned Elliott, under that tree on the hill behind the hospital? It is gone, completely gone! In brief, if that story took place today, Elliott would not find it necessary to go to China to propose to Suyin in the presence of the Third Uncle and her entire family. In fact, both men would now be incomparably closer to one another, in their huge pragmatism, talking business as usual!"'],
 ['920,"First and foremost I would like to say, that before i watched this film i considered myself an accepting individual. Someone that cared about others, appreciated others, found no/barely any judgment against other people, and this film has (i think) changed my life or viewpoint dramatically. When i watched it, I didn\'t know particularly what it was about, i knew it was about some type of forbidden relationship, but other then that I was clueless, and as I began to see what was taking place between these two wonderfully depicted characters, i was in shock, disbelief, confusion and surprise. The first time i watched it, i was blind. Blind to their love, to their intimacy, to their connection, to their pureness as human beings, to their relationship. I watched it a second time, because i finally figured out how hypocritical I was being, saying to myself and others, ""Oh i accept all types of people, and try not to judge them"" while still judging this wonderful and amazingly insightful story, because of my fear I suppose. The second time I watched this film, I opened those eyes of mine that had stayed closed the first time, and really looked, not at the type of taboo relationship part that I\'d heard about all my life, but simply at two human beings in love. And I loved it, i loved the storyline, i loved the slightly broken yet strong individual people in the film, i loved the sharing of feelings, and i loved the strong bonds created. It is a really eye opening, beautifully done film that made me cry at times, and I hope that people who read this and are going to watch the film eventually, remember that everyone deserves love, no matter what shape or form it is presented in...."'],
 ['921,"""ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ""! If IMDb would allow one-word reviews, that\'s what mine would be. This film was originally intended only for kids and it would seem to be very tough going for adults or older kids to watch the film. The singing, the story, everything is dull and washed out--just like this public domain print. Like other comedy team films with roots in traditional kids stories (such as the awful SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES and the overrated BABES IN TOYLAND), this movie has limited appeal and just doesn\'t age well. Now that I think about it, I seriously doubt that many kids nowadays would even find this film enjoyable! So my advice is DON\'T watch this film. If you MUST watch an Abbott and Costello film, almost any other one of their films (except for A&C GO TO MARS) would be an improvement."'],
 ['922,"Once in a while, a movie will sweep along that stuns you, draws you in, awes you, and, in the end, leaves you with a renewed belief in the human race from the artistry form. This is not it. This is an action movie that lacks convincing action. It stinks. Rent something else."'],
 ['923,"Hard to imagine this film is based on a true story, and how Christy managed to accomplish the miracle is so heart-stirring. Daniel Day-Lewis is a chameleon, really hard to imagine how much effort he had done to create this disabled character. Watching him on screen is a shocking and breathtaking experience.<br /><br />The movie is not so pessimistic as I thought before, the story is kinda bright and intriguing. Christy is not despised by the normals, his life is also colorful and delightful, although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes.<br /><br />One important factor of Christy\'s success is his mother\'s support which seems to be more touching, and the unknown actress Brenda Fricker also deserves her Oscar award for this role, this fat little middle-aged woman uses her all to make Christy\'s dream come true. So lucky for Christy!And Hugh O\'Conor is also excellent as young Christy, what a performance for a child! The love story of Christy is very well-done, trustful. Christy wants love and nothing can derive him of the right to love, his crush on the beautiful Dr. Eileen Cole (surprisingly played by Fiona Shaw, I am deeply impressed with her role in Harry Potter series, the loathsome Aunt Petunia, so her appearance in this role is really beyond my mind, but anyway, any woman has her own youth...) is paranoiac and offensive, I do have sympathy for him, love is a two-edged sword, happiness and agony are just next to each other.<br /><br />Btw, Jim Sheridan\'s works are all good (IN America, THE BOXER etc.) except GET RICH OR DIE Trying\', god knows why he chose to direct that crap! Really a career taint for him, what a pity!"'],
 ['924,"I\'m stunned that the reviewers @ IMDb gave this TV film as a high a rating as they did. It\'s an innocuous, sweet, uncomplicated cliché\' of a film that had two big names from the past in it (both of whom did a decent job), but this film reeks of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the lesser cable channels. I like a good romance as well as anyone, but as my wife and I were watching this--and before we saw the rating-we said, ""There are people who are going to rate this film too highly simply because there\'s nothing in it to challenge their brains, their faith, their comfort level or their cultural preferences. It\'s possible to make a good film like that (and Away from Her is an example), but this was amateur hour. There are some quite good films rated much lower than this one. Truly, another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday films. Watch The Family Stone. It\'s miles ahead of this schlock."'],
 ['925,"Do a title search on Randolph Scott and TRAIL STREET is the one film missing from the list you\'ve seen. One of 4 films Scott made at RKO during his prime (1947) the others are always easy to get. Liberal, Kansas is just southwest of Dodge City and is a powder-keg about to explode between the trail-riders who drive the longhorns into Trail Street, the town\'s main street, and the sod-busters who feed our bellies. It\'ll take a strong man like Bat Masterson to step between the two groups and bring the town to order. More I won\'t say, except that Scott movies usually have just one pretty girl and this one has three. RANDOLPH SCOTT always played men you could look up to for their sense of honor, courage, level-headedness and willingness to do the right thing. Fifty years ago parents could send their kids to a Scott movie with confidence they\'d learn positive values. ROBERT RYAN co-stars in this film, playing a good guy for a change. In real life, RYAN was one of the many WORLD WAR II HEROS who starred in America\'s movies. How sad what we get these days. George Clooney teaches our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bombers, while Steven Spielberg teaches there is no moral difference between the Olympic athletes murdered in 1972 in Munich and the Palestinian terrorists who killed them. Hollywood 2005 derives their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left. I wonder how all this plays out in Liberal, Kansas. Liberal, after all, was not a dirty word 150 years ago when the city was named."'],
 ['926,"I went to see this one with much expectation. Quite unfortunately the dialogue is utterly stupid and overall the movie is far from inspiring awe or interest. Even a child can see the missing logic to character\'s behaviors. Today\'s kids need creative stories which would inspire them, which would make them \'daydream\' about the events. That\'s precisely what happened with movies like E.T. and Star Wars a decade ago. (How many kids imagined about becoming Jedi Knights and igniting their own lightsabers?) Seriously don\'t waste your time & money on this one."'],
 ['927,"*Sigh* Leave it to us Finns to take a stupid idea, blow it out of proportion and try to market it as cool. Lordi is a mediocre band at best, and a single gimmick will get you only so far.<br /><br />To all you marketing idiots out there: this is the reason for the inherent minority complex that is often encountered when Finland tries to export something.<br /><br />Lordi isn\'t scary. Lordi is lame. Lordi is OVER.<br /><br />I want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plastic-faced idiocy. Sure, they won the Eurovision.<br /><br />No, wait - they won the Eurovision. That\'s it. I rest my case."'],
 ["928,After the highs of darkplace it was never conceivable that Holness and Adobye would be able to create anything half as good as garth marengi. Yet i think that man to man in its own right is as good a show (on the good episodes) as darkplace. i cant argue that 2 of the episodes really are'nt that good but the other 4 certainly make up for it. if i had to pick 2 great episodes id go for formula4 driver Steve Pising (pronounced Pissing) and the great Garth Marengi. to already have a bit of understanding of the programme is a real plus as Dean Learner makes many inside jokes but even if you have'nt seen much Dean id recommend this as some of the rants he launches into are genius ie. His argument with Def Lepord over their name. All in All a great show which just misses full marks because of the couple of less funny episodes."],
 ["929,I saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in Pablo CO. I had just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital. I consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that goes on in hospitals. <br /><br />The idiots that put it down on production value don't get the point and probably have never been hospitalized. And never worked in one for sure. Billy Jack (same era) was very poorly produced but had a significant social comment and was a very good movie with a real social message.<br /><br />I have ever since been looking for this movie this is the first site I have found where it get mentioned."],
 ['930,"I caught this on television one day when I was young and loved it. In the 1970\'s, there were a bunch of lame comedies that tried too hard to be be funny so it this was a nice surprise. It\'s one of the best comedies of the 1970\'s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to Murrary\'s excellent comedic performance, which still stands as one of his greatest. This is the film that really got Ivan Reitman noticed as a director. Reitman proves with this movie that he is one of the most talented comedy directors of all time. While this film is hilarious and MEATBALLS 2 is so bad that it\'s fun, MEATBALLS 3 and MEATBALLS 4 are absolutely dreadful. Recommended for those who enjoyed STRIPES and GHOSTBUSTERS."'],
 ['931,"The film\'s design seems to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issues in this country (U.S.). We see relationships all over at the university setting for the film. Befittingly, the obvious of student v.s. teacher is present. But what the film adds to its value is its other relationships: male v.s. female, white v.s. black, and the individual v.s. society. But most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationships is the individual v.s. himself. <br /><br />I was amazed at how bilateral a point of view the director gave to showing the race relations on campus. Most films typically show the injustices of one side while showing the suffering of the other. This film showed the injustices and suffering of both sides. It did not attempt to show how either was right, although I would say the skin heads were shown a much crueler and vindictive (quite obvious towards the end). The film also discusses sex and rape. It is ironically this injustice that in some ways brings the two races together, for a time. Lawrence Fishburne does an over-the-top performance as the sagacious Profesor Phipps. He crumbles the idea of race favortism and instead shows the parallelism of the lazy and down-trodden with the industrious and positive. Other stars that make this film are Omar Epps, Ice Cube, and Jennifer Connelly. Michael Rapaport gives an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who is looking for acceptance. Tyra Banks make her film debut and proves supermodels can act.<br /><br />Higher Learning gets its name in showing college as more than going to class and getting a piece of paper. In fact, I would say the film is almost a satire in showing students interactions with each other, rather than some dry book, as the real education at a university. It is a life-learning process, not a textual one. I think you\'ll find ""Higher Learning"" is apropos to the important issues at many universities and even life in general. 8/10"'],
 ['932,"Is rich, ailing Elizabeth Taylor courting the Angel of Death on her island fortress in the Mediterranean, or is she just overreacting--or more precisely, overacting--as usual? Actually, both are applicable in director Joseph Losey\'s wandering, meandering mess called ""Boom"", appropriately titled since tempers in the lush, luxurious setting are nearly ready to explode. Richard Burton climbs Taylor\'s mountain uninvited; she dresses him in a samurai\'s robe complete with saber. Though great-looking in widescreen, the picture is otherwise quite deadly, a failure even Liz \'n Dick-philes should shun (the stars\' collective ""what the hell!"" attitude to their late-\'60s film careers reached an ego-mad nadir here). Pointless, confused, and maddening, ""Boom"" is a catastrophe--although screenwriter Tennessee Williams, who adapted his own unsuccessful play ""The Milk Train Doesn\'t Stop Here Anymore"", was said to be quite fond of it! * from ****"'],
 ['933,"i can\'t even describe it. it\'s the worst movie i\'ve ever seen (i\'m being a nice guy when i call it movie).Just another big-budget-made-to-someone-who-doesn\'t-like-to-think-much.It\'s not even scary. It\'s revolting when there are great movies that never reach the big screen and then comes this...""thing"" to trick movie fans. I guess big producers make whatever they want.<br /><br />Just get a big producer, hot chicks (allthough horrible actresses) and a ton of horror movie clichés and cook it for a week or so, and you\'ll get ""The Nun"".<br /><br />And I thought Bad Boys 2 was horrible!!!!"'],
 ['934,"The screenplay is the worst part of this film, as it lurches from one premise to the next, missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible. (This film is confusing, because the audience doesn\'t know what the story is.) I had no problem with the low-production values and the acting wasn\'t great, but this is telly, so it was fine. I don\'t mind if some scenes looked like they were done in one take. But having such a non-sensical screenplay is completely unnecessary. Did any executive actually read it before forking out the cash? Avoid this at all costs.<br /><br />The prologue in particular was so poorly written, it needed a voice-over to fill in all the details that had been left out. The prologue was rushed, it wasn\'t clear what was happening, ie. The Russian Revolution was reduced to ""Some riots are happening in Petersburg"", with the next scene being soldiers arresting them. I know the basic history of the Revolution, so I could fill in the details, ""those pesky Communists"". The prologue is best ignored.<br /><br />This could have been a thoughtful study of a person who is confused about who she is. It sets up this premise in the asylum. It could then have her struggling to identify herself for the rest of the film. No. Gone. The film assumes she is who she says she is (even though there is still no empirical evidence.) It sets up a melodramatic romance, a love so strong, it\'ll believe anything she says. Okay, a soppy romance. No, because it makes no sense. The love interest seems like a crazed (and incidentally, sleazy) lunatic, bursting out in wild gestures. This also doesn\'t work, because the film stupidly decides to tell the truth in the monologue at the end. They never got married and she returned to America. The love story collapses. Despite there being plenty of love scenes, I was never convinced of the reason that they were in love. I find rom-com romances more convincing, despite there only being one or two scenes which establish that they\'ve even spent any time with each other.<br /><br />It could have been a thriller-type thing where the film assumes she is who she says she is, and she struggles to prove her identity. No, the court case is summed up rather than dealt with. The bizarre voice over comes back, again to fill in the details of a better film.<br /><br />The funniest thing to consider is what really happened. Anna Anderson was a loony who went to America and married another loony and they did crazy things together. Throughout her life, she had bouts of lunatic behaviour. None of this in the film either. There\'s a really annoying character in the asylum who crops up from nowhere and announces herself as a \'One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Next/\'Twelve Monkeys\'-type informant. Thankfully, she vanishes, having brought nothing to the story."'],
 ['935,"Lady and the tramp ii: scamp\'s adventure i think is a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie is better because it is the original and i would think that the original movies compared to the sequeals is better. Lady and the tramp ii takes off after the original, but this time it\'s junior\'s turn, Lady and Tramp\'s youngster (scamp) always hates been treated with the things that has to be done with him, following the rules in the house, taking baths all the time and taking things nice and easy, scamp gets angry and runs away with a pack of dogs that are left off the loose. Scamp meets another dog called Angel, they both get along fine and do the things scamp\'s mother and father did, having an italian meal (Spagetthi and Meatballs etc:)Afterwards, Scamp realises that he is loved by his family especial his pal, which is the baby, scamp comes back and Angel is joined in the family. I give this movie 10 out of 10."'],
 ['936,"Wow, what\'s this on the video rental store\'s shelf in front of me? Nothing other than a questionable ""sequel"" to 8MM. It wasn\'t a very good sequel to a movie that had a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far greater than this movie.<br /><br />Basically, from the plot outline verbatim, an American diplomat, David Huxley, and his fiancée, Tish Harrington, venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in Budapest, Hungary to find out who is blackmailing them with a porno video taken of them with a prostitute, Risa. The entire story is based around the various characters who make up these various sex clubs and strip joints throughout the city. The mystery is solved when, in the end, Tish finds out that the ransom money for the video and (essentially later on in the story) her fiancée which came out of her trust fund money is basically going back to her future husband as the story unfolds til the bitter end.<br /><br />I didn\'t like how this had nothing to do with the original 8MM at all. The only thing close to the original is the type of thriller that it was, the fact that David ends up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner looks like the kinky world of the first film, and the fact that the entire movie has sex emblazoned throughout almost every key scene. Otherwise, its a totally different movie. It made for a lousy love story, even before the end is known, which makes the ending more of a possibility because I didn\'t believe the words coming out of David\'s mouth the whole time. But we were warned that he was a liar about most things that might get him in trouble.<br /><br />There were ridiculous nude scenes in most of the ""shocking"" moments of the film, which were trying to stir emotions in the audience to cheer for Tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this ""hellish"" sex debauchery. I counted at least 11 ridiculously filmed sequences when there was nothing but sex to be shown. Even the menu screen on the DVD is nothing but film with naked women on it to make the DVD seem totally provocative.<br /><br />David was no heroic person throughout the film. You could guess he was the main problem long before the end. The actors who played each role were all new to me, which might explain how they got so many of them to strip down to gain acting ""respect."" There were plot holes (How did David and Richard finally impress Tish\'s father by getting the lease they wanted when David was so wrapped up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute?) There were cheesy technology moments (like the talking email program dressed up like a bondage queen), and a gay brother character which did nothing but show how the director was trying to get a Joaquin Phoenix knockoff to play this character. The tag line featured on this profile for this video is complete BS, too, because it wasn\'t even about a last breath. Nobody really dies. But they did have a good car crash sequence that came out of nowhere...but that was a good 10 seconds long out of an hour and 3/4 long movie.<br /><br />Go rent (and maybe buy) the original. It\'s one of Joel Schumacher\'s better and more original films. It has everything better about it from this film. I wouldn\'t recommend seeing this unless you want to compare apples to oranges."'],
 ['937,"Ok, honestly I dont see why everybody thinks this is so great. Its really not. There were two good things that came out of this movie 1. Jack\'s performance, he was very good I can tip my hat for him. 2. Danny\'s performance, he was good. No other then that it got pretty stupid. And, what was Stanley Kubrick thinking drafting Shelly as the Wendy? She was so bad. She looked the same every time she got scared. The problem with this movie was the ending. I would have had more respect for it if Kubrick would have ended it differently. And, the over all movie was just stupid. The problem with the movie is that the book was so much better. So dont see the movie read the book and you will be much better off. 3/10."'],
 ['938,"This episode had potential. The basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment (but a phone that constantly rings) is somewhat interesting. And when she explores the noise, there is genuine tension and fear. But stupid script writing ruins any promise the episode had.<br /><br />First of all, the woman readily admits to seeing things that would send most of us running in the other direction (e.g. ""It\'s funny that the door slammed shut even though there is no wind;"" ""This door has serious damage to it that wasn\'t here a minute ago;"" ""The door opened by itself, without me touching it;"" etc.). Given these supernatural phenomena, plus the fact that a woman committed suicide in the room, wouldn\'t she take some precaution before entering it? Maybe she could investigate in the day time. Or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else. Or maybe she could TURN ON THE LIGHTS!!! Also, while in the haunted apartment, she decides to make numerous phone calls to the operator and gets into an argument over who has the power to disconnect the phone, and then they begin discussing the details of the suicide. JUST UNPLUG THE PHONE! The phone company doesn\'t need to be involved. Walk up to the phone and unplug it. Case closed.<br /><br />Finally, showing the phone scamper across the floor like it\'s alive was just comical. If the director wanted the woman to get strangled by the phone card, he could\'ve done it in a way that didn\'t look cartoony. Brave Little Toaster anyone?"'],
 ['939,"The quality of this movie is simply unmatched by any baseball title of its time. Pam Dixon branches out in the film industry to recruit blue-chip prospects and make this work of art a must-see. Academy Award winners Brenda Fricker (Home Alone: Lost in New York, A Time to Kill), Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show, Red Dawn), and Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Village) amplify the atmosphere of the movie, drawing in an anxious audience. However, the dramatic performances are neutralized by quirky radio broadcaster Jay O. Sanders (JFK, The Day After Tomorrow).<br /><br />The story is centralized around a foster child, up-and-coming actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick, The Lookout). Sidekick Milton Davis Jr. delivers a tear-jerking performance as the longtime friend who never knew his parents. The two don\'t have much, but what they do have: Angels\' baseball, and what they are seeking: identity. That\'s when 4-time Emmy Nominee Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, Predator 2) comes in to save the day as frustrated Angels Manager, George Knox. In relation, all characters in the story seem to have the same mission: search within themselves to find out who they really are.<br /><br />Depressed over the fact that Roger (JGL) is separated from his father, he wishes to God for reunification if the Angels can take the pennant. Odds are astronomical, but 3-time Emmy winner Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, My Favorite Martian) comes in as the omniscient overseer to work a little magic (pun). Before you know it, Al (Lloyd) is sitting with Roger in the stands, snacking on cracker jacks, and causing some of baseball\'s biggest boners! Dorothy Kingsley and George Wells\' (DK Oscar Nominee GW Oscar Winner) 1951 screenplay is done justice under the finger of mastermind William Dear (nominated in Directors Guild of America). He includes a touching side story centered around pitcher Mel Clark, played by Tony Danza (4-time Golden Globe nominee, Emmy nominee), who in relation to all other cast members is just trying to find his place in a confused Anaheim. Clark has been dubbed a wash-up, a once big-name in Cinci, but he has something to prove to Manager Knox.<br /><br />Spoiling this nail-biting plot would simply be the equivalent to committing adultery in the 18th century. This one is a diamond in the rough, and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace. Did I mention a cameo by Matthew McConaughey (A Time to Kill, We Are Marshall) for all you ladies out there?"'],
 ['940,"I kept watching it because it seemed like the plot was going somewhere. When it ambiguously got there I was very disappointed. I\'m going to tell you what really happened in the next sentence. But maybe I won\'t. Maybe I\'ll just imply something will happen. The writers lacked any imagination. This is not even a ""B"" movie - it\'s a made for TV ""B"" movie."'],
 ["941,The movie itself made me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too. It was extremely funny. Angelena Jolie was wonderful as Juliet. The parents are hilarious.They are caterers as well as enemies.The kids play the parts of Romeo and Juliet in the church play.They fall in love and their parents try to keep them apart.(Spoiler Ahead. I think) They sneak off after a party and do it. Surprisingly they still want to get married in the end of the movie. If you don't like stereotypes and the defilement of classic literature don't watch. If you don't mind those you will have a blast watching this one."],
 ['942,"If somebody wants to make a really, REALLY bad movie, ""Wizards of the Lost Kingdom"" really sets a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness.<br /><br />Start with the pseudo-Chewbacca that follows around the main character ... Some poor schmuck in a baggy white ""furry"" costume that looks as if it was stitched together from discarded pieces of carpeting. Work your way slowly, painfully, through more not-so-special effects that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief. Add a garden gnome (just for the heck of it).<br /><br />On second thought, skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half."'],
 ['943,"A film for mature, educated audiences...<br /><br />I saw ""Random Hearts"" in an advance screening shortly before its North American release. This romantic drama was quite a treat. I\'m sure this story will not be everyone\'s cup of tea, especially considering the film\'s darkly downbeat premise. But the pic has some very uplifting strong points in its favor.<br /><br />All-time Box Office Draw Harrison Ford (""Star Wars,"" ""Raiders of the Lost Ark,"" ""The Fugitive,"" ""Air Force One,"" ""Patriot Games"") is at the top of his game as the harried and desperate Internal Affairs officer, Dutch. Ford\'s very subdued, nuanced performance shows quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in bringing the audience into his world of loss & betrayal. This is the perfect complex role and very different type of film for Harrison Ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbusters. Next year Harrison Ford returns to action, first for director Robert Zemeckis (""Forrest Gump,"" ""Back To The Future"") in his summer 2000 thriller, ""What Lies Beneath,"" and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of Tom Clancy\'s ""The Sum Of All Fears."" \'Fears\' will be Harrison Ford\'s third outing as CIA operative Jack Ryan.<br /><br />Director Sydney Pollack (""Out of Africa,"" ""The Firm,"" ""Tootsie"") has a supporting role in this feature as a political advisor to Scott-Thomas\' congresswoman. It\'s a very sharp & energetic portrayal for Pollack. Not only is Sydney Pollack a gifted director, he is also one of the most believable, natural and charming actors around (see ""Eyes Wide Shut"" as well).<br /><br />Kristin Scott-Thomas (""The English Patient,"" ""The Horse Whisperer"") shows that you don\'t necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be considered sexy. This is one of her better films, and she gives a tremendously crafted and mellowed performance that works well opposite Ford\'s quiet-man toughness.<br /><br />The subplots work wonderfully, especially the subplot involving Ford\'s character\'s investigation into police corruption. Look for a chilling & effective turn by ""Heat"" actor, Dennis Haysbert, who plays Detective George Beaufort, the obstacle to overcome in Dutch\'s investigation into police corruption.<br /><br />The rest of the supporting cast is a wonderful delight. Charles S. Dutton (whose long overdue for a film leading role) goes to show that he is one of the best character-actors around, and Bonnie Hunt, who I find extremely solid in this production, steals most of her scenes with that wonderful, charming smile as Wendy Judd.<br /><br />The technical side of Pollack\'s thriller is top notched. From Dave Grusin\'s (Pollack\'s ""The Firm"") perfectly surreal-feeling jazzy score, to Philippe Rousselot (""A River Runs Through It"") crisp photography, to the sharp editing that keeps the film feeling fresh, despite the film\'s unfortunate downer premise.<br /><br />I highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good yarn of mystery, well-paced plot, character-driven stories, and romance all rolled into one. This is a terrific story about betrayal & forgiveness. It also features one of the most surprising, yet poignant, and certain to be controversial endings for a Harrison Ford film in recent times. ""Random Hearts"" is definitely one of the better films of the year.<br /><br />(***1/2 out of ****) or (8.5 out of 10.0)"'],
 ['944,"For all of the Has-Beens or Never Was\'s or for the curious, this film is for you....Ever played a sport, or wondered what it felt like after the lights went down and the crowd left..this film explores that and more.<br /><br />Robin Williams(Jack Dundee) is a small town assistant banker in Taft CA., whose life has been plagued, by a miscue in a BIG rival high school football game 13 years ago, when he dropped the pass that would have won over Bakersfield, their Arch-Rival, that takes great pleasure in pounding the Taft Rockets, season after season . Kurt Russell(Reno Hightower) was the Quarterback in that famous game, and is the local legend, that now is a van repair specialist, whose life is fading into lethargy, like the town of Taft itself.<br /><br />Williams gets an idea to remake history, by replaying the GAME ! He meets with skeptical resistance, so he goes on a one man terror spree, and literally paints the town , orange, yellow and black , to raise the ire of the residents to recreate THE game . After succeeding, the players from that 1972 team reunite, and try to get in shape to practice, which is hysterical . The game is on , Bakesfield is loaded with all of the high tech gadgets, game strategies, and sophisticated training routines . Taft is drawing plays in the mud, with sticks, stones, and bottle caps, what a riot ! Does Taft overcome the odds, does Robin Willians purge the demons from his bowels, does Kurt Russell rise from lethargy, watch ""The Best of Times"" for one of the BEST viewing experiences ever!<br /><br />One of Robin Williams best UNDERSTATED performances, the chemistry between Robin and Russell is magic . And who is Kid Lester ???<br /><br />Holly Palance and Pamela Reed give memorable performances as the wives of Williams and Russell. Succeeds on Many Levels. A 10 !"'],
 ['945,"This movie has to be one of the most boring and stupid movies that Perrugorria have done. <br /><br />It looks like a commercial from beginning to end. The ¨director¨spent the whole time on a tripod, it doesn\'t have pace, rhythm. It\'s illogical. what a mess. You can tell what\'s gonna happen since the first 15 minutes, and the ending...Wow<br /><br />------spoiler-------<br /><br />Jesus Christ, how the hell Perrugorria got shot? Are you serious? Worst scene of someone getting shot ever!<br /><br />------end of spoiler-----<br /><br />Bad directing, bad script, bad acting...Really bad overall. I wouldn\'t recommend this movie at all. It\'s a waste of money and time."'],
 ['946,"I first remember bumping into this zaniness from the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams, back in the early days at Comedy Central. Back in those days (the 90\'s) their programming consisted of Benny Hill reruns and the original MST3k, complete with bearded host.<br /><br />Capt. Frank Drebin (played by the stone-faced, dead-pan filibuster, Leslie Nielson) is a process created first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists (think Dragnet meets Starsky & Hutch the Show), boiled in a flask full of well-known police television show plots and scenarios. This is distilled, 3 times to produce the most pure policeman every made. Forget about Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz (for now. save it for later). Frank Drebin is clueless at most times, a terrible driver, a terrible shot, macho yet sensitive and vulnerable. He is a master of the police investigative methodology (a.k.a - ask Johnny the Leathery Old Shoe-Shine Boy). This does not make him a bad cop. Cops get lucky also. Capt Drebin (notice he\'s a Captain here) has perfected it. Along with his partner, Nordberg, and the rest of force, perfectly parody the police drama over the course of 6 golden episodes.<br /><br />The show is a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quote-ables. Most of the sight gags are a bit dated and silly. The magic never came from the sight gags,however. At its core was a nonsensical and straight-faced conversation and activities in the foreground, with crazy things occurring in the background. The movies can best be described as 90 minute compilations of the best gags from this series. Think of Monty Python\'s And Now For Something Completely Different.....<br /><br />If you liked Airplane 1 & 2, Naked Gun 1,2,3, or Top Secret, then you will definitely enjoy this. <br /><br />I always liked the series better than the movies, even though I saw the movies first. Why? 2 words : No O.J."'],
 ['947,"A guy desperate for action attempts to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus. She refuses him, but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway. And there it starts - a relation that is slightly tainted by the fact that she is a jealous and neurotic superhero. It can\'t be a secret that things between them are going to be problematic.<br /><br />In short, a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film. And IMO, it succeeds at being a nice film. It\'s no masterpiece, but it had me in tears from laughing on more than one occasion - the two lead characters twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that is, even with the superhero thing going, believable.<br /><br />So. Thin story, but worked out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time.<br /><br />7 out of 10 broken hearts"'],
 ["948,i think it is great one of my favourite films as a kid and who said there songs were unforgettable they were mint i can still remember them now WORD FOR WORD the film remains a favourite with my family and my younger cousins are now addicted to it too they even know the songs this film is great and a enjoyable film for kids it has a moral lesson so don't say its not good because it shows how lying gets you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment: this film is amazing love me xxx P.s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation is good the jokes are humorous and the action never stops.This film will go down in children's film history and in my opinion one of the only remaining safe films to show children."],
 ['949,"The film someone had to make.<br /><br />Waco: The Rules of Engagement dissects the evidence behind the standoff in Waco, Texas that led to the destruction of the Branch Davidian homestead and the alleged government cover-up.<br /><br />The first thing you need to know about this film: you will see brief but disturbing photos of the victims bodies. This is not done for shock value, but to illustrate points about the way they died, as if you were present at the coroner\'s inquest.<br /><br />The second thing you should know about this film: at two and a quarter hours, it\'s pretty ponderous - especially if you already followed the events closely at the time. If you are unaware of any of the events other than what was reported in the mass media, or if the only side of the story you are familiar with is the official government report, this may be essential viewing. If, on the other hand you want a more concise (albeit unapologetically one sided) version of events, you should see ""Waco: The Big Lie"".<br /><br />In summary, this is pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event, and is very sobering, but as a work of film-making, could test your patience, especially if you have a short attention span. And it\'s at times superfluous for those who watched the CSPAN hearings and the 60 Minutes reports.<br /><br />Perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that covers some of the stranger aspects of this story, such as the bizarre chain of events that led up to the ATF raid or the psychological warfare tactics the FBI used blasting rock music at the sect, and their charismatic leaders (all rock musicians themselves) picking up their instruments and turning their massive amplifiers outward to blast their own music right back at them."'],
 ['950,"What a good movie! At last a picture revealing a unknown side of rock: illusions of fame. Well-known Rockers are getting old and forgotten, not the music. And with a good sense of humour. Have you ever danced on Bill Haley\'s Rock Around the Clock?<br /><br />Anyway, Still Crazy is probably the best movie about rock n\'roll I have ever seen. Far much better than Spinal Tap for instance. Why? Because in Still Crazy, people are mature. They have a different point of view about rock, about love and about life. They want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much. Beyond the story itself, we see characters with their own personality, weaknesses and dreams. Like anyone of us.<br /><br />Spend a good time watching this (listen to the awesome soundtrack! )and finally thinking of your own future.<br /><br />Bye!"'],
 ['951,"Had it with the one who raised you since when you were young? You just want her gone from your life? That woman is your mother. You should respect her, you should honor her, whether she\'s in sick or well. But that in times, it can be aggravating. Especially when she becomes very overbearing. That\'s how Owen(Danny DeVito) had to deal with in ""Throw Momma Fron The Train"". His Momma(Anne Ramsey, 1929-88), is one of the worst. He trying his best to be a writer, and she is everything but grateful. Calls him a ""clumsy poop"", a ""larda$$"", and ""fat"" and ""stupid"". For his friend, Larry Donner(Billy Crystal) he has his own woman problems, his ex-wife. She trying to discredit him. So what did Owen do? Push her overboard. What does he do? Help return the favor, get rid of Mrs. Lift! In the kitchen scene, I liked it where Owen called Larry, ""Cousin Patty"". And Momma said, ""You don\'t have a Cousin Patty!"" and Owen shouts ""You Lied To Me!"" and El Cabongs Larry with the frying pan. Then comes the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill Momma Lift. That is thwarted, and she kicks Larry off the train. Well, everything back to normal, the ex-wife lives, but Momma kicked the bucket on her own. Maybe she should have seen the errors of her domineering ways. A fun movie it is, and the cast is great. A classic! 5 stars!"'],
 ['952,"Yes, it is a bit cheesy. But it\'s suspenseful and entertaining, and one of my favorites; there are some excellent actors in the film, and they do a commendable job given the limitations of plot and characters. It\'s interesting to see David Soul in a \'bad guy\' role; I thought he was quite believable--and rather chilling--as the ever-more-paranoid CO. Robert Conrad is a long-time favorite--I think he brings his character to life very well; and Sam Waterston has been star quality in everything of his I\'ve watched--movies or TV. <br /><br />I watch this movie every so often but our tape (a VHS TV copy I got) is such poor quality it\'s difficult to fully enjoy it. This is a movie I think they should put out on DVD; maybe it wouldn\'t be universally sought after, but I\'m sure there are lots of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there WOULD be a market for a DVD version. I\'ll keep hoping!"'],
 ['953,"So it isn\'t an epic, but for people experiencing anything similar<br /><br />(sibling suicide) it might be an interesting way of therapy. An<br /><br />imaginative narrative and some fine acting makes it time well<br /><br />spent. For some reason, it hasn\'t really caught on in the audience,<br /><br />something I do believe is a result of the main theme. Why did she<br /><br />commit suicide? Clearly, this is hardly something that US<br /><br />moviegoers will flock to, had it been an European production it<br /><br />probably would have reached its audience in a much greater<br /><br />extent. It is however, a movie that although the realism tainted by a<br /><br />shimmering romanticized glow, gives the viewer a whole hearted<br /><br />impression."'],
 ['954,"I absolutely loved this film! I was hesitant to watch it at first because I thought it would be too painful. I remember how hard it was when John was shot. However, watching the ""Two of Us"" took me back to a happier time when he was still alive and there was hope and possibility. I think that the writer did an amazing job depicting what ""might have been."" Aidan Quinn was adorable as Paul and met the challenge head on. I was impressed with his accent and mannerisms. Jared Harris is also very talented and was quite believable as John. My favorite parts were the scene in the park and the rooftop scene - which was so poignant. The film left me with both sadness and satisfaction, both of which I feel are appropriate, given the circumstances."'],
 ['955,"Previous reviewer Claudio Carvalho gave a much better recap of the film\'s plot details than I could. What I recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful, in every sense - emotionally, visually, editorially - just gorgeous.<br /><br />If you like movies that are wonderful to look at, and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant, I think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art.<br /><br />On a scale of 1 to 10, I\'d give it about an 8.75. The only reason I shy away from 9 is that it is a mood piece. If you are in the mood for a really artistic, very romantic film, then it\'s a 10. I definitely think it\'s a must-see, but none of us can be in that mood all the time, so, overall, 8.75."'],
 ['956,"Great premise, poor execution. Cast of great actors is watered down into a poorly written, poorly directed, poorly edited, waste of film. Only redeeming quality is the numerous shots of the food.<br /><br />Joan Chen, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, and Alfre Woodard should fire their agents."'],
 ['957,"Have to agree that this movie and it\'s talented director do not receive the plaudits they deserve. Here\'s hoping that the DVD will do very well and bring both to the attention of a wider audience. The actors gave excellent performances and the plot is excellent. Perhaps overall the movie is a little long but May Miles Thomas seems to enjoy her actors when they are giving strong performances and therefore sometimes holds them in longer close ups than necessary. Good for the actors I am sure but sometimes as the audience you are ready to move on so to speak with the plot. May Miles Thomas deserves more recognition from the Film business as one of our foremost digital movie directors,"'],
 ['958,"I had two reasons for watching this swashbuckler when it aired on Danish television yesterday. First of all, I wanted to see Gina Lollobrigida - and here I wasn\'t disappointed. She looked gorgeous. Second of all, through reading about the film I had gotten the impression that it featured absurd humor not unlike that which can be found in Philippe de Broca\'s films. On this account, however, I was sadly disappointed. I found the jokes predictable (apart from a few witty remarks on the topic of war) and the characters completely one-dimensional. Also, the action scenes were done in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion, with no sense of drama at all. I kept watching until the end, but I got bored very quickly and just sat there, waiting for the scenes with Lollobrigida."'],
 ['959,"This film is an abomination of all that is worthy in film making. The lead actor surprises his audience by not actually acting at all. We have to watch almost two hours of his bland soulless face. The jokes are all lame I never laughed once it was Saturday night there were 5 of us having a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour being drained from the room. The film ended and the mood was ruined so we all went our separate ways, ruined the night ! OK so pros and cons. Pros beautiful setting in Hawaii, looks good on bluray. Cons worst acting ever; you can tell everyone concerned is just thinking about payday. Predictable poor plot. Zero character development. Forced jokes which fall flat. Many shots of the guys penis which to be fair acts better than him and has more charisma. May all makers of this film hang their heads in shame and hold their flaccid manhoods cheap."'],
 ['960,"This was my first Gaspar Noe movie I\'ve watched and I have to say I was shocked. I don\'t mind gore in generally, but this isn\'t even gore , it\'s real butchering. For some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and I mean really disgusting. Leaving aside these aspects, the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant. When you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given, you can\'t stop and take a minute to think about it. The actors did their job well, representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society. The movie is full of metaphors, but I\'ll let you figure them out. Don\'t watch it if you want to have a lite, relaxing time. I recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema."'],
 ['961,"I agree with BigAlC - this movie actually prepared me for a lot of the cultural differences and practices before I went to live in Japan for a year in 1993. Tom Selleck does a fantastic job here, as always, and the movie is greatly humorous and educational. I\'m a big fan of Tom Selleck\'s, and he blesses this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part, bringing the film to life in a way I can\'t imagine any other actor being able to pull off. <br /><br />This film featured some first-rate Japanese actors, and it was highly entertaining to watch them as they interacted with Selleck - I can imagine the fun he had during the actual filming of the movie - Japan\'s an awesome place to go, whether you want to party, sight-see or just try to take everything in."'],
 ['962,"I laughed so hard during this movie my face hurt. Ben Affleck was hilarious and reminded me of a pretty boy Jack Black in this role. Gandolfini gives his typical A performance. The entire cast is funny, the story pretty good and the comic moments awesome. I went into this movie not expecting much so perhaps that is why I was so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhausted. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys comedy, can identify with loneliness during the holidays and/or putting up with the relatives. The best part to this film (to me anyway) were the subtle bits of humor that caught me completely off guard and had me laughing long after the rest of the audience had stopped. Namely, the scene involving the lighting of the Christmas tree. Go see it and have a good laugh!"'],
 ['963,"Although I lived in Australia in 1975, I moved overseas not long after, fed up with constant industrial unrest, the general worship of mediocrity - unless one is a sportsman! - and the complacency of so many Australians who chose to ignore the breakneck pace of change taking place in countries to their north. <br /><br />Consequently I missed The Dismissal, along with many other Australian-made TV dramas of the \'80s and \'90s, such as the superb Janus and Phoenix series, which I have since seen, along with Wildside.<br /><br />To me the filmed story of The Dismissal is fair and, as far as I am aware, accurate. However, as to public ""outrage"" it only shows one side of the picture, not how families were riven by the controversy. I know, as my two brothers would not speak to me for months afterward. <br /><br />But the commentary is, in my view, very one-sided throughout. The inescapable fact is that, notwithstanding fiery expressions of rage from a substantial proportion of the community, the Australian electorate chose - and chose decisively - in favour of Fraser, as they did again two years later. <br /><br />This apart, a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama."'],
 ['964,"I may be a good old boy from Virginia in the Confederate States of America, but this man does it for me. That mustache gets me riled up. I remember when I first saw a video of his. That girl he beat was amazing. The depth of his acting when they cut to his weathered facade was a new level of masculinity. It reminds me of the granite sculptures of our Mt. Rushmore. If I could ask him one question, it would be,""If you were a hot-dog, would you eat yourself?"" Will Orhan be doing a reunion tour? Take note from the greats like Gordon Lightfoot, true music from the heart never fades away. Vive La John Denver. Gracias my friend, O.F.F.L. (Orhan Fan For Life)"'],
 ['965,"I never want to see this movie again!<br /><br />Not only is it dreadfully bad, but I can\'t stand seeing my hero Stan Laurel looking so old and sick.<br /><br />Mostly I can\'t stand watching this terrible movie!<br /><br />Frankly, there is no reason to watch this awful film. The plot is just plain stupid. The actors that surround Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are really really bad and Laurel and Hardy have been funnier in any of their earlier films! <br /><br />I warn you don\'t watch it, the images will haunt you for a long while to come!"'],
 ['966,"The problem is the role of the characters in the film. Man to Man shows a British anthropologist kidnapping two pygmies and taking them to Scotland and then realising that they are not animals or subhumans but actually equal to himself. The problem is the role of the pygmies in the film - two people who are kidnapped, treated like animals, and yet given such a shallow, stereotypical role within the film... The kidnapper (british anthropologist) ends up being the hero of the film because he \'manages\' to relate to the pygmies... No notion of how the two hostages feel, of their point of view, of their ordeal... I find it is a shallow film, with a one sided fundamentally racist view... it never manages to move away from the \'white mans\' view"'],
 ['967,"Life Begins - and ends - in a typical 1930\'s maternity / recovery ward, where we view 48 hours in the lives of several high risk pregnant women, played by Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell, Clara Blandick (Aunty Em???), Vivienne Osborne, Dorothy Tree, and Gloria Shea, as they await to give birth. While the film features plot devices which seem far fetched today when maternity wards are much more controlled and restricted, it does offer us a look back in time to see what giving birth in a typical city hospital in 1932 was like for our grandmothers and great-grandmothers. I found the film fascinating and exceptionally moving.<br /><br />Oddly enough, the most outstanding performance in this film comes from a male cast member, young Eric Linden as Jed Sutton, Grace\'s (Loretta Young) husband. What an actor! As a first time father, Jed is distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to brush off his concerns about his wife as they might brush crumbs off a cafeteria table. I felt his every concern keenly. I\'d like to see more of this actor\'s work. He had a very emotional voice, which was used to unforgettable effect in Gone With The Wind. In that film Eric played the young soldier whose leg was amputated without anesthesia, who screamed ""Don\'t cut! Don\'t cut!"" as Scarlett fled the hospital in horror. Chilling! Another great performance is from Aline MacMahon, who plays Miss Bowers, the nurse. Her character is a salt of the earth type, the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stays, who breaks the hospital rules constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession.<br /><br />Loretta Young did another superb acting job here as well, a very authentic and deeply felt performance as Grace. My, she is great in these precodes, I\'ve really grown to appreciate her more as an actress the last few months.<br /><br />Glenda Farrell played her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste (didn\'t anyone know back in 1932 that swigging brandy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn babies\' health?) but her character redeems herself in the end.<br /><br />Also in the cast was an uncredited Gilbert Roland, silent movie star, as a grieving Italian husband. His screen time was brief, but notable.<br /><br />Life Begins is a must-see precode, try to catch it sometime on TCM, but remember to bring a few hankies to cry into. 9 out of 10."'],
 ['968,"This is a great film. Touching and strong. The direction is without question breathless. Good work to the team. I feel so sorry for Marlene, By the grace of God go you or I"'],
 ['969,"I think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet-paper. No respect whatsoever to many important details which intrinsically make the movie. For example, the names of some Serbian terrorists (that I remember) are Caradan Maldic, Ivanic Loyvek and Leo Hasse. What kind of names are that? Certainly not Serbian! By the way, Caradan Maldic!!! What a name, I laughed for days thinking about it. Probably an implication on Karadzic and Mladic. Secondly, there have never been any cases of terrorism done by Serbians. A journalist like the main character ought to have known that. Thirdly, the actors playing Serbian terrorists are not even Serbs nor do they speak Serbo-croatian. All this aside, this movie is solidly acted but the story is paper-thin and full of holes. At times it makes no sense whatsoever!!!"'],
 ['970,"*Criticism does mention spoilers*<br /><br />I rarely make user comments, but this is one movie I have no problem slandering. This movie stinks, and its mediocre of rating of 6 and a half stars is probably too high for such pulp. The Bone Collector is not at all the same calibre of film that Silence of the Lambs or Seven were, despite what its ad claims. This is a perfect example of how not to make a thriller. The pace of this movie was extremely slow- I actually left for about 10 minutes half-way through and came back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression (I refer to you the part where Angelina Jolie\'s character debates Denzel about cutting off a corpse\' hands). The movie is not at all scary, but tries to compensate this with a love-subplot albeit sexy Angelina Jolie\'s character and Denzel Washington\'s. Of course, what you get is something comparable to that of the mentor-student relationship as seen in the brillian epic Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal Lecter and Starling, however, even this lacks all effectiveness and I was personally routing for the villain to kill Denzel off so as to avoid hackneyed giggles between the two. With such a crappy movie, I was half-expecting a plot-twist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit- things that mediocre movies like Arlington Road and Scream pulled off. Anybody with a 4th grade education can see the ending how will be resolved ( a situation which mimicks Alfred Hitchcock\'s Rear Window). The cliche of having the killer explain his motives was uninspired enough, but the reason was so ridiculous and stupid it had me spewing latte over the screen. Esoterically speaking, I even think the murderer\'s intention was completely lost as Denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial \'chess game\' and gets with his pet project, Angelina.<br /><br />If you are a fan of movies with original ideas and genuinely dynamic concepts (like I am), you will not appreciate this film. If you have not attended a single movie in your life and would like to catch-up on every single Hollywood cliche ever borne (the late-night knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer, the ridiculous serial-killer to prime investigator relationship, the horrible \'woman trying to get by in an all-male dominated workforce aka SOTL) , see this movie....but even then its too slow-paced and you\'d be bored."'],
 ['971,"Possible Spoilers, Perhaps. I must say that ""Cinderella II: Dreams Come True"" is one of the worst movies ever made. First of all, the movie was made during the height of Disney\'s sequel rampage. It was created around the same time as ""The Little Mermaid II,"" ""The Jungle Book II,"" and ""Peter Pan II,"" all of which were disservices to their original film classics. (Disney also made ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame II"" and ""Atlantis II,"" but I\'m going to drop that topic because their original movies were never really classics in the first place."") Let me go ahead and say that I am an avid supporter of good Disney films, and I absolutely adore the original Disney ""Cinderella."" The sequel to ""Cinderella,"" however, was a waste of time. The character of Cinderella in the sequel was so very unlike the original girl that I grew up watching. In the original, Cinderella was kind and loving. The new Cinderella had very out-of-character moments with current-era phrasing like, ""I\'m going to do this banquet my way!"" Let me also tell you that new Cinderella (as I have affectionately named her) says, ""Ewww!"" That is the anti-Cinderella. I try to find the best in people, but in the sequel, Anastasia, one of the stepsisters, is good! What the heck? Why? They made it all out to be like Lady Tremaine and Drizella are just horrible family members for poor little Anastasia. My question to the world: did the people at Disney watch the original ""Cinderella"" when making this sequel? Well, it surely doesn\'t seem so. If I remember correctly, Anastasia was just as abusive to Cinderella as Drizella and Lady Tremaine. I am all for redemption and forgiveness, but there was no point of redemption for Anastasia in this movie. In the first one, Anastasia was evil. In the second one, she is good. One just can\'t leave a story like this. I hope Disney realizes that this movie, among other movies, is shaming Walt Disney\'s name. Perhaps now that Michael Eisner is gone, things will start shaping up around the House of Mouse."'],
 ['972,"Hopefully the score has changed by now due to my brilliant and stunning review which persuades all of you to go and watch the film thereby creating an instant chorus of ""8""s, this movie\'s true score.<br /><br />As mentioned before Chris Rock is The King! Previous to going to see this movie I wasn\'t that over the top about him but now I\'m banging on the doors of Chris Rock\'s website begging him to take me on as his protege. This film is truly funny, if you don\'t find this movie funny you REALLY need therapy and it\'s humour which targets all areas of society including race(predictably), class division, love, wealth, employment, dreams, stand up comedy... the list goes on.<br /><br />There was one slight disappointment for me however. This was that in going into this film I didn\'t realise that it was actually a remake of ""Heaven Can Wait"" another quite good movie made in 1971 with Warren Beatty. As such I was quite surprised when I watched this movie and suddenly the plot began to unravel to be distinctly similar to an older movie I had watched on TV a few weeks ago.. Regardless this movie is in my opinion the better version out of the two of them simply because of the different areas it covers and the fact that Chris Rock is funnier than Warren Beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any...you get the picture.<br /><br />Well to the actual plot of the film.<br /><br />Don\'t spoil the experience for yourself! Don\'t read the plot! Just go and watch a movie because there have been two reviews on IMDb so far that have raved mad about it, go see it because it is the funniest thing you would have seen in a long time, go and see it because it\'s a cinema experience that doesn\'t leave you grumbling ad nauseum at the cost of cinema tickets. Go see it because it is a good movie!"'],
 ['973,"Formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich Chilenian who stands to inherit a fortune and gets mixed up in the affairs of bad guys and falls in love with a beautiful female lawyer (Vargas). It looks very much like a TV movie, not really exciting. The only reason I bothered to see it was because Valentina Vargas was in it. No real surprises here, though it is nice to see Vargas. Great looking Chilenian landscapes on display but Malcolm McDowell\'s part is very small and doesn\'t add much to the movie. Michael Ironside plays as usual a bad guy but this is not one of his most memorable parts. The chase scenes are standard fare."'],
 ['974,"Whatever rating I give BOOM is only because of the superb location photography of Sardinia and Rome. Otherwise, this is only for hardcore addicts of ELIZABETH TAYLOR (her downward phase), and RICHARD BURTON (his miscasting phase). Tennessee Williams wrote ""The Milk Train Doesn\'t Stop Here Anymore"" and is supposed to be very fond of this adaptation of his play--but apparently, he was the only one. Taylor reportedly hated it and Burton needed the money.<br /><br />Whatever, it amounts to a hill of beans with Taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner, exploding at the servants and exchanging bad baby-talk with no less than NOEL COWARD who seems to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears.<br /><br />It\'s so campy that among Taylor fans it\'s probably considered a ""must see"" kind of thing. But if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand, you\'re way ahead of me. Sadly, this is the film that signified the end of Taylor being taken seriously as a film actress, even after winning two Oscars. For Burton, it was equally disastrous and the critics called it a BOMB. Judge for yourself if you dare."'],
 ['975,"VIVA LA BAM This ""Jackass"" spin off focuses on the (obviously scripted) adventures of Bam Margera and his pals (Johnny Knoxville, Brandon Dicamillo, etc). This show, while it has its fair share of gross-out comedy and crazy stunts, focuses mainly on Bam\'s torturing of his parents.<br /><br />I\'m sorry to say this, Bam, but... you\'re in no way as cool as you think you are. This ego tripped show is not only painfully unfunny (and yes, I liked Jackass), but also narcissistic beyond belief. The overly stylized intro ends with Bam coolly explaining that he\'s going to do ""whatever the f***"" he wants to. How about you do something that is actually funny? I liked ""Jackass"" for what it was worth. The camera-work was horrible - any idiot could have made a better show with a camcorder in their parents\' garage - but at least the show moved at a steady pace and never felt boring between the crazy, dangerous or simply disgusting stunts the pals performed.<br /><br />Not so with ""Viva la Bam"". We follow our hero around as he plays pranks on his friends and tortures his relatives, but never does it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy. The stunts and pranks are mildly entertaining, but presented in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile.<br /><br />""Viva la Bam"" is a poor spin-off of that does little good but feed Margera\'s already too big ego. I don\'t recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone."'],
 ['976,"I had never heard of Larry Fessenden before but judging by this effort into writing and directing, he should keep his day job as a journeyman actor. Like many others on here, I don\'t know how to categorize this film, it wasn\'t scary or spooky so can\'t be called a horror, the plot was so wafer thin it can\'t be a drama, there was no suspense so it can\'t be a thriller, its just a bad film that you should only see if you were a fan of the Blair witch project. People who liked this film used words, like ""ambiguity"" and complex and subtle but they were reading into something that wasn\'t there. Like the Blair witch, people got scared because people assumed they should be scared and bought into some guff that it was terrifying. This movie actually started off well with the family ""meeting"" the locals after hitting a deer. It looked like being a modern day deliverance but then for the next 45 minutes, (well over half the film), nothing happened, the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining. It was obvious the locals would be involved in some way at some stage but Essendon clearly has no idea how to build suspense in a movie. Finally, when something does happen, its not even clear how the father was shot, how he dies, (the nurse said his liver was only grazed), and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently tracks down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with 3rd grade special effects. The film is called Wendigo but no attempt is made to explain it in any clear way, the film ends all muddled and leaves you very unsatisfied, i would have bailed out with 15 minutes to go but I wanted to see if this movie could redeem itself. It didn\'t."'],
 ['977,"Schlocky \'70s horror films...ya gotta love \'em. In contrast to today\'s boring slasher flicks, these K-tel specials actually do something scary and do not resort to a tired formula.<br /><br />This is a B movie about the making of a B movie...that went horribly wrong. Faith Domergue (This Island Earth) stars as an over-the-hill, B movie queen making a movie about a series of grisly murders that befell a family in their home. Her boyfriend/director, who looks and acts like Gordon Jump with an attitude, is filming on location and on a tight schedule. The Ken doll co-star discovers a book of Tibetian chants that they work into the script to add ""realism"". Unfortunately, ""realism"" is something they could have done without.<br /><br />John Carradine, having long since given up looking for the 17th gland (The Unearthly), now eeks out a humble existence as the caretaker for the estate. He goes about his daily work, but always seems to run afoul of the director.<br /><br />The horror builds slowly; a dead cat here, John Carradine entering a grave there, finally culminating in seven, yes seven murders. (At least there\'s truth in advertising.) It\'s just sad that the ghoul didn\'t understand that there was a movie being made above him. How was poor Faith to know that those darn Tibetian chants would actually work? Face it, you just can\'t go around tugging on Satan\'s coat and expect him to take it lying down.<br /><br />Sterno says perform an autopsy on The House of Seven Corpses."'],
 ['978,"I suppose for 1961 this film was supposed to be "" cool "" , but looking back now ( 45 years ) it\'s charm was just as silly as it\'s entertainment value ! Granted , the special effects do well on T.V. with the Series that started in 1964 , but for the BIG screen ?? I once had a fish tank that was equally as exciting ! I must agree about the Octopus scene near the end where it attached itself to the Seaview. Obviously not well staged...or trained ! Overall , it\'s pretty bad acting with shoddy special effects and I still do recommend it - for fun laughs sake. This was probably one of Irwin Allen\'s Biggest films and I think he thought a lot of it . Barabara Eden went on to play "" Genie "" on T.V. Micheal Ansara was her Husband . Now that is a cool part about this film ! I always enjoyed seeing real life Husband and Wife teams star in the same movie . Neat !"'],
 ['979,"This is one of the finest films to come out of Hong Kong\'s \'New Wave\' that began with Tsui Hark\'s ""ZU: Warriors of Magic Mountain"". Tsui set a tone for the New Wave\'s approach to the martial arts film that pretty much all the directors of the New Wave (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Wong Jing, Ching Siu Tung, etc.) accepted from then on as a given; namely, the approach to such films thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony, if not outright comedy. ""Burning Paradise"" put a stop to all that, and with a vengeance.<br /><br />It\'s not that there isn\'t humor here; but it is a purely human humor, as with the aged Buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manages a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hiding in a bundle of straw. But this is just as humans are, not even Buddhist priests can be saints all the time.<br /><br />When irony is at last introduced into the film, it is the nastiest possible, emanating from the \'abbot\' of Red Lotus Temple, who is a study in pure nihilism such as has never been recorded on film before. He is the very incarnation of Milton\'s Satan from ""Paradise Lost"": ""Better to rule in Hell than serve in heaven!"" And if he can\'t get to Satan\'s hell soon enough, he\'ll turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule.<br /><br />That\'s the motif underscoring the brutal violence of much of the imagery here: It\'s not that the Abbot just wants to kill people; he wants them to despair, to feel utterly hopeless, to accept his nihilism as all-encompassing reality. Thus there\'s a definite sense pervading the Red Temple scenes that there just might not be any other reality outside of the Temple itself - it has become all there is to the universe, and the Abbot, claiming mastery of infinite power, is in charge.<br /><br />Of course, fortunately, the film doesn\'t end there. Though there are losses, the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails. (If you want to know how, see the film!) Yet there is no doubt that, in viewing this film, we visit hell. Hopefully, we do not witness our own afterlives; but we certainly feel chastened by the experience - and somehow better for it over all."'],
 ['980,"Now I don\'t hate cheap movies. I just don\'t see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad\'s camcorder. If I rent a movie, I want it to be a MOVIE, not a bunch of people thinking it would be a good idea to waste some MiniDV - Tapes.<br /><br />Maybe I hate this one so much because the guy in the video store said it was great, and it wasn\'t. Maybe I hate it because it\'s cheap, has the dumbest plot EVER, the most unrealistic characters EVER and the really, really, really WORST SHOWDOWN in the history of films EVER. Even Tom Savini can\'t save this.<br /><br />Seriously, this one is a complete waste of time."'],
 ['981,"A fabulous book about a fox and his family who does what foxs do. that being stealing from farms and killing prey. until a trio of farmers decide they\'ve had enough of this fox and try in various ways to have the problem ""solved"". They are of course ""out foxed"" at every turn and while the trio are camped out at the fox hole the family perform raids against the three farmers land.<br /><br />The""film"" version ,and I use the term film very loosely, is more of a god awful pastiche of American heist movies particularly the Oceans movies. They they even have George clooney as Mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely. So kudos to them .They\'ll make lots of money and destroy another classic Roald Dahl children book."'],
 ['982,"As soon as it hits a screen, it destroys all intelligent life forms around ! But on behalf of its producers I must say it doesn\'t fall into any known movie category, it deserves a brand new denomination of its own ! It\'s a ""Neurological drama"" ! It saddens and depresses every single neuron inside a person\'s brain.<br /><br />It\'s the closest thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffering one. It drives you speechless, all you members go numb, your mouth falls open and remains so, and the most strange symptom of all is that you get yourself wishing to go blind and deaf.<br /><br />No small feat for such a sort of a ""movie"".<br /><br />The only word that comes to my mind just having finished my ordeal is OUTRAGE !!!!!!"'],
 ['983,"For a film made in Senegal, based, I guess loosely on Carmen, the book, by Prosper Merimee, this film doesn\'t achieve a mere resemblance of the story that has been made famous as an opera and as other films.<br /><br />Ms. Gai as the Karmen of the title is very good to look at. Her fiery dancing smolders the screen, as is the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film.<br /><br />This is a Karmen that aims to please to all genders, but a real Carmen, she is not!<br /><br />We would like to see Ms. Gai in other films in which her talent is better used than here."'],
 ['984,"This is a very noir kind of episode. It begins with Jim returning from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend, the recently divorced Karen Mills (Pat Delaney--daughter in law of John Huston, who knew a few things about noir film) and her daughter. When they arrive, Karen goes in the house while Jim picks up her daughter from the back seat and carries her up to her room. He then discovers Karen has disappeared without a trace. Of course he calls Dennis and when the police arrive, they see no sign of Karen, but find her next door neighbor murdered in the bushes. So of course that makes Jim an immediate suspect.<br /><br />This is a great little mystery and the first half of the story is shown by Rocky asking Jim to go over the story once again. Rocky suggests that by Jim telling him the story he might remember a little detail that he didn\'t think was important at the time, but now might lead to a clue as to what happened. It\'s a really well written scene and completes the transition of the Rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent. It also goes a long way to show that Rocky isn\'t just some clueless old man either. As he says ""You come to me because I\'m your father. And I\'m smarter than you!"" This is one of those times where we see where Jim got his smarts.<br /><br />This episode also features an appearance by hottie Lara Parker, who played Angelique in the ""Dark Shadows"" series and went on to play Laura Banner, Bruce\'s wife in the ""Incredible Hulk"" series a few years later. She looks terrific here.<br /><br />This episode also marks the first mention of the Minette crime family, a name that would keep popping up on the Rockford Files almost whenever they needed a mob family. This time, its Vincent Minette who Rockford helps apprehend.<br /><br />Lt. Diehl (Tom Atkins) makes his first appearance on the series and Dennis is quietly demoted from a police lieutenant that he was on the earlier season one episodes to a police Sargent. I guess they figured it would be better to have Dennis less powerful and add some conflict between Jim and the police. Frankly, they were right, though I prefer the later Lt. Chapman to Lt. Diehl. <br /><br />Not a lot of the typical ""Rockford"" humor in this episode, but a good mystery with a lot of heart."'],
 ['985,"The Royal Rumble has traditionally been one of my favourite events, and i\'ve been a wrestling fan for a good few years now. The other shows may have better matches, but i\'ve always found the actual rumble match to be full of excitement.<br /><br />I\'m not going to reveal the winners of any match as i don\'t see it as fair to ruin the results on a review. I will comment on the quality of them though.<br /><br />We have the standard 4 matches, and then the big rumble event. Two from Smackdown and two from Raw.<br /><br />Shawn Michaels and Edge open up for Raw. This proves to be a good match from two talented guys. This is a match i\'d recommend watching. It\'s hard to sum up without giving away the winner.<br /><br />Next we have the usual Undertaker against some big nasty monster, be whoever it is. Giant Gonzales, Yokozuna, Kamala... well this time it\'s Heidenreich. Its also a casket match. Typical Undertaker fare. Watch if you\'re a fan. I have to admit i am, purely for the entertainment factor. It can hardly be regarded as a classic wrestling match.<br /><br />The next two matches are the title matches. For once Smackdown manages to upstage Raw. Their title match is pretty thrilling and enjoyable, but with a anti-climax and let down to end it. Raw\'s match is a pretty dull and boring affair, which is a pity as i\'m a fan of both guys involved.<br /><br />Now to the main reason i love the event, the rumble. It\'s a pretty good one this year. Coming up to the event we all had a pretty good idea of who might win, and it may not prove a big surprise, but hey, its very enjoyable. There are the usual diverse ways of people being eliminated. There is the token guy who doesn\'t make it to the ring, the entrant who is ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished, and someone gets eliminated by a previously eliminated combatant. It has its usual highs and lows, and i loved the ending, in particular the Vince McMahon entrance.<br /><br />I\'d recommend this show. Not the WWE on top form, but its still good. Add it to your collection."'],
 ['986,"I remember this in a similar vein to the Young Ones. We\'d stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend weeks replaying the lines to each other.<br /><br />We called one of our mates ""Zipmole Watkins"" after the brilliant episode in which Daniel Peacock has a bit of \'restyling\' on his nose by the Back Street Abortionist.<br /><br />Lots of great lines ""Remember at 5:30 in the morning you can only get white bread from a brown man. Take it easy guy!"" - Gandhi as a local shopkeeper.<br /><br />Tony woodcock was definitely on there in the episode they were teaching Ralph (Daniel Peacock) to be a barman ""It\'s no good Amanda I\'ll never make it as a bar man"" Helen Lederer teaches him to ask people about the match ""See the match last night? I thought Woodcock played well"" After a string of failed conversations the curly haired Arsenal star was sitting at the bar: ""See the match last night?"" ""Yeah. I thought I played well""<br /><br />We still do odd stupid lines now - ""Reg and Ralph..... or....... Ralph and Reg. Reg, Reg... Reg Reg Reg Reg""<br /><br />Lots of very surreal silly moments and very surreal songs from the Flatlets - The Back Street Abortionist a personal favourite with the great ending line - ""And he\'ll mark your packages \'Return To Sender""<br /><br />Good old Danny Peacock - you added a lot to some young drinkers\' evenings sir.<br /><br />**Update - I found a couple of episodes on tape - I\'m going to upload the Gandhi sketch to Youtube **"'],
 ['987,"Destined to be a classic before it was even conceptualized. This game deserves all the recognition it deserves. At a time when first-person shooters like Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament are garnering all the attention of computer gamers, graphic adventures are a dying breed. With great pun and humour, The Curse of Monkey Island is a game that people of all age groups would enjoy. Life can only improve after playing The Curse of Monkey Island. *prediction* the sequel Escape from Monkey Island is already destined to be a classic too. I guarantee it."'],
 ['988,"Stephane Audran is the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measured study of a small Danish community towards the end of the last century. Two beautiful and musically talented sisters give-up their own prospects of happiness and marriage in order to look-after their ageing father. One day, a French woman, Babette, comes to work for them. After some years she wins the lottery and is determined to do something for the sisters who have taken her in. Her solution is to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast, which changes the lives of all those invited. This is a film about human and cultural interaction, reflected in the changing language of the dialogue from Danish to French, and especially between the dutiful sobriety of Protestant northern Europe and the sensuousness of the Catholic south. It is also about human needs, and how warmth and kindness can be expressed and stimulated through the cultivation of the senses. A profoundly uplifting film."'],
 ['989,"This movie was way over-hyped. A lot of the viewers, who thought this was ""amazing"" must have been into the old school movies, cause the whole movie is set in the past. At first I thought the movie was just showing something from the past, so I was expecting that faded dreamy like lighting on the characters to pass, but it just going. Basically this was a movie trying to mix the future with the past, and the 2 don\'t mix very well in this movie, even with special effects. You could actually see the blue screen the actors were working with. There are too many movies out there that do exactly what this movie did, so there is no reason for critics to hype this movie up saying ""it\'s the greatest movie ever done"". It\'s just crap on a stick. It also didn\'t help that the story line was sooo crappy. I don\'t understand why Hollywood agreed to have this movie produced, and I also don\'t understand how actors/actresses in this movie are willing to be in a movie like this. It\'s almost as though everybody read the script and forgot to read the fine print...""It will all be done on a computer"". This was a movie that should have been on a movie network, because nothing about this movie was revolutionary. I\'m very upset with myself for paying money to see this. Whatever you do, don\'t waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow."'],
 ['990,"It is incredible that there were two films with the same story released in 2005. This one came out a day before that other one with Tom Cruise. Didn\'t they do that with Truman Capote the same year, and the Zodiac killer last year? Interesting.<br /><br />Writer/Director David Michael Latt didn\'t have Steven Spielberg\'s budget and C. Thomas Howell is not Tom Cruise. This is a pale imitation of the blockbuster that grossed $588 million worldwide.<br /><br />The action was minimal and most of the time we were treated to the whining of Rhett Giles, who played a pastor that was giving up on his god.<br /><br />Gary Busey was creepy as an army LT."'],
 ['991,"I dunno sometimes...you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the B thru Z grade movies out there, but once in a while a particular movie just tests your patience until you want to slap everyone involved. ""Bat People"" (which I saw under the title ""It Lives By Night"") is just such a movie. You can\'t watch this without thinking that it really should have been an episode on ""Night Gallery"", and not one of the better ones, either. <br /><br />The movie has something to do with a doctor who gets bitten by a bat and consequently starts to morph into a Were-Bat who drinks human blood. (Actually, you\'d think if he was turning into a real bat, he\'d be eating mosquitoes by the gallon bucket, but because this is a cheap, lurid horror movie, blood\'s the word.) In spite of the fact that he has grand-mal seizures at the drop of a hat, and black-out episodes almost every night, his friend and fellow physician, Dr. Mustache Aspen-Extreme, insists that he\'s just having an \'allergic reaction\' to the rabies shots. Meanwhile, the world\'s most obnoxious and stereotyped county sheriff suspects the doc of being responsible for the brutal murder and exsanguination of several local girls (and one wino). Also meanwhile, the doctor\'s wife decides that denial IS a river in Egypt and alternately patronizes him and nags him to distraction. <br /><br />It\'s not so much that the acting is bad - you can tell that the actors are making professional level choices, and are trying to bring some juice and life to the script, even the guy who plays the sheriff. (Okay, it IS pretty bad, but it\'s bad in a clichéd, wooden, professional way). It\'s just that everything about the acting, the way the scenes are paced, the costumes, the dialog, the script and the story line in general sets your teeth on edge and makes you want to, well, slap everyone involved.<br /><br />I think the movie had an outside chance at being a spooky, unsettling little cult favorite, BUT:<br /><br />1)The director needed to beat Michael Pataki, an experienced character actor, with a chair until Pataki agreed to ACT, and not just channel Dennis Weaver. <br /><br />2)He also needed to find a script that made a little more sense with regard to the whole ""Bat Bites Human, Who Then Turns Into A Bat"" scenario. <br /><br />3) He also needed the actor who played the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his \'episodes\', instead of resorting to ""Man Has A Seizure"" page from the Little Golden Book of Clichéd Acting Mannerisms. <br /><br />4) He needed to rework the whole \'wife\' character, make her both more intelligent, less shrill and waaaaay more observant. <br /><br />I would never voluntarily watch this film again, except with the help of Mike and the Bots. It\'s bad, but it isn\'t bad in a silly, humorous or interesting way. Still better than ""Battlefield Earth"" or ""Waterworld"", though."'],
 ['992,"Big Fat Liar is what you get when you combine terrific writing, great production, and an emphasis on clever ideas over adolescent pap. The two stars work great together, and--what can I say? Amanda Bynes shines. Putting ""Irkel"" and Lee Majors in the film were brilliant touches. Watch this film with your kids. If you don\'t laugh throughout it, you must not have been paying attention."'],
 ['993,"Tim Robbins and John Cusack are two actors I have appreciated throughout their careers, and that was the only reason for choosing to watch this movie. Well, all I can say is I totally regretted it! These two great actors humiliate themselves all the way through by performing a number of irrelevant, unimaginative and kitch to the extreme (not that this is bad on its own)sketches that are supposed to make people laugh, but fail to do so. The only reason I can think is that the director was their friend, and they decided to support his movie by starring in it-I can\'t think of anything else because this movie is SO cheap! Fortunately Tim Robbins and John Cusack haven\'t disappointed me ever since. I would recommend you to avoid this film, unless you want your opinion about the two actors spoiled."'],
 ['994,"On watching this film, I was amazed at how media perception can mould a persons opinion of a celebrity. Karen Carpenter was a carefree, but very unconfident young lady, whose wonderful voice helped her and her brother Richard to soar the charts with wonderful songs. As with all celebrities of today, they were often criticised about their music as well as their looks, styles, etc. THis had a huge effect on Karen who raged a battle against her eating and drastically lost weight, which eventually caused her death. This heart felt film was not initially something which I would have thought of watching. But on starting to view it, then I was hooked. In the same way that the Tina Turner story does, then this film enlightens you and allows you to see into the young performers life. The acting was superb and even after nearly 20 years after it was made, then the directional and the dialogue are still entertaining.<br /><br />I would recommend this to anyone who hasn\'t yet watched it. It is amazingly accurate and emotionally charged."'],
 ['995,"Nothing is sacred. Just ask Ernie Fosselius. These days, everybody has a video camera, and a movie is hardly out before the spoofs start flying, quickly written and shot, and often posted directly to the internet. Spoofs are hot these days, and we go out of our way to make sure filmmakers don\'t get off on their own self-importance. 25 years ago, when the first Star Wars was made, it was a different world. Filmmaking was the playground of a select few and spoofs were very rare. Then God gave us Hardware Wars. It was shot to look cheap (or was it just cheap?) and the audio was obviously recorded after the fact. Does that take away from the experience? HECK NO! That\'s what makes it so great! It was raw and unpolished, and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moments of the original movie. From Fluke Starbucker waving around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber (I did that when I was young!) to Chewchilla the Wookie Monster, to Auggie Ben Doggie\'s ""nah, just a little headache"" remark, this film short is as much a part of the phenomenon as any of the actual Star Wars films. Rent it. Buy it. Borrow it from a friend. And may the Farce be with you. Always."'],
 ['996,"I hated it. I hate self-aware pretentious inanity that masquerades as art. This film is either stupidly inane or inanely stupid. After the first half hour, I fastfowarded through the DVD version, and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over. I became angered that I had spent hard-earned money for sophomoric clap-trap. Tinting drivel in sepia or blue does not make something a movie, let alone art."'],
 ['997,"I usually try to be professional and constructive when I criticize movies, but my GOD!!! This was THE worst movie I have ever seen. Bad acting, bad effects, bad script, bad everything! <br /><br />The plot follows a group of teen cliche\'s on their way to a rave (that takes place in broad daylight) at a remote island. However, when the group arrives, all they find is an empty dance floor and bloody clothes. Determined to find out what happened to the rest of the party-goers, the clan set\'s off on a mission through a zombie-infested forest. During this crusade, they are aided by a police chick and a sea captain that just happens to have the right number of weapons to give to each of the kids. They also meet up with Jonathan Cherry and some other survivors. Basically the rest of the movie is a collection of poorly directed action sequences including a far too long shootout outside of the ""house of the dead."" This fight came complete with cheesy Hollywood violence, redundant clips from the HOTD video game, and sloppy matrix-esque camera rotations. One of the character\'s even volunteers to sacrifice himself to save the others. Why? Not because he was noble and brave, but because part of his face got scarred by acid a zombie spat on him after he continued to beat the creature long after it had been disabled! I\'m supposed to feel sorry for this guy?!?<br /><br />To sum it all up, there is absolutely no point in seeing this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it is. The theater I was in was more dead than the zombies on the screen, and I\'m sure the money I wasted seeing this piece of sh*t could easily cover the costs it took to make it. GRADE: F"'],
 ['998,"If you like me is going to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school, try to convince your teacher to see something else. believe me, anything is better than this movie. it is slow paced, confusing, boring, poorly constructed, gory, gringy, do I need to go on? It\'s message is good, but I have seen them been handled better in several other films. The acting isn\'t even any good. This movie is just even more awkward, as it start off as being funny (not intensional though)because of it\'s surreal story, than at the end, just becomes uncomfortable to watch.<br /><br />I honestly feel like 1 hour and 40 minutes of my life has been robbed. Why would anyone want to watch a girls describe a threesome for 10 minutes, than watch them drive through a traffic jam for 20 minutes, listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear, witness a sort of rape, than see the female lead role eat her husband.<br /><br />Honestly this movie deserves nothing but a 1/10. And if your not happy with my preview,seriously I\'m an open minded guy and I like movies that protest through symbolism, but this movie was just awful. make any excuse you can, to avoid this film."'],
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998	997,"I usually try to be professional and cons...
999	998,"If you like me is going to see this in a ...
1000	999,"This is like a zoology textbook, given th...
1001	999,"This is like a zoology textbook, given th...

1002 rows × 1 columns

Rows 0,1 and 1000 and 1001 have repeated hence needs to be cleaned.

df.drop(df.index[:1], inplace=True)
# row 1 has repeated so it is dropped.

df.drop(df.index[1000:], inplace=True)
# row 1000 has repeated aswell, so it is dropped.

df

	Text
1	0,"One of the other reviewers has mentioned th...
2	1,"A wonderful little production. <br /><br />...
3	2,"I thought this was a wonderful way to spend...
4	3,"Basically there's a family where a little b...
5	4,"Petter Mattei's ""Love in the Time of Money...
...	...
996	995,"Nothing is sacred. Just ask Ernie Fosseli...
997	996,"I hated it. I hate self-aware pretentious...
998	997,"I usually try to be professional and cons...
999	998,"If you like me is going to see this in a ...
1000	999,"This is like a zoology textbook, given th...

1000 rows × 1 columns

Removing additional characters present in the dataframe.

## We can further see that there are still some special characters in the dataframe which have to be treated.
df.replace('\d+', '', regex=True, inplace=True)
df.replace(',', '', regex=True, inplace=True)
df.replace('br', '', regex=True, inplace=True)
df.replace('"', '', regex=True, inplace=True)
df.replace("'", '', regex=True, inplace=True)
df.replace('?', '', inplace=True)
df.replace("-", '', regex=True, inplace=True)
df.replace("*", '', inplace=True)
df.replace("***", '', inplace=True)
df.replace("< />", '', regex=True, inplace=True)

df['Text'] = df['Text'].str.strip('[')
df['Text'] = df['Text'].str.strip(']')
df['Text'] = df['Text'].str.strip(')')
df['Text'] = df['Text'].str.strip('(')
## Using the strip function in order to delete the special characters.

df

	Text
1	One of the other reviewers has mentioned that ...
2	A wonderful little production. The filming tec...
3	I thought this was a wonderful way to spend ti...
4	Basically theres a family where a little boy (...
5	Petter Matteis Love in the Time of Money is a ...
...	...
996	Nothing is sacred. Just ask Ernie Fosselius. T...
997	I hated it. I hate selfaware pretentious inani...
998	I usually try to be professional and construct...
999	If you like me is going to see this in a film ...
1000	This is like a zoology textbook given that its...

1000 rows × 1 columns

Lemmatization of the text column

Lemmatization usually refers to doing things properly with the use of a vocabulary and morphological analysis of words, normally aiming to remove inflectional endings only and to return the base or dictionary form of a word, which is known as the lemma. Lemmatization will generate the root form of the inflected words

df['Text'] = df['Text'].apply(nu.lemmatization_sentence)

Text=df['Text']

token=Text.to_numpy()
## as_matrix() function is used to convert the given series or dataframe object to Numpy-array representation.

token=nltk.sent_tokenize(str(token))
## Sentence tokenization

data = np.array(token)
## Saving token in form of array

stop = stopwords.words('english')
## Saving stopwords in stop

Removing stopwords from the dataframe

text = data
text_tokens = word_tokenize(str(text))

tokens_without_sw = [word for word in text_tokens if not word in stop]

print(tokens_without_sw)   
## Removing stopwords from the text and printing the words without stopwords

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'illegal', 'animal', 'test', 'reporter', 'cameraman', 'one', 'camera', 'gear', 'personnel', 'need', 'sound', 'gear', 'second', 'camera', 'microphone', 'etc', 'superfluous', 'hear', 'loud', 'animal', 'scream', 'one', 'person', 'gun', 'take', 'point', 'near', 'person', 'take', 'gun', 'sound', 'safety', 'take', 'make', 'even', 'finger', 'nowhere', 'near', 'safety', 'reporter', 'agree', 'go', 'halfway', 'around', 'world', 'order', 'expose', 'something', 'without', 'faint', 'idea', 'theyre', 'expose', 'background', 'research', 'vague', 'knowledge', 'fashion', 'modern', 'journalism', 'handgun', 'hold', 'least', 'bullet', 'one', 'clip', 'next', 'clip', 'despite', 'gun', 'claim', 'need', 'ammo', 'expensive', 'camera', 'also', 'remember', 'reporter', 'one', 'camera', 'regularly', 'leave', 'behind', 'without', 'even', 'moment', 'hesitation', 'regret', 'camera', 'amazingly', 'manage', 'make', 'way', 'back', 'reporter', 'blonde', 'girl', 'really', 'stupid', 'one', 'girl', 'say', 'go', 'house', 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'regularly', 'use', 'u', 'military', "'", ']', "''", ']']

Visualization

stopwords = set(stopwords.words("english"))
## Removing stopwords for wordcloud visualization

wordcloud = WordCloud(stopwords=stop, background_color="white", max_words=1000).generate(str(tokens_without_sw))
## WordCloud is a technique to show which words are the most frequent among the given text

Visualizing the highest repeating words in the dataframe using the wordcloud.

rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 10, 20
plt.imshow(wordcloud)
plt.axis("off")
plt.show()

Counting the number of times a word has repeated through out the data.

tokens_without_sw=(str(tokens_without_sw))

filtered_words = [word for word in tokens_without_sw.split() if word not in stopwords]
counted_words = collections.Counter(filtered_words)

words = []
counts = []
for letter, count in counted_words.most_common(10):
    words.append(letter)
    counts.append(count)
# Removing stopwords as creating two lists to display the words and their counts    

counted_words.most_common(100) # the word 'movie' has repeated for 2081 times.

[("'movie',", 2019),
 ("'film',", 1773),
 ("'one',", 980),
 ("'make',", 888),
 ("'see',", 856),
 ("'like',", 828),
 ("'get',", 751),
 ("'good',", 644),
 ("'go',", 542),
 ("'watch',", 541),
 ("'time',", 533),
 ("'character',", 524),
 ("'even',", 510),
 ("'would',", 490),
 ("'bad',", 489),
 ("'think',", 471),
 ("'story',", 468),
 ("'really',", 452),
 ("'well',", 445),
 ("'scene',", 434),
 ("'much',", 392),
 ("'show',", 375),
 ("'great',", 375),
 ("'know',", 368),
 ("'take',", 361),
 ("'look',", 360),
 ("'people',", 356),
 ("'way',", 353),
 ("'give',", 349),
 ("'...',", 342),
 ("'say',", 336),
 ("'also',", 336),
 ("'come',", 333),
 ("'play',", 332),
 ("'first',", 325),
 ("'end',", 322),
 ("'find',", 309),
 ("'dont',", 309),
 ("'thing',", 299),
 ("'plot',", 297),
 ("'want',", 293),
 ("'many',", 283),
 ("'love',", 281),
 ("'work',", 275),
 ("'life',", 273),
 ("'never',", 272),
 ("'little',", 270),
 ("'seem',", 270),
 ("'could',", 269),
 ("'two',", 265),
 ("'actor',", 263),
 ("'best',", 258),
 ('"\'",', 253),
 ("'try',", 245),
 ("'year',", 238),
 ("'ever',", 219),
 ("'man',", 215),
 ("'performance',", 211),
 ("'back',", 206),
 ("'act',", 205),
 ("'still',", 204),
 ("'part',", 200),
 ("'use',", 199),
 ("'funny',", 198),
 ("'new',", 189),
 ("'something',", 188),
 ("'world',", 187),
 ("'old',", 186),
 ("'lot',", 183),
 ("'real',", 181),
 ("'cant',", 177),
 ("'director',", 173),
 ("'woman',", 172),
 ("'young',", 170),
 ("'im',", 170),
 ("'actually',", 170),
 ("'though',", 170),
 ("'star',", 167),
 ("'big',", 166),
 ("'nothing',", 166),
 ("'pretty',", 164),
 ("'leave',", 164),
 ("'feel',", 163),
 ("'doesnt',", 162),
 ("'day',", 162),
 ("'guy',", 159),
 ("'turn',", 158),
 ("'every',", 157),
 ("'role',", 154),
 ("'however',", 154),
 ("'quite',", 154),
 ("'another',", 151),
 ("'point',", 150),
 ("'girl',", 149),
 ("'tell',", 148),
 ("'didnt',", 148),
 ("'comedy',", 146),
 ('"\'this",', 146),
 ("'around',", 145),
 ("'u',", 144)]

Visualizing top 10 repeated/common words using bar graph.

colors = cm.rainbow(np.linspace(0, 1, 10))
rcParams['figure.figsize'] = 20, 10

plt.title('Top words in the headlines vs their count')
plt.xlabel('Count')
plt.ylabel('Words')
plt.barh(words, counts, color=colors)

<BarContainer object of 10 artists>

Sentiment Analysis.

Vader sentiment analysis is done in order to find if a given (Word) is positive, negative or neutral in nature.

VADER belongs to a type of sentiment analysis that is based on lexicons of sentiment-related words. In this approach, each of the words in the lexicon is rated as to whether it is positive or negative, and in many cases, how positive or negative. Below you can see an excerpt from VADER’s lexicon, where more positive words have higher positive ratings and more negative words have lower negative ratings. Vader sentiment analysis for a given (word) if positive, negative or neutral in nature.

from nltk.sentiment.vader import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
from vaderSentiment.vaderSentiment import SentimentIntensityAnalyzer
sentence = tokens_without_sw
tokenized_sentence = nltk.word_tokenize(sentence)

sid = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
pos_word_list=[]
neu_word_list=[]
neg_word_list=[]

for word in tokenized_sentence:
    if (sid.polarity_scores(word)['compound']) >= 0.1:
        pos_word_list.append(word)
    elif (sid.polarity_scores(word)['compound']) <= -0.1:
        neg_word_list.append(word)
    else:        
        neu_word_list.append(word)                

#print('Positive:',pos_word_list)        
#print('Neutral:',neu_word_list)    
#print('Negative:',neg_word_list) 
#score = sid.polarity_scores(sentence)
#print('\nScores:', score)

#pos_word_list[:100]
#neg_word_list[:100]

Top 100 Positive words.

print(list(iter(pos_word_list[:100]))) # These are the top 100 positive words found in the dataset.

["'trust", "'security", "'agreement", "'pretty", "'charm", "'romance", "'ready", "'well", "'comfortable", "'wonderful", "'comforting", "'well", "'truly", "'well", "'worth", "'great", "'comedy", "'dream", "'solid", "'play", "'well", "'wonderful", "'lighthearted", "'comedy", "'well", "'laugh", "'comedy", "'impress", "'sexy", "'spirited", "'jewel", "'interesting", "'great", "'comedy", "'thriller", "'like", "'thriller", "'well", "'play", "'love", "'stunning", "'success", "'play", "'sophisticated", "'best", "'sincere", "'good", "'talented", "'wish", "'good", "'luck", "'await", "'favorite", "'noble", "'truly", "'sympathetic", "'delight", "'like", "'fun", "'sure", "'like", "'excitement", "'heros", "'thank", "'like", "'nice", "'amazing", "'fresh", "'innovative", "'funny", "'truly", "'entertaining", "'original", "'fit", "'respect", "'original", "'huge", "'success", "'encourage", "'positive", "'truly", "'play", "'happy", "'credit", "'best", "'like", "'original", "'laughter", "'like", "'love", "'like", "'humour", "'pretty", "'funny", "'progress", "'joke", "'funny", "'pretty", "'interesting", "'good"]

Top 100 Negative words.

print(list(iter(neg_word_list[:100]))) # These are the top 100 negative words found in the dataset.

["'strike", "'violence", "'timid", "'violence", "'prison", "'death", "'dodgy", "'forget", "'forget", "'forget", "'mess", "'strike", "'nasty", "'violence", "'violence", "'injustice", "'kill", "'prison", "'bitch", "'lack", "'prison", "'uncomfortable", "'discomforting", "'disappear", "'terribly", "'suspect", "'killer", "'disappoint", "'risk", "'devil", "'fight", "'kill", "'argue", "'ruin", "'meaningless", "'ignore", "'loneliness", "'anxiously", "'bore", "'startle", "'doubt", "'drop", "'waste", "'painfully", "'bad", "'bad", "'hard", "'awful", "'bad", "'mistake", "'bad", "'awful", "'lame", "'nasty", "'bore", "'obsessive", "'hell", "'odd", "'low", "'problem", "'lose", "'scary", "'helplessly", "'horror", "'die", "'scary", "'cry", "'kill", "'warn", "'cry", "'complain", "'evil", "'mad", "'cry", "'disappoint", "'fight", "'cry", "'reek", "'annoying", "'shoot", "'ruin", "'cut", "'prisoner", "'bad", "'sorrow", "'bizarre", "'hard", "'ridiculous", "'nonsense", "'stereotyped", "'bad", "'waste", "'starve", "'bad", "'fail", "'terror", "'fault", "'lose", "'bad", "'terror"]

Vader sentiment analysis for a given (Sentence) if positive, negative or neutral in nature.

sid = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
for sentence in Text:
     print(sentence)
        
     ss = sid.polarity_scores(sentence)
     for k in ss:
         print('{0}: {1}, ' .format(k, ss[k]), end='')
     print()

one of the other reviewer have mention that after watch just oz episode youll be hook they be right a this be exactly what happen with me.the first thing that strike me about oz be it utality and unflinching scene of violence which set in right from the word go trust me this be not a show for the faint hearted or timid this show pull no punch with regard to drug sex or violence it be hardcore in the classic use of the word.it be call oz a that be the nickname give to the oswald maximum security state penitentary it focus mainly on emerald city an experimental section of the prison where all the cell have glass front and face inwards so privacy be not high on the agenda em city be home to many .. aryan muslim gangstas latinos christian italian irish and more .... so scuffles death stare dodgy dealing and shady agreement be never far away.i would say the main appeal of the show be due to the fact that it go where other show wouldnt dare forget pretty picture paint for mainstream audience forget charm forget romance ... oz doesnt mess around the first episode i ever saw strike me a so nasty it be surreal i couldnt say i be ready for it but a i watch more i develop a taste for oz and get accustom to the high level of graphic violence not just violence but injustice crook guard wholl be sell out for a nickel inmates wholl kill on order and get away with it well mannered middle class inmate be turn into prison bitch due to their lack of street skill or prison experience watch oz you may become comfortable with what be uncomfortable view .... thats if you can get in touch with your darker side
neg: 0.171, neu: 0.76, pos: 0.069, compound: -0.9898, 
a wonderful little production the filming technique be very unassuming very oldtimebbc fashion and give a comforting and sometimes discomforting sense of realism to the entire piece the actor be extremely well choose michael sheen not only have get all the polari but he have all the voice down pat too you can truly see the seamless edit guide by the reference to williams diary entry not only be it well worth the watching but it be a terrificly write and perform piece a masterful production about one of the great master of comedy and his life the realism really come home with the little thing the fantasy of the guard which rather than use the traditional dream technique remain solid then disappear it play on our knowledge and our sens particularly with the scene concern orton and halliwell and the set particularly of their flat with halliwells mural decorate every surface be terribly well do
neg: 0.049, neu: 0.767, pos: 0.184, compound: 0.9711, 
i think this be a wonderful way to spend time on a too hot summer weekend sit in the air condition theater and watch a lighthearted comedy the plot be simplistic but the dialogue be witty and the character be likable even the well ead suspect serial killer while some may be disappoint when they realize this be not match point risk addiction i think it be proof that woody allen be still fully in control of the style many of u have grow to love.this be the most id laugh at one of woodys comedy in year dare i say a decade while ive never be impress with scarlet johanson in this she manage to tone down her sexy image and jump right into a average but spirited young woman.this may not be the crown jewel of his career but it be witty than devil wear prada and more interesting than superman a great comedy to go see with friend
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basically theres a family where a little boy jake think theres a zombie in his closet his parent be fight all the time.this movie be slow than a soap opera ... and suddenly jake decides to become rambo and kill the zombie.ok first of all when youre go to make a film you must decide if it a thriller or a drama a a drama the movie be watchable parent be divorce argue like in real life and then we have jake with his closet which totally ruin all the film i expect to see a boogeyman similar movie and instead i watch a drama with some meaningless thriller spot out of just for the well play parent descent dialog a for the shot with jake just ignore them
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petter matteis love in the time of money be a visually stunning film to watch mr. mattei offer u a vivid portrait about human relation this be a movie that seem to be tell u what money power and success do to people in the different situation we encounter this be a variation on the arthur schnitzlers play about the same theme the director transfer the action to the present time new york where all these different character meet and connect each one be connect in one way or another to the next person but no one seem to know the previous point of contact stylishly the film have a sophisticated luxurious look we be take to see how these people live and the world they live in their own habitat.the only thing one get out of all these soul in the picture be the different stage of loneliness each one inhabit a big city be not exactly the best place in which human relation find sincere fulfillment a one discerns be the case with most of the people we encounter.the act be good under mr. matteis direction steve buscemi rosario dawson carol kane michael imperioli adrian grenier and the rest of the talented cast make these character come alive.we wish mr. mattei good luck and await anxiously for his next work
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probably my alltime favorite movie a story of selflessness sacrifice and dedication to a noble cause but it not preachy or bore it just never get old despite my have see it some or more time in the last year paul lukas performance ings tear to my eye and bette davis in one of her very few truly sympathetic role be a delight the kid be a grandma say more like dressedup midget than child but that only make them more fun to watch and the mother slow awaken to whats happen in the world and under her own roof be believable and startle if i have a dozen thumb theyd all be up for this movie
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i sure would like to see a resurrection of a up dated seahunt series with the tech they have today it would ing back the kid excitement in me.i grow up on black and white tv and seahunt with gunsmoke be my heros every week.you have my vote for a comeback of a new sea hunt.we need a change of pace in tv and this would work for a world of under water adventure.oh by the way thank you for an outlet like this to view many viewpoint about tv and the many movies.so any ole way i believe ive get what i wan na say.would be nice to read some more plus point about sea hunt.if my rhyme would be line would you let me submitor leave me out to be in doubt and have me to quitif this be so then i must go so lets do it
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this show be an amazing fresh innovative idea in the s when it first air the first or year be illiant but thing drop off after that by the show be not really funny anymore and it continue it decline far to the complete waste of time it be today.its truly disgraceful how far this show have fall the writing be painfully bad the performance be almost a bad if not for the mildly entertaining respite of the guesthosts this show probably wouldnt still be on the air i find it so hard to believe that the same creator that handselected the original cast also choose the band of hack that follow how can one recognize such illiance and then see fit to replace it with such mediocrity i felt i must give star out of respect for the original cast that make this show such a huge success a it be now the show be just awful i cant believe it still on the air
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encourage by the positive comment about this film on here i be look forward to watch this film bad mistake ive see film and this be truly one of the bad of them it awful in almost every way edit pace storyline act soundtrack the film only song a lame country tune be play no less than four time the film look cheap and nasty and be bore in the extreme rarely have i be so happy to see the end credit of a film the only thing that prevent me give this a score be harvey keitel while this be far from his best performance he at least seem to be make a bit of an effort one for keitel obsessive only
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if you like original gut wrench laughter you will like this movie if you be young or old then you will love this movie hell even my mom like it.great camp
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phil the alien be one of those quirky film where the humour be base around the oddness of everything rather than actual punchlines.at first it be very odd and pretty funny but a the movie progress i didnt find the joke or oddness funny anymore.its a low budget film thats never a problem in itself there be some pretty interesting character but eventually i just lose interest.i imagine this film would appeal to a stoner who be currently partaking.for something similar but good try brother from another planet
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i saw this movie when i be about when it come out i recall the scary scene be the big bird eat men dangle helplessly from parachute right out of the air the horror the horror.as a young kid go to these cheesy b film on saturday afternoon i still be tire of the formula for these monster type movie that usually include the hero a beautiful woman who might be the daughter of a professor and a happy resolution when the monster die in the end i didnt care much for the romantic angle a a year old and the predictable plot i love them now for the unintentional humor.but about a year or so later i saw psycho when it come out and i love that the star janet leigh be bump off early in the film i sit up and take notice at that point since screenwriter be make up the story make it up to be as scary a possible and not from a wellworn formula there be no rule
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so im not a big fan of boll work but then again not many be i enjoy his movie postal maybe im the only one boll apparently buy the right to use far cry long ago even before the game itself be even finsished people who have enjoy kill mercs and infiltrate secret research lab locate on a tropical island should be warn that this be not far cry ... this be something mr boll have scheme together along with his legion of schmuck .. feel loneley on the set mr boll invite three of his countryman to play with these player go by the name of til schweiger udo kier and ralf moeller.three name that actually have make them selfs pretty big in the movie biz so the tale go like this jack carver play by til schweiger yes carver be german all hail the atwurst eating dude however i find that tils act in this movie be pretty badass .. people have complain about how he not really stay true to the whole carver agenda but we only saw carver in a first person perspective so we dont really know what he look like when he be kick a .. however the storyline in this film be beyond demented we see the evil mad scientist dr. krieger play by udo kier make geneticallymutatedsoldiers or gm a they be call perform his topsecret research on an island that remind me of spoiler vancouver for some reason thats right no palm tree here instead we get some nice rich lumberjackwoods we havent even go far before i start to cry mehehe i can not go on any more .. if you wan na stay true to boll shenanigan then go and see this movie you will not be disappoint it deliver the true boll experience mean most of it will suck.there be some thing worth mention that would imply that boll do a good work on some area of the film such a some nice boat and fight scene until the whole cromed/albino gm squad enter the scene and everything just make me laugh .. the movie far cry reek of scheisse thats poop for you simpleton from a far if you wan na take a wiff go ahead .. btw carver get a very annoying sidekick who make you wan na shoot him the first three minute he on screen
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the cast play shakespeare.shakespeare lost.i appreciate that this be try to ing shakespeare to the mass but why ruin something so good.is it because the scottish play be my favorite shakespeare i do not know what i do know be that a certain rev bowdler hence bowdlerization try to do something similar in the victorian era.in other word you can not improve perfection.i have no more to write but a i have to write at least ten line of text and english composition be never my forte i will just have to keep go and say that this movie a the say go just do not cut it
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this a fantastic movie of three prisoner who become famous one of the actor be george clooney and im not a fan but this roll be not bad another good thing about the movie be the soundtrack the man of constant sorrow i recommand this movie to everybody greeting bart
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kind of drawn in by the erotic scene only to realize this be one of the most amateurish and unbelievable bit of film ive ever see sort of like a high school film project what be rosanna arquette thinking and what be with all those stock character in that bizarre suppose midwest town pretty hard to get involve with this one no lesson to be learn from it no illiant insight just stilted and quite ridiculous but lot of skin if that intrigue you videotape nonsense .... what be with the bisexual relationship out of nowhere after all the heterosexual encounter and what be with that absurd dance with everybody play their stereotyped role give this one a pas it like a million other mile of bad waste film money that could have be spend on starve child or aid in africa .....
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some film just simply should not be remake this be one of them in and of itself it be not a bad film but it fail to capture the flavor and the terror of the film of the same title liam neeson be excellent a he always be and most of the cast hold up with the exception of owen wilson who just do not ing the right feel to the character of luke but the major fault with this version be that it stray too far from the shirley jackson story in it attempt to be grandiose and lose some of the thrill of the early film in a trade off for snazzy special effect again i will say that in and of itself it be not a bad film but you will enjoy the friction of terror in the old version much more
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this movie make it into one of my top most awful movie horrible there wasnt a continuous minute where there wasnt a fight with one monster or another there be no chance for any character development they be too busy run from one sword fight to another i have no emotional attachment except to the big bad machine that want to destroy them scene be blatantly steal from other movie lotr star war and matrix examples the ghost scene at the end be steal from the final scene of the old star war with yoda obee one and vader the spider machine in the beginning be exactly like frodo be attack by the spider in return of the king elijah wood be the victim in both film and wait ...... it hypnotize sting it victim and wrap them up ..... uh hello and the whole machine vs. human theme be the matrix .. or terminator ..... there be more example but why waste the time and will someone tell me what be with the nazis nazi there be a juvenile story line rush to a juvenile conclusion the movie could not decide if it be a childrens movie or an adult movie and wasnt much of either just awful a real disappointment to say the least save your money
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i remember this filmit be the first film i have watch at the cinema the picture be dark in place i be very nervous it be back in my dad take me my other sister to newbury cinema in newbury berkshire england i recall the tiger and the lot of snow in the film also the appearance of grizzly adam actor dan haggery i think one of the tiger get shot and die if anyone know where to find this on dvd etc please let me know.the cinema now have be turn in a fitness club which be a very big shame a the near cinema now be mile away would love to hear from others who have see this film or any other like it
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an awful film it must have be up against some real stinker to be nominate for the golden globe theyve take the story of the first famous female renaissance painter and mangle it beyond recognition my complaint be not that theyve take liberty with the fact if the story be good that would perfectly fine but it simply bizarre by all account the true story of this artist would have make for a far good film so why do they come up with this dishwaterdull script i suppose there werent enough naked people in the factual version it hurriedly cap off in the end with a summary of the artist life we could have save ourselves a couple of hour if theyd favor the rest of the film with same evity
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after the success of die hard and it sequel it no surprise really that in the s a glut of die hard on a ..... movie cash in on the wrong guy wrong place wrong time concept that be what they do with cliffhanger die hard on a mountain just in time to rescue sly stop or my mom will shoot stallones career.cliffhanger be one big nitpicker dream especially to those who be expert at mountain climb basejumping aviation facial expression act skill all in all it full of excuse to dismiss the film a one overblown pile of junk stallone even manage to get outacted by a horse however if you an forget all the nonsense it actually a very lovable and undeniably entertaining romp that deliver a plenty of thrill and unintentionally plenty of laughs.youve get to love john lithgows sneery evilness his tick every box band of baddie and best of all the permanently harass and hapless turncoat agent rex linn a travers.he may of be henry in portrait of a serial killer but michael rooker be noteworthy for a cringeworthy performance a hal he insist on constantly shriek in painful disbelief at his captor that man never hurt anybody and whilst he surely cant be it really do look like ralph waite frank character be grin a the girl plummet to her death.mention too must go to former london burn actor craig fairass a the brit bad guy who come a cropper whilst use hal a a human football yes you cant help enjoy that bit hal need a good kicking.so forget your good judgement who care if that could never happen low your acting expectation turn up the volume and enjoy and if youre look for qaulen he the one wear the helicopter
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i have the terrible misfortune of have to view this bmovie in it entirety.all i have to say be save your time and money this have get to be the bad bmovie of all time it shouldnt even be call a bmovie more like an fmovie because it fail in all aspect that make a good movie the story be not interesting at all all of the actor be paperthin and not at all believable it have bad direction and the action sequence be so fake it almost funny ....... almost.the movie be just pack full of crappy oneliners that no respectable person could find amuse in the least little bit.this movie be suppose to be gear towards men but all the woman in it be so utterly unattractive especially that old wrinkle thing that come in towards the end they try to appear sexy in those weird horrible costume and they fail miserably even some of the most ridiculous bmovies will still give you some laugh but this be just too painful to watch
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what an absolutely stunning movie if you have hrs to kill watch it you wont regret it it too much fun rajnikanth carry the movie on his shoulder and although there isnt anything more other than him i still like it the music by a.r.rehman take time to grow on you but after you hear it a few time you really start like it
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first of all let get a few thing straight here a i be an anime fan always have be a a matter of fact i use to watch speed racer all the time in preschool b i do like several bmovies because theyre hilarious c i like the godzilla movie a lot.moving on when the movie first come on it seem like it go to be your usual bmovie down to the crappy fx but all a sudden boom the anime come on this be when the movie go wwwaaaaayyyyy downhill.the animation be very bad cheap even bad than what i remember from speed racer for crissakes in fact it so cheap one of the few scene from the movie i vividly remember be when a bunch of kid run out of a school ... it the same kid over over again the fx be terrible too the dinosaur look bad than godzilla in addition the transition to live action to animation be unorganized the dialogue voice especially the english dub that i view be horrid i be beg my dad to take the tape out of the dvd/ vhs player the only thing that keep me survive be crack out joke comment like the robot joel/mike on mstk you pick the season honestly this be the only way to barely enjoy this movie survive it at the same time.heck im planning to show this to another fellow otaku pal of mine on halloween for a bmovie night because it stupid pretty painful to watch unintentionally hilarious at the same time im give this movie a an improvement from the i be originally go to give it accord to my grade scale mean pretty much both boring bad as fun a counting to three unless you find a way to make fun of it then it will become as fun a counting to
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this be the bad movie i saw at worldfest and it also receive the least amount of applause afterwards i can only think it be receive such recognition base on the amount of known actor in the film it great to see j.beals but shes only in the movie for a few minute m.parker be a much good actress than the part allow for the rest of the acting be hard to judge because the movie be so ridiculous and predictable the main character be totally unsympathetic and therefore a bore to watch there be no real emotional depth to the story a movie revolve about an actor who cant get work doesnt feel very original to me nor do the development of the cop it feel like one of many straighttovideo movie i saw back in the s ... and not even a good one in those standard
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the karen carpenter story show a little more about singer karen carpenter complex life though it fail in give accurate fact and details.cynthia gibb portrays karen be not a fine election she be a good actress but play a very naive and sort of dumb karen carpenter i think that the role need a strong character someone with a strong personality.louise fletcher role a agnes carpenter be terrific she do a great job a karen mother.it have great song which could have be include in a soundtrack album unfortunately they werent though this movie be on the top of the rating in usa and other several country
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the cell be an exotic masterpiece a dizzying trip into not only the vast mind of a serial killer but also into one of a very talented director this be conclusive evidence of what can be achieve if human being unleash their uninhibited imagination this be boldness at work push aside thought to fall into formula and cliche and create something truly magnificent this be the best movie of the year to date.ive read numerous complaint about this film anywhere from all style and no substance to poorly cast character and bad act to negatively criticize this film be to miss the point this movie may be a landmark a tradition where future movie will hopefully follow the cell have just open the door to another world of imagination so can we slam the door in it face and tell it and it director tarsem singh that we dont want any more personally i would more than welcome another movie by tarsem and would love to see someone try to challenge him.weve all heard talk about go inside the mind of a serial killer and yes i do agree that the genre be a bit overwork the s be full of movie try to depict what make serial killer tick some of them work but most failed but the cell do not blaze down the same trail we be give a new twist we be physically transport into the mind and present with nothing less than a fascinating journey of the most mysterious subject matter ever studied.i like how the movie do not bog u down with too much scientific jargon try to explain how jennifer lopez actually get to enter the ain of another instead she just lie down on a laboratory table and be wrap with what look like really long twizzlers and jaunt into another entity the cell want to let you see what it all about and not how it all about and i guess thats what some people dont like true i do like explanation with my movie but when a movie venture onto new ground you must let it do what it desire and simply take it in.i notice how the film be very dark when it show reality maybe to contrast the ight visuals when inside the ain of another nonetheless the set design be simply astonish i wouldnt be surprise if this film take home a few oscar in cinematography best costume best director and the like if it be up to me itd at least get nominate for best picture.ive notice that ive kind of be repeat myself not because there nothing else to say but because i cant stress enough how fantastic i think the cell be if you walk into the movie with a very open mind and to have it take over with wonder and an eyepopping feast then you be assure a good time i guess this film be just a little too much for some people write it off a weird or crazy i be very much into psychology and the imagination of the human mind so it be right down my alley leave the theater i hear one audience member say whoever make that movie sure do a lot of good drug if so i want what he be smoke out of
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this film try to be too many thing all at once sting political satire hollywood blockbuster sappy romantic comedy family value promo ... the list go on and on it fail miserably at all of them but there be enough interest to keep me from turn it off until the end.although i appreciate the spirit behind war inc. it depress me to see such a clumsy effort especially when it will be take by it target to reflect the lack of the existence of a serious critique rather than simply the poor writing direction and production of this particular film.there be a critique to be make about the corporatization of war but poke fun at it in this way diminish the true atrocity of what be happen reminds me a bit of three king which similarly trivialize a genuine cause for concern
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this movie be so frustrating everything seem energetic and i be totally prepared to have a good time i at least thought id be able to stand it but i be wrong first the weird loop it be like watch americas funny home video the damn parent i hat them so much the stereotypical latino family i need to speak with the person responsible for this we need to have a talk that little girl who be always hang on someone i just hat her and have to mention it now the final scene transcends i must say it so gloriously bad and full of badness that it be a movie of it own what crappy dance horrible and beautiful at once
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war movie be a hollywood genre that have be do and redo so many time that clichã©d dialogue rehash plot and overthetop action sequence seem unavoidable for any conflict deal with largescale combat once in a while however a war movie come along that go against the grain and ings a truly original and compelling story to life on the silver screen the civil warera cold mountain star jude law nicole kidman and renã©e zellweger be such a film.then again call cold mountain a war movie be not entirely accurate true enough the film open with a quite literally quickanddirty battle sequence that put glory director edward zwick shame however cold mountain be not so much about the civil war itself a it be about the period and the people of the time the story center around disgruntled confederate soldier inman play by jude law who become disgust with the gruesome war and homesick for the beautiful hamlet of cold mountain north carolina and the equally beautiful southern belle he leave behind ada monroe play by nicole kidman at first glance this setup appear formulaic a the romantic interest back home give the audience enough sympathy to root for the reluctant soldier tribulation on the battlefield indeed the early segment of the film be relatively unimpressive and even somewhat contrived.cold mountain soon take a drastic turn though a the intrepid hero inman turn out to be a deserter incidentally save the audience from the potentially confusing scenario of want to root for the confederate and begin a long odyssey homeward meanwhile back at the farm ada culture way prove of little use in the field soon she be transform into something of a wilderbeast come to adas rescue be the course toughasnails ruby thewes play by renã©e zellweger who help ada put the farm back together and perhaps more importantly cope with the loneliness and isolation the war seem to have ought upon ada.within these two setting a vivid compelling and at time very disturb portrait of the wartorn south unfolds the character with whom inman and ada interact be surprisingly complex enhance by wonderful performance of brendan gleeson a ruby deadbeat father ray winstone a an unrepentant southern lawman and natalie portman a a deeply troubled and isolated young mother all have be greatly affected and change by the war of northern aggression mostly for the bad the dark pervade antiwar message accent by an effective haunting score and chillingly beautiful shot of virginia and north carolina be communicate to the audience not so much by gruesome battle scene a by the scarred land and traumatized people for which the war be fight though the weapon and tactic of war itself have change much in the past century it hellish effect on the land be timelessly relevant.director anthony minghella manage to maintain this gloomy mood for most of the film but the atmosphere be unfortunately denigrate by a rather tepid climax that do little justice to the wonderfully form character the love story between inman and ada be awkwardly tack onto the beginning and end of the film though the inherently distant abstract and even absurd nature of their relationship in a way fit the dismal nature of the rest of the plot.make no mistake cold mountain have neither the trait of a feelgood romance nor an inspiring war drama it be a unique vision of an era that be sure not only to entertain but also to truly absorb the audience into the life of a people torn apart by a war and entirely desperate to be rid of it terrible repercussion altogether
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taut and organically grip edward dmytryks crossfire be a distinctive suspense thriller an unlikely message movie use the look and device of the noir cycle.bivouacked in washington dc a company of soldier cope with their restlessness by hang out in bar three of them end up at a stranger apartment where robert ryan drunk and belligerent beat their host sam levene to death because he happen to be jewish police detective robert young investigates with the help of robert mitchum who assign to ryans outfit suspicion fall on the second of the three george cooper who have vanish ryan slay the third buddy steve brodie to insure his silence before young close in.abetted by a superior script by john paxton dmytryk draw precise performance from his three star bob ryan naturally do his prototypical angry white male and to the hilt while mitchum underplays with his characteristic alert nonchalance his role however be not central young may never have be good gloria grahame give her first fullyfledged rendition of the smartmouthed vulnerable tramp and a a sad sack who leech into her life paul kelly haunt u in a small peripheral role that he make memorable.the politically engage dmytryk perhaps inevitably succumb to sermonize but it pretty much confine to young reminiscence of how his irish grandfather die at the hand of bigot a century earlier thus incidentally stretch chronology to the limit at least there no attempt to render an explanation however glib of why ryan hate jew and hillbilly and ... .curiously crossfire survives even the major change work upon it the novel it base on richard brook the brick foxhole dealt with a gaybashing murder but homosexuality in be still beyond the pale news of the holocaust have however begin to emerge from the ash of europe so hollywood felt embolden to register it protest against antisemitism the studio always quake at the prospect of offend any potential ticket buyer .but while the change from homophobia to antisemitism work in general the specific dont fit so smoothly the victim chat up a lonesome drunk young soldier then invite him back home look odd even though or especially since there a girlfriend in tow it raise the question whether this scenario be retain inadvertently or leave in a a discreet tipoff to the original engine generate ryans murderous rage
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ardh satya be one of the fine film ever make in indian cinema direct by the great director govind nihalani this one be the most successful hard hit parallel cinema which also turn out to be a commercial success even today ardh satya be an inspiration for all lead director of india.the film tell the reallife scenario of mumbai police of the s. unlike any police of other city in india mumbai police encompass a different system altogether govind nihalani create a very practical outlay with real life approach of mumbai police environment.amongst various police officer colleague the film describe the story of anand velankar a young hotblooded cop come from a poor family his father be a harsh police constable anand himself suffers from his father ideology incidence of his father atrocity on his mother anands approach towards immediate action against crime be an inert craving for his own job satisfaction the film be here revolve in a plot wherein anands constant effort against crime be trample by his seniors.this lead to frustration a he can not achieve the desired jobsatisfaction result from the frustration his anger be express in excessive violence in the remand room bar also turn him to an alcoholic.the spirit within him be still alive a he constantly fight the system he be aware of the system of the metro where the police politician be a inertly associate by far end his compromise towards unethical practice be negative finally he get suspended.the direction be a master piece thoroughly hard core one of the best memorable scene be when anand eaks in the underworld gangster rama shettys house to arrest him follow by short conversation which be fantastic at many scene the film have hairraising moments.the practical approach of script be a major punch alcoholism corruption political influence courage deception all be integral part of mumbai police even today those aspect be deal illiantly.finally the film belongs to the one man show om puri portray anand velankar traverse through all his emotion absolutely illiantly
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my first exposure to the templarios not a good one i be excite to find this title among the offering from anchor bay video which have ought u other cult classic such a spider baby the print quality be excellent but this alone cant hide the fact that the film be deadly dull theres a thrill opening sequence in which the villager exact a terrible revenge on the templar set the whole thing in motion but everything else in the movie be slow ponderous ultimately unfulfilling add insult to injury the movie be dub not subtitle a promise on the video jacket
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one of the most significant quote from the entire film be pronounce halfway through by the protagonist the mafia middleman titta di girolamo a physically nondescript middleaged man originally from salerno in southern italy when be introduce to him at the start of the film he be live a nonlife in an elegant but sterile hotel in the italianspeaking canton of switzerland for the last ten year conduct a business we be only gradually introduce to while this pivotal yet apparently unremarkable scene take place employee of the the swiss bank who normally count di girolamos cash tell him that dollar be miss from his usual suitcase full of tightly stack banknote at the news he quietly but icily threaten his coax bank manager of want to close down his account meanwhile he tell u the spectator that when you bluff you have to bluff right through to the end without fear of be catch out or appear ridiculous he say you cant bluff for a while and then halfway through tell the truth have eventually do this bluffed only halfway through and tell the truth and have accept the consequence of life and ultimately love be exactly the reason behind the beginning of titta di girolamos trouble this initially unsympathetic character a scowl taciturn curt man on the verge of a man who wont even reply in kind to chambermaid and waitress who say hello and goodbye becomes at one point someone the spectator care deeply about at one point in his nonlife titta decide to feel concern about appear ridiculous the first half of the film may be describe a slow by some it do indeed reveal di girolamos day and night in that hotel at an oddly disjoined deliberate pace reveal seemingly mundane and irrelevant detail however scene that may have seem unnecessary reveal just how essential they be a this masterfully construct and innovative film unfolds before your eye the existence of titta di girolamo the man with no imagination identity or life the unsympathetic character you unexpectedly end up loving and feeling for when you least think you would be also convey with elegantly edit sequence and very interesting use of music one theme by the scottish band board of canada especially stand out never be the contrast between the way hollywood and italy treat mobster more at odds than since the release of film such a le conseguenze dellamore or limbalsamatore another interesting element be the way in which the film make use of the protagonist insomnia not unlike the machinist and in a far more explicit way the al pacino film insomnia le conseguenze dellamore use this condition to symbolise a deep emotional malaise thats be ram so deep into the obscurity of the unconscious it almost impossible to pinpoint it cause if indeed there be one the young and sympathetic hotel waitress sofia play by olivia magnani granddaughter of the legendary anna and the memory of tittas best friend a man whom he hasnt see in year unexpectedly provide a tiny window onto life that titta eventually though tentatively at first accepts to look through again though it never explicitly spell out the spectator know that to a man like titta accept the consequence of love will have unimaginable consequence a film without a single scene of sex or violence a film that unfold in it own time and concedes nothing to the spectator expectation le conseguenze dellamore be a fine representative of that small quiet discreet renaissance that have be take place in italian cinema since the decline of cinecittã during the second half of the s. the world be wait for italy to produce more il postinolike fare more la vita 㨠bellastyle film ... neglect to explore fine creation like le conseguenze dellamore limbalsamatore and others your loss world
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i watch this film not really expect much i get it in a pack of film all of which be pretty terrible in their own way for under a fiver so what could i expect and you know what i be right they be all terrible this movie have a few and a few be stretch it interesting point the occasional camcorder view be a nice touch the drummer be very like a drummer i.e damn annoying and well thats about it actually the problem be that it just so boring in what i can only assume be an attempt to build tension a whole lot of nothing happens and when it do it utterly tedious i have my thumb on the fast forward button ready to press for most of the movie but give it a go and seriously be the lead singer of the band that great look coz they dont half mention how beautiful he be a hell of a lot i think he look a bit like a meercat all this and i havent even mention the killer im not even gon na go into it it just not worth explain anyway as far a im concern star and london be just about the only reason to watch this and with the exception of london who be actually quite funny it wasnt because of their acting talent ive certainly see a lot bad but ive also see a lot well best avoid unless your bored of watch paint dry
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i buy this film at blockbuster for because it sound interest a bit ranmaesque with the idea of someone drag around a skeleton because there be a cute girl in a miniskirt on the back and because there be a restricted viewing sticker on it i think it be go to be a sweet or at least sincere come of age story with a weird indie edge i be wrong.having watch it i have to wonder how it get the restrict sticker since there be hardly any foul language little violence and the close thing to nudity honestly i dont usually go around hop for it be when the girl be in her nightgown and you see her panty you see her panty a lot in this movie because no matter what shes wear a miniskirt of some sort even the antireligious humor be tame and lame caricature insincere derivative unoriginal and bad of all not funny in the slightestit would be well just to listen to ray stevens would jesus wear a rolex on his television show this would barely qualify a pg it be not rat but blockbuster refuse to let anyone under the age of rent thisas if it be pornographic any little kid could go in there and rent the edited version of requiem for a dream but they insist that zack and reba be worse.it be but not in that way.in a way this worry methe only thing leave that could offend people be the idea of the suicide at the beginning if anybody need to see movie with honestly portray suicides not this one but good one like the virgin suicides it teenager if both of those movie be rat r purely because of the suicide aspect then i have little chance of turn a story ive be write into a pg movie the main character be eleven and a half and twelve suicide be one of the top three lead cause of death in teenager i think it number so chance be that most teen have be or will be affect by it.just say no to this movie though
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the plot be about the death of little child hopper be the one who have to investigate the killing during the movie it appear that he have some trouble with his daughter in the end the serial killer get catch thats it but before you find out who dunnit you have to see some terrible acting by all of the actor it be unbelievable how bad these actor be include hopper i could go on like this but that to much of a waste of my time just dont watch the movie ive warn you
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ever watch a movie that lose the plot well this didnt even really have one to begin with.where to begin the achingly tedious scene of our heroine sit around the house with actually no sense of menace or even forebode create even during the apparently constant thunderstorm that be strangely never actually hear in the housegreat double glaze the house that be apparently only a few mile from a town yet be several hour walk away or the third girl who serve no purpose to the plot except to provide a surprisingly quick gory murder just a the tedium become unbearable or even the beginning which suggest a spate of killing throughout the area even though it be apparent the killer never venture far from the house or the bizarre ritual with the salt pepper that pretty much sum up most of the film inherent lack of direction.add a lead actress who cant act but at least be willing to do some completely irrelevant nude shower scene and this video be truly nasty but not in the way you hope.given a following simply for be ban in the uk in the s mostly because of a final surprisingly over extended murder it offer nothing but curiosity value and one classic daft murder dont worryits telegraph at least ten minute before .after a walk in the wood our victim come to a rather steep upward slope which they obviously struggle up halfway through they see a figure at the top dress in black and andishing a large scythe what do they do slide down and run like the rest of u no of course not they struggle to the top and stand conveniently nice and upright in front of the murder weapon.it really be only a movie a they say ..
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okay so this series kind of take the route of here we go again week in week out david mors character help out his ride who be in a bit of a pickle but whats wrong with that david morse be one of the great character actor out there and certainly the coolest and to have him in a series create by david koepp a great writer be heaven due to the lack of love for this show by many i cant see it go to a season series but you never know the amount of rubbish that have make it beyond that baffle me let hope something good can make it past a first series
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after sit through this pile of dung my husband and i wonder whether it be actually the product of an experiment to see whether a computer program could produce a movie it be that listless and formulaic but the u.s. propaganda throw in your face throughout the film provesdisappointinglythat it the work of human call me a conspiracy theorist but quote like we have to steal the declaration of independence to protect it seem like way to justify action like the invasion of iraq etc the fact that nicholas cage spews line like i would never use the declaration of independence a a bargaining chip with a straight face make me and my husband wonder whether the entire cast take valium before shoot each scene the reasoning behind each plot turn and new clue be truly ridiculous and impossible to follow and there also a bonus side plot of misogyny with dr. whateverhernamewas be chide by all involve for never shut up shes clearly in the movie only for look but they felt the need to slap a dr. title on her character to give her some gravity at one point cage character say dont you ever shut up and the camera pan to her look poutily down at her hand like shes a child truly grotesque the only benefit to this movie be that it so astonishingly bad you do get a few laugh out of it the really scary thing be that a majority of the people watch the movie with u seem to enjoy it creepy ....
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it have all the clichã©s of movie of this type and no substance the plot go nowhere and at the end of the movie i felt like a sucker for watch it the production be good however the script and act be bmovie quality the casting be poor because there be good actor mix in with crumby actor the good actor didnt hold their own nor do they lift up the others this movie be not worthy of more word but i will say more to meet the minimum requirement of ten line james wood and cuba gooding jr. play caricature of themselves in other movie if you be look for mindless entertainment i still wouldnt recommend this movie
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this movie be base on the book a many splendored thing by han suyin and tackle issue of race relation between asian and white a topic that come from han personal experience a an eurasian grow up in china that background and the beautiful hong kong setting give this love story a unique and rather dare atmosphere for it time.other than that the story be a stereotypical romance with a memorable song that be perhaps more remembered than the movie itself the beautiful jennifer jones look the part and give a wonderful oscar nominated performance a a doctor of mixed eed during the advent of communism in mainland china william holden never look well play a romantic lead a a journalist cover war torn region in the world the acting be top notch and the chemistry between the two lover provide for some genuine moment of silver screen affection sure to melt the heart of those who be romantically inclined.the cinematography really ings out fiftys hong kong especially the hilltop overlook the harbor where the two lover spend their most intimate moment the end be a real tearjerker some may consider sentimental romance passã© but for those who enjoy classic hollywood love story this be a shining example
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of all the film i have see this one the rage have get to be one of the bad yet the direction logic continuity change in plotscript and dialog make me cry out in pain how could anyone come up with something so crappy gary busey be know for his b movie but this be a sure w movie w=waste .take for example about two dozen fbi local law officer surround a trailer house with a jeep wagoneer inside the jeep be ma and be confuse a to why all the cop be about within second a huge gun battle ensue ma be kill straight off the cop blast away at the jeep with gary and company blast away at them the cop fall like domino and the jeep with gary drive around in circle and be not hit by one single bullet/pellet ma be kill and gary seem to not to have noticeddamn that guy be tough truly a miracle not since the sixshooter hold bullet have there be such a miracle
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i have hear good thing about state of grace and come in with an open mind i think that god army be okay and i think that maybe dutcher have improve and mature a a filmmaker the film begin with some shaky acting and i think well maybe it will get well unfortunately it never do the picture start out by introduce two elder mormon missionary and it seem that the audience will get to know them and grow to care about them instead the story degenerate into a highly improbable series of unfortunate event highlight blatant disobedience by the missionary something that undeniably exists but rarely on the level that dutcher portrays and it become almost laughable.dutchers only success in this movie be his successful alienation of his target audience by unrealistically and inaccurately portray the life of mormon missionary dutcher accomplishes nothing more than anger his predominantly mormon audience the film in no way reflect reality mission be nothing like what dutcher show have serve a mormon mission myself i can attest to this fact and gang life in california certainly contain much more explicit language than the occasional mild vulgarity.the conclusion which im assume be suppose to touch the audience and inspire them to believe that forgiveness be available to all be both unbelievable cmon the entire mission gather to see this elder send home and the mom and the girl be stand right next to each other and cheesy next time dutch try make a movie that someone can identify with
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this movie strike home for me be i remember the s and my father work in a factory i figure if i work hard too if i have pride and never give up i too could have the american dream the house a few kid a car all to call my own ive note however without a degree in something unlike my father that quit at ninth grade and a keen sense of greed and laziness you cant get anywhere.i would like to know if anyone have this movie on dvd or vhs it make for tv and i just saw it an hour ago ic ant find it anywhere id love to show this to my friend my pseudo friend family and other relative see what they think and remind them that once upon a time american would work for the sake of feel honor and that we have pride in what we accomplish i think the feeling be still there but in a heavy downward spiral with so many thing be make overseas ...
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a a disclaimer ive see the movie time in the last year and i only just saw the musical this week this allow me to judge the movie without be taint by what be or wasnt in the musical however it taint me when i watch the musical i actually believe michael douglas work quite well in that role along with kasey i think her let me dance for you scene be one of the best part of the movie a worthwhile addition compare to the musical the dancer and sing in the movie be much superior to the musical as well a the cast which be at least time big easy to do in the movie of course the decor light dancing and singing be also much superior in the movie which should be expect and be indeed deliver the song that be in common with the musical be well do in the movie the new one be quite good one and the whole movie just deliver more than the musical in my opinion especially compare to a musical which have few decor the one bad point on the movie be the obvious cut between the actor talk and dubbed singer during the singing portion for some of the character but their dancing be impeccable and the end product be more enjoyable than the musical
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protocol be an implausible movie whose only save grace be that it star goldie hawn along with a good cast of support actor the story revolve around a ditzy cocktail waitress who become famous after inadvertently save the life of an arab dignitary the story go downhill halfway through the movie and goldies charm just doesnt save this movie unless you be a goldie hawn fan dont go out of your way to see this film
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how this film could be classify a drama i have no idea if i be john voight and mary steenburgen i would be try to erase this from my cv it be a historically accurate a xena and hercules aaham and moses get meld into noah lot aahams nephew lot turn up thousand of year before he would have be bear canaanite wander the earth ... really what be the scriptwriter thinking be it just ignorance i remember something about noah and animal and lot and canaanite and all that stuff from sunday school or be they try to offend the maximum number of people on the planet a possible from christian jew and muslim to historian archaeologist geologist psychologist linguist ... a a matter of fact do anyone not get offend anyone who have even a modicum of taste would have wince at this one
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preston sturgis the power and the glory be unseen by the public for nearly twenty or thirty year until the late s when it resurface and even show up on television in the meantime it have gain in notoriety because pauline kaels the citizen kane book have suggest that the herman mankiewicz orson welles screenplay for kane be base on sturgis screenplay here as be mention in the beginning of this thread for the film on the imdb web site kael overstate her case.there be about six narrator who take turn deal with the life of charles foster kane the newsreel represent ralston the henry luce clone thatcher memoirs bernstein jed leland susan alexander kane and raymond the butler each have his or her different slant on kane reflect their faith or disappointment or hatred of the man and of course each also reveal his or her own failing when they be tell their version of kanes story this method also lead to frequent overlap retellings of the same incident.this be not the situation in the power and the glory yes like kane it be about a legendary business leader here it be tom garner spencer tracy a man who rise from the bottom to be head of the most successful railroad system in the country but there be only two narrator they be garner right hand man henry ralph morgan and his wife sarah padden this restrict the nearly three dimensional view we get at time of kane in garner henry when he narrate be talk about his bos and friend whom he respect and love his wife be like the voice of the skeptical public she see only the flaw in henry.typical example although he work his way up tom become more and more antilabor in his late year union be troublemaker and he do not care to be slow down by their shenanigan henry describes tom confrontation with the union in a major walkout and how it preoccupy him to the detriment of his home life but henrys wife remind him how tom use scab and violence to end the strike apparently blow up the union headquarters kill many people so we have two view of the man but one be pure white and one be pure black.im not really knock the power and the glory for not duplicate kanes success few film do include all of orson welles other film but i be aware that the story be present well enough to hold one interest to the end and thanks to the performance of tracy and colleen moore a his wife sally the tragedy of the worldly success of the pair be fully ought home.when they marry tom want to do well in part to give his wife and their family the benefit he never have but in america great business success come at a cost tom get deeply involved with run the railroad empire he expand it and improve it constantly but it take him away from home too much and he lose touch with sally and he also notice eve helen vinson the young woman who become his mistress when sally learn of his unfaithful behavior it destroy her.similarly tom too get a full shock which make him a martyr in the eye of henry eve marries tom and present him with a son but it turn out to be eve son by tom son tom jr. philip trent the discovery of this incestuous cuckolding cause tom to shoot himself.the film be not a total success the action jump at time unconvincingly yet it do make the business seem real note the scene when tom tell his board of director about his plan to purchase a small rival train line and he discuss the use of debenture for finance the plan sturgis come from a wealthy background so he could ing in this type of detail so on the whole it be a first rate film no citizen kane perhaps but of interest to movie lover a an attempt at business realism with social commentary in depression america
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average and surprisingly tame fulci giallo which mean it still quite bad by normal standard but redeem by it solid buildup and some nice touch such a a neat time twist on the issue of vision and clairvoyance.the genre wellknown weakness be in full gear banal dialogue wooden act illogical plot point and the finale go on much too long while the denouement prove to be a rather lame or shall i say limp affair.fulcis ironic handling of giallo norm be amuse though yellow clue wherever you look out of limp killer
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return to the th chamber be one of those classic kungfu movie which shaw produce back in the s and s whose genre be equivalent to the spaghetti western of hollywood and the protagonist gordon liu the counterpart to the western clint eastwood digitally remastered and a new print make for the fantastic film fest this be present in shaw scope just like the good old days.this film be a simple story of good versus evil tell in act which more or less sum up the narrative of martial art film in that era.act one set up the premise worker in a dyemill of a small village be unhappy with their lot have their wage cut by by incoming manchu gangster they cant do much about their exploitation because none of them be martial art skilled to take on the gangster and their bos at first they have a minor success in get liu to impersonate a highly skilled shaolin monk one of the best comedy sequence but their rouse get expose when they push the limit of credibility by impersonate one too many times.act two show the protagonist want to get back at the mob however without real martial art he embark on a journey to shaolin temple to try and infiltrate and learn martial art on the sly after some slapstick moment he finally get accept by the abbot whom he impersonate but be disappoint at the teach method kinda like mr miyagis style in karate kid but instead of paint fence he get to erect scaffolding all around the temple nothing can keep a good man down and he unwittingly build strength endurance and learn kungfu the unorthodox way.act three be where the fight fest begin with cheesy sound effect each obvious noncontact on film be give the maximum impact treatment but it be rather refresh watch the fight scene here with it wide angled shot to highlight clarity and detail between the spar partner and the use of slowmotion only to showcase stunt in different angle you may find the speed of fight a tad too slow with some pause in between move but with yuen wo ping and his style be use adnausem in hollywood flick they sure dont make fight scene like they use to return to the th chamber get a repeat screen on monday so if youre game for a nostalgic trip down memory lane what be you wait for
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spoiler all too in real life as well a in the movie familiar story that happen to many young men who be put in a war zone with a gun or rifle in their hand the case of young and innocent in never handle or fire a gun jimmy davis franchot tone have be repeat thousand of time over the century when men like jimmy davis be force to take up arm for their country.jimmy who at first want to be kick out of the u army but be encourage to stay by be belt in the mouth by his good friend fred p. willis spencer tracy end up on the front line in france with jimmys unit pin down by a german machine gun nest he single handedly put it out of commission pick off some half dozen german soldier from the safety of a nearby church steeple it be when jimmy gun down the last surviving german who raise his arm in surrender that an artillery shell hit the steeple seriously wound him.recovering from his wound at an army hospital jimmy fell in love with u army volunteer nurse rise duffy gladys george rise be really in love with jimmy good friend the happy go lucky fred despite his obnoxious antic towards her it when fred be lose during the fighting on the western front that rise think that he be kill fell in love and later marry jimmy when fred unexpectedly show up in the french town where jimmy now fully recover from his wound be station at thing get very sticky for both him and rise who have already accept jimmy proposal of marriage to her with wwi over and jimmy marrying rise leave fred who still in love with her a bitter and resentful young man it be almost by accident that fred run into jimmy on the street of new york city and discover to his shock and surprise that he completely change from the meek and nonviolent person that he know before he be send to war on the european western front smug and sure of himself and his ability to shoot a gun jimmy have become a top mobster in new york city underworld not only that but as fred later find out his wife rise have no idea what jimmy be really involve in with jimmy tell her that he work a a law abiding and inoffensive insurance adjuster.jimmys life of crime come full circle when rise after she find out about his secret life rat him out to the police to prevent him from execute a valentine day like massacre with his gang member dress a cop of his rival mobster while on trial jimmy come to his sens and admit his guilt willing to face the music and then after his three year sentence be up get his life back together spoiler alert hear rumor from fellow convict that rise and his best friend fred be have an affair behind his back jimmy oke out of prison end up a fugitive from the law it at freds circus where he work a both manger and barker that jimmy in see that rise as well a fred be true to him that he like at his trial have a sudden change of heart but the thought of go back to prison with at least another ten year add on to his sentence be just too much for jimmy it be then that jimmy decide to end it all by let the police who by then track him down do the job that he himself didnt have the heart to do for him
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bela lugosi appear in several of these low budget chiller for monogram studio in the s and the corpse vanishes be one of the good ones.bela play a mad scientist who kidnap young ides and kill them and then extract fluid from their body so he can keep his age wife look young after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he be responsible for the ides deaths the follow morning they report these murder to the police and the mad scientist be shot and drop dead shortly afterwards.you have get almost everything in this movie the scientist assistant consist of an old hag a hunchback and dwarf her son a thunderstorm and spooky passage in belas house bela and his wife find they sleep well in coffin rather than bed in the movie.the corpse vanishes be worth a look especially for bela lugosi fan great fun.rating star out of
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i can not believe i enjoy this as much a i do the anthology story be good than par but the linking story and it surprise end hook me alot of familiar face will keep you ask yourself where i have i see them before forget the running time list on new line tape this aint no minute accord to my vcr timer and imdb space maggot douse the campfire in his own special way and hike this an
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the percent of the nation nitwit that still support w. bush would do well to see this movie which show the aftermath of the french revolution and the terror of a strikingly similar to the post sociopolitical landscape maybe then they could stop worry about save face and take the a whupping they deserve it really a shame that when a politician ruin the country those who vote for him cant be deny the right to ever vote again theyve clearly show they have no sense of character.what really stand out in this movie be the ambiguity of a character a hopelessly doctrinaire a robespierre a haunt empty man who simplistic reductive ideology cant help him elucidate the boundary between safety and totalitarianism execution and murder selfdefense and patriotism his legalistic litmus test aggravate the hopeless situation he help create sound like any belligerent overprivileged retarded yale cheerleader you know of wojciech pszoniak blow the slovenly deparidieu off the screen as sympathetic a robespierre plight be it comfort to know that shortly after the film end hell have his jaw shoot off and be send to the guillotine
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a someone have already mention on this board it very difficult to make a fake documentary it require tremendous skill pace patience directorial distance a plausible premise a narrative flow and really believable act aka great act such be not the case with love machine it start to show it faux hand about the minute mark with minute leave to watch and the viewer start to realize that he or she be be take in it downhill from there.director gordon eriksen simply peak too soon but to be fair to eriksen his problem start early a he explain in the extra he begin want to do a real doc couldnt get funding and settle for a cheap way of make his film.the premise people who have secret life by post themselves on a porn website be perhaps more interesting in when the film be make eriksen do a lot of tricky stuff a pushy host handheld camera zoom grainy black and white all i guess to elicit a sense of authenticity but it just doesnt work the film be confuse and force but what ultimately ings it down be the believability of the actor and the pretty awful dialogue
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the hill have eye ii be what you would expect it to be and nothing more of course it not go to be an oscar nominate film it just pure entertainment which you can just lose yourself in for minutes.the plot be basically about a group of national guard trainee who find themselves battle against the notorious mutated hillbilly on their last day of training in the desert it just them fight back throughout the whole film which include a lot of violence which be basically the whole film a blood and gut be constantly fly around throughout the whole thing and also yet another graphic rape scene which be pointlessly throw in to shock the audience.id give the hill have eye ii out of for pure entertainment and that only although even then i find myself look at my watch more and more a the film go on a it begin to drag due to the fact it continue to try and shock the audience with graphic gore and the occasional jump scene just to make sure the audience stay awake the hill have eye ii be just decent entertainment something to pass time if youre bore and nothing else./
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i laugh all the way through this rotten movie it so unbelievable a woman leave her husband after many year of marriage have a eakdown in front of a real estate office what happen the office manager come outside and offer her a job hilarious next thing you know the two woman be go at it yep theyre lesbian nothing ring true in this lifetime for woman with nothing better to do movie clunky dialogue like i dont want to spend the rest of my life feel like i have a chance to be happy and didnt take it doesnt help theres a wealthy distant mother who disapprove of her daughter new relationship a sassy black maid unbelievable that in the year a film get make in which theres a sassy black maid hattie mcdaniel must be turn in her grave the woman have a husband who freak out and want custody of the snotty teenage kid sheesh no cliche be leave unturned
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no spoiler after hitchcock successful first american film rebecca base upon daphne dumariers lush novel of gothic romance and intrigue he return to some of the more familiar theme of his early british period mistake identity and espionage a the u.s. settle into world war ii and the large scale war effort of civilian build plane weaponry and other necessary militia the booming film entertainment business begin turn out paranoid and often jingoistic thriller with war time theme these thriller often involved network of deceptive and skilled operator at work in the shadow among the good law abide citizen know the director be at home in this espionage genre producer jack skirball approach hitchcock about direct a property he own that dealt with corruption wartime sabotage and a helpless hero thrust into a vortex of coincidence and mistaken identity the darker element of the narrative and the sharp wit of literary maven dorothy parker during her ief stint in hollywood before return to her bohemian root in nyc who coauthored the script be a perfect match for hitchcock sensibilities.this often neglect film tell the story of the unfortunate year old barry kane robert cummings who while at work at a los angeles airplane factory meet new employee frank frye norman lloydd and moment later be frame for commit sabotage flee the authority who dont believe his farfetched story he meet several character on his way to soda city utah and finally new york city these memorable character include a circus caravan with a car full of helpful freak and a popular billboard model patricia martin priscilla lane who during the bad crisis of his life as well a national security he fall madly in love with of course in the land of hitchcock patricia kidnap by the suppose saboteur barry fall for her captor thus add romantic tension to the mix.in good form for this out hitchcock ews a national network of demure old lady average joes and respectable businessmen who double a secret agent terrorist that harbor criminal pull gun and detonate bomb to keep thing move it a terrific plot that take it time move forward and once ignited culminates in one of hitchcock more memorable finale look for incredibly life like nyc tourist attraction all of which be recreate by art director in hollywood due to the wartime shoot ban on public attraction while saboteur may not be one of hitchcock most well know film it a popular bmovie that be certainly solid and engage with plenty of clever plot twist and a usual terrific hitchcock villain remember to look for hitchcock cameo appearance outside a drug store in the second half of the film hitchcocks original cameo idea that be shoot him fight in sign language with his deaf wife be ax by the bureau of standard and practice who be afraid of offend the deaf
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i just watch the dresser this evening have only see it once before about a dozen year ago.its not a big movie and doesnt try to make a big splash but my god the illiance of the two lead leaf me just about speechless albert finney and tom courtenay be nothing less than amaze in this movie.the dresser be the story of sir an age shakespearean actor finney and his dresser norman courtenay sort of a valet put on a production of king lear during the blitz of london in world war ii these be two men each dependent upon the other sir be almost helpless without the aid of norman to cajole wheedle and bully him into get onstage for his th performance of lear and norman live his life vicariously through sir without sir to need him he be nothing or think he be anyway.this be a characterdriven film the plot be secondary to the interaction of the character and a such it require actor of the high caliber to ing it to life finney only year old be completely believable a a very old very sick petulant bullying but illiant stage actor he hiss and fume at his fellow actor even when theyre take their bow and courtenay be no less convincing a the mince dresser who must sometimes act more a a mother than a a valet to his elderly employer employer be really the wrong term to use though for although technically their relationship be that of employer and employee most of the time sir and norman act like nothing so much a an old married couple.yes there be others in the cast of this movie but there be no question that the true star be finney courtenay and the marvelous script by ronald harwood that be not to say that there arent other fine performance most notably eileen atkins a the longsuffering stage manager madge there be a wonderful scene where sir and madge talk about old desire old regret and what might have been.although it doesnt get talk about these day it be worth remember that the dresser be nominate for five academy award best actor nomination for both finney and courtenay best picture best director peter yates and best adapt screenplay.i have remember this a be a good movie but i wasnt prepare to be a completely mesmerize a i be from begin to end if you want to see an example of what great acting be all about and be hugely entertain all the while then i encourage you to see the dresser
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what happen what we have here be basically a solid and plausible premise and with a decent and talented cast but somewhere the movie lose it actually it never really get go there be a little excitement when we find out that angie be not really pregnant then find out that she be after all but that be it steve martin who be a very talented person and usually ings a lot to a movie be dreadful and his entire character be not even close to be important to this movie other than to make it long i really would have like to see more interaction between the main character kate and angie and maybe try not for a pure comedy which unfortunately it be not but maybe a drama with comedic element i think if the movie do this it could have be very funny since both actress be quite funny in their own way and sit here i can think of numerous scenario that would have be a riot
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ive just watch fingersmith and im stun to see the average rating for the show.not only be the plot be difficult to follow but it seem character development be randomly applied.the actor be adequate but in the process of attempt to create twist and turn their character be render entirely one dimensional once this happen the story really fall flat and become tedious.and just in case anyone didnt see the predictable lesbian undertone from mile way this be hammer home in the most banal term at the end of the film.the end scene be disappointing and phone in and anyone who sit back and go ohhh so they be carpet muncher all along must have be out for the evening.two star for the tonsil hockey in the early scene which be at least a bit raunchy none for the rest of it ...
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so let begin the movie itself be as original a cronenbergs movie would usually appear ... my intention to see it be certainly jjl be one of my favourite actress she be as lovely a usual this cutie i would not say it be my favourite movie of hers still it quite interesting and entertain to follow the rest of the cast be not extremely impressive but it be not some kind of a miscast star array recommend with confidence
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besides be bore the scene be oppressive and dark the movie try to portray some kind of moral but fell flat with it message what be the redeem quality on top of that i dont think it could make liarians look any more unglamorous than it do
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an unmarried woman name stella bette midler get pregnant by a wealthy man stephen collins he offer to marry her out of a sense of obligation but she turn him down flat and decides to raise the kid on her own thing go ok until the child name jenny trini alvarado become a teenager and thing gradually and predictably become worse.ive see both the silent version and sound version of stella dallas neither one affect me much and i cry easily but they be wellmade if date try to remake this in be just a stupid idea i guess midler have enough power after the incomprehensible success of beach to get this make this predictably bomb the story be laughable and date by today standard even though midler and alvarado give good performance this film really drags and i be bore silly by the end stephen collins and marsha mason both good actor dont help in support role flimsy and dull reallywho think this would work see the stanwyck version instead i give this a
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dont torture a duckling be one of fulcis earlier and honestly in term of storyline better ... film and although not the typical bloodbath that fulci be know for this be still a very unique and enjoyable film.the story surround a small town where a series of child murder be occur some of the colorful character involve in the investigation either a suspect or those help the investigation or in some case both include the towns police force a smalltime reporter a beautiful and rich exdrug addict a young priest and his mother an old man who practice witchcraft and his female protã©gã© a mentally handicapped townsman and a deaf/mute little girl all of these people be interweave into the plot to create several twist and turn until the actual killer be reveal ... dont torture a duckling be neither a classical giallo or a typical fulci gore film although it do contain element of both it be more of an oldfashioned murder mystery with darker subject matter and a few scene of graphic violence although nothing nearly as strong a some of fulcis later work this be a well write film with lot of twist that keep me guess up until the end recommend for giallo/murdermystery fan or anyone look to check out some of fulcis nonsplatter film but dont despair dont torture still have more than it fair share of violence and sleaze some may be put off by the subject of the child killing and one main female character have a strange habit of hit on very young boy which be also kind of disconcert but if that type of material doesnt bother you then definitely give this one a look
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busty beauty stacie randall play pvc clad badass bitch alexandra the faithful acolyte of faust an evil entity trap in hell determine to free her master the malevolent minx eaks into a warehouse to steal a magical gem vital to her success but whilst conduct a satanic ritual to summon faust the silly mare accidentally enter the pentagram she have draw on the floor which result in the loss of the gem and the release of two diminutive trolllike creature call lite and dark.now alexandra must find a replacement gem which isnt go to be easy the only other stone that will do the trick be wear around the neck of her exlover police detective jonathan graf peter liapis who be investigate the warehouse robbery and who know only too well what evil alexandra be capable of meanwhile wisecrack interdimensional halfpints lite and dark get into all sort of zany trouble a they try to find a way back home.in the warped movie world of jim wynorski all female be bigeasted babe with the fashion sense of a cheap hooker ghoulies iv be no exception every woman in this filmâ—whether she be a police captain a curator of antiquity or a mental patient in an asylumâ—is hot hot hot and wear not a lot and it this fact that make this otherwise totally unwatchable piece of stv crap just about bearable.but be warn even though the presence of seminaked quality crumpet make the go slightly easy there be still plenty about this film to warrant it be label a an ordeal the acting be wooden and the dialogue be painful the black humour a the dvd blurb describe it be about as funny a a knee to the knacker with the comedic banter of lite and dark be particularly cringeworthy and the special effect be bargain basement consisting of rubbery creature and visual effect that would have look date ten year earlier./ solely for the high bimbo quotient
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i really like salman kahn so i be really disappointed when i see this movie it didnt have much of a plot and what they do have be not that appeal salman however do look good in the movie look young and refresh but be worth the price of this dvd the music be not bad it be quite nice usually indian movie be at least two to three hour long but this be a very short movie for an indian film the american actress that play in the movie be from the television hit series hero ali larter her acting have a lot to be desire however she do look good in the indian dress that she wear all the movie have not a lot to be desire and i hope salman do a lot well on his next movie thank you
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im not sure why the producer need to trade on the name of a somewhat successful movie franchise because the title suggest that it be a sequel to the first three movie .. which it be not even though marque houston do appear in hp he play a totally different character he be eight year old in this film okay ... so reid and martin werent the most talented and couldnt carry a film all by themselves .. but to trade on the hp franchise seem to me that there could have make some sort of reference albeit minor to the early movie im sure everyone who want to see it be hoodwinkedinto thinking that they be see a sequelnot a totally different film with a familiar name and im sorry ... kym whitley be not funny and could not hold a candle to the late robin harris ketty lester or dc curry in the early film although meagen good and mari morrow be a substantial visual diversion ... i have to give this a thumbs down just name the film down to the last minute would have be ok. furthermore the hudlin others who produce the first three movie be not involve in the making of this film
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this film labour along with some of the most predictable story line and shallow character ever see the writer obviously buy the playbook how to write a space disaster movie and follow it play by play in particular the stereotypical use of astronaut talk to their love one from out space put on a ave show in the face of disaster have be do time and time again.max q appear to have be write in the hope that the producer would throw million at the project but judging by the latter half of the film which contain numerous lame attempt at special effect the producer could only muster thousand to learn that the film be nominate for a special visual effect emmy have me absolutely gobsmacked.i think a handful of high school student with a pas in medium study could have create more believable effect and the plot hole be too numerous to mention but i will pick one out a an example now im no nasa expert but surely it highly implausible that a worker attach to the shuttle simulator would suddenly hold a position of power in the control room when thing start to go pearshaped with the program surely there be someone more experienced at mission control who the program director would call on rather than a twentynine year old who have not be in the control room before.the only save grace for this film be the work of bill campbell he manage to make a good attempt at salvage something out of the train wreck that be this script.i give this film out of with the aboveaverage work of bill campbell in the lead role save it from a low mark
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caddyshack two be a good movie by itself but compare to the original it cant stack up robert stack be a horrible replacement for ted knight and jackie mason while funny just cant compete with rodney dangerfield ty webb be funny be the only character from the original most of the other character in the movie lack the punch of the original henry wilcoxon for example except for the hystericly funny lawyer peter blunt be play by randy quaid every line he say remind me of the original humor especially the scene at his office i dont go in for law suit or motion i find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f ing baseball bat make a bonfire with the chippindalemaybe roast that golden retriever arff arff arff then eat it and then im comin upstairs junior and im grab you by your ooks others pjs and cram your and new bmw up your tight a do we have an understanding offset his small role however be dan acroyd who be obviously no replacement for bill murray his voice be beyond irritate and everything he do isnt even funny it just stupid overall caddyshack ii be a good movie but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it
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honestly this short film suck the dummy use in the necro scene be pretty well make but still phony enough look to ruin the viewing experience the unearthed dvd be crisp and clear and i havent make up my mind if this help or hinders it if the film be a little grainy it might have add some creepiness factor to what be go on i have no idea why this film have so much hype surround it other than the subject matter but to be honest the necrophilia scene in film like nekromantik and visitor q among others be more shocking than in aftermath all this talk about the film be about loneliness and all other manner of deep philosophy be bull this be an expensive beautifully film turd it not that shock it not that disgust if you insist on view it rent it i give it a for the fact that not many people make explicit movie about necrophilia there should definitely be a big selection for u sickos the filming be good and it do have some gore if watch a rubbery look doll get cut open be consider gore ... but other than that absolutely nothing go for this overhyped mess on the other hand genesis cerdas sequel to aftermath now available a a double feature release by unearthed film be an absolute masterpiece of a short film really show what a good director cerda really be when give the right material although i dont care for aftermath at all genesis be so well make that i will forgive cerda and definitely keep an eye out for him in the future ...
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i think that mukhsin have be wonderfully write it not just about entertainment there tonne of subtle message that i think yasmin be try to ing across and yes it might be confuse to some of you especially if you didnt watch sepet and/or gua for time .i bet u notice how they use character from the two movie before right it really ironic how the character relate like the bossy neighbour be that prostitute from gua and the chick at the snooker pad turn out to be the religious and wife of the pious man in the future and i absolutely love the voiceovers it crude yet awakeningly fresh like when they take a shot of the rumah tumpangan gamin signboard then there be suddenly mukhsins voice say bismillahhirrahmannirrahim .. the scene when he climb the tree .it capture malaysian attitude and in some mild way snigger at how pathetic it be portray in the character for example even the kid can be really sharp tongue complete with the shrill annoy voice and simply bad mouth ppl all movie long and how you can be such a busybody and talk about ppl when ur own life isnt sort out all i can say be this movie totally reach my expectation if not exceed it it keep me glue to the screen i couldnt even take my eye off it not even to make out in the cinema ha ha
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i be not a golf fan by any mean on may about pm the movie start with a scene in the late s. old movie i like but not golf however within the first scene a young boy harry vardon be awaken by the voice of men he go outside to inquire what they be do and be tell they be go to build a golf something ... so then i turn the television off but something stir me and it be back on the movie be excellent we then see this young boy now a man professional golf player who be haunt with vision from his childhood then we meet the true focus of the movie francis and the decision he make for golf you meet his mother and father who want to protect him from the class thing that be so obvious during the period then there be little eddie lowery his caddy with encouraging word and little push that be instrumental in francis win dont want to give away too much i be up until a.m. this be super please see the movie
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upon view tobe hoopers gem crocodile in i develop a great interest in the college/crocodile niche of the exploitation/monster genre i look forward to a wayward producer to follow up with several sequel to these delightful bonbon of camp goodness if only ed wood could ing his subtle sense of flair and dignity to these remarkable script with ed write the script and a room full of monkees create crocodile special effect on a computer all wed need would be a cast of crocky fodder with russ meyer east and ren hoek pectoral implants.while tobe hoopers crocky opus reference his own movie blood surf chose to dish out a bunch of age theme from the chum bucket of other movie see if you can look past the revenge of the nerd sequel set to find the allusions/homages /ripoffs to jaw temple of doom indiana jones last crusade the convent godzilla and any james bond movie also try to find the readyfortv fade where the editor give up on make sense of the stock.i be disappoint the crock didnt get to try out it sotto voce tenor with a soliloquy on environmentalism ... or crocky appreciation but the quasicaptain ahab of the story do get his tour de force speach perhaps in the come year well see a crock gallop off after a shootout into a golden sunset or hopefully a monkey will flush a crocky down the toilet of an international space station for midget and enjoy the exploitative waltz of zerog monkey/midget/crocodile bloodshed.allinall the lack of a whammy bar in the surf music irk me
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it try to be the epic adventure of the century and with a cast like shã´ kasugi christopher lee and johnrhys davy it really be the perfect badventure of all time it actually be a pretty fun swashbuckling adventure that even with it flaw capture your interest it must have felt a the big movie ever for the people who make it even if it make in the s it doesnt have a modern feel it more have the same feeling that a old errol flynn movie have big adventure movie be again the big thing in hollywood but im afraid that the feeling in them will never be the same a these old movie have this on the other hand just have the real feeling you just cant hate it i think it an okay adventure movie and i really love the soundtrack damn i want the theme song
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the last hard men find james coburn an outlaw do a long sentence eaking free from a chain gang do he and his friend head for the mexican border from jail and safety no they dont because coburn have a mission of revenge to kill the peace officer who ought him in and in the process kill his woman.that peace officer be charlton heston who be now retired and he know what coburn be after a he explain it to his daughter barbara hershey coburn be hole up in a shack and be involve in a waco like standoff his indian woman be kill in the hail of bullet fire it not something he proud of she be a collateral casualty in a manhunt.lest we feel sorry for coburn he let u know full well what an evil man he truly be heston be his usual stalwart hero but the acting honor in the last hard men go to james coburn he blow everyone else off the screen when he on coburn get the ight idea of make sure heston trail him by kidnap hershey and take her to an indian reservation where the white authority cant touch him he know that heston have to make it personal then.coburns gang include morgan paull thalmus rasulala john quade larry wilcox and jorge rivero heston have chris mitchum along who be his soninlaw to be.the last hard men be one nasty and utal western andrew mclaglen direct it and im think it may have be a project originally intend for sam peckinpaugh it sure show a lot of his influence with the liberal use of slow motion to accentuate the violence of which there be a lot for a little peckinpaugh lite the last hard men be your film
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maybe it be the title or the trailer certainly not the interview on the dvd which be with the director a he keep say hi kid into the camera like a buffoon but i have expectation for entrails of a virgin to be at least a bit of sleazy fun with some good sex scene and utal bloody killing by a weird japanese penetrator turn out it way too sleazy for it own good or bad or whatever theres a problem and one can see this also in the italian sexploitation flick porno holocaust similar to this in many respect in not have balance to the sex and violence too much sex and it will turn into a prototypical porno and not even with much production quality in comparison with most professional porno movie and with the kill scene there have to be at least a little tack and maybe just a smidgen of ingenuity in create the creature/killer/whatever entrails of a virgin have neither it safe to say it a pretty soulless movie even if isnt one of the very bad ever make it there just for horndog japanese fetishist to get off on girl in trouble and men who have all their ains in their other heads.in this case be give a photo team where the guy be take some shot of some girl nothing too salacious and then by way of a dense fog they stay off at some house one night and be pick off one by one by a murderer a he credit first off the director kazuo gaira komizu decide he have to put in a quota of random sex scene early on we get splice in or phone in take your pick clip of one of the photographer have sex with one or more of the girl elsewhere it look like it from another movie then once settle into the house theres a wrestling scene thats poorly choreograph and shot yeah we really need to see him all there and then on to the rape and killing first the rape by the photographer who promise the girl some job for their time then the murderer who like damatos creature be simply cover in mud and give a stupid facial and who for an unknown reason kill the men and/or rap the woman one by one.now the latter of those take by themselves should be consider the highlight of the movie this be like say however that the croã » ton be the best part of a wretchedly tasting salad an eyegouging scene a spike thrown like an olympic event that scene actually be kind of cool and finally the entrailing of the overly sexcrazed girl whose inconsequential name i cant remember even this become disappointing just by not be correct to the title on top of this the sex scene which become tedious through gaira and his indulgence in longtakeswithoutcutaways where everything by the japanese censor be blur anyway be dub over by the actor youd think that they seem to be enjoy themselves enough hence the need to let them speak for themselves but the overall feeling from entrails of a virgin be that of a lumpy one where it just there to be gawk at and without a shred of suspense or true horror watch a the last girl leave alive the virgin of the picture try to stop the murderer from get to her which last five minute a she keep throw stick at him you just want it to be do with for the i hate woman mantra to ease up or be rid altogether
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the few scene that actually attempt a depiction of revolutionary struggle resemble a hirsute boy scout troop meander tentatively between swim hole when sharif or please god palance try their hand at fiery oratory they sound like kurtz swallow a bug the display of strategic illiance incorporate a map of cuba replete with smile fishies in the ocean and a positively vaudevillian hypothesis on how the bay of pig come to pass what do that leave u with one comical dentistry scene a surfeit of uppity hollywood peasant who address the camera a though it be a move train and just for kick a passel of homoeroticism that be not limit to castros manic and unremitting cigarfellatio never trust a medved but even a busted clock be right twice a day this be a historically awful movie
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this film take me by surprise i make it a habit of find out as little a possible about film before attend because trailer and review provide spoiler after spoiler all i know upon enter the theater be that it be a documentary about a long married couple and that imdb reader give it a rotten tomatoes user rank it at and the critic average an amazing if anything they underrate this little gem.filmmaker doug block decide to record his parent for posterity and at the beginning of the film we be treat to the requisite interview with his parent outspoken mother mina and less than forthcoming dad mike i immediately find this couple interesting and have no idea where the filmmaker mike mina son doug be go to take u a a matter of fact i doubt that doug himself know where he be go with this life take unexpected twist and turn and this beautifully expressive film follow the journey it be difficult to verbalize just how move i be with this story and the unique way in which it be tell absolutely rivet from begin to end and it really be a mustsee even if you arent a fan of the documentary genre this film will make you think of your own life and might even evoke memory that you think be long forgotten birch street be one of those rare filmgoing experience that make a deep impression and never leave you the best news of all be that hbo have a hand in the production so instead of play to a limited art house audience eventually million of people will have a chance to view this incredible piece of work bravo
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stephen hawking be a genius he be the king of genius watch this movie make me feel dumb but it a great movie not highly entertain but very very intrigue the movie center around wheelchair bound stephen hawking a man who make einstein look average and his theory and scientific discovery about the universe time the galaxy and black hole everyone at sometime or another during a really intense high come to a moment when they think theyv get the universe and the cosmos figure out and they swear as soon a they sober up theyll write it all down well here be a man who actually hold that feel for more then six hour here be a man who despite suffer from lou gehrig disease have become the great mind the world have yet see watch this and listen in on how he have formulate theory on black hole awesome you wont be the same after you see it
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the story be about a psychic woman tory who return to her hometown and begin relive her traumatic childhood past the death of her childhood friend and abusive father tory discovers that her friend be just the first in a string of murder that be still occur can her psychic power help solve the crime and stop the continue murder you really dont need to find out because oh my god this be so so so so bad i know all the nora robert fan will flock to this movie and give it ton of s. then the rest of u will see an imdb score of and actually think this movie be worth watch but do not be fool the end be predictable the act terrible dont even get me start about the southern accent yall and the story be trite just remember .... you be warn
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oh god i must have see this when i be only or twelve dont ask how i may have be young but i wasnt stupid anyone could see that this be a bad movie nasty gross unscary and very silly ive see more impressive effect at disneyland ive see well performance at a school play and ive see more convincing crocodile at the zoo where they do nothing but sit in the water ignore the child tap on the glass.the story be set in northern australia a handful of ambitious young people be try out a new water sport surf in shark fill water it soon become evident that something more dangerous be in the water after they learn what they get the help of a grizzly middle age fisherman who want to kill the animal to avenge the eating of his family.i think i have see every crocodile film make in the last fifteen year the best of which be lake placid and the bad of which be it sequel blood surf would have to be the second bad croc flick i think with primeval and crocodile tail closely behind.the australian saltwater crododile be one of the most dangerous creature out there result in more than a hundred injury or death every year movie like blood surf however ruin not only the ferocious image of such a creature but a good hour and a half of the viewer life unless you really want to see it avoid blood surf
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fate lead walter sparrow to come in possession of a mysterious novel that have eerie similarity and connection to his life all base around the number a the story unfolds in real life and fiction sparrow must figure out his connection to the book and how the story will eventually end.the number offer an intriguing premise that be undone by a weak execution the film just fail on many different level which be pretty disappointing because it hold so much potential the screenplay be probably the bad part about it it be fill with silly sequence and laughable dialog that just kill the mood of the movie it seem like the screenwriter have a good idea he just didnt know how to develop it to stretch over a ninety minute run time the second half of the film be run low on idea the twist be pretty obvious and the end be awful.joel schumacher be responsible for one of the bad movie ever and he do redeem himself a little with phone booth and a few other film but the number remind me that he still capable of make a stinker he have the movie drench in style but he just cant get a good focus he move the film at a clunky and slow pace he switch from reality to whats actually happen in the book which quickly get annoy the actual book in the film thats title the number be an awful detective story and the audience get stuck listening to carrey narrate it which just bore me to tear when carrey be finally do with book we get stuck watch him run around try to solve the mystery at this point the audience have lose interest and there be no real tension we impatiently wait for the movie to reach it horrible end and unconvincing explanation before celeating that film have finally finished.the acting be mostly average and pretty forgettable jim carrey be clearly just sleepwalk through his performance and he didnt even seem to be try he be either completely over the top in some scene or just very wooden his narration be a complete bore to listen to and he put no life inside his character virginia madsen do the best she could with a limited role but she need to pick good script logan lerman be pretty bland a be danny huston overall the number be an awful thriller that offer more laugh than suspense or thrill rating
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we ought this film a a joke for a friend and could of be our bad joke to play the film be barely watchable and the acting be dire the bad child actor ever use and hasslehoff give a substandard performance the plot be disgraceful and at point we be so bored we be wonder what the hell be go on it try to be gruesome in place but be just laughable.just terrible
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this be probably the bad movie i have ever see in my life it be stupid there be no plot and the special affect be ridiculous and i have never see such bad acting in my life the only good part about the movie be all the hot guy especially draw full i dont know what these people be think when they make this movie i didnt even want to finish the whole thing because you get to this point in the movie where the guy be all in bed touch themselves i mean it be like some kind of sick and twisted kiddy porn i would advise anyone who have hear of this movie and be interested in see it to just forget about it and find another movie to watch i be very disappointed the whole movie be a complete waste of time in my opinion
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this be a typical steele novel production in that two people who have undergo some sort of tragedy manage to get together despite the odds i wouldnt call this a spoiler because anyone who have read a steele novel know how they all end if you dont want to know much about the plot dont keep reading.gilberts character ophelia be a woman of french decent who have lose her husband and son in an accident gilbert need to stop do film where she be require to have an accent because she otherwise a good actress can not realistically pull off any kind of accent brad johnson also an excellent actor be matt who be recover from a rather nasty divorce he be gentle convincing and compelling in this role.the two meet on the beach through her daughter pip and initially ophelia accuses matt of be a child molester just because he talk art with the kid all of them become friend after this episode and then the couple fall in love.the chemistry between the two lead be not great even though the talent of these two people be not in my opinion a question they do the best they could with a predictable plot and a script that border on stereotypical two people meet tragedy big tragedy a secret be reveal another tragedy and then they get together i wish there be more to it than that but there it be in a nutshell.i want mindless entertainment and i get it with this in regard to the genre of romantic film this one fail to be memorable a secret affair with janine turner be far superior not a steele book a be some of steele earlier book turn into film
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oh noes one of these attack of the japanese ghost girl movie ... i dont even remember how many ive see maybe it sell ... but not to me not scary at all the japanese horror movie be have be very similar since the first one of these ... also the pulling of the kid i have see that pull under scene so many time in so many horror movie cellphone scene be also nothing new ... the dramaticness of the guy get hit by a train kinda suck ... i mean it lack all dramaticness ... ok this be for kid who listen to japanese rock and think they be so unique ... well let me tell you theres a million of you =d this be one of them ive see bad but you wont be miss anything by not see this
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nicholas walker be paul the local town reverand who marry to martha ally sheedy but also be a habitual womanizer and decides to fake his own death to run away with his current affair veronica dara tomanovich however in so do he get a bout of amnesia hence the name of the film sally kirkland be also on hand a a crazy old coot who pin for the good reverand in a shade of misery type of way it sad to see a pretty good cast waste like this not the least bit john savage in a horridly forgettable role a a shoddy private investigator in a film bill a a black comedy one have to ing both element into say movie while this do ing the former in spade it sadly contain none of the latter furthermore you cant emphasize with any of the character and a thus have absolutely no vested interest in them technically not an alltogether bad movie just an extremely forgettable one.eye candy dara tomanovich get topless sally kirkland also show some skin my grade c where i saw it showtime showcase
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hollywood movie industry be the lazy one in the entire world it only need a single hit to flood theater with the same old crap reinvent over and over again take superheroes for example for each xman and spiderman there be daredevil elektra ghost rider and hulk japanese horror remake be even worst it only take the ring which be pitchperfect mostly because of mr. gore verbinsky to ing a ton of lookalike creepywoman base horror e.g the ring the eye dark water which be fine but pointless and the grudges.the first grudge wasnt entirely bad it be scary most of the way which be what one could expect from it plus the plot have some ains mix narrative grudge be exactly like the previous this could be a good thing but hey what boy men in black ii be it a nice thing to xerox the entire screenplay and just change the villain for the grudge the critic go the same way.tired scare bad act except for amber tamblyn and clichã©s all over the place three story take place on different place and time there be auey tamblyn investigate what drive her sister karen sarah michelle gellar to death allison arielle kebbel who be take by colleague to visit the house where the incident depict in the first movie take place and finally an american family that witness strange stuff happen on the apartment next door glad to say and i mean it that everything be tie up at the end but one must not rely on the end to make a good picture when everything else be simply tiresome and dull.the chill be all over there a girl alone in the locker someone who shouldnt enter a house others that dig too deep meanwhile ghost keep kill and kill and kill which seem even more deadly than ten world war or the ebola epidemic hey doesnt that seem just like another bad japanese remake something call pulse yeah day after day it get easy to hold a grudge ... against hollywood bullshit
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down periscope have be in our liary since it first arrive in vhs since then we have acquire the dvd and a digital from cinema now.it be a quirky flick that do not go militarily overboard a either pro or con it be first and foremost a comedy and a a vehicle for the main character i be quite surprised that a sequel have never be offered.the movie have gain a follow that border on a cult obsession even among the very young i become aware of this while visit the uss drum in mobile alabama in a group of cub scout my grandson among them have all take up the role from the movie and plan to relive it during their overnighter on board.it be a fun romp that make you proud both of our navy and hollywood ... which be rare company.thanks to kelsey grammar lauren holly and rob schneider for make what could have be an otherwise unremarkable movie such great entertainment
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if you come here it because youve already see this film and be curious what others have to say about it.i feel for you i really do and i profusely apologize a a canadian because thats what we do that this film ever have to cross your eye if only for a moment i hear there be no cure for the retinal bleeding report out of every dozen cases.i like everyone else rent this movie believe it to be some stupid bmovie ripoff of blade i think sure i could use a good laugh at a stupid movie ill give the creator of this film one positive comment about their creation thanks for remove the rec xx/xx/xx from the bottom righthand corner of the screen i can see how that would have be a distraction from see this movie.and for the record i saw the movie but do not watch it the dialogue be incoherent and most of the scene take place in my grandmother trailer i swear to god.you know what im not write anymore about this it just too painful
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deanna durbin nan grey and barbara read be three smart girl in this universal film from which introduces deanna durbin to film audience it also star ray milland mischa auer charles winninger john king binnie barnes and alice brady it a sweet story about three young woman now live in switzerland with their divorce mother who hear their father winninger be marry again not have see him in year and know their mother still love him they board a ship to america with the help of the housekeeper/nanny determine to stop the wedding realizing that the intend call precious barnes be nothing but a golddigger aid and abet by her mother brady they arrange for her to be introduce to a wealthy count this be arrange by their father accountant king the man he choose be a fulltime drunk auer but the girl mistake him for an actual wealthy count milland what a mess.this be a delightful film not cloy or overly sugary at all with some nice performance particularly by auer milland barnes and brady the young woman be pretty and all do good work the emphasis of course be on young durbin who be a natural actress and a beautifullytrained singer in fact her voice a a youngster be much more even than it would be a an adult she have no trouble with the high note a she do later on because she put too much weight in the middle voice she sing a delightful il bacio in a police station.one of the nice thing about the film be to see the father play by charles winninger not want his child around until he see them and get to know them barnes a the golddigger isnt all that young but the girl mother look way up there so the inference probably be the old man seek his youth with a young more glamorous woman in fact he find the youth he be seek in his daughters.universal give durbin the big star buildup here she have the final shot in the movie ray milland at this point be still pay his due and it will probably be a surprise even to film fan how young and attractive he is.very entertain and of course this lead to a sequel and big stardom for deanna
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if anyone be wonder why no one make movie like they use to with conversation character and a simple theme of friendship struggle to evolve into something new good and different those folk need to take in this film and see top notch write directing and act that meld into a wonderful evening of observation on how thing use to be in italy and england other day other time funnel into a terrific comedy of entertainment make in with alfred molina joan plowright polly walker josie lawrence jim broadbent miranda richardson and michael kitchen in the major role under the ush stroke direction of mike newell these actor accomplish vividly memorable performance that be photograph with a sublimely subtle painter eye reminiscent of the theatrical bedroom farce of the turn of the century this film might be call a friendship farce that become a worthwhile experience in the growth of the romantic nature within each character and the viewer too an artistic telegram on the importance of care about those around u
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i watch this series out of curiositywanting to see if they could possibly and with all this modern technologyout do cecil b. demille classic epic of star charleton hestonyul brenner and sir cedric hardwicke of course i be let down yes they have all the biblical character correct but they didnt give u any of the spectacular theatrical scene that hold your interest throughout the first movie if you go to have a miniseries you have to have some rivoting scenes the burn bush part the red seadrowning pharohs army build sethis pyramid could have be do with today technology on the scale of blockbuster movie such a lord of the ring or the matrix obviously they didnt want to leave a lasting impression of faith and sacrifice which be much need in these trouble time
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daniel daylewis be the most versatile actor alive english aristocratic snob in a room with a view passionate irish thief in in the name of the father an impudent violent butcher in gang of new york in a performance ten time strong than adrian brodys in the pianist and a the outrageous cristy brown with cereal palsy in my left foot just to name a few his role all influence eachother but each be seperate and utterly unique he change completely with each character he take on and im begin to believe that he can act a anything anything.as cristy brown he be stun he do not ridicule the character and he do not pity the character a difficult achievement and cristy brown come to life a smart man an outrageous man human.this movie despite small scenetransition fault and the like be an inspiration yes it predictable but be it stupidly sentimental no i laugh i cry not a single moment of cheese proof that this isnt a hollywood movie.my favourite scene be the scene in the restaurant when cristy be discuss painter with eileen peter and her friend heres where daniel daylewis reach an act climax ill kick you in the only part of your anatomy thats animate wheel out the cripple and his performance never slow down never falter and be beautiful simply he have a lot of screen time here i watch it again again and i never get tire of cristys perspicacious eye twitch and guttural speeches.a mustsee fo sho yo
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my guess would be this be originally go to be at least two part and thus at least a quarter longer because otherwise how can one explain it confused abeviated storyline i be never completely lose but i be often partially lose and usually unclear on character motivation the movie feel a though joining plot point be drop to squeeze it into it time slot.if it be long it might make more sense but it still wouldnt be much good the movie most interesting idea be of the war between zeus and hera a be a war between the male and female but the movie drop the ball on this make heras follower fairly horrible while not be clear on what zeus follower do or believe the movie be also interesting because you dont see the god and theres no real certainty that they exist so it get a couple of intrigue idea but it doesnt do anything useful with them.bad dialog cardboard character and one interesting scene involve hercules and his three antagonistic son not unwatchable but also not worth watch
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well i like to watch bad horror bmovies cause i think it interesting to see stupidity and unability of creator to shoot seriously good movie i always compare this movie to for example some spielberg work and againandagain dont understand the huge difference in what i see i like ed wood movie cause it so inept it very funny but people the chilling be not funny and be not even interest it extremely boring horror movie without anything what make even bad movie watchable theres no act no screenplay no direction no thrill and not even blood it extremely inept amateurish film it definitely the bad movie i have ever see and i have see a lot of bad movie believe me i warn you
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this be the bad movie i have ever see as well a the bad that i will probably ever see i see no need to rehash what all the others have say previously just be forewarn ... this be not one of those bad movie you think you want to watch because you want to be able to make fun of it it just plain bad bad bad bad bad.this movie be the equivalent to have a pet rock a your friend you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for something to happen unfortunately it never do at least with a pet rock you know what you be get into lion gate completely deceive on this bombshell ... no ... this be a disaster after watch this film you would swear george w. bush have his hand all over the making of this film ... yes it that idiotic.stay away unless of course you just want to watch the bad movie of all time it probably how lion gate figure it would make some money off this piece of tripe
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i have be a mario fan for as long a i can remember i have very fond memory of play super mario world a a kid this game have ought back many of those memory while add something new super mario galaxy be the late installment in the amazing mario franchise there be much very different about this game from any other mario before it while still keep intact the great element of mario the first noticeable difference be that the story take place in space.the story begin much like any other mario game mario receive a letter from princess peach invite him to a celeation at her castle in the mushroom kingdom upon arrive at peachs castle mario find bowser and his son bowser jr. attack the castle with their airship bowser kidnaps princess peach and then lift her castle up into space in the midst of the castle be lift into space mario fall off and land on an unknown planet mario be find by a talk star name luma and be take back to the lumas home a floating space station here mario meet many other lumas and also meet their leader a woman name rosalina rosalina tell mario that bowser have take away the space station power star and scatter them across the universe it be up to mario to help the lumas find them and save peach thus the adventure begins.the way you play the game be by fly from the space station to other galaxy each galaxy consist of multiple planet that mario travel amongst in level via these shoot star to retrieve the power star mario can at many time walk all the way around planet without lose gravity some planet be small and others be big many planet be similar to classic mario environments the best thing about the game be the control all of the stuff like jump and such be still the same but the wiimote be use in many unique way in this game you shake the remote mario will perform a spin that be use a the primary attack in the game and it will as well activate the shooting star you can also point the remote at the screen and use the pointer to fire star bit at enemy or object in the environment then there be the graphic these be by far the best graphic on the wii it be just so hard to describe how great this game look you could probably almost say it look as good a some games.my only minor gripe be that the go upside down effect take some get use to and also the story be pretty weak the bad part be that you lose all of your life when you turn off the game no matter how many you have when you last quit you restart at life still these minor problem aside it a superb game that be highly entertaining and be very challenge this be the type of game that weve be wait for on the wii.a perfect out of
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this short film that inspire the soontobe full length feature spatula madness be a hilarious piece that contend against similar cartoon yield multiple writer the short film star edward the spatula who after be fire from his job join in the fight against the evil spoon this premise allow for some funny content near the beginning but be barely present for the remainder of the feature this films minute run time be absorb by some oddball comedy and a small musical number unfortunately not much else lie below it the plot that be set up doesnt really have time to show but it surely follow it plot good than many highbudget hollywood film this film be worth watch at least a few time take it for what it be and dont expect a deep story
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okay last night august th i have the distinct displeasure of meet mr. van bebble at a showing of the film the manson family at the three penny in chicago a part of the chicago underground film festival heres what i have to say about it first of all the film be an obvious rip off of every kenneth anger roman polanski oliver stone and terry gilliam movie ive ever see second of all in a short q a session after the show mr. van bebble immediately state that he never make any contact with the actual manson family member or charlie himself call them liar and say he want nothing to do with them that the film be base on his van bebbles take on the trial have see it all from his living room on tv and in the news and im assume from the autobiography and the book helter skelter which be directly mimic through the narrative so i have second dibs on question i ask if he be try to present the outsider mtv sex drug and rock n roll version and not necessarily the true story this question obviously piss off the by now slosh director who start shout f you shut the f up this be the truth all those other movie be bullsh well anyway i didnt even think about how ridiculous this be until the next day when i read the tagline for the film youve hear the law side of the story ... now hear the story a it be tell by the manson family excuse me if this guy have never even speak to the family and considers them to be liar that he doesnt want to have anything to do with how in god name can he tell the story for them this be the most ridiculous statement i have ever hear the film be obviously cater to the sex drug and rock n roll audience that it have no trouble in attract to the small dimly lit theatre and be even more obviously spawn by the sex drug and rock n roll mind of a man who couldnt even watch his own film without get up every ten minute to go get more beer or to shout some sort of rocky horroresque call line to the actor on screen this film accomplish little more than warp the public image of actual event which help shape the state of america and much of the world today into some sort of slasher/comic book/porno/rape fantasy dream up by an obviously shallow individual.the film be definitely very impressive to look at the soundtrack be refresh a it contain actual sample of charlies work with the family off of his lie album the editing be nice and choppy to simulate the nauseating uncertainty of most modern music video all in all this film would have make a much good addition to the catalogue at mtv than to the underground film festival or for that matter the mind of any intellectual observer i felt like i be at a midnight rocky horror view the way the audience be dress and behave probably the best part of the experience the cast be very good with the exception of charlie who resemble some sort of stoned dungeon and dragon enthusiast more than the actual role he be portray the description the film give of him a full of energy throw ten thing at you and be very physical about it all the while do not match at all the slow lethargic and chubby representation that be actually presented.all in all the film basically explain itself a sadie or maybe it be linda declares at the end you can write a bunch of bullsh book or make a bunch of bullsh movie ... etc etc case in point even the disclaimer base on a true story be a dead giveaway signal that somewhere beneath this psychedelic garbage heap lay the foundation of an actual story with content that will make and have make a difference in the world all you have to do be a little bit of alchemy to separate the truth from the the crap or actually maybe you could just avoid it all together and go read a book instead.all i can say be this when the film end i get a free beer so im glad i go but not so glad i spent fifteen dollar on my ticket to be tell to shut the f up for ask the director a question peace
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i buy this game on an impulse buy from walmart i be glad i do it be very entertaining listening to sean connery and play the game i think the graphic be the best i have ever see in a movie/game remake the bonus level be very hard the sniper one i think be too hard it make me so frustrated i didnt play the game for a week and a half there be too many people shoot at you with nothing to hide behind or life to handle it the only thing i might change be the upgrade system i didnt notice any difference from unupgraded equipment to the upgraded such a buy an armor upgrade didnt seem to make the armor strong or more filling on my life meter i really like the q copter i think the developer do a good job
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no this hilariously horrible s madefortv horror clinker isnt about a deadly demonically possess dessert cake still this exceptionally awful yet undeniably amuse and thus enjoyable cathode ray refuse reach a eathtaking apex of absolute unremitting silliness and atrociousness thats quite tasty in a soexecrableitsdownrightawesome sort of way richard crenna look haggard and possibly ineiated and yvette mimieux who act a if she never get over the utal rape she endure in jackson county jail sluggishly portray a disgustingly nice and respectable suburbanite couple whose quaint dull sleepy small town existence get rip asunder when the cute german shepard they take in a the family pet turn out to be some ancient lethal evil spirit pretty soon mimieux and her two repellently cutesy kid kim richards and ike eisenmann the psychic alien moppet from the disney witch mountain picture be worship a crude crayon drawing of the nasty ugly canine entity in the den boy now doesnt that sound really scary and disturb well scary and disturb this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure aint but it sure be funny thanks to curtis night tide harringtons hopelessly weak direction cartoonish not so special effect an almost painfully risiblenridiculous plot and a game cast that struggle valiantly with the absurd story besides the lead both martine beswicke and r.g armstrong iefly pop up a member of a satanic cult and victor jory have a nice cameo a a helpful native american shaman favorite scene the malicious mephestophelion mutt put the whammy on crenna practically force him to stick his hand into a wildly spin lawnmower blade while stuckup snobby fright film fan may hold their nose at the perfectly putrid stench of this admittedly smelly schlock devout tv trash lover should deem this endearingly abominable offal the boob tube equivalent to alpo
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it be easy to tell early in this movie exactly what will happen and who will die it be about woman and a man who on a vacation this be make during the end of the ultra nazi seventy when blonde woman be supposedly ultra american survivor and unettes be all deserving of death.this movie like the others of that era contrive to ing this about and the viewer know this there be no mystery or suspense the people squabble but everything be so predictable for the prejudice of the time it be laughable.the five people happen upon two savage young character and go nuts everyone be nut so that the directorwriter team can justify their nazi propaganda.for some reason the guy be attract to the blonde who be really not much to look at and ignore a super hot look unette that any heterosexual man would go nuts over one must remember that in the seventy movie be mean to appeal to woman and not men.totally crap and totally depressing
neg: 0.128, neu: 0.788, pos: 0.084, compound: -0.8646, 
marion davy star in this remarkable comedy show people release by mgm in davy play a hick from savannah georgia who arrive in hollywood with her father dell henderson the jalopy they arrive in be a hoot a be davy outrageous southern costume davy land a job in slapstick comedy not what she want but it ings her success she meet fellow slapstick star william haines who be immediately smitten with her well davy then get a job at a more prestigious studio high art studio and land a job in stuffy period piece a handsome but fake actor andre telefair show her the rope of how to be the typical pretentious hollywood star davy abandon her slapstick friend and father for the good life but of course learns that be not who she really be marion davy be wonderful throughout a she outrageously run the gamut of emotion require of a serious actress william haines be his usual wonderful comedic self and there be cameo by charles chaplin john gilbert and other famous star of the day include the director of the film king vidor this be a silent film with a few sound effect a sound picture be just come into their own a treasure of a film
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the performance of every actor and actress in the film be excellently natural which be what movie acting should be and the directing skill be so illiantly handle on every detail that i be never tire of see it over and over again however i be rather surprised to see that this film be not include in some of the actor and director attenboroughs credit that puzzle me arent they proud of make a claim that they have make such excellent long lasting film for the audience i be hop i would get some answer to my puzzle from some one possibly one of the knowledgeable personnel insider of the film
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while star trek the motion picture be mostly boring star trek the final frontier be plain bad in this terrible sequel the crew be on shore leave when they get a distress signal from the federation that ambassador represent earth romulus and kronos the klingon home world have be kidnap by a renegade vulcan bent on his quest to attain a starship to venture into the great barrier there he hop to find god use mysticism and bad writing he persuade many of the senior officer of the enterprise to betray kirk and get a hold of the ship they do reach the inside of the great barrier and find a planet where they do meet a godlike alien this one be so bad it be hard to figure out where to begin at the core be a good idea that be never really develop the plot go nowhere instead of where no man have go before it be almost like the writer have no idea how to end this fiasco the action scene dont have the suspense of wrath of kahn the philosophy be boring and the humor be stale now i will focus most of my anger on william shatner when he take the director chair the ego get big most of the focus be on him spock and mccoy but do not give the others enough to do moreover whereas shatner be usually guilty of overact in previous movie and television spot he be just plain bad in this one now kirk be reckless a practical joker and silly one of the bad scene involve the three leader sing the song row row row your boat in a round by a campfire in any case this be the bad of the star trek franchise i should have give it three out of ten instead of five
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despite later claim this earlytalkie melodrama have very little in common with citizen kane it a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat tell in flashback but hop around time the scriptwriter preston sturges show none of his late gift for sparkle dialog and none of the myriad cinematic innovation of kane be evident still it very watchable with a young spencer tracy his oldman makeup make him look just like well an old spencer tracy show depth and authority and colleen moore a little past her prime and not physically well match play a multifaceted womanbehindtheman there also helen vinson a one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history send the final third into ecstatic soapopera reverberations the survive print be jumpy and have miss audio snippet and there be some plot hole leave open how would she know whose son it be if shes sleep with both of them and the music be awfully hokey for all that i be quite fascinated
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this be the best version so far that you will see and the most true to the bronte work dalton be a little tough to imagine a rochester who jane eyre declare not handsome but his act overcomes this and zelah clark pretty a she be be also a complete and believable jane eyre this production be a lengthy watch but well worth it nearly direct quote from the book be in the script and if you want the very first true romance in literature this be the way to see it i own every copy of this movie and have read and reread the original the filming may seem a little dated now but there will never be another like this
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apparently the people that write the back of the box do not bother to watch this socalled movie they describe blindingly choreograph intrigue and violence i saw no intrigue i instead saw a miserable attempt at dialogue in a suppose kung fu movie i saw no violence at least i saw nothing which could cause me to suspend my disbelief a to what could possibly hurt a man with impervious skinbut here i be perhaps reveal too much of the plot furthermore a a viewer of many and sundry film some of which include the occasional kung fu movie i can authoritatively say that this piece of celluloid be unwatchable whatever you may choose to do i will always remain correct jonathan tanner p.s i be not blind by the choreography
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i like boyle performance but thats about the only positive thing i can say everything be overdone to the point of absurdity most of the actor speak like you would expect your yearold nephew to speak if he be pretend to be a jaded stonehearted cop or an ultraevil villain the raspy voiceovers seem amateurish to me i could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out well open music and whats with the whole ish police torture stuff it be totally superfluous and have nothing to do with the actual event of the story cox add a lot of thing in fact that he apparently think would be really cool but have nothing to do with the story thats a big disappointment because one of the thing that make borges story so good be his minimalism they be tightly bind with no superfluous detail this movie be just the opposite i stop watch after the scene where lonnrot be question the guy from the yidische zaitung or thereabouts i waste rent this but at least i can get some satisfaction from write this review and hopefully save others from make the same mistake
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it terrific when a funny movie doesnt make smile you what a pity this film be very boring and so long it simply painfull the story be stagger without goal and no fun.you feel well when it finish
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so well make no cgi crap have anyone else be on the jumping crocs tour of darwin adelaide river before black water be way realistic rogue be a bit cringeworthy.thought the blonde chick be excellent in it havent really see her before and the other chick be a babe she be always excellent v. suspenseful i would compare it to jaw over any other man eat animal flick get the hole aussie thing down pat without go ott with struths and crikeys as well love it
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the assignment be an outstanding thriller with several plot twist drive by character rather than star turn the need to stage special effect obligatory romance and endless car chase however there be a car chase in here and a dandy it be aidan quinn be wonderful a both the terrorist and the naval officer recruit to eliminate him it be rare that a second or third tier actor such a quinn be give an important starring role like this that carry a film usually such a role be give to an alist actor with box office draw which be probably why i never heard of this film before i saw it donald sutherland be great a the morally ambiguous somewhat creepy at time agent that recruit quinn ben kingsley be fine also a the israeli agent the plot be very complex and there be multiple story line which converge in gradual fashion toward the end and not all at once a be use to see the paranoia and claustrophobia of these type of thriller be capture and portray with both moral ambiguity and frighten intensity the location be convince and effective the soundtrack be nothing special but rarely do we get all of the above mention quality these day without dumb and/or meaningless plot development unconvincing star turn loud annoy music video type soundtracks a villain that ham it up and repeatedly a cast costume and plot that cater mostly to an audience under this be an outstanding thriller which most assuredly do not get it just due upon it release of star
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this be one of the fine movie i have ever see .... the stark scenery ... the isolation ... the ignorant bigoted people hide behind their religion ... a backdrop for some wordliness and sophistication ... the acting be completely natural ... but for me a afoodie the best be the actual choosing and preparation of the feast .. i have spend time in paris and know the cuisine well ... whether or not the cafe anglais really exist i dont know but i do know of similar establishment and babettes menu and choice of wine be authentic ... and of course the end where despite themselves the perfect meal mellow them back to friendship be the only end there could be .. this be a out of film and should be see by anyone with enough ain and taste to understand it
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set in the the second year of the french republic form after the execution of louis xvi this film portray the power struggle between the revolutionary leader danton gerard depardieu at his fine and robespierre a commanding performance by the polish actor wojciech pszoniak the moderate revolutionary danton have return to paris from his country seat where he have be since be depose a leader of the committee of public safety in the previous year by robespierre he be oppose to the reign of terror which have result in the execution of thousand of citizen mainly by guillotine who be think to be oppose to the revolution danton be confident of the support of the ordinary people and try to persuade robespierre to curb the bloodletting but robespierre and the committee be afraid that the popularity of danton will lead to them be overthrow and put danton and his supporter on trial for be traitor this be the first french language film make by andrzej wajda after he have arrive in france from poland his polish film company be close down by the government due to his support for the solidarity trade union which have oppose the polish government in the late seventy and early eighty his previous film man of iron have deal with the solidarity union and it leader lech walesa and it be easy to draw comparison between the relationship of walesa and the polish leader general jaruselski and that between danton and robespierre danton/walesa be the voice of reason oppose to robespierre/jaruselski who continue dictatorial rule despite have lose the support of the people they claim to represent the film be base on the polish play the danton affair write by stanislawa przybyszewska in the s and on it release the film be criticise by some for be static and theatrical but what the film do be to concentrate on the behindthescenes meeting of the committee and the scene in the national assembly and the courtroom rather than the activity on the street of paris
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usually im a bit of a fan of the bad eighty early ninety film feature now have beens ... but this film be so incredibly terrible that it be a real endurance test to sit through guy dress up a girl have be do to death but never so pathetically corey haims performance be abysmal a usual nicole eggert be not much well this have no redeeming quality even if you be a number fan of an actor/actress in this piece of trash stay away
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i have now see quite a few film by pedro almodã³var but this would have to be the most disappointing so far this film seem to lack the zaniness that be usually everywhere in his film and the story just never get me interested many almodã³var regular appear in this film so it not like there be a lack of onscreen talent but this film just seem more serious than his other film if there be a comedic edge to this movie i certainly couldnt find it and it make for one surprisingly weak movie
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i greatly enjoy margaret atwoods novel the robber bride and i be thrill to see there be a movie version a woman frame a cop boyfriend for her own murder and his buddy an excop journalist try to clear his name by check up on the dead woman crazy female friends it fortunate that the movie script fix ms. atwoods clumsy plot by focus on the story of these two men victim of scheme woman ... heh okay you get me if these guy be mention in the book and im pretty sure theyre entirely make up for the movie ill eat the dust cover of my hardback copy apparently the three main female character of the novel arent enough to carry the movie zenias manipulation arent interest unless we see them happen to a man and a mans life be screw up roz chari and toni tell their story to a man because it not important if a man doesnt hear them.i like the character in the book it hurt to see them push off to the side for a mans story i normally do not look for feminist angle on medium and i try to enjoy the movie a be if i hadnt read the book i might have enjoy the movie a lot more so if you like the cop and the excop and you want to read more about them youre out of luck read the novel if you want to enjoy luscious prose and characterization subtly layer through a plot it the same plot the movie excavate it iron it and sprinkle it with male angst it like zenias revenge on margaret atwood
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this movie get a because there be a lot of gore in it.who care about the plot or the acting.this be an italian horror movie people so you know you cant expect much from the acting or the plot.everybody know fulci take footage from other movie and add it to this one.since i never see any of the movie that he take footage from it didnt matter to me.the italian godfather of gore out do himself with this movie.this be one of the gory italian movie you will ever see.no gore hound should be without this movie in their horror movie collection.buy this movie no matter what it be a horehounds dream come true
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ingrid bergman play dentist walter matthaus faithful receptionist who harbor a little crush on her bos be absolutely wonderful in this film she handle the witty repartee in the script with aplomb and steal a terrific scene where she and goldie hawn talk in a record booth ingrids monologue be a front but her face tell you she believe in it with all her heart matthau be an odd choice for the lead man he too old for goldie hawn and too unrefined for bergman not to mention too unfocused to be a dentist but i like the way he try hard to please goldie and stumble around try to free himself from a lie hawn who win a supporting oscar be just a fresh and bubbly a she be today this bedroom farce isnt terribly sophisticated and faintly remind one of any wednesday besides but it a welcome relief from the noisy teenoriented comedy they turn out today cactus flower be a lovely sigh from
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a bored television director be introduce to the black art and astral projection by his girlfriend learn the ability to separate his spirit from his body the man find a renew interest in his life and a sense of wellbeing unfortunately the man discovers while he be sleep his spirit leave his body and his uncontrolled body roam the street in a murderous rampage accord to the dvd sleeves synopsis.the synopsis isnt entirely correct a it turn out.anyway the movie open with a dizzy outofbody example of handsome director winston rekert a paul sharpe s newly discover astral body experience it also foreshadow an upcoming dogfight young andrew bednarski a matthew sharpe be a kid draw picture of the blue man a his murder spree begin handsome detective john novak a stewart kaufman discover the victim be connect to mr. rekert mr. novaks investigation lead to the supernatural a prime example of which be karen black a janus with whom rekert fear he be fall in love.several in the cast perform well but the blue man wind up tie itself up in a knot aka eternal evil it unsatisfying story try to be far too clever for it own good
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ah yes the s a time of reaganomics and sly chuck and a host of other action star hide in a remote jungle blow away commie at the time i couldn t believe how movie like rambo miss in action and uncommon valor and who can forget the ridiculous red dawn make money at the box office they re turgid action crap fests with a rather off put right wing agenda and they have date very badly troma s war be a tongue in cheek take on these type of movie but you ve get to ask yourself do they need spoof in the first place of course not troma s war lack any sort of sophistication though it do make the point that there s no real difference between right wing tyrant and leave wing one and sometimes feel more like a grade z movie than a send up maybe it be
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this tale base on two edgar allen poe piece the fall of the house of usher dance of death poem be actually quite creepy from begin to end it be similar to some of the old blackandwhite movie about people that meet in an old decrepit house for example the cat and the canary the old dark house night of terror and so on boris karloff play a demented inventor of lifesize doll that terrorize the guest he die early in the film or do he and the resident of the house be subject to a number of terrify experience i wont go into too much detail here but it be definitely a mustsee for fan of old dark house mysteries.watch it with plenty of popcorn and soda in a darkened room.dan basinger
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i be so happy and surprise that there be so much interest in this movie jack frost be my introduction into the film produce and distribute by apix entertainment and without exception everything this company deal with be pure crap first and this be very important never ever watch this movie sober why would you unlike many other entertaingly bad movie this one i feel be make intentionally bad i just cant get over how fake the snowman be which be why it always show only iefly the way it move be the best this movie be waaaaaaaaaaay good than the michael keaton piece of crap becuz that be make too be a good movie and that version be as bad a this
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revolt of the zombie prove that have the same director revamp and recycle an idea doesnt necessarily make lightning strike twice.the halperin others responsible for the horror classic white zombie make this trite piece of garbage a mere few year later to cash in on it popularity and even recycle closeup of lugosis eye from that previous film there be a court battle with the white zombie film right owner who didnt want the halperins to be able to use the word zombie in this title that word be the only thing that could help this film because a everyone know bad film can make much more money simply by have the word zombie appear in the title know what victor halperin be capable of a few year before only make this uninteresting film more insulting it seem he never direct another horror film after this debacle the zombie here seem not to be true walk dead but simply hypnotism victims. wan na create a mindcontrolled army of zombie be ready to crack a few egg include your own.the lame plot man fall in love with scheme woman who play with his heart and becomes engage to him only to make his friend whom she love jealous this send man into a spiral of madness in which he try use zombie mindcontrol technique to change thing to his advantage in an attempt to win over a woman who isnt worth spit.this include one of the most blatantly obvious plot development ive ever see youd have to be blind or stupid not to see the end come the act isnt even good this movie make the racially insensitive king of the zombie which appear on the same double bill dvd i buy seem like an atmospheric horror masterpiece by comparison and remind u that not every black and white film be a classic it make the atomic age scifi alien zombie cheese fest invisible invader seem like a serious drama this be one big ball of cheese so ridiculously melodramatic it could probably make many a korean film fan twitch south korean film be often know for their use of melodrama the credit list the ironically name company favorite film im not sure whose favorite film this would be but theyre obviously an idiot.not recommend for fan of zombie romance or classic film
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the complaint be valid to me the big problem be that this soap opera be too aim for woman i be okay with these night time soap like grey anatomy or ugly betty or west wing because there be story that be interest even with the give that they will never end however when the idea parallel the daytime soap aim at just put hunky men taye diggs tim daly and chris lowell into sexual tension and romp and numerous ridiculous difficult situation in a socalled little hospital it seem like general hospital ... or a female counterpart to baywatch that be what men want and they have it so if this be what woman want so be it but the idea that this be a high ow show or something men will watch be unrealistic
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this movie be one of the best movie that i have see this year i didnt see any cameo in the movie but it be still pretty good it be similar to anchorman in the humor department but i think this be a good put together movie it actually have a point if you be go to see a whole bunch of t a you will be disappoint just a well put together movie if you have nothing to do for the day or you need a lot of humor you will find this to be a really good movie i definitely think that ebert and roepers review of this movie be right on i mean i dont really like ebert on most movie but this be the movie that i will agree about the movie contain a good enough story that it be actually believable that these type of people be out there there be definitely something to be say about how they treat virginity in this movie yea sure you get laugh at when it be find out about but it still suggest that you wait steve do a wonderful job of portray the person that he do in this movie and yet it be still funny
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i remember see this film in the mid s think it a well pace and well acted piece i now work quite often in berkeley square and the have to get a copy of dvd to remind myself how little the area have change although my office be newish it just second away from the bank even jack barclays car dealership be still there sell bentleys and roll royces.its look like the dvd be due a region release soon the region copy i be very poor quality let hope theyve clean it up.only the slightly dodgy escape sequence from the court spoil what would otherwise be a great film but i guess be in line with the caper tag the film go with
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two hour ago i be watch this illiant movie which overwhelm me with it imprison photography it be quite understandable how it win the prize of best camera in cannes close ups predominate it close ups of wall human and of many other thing the warm color light which be also usually by the director give the movie a warm atmosphere only two person be principally to be see in most of it an interesting music and especially three song or theme accompany the movie nearly all the time each one of these theme represent a certain atmosphere during the whole movie silence and slow movement characterize the movie some scene be extended moment or a serious of closeup not only tony leung deserve a prize for his superb act since maggie cheung be also so illiant i wonder how many dress she be wear in the different scene the story be also connect somehow with the history of hong kong and the region the s. this prevent me from understand some detail of the it especially at the end in short i would recommend the fan of artistic movie to watch it in the cinema
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luckily for bill murray this be such a lightweight project since he pretty much have to carry it meatballs be the story of lowrent camp northstar and how it counselor deal with the camper as well a one another then there be much make of their wealthy rival from across the lake name camp mohawk which culminate in a twoday olympiad competition above it all be bill murray clown around and make a pretty memorable film debut.the film be sprinkle with mediumsized laugh chuckle and more than a few guffaw along the way the big laugh come from the prank play on the nerdy camp director three of them involve the counselor move his bed outside in various location while he sleep morty or micky a everyone call him wake up along the side of a road strung up in some tree several foot above the ground and finally float on a raft in the middle of the lake there be also some funny moment involve the counselor hit on one another but this be a pg rat film with little in the way of raunchiness.the film take a serious note involve a shy camper name rudy who be play by chris makepeace of course it up to murray to teach the kid how to open up and give him the confidence he need to run a marathon during the olympiad the sentimentality of rudys situation seem tack on to a great degree notice how when murray first see the kid sit alone in the grass after get off the bus he tell him you must be the short depressed kid we order make you wonder if that line be really in the script or murray be just adlibbing while the camera be roll in other word murray might as well have say to makepeace you must be that actor we hire to play the stereotypical lonely kid you see in most summer camp film who doesnt fit in but before it all over murray performance make this plot device more than bearable he really seem to have some good chemistry with makepeace.the film culminates with the game between the two rival camp very little of the event we be show be even slightly believable but it just doesnt matter this be a pretty good film on many level dont let the absurd rating this film be currently get scare you off murray will keep you laugh throughout just be warn ..... avoid the sequel especially the one with corey feldman of stars.the hound
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the danish bladerunner be boldly state on the box be you kid me this film be a complete drag when im thirsty and go for a soda in the kitchen i usually pause the vcr so i wont miss anything not this time i actually find myself look long and hard in the fridge just so i wouldnt have to go back why the hell be there not one sciencefictionscriptwriter out there who have the vague clue about how computer work it mindboggling one of the premise of film be that our hero whos a hacker have a little computerassistant to help him the microsoft office paperclip finally catch on in the future when he lose the assistant in the movie hes helpless and cant get into any computer hes a hacker it like say that you cant drive your car if you dont have your lucky drivingcap on i wont even go into the lightningeffect when he recieves electroshock ...
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this movie show a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal get hack by a machete and get it skin rip off i know these horrible thing happen in the world but im watch movie base on the fact that what im watching be not actually happen on the screen these live animal clip be not mean to be in movie they be mean to show people that belong to certain organization to help the horrible thing that human to do other species.this should be ban and destroy i have also contact netflix and other resource to collaborate get this movie off the market this movie should be remove from the public the person who make this movie need psychological help
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anyone who think kool moe dee carol alt and corey feldman comprise a list of good actor must be smoke something id love to try sometime where to begin lousy soundtrack hammy act action in place this be the typical amateurishly write hack fodder that washedup hasbeen and neverwass love to star in i actually felt embarrass for the star in this film the only thespian miss to top this turd be gary coleman who if he would have be in the movie would have make it at least somewhat howlingly bad rather than just plain bad.there be one part in the film where carol alt scream do you think im an idiot yes carol i do your agent do and please for the love of all that be decent and holy ... go away and stop degrade yourself like this this film be something anna nicole smith would take part in.i would tell you what the plot be but that would be one more sentence fragment to this article plus my mind drift many time during the movie anyway so i barely pay attention
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this film could have be a decent remake and gosh know it try or ms. english try assemble talented actor together with a successful experienced writer/director should be a formula for a decent film but ms. english experience accord to her imdb bio be exclusively limit to television work and it be glaringly obvious throughout this film.i be surprise that none of the review i have read mention what i find most unlikeable about this film and what keep it from reach even a portion of it potential it look and felt like it be make for television to give some credit to ms. english many of the joke that simply do not work on a movie screen would have be terrific on tv and maybe a laugh track would have help so much of the camera usage and the lighting would have play out fine on tv but look awkward or odd on a big screen if the whole film have be chop up into a miniseries or a sitcom i think it could have work but this be cinema and sadly ms. englishs talent didnt translate i cringe at so many different point in my embarrassment for the actor the writer that i felt like i come out of the theater half shrivel meg ryan be her usual perky cute self except for the awful plastic surgery she have have on her face but where do she have a chance to use her talent she have make film where she doesnt recreate her stereotyped role and do them well ... but not here annette bening seem to simply go through the motion such a great talent and yet such a poor performance i enjoy the other woman character but they be more caricature than substance and it be sad to see what work in this film in the s doesnt translate to the s and no one help ms. english get the change update or subtlety right if only she a writer director and producer have reach out for some assistance i think it could have be good but it be not.its so frustrate to go to a movie that have good star and a good writer or director and come away feel it be a waste of everyones time money this new yorker cartoon i saw yesterday be appropriate a few movie exec be have a meeting the caption read let remake a classic with bad everything
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i find it very intrigue that lee radziwill jackie kennedy sister and the cousin of these woman would encourage the maysles to make big edie and little edie the subject of a film they certainly could be consider the skeleton in the family closet the extra feature on the dvd include several contemporary fashion designer credit some of their idea to these oddball woman id say that anyone interested in fashion would find the discussion by these designer fascinate i.e be they nut or be i miss something this movie be hard to come by netflix do not have it facets do though
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cmon guy some previous reviewer have nearly write a novel comment on this episode it just an old s tv show this episode of star trek be notable because of the most serious babe yeoman barrows ever use on star trek and the fact that it be film in a real outdoor location unlike the tng and voyager series which be totally confine to sound stages.this use of an outdoor location and babe give proper depth and an almost film like quality to a quite ordinary episode of this now dated and very familiar show.except a few notable exception i.e the city on the edge of forever assignment earth and tomorrow be yesterday the old series of star trek need to be seriously mothball and put out of it boring misery half a dozen good episode from be quite a poor batting average.this be typical of the boring stuff gene roddenberry produce back then actually contrary to popular belief where some people worship the ground he walk on he actually make a lot of rubbish he doesnt deserve to be speak of in the same eath a irwin allen for example.just look at the set of the idge of the enterprise from a modern point of view they use wobbly plywood for the floor cafeteria chair with plastic back and cheap cardboard above the instrument panel you can clearly see the fold in the paper every expense spar or what
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i just watch this movie on it premier night out of curiosity and sheer nostalgia i like not love mork mindy a a kid mostly for robin williams zany energetic performance this movie make me remember why be the original show great not really but robin certainly be which ings me to this movie.i be pleasantly surprised expect nothing more than a paint by number chronological retelling of the show which in a way it be but of course the real focus be on robin it be interest to see robin journey from struggle street jester to national t.v star and how such a drastic difference affect him and his long suffering wife and my hat be off to star chris diamantopoulos a he portray mr. williams with integrity sensitivity and heart not just a cute impression although it be even deadon on an unrelated note i notice that robin struggle be in some way similar to andy kaufman who be underappreciated by network t.v and hold back creatively but thats the taxi behind the scene biopic all in all this be a very enjoyable flick in which i felt i get to know a little more of the man behind the orkan the acting be solid by all never melodramatic like i suspect and the story move along well performance that be particularly good be by those who play garry marshall and john belushi the scene in which belushi heckle robin be a hoot not a great masterpiece by any mean i would have like to have see a tad more about pam dawber but definitely watchable especially for those robin williams and mork mindy fan out there nanoo nanoo
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i catch this film on azn on cable it sound like it would be a good film a japanese green card i cant say ive ever dislike an asian film quite the contrary some of the most incredible horror film of all time be japanese and korean and i be a huge fan of john woos hong kong film i an not adverse to a light hearted film like tampopo or chung king express two of my favourite so i thought i would like this well i would rather slit my wrist and drink my own blood than watch this laborious badly act film ever again.i think the director steven okazaki must have spike the water with quaalude because no one in this film have a personality and when any of the character do try to act a opposed to mumble a line or two their performance come across a forced and incredibly fake i honestly do not think that anyone have ever act before ... the only person who sound genuine be brenda aoki .. i find it amaze that this be promote a a comedy because i didnt laugh once even more surprising be that cbs morning news call this a refreshing eath of comedy it be neither refresh nor a eath of comedy and the end be very predictable the previous reviewer must be an idiot to think such things.avoid this film unless you want to see a boring predictable plot line and wooden acting i actually think that spike of bensonhurst be a well act film than this ... and i walk out half way through that film
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before i begin let me get something off my chest im a huge fan of john eyre first film project shadowchaser the film a bgrade cross of both the terminator die hard may not be the work of a cinematic genius but be a hugely entertaining action film that become a cult hit spawn two sequel a spin off .judge and jury begin with joseph meeker a convict killer who be send to death row follow his capture after the socalled bloody shootout which seem like a poor name for a killing spree â– meeker kill three people while try to rob a convenience store be lead to the electric chair there be an amusing scene where meeker talk to the priest about living for sex but meet his one true love who be kill during the shootout express his revenge for the person who kill her â– michael silvano a washedup football star who spend his day watch his son alex practice football with his high school team and end up harass his son coach but once execute meeker return a a revenant or a kelly perine call a hamburger without the fry whose sole aim be to get his revenge which basically mean make silvanos life a misery.let me point out the fact that judge and jury be not a true horror film it be a supernatural action film with meeker chase silvano use his ability to change form which amount to david keith dress up a everything from an elvis impersonator a french chef with an accent as bad a his moustache a drag queen a clown a standup comedian a shotgun which fire explosive round an invulnerability to death although that doesnt stop martin kove from shoot keith with a desert eagle to pay silvano back for kill meekers wife.director john eyre do not seem interested in characterisation instead focus solely on action scene which the film have plenty of but that be the film main flaw since there nothing to connect the action scenes together the acting be surprisingly good with keith deliver the best performance support ably by kove as well a paul koslo who play the washedup cop quite well kelly perine be annoy a the cabbie who try to help but make the situation worse
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ye lous film purple butterfly pit a secret organization purple butterfly against the japanese force in war torn shanghai ding hui zhang ziyi and her exlover hidehiko itami toru nakamura find themselves on opposite side of the conflict after a chance meeting.i agree with the reviewer from paris the film substitute a convoluted semihistorical conflict for a plot without give the audience a single reason to care about the character or their cause the sudden time shift doesnt help matter a it appear completely unwarranted and pointless normally i dont mind dark movie but the absence of light the bonejarringly shaky camera footage and the generally bad filmmaking technique really make this a tough film to watch and stay interested in i also agree with the viewer from georgia that this film have a chaotic editing style and claustrophobic cinematography but i dont think that help the movie the backdrop to the film be one of the most potent event of the th century and i dont believe you can do it any justice by edit it a if it be a michael bay film the overly melodramatic moment dont add to it watchability.the actor be all suitably melancholy zhang ziyi once again show that she have an exceptionally limited act range a she spend the entire movie do what she seem to do best in all her film ooding and look generally annoy however at least she add some variety to this role by chainsmoking and engage in the bad lovemaking scene since michael biehn and linda hamilton in the terminator.all in all a very disappointing film especially see a how it come from the director of suzhou he
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after hear about george orwell prophetic masterpiece for all of my life im now but never have read the book i be totally confused a to what ive just seen.i be very familiar with the concept cover in the novel a im sure most be but only through hearsay and quote without this limited knowledge this film would have be a complete mystery and even with it im still no more educate about the story of than i be before i watch it.on the plus side ... the cinematography be amazing hurt burton deliver fine performance and the overall feel of the movie be wonderfully grim and desolate the prostitute scene be a fantastically dark piece of film making.now for the down side and there be plenty ... there be a war go on at least as far a the propaganda be concern but why with who nothing be explain there be a couple of name bandy about eurasia etc but they mean nothing without explanation.who be winston what do he do where do he come from where do he work why be he change news report why isnt he on the front line why doesnt he eat the food in the canteen what be that drink hes drink through the entire film why be he so weak ill why isnt he ainwashed like the rest of them whats the deal with his mother sister what happen to his father a little back story would have be nice no scrub that essential for those like myself that havent read the book without it this be just a confusing and hard to follow arthouse movie that constantly keep you guess at what be actually go on.the soundtrack be disjoint and badly edit and the constant chatter from the big brother screen swamp the dialogue in place make it even hard to work out whats go on i accept that this may have be an artistic choice but it very annoy all the same.also i know this have be mention before but why all the nudity it just seem totally gratuitous and felt like it have be throw in there to make up for the lack of any plot coverage.i personally cant abide the way hollywood feel it have to explain story line word for word these day we be not all ainwashed simpleton but this be a few step too far the other way i can only imagine that it totally rely on the fact that youve read the book because if this film really be the literal translation that ive see many people say i would find it very hard to understand why be hail a the classic it is.theres no denying that it be light year ahead of it time and have pretty much predict every change in our society to date maybe this have be a sort of bible to the power that be but many scifi novelist have do the same without leave gap hole in the storyline.i guess i have to do what i should have do from the start and buy a copy of the book if im to make any sense out of this.all in all very disappointed in something ive wait for year to watch
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this cute animate short feature two comic icon betty boop and henry.henry be the bald slightly portly boy from the comic who never speaks.well here he do speak he want to get a puppy from betty boops pet store and when he be leave to mind the store some hilarious hijinks ensue.betty sings a song about pet henry get in a battle with bird and a monkey but everything work out in the end
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i just get back from this free screening and this osama witch project be the handsdown worst film ive see this year bad than even catwoman which have the decency to at least pass itself off a fiction.in september tap a film crew of documentary journalist head to afghanistan despite be thoroughly unprepared for the trip the condition and oh yeah the psychotic and ridiculous vendetta of their filmmaker leader to avenge his wifes death on sept. to track down osama bin laden.they make eight tape on their journey which now document their travel and of course their attempt to kill the terrorist leader the eight tape thankfully all end at point significant in the narrative which be convenient for a documentary the psychotic idiotic protagonist who be give to long significant speech that he probably learn watch macgyver care nothing for his own life or the life of his innocent crew a he get them far and far into danger through a series of completely dumb mishap i dont know why he didnt just wear a sign on his back that say shoot me.the crew translator supposedly their sensible voiceofreason do little more than whine and get baffle a the idiot hero lead them into doom you wish theyd ought along someone on their trip to call them all morons.around tape i begin root for the terrorist to shoot the film crew
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i remember see this film in the theater in when i be yearsold you do the math i absolutely love it i be tarzan for the week after see it climb the furniture jump around make monkey sound it start a fascination with tarzan and monkey but oddly enough a longer lasting love for christopher lambert keep in mind that i saw highland very shortly after this be the last time i saw that film until about a month ago it happen to be on cable a i be get ready for bed at be and even though it be late and i be tire and i have to be at work at be i stay up to watch this movie that i love a a kid upon view it i realize that it be not that great of a film and even odd then that that andie macdowell voice be dub by someone else ian holme be of course solid a usual and surprisingly the monkey suit still kind of hold up but what be most surprising be how good lambert be a tarzan he be great the depth he manage to capture in so few line his primal body language and most importantly his ability to ing this character through it extremely large ark be just amazing.as i state earlier i be lambert fan but im use to highlander the hunted and fortress in this film he be really quite good and it be a shame that he never get a chance to portray a character with such depth again.so to make a short story way too long i be a little disappointed that the film be not that good but i be glad to see that lambert be good and i do not regret stay up until be to see it
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a family be travel through the mid west theres widower ben charles bateman his girlfriend nicky ahna capri and bens little daughter k.t geri reischl then hit a town name hillsboro where everyone act more than a little strangely their car eaks down and theyre force to stay they soon find out a witch coven have a spell over the town and be up to incredible evil.the story be not that good people just figure thing out of nothing and they just happen to find out where the witch be at the end also there be a lot of loophole leave dangle at the end the acting be pretty poor too bateman and capri be bland and everybody else be about the same only old pro strother martin and l.q jones give good performance still this movie do work it forgoes blood and gore there some but this be pg and mange to work with some very creepy visuals and atmosphere the acting hamper a lot of it but it still work martin especially chew the scenery in his role i cant explain exactly why i sort of like this movie but it do work on me it a quiet kind of horror that isnt make anymore hardly a masterwork but this deserve to be rediscover a
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francis ford coppola write and direct this stunningly personal story of a married woman flight from her husbandand the reality that perhaps the youthful glee and excitement of her young year be behind her we learn little about this woman marriage except that she have be feel her independence slip away a of late shes also recently learn shes pregnant which have far complicate her heart she doesnt want to be a complacent wifey despite the maternal way she speak to her husband over the phone she meet two men on her journey a former college football hero whoafter an accident during a gamehas be leave with permanent ain damage and a sexy strutting motorcycle cop who have a great deal of trouble in his own life the clear clean landscape a photograph by the very talented wilmer butler be astutely realize a be the character shirley knight james caan and robert duvall each deliver strong gripping performance most especially since these be not very likable people in conventional term some scene such a knight first call home from a payphone or her first night alone with caan where they play simon say be almost too intimate to watch coppola toy with reality turn the jagged memory of his character into scrapbook weve be make privy to he allow scene to play out yet the editing be quite nimble and the film be never allow to get too heavy there be at least two or three very frisky moment it a heady endeavorso much so that the picture be still be show at festival nearly five year later some may shun coppola unapologetic twisting of event in order to underline the finale with bitter irony however the forcefulness and drive behind the picture nearly obliterate it shortcoming from
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this movie be not very well direct they almost totally disregard the book.i guess they be try save time the only upside me be that the actor who play finny be cute some of the dialog between the main character appear a little gay which be not the case in the book major part of the book be once again chop out.you lose the over all effect it be not as haunting a the book and leave me lack severely also the strong language although it be ief be very unnecessary also i be surprise not pleasantly by a new character that be no where in the book.one of my favorite character leper be poorly interpret and portray he seem more sinister in the movie than the real leper be in the book over all disappointing
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the buzz for this film have always be about the fabulous graphic that make kevin bacon disappear sadly they stop there they should have continue to make the script disappear then the silly set and finally every visible element of this film because there nothing else there to show.gary thompson and andrew marlowe be list a the write credit for this film i dont really think they exist i think they buy this script at scriptsrus where you buy a standard blank monster movie script and just fill in the blank theres a monster stalk u let split up they actually let split up in this movie hit alien/giantbug/monster/invisibleman with crowbar not dead yet burn hugerabbit/shark/invisibleman in unsurvivable fire not dead yet you know the standard stuff even the minimum number of element that be specific to an invisible man movie ir glass spray with something like paint be handle badly what be sad be that there be lot of possibility for this to be a fascinating movie they psychological issue for the subject the deterioration of the mind due to the process treat an invisible subject and many other idea be touch on for usually less than second and would have be far more interesting have there be any desire to save kevin bacon in the end it would have be a much good movie all in all it stunk.i would mention some of the incredibly stupid element of the end of the movie but i dont want to do any spoiler suffice it to say that these character be so stupid they dont think about pull the plug on a machine rather than ...
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a young girl become a wartime marine penpal and when he visit at war end expect someone a bit more available comic complication ensue all ultimately work out well naturally but not before everyone involve have thoroughly chew the scenery errol flynns deadon impression of humphrey bogart from casablanca be a highlight a be various sendup of his own swashbuckling image the jump scene in the kitchen with forrest tucker be a riot it be tucker though who tuck the movie under his arm lower his head and barrel over the goal line he demonstrate the comic flair more fully develop twenty year later in ftroop and impart a liveliness and energy that flynn repeatedly play off to raise his own performance eleanor parker do a fine job a the woman be pursue and little patti brady charm a tucker actual penpal friend a fine lightweight come home comedy in a genteel set that child and romantic of all age should find entertain
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this movie be a perfect adaptation of the english flick unfaithful ashmit play the role of richard gere emran that of olivier and malikka the perfect cheat wife role of lane.they have change the second half of the film to adapt for the indian mass even then the movie have get the full trace of unfaithful though it couldnt catch up with the original it be a cheap soft porn of the bollywood lover where mallika show a lot more skin than anyone dare to show emran do more role like this and be even nickname the serial killer in the future if the indian director plan to remake a english movie then they have to look into the feasibility of the plot with the indian censor though the film bomb at the box office the actor get the undue recognition in future the director should be a little more careful in remake a oscar nominate film all say this be not a family film so take the extra caution while watch it at home with family
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robert altmans downbeat newfangled western from edmund naughtons book mccabe be overlook at the time of it release but in the past year have garner a sterling critical follow aside from a completely convincing boomtown scenario the character here dont merit much interest and the picture look intentionally ackish and unappealing bearded warren beatty play a turnofthecentury entrepreneur who settle in struggle community on the outskirt of nowhere and help organize the first othel once the profit start come in beatty be naturally menace by city tough who want part of the action altman create a solemn wintry atmosphere for the movie which give the audience a certain sense of time and place but the action in this sorry little town be limitedmost of the story be make up of vignettesand altmans pace be deliberately slow there hardly a statement be make just the opposite in fact and the languid actor stare at each other without much on their mind it a selfdefeating picture and yet in an altmanquirky way it wear defeat proudly from
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what seem at first just another introverted french flick offer no more than baleful sentiment become for me on second view a genuinely insightful and quite satisfying presentation.spoiler of sort follows.poor cedric he apparently didnt know what hit him poor audience we be at first catch up in what seem a really beautiful and romantic story only to be lead back and forth into the dark reality of mismatch these two guy just didnt belong together from their first ambiguous encounter as much a mathieu and cedric be sexually attract to each other the absence of a deep emotional tie make it impossible for mathieu an intellectual be to find fulfillment in share life with someone whose sensibility be more attuned to carnival festivity and romp on the beach.on a purely technical note i love the camera action in this film subtitle be totally unnecessary even though my french be presque rien i could watch it again without the annoy english translation and enjoy it even more this be a polished very professionally make motion picture though many scene seem superfluous i rate it nine out of ten
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i dont think ive ever give something a rating but this one easily get the denomination i find it hard just to sit through one of his joke it not just that the joke be so bad but combine that with the fact that carson daily have zero charisma cant set up or finish a punchline and youve get a late night comedy recipe that will really turn your stomach.i have watch the show never in it entirety but many time still it just creep up on me after conan i usually watch a minute or two just to see if carson daily be still the bad talk show host ever.actually if you ever do see him interview a guest it just that an interview i feel so sorry every time he have a guest on and their confused smile try to mask their body language thats scream get me the hell away from this freak i do recommend watch the show not for a laugh but to ponder how he get on the air and what he still do there watch as much a you can i think you will find it complete awkwardness ... interesting
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in the standard view this be a purely awful movie however it rate a near perfect score on the unintentional comedy scale i can think of few actual comedy that make me laugh as hard a i do watch this movie andy griffith ghost dress in native american garb dance sends me into hysteric everytime i wouldnt waste the gas or energy driving to the video store to rent it but if you happen to be lay on the couch at in the morning and it come on tv check it out
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from the film first shot keira knightley a elizabeth bennet wander read through a field at dawn thus invoke all the clichã©s cinema have develop to address the phenomenon of the strongminded rebellious female character in period drama i know i be in for something to make me want to kill myself.joe wright seem not only to have not read the book but to be under the regrettable misapprehension that what he be film be not in fact jane austens subtle nuanced comedy of manner conduct through sparkle delicate social interaction in eighteenth century english drawingrooms but a sort of ucertificate wuthering height thus we be treat to every scene between elizabeth and darcy take place outside for no apparent reason in inappropriately rugged scenery and often in the pouring rain not to mention that jane austen and in particular p p be not about passion sexual tension or love it about different strategy of negotiate the stultification of eighteenth century society which be completely ignore so that the bennet house be a rambunctious chaotic place where everybody shout at once run around leaf their underwear on chair and pig wander happily through the house the society ball become rowdy country dance one step away from a matrix reload style danceorgy and everybody say exactly what they think without the slight regard for propriety.the genius of jane austen lie in explore the void create by a society in which nobody say what they think or mean because of an overwhelming regard for propriety and the tragic predicament of her character arise from misunderstanding and miscommunications enable by that speechless gap so both the illiance of jane austen and the very factor that allow her plot particularly in this film to function be completely erased subtlety in general be nowhere int his film sacrifice in favour of an overwrought drama which jar entirely with the material and the performances.it be so obviously try to be a serious film the humour which be pride prejudice both austen methodology and her appeal be almost entirely suppress in favour of all this pofaced melodrama and when it be allow in be handle so clumsily pride prejudice be a serious narrative which make serious point yes but those serious point and weighty theme be not just intertwine with the humour they be embed in it you cant lose jane austen technique leave only the bare bone of the story and expect the theme to remain not even when you replace her technique with your own heavyhanded mysticalnuminous fauxow cinematography.elizabeth bennett be suppose to be a woman an adult mature and sensible and clearsighted keira knightley play the first half of the film like an emptyheaded giggling schoolgirl and the second half like an emptyheaded schoolgirl who think she be a tragic heroine elizabeth wit her combative verbal exchange her quintessential characteristic of be able to see and laugh at everybodys folly include her own her strength and composure and her fantastic clearsightedness be completely lose and replace with ... what a lot of giggle and star into the distance rather than be able to keep her head when all about her be lose theirs she start to cry and scream at the slight provocation and not genuinely rag either no these be petulant hissy fit and where the great strength of austen elizabeth at least in austens eye be her ability to retain integrity and observance while remain within the boundary of society and sustain impeachable propriety knightleys elizabeth have no regard whatsoever for convention furthermore she seem to think that wander around barefoot in the mud in the eighteenth century version of overall establish her beyond doubt a spirited and strongminded and therefore nothing in the character a write or the performance have to sustain it an astonishingly unsubtle and bland performance in which quest for blandness and weakness she be ably match by matthew macfayden.donald sutherland a mr bennet seem weak ineffectual and permanently befuddle without the wicked sense of humour and ironic detachment at the expense of human relationship that make mr bennet so fascinating and tragic his special bond with lizzie a the only two sensible people in a world of fool be completely lose not least because both of them be fool in a world of fool and that completely deprive the end of the film of emotional impact mr bingley be no longer amiable and wellmeaning to the point of folly but be play a a complete retard for cheap laugh and the woman who be play jane be so wildly inconsistent that she may as well not have try to do anything with the character at all the script veer wildly between verbatim chunk of jane austen deliver with remarkable clumsiness and totally contemporaneous language which would not be out of place in a modern day romantic comedy.just get the bbc adaptation on dvd and save yourself the heartache
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ive always enjoy film that depict life a it be life sometimes have boring patch no real plot and not necessarily a happy end a river run through it be the perfect name for this film and norman macleans novel life ebb and flow like a river and it have it rough spot but it be a wonderful trip.robert redford ings a lot to the film his narration have a friendly feel that fit the picture perfectly a a director he be restrain and calm and capture some incredibly beautiful scene a for the act craig sheffer and brad pitt work surprise well a others i dont know quite how to describe tom skerritt and brenda blethyns performance except that they truly feel real a river run through it be a wonderful film .. out of
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the story be very trustworthy and powerful the technical side of the movie be quite fine .. even the directing of it the main problem be with the casting that turn that movie into almost another local and regular clichã© with a great lack of impact and even great lack of impression beside the small role of the father rafael play impressively by asi dayan all other actor be unfortunately not in their best the role of the elder blind girl play by taly sharon be fresh but without any intensity a the lead role therefore the figure she act have become mild and low profile there be moment and episode that look more like a rehearsal then a real movie but after all it a good point to begin from and to make big improvement in the future
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this movie be not so much promote here in greeceeven though it get good actor great script and rather good photograph be not a so called blockbuster movie in my country the movie itself be very powerfulits about the hard time that a newcomer have to go through when he return in his homevillage after be release from a yo prison time drug the end be rather sad .... mourikis be try to keep up with his part and he handle it pretty well ... lamopoulou be great and very sexy in a strange way and of course hatzisavvas be for one more time close to excellency ... out of because very few greek movie can make such an impression
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mystery men have get to be the stupid film ive ever see but what a film i think it be fabulous excellent and impressive it be funny welldone and nice to see ridiculous super hero for a change and be able to pull it off this be great ill definitely watch it again
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you know that mouthwash commercial where the guy have a mouth full of listerine or whatever it be and he try really hard to keep from spit it up into the sink thats a great metaphor for this movie i keep watch even though it be really difficult but keep mouthwash in your mouth will leave you with a minty fresh feeling this movie leave me with a bad taste in my mouth i should have spit it out when i have the chance.the premise be corny enough to be fun for the first time in like a thousand year gargoyle have return to romania and all of the priest who know how to fight and kill these thing be long dead it up to michael pare and some other secret agent to get to the bottom of thing before the gargoyle run amok unfortunately the premise be completely lose in bad dialog and less than enthusiastic act on the part of the human lead the best acting be do by the cg gargoyles.in the end this movie feel like a poor man van helsing if you check your ain at the door this might get you through a dreary monday night i give it out of star
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i cant believe it that be the bad movie i have ever see in my life i laugh a couple of time probably because of how stupid it be if someone pay me to see that movie again i wouldnt the plot be so horrible it make no sense and the acting be so bad that i couldnt even tell if they be try that movie be terrible rating f
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this be one of a rarity of movie where instead of a bowl of popcorn one should watch it with a bottle of vodka to be completely honest we be a group of people who actually know the man mo ogrodnik and decide to drink ourselves stupid to this film.the cinematic aspect of wolfgang somethings photography seem to have leave out both closeup and east mo and wolfgangs collaborative effort reveal the passion of the two actress plastic peen hold passion there also beetle bang a violet would have put it this plastic peen go up your butt the rat porn and subsequent rat smashing be awesome alright so if you be still read let u explain who we be mo ogrodnik teach at nyu and we be a group of her student who finish a film class with her decide to get poop face and watch here directorial debut she also write uptown girl i cant tell you how much thats be hammer into our skull so this movie be quite the experience at the very bottom of this post will be a drinking game we create for this movie about minute into this game none of u could see straight the sheer amount of dido in the first thirty minute create enough reason to drink to pacify an elephant.there be something secretly pleasurable about see two underage girl hit on a kurt cobain lookalike with absolutely no context save for his mysterious scene at the convenience store where he be ohsonaturally read a local newspaper because thats what we all do the heartshaped glass be delightfully derivative of lolita and something about that provocative scene of the nude chinup boy suggest the director history of homosexual pornographic experiment we wish we be kidding.enough intellectual contemplation on to the drinking game this will ensure that the view experience be a positive one it very simple and very likely to send at least one member of your party to immediate care.the mo ogrodnik/ripe drink game every time you see anything relate to pornography take a drink every time you see auteur mo ogrodniks name appear take a drink sex plastic peen require two drink any time somebody point a gun at another character take a drink at this point you will probably need to refill/pee pee any remain soiety from your body any time there be blood include lady blood please take a sip the underused hulahoop girl require one drink per second gratuitous use of the magic black man require one drink if you cant figure out the throughline keep drinking beyotch whenever you be able to predict a line take a drink trust u it easy thats it internet keep drinking and try not to get riped.hawaiian smirnoff punch jr
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even though im quite young the beatles be my absolutely favourite band i never have the chance to hear their music a it be release but have love them since i can remember.its the sort of film that be worth try the once i can see why it wasnt release in the cinema but it be certainly a great film to put on the tv i be flick through my tv guide and happen to see this film it didnt much detail except something like john lennon and paul mccartney meet after the beatles have oken up jared harris star id never hear of him he play john or aiden quinn who play paul however they be certainly underestimated actor the film have a slow start but a it develop i could see how well quinn but especially harris play their character a a huge fan i sort of know what the real lennon and mccartney be like the script be illiant and harris get lennon accent personality and mannerism spot on quinn play mccartney quite well but sometimes go into his irish accent the makeup artist make them look excellent.this paragraph may be count a a spoiler a i mention before it get off to a slow start but soon develop and become quite an emotional film i find the bit in the park a total waste of time and quite out of character for both of the musician a for lennon rude line in the italian restaurant totally unnecessary the end be very poignant and ings a tear to my eye whenever i watch it.it be quite different from the other biographical film ive see where it about how the beatles get together and become famous and those never really do the character that well e.g backbeat.in conclusion i would say if youre a beatles or john lennon or paul mccartney fan give it a chance you may have pleasent surprise at only about minute long it worth wait for the film to develop.if anyone do know whether the meeting of really do happen please send it to the comment page for this film id be very interested
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an american werewolf in london have some funny part but this one isnt so good the computer werewolf be just awful the perspective be all off it like see them through a distorting mirror the writer step on the throat of many of their gag american boy say to parisian girl be there a cafe around here instead of just leave it at that they have to have the girl sigh and respond this be paris
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originally i be a tenacious d fan of their first album and naturally listen to a few track off the p.o.d and be rather disappointed after watch the movie my view be change the movie be pretty funny from begin to the end and find my self engage in it even though it be really be a stupid storyline because of the attitude that kg and jaybles portray in the movie much more entertaining and enjoyable than movie i have see in the theater lately ex saw iii dull and drag casino royale way to homoerotic which in prior installment i have really enjoy if you enjoy borat you will enjoy the tale of the great band on earth
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this be just one more of those hideous film that you find on lifetime tv which portray the abhorrent behavior of some disgust woman in an empathetic manner along with other such nasty film a the burning bed enough or monster this film take a disgusting criminal and attempt to show the viewer why shes not such a bad person after all give u a eak heres my question to the filmmaker if letourneau be a man and vili be a year old girl would you have make a picture sympathizing and empathize with this person answer hell no.imagine switch the gender in this film and then youll see just why myself and others here consider this a worthless piece of garbage be the gender switch there would be no attempt to empathize with the criminal instead wed likely be treat to a portrayal of a monstrous and hideous man prey upon a young girl his lascivious behavior land him in prison and his ainwashed victim suffer from stockholm syndrome the only reason letourneau do not receive the same treatment in this film be by virtue of her sex.lets call a spade a spade letourneau be a pedophile plain and simple no ifs ands or buts shes a criminal who belong in prison and deserve our derision and contempt but certainly not our pity or empathy
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the premise of this movie be decent enough but with sub par act it be just bland and dull.spoilers the film do not work because of the nature of the death it be accidental so although it be a murder it wasnt like the guy set out to do it also through some flashback there be a secret that be reveal that sort of make the event like justice to a degree there be no emotion in this film the first minute or so be just this woman call her sister and hear her message it be dull and boring.with some polishing and good act it could have be pretty good
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the life of the saint start off with an atmospheric vision of london a a bustle city of busy quaint street and sunshine i be hop it would maintain this atmosphere but it get bogged down in a story that go pretty much nowhere.othello work for big fat mr. karva his crimeboss stepdad at least i think that be what he be suppose to be because it never really defined but he do drop kitten into deep fat frier so trust me hes a prick do scrappy little errand while his skanky girlfriend give daddy handjobs one of his colleague be runner a black dude who be always dash from a to b. until the day he come across almost mute homeless child who grant him his wish of be able to stop run runner dump the lost boy in othello flat where he promptly start grant more wish keen to have some of his own desire fulfil karva have the boy kidnap but he isnt sure of what would really ing him happiness be it the innocence of be a child again or be it another handjob either way i dont want to see the little boy grant him the second.it just take age to get go and there be load of repetitive scene the end try to be shock but since there hardly any backstory on investment in any of these character it only serve a a release for the bored audience.writer tony grisoni a favourite of terry gilliam try to blend in some kind of religious allegory which end up be pretentious a all hell ironically if he give u something more accessible or at least have good explanation for the character suddenly act all weird then it would have be a more enjoyable film a it be we be introduce to a bunch of annoy loudmouth who then miraculously seem to develop intelligence when confront by the mysterious boy who origin be never reveal thats just plain irritate aside from sporadic moment of atmosphere and a moody score this film have little to recommend
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i cant emphasize it enough do not get this movie for the kids.for that matter youd best spare the adult from it a well.all right perhaps im overexaggerating a little this isnt the bad kid movie ... no let me rephrase that this isnt the bad movie make by dissilusioned adult for dissilusioned adult and somehow marketed towards kid that would be jack which ive be mean to review gut like a fish .adults wont learn anything surprising well if you must fastforward to just before the end credit for a educational bit about an interesting cosmic phenominon we dont usually end up do a adult what we want to do as kid a reality tend to get in the way well duh i could have tell you that so can four year of college at an art school but i degress .i have no idea what the heck kid could possibly get out of this movie most likely it will only upset them we get to watch the moment when rus be traumatize at eight year old theres a good movie kikis delivery service that have essentially the same message but handle it litely instead of drill it into your head and the adult will like it too by the way there be a moment in the movie make with amature mstkers in mind if they think of that other bruce willis movie with a sad little kid in it
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be nothing else on tv be you really bore well then watch phat beach however dont rent it and definitely do not buy it that would be a big mistake.i watch this on tv and find myself laugh at certain point i do not laugh long and i do not laugh hard however there be subtle joke and comment i laugh at if you be look for an extremely funny hood movie then watch friday if you be look for a powerful emotional movie something that this movie try at .. kind of watch something like hoop dream or jason lyric if you be lookin for some good black booty go watch a dominique simone porn flick because the nudity in this movie be nearly nonexistent however if you have nothing well to do and this be on cable go ahead and watch it you will be slightly amuse out of
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the elegant documentary dont watch this movie ... if youre an egotistical knowall student of physic this much less than one percent miniscule fraction of the population may find that this show just tell them what they have already learn and already know.do watch this movie if youre one of the massive majority of people that fall into the great than of the population that do not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theory of physic include relativity quantum string and mtheory.what a illiantly architected documentary start with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a universe of pure magic and dimension beyond i have always have a huge appreciation of mathematics this movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics be without make you feel like youre about to fail the grade.the show be repetitive at time a the original format be a miniseries split over three show it therefore make sense to give u polite little reminder of the principle be present i find this immensely helpful a it keep remind me of the multitude of question and possible answer that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence.we be all and everything around u be viationalenergy with a natural tendency towards harmony this movie may blow your mind or at least help you realize that the universe be far far big than that which we see around u even with the hubble telescope and far far small than the proton and neutron within the atom we learn about in highschool mtheory hold many magnificent magnitude of possibility.it just seem so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it very nature move by admission by the many illiant scientist present out of the realm of science and into the realm of philisophy.you do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie ought you one step closer to god.bravo brian greene well do indeed.p.s if youre interested in feel even more comfortable and at home in your place in the universe and would like some more insight into the possibility quantum mechanic blend with spirituality of all thing can ing then i highly recommend that you also watch what the bleep down the rabbit hole yes i know they make a few silly mistake by suggest a shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasnt see one before my eye process light reflection just fine i see thing everyday that ive never see before and ain cell be cell in the body that actually dont divide but if you can get over these little hurdle and put down the thing you dont like and hang on to those that you do there be a lot to like about this film.then watch the secret documentary about the law of attraction search for imdb title tt this information just might change your life profoundly forever if you search deep you might even find the universe be talk to u with thought if youll listen and some be and that be truly incredible there be a modern day jesus/mohammad/buddha those among others that history suggest have communicate with the nonphysical alive today and she live in texas i know some of you know what im talk about.i do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but i have never felt more at home or a comfortable in the universe a i do now
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in with the success of the first season of batman the animated series warner brother commission the team responsible for the hitshow with produce a featurelength movie originally slat for directtovideo but bump up to theatrical status it would become know a batman mask of the phantasm ten year after phantasm we have have an additional three featurefilms release from the boy at the wb subzero return of the joker and now mystery of the batwoman join the family.the plot be basic and in many way similar to mask of the phantasm a new female vigilante model herself after batman have begin target operation run by gotham mob bos rupert thorne and oswald cobblepot aka the penguin now batman must attempt to unravel the mystery of the batwoman before she cross the line.the animation be the sleeker futuristic style that be utilize for batman the animated series fifth and sixth season aka the new batman adventure it quite nicely do and just as sleek a return of the joker animation there be also some use of cgi but it minor compare to the overabundance of it in subzero the music be alright different and exotic and similar to the justice league score although the point in the score when the old animated batman theme come up will be sure to send wave of nostalgia through the old fan rodentshaped hearts.kevin conroy a always do a wonderful job a bruce wayne and batman it also great to have the old batman the animated series alumnus back that include bob hastings commissioner gordon robert costanzo detective bullock tara strong barbara gordon/batgirl her cameo hint at the romanticrelationship between her and bruce that be mention in batman beyond and efrem zimbalist jr. alfred .villains be also great especially give that rupert thorne the old mob bos from the original series appear for the first time since the fourth season.overall while not quite reach the standard set by mask of the phantasm ten year ago motb carry on the torch quite nicely for the animated batman film and if you have the dvd and be a hardcore fan you will love the fiveminute short chase me
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i think this movie be suppose to be shock but the only way in which it be indeed shock be how shocking badly it be make ... and simply be it oneandahalf hour of torment even more so for the viewer than for the character in the movie the five girl .sure the main character get their bloody piece in a bad way which be basically fine since it a horrormovie and i usually like horrormovies ive no problem with violence in these type of movie per se however all the violence in this film serve no end whatsoever it no spectacle other than that it simply grotesque it so lame it even get boring and really quick too.the bad thing if the above wasnt bad enough for ya about this movie be that theyve try to copy the blair whitch project by film with cheap handheldcameras but again this too serve no end whatsoever in the blair which sure enough theres an explanation namely they be their with a camera look for the blair witch in this film theres no other explanation than hey yall we want this to look like the blair whitch the sound in the movie be also something to get depressed about the girl be scream so hysterically that many a time you cant make out what theyre say also no effort have be make to make anything any good soundwise or other wise.than finally theres the soundtrack which be just as bad a the rest and varies from cheap eurohouse to the bad grungy hardrock ... my advise dont watch this under any circumstance
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why cant a movie be rat a zero or even a negative number some movie such a plan nine from out space be so bad theyre fun to watch this be not one the dungeon of horror might be the bad movie ive ever see some of anyway i have to fast forward through a lot of it fortunately for the indiscretion of my youth and senility of my advance age there may be bad movie ive see but thankfully i cant remember them the set appear to be make with cardboard and finish with can of spray paint the special effect look like a fifth grader c+ diorama set in a shoebox the movie contain unforgivable gaff such a when the marquis shoot and kill his servant he then immediately get into a scuffle with his escape victim who take his flintlock and shoot him with it without the gun have be reload this movie be so bad my dvd copy only have name credit i guess no company or studio want to be incriminate though i guess when you film in your garage and make set out of cardboard box a studio isnt need this movie definitely rank in my cellar of all time bad movie with such horrible sacrilege a the manipulator the bad movie i have ever see with an actual one time hollywood lead manmickey rooney the only time i would recommend watch the dungeon of harrow or the manipulator for that matter would be if someone be to pay you im kind of cheap id have to have or buck for dungeon and at least ten for manipulator philthe never out of the can cinematographer
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this movie take me by surprise the opening credit sequence feature nicely do animation after that be plunge into a semicheesy production betray it low budget the character typical american teen be introduce slowly with more personal detail than be usually find in movie like this by the time the shlitz hit the fan we know each one of the character and either like or hate them accord to their distinct personality it a slow uphill setup kind of like the ride up a slope of a really tall roller coaster thankfully once the action kick in it full blow old school horror steve johnson makeup effect be awesome equal in quality to much big budget film and the scare be jolt kevin tenney deliver his best movie ever with heartstopping surprise and creepy suspenseful setups the tongueincheek sometimes cheesy humor mark this film a pure s horror a oppose to the sullen tone of early genre fare like night of the living dead or hill have eye but for true horror fan this one be worth check out play it a the first entry on a double bill with the remake of house on the haunt hill the setup and character dynamic be so similar that you really have to wonder what film they be actually remake
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though id heard that cama de gato be the bad brazilian movie of the decade i watch it give it a chance after all firsttime director/producer/writer alexandre stockler manage to make his debut feature shot in video for just u and though it look even cheap i cant begin to imagine all he go through to finally get it exhibit in theater with no big sponsor or production company behind it then a i watch it i realize why but whatever chance youre ready to give to cama de gato they shrink to zero within minute it an unbelievably preposterous verbose ideologically fanatical and technically catastrophic attempt to portray brazilian uppermiddle class youth a a bunch of spoiled neonazis hook on bad sex drug and violence and theyre make to look like closeted gay too make with no visible trace of talent imagination expertise or notion of structure visually and aurally it recall the bad amateur stuff you can find on youtube only here it last ninety two countem minute of unrelenting hysteria and clumsiness and it not even funnybad.weve all see the story before bored young guy want to have fun go party take drug and everything go wrong there gangrape spank murder the accidental death fall down the staircase of the mother of one of the boy culminate with the boy decide to burn the corps of the girl and the mother in a garbage landfill moral and literal garbage get it the film be heavily influence by larry clark especially kid and bully but clarks film though also moralist and sexploitative be highclass masterworks compare to this crap.i dont think there be ever such monomaniacal drive in a filmmaker to stick his idea down the audience throat stockler grab u by the collar and try to force his nonstop moralist rant into our ains by repetition and exhaustion you do get numbminded with so much babbling yell inept direction shaky camera and terrible act go on stockler doesnt care a bit about technique the quality of the image frame sound record soundtrack song dialog set edit etc be uniformly appal but hes a narcissistic controlfreak he anticipate the criticisms he bind to get by add subtitle with smartie/cutie comment and by make the protagonist comment at one point how farfetched and phony it all be i could relate to that despite his megalomaniac ambition stockler seem incapable of give u a minimum of visual or narrative structure he cant even decide if he want gritty realism handheld video camera etc or stylization repetition of scene use of alternate take etc damn he cant even decide where to put his camera theres use of subjective camera for the three lead the dialog feature some of the most stupefyingly banal verbosity ever the plot exist simply to justify the director profound hatred for his character and what they stand for all you see be a filmmaker be hateful preachy condemn moralize without the benefit of a minimum of talent or technique to go with it.its very disappoint to find caio blat in this mess certainly one of the most promising young film actor in brazil with his sleepyeyed puppy dog look and emotional edge that often recall sal mineos blat can be highly effective under good direction a in carandiru lavoura arcaica proibido proibir here hes tell to go over the top and he have to play with some of the most embarrassingly underequipped actor in recent memory he also enter the risky realm of graphic sexploitation scene so goddawful they look rather like webcam porn .the film open and end with real interview with typical middleclass youth stockler want u to take those interview a proof of what hes try to preach in fiction but he blatantly despise and make fun of his interviewee select a highlight of abject racist sexist stupid statement which only show asshole exist everywhere stockler want to prove that brazilian middleclass youth be all present or future fascist because theyre middleclass and enjoy recreational drug be he say all neofascists be on drug or that drug potentialize fascist behavior i couldnt tell with it dogmatic selfrighteousness headacheinducing technique and mindbending boredom cama de gato be bad for a reason but above all it harmful in a very insidious manner it give detractor of brazilian cinema a powerful case of argument cama de gato be best unwatched unmentioned bury and forget
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an unforgettable masterpiece from the creator of the secret of nimh and the land before time this be a very touching bittersweet cartoon i remember this very well from my childhood it be funny and sad and very beautiful well it start out a bit dark a dog who escape the pound and get kill by an old friend end up in heaven and come back but it become sweet when he befriend an orphan girl who can talk to animals some scene be a bit scary contrary to other cartoon like the dream sequence of charlie but everything else be okayand the song be fair a memorable role of burt reynolds and dom deluise i just love that guy ahehehe and judith barsi of jaw the revenge may god rest her soul poor girl she didnt deserve to die but she be in heaven now all good people go to heaven overall this be a very good animate movie a don bluth classic enough to put anime and disney to shame recommend for the whole family and know this if you have the original video of this youll find after the movie dom deluise have a very important and special message get ta love that guy ahehehe
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this movie be a failure a a comedy and a film in general it be a very slow pace movie that seem to be try to convey a message but the message be a clichã© hopeless mess to begin with this movie fall on shameless environmental point even make a selfrighteous point of destroy an suv and promote animal planet.in sit through this i couldnt help but notice that steve carell get no more than a single truly funny line the only thing that could hypothetically mark this a a comedy be the pitiful attempt to give comic relief line to wanda sykes her character get frequent cringeworthy line where they absolutely do not fit.far from the illiance of bruce almighty evan almighty blow it whole recordeaking budget on special effect plot device that turn out to barely advance the plot the movie spend the first half build up to the construction of evans ark but by the end we learn that the ark be completely meaningless and the whole plot be a just a vessel for the stupid gag and even stupid message the movie conclude when we learn that the whole ark flood and animal gathering be just a weak political statement by none other than god yes god be try to influence politics
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it be so gratifying to see one great piece of art convert into another without distortion or contrivance i have no guess a to how such an extraordinary piece of literature could be recreate a a film worth see if you love bulgakovs book you would be understandably afraid of see some misguided interpretation do more for the sake of an artfilm project than for actually inging the story deeper meaning to the screen there be a couple example of this with the master and margarita a complex and farfetched a the story be the movie leave out nothing it be a if the filmmaker read bulgakovs work the same way an orchestral conductor read a scorewith not a note miss why cant we find such talent here in the u.s. so now my favorite book and movie have the same title
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this movie be very violent yet excite with original dialog and cool character it have one of the most moving story and be very true to life the movie start off with action star leo fong a a down and out cop who be approach the end of his career when he stumble on to a big case that involve corruption black mail and murder this be where the killing start from start finish fong delivers in this must see action caper this movie also costars richard roundtree.i really enjoy this film a a child but a i get old i realize that this film be pretty cheesy and not very good i would not recommend this film and the action be very very bad
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the day have finally come for me to witness the perpetuation of azumis fate a an assassin fruition of her character and the ultimate attempt to draw me deep into the world she rampage through so mercilessly during the first saga.thats as poetical a ill get when talk about azumi death or love because when i cringe over the heavy sentimentality of house of fly dagger and complain about the credibility of aya ueto portray a blooddriven assassin after watch azumi i start to appreciate the previously mention shortcoming more than ever before.not only do the determination of each assassin feel sluggish and uninspiring but also many important element be omit from the entire experience in azumi we saw the assassin use various stealth tactic which be their number one priority as well a logic to make easy work of their mark with swift execution and quick ability to escape but i wont hold that against this movie too much since the story be slightly tweak this time around and many more obstacle be plant in azumis way to prevent her from reach the warlord and display any sign of charisma by the way chiaki be foolishly shelve for the most part of the film and be basically play a tone down version of go go minus the cool weapon and sense of menace.this ings me to the final blow which be the action simply disguise in the title a the death side of the epic in the first half of the film we see the debut of many promising adversary with flashy look and even flashy weapon to no one surprise they meet their end one way or another but the film fall short when each of them start die too fast and too easily in azumi the young assassin be mostly overpower the opposition with quick but somewhat satisfying battle and the final showdown between azumi and bijomaru in comparison to the fight in azumi be at least climaxed and worthwhile some interesting effect be introduce but they be unable to achieve innovation due to the shortness of each encounter i be in no way knock down the conventional style of samurai film with their quick and realistic battle but character in both azumi film be so imaginative and straight out of anime that the rule could have be oken and the action should have be further enriched.the romance side of azumi be there to fill in time between the fight scene and unfortunately at the end it serve no purpose nor provide a much need resolution.as a fan with an open mind for wide variety of movie and animation i wont lie and ill admit to my neutrality and unimpressiveness towards the first azumi film but ill step right up and say that after watch azumi the original be make to look like a flawless masterpiece for what it worth azumi death or love could have go straight to video with it invisibly richer budget and a failed potential to add or even expand on the bumpy journey of desperate assassin do their best to restore the peace with an unwavering courage to die try
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this have to be the bad piece of garbage ive see in a while.heath ledger be a heartthrob he look deformed i wish id know that he and naomi watt be an item in real life because i spent of the long hour of my life wonder what she saw in him orlando bloom be a heartthrob with the scraggly beard and deerintheheadlights look about him i cant say i agree.rachel griffith be her usual fabulous self but geoffrey rush look a if he couldnt wait to get off the set im suppose to feel sorry for bankrobbers and murderer this be a far cry from butch cassidy which actually be an entertaining film this be trite clicheridden and boring we only stay because we be convince it would get good it didnt.the last minute or so be unintentionally hilarious heath and his gang be hole up in a frontier hotel and woman and child be die because of their presence thats not funny but it be funny when they walk out of the hotel with the armor on because all we could think of be the black knight from monty python and the holy grail i keep wait for them to say ill bite yer leg off we be howl with laughter a be several other warp member of the audience when we leave pretty much everyone be talk about what a waste of time this film was.i may not have pay cash to see this disaster sneak preview but it certainly wasnt free it cost me hour of my life that i will never get back
neg: 0.144, neu: 0.748, pos: 0.108, compound: -0.9292, 
a very ordinary madefortv product tyson attempt to be a serious biopic while stretch the moment of angst for effect fast forwarding through the esoterics of the corrupt sport of boxing and muddle the sensationalistic stuff which be the only thing which make tyson even remotely interest a lukewarm watch at best which more likely to appeal to the general public than to box fan
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im sure deep in the recess of jack black mind the character of nacho lie be absolutely hilarious but no it isnt you can tell ol jack have a whale of a time hammin it up play a smarmy slimy mexican friar with dream of become a wrestler but this movie be a total misfire in just about every single department.i just sit there through most of the movie thinking be this suppose to be funny and this be the guy from tenacious d right the truth be this film have nothing to offer at all it a lousy script with crappy character and really naff acting and direction youll watch endless moment where you think something funny be surely about to happen but it just doesnt i be bore stupid about minute in but though it would surely pick up it didnt minute later id barely manage to stave off an aneurism it be that painful.its like remember year ago when youd see anything with your fave actor in it even some of their really early pap from before they be famous and youd be really embarrassed that say actor be actually in such a load of plop yeah it like that.ive enjoy some of jack black earlier movie like shallow hall and im really look forward to see pick of destiny but come on man if you do this to u again jack im gon na have to come round there and hammer your kneecap or something at the least give you a serious talk to.i know it a clichã© but this be one of the bad movie ive ever see and for so many reason ....
neg: 0.082, neu: 0.768, pos: 0.151, compound: 0.9641, 
i havent read the anne rice novel that this movie be base on but who know maybe read the book be cheap than rent queen of the damned and be probably well for your health it isnt that this movie be necessarily bad for your health but a book can be very relaxing and certainly exercise the active part of your ain more so than this movie you can count the number of page by anne rice that ive read on one hand but after see this movie and interview with a vampire i get the feeling that she write really good novel the plot for both movie hint at a whole sea of deep and interwoven vampire history.still stuart townsends voiceover narration get a heck of a lot more annoy than brad pitts vampire narrative ever do and you can tell that queen of the damned limited production resource barely give enough flesh to the anne rice storyline while interview decide to go with lace and elegance queen relies on low budget special effect that try really hard to be take seriously one can see that the original novel have potential a a movie and that the production team focus it attention in the wrong place the costume and rock roll stage could have be replace with more blood and an eerier soundtrack.however ill give credit where credit be due the soundtrack be excellent korn and disturbed have me down with the sickness bob my noggin like butthead.the film open with a very cool gothrock zoom splice montage but after the first ten minute or so the directing degenerate quickly it a if the movie be so long that the director realize that there wasnt enough time and enough money to do an anne rice novel justice what result be some mediocre vampire scene and plenty of cheesy special effect unfortunately queen of the damn fails to do the genre justice just a it john carpenter counterpart fail to impress where be the yellow contact wheres the pale blue makeup scene after scene i shake my head reminisce about the day of salems lot and fright night when low budget be do right.there be redeem quality though that save this movie from be garbage prop to aaliyah and may her soul forever rest in peace she might have become a renowned actress have her life not be take from u so prematurely for she do give this movie a decent performance with plenty of nice belly dance do i mention that the soundtrack be good let see what else can i say it wasnt too long the anne rice novel could have easily be a three hour movie if an ambitious director like francis ford coppola get his hand on it there be a few twist and turn here and there in the plot but all in all it be a legitimate rock and roll addition to the slew of secondrate vampire movie out there the director of this movie go on to direct a new battlestar galactica mini series if that tell you anything.jyjimboduckdotcom
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while i count myself a a fan of the babylon television series the original movie that introduce the series be a weak start although many of the element that would later mature and become much more compelling in the series be there the pace of the gathering be slow the makeup somewhat inadequate and the plot confuse bad the characterization in the premiere episode be poor although the rating chart show that many fan be willing to overlook these problem i remember the gathering almost turn me off off what soon grow into a spectacular series
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leonard maltin give this film a dreaded bomb rating in his movie and video guide what film be he look at kid vengeance or god gun be bomb this film be a delight it be fantastic it be literate it be well mount it be beautiful photographed make a illiant use of color right from the opening scene the film grab your attention and tip you off that this film be a welldone satire of the whole spaghetti western genre the film be play for laugh from the beginning to the end with homage to douglas fairbanks sunset strip and the famous showdown in the good the bad and the ugly edd byrnes george hilton and gilbert roland work illiantly together to make the satire work it be too bad mr. maltin rat this film so poorly a it be undeserved one can only guess a to his reason i suspect that he miss the point of the movie entirely and be expect something more serious than this film be mean to be kudos belong to everyone involve in this project this film be a little gem wait to be discover by people who care about literate movie and appreciate satire
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i dont believe there have ever be a more evil or wicked television program to air in the united state a the club they be todays equivalent to the ku klux klan of the th century their hatred of all that be good and sweet and human and pure be beyond all ability to understand their daily constant attack upon million and million of american as well a billion of human the world over who dont happen to share their bigoted cruel monstrous and utterly insane view of humanity be beyond anything television have ever see the lie they spout and the ridiculous lie they try to pass off a truth such a the idea of life after death or god or sin or the devil be so preposterous that they actually seem mentally ill so lose be they in their fantasy sane people know that religion be a drug and shouldnt let themselves get addict to that type of fantasy however the club be in a class by itself they be truly a cult while i believe in freedom of speech they way they spread hatred lie disinformation and such fantastic idea be beyond all limit i hope that one day the american psychiatric association will finally take up the study of those people who delude themselves in this way people who let themselves sink so deeply into the fantasy land of religion that they no longer have any real concept of reality at all treatment for such afflicted individual be sorely need in this country a so many people have completely lose their mind to the fantasy of religion the club though be even more horrible a it rise to the legal definition of cult but due to the club vast wealth con daily from the million of american lock in their deceitful grip they be above the law in this country for those of you who have see the movie the matrix you know that movie be a metaphor for religion on earth the evil one who be at the top of each of the religion who drain the one they have trap and cruelly abuse for their own selfish purpose and those million who be hold in a death sleep and slowly be drain of their life force represent those many people who belong to religion and who have lose all ability to perceive what be really go on around them.in less civil time the good townsfolk would have run such monster a those associate with the club out of town with torch and pitchfork but in todays world where people have lose all choice in their choice of television that be present to them we have no way to rid ourselves of the club plague the television rating system and the v chip on tv should also have a rating call r for religion so that rational people and concerned parent could easily screen such vile intellectual and utal emotional rape such a present by the club every day all over our country from themselves and their child
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if you wish to see shakespeare masterpiece in it entirety i suggest you find this bbc version indeed it be overlong at four and a half hour but jacobys performance a hamlet and patrick stewart a claudius be well worth the effort.it never cease to amaze me how clear hamlet be when you see it in it length and order a set down by the bard every film version of hamlet have tinker with it structure olivier concentrate on hamlet indecision gibson on his passion jacoby be able to pull all of these aspect of hamlet character together with the aid of shakespeare full script.why do hamlet not kill claudius immediately hamlet say i be very proud revengeful ambitious ... hamlet be extremely upset not only for his father death and suspected murder or his mother marriage to his uncle but also and mostly because claudius have usurp the throne belonging to hamlet he be furious at his mother for marry claudius marriage between royal kin be not unknown do for political reason but that her marriage solidify claudius claim to the throne before he could return from wittenburg to claim it for himself he be therefore impotent to do anything about it and this be true even after he hear his father ghost cry vengeance he can not simply kill the king or he will lose the throne in do so he must out the king secret and here be the tragedy at the moment hamlet be successful in display claudius guilt in public he have opportunity to kill him and do not why he want it all he want revenge the throne and the damnation of claudius soul in hell hamlet overreach himself in classic tragic form his own hubris be his undo he kill polonius think it be claudius and the rest of the play spiral down to the final death of rosencrantz guildenstern ophelia laertes gertrude claudius and hamlet himself
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the golden door be the story of a sicilian family journey from the old world italy to the new world america salvatore a middleaged man who hop for a more fruitful life persuade his family to leave their homeland behind in sicily take the arduous journey across the raging sea and inhabit a land whose river supposedly flow with milk in short they believe that by risk everything for the new world their dream of prosperity will be fulfil the imagery of the new world be optimistic clever and highly imaginative silver coin rain from heaven upon salvatore a he anticipate how prosperous hell be in the new world carrot and onion twice the size of human being be show be harvest to suggest wealth and health and river of milk be swim in and flow through the mind of those who anticipate what the new world will yield all of this imagery be surrealistically interweave with the character and help nicely compliment the gritty realism that the story unfold to the audience the contrast between this imagery versus the dark reality of the sicilian people help provide hope while theyre aboard the ship to the new world.the voyage to the new world be shot almost in complete darkness especially when the seas tempest roar and nearly kill the people within the dark reality i refer to be the old world and the journey itself to the new world the old world be depict a somewhat destitute and primitive this be show a salvatore scramble together to sell what few possession he have leave donkey goat and rabbit in order to obtain the appropriate clothing he need to enter the new world i think it be rather interest that these people believe they have to conform to a certain dress code in order to be accept in the new world it be almost suggest that people have to fit a particular stereotype or mold in order to be recognize a morally fit the most powerful image in the film be when the ship be leave their homeland and set sail for the new world this shot show an overhead view of a crowd of people who slowly seem to separate from one another depict the separation between the old and new world this shot also suggest that the people be be tear away from all that be once familiar want to divorce from their previous dark living condition and be desirous to enter a world that hold more promise.as later contrast to how the new world visually look the old world seem dark and bleak a compare to the ight yet foggy new world i think it be particularly interesting that the statue of liberty be never show through the fog at ellis island but be remain hidden i think this be an intentional directing choice that seem to negate the purpose of what the statue of liberty stand for give me your poor your tired your hungry seem like a joke in regard to what these people have to go through when arrive at the new world once they arrive in the america they have to go through rather humiliate test i.e delouse mathematics puzzle etc in order to prove themselves a fit for the new world these test completely change the perspective of the sicilian people in particular salvatores mother have the most difficult time subject herself to the rule and law of the new world feel more violated than treat with respect where their dream once provide hope and optimism for what the new world would provide the reality of what the new world require be disparage and rude salvatore doesnt change much other than his attitude towards what he felt the new world would be like versus what the new world actually be seem disappointing to him this attitude be share by mostly everyone who voyage with him their character arc deal more with a cherished dream be greatly upset and a dark reality that have to be accepted.the film seem to make a strong commentary on prepare oneself to enter a heavenly and civilized society cleanliness marriage and intelligence be prerequisites adhere to these rule be to prevent disease immoral behavior and stupidity from dominate perhaps this be a commentary on how america have learn from the failing of other nation and so be purposefully establish to secure that these plague do not infest and destruct though the rule seem rigid they be there to protect and help the people flourish
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nifty little episode play mainly for laugh but with clever dollop of suspense somehow a martian have sneak aboard a okendown bus on it way to nowhere but which passenger be it talk about your illegal immigrant allstar support cast from wildeyed jack elam ham it up shamelessly to sexy jean willes if shes the martian then i say let open the border to cruelfaced john hoyt the most obvious suspect along with familiar face john archer and barney phillips and a nice turn from bill kendis a the bus driver make for a very entertaining halfhour even if the action be confine to a single set
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i have before a feeling of mislike for all russian film but after see this film i havenâ´t this be a unique masterpiece make by the best director ever live in the ussr he know the art of film making and can use it very well if you find this movie buy or copy it
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i watch mask in the s and it currently show on fox kid in the uk very late at night i remember think that it be kinda cool back in the day and have a couple of the toy too but watch it now bore me to tear i never realise before of how tedious and bland this cartoon show really be it just plain awful it be no where near in the same league a the transformer heman or thundercats and be very quickly forget by nearly everyone once it stop be make i only watch it on fox kid because ulysses come on straight after it thats if mask doesnt put me to sleep first one of the less s cartoon that i hope to completely forget about again once it finish air on fox kid
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phantasm .... class phantasm ii ..... awesome phantasm iii ..... erm ..... terrible.even though i would love to stick up for this film i quite simply cant the movie seem to have sell out first bad sign come when the video have trailer for other film at the start something the others do not also too many pointless character prime examples the kid who be a crack shot funny initially but soon you want him dead the woman who use karate to fight off the ball erm not gon na work or rather shouldnt and the blooming zombies what the hell be they do there there no link to them in the other phatasms also there be a severe lack of midget run about.the only good bit be the crack start and of course reggie b possible spoiler come up to me this film seem like a filler between ii and iv a extra character just leave at the end so can continue with main in iv.overall very very disappointing
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ludicrous angelic yearold annakin turn into whiny at yearold annakin who somehow seem appeal to amidala year his senior now yearold jedi warrior hero annakin have a couple of bad dream and so take to slaughter child his friend and the entire framework of his existence because a crazy old man convince him a his precious wife might really die and b only he can prevent this ludicrosity squared.i think the people who like this movie be not pay attention the story be ridiculous the character be unbelievable literally not the perverted sense of fantastic wonderful etc .obiwan kenobi be the wise and kind anchor for the entire series but in the climax he hack off annakins legs let him burn in the lava and leave him to suffer doesnt anyone think thats a little out of character not to mention it be pretty stupid to take a chance on him live a it turn out.i be expect at least a story that show consistent character with plausible motivation none of that here the story could have be write by a year old.oh yeah the cgi be pretty cool
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scotty grant cramer who would go on to star in the great bmovie killer klowns from out space agree to help three middleaged guy learn how to dialog the lady in this bad s comedy not bad a in s lingo which mean good bad a in bad with no likable character include but not limited to a kid whos the freaky look guy since friday the th part a girl who lead men on and then go into hissy fit when they want to touch her and the token fat slob because after all what would an s sex comedy be without a fat slob well this one have two this movie be pretty much the bottom of the barrel of s sex comedy and then come the sequel thus deepen say proverbial barrel.my grade d eye candy too numerous to count you even see the freaky look kid imagine with boob at on point think bachlor party but not a funny and very disturbing.where i saw it comcast moviepass
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if you keep rigid historical perspective out of it this film be actually quite entertain it got action adventure and romance and one of the premiere cast matchup of the era with errol flynn and olivia de havilland in the lead role a evident on this board the picture doesnt pas muster with purist who look for one hundred percent accuracy in their story tell to get beyond that one need only put aside the history book and enjoy the story a if it be a work of fiction i know i know thats hard to do when you consider custer last stand at the little big horn and it prominence in the history of post civil war america so i guess theres an unresolved quandary with the picture no matter how you look at it.theres a lot to take in here though for the picture two hour plus run time custer arrival at west point be probably the first head scratcher rid up a he do in full military regalia the practical joke by sharp arthur kennedy put him up in the major headquarters probably should have get them both in trouble.ironically a lot of scene in this military film play for comedy a in custer first meeting with libby bacon and subsequent encounter that include tea reader callie hattie mcdaniel i hadnt notice it before in other film but mcdaniel remind me an awful lot of another favorite character actor of mine from the forty mantan moreland so much so that in one scene it look like it might have be moreland ham it up in a dress with that in mind the owl scene be a hoot too.as for flynn it interesting to note that a year earlier he portray j.e.b stuart opposite ronald reagans depiction of general custer in santa fe trail both vie for the attention of none other than olivia de havilland in that film reagan put none of the arrogance and flamboyance into the character of custer that history remembers while in flynns portrayal here it more than evident but it doesnt come close to that of richard mulligan take on the military hero in s little big man let just say that one be a bit over the top.the good take away the picture have for me be the manner in which custer persevere to maintain his good name and not gamble it away on a risky business venture that and his loyalty to the men he lead in battle along with the discipline he develop over the course of the story most poignant be that final confrontation with arch rival sharp just before rid into the little big horn in which he declare that hell or glory be entirely dependent on one point of view earlier a similar remark might have give u the best insight of all into custer character when he state you take glory with you when it your time to go
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the film quickly get to a major chase scene with ever increase destruction the first really bad thing be the guy hijack steven seagal would have be beat to pulp by seagals drive but that probably would have end the whole premise for the movie.it seem like they decide to make all kind of change in the movie plot so just plan to enjoy the action and do not expect a coherent plot turn any sense of logic you may have it will reduce your chance of get a headache.i do give me some hope that steven seagal be try to move back towards the type of character he portray in his more popular movie
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interesting and short television movie describe some of the machination surround jay lenos replace carson a host of the tonight show film be currently very topical give the public drama surround conan obrien and jay leno.the film do a good job of spark viewer interest in the event and show some of the concern of the stakeholder particularly of the nbc executive the portrayal of ovitz be particularly compelling and interesting i thought.still many of the character be only very iefly limn or touch upon and some of the acting seem perfunctory nevertheless an interesting story
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any film about wwii make during wwii by a british production company have no latterday peer in my opinion respectfully the confluence of so many thing near and dear to my heart be in at dawn we dive a a descendant of admiral horatio nelson and student of all aspect of world war two and particularly naval warfare i favor depiction of sub and action in the north atlantic and especially those which include the german side of thing for those unacquainted with target priority an attack on an enemy warship be the great event that a submarine can hope to encounter and such a rare opportunity would develop surprisingly similarly to what we see here the pacing be deliberate and typical of the work come out of the ealing rank and britishgaumont studio back in the day frankly i prefer it quieter more cereal approach for it humanity and realism that engage far good than any overproduced hollywood movie ever could this remind me of powell and pressburgers the th parallel thanks to the powerfully persuasive eric portman a favorite of mine john mill receive second billing and a small font in the title so this be clearly mean to be mr. portmans film but the whole cast shine a for the title sequence be i the only one who be utterly charm by gainsborough production lovely precgi gainsborough girl
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a illiant horror film utterly gruesome and very scary too the thing be a remake from john carpenter but please do not let that put you off this film it be simply illiant the start of the film have the alien spacecraft hurtle towards the earth century before mankind walk the planet with an explosion that unleash the film title in amaze shin white and blue state the thing one of the best opening credit for a horror film ever.the cast of actor who play the twelve man science team be a joy to behold and the location for the setting of their station in antartica be visually impressive on dvd widescreen it must have be great in the cinema i regret not see this on the big screen.kurt russell be excellent a macready the helicopter pilot who reluctantly become the leader of the men try to combat a lethal shape change monstrosity that have infiltrate their base all the actor in this be really good and create terrific scene of paranoia and tension a to who the thing have infect my favourite scene in the whole film have to be when macready test everyone thats still alive for infection it be tense scary and finally spectacular i love it because it funny a well.special mention must go to rob bottin for his truly amaze make up effect and shape change design of the alien itself if he didnt get an oscar for best visual effect at the time then he damn well should have this be also debatable a to whether this be john carpenter great film ... it certainly a gruesome masterpiece.wait for a cold winter night get some budweiser from the fridge sit down and watch the thing a horror masterpiece of flame throw hero fight shape change tower of gore and slime.utterly illiant.ten out of ten
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i absolutely love this film everything about it it almost felt like watch me and my friend on screen the way this movie be film be a pure masterpiece very original and creative i relate to these character and even have the same thought a some im really glad i run across this movie if only there be more genius like justin out there
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no one can say i wasnt warn a i have read the review both user external but like most of u attract to horror movie ... curiosity get this cat come on we all scream at the people in the movie not to go into the dark room but you know thats horror aficionado be always die to know whats in there even if we know itll be bad .the bottom line be that this movie leave me angry not because it pretend to be real who care ... gimmick be allow or because the actor and dialogue be so lame be this an unusual event in horror movie or even because the movie be so bad and i be be polite here what really get me mad be that the film be not only a rip off of bwp but also a halfhearted lazy rip off at that.i dont believe in sacred cow and if they think they could outdo bwp then kudos to them but they didnt even try the movie be make with little effort or care and that be the most unforgivable sin in horror or any movie
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a new way to enjoy goldsworthys work river and tide allows fan to see his work in motion watch goldsworthy build his piece one develop an appreciation for every stone leaf and thorn that he use goldsworthy describe how the flow of life the river and the tide inspires and affect his work although i be happy the film cover the majority of goldsworthys piece no snowball i do feel it be a bit long the film maker do a wonderful job of inging goldsworthys work to life and create a beautiful film that be a joy to watch
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if you like william hickey in prizzis honor he resurrect his character a don anthony in mob bos this be a very weak godfather satire with few laugh stuart whitman look perplexed a to what hes do in this schlockfest morgan fairchilds performance be one of the good effort in the movie and that alone be not a good sign for sure eddie deezen vacillates between three stooge slapstick and a bad woody allen imitation fatally flaw mob bos be so derivative that boredom quickly overcome comedy and the film drag on with car chase hide weapon in a restaurant bathroom and numerous other nonsense merk
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i have see most if not all of the laurel hardy classic film i have always enjoy there comical stupidly even after watch it over and over again this new film attempt to ing back the classic with two new actor who resemble both laurel hardy however fail miserably for various reason one of which be how out of place their cloth be still early th century however be both portray in the s set some of the former dialogue be ought back however it also fail miserably to come close to the classic series this film could very well be the bad film i have ever see and should be pull off the shelf and lock away forever the real laurel hardy be surly spin in their graf at such a bad imitation
neg: 0.146, neu: 0.768, pos: 0.086, compound: -0.8887, 
i just start watch the show around july i find it by mistake i be channel surfing during a vacation it be a great show i just wish it wasnt on so late at night it on at be a a work person it make it hard to watch all the time.i read some comment i do not agree with the late one about not grow up in the s and not believe that this stuff can happen.i grow up in the s. im hispanic and i have a white boyfriend plus we have black friend in high school i believe people get along because of their interest and personality and it have nothing to do with be a certain race or color.i cant wait till the show go on dvd so i can buy it this way i can see it from the beginning
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this film be well cast often silly and always funny lemmon and matthau work their tag team magic to perfection brent spiner be just a riot a the egotistical tyrant of a cruise director from the first hare krishna to the last you ought pay him fifty buck for call you two stud i think this be a totally entertaining fun comedy
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i have just give a for thief highway i mention this for two reason one to prove im not a git who only give bad review but because the theme of the film have the same thread namely the fall in love with a woman of the night.we all know pretty woman be a chick flick but you cant avoid them all theyll eventually get you pretty woman for me do two thing two terrible horrible ghastly thing firstly it portray prostitution a a career more akin to that of a dancer you know with absolutely great friend leg warmer lot of giggle borrow each others make up you see in the reality of pretty woman the prostitute and this be a street walker prostitute be talk about here have a great life shes healthy happy with only the occasional whimper to explain her predicament my feeling be this happy hooker type protagonist be a lot more palatable than an even nearly realistic character which for me beg the question if you make a movie about a type of person but be too chicken scar to adorn that player with the characteristic familiar to that role then why do it if i make a film about a chef but dont want him to cook or talk about food or wear a white hat then why make a film about a chef in the first place by bail out and turn the hooker into a respectable dancer type the story miss the point completely and consequently never indulges in any of the moral or social question that it could have what a cop out really really lame secondly pretty woman insult romance itself edward lewis play by richard gere have no clue how to seduce or romance this lady that be without his plastic friend yep dont leave home without it especially if you be a moron in a suit who have no imagination out of of his romantic moment involve splash cash in one way or another even when he first meet her it the lotus esprit turbo that do all the work necklace here diamonds there limos over there money money money wheres the charm wheres the charisma dont mention that attempt at the piano please.girls who like this film will also be girl who like shop more than most guy who like this film will not even have realize that old eddy have less charm than a calculator a they probably dont either so it wont have register more importantly anyone who like this film will hate thief highway a wonderful story of which part be base on the same subject.ill finish on a song pretty woman hangin round the street pretty woman the kind i like to treat pretty woman i dont believe you youre not the truth no one could spend as much a you mercypretty woman wont you pardon me pretty woman i couldnt help but see pretty woman and you look lovely a can be do you lack imagination just like mepretty woman shop a while pretty woman talk a while pretty woman sell your smile to me pretty woman yeah yeah yeah pretty woman look my way pretty woman say youll stay with me .. and ill pay you .. ill treat you right
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this movie be terrible the plot be terrible and unbelievable i can not recommend this movie where do this movie come from this movie be not funny and waste the talent of some great actor and actress include gary sinise kathy bat joey lauren adam and jennifer tilly
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i strongly dislike this show i mean like basically everyone at that school be perfect and rich and i doubt a boarding school would look as cool a that and why do they suddenly allow girl into the school isnt that just a little weird anyways jamie lynn spear can not act she always have the same facial expression which really annoy me she be basically emotionless and all the guy seem to like her.and shouldnt chase tell her he like her it not that hard really none of this show be real life and she isnt a girl like me because majority of the regular girl do not go to board school do not have designer clothes and do not live by the beach.fake fake fake
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normally i dont like series at all theyre all to predictable and they tend to become boring and dull very fast.these series however be well played the story follow through all episode and even if you miss one the story will still be catch your mind.the episode be all film on a hospital and take you further and far in to the mystery of dark and old secret that lie just beneath the surface of the mighty hospital
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holy sh t this be god awful i sit in the theater for for an hour and ten minute and i think i be go to gouge out my eye much in the manor oedipus rex dear god this movie deserve no more credit than anything do by a middle school film buff please save your money this movie can offer you nothing unless you enjoy sideshow and sleep in movie theater you know hll ing your girlfriend and make thing interest you will be the only one there anyway f ck this slide show ye be warned.i recommend not watch this.hello.how be you im pretty good.enjoying this day i am.this comment be onehundred time more fun than pretend to watch this daym movie this be sad
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this movie be without a doubt a perfect .. for all you people out there who be rating this film low grade because it have no good plot or anything like that thats ridiculous say that a jackie chan movie be bad because of it plot be like say a porn movie be bad because it have no plot you watch jackie chan for the fight scene for the action it not so much concentrate on a good story or anything like that if you look at how he make movie and compare it to other american film from that era and even later you will realize that jackie chans movie have over the top fight scene and not really good plot while american movie have good plot but shitty action scene compare to what jackie chan be do at the time porn be watch for the porn jackie chan be watch for the action i think you people be rating it bad because theres no plot because you think thats how a smart movie critic would rate a good movie but the way i see it be a good movie be a movie that can keep me entertained sure the middle of the movie be bore very boring but put it this way the rest which be all action scene and stunt very much do pay for all of that this do change the way how american action movie be create they have even stollen scene from this movie if you want a true man a true entertainer then watch this movie and many more of jackie chans he pure in everyway he literally make american movie look like a walk in the park and even in today movie american movie rely so much on special effect and safety wire and stunt double and so much more police story and many other jackie chan film be piece of work of a true entertainer who just go all out and be very talented in what he can do a masterpiece
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i saw this at the london film festival last night apparently the short version james mcnallys summary of the content of the film be very good nossiter very deftly blend his investigation of the wine business into wider concern about globalisation homogenisation the effect of the mass medium the power of capital and the need for diversity.the film be shoot on handheld dv which some might find offputting but which do enable nossiter to catch people off guard on a number of occasion which probably would not have be possible use more conventional equipment.despite the sprawl feel of the film the editing be very sharp not only give u a parade of the world dog but also undercut a number of interviewee comment with somewhat contradictory visual image and give others sufficient rope to hang themselves to a degree this evoke michael moore recent work although nossiter operates in a more subtle way but probably the root of the film go back to marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity both in the way the film be construct and in the emergence of salt of the earth french peasant a the star de montille pere et fils be present at the lff screening and answered question afterwards we do indeed all need a little disorder avo hubert overall an excellent film with implication that go way beyond the world of wine into the way we construct ourselves a people and organise our world
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i cant believe this movie manage to get such a relatively high rating of it be barely watchable and unbelievably bore certainly one of the bad film i have see in a long long time.in a nobudget way it remind me of star war episodes i and ii for the sheer impression that you be watch a total creative train wreck.this film should be avoid at all cost it one of those festival film that only please the pseudointellectuals because they be so badly make those people think it make it different therefore good.bad filmmaking be not different it just bad filmmaking
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this movie really wake me up like it wake up the main male character of this avely different movie from his life slumber.this guy john ben chaplin lead his mediocre safe life of a bank teller in a small provincial english town until the stunningly gorgeous wild girltodiefor nadia nicole kidman order by email from russia enters his life to become his beloved wife by john plan however a glitch turn up nadia do not speak a word of john language although calm and emotionless on the outside john becomes so interested in beautiful nadia that instead of use the full refund policy of the matching service he buy her a dictionary to start the communication process.what happen henceforth in the plot really shakes poor john from his slumber of a decentlypaid safefeeling clerk into a decisionmaking decently think action figure give the viewer a subliminal message you would have probably act likewise.kidman cassel kassovitz make a great team act russian and they be almost indistinguishable from the real thing almost only due to the slight accent present in their russian dialogue however slight enough to amaze a native russian by the hard work do to get the word sound right nicole kidman prove her talent once again by play a character quite different from the previous role at least from the cultural background.the pace of the film be fast and captivate and you certainly be not ready to quit watch when the end title appear you rather feel that youre in the middle of the plot and be leave with a desire to see the sequel as soon a it come out.my advice be to go out and get this film immediately and watch it and enjoy to sum it up it have an unusual plot great acting and idea below the surface like the idea of the rude awaken from the artificial safe routine life of a wheel in a societys machine the life which member of the fight club be so keen to quit and the machine of which pink floyd sings welcome to the machine i bet that in the end john be rather off with sophia on their way to the unknown than not have meet her at all.thank you writer for the great story and everyone else for this great movie please make a sequel and you can stage it whereever and name the location whatever because the authenticity of the place be irrelevant to the percent of the potential viewer i be sure of it
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ed wood ride again the fact that this movie be make should give any youngaspiring film maker hope any screenplay you might have think of use toline a litterbox or a birdcage should now not seem that bad do not watch this movie unless you have a healthy stash of tylenol or rolaids watch thismovie make me realize that boa vs. python be not that bad after all it probably would have be good to do this movie in claymation a at least that way no actor would have have to take credit for be in this film it be understandable why this director have so many alias there be a ight side to watch this movie in that if you can get someone to ing you a bag of chip then you can eat your way out of the cocoon of cheese that surround you enable you tomake your toward your tv set cocoon of cheese that surround it
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this sport a nice deep cast but for a thriller you good deliver more than name actor and talk the first third of this movie be nothing but talk and more talk most of that be a bunch of woman bitch about everything to each other the first five list actor in here be woman so that verify that it really a chick flick and little else this probably play on the lifetime network.there be a quick murder scene and then more talk by halfway through they have lose me by the way sally field look about year old in here
neg: 0.128, neu: 0.785, pos: 0.087, compound: -0.8338, 
i think this movie have get it all it have really cool music that i can never get out of my head it have cool look character be really funny you know the kind that youll crack up on the ground and youll keep say the funny part over every day for three week .despite the bad act bad cgi and bad story about cop go after a robot it really cool it one of those movie you and all of your family can watch get together eat pizza laugh like crazy and watch it two more times.there be so many funny part like when kurt be try to get edison attention and give him the finger and then throw a paint ball gun at him so they could play paint ball on that part i keep say remember remember to my cousin who saw it and show them what happen there be also a really funny part when edision run into the room and kurt be there just before they fight and kurt be talk about his strange dream and how he be superman i love that part although it have be a while since i saw it so i dont remember that part everything the actor say be funny like how kurt say i worship you like a god to the robot.although there be some bad thing in all it be a great movie man i cant stop laughing i wish i have that movie
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howard kevin kline teach english at the high school in a small indiana city he be finally get marry to emily joan cusack much to his parent delight the town be abuzz too because one of it own cameron matt dillon have be nominate for an acting oscar everyone include howard and emily be watch the academy award on television a cameron be declare the winner in his acceptance speech cameron announces that he be able to fulfill his role a a gay military man in part because of lesson he learn from a gay teacher he have in high school you guess it it howard but howard have never come out in fact he believe he be straight with the whole town and member of the medium wait and observe the happening will howard and emily go ahead and get married or be howard truly gay and realize he can not go through with the ceremony this be a wonderful funny and humane film about a gay man and his situation a the manwhodidnotrealizehewasgay kline be excellent and touch the rest of the cast be equally fine with cusack a stitch a the mixedup fiancã© and dillon bob newhart debbie reynolds tom selleck and others on hand to delight the audience as well the costume be very nice and the setting in the lovely indiana heartland be beautiful then too the script the direction and the production be very very nice but the insightful humorous and the thoughtful look at the gay population be the film best asset no doubt for those who would be offend by a gaythemed film yes just skip over this one but for everyone who want to laugh heartily and gain a good understanding of the gay situation at the same time this be definitely the best film out there
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when the opening shot be u.s. marine seriously disrespect the u.s. flag a movie have a tough road ahead but unfortunately it be downhill from there there be a military adviser credit who be also apparently a retired u.s. marine make it even more baffling that this incredible each of protocol and law go unnoticed even more baffling be the way they simply gloss over how a marine be report kia then bury in very short order without the slight explanation of how they identify the body or if there even be a body the u.s. government be still find the miss from wwii and it take month to identify the remains military shoot down remain mia for month or year and be only declared kia when the remains have be positively identify or after year of red tape here we be expect to believe that it happen within a matter of day or week maybe this happen in denmark but not in the u.s. clearly none of the people involve ever have the slight involvement with or respect for the u.s. military.beyond that there be a number of other utterly laughable moment when character come up with zinger out of nowhere there must have be some really extended meeting between auteur and actor a they struggle to find their motivation for such hogwash have a script that work might have help but this one seem to have be make up on the spot work from cliff note theres no way to know if the script be this awful originally or if it be the auteur or the middlemanagement kid at the studio who bear responsibility either way this be an awful movie that should have never be make
neg: 0.124, neu: 0.797, pos: 0.08, compound: -0.9414, 
we usually think of the british a the expert at render great adventure from the imperial age with the like of the four feather and zulu simply because the imperial age be for the most part british here in the wind and the lion we see a wonderful rendering of americas own imperial age.americas projection of power under teddy roosevelt be the backdrop for this conventional tale of the kidnapped damsel who despite her gentility be smite by the rough manly nobility of her captor who in turn be disarm by her beauty and scorn politically correct prig eager to see some slight of native people or culture can rest assure that the way arab and muslim be depict here be far more flattering than the way their modern counterpart depict themselves on the current world stage what make this story different be the terrific production value faultless photography composition and edit the terrific cast the underappreciated brian keith play a bully teddy and vivid history.though the wind and the lion be tell largely through the eye of the son every member of the family can identify with one of the character whether it be sean connerys noble igand candace bergens feisty heroine john huston wily john hay or steve kanalys spiffy radiant ruthless cando lieutenant roosevelt big stick there be a transcendent scene at the end when the little boy be symbolically sweep away by the dash moor on his white steed this be high adventure at it best
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i have be look forward to see dreamgirls for quite a while ... what with all it raving review nomination and medium attention and i must say the first quarter of the movie be good it really portray the black music scene back then however a the movie wore on me and my whole family be bore out of our wit the singing just keep come one after the other i mean seriously just one more music number and it would have oke even with rent.furthermore i notice hardly any character development in any of the character i just didnt care what happen to them even when eddie murphys character die of a drug overdose i know i should have be sad but i just couldnt feel any emotion for that character the character be give a flimsy background about sing in their childhood and whatnot but there personality be not reveal enough to draw me in.finally the conflict be simply not significant enough to make the viewer care which go along with the lack of character development this movie remind me of a copycat movie base on ray chicago and rent ray and chicago be wonderful movie in my opinion overall i think this movie would best suit someone who doesnt really care about an overall story yet would enjoy two hour of entertain and fun singing performance
neg: 0.079, neu: 0.807, pos: 0.114, compound: 0.9368, 
one of starewiczs long and strange short film follow a toy dog in search of an orange after become animate by the tear of the mother of a girl who long for an orange the dog come upon an orange after fall out of the back of a car on his way to be sell but at night must protect the orange when he come enter a devilish nightclub feature many bizarre and scary character with the help of a stuffed cat the dog get the orange back to the little girl and she be save from a terrible scurvy death the mascot feature new technique i have not yet see in starewiczs film the addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stopmotion animation make for a new twist on starewiczs old style of puppetry live scene of move car and people foot walk by a a puppet sit on the concrete sidewalk be impressive and fresh the honking of car and cry of street vendor be noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shift to sound be costly and starewiczs utilization of the new technology seem like old hat new puppet character in this film be frighten contribution to the devil club scene twig and newspaper shred come to life skeleton of dead bird lay egg which hatch skeleton chick character come fly in from all over on pat and pan and rock horse a new editing technique use quick zoom which be accomplish through edit to speed up the pace of what before might have be a slow scene overall starewicz be able to update his style of filmmaking to meet the demand of a new audience making this film one of the best example of his work
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nice character development in a pretty cool milieu be a male im probably not qualify to totally understand it but they do a nice job of establish the restrictive victorian environment from the start it isnt as bleak a it really be and the treatment of woman be probably even harsher what make this go be a wonderful chemistry among the principal character each have their own thing that they contend with once they come out of the rain and eak out of the spider web they begin to interact and slowly lose their sense of suspicion what i enjoy about this movie be that it didnt go for cheap comedy when it could have it didnt try to pound a lesson into u the people who seem utterly without merit be really nicely developed human being who get to see the light i do have a little trouble with the alfred molina character have such an epiphany so quickly but within this world it need to happen good act all around with something positive take place in the life of some pretty good people
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prussic gas a murderer don a red clansman suit and hood wield a white whip and the murder of college school girl at the hand of pay convict enlist by a mysterious mastermind who keep his face hidden within an office contain aquarium of turtle and fish the inspector at scotland yard higgins ijoachim fuchsberger and his superior sir john siegfried schã¼renberg certainly have their hand full with this case it all seem to center around student ann portland uschi glas who when she turn be to inherit a great deal of wealth the girl who be target share a room with ann but the reason for their murder remain a mystery sys fine must figure out the staff of the girl dormitory all seem to be hide something and certain member of the faculty be fall prey to the killer in the red monk robe disguise talented enough to precisely strangle the neck of those attack with the whip two prisoner be commission by a mystery man to use the newly create toxic gas create by a scientist murder at the beginning of the film during what be suppose to be a monetary exchange for his creation it a clever scheme where a driver greaves gã¼nter meisner meet the convict .. who hide in a barrel who be assist by a corrupt prison guard take blindfold to the secret room of the mastermind he give them order on who to kill and how uncovering this operation be a top priority for higgins and sir john for it will lead them to the truth they seek in regard to the murder and why they be happen under suspicion be girls dormitory headmistress her author other a sweaty incredibly nervous chemistry teacher a snooping gardener and the bannister some be red herring until they be dispose of throw the viewer for a loop each time until the real mastermind be discover the end feature multiple twist out of the krimi film ive see the college girl murder be the closest to a giallo with it colorful killer a convolute plot yield lot of surprise and potential suspect sordid shenanigan between adult and the college girl at the dormitory i think you can also see the influence of james bond on this particular krimi film with the villain mastermind secret hideout with an alligator pit .. which isnt use the fake bible/water pistol when open fire the gas into the face of startled victim the greave royles royce which have latch that cause flap to darken the window without reveal the passenger in the back seat and the peep hole use to spy on the girl in their room and while swim many might consider sir john a liability due to his bumble buffoonish behavior and how he often undermine higgins ability to get at the truth .. perhaps poke fun at knowitall british inspector who harm a case more than solve it .. i felt he be use a comedy relief particularly with his attempt at psychoanalyze suspect and potential victim often misunderstand what be tell to him higgins use the skill adopt over his year a an investigator instead follow the clues/facts often avoid sir john as much a possible capable direction by the reliable alfred vohrer who keep the pace humming at a nice speed and the screenplay be full of interest character and lurid content .. the fact that so many of the adult surround the dormitory be suspect any of them might be the one wield the whip or call the shot behind those murdered girl execution id say this may be one of the best .. if not the best example of the krimi genre for it keep you guess always one more ace up it sleeve .. the revelation unearth at the very end be quite eyeopening .. and you even get a literal unmasking of the real mastermind pull the string to top it all off
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i be very lucky to see this film a part of the melbourne international film festival only a few day ago i must admit that i be very partial to movie that focus on human relation and especially the one which concentrate on the tragic side of life i also love the majority of scandinavian cinematic offering there be often a particular deep quality in the way the story unfolds and the character be draw character building in this film be extraordinary in it detail and it depth this be despite the fact that we do encounter quite a number of character all with very particular personal situation and location within their community the audience at the end of the screening be very silent and pensive i be still play some of those scene in my mind and i be still amaze at their power and meaningfulness
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this movie be really bad most of it look like it be film either in a park or a basement theres a giant spider but all we see of it be one leg there be some worm that live in a cave that be just cheap sock puppet with cardboard teeth and the plot be a bunch of postapocalyptic mumbo jumbo that make no sense at all the whole thing be just laughable
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i think this be one hell of a movie ........... we can see steven fight around with his martial art stuff again and like in all segal movie theres a message in it without the message it would be one of many action/fighting movie but the message be what make segal movie great and special
neg: 0.07, neu: 0.763, pos: 0.167, compound: 0.81, 
i saw this movie in the theater and be thoroughly impress by it then again that be when claire dane be a good actress not the foolish arrogant hollywoodized bitch she be today anyway this film really strike me a one of the more raw realistic beautiful friendship film how far would you really go for your best friend i be move to tear at the end and still tear up when i watch it now i own it i remember as soon a i leave the theater i call my best friend and sob to her how much i love her this be a great film to watch with your best girlfriend however be prepare for the almost certain conversation afterward where she turn to you and ask if youd do something like that for her ....
neg: 0.05, neu: 0.672, pos: 0.278, compound: 0.9914, 
ive see this film literally over time ... it absolutely jampack with entertainment power boothe give a stellar performance a a fan of actor such a william shatner impulse and ron liebmann up the academy i never think an actor could capture the intensity like shatner and liebmann in those role until i saw boothe a jim jones as far a im concerned power boothe be jim jones ... this film capture his best performance
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.855, pos: 0.145, compound: 0.9014, 
the three main character be all hopeless and yet you only feel sorry for one of them ernesto hopelessly devote to mercedes this be part of the frustration scream at mercedes to get a clue and ditch the nogood harry to no avail.then theres the satisfaction steve buscemi have a great part a a transvestite and harvey keitels move story of his indignity play a gorilla for a cheap tv movie be incredible when you least expect it quentin tarintino be do half a monologue and anthony quinn turn ernesto into a wealthy man.time and again great moment appear in the story but in the end it hard to know what to feel about this movie it doesnt have a happy end or even a complete one but it somehow feel right.this movie be strange but then so be i no wonder i like it
neg: 0.132, neu: 0.775, pos: 0.094, compound: -0.6477, 
reese witherspoon first out on the big screen be a memorable one she appear like a fresh scrubbed face tween slight and stringy but undeniably reese.i have always like her a an actor and have no idea she start this young with her career go figure i actually gain some respect for reese to know who she be so early on i say that because whenever i have watch her perform the character thus far in each portrayal she also seem to have her own persona that live with that character quite nicely in fact.anyway my first film experience with reese be the little red rid hood parody reese do with kiefer sutherland somehow i assume that be her first time up at bat not so well do reese
neg: 0.039, neu: 0.826, pos: 0.134, compound: 0.932, 
this game rank above all so far i have the honor of play mine on p so the graphic be really good the voice act be above standard the difficulty level be just right wesker have to be the best character in the re series in my opinion the story amaze me and take many different twist that i wasnt expect the only rating this game deserve be great
neg: 0.028, neu: 0.729, pos: 0.242, compound: 0.9595, 
this movie be not worth anything i mean if you want to watch this kind of stuff flip to hollywood movie this totally be a disgrace to the bollywood name neal n nikki seriously suck never watch this movie a for the actor it appear the act gene skip a generation tanisha couldnt have wear less and uday chopra obviously be just pick because he be the director spoil son all of that halla re be amazingly stupid the song be eh and i hope the director do not spend to much money on it ...... bottom line i hat the movie do not let your kid watch it and if you have it in your house it be a stupid movie so discard it buy the cd if you must a i say the song be eh at least it be well then the movie
neg: 0.118, neu: 0.843, pos: 0.039, compound: -0.9155, 
this be yet another western about a greedy cattle baron look to push out small rancher and farmer it certainly all be do before and since but the violent men be something special.what make it special be barbara stanwyck play the role of vixen a she often do in her late film shes marry to the cripple edward g. robinson whos the cattle baron here but robinson be cripple and there be some hint that his injury may have leave him impotent no matter to barbara whose need be be meet by her otherinlaw brian keith that doesnt sit well with either dianne foster who be robinson and stanwycks daughter nor with lita milan who be keiths mexican girl friend.the infidelity subplot almost take over the film but glenn ford a the stalwart small rancher who be a civil war veteran come west for his health manages to hold his own here hes every inch the quiet western hero who people make the mistake of push once too often i almost expect those famous word from wild bill elliott to come out of ford mouth im a peaceable man would have be very applicable in the vioilent men.the fifty be the age of the adult western theme be enter into horse opera that hadnt be explore before the following year glenn ford would do another western jubal one of his best which also explore infidelity a a plot component.theres enough traditional western stuff in the violent men and plenty for those who be addict to soap operas as well
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apparently the mutilation man be about a guy who wander the land performing show of selfmutilation a a way of cop with his abusive childhood i use the word apparently because without listen to a director andy copps commentary which i didnt have available to me or read up on the film prior to watch viewer wont have a clue what it be about.gorehounds and fan of extreme movie may be lure into watch the mutilation man with the promise of some harsh scene of splatter and unsettling reallife footage but unless theyre also fond of pretentious headacheinducing experimental arthouse cinema theyll find this one a real chore to sit through minute of ugly imagery accompany by dischordant sound terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue this mindnumbingly awful drivel be the perfect way to test one sanity if youve still get all your marble youll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead i watch the whole thing but be well aware that im completely bark
neg: 0.091, neu: 0.83, pos: 0.079, compound: -0.5106, 
this movie be absolutely pathetic a pitiful screenplay and lack of any story just leave me watch three loser drool over bikini babe at time i felt like i be watch an episode of beavis and butthead i couldnt even sit through the whole movie emran hashmi disappoints and hrshitta bhatt be not impressive at all celina jaitley be not bad the only worthwhile part of the film be the spoof on anu malik and his obsession of shayaris it be pretty hilarious the song sini ne and it remix version be really good you can always count on emran liplocking and lipsynching a chartbuster all in all it seem emran doesnt have a good script from the bhatts to back him up this time
neg: 0.162, neu: 0.727, pos: 0.111, compound: -0.7665, 
i feel the niiiiiight heat i feel your heeaaaaaaaaaartbeat something aint right theme song write by b.j cook from skylark david foster old band and wife she also write the memorable theme from cbcs airwave oh night heat what a program wellwritten wellacted and totally classic crime solver and a good team and a dash of humour at the end id like to think this be really what detectives do/did giambone be a real favourite on a canadian tip i learn every canadian actor name and style from guest spot do on night heat everyone pass through the night heat set and like law order it be storydriven so you could just watch and enjoy without a lot of character melodrama
neg: 0.028, neu: 0.865, pos: 0.107, compound: 0.8563, 
this movie fail miserably on every level i have an idea let take everyone involve in this movie and ship them into a hot zone in the middle east maybe if be lucky theyll all be shoot and kill and we wont have to ever have our time waste by them again do i mention that i have never be so bitter about a cinematic pile of crap in my entire life my god i cant think of anything ive ever see that be this bad id rather watch ishtar time in a row than sit through minute of this sorry excuse for a film if i ever happen to meet anyone who be involve in this film ill spit in their face and then beat them senseless thats my two cent
neg: 0.199, neu: 0.762, pos: 0.04, compound: -0.9772, 
yes ill say before i start comment this movie be incredibly underrated.sharon stone be great in her role of catherine trammell a be morrissey a dr glass he be an analyst send in to evaluate her after the death of a sport star glass be draw into a seductive game that trammel use to manipulate his mind.the acting be good apart from thewlis stone really have a talent with this role shes slick naughty and seductive and doesnt look a day old than she do in the first.she really impress me like in casino morrisey be also good he show much vunerablitity in a role that need it thewlis however be lame he ruin his character and be overthetop the whole way he really sucked.overall this movie not as good the first but stone be a hoot to watch just ignore thewlis
neg: 0.087, neu: 0.822, pos: 0.091, compound: -0.0754, 
base on a edgar rice burroughs novel at the earth core provide little more than mean to escape and give your ain a rest a victorian scientist dr. abner perry peter cushing invents a giant burrowing machine which he and his american partner doug mcclure use to corkscrew their way deep into the earth to explore what mysteries it may hold they soon discover a lost world of subhuman creature have conflict with prehistoric monsters.cushing come across a an absent mind professor to the point of be annoy instead of be a bold adventurer he come across effeminate on the other hand mcclure overact enough to make himself also laughable caroline munro play the pretty princess dia that refuse to leave her world near the center of the earth also in the cast be godfrey james cy grant and michael crane
neg: 0.068, neu: 0.798, pos: 0.134, compound: 0.8555, 
i have see this film at least time and i be still excite by it the acting be perfect and the romance between joe and jean keep me on the edge of my seat plus i still think bryan brown be the top brilliant film
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.714, pos: 0.286, compound: 0.9432, 
this show make absolutely no sense every week two lady go to an estate to do some gardening and every week without fail they somehow stumble upon a murder because everyone who own a big house with a large garden be involve in a murder right but even if they do somehow happen to stumble upon murder after murder wouldnt the smart thing to do be to tell the police you know the people who can actually do something about it ... but every week these two fool go around pollute evidence commit crime of their own and in some case cause more murder once they do miraculously solve the murder there be no way the murderer could ever be convict all the evidence have be sabotage and youd think people who be cover up murder would think not to hire these two wouldnt you yay weve solve the murder now like every other week let go and confront the murderer ourselves and with no backup tell them that we know about it there be no way we could get ourselves into any danger be there rosemary and thyme be one of the bad show on television and certainly the most ridiculous
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this movie be so bad it be funny for awhile there i think i be actually watch a parody of a bad movie a la for your consideration the cliffhanger scene at the end have me laugh until my inside hurt the script be dreadful enough but couple with sean young terrible act especially while she explain the entire plot in great detail complete with flashback while dangle off a cliff make it a truly classically bad movie worth watch in fact the fakey shot in this scene remind me of an ed wood movie i still cant believe how this thing get make first of all how do such a bad script get the green light how do star actor get attach be they at low point in their career question question
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meryl streep be such a genius well at least a an actress i know shes be make fun of for do a lot of role with accent but she nail the accent every time her performance a lindy chamberlain be inspire mrs. chamberlain a portrayed here be not particularly likable nor all that smart but that just make streeps work all the more remarkable i think she be worth all or so of her oscar nomination about the film well there be a couple of interesting thing i dont know much about australia but the theme of religious bigotry among the general public play a big part in the story i have largely miss this when i first saw the film some year ago but it come through loud and clear yesterday and it seem the australian press be just as accomplish at miseryinducing pursuit and overkill a their american colleague a pretty good film a bit different grade b
neg: 0.025, neu: 0.761, pos: 0.214, compound: 0.9893, 
airport be basically a slop together mess for universal studio to try and work a new twist the concorde supersonic airliner into their disasterinthesky formula.bogged down with unintentional humor the best of which be when george kennedy stick his hand out of concordes window at supersonic speed to fire a flare gun at a heatseeking missile follow the aircrafts flight path and the simple fact that these dumb passenger keep reboarding the same plane to continue their flight despite all the problem in the air many star in this one include robert wagner sylvia kristel alain delon and martha raye a a nervous passenger not really relate to the other airport film
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supposedly a social commentary on racism and prison condition in the rural south of the s nightmare be full of bad southern stereotype complete with phoney accent not only would it be offensive to the sensibility of most american southerner this tawdry piece of work come off as just a thinlydisguised babe in prison movieespecially in it uncut original version nevertheless act be generally above average and the late chuck connors in particular do a good job of make viewer hate himeven though he look somewhat uncomfortable in several scene there also a changeofpace role for the late robert reed who appear a the lecherous warden and tina louise previously ginger of gilligans island make a rather believable sadistic prison guard my grade d
neg: 0.196, neu: 0.769, pos: 0.035, compound: -0.9739, 
ok i buy this film from woolworth for my friend for a joke present on his birthday because the front cover have a sexual innuendo in it.but we decide it to watch it anyway just for hilarity purposes.and im sorry but this have get to be one of the bad film in history.it begin off alright and we think ok this might actually be ok. but after about minute we be sadly mistaken.it begin when the mysterious paint baller turn out to be the most obvious character the scouser/australian i say that because he have an accent which couldnt be identify whos act might i just say be abysmal.then it get to the end and by that time we have all lose the will to live the paint ball finals.the only thing i do like about this plot be that they didnt actually win but annoyingly enough they win by default.and i know this have nothing to do with it but the name the team be give be just awful critical damage i mean they could of pick a more awesome name like the destroyer of the antichrist or something or thats what the film should of be call anyway
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insignificant and lowained haha s horror like there be thirteen in a dozen yet it can be consider amuse if you watch it in the right state of mind the special effect be tacky the act atrocious and the screenplay seem to miss a couple of essential paragraph the brain take place in a typical quietamerican town set where every adolescent work in the same diner and where the coolkid in high school flush cherry bombs down the toilet it be here that a tvguru name dr. blake and his adorable petain begin their quest for nationwide mind control under the label of independent thinker a giant cheesy ain send out wave through television set and force innocent viewer to kill how cool be that now it up to the meadowvale teenrebel to save the world the funny thing about the plot be that it never explain where dr. blake and his monstrous ain actually come from there be obvious reference towards extraterrestrial life but thats about it meh who need a background in a movie like this really theres not that much bloodshed unfortunately and the evil ain look like an oversized sockpuppet the only more or less interesting element for horror buff be take a look at the cast and crew who make this movie director ed hunt and writer barry pearson be the same men who make bloody birthday guilty pleasure of mine and plague both those be much good movie and they wisely decide to resign the film industry the most familiar face in the cast unquestionably be the great david gale whom horror fan will worship forever for his role in reanimator a girl name christine kossak provide the nudityfactor and shes obviously a great talentâ… she have exactly movie on her repertoire of which this be her masterpiece in her debut she be credit a runaway model and in men and a baby her character be refer to a one of jack girl i really wonder how she feel about her career a an actressâ…
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do anyone remember the alternative comedy show the comic strip present one edition feature charles bronson robbie coltrane be interview about his new movie glc it about a man an ordinary man whose wife and family get wipe out by creep and i have to hunt them down and kill them in a sadistic and graphic manner and after glc what next for bronson be use a new angle my family dont get wipe out but i go after creep just the same this accurately describe the evil that men do it a bronson vigilante thriller where his motivation isnt down to a blood feud but this lead to credibility become strained bronson be a retired hitman who isnt give up his retirement for anything until someone show him a video tape feature interview with the victim of the doctor not the legendary time traveler but a infamous expert on torture it never really explain why the doctor be so infamous since any police state have a myriad of these sadist nor be it explain why the doctor and his sister have ridiculous english accent a you may guess it a lazily write movie and incident happen because the screenwriter need thing to happen to further the plot no matter how unlikely they be like one of the bad guy get invite to a threesome so he can be kill or thing be reveal like the doctor sister be a lesbian so some t a can be include in many way it like one of those nasty chuck norris vehicle that be be release at the same time but the most disappointing thing be that the director be also the same man who make ice cold in alex and the gun of naverone two very well regarded war drama that be often show on sunday afternoon believe me this movie wont be show until well after the watershed
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well heres another terrific example of awkward s filmmaking the rudimentary premise of whats the matter with helen be quite shocking and disturb but it present in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion in the hand of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director curtis harrington whoever slew auntie roo and scriptwriter henry farrell hushâ…hushâ…sweet charlotte in charge it become a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of theme and genres the basic plot of the film be definitely horrific but theres a lot more to experience like love story a swing s atmosphere and a whole lot of sing and tapdance the setting be unquestionably what make this movie so unique be literally catapult back to the s with a sublime depiction of that eras music religion theatrical business and wardrobe follow the long and exhaust trial that sentence their son to lifeimprisonment for murder adelle debbie reynolds and helen shelley winter flee to california and attempt to start a new life run a dance school for young talented girl particularly adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment a she fall in love with a local millionaire but poor old helen continue to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia she only listen to the ramblings of a radioevangelist fear that she will be punish for the crime her son commit and slowly develops violent tendency the script although not entirely without flaw be well write and the film be adequately paced there never a dull moment in whats the matter with helen although the sing tapdancing and tango sequence be quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot but the atmosphere be continuously ominous and the film definitely benefice from the terrific act performance of shelley winter shes downright scary a the unpredictable and introvert lady who about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minute or so she look more petrifying than all the freddy kruegers jason voorhees and michael myers combine there be several terrific supportive character who be sadly a little underdeveloped and rob from their potential like michã©al macliammã³ir a the cocky elocution teacher agnes moorehead a the creepy priestess and timothy carey a the obtrusive visitor to the lady house there be a couple of surprisingly gruesome scene and moment of genuine shock to enjoy for the grand guignol fanatic among u but particularly the set piece and costume design even nominate for an oscar be eathtaking
neg: 0.154, neu: 0.681, pos: 0.165, compound: 0.4792, 
resnais wow the genius who ought u hiroshima mon amour take on the challenge of make a s french musical in viant colour the opening voiceover with old embellished intertitles be a nice touch then the camera aperture open like the old hand crankers on a black white placard the camera back off or rather up suddenly show u the surprisingly illiant colour of an elegant table set for a tea party this be all in the first seconds.then the music start a rather banal and forgettable diddy feature an unconvincing chorus of girl blabber some nonsense which have no relevance to the film and yes i speak french so i cant blame it on the subtitle those character whiz out the door and be replace by more people who eak into an even more forgettable song then they leave and finally audrey tautou appear and we hear our first appreciable dialogue minute into the film.im not sure what resnais intend by start off with such a yawn waste of time musical cacophony but the effect on the viewer be to make you want to hurl skittle at the screen and storm out i endured.it didnt get much good ill tell you why there be absolutely no familiarity with any of the character we dont even see their face half the time a resnais seem too intent on show off the expensive scenery to care about the actual people in front of the camera people flit on off stage like moth around a lamp and we the audience be unable to focus on any particular person or plot it a if you be to take every episode of the brady bunch and cram it into a hour movie with bad songs.the only thing that keep me watch as long a i do hour be that i be look at the camera techniques light and scenery which be all i admit excellent but be that enough to hold your attention for hour not me maybe tomorrow ill try watch the end aw who be i kidding i have more important thing to do im sure you do too skip this
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i saw this movie in the middle of the night when i be flip through the channel and there be nothing else on to watch it one of those film where you stop to see what it be just for a moment but realize after twenty minute or so that you just cant turn it off no matter how bad it be one of those movie that be somewhere in between be so bad it good and so bad it well just plain bad it worth seeing just to experience the confusion of realize that it both great middleofthenight fare if only for the fabulous tennis drag dont even bother ask yourself why nobody can tell that chad lowe be so obviously male because logic do not apply
neg: 0.173, neu: 0.681, pos: 0.146, compound: -0.68, 
this movie take the plot behind the scifi flick doppelganger an astronaut from our earth crash on a counterearth on the opposite side of the sun and the cold war totalitarian vibe on that world and try to turn it into a pilot for a tv series however the whole thing sank without a trace and tv be probably well off for it.everyone here be perfectly adequate in a make for tv way cameron mitchell turn in his usual solid performance so do glenn corbett who seem to be a kind of poor man john saxon who play the rugged individualist whose very existence pose a threat to the foundation of the world order on counter earth.but the low budget and low energy and inconsistent script and the lack of any real imagination in the set design and cinematography keep this scifi adventure firmly tether on the launch pad.ill give one example in the original template for this pilot doppleganger the astronaut lose control of their landing vehicle in a thunderstorm and crash their ship in a truly appalling sequence it be obvious that their ship be never go to fly again then the two astronaut stagger helplessly from the smoking remain of their vehicle in the middle of howl rain and wind only to be smack down and overcome by faceless men yell through loudspeakers.in strand in space the astronaut be sit in their seat when buzzer sound thing start shake and the camera blur into a blackout and a a friend point out it be pretty obvious that the actor be simply shake themselves on their seat the director wasnt even shake the camera or the set ive see episode of the twilight zone and the outer limit that take more effort to establish mood and set than this madefortv mediocrity.and that in essence be whats wrong with strand in space no budget no time no imagination ... just make the token gesture and hop the scifi fan boys imagination and enthusiasm will fill in the rest sorry guy it didnt work im sure that everyone here just finish their work on this one and walk away and never think of it again except a a listing on their c.v. and thats what you the viewer will do youll remember if press that you once watch a tv movie call strand in space but it make no lasting impression on you and you cant recall too much about it
neg: 0.081, neu: 0.857, pos: 0.062, compound: -0.7077, 
black comedy isnt always an easy sell every now and then you get a black comedy that be hugely successful like fargo for example but usually they dont often find big audience people seem to either set their mind for comedy or for serious mayhem there doesnt seem to be a big market for a good mixture of both throw momma from the train be a fairly decent hit yet few people seem to remember much about it in this day and age danny devito just about hit this one all the way out of the park back in .devito play an odd mamma boy name owen look to rid himself of his outrageously overbear and unpleasant mother whom he still live with the mother be play by anne ramsey who pass away shortly after this be release and she be quite a caricature she be loud ugly rude and overbear though owen hardly seem like he could take care of himself he want desperately to have his mother off he fantasize about it in some truly weird scene but he clearly doesnt have the gut to actually do it himself thats where billy crystal come in crystal play larry donner owen creative write teacher at a nearby community college larry be a paranoid wouldbe intellectual novelist who claim his exwife steal his novel and make million off it he be currently try to write a new one but can not even come up with a decent first sentence the night be .... owen hears larry wish his exwife be dead during an outburst at the school cafeteria and borrow the idea from stranger on a train owen decide to travel to hawaii and murder larrys exwife once it appear he have do so he expect larry to return the favor and kill his mother the result action be often quite funny and even poignant it certainly never dull and often full of surprises.the acting be exceptional even if ramsey be a bit over the top crystal be as good a he can be and devito have always be undervalue a a performer the film relies on quite a bit of physical comedy which usually work often painfully so the film make use of some truly innovative edit technique in some scene and the offbeat tone be truly refresh i have often be critical of the late s a be a time of artistic malaise and down right lazy filmmaking throw momma from the train take chance both in how it character be draw as well a it general plot how many comedy revolve around a son have his mother murder the film isnt too long and it be chock full of laughs writer be apt to find it more interesting than the general public but it can still be enjoy by just about anyone of stars.the hound
neg: 0.115, neu: 0.7, pos: 0.185, compound: 0.9883, 
back in i have a really lengthy vacation around the fourth of july something like day off in a row what with two week pay vacation weekend and the holiday itself i stay in town during that time hang out at my parent house a lot.i didnt have a tv in my apartment so i use to watch my parent tube i have just finish watch a segment of the x file when a program come on call personal fx i be hook instantly i have always be fascinate with item in our home that have come from my parent family home and through inheritance from relative estate and often wonder about their history value etc.after my long vacation i use to go to my folk house on my lunchhours just to catch personal fx.i can remember one episode during which cohost claire carter announce that the new york apartment in which the series be film be be renovate and that once say renovation be complete that personl fx would return to the air.it never do personal fx be the first and best of the collectible show and it vanish from the air almost fifteen year later im still sore.way to go fx
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paul verhoevens predecessor to his eakout hit basic instinct be a stylish and shock neonoir thriller verhoeven have become know for make somewhat sleazy trash film both in his native holland and in america and this film be one of the reason why the fourth man follow the strange story of gerard reve play by jeroen krabbã© a gay alcoholic and slightly mad writer who go to vlissingen to give a talk on the story he write while there he meet the seductive christine halsslag renã©e soutendijk who take him back to her house where he discover a handsome picture of one of her lover and proclaims that he will meet him even if it kill him.paul verhoeven twist the truth many time in this film and that ensure that you never quite know where you be with it many of the occurrence in the fourth man could be what they appear to be but they could easily be interpret a something else entirely and this keep the audience on the edge of their seat for the duration and also make the film work a this narrative be what it thrive on paul verhoeven be not a filmmaker that feel he have to restrain himself and that be one of thing i like best about him this film feature a very shocking scene that make me feel ill for hour afterwards and that doesnt happen very often i wont spoil it because it need the surprise element to work ... but youll see what i mean when you see the film make sure you get the uncut version there be also a number of other macae scene that be less shock than the one ive mention but be lovely nonetheless a man get eat by lion another one have a pipe send through his skull a boat be smash in half ... lovely.the acting in the fourth man isnt anything to write home about but it solid throughout jeroen krabbã© hold the audience attention and look the part a the drunken writer it be renã©e soutendijk that impress the most though a the femme fatale at the centre of the tale her performance be what sharon stone would imitate nine year later with basic instinct but the original fatale do it best paul verhoevens direction be solid throughout a he direct our attention through numerous point of view all of which help to create the mystery of the story verhoeven have go on to make some rubbish but he obviously have talent and it a shame that he doesnt put it to well use of all the verhoeven film ive see this be the best and although it might be difficult to come across trust me it worth the effort
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i accept that most s horror arent scary by todays standard but what the hell be this when you see a title like this you expect to see blood and a blood thirsty beast instead we get no blood at all and a beast who either want to take over the world or live in peace on earth .... yeah which be what the people wanted.the overall story be fine with the astronaut come back to life and be one with the beast .... but the title really kill the movie night of the beast would have make the fan more happy because there really isnt any blood to speak of.i like how the s movie have ending that leave room for a sequel but wisely never make one this movie isnt the bad ive ever see but it almost up there out of
neg: 0.109, neu: 0.692, pos: 0.199, compound: 0.9253, 
demon wind be about as much fun a eaking your leg it be definitely an awful example of a film so awful in fact that i dont even consider it a movie i describe it more a a thing ... a monstrous thing a thing that must be stop at all cost my friend and i first discover this ... thing bury under a big box of video tape at my friend house it be a late night and we have nothing well to do so we decide to watch some cheesy horror movie we unfortunately pick this one well during the minute that this thing play we end up laugh so hard that we almost throw up the thing be literally pointless in every sense of the word it just a cheap poorly do ripoff of evil dead the whole story seem to be nothing more than some guy want to knock off his friend by invite them to an abandon house and let demon rip them to piece i have a bet that the writer be actually write the story while it be be film ive see bad horror movie before manos troll hobgoblin shudder i would have to say that demon wind could definitely contend with any and all of these film on term of sheer stupidity watch it only if you enjoy laugh at stupid films.fun fact this film be like a cockroach on steroid much like the ouija board every time we try to get rid of it it always seem to mysteriously reappear kind of scary huh
neg: 0.147, neu: 0.721, pos: 0.131, compound: -0.8458, 
there be a difference between a film and a movie a film regardless of quality be ready for public consumption a movie be what a group of friend get together to make over the course of a weekend with a camcorder in my time a a viewer i have see may example of both.on september i attend a screening of writer/director jon satejowskis donnyook now have read the script and have see two different cut a rough cut and the finished product of this piece i can safely say it be a movie and a student movie at that it be for lack of a good word competent which be to say the director know how to push record on a camera and capture move image the visuals be for the most part static and unimpressive and dialog scene be reduce to mostly long shot with little to no close up shot to allow the audience to establish a relationship with the character i understand that this be a modestly budget film but some visual flair would have be appreciate and it would have go a long way toward keep the audience interested.granted there have be independent picture that have show that limited camera work can be over come with well a well write engross story and some sharp dialog steven soderberghs sex lie and videotape come immediately to mind this movie however have neither the main story be weak and unfocused if the main plot be davie try to mend his relationship with his father then i feel this movie miss the point what i get out of it be that davy main aspiration be to change the face of rock n roll however we see very little activity on his part to show this while there be one dream sequence at the beginning and an impromptu performance of his at the end all we seem to get be scene of davie listen to music or casually strum a guitar we be simply told that davie have play a lot of gig but we never see him in full rock out mode next time show dont tell the audience anyone who have take a creative writing class know this also davie doesnt look like someone that would have be big in the glam rock era of the s he look like hed be more comfortable in the early day of rock n roll posing a james deans less talented other in the meantime the rest of the movie event seem to happen at random to rather clichã© character and story thread that have little or nothing to do with the slim main story be ought up and abandon with alarm frequency i.e the subplot involve terry father if i want to see a film with this kind of haphazard construction i will consider watch napolean dynamite again a film i could barely make it through the first time.as for the above mention dialog scene i guess i should mention that they be few and extremely far between be it too much to ask for character who do speak i dont think it be when the character do speak it be in short choppy sentence collection of oh so insightful question anger grunt or wildly overthetop outburst these character simply do not behave like normal rational people work with material like this it be easy to understand why there be only one good performance in the film al hudson and thats just because he do a poor imitation of sam elliott for his time on screen a good director or at least one who be ready for the challenge of a feature director would have be able to spot these problem and get the writer and camera people to correct them however with satejowski be so close to the material he simply doesnt see them or if he do he be unwilling to take the necessary step to fix them because itll hurt his creative vision be unable or unwilling to deal with criticism in a constructive manner be the mark of a selfindulgent misguided fool just ask rob schneider in the end we be leave with a poor highschoolset knockoff of zach braffs amaze garden state combine with the equally amazing velvet goldmine two film far more worthy of your time.now before any of the cast or crew come out of the word work to take me to task for this review allow me to offer this the best i can do be compliment mr. satejowski for have the ambition to make a film of his own and to put it out there for an audience to see however the hope that this movie will be pick up and distribute be simply deluded vision of grandeur this be a student movie nothing more nothing le if the movie hold any promise and let face it at this point it isnt go to come from the act writing or direct it be this if if the people associate with this film be willing then please learn from this movie file it away and use the lesson learn on your next attempt dont attack your critic or have friend or family do it for you if you be able to do this maybe the next one will be worthy of distribution worthy of be call a film.i be your audience and i be willing to watch
neg: 0.065, neu: 0.807, pos: 0.128, compound: 0.9962, 
please rewatch all series and do not go see this movie the trailer be completely misleading and the weak character in the series stretch a badly think out min tv episode into the most painful hr of my life truly an awful film tubbs and edward be in it for a few min micky have line and her lipp just reel out the same tired old pun also mr isss accent just change about time in the film ton of badly act extra and really a few laugh that they seem to recycle for hr i honestly feel this series have be completely ruin by this godawful piece of crap .......... batman and robin all be forgive
neg: 0.192, neu: 0.71, pos: 0.098, compound: -0.9289, 
finally an iranian film that be not make by majidi kiarostami or the makhmalbafs this be a nondocumentary an entertaining black comedy with subversive young girl subtly kick the system in it as it all about football and it funny it really funny the director say the place be real the event be real and so be the character and the extra this be why i purposely choose not to use professional actor a their presence would have introduce a notion of falseness the nonactors will have you root for them straightaway unless a. your heart be make of stone b. you be blind excellently script the film challenge patriarchal authority with an almost absurd freshness it have win the jury grand prize berlin dear reader it nearperfect where where can i get hold of it
neg: 0.028, neu: 0.755, pos: 0.217, compound: 0.9826, 
sometimes you just have to have patient when watch indie horror if you can just toetap your way through the slowpaced early scene sometimes a real gem will present itself ... this unfortunately be not the case with satan whip.written and direct by jason maran satan whip attempt to drag u along on a boring snorefest of a film with no real pay off at the end im guess that the black white and blue cinematography must have be for a reason however it be never explain why the majority of the blood be blue and i find this increasingly annoy a the film go on the story in itself be not that bad and actually have some originality and decent content but the acting be simply pathetic this combine with the slowpacing and lack of any real red gore make satan whip one to forget quite quickly i will give it a rating for some witty dialog that make me chuckle but ala that could not save this boring waste of my time
neg: 0.161, neu: 0.805, pos: 0.034, compound: -0.9725, 
taint look at kibbutz lifethis film be less a cultural story about a boys life in a kibbutz but the deliberate demonization of kibbutz life in general in the first two minute of the movie the milk man in charge of the cow rap one of his calf and it all downhill from there in term of the character represent typical kibbutznikim besides the two main character a clinically depressed woman and her young son every one else in the kibbutz be a gross caricature of wellâ…evil the story center on how the kibbutz like some sort of cult slowly drag the mother and son deeper into despair and what inevitably follow there be no happiness no joy no laughter in this kibbutz every character/situation represent a different horrific human vice like misogyny hypocrisy violence cultism repression etc for example while the protagonist be a strikingly handsome european look year old boy â– his older other be a typical kibbutz youth complete with his jewish physical appearance and utish personality he care more about screw foreign volunteer than the health of his die mother he treat these volunteer like trash after his little other pleads of him to visit his die mother whom he hasnt see in a long time due to his military service he order quote â– linda go take shower and i cum in two minute there be one other good character in this movie â– a european foreigner who play the mother boyfriend when the animal rapist try to hit the mother son the boyfriend defend him by eaking the rapist arm he be summarily kick out of the kibbutz then for violent behavior against one of the kibbutz member more hypocrisy the indescribably annoy french woman who play the school teacher preaches that sex can not happen before age or without love and give an account of the actual act thats suppose to be humorous for the audience but be really just stupid she of course be screw the head of the kibbutz in the field who then in turn screw the little boy mom when her mental health take a turn for the bad the film portray the kibbutz like some sort of cult child get yank out of their bed in the middle of the night and take to some ritual where they swear allegiance in the field overseen by the kibbutz elders the mother apparently cant escape the kibbutz although in reality anyone was/is always free to come and go a they choose it a mystery how the boy father die but you can rest assure the kibbutz drive him to it and his surviving parent be another pair of heartless wretched character that weigh down on the mother and her son thats the gist of this movie one dimensional character over dramatization dry performance and an insidious message that keep try to hammer itself into the audience head â– that kibbutz life be degrade miserable and even deadly for those who didnt fit in i feel sorry for the guy who make this film â– obviously he have a bad experience grow up in a kibbutz but i feel a though he take a few kernel of truth regard kibbutz life and turn them into huge atomic stereotype bomb
neg: 0.19, neu: 0.723, pos: 0.087, compound: -0.9976, 
when will i ever learn the ecstatic reviewer on npr make me think this turkey be another citizen kane please allow me to vent my spleen ... i will admit the setting presumably new york city have never be so downright ugly and unappealing i be remind that the s be a bad decade for men fashion and automobile and all the smoking if the plan be to cheapen the character it succeeded.for a film to work at least in my simple estimation there have to be at least one sympathetic character only ned beaty come close and i could not wait for him to finish off nicky if a stray shot have strike mikey well it may have elicit a shrug of indifference at the most.i cant remember when i detest a film a strongly i suppose im a rube who doesnt dig art flick oh well
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lose carnivale desperate housewife ... the list go on and on these and a bunch of other highquality show prof that be in the middle of a golden age in television history lose be pure genius incredible layer of personal and psychologically viable story underscore by sublime cinematography incredible to use this word when describe a tvshow a killer score great performance and edit anyone who isnt hook on this be miss one of the most important creative expression in television ever it may have it problem when watch only one episode a week but the dvd format be actually an incredible way to watch this hope they keep it up a im sure they do
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clifton webb be one of my favorite however mister scoutmaster be not one of his best his patented curmudgeon role seem force and even unpleasant rather than funny the film itself be overflow with mawkish sentimentality in addition the viewer be present with numerous hamhanded reference to religious faith and u.s. patriotism that come off a overreverent rather than genuine clifton webb do his best with a poor script edmund gwenn play yet another jovial clergyman and be give nothing to do the child actor lead be play by a talentless child who display a flat affect throughout the entire film his sole claim to fame a a performer evidently be a bullfroglike low voice unusual for someone of his age however once youve heard it youve hear it and you dont need to hear it again unfortunately he be in the majority of the film scene i find this child so irritating that i fast forward whenever he show up since he have a lot of scene in this film this mean that i fast forward through a lot of the film there be and be so many talented child actor it a pity this film doesnt have any of them in it still clifton webb in the traditional oadimmed hat and short be a sight worth see
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this be a mustsee documentary movie for anyone who fear that modern youth have lose it taste for reallife adventure and it sense of morality darius go west be an amazing rollercoaster of a story we live the life of darius and the crew a they embark on the journey of a lifetime darius have duchenne muscular dystrophy a disease which affect all the muscle in his body he be confine to a wheelchair and need roundtheclock attention so how could this crew of young friend possibly manage to take him on a mile roundtrip to the west coast and back watch the movie and experience the ups and down of this great adventure laugh and cry with the crew a they cope with unimaginable challenge along the way and enjoy the final triumph when they arrive back three week later in their home town to a rapturous reception and some great surprise
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the message of a world on the ink of war be disregard by the mass the mythical city of everytown in represent england in general but it could just as well stand for any nation of the world when war finally do arrive it ravage continue not for another five year but until at which time everytown be completely destroyed add to the desolation and toll on humanity be the wander sickness a pestilence that continue for another four years.things to come balance both a fatalistic and futuristic world view where science hold out a hope for a revive civilization the wing over the world concept play out a bit corny though it spokesman cabal raymond massey be unwavering in his mission and dedicate to his cause if he fail others will follow this message be continually reinforce throughout the film ought home convincingly in masseys end of movie speech man insatiable need to test the limit of knowledge and achievement require an all the universe or nothing mindset.the film imagery of automation and machinery in the second half be reminiscent of the great silent film metropolis a everytown be rebuild and transform by the year the spectacle of the city rebirth strike a resonant chord a architecture of modern city of today suggest the movie eerily prophetic vision be come to fruition where the movie get it wrong by sixty seven year though be man first mission to the moon but in a hundred year timetable probably seem more legitimate than .things to come be one of those rarity in film a picture that make you think which side will you come down on the force for advancement in the face of uncertainty or maintain the status quo it not a comfortable question a both choice offer inherent danger and unknowable outcome those who choose to be bystander risk be sweep away by force beyond their control
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fulci ... do this man ings one of the gory and weird movie ever make answer yes cat in the brain also know a nightmare concert be fulcis last masterpiece yes it be no matter what some people will say about it there be few fact why this movie be one of the best fulcis movies.fulci make a fun of himself and his movie with this one lead roll in this movie be no other then fulci himself who play ... well horrorsplattergore director who think he be slowly go insane it fill with black humor which unlike in the most of the modern horror movie work here be fulci flick you need to know it gory how much well pretty much i always love gore in the movie and i never get enough of it but cat in the brain actually stop my thirst for gore and believe me it a hard to archive even the braindead didnt stop it citb be all about gore almost every scene revolve about fulci who after be hypnotize by khmmm evil psychiatrist be see all kind of horror for everything that happen to him or everything he see some of the scene involve him accidentally drop the whiskey and instead of that he see rotten corpse lie on the floor which start to spit some ooze from it wound forget the beyond or zombie this be the gory fulci movie now i like how fulci manage to apply all those comic part in the gorefest movie he be such a illiant director some funny moment and line happens from time to time like one where fulci say make gore movie be kind of a sickness end be very good consider that fulci and most of the italian horror master be know for make end with no sense or many plot hole if you be fun of the fulci make sure you check it out if you have a weak stomach avoid this and repeat it only a movie ps some of the gore scene within this movie chainsaw dismemberment full tongue tear out eyeball tear out maggot infested corps zombie decapitation face be putt in boil water stab in the shower to head throat slit many part of the body and organ be toast aside hammer smash face ...
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what an incomprehensible mess of a movie something about a cop who extract bullet from himself after he get shot and keep them in a glass jar in his bathroom and from the size of the jar hes be shot about fifty time by now and a top secret tank guard by five or six incompetent soldier who for some reason drive it into mexico whether they be send there intentionally or just get really really lose be never make clear and youll never hear another screenplay feature the word butthorn either gary busey try out the mel gibson role from lethal weapon and while busey be a serviceable actor the screenplay damn the whole movie to mediocrity william smith do another turn a a russian soldier the same character he play in red dawn a few year earlier after play biker heavy for most of the s it be sort of nice to see him expand his range play communist heavy sadly hell probably always be remember best a the guy who clint eastwood whupped in every which way you can
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i love to watch this movie a lot because of all the scary scene about the raptor i like raptor because they be scary my favorite part be the one where the raptor look behind the pillar because it remind me of a scene from the friday the th movie with the girl who eat the banana.i really love to watch a lot of this movie because the computer graphic seem a little fake but it okay because once you get into the movie you hardly even notice what be go on and i think it get a good end even though i didnt really understand what be go on on my first couple viewing i figure it out over time and thats the important part the other important part be how scary the dinosaur can be if youre watch it the first time.this be best movie
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warn review contains mild spoilersa couple of year back i manage to see the first five film in this franchise and be plan to do an overview of the whole elm st. series however just two year on and i find i cant remember enough about them in order to do it â– i guess they couldnt have make much of an impression from what i do recall some of the sequel â– dream warrior in particular â– werent as bad a be often make out though even the original be no classic generally the predictability of the premise if people fall asleep they get murder in their dream doesnt lend itself to narrative tension but while i can not recall much of the first five film i do know they never plumb the depth of freddys dead.an indication of how sick of freddy the public be at this point can be judge by the fact that the film be promote solely on the character demise the fact that the movie conclusion be not even hide but in fact the entire purpose for the film be go to illustrate how vacant soulless and cynical this venture was.taking the morally questionable idea of have a child molester a the charismatic villain robert englunds innowayscary interpretation boom with laughter i always think freddys mockery of the teenage victim be less aim at the character than at the teenage audience that could ever watch this tripe it like englunds cry out we know this be garbage â– but youre pay to see it so whos the one laughing and im sure victim of child abuse would be dishearten to see such an insensitive depiction of their plight be freddys appearance in the film always so rudimentary all he get to do here be a few haaaaaaaaaaaaaarr â– har â– har â– hars and thats it if this be the only elm st. film youd ever see you wouldnt get to know the character at all even a the character predeath in a flashback englund play him a a boohiss pantomime villain with a slop of transatlantic ie overstate misplaced and not at all funny irony.acting be almost universally poor just look at how many time breckin meyer overacts with his hand gesture and body language only kananga himself yaphet kotto keep his dignity and when roseanne tom arnold and alice cooper show up you can almost visibly see the film sink far into the mire the script too be absolutely lousy almost wholly without merit carlos ricky dean logan open a road map upon which the noel cowardlike freddy have wittily write youre f ked when prompt for the map carlos respond well the map say be f ked who write the screenplay oscar wilde or how about the scene where carlos be torture by freddy his hearing enhance to painful level so freddy torment him by threaten to drop a pin â– a potentially fatal sound give that all sound be magnify oddly the fact that carlos shout at the top of his voice for him not to drop it seem to have no effect nice hear from you carlos quip freddy hop some good line will come along it also worth note that dream sleep doesnt occur instaneously so be knock unconscious wouldnt allow instant access into freddys world though a part of the narrative contain a human computer game and a d finale plot logic isnt that high on the list of requirements.the teenager head the cast this time be really the most obnoxious dislikeable group in the whole series tracy lezlie deane be the only one who get to greet freddy with shut the f k up man and a kick in the scallop and be incongruous pop music always part of the ingredient freddys dead no laugh no scar no interest no fun
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some comment here on imdb have liken dog bite dog to the classic cat iii film of the s but although it be undoubtedly utal violent and very downbeat this film from pousoi cheang isnt really sleazy lurid or sensationalist enough to earn that comparison however it still pack a punch that make it worth a watch particularly if gritty hardedged action be your thing.edison chen play pang a cambodian hitman who travel to hong kong to assassinate the wife of a judge sam lee be wai the ruthless cop who be determine to track him down whatever the cost with wai closing in on his target pang will stop at nothing to ensure his escapeâ—until he meet yue a pretty illegal immigrant who need his help to escape her life of abuse.a relentlessly harsh drama with great cinematography amaze sound design a haunting score and solid performance from chen and lee as well a newcomer pei pei a pang love interest dog bite dog be one for fan of hardhitting asian hyperviolence think along the line of chanwook park vengeance trilogy stabbings shooting merciless beating all happen regularly in this film and be catch unflinchingly by director cheang.of course this be the kind of tale that be destine to have an unhappy end for all involve and sure enough pretty much everyone in this film die rather nasty death unfortunately there be a fine line between tragedy and unintentional comedy and in it final moment dog bite dog cross it in a laughably overdramatic final scene pang and wai be lock in battle a a pregnant yue look on eventually after all three have suffer severe stab wound during the fracas a wounded pang perform a diy ceasarean on a now dead yue deliver their baby moment before he himself dies.whilst this film might not be a classic slice of hong kong excess with it deliriously ott action and stylish visuals it still worth seek out
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i watch this movie for the hot guyand even he suck he be the bad onewell okay i have to give prop to that freaky police officer rapist guy too he be even bad the guy wasnt that cute in the end he have the most terrible accent and he be the most definite definition of hicksville idiot that cant stand up to his mom for the one he love there ever be overall and if this make any sense to you when i go to pick up movie at the video store i think to myself a i read the back of a movie that look so/so well at least it cant be bad than carolina moon the most terrible movie and the most terrible write act ploteverything in it make my gag reflex want to do back flip it be the most horrid movie i will ever see with gaiela way up there too i hat it and trust me if there be any number under imdb have for rating id choose that in a heartbeat
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absolute must see documentary for anyone interested in get to the bottom of this story tell with unflinching eye and with gripping style if you think conspiracy theory be for paranoid disturbed people this could change your mind something for you feds too a good model for government coverups if you like your news all tidy and easy to consume this be not for you
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i have decide to not believe what famous movie critic say even though this movie do not get the best comment this movie make my day it get me think what a false world this is.what do you do when your most loved one deceive you it say that no matter how often you fee milk to a snake it can never be loyal and will bite when give a chance same way some people be such that they be never grateful this movie be about how selfish people can be and how everyone be ultimately just think about oneself and work for oneself a other die inadvertently at the hand of a gangster the survive other decides to take revenge through this process we learn about the futility of this world nothing be real and no one be loyal to anyone.amitabh give the performance of his life the new actor aryan give a good performance the actress who play the wife of amitabh steal the show her role be small but she portray her role so diligently that one be move by her performance chawla have really great face expression but her role be very limited and be not give a chance to fully express herself.a great movie by raj kumar santoshi his movie always give some message to the audience his movie be like novel of nanak singh a punjabi novelist who novel always have a purpose and target a social evil because they have a real message for the audience they be entertain as well a lessongiving
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after a very scary crude open which give you that creepy chainsaw massacrefeeling everything fall apart.spoiler alert as soon a the two fbiofficers start jab you know they be the real killer anyone who have see enough of these fooledyamovies can figure this out.this movie be mader with one thing in mind to depict utal murder why then be not the little girl torture and murder as well will this be next for u moviegoers the torture and abuse of child whats wrong with you people lynch be truly have a disgust ugly mind
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i cant say much about this film i think it speak for itself as do the current rating on here i rent this about two year ago and i totally regretted it i even /tried/ to like it by watch it twice but i just couldnt i can safely say that i have absolutely no desire to see this waste of time ever ever again and im not one to trash a movie but i truly believe this be awful it wasnt even funny in the slight the only bit i enjoy be the few scene with christopher walken in them i think this film ruin both jack black and ben stiller for me all i can think of when i see one of their film nowadays be this terrible movie and it remind me not to waste my money amy poehler be so very annoy too.overall well i think you get my point the star be for walken by the way
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i be not so old that i cant remember laugh at bobcat goldthwait a couple time but some where in all his year of drug abuse he lose his sense of humor as well a his ain cells.from the moment this film open you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead neither will you find anything remotely funny after hear the opening line goldthwait obviously hat himself so much that he need to degrade in order to feel well even if it be his own imaginary character he degrade if you ever saw shake the clown you know how unfunny bobcat be year ago ... this movie be bad it be not even funny by accident it be sad pathetic and a total waste of time may goldthwaits hand be render paralyzed so he can not write another script strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene he be sad and pathetic and need to make room for a new talent die to get into hollywood
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in new orleans an illegal immigrant feel sick and leave a poker game while win the smalltime criminal blackie walter jack palance he be chase by blackie and his men raymond fitch zero mostel and poldi guy thomajan kill by blackie and his body be dump in the sea during the autopsy the family man lieutenant commander dr. clinton reed richard widmark of the u.s. public health service find that the dead man have pneumonic plague cause by rat and he need to find who have any type of contact with the man within fortyeight hour to avoid an epidemic the city mayor assign the skeptical captain tom warren paul douglas to help dr. clint to find the killer that be infect with the plague and inoculate them.panic in the street disclose a simple story but it be still effective and with a great villain the engaging plot have not become date after fiftyseven year jack palance performs a despicable scum in his debut and the camera work while he try to escape with zero mostel be still very impressive my vote be seven.title brazil pã¢nico na ruas panic in the street
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the box be why i originally pick up this movie and the back be why i rent it but i soon learn that i have be dupe i have think this movie would be something like a road trip/eurotrip/american pie deal but i be wrong this movie be one of the dumb ive see in a long time the unrated version tease you in to watch but will completely disappoint you the act be terrible and sound effect just gaudy it appear very low budget with the entire setting take place in the same building go out and get eurotrip or road trip instead i cant believe national lampoon put it name on this dont buy it dont rent it dont waste hour of your life on this
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there have be many documentary that i have see in which it appear that the law be on the wrong side of the fence the thin blue line and paradise lose come to mind first and foremost but this be the first film that have me seethe with anger after i saw it it seem blatantly clear to me from the evidence present in this film that what happen at waco be at the very least an unprofessional and sloppy mess on the part of the fbi and afi and at the very bad an act of murder like most people when the siege at waco be occur i assume that david koresh be a completely evil madman who be lead a violent cult after see this i think that koresh be more likely a slightly unbalanced and confused guy who inadvertently catch the attention of the u.s. government through his eccentric action sure there be lot of weapon at the branch davidian compound but none of it be illegal it be absolutely hearteaking to see the video footage of the people inside the compound all of them seem to be very nice and harmless and it be anger to see the callous testimony of the men in charge of the government force on the waco site the clueless testimony of janet reno and the partisan defense of the attack on waco a defense lead by a few of the committee democrats stand out most in my mind be ny representative and current u.s. senator from ny charles schumer i vote for the man when i live in ny state im a democrat pretty leftleaning too after see his action on this committee i wish i could go back in time and vote for damato instead for anyone remotely interested in the government this be a very crucial film a must see i even think this should be show in class it that important
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i saw this movie last night and think it be decent it have it moment i guess you would say some of the scene with the special ops force be cool and some of the location shot be very authentic i wont be put this movie in my dvd collection but it be fair enough to recommend for rent i guess nothing set the movie at another level compare to others of the same genre the action be good the acting be decent the woman be extremely seductive and exotic in my opinion and the story be pretty interest out of ten
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yes i call this a perfect movie not one bore second a fantastic cast of mostly little known actress and actor a great array of character who be all well define and who all have understandable motif i could sympathize with perfect light crisp black and white photography a fitting soundtrack an intelligent and harmonious set design and a story that be engage and work it one of those prime quality picture on which all the pride of hollywood should rest the mark everyone should endeavor to reach.barbara stanwyck be simply stun there be nothing this actress couldnt do and she always go easy on the melodramatic side no hysterical outburst with this lady i always think she be a good actress than screen goddess like bette davis or joan crawford and this movie confirm my opinion always as tough a nail and at the same time convey true sentiment it be fair to add that she also get many good part during her long career and this one be by far the least interesting.the title fit this movie very well it be about desire human desire i think everyone can understand actually no one seem to be scheme in this movie all character act on impulse everybody want to be happy without hurt anybody else the sad fact that this more often than not lead to complication make for the dramatic content into which i will not go here.i like what this movie have to say about youth about mature and about the necessity to compromise the movie i associate most with this one be alfred hitchcock shadow of a doubt it create a similar atmosphere of idealized and at the same time caricature small town america the story have a certain similarity with fritz langs considerably harsher movie clash by night make one year earlier where stanywck star in a similar part i can also recommend it
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i would like to know if anyone know how i can get a copy of the movie thats the way of the world it be about year since ive see this movie and i would like to see it again earth wind fire transcend the nation globally with their inspirational music and theme it be unfortunate that this group didnt take off like their counterpart in the early s but a previously state racial tension exist in the united state which prohibit equalized exposure for the african american musical group it be good to see that earth wind fire continue their success i would like to add this movie to my collection someone please help me if possible thank you for your attention milton shaw
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i saw the movie hoot and then i immediately decide to comment it the truth be that nature need protection from u because we be the dominant specie of this planet some people think that if they have money they can do whatever they want to which probably be like but if they think about the future more then they think about themselves they would do something useful this movie be not just about kid this movie be show u that the kid be usually the one that care more about it then the adult do when i be twelve i saw some waterlilies and i knew they be protect by law and didnt even dare to touch them not fear of the law but fear that i might harm them actually i be currently what so ever the acting be great the main character be well interpreted and we all have to learn from them i hope you all think about what you saw in that movie and enjoy
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i have some reservation about this movie i figure it would be the usual bill of fare a formula movie about christmas be in the middle of a heat wave in late june we decide to give it a shot anyway maybe we would see some snow.this movie turn out to be one laugh after another ben affleck be believable in his character but the real star of this one be james gandofini he deliver his line with a real wit about him and make a great dad.if you want to have an enjoyable couple of hour definitely check this one out
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when i first saw this film around month ago i consider it interest but little more but it stick with me that interest grow and grow and i wonder whether my initial boredom and response have more to do with the actual vhs quality rather than the film itself i purchase the criterion dvd box set and it turn out that i be right the second time alexander nevsky be a great film it be rouse and im sure it succeed in it main aim propaganda against the germans.that be the most common criticism against this film and against eisenstein that it be merely propagandist and nothing else it untrue he be an amazing film artist one of the most important whoever live by now the world be far enough beyond joseph stalin to be able to watch eisenstein film a art
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focus be another great movie star william h. macy i first discover macy in fargo and ive see a few of his film and he hasnt yet deceive me macy be the archetypal nice guy with something to hide in focus he play the role of lawrence newman a loyal and hardworking stiff who harbour his handicapped mother at home the scene be set after world war ii at the height of mccarthyism newman be the head of human resource for a company which be basically antisemite after he accidentally hire a woman of jewish descent he be ask to buy a pair of glass to improve his fail eyesight.unbelievably the simple act of buy glass have great repercussion on his life and that of gertrude hart his wife play by a great laura dern a the film unravels newman will begin to see a whole different world where be jewish be akin to be an animal.the movie be disturb in the way it show that be racist be something fairly normal the chilling thought be that in some place it probably still be
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in brave new girl holly come from a small town in texas sings the yellow rise of texas at a local competition and get admit to a prestigious art college in philadelphia from there the movie grow into a colorful story of friendship and loyalty i love this movie it be full of great singing and acting and character that keep it move at a very nice pace the acting be of course wonderful virginia madsen and lindsey haun be outstanding as well a nick roth the camera work be really do well and i be very pleased with the end it seem a sequel could be in the make kudos to the director and all others that participate on this production quite a gem in the film archive
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despite a totally misleading advertising campaign this flick turn out to be an irritatingly clichã©d subpar haunt house flick with a totally implausible end clue for all consider see this turkey sam raimi didnt direct it although commercial for the movie play up his involvement in truth he be one of four producer it too bad that someone as talented a raimi have allow his name to be use in conjunction with such a poor movie i dont think he would ever have direct something like this that task be leave to the pang brothers.the screenplay for this film seem to have be cobble together from numerous other horror film so youll find absolutely zero original content in the messenger what we get be a scene here and there that be pluck straight out of pulse a couple that could have come from the bird one or two from the others etc nearly every scene almost every line of dialogue be one that have be lift from any number of other movie the whole thing make for such a predictable movie that almost anyone will be able to figure out the surprise end long before it comes.right about here would be a good time to point out that the advertising campaign center on the idea that only child can see ghost have nothing to do with this movie in fact everyone can see the ghost the teenage daughter and mother character certainly see them even quite early in the movie im sure that whomever be in charge of marketing come up with this campaign because the film need a unique angle to have any box office appeal which otherwise be entirely absent now you know so dont be fool perhaps what this movie lack most of all be anything resemble chemistry between the actor it simply isnt there all of the interaction come across a awkwardly stilted couple with the hackneyed story and ridiculous plot hole just what be a guy who murder his whole family do still lurk around the small town where the murder happen anyhow didnt anyone think to maybe arrest him it all add up to a profoundly unsatisfying ghost flick that only manage to surprise anyone over the age of ten with cheap shot loud noise visual flash and anything short of a sheeted figure jump out of a closet and yell boo all we get for our buck this time around be yet another poorlymade film about spirit attempt to warn people away from a house if there any message that the messenger deliver it dont waste your time on this movie
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this movie suck ass something about a heatwave in some european country complete trash there nothing go for this movie whatsoever maybe second of sex but thats it there be a very annoying chick who hitch ride with people and really piss me off this movie be complete rash and you shouldnt subject yourself to watch it i regret it it very boring i would rate it zero but i cant no body in their right mind should see this im sure youll regret it completely i do how could they think up something this bad even mystery men be well mystery men that suck that movie wasnt worth be make complete waste of time the character in this be very hard to understand and i good very very very bored
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i be look forward to the guardian but when i walk into the theater i wasnt really in the mood for it at that particular time it kind of like the olive garden i like it but i have to be in the right mindset to thoroughly enjoy it.im not exactly sure what be dampen my spirit the trailer look good but the water theme be give me bad flashback to the last kevin costner movie that dealt with the subject waterworld plus despite the promise ashton kutcher show in the butterfly effect im still not completely sell on him something about the guy just annoys me probably have to do with his simian features.it take approximately two minute for my fear to subside and for my hesitancy to slip away the movie immediately throw u into the midst of a tense rescue mission and i be grip tight than kenny rogers orange face lift my concern iefly istled at kutchers initial appearance due to the fact that too much effort be make to paint him a ridiculously cool and rebellious sunglass a tough guy toothpick in his mouth and sportin a smirk thatd make george clooney proud yeah we get it i be totally ready to hate him.but then he have to go and deliver a fairly strong performance and force me to soften my jab darn you ape man efficiently mix tense excite rescue scene drama humor and solid act the guardian be easily a film that i dare say the majority of audience will enjoy you can quibble about it clichã©s predictability and rare moment of overcooked sappiness but none of that take away from the entertainment value.i have a bad feeling that the pace would slow too much when costner start train the young guy but on the contrary the training session just might be the most interesting aspect of the film coast guard rescue swimmer be hero whose story have never really be portray on the big screen so i feel the inside look at what they go through and how tough it be to make it be very informative and a great way to introduce audience to this underappreciated group.do you have what it take to be a rescue swimmer just think about it you get to go on dangerous mission in cold dark rough water and then you must fight disorientation exhaustion hypothermia and a lack of oxygen all while try to help strand panicked people who be depend on you for their survival and if all that isnt bad enough sometimes you cant save everybody so you have to make the tough decision of who life and who dies.man who want all that responsibility not me i have no idea what it be really like for these guy and who would have think id have an ashton kutcher/kevin costner movie to thank for the education not only do the guardian do a great job of pay tribute to this rare eed of hero but lucky for u it also do a good job of entertain it pay customers.the gist moviegoer want an inside look at what it like to embark on a daring rescue mission in the middle of the ocean might want to give the guardian a chance i saw it for free but have i pay i wouldve felt i have get my money worth
neg: 0.105, neu: 0.686, pos: 0.209, compound: 0.9978, 
go into see seven pound i wasnt clearly sure what to think because the preview leave to much open to grasp what the movie be really about so within the first min or so you be completely lose in the plot have no idea what be go on and you think tim who claim to be ben be just a big asshole all of this come to an end when the twistso to speak be unravel at the very last minute of the movie basically tim will smith be troubled and haunt by a big accident he make cause the end of seven people live by this he decide to scope out seven new people who be in need of help badly who he in turn give his life to.the acting of this film be great a i feel will smith no matter what part he seem to impress rosario dawson to me this be one of her good movie aside from eagle eye which i think be up there to she have be in some bad some good but she do deliver in this film other actor such a woody harrelson have very small role and not a big enough role to grasp the character although the casting of the film be still good.this movie be definitely not what i expect and certainly a lot slow pace in which i hop the movie however be still pretty good nothing be reveal until the last min of the movie and everything fall into place up until then it just seem like a pointless love story final think seven pounds=seven star
neg: 0.063, neu: 0.824, pos: 0.113, compound: 0.9685, 
i saw brother shadow at the tribeca film festival and love it judd hirsch and scott cohen be great a father and son the film follow scott cohen from parole in alaska back to his family in brooklyn he show up there because his other have die and he embark on a journey to slowly repair his estranged relationship with his others wife and child and his father who have never forgive him for be the black sheep of the family the story take u deep into the heart and mind of this family and allow you to more deeply understand the complexity of their life also the imagery of the woodworking business and the brooklyn backdrop set the tone for this rich and reveal family portrait
neg: 0.039, neu: 0.812, pos: 0.149, compound: 0.9527, 
mararã­a really disappointed me i cant consider it a a bad movie but the development just seem too rush and nonbelievable for it to evoke any emotion dr. fermã­n display some unprecedented bizarre behaviour out of a passion that one cant really understand where it be bear from i mean how many time do he ever have a conversation with mararã­a maybe once also mararã­a never appear to be a real character instead more like a film stereotype that just need to be in the movie ... or else another title be need some of the best acting come from a role that wasnt really important to the story that of marcial the subintelligent yet humble drunkard of course the scenery the cultural tidbit of the canary island and other wow moment be interest but the movie fell short of a documentary in case this be it real intention and most importantly a a solid drama
neg: 0.068, neu: 0.78, pos: 0.152, compound: 0.9608, 
serum be about a crazy doctor that find a serum that be suppose to cure all disease through the power of the mind instead it create some kind of monster that need to eat human flesh and ains the mad doc create some zombie out of cadaver and have some problem there be a very long lead into all the action with many scene get you acquaint with the character the mad doctor nephew get into a car accident and the mad doc try to use his new serum on the boy the result be not good this be a class c film with ok act but some trouble direct and some continuity error there isnt much zombie action in this one and the effect while adequate be nothing special you can fast forward through the slow part and get some enjoyment out of the action scene watch out for some nudity and bad language
neg: 0.158, neu: 0.775, pos: 0.067, compound: -0.937, 
witty funny intelligent awesome i be flip channel late one night year ago come across this and a wildfire start i be stay up late every night and tap it for everyone i know a few like people out of the almost people i make watch this didnt think it be as awesome a i do the others be laugh out loud so hard they be cry and thank me at the same time please do yourself a favor run dont walk watch this and enjoy intelligence and humor it a winwin situation i wish i could have afternoon tea with him and meet the truly rare comedian that we a a society need more of .... sanechaos
neg: 0.033, neu: 0.672, pos: 0.295, compound: 0.9894, 
it a unique film a it give u our only chance to see the young noel coward in all his ironic glory because he seem so reserve detached he perfect for the role of an unloved cad who matteroffactly use all those around him however in the deadly serious no pun intend last act when coward must make like the fly dutchman he much less comfortable.but his way with an epigram be peerless and hecht macarthur have give him some gem macarthur really he be the wit of the pair .the film be superbly light by the great lee garmes but have little camera movement aside from a storm sequence hecht and macarthutr care about one thing get their dialogue on screen note h m themselves have blinkandyoullmissem cameo a bum in the flophouse scene .the most notable support player be the one and only alexander woolcott notorious broadway columnist and close friend of both macarthur and coward who appear a one of the bitchy author always keep wait in the reception room of publisher coward.curious that woolcott would agree to do a film that clearly lampoon the legendary algonquin round table of which he be a founder and macarthur something of an auxiliary member.the scoundrel actually win an oscar for best story though that victory be probably due more to coward impose presence than any illiance in the plot it coward woolcott and the dialogue you remember ...
neg: 0.122, neu: 0.738, pos: 0.141, compound: 0.8596, 
this be definitely a must see film the excellent director alain chabat also act a ceasar have manage to capture the very essence of the adventure of astã©rix the french comic book it base upon and to create a fantastically modern and intelligent comedy which be also an homage to the world of animated film this movie be so funny so full of joke both visual and speak that it might take you two or three screening before you notice them all between your burst of laughter the only drawback be that a nonfrench audience or at least a nonfrench speaking audience might not get all the private joke there be so many dialogue impossible to translate so many situation directly relate either to the comic book or to the french way of life that the fun might be lessen however it still totally worth see for the beautiful picture the amazing stunt the music the totally crazy atmosphere and the excellent act all actor be great but the film would not be the same without jamel debouze gã©rard darmon and edouard baer and please dont ever compare this magnificent film to the terrible previous one base on the same comic book astã©rix et obã©lix contre cã©sar and direct by claude zidi
neg: 0.024, neu: 0.805, pos: 0.171, compound: 0.9815, 
i think this movie be stun with completely outstanding performance by valentina cervi artemisia gentileschi .cervi portray artemisia so beautifully with tentative yet confidant mannerism her hand map out an idea before move her model into place the passion to which artemisia give to her art be just spectacular to watch.although not each character be overtly beautiful this make the film more realistic a the facial hair and clothing be perfect for that point in time.overall i think this film be fantastic
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.739, pos: 0.261, compound: 0.9807, 
i consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of box movie and a such there be only one thing that prevent me from call gentleman jim the best boxing movie ever make that be the robert wise/paul newman flick somebody up there like me that movie might be number but gentleman jim be a close number .the movie doesnt just chronicle the rise of james j. corbett it also show the sport of box at a crucial time of transition in the late s boxing be move away from the utal day of bareknuckle rule to the more gentlemanly day of the gloved marquis of queensbury rule and the sport be move away from the day when it be an illegal spectacle and towards a time of acceptance and respectability.gentleman jim be not a realistic look at those day it be romanticize and yes even a bit hokey at time but always delightfully so errol flynn be perfect a the gentleman jim who really isnt a gentleman at all but merely a fast talker from a work class family alexis smith be quite ravish a the upper class woman with whom he have a love/hate relationship and we all know it be of course love that will win that match in the end .at the end of gentleman jim the great john l sullivan whose famous line be not i can lick any man in the world of course ... romanticism again hand over his belt to corbett this be truly one of the best scene in any sport move ever make realistic no but wonderful hey if you want realism watch rag bull instead that be a much more realistic boxing movie but gentleman jim be a lot more fun
neg: 0.033, neu: 0.756, pos: 0.211, compound: 0.9965, 
that this movie have be staple to the wall of a chapel a proof that god be truly dead be i the only one that really saw rather sleptwalked through this film this be the only movie ive ever see in the theater that i regret not walk out on and demand my money back it be just that dull and i even saw highland the quickening at the local cinema from begin to end gibson and downey have absolutely no chemistry a two unlikelies cast together by circumstance who eventually work together a best buddy the action what little there be be goofy and as dull a the skullbone of the writer thank whatever deity be chortle down at u a it observe our cinema that theres no chance for an air america
neg: 0.119, neu: 0.804, pos: 0.077, compound: -0.6739, 
well theres no real plot to speak of it just an excuse to show some scene of extreme violence and gratuitous sex which can sometimes be fun too but it not in this case what else can i say about this ... the action when happening be inventive and theres a cool scene where two character be fall from a skyscraper one that have to be several mile high but overall theres not much to recommend kite watch it if you want but youre not miss much if you skip this one ...
neg: 0.068, neu: 0.825, pos: 0.107, compound: 0.2393, 
this be the best film the derek couple have ever make and if you think this be a recommendation then you havent see any of the others there be the usual ingredient it be just a poorly act a their other effort we can watch bo disrobe or audition for wet tshirt contest quite frequently the story be just laughably idiotic and the film take itself much too seriously and then orang utans in africa but it have a few thing go for it bo look great the production value set costume etc be quite good and this greatly enhance it camp value in a strange way it be actually quite funny simply because it try to be serious and fail so badly
neg: 0.115, neu: 0.723, pos: 0.162, compound: 0.8439, 
some people drift through life move from one thing or one person to the next without bat an eye others latch on to a cause another person or a principle and remain adamant commit to whatever it be and figuratively or literally they give their word and stand by it but be all different make of different clay a one of the character in this film put it which be what make life so interesting some people be just plain crazy though and maybe thats the way you have to be to live among the mass who know who know what it take to make thing life work writer/director lisa krueger take a shot at it use a light approach to examine that thin line between be commit and how one get commit and obsession in committed star heather graham a a young woman who be adamant committed obsessive and maybe just a little bit crazy too her name be joline and this be her story
neg: 0.061, neu: 0.846, pos: 0.093, compound: 0.7188, 
hohum an inventor horst buchholz deadly biological weapon be in danger of fall into the wrong hand unknowingly his son luke perry have be work on the antedote all along enter cia agent olivia dabo and the catandmouse car chase and gunfire begin also in the cast be tom conti hendrick haese and an aging roger moore moore seem to haggardly move through this mess definitely not one of his good effort perry fan will be accept dabo be wrong for the role but nice to look at
neg: 0.098, neu: 0.771, pos: 0.131, compound: 0.496, 
note to self never ever ever again watch a serious movie with charlie sheen in it great comedian horrible seal this movie make navy seal look like a reckless group of ranger when in fact they be the most elite form of military in the world charlie sheen help destroy the navy seal reputation thank you for make such an incredibly select group of individual look awful in one of the bad action movie i have ever see this be a great story which could be make into an amazing action movie but why charlie sheen there be possibility for a very passionate story here but sheen decides to wreck them with funny comment
neg: 0.114, neu: 0.715, pos: 0.172, compound: 0.8376, 
this movie be stupid there no get around it but so be dumb and dumber mind you dumb and dumber be significantly more funny than this however i for one love see stupid movie tail sting and laugh with a group of good friend over how bad it be call me callous but see this movie and youll find that the only way you can laugh at it be if you laugh at it instead of with it
neg: 0.232, neu: 0.504, pos: 0.264, compound: 0.7889, 
i be look forward to this so much be a big fan of the book however when it come out i remember think it be one of the big waste of money and time ive ever spend at the cinema.in principle the act the set and the music be excellent and be the main reason why im rating this a .in this version sara be a little too selfsacrificing for my taste there be no way she would have deliberately lie to miss minchin just to stop her punish the other girl in the book she make a point of describe lie a not just wicked but vulgar there also far too much of a disneyfied end for me saras father come back from the dead and all of them trot off into the indian sunset while the book do have a happy and critic might say equally improbable end it doesnt leave you think oh puhleeze.about the only thing true to the book be saras father be a soldier the line between sara and her father be you learn me by heart /no i know you by heart you be inside my heart saras friendship with becky and her adopt lottie although this last one wasnt develop as much a it could have be the changing of her room by add various luxury item that part be illiantly do the basic core a rich girl be fling into poverty suddenly be there but thats about all that is.people might say that this adaptation be more for the young audience possibly all i can say to that be i have two cousin age and respectively who be big fan of this film until they read the book.if all you want be a feelgood family film then this delivers if youre look for a film that actually tell the story of a little princess in fact if youve read the book dont waste time with this one it such a shame with a cast like this if theyd stuck to at least the basic story it could have be fantastic.am i harp on about read the book this and read the book that a little too much very probably but if someone attempt to adapt a book especially such a classic into a movie then they should at least have do the same thing preferably more than once
neg: 0.062, neu: 0.811, pos: 0.127, compound: 0.9855, 
a always this be an inaccurate picture of the homeless tv tell a lot of lie about panhandler in the early s and make everyone look bad and claim we all make over a day when a day be much close to reality when someone drove by where i hold up a sign offering to work and offer me work i actually go and take the work if i be physically able.and if i would be offer the id damn sure invest in in apt prepaid for at least year and keep most in the bank and still leave myself for nl and cash game at the casino i usually always win and could win decent if i just have a bankroll instead i win about a month be all playing in always minimum buying in due to not want to risk lose it all i be only homeless cause i didnt wan na risk spending all my money and go oke sometimes i have over in my sock while i sleep outside anyone want to talk contact sevencard on yahoo messenger.i admit i be different than most homeless people though due to the fact i never drank smoke or take drug im no long homeless be now in govt housing for a month and get ssi and spend most of my time win at online poker mom and sunflower diversify worked hard to get me ssi glad my day of hide in under the stage in the convention center of the casino at night sleep worry about get catch by security be finally over have this tv crew pick me theyd be over a lot sooner it a shame how they dont good select who they pick
neg: 0.078, neu: 0.824, pos: 0.098, compound: 0.8126, 
i really in enjoyed watch this movie like most of the people that watch it i wasnt sure that i be get whoopi goldberg be a very funny comedian and she have do a lot of funny movie i.e sister act.however this be not really comedy it be a drama with comedic moment so if your look for a laugh riot then keep looking.this movie be about a black family move up from a nice neighborhood in the city to an upper middle class neighborhood i would say more but it think it would spoil the movie this movie do not just deal with race relation between white and black but also about relation with in the black community i do think that it be worth a chance if your not really interested in see another movie about race relation then this movie isnt for you
neg: 0.054, neu: 0.822, pos: 0.125, compound: 0.811, 
have be a marine i can tell you that the d.i be a accurate a portrayal to date depict marine corp boot camp and how boy be turn into men jack webb be excellent a sgt.jim moore a tough but fair drill instructor in paris island north carolina the film center on one recruit who doesnt seem to get with the program a more recent film full metal jacket also show life in basic training and be well worth view
neg: 0.014, neu: 0.867, pos: 0.119, compound: 0.8422, 
every high praise word fell way short before the height of this movie this movie be the true example of how a psychological horror movie should be.the plot seem to be a bit confuse at first view but it will definitely explain a bit about whats go on and you really want to view it for the second time but after second viewing you will start to join the piece together and then you will know how amaze a movie can be.a word of advice for slasher flick fan stay away from this movie this be not your dumb as teenage slasher movie in which you just switch off your ain and sit in front of the screen just to see big b b and lot of blood.if you want to heighten the psychological horror factor of this movie then watch it all alone with a great home theater system that support dolby digital or dts .ch without any of your ill mannered friend that crack joke on a really tense situation and dont forget to switch the light off.my point on different aspect direction act atmosphere sound effect /total
neg: 0.081, neu: 0.737, pos: 0.183, compound: 0.9704, 
ken burn baseball be a decent documentary ... it present a clear origin of the game a great depiction of baseball early year and hero there plenty in this movie for any baseball fan ... that say the film have several glare flaws hour be simply too long for the human attention span it clear that burn stretch his film out to fit his nine inning concept it not even a tight hour ... the pace on every segment be slow almost morose ... the music always nostalgic and wistful isnt baseball ever exciting and fun why be every player and their accomplishment present in the form of a tragedy talk head after talk head turn every pitch into an emotional hearteak yak about baseball a a metaphor baseball a americana the psychology and theology of baseball ... enough this be syrupy mawkish drivel billy crystal be here to sell u all the yankee hokum he sell u before ken burn use the national anthem a the series theme song and manages to play take me out to the ballgame so many time you might vomit we get it dude.clearly burn be a neohollywood fauxliberal so he spend probably a third of the film on the negro league ... these segment be spend chastise white of yesterday for not be as openminded a kenny be today for shame he chide baseball for be segregate in the thirty and forty but fail to realize that america be segregate in those time burn fall head over heel in love with buck oneil a former negroleague player and drool over every piece of footage in which the elderly oneil wax poetic about his playing day nonsense ... burn would have be good off with an adult to help him edit his creation down baseball wind up a mushy gushy civilrights propaganda disguise a americana it clear that burn be not a baseball fan ... otherwise he would know we watch game laugh and cheer not weep and recite soliloquy ... be you listen mr. burn theres no cry in baseball
neg: 0.058, neu: 0.805, pos: 0.137, compound: 0.9841, 
quitting may be as much about exit a preordained identity a about drug withdrawal a a rural guy come to beijing class and success must have strike this young artist face on a an appeal to separate from his root and far surpass his peasant parent act success trouble arise however when the new man be too new when it demand too big a departure from family history nature and personal identity the ensue split and confusion between the imaginary and the real and the dissonance between the ordinary and the heroic be the stuff of a gut check on the one hand or a complete escape from self on the other hongshen slip into the latter and his long and lonely road back to self can be grim.but what an exceptionally convincing particularity honesty and sensuousness director zhang yang and his actor ing to this journey no clichã©s no stereotype no rigid gender roles no requisite sex romance or violence scene no requisite street language and to boot no assumed money to float character act and whim hongshen jia be in his midtwenties hes a talented actor impressionable vain idealistic and perhaps emotionally starve the perfect recipe for his enablers soon hes the cool actor idolize by youth he be hot in the early ninety he always have to be the most fashionable he need extreme and go in for heavy metal adopts earring and a scarf his acting mean the art friendsand role but not the kind that offer any personal challenge or input and his selfcriticism dull by the immediacy of success open the door to an irrational selfdoubt selfhatred i didnt know how to act i felt like a phonyand to readily available drug to counter them he say i have to get high to do what director want so his shallow identity a an actor become via drug an escape from identity hongshens disengagement from drug and his false life be very gradual intermittentand doggedly his own solitude space meditative thinking speech refusal replace therapy the abstract be out and a great deal of his change occur outdoorsnot in idealized location but mainly on green patch under the freeway idges and highrises of beijing the physicality be almost romantic but be not the bike rid to ritan park the long spontaneous walk the drenching sun and rain grassy picnic the sky pattern and kit that absorb his musing be very specific he drift in order to arrive all the while pick up cue to a more real and realistic identity i start to open up he say of this period in retrospect and the contact seem to start with his lanky body which project a kind of dancer position clumsy graceful humorous tell in a current circumstance if mind or spirit be lack his leg can compel him to walk all night central to his comeback be the rejection of set role to punctuate his end to act and his determination to a new identity he smash his video and tv and bang his head till bloody against his john lennon forever poster he have let down his iconic antiestablishment artistbut hes the only viable guide he know he even imagine himself a john son yoko ono and adopt his mother mary a an intercessor in his hour of darkness and time of trouble the wrench shake pain in the parkhallucinatory and skitzoid ordeal music be so much more real than act he say and speaks of lennon influence a show me a new way in the mental institute the lifesaving apple resistance nourishment reflect lennon presence a do hongshens need to rehang his hero poster in his redecorated room.if lennon influence be spirit hongshens father influence be ground although father and son be both actor and user drug and drink it be fegsens difference from his son that underwrite his change for the father be more secure in himself he accept that hes chinese a peasant in a line of peasant a rural theater director and he exercise control over both his habit and his emotion it this recognizable identity that drive hongshen to treat him like a sound board sometimes with anger and rage sometimes with humor the blue jean beatles and passivity in his most crazed and violent exchange with his father in which he accuse him of be a liar and a fake he expose more of himself than his father all the act i act before be bullshit ... life be bullshit and to hongshens emphatic you be not my father he softly reply why cant a peasant be your father under these two teacher and with much additional help from his mother sister friends inmate at the rehab inst he make some tangible connection to a real not whole self a the long term drug effect recede so do his old identity indebtedness replaces pride trust distrust integrity banish his black cloud all his edge soften you be just a human be he repeat endlessly after be release from the strapdown incur for refuse medicine back home lard peasant soap be fine with him now and his once rare and true friendship begin again a be so evident in the back to poignant backtoback fence scene with his musician buddy hongshen say of this movie it a good chance to think about my life and i might add become a new actor one bound to art and life like lennon he have gain success without a loss of identity
neg: 0.097, neu: 0.765, pos: 0.138, compound: 0.9886, 
i have watch this movie countless time and never fail to be charm by it homely simplicity sincerity and goodness great characterization by all of the cast and the lovely little steam train that play a such an important supporting role.i confess i fell in love with roberta in and she still touch me today show on tv in new zealand on christmas day the nice present i could have have
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.666, pos: 0.334, compound: 0.9827, 
if only i have read the review by alex sander sic on here rather than look at the rating of over from a select choice of the ignorant view public i would not have see this desecration alien be a fantastic dramatic and well make horror/scifi predator be a great scifi/action messabout i do really have only myself to blame though a i saw alien versus predator it too have an average grading of over star from the connoisseur of film that frequent this site.stop reading now if you have any fear of this ever so suspense ridden plot be ruin for you.right from the beginning this film be ridiculous no explanation be offer for the predator ship overrun/not overrun by alien ok so maybe they be again go to throw alien down to earth to hunt them and something go wrong but how do this result in an alien/predator hyid and why do the rest of the crew not realise sooner despite their great technology the start be actually the most coherent and interesting part of the film because we have some idea of who be who or what be what and perhaps why from then on it get really ridiculous i always leave my disbelief strictly suspend above the door of the screen before enter and collect it on the way out i couldnt here.a father and son be hunt in the wood the damage ship crash land to from the view give i would calculate at the very least odd mile away through thick woodland the man and boy track there alone and find the ship and get face hug even at this point you feel very little for them mainly because the face hugger be almost comical rather than scary in their movement and action and the father seem like such an irresponsible dumb redneck muppet.an edgy thrillertype scenario be introduce with an excon return to the town near the crash site to be meet by his somewhat emotionless dull now cop friend from the bus when i say introduce i mean a feeble attempt with crap actor and no feeling be play out a slasher/horror element be then introduce with a sexy girl and the usual supposedly nerdy or somehow undesirable cute guy who get beat up by the over protective crazy nasty jock type american sportsman not a scottish man oh the cute/not cute boy be the excons other by the way yes theyre clever these director others whose name i will research in order to avoid any other shite they put out again then a modern role reversal oh so boring attempt at pc ripley credential type character introduction come with a female soldier return home to her husband and child.guess what happen next i wont tell you much more about the actual smile sadly to himself about the demise of storytelling in the large majority of recent film plot just in case you have get this far and be not the ightest star in the alienridden universe.the predator be stupid for the reason state by the previous poster whose post i read too late the alien be bore the predatoralien be ridiculous the action be at time exploitative gratuitous disgust nonsense the hospital scene with the pregnant mother oh i be shock alright shock at how low some people will go to get what a scare some shock to titillate the perverse what if you really want to shock titillate and scare people who be not pregnant or expect father or who have no soul why not just have the alien/predator shag the saucy woman and teenage girl rather than kill them the character have no depth and neither do the plot it film and pace badly it act by disinterested people not that i can blame them it further tarnish two rather interesting and good set of scifi character this film be rubbish and if you gain enjoyment from it i really have to worry about you if you havent see it then well please make your own decision.ps do i even mention the way that train soldier be all kill in about second while amateur civilian survive throughout
neg: 0.191, neu: 0.718, pos: 0.091, compound: -0.998, 
even though i saw this film when i be very young i already know the story of wild the thieftaker and shepherd who famously escape from newgate prison.apart from the liberty take right at the end the film more or less faithfully follow the true story the temptation to bend the fact which be the hallmark of so many socalled historical film be resist in this film and the film maker must be praise for that.of the performance there be scarcely a poor performance and tommy steele be ideally cast also good be stanley baker a the thieftaker and alan badel be good a always.because the film stick to the fact it make it suitable to be watch by all the family
neg: 0.02, neu: 0.815, pos: 0.165, compound: 0.9587, 
go be the wonderful campiness of the original in place be a cgrade action noainer wich be not all bad but pale in comparison to the original all the meaningless sex and violence be go and replace with crappy joke and unexplained plot pointer see it but dont expect the thrill of the first
neg: 0.231, neu: 0.61, pos: 0.158, compound: -0.8552, 
although most american have little knowledge of his work other than star war alec guinness produce an amazing body of workparticularly in the ssranging from drama to quirky comedy i particularly love his comedy a they be so welldone and seem so natural and real on the screenfar different from the usual fare from hollywood.this be say this be the film that spark my interest in these movie it plot be so odd and cute that it be very unlikely the film would have be make anywhereexcept for ealing studioswhich have a particular fondness for little film like this one.guinness be a nerdy little scientist that work for a textile company he want to experiment in order to create a synthetic faic that be indestructible though he be not work for the company a a researcher but for janitorial work so he tend to sneak into labs either during the day if no one suspect or at night and try his hand at invent repeatedly he be catch such a after he blow up the lab and give the boot until one day he actually succeed then despite the importance of the discovery he set off a completely unanticipated chain of eventsand then the fun begins.the film be a wonderful satire that poke fun at industry union the government and people in general
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victor mclaglens performance be one of the fine in film history.i think we can all feel for gypo because weve all struggle with what be right and what isnt and be wrong this be one of the first arthouse picture to be release by a major american movie studio rko radio picture .joseph h. august cinematography be at it very best here however augusts stun portion be mostly overlook he didnt receive the oscar nomination he rightly deserved.this be a psychological drama with thought philosophy sadness all convey with as little word a possible
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how do you take a cast of experienced wellknown actor and put together such a stupid movie nimrod antel have the answer armor six coworkers at an armored car business decide to steal a large shipment of cash themselves but just a they get to first base with their plan everything unravels quickly with a plot like this youd think it couldnt be too bad at least for an action movie however in the first minute or more of this movie we see what appear to be normal everyday kind of guy they joke they laugh have a few drink together etc then we suddenly learn theyre planning to rob their own business the hero ty columbus short be suck into the scheme because of the cold cruel world even though he a decorated veteran nice guy and reliable employee oh my oh my then in the last minute of the film these former regular guy nearly all turn into moneycrazed psycho willing to butcher each other for cash in the last scene mike matt dillon go on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend the viewer have no hint before this end that these men be this ruthless and bloodthirsty it utterly unbelievable and b movie be almost too kind for this sort of cheesy plot i would say dont waste your timetoo bad no one give laurence fishburne jean reno or fred ward the same advice before make this picture
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the sexploitation movie era of the late sixty and early seventy begin with the allowance of gratuitous nudity in mainstream film and end with the legalization of hardcore porn it peak year be between and one of the most loved and talented actress of the era be monica gayle who have a small but fanatic cult of follower she be actually able to act unlike many who fill the lead role of these flick and her subsequent credit prove it and her seemingly deliberate fade into obscurity right when her career be take off only heighten her mystique.gary graver the director be also a talent probably too talented for the sexploitation genre and his skill combine with monica gayles screen presence make sandra the making of a woman a pleasantly enjoyable experience the film never drag and you wont have your finger press on the fastforward button
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what a surprisingly good movie this one turn out to be this be the type of film that ive be look for age particularly important for me be the fantasticlooking chicago which i still keep think about the back cover doesnt do this film justice it superb and in my top for sure
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.71, pos: 0.29, compound: 0.9501, 
i do not expect much from this film but boyoboy i do not expect the movie to be this bad chris rock be not show a good act here you cant get the feeling that his caracter be real i think the movie would have be a bit good if it drama or romantic scene would have be a less part of the movie and more/better humor be involve the movie be like the film maker be have a bad hangover make it in the making of they dont show a single smile this be a very bad film i give it three out of ten because of few smile it give me but i do never laugh
neg: 0.161, neu: 0.707, pos: 0.132, compound: -0.7489, 
i cant believe there be people out there that do not like this movie i think it be the funny movie i have ever see it my have be b/c i be mel brook big fan ... i know almost all the word and get very discourage when they censor them when it be play on a family channel this be one of my favorite movie so i dont know why any one would disagree thanks kristina
neg: 0.117, neu: 0.737, pos: 0.146, compound: 0.4013, 
flynn know mostly for his swashbuckling role and his bedroom antic take a different tack with this film and it work beautifully play reallife box champ jim corbett flynn turn on the charm full blast a he make his way from a stifled san francisco bank teller to a celeated pugilist all the while set one eye on society deb smith he and best pal carson attend an illegal bareknuckle fight and be arrest along with score of other men and a dog include a prominent judge the next day he get a chance via smith to gain entrance to the judge private club he use this opportunity to weasel his way into the good grace of it exclusive member and land a spot a the clubs resident boxer his unusually adept skill in the sport soon have him take on all comer up to and include the world champion john l. sullivan bond flynn be downright magical here he be the epitome of charm charisma and appeal in this role he look terrific especially in a hangover scene with his hair muss and wear a white union suit and do virtually all of his own stuntwork impressively his line delivery be delicious and he be credible and sympathetic and at the same time duplicitous and rascally smith exudes class and taste from every pore and be a good match for flynn at this stage he need a female costar who could stand up to his advance and reputation he be undergo statutory rape charge at the time and she do so admirably she be repulse by his freshness and cavalier attitude yet can hardly help but fall under his enchant spell bond be incredibly burly awny and tower yet tender when the script call for it amuse support be provide by a young and ebullient carson frawley be his dependably cantankerous self a flynns manager the rest of the cast be excellent as well include flynns rambunctious family and an assortment of stuffy nob hill type the whole thing be beautifully appoint and securely direct a few of the set be amazingly present some of smiths gown border on the garish but she suit the upswept hairstyle very well it a terrific glimpse into the early day of championship boxing but it also so much more some of it like the character trait show by flynn be enhance or exaggerate for entertainment purpose but a lot of it be authentic like the method and costume show in the fight scenes one line be particularly memorable i believe you like me more than i like you but it entirely possible that i love you more than you love me it classic romantic dialogue and there be more than a few zinger sprinkle throughout the script as well
neg: 0.033, neu: 0.764, pos: 0.203, compound: 0.9981, 
often laugh out loud funny play on sex family and the class in beverly hill milk more laugh out of the zip code than it see since the day of granny and jed clampett plot center on two chauffers whove bet on which one of them can bed his employer both single or soon to be single lady quite sexy bisset and woronov first if manuel win his friend will pay off his debt to a violent asian street gang if he lose he must play bottom man to his friend lot of raunchy dialogue fairly sick physical humour etc but a lot of the comedy be just beneath the surface bartel be memorable a a very sensual oder member of the family who end up take his sexy teenaged niece on a year long missionary trip to africa.hilarious fun
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think provoke humble depiction of the human tragedy of war a small but altruistic view of one family interaction with the enemy during the civil war in kentucky this movie lessen the glamor of war show it effect on not only the soldier but the entire family unit.a lot of today movie show war a an opportunity to highlight the hero and other glamorous feature of war but very little attempt to show the true effect war actually take on a community this movie attempt this through a retelling of a person memory of those day this movie be state to be loose translation of an actual event when in reality this movie be probably a factual reality of hundred perhaps thousand of actual event during the civil war i highly recommend those interested in our civil war to watch this movie
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or anyone else have notice the fact that first bunch of episode be inspire too much by s flick i mean seriously wife who be try get someone else to murder his rich husband so she can claim his asset med student who be temporarily stop their heart to reach memory that be lose flatliners bunch of college body get together again to reminisce on the old day but be not fully comfortable because they do something in the past very bad thing groundhog day be one of my all time favorite movie sadly enough the writing staff behind his turd be bunch of lazy bastard who can not come up with their original scripts.noble idea totally fubarred in it execution
neg: 0.191, neu: 0.704, pos: 0.105, compound: -0.9405, 
elvira mistress of the dark be one of my fav movie it have every thing you would want in a film like great one liner sexy star and a outrageous story if you have not see it you be miss out on one of the great film make i cant wait till her new movie come out
neg: 0.064, neu: 0.681, pos: 0.256, compound: 0.93, 
i saw this movie on the hallmark channel and think it be wonderful especially since it be base on a true man pierce brosnan be very good a the loner english man who take on the persona of the half eed grey owl the photography be beautiful.this movie make me do more research into this character archie belaney know simple a grey owl i want to read as much a i can about him at the time i do not know richard attenborough have direct it but i be not surprised i like all his movie whether he be act or direct i give it the high rating however i would have like to have see more in the movie about why he take on this persona a it only show the two aunt who raise him and his room in their house.you cant go wrong with this movie if you be like me and enjoy a beautiful story without hear foul language and contrive special effect every few minute
neg: 0.033, neu: 0.799, pos: 0.169, compound: 0.9761, 
despite have an absolutely horrid script more about that later this film be still vaguely watchable just because it star two excellent actor barbara stanwyck and henry fonda aside from one or two real stinker id probably watch just about anything with them in the film a i be a huge fan of hollywood golden age of the s and s. however no matter how much i love their film i just cant recommend this film.the movie begin with fonda and stanwyck on vacation at some ski resort the two havent yet meet but the film begin loudly and obnoxiously with a scene in which fonda horribly yodel while ski it be do so unsubtly and make my teeth grind but i stick it outespecially when fonda fell into a snow bank and this stop the yodeling in hindsight perhaps i should have just turn it off then fonda be knock out in the fall and barbara go for help back at the ski lodge he seem okay but fortunately she be also a doctor and have him xrayed and nurse him back to health he in turn becomes infatuate with her and propose to her despite hardly know each other they marry and so far the film seem like a sweet but very slight romantic comedy.once home however all isnt rosy a she jump right back into her job a a family doctor and he begin exhibit sign that he be a control and potentially dangerous man due to his jealousy the film play it all for laugh but frankly fondas behavior be really creepyspying on her and her male patient attack or threaten any man she treat trip a patient who already have a back injury and stomp into a surprise party and insist that everyone there men and woman be out to steal away his wife he come off a a combination of a sociopath and paranoid schizophrenic but it all suppose to be for laughs consider that he seem like a dangerous nut you would think that stanwyck would file for an annulment along with a restrain order but oddly she get mad but just cant stay mad at fonda because he so ........ i cant think of the right wordcreepy be all that come to mind later out of the blue multimillionaire fonda get a job work the counter at a department store then through magical thinking he and babs seem to assume his hostility and violent jealousy be all a thing of the pastso a job apparently cure anger and suspicion when this job fall through the film end with fonda buy his own hospital give barbara a job there and they live happily ever after they dont go any far with the story but i assume base on fonda character that he then spend most of his time a hospital administrator beat up all the male patients.the first portion at the ski lodge and the next do not fit well together nor do the final horatio alger inspire section where the rich boy make good in the business world they be like three separate plot but despite this the most serious problem with the film be it seeming to excuse away domestic violence and delusional jealousy what a creepy little film thank goodness neither fonda nor stanwyck be know for this yechy film but for all their other lovely film
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i find the critique of many imdb user a little harsh and in many case find that they crit the movie from a very professional viewpoint and not that of the guy on the street that want to sit and watch something just to get away from it all.in this case however i have to say it be bad i be a scifi junkie and there be nothing in this movie that grab me for even one second.there be no proper storyline i may be an idiot but i still do not know where the government be that be so worried about these pieces.the pathetic attempt by the main character to put together these piece be scary half the time the two piece be already in place and he simply have to add the third a year old kid would have be able to put them together.this movie be bad.dominic
neg: 0.128, neu: 0.865, pos: 0.007, compound: -0.9628, 
i be debate between this movie and but choose inglourious basterds due to it amazingly high imdb rating i must say now what a disappointment i expect a certain amount of gratuitous violence but i also expect a lot of witty dialog i get a huge dosage of the former but not nearly enough of the latter i felt shortchanged the ratio between violence to plot be very important and i think this movie get it totally wrong and the plot it that believable or really all that entertain either save your time and money i cant believe what this rating say for the gory and violent taste of the modern mass
neg: 0.179, neu: 0.71, pos: 0.111, compound: -0.9301, 
bend it like beckham be pack with intriguing scene yet have an overall predictable stroy line it be about a girl call jess who be try to achieve her life long dream to become a famous soccer player and finally get the chance when offer a position on a local team there be so many boundary and limit that she face which hold her back yet she be still determine and strives i would recommend it for anyone who like a nice light movie and want to get inspire by what people can achieve the song choice be really good hush my child just move on up ... to your destination and you make boundary and complication anyway hope that be at help to your need in a review bend it like beckham great flick
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.779, pos: 0.221, compound: 0.9844, 
direct by diane keaton and adapt from a book by franz lidz a young mother selma lidz andie macdowell be battle a very serious illness and her self proclaim inventor husband sid john tururro be a little lacking in the emotion department unhappy with the new home situation their sensitive son steven nathan watt decide he want to stay with his two eccentric uncle danny michael richards and melvin lou cutell until his mom be well steven seem to be happy and even take interest in his strange uncle live habit he even decide he want to change his name to franz set in the early s this drama be a bit comedic ... change that to zany not be a macdowell fan unstrung hero assures my attitude albeit i enjoy the film and it be not a total waste
neg: 0.072, neu: 0.757, pos: 0.171, compound: 0.9358, 
perhaps the most gripping and intelligent of crooked cop movie be otto premingers where the sidewalk end from a really excellent script by ben hecht base on the novel night cry by frank rosenberg ... dana andrew be the honest tough new york policeman always in trouble with his superior because he like his own strongarm method as much a he detest crook ... when he hit someone his knuckle hurt ... and the man he want to hit be a smooth villain gary merrill who point up the title why be you always try to push me in the gutter he ask andrew i have as much right on the sidewalk a you.dana andrew obsession and neurosis be implant in his hidden painful discovery that he be the son of a thief ... his deep hatred of criminal lead him to use their own illegal method to destroy them and the pursuit of justice become spoil in private vendetta ... by a twist of irony unique to the film itself dana andrew and gene tierney of laura be united once more and andrews now seem to be play the same detective a few year later but no longer the romantic beaten down by his job by the cheap crook ... this time he go too far and accidentally kill a suspect ... the killing be accidental the victim worthless yet it be a crime that he know can eak him or send him to jail ... use his knowledge of police procedure he cover up his part in the crime plant false clue and try to implicate a gang leader but can not avoid investigate the case himself ... the double tension of follow the large case through to it conclusion without implicate himself in the murder be beautifully maintain and the final solution be both logical satisfying and in no way a compromise ... the film be one of the best detective film of the s with curious moral value also one of premingers best ... preminger use a powerful storytelling technique project pretentious camera angle and peculiar touch of the bizarre in order to externalize his suspense in realism ...
neg: 0.171, neu: 0.695, pos: 0.134, compound: -0.9324, 
in sum overlong and fill with more subplots than swiss cheese have hole the director and cowriter say he want to mix genre in this case drama and comedy well at least here these two mix like vinegar and oil to boot the comedy be not very funny and juvenile additionally the film be not really realistic liberty be take regard the legal system in commit french citizen against their will and the apparent ease of abscond with drug in french hospital i watch this film on my big screen tv at home and find myself shout at the film to move on eventually toward the end i fast forward the final long speech one of the main character make to his exlovers son by that time i be wear out by the preposterous confused plot that deal with a dead lover marriage of convenience and a nutty exlover at time the plot divert to the family of the two main character and then revert back to one of them either ismael or primarily nora to the detriment of the audience viewpoint keep change from nora and ismael her exlover confine against his will in a psychiatric hospital there probably be two potentially interesting film here neither of which be well developed the epilogue do not really wrap up many of the subplots and seem to want the viewer to believe nora somehow will find happiness although give her circumstance in real life the chance be equivalent to a snow ball chance in hell the actor do their best and be appeal but this be not enough to overcome all the glare fault of poor write editing and lack of focus
neg: 0.07, neu: 0.84, pos: 0.09, compound: -0.4858, 
incomprehensibly dreadful mishmash of the probably most notorious of all roman emperor who go insane leave infamous party orgy and ruthless killing in his path ... i know there be several version of this and this be base on the min one that i watch but i cant fathom how that possibly can make any difference to lift the rest of this movie out of the muck id heard for long about the alleged shocking content of sex/nudity which honestly there isnt much of here at all and bore when there be and blood but beware it the technical production amateurishness that well and truly shock here everything look plain and simply like a junior film school flunk project camerawork be hopelessly inept full of strange zoom fail framing and confuse pan to and from what mostly look like a huge theater stage complete with a grainy cheapish photo quality lighting and color scheme be terrible and uneven be it day or night be they in or outside have they change scene who be or be mean to be in the shot editing be the final sin here make a confusing mess of everything with randomly jumpy cutaway continuity flaw and random transition that destroy any chance of momentum story progression and involvement there be potentially interesting dialog and an equally interesting true historical story ... but these fault distract so much it tragic.a story with so many possibility to be great be just one gargantuan burnt and fellinilike turkey thats only good for a few gobblelaughs and peter otoole who make a most memorable tiberius oh yes which ings u to the bigname actor id like to line them all up one by one and just ask who do you get free access to bonk in the orgy to be a part of this there ive waste enough line on one of the truly bad film of all time period out of from ozjeppe
neg: 0.17, neu: 0.686, pos: 0.144, compound: -0.7904, 
do anyone edit this film or be it only the dvd release that have huge thirty second gap between scene it ok though i fell asleep watch it the first time then i fell asleep the second time and the third time the plot be actually not the bad ive see but it close the acting be not the bad ive see either ... but it close the production .... well i can honestly say that it be the bad i have ever see in my life not try to be spiteful but unhinged could have use some more production.please dont think im a hater of horror film or even that i didnt enjoy this film i just felt i be laugh at the film much more than i felt i be laugh along with it the gruesome moment be not too poorly do but could have be do well even with a shoestring budget.characters seem awkwardly develop or ignore all together twist end be pretty bad and the exposition take forever without expose much.id recommend avoid this movie./
neg: 0.162, neu: 0.689, pos: 0.148, compound: -0.7344, 
rid high on the success of rebel without a cause come a tidal wave of teen movie arguably this be one of the best a very young mcarthur excels here a the not really too troubled teen the story concentrate more on perception of delinquency than any traumatic occurrence the support cast be memorable frankenheimer directs like an old pro just a story of a young man that find others take his action much too seriously
neg: 0.095, neu: 0.698, pos: 0.207, compound: 0.9109, 
most of the comment on this movie be positive so i thought i would try and redress the balance i come out of this movie wonder what be go on i now know and still consider it to be a poor movie i intially discount a dream sequence a that seem too obvious i be glad that i have a free ticket to the movie or i would have ask for my money back movie reviewer and critic love this movie which only confirm to me that most of them would rather sound intelligent than review how an audience may enjoy a film the rating this movie have be so misleading in year time this film will not compare to true great such a the godfather the film do have fine performance from both the lead but that isnt enough to save the film nor be the lesbian scene
neg: 0.067, neu: 0.82, pos: 0.113, compound: 0.6855, 
pepe le moko play by charles boyer be some sort of international criminal mastermind want in country throughout europe and to stay free he hole himself up in the casbah a mysterious part of algiers where even the police be reluctant to go until a senior officer be send from paris to capture le moko once and for all for le moko although the casbah allow him to remain out of police custody it also become a sort of prison at the same time a place he cant leave because the moment he do he know hell be arrested.boyers performance be good and i can understand why he be nominate for an oscar he capture the essence of such a character a perfect combination of very dangerous and yet very classy at the same time the movie itself unfortunately be quite a letdown a number of part of the story seem inconsistent of which ill mention two first be the idea that the police wouldnt enter the casbah that be state pretty clearly at the beginning of the film by the local commander and yet repeat reference in the movie suggest that in fact the police do enter the casbah fairly regularly so neither the suggestion by commissioner janvier that the police wouldnt enter nor the statement by inspector slimane also a decent performance by joseph calleia that they could get into the casbah but not out seem to make much sense i also find it difficult to believe that le moko harden criminal mastermind that he be could be so quickly sweep off his foot by gaby hedy lamarr to the point where he entertain the local populace by sing love song and then leave the casbah to find her essentially give himself up i understand the irony of the final few scene of course a pepe leave the freedom of his prison the casbah only to find real freedom in his capture because he shot and kill by the police i just find it impossible to believe that someone like le moko would fall into such a trap.this be worth watch for boyer and to a less extent calleia but the story be disappointing and inconsistent
neg: 0.099, neu: 0.795, pos: 0.106, compound: 0.2917, 
man with the scream brain certainly isnt a perfect movie but im pretty sure it be never mean to be anything more than a star vehicle for bruce campbell mean it work a kind of a summary of his entire career slapstick sarcasm cheese action and happy ending campbell be a a writer uneventhere be lot of thing in the story that dont make a great deal of sense why do the robot suddenly have east merely because a female ain have be implant into it and some of the scene feel like retread of other good incarnation the scene in the restaurant where yegor and william battle for control of williams body be straight out of evil dead ii there be however lot of little touch and nonsequiturs that feel rather illiant such a when william be in the height of his panic and scream at a statue what be you look at the movie look like a scifi channel original probably because it be the acting be actually pretty good i particularly enjoy tamara gorski a tatoya she be ruthless and cunning yes but seem to have a tragic air about her in certain moment that the story never explore ted raimi handle the standard bumbling assistant role admirably enough and bruce be funny a the arrogant sardonic condescend american jerk now that he write his own film youd think hed give himself a role that he hasnt be typecast in already man with the scream brain be a bizarre nonsensical bmovie that ought to be enjoyable for anybody who can avoid take a cinematic experience too seriously
neg: 0.16, neu: 0.668, pos: 0.172, compound: 0.6541, 
you should never ever even consider to watch this movie it be absolutely awful this isnt an overstatement it be so unbelievable and exaggerate it get bore it be just a movie where they have take story and plot from several movie and put it together in one they writer hasnt be able to pull it off in a good way.if youd like to see pretty girl in bikini and no ain this might be the movie for you but still you should plug your ear and just watch it not worth listen p there be so many great movie out there and if i could choose one this would be the last movie i would pick but all in all it your choice enjoy
neg: 0.062, neu: 0.802, pos: 0.137, compound: 0.9114, 
tell the truth i’m a bit stun to see all these positive review by so many people which be also the main reason why i actually decide to see this movie and after have see it i be really a disappointed and this come from the guy that love this genre of movie.i’m surprise at this movie all completely †“ it be like a kid’s movie with nudity for absolutely no reason and it all involve little child curse and swear i’m not at all righteous but this have really go too far in my account.synopsis the story about two guy get send to the big other program for their reckless behavior there they meet up with one kid with boobs obsession and the other be a medieval freak.just the name it self be not really connect with the story at all they be not be a role model and or do anything but to serve their time for what they have do the story be very predictable though expect and the humor be lame and haven’t we already see the same character play by mc lovin’ in so many other movie like sasquatch gang i think i laugh thrice and almost fell a sleep.well the casting be alright after all he be the one that produce the screenplay and the acting be soso a expect when you’re watch this type of movie and the direction what do one expect this be the same guy who ought u wet hot american summer and that movie also suck but somehow he always manage to ing in some star to attract his horrendous movie.anyway i felt not total riff off but a completely waste of time only the naked scene seem to be the best part in the movie can’t really see any point why i should recommend this to anyone.pros elizabeth bank two topless scenes.cons not funny dreadful story nudity and kid do not mix together.rating grade f
neg: 0.086, neu: 0.809, pos: 0.106, compound: 0.7823, 
this film hold my interest enough to watch it several time the plot have hole but the lead performer make it work.catherine mary stewart julia keridge do a great job a a woman of who have sacrifice everything else to become a physician she work year to earn the money to go to medical school she be perform illiantly in her residency and be just about to take her board exam and realize her dream.meanwhile julias sister and otherinlaw be murder and a the near living relative she be compel to take in her niece amanda arlen aguayostewart to avoid have her become a ward of the state amanda be about year old from her appearance amanda be so traumatized from her parent murder that she have become mute needless to say julias hour day get long care for amanda.rob lowe play kevin finney a charming neighbor man in their apartment building who work his way into the life of julia and amanda he be always there with a trick or a joke to help amanda deal with her distress amanda really start to warm up to kevin a the film progress perhaps more than to her aunt julia start to rely on kevin to take some of the load of care for amanda a she attempt to handle her case load and prepare for her board examination kevin be always there whenever some crisis erupts for julia.the chemistry between rob and catherine mary be great you keep watch to see them get together before the end of the film the chemistry between rob and arlen be good as well arlen manage to convey quite a lot without the benefit of word the plot have julia and amanda gradually warm up to each other you can see them work out a relationship a the film progresses.we discover that julias sister and otherinlaw the meyers be involve in industrial espionage they steal an extremely valuable prototype microchip from their employer they have three associate who intend to share the proceeds of the theft julia discovers that the meyers be plan to skip the country under assumed identity the plot be unclear whether the meyers intend to double cross their associate or be themselves double crossed.in any case the meyers be murder in their home by of their former associate the killer make no attempt to extract the location of the microchip from the meyers before kill them the killer search the home and fail to find their prize they leave a living witness to their crime amanda the killer then spend the remainder of the film make clumsy attempt to extract the microchip from julia and amanda who have no idea where the prize be locate eventually the killer kidnap amanda in hope she know something about the microchip location.eventually julia discovers the truth about kevin he be an investigator hire to recover the steal microchip after some rough moment in the relationship they manage to rescue amanda and dispatch the bad guy the predictable end have the three form a family and move happily into a future together.what strike me about the plot be major hole kevin move into the same apartment building a julia and amanda the day after the murder of the meyers how do he know that the microchip be not already in the hand of the killer the killer blithely leave fingerprint at the murder scene with no concern for conceal their identity the killer that pretend to be a psychiatrist be reveal to amanda by the remnant of red paint from the murder scene on his shoe sol he be not show in the murder scene at the start of the film there be other weakness along these line too numerous to mention.the film could have be a lot well if the script have be refine more before film filling in the plot hole would have add little expense and greatly improve the effort
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like the previous poster i be from northern vermont and i be incline to like this film however not since red zone cuba have i see such a confusing plot the thing the people to bootleg make no sense two of the gang paddle across the border send a second party across in a car uhm why then they meet two others and drive up at night in to the bad guy hideout in a luxury packard wouldnt just two people in a flatbed truck make more sense then park outside the garage that hold the targeted hooch the four fall asleep when they waken in the morning and and start haul the whiskey out of course theyre spot and shot at lose some of their precious cargo in the process then two of the smuggler put the whiskey in a boat and float it over the border again why i be tell by someone whose great uncle really do smuggle in the area all one need be to drive a vehicle that could outrun than the u.s. canada border patrol which back then have a fraction of the resource it have now and dont get me start on the last half hour which make no sense whatsoever.the only good thing i can say about the film be that kris kristopherson have actually grow some charisma with the year
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may contain spoiler this movie be the bad movie ever i couldnt even watch it all it be so bad this film be actually bad than scarecrow slayer which be say a whole lot this be bad than terror toon which at least terror toon be funny at time not even the gore in the film be good the shooting be fake and the acting be bad please do yourself a favor and skip this one if you see it at the rental store then run the other way there be nothing good about this film at all if you want to see a good scarecrow movie then watch night of the scarecrow or pumpkin head if you want to see an ok new cheesy movie then watch scarecrow i rate this movie a out of thats how horrible this film really be the bad movie ever
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watch this last night and be bowl over by the heartfelt story line the excellent character development and the good karmic vibe emanate from the acting and movie a a whole.without give away too much of the plot it begin with an ordinary joe who commute to his office job every day who become inspire to take dance lesson along the way the protagonist and the assorted character he meet in his quest to be smooth on the dance floor learn lesson about others and about themselves the story have a prologue about what dance in japan symbolize sociologically so it isnt exactly as simple to learn to dance in japan a it be here in the u.s. the film be lighthearted youll laugh out loud at some of the sight gag yet it be also dignify in a way hard to describe all of the film character be take seriously a they be and none be diminish because of their imperfections.ive be think about take social dance class with some friend it just so happen a friend lent me the video on learn to dance be this synchronous or what i think so because now im really geeked to give it a try watch this wonderful family film small child might not get it but teens certainly would and smile at the genuine caring you see show in it time and again.why they would make a remake of shall we dance be a mystery a it be perfect asis
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recap something mysteriously dense that transmit radio signal be discover in the ice of antarctica the mysterious block be dig out and ought to a research station on antarctica julian rome a former setiworker be ought in to decipher the message problem be that one of the researcher be a old girlfriend of his and the situation quickly turn awkward especially since the other female researcher practically throw themselves at him and the block of ice with the thing inside be melt unnaturally quickly soon the object be in the open the mystery continue though a the object generate a huge amount of electricity it be decide to open the object but just before that be do julian decode the signal do not open but too late and the object explodes a it be finally eached and two thing unleash on earth the first be an alien that have be dormant in the object and the other be a virus that instantly kill the research staff and washington that be suspiciously update on this historic event decides that those thing can not be unleash upon the earth so a russian nuclear submarine carry nuclear weapon be send to antarctica.comments the movie hold a few surprise one be carl lewis who surprisingly put in a good acting performance and the other be that the special effect that be beautiful well work through and a lot good than expect unfortunately the story hold a lot of surprise of it own and this time not in a good way actually it be so full of plot hole that sometimes the movie seem to consist of almost randomly connect scene it be never really explain why washington know so much why washington be able to command russian submarine why the object be in the antarctic and have wake up now it be really puzzle that the alien pod be transmit in understandable english some might want to explain this with that the alien have be to earth before and know the language and obviously chose english why but then it be very confusing why the nice alien that apparently want to save the earth from the virus send their do not open message encode and finally the end be as open a an end can be.the movie be a little entertaining but too much energy from me must be divert to fill in the void in the plot therefore the total impression of the movie be not too good./
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this movie feature charlie spradling dancing in a strip club beyond that it feature a truly bad script with dull unrealistic dialogue that it get a many positive vote suggest some people may be joke
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have i check imdb before rent this dvd from netflix id have a couple of hour of my life back im frankly suspicious when i see that a film director also write it in this case accord to the credit the same guy be writter and director unfortunately an indication of the overall quality of this production there be a few interesting moment e.g judy tenutas scene remind of her early comedy routine tout judyism which lead me to rate this two star rather than one those moment however be few and far between ... and i almost do not get to see them because the opening sequence be nearly incomprehensible to me not to mention reprehensible in it violence i admit i go back to watch that part again to see if i have miss something that would help me figure it out once id see the whole thing nope though i at least recognize who the character be who would turn out to be important later the spin camera technique be overuse and essentially pointless i find myself talk to the tv screen what or for goodness sake get on with it not recommend
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the endless bound of our inhumanity to our own kind never fail to stun me this truly astonishing story of a horrifically abuse and largely unheardof population be compel welldocumented and enrage a an american i be constantly humiliate by my country behaviour and this be just another in our long catalogue of international debasement we suck this be probably the first john pilger documentary ive see but it immediately make me want to see what else hes do my only complaint and the reason i give this film only out of be that pilger show u this travesty and the appalling collaboration of the u and uk government demand that we viewers/citizens be complicit in our own inaction ... but make no suggestion of how to help i dont know about britain but america make it nearly impossible for the citizenry to take part in their government do a gesture in the right direction might help these islander cause
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this flick be so bad it beyond belief.even for an independent low budget film ... it just well sucks.i cant even believe even troma would put out such crap.i have be a fan of some troma flick for year toxic avengersqueeze playrockabilly vampire to name a few .but lloyd come onthis go way beyond the boundary of any taste.it feature some of the bad act imaginable.i think it would have be possible to find unemployed street people who could have be as good ... ohwait that be what they did.i mean itthese character have negative charisma.with any luck the producer and director of this film will have a huge karmic debt because of this atrocity.as will the special effect people.but beyond the terrible acting and the horrid special effectsthe dialogue be absolutely traumatic to the ears.the script be full of plot hole the size of alaska and there be severe continuity problems.the bad part however be that it not entertain in even the small way.and this be the most unforgivable sin in film making.but dont take my word for it.go out and waste four buck rent it.just dont say i didnt warn you
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this be a very memorable spaghetti western it have a great storyline interest character and some very good act especially from rosalba neri her role a the evil villainess in this film be truly classic she steal every scene she be in and express so much with her face and eye even when shes not speak her performance be very believable she manage to be quite mesmerize without be over the top not that theres anything wrong with be over the top mark damon be surprisingly good in this movie too.the music score be excellent and the theme song be the kind that will be play in your head constantly for day after see the movie whether you want it to or not there be a couple of part that be very amuse i especially like the part where rosalba neri undress in front of the parrot theres also lot of slick gunplay thats very well done.i would probably have give this movie or star if it wasnt for two thing the first be a silly bar room awl that occur about minute into the film this be one of the most ridiculous look fight i have ever see in a movie it be very poorly choreograph and look more like a dance number from a bad musical than any kind of a real fight one might be able to overlook this if it be a terence hill/bud spencer comedy but this be a more serious western and the awl really need to be more realistic the other thing that annoy me about this movie be yumas cowardly mexican sidekick i guess he be suppose to be comic relief or something but the character be just plain stupid and unnecessary in a movie like this and he wasnt at all funny all i can say be where be tuco when you need him all that have be say let me assure everyone read this that johnny yuma be a classic spaghetti western despite the fault i have mention and all fan of the genre need to see this movie
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the plot michael linnett connors have do everything in film but direct and be look for his st big chance he discover molly in a play and at once know she will be a big film star he sign her to a contract with the stipulation that he must direct the producer agree and their big time career be under way what follow be a recreation of the silent film era and early sound movie with great emphasis on comedy and oh yes there romance and a little sadness too the performance by don ameche and alice fay be top notch the music be a real plus too with some old familiar tune hear lot of dvd extra as well in this restored version release in it must be emphasize that this movie be a story st not just a tribute to silent film later year would ing similar film such a singin in the rain dick van dykecarl reiners the comic what be special about this film though be recreate silent movie in we see portion of them a the cinema audience would in that bygone era although some sound effect be include in glorious b w while the rest of the movie be in pristine color one of the great in the silent era buster keaton who at this point be on an uphill climb be use superbly in silent film recreate scene and he be on the top of his game it be say that he have some input on his scene as well but the real reason to watch the movie if your a motion picture history fan be that beyond everything else hollywood cavalcade be mack sennett film legacy it doesnt take a genius to realize this movie be a positive reworking of mack sennett and mabel normands life the character michael linnett connors be mack sennett whose real name be michael sinnott and molly of course be mabel sennett have the pie throw the bathing beauty and keystone cop he work with buster keaton ben turpin cameo roscoe fatty arbuckle body double and fell in love with his lead lady not only all that but sennett be technical adviser for this film and appear in it as well a most film viewer today prefer sound feature those who be associate with short subject and silents be leave out to pasture a mack sennett fell into that category it be fortunate that there be hollywood cavalcade sennett be of course very instrumental in the evolution of comedy in movie his career start in a an actor then writer director producer he semi retire in with about film to his credit he have work with the best such a charlie chaplin gloria swanson bing crosby w.c. field keaton harry langdon arbuckle and even roy rogers in way up thar .as film comedy be an extremely difficult path to continue for an entire career mack play it wise do only selective work for the next year in he have receive an academy award in the short subject category and another in for a lifetime of work in the s his presence be still felt e.g here come the coeds where a recreation of the oyster soup scene use in mack wander willies be do in the road to hollywood use some of sennetts crosby film year later ought some nostalgia with the film down memory lane in which he participate with his knack of always associate with the right people a guest role with the eternally popular lawrence welk his radio show come about later in the year ought a rerelease of his great triumph tillies puncture romance with sound in he be honor on tv this be your life then his autobiography the king of comedy which be a great companion piece to hollywood cavalcade be publish ought a more concrete association with abbott costello a he have a cameo in a c meet the keystone kops finally in another tribute with the compilation film the golden age of comedy so when you watch hollywood cavalcade it be the legacy of a motion picture pioneer in the film at the banquet scene the camera pan over the guest at a long table a we get to the silver haired mack he alone turn his head to the camera a if to say here i be when he rise to give a speech a short while later he be at his most subdue underplay the word give him a if to mentally convey i know my influence on comedy will never end but will people forget mack sennett the individual maybe this movie will help
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it get to be a running joke around bonanza about how fatal it be for any woman to get involve with any cartwright men after all ben cartwright be three time a widower with a son by each marriage and any woman who get involve with adam ho and little joe be go to end up die because we couldnt get rid of the formula of the widower and the three son that start this classic tv western.perhaps if bonanza be be do today the writer would have have revolving woman character who come in and out of the life of the cartwright people have relationship some go good some not so good it just life and be less demanding of our hero today so if a relationship with one of them go south we dont have to kill the character off to keep the survivor nobility intact but thats if bonanza be do today.but we be still expect a lot from our western hero and bonanza though it take a while to take hold and a change of view time from nbc certainly help the secret of bonanza success be the noble patriarch ben cartwright and his stalwart son ben cartwright be the ideal tv dad in any genre you want to name his whole life be spend in the hard work of building that immense ponderosa spread for his three child the kid be all different in personality but all come together in a pinch.the cartwright become and still be an american institution i daresay more people care about this family than the kennedy just the popularity that bonanza have in syndication testifies to that pernell roberts a old son adam be write out of the show rumor have it he didnt care for the noble cartwright character which he felt border on sanctimonious perhaps if it be do now hed have like it well in the way i describe.this be just the beginning for michael landon how many people get three hit tv show to their credit landon also have highway to heaven and little house on the prarie where he have creative control little joe be the young most hot head but the most romantic of the cartwright when robert leave the show keep go with the two young son but when big dan blocker leave the heart go out of bonanza other character have be add on by that time david canary tim matheson and ben cartwright adopt young mitch vogel but big loyal but a little thick ho be easily the most lovable of the cartwright his sudden demise after surgery leave too big a hole in that family.so the cartwright of the ponderosa have pass into history i get a real taste of how america take the cartwright to heart when i visit the real virginia city it doesnt look anything like what you see in bonanza but near lake tahoe just about where you see the ponderosa on the map at the opening credit be the cartwright home the set maintain and open a a tourist attraction like baker street for sherlock holmes fan the ranchhouse and the cartwright be real.and if they werent real they should have be
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year ago when darling lili play on tv it be always the pan and scan version which i hat and decide to wait and see the film in it proper widescreen format so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews/blake edward opus i decide to purchase and watch it once and for all.boy what a terrible film it so bad and on so many level that i really do not know where to start in describe where and when it go so horribly wrong look at it now it obvious to any fan of movie that blake edward create this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other director have strike gold with andrew in musical mary poppins sound of music thoroughly modern millie etc but also because andrew be snub from star in project make famous on stage by julie herself camelot my fair lady etc because hollywood think she wasnt sexy or glamorous enough so blake create this stillborn effort to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story/war movie/romance/slapstick comedy/musical darling lili suffers from multiple personality never know who or what it be some specific scene be good or effective but a a whole it just doesnt work at all to a point of it be very embarrassing.mind you the version on the dvd be the director cut or in this case let salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop in release the dvd edward cut scene from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version the film move along with no idea of what it be we be minute into it and we still dont know whats go on or why be watch whats go what kind of spy be lili how powerful be she be she ever responsible for someone death instead we watch a thoroughly bore look rock hudson try to woo a thoroughly bore look julie andrew thing arent help much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love why do julie fall for hudson why him and not other men she get involve with there should have be one of her ex hang around try to win her back or try to decipher her secret this would have give u some much need contrast to the muddle action it would also have give u some impetuous to the sluggish proceeding theres no catalyst in this story.one only have to look at the cut scene to clearly see that edward and the writer just come up with idea inspire by andrew and edward previous successes the best or bad example be the scene when andrew and hudson follow a group of child who sing in the middle of a forest edward channel sound of music it no wonder he remove it from the dvd back in that scene might have work on a certain level but today that moment reek of desperation there be other plot element directly inspire by andrews/edwards other film the endless scene of dogfight be inspire by the much good modern millie the musical moment ill give you three guess be create just to make fun of july mary poppins persona which be turn raunchy with julie do a striptease in the act the end bird eye view of julie run towards hudson plane be another wink at sound of music.the whole thing be confuse julie play a singer bear from a german father and british mother who live in england but sing her english song in paris you never know exactly where the story take place some moment be just badly edit like when julie and her uncle be on horseback they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprint off in midsentence im like what happen here the comedy bit be unfunny and cringeworthy every scene with the french police be pathetic wheres peter seller when you really need him the action be stupid beyond belief when julie and her uncle be on their way to germany on that train hudson squadron shoots round of bullet at the train almost kill lili in the process brilliant whats also funny about that scene be the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning thats one slow move train there the musical moment the beginning be the best part of the entire film and the reason i give this film star but it effect be diminish considerably because it repeat at the end speaking of redundant do we really need to see a cancan dance crepe suzette strip scene and julie strip too the girl in no man land be ok even if it bleeding obvious but that moment just doesnt make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldier at a french hospital make me wonder how many soldier there be injure indirectly by the result of her spy the whole project be listless and without energy the romance be unbelievable rock hudson be way too old and tire look check out the museum scene julie look daze like shes on valium but what really kill this illconceived project be julie play a german spy edward desperately want to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflict his wife and believe that play a traitor be a good career decision as much a i like julie shes no greta garbo who pull it off so beautifully in mata hari funny enough even if julie play a german spy she still come across a cloying and cute.how bad be darling lili even after year since it release blake edward felt he still need to work on it for it dvd release
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this series make for televisiã³n espaã±ola tve be basically a series of chapter in the life of an ordinary family in primarily a see through the eye of the young son.based on a background of historical event such a the may student uprise in france the decay franco regime the war in vietnam the rise of imperialism and others specifically relate to spanish life at that particular moment one might regard this series a a simple compilation of characteristic foible which make themselves so apparent in this kind of entertainment.generally treat in a lightweight vein though not lack in certain moment which might be call dramatic the series would seem to be aim at people of around fifty who can rember those time a it should be state anyone young either chooses to ignore such happening or be busily occupy in other things.the best thing that can be say of this series be ana duatos rã´le a mother of three child she play the part of the total housewife of the time really well manifest that peculiar spanish penchant especially noticeable among woman of let all her thinking and her doings be carry forward by the impetus of her heart without any resorting to the use of the ain a we say in spain common sense be one of the least common sens imanol arias offer very little apart from not be his usual stereotype hard policeman a in other television series indeed a an actor he should not be trust in anything which be not a tv series his resource be too limited however his part a father of the workingclass household be not at all bad.not really recommendable for other audience even spanishspeakers in latin america the theme be all too parochially relate to a specific spot in contemporary spanish history such that if the viewer be not live here at that time he will miss most of the reference it be even probable that certain situation which cause a few spanish smile would not mean anything to other viewer
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i want the minute of my life back that be waste on this pathetic excuse for a movie the acting be horrific i use to be a fan of cameron diaz and vincent donofrio i will never look at them the same again keanu reef and dan aykroyd be not a surprise everyone know they never could act thankfully only dan attempt an accent his accent be a disaster a expect i think he be either confuse about the location of the film or have never actually speak to anyone from minnesota i hope this review help anyone who be undecided about what to do with their precious time the only reason i be able to sit through the whole movie be because i be stick somewhere without anything well to watch or read
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one of my favorite movie which have be overlook by too many movie goer an observation which mystifies me not only direct by the acclaimed ang leeit have many young actor who be to become major star e.g tobey maguire before spiderman skeet ulrich before jericho jonathan rhys meyers before tudor james caviezel simon baker mark ruffalo jeffrey wright tom wilkinson and jewel all of the acting be superb and each of the actor mention give memorable performance especially meyers who portray an evil villain who kill for the sake of killing.when the biography and accomplishment of the director even when he win an academy award and the actor be list this film be usually omit from their past performance i discover the film on dvd by accident and it become one of my most often watched film however it be seldom every see on cable i look forward to read what others suggest be the reason this film be not well know
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it nice to see a romantic comedy that do not have the prissy man lead this have solid act from both male lead and also from the female lead and although the story be a little long and a little clichã© you cant help but like it.i think the story be a little rush at the end but extend that would have make the story even longer superior to other romantic comedy such a day with mr arrogant and possibly tie with my tutor friend.it would make an interesting introduction to korean cinema not as great a my sassy girl but still good
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of all the movie of the seventy none capture to truest essence of the good versus evil battle a do the sentinel i mean yes there be movie like the exorcist and other one but none of them capture the human element of the protagonist like this one if you have time check this one out you may not be able to get past the dated device a such but this be a story worth get into.then there be all the star and soontobe star my absolute favorite be eli wallach sylvia mile and burgess meredith then there be the subtle clue that lead to whats go on too pay close attention i have to watch it four time to catch on to all the small weird statement like black and white cat black and white cake plus the book be really good a well im just sorry that theyre not go to turn the second book into a film it so scary that it would outdo this movie
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this be apparently the second remake of this film have be film before in and and in so many way it remind me of the late film a yank at oxford both film concern a conceited blowhard who arrive at one of the top school in the world and both ultimately show the blowhard slowly learn about teamwork and decency in this film william haines be tom brown and his main rival bob be play by france x. bushman and in a supporting role be jack pickfordalways remember a the other of mary of these three pickford come off the best a the sympathetic loser who become tom palhe actually have a few decent scene as well a a dramatic moment just before the big game all the standard clichã©s be there and the movie because it be do so many time before and since offer few surprise however it be pleasant film and be enjoyable viewing.in my opinion for a good silent college film try harold lloyd the freshmanits football scene be frankly more exciting and harold be far more likable and sympathetic than the annoy tom brown the freshman be probably the best college picture you can find from the era another reason why brown at harvard be a less picture be that william haines play essentially the same unlikable and bombastic character with the same plot again and again and again such a in westpoint and the smart set among others and if youve see one of these film youve see them all well make but certainly not original and because it be just a rehash of his other film anyone give the film a score of be strongly advise to see these other films.//==i just check and saw this this small film be the high rat film on imdb from the talk about overrate there be dozen and dozen of good filmshow this film get to be be anyones guess
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this movie illustrate like no other the state of the australian film industry and everything thats hold it back.awesome talent outstanding performance particularly by victoria hill but a let down in practically every other way.an adaptation of sort it ought nothing new to macbeth no set it in presentday australia be not enough and essentially completely fail to justify it existence apart from let face it completely unnecessarily pay homage to the original work if there one body of work that have be do and do and do and do it shakespeare so any adaptation if it not to be a selfindulgent and pointless exercise need to at least ing some new interpretation to the work.and thats what this macbeth fail to do a it be do this film have no contemporary relevance whatsoever it the same piece that we have see countless too many time before except with gun and in different outfits.apart from the fundamental blunder no other way to put it of keep the original shakespearian dialogue one of the more cringeful moment of the movie be the prolonged and incredibly boring slow motion shoot out towards the end during which i completely tune out even though i be look at the screen i never think i have a short attention span but there you go.i suppose the movie succeed on it own very limited term but a australia continue to produce worldclass act talent it moviemakers need to stop be proud of succeed on limited term and actually set high enough standard to show that they respect for the kind of act talent they work with.a shame an absolute shame
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owen love his mamma ... only hed love her good six foot under in this dark laughoutloud comedy that both star and be direct by danny devito with admirable assist from billy crystal and anne ramsey in the title role.throw momma from the train be a terrific comedy even if it isnt a great film it too shallow in part and the end feel less organic than tack on but it a gutsplitting ride most of the way with crystal and devito employ great screen chemistry while work their own separate comic take on the essence of be a struggle writer devito be avid but untalented crystal be block and bitter .crystals professor donner believe his exwife steal his book the unfortunately title hot fire and cant write more than the opening line of his next book which doesnt come easy he teach a creative writing class of bud mediocrity include a middleaged woman who write tom clancytype fiction but doesnt know what that thing be the submarine captain speaks through and an upholstery salesman who want to write the story of his life mr. pinsky be probably the funny character for laughsperminutesonscreen an ascotwearing weirdo who see literature a an excuse to write his opus girl id like to pork.then there devitos owen lift who call himself professor donners star pupil even though the teacher wont read his work in class owen be a somewhat unusual character to star in a movie a manchild in his late s who live with his overbear mother anne ramsey who call him lardass and other endear sentiment in any other movie wed be ask to feel sorry for owen but throw momma from the train pile lifes cruelty onto this sad sack for laugh and expect u to go along thats one big reason why this film probably lose a lot of people.for those of u who enjoy the humor of this character even identify with him and take the rest of what we see here a a lark it not a big a stretch to go along with the big gambit this comedy take ask u to watch in amusement while owen enlists professor donners help in a plan to kill his mother actually he first go to hawaii to kill donners hat ex then tell the professor it his turn to kill mrs. lift swap murder a see in hitchcock stranger on a train.as a director devito not only complement his actor performance with scenesetting that place the accent on dialogue he make some bold visual statement throw in bit of amuse unreality to keep the audience on it toe and away from take thing too seriously also help matter be writer stu silver who keep the laugh come with his quotable patter you get rat the size of oldsmobiles here shes not a woman ... shes the terminator one little murder and im jack the ripper those be all crystal word but some of the funny line which work only in context but absolutely kill be devitos and ramseys apparently silver never write another screenplay after this accord to the imdb and thats a shame because he have real talent for it.the best scene in this movie when crystal meet ramsey be actually use in it entirety a a theatrical come attraction presentation the only time ive see a movie promote that way owen introduce the professor to his mother a cousin patty and when momma say he doesnt have a cousin patty panicky owen lose it you lie to me he yell out slam the professor forehead with a pan.of course in reality the professor wouldnt groan out something witty from the floor but throw momma from the train work effectively at such moment when play it looney tune vibe for all it worth devito hasnt disappear from film of course but it a mystery why he hasnt really follow up on the directorial promise of this movie maybe it because a throw momma from the train lack of mainstream success show his kind of vision isnt to everyones taste thats too bad for those of u who can watch this over and over and like it
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a compelling thriller december author littlehammer from united statesjust causestarring sean connerylaurence fishburne and blair underwood.a liberalthough goodhearted harvard law professor paul armstrong be convoke to the flordia everglades by unjustly convict black guy bobby earl.confessing that sadisticcoldhearted cop vilifyied and beat him to a pulp to get the confession of a gruesome murder of an eleven year old girl a he dig far and far into the mysterious case he realize that bobby earl be a victim of discrimination.that the black police detective lt.tanny brown of the small community be corrupt and villainously mean when the infamouspsychotic serial killer blair sullivan be introduced.he discovers that he know the location of the murder weapon that butcher the little girl.when armstrong find that there be lucid coincidence of sullivan road trip through the small town and the letter he personally write bobby earl get a retrial.is unfettered from prison and elude his horrific punishment all seem swimmingly well until an unexpected phone call from serial killer sullivan come into focus.armstrong discovers a lurid double kill which happen to be sullivan parents.whom he immensely detests.sullivan divulges to armstrong the truth of joanie shrivers heinous murder and why he be ought here.it turn out that bobby earl be a psychopathic murderer and he really do rape and kill joanie shriver.he just merely strike a bargain with fiendish psycho sullivan to get loose so he could kill again for revenge.upon armstrong beautiful wife and daughter.now sullivan be execute to his death armstrong and tough good guy brown chase the malevolent villain to the everglades in order to thwart him.when they arrive armstrong learns that the psychotic sicko bobby earl plan to kill his wife and daughter for a former rape trial that inevitably make him endure agonize pain and castration.but goodvirtuous cop brown emerges and thwart the utal baddie.is stab and eat by ruthlessmaneating alligators.paul armstrongtanny brownhis wifeand daughter survive and live happily ever after a good thriller that works.delivers both mystery and subterfuge.how reluctant black be haze by racist lawmen.sentenced to unfair penalties.even though sometimes the wrongfully convict innocent friendly black man may in truth be the vicious baddie sean connery be great a the obliviousholier than thou hero.laurence fishburne be watchably amazing a the meanarrogantbut good guy cop underwood and harris be over the top and invigorate a the malevolent psychos.capeshaw be okay.ruby dee be great a the tenacious grandmother.the rest of the cast be wonderful as well
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filmfour be go to have to do a lot good than this little snot of a film if theyre go to get the right sort of reputation for themselves.this film be set in glasgow although only a couple of secondary character have anything approach a scottish accent the premise about people whos life be go nowhere who all meet up in the same cafe in the early hour of the morning a they have night job could have make for a really funny insightful quirky cultish film instead we have a group of selfobsessed saddos and a plot which have be so do to bit im suprised it hasnt be ban x and y be friends x be sleep with z. y sleep with z as well oh you figure it out.a total waste of time painful dialogue it sound like something that a group of year old would have write for a gcse drama project the female character be completely superfluous just write in a a token female in the hope that woman would be cajole into see it.if youre the sort of thicko lad who laugh at beer advert and can usually be find wander round in pack shout on saturday night in nondescript town centre then you will love this film and find it a right laff everyone else run dont walk away from this sorry little misfit.and one question when the group leave the boring seaside town saltcoats incidentally although they change the name on the film to go back to glasgow why do they do it via the forton motorway service at lancaster which be in england
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doctor mordrid be one of those rare film that be completely under the radar but be totally worthwhile it really remind me of the old serial from the s and s. which be why id have love to see followup movie ... but judge by the rest of full moon output there simply werent enough tit to satisfy the typical audience unfortunately thank to a completely superfluous sacrifice scene there two too many for a family audience which be unfortunate because without em this could have be a harry potterstyle magicfest that kid would have eat up both jeffrey comb and yvette nipar be great i wasnt sure if ms. nipar hadnt wander off an alist picture onto this film she be very believable no seriously anyway it a shame they didnt have the buck to license dr. strange because i think this could have be a total kiddie phenom
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a truly muddle incomprehensible mess most thing in the film look more or less like but then there be futuristic thing just throw in like the policeman ray gun and that car the director seem to be in love with colored light the only really notable performance be the girl who play valerie but since there be no cast listing i dont know which actress that be this one be worth miss grade f
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it doesnt happen very often but occasionally one man can make a difference a big difference.george criles best seller charlie wilson war be a fascinating and eyeopening account of the most unlikely difference maker imaginable a relatively obscure congressman from the second district of texas good time charlie be know more for his libertine lifestyle than his libertarian legislation likable and licentious even for a politician charlie wilson serve his constituency well since the good folk of lufkin only really want two thing their gun and to be leave alone it easy street replete with his bevy of beltway beauty know appropriately enough a charlies angels.when ask why his entire office staff be compose of attractive young aide his response be a classic you can teach em to type but you cant teach em to grow tit no argument there.but even the most rakish rapscallion have a conscience lurk somewhere underneath and for charlie wilson the unimaginable atrocity be commit in afghanistan move him to muster his entire political savvy toward fund the utter humiliate defeat of the russian military and possibly to even help hasten the end of the cold war a a result fat chance huh under the skillful direction of mike nichols and a smart snappy screenplay by adam sorkin charlie wilson war be a sparkling sophisticated satire that chronicle the behindthe scene machination of three colorful character comprise charlies team.the onscreen team be compose of three marvelous actor with four academy award and nine nomination between them charlie be beautifully portray by tom hank in a solid slightly understated fashion that be among his best work in year he aid abet and abedded by joanne herring a wealthy houston socialite play by the stillslinky julia roberts hey why else have the bikini scene than to let the world know this by all account ms. robert look good and hold her own but the screenplay never give u even a hint why kabul and country be so important to her character maybe the two afghan hound usually by her side know but we a an audience never do a for the third member of the team philip seymour hoffman steal every scene he appear in a gust aurakotos a smart street wise i.e non ivy league graduate cia malcontent who know the score both in the agency boardroom and in wilson bedroom.for the mujahideen to succeed the most important assistance the u.s. can provide be the ability to shoot down the dreaded mi helicopter gunships which rule the sky this take money lot of money and eventually charlies team covertly coerces those in congress to fund the effort to the tune of billion dollar for advanced weaponry to arm the afghan rebel this include topoftheline stateoftheart antiaircraft and antitank rocket as well a other highly sophisticated kill device nasty nasty stuff.that this kind of multibillion dollar illicit activity can and do take place behind congressional door be truly alarming every american should see this movie or read this book because it reveal a truly frightening aspect of the businessasusual political scene rarely see outside the wall of our very own government oh momma i wish it werent so ... even though the initial outcome for team charlie be an unqualified success the unimaginable unanticipated final result be that these sophisticated weapon be now use against our troop by the taliban and others since the funding be entirely covert the young generation in this part of the world have no idea the fall of soviet oppression and the end to russian barbarity be the direct result of american intervention yes once the russkies leave so do our aid zip for school zip for infrastructure zip on maintain meaningful relationship with the afghan people a a result the overall consequence be an unmitigated disaster it like the forerunner to mission accomplished.as nichols film so pointedly point out the ball youve set in motion can keep bounce even after youve lose interest in it mike krzyzewski know this eva longoria parker know this little lateesha in lafayette know this but the typical american politician doesnt so we go from good guy to bad guy because we couldnt let the world know we be the good guy talk about a catch another mike nichols film .perhaps charlie wilson say it best we f ked up the end game.again
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im a big fan of surrealist art but this film by bunuel with some idea from dali leave me cold bunuel have a lifelong grudge against the catholic church and delight in try to offend catholic in fairly silly way this be one of the silly almost like what youd expect from a smartaleck yearold in film class the last few minute of the movie which have nothing to do with anything else be a final nosethumbing at religion.if you read the scholar regard this slowpaced occasionally amusing film it all about how the church and society be guilty of sexual repression if that be indeed the point then bunuel express it in the most roundabout fashion possible the central male character be a nasty ute who love kick dog and knock blind men down in the street and who mentally turn billboard ad into strange sexual fantasy be this behavior the church fault for interrupt his lovemaking or be he just a jerk i vote for the latter i think bunuel must have have a lot of personal hangups and choose the catholic a the one to blame.there be a few moment where you might cry aha surrealism a cow in a bed a giraffe fall out a window a poor model a man shred a feather pillow a woman flush a toilet while we watch picture of seethe lava or a mud pit ... hard to tell in b/w the rest be forgettable selfindulgence unfortunately bunuel be still chase the same bogeyman through the rest of his career viridiana discreet charm ... if youre interested in see surrealism on the screen check out jean cocteau early work
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this ludicrous film offer the standard s hippie mentality in a nut shell and bore u in the process it an attempt to rationalize absurd marriage of young innocent woman with old age sex fiend and wash ups a naive young hippy play by the waiflike kay lenz hitch hike and sleep with all the wrong guy and then one day she meet the ridiculous holden already in old age hard liquor drinking and wash up a an actor and she decide that she be in love with him if you think that be superficial the whole film encapsulates such scene she keep say how much she love him and she only meet him it wear thin and really quick i couldnt help but laugh throughout the film it obvious shes just use him a a meal ticket but the director be immature enough to think we be go to buy that there be actually any love take place a disgusting scene be where the two be naked and have sex i have to fast forward it because it almost inspire me to vomit a corny offering of music from the s be also spread through the film avoid this if you can grade d
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this film be pretty good i be not too big a fan of baseball but this be a movie that be make to help understand the meaning of love determination heart etc.danny glover joseph gordonlevitt brenda fricker christopher lloyd tony danza and milton davis jr. be ought in with a variety of talented actor and understanding of the sport the plot be believable and i love the message william dear and the guy put together a great movie.most sport film revolve around true story or event and they often do not work well but this film hit a on the perfectness scale even though there be a few minor mistake here and there./
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for his first ever debut this film have some riveting and chill moment in the best horror film fashion the pit of your stomach tighten every moment during this film the end be superb the maker of blaire witch obviously watch this film it end wasnt an end but a beginning of the end a great movie and only a piece of japan great as far a scare factor a perfect score it make you think and scar out of your mind
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this film contain far too much meaningless violence too much shooting and blood the act seem very unrealistic and be generally poor the only reason to see this film be if you like very old car
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pathetic attempt to use science to justify new age religion/philosophy the two have nothing to do with each other and much of what be say about quantum physic in this mess be just plain wrong.examples quantum theory support the idea in eastern religion that reality be an illusion how well in the world of the subatomic you can never definitely predict a particle location at a specific time you can only give the odds of it be precisely at one spot at one time also the act of observation seem to affect the event solid particle can pass through barrier all of this so far be accurate but then they assert that that mean that if you believe sincerely enough that you could walk through a wall you could indeed do it this be complete poppycock instead the theory assert that at our level it be possible for you to walk through a wall but it be merely by chance and have nothing to do with belief also youd have to keep walk into the wall for eternity to ever have even the remote chance of pass through the wall the odds be so astronomically against it.this be but one example of how they misrepresent the science but much more annoying be the narrative involve an unhappy photographer play by marlee maitlan about halfway through the picture it become so confused a to be incomprehensible something to do with negative thought lead to addiction and selfhate there may be some truth to that but quantum physic have nothing to do with it.plus string theory be the hot new thing in physic nowadays instead of waste your time with this dreck i suggest you rent the elegant universe an amazing series do for nova on pb that give you a history of physic from newton and gravity to ed witten and m theory in only hourlong episode quantum mechanic be explain there quite well if you want to know it without the fog of metaphysical appropriation
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i be truly look forward to this title it sound and look fun the idea of someone make a cheesy s monster movie could have be worth a few laugh but instead this title only bore first off there be almost no froggg in the entire movie which be the big disappointment i have to sit through minute of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpse of the froggg hump a bare easted chick why on top of that the film lack any sort of fun plot i mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talk head i want to see some hot chick search for the creature in the swamp i want to see some cuties drag off to his lair in desperate need of rescue creature from the black lagoon stuff i want to see a few goofy action scene of the froggg go on a killing spree or it maybe escape a silly trap something excite geez have fun with it be creative who want to sit through endless and tire dialog scene in a creature flick my advice to the filmmaker keep go your concept be good but your execution need to be a lot more inspire have some fun with the creature put the humor in the action and most important ... put more creature in a creature movie
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one of my sister friends lent me this game and it be too damn hard it carry the appearance of a kid game but you have to learn how to do ton of intricate move that require you to twist and turn your hand into all sort of awkward position and you have to search seemingly endless level for note to improve your score you also have to find these impossibly hide jigsaw puzzle piece that require you to do almost impossible task to get them and i be only up to stage three maybe if you have no life nad can stay home all the time you might get some enjoyment out of this but otherwise keep away and it be definately not recommend for kid they will pull their hair out within the hour
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chuck jones rabbit season the second in the much beloved hunt trilogy be often consider to be the best of the three while i find it almost impossible to choose between this trio of fantastic cartoon i would have to concede that rabbit seasoning be the most finely honed script here the emphasis be place on language a bug and daffy run through a series of complex dialogue in the grand tradition of abbot and costellos who on next routine a a long term daffy fan i have always be delight by the hunting trilogy because it be consistently daffy who get all the best line the famous pronoun trouble be one of the all time classic and do most of the work bug play the role of cool manipulator while elmer a always be the befuddled dupe part of what make the hunt trilogy so much fun be that daffy and elmer pose so little threat to bug that he be basically just kick back and have some easy laugh elmer fall into every trap that be lay for him but it be poor old daffy who come off bad be shoot in the face again and again his beak end up in more and more ridiculous position it all build to the inevitable climactic declaration youre despicable a intricate an example of chuck jones impeccable timing a youll come across rabbit seasoning be a true classic
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a lovely little b picture with all the usual joe lewis touch .... people rip up pillow and aura of lurk fear also alas an end that come out of nowhere because apparently the auteur have lose interest in the movie or perhaps because a a b picture it have to fit into a slot
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crossfire be a justifiably famous noir thats a murder mystery with a strong message it star robert young robert mitchum robert ryan sam levene and gloria grahame and be strongly direct by edward dmytryk we witness the murder in shadow at the beginning and for the rest of the film young a the detective finlay in charge of the case seek to figure out which of three soldier be responsible for the death and just a important why the victim joseph samuel sam levene be someone the soldier meet in a bar they go up to his apartment to continue their visit and samuel wind up dead.i dont know about but see crossfire today one know who do it and why the minute we see the suspect i dont suppose it be so apparent back then a these actor be just get start nevertheless the film pack a big punch with it powerful acting good direction violence and unsparing antisemite language.the characterization be vivid include that of gloria grahame in a smallish role shes a woman who meet mitchell george cooper one of the suspect soldier in a bar and can provide him with an alibi the big performance in the film belongs to robert ryan but everyone be excellent robert young especially be effective a a tough but intelligent police detective mitchum be very likable a a soldier try to help his confused friend mitchell a lonely man unsure if he still have feeling for his wife.truly excellent and a must see
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awwww i just love this movie to bits me and my cousin enjoy this movie a lot and i be just such a huge fan i hope they ing the tv series out on dvd soon come to mention it i have not see the tv show in a long time such geart time where i come from australia the chipmunk adventure be only know by people in their late teen and adult year which be kinda sad because the young kid dont know what there missing.the song in this film be ace the one i love the most boys/girls of rock nroll diamond doll and the song that ls sure to make you want to cry my mother.this film be sure to excite both young and old get the chipmunk adventure today out of such an excellent movie
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skippy from family tie play eddie a wussy metal nerd who get pick on when his favorite wussy metal singer sammi curr die he throw a hissy fit tear down all the poster on his bedroom wall but when he later get an unreleased record that hold the spirit of his dead metal idol he first get suck into idea of revenge but then he doesnt want to take it as far a sammi do which isnt really that far a his main victim only seem to go to the hospital this movie be utterly laughable and have about as much to do with real metal a say rock star ok maybe a tad more than that piece of junk but you get my point and how anyone can root for a guy play by skippy from family tie i havent a clue the cameo by gene simmons be ok and ozzy osbourne reach coherency i applaud him for that but otherwise skip this one.my grade d eye candy elise richards get topless an a topless extra at a pool party
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of course i would have to give this film out of a my uncle be the main screenplay writer of once upon a crime rodolfo sonego write screenplay for over year live in italy he be a great story teller and someone suggest that he put his story into write so rodolfo sonego do if you check out his biography you can see the number of movie that have be make in italy alberto sordie be the main actor that star in his story my uncle visit australia and my town in to check out location for a girl in australia and create a great movie about a proxy ide after the second world war you can see his humor in all his movie i find a copy of this movie on dvd recently great
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goldeneye will always go down as one of thee most legendary game in vg history their be no doubt about that but this game although quite different could quite possibly be the modernday bond champ of it time.this be not a bond game base on material from another medium this be a completely new script game which even have it own theme song wouldnt be bond without it haha gameplay be excellent and if youre a fan of the bond game or film alike youll enjoy it.unlike some/most game these cast member portray their character themselves a oppose to fictional creation for the game which give it that more cinematic feel with a very bondable storyline you feel like youre in the game as much a you get lose in a movie.enjoyable in all aspect from start to finish even after beat the game theres still plenty more to be do with the ranking system and unlockables to be achieve as well a it multiplayer mission this be a standout game despite be quite old now in video game year it still a good game that you can pick up play whenever you feel the need to get a little more bond in your life even now just think about it ive get the theme song stuck in my head such a great cast and wellwritten storyline.the story come to life on the screen almost a if the actor be their in front of you and be every bit as entertaining a the game itself superbly do in true bond fashion which can only be name awesome completely awesome.ive get ta go throw this game on now if you havent play it yet youre miss out
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helena bonham carter be the center of this movie she play her role almost immobile in a wheelchair but still ings across her traditional intensity kenneth branagh be tolerable the movie itself be good not exceptional if you be a helena bonham carter fan it be worth see
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i comment on this when it first debut and give it a thumb in the middle review remark that id give it the benefit of the doubt beyond just the first episode ive see a total of six episode now up to this point in june and a a lifelong batman fanatic i can say without hesitation this show be utter crap.everythings wrong with it everything get past just the lousy animation and design the story be ridiculously convolute and with no character development or apparent interest by the writer of this dreck to give any substance to any stories.and for god sake ... be it just me or be the joker in every episode be gotham that much of a revolvingdoor justice system or again be it just a complete lack of interest in the writer to put any effort into other villain see no character development above .and to make matter bad every single joker tale be the same part formula joker gas people joker set out to gas the whole city batman save the day.pfeh.there be one episode i saw that wasnt a joker story the title escape me but the villain be that nefarious cluemaster ... the think thank thunk episode with the quiz show that be the singleworst batman story ive ever see heard or read yes bad than ive get batman in my basement i cant really say what i feel this show be because it probably against the tos but it start with b and rhyme with fastardization thank goodness for the existence of the timm/dini/etc era of batentertainment back from the fox and kid wb day stuff that good and i should have know this just couldnt possibly have last forever unfortunately
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just because someone be under the age of do not mean they be stupid if your child like this film youd well have him/her test i be continually amaze at how so many people can be involve in something that turn out so bad this film be a showcase for digital wizardry and nothing else the writing be horrid i cant remember when ive heard such bad dialogue the song be beyond wretched the acting be subpar but then the actor be not give much who decide to employ joey fatone he can not sing and he be ugly a sin.the bad thing be the obviousness of it all it be a if the writer go out of their way to make it all as stupid a possible great childrens movie be wicked smart and full of wit film like shrek and toy story in recent year willie wonka and the witch to mention two of the past but in the continual dumbingdown of american more be flock to dreck like find nemo yes thats right the recent charlie the chocolate factory and eyecrossing trash like red riding hood
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hey babu riba be a film about a young woman mariana nickname esther after a famous american movie star and four young men glenn sacha kicha and pop all perhaps year old in belgrade yugoslavia the five be commit friend and crazy about jazz blue jean or anything american it seems.the very close relationship of the teenager be poignant and ultimately a sacrifice be willingly make to try to help one of the group who have fall on unexpected difficulty in the wake of change communist politics they go their separate way and reunite in the year before the film be make .i enjoy the film with some reservation the subtitle for one thing be difficult especially in the beginning there be a number of dialogue which have no subtitle at all perhaps the conversational pace require it but i couldnt always both read the text and absorb the scene which cause me to not always understand which character be involve i watch the movie a video from our public liary with a friend and neither of u really understood part of the story about acquire streptomycin for a sick relative.this yugoslavian come of age film effectively convey the teenager sense of invulnerability idealism and strong and loyal bond to each other there be a main flashforward and it be intrigue keep me guess until the end a to who these character be visavis the cast and what have actually happened.i would rate it out of and would like to see other film by the director jovan acin
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after a snowstorm the road be block and the highway patrolman jason adam beach come to the diner of his friend fritz jurgen prochnow and advise his client that they will only be able to follow their trip on the next day among the weird stranger jason meet his former sweetheart nancy rise mcgowan who have just leave her husband in los angeles along the night without any communication with his base jason face distressful and suspicious situation with the client and find some corps indicate that among them there be a killer.the last stop could be an average thriller but the screenplay be simply awful most of the character be despicable person and the motif of the surprising serial killer be never disclose and the viewer have no further explanation why the killer decide to kill the guest my vote be four.title brazil encurralados trap
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this movie be a fairly entertaining comedy about murphy law be apply to home ownership and construction if a film like this be be make today no doubt the family would be dysfunctional since it be set in the simpler forties we get what be suppose to be a typical family of the era grant of course perfectly blend the comedic and dramatic element and he work with a more than competent support cast highlight by loy and douglas their shenanigan make for a solid ninety minute of entertainment
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what can you say about the film white fire amazing fantastic disturb hilarious these word be not big enough to describe the event which be white fire from wobbly garble beginning to profound end this movie will entertain throughout.our movie begin in the wood of a country somewhere in the world a family be hide from unmarked soldier in costume shop uniform when the father separate from the mother and their childen you get a real sense of what kind of movie youre about to watch father make sure to roll down hill in his all white outfit and be polite a he get people attention before he shoot them but alas dad be burn alive in what look like a very unsupervised unsafe stunt meanwhile mom and the kid be run down a beach with an arm soldier trail about foot behind them he too give a stern warning before action in the form of a bizarre halt and then promptly waste the mother this action sequence set up the happy childhood of our hero bo and ingred.so now we fast forward about year if youre honest about the hero age to beautiful turkey where bo and ingred have settle a professional thief or diamond prospector or something ingred work at a diamond mine where she help herself to the good while bo masterfully play by the dynamic robert ginty drive around the desert in his denim outfit bo and ingrid have an interesting relationship they dont seem to have any friend other than each other and they spend all of their time together that couple with the fact that bo have express his desire to sleep with his sister a evidence in line such a you know it a shame youre my sister he say to her while shes stark naked make for a very dynamic duo bo be then crush when ingrid be kill a he wander the beach of turkey with his ceremonial pink grief scarf a renewal of hope occurs when bo find a girl who look like ingrid and give her plastic surgery to make her look exactly like ingrid this open the door for bo to have sex with his sister without it be technically wrong bo be a real fan of ethical grey area and he be overjoy with his new love.so anyway theres a lot of fun action scene ridiculous violence great act impossible to follow plotlines fred the hammer williamson for some reason and a big chunk of dirty ice which be suppose to be a giant diamond which later explode all of these thing be great but the bo and ingrid relationship be what make this movie special .... really special so i heartily encourage everyone to behold the majesty that be white fire you may be glad you do .. or not
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i be so disappointed this movie leave me feel jipped out of my time and mental energy here be the quintessential woody allen film all over again the neurotic upperclass manhattanites debate whether or not they will cheat on their spouse woody ive see these character already ive see the storyline from you ten time already where do your creativity go you need to open your eye and look around you the world have change dramatically since annie hall and you need to change along with it.there be far more interesting and funny scenario to which you can apply your and of angst and neuroticism why not try them out instead of rehash the same old slop over and over and over again.when i hear that woody allen have a new project come out it do nothing for me because now ive come to expect his old standby the couple who be grow tire of each other and end up cheat depressing and same old same old.if woody want to win his fan back then he have to understand that our sense of humor and intelligence have to be stimulate not insult
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this movie be all ultralightweight fluff predictable from begin to end a a don knotts vehicle the incredible mr. limpet be much good with knotts character there not nearly a incompetent or ignorant his performance there be tone down with none of his trademark goggleeyed stare although that may have something to do with him be replace for most of the movie by a cartoon fish knotts make a living of play the likable imbecile much a bob denver do neither really seem to be able to eak out to other type of role assume they be simply typecast it be probably because of the slouch the wild stare and the highpitched voice john ritter whom knotts work with in three company be able to transcend his genre anching out successfully into dramatic role like the dreamer of oz but the close knotts ever get be a small role in pleasantville even leslie nielsen be a bad fit here uncomfortably neither straight dramatic actor a he be at the time nor deadpan comedic actor a he later become in airplane and police squad.theres also no way the then yearold knotts could pass for a yearold a his character insist he be it be a ludicrously unbelievable a tom hank at play the collegeage forrest gump.the film be clearly make on a shoestring budget very much look like a hastilyfilmed tv episode it especially evident in the exterior scene of the town where roy go after he fire it unlikely even a preschooler would be fool by the mayberrylike soundstage artificiality.even view this strictly a a childrens movie it very disappoint it not because it lack action or special effect although it do the pace be much too slow the situation repetitive how many time can you watch roy get onto a bus a comedy for kid should at least sometimes be madcap with eakneck gag otherwise you risk bore them and any adult in the theater as well movie even kid movie have improve quite a bit in the intervening decade even many contemporary comedy be good film and write disneys the love bug for instance at least have some interesting race action
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if you be interested in learn more about this sort of thing happen in modern civilization there be an excellent book call outlaw sea or the outlaw sea and it describe in story after story how these thing do happen the lawlessness of the high sea be a reality for a number of reason one many of the world freighter be of questionable registry nationality and it difficult to impossible to enforce international law when the ship owner dont have an office in a real country two many ship line employ crew from dirt poor third world country the crew be often like illegal immigrant worker threaten and bully into comply with questionable or illegal practice three there be often a language barrier not only between the officer and the crew but also between the crew member themselves the crew be reward for their compliance and their silence four once commit an illegal act the ship be able to hide in plain sight with little more than a fresh coat of paint anyway it fascinate reading.horrifying story excellent movie do anyone else notice how hbo seem to make the best and most important movie hollywood have trouble release enough oscar worthy movie in any give year so that several of the top contender usually come from britain jerry bruckheimer the end of quality cinema.i love the thoroughly evil performance by sean pertwee i also as usual love omar epps
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gamers dr be not a fancy make movie it more like amateur video horrible magic effect really fake fireball terribly make dungeon castle village ...... sword axe shield robe plate ..... okok ... everything you will need about minute to adjust your expect on visual then you will get minute of fun.im from hongkong and it really hard to find rpers none of my friend play rpg and i always fancy to be one of the character in the world of d d watch gamers dr just show me what would it be like to be a gamer you see rule book dice game set etc etc etc you hear term like fighter wizard hit point level character flame hand chaotic evil.what rpg fancy me be that it let you do anything u want to not bond by software rpg gamers dr provide the same element you wont know what happen next and it probably just make you laugh to dead the movie go both gamerss real life as well a in the d d world you will hear the gamer cast the dice when the character in game take action which make you feel you really participle in the game.i dont want to spoil anything but in short gamers dr be a must watch movie for rpg lover for people never play rpg game im sure you still get many fun from it
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in all honesty i havent see this film for many year but the few time i have tend to make part of it stick in my memory a anyone who have see it will understand i first saw it a a child at a ymca halloween party in the early sixty and it scar the hell out of u kid in a fun way i remember feel genuine anxiety about the unknown thing lurking in the maze i cant risk give away the end except to say that it be surprise to say the least i remember vaguely the entire audience of young boy let out a big scar holler follow by laughter when the terrible secret be reveal the end have be see by most viewer a one of the great unintentionally funny climax to a movie in film history and yet oddly move in a way you have to see it for yourself which be not easy these day i dont know if it available on home video or not but it would still make a great halloween feature for both kid and adult
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this be the only thing i will be able to look back on from the year and say now that rock it rock hard and yet it also rock tasty mr.meatloaf add a nice little touch to this dish of a film before the opening credit even roll now that tell you something this film rock even before it start now i dont want to give to much away or be a spoiler but this movie rock if you have hear the new album and think to yourself this seem a bit substandard tenacious materialit be like i a merely play badminton with satan what give then this movie will elevate your appreciation for the music and you will marvel at this steamy satanic masterpiece for those who would want it good do not know what they wantbecause good would no longer be the d. this movie be the d period so venture if you dare to the local viewing theater if you to want to have your sock rock
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youd think youre in for some serious sightseeing when the premise of the movie take place primarily between two character a they travel mile or so from france to saudi arabia go through most of europe italy bulgaria croatia slovenia turkey before arrive in the middle east but this be not a tour and there be no stopover for soak in the sights.redas father be in his twilight year and wish to do the haj however since walking and take the mule be out of the question he choose to travel to mecca by car he cant drive and therefore enlist the help of reda to his son protest to get him there in their oken down vehicle.but reda doesnt see the point of have him go along when his dad could opt for the plane he resent the idea of have put his personal life on hold for this pilgrimage he couldnt understand and hence we set off in this arduous journey with father and son be not the best of pals.the beauty of this movie be to witness the development of the father and son pair the challenge they face the weird people they meet have to duke it out in varied weather condition and alternate rest stop between motel and sleep in the car we see an obvious generation gap in them try to communicate to each other the father try to impose on his son and the son try to assert himself a an adult but circumstance we see reveal that reda be quite a fish out of water through the many encounter they actually team up quite well despite their differences.its perhaps quite apt to have this film release here last week to coincide with hari raya haji and have the opportunity to watch our protagonist join the other pilgrim in their haj the final scene in mecca be truly a sight to behold and you too would feel the claustrophobia and fear a reda try to hunt down his dad amongst the thousand of people congregate the sight of europe be perhaps deliberately not dwell upon so a to build up the anticipation of and focus on the final destination.it certainly ring home the thought of tell and show love one how much you appreciate them for who they be dont miss this and yes book early i be pleasantly surprise that this evening session be still a full house
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i watch this movie base on the good review here and i wont make that mistake again.the first couple minute show that a group of people have be ought together by some tragedy but you dont see what it be flashback hour and we get to see the boring life of each of these people which in the end be totally meaningless to what be about to happen when the end be finally revel you realize that you just waste an hour of your life wait for a big payoff that doesnt happen and mean nothing to what you have be watch the only connection these people have be that they have all have a bad daybut even that continuity get lose in the boredom.if this be suppose to be a crash clone it a complete failure
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a great bug bunny cartoon from the early year have bug a a performer in an window display at a local department store after he do for the day the manager come in to tell him that hell be transfer soon bug be happy to oblige into he figure out that the new job be in taxidermy ... and that taxidermy have to do with stuff animal animal like say a certain rabbit this cause a battle of wit between the rascally rabbit and his now former employer i find this short to be delightful and definitely one of the good one of the early s. it still remain a funny nearly year later this animate short can be see on disc of the looney tune golden collection volume .my grade a
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i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent year be in for two reason host steve martin be at his most witty i saw the teamster help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and ill good not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle head in my bed surprise winners no one have adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeer and boo but they win last year award ceremony wasnt too bad but there be little in the way of surprise and i be happy to see return of the king sweep the award even if it wasnt the best in the trilogy fellowship be much good but what let the bbc coverage down be jonathan ross get a few of his sycophantic mate round and pretend they be hilarious when they be anything but so when i hear sky be do the coverage for british tv i be expect barry norman and mark kermode to be do the link but instead we end up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv be desperate for film critic obviously they be im sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinion on the winner and loser chris rock wasnt too bad but hes no steve martin while the location seem to resemble a sport hall with seat put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i have with the ceremony be the format with the minor oscar hand out to the winner who be sit in their seat theres no such thing a a minor oscar and just because the award be for best animate short or best costume design theyre a well deserve a best picture or best director all the winner should be allow to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snob the academy be become and i quite agree with the comment that this format be disgraceful and if it wasnt for the surprise this could possibly have be the bad ceremony in history a for the award themselves best support actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category best support actor morgan freeman no real complaint since freeman be one of america great living character actor best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone think annette benning be go to win simply down to academy politics but swank do deserve it and give the best speech of the night best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone think scorsese be go to get the award simply because hed never win one actually im glad about this because if he didnt deserve it for taxi driver rag bull or goodfellas he didnt deserve it for the aviator best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone think the academy would split the award for best director and best picture while i think the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have make it a dead cert for best picture while mdbs controversial subject matter would have turn a lot of voter off what these award perhaps illustrate be that this year the voter have decide to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out award to people who deserve it something they havent do in the past i mean a beautiful mind beat the fellowship of the ring for gawds sake and long may the academy vote with their head instead of their heart
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while in a plane flick through the large choice of movie i come across live almost accidentally oh boy what a choice.i remember vaguely see the trailer over a year ago and completely forget about it expect no more than another cheesy nonsense movie about a stupid reality show now i can easily say this have be a hell of a ride i dont remember last time i have be so excited terrify not sure if it be the high altitude play with my sens but the suspense grow gradually through the movie until reach a climax where you cant turn away from the screen literally sit on the edge of your seat and bite the remain nail youve got.you will first go through a personal moral assessment of where you stand about the righteousness of the show you will drift from think how come the human be can be so vicious to why not after all .ask yourself would you do it then learn about the contestant their motif and start guess you will then watch contestant pull the trigger one by one and get excite even though you know the first candidate be safe.good act good directing with a movie experience that remind you those old movie where you know what would happen in the next scene but still be crave for more spoiler couple of thing i would have change the casting of the contestant i have really be move by the farmer and we should have have a bit more like him the idea of a rich writer who want to be famous be a bit stupid it felt like you didnt care about some of the contestant although this might have be do on purpose i think the audience should have be able to associate with the majority of the contestant game rule a big glitch what happen if the th contestant doesnt die when he pull the trigger do you seriously think the last standing guy will pull the trigger and execute himself they should have give a chance to all contestant to live ie if th be a blank too then no one dies.interestingly i havent be bother too much by this bad point cause i really have a good time just wish i have some popcorn with me
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ah another movie with motorcycle hell angel posse and steve alameo a the notsocool car driver this movie do not rely on story but lot of drinking pot smoking and lot of moronic act steves rendition of a die cat during his i love what i know serenade have me vomit for hour bike chick linda rrrr make out with everyone fat do the best acting since he just grunt and make sound i also dare you to try to make out what banjo be say you messin wit private stock this be scriptwriting folks.i like the end what good place to have the climax than a lighthouse you have to see this to detest it.die jeter die
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a rating of do not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie be
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i feel dumber after watch the first minluckily i walk out and save the rest of my ain people should watch good film and take note on why they be rat highlynot because of the budget of the film or the special effect just simply good acting and get simple thing rightand most importantlynot be lame but i guess this be produce for those sheeple without taste and not a clue of what be a good moviedont be scar of rating film lowsave your underappreciated high score for once in a life time movie keep in mind that many use imdb for trusted review and opinionsdont spoil the oth by sugarcoat turd peace love
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the most selfindulgent movie i have every have the misfortune torent unwatchable much of the movie be obviously improvisedand not well it look like toback take the first take ofeverything the movie get good for a couple of minute whenrobert downey jr. show up then go to hell again realquickly
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this have get to be the bad movie i haver ever see nielson in this movie just do not have what he need to be funny i think the reason that the naked gun and the like movie be that they do not require nielson to be funny he just play the role as straight a he could while all of the comedy that go on be mostly visual but when you put him in a movie where he have to be funny he isnt the movie have only one good part and this may be consider a spoiler by some and that the begin credit be animate if the whole movie have be animate it might have be good i have no intention of see this movie when i saw the ad for it and the only reason i do see it be because the ticket be give to me by someone who win them in a radio contest this be the first and probably only movie i have ever walk out on on a scale of i give this movie a score of
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i like ghost story good ghost story of bump in the night voice that can not be explain now ive see many of them a special efx have a ever more grip on today film some time to find a real gem you get ta turn the clock back to the time when the writer and director really have to use their head to create really good ghost story now this one very rare pilot episode for the tv series ghost story call the new house be one of the most scary film i ever saw it be on once in ... i be only .. but nothing since then even compare to it with all the remake go on in hollywood some one should do this one a be with no more special efx than the original this episode be down right creepy a hell im lucky to find it finally on dvd today and very rare and hard to find the only other ghost story to even come close be the original the haunting and george c. scott in the changling wish someone would do more ghost story like these
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okay ive watch this movie twice now i have research it heavily on the net i have ask several people on there opinion i have even go to the length of read the original sheridan lafanu classic carmilla a book that this movie be suppose to be base on i feel that the best way to review this movie be to describe a game to play whilst watch it a the plot of the movie doesnt seem to make any sense at all here be the plot of the book.laura live in a castle in syberia with her father mr de lafontaine they carry on with their life blissfully and peacefully one day they get a letter from the general a man who have make it his mission in life to avenge his daughter death he make claim of supernatural power be at work and explain that he will visit them soon meanwhile a chance encounter with a strange woman result in the lafontaines look after her daughter carmilla for several month soon laura start to be overwhelm by strange dream and begin to come down with a strange illness who be this mysterious carmilla and just what have she to do with lauras condition and the general i have invent this game and would like a many people a possible to play it and let me know what their result be i even have a catchy name and would have a jingle too but i cant be bother with that it call the this movie doesnt make any sense game.all you have to do be whilst watch the movie try to come up with a complete plot that explain what be happen i mean complete all question answer everything make sense absolutely complete.it will have to answer such question a ... why can vampires walk around in day light why be they all lesbian why be a girl call bob and why do she shoot herself when be the movie a dream and when be it real why do kill zombie appear to be an accepted part of life that doesnt make anyone bat an eyelid why do travis fontaine spot and run down a zombie without slow down whilst drive his car yet when face with a woman with an obvious hostage in the back of her car accept the excuse that she be a zombie too and why do he then let a girl which he later openly reveal that he know be the head vampire drive with him in his car and then let her drive off alone with his daughter in a stolen car what the hell be the asylum scene all about what the hell be the green goo all about why do the head vampire suddenly start dress like a nurse why be there never any vampire fight zombie what be the significance of the necklace what be it make of why do it kill vampire and how do jenna know that in fact sod it it just as much fun try to come up with as many question about this movie too.i have my plot and i have to admit it be not quite there but it be a pretty good effort.in conclusionvampires vs zombie have no moment in it where there be actually vampire fight zombie everyone in the movie seem to know exactly what be go on yet they seem very reluctant to let the audience in on this and somehow it be base on a classic th century horror novel how why what the hell be go on
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this wouldve be a great silent film the act really be good at least in a look ma im do really big act sort of way.everything be huge every line be profound every scene be shatter by human tragedy mostly i felt like gag yet like any train wreck i couldnt tear my eye away this dialogue mightve work on the stage although i doubt it on the screen it be clutter haphazard hackneyed and pretty much every other stereotypical negative adjective you can come up with to describe a really bad dramatic work.if you enjoy your melodrama in huge heaping dos you might enjoy the movie be prepare to wait however for all that melodrama this thing sure plod along at it own pace.this script mustve sound a lot different when the actor involve be read it to themselves it simply doesnt work once they get around to deliver it in front of the camera.imdb do u a great disservice at time when it use it goofy computercontrolled weight score curse of the starve class deserve less than a .characterdriven fiction be great but when you develop your character by simply push them through hoop with no plausible explanation for their maturation or evolution it isnt character development your character must have a motivation be drunk for a while and wake up in a field be not character development thats a plot contrivance.stay away from this movie or at the very least watch it mute perhaps youll get some amusement from all the armwaving the character do.oh and word to the wise to prove that this be truly an artsy film you see james wood in all his dangly male lookatme imthefigurativeandliteralrepresentationofthenakedvulnerabilityof man glory.dont say you werent warn
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this movie start with the main character lie in a coma in a hospital ward attend by two orderly the unconscious main character be hear in a voice over say that the orderly be gay the orderly kiss i watch this in a dvd version and i have the suspicion that this be suppose to be funny â– it say â „ comedy on the dvd case after all and it go on like that have i see this in a movie theater i probably would have hear part of the audience roar with laughter because it be so funny â– and because they be suppose to sit in a comedy while it be fascinate to think about what it be funny and what isnt this movie unfortunately only deliver argument about what isnt.brilliant ains can make anything funny people like ernst lubitsch billy wilder or mel brook have prove that fact but you have to know the â „ mechanic i suppose director and coscriptwriter dani levy do not bother about those mechanic he think that certain thing simply be funny the fact that two orderly be gay and kiss over a man in a coma for example do not get me wrong some people can make that funny dani levy cant not for me anyway.the main problem i have with this movie be that i cant see a reason behind the way the main character behave i could not understand why the two others one an orthodox jew from west germany one a third class carbon copy of fast eddie felson from former east germany so strongly dislike each other they be both rather bland character their child be bore apart from the fact that they be sexually attract to each other well one be a lesbian now but raise the daughter she have with her cousin but even these incestuous relationship â– if anything they be embarrass just come through a an excuse because the scriptwriter could not come up with anything better.the acting be not bad udo semel i actually come to like quite a lot although he remind me more of ex chancellor helmut kohl a light version than of a venerable orthodox jew the direction in itself be not really bad either but maybe levy should stick to direct movie leave the scriptwriting to someone else now i heard he do a comedy about hitler oi vai
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this story about three woman be a very sensitive study about muriã « l charlotte van den eynde the young laura el dottermans who be about and martha frieda pittors the old who be the mother of muriã « l they live together in the same building they have different expectation of life the vital laura want a child muriã « l come from a village and want to change her life in brussels martha dream about her youth when she be a young girl in fact nothing happen in this movie so you wait for something for instance an accident which could dramatize this story a time go on you discover that the director dorothã©e van den berghe only want to develop a psychological portrait of the three woman and nothing more this movie be disappointing because you expect the woman to learn from their experience which be not the case so one be leave with a feeling of emptiness
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first and foremost i love the novel by ray bradbury it the kind of horror that get under your skin and stick with you later it be one of his best book with you know fahrenheit and dandelion wine i a just hop that this movie would be all right it have lot of chance with a great cast like jason robards and jonathn pryce and bradbury even write the script himself and on top of all that it have pam grier how could it fail there may be spoiler within.first of all it be dumbed down much of the horror from the book be lose a bradbury must have be force to keep the violence to a minimum all the visuals from the book ... go everything that make you squirm ... gone.and then theres the act like a lot of movie that disney throw out in the s the kid in this movie can not act and this bug me a lot neither of them look but or their strong friendship wasnt address it be more like they be acquaintaces youd think jason robards and jonathan pryce could pull this off in their role of mr. halloway and mr. dark but here it like they just dont care all they want to do be somehow pay off some mortgage or something this be far from be some of their best performance pam grier be fine a the witch but the charecter of the dust witch herself wasnt well pull off shes a lot less evil and doesnt have the presence a she do in the book and everything that be leave out of the book the ballon night chase the marking of jims house the real death of mr. dark what happen to mr. coogan on the merrygoround the fate of the lightening rod salesman the real death of the witch and oh so much more and the special effect be bad even for the s. the merrygoround of doom for one thing with the superimposed horse go around wasnt really creepy and that weird green mist that really have nothing to do with anything i could keep go about how this movie rip apart the original novel but it make blood boil dont see this movie but read the book it a classic of bradbury
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this film be so old i never realize how young look ray milland look in i remember him play in a great film lose weekend ray play the role of michael stuart who be a very rich banker there be three girl in this picture who be not very happy about their father and mother separating and they find out their father be go to get marry to a young blonde who be a gold digger only look for a rich sugar daddy they hire a man to pose a a very rich count his name be count ariszted misha auer who be drink all the time and be penniless and give plenty of comic laugh throughout the picture deanna durbin penny craig surprise everyone when she be book in a police station and tell the chief of police that she be an opera star and then penny start sing with the most fantastic soprano voice i have every heard the entire police department and convict start applaud which be a very entertaining and enjoyable scene from this film this be deanna durbins first film debut and she become an instant success over night and go on to become a great movie star with universal studio after leave mgm
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i have eagerly await the first screening of this film ever since it be give to me on dvd at christmas have reserve a special slot for it last night i sit down to watch it with my daughter age and a film study student with chocolate of course in eager anticipation we love jane austin.after just the first two minute we know we be sink the shaky camera shot and angle general poor cinematography direction and wooden performance have already leave u feel flat and dissatisfied despondent we view on.anne play by sally hawkins look oddly and with no particular purpose directly at the camera on several occasion eaking our hardwon fantasy of the moment and engage u directly in an almost ill find you stalk fashion.poor rupert penryjones who play captain wentworth do his best with the script and direction bless him i hope they pay him well however a he be practically drown on one occasion by a huge wave which predictably eached the seawall drench him and his coactor they be nearly sweep out to sea health and safety would have have a field day poor rupert be leave spit out sea water in order to deliver his line presumably there be not enough money leave in the kitty for a reshoot of this scene anyone with any sense would have not attempt it on such a day in the first place.other than mr. penryjones alice krige give the only convincing performance a lady russell but her effort be soon counterbalance by those of anthony head unconvincing portrayal of annoy sir walter elliott.towards the longawaited end of the film captain wentworth appear to oddly grace anne with a visit every two second have take great pain to avoid her for the majority of the movie it be a if he have develop a memory impediment which cause him to forget his very reason for be in contrast anne run hyperventilate from pillar to post in search of the good captain who in the meantime have manage to call upon almost the entirety of bath we be tell in the course of only three or four minute without even have work up a sweat.we experience none of anne charm cross the screen indeed we be leave wonder what charismatic captain wentworth have ever see in plain spineless opinionless anne and why someone anyone do not tell mean wing sir walter to just shut the heck up.the crucial kiss normally our favourite girlie moment be painfully draw out a they move in closer anne keep opening and closing her mouth which have the effect on screen of make her look a if she be chew gum before lip finally meet eww the most enjoyable thing about last night be the chocolate and the half hour exchange of view between mother and daughter on just how bad the film have been.what a pity to ruin such an enchanting and engage story film in some of england fine scenery.sorry jane
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if you like scifi monster and ancient legend then you will love this movie the special effect be by far the best i have see since juarassic park hit the big screen year ago while the acting may have be a little less than desirable the story line and effect adequately compensate for it.i wish now i have see this at the movie on a theater screen instead of our inch big screen tv.if you like nonstop action awesome visuals and taste for myth and lore .... you have to see this movie
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a rather silly little film you just may love.although rather corny and clichã© at time it nonetheless work and make for good clean fun five team be engage on a scavenger hunt and battle each other and their wit to win the all night contest just for the sheer joy know yours be the best team.notable for several screen debut include david naughtons first film role after his dr. pepper be a pepper commercial and before his major hit american werewolf in london also feature paul ruebens in what i believe be his first pee wee hermanesquire roll a year before he become know for it and last but not least mr. spin city and alex keaton himself michael j. fox get his first film role here fan will remember stephen furst a flounder in animal house outside of that no name but all funny characters.doubt it have ever make it to dvd but there be still probably some vhs copy float around and you might even catch on a late late show sometime if you do be worth your watch you may hate it but it may also become a quirky little movie you come to love
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this be an ok adaptation of the eath take book of dan brown i cant say it be novel or very good but they make a movie that you can enjoy give the excellent story the result could have be well though the movie be pretty long but at the end i be feel like some thing be miss sound effect and sound track be very good acting be well do but the character development phase be very weak for people who didnt read the book thing may look happen too quickly from my point of view instead of try to put as much a stuff from the book they could have try to do the important scene more proper what make the book very good be all the puzzle like story combine with the excellent portrait of vatican you see neither of it in the movie too much rush and use the time not in a good way these be main problem of the movie so it be worth watch but could have be do well
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i never fell asleep during a movie never this movie do the impossible.while many people claim the superiority of japanese horror film over their american counterpart this movie be a lesson in over abundance a in the movie be minute too long it would have help if the movie have a little more movement in the plot and the camera work but instead all we get be awkward silence and a lot of slow movement the acting be absolutely terrible border on bad student film level while everyone struggle to adlib something call a script do these people even get any direction be they coax to be boring and dull either therory wouldnt surprise me.what be even bad be the rather unscary makeup involve with the creature from the other side either way they all stink dont watch this film thats all i can say unless youre an insomniac
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what can i say not as bad a many here have make it out to be the only reason i even watch this film that i have previously never heard of before be strictly for ian mcshane.i be not disappoint in the least ian mcshane be absolutely illiant and ings an amazing subtlety to his role he always great to watch and for my money ... an extremely underused actor.as for the rest of the film .... every other actor in the movie deliver strong solid performance these people certainly werent be pay huge amount of cash for their participation a this be a fairly low budget film but this do not mean that any of them mail their appearance in everyone be convince and compel with the part give to them.i be even pleasantly surprise at adrian paul performance though i must admit i have only ever see him in the highlander television series before this movie.the plot be well pace and the storyline intriguing and much like real life not everything end up tie in a nice neat little package for you at the end of the film anybody who expect a clearcut bythenumbers connect the dots conclusion or answer at the end of the movie ... clearly wasnt watch the film closely enough this film be not go to tell you what the meaning of life be the idea be that after see the film you might go and discuss the unanswered question with your friend over a coffee i certainly did.no car chase ... no explosion ... no bar room awls .... sound pretty dull huh but the reality be that i be completely absorb by the film and it just a well write little piece with an interesting hook and solid character performance by all party involve warn ... if youre the kind of person who dislike movie that dangle an enormous question a the central engine of the story and then end the movie without answer that particular question directly ... you might not enjoy this film
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originally harp a a sequel to the slumber party massacre series this film fall flat on it face with a new title first off if you be go to include the word massacre in your film title you good deliver this one certainly do not there be no gore no on screen murder and no chainsaw a the box art would lead you to believe instead we get a paper thin overdone plot about a group of cheerleader who get strand in an abandon cabin on the way to a football game only to be off one by one again this film could have be ok if the gore quotient be up a bit why director especially those do directtovideo flick be afraid to show any gore be beyond me now i be not a huge fan of excessive gore but come on ... why else would anyone rent a movie call cheerleader massacre besides that problem the film suffers from a shotonahomevideocamera cheapness it look cheap sound cheap and the actor arent all that good it try to throw u off track to who the killer may be but even that fail the end end up be a ridiculous mess folk if you run across this film walk away and go find the original slumber party massacre out of
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a killer cannibal rapist be kill by a crazed cop on the scene of his late murder at his grave a cult have gather with plan to resurrect him by pee onto the grave this of course work and he awake rip the guy penis off and he be back into his old killing way with an all new zombie look the two cop one of who be go a little crazy about the scum of the city and have a drug problem be back on the case two of the original cult member also try to stop the killer by resurrect some other kind of dead thing think they have file they leave but out from the grave come a plastic baby doll that be use in the original resurrection sound a bit confusing really but no it just rubbish.the acting be terrible and one of the cop be the same guy that play dr vincent van gore in the face of gore series and he be just as terrible a the annoy cop in this film the other cop just about struggle to get his terrible line out now im all for low budget cinema but this film be just terrible if it wasnt for the very easy on the eye lady and their nakedness i would probably have fall asleep there be a bit of gore but it never more than some animal gut place on the stomach of the victim the zombie makeup on the other hand look great and his foot long penis that he use to rape his victim with be kind of funny at time there be also a half decent scene where the killer fall in love with a sex doll the doll with the chipmunk voice be the stupid thing i have ever see in a film it be just a plastic toy on a fishing line.the end be extremely bad you would expect the killer to put up much more of a fight than he do god know how they make enough money to make a sequel
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day of heaven be one of the most painfully boring and pointless film i have ever see in no way shape or form would i recommend it to anyone ... unless youre try to put your kid to sleep or god forbid give someone an aneurysm if i could go back in time and do one thing i would set fire to the reel before they be send to theater why day of heaven plot be simple but extremely vague long sequence devoid of dialogue compose much of the film the character be too shallow and ridiculously stupid to relate with the climax of the story do not touch you by this time your ain have work so hard to figure out the plot and the array of hidden metaphor that your ability to think be go the only thing work be your eye and unfortunately your ear who must listen to the sound of linda the little girl in the story who talk like a man i be now dumber for see this movie dont let it happen to you
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in director walt disney and animator ub iwerks change the face of animation with the release of the very first installment of their silly symphony series the skeleton dance iwerks and disney have be collaborate together since the early s in disneys laughogram cartoon series however their friendship suffer a tremendous blow when iwerks accept an offer by a competitor to leave disney and start his own animation studio that be the birth of celeity production where iwerks continue develop his style and technique and where he create the character of flip the frog while his work keep the same high quality it wasnt really popular and by the studio be close later that year iwerks be hire by columbia picture and iwerks decide to return to his old skeleton for another dance this time in color.s skeleton frolic be essentially a remake of the classic the skeleton dance the movie that borough him fame and fortune like that short film it be set on an abandon graveyard where at midnight the creature of the night come alive and begin to play the dead rise from their coffin ready for the show thats about to begin a a group of skeleton have form an orchestra and begin to play a happy tune now it not easy to be a musician made of just bone a some of the orchestra member have problem with their body part however the band manage to put a good show and another group of skeleton begin to dance a lovely couple of them face the same problem that trouble the orchestra it hard to dance with loose body part everything end at dawn and just when the sun be about to rise again the skeleton run towards their graves.directed and animate by ub iwerks himself skeleton frolic follow faithfully the pattern set by the skeleton dance year before although with a crucial difference iwerks do the whole film in technicolor the ight tonality allow iwerks to create a more visually appeal film and also to use the many new technique he have be practice since leave disney create even well effect of depth and dynamism than those he conceive before it be certainly a more experimental film than the skeleton dance although sadly this doesnt mean it necessarily a good film for starter the film be practically identical to the one he do with disney with the only difference be the music more on that later and the color effect it look beautiful no doubt about it but it definitely feel kind of unoriginal after all.however it be not the unoriginality of the concept what truly hurt the film after all iwerks execute it in a wonderful way but the fact that the musical melody create by joe denat for the film be pretty uninteresting and lack the charming elegance and whimsical fun of the one do by carl w. stall for the skeleton dance in other word while denats tune be effective and appropriate for the theme it easy to forget about it rapidly while stalling song have a unique personality that make it unforgettable be a musical film this be of high importance and so the mediocrity of the music ings down iwerks flawless work of animation personally i think that with a good musical accompaniment skeleton frolic would be remember as fondly a the skeleton dance despite not be as groundeaking a it still a fun film to watch.its kind of sad that most of the work iwerks do after leave disney be now forget due to his poor success however it must be say that if iwerks lack the popularity of disney or fleischer disney main rival he do not lack the quality of those company film it be probably just a case of bad luck what make the man who give life to disneys mouse for the first time to face failure out of disney despite it shortcoming skeleton frolic be a very funny and visually eathtaking film that while not exactly the most original and fresh film one just cant help but thinking of the skeleton dance while watch it it definitely remind u that iwerks skeleton be still here to haunt u and inspire us./
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yes indeed it could have be a good movie a love biangle sorry for the poetical license but be not a triangle an interesting story unfortunately badly tell the image be sometimes weird sometimes ok the picture look crowd and narrowsighted the sound need more attention it usually do in romanian movie the light and color filter be sometimes badly choose the soundtrack be short and be not help the action about the acting ... sorry but the best actress be the landlady the others be act immaturely and can not convince the viewer the acting be poetical when it should be realistic and realistic when it should be poetical it a picture for adult tell by the child bother only if extremely curious
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you wear only the best italian suit from armani hand stitch and fit to your exact measurement your automobile be the fine that german engineering have to offer and be equip with as many gadget a horse under the hood youre a member of the fine polo club frequently dine at restaurant such a spago and be always accompany by at least two of the most beautiful woman in the world your pocket watch double a a nuclear explosive while your trusty pen can also be use a a semiautomatic caliber gun you snow ski in the alp go deep sea diving in the caribbean sky dive over the andes and all the while your hair be never ever out of place you be bond james bond the world most renown spy favorite son of the good queen bad boy of the british s and perhaps the most desired man in the world the character of james bond be create by ian fleming and be the movie industry long last icon be the subject of over fifteen film span over four decade the late man to play the role be pierce brosnan who take over the role of james bond from timothy dalton in and make his debut in goldeneye.this be the setting for the first major title develop by a third party on the nintendo goldeneye develop by rare for nintendo have be on the market for some time it continued dominance in the sale chart be just one testament to how good this game be and no review liary would be complete without it.lets face it most of the time movielicensed game be flop although the two seem like a good mix the result for the most part have be horrendous game like cliffhanger true lie lethal weapon and not to mention all the star trek flop be ammunition enough against this mix and for the record i be not a fan of movie license game especially if ive see the movie at least thats how i use to think in the case of goldeneye i have more reservation than normal while not a bad movie goldeneye the film didnt have that much appeal to it and i dont rank it in the top ten amongst bond movie a a game however let just say it a completely different story.the game be a firstperson shooter and in order to be successful youll need at least as much ains a awn for those who have see the movie which i imagine be most of you read this the story be very consistent and follow the path of the movie with little variation a plot to control the world most dangerous satellite goldeneye have begin in the ussr and in the process a beautiful woman have be capture your mission will be many the danger extreme you will have to rely on your wit and experience to get you through the most grueling mission the world have ever know m will ief you as soon a youre ready good day james
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this be an excellent film about the character in a adult swim class their problem relationship and interaction with each other it should have manage a wide distribution a it much good than similar film from major studio out at the same time.the swimming instructor be an almostolympian reduce to teach adult basic lesson and often the target of horndogging from his female student he attempt more or less to fend them off with vary results.the student character be mainstream u.s.a teacher policeman college student and retired people all of whom havent learn to swim for some reason the movie cover their relationship include friend relative and romantic conquest a they go through the class several subplots provide amuse fodder include a teacher go through a divorce some high school student make a documentary and a girl who be only in the class to meet guys.this be a good date movie or just one to watch when youre in the mood for a romantic drama with overtone of reality
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this mostly routine factbased tv drama get a boost from the fine performance by cole this be the story of a highly trained military man unhappy with his wife and child fake his demise and run off with the other woman to support her in the manner in which she be accustom he robs bank predictable but not a bad watch
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i watch six of a kind for w.c. field hes only in it for around minute and have one long scene the infamous pool sequence he make famous in vaudeville and several other great moment the reamaining minute be also delightful thankfully mostly due to the hilarious charlie ruggles a the bumbling banker j. pinkham whinney he be everyones foil he stutter and stumble about to our pleasure also his comedy partner mary boland play his wife flora join in the proceeding be george burn and gracie allen boland be particularly funny near the beginning and near the end but gracie and ruggles use up most of the picture gracies funny quite but she can also get tire and poor george burn have absolutely nothing to do except repeat gracie all the time i dont remember laugh at him once although he have one great scene with ruggles where ruggles try desperately to get george to take gracie and leave him and his wife alone for a while and one with field where he ask field to sell him a sweater that bit be exclusively field though the situation be constantly funny the whinneys be go to drive to california but to help them with expense george and gracie be recruit
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edmund lowe who remind me somewhat of warren william head the nice cast of an interesting little mystery that move at a isk pace and run just a little over an hour.douglas walton play the unlucky jockey who appear to be intent on his own demise hypnotism anyone and the suspect include a good number of the support casteveryone from virginia bruce kent smith frieda inescourt gene lockhart jessie ralph benita hume rosalind ivan and h.b warner a an added bonus there nat pendleton a a dimwit detectiveand furthermore get a load of that art deco set decoration for the fancy interior of a wealthy home must have be a set that be use in many a subsequent film.on the plus side the mystery be not so complicate that anyone can follow the plot with reasonable assurance of not be too baffle it all suddenly clear to detective philo vanceand then he have a final confrontation with the murderer that give the film a nifty five minute of unmitigated suspense.nicely do and pass the time in an entertaining manner
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this movie be lame and not funny at all the plot doesnt even make sense some scientist who work on the fringe of science open a doorway to another dimension maybe hell and his daughter get suck through it or something then one day for no apparent reason she come back and now she have big east and wear a skimpy outfit i guess the demon in the other dimension make it for her the main character be a guy who want to marry his girlfriend but she be gay so obviously shes more interested in her new girlfriend and they stumble upon this witch spell book they want to be witch or something and the evil spell end up get read again which be how the evil demon come to earth which only the bikini top girl and the spurned guy in love can stop apparently there be topless scene for no reason and a guy in it who my boyfriend say be a well know wrestler but his part be completely unnecessary obviously they make something up just to put him in it because then maybe wrestle fan will actually watch this pointless movie im sure the topless girl doesnt hurt there either the extra feature on the dvd be even more confusing than the rest of the movie i think it might help explain what be go on but it actually just make thing more confusing who be these people and what be they do basically this be a gocampingtomakeoutthenfightamonster movie but there be a bunch of thing like the other dimension and book seller than make it confuse i didnt like the movie but it be only like five buck so big deal i dont recommend watch it though it be just too stupid i cant think of any part of the movie that be good
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although i be hop that id like it a little more this be still certainly an impressive film there be great performance by all the lead and the story while not what id call chilling be still effective and it keep me interested for me the best part of this film be the look of the picture for it always look cold and damp and it just really seem to suit the film well i also think that the low budget suit this movie for i dont think that a crisp picture and clear sound would have work as well in a film this grim all thing consider it fell a little short of my expectation but im still very glad that i finally sit down to watch this movie
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imagine this a high school except it boarding school and the kid dont have parent around oh and it in malibu and the kid be all thin white and gorgeous with the exceptional token minority or fat kid to play the weird outcast and there arent any reasonable rule like how they have cohabitation nuclear weapon in their dorm coffee stand a sushi bar and a complimentary laptop per student.heres the story a girl zoey brook attend pca a formerly allboys school absolutely perfect in every possible way she be smart pretty thin athletic creative and everything a perfectionist want to be almost all the boy in school want her and every girl want to be her friend shes the one everyone come to for advice the one who save the day with a simplistic plan and be just wonderful too bad none of this make her likable.are we suppose to believe that if we dont even come close to zoeys perfection be bad people in the show nothings her fault and if anyone contradict her theyre portray a the bad guy logan he may be a jerk but at least he have some kind of ain that think for himself instead of simply agree with the princess every time.her loyal group of blind follower be chase the average dumb as that have a secret crush on her michael the token black guy and the only decent actor on the set lola a wannabe actress and anorexic snobby airhead quinn the smart but clueless girl when it come to teen stuff and logan the rich jerk who have a soft side yeah this show basically spew out stereotypes.what tick me off though be that they all try to pretend theyre normal kid they complain that logan get too much money while they have to work themselves even though they already go to a toogoodtobetrue board school and have relatively nice thing that many teenager cant afford they drink coffee and eat sushi on a regular basis hardly have homework and suntan almost every day wow they have it hard any other problem im too goodlooking rich and stressfree i guess zoey whats the for anyway be nicks attempt at try to portray teen realistically except they catch a glimpse of reality didnt like it and decide to give the kid live like the ass on the hills.but hey at least the set pretty
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i have be amaze by director antals kontroll back in his first american project vacancy be less impressive but a decent start armor be his second feature and while the visual signature be recognizable the film never rise above the level of a b movie it a shame because the main premise have all the ingredient for twist and turn and the ensemble cast feature many quality actor should be able to deliver antal could have make a great heist film but instead go for an action flick then again he could have shoot a cool action flick but it doesnt really deliver in that department either what you be leave with be one implausible situation after another a group of poorly sketch character bicker and fight over a sum of money if you look past the sharp cinematography cast and the tight music score youre leave with what could have be a below average directtovideo feature van damme or seagal this be probably the most disappointing movie for me in quite some time
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first of all the reason im give this film star instead of be because at least peter falk give his usual fantastic performance a lieutenant columbo he alone can get star for try to save this otherwise utterly worthless attempt at make a movie.i be initially all fire up at read one poster comment that andrew stevens in this movie give the performance of his career to me it be the abysmal performance by stevens that absolutely ruin this movie and so i be all prepared to hurl all sort of insult at the person who make the aforementioned comment then i think to myself what else have stevens do so i checked and you know that person be absolutely right in the year since this columbo movie be make apparently every one of the project that stevens have be in since then have be utter crap so it be doubtful that anybody have even see the rest of his career.if you like columbo see every other of the title before watch this one do yourself a favor and save the bad for last
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this movie must be in line for the most boring movie in year not even woody harrison can save this movie from sink to the bottom.the murder in this movie be suppose to be the point of interest in this movie but be not nothing be of any interest the cast be not to bad but the script be just plain awful i just sit in utter amazement during this movie think how on earth can anyone find this movie entertain the producer of this movie be very clever they make a boring movie but hid it well with the name of good actor and actress on their cast people will go to the blockbuster and probably see this movie and think woody harrison kristin scott thomas and willem dafoe this must be good and rent this movie boy be they in for a horrible time if you like get rip off go and rent this movie some people actually do enjoy this movie but i like to watch a movie with meaning
neg: 0.081, neu: 0.693, pos: 0.226, compound: 0.9871, 
down at the movie gallery i saw a flick i just have to see it look like a fun lowbudget horror/action/western that i could get into yeah i know it would suck but i rent it anyway hop for laugh only a few laugh be to be find this be an extremely stupid movie it begin with a bounty hunter our protagonist who be possibly the weak main character in the history of film he looks/acts like he could take on chuck norris but he cant his dialogue suck too anyway he go into a village shoot some zombie you could tell they try to make this long by put in these boring scene where he take minute to reload or watch some zombie at least the zombie look cool so anyway some people get shot some zombie die and in the end everyone be dead except our main character who should have die at the beginning when he be shoot down by four people
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i be finally see the el padrino movie from what i can see it be an incredible film and lot of action damian chapa be good director but i must admit i love his act the best.also i saw the behind the scene it be edit by some lady name kinga she need to go back to school and learn how to edit.however the film el padrino be a pure action epic why cant most people who direct put together film that keep you wonder what the plot be i be so happy to see someone i know to be a real great actor become a great director also.i be one of those people who love to see artist make it.b.s
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.772, pos: 0.228, compound: 0.9896, 
i thrive on cinema .... but there be a limit a name isnt enough to make a movie the beginning of the movie put u in a mood to expect the unseen yet but we remain hungry or angry .. till the end thing be get so confused that i admit that i do not understand the end or be there an end to this nonesense the opportunity to make an outstanding movie be there but the target be totally missed next ...
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michael callan play a smarmy photographer who seem nonetheless to be regard a a perfect catch by any woman that run across him could this have anything to do with the fact that he also coproduced the film hes a hero whom it very difficult to empathize with so the movie be in trouble right from the start however it trouble dont end there it have the production value of a tvmovie check out that head make of clay or something near the end and the end cheat in a way that i cant reveal in case anyone want to see the movie highly unlikely let just say that the killer know more than we be let to know he know
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i be draw to friend by the soundtrack score by a very young and yet to be famous elton john whom i have see in a club in nearby houston i have no idea of the emotion and impact the movie would make recently i be ought back to the movie by a song that heart do call season then i find the elton john song friends think it be the same song ... it be year of so anyway the flood of the emotion of friend come back like see an old photograph of your first real love i have more recall of the way the movie hit me than i do of the actual detail of the production plot etc so forgive me for a rather poor review i remember take a couple of special friend on a date to see the movie and them be a move and tearyeyed at the end a i be im both anxious and nervous to find a copy and see it now so many movie which seem so important to me back then i.e the graduate easy rider now just seem silly and i dont want this to fall into the same category but i will find it and if it turn out silly then at least ill be able to turn my wife onto a great ... no .. outstanding soundtrack when we meet we go through this with last tango in paris the youngster i work with im respect my opinion but it hard to explain the feeling of the sixty and the movie and song that reflect such strong feeling but seem a little aged now i just cant figure out if the the aging process be the movie ... or me friends be a very special sensitive and wonderful movie it will ing back a lot of special feeling im sure by all mean rent or buy a copy ... indie be not near the strong genre then that they be today
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during the clete robert preface i be begin to think this be an ed wood production however what roll out here be some pretty hard hit stuff the story of crime and corruption in a southern town be tell use a cast cull from hollywood poverty row and this make the movie all the more realistic there be no punch pull here and at time the film be reminiscent of the well the black and white texture give a newsreellike quality for certain young viewer will be remind of the blair witch project but this one be base on real event
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i decide to watch this one because it be nominate for oscar this year i guess a many folk here i really want to like this movie but end up bored and disappointed first scene be ok but the whole rest of the movie in shaky hand camera mode be really annoying.i guess the main reason for make such a movie and nominate it for oscar be this american military machine people who make money on war urgently need an excuse or justification of war in iraq by bungle up something sort of patriotic.why these heroic effort of director and the main character to _inspire_ the audience with an idea of lovingwarlikeadrug .. oh please come on what a bore watch this to get an idea of how low the movie academy can fall ...
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mom should really be give a different title to distinguish it from all the other movie out there call mom or with the word mom in the title.this be a vastly superior zombie movie to so much of the rubbish that get churn out time after time and all end up much the same a every other zombie movie out there.it be so different and refresh it almost defy categorisation.the kind old lady who take in a creepy lodger who just happen to be a flesh eater who then infect the old lady who also turn into a flesh eating zombie or ghoul quite which exactly be not defined.there be pathos in the story a her son realise what she have become and while at first horrify attempt to help her by supply food i shall say no more about that for fear of insert a spoiler it be one of those quiet movie a oppose to gun blast explosion rag car chase etc bore etc that make so many movie all the same rubbish but still with enough gory moment to satisfy horror fan whilst also insert sadness into the story along with nice touch of humour a oppose to downright silliness of some socalled horror movies.there be a particularly nice atmospheric shot at the beginning of the film where the old lady be sit alone in her room with only her christmas tree for company and look so innocent but what she become oh my a gem of a movie and even if not your thing should at least be view if only once by any true horror fan
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empire of passion start out deceptively that be if youre immediately expect it to be a horror movie it like a riff on james m. cains the postman always ring twice at first seki kazuko yoshiyuki be a mother of two and a dutiful hardworking wife to rickshaw driver gisaburo takahiro tamura but when he not around and shes at home with the baby the feisty and aimless young man toyoji tatsuya fuji come around to ing some goody for seki ... and a little extra theyre soon sleep together but after he do something to her let just say a shave he know that hell find out and immediately propose that they kill gisaburo they drink him up strangle him and then toss him down a well naturally this will come back to haunt them but that it literally at least to them at first superterrified seki and then only later on skeptical toyoji change gear into the kaidan a japanese ghost story.this be a film where the horror come not simply out of oh ghost ah but out of the total dread that build for the character in a way theres the mechanic of a filmnoir at work throughout if only loosely translate by way of a th century japanese village a oppose to an american city or small town i.e the snoop cop the evidence find possibly by another word get around suspicion arouse etc it compelling because seiko actually be against the plan from the start manipulate by the lustful but illprepared toyoji and her reaction to gisaburos reappearance be stagger to her take the one that come close to poetry gisaburos ghost paleblue face and mostly silent chill stare motion for seiko to get on the rickshaw she do reluctantly and he push her around on a road she doesnt know in the wee hour before dawn surround by smoke most japanese ghost story wish to heaven they could get this harrowingly atmospheric.while it start to veer into hysteric towards the end theres so much here that director oshima get right in make this a distinctive work after hit it huge in the international cinema world with in the realm of the sens which ironically get ban in his own country he make something that he claim be even more daring that sense maybe he be right empire of passion have less graphic sexual content by far than it predecessor also star tatsuya fuji a magnificently physical actor with an immense lot of range but it daring lie in craft a world of dread you can believe in ghost in this story but you also have to believe how far down to their own personal hell these two wouldbe lovebird will go the snoop detective or the gossiping townspeople be the least of their worry the fate of their very soul be at stake.and oshima take what in other hand could be merely juicy pulp sadly it wouldnt surprise me if an american remake be already in the work and craft shot after gorgeous shot with repetition work it way into the misenscene i.e the shot of seiko and toyoji walking on that road the camera at a dutch angle the world tilt and surround them in a grim blue hue as well a some affect movement that will stay with me long after i finish type this i.e toyoji throw the leaf by one hand into the well in slow motion or how seikos nude body be reveal after she become blind it dare lie in connect on a level of the spirit not to be confuse with the spiritual though there may be something with that as well about life and death connection to one another inextricably it a classic waiting to be discover
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i be not a big music video fan i think music video take away personal feeling about a particular song .. any song in other word creative thinking go out the window likewise personal feeling aside about mj toss aside this be the best music video of alltime simply wonderful it be a movie yes folks it be brilliant you have awesome acting awesome choreography and awesome singing this be spectacular simply a plot line of a beautiful young lady date a man but be he a man or something sinister vincent price do his thing add to the song and video mj be mj enough say about that this song be to video what jaguar be for car top of the line perfecto what be even good about this be that we get the real mj without the thousand facelift though ironically enough there be more than enough makeup and costume to go around folk go to youtube take min out of your life and see for yourself what a wonderful work of art this particular video really be
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oh my goodness i would have never think it be possible for me to see a thriller bad than domestic disturbance this soon but here it be arm with rotten plot terrible edit stilted acting and headacheinducing style sorry i have no other word for it sanctimony be the kind of movie that almost force you to reevaluate an entire genre that be this film be so bad that even the thriller i condemn a complete failure now seem a little better.now not only sanctimony be a terrible film in itself it also succeed in the difficult task of rip off good movie and do a pathetic job with it right from the main title nothing but a blatant attempt to reproduce the one from see i be under the impression that something didnt smell quite right as soon a the movie start with a series of corny wannabe hip quickcuts full of gory image and bombastic color i know where that smell be come from.it turn out that two policeman or rather policeman jim renart michael parã© and policewoman dorothy smith jennifer rubin be investigate on a murder spree in vancouver a serial killer know a monkey killer what a menace chilling nickname uh for his work method have kill quite a lot of people you see this nut apparently work follow the proverb see no evil hear no evil speak no evil and cut eye ear and tongue out of his victim so far six eye six ear and three tongue in very ingenious fashion renart and smith figure out that the monkey killer be probably go to kill other three people ... well because he probably want to complete the number so suddenly the film focus on tom gerrick casper van dien a young successful goodlooking businessman with a dreadful temper and thats where the ripoff of american psycho kick in.so we follow the life of the two police officer and the young psychopath none of which be interest in the least until they finally meet along the way to that a disco where renart barely miss gerrick unintentionally offer u one of the funny scene in recent memory renart go in the back of the disco club because ... well just because the script tell u it a suspect place then with one single punch in the stomach renard get rid of a big guard who block the path and the guard be never hear of again do this scene strike anyone else a completely unrealistic anyway after another murder gerrick turn in a a witness but smith and especially renart immediately suspect he might be the killer in typical basic instinct fashion smith get some date with the young businessman under the assumption that she might discover his true identity.i wont spoil the end but it be quite simply an embarrassment there be contradiction some plot hole issue that never get resolve and especially there be one last scene where a utal mass murder suppose to be shock and sad come off a such laughably overdone and nonsensical that i frankly cant imagine how anyone could not laugh at it.at minute sanctimony be really push it you never care about one single character because they be all so flat not to mention bore that you know exactly who be who the first time you meet them you be never pull into the story because the scene be connect through weak plot device when not downright unnecessary and out of place the act range from average van dien to downright atrocious rubin and most of the support cast the music be abysmal generic techno and the photography be one of the bad i have ever see of course like every fiasco of the genre we be provide with a little bit of gratuitous nudity./
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the man with a golden arm be one of a trio of great film around that same time that dealt with drug addiction the other two be monkey on my back and a hatful of rain but i think of the three this one be the best.maybe if otto preminger have shoot the thing in the real chicago instead of those obvious studio set the film might have be good yet who know maybe preminger couldnt get enough money to pay for the location it the only flaw i find in the film.frank sinatra be a heroin addict card dealer who be bust for cover for his bos robert strauss when the game be raid he take the cure while in jail and want a new life a a jazz drummer but a whole lot of people be conspire against him.first bob strauss who want him back deal especially because a couple of heavyweight gambler be in town he use a few underhanded method to get sinatras service back secondly darren mcgavin be the local dope dealer who want sinatra good and hook a a customer again and finally eleanor parker his cling wife who work a con game to beat all just to keep him around.frank sinatra get a nomination for best actor for this film but lose to ernest borgnine in marty sinatra might have win for this one if he hadnt win for from here to eternity in the support actor category a few year back and that marty be such an acclaimed film in that year his scene go through withdrawal lock up in kim novaks apartment will leave you shaken.eleanor parker do not get enough credit for her role shes really something a the crazy scheme wife who want sinatra tie to her no matter what the cost if she have not be nominate that same year for interrupted melody she might have be nominate for this mark the high point of her career darren mcgavin get his first real notice a the very serpentine drug peddler his performance be guarantee to make your flesh crawl.elmer bernstein contribute a great jazz score to accentuate the general dinginess of the bleak chicago neighborhood the character live in not a place youd want to ing up your family
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this film be basically set up for failure by the studio one anne rice author of the book offer to write the screen play but be refuse by the studio two they try to stuff in depth novel in to a hour movie.i maintain the only way for these two book vampire lestat and queen of the damn to work in a live action form would be through a miniseries first off the the vampire lestat alone take place from the s to the s and have a plethora of character vital to the plot understanding of the main character lestat the entire book vampire lestat set up the event of the second part queen of the damn without that full understand the premise of a movie be destroyed.lestat be not cruel and vicious to all he be not want to go along with akashas plan marius do not make lestat lestat do not love jesse or make her lestat could not go remain unscathed by the light marius be not after david nor the other way around every character be completely represent wrong basically same names different story.if they want to make a vampire movie fine even if you want to be inspire by these novel fine but dont piggie back into the theater off the success of rice great novel and character just to destroy what her loyal reader have come to love.if you havent read the book you wont understand the film really if you have read the book you will be insult that be say i be such a huge fan i have to see the movie know full well this be go to be the case and still go for it catch must see it will hate it
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have previously enjoy wesley snipe in several action flick and i have expect a lot more even from a score of imdb the movie fail to entertain and even though the story be thin and unoriginal the acting be most unfortunately thinner and go to mimic a bad case scenario of play strong feeling accompany by some bad acting ... dont waist your time this movie ã­snt entertain if you wan na cry it might suffice though even though your tear will be wept due to see wesley snipe in the tragic action film wannabe comedy ... i give this it really be awful if you wan na see a decent movie go see shooter or rent it it all the good thing this movie isnt
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an intense thriller about a mute movie makeup artist who witness a snuff film be make when she be work late in the studio one night after she try to get away from the murder scene she realize she be in for more than she bargain for when the entire mafia be out to kill her for be a witness this movie leave you on the edge of your seat
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dont listen to most of these people ill give you a good review of this movie which me and my friend love it about jill johnson play by camilla belle who babysits at the mendrakis house and someone eaks in if youre wonder how he get in the house he go through the garage most likely so anyway dont listen to the bad act it have amazing act with a great story i think that there be benefit that jill have shes a fast runner and be on the track team .she get out alive lol.it be a cool movie and quite scary check it out you will be happy with this masterpiece dont listen to the other people on the site it very good trust me i be good at review movie im a future movie critic i totally want to buy this movie and you will too when you see it it be amazingly awesome
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what a frustrating movie a small southern town be overflow with possibility for explore the complexity of interpersonal relationship and dark underbelly hide beneath placid surface a anyone who have read anything by carson mccullers already know this do none of that instead the writer settle for cutesy twinkle cheap warm fuzzies and banal melodrama the thing look like a madefortv movie and be direct with no particular distinction but it hard to imagine what anyone could have do to make this material interesting.the most frustrating aspect though be the fact that there be a lot of extremely competent and appeal actor in this cast all try gamely to make the best of thing and do what they can with thiswell there no other word for itdrivel a tragic waste of talent in particular that of the great stockard channing
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this movie star a totally forgotten star from the s jack pearl radio baron munchausen as well a jimmy durante however decades later it be bill a a three stooge film because they be the only one in the film who the average person would recognize today film fanatic will also recognize the wonderful edna may oliver as well a zazu pitts.as for the stooge this be a film from there very early daysbefore mgm have any idea what to do with the team at this point they be know a ted healy and his stooge a healy be the front man fortunately for the stooge they soon leave this nasty and rather untalented man read up on himyoull see what i mean and the rest be history within a year they be make very successful short for columbia and executive at mgm be soon kick themselves for lose the team this sort of thing be a common occurrence at mgm a great studio which have no idea what to do with comedy such a the film of buster keaton laurel and hardy abbott and costello and others in fact up until they leave for columbia mgm put them in a wide variety of odd film rolesincluding act with clark gable and joan crawford in dance lady and oddly in this film they didnt act a a teamthey just do various support role such a larry play the piano this particular film begin with pearl and durante lose in the african jungle when they be rescue and ought home all sense of structure to the film fall apart and the film become almost like a variety showpunctuated by scene with the lead here and there a for pearl i could really see why he never make a successful transition to film a he have the personality of a slug but slightly less welcome a for durante i never know what the public saw in himas least as far a his film be concernedhe be loud and ... loud he apparently take time off from help mgm to ruin buster keaton career to make this film together pearl and durante rely on lot of verbal humor and vaudevillestyle routine that tend to fall rather flat.in this film the stooge they didnt yet have the right chemistry see healy do the job that moe do in their late film be odd what they do in the film be pretty good but because all the segment be short they come on and off camera too quickly to allow them to really get into their routine stooge fan might be very frustrate at this though diehard fan may want to see this so that they can complete their lifelong goal of see everything stoogeeven the rotten joe derita and joe besser film oh and do they get bad after the death of shemp and curly .overall the film be rather dull and disappointing however there be a couple interesting thing to look for in the mess at about the minute mark you will see a ief scene where a tour guide on a bus be sing look carefully a this be walter brennan in a role youd certainly never expect another unusual thing to look for in the film be the clean a a whistle song start at about minute into the film this song and dance number be clearly an example of a socalled precode scene that never would have be allow in film after when the production code be strengthen despite the word clean in the title it a very titillating number with naked woman show lot of fleshenough to stimulate but not enough to really show anything it quite shocking when see today though such excess be pretty common in the early s. finally at the minute mark see jimmy durante set race relation back a few decade see the film youll see that i mean
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when carol vanessa hidalgo start look into her others death she begin to suspect something more sinister than natural cause the closer she get to the truth the more of a threat she become to her sisterinlaw fiona helga line and the rest of the local satanist theyll do whatever be necessary to put a stop her nosy ways.if youre into sleazy satanicthemed movie black candle have a lot to offer the movie be fill with plenty of nudity and ritualistic softcore sex one scene in particular involve a young woman and a goat must be see to be believe unfortunately all the sleaze in the world cant save black candle most of the movie be a total bore other than the one scene ive already mention the numerous sex scene arent shocking and certainly arent sexy the acting be spotty at best even genre favorite helga line give a disappointing performance the plot really doesnt matter it main function seem to be to hold the string of dull sex scene together im only familiar with one other movie direct by jose ramon larraz compare with his daughter of darkness that masterfully mix eroticism and horror black candle come off a amateurish be about the best i can do
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one of the more intelligent serial killer movie in recent history zodiac killer offer an imaginative take on the background and history of one of the most notorious serial killer the filmmaker create an unexpectedly good insight into the pathology of this mysterious killer and anyone who remember zodiac will be intrigue others will want to discover more about this enigmatic criminal unlike many serial killer zodiac be not insane at all but very methodical and a selfpromoter the director here play viewer expectation and pull it off the film be construct a a murder mystery or a cold casestyle thriller it be an intelligent investigative/proceduralstyle horror film that will putoff gorehounds in search of cheap thrills.some people dislike any movie that be shoot on video this attitude be very oldstyle and provincial it be an attitude and view of movie that put technical issue above entertainment value or artistic value these attitude be on the way out zodiac killer be a lowbudget film no doubt but discern viewer will look beyond that and find a carefullycrafted gem
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ive read the other review and find some to be comparison of movie v real life eg what it take to get into music school britney bash etc etc so lets focus on the movie and the message.i have rat this movie out of for the age range to year and for a family movie for the average adult male .... out of .i like pop/rock music im i know of britney spear but never realise she actually sing strong until i read the credit and these review i didnt recognise her poster on the wall so i be not worried about any self promotion.i watch movie to be entertain i dont care about cast light producer director etc what be the movie and do it entertain me.i watch this movie for the message the world great epidemic be low selfesteem which be a whole other story so watched with the message in mind a that be an area of interest the movie be light ight and eezy great for kid i find the texan twang begin to fade throughout the movie and of course there be only so many way to convey the give up/dont give up message so yeh it be a bit predictable great message though ... should be more of them.this movie be a great family movie but for a bloke watching by himself get hannibal
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i like this movie because it be a fine work of cinema make by people who care enough to make it art and not just home movie it be fill with supersurfer greg nolls home movie and a boatload of amateur video from others who align themselves with his year passion nevertheless it have be expand to the degree that it approach aesthetic glory it be fill with artistic talent and athletic talent however trivial you might think surf to be athletic surfer be not astronaut nor testpilots nor be they surgeon perhaps or ph.ds again perhaps it believe in the quest of the surfer it believe in the beauty of human goofiness it believe in the great gift of peace which come from the cessation of war surfer celeate the cessation of war on the north beach of an hawaiian island attack by japanese zero fifteen year before it celeates the downtime of a country which fight a cold warinstead of a hotwar with the russian socialist surf be the ultimate narcissism it be dangerous but only slightly historical i suspect alexander the great would not be celeated for his surfing technique he have to go out and conquer a few dozen country to get the favorable press he have receive this movie have no military hero it have no gun the only beachhead surfer conquer have a beerstand and and a surfboard shop this be not a problem peace be not desperate it be the joy of exhalation
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i have a hard time stay awake for the two hour open episode it be dumbed down to such an extent i doubt if i learn a single thing the graphic be rudimentary any small idea be repeat ad nauseum contrast this to the cosmos series host by carl sagan that have a good musical theme there be no music come from these infernal dimensional string
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although the plot of this film be a bit farfetched it be worth see just for the performance of michael caine and gambon the latter delivers a truly wonderful dublin accent caine ham it up ... which be exactly what the character he be play should do entertain and fun this be a hour and a half of easy watch
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this movie be so badly write direct and act that it beggar belief it should be remake with a good script director and casting service the bad problem be the act you have jennifer beals on the one hand who be polish professional and totally believable and on the other hand richard who be woefully miscast and just jarring in this particular piece peter gallagher and jenny levine be just awful a the slave owning and keep couple although both normally do fine work the actor and director should not have attempt to do accent at allthey be inconsistent and unbelievable much good to have concentrate on do a good job in actual english the casting be ludicrous why have child of an african merchant thus less socially desirable to the gen de couleur society be cast with very pale skin actor while the supposedly socially desirable marcel have pronounce african feature include an obviously dyed blond fro it a if the casting director can not be bother to read the script they be cast and to choose appropriate actor from a large pool of extremely talented and physically diverse actor of color it just so weird this could be a great movie and should be remake but with people who respect the material and can choose appropriate and skilled actor there be plenty of good actor out there and it would be fun to see how jennifer beals daniel sunjata and gloria reuben would do with an appropriate cast good script and decent direction
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when i be a young oh about i watch barney for the first time and like it but back then i didnt exactly have a ain either and now i look back and see what a horrible show barney really be first of all everything on that show be creepy barney the main character be a horrendous foot tall talk purple dinosaur that teach yearolds about imagination .... shudder b.j i know what your think about his name be a small yet creepy yellow dinosaur that be put in to be supposudly cool but in fact he be the exact opposite after watch a few episode with b.j dumbly trudge in with his slightly turn back cap and make a few nosofunny joke i want to scream baby bopohohgod vomit ohohohanyway baby bop be the bad idea of a character ever she be a green triceratops it a dinosaur that carry a yellow blanket her remark of heeheehee and barneys praise cry of superdeeeedoooper make it hard to sit through each episode a the seventh grader learn about shape and manners.and that my friend be what make this show truly horrible
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steve mcqueen have certainly a lot of loyal fan out there he certainly be a charismatic fellow one of the most charismatic the big screen ever know but even mcqueen cant save this turkey of a film shot with what look like a ownie camera in the actual location in st. louis.mcqueens a new kid with no criminal record ought into the planning of a bank heist by one of the other gang theres more than a oad hint that theres a gay relationship go on between young steve and david clarke he not like at all by the other heist member mainly because of his lack of criminal resume steve also have a girl friend in molly mccarthy and she suspect something afoot especially when he start hang around with crahan denton and james dukas as well a clarke all pretty rough character that would certainly get my suspicion aroused.the great st. louis bank robbery have two director charles guggenheim and john stix guggenheim do mostly documentary and stix didnt do much of anything one of those two joker decide steves performance be best serve by do a bad marlon brando imitation this film may go down a the bad ever do by steve mcqueen im willing to bet that dick powell and four star production have already sign him for want dead or alive because i cant believe they would have if they saw this.or they would have see something the public would have overlook except for the dressing for this turkey
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this be a bad film a it central message be very muddled and the plot seem like it be the result of merge several disparate script a a result it often make absolutely no sense at all and certainly be not a film miss dunne or mr. huston should have be proud of make however the film be worth watch if you be a fan of precode film because it feature an amazingly sleazy plot that strongly say that nice girl do put outeven if they arent marry and even if their partner be the film begin with miss dunne a a social worker assist troop head to europe for wwi in the process she meet a scalawag bruce cabot who eventually convince her to sleep with him she become pregnant and he then go on to the next unsuspecting woman however miss dunne do not want him back a she realize he not worth it but later her baby die at child birth while all these very controversial plot element be use they be always allude toalmost like they want the adult in the audience to know but hop that if they phrase it or film it in just the right way kid in the audience will be clueless after all film be not rat and kid might attend any film at this time .surprisingly this entire plot involve a stillborn baby and cabot end about of the way through the film and be never mention again or allude to it be a if they film part of a movie and abandon ittacking it on to still another film in this second phase of the film miss dunne unexpectedly begin work at a womens prison though we actually never really get to see her do anything there what we do see be countless horrible scene of severe abuse and torture that be probably design to titillate and a a result of all this violence miss dunne go on a crusade to clean up the prison and become a reformer and famous writer.but then out of the blue another type of film emerges and the woman prison reform business go by the wayside dunne meet a judge walter huston who be married but he desperately want her now throughout the film dunne be portray a a very good girleven though she do have unmarried sex with cabot she be more or less trick into it but now single irene who be a tireless reformer and good lady begin sleep with a married man he tell her that he and his wife be estrange and be marry in name only but she never think to investigate if this be true and with his assurance off fly her clothes and they be in the baby making business but while shes pregnant with his love child he indict for be a crooked judge he assure her hes innocent but he convict and it sure sound like he a scoundrelusing inside information from people that have come before his bench in order to amass a fortune then in the final moment of the film miss dunne try in vain to get him free and vow to wait with the child until huston be release the film then ends.so we basically have three separate film and a bizarre early s idea of what a nice girl should be like i gather that she should be a strongminded working girl who instantly become an idiot in her personal relationship this really undo all the positive about dunnes character and it really hard to imagine anyone like the film a strong woman right advocate might easily be offend at how weakminded and needy she be and religious people might see her a totally amoral or at least morally suspect with a decent rewrite this could have be a good film or at least interesting a a lewd and salacious film but it couldnt make up it mind what it want to be and be just another dull precode film
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i catch this movie on the scifi channel recently it actually turn out to be pretty decent as far a blist horror/suspense film go two guy one naive and one loud mouth a take a road trip to stop a wedding but have the bad possible luck when a maniac in a freaky makeshift tank/truck hyid decide to play catandmouse with them thing be far complicate when they pick up a ridiculously whorish hitchhiker what make this film unique be that the combination of comedy and terror actually work in this movie unlike so many others the two guy be likable enough and there be some good chase/suspense scene nice pacing and comic timing make this movie more than passable for the horror/slasher buff definitely worth check out
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very mild spoiler a basic plot outline no real detail if you go into this movie with sufficiently low expectation i saw this film at a free screen a few day ago in maryland and the only reason i agree to go ... be because it be free i expect a few chuckle but a i have never be a huge fan of tenacious d not much more then that.the first ten minute of the film be hilarious a we be give a look at jack black humble christian origin in a midwest american town the film then take u year into the future to the first meeting between jb and kyle gas the second half of tenacious d. we see the formation of the band and the genesis of it name finally a the title suggest the second half of the film detail their quest to obtain the fabled pick of destiny again the beginning of the film be laugh out loud funny and most of the movie at least keep a smile on my face that say there be time it felt a bit long it only minute but it still felt like it should have be a bit short the story be every bit as absurd a it sound and this be not a film you see if you want a real plot which be fine except it mean that many of the joke be very hit or miss ... and when they miss they miss bad same thing with the song it be a musical but many of the song lose their appeal after the first minute or so ... then keep go anyway.i will say that the rrating really save this movie from bomb the d humor simply couldnt work without cuss sex and drug reference but unless youre a real fan of the band or at the very least know you appreciate their style of comedy i would recommend you save yourself some money and rent pick will make you giggle a bit ... but be it worth buck i dont think so i be tempt to rate it a but since i do think that many would enjoy it enough to justify see it in theatres a seem more appropriate just be sure it your style
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i shall begin with a disclaimer this movie be not recommend for anyone who lack interest or have never play ff the game before watch the movie rely on the audience knowledge of each character in the game to convey story plot element and it do so very subtly do your homework before watch this wonderful piece of cg film and i promise itll be that much better.with that in mind this film have some of the most spectacular cg sequence i have ever witness the whole experience felt like an extra long fmv sequence from the game on steroid yeah the attention to detail in each scene especially in the heavy action orient one be so impeccable it leave me with a sense of awe.i believe the soundtrack be simplify so a to help the audience focus on the animation quality more than the music again for those who be familiar with the ff story and background the music should not surprise anyone although the timing and placement of each soundtrack from the original accompany each scene and mood to the point where the music simply enhance the animation .once again i myself have only play through ff once thoroughly enjoy this piece of art from square enix and that be the feel in most scene choreograph and organize like a dance.in short if you enjoy the music or the game final fantasy this film will blow you out of the water if youre in the unfortunate majority who have not experience the goodness know a ff on playstation or pc do so before watch the movie will allow for an exponentially great experience.finally i just want to make a note of the quality in animate this film character move with fluidity each scene background come to life and tell it own story for those who criticize the thinness and dependency of the story plot i urge you to reexamine the animation facial reaction subtle clue that ing about another level of entertainment above the typical narration method of story plot delivery.square enix and the great tetsuya nomura have set a new bar for quality animation and storytelling advent child have usher in a new era for cg animation allow the subtlety that lie in each character to speak volume in and of themselves.thanks square enix the wait be well worth it
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this be quite possibly one of the bad movie ever make everything about itacting direct script cinematographyis dreadful the alien a human in sparkly suit claim to be from a nearby universe one assume the scriptwriter mean galaxy but didnt bother to get a dictionary to check his term a good title for the film would be it come from the planet of plot contrivance the plot be excessively silly and nearly nonexistent the human be all give magical macguffin that conform to a tortuous series of unlikely restriction just to move the bare plot any thought to the passage of time be ignore now it a couple day after meet the alien then bam all of a sudden theres only a couple hour leave until zero hour do yourself a favor and miss this movie you will make yourself stupid for have watch it the end be particularly silly and should have be accompany by someone go tada a the scriptwriter just pull something random out of his butt i think the real alien plot be that this movie suck so bad youll get cancer watch it if you can watch the last minute without crap yourself enemy of freedomhonestly laugh youre retard
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if you really really really enjoy movie feature ant build dirtmirrors eat nonants and conquer the world with a voiceover narrative then this be the movie for you basically a couple of scientist work out of a biodome communicate with highly intelligent ant the most intelligent actor in this film in an attempt to try to thwart their plan of conquest and extermination throughout the movie the two scientist and a girl they rescue from the ant use everything at their disposal computer green dye and horrid act but to no avail i guess they just couldnt afford any pesticide because the movie would be over too quickly.the title of the movie phase iv be something of a mystery this be not a spoiler but phase i start right after the opening credit whereas you dont reach phase iv until the end credit roll apparently the director know the movie would be tedious to get through and so placed phase throughout the movie a a kind of progress report hang in there buddy only more phase until final credit a a mstk episode this one wasnt very good for two reason this one be from the season on ktma when they be first start out so the riffing be not as good a in late season and this movie be so bad not even j tb can lighten it up there be one or two gamera reference a they have just finish riff gamera movies.the movie do have a trick/surprise end but i be so glad to reach the end the effect be lose on me
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joseph brady and clarence doolittle be two sailor who have a fourday shore leave in hollywood.joe know everything about girl and cant wait to see lola while clarence be shy and need some advice from his buddy on how to meet girls.they then run into a little boy donald martin who have run away in order to join the navy.they take him home and meet his beautiful aunt susan who want to be a singer.clarence want susie to be his girl but his shyness get in the way.but he doesnt feel shy with a waitress who come from brooklyn like he does.soon joe notice he in love with susie.the boy be in a fix when they lie to susie on meeting with a big time music producer they dont even know.as they be in a fix with their feelings.george sidney anchor aweigh be a great musical comedy.gene kelly be topnotch once again in his singing and dance routines.frank sinatra be terrific a the shy guy from brooklyn.shy isnt the first thing that come to mind when you think of frank sinatra but he play his part well.kathryn grayson be fantastic a susan abbott.we sadly lose this gifted actress and operatic soprano singer last month at the age of .the year old dean stockwell do amazing job a the little fellow want to become a sailor.jose iturbi do great job perform himself.its magic what he do with the piano.edgar kennedy play chief of police station.sara berner be the voice of jerry mouse.theres a lot of great stuff in this movie and some fantastic singing and dance numbers.just look at kelly and sinatra performing we hate to leave.its so energetic.if you know susie like i know susie be quite funny.its a nice moment when frank sings brahms lullaby to little dean stockwell.its lovely to listen to grayson sing the tango jealousy .the most memorable sequence be the one that take into the animate fantasy world and there gene sings and dance with jerry mouse.also tom cat be see there a the butler.they originally ask mickey mouse but he refused.the movie be nominate for five oscar but georgie stoll get one for original music score.anchors aweigh be some high class entertainment
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from director barbet schroder reversal of fortune i think i saw a bit of this in my medium study class and i recognise the lead actress so i try it despite the rating by the critic basically cool kid richard haywood half nelson ryan gosling and justin pendleton bully michael pitt team up to murder a random girl to challenge themselves and see if they can get away with it without the police find them investigate the murder be homicide detective cassie the hyena mayweather sandra bullock with new partner sam kennedy ben chaplin who be pretty baffle by the evidence find on the scene e.g nonrelating hair the plan doesnt seem to be completely go well because cassie and sam do quite quickly have richard or justin a suspect it be just a question of if they can sway them away also star agnes bruckner a lisa mill chris penn a ray feather r.d call a captain rod cody and tom verica a asst d.a al swanson i can see now the same concept a sir alfred hitchcock rope with the murdering for a challenge thing but this film do it in a very silly way and not even a reasonably good bullock can save it from be dull and predictable adequate
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thing to come be an early scifi film that show an imagined world or everytown through year you can eak it up into about different scene or part the film span from to and be mainly about how this ruler or the bos want to get the capability to fly in airplane again after everytown be bomb and war oke out.this film only have about fault it audio be muddy and video have some quirk the character arent deep at all and the overall plot isnt altogether solid the plot be lack something that i cant put my finger on ... it just seem a little fluffy but if you love scifi and be interested in what h.g well though might happen in the next hundred year this be a must see it worth seeing just to learn of what everyone be fear a long drawnout war because they be just about to go to war with germany and there be a threat of biological weapon and everything.things to come be a pretty good movie that most people need to see once
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weakstale tire cliched want to be basic instinct but miss opportunity after opportunity for fresh perspective new insight insipid trite grotesque and without the possiblyredeeming value of evity oh wait ... it be only minute long ... it must have just seem a lot long id rather clean bus station toilet with my toothush than have to sit through this again im express an opinion here i guess this mean i didnt like it
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one word can describe this movie and that be weird i record this movie one day because it be a japanese animation and it be old so i think it would be interest well it be the movie be about a young boy who travel the universe to get a metal body so he can seek revenge on the way he meet very colorful character and must ultimately decide if he want the body or not very strange if you be a fan of animation/sciencefiction you might want to check this out
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while i be the video store i be owsing through the one dollar rental and come upon this little gem i dont know what it be about it but i just have a gut instic about it and wow be i ever right.the story center around two girl who have just survive a school shoot one of the girl be alicia a teenage reble who be the only witness for the full attack and another be deanna another survivor who survive a bullet to the head by some miracle throw together by fate they slowly begin a painful and beautiful display of healing and move on.i just hate it when amaze movie fall through the crack because wow what a performance by busy phillips and erkia christensen not to mention the rest of the cast my only complaint be that the dvd be sorely lack in special feature oh and some of the jump cut in the movie be kind of jar but all in all a excellent movie
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this film be quite simply one of the bad film ever make and be a damn indictment on not only the british film industry but the talentless hack at work today not only do the film get mainstream distribution it also feature a good cast of british actor so what go wrong i dont know and simply i dont care enough to engage with the debate because the film be so terrible it deserve no thought at all be warn and stay the hell away from this rubbish but apparently i need to write ten line of text in this review so i might as well detail the plot a nob of a man be setup by his evil friend and coworker out of his father company and thus lead to an encounter with the russian mafia and dodgy accent and stupid very stupid plot twists/devices i should have ask for my money back but be perhaps still in shock from the experience if you want a good crime film watch the usual suspect or the godfather what about lock stock .... thats the peak of the contemporary british crime film .....
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ill not comment a lot whats to stereotype character absolute ignorance about colombia reality awful mise en scene poor color choice not funny it suppose to be a comedy and they expect that you will laugh because some distend music it beside the nonsense scene very poor actor direction if you see somewhere those people i mean the interpreter youll know they be at least good but see this so call film it be impossible to guess it you get tire of the music ... this comedy have no rhythm the only good rhythm in it it the rap sing in the final credit .... pathetic doesnt it etc ... etc ... it have be a long time i havent see a movie so bad
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this movie be a riot i can not remember the last time i have such a great time at the movie ive see a few good comedy in my time and usually they be pretty funny but this one be wall to wall great line i think best in show be the last movie that i laugh so hard and so much in the movie be nonstop until the end when they do the minute of sentimental plot clean up other than that it a constant barrage of one liner and goofy situation id like to see it again before it leave the theater because this be like the zucker movie where you dont get all the joke the first time around you have to see it two or three time to get it all in.as far a the actual film go it could have use a good edit it choppy at time but we have to be forgive for that all the character be great it not like an adam sandler movie where he try to be funny and everyone else suffers around him and be the butt of the joke i think i will remember all the main character for year to come because they be all so likable no victim in this movie also thank god they get a year old actress to play his girlfriend catherine keener play her and she be a sweetheart in this film you just wish that woman like her really existed shes not a like some of the other leading lady but somehow her smile be warm than julia robert overdo overbite.if you see the trailer for this film you may not think too highly of it i assure you the trailer do not do it justice they do not give away all the good joke just some of the mediocre ones.oh and one more thing i hope critic put this on their top ten list many of them complain that comedy dont get the recognition they deserve and then at the end of the year they dont put it on their list this mean you ebert
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a fey story of a martian attempt to colonize earth thing must be pretty bad back on mar two state trooper investigate the scene of a report ufo crash whatever land be bury under the ice at tracys pond but there be footstep in the snow lead to a nearby diner.the diner have have no customer since eleven oclock that morning now there be a handful of bus passenger sit around wait for permission to cross a structurally weak idge the bus driver insist that six passenger be aboard the bus although he didnt notice who they be the problem be that there be now seven people wait for the journey to be resume one of them be an alien but which one all of them be suspect there the crazy old man jack elam of course who seem to exercise a sub rosa wit theres a blustering businessman who must get to boston john hoyt a young couple on their honeymoon execrable performance by the husband ron kipling except for the couple nobody have notice anyone else and even the couple be suspicious of each other bride to newly mint husband i could have swear you have a mole on your chin the story continue in a sprightly but slightly spooky way the phone ring for no reason the light go on and off the juke box turn itself on and none of it be to be take seriously.its a thoroughly enjoyable ensemble play and the climactic revelation be worth a chuckle there be no discernible depth to it it not a moral message about pod people masquerade a normal citizen it not a warning of any kind just a fairy tale that divert and amuses.i always enjoy it when it on it especially interesting to see john hoyt a the irritable and impatient businessman know that in he be the roman senator who mastermind the assassination of julius caesar in mgms version of shakespeare play and here he be with three arms.oops
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it rare that i feel a need to write a review on this site but this film be very deserving because of how poorly it be create and how bias it product was.i felt a distinct attempt on the part of the filmmaker to display the palestinian family a boorish and untrustworthy we hear them discuss the sadness that they feel from oppression yet the film be shot and arrange in a way that we feel the politically oppressed population be the jewish israeli population we see no evidence that parallel the position of the palestinian teenager we only hear from other palestinian in prison i understand restriction be in place but the political nature of the restriction be design to prevent peace.i come out of the film feeling that the mother of the victim be selfish in her mourning and completely close mind due to her side of the fence so to speak she continue to be unwilling to see the hurt of the bomber parent and her angry and closedminded word cause the final meeting to spiral out of control it be more realistic in my mind to see the israeli mindset to be a root of the problem ignore plea for understanding and freedom ignore request for acknowledgment for the process by which the jewish population acquire the land.i have give this a two because of these selfish weakness of the mother which normally would be admirable in a documentary however in the light of the lack of impartiality it all seem exploitative also for the poor edits lack of background in the actual instance and finally the lack of proper representation of the palestinian side ultimately it be a poor documentary and a poor film i acknowledge this be partially the result of the political situation but be oblige to note the flaw in direction regardless of the heartwrenching and sad subject matter
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relentless like one of those loud action movie the entire cast seem to be on speed i didnt quite get the director intention if any i wonder if shes ever see a stanley donen vincent minnelli or even a george sidney musical structure please this be one hell of a mess and i love abba the costume the unflattering photography unflattering towards the actor but love towards the location the one thing that make the whole thing bearable be the sight of meryl streep make a fool of herself no chemistry with her friend christine baranski and julie walter think of streep with lily tomlyn in the altman film and youll understand what i be hop for i be embarrass in particular by pierce brosnam and colin firth the audience however seem to enjoy it so it probably it just me
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this movie do a great job of explain the problem that we face and the fear that we have before we put man into space a a history of space flight it be still use today in classroom that can get one of the rare print of it disney have show it on vault disney and i wish they would do so again
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in an alternate s where an outeak of the undead cause by a mysterious spacedust have be contain through the use of special electronic collar a young loner timmy find a friend in fido billy connelly his family recently acquire domesticated zombie.fido quickly become a surrogate father to timmy whose real dad be unable to adequately express his love for his son or for his hottotrot wife play by the gorgeous carrieanne moss have be psychologically scar a a child when he be force to shoot his own father who try to eat him .timmy run into a spot of bother however when his putrid pal collar go on the blink and he attack and kill an elderly neighbour with the authority on fidos trail trouble ewing with a pair of local bully and his mother form a bond with their undead househelp will timmy be able to hold on to his new find friend a refresh take on the whole zombie schtick fido be a thoroughly entertain deliciously dark comedy that should appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour take the romero zombieverse and transplant it into s small town america be a stroke of genius and the result be simply one of the most original film to tackle the whole reanimate dead theme that i have seen.connellys fido be a cinematic zombie worthy of inclusion in the undead movie hall of fame along with day of the dead bub and return of the living deads tarman it be not often i feel empathy for a walking corpse but the big yin performance be so fine that i actually find myself root for the big blue bag of pu the rest of the cast also give commendable performance with young ksun ray a timmy and ms.moss deserve special mentionsâ—ray because for one so young he put in a particularly assure turn and moss because she be so bloody yummy this be the third zombie film that i have watch this week the others be the somewhat disappointing planet terror and the rather fun flight of the living dead and to my surprise it be also the best director andrew currie have give fan of the genre something truly original to treasure and be a talent to be watch in the future .. out of round up to for imdb
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an extremely downtoearth well make and acted rodeo western no gussied up star need here a all cast member be regular people tell a real life story about a rodeo hustler and his entourage in the s and s west but hat off particularly to slim pickens for give what i think be his signature performance especially give the fact that he have be a rodeo clown in real life his role go far beyond the mere clown role a he deeply dealt with all the ups and down of the hardnosed rodeo life and the psychological devastation that so frequently surround such a life style he and mr. coburn team up extremely well a partner not only on the circuit itself but also in the real world outside the corral also check out anne archer a coburns native american love interest in the latter part of the movie must have be one of her first roles not a flashy perhaps a junior bonner but equally heart rendering and impacting in it portrayal thanks to the encore western channel for show this true grit of an underrated movie from time to time
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despite some review be distinctly lukewarm i find the story totally engross and even if some critic have describe the love story a mill and boon so what it be good to see a warm touch story of real love in these cynical time many in the audience be sniff and surreptitiously dab their eye you really believe that the young victoria and albert be passionately fond of each other even though for political reason it be an arranged marriage i do feel though that sir john conroy who be desperate to control the young queen be perhaps play too like a pantomime villain a it be rumour that he be in fact the real father of victoria a a result of an affair with her mother the duchess of kent it would have be interest to explore this theory emily blunt be totally convincing a the young princess trap in the stifle palace with courtier and politician out to manipulate her she illiantly portray the strength of character and determination that eventually make victoria a great queen of england which prosper a never before under her long reign i believe word of mouth recommendation will ensure great success for this most enjoyable and wonderful look movie
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american nightmare be officially tie in my opinion with it pat for the bad movie of all time.seven friend oddly resemble the kmart version of the cast of friend gather in a coffee shop to listen to american nightmare a pirate radio show it host by a guy with a beard thats the most exciting aspect of his show.chandler monica joey and ... oh wait i mean wayne jessie and the rest of the bad oneliner spout gang all take turn reveal their big fear to the beard dj unbeknownst to them a crazed nurse/serial killer be listen ... crazy nurse then proceed to torture ross and rachel and ... wait sorry again ... by make their fear come to life these fear include such stunner a voodoo and be go down on by old lady with dentures.no really.this movie be in a word rotten crazy nurse kill spree lack motivation theres nothing to make the viewer jump the end blow andagainvoodoo if you have absolutely no regard for your loved one rent american nightmare with them.if you care for your loved oneseven a little bitgo to your local blockbuster rent all of the copy of american nightmare and hide them in your freezer
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first off i have to say that i love the book animal farm i read it with my th grade class and it be great we also decide that watch the movie would be beneficial the movie be so disappointing to me the movie cut out some character and miss a lot of the main point of the book it skip around a lot and doesnt explain anything in detail if someone be watch this movie without have first read the book they would be confuse the most disappointing thing in this movie to me be the end the end in the book be the most powerful and in the movie they change it it be suppose to be the pig and men in an alliance and sort of melt together but instead the movie make it seem like the animal be go to rebel against the pig to sum up i dont think that this movie capture the real meaning that orwell portray in his book
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this movie be extremely boring i only laugh a few time i decide to rent it when i notice william shatners name on the cover it all about this little kid who get pick on all the time by his classmate when wander the street look for old lady to assist he meet a prostitute she take him to a club call the playground where he befriend several pimp when mayor tony gold shatner decide to take over the pimp business lil pimp must lay down for his homies.the animation isnt very good in this it look like it be make with macromedia which im sure it be it doesnt suck it just the sort of choppy flash animation that people have get use to over recent year the humor in this be not very good i didnt think any of it be funny
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i be disgust by this movie no it wasnt because of the graphic sex scene it be because it ruin the image of artemisia gentileschi this movie do not hold much truth about her and her art it show one piece of art work that she do judith beheading holofernese but show that be enter a testimony in the rape trial when she do not paint her first judith for a year after the trial.i dont know if you understand this from the movie probably not tassi be not a noble character he rap artemisia it be not love it be rape he do not claim to accept false charge of rape to stop her from suffer while she be torture accord to the rape transcripts he continue to claim that he never carnally knew artemisia aka have sex with while she state over and over again it true.i encourage all of you people to go out and find about the real artemisia and see what she be really about dont base all of your knowledge on this fictional movie i encourage you to do some research artemisia really do have interesting story behind her and some amazing art work.dont see the movie but find out the true story of artemisia
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such a joyous world have be create for u in pixars a bug life be immerse in a universe which could only be document this enjoyably on film but more precisely a universe which could only be document through the world of animation for those who have forget what a plentiful and exuberant world animation can offer â– when it in the right hand that be â– a bugs life be a warm reminder we walk out of the film with an equallywarm feeling and a sense of satisfaction derivative of only highcalie film productions.it be only pixars second animate feature the subgroup of disney make their spectacular debut and perhaps entirely inadvertent mark on the film world three year prior in with their landmark movie toy story it be a movie which defy convention reinvent and eathed new life into animation and define a whole new level of excellence now they return with their sophomore effort which to be honest draw a creep sense of cynicism in u all prior to see the film.after all it a film about ant well all walk of the insect and bug world be cover in a bugs life but it be the ant which be the focal point in this film a human be the focal point in drama romance and so on how can such an insignificant specie of animal such a an ant act a the protagonist of a movie let alone provide the entire premise of a feature film surely they jest however we forget that in toy story a bunch of toybox item be able to become the grand most inspiring and lovable bunch of animated hero and villain ever concoct the guy at pixar manage to pull off the same feat and manage to turn a bunch of dirty and miniscule bug into the most endearing and pleasant gang of vermin youll probably ever encounter.not only be they all entirely amiable and likable â– there isnt an unpleasant character in sight even the villain be rivet character â– but theyre colourful theyre eclectic and theyre idiosyncratic and the array of character be also gargantuan for lack of a good term only add the rich layer of distinctiveness already plaster onto a bugs life from the beginning we shall start with our main character and our hero his name be flik david foley and his character be rather generic to say the least out of the thousand of faithful and obedient worker ant reside on the lush beautiful ant island he be the one consider the black sheep of the clan a see in the opening moment of the movie when he inadvertently destroy the season harvest with his antics.the problem arise in the fact that the ant harvest be for a bunch of greedy grasshopper lead by hopper kevin spacey who be eager to continue to assert their wrath and autocracy amongst the puny little ant when they show up to ant island for their annual banquet and see that their offering be go they go insane for lack of a good term hopper offer a proposition to save the ant from total extinction at his pack hand however it a negotiation which be simply impossible to fulfil the cog and clockwork in fliks mind run at full steam now despite his guilt and shame and he offer to leave ant island in search of some mighty bug warrior who can come to the colony rescue and fight off hopper and the grasshoppers.if you think about it a bugs life bear some heavy resemblance to the plot line of akira kurosawa classic seven samurai or the american remake the magnificent seven in which a village of hapless but goodhearted folk be threaten by malevolent and wicked enemy â– one lone villagedweller go in search for help in the big city find it and return to the colony to drive off evil in a bugs life the help come in the form of a downandout circus troupe who be mistakenly perceive by flik a warrior in a barroom awl.much amusement come out of these scene and much amusement come out of these circus troupe bug among them be an erudite stick insect david hyde pierce a sidesplitting obese german caterpillar by the name of heimlich and a quasifemme fatale ladybug who in fact a gritty and masculine ladybug dennis hopper it exceedingly enjoyable watch these bug onscreen a it be watch the bug and the insect interact onscreen a be the entire movie collectively.as ive say much amusement and mirth come out of their character and joyous interaction with one another which give way to a bevy of hilarious line wonderfully suspenseful and riveting situation and overall a dazzling movie what make a bugs life even well be that the film isnt restrict simply to child a many may perceive it to be although child would indeed find more entertainment out of this film â– the clichã©d kidfriendly situation be a bit more abundant than wed like however it easy to ignore this fault and it incredulously easy to enjoy this film.although a bugs life may not reach the dizzying and landmark standard set by it predecessor this be still a superb movie and the start of something promising here pixar have prove that theyre not just a onehit wonder but instead a muchgifted and talented group of film artist in hollywood they raise the bar endlessly and when someone always manage to top their standard it only always by themselves what more be there to say about a bug life other than see it it not quite the best which weve see from the folk at emeryville california but this beat out the lot of it year â– and ill be damn if this isnt the best animated feature of ..
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what an empty and lack lustre rendition of the classic novel i do wish people would stop mess about with classic when they clearly have no idea of the real intention or point of the original this version be no different i felt that the ralph fiennes version be much bad though a the casting of juliette ioche a kathy have get to be the bad casting decision ever ... anyway back to this version it aim to make the story relevant to a contemporary setting and in a musical style it succeed in both but high art it be nit throwaway view for a rainy day maybe ... the direction be average and the edit abysmal bad than the old quincy deepak verma do a great turn a hindley and be in fact one of britain waste talent the part of heath be play with great charm and belief and i think that the casting be the strong point of this project although a more talented director would have make well use of the facility he have it clear that he be a director for hire and didnt instill the project with the passion that it deserve
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my father the hero use to be my favorite movie when i be young it about andre a divorced french man who want to take his beautiful daughter katharine heigl on a vacation hop to get a little closer to her but of course nicole isnt that easy to get along with she just start puberty im guess she be angry and hurt that her father be never there for her and decide to give him a hard time one day at the beach nicole meet handsome ben and she make up a wild story about her and her dad the whole island get involve and the movie turn into a hilarious wild entertain movie i would give my father the hero
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it be surprising that a production like this get make these day especially for television consider the strong sexual theme and explicit lovemaking scene not to mention lesbianism this have be give superb treatment and direction.the set and costume be flawless the direction be stylish and the character be likeable there be a fair amount of humor but it have surprisingly dark interlude the protagonist be really a tragic figure but not devoid of happiness also this production avoid the mistake most films/shows make when deal with homosexuality/lesbianism the character be very human it seem that to allow people to be comfortable with watch gay and lesbian on tv and movie most show fill it full of cliche and make the character obsess with be gay not so with this in tip the velvet the protagonist be hardly aware of what be lesbian mean the bbc have make some wonderful production in the past and this adventurous period piece only confirm their standard of excellence on all front
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i just dont get some of the big premise of this episode that miranda be so remarkable and that theres anything so ugly it would make you insane someone here make the remark that maybe it the frequency of the light wave or something rather than it be ugliness miranda be just a jerk the episode be slow inconsistent and way too talky i also dont quite understand why kolos be an ambassador why doesnt the federation just leave the damn medusan be there one part i do like when kolos be speak through spock about the loneliness of the human experience overall i love tos and even at it lame ill always tune in this episode though mmm i wouldnt purchase it except for a used copy under
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this be one of my all time favorite movie and i would recommend it to anyone on my list of favorite movie mental list mind the only one on par with it be movie such a the lord of the ring series spirit away and fly away home.i can really relate to the main character jess at the start of the movie shes a shy girl with a slightly odd background who have a lot more friend who be boy than that be girls she really suck you into her life i also certainly cant fault any of the protagonist act or anyone el in the film.the soccer be interest to watch even for someone like me who have no idea of the rule the movie be never bore the romance be really cute and didnt make me blush tooooo hard one thing that really make it though be the indian factor jess parent be indian and there be many colourful indian convention throughout the film provide a very interesting cultural insight as well a everything else the indian people be also hilarious essentially this be a come of age film about choose the path you want and fight for it.feel good comedy be become my favorite movie genre thanks to this film theyre funny theyre refreshing and they make you feel good ^_~
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i know that youve already enter this in film festival or at least i think you have i may just be make that up but i think this should get best animate short film in every one bravo i cant wait for the full film i realize that you may not hear this often enough because of the bizarre nature of your animation but hear it now and accept it a the truth kudos my friend okay now im just try to get ten line of text ... though i still mean it and here come yet another shoe and i can not stop here yet this be extremely annoying and yet at the same time i have nothing well to do in fact ill probably watch all of your movie in yet another spasmodic jason steele marathon i do have a lot of those.r
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this be probably the first entry in the lance oleary/nurse keat detective series in subsequent oleary film he be play by much young actor than guy kibbee.a group of relative all play by wellknown character actor gather in an old house on a rainy nite of course to speak to a wealthy relative who go into a coma.while they wait for him to recover all sort of mysterious goingson happen include a couple of murders.a creepy film worth see
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this animation have a very simple and straightforward good vs. evil plot and be all about action what set it apart from other animation be how well the human movement be animate it be really beautiful see the flee woman run around on the screen from leave to right and look around her movement be do so well why dont they use this rotoscopic technique more these day it quite effective.fire and ice in it prehistoric setting and scarcely dressed woman be clearly devote to show the beautiful damsel in distress in various sexy way her voluptuous body serve a pure eyecandy some may hate this and regard it a yet another moronic male sexual fantasy others include plenty of woman will adore it esthetic quality i for sure do not mind bakshi just love animate lushious voluptuous babe a can also be see in cool world and i dont think he have to apoligize since it pretty much animation for adult but i have also enjoy this animation a a child and i never forget it.this one be just special so different from the standard disney or anime fare and for that reason alone well worth the watch since it possibly bakshis finest for those who like animation with lushious woman try space adventure coa a well.i give fire and ice out of
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my rating act suspense character attachment plot character development overall /this show suck very much officially for me csi miami be the best csi ny nd and csi th i dont know in the other csis you get into the episode youre watch but in this one you just cant get into the episode no matter how much you try so in my opinion this show be not worth watch i know people have different opinion and i respect that but for me this csi aint good enough so if you like suspense real acting/performance good plot direction character development/attachment and you an overall good show i suggest you to watch csi miami
neg: 0.062, neu: 0.787, pos: 0.151, compound: 0.9264, 
i be not a faulkner fan which be consider sacrilegious especially since i grow up near the author hometown however i think this be an excellent movie on par with the quality of the movie to kill a mocking bird if you havent see it buy it anyway it well worth have in your permanent collection tcm recently play the movie a a part of the race on film series i wish theyd play it more often very moving.on a side note the folk from oxford mississippi will also enjoy see the footage of the town square a it be back in the s. the courthouse city hall etc theyre all on screen i never know the movie be film there until i notice the familiarity of the building when i saw the arch in the front of city hall i begin to get suspicious look closely at the pennant on chick wall youll see two for ole miss
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chinese ghost story iii be a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy film the film deliver the spellcasting special effect that one can expect but fail painfully on all other front the actor all play extremely silly caricature you have to be still in diaper to find their slapstick humor even remotely funny the plot be predictable and the development be sometimes erratic and often slow towards the end the movie begin to resemble old godzilla film include shabby largerthanlife special effect and a well yet another ghost with a godzilla head maybe i would have grin if i be expect camp.it be astonish to see what trash fantasy fan have to put up with in this case because somebody think they could squeeze a little extra money out of a successful formula they wont be able to do it again the cash cow be now dead a a dodo
neg: 0.105, neu: 0.715, pos: 0.18, compound: 0.8998, 
i cant stand most reality show and this one be bad than the one with paris hilton and sure it his company but youre fire or youre hire for how many season now after watch the show i wouldnt want to work for the guy with his ego and all and i think watch paint dry have more entertainment valve.id love to hear just one person get up and say donald i quit and take some of your money and buy a decent hairdo i see he even try to buy fame in the wrestling wwe i hope he get hurt so i dont have to see his pathetic face anymore it must be sad to want fame so bad and have no talent and make an as of yourself try to buy it id give this show a negative mark if i could but it get a and it doesnt deserve that
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if i have know this movie be film in the exasperating and queaseinducing dogme style i would never have rent it nevertheless i take a dramamine for the seasickness and give it a shot i last a very very very long forty minute before give up it just bore pretentious twaddle.the last french movie i saw be romance and it too be pretty dismal but at least the camera be steady and not eathing down the neck of the character all the time i be baffle at the continue popularity of dogme overseas itll catch on in america about the same time a the next big outeak of leprosy it call dogme because thats the average number of time the actor be poke in the eye by the camera
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the story and the show be good but it be really depressing and i hate depress movie richard be great he really put on a top notch performance and the girl who play his sister be really awesome and gorgeous seriously i think she be carmen electra until i saw the imdb profile i cant say anything bad about peter galleghar hes one of my favorite actor i love anne rice im currently read the vampire chronicle but im glad i saw the movie before read the book this be a little tooreal for me i prefer lestat and louiss witty little tiff to the struggle of slave eartha kitt be so creepy and after her character do what she do the movie be ruin for me i could barely stand to watch the rest of the show sorry for the ambiguity but i dont want to give anything away sorry but it just not my type of show
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first let me just comment on what i like about the movie the special effect be fantastic and very rarely do i feel like i be watch a video game there that be the last nice thing i have to say about this film in fact i would just like everyone read this to take note that i cant even put into word how hard it be for me to write this review without swear i have innumerable complaint about the film but four major complaint jump to mind my first major complaint have to do with the incredible cheesiness of the plot twist if you can call it that since most people probably saw it come a mile away where loiss yearold son turn out to be the superpowered child of superman when the cry superchild throw a piano at lexs henchman to save his mother i almost get up and leave the theater singer could have make a much good superman movie without resort to cheap gimmick like a seemingly fragile but latently superpowered illegitimate child it be day since i saw the movie and i still want to vomit my next major complaint have to do with the fact that superman lift a continent make out of kryptonite up into out space it doesnt take comic book guy from the simpson to point out whats wrong with that i dont know how many comic book brian singer have read but when superman be expose to even a small amount of kryptonite he barely have the strength to stay on his foot whoever have the idea to have him fly a large island make out of his great weakness into space have no business be associate with any supermanrelated project ever again the concept be as ridiculous a make a dracula movie where the title character have a stake through his heart and still manage to fly a spaceship make out of garlic into the sun why not just have superman eat kryptonite he can eat it and then ush his teeth with it and then go to sleep in kryptonite pajama thats not any more absurd then have him hoist a continent of kryptonite into space and then fall powerless through the atmosphere without burn up in reentry or splatter all over central park when he hit the ground my third major complaint have to do with the fact that singer slap moviegoer across the face with religious symbolism the entire movie i have to take issue with his characterization of superman a the only son of a godlike jorel send to earth to be a savior jorel wasnt allwise he be just a scientist and he didnt send his son to earth to be a savior he throw him in a rocket and hurriedly fire it into space because his planet be about to explode ill buy the christ allegory if brian singer can show me the part in the bible where god send christ to earth because heaven be about to explode and then radioactive piece of heaven become christ primary weakness furthermore the crucifixion scene where luthor stab superman in the side with a kryptonite spear just make me want to slam my face into a ick until im too aindead to notice the azenly obvious and inappropriate symbolism that will be taint the man of steel for the foreseeable future they might as well rename this movie superman return the passion of the christ.and speaking of luthor my last major complaint have to do with singer depiction of lex luthor lex luthor be a shrewd coldhearted business tycoon who be more apt to run for president which he do in the comic than try to destroy the world the man want money and power he want to be in charge not wreck everything yet the luthor we see superman return as well a all the previous superman movie be a wacky theatrical dunce who come up with zany scheme to destroy the world if singer have the slight loyalty to the character instead of the quite awful previous superman movie this film might not be such an unbearable travesty maybe singer next project can be a batman movie where he focus on the interpretation of batman from s tv show zam whap pow to summarize i dont know what i hate more the movie itself or the fact that so many people seem to be give it good review everyone be entitle to their opinion but if you dont hate this movie then your opinion be wrong i sincerely encourage anyone who read this not to see this movie if you havent already dont see it dont buy it when it come out on dvd dont rent it ... basically dont contribute any money towards it in any way this movie do not deserve to make any money in fact i think that for every person that see this movie bryan singer should be fin billion dollar if youre a superman fan and you really want to see this movie just bend over and have someone kick you in the ball and youll get the same experience without have to waste hour of your time
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this be one of the best tv production of a musical ever i have hear the merman cast album the angela lansbury album i have see tyne daly live and ive see the rosalind russell movie countless time i think bette be if not the best then tie with the best she capture not just the avura but also the pathos of mama rise i be never a natalie wood fan so i really enjoy cynthia gibb in what be arguably her best role everything from the costume to the set to the support performance be wonderful the three stripper lead by the alwaysdependable christine ebersole be hard to top there be suppose to be a tv production of mame a few year back with cher but i think bette would be the best bet pun intend for auntie mame
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i be sorry to say that this film be indeed bad it remind me of a cgrade porn movie with one major difference no porn.the story and dialogue need a complete overhaul maybe then the bad act would not have be a noticeable at the very least the pacing should have be pick up.while i accept that this have a low budget and the director do a good job visually give what little resource he have he should have spend more time on the story or good yet get someone else to write it many of the action scene be just pointless.it be a complete waste of my time
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be it a perfect movie no it be a weird adaptation from a scifi book and it feature vampire from space naked beauty and the british army efficiency.when i first saw this movie i be rather young and all i can remember be the feeling of awe for the movie and mathilda may actually if it werent for this gorgeous lady be naked the whole movie i probably wouldnt have rat it so high but give her sheer magnificence i be now actually consider vote it up lucky for me i get remind of the movie and watch it again now imagine raider of the lose ark or poltergeist special effect splatter unto a rather decent scifi story but with completely over the top performance i still enjoy the movie tremendously as well a mathilda may but it be a mixture of nostalgia compare with the crap movie they make today and actually want more when it ended.bottom line if you be a scifi fan you be not allow to miss this movie oh and do i mention mathilda may be young beautiful and naked
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overall i be rather impressed with the pilot the initial first fifteen minute be worry a it do feel the creator be try to create a science fiction version of the o.c but this fear be rectify when a terrorist incident occurs and from here the show step into theme and situation that i very rarely see television tackle.bsg dealt with theme such a monotheism existentialism reality death and terrorism but they be primarily subtext there for the viewer to contemplate on or ignore if they so choose here on the other hand these subject be the focus of the show and i personally find myself evoke such work a ghost in the shell and the matrix a reference point while watch and be surprise by how well the theme be be discuss i think if you be a fan of the two i just mention or other films/television show which deal with the subject i reference i think you will find at least something here.in term of a start point to explain how the situation we know in bsg come about i believe they handle it in a very interesting way i especially like how they explain where the cylons belief in one god come from and the creation of caprica have just enough advanced and contemporary technology throw in to make it appear in the future but not completely alien to u a viewers.the only real weak point i notice be the relationship between the greystone parent and the actress who play lacy rand while i like eric stoltz and paula malcomson individually together their scene seem to lack chemistry at this point it could simply be down to develop their character but this be something i think needs work i also find magda apanowicz to be unconvincing in her role this again could be down to experience and time need to develop but throughout the episode her acting appear force and not completely confident.based on the pilot i greatly look forward to see where caprica go in the future and hopefully it will touch the greatness that bsg once do
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im the type of guy who love hood movie from new jack city to baby boy to killa season from the b grade to the hollywood but this movie be something different i be no hater and this movie be kinda enjoyable but some bit be just weird well the act wasnt to good compare to silkk the shocker performance in hot boyz quite good and icet in new jack and svu great the scene where corrupt icet kill the wan na be jamaican dude he say something and light himself on fire burn both icet and the other dude this kill the jamaican however icet be unharmed very similar to ice other movie urban menace which star both of these actor be snoops character be supernatural however after this there be nothing suggest that corrupt be like a demon when mj silkk get stab at first he struggle but after that he fight normally and be stab in the thighwith out blood and when mj confess kill a cop cos the cop be beat up his friend benny be weird benny isnt introduce in this movie and the scene isnt in the film it do hold weight to the fact why corrupt want to kill mj but be still make u scratch your head wen jody write a letter to miss jones character explain what happen to them afterwords doesnt mention what happen other main character mj and lisa the film do show the horror and poverty of the ghettowhich plague the life of latino and black word widewas a good part of the film even though the clip of the project be reused thousand of time and the scene where mile kill the latino other by crash his bike at full speed not wear a helmet and run into my latino others car would of kill him the movie be similar to the film urban menace and half the actor be in both of these movie as well a the production team it be ok tho but me be from poverty i love hood film however if u dont love em like i do dont watch it only thing save me from walk out be it remind me of the first movie i make which be make with dollar and my love of the genre.nathaniel purez
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i be a huge fan of the farcry game huge fan it still hold a place in my top game list of all time the story line be new fresh ... a truly illiant foundation to base a movie on ... or so i thought ... farcry the movie be no less than another director attempt at cash in on a successful game franchise see doom the movie and many more ... .the video game begin a the player jack carver awakes in a sea side cave after be shoot off his boat by an rpg from an unknown soldier jack then find a communication device where harlan doyle guide him across island shipwreck jungle installation and volcano to find his lady friend valerie constantine all the wile battling mutate super soldier and genetically enhance animals.the movie play out very very differently theres a needless min of the movie of backstory before we even get to the boat blow up scene jack then walk onto the beach kill some goon then drive off ... nothing like the game ... there be no communicator with doyle on the other end ... the modified soldier look like albino with singlet on ... and there be no mutate monkeylike creature jump out of the bush a part of the farcry game i enjoy allot ... there be no sun fill beach scene no aircraft carrier no communication station on huge cliff little reference to any ingame content characters/items/vehicles in fact no attempt to follow the story line at all the climactic volcano scene from the game be replace with an old industrial building there an end scene ... where everyone except krieger live happily ever after ... what the i recommend avoid this movie at all cost if you be a gamer you will hate this movie will all your soul it be a movie clearly intend for male so girls stay away ... so if your a male year of age have never play farcry and be not disgust by director attempt at port books/games to the cinema ... then this be for you ...
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one of the best ensemble acted film ive ever see there isnt much to the plot but the act incredible you see the character change ever so subtly undr the influence of the rented villa in italy and love and happiness the film cast a mesmerizing spell on you much a the villa do on all the woman truly enchant
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.766, pos: 0.234, compound: 0.9593, 
i havent see this movie in about year but it still haunt me when ask about my favorite film this be the one that i seem to always mention first there be certain film work of art like this film dark city and break the wave that seem to touch a place within you a place so protected and hidden and yet so sensitive that they make a lifelong impression on the viewer not unlike a lifechanging event such a the end of a serious relationship or the death of a friend ... this film shake me when i first saw it it leave me with an emotional hangover that last for several day
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today i write this review in anger at uwe boll and hollywood.hollywood have produce movie base on one of the dark day of our nation change everything it change our perception of security it change our understanding of the evil of man and humanity most importantly and devastatingly it change our world.however i cant not stress how utterly repulse disillusion and angry i be at the careless blatant ignorance of hollywood seek to make a lucrative profit out of death and destruction this film and those like it be bind to cause controversy amid wordofmouth among moviegoer and critic alike most surely to be echo by the mainstream press hollywood have sink to a new low even low than the lowdown bastard who perpetrate the most barbaric act of savagery and unrelenting cruelty behind it all be uwe boll i be very angry at this movie how dare they disrespect the memory of family of those lose how dare they mock the life of the ave men and woman who risk their life to save those trap in the doomed tower on that fateful day of infamy how dare they try to satirize and at the same time capitalize on a national tragedy in the mist of a mourning and weary post world how ... dare ... they to those who have the gall to even think of see this morally appal travesty i say this with a heavy heart with all my strength remember think back to that day and ask yourself whether or not you be a sane and moral person think back to that day ask yourself whether or not this film be a disgrace and dishonor to the life lose on that day think back to that day of the outcry of family of loved one think back to that day of the life lose on those two plane think back to the further carnage it cause follow the attacks.ask yourself if you have a soul.think remember respect the memory of the life lose on by not see this film at all
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you can not deny that we have an affinity for speed thats why movie like fast and the furious dhoom rempit get make to play to the satisfaction of audience especially local one we live on a tiny island and i can not fathom why for the relative efficiency of the public transportation system most of u want to get into debt by own a set of wheel which come with tax when they reach our shore and the myriad of tax and bill to pay when operate one not only that the high end sport car be once quip by a prominent politician up north that they will never reach fourth gear l they reach the sea.and these movie be relatively easy to make hot wheel and hot chick always go down well together in target the required demographic for once those plunge neckline expose uncanny buxom and short skirt accentuate legs two meter long cant compete with the attention give to those beautiful curve that exotic car posse in movie such a these of course there be amongst u ahem those that go for the sexist portrayal of woman a mere sexual object otherwise explain why motor show come with truckloads of model and movie such a these can not do without a leggy model in a frame however they dont warrant the kind of collective orgasmic sigh whenever the four wheeler come on screen even when they do exactly nothing and have their gear into park the guy sit beside me i swear he wet his pant every time his dream car s appear and cream his pant even more when he hear those growl engine moans.so there we have it the fan boy who turn up in drove just to watch which of the late cool car get feature in the movie with the fast and the furious franchise the japanese model like the evos and the skyline take centerstage as do the gt here the ford gt take on an incredibly droolworthy facade modification that even im impressed alongside the late model like the ferrari enzos porshe carerra gts koenigsegg ccxs and every car out there that have wing for door but seriously my heart go out to the car each time theyre mercilessly wreck just for entertainment i mean this be perfectly fine high performance model that be at the apex of motor but yet because whoever finance the movie have million to blow they do so because they cantheres no story in redline just excuse to put together a movie full of beauty the car that be that can rip down the tarmac in probably the most boring fashion possible and with the usual shot of pedal always the accelerator mind you tap the ake pedal be tantamount to blasphemy and earn you no respect steer wheel gear shift always shift up and not down all these while have the actor make pretend that theyre the baddest ass with an engine snarling and give each other dirty look not a very tall order for an actor and thats why we get the most woeful performance ever with line that seem to be write by elementary schoolkids.the heroine yes it make a statement that girl can drive natasha a very plasticky look nadia bjorlin be one of those million dollar find a girl with model look who dont mind get down on four and immerse in oil who have race pedigree within her and performs with a rock band sing song with lyric that be just plain laughable every line have to do with car and when sing about love just have to string those innuendo like shift gear shafts luicants and go for ride introduce against her wish to illegal racing by a gangsta call infamous eddie griffin she get draw into family squabble involve a leo dicaprio lookalike iraq war veteran and some sleazy lecherous look rich uncle everything else well like i say just serve a an excuse for the movie to go from race to race.and it almost always the same a there very limit to what you can do to heighten tension between race car especially when you know the race be rig for narrative reason and can see the race outcome a mile away from the finishing line while fast and furious have quite charismatic actor and i will put my head on the chop block by name paul walker sun kang and of course the star it create vin diesel redline have none just pretty face with lot of air unfortunately it look like a tv movie in it treatment from the get go with a very insipid opening sequence where it one man one car and a minute race against time to get to vegas.if not for the car then this movie seriously be a piece of junk with bad act bad line and bad action strictly for the car fan or those who like their movie with countless of bevy beauty who pimp their body without any speaking line
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im the type of person who always go to horror section when im pick a film so i pick five across the eye i be disgust with this film and think there be no story line and no point that you could enjoy itit make my skin crawl to think that people like to watch film that just encourage violence for the hell of it it be low budget and very rubbish i think i could of do well myself i think that it be the bad film i have ever see in my life and you should not bother to watch it the actor be rubbish the camera be awful the picture be bad and the sound be not up to scratch i think it be a little bit like a cheep rip of off the baler which project and it have not work at all it be foul
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seven ups have be compare to bullitt for the chase scene but do not come anywhere near match bullitt bullitt have a beginning that build build build when mcqueen leave the seedy hotel get into his mustang which be park under the embarcadero freeway now tear down and notice the charger sit nearbye you know you be about to see something spectacular from that moment on when mcqueen start that car begin the best car chase sequence ever film add to it be a terrific lalo schriffin if i remember correctly sound track this go on for a long time before you actually hear the first tire squeal that shot of mcqueens mustang suddenly appear in bill hickmans rear view mirror be unmatched for visual impact hickmans look of surprise and double take really add to the effect then of course san francisco be unmatched for the setting of car race up and down hill and around bend also bullitt be film in the s when car be still hot mustang gt and dodge charger make for a good set of wheel then two bore smog device laden pontiac in the s seven ups bill hickman be the driver of the bad guy car in both movie i saw him sit at an insider movie preview once on the univeral lot when i be do movie review for a paper they give it a good try in seven ups though with the chase scene seven ups have a few jump over little hill yawn but of course they be not san francisco hill the seven ups chase where they be actually go fast be long than the go fast sequence in bullitt but the scene of a single shotgun blast totally blow the hood off of roy schieders pontiac be the height of absurdity strictly hollywood i would say except that it be film in new york
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have you ever hear the say that people telegraph their intention well in this movie the character action do more than telegraph future plan they show up at your house drunk and buffet you about the head this could be forgive if the setting have be use well or if the character be more charismatic or nuanced embeth davidtzs character be not mysterious just wooden and kenneth branagh doesnt succeed in convey the ash charm his character probably be write to have.the bottom line obvious plot onenote performance unlikeable character and grotesque southern accent employ by british actor
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night of the living homeless be a fairly strong finish to the first half of season obviously a parody of various zombie movie most notably dawn of the dead this episode parallel the homeless with the live dead a creature who fee and thrive off of spare change rather than ains.kyle be blame for the sudden mass outeak of homeless people when he out of the goodness of his heart give a to a homeless man in front of his house more homeless people begin to infiltrate south park until the town be completely overrun with them this be a very strong randy marsh episode a he assume the role of the shotgunwielding leader of the adult who take refuge on the roof of the park county community center but before randy make it to the community center he be accost by hundred of homeless people while hilariously scream i dont have any change unfortunately the refugee end up lose gerald broflofski to the homeless when he try to escape by catch a bus out of town and unwittingly toss away all his change for the bus to distract the homeless people then he become one of them ask everyone for change.the boy attempt to find out why there be so many homeless people in south park and find a man who be a director of homeless study they find out that the nearby city of evergreen use to have a similar problem with the homeless so they escape to evergreen to find out what they do to solve the problem unfortunately homeless people eak into the man house and he attempt to take the easy way out by shoot himself however he fail several time a he shoot himself in the jaw in the eye in the chest in the neck in the shoulder scream horribly until he finally die this scene may have be funny have a similar scene not happen in fantastic easter special two week ago.meanwhile a member of the refugee discovers that due to the homeless problem the property value have nosedive thus the bank have foreclose on his house make him homeless randy immediately turn on him hold the gun to the man head when the man finally beg the others for a few buck to help him out randy pull the trigger.in evergreen the boy find out that the citizen of the town send the homeless to south park and that the passing of homeless from town to town happens all over the country the boy modify a bus that lead the homeless out of south park and take them all the way to santa monica california.the zombie movie parallel and the great randy marsh line make this one definitely rewatchable
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im not sure who decide what category a movie fit into but this movie be not a horror movie a for the story it be fairly interesting but rather slow i be especially disappointed with the end though spoiler tell me why on earth do she run over to her uncle home without at least call the detective or the police first she know exactly whats go on at that point plus she have a video tape a proof instead she run over there and start go nut and say i know everything i have proof you didnt expect proof do you then she act surprised when her uncle stand up and start walk over to her a if he go to harm her well duh of course he go to harm you idiot you just tell him you know everything and have proof to expose everything what a dumb end
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i give this a there be so many plot twist that you can never be sure to root for total mayhem everyone get kill or nearly so i be tire of cross hair and change view i can not give the plot away convolute and insane if i have pay to see this i would demand my money back i wish review be more honest
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not an easy film to like at first with both the lead character quite unlikeable but luckily the heart and soul of the film be paula sage touch performance which drive the film into uncharted water and transcend the rather awkward storyline this give the film a feeling of real truth and make you think youve see something special
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i read the book before see the movie and the film be one of the best adaptation out there very true and faithful to the book sean penn and sarandon be amaze robbins be a talented filmaker and i wish he would add more to his repetoire he make the film very haunting and intentionally slowpaced to add depth an especially illiant bit of filmaking be the reflection of the victim appear in the glass of the execution room at the very end
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docteur petiot star michel serrault be a utal story about a utal man a doctor who heal the sick in occupied france even if their ability to compensate be not there yet he prey on the weak amidst the populace the imagery and cinematography be superb and lend an additional macae feeling to this complex story he be the perfect psychopath seductive and altruistic intelligent and care calculating and murderous a movie certain not to be forget soon by the viewer kudos to mr. serrault for his chilling portrayal
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i just get this video use and i be watch it last night the acting start out extremely bad heyheytwister but get very good soon after ward the tornado look extremely fake and many of the cgi effect be very dodgy but the scene with the house crack apart and the content inside be blow around and suck out be extremely well do and just about on par with movie like twister the scene of devastation be also extremely well do too the story be very well write and it refreshing to see a movie like this stray away from the same old disaster formula movie of this genre seem to have be stick in for years.while this movie have a very weird mix of fx and act quality this merit an a in my book
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this film be really vile it play on the urban paranoia of the s/s and put it into a school context im not say that urban crime wasnt a problem for a lot of people or that school werent/arent problem area but this vile piece of exploitation take the biscuit violence be beyond anything realistically imaginable but in this case it not a case of social issue but a white uppermiddle class student use it to turn himself into the crime kingpin of his local high schoiol and of course he know how to play the system do that sound familiar yes this turd be pure violent exploitation a really nasty piece of work it disturb utality dress up a a social comment this belong in the same category a trash like exterminator death wish and so on and so on the only remarkable thing be that michael fox be so oke at the time that he have to do stuff like this
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what a horrible horrible film the bad collection of cliche i have see in a long time not that i saw much i leave the theatre screaming after about minute in search of a stiff drink to soothe my nerve meryl streep be awful a usual how many hurt and tortured expression can person have aidan quinns talent be a so often totally wasted and who tell gloria estefan she could act try to be polically correct this movie still enforce racial stereotype brave inexperienced lonely music teacher teach underprivilegded kid violin in poor neighbourhood school the kid werent even cute just write in to suit the appalling script aaargh wes craven really make me cringe for once real horror this one
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motocrossed be fun but it wasnt that great i guess i just didnt understand a lot of the motocross race lingo and there be a lot of that in the film the plot wasnt what i expect from the disney channel preview so that could account for some of my disappointment
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sixth escapade for freddy krueger in which he have finally manage to kill off virtually every youth in springwood now he want to oaden his horizon and spoiler need a family member in order to do it.a failure a a horror movie because it simply aint scary at all work well a a dark macae black comedy to tell you the truth freddy krueger have now be strip of all of his ability to chill this viewer too many wisecrack thats for sure the actor arent interest save robert englund a always and an obviously slum yaphet kotto and there be simply far too many visual effect the finale be ok but doesnt provide a many spark a i think one might hope.in add a new twist to the familiar dream killer story it provide englund the opportunity to do more nonmakeup scene than ever before.there be cameos worth note a joint cameo by thencouple roseanne and tom arnold that be devoid of entertainment value an appropriate appearance by veteran shockrocker alice cooper and a funny cameo by johnny depp that also sort of acknowledges the pop icon that he have become.film debut of breckin meyer who play spencer.one of the best thing about it be the replaying of key scene from early entry during the closing credits./
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ok im italian but there arent so many italian film like this i think that the plot be very good for of the film but the final be too simple too predictable but it the only little mistake the consequence of love in my opinion have great sequence in particular at the beginning and great soundtrack id like very much the lighting work on it the best thing on it be a great great actor you know if your name be al pacino now everybody would have still be talk about this performance but it only a great theater italian actor call toni servillo yes someone tell me this film and this kind of performance it too slow it so boring so many silence but i think that this components it fantastic it the right way for describe the love story between a very talented young girl the granddaughter of the italian actress anna magnani olivia and the old mysterious man toni one of my favorite italian film
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if you only see one ernest movie in your life make it this one this be by far the best in the series with it nonstop laugh and clever humor that be suitable for all age the other ernest flick be good too but most people tend to get tire of him quickly not me however .in this movie ernest p. whorrel be assigned jury duty for a murder case the murderer nash just happen to look exactly like our bumble hero ernest mr. nash find this a good opportunity to escape from jail by knock him out switch identity with him and so we get to see how ernest reacts in the slammer.a great flick if you havent already see it watch it
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an idiotic dentist find out that his wife have be unfaithful so no new story line here however the author manage to create a stupid disgusting film if you enjoy watch kid vomit or see a dentist imagining that he be pull all his wife teeth out in a bloody horrortype go see or rent the film if not move on to something else my fair lady anyone
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the first cube movie be an art movie it set up a world in which all the major archetype of mankind be represent and show how they struggle to make sense of a hostile world that they couldnt understand it be on the nonliteral level a man vs. cruel nature plot where the individual who represent innocence and goodness come through in the end triumph to face a new indefinable world beyond man petty squabble a world where there be no more struggle but peace i rat cube a out of and it a movie that be never mean to have any sequels.the second movie hypercube be a massive disappointment some of the idea be kind of cool but in the context of the original movie both the story and the setting make no sense and have no meaning still for be fairly entertain i rat it a out of .the third movie cube zero while ignore the second play like a vastly inferior commercial bmovie rehash of the first sans the symbolism there be no homage or tribute here there be only rip off the same kind of plot with some element idiotically alter like have letter instead of prime number between the cube an idea which show more clearly than anything else that this be a ripoff with absolutely no originality and nothing to say .that we see something from behind the scene mean nothing because the watcher be just part of the big bad experiment the architect of which we hear nothing of and in this movie those who get through to the exit like kazan do at the end of the first movie be just kill where the bleep be the sense in that thats just flippin stupid im glad i didnt pay to see this.the production value and act in cube zero be not too bad but the story and the idea be so utterly devoid of any inspiration that this movie can only get from me a rating of out of
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i have just watch this movie on dvd late this morning and be so disappointed that even think it be a good joke for the audience in other word the creator plan to make comedy not drama howsoever at the end i realize that mr. tony giglio be earnest about this movie it a pity because the dialogue be ridiculous the acting be poor and lifeless the story be a fishy tale poor ryan phillippe despite of his effort his character in the movie remain probably his bad performance what to say for jason statham lack of all kind of skill to develop the role which be an imaginary fiction ... for this reason i vote
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i believe shakespeare explain what i just read beautifully me think he the lady doth protest too much the whole thing sound to me a if the author be try to convince himself he sit profane literature writing from the same time period but not connect with the bible a number of time however i can think of at least three reference off the top of my head which lend historical accuracy to event contain in the bible anyone can skew data prove anything they like but it doesnt make it true custom change word definition change over time look at english german where it be very obviously a common root nothing stay the same it always grow and change the bible have many different translation but the king james version be the one ive find to be the best when it come to any kind of research in the king jam version you will notice there be certain word write in italic these word have be add by the translator and can be drop the mean of the entire verse change write from around the time of christ be write without space without punctuation without paragraph without numeric verse these writing look like one long word the translator add all of the above for example how would you read this godisnowhere do you read it a god be nowhere or do you read it a god be now here same string of letter two entirely different meaning this be why many biblical researcher use a lexicon to assist them in translation a it provide a word for word translation from the original arabic greek or heew depend on the language in which the scripture be originally write it also interest to note that when translate into symbolic logic you can prove god exists but you can not prove he doesnt exist in the end i just love listen to people who think they be so smart that they be qualify to judge the almighty talk about ego put soapbox away god bless maegi
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i presume you be here for damage to your mental circuitry valmike nelson make me watch this ... he mention it in his book movie megacheese i ask myself why would mike nelson steer me wrong i now know why the bot never trust mike nelson.the music be by john williams which be probably part of his payment to the devil in fact im sure anyone who work on this movie be probably in league with ol slewfoot or be now curse from the executive director down to the guy who run the cater truck outside the studio dont watch ... for the love of god ... dont watch not even make a copy and show someone else will uncurse you ... im doom now i understand this i accept this but save yourself ...
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this movie be flippin awful .... i want those hour of my life back for god sake stay far away from this awful crumb ball movie at all cost it not worth mention the title but the rating on this movie be pretty generous for a vomit scum movie like this and where do i begin the dumb a kid in the movie ..... the zero plot or story ... the gardenvariety college/frat boyesquire scene of towel slapping or the very bad act teen angst innuendo my god it never end ..... i remember think i would have rather kiss the movie theater floor then sit through this one again.but what do you expect most people with the ain power to look up review be not go to be the target audience here at all so go see pirites again or the jet lee one if your debate to yourself look this movie will just cost you your soul your money your energy and your ain cell heed the warning
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this be a movie that i can watch over and over and never ever get tire of it it have lot of laugh gun action crime good one liner and a decent plot with an over the top donald sutherland in a rather comedic role a an assasain tia carerra look as hot a she ever do and can act too thomas ian griffin be great in this a the lead character max a dea agent diane be the fbi agent play by carerra and john lithgow from frazier on tv play the bad guy livingston the plot center around max and diane try to capture livingston while they fight and argue with each other about who get the money for the respective agency throw into the mix the assassain sutherland who pretty much have all the good one liner this be the perfect crime caper there be the usual love story but play very differently than you would think by carerra and griffith you also have the russian mafia italian mafia and chineese mafia here throw into the mix the film be shoot in boston where you have some great shot and local great photography and music in this film this movie be just the epitome of a crime comedy it have everything that one could ever want check out sutherland toilet in a particular scene very unusual this film be a riot and will make you laugh real hard plus for me
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if you like to see animal be skin alive their head smash dog throat be crush my men stomp on them then this one be for you but if you be somewhat normal and dont need to see real footage of animal cruelty pas this one up this movie try to shock the viewer and it sure does.with the animal snuff at the beginning and the killing of baby in the movie fake at least it be enough to make myself turn it off.ive see movie like this before that show slaughterhouse footage btk movie and this kind of footage should not be allow in a horror movie.we watch gore and horror because we know it just makeup and special effect so we shouldnt sit down to watch a movie and see the real killing of animal it not what we rent the movie for.if anything there should be a large warning label put on these type of garbage movie so people win t be surprise by it a a very hardcore horror fan this one turn my stomach the entire movie cast and crew need their head check
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another spanish movie about the civil war this time be tell about the story of carol lovely play by dã©butant clara lago a little girl which come to live to a little spanish village from new york it be such an initiating trip and soon shell find about the injustice of the human race their stupid fight and conflict their contradictions.imanol uribe make his best film since dã­as contados with such a sober pulse a beautiful photography and a nice script he try not to take part in the conflict he just show u some fact and let u decide ok the fact be explicit enough to make u decide in which band be we in and he take a huge advantage of the presence and the freshness of the young star couple clara lago and juan josã© ballesta.a well care production.my rate
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a response to previous comment make by resident of the region where this motion picture be lensed one person suggest that the closing and destruction of the ocean view amusement park lead to a downturn in the surround neighborhood this be simply not true prior to the construction of interstate which bypass the ocean view area the primary route for traffic go through the heart of ocean view once the interstate be complete ocean view rapidly become a ghost town with business close up and an increase in crime this lead to a huge reduction in revenue for the park which also face new competition from nearby busch garden in williamsburg meanwhile in the past few year the city of norfolk have do a remarkable job of foster redevelopment so that the area have become a soughtafter location for construction of highend housing.it have also be say that the destruction footage of the roller coaster be use in the film rollercoaster this be also untrue footage be shoot of two coaster car careen off the ride for that film but the actual explosion and collapse be exclusive to death of ocean view park.as to the film itself the storyline of a supernatural force in the water adjacent to the park be certainly silly but somewhat typical for bgrade movie of the time with the cast involve there should be no surprise that the scenery be gnaw in almost every scene by the primary actor i dont believe this film be intend to be another citizen kane i believe playboy be experiment with a new nonnude format to determine if this be an area for the company to expand into apparently not a strange force in the water cause strange event in an old amusement park probably sound good at the conference table but prove unmanageable in execution the roller coaster and the rest of the park be destine for the wreck ball anyway let come up with a weird way to justify an explosive demise .for the casual movie viewer this would be a see once and forget about it film except for diana canova fan but for the thousand of people who live in the region and have fond memory of the park this movie be like a walk down memory lane for footage of the park as well a old footage of downtown norfolk the first harborfest and old dominion university even a limited release of this film on dvd would be welcome
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i be expect a lot from mr.amitabh bachans role of sarkar but be disappointed be a ram gopal vermas direction i be not ready for this kind of a movie sarkar be suppose to be a strong character but the movie show that amitabh be too dependent on others power rather than his there be a movie in tamil call nayakan base on the theme of god father and kamala hassan have play the lead the movie be well direct and the power till the end remain in the hand of kamala hassan not his son amitabh bachan seem to be too helpless in the movie and he just accept everything instead of change thing the movie fail to show the strong impact of god father
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a trio of buddy sergeant all in the british army carouse awl their way across imperial india intensely loyal to each other they meet their great most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult it demented implacable guru now they must rely on the lowly servant of the regiment the water carrier gunga din to save score of the queen soldier from certain massacre.based more on the three musketeer than kipling classic poem this be a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in hollywood golden year of fill with suspense humor while keep the romantic interlude to the bare minimum it grip the interest of the viewer and hold it right up to the sentimental conclusion.it be practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuance of the three star cary grant victor mclaglen douglas fairbanks jr. a they be really all third of a single organism inseparable and to all intent purpose indistinguishable however this diminish nothing of the great fun in simply watch them have a glorious time it interesting to note parenthetically that mclaglen boast of a distinguished world war one military career fairbanks would have a sterling record in world war two mostly in clandestine affair earn himself no few than honorary knighthood after the conflict while grant reportedly work undercover for british intelligence keep an eye on hollywood nazi sympathizer the real acting laurel here should go to sam jaffe hearteaking in the title role he infuse the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage make the last line of kipling poem ring true he be unforgettable.montague love be properly stalwart a the regimental major whilst eduardo ciannelli be evil incarnate a the thuggee guru the rest of the cast joan fontaine robert coote lumsden hare be effective but have little to do movie maven will recognize cecil kellaway in the tiny role of miss fontaines father.the film pick it villain well the demonic thuggee cult worshiper of the hideous bloodsoaked kali hindu goddess of destruction be the bane of indian life for century ritualistically strangle up to victim a year in the british military in cooperation with a number of princely state succeed in ultimately suppress the religion henceforth it would remain the stuff of novel nightmare
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this movie pretty much suck im in the army and the soldier depict in this movie be horrible if your in the military and you see this movie youll laugh and be upset the entire movie because of the way they act a a squad it be ridiculous they act like a bunch of normal people with army uniform on not know what to do it be a pretty gory movie id have to say the least there be a couple scene where they try to make you jump id recommend see it if you be bore and want to see a violent gory movie it will be a good movie also if your not in the military i also would have to say i like the first one good than this one
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if you watch pulp fiction dont see this movie this movie be not funny this be the bad parody movie ever this be a poor attempt of parody films.the cast be bad the film be bad this be one of the bad picture ever made.i do not recommend plump fiction i prefer the original pulp fiction by the great quentin tarantino this be one of the bad parody film ever made.plump fiction be not a good movie it be not funny it be so dumb and vulgar
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i go to see passion of mind because i usually get a kick out of the genre of alternate reality romance i.e slide door me myself i etc but this be the bad one ive ever see i have to force myself to sit through it i didnt even stay through the credit which be unheard of for me.the magical realism be completely miss because demi moore be grim and the lover she be twotiming be guy who usually play villain though each be kind of sexy and appealing.there be actually a psychological explanation provide for the dual live with a distasteful frisson of the elektra complex maybe the magic shouldnt be explain for this genre to work originally write //
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i think that rotj be clearly the best out of the three star war movie i find it surprising that rotj be consider the weak installment in the trilogy by many who have vote to me it seem like rotj be the best because it have the most profound plot the most suspense surprise most emotional especially the end and definitely the most episodic movie i personally like the empire strike back a lot also but i think it be slightly less good than than rotj since it be slowermoving be not a episodic and i just do not feel as much suspense or emotion a i do with the third movie.it also seem like to me that after read these surprising review that the reason people cite for rotj be an inferior film to the other two be just plain ludicrous and be insignificant reason compare to the sheer excellence of the film a a whole i have hear many strange reason such a a because yoda die b because bobba fett die c because small ewoks defeat a band of stormtroopers d because darth vader be revealedi would like to debunk each of these reason because i believe that they miss the point completely first off who care if bobba fett die if george lucas want him to die then he want him to die dont get me wrong i be fan of bobba fett but he make a few cameo appearance and it be not lucas intention to make him a central character in the film that star war fan make him out to be his name be not even mention anywhere in the movie ... you have to go to the credit to find out bobba fetts name judge rotj because a minor character die be a bit much i think ... secondly many fan do not like yoda die sure it be a momentous period in the movie i be not happy to see him die either but it make the movie more realistic all the good guy cant stay alive in a realistic movie you know otherwise if all the good guy live and all the bad guy die this movie would have be tantamount to a cheesy saturday morning cartoon another aspect to this point about people not like yodas death .. well nobody complain when darth vader strike down obi wan kenobi in a new hope many consider a new hope to be the best of the trilogy why be obi wan death okay but yodas not ... hmmmmmmmmmmmm .... another reason i just can not believe be even state be because people find cute ewoks overpower stormtroopers to be impossible that be utterly ridiculous i can not believe this one first off the ewoks be in their native planet endor so they be cognizant of their home terrain since they live there if you watch the movie carefully many of the tactic the ewoks use in defeat the stormtroopers be through excellent use of their home field advantage since you live in the forest all your life i hope you would have learn to use it to your advantage they have swing vine rope log set up to trip those walker and other trap the stormtroopers be highly disadvantage because they be outnumber and not aware of the advantage of the forest the only thing they have be their blaster to add it be not like the ewoks be battle the stormtroopers themselves they be heavily assist by the band of rebel in that conquest i think that if the stormtroopers be to have defeat a combination of the star war heros the band of rebel as well a the huge clan of ewoks with great familiarity of their home terrain that would have be a great upset lastly if this scene be still unbelievable to you .. how about in empire strike back or in a new hope where there be several scene of a group consist of just han solo chewbacca and the princess be shoot at by like ten stormtroopers and all their blaster miss while the hero be in full view and not only that the hero of course always hit the stormtroopers with their blaster the trooper must have very very bad aim then at least in empire strike back the battle of endor be much more believable since you have two army pit each other not hero against a legion of stormtroopers dont believe me check out the battle at cloud city when our hero be escape landos base or when our hero be rescue princess leia and be shoot at somehow they miss a han solo and luke be try to exit the death star.the last reason that i care to discuss others be just too plain ridiculous for me to spend my time here be that people do not like darth vader be reveal well in many way that be a major part of the plot in the movie luke be try to find whether or not darth vader be his father annakin skywalker it would have be disappoint if the movie have end without luke get to see his father face because it make it complete by annakins revelation it symbolize the transition darth vader underwent from be possess by the dark side in his helmet and to the good person he be annakin skywalker by remove the helmet the point be that annakin die convert to the light side again and that be what the meaning of the helmet removal scene be about in fact thats be what i would have do in that scene too if i be luke father ... isnt that what you would have do if you want to see your son with your own eye before you die and not in a mechanized helmet on another note i think a subconscious or conscious expectation among most people be that the sequel must be bad even if it be well that precede movie be another reason that rotj do not get a many accolade a it deserve i never go into a film with that deception in mind i always try to go into a film with the attitude that well it might be good or bad that the original .. but i can not know for sure .. let see that way i go with an open mind and do not dupe myself into think that a clearly superior film be not as good a it really was.i be not sure who criticize these movie but i have ask many college student and adult about which be their favorite star war movie and they all tell me except for one person that say that a new hope be their favorite that it be rotj i believe that the result on these poll be appal and quite misleading.bottom line the return of the jedi be the best of the trilogy this movie be the only one of the three that keep me rivet all throughout it minute there be not a moment of boredom because each scene be either suspenseful excite surprising or all of the above for example the emotional light saber battle between luke and his father in rotj be good than the one in the empire strike back any day finally i hope people go see the phantom menace with an open mind because if fan start look for nitpicky insignificant detail or see it as just another sequel to trash the movie such a this movie stink because luke be not in it then this meritorious film will become another spectacular movie that will be the subject of derision like rotj suffer unfortunately
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crossfire remain one of the best hollywood message movie because unlike the admirably intentioned gentleman agreement which it beat to theatre by a few month it choose to send it message via the form an excellent noir thriller rather than have an outrage star constantly say it because im jewish isnt it it much easy to get the message that hate be like a loaded gun across when the dead body be actual rather than metaphorical somewhat shamefully the ief featurette on the warner dvd doesnt mention that novelist richard brook disown the film over the shift from a homophobic murder to an antisemitic one but it interesting to note that while the victim be kill primarily because he be jewish there little doubt in sam levenes performance that the character be in fact also gay â– not a mincing caricature but theres definitely a two lose soul aspect to his scene with george cooper confuse soldier there not much of a mystery to who the murderer be even though the killing be carry out in classic noir shadow the body language of the killer be instantly recognisable but then the film have it character drift to the same conclusion before the halfway point the tension come from prove it and save the fall guy.theres an element of ealing film to the gang of soldier team together to get their buddy out of a fix you could almost see that aspect a a blueprint for hue and cry but the atmosphere be pure rko noir set over one long swelter night the film have a great look fill with deep dark black and shadow bear a much out of economy a style it cut back on lighting time and allow director edward dmytryk more time to work with the actor and the excellent cast make the most of the fine script a laidback but quietly charismatic robert mitchum robert young maigretlike detective gloria grahame tramp and the perpetually creepy paul kelly a her compulsive liar admirer a guy who try on story the way other people try on tie but the lasting impression be of robert ryans excellent performance a a guy who could do with a good leave alone a he do his best to help the wrongly accuse man all the way to death row a big surprise hit in a a reward dmytryk and producer adrian scott find themselves investigate by the huac which itself have a notable tendency to target jew so much for crusadingâ…
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this movie basically be a very well make production and give a good impression of a war situation and it effect on those involve it always interesting to see the story from the other side for a change this movie concentrate on a group of german soldier who after fight in the north africa campaign be send to stalingrad russia where one of the most notorious and bloody battle of ww ii be be fought.its interest to see the other side of this battle since we mainly just always see the german simply a the villain in this movie those villain be give an humane face and voice and it sort of make you realize that the only true enemy in war be war itself and not necessarily those who youre fight against at first it kind of hard to concentrate on the movie because you always just have in the back of your mind that the german be the evil villain but of course you get accustom to it quickly and you soon adapt the german a the main character of the movie and you even start to care and be interested in them.the way this story be tell isnt however the best it hard to keep track of the story at time a it jump from the one sequence and location to the other the movie isnt always logic in it storytelling and feature a bit too many sequence that remain too vague it also be most of the time pretty hard to keep the character apart and see who be who it doesnt always make this movie an easy on to watch but than again on the other hand there be plenty enough sequence and moment present in this movie to make it worthwhile and an interesting one just not the most coherent one around in that regard hollywood movie be always good than european movies.the production value be high and feature some good look set and location though the movie wasnt even shoot in russia itself it help to create a good war time situation atmosphere.the character be mostly interesting although perhaps a tad bit formulaic but i dont know for some reason formulaic character always work out fine in war movie and strenghtens the drama and realism it also help that theyre be play by well cast actor all of the actor arent the best known actor around thomas kretschmann be also at the time still a fairly unknown actor but each of them fit their role well and give it character an unique face and personality.all in all not the best or most consistent ww ii drama around but definitely worth a look due to it original approach of the german side of the battle of stalingrad and it good production values./
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so i rent this from netflix because somebody give me roger eberts book i hat hat hat this movie and he give this one a rare zerostar rating in the book and say at the end of his original review mad dog time should be cut up to provide free ukulele pick for the poor so i figure from ebert say that i would see if it be really as bad a he say it be i know most society say not to listen to critic and to judge for yourself but i could not express how much i hat this piece of junk like ebert do and never since eberts review of rob reiners north where he say he hat that movie ten time have i ever hear such a illiant hatred movie review here we have richard dreyfus a a gangster which i dont think it would be terrible to see dreyfuss a a gangster if the screenplay for this movie be write well but above all the other thing that be awful about this movie i can certainly tell you the script be not write well at all while the movie start off with jeff goldblum say that he enjoy watch dreyfusss girlfriend while dreyfus be at a criminal hospital the movie start off with some decent dialog after the opening credit but after that first or minute the other minute just consists of dumb character talk pointless garbage for second then someone get shot then there be a whole bunch of joke about dreyfus be mentally ill. haha not funny then we get an unpleasant and unfunny scene parody frank sinatra my way sang by gaiel byrne apparently to insult dreyfus of course because the screenplay be write on the level of a sixth grader dreyfus shoot byrne over five time and byrne just will not die be we a the audience suppose to even care or find that mildly funny i can certainly tell you i do not care or find that funny not only be i disappoint in dreyfus who i admire much a an actor for produce and star in this tripe but i be also extremely disappointed in jeff goldblum because this be release the same year that independence day be the top grossing film of the year and ultimately one of the most successful film in history do goldblum feel that independence day would be a flop and then just take the next role that be offer to him to make some money if independence day be a bomb what do an oscar winner and the star of two of the big money make film in history find remotely enjoyable about this the opening sequence of mad dog time say that the movie be set on another planet i only wish now that i have waste minute watch this trash that it would have stay and open in theater on the planet where it supposedly take place so that way everyone on this planet would never here of this ridiculous waste of minute out of my life that i will never get back ebert say the movie should have be cut up be not good enough i be afraid every copy of mad dog time should have gasoline pour all over it and be light on fire i have yet to top a bad movie i have ever see because this one have win it honor a the bad movie ever
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what a boring film to sum it all up it be basically just nana patekar beat up his daughterinlaw karisma kapoor while she try to flee from the village with her son can someone say bore the concept wasnt too bad but it be poorly execute the canadian locale and some of the village scene be nicely shot however overall the cinematography come up short the story could have be great but the movie just seem to drag on there be only so much stupidity a person can take let alone three bloody hour of it.the best part of the whole movie be the song ishq kamina and that be only five minute long other than that this movie be a piece of crap
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rant start i didnt want to believe them at first but i guess this be what people be talk about when they say south korean cinema have peak and may even be go downhill after the surprisingly fun and move monster movie gwoemul aka the host of which actually succeed in make a sharp satire out of a bmovie genre successive korean blockbuster have become more and more generic even though their budget mainly spend on special effect have become more and more fantastic do south korean moviemakers really want to squander all the audience and investor goodwill which their industry have build up since the eakout film shiri/swiri by make a whole series of big budget mediocre movie like mainland china do rant end the only reason i can fathom for make this movie be to dupe the investor into finance the most detailed and fluid digital animation of a korean/ east asianstyled dragon i have see to date for the final scene now if they have introduce that dragon at the beginning and give it more personality and purpose like in the dragonheart the movie might have have a few more redeeming quality other than have lot of digitally animate dragon remember dungeon dragon in hasnt anyone learnt that the trick be not how much special effect you use but how well you use it i hope there be more and good korean legend they can use because they have just kill a lot of international interest in korean dragon legends with the way they film this one.in short i agree with all the negative review go before and wonder how korean felt about have their folk anthem arirang be play at the very end a a creature feature i would have give it at least star out of if the special effect or action sequence have be worth it but ive see many video game with good camera work and script just less dragon
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a a native chinese i can not accept this kind of idea that some people must die for a good world i say well world because it be a lie that chinese people have be indoctrinate for thousand year i guess most western audience may dont know qin shihuang mean the first emperor the king in this film be the most notorious tyrant in ancient china the tianxia chinese word be speak by the king mean the land and the people speak from his mouth be totally lie from then on one after another all the king in ancient china speak the same thing but very few of them do a what they said.another fact be qin shihuangs empire only last about twenty year before it be destroy by people.well i do like the beautiful scene of this movie but it can not make me accept the idea that people should die for a tyrant
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this have a great cast with bigname star like tyrone power henry fonda randolph scott nancy kelly henry hull and brian donlevey and a bunch more lesserbutknown name with short role it also have technicolor one of the few movie make with it in .now the bad news ....... regrettably i cant say much positive for the story it portray the james boys in a totally positive light .... and hollywood have do that ever since why these criminal be always show to be the good guy be beyond me this film glamorize them and make their enemy the railroad people into vicious human be the latter be exaggerate so much it be preposterous well thats the film world for you evil be good good be bad.hey hollywood heres a news flash the james boy be criminal really look it up
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i remember watch this series avidly every saturday even it be the highlight of the week i love everything about it the location the costume the actor and the wonderful music by clannad i still have their legend album i love the way they solve the problem of michael praed leave by create another robin this time the earl of huntingdon i believe there be legend of several robin in medieval time another thing i love be the fact that it be fill with young actor im sure robin and his men would have young after all people didnt live that long in those day other robin always look too old kevin costner with his ridiculous accent look like robin granddad the only sad thing be the end it a shame they couldnt at least have do a one off special to tie up all the loose end and give it a happier end
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i dont normally write review but this film be special i couldnt turn it off i dont believe ive ever see a bad movie but there i sit watch it be like a horrible car wreck with blood flow all over the highway it be disgust but i couldnt turn away where do i start the movie seem to think it a sport thriller but it so utterly ridiculous it can only be a comedy but it not funny not even in a dumb/silly way it like watch your cousin try to act out a skit on family gettogethers it painful to watch but at least it only for a minute or two second string go on for over an hour whoever be involve with make this movie should not work again the write directing acting and everything be just terrible the problem be i cant describe how bad it be you just have to see it and im sure this will never be show again so unless you saw it youre out of luck i mean it be almost worth see just for the fact that it give me some appreciation for every other bad film ive see over my lifetime and for every film i see in the future that i cant stand i will think to myself well at least it wasnt bad a the second string
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few would argue that master animation director hayao miyazaki be one of the few to hold this ability. no too many be focus on john lassiters amaze ability to steal other movie plot turn them into pretty puppet show and then be laud a a genius but i digress miyazaki have give u film after film that deal with important mature issue usually ecologically theme and have an intelligent script that even the most jaded viewer who would normally despise any film that be animate could thoroughly enjoy if give the chance still miyazaki almost never forgets who will undoubtedly be in the audience of these movie children.that say i be at a loss to think of another filmmaker with this ability where else be you go to have a film where a three year old my nephew link will sit still throughout the move enthral a year old my niece amber love it all her own and able to appreciate the star power of frankie jonas and noah cyrus a year old my nephew aaron who review be of course it be good everything miyazakisan do be good a year old animation fan ought to tear by the powerful directing and gorgeous animation er that would be me and a year old woman my mother able to connect with the mother character and im bet the old chara too and love the cuteness of the child characters.and that be what i respect most about miyazakisan he seem to speak to his audience in a completely different way than the average filmmaker on the surface ponyo could be see a a simple story about a little fishgirl who get a taste of the human world and want to join it and the friend she make there a little boy name soske somewhat like the little mermaid but there be an entire different level at play here true to form miyazaki populate his film with intensely strong female character ponyos mother soskes mother the old lady in a nursing home be all genuine character with mind of their own and extremely strong willed.but the girl who take the cake be ponyo herself once she decide that she like the human world she simply use her own will to achieve her dream her father be try to keep her innocent and keep her a magical fish but young ponyo know what she want and become human out of simply her own determination once human she team up with her friend soske whom she love very much although maybe not as much a ham soske be ask to be the man of the house at age five when his mother lisa decide she have to help the people at the rest home where she work during a typhoon that have be inadvertently cause by ponyo on her quest to become human frankie jonas yes he relate to the jonas others can we just get past that please give perhaps the best performance in the film a young soske which be good since he have the most line his character be also strong will but also very respectful and friendly characteristic youre not likely to find in a child character on this side of the pacific.in the end ponyos father fujimoto must cope with his daughter decision and his estranges wifes wish to allow her to be human he hop that ponyo and soske will remember him fondly and once again miyazaki refuse to allow a character to become the stereotypical bad guy although miyazaki have for some reason receive some criticism for this it be honestly what make his movie magical and yet relatable no one in real life be completely a bad person all human be various shade of gray and that be exactly what miyazaki do with his character and then theres the animation itself in a time when cgi would certainly have help with the copious amount of effect shot in this film especially the water miyazaki have choose to incorporate no cgi whatsoever certainly the hand drawn animation be color by digital mean but every film in this be handdrawn and i for one be extremely grateful for that the character animation be extremely fluid and there even appear to be some lipsync go on quite unusual for an anime film the background seem to be render with colored pencil and have an effect all it own on the audience this be what animation use to look like and what it should look like in the end i find ponyo to be thoroughly enjoyable certainly not miyazakis best in my opinion that honor be still hold by kikis delivery service but still a star fun movie for the entire family
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attractive marjorie farrah fawcett live in fear after be accost by a lone biker she be mortally shake with the fact her attacker know her address a expect joe james russo the attacker force his way into marjories home and subject her to humiliate terror bruise and bloody marjorie manages to get an upper hand on her attacker knock the living daylight out of the jerk and render him helpless thanks to wasp spray in his eye and throat hog tie and batter himself joe try to explain himself to marjories roommate diana scarwid and alfrie woodard when they get home there be almost a hint of mercy but it be not come from marjorie should she continue to render her own punishment violence sexual abuse and rough language make for an r rating fawcett really get away from the ditsy roles that would forever stain her career kudos to director robert m. young
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i find it sad that just because edward norton do not want to be in the film or have anything to do with it people automatically think the movie suck without even watch it or give it a chance i really hope norton do not do this he be a fine actor and all but he scar people away from a decent movie.i find it entertain it wasnt mind blowing or anything with crazy special effect but it be not a bad it be fun to watch but yea definitely not a bad/horrible movie./
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i watch this movie on tv last night hop for a realistic account of what could happen if there be an outeak of some highly transmittable disease i be disappointed and i think the movie be garbage it do not seem real to me some of the acting be awful in particular that of the doctor she be about the bad ive see the whole thing play like a cnn bad case scenario even the obligatory disaster movie human relation bit didnt seem sincere i have see some disaster movie in particular those weather one which be actually so bad they be amuse this one be almost a bad but it be not even amuse it be tedious and boring.dont bother with this one
neg: 0.185, neu: 0.778, pos: 0.037, compound: -0.9573, 
for those out there that like to think of themselves a reasonably intelligent human being who love film have good attention to detail and enjoy indie movie with funny smartly write dialogue then this be a film for you.for those with a poor attention span high expectation and no ains .. well .. um .. you may get bore and find thing drag at times.this be a charming modest and well paced movie with the actor bestow a real sense of depth and warmth to their role i chuckle to myself pretty much the whole way through .. this film be a little gem
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the great caruso be the big hit in the world in and oke all box office record at radio city music hall in a year when most movergoers be stayathomes watch their new motorola television almost all recent box office figure be false because they fail to adjust inflation obviously todays movie will dominate in it cost c to at radio city c to c first run at loews palace in washington dc or c to c in neighborhood run what count be the number of people respond to the picture not unadjusted box office medium spin the genius of the great caruso be that the filmmaker take most of the actual life of enrico caruso really not a great story anyway and throw it in the trash instead of the movie focus be on the music thus mgm give u the best living opera singer mario lanza do the music of the bestever historic opera singer enrico caruso the result be a wonderful movie too bad lanza would throw his life and career away on overeat too fat to play the student prince edmund purdom take his place with lanzas voice dub in and with the formerly handsome and notfat lanza picture in the advertising if you want to see the great caruso it almost always on ebay for or less dont be put off by the low price a it reflect only the easy availability of copy not the quality of the movie
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i attend an advance screening of this film not sure of what to expect from kevin costner and ashton kutcher both have deliver less than memorable performance film while the underlie general storyline be somewhat familiar this film be excellent both costner and kutcher deliver powerful performance play extremely well off each other the human frailty and strength of their respective character be incredibly play by both the scene when costner confront kutcher with the personal reason why kutcher join the coast guard rescue elite be the film most unforgettable emotional moment the specific storyline be an education in itself depict the personal sacrifice and demand physical train the elite coast guard rescuer must go through in preparation of their only job responsibility ... to save life at sea the special effect of the rescue scene be extremely realistic and wow ... i havent see such angry sea since the perfect storm costar clancy brown hbos carnivale great to see him again play the captain of the coast guard kodiak alaska base in a strong convincing role a a leader with the prerequisite and necessary ice water in his vein the film wonderfully and finally give long overdue exposure and respect to the coast guard it have the audience applaud at the end
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i be not weapon expert but even i can see difference between u.s. army riffle in wwi and wwii in movie we can see private arm with m garand invent in year not authentic springfield aka silent death who privates use until wwii difference m can load time more ammunition and time more fire rate m be semi automatic springfield require reload after every shot little difference german army uniform have borrow from year too especially helmets german helmet until end of wwi have significant pike on top we can not see even one in movie and if we make little additional search in archive how much truthful be this true story i be surprise how much truthful can be film director in a pursuit of cheap propagation
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do you ever wonder what be the bad movie ever make stop wondering im tell you michael be it it be not heartwarming entertain or travolta at his best it just suck if i have kid i would let them watch deep throat before michael a soldout john travolta a washedup and bald william hurt and an about to die any time now jean stapleton highlight this turd of a film.but wait ... youll get to hear andie mcdowell sing yeah hollywood really s t all over u with this one
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the film begin with wheeler sneak into the apartment of his girlfriend her aunt edna may olivera person too talented for this film didnt like wheelera sentiment i can easily relate to the aunt decide to take this bland young lady aoad to get her away from wheeler they leave and wheeler invest in a revolution in a small mythical kingdom because they promise to make him their king at about the same time woolsey be in the same small mythical kingdom and he be make king so when wheeler arrive it be up to the boy to fight it out but they refuse because they be already friendswhich greatly disappoint the people a kill and replace king be a national pastime.i be a huge fan of comedy from the golden age of hollywoodthe silent era through the s. i have see and review hundred if not thousand of these film and yet despite my love and appreciation for these film i have never be able to understand the appeal of wheeler and woolseythe only comedy team that might be as bad a the ritz brother despite be very successful in their short career in hollywood cut short due to the early death of robert woolsey i cant help but notice that practically every other successful team do the same basic idea but much good for example there be many element of this film reminiscent of the marx brother film duck soup yet crack nut never make me laugh and duck soup be a silly and highly enjoyable romp at time woolsey talk a bit like groucho but his joke never have punchlines that even remotely be funny in fact he just seem to prattle pointlessly his only funny quality be that he look goofysurely not enough reason to put him on film additionally wheeler have the comedic appeal of a piece of cheesea piece of cheese that sing very poorly a missed opportunity be the old vaudeville routine later popularize by abbott and costello a who on first which be do in this film but it lack any spark of wit or timing in fact soon after they start their spiel they just end the routineso prematurely that you be leave frustrated i know that who on first have be around for many year and use by many team but i really want to see wheeler and woolsey give it a fair shot and give it their own twist.once again i have find yet another subpar film by this duo while i must admit that i like a few of their film mildly such a silly billy and the rainmakerswhich i actually give s to on imdb this one be a major endurance test to completesomething that i find happen all too often when i view the film of wheeler and woolsey where be all the humor
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i be really hop that this would be a funny show give all the hype and the clever preview clip and talk about hype i even hear an interview with the show creator on the bbc world today a show that be oadcast all over the world.unfortunately this show doesnt even come close to deliver all of the joke be obvious the kind that sound kind of funny the first time you hear them but after that seem lame and they be not give any new treatment or twist all of the character be onedimensional the acting be well mediocre im be nice it the classic cbc recipe one that always fails.if youre muslim i think you would have to be stupid to believe any of the white character and if youre white youd probably be offend a little by the fact that almost all of the white character be portray a either bigoted ignorant or both not that make fun of white people be a problem most of the good comedy be root in that it only a problem when it isnt funny a in this show.canada be burst with funny people so many that we export them to hollywood on a regular basis so how come the producer of this show couldnt find any
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first of all mexican werewolf in texas be not a werewolf movie this title be bullcrap the story be actually about a chupacaa that kill all the local villager in the little town of furlough in texas i suppose the distributor rename the original title so that it would make some extra buck or something and i guess it actually work because thats the reason why i buy this piece of crap it sound so stupid anyway the movie isnt any good actually it bloody awful but i didnt expect anything else when i buy it it a low budget horror movie with a chupacaa monster if you enjoy low budget horror with bad dialog actor and some gore then you should check into this movie but i must warn you this movie be really baaaaaaad.this movie have some of the bad act i have ever see the actor try to hard and t it get completely ridiculous they almost never say a line in a normal way they always have this completely wrong tone about just everything they say it so stupid it almost look like a freakin parody it like they shoot each scene only one single time and be happy about it the bad of them all be the blond girl which be suppose to play a bimbo shes the bad of them all i have never see an actor as bad a her and ive see pteradactyl even when her boyfriend die she cant stop be a bimbo about it i hate her.some of the shot in this movie be actually quite good the one that where shot in the daytime be all pretty decent for a low budget project but most of the movie be shoot in the night when the chupacaa strike and the lighting be way too dark the gore scene be few and short but really grizzly and violent the effect be pretty hilarious really but thats the way i like it the chupacaa look pretty mess up and it easy to see that it a guy in suit.overall this movie should only be watch by extreme fan of low budget flick and it very important to not watch this alone because you will probably be bore to death i recommend watch this flick with your friend and some beer
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this movie be so godawful that it be literally a chore to watch i want to eject it from my vcr and throw it across the room but keep think foolishly that it would eventually get funny and then everything would be all right you lose we win yay this movie should be require view for anyone who even once entertain the thought that jackie mason be funny after that beat them ove the head with this movie until the tape crack and if youre even consider rent this turd or bad yet have i have one thing to ask of you didnt you even look at the cover i mean with crap like this you can tell with just a glance how bad it be oy vey this movie suck
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the symbolic use of object form edit the position of character in the scene ... these be all use with such joyous abandon by hitchcock that you can really see what a fertile genius he have the way the wife move from one corner of the ring to the other a the fight progress the editing when the wedding ring be place on her finger ... while these may seem a bit obvious by today standard in the silent era they speak volume about the story without a word be speak even the title have a least four meaning that i can see the box ring the wedding ring the acelet the lover buy and the love triangle at the heart of the story
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i find this movie to be very good in all area the acting be illiant from all character especially ms.stone and morissey tramells character just get smart and more psychologically twist by the minute the plot be interest even though this movie be more for the mind playing between the main character and how catherine continue her write with new way and twist for her novel the setting be also fabulous and the whole atmosphere of the movie be that mysteriousthriller like masterpiece go see this film now it deserve good than what it get from the audience which be mislead by some faulty terrible review about the movie before it even start ..... you wont regret itif you go see it ...
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rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movie this have all the appearance of a jolly project for robert redford a he get to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine.the story be as light a powdered snow with redford smalltown boy david chappellet what kind of lead name be that who with his eye on the prize of olympic glory get up the nose of in no particular order his coach father and teammate woman be a mere sideshow in his insular world a evidence by a fairly distasteful pickup scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of heaven above a freethinking independent woman play by camilla sparv the skiing sequence be fine with some good stuntwork involve numerous bump and scrape on the piste but their effectiveness be dim by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of ski event down to the present day plus im not convince that the winter olympics have the same mass identification with the general public a the summer game so that when redford eventually win his gold medal in the final reel i couldnt really be that excited for him one way or another.of the actor redford best profile forward doesnt need to do much and indeed doesnt while gene hackman do well with equally meagre material m sparv do well a the chief female interest well who treat redford the way hes doubtless treat every other woman in his chauvinistic way.in truth though there a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequence dont fully compensate and you dont care a fig for any of the lead character one of those film where the actor probably enjoy make it more than the viewer do watch it
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i would recommend this film to anyone who be search for a relaxing funfilled thoughtprovoking movie the absence of sex vulgarity and violence make for a most pleasant evening i especially enjoy the buffalo scene but thats probably because i live a short distance from there even so this film could have be produce in any city it the theme thats so important here im just grateful that manna from heaven drop down on u try it ... youll like it
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this be an art film that be either make in or the national film preservation foundation say and imdb say regardless of the exact date the film definitely appear to be very indicative of this general time periodwith some camerawork and pop art stylings that be pure late searly s.the film consists of three simple image that be distort use different weird camera trick these distort image be accompany by music and there be absolutely no dialog or plot of any sort this be obviously intend a almost like a form of performance art and like most performance art it interesting at first but quickly become tiresome the film to put it even more bluntly be a total bore and would appeal to no one but perhaps those who make the film their family and friend and perhaps a few people just too hip and with it to be understand by u mortal
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i read the book and saw the movie both excellent the movie be diamond among coal during this era liebman and selby dominate the screen and communicate the intensity of their character without flaw this film should have make them star shame on the studio for not put everything they have behind this film it could have easily be a franchise release on dvd be a must and a worthy remake would revive this film look for it in your tv guide and if you see it list no matter how late watch it you wont be disappoint do yourself another favor read the book same title itll blow you away time have change dramatically since those day or at least we like to think they have
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a drifter look for a job be mistake for a hit man in a small wyoming town lead to all kind of complication cage be perfectly cast a the unlucky schmuck hop to make a quick buck and get out of town but find he cant escape the title town hopper do what he do best play a psycho know a lyle from dallas the real hit man walsh a a crooked sheriff and boyle a a femme fatale round out the fine cast the script by others john and rick dahl contains delicious twist and turn and johns direction create a terrific neo noir atmosphere witty and very entertain it suck the viewer in from the start and never let up
neg: 0.052, neu: 0.752, pos: 0.196, compound: 0.9726, 
i really like this movie i have see several gene kelly flick and this be one of his best i would actually put it above his more famous american in paris sometimes it seem the story get lose in gene kelly movie to the wonderful dance and song number but not in this movie it be definitely worth rent
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although promote a one of the most sincere turkish film with an amateur cast icecream i scream be more like a caricature of sincerity.the plot open with the dream of ali a travel icecream salesman in a western anatolia town in which he see himself become successful use the same marketing method of big icecream company he dream of play in his product tv commercial with beautiful model in bikini dance around him a his dream turn into a nightmare he wake up with a big erection next to his gargantuan wife who reject to make sex with him for year with no apparent reason be it because he be not successful in his job apparently because he say he be sell well in the old day when there be no pressure from global icecream company but this be what he say we actually dont see him suffer that much he still sell good travel the neighboring village while his apprentice stay at the shop sell icecream to the people in the town ali blame big company for use sweetening and color agent while he be use real sahlep powder root of mountain orchid ali buy a motorbike with a bank loan to be a travel vendor and give ad to a local tv channel which prefers to oadcast even the news bulletin in local dialect his wife be not fond of his way of do business they always quarrel and ali threaten her that he may do very bad thing in a moment of frenzy.in a very successful day his lousy bike be steal by the misbehaving little boy of the town in search of his steal bike ali go to the police blame the big company for the theft but of course nobody take him seriously annoy by the nagging of his wife ali go to a tavern and become drunk one of his friend at his table a wannabe socialist of the town give a didactic speech and criticize globalism and with no real connection jump to the subject of global freezing ali return home and decides to kill himself with poison his wife wake up and prevents him an old neighbor take him to a night walk and advise him about life accord to him ali can even sell hot sahlep drink if the world face with global freezing when he return home suddenly we see that his wife understand his value treat him like a hero and praise his manhood meanwhile the thief boys get sick eat too much icecream they confess to the doctor that they steal ali bike ali forgives them and there come the happy end.although the plot may look promise in a way it the storytelling which make this film insincere and cheesy first the director doesnt show much of an effort to tell the story visually everything be base on dialog and the dialog never stop to show u that cinema be actually a visual art even alis trouble be not convincing because we dont see it we just understand it from his word the director market his film a a righteous fight of ali against big icecream company but there be nothing in the film about big company we dont see their pressure enough the film actually ridicule ali for believe that big company be behind the theft and when his motorbike be find it solve every problem ali become a happy and powerful husband not a real criticism of globalism.second the film be cheesy because of the crude humor maybe the people of that part of turkey be curse so much and make so many vulgar joke in their daily life but vulgar language and crude humor be not enough to make a film funny i may have accept it if they be both vulgar and clever but they be not clever joke at all they be just cheesy maybe im wrong maybe american people may like oriental version of american pie style humor but american pie never have any claim to be a nominee for the oscar or to have a political message if you think that you can laugh by just see a man big erection in his short and we have to endure this joke twice or an old villager woman say f k you then you may find this film funny
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stan laurel and oliver hardy be the most famous comedy duo in history and deservedly so so i be happy to see any of their film ollie be recover from a oken leg in hospital and with nothing else to do stan decides to visit him and take him some boil egg and nut instead of candy chaos begin with stan curiously pull ollies leg cast string and manage to push the doctor billy gilbert out the window cling on to it get ollie string up to the ceiling when the situation calm down stan get ollies clothes a the doctor want them both to leave and he also manage to sit on a syringe accidentally leave by the nurse fill with a sleep drug which come into effect while he be drive which you can tell be do with a car in front of a large screen fill with some likable slapstick and not too bad although repetitive and a little predictable classic comedy it isnt great but it a black and white film worth look at stan laurel and oliver hardy be number on the comedian comedian okay
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ok i have to admit that i quite enjoyed house of the dead despite it well document failing this however be the bad film i have see since demon at the door compare to datd the effect be vastly superior however the plot be weak the acting reminiscent of everyones favourite the porn film and the decision and action of the character consistently verge on the moronic i feel like try out uwe boll late cinematic outing just to get some sense of perspective over hotd i be not suggest that he be really the cure more a case of a different disease but when your sens have be insult in such an abhorrent manner the only way be up ok there it be i have manage the ten line minimum and shall waste no more of our time on the waste of celluloid that be house of the dead
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i be unlike most of the reviewer not bear in the s. i be bear on may th despite this my life be very much in the style of the s. when other kid have playstations i be play zelda on my ne etc now this movie hold a special place in my heart already despite me be only year old at the time of write this review i because of my s style early childhood watch many tv show and saw many movie that other kid didnt see and this movie be one of those and one of the great too.it start off in the los angeles home of alvin seville simon seville theodore seville and david seville david the chipmunk adoptive father be in a rush to get to the airport a he be go on a business trip around europe his taxi be almost there and the chipmunk help him pack while they be talk alvin express his will to come with dave and to see the world even though technically dave be only go to europe so to alvin apparently only america and europe qualify a the world david be leave the chipmunk in the care of miss miller much to the displeasure of the boy soon dave be off to the airport and the chipmunk be leave at home with miss miller later at a local cafã© the chipmunk be play a game of around the world in day against the chipettes brittany jeanette and eleanore after lose the game to brittany after have his hot air balloon eat out of the sky by a crocodile alvin get in an argument with brittany about who would really win a race around the world two diamond smuggler sit at a nearby table klaus and claudia furschtien overhear their argument and need a safe way of transport their diamond over the world decide to fool the child into deliver them for them they set up a race around the world where each team will have to deposit a doll in their own likeness secretely fill with diamond at drop offs around the world and receive a doll in the oppose team likeness secretely fill with the payment for the diamond to varify that they be there the winning team would then receive a dollar reward they do this because they believe that jamal an interpol agent who have be hot on their heel for some time now would never suspect them because they be just kid however this seem to be redundant because on their travel the kid do not have to go through any security check and be never even question about the doll i suspect that neither would klaus or claudia if they have take the diamond there personally and so begin a great adventure this film be a classic and i see no reason why anyone would not like it it feature great animation and topnotch voice act not to mention the kickass music pardon my french p my favorite song be without a shred of doubt the girl and boy of rock and roll an amazing rock song that can not be top it also my favorite moment in the film other notable song include get lucky kind of suggestive for a kid film eh and my mother as well a wooly bully and off to see the world not to mention the main theme of the movie heard during the opening credit perform by the royal london philharmonic orchestra the scene with my mother still ings a tear to my eye in relation to the song get lucky i first didnt think anything of it but when i grow old and learn about life it become clear that that song be a little bit suggestive that song along with the fact that the animator insist on the audience know the color of the chipettes panty this be especially apparent in the scene in egypt when the chipettes be be chase by the arabian prince men when eleanor lean over the side of the hot air balloon basket and her skirt defies gravity completely while this do nothing to draw from the overall quality of the film it one of those unexplained thing like why nobody in the world seem to mind that there be foot tall chipmunk walk around and speak in incredibly highpitched voice and treat them just like they would any human child anyway a bit after that scene the chipettes discover the diamond in the doll and decide to go find the chipmunk and get home the direction of janice karman perfect this movie a she and her husband ross bagdasarian jr. know the character good than anyone they even do the voice of the chipmunk and the chipettes ross do the voice for alvin and simon as well a dave and janice do the voice for all the chipettes and theodore speaking of male character that be voice by female voice actress nancy cartwright the voice of bart simpson make an appearance in this movie she play the part of the arabian prince a very small but important role the end be of course a happy one the crook have be catch the loose end tie and the film end when the child dave and miss miller be drive into the sunset alvin complain about not have get his dollar reward for win the race which annoy dave until he finally yell alvin and the screen fade to blackclassic end by the way i hope you find my review of this movie useful and if you havent see this flick give it a watch it worth the money this nostalgic classic from the s get a solid out of headin for the top dont you know we never stop believing now
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just when i think i would finish a whole year without give a single movie a bomb rating a friend ought this notorious turd to my house last night i fear the bad know it reputation and it be as godawful a id anticipate this be a mexicanmade mess dub into english and produce by k. gordon murray it get terrible set and effect and feature a rather frightening santa who doesnt operate at the north pole but instead from a cloud in out space and who doesnt have little elf help him make his toy but rather all different group of child from practically every country there be the opening sequence where st. nick chuckle heartily a he observe monitor show all these kiddy work hard while sing terrible holiday song in a variety of language seem to go on forever and with no story obviously this santa claus doesnt observe the child labor law eventually we get some nasty and slinky redsuited apprentice of the devil himself travel from hell to earth just to make little kid naughty and turn santas christmas eve round into a nightmare watch this movie be a trippy and twisted experience and it bound to frighten little child and turn them off santa claus and the holiday forever oddly the name of jesus christ be mention often in this christmas film which somehow make it all the creepier in the context of all the bizarre thing that be go on this easily make my personal list of the bad movie ive ever see but im sure thats nothing unique
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a be often the case when you attempt to take a plus page book and cram it into a two hour film a lot be lose here director john madden shakespeare in love take on an extremely ambitious project and almost pull it off what we get be a charming and emotionally compelling film that seem somehow incomplete.there be much about this film that be wonderful and fantastic the cinematography by john toll cinematographer for braveheart and legend of the fall winning oscar for both be splendid work with madden the choice for location on the greek island of kefallonia be superb and the visual image that come from photograph these majestic location in vary light be lush and beautiful madden also use numerous greek actor a the townspeople give the town an authentic feel the soundtrack be also terrific and the mandolin passage and vocal by the italian soldier be marvelous.madden do an excellent job of inging u the italian occupation and the romance which take up the great part of the film there be numerous sweet and funny moment throughout this segment however by the time the serious battle drama be ready to unfold there isnt much film leave in the reel and this component be extremely rushed and abeviated while the battle scene be well do subsequent to the battle it be obvious that increasingly great compromise be be make to keep the film from run too long by the time we reach the post war scenes the treatment be merely skeletal another negative be that the dvd be particularly sparse on features.nicholas cage be charm in the romantic lead a the sentimental captain who seem to have join the army to sing rather than fight when fight he must cage switch gear seamlessly into a man of fierce principle and resolve and somehow remain believable in both personas.penelope cruz whom the camera love give an uninspired performance a pelagia in part this be because cage so dominate the screen but cruz just seem too placid in a part that should be emotionally torrential and dynamic she allow the character to be objectify a corelli love interest rather than establish her a a powerful character in her own right.john hurt give a fantastic performance a the wise old doctor who know as much about human nature a medicine however christian bale seem a bit overwrought and stiff a pelagias fiancã©.i rat this film an despite some drawback this be a touching film that be well worth see the photography alone be worth the price of admission
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my father grow grow up watch george reef a superman and when i be a little kid he have episode on vhs and let me view them include this movie pass them down in the family if you will and i love it.clark kent and lois lane get send to a small town with and oil mine and from the mine emerge mole men radioactive and target by the town assume to be deadly and it up to superman to stop this mayhem.its just so wonderful and fun to view the old style special effect and sound the crew pull off such a beauty with such little technology george reef be my hero when i be a little kid and im now it just go to show how timeless and classic these adventure be
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this unpretentious horror film be probably destine to become a cult classic much much good than of the scream ripoffs out there i even hope they come up with a sequel
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i read the book before watch the movie and it leave me emotionally drain but i felt that it truly transport me to afghanistan a culture i know very little about i have great hope for this movie and it do not disappoint i watch this with someone who didnt read the book and he also enjoy it they have to shorten some thing in the movie but it be a well act and well shot film it leave you think about the movie long after it be over you feel for the character and their plight i highly recommend this movie to those who like emotionally drain drama and want to experience afghani culture there be some disturb scene not suitable for child to watch it be a heavy drama depict the horror of life under a restrictive regime
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year ago sara a young girl witness her parent be murder now a an adult she suffer from various mental ailment do i mention she have an imaginary friend this film lull the viewer not into a sense of tension mind you but rather a sense of sleepiness deathly bore i find it hard to sit through a i could feel my eyelid grow heavier and heavier with each endless minute of mindless prattle and suppose mystery be sara go crazy or be it the paranormal a good question would be who care and the answer to that no one no one at all skip this film save yourself some time well suit to do other more worthwhile tasks.my grade d
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in short if you want to watch burt reynolds best film than this one must be include if you dont like burt you may still like this if you love burt this may become one of your favorite movie of all time be from atlanta it do hit home but it also nice to see a cop/action/drama that take place somewhere other than ny city chicago miami or la the film be funny at point with good plot good performance from a great support cast every character be real the bad guy be not so one side they be really well think out a nice offbeat romance in the nd half it have some good old fashion shootouts fistfight no cgi thank god real action if clint eastwood do his best impression of a burt reynolds movie with every which way but loose any which way you can then burt respond with his best clint type flick with this it come off great
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i have watch love jones over thirty time it be one of the rare film that depict a love story about people who happen to be africanamericans the dialogue be realistically write and deliver with honesty it be so nice to see a film where the story line center on young professional africanamericans this be virtually an untapped market love jones be visually captivate as well the chemistry between lorenz tate and nia long will ing memory of past and present love the feeling of the film be jazz and blue and ings to mine the sensuality of a warm creamy hot chocolate with a splash of kahlua and butterscotch if you hadnt guess i love it
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the basic genre be a thriller intercut with an uncomfortable menageatrois fellowes have try to make a lot more out of this use the lie of the title in order to ing about all manner of small twist invariably design to surprise the character more than the audience.its really rather messy though fellowes doesnt seem interested present the thriller element in a fashion that will keep u seatedged rather his focus be on the moral predicament themselves.the dialogue be inconsistent stagey here vernacular there and with the constant surprise of realism undone by the occasional clichã©landmine though there be no fussing over the location so that the actor can get on with exist in their space the dreadful score cant create a further dimension and often work against the emotional momentum of give set piece theres also a very prosaic dare i say it british feel to the filming i didnt want to see a document of two successful middle class people catch in an extraordinary situation i want to see some sort of artful recounting of the story.finally it be in fact the story which let the rest down just a the element of suspense be rather flat so the story be an asymmetric sum of subplots of different shape and size woven a a vehicle for character examination wilkinson and watson support this metaessay with good performance and john warnabys ebullient colleague simon to wilkinson be a welcome foil for much of the owfurrowing.im disappoint not that it bad but that it could have be much well
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this be absolutely the best movie i have ever watch at the age of i be up late and ran across the movie it be on the usa channel gilbert godfreys up all night i will never forget at the time my friend and i be really struggle with different issue some sexual you know be a very rough and weird age it seem you be stick in between be a little girl and be a young lady this movie really help to answer a lot of question for me i now have a daughter that be have be search for a couple year for this movie if it ever do come out on dvd i would be the first to buy would recommend for any parent to watch this with their child when they reach that very rough and difficult age
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hole be an awesome movie i love it a lot and it one of my favorite film it one of the few flick produce by disney that isnt cheesy hole be generally a very cool motion picture i wish disney would make more picture like it hole be indeed a rare eed of disney flicker show that be cool dont get the wrong idea i dont mean to bad mouth disney but most of it stuff be aim towards kid and thats okay child deserve to have their entertainment too but disney have be guilty of try to appeal to the teen audience and they usually fail but not with hole it the type of movie anyone of any age can watch and enjoy and not once think it corny really it the kind of movie that even a lot of young hood might enjoy since there be character in it that they can relate to.holes do a good job of be a mix of good family entertainment but not be too cheesy and live a little on the edge i hope disney take more risk and make more edgy flick like this
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i can not hate on the show when the old and good tech tv have to hit the icks the channel be reformatted and new show step in attack of the show be the replacement for the screen saver with cohosts in the beginning they be kevin rise kevin pereira and sarah lane brendan moran come to be something of a cohost as well but he mostly do prerecorded piece for the show kevin rise decide to leave the show and eventually there be a contest to see who would be the third host but that didnt pan out for some reason.eventually i just learn this from this very imdb messageboard sarah lane and brendan moran move on because hey this be what i read the two get marry that be a big secret to me now there be a new female cohost the notashot my opinion olivia munn shes hide something in those top she wear while sarah lane have a perfect body and she wasnt afraid to show it.ahem sorry.attack of the show deal with everything young people want to know about it music movie comic book the internet and television this be whats great about the show if you dont want to bother with scour the net or waste time watch mtv you can get all you want on aots some segment and bit they do be funny they have regular guest and contributor who be in the industry as well a guest who range from insignificant internet star to actual big names.even though the host arent as geek a id like them to be i still have find attack of the show to be entertain even with it late lineup
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bad dcom i have see ever well maybe not as bad a smart house this be just bad the acting and story be fine but the effect suck they be so fake the only good fight scene be between the other and shen that be probably the only scene in which i be excited.overall i find this movie very boring and the film kind of end suddenly i will give it a four for brenda song who be a very funny actress and that one fight scene./
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it awful i cant believe that one of the great nonsense in the world can be a blockbuster and the favorite movie of million of people a movie which have no storyagain shahrukh khan have be appear on the screen with nothing new the same a usual he be try to make you cry by start scramble his head for thousand of timesi think this be to muchpretty zinta spouse to act the character of a pakistani girl i didnt know that there be enough facility in pakistan for the pakistani girl to do so many plastic surgery on their face and also there be enough make up facility and also i didnt know that an indian can cross the march between both countriesgo to pakistan and start dancing and singing may be pakistani soldier be sleep
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some people may call cooley high the same sort of thing a american graffiti but i wouldnt for starter in ag everyone be white whereas in ch theyre all black moreover this one have a motown soundtrack specifically the movie focus on several workingclass africanamerican student in chicago and their antic the movie deal mainly with home life and relationship in their apartment we see that there never any dad around but these young men always know how to live life to the fullest.one thing that really distinguish this movie from most other portrayal of black people be that the teenager in this movie be portray a very responsible worry about miss school two really funny scene be the gorilla scene and the one white guy in the movie but overall the main star be the soundtrack it be truly one of the best soundtrack in movie history we even have it on vinyl here at home a classic in the real sense of the word
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so wonderful so quirky so romantic so italian the film be so feather light you float off into it refract reality and you never want to return to the humdrum again a kitchen sink world of bakery and hairdresser and plumb but one that shimmer with a soft luminescence should the credit go to the screenplay or the direction take your pick theyre both faultless let me get back to that new york city that lie just beyond the look glass
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this film be quite simply illiant the cinematography be good the act superb and the story absolutely eathtaking this be the story of donald wood a white south african who think himself a liberal until he find out the reality of apartheid kevin kline be completely convince so much so that when donald wood himself appear on tv some year later i recognise him from kline portrayal denzel washington also turn in a masterful performance a ever.i urge you to watch this it be long but it be worth your patience because it tell such an incredible story remember folk this really happen
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i have recently see this production on dvd it be the first time i have see it since it be originally oadcast in and it be just as good a i remember at first a be worry it would seem old fashion and i suppose it be a little dated and very wordy a the bbc serial be back then i miss those wonderful costume drama that seem to be always on sunday afternoon back then but that aside it be a near perfect a it could have be i be a bit of a jane eyre purist a it be my favourite book and have never see another production that be a faithful to the book a this one i have recently reread the book as well and some of the dialogue be just spot on read the scene near the end where rochester question jane about what st john be like i notice their word be exactly reproduce on screen by dalton and clarke and do perfectly all the other production that have be do all seem lack in some way some even leave out the river family and their connection to jane altogether i also think this be the only production to include the gypsy scene do correctly.the casting be perfect zelah clarke be like jane be describe in the book small plain and dark and i disagree that she look too old timothy dalton may be a little too handsome but he be absolutely perfect a rochester portray every aspect of his character just right and act his sock off i agree with other comment that he even appear quite scary at time like in the scene when he turn around slowly at the church when the wedding be interrupt his expression be fantastically frighten but then in another favourite scene his joy be wonderful to see when jane run down the stair and into his arm the morning after they declare their love for one another a love that be wonderfully portray and totally believable oh to be love by a man like that there be a couple of scene that be strangely miss however like when jane climb in to bed with the die helen and also when rochester take jane shopping for her wedding thing i think that one be in it but maybe my memory be play trick .finally if you never see another production of jane eyre you simply most see this one it be simply perfection
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in a time of bad if not plain awful comedy king of queen be more than just a eath of fresh air it a complete oxygen tank it be in my opinion one of the best comedy show of all time nothing have be this good since marry with child kevin james and jerry stiller be comic genius and believe me it take a lot to make me label someone a comic genius these guy truly understand what be funny i could watch ten episode of seinfeld and wouldnt get half the laugh from see koq just once other funny people in this show be carrie janet heffernan spence and doug pruzan carry bos im so happy they manage to get so many season from this gem the show have be a hilarious winner in a time of mostly comic loser check it out if you havent
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prey aspect ratio sound format monoa lesbian couple sally faulkner and glory annan living in a remote country house be drive apart by the arrival of a young man barry stokes who turn out to be a flesheating alien the vanguard of a massive invasion ... despite it shoestring budget and leaden pacing norman j. warrens followup to satan slave amount to a great deal more than the sum of it meager part thanks to a surprisingly complex script by max cuff apparently his only write credit faulkner and annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the english countryside render alternately beautiful and ominous by derek v. browne eyecatching cinematography though annans discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room mark one or both of these doeeyed lovely a psychologically disturb which may explain the absence of their respective family some of whom appear to have live in the house at one time or another and leave under mysterious circumstance stokes unexpected arrival throw the relationship into disarray partly because faulkner have a pathological hatred of men and partly because annan be attract to him create tension which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence there an extraordinary multilayered sequence in which faulkner attempt to emasculate their clueless visitor by dress him in woman clothe though stokes alien mentality allow him to rise above the intend mockery.in the early scene at least the relationship between faulkner and annan be depict with uncommon grace and dignity but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolve into crowdpleasing episode of sex and pulchritude culminating in an explosion of horror when annan allow herself to be ravish by stokes follow a violent argument with faulkner the closing sequence be quite literally gutwrenching especially annans final scene which appear to have be clip for censorship reason in and never fully restore what remain be still pretty vivid so ace yourselves excellent performance by the three lead bolster by warren unobtrusive direction which take full advantage of the stunning woodland location thereby compensate for the film budgetary shortcoming originally release in the u a alien prey
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the tourist season have just end on a remote island off the coast of scotland winter be begin to set in and the inhabitant both human and sheep alike be settle down to much quieter time ahead michael gaffikin james warwick a former paratrooper in the british army be the local dentist he not an islander by birth and a such his relationship with local artist and cartographer fiona patterson celia imrie be always be view with a little suspicion not maliciously but just out of the protective instincts the tight knit community have for their kin the island serenity be oken when gaffikin out for a solitary round of golf find the headless remain of a utally slain woman he immediately report his gruesome find to insp inskip maurice roã « ves at the island police station inskip arranges for delivery of the remains to local gp dr goudry for close inspection a quick search for the killer prove fruitless as do a search for a missing local woman over dinner that night with michael gaffikin fiona realises that the dead woman might be sheila anderson a woman from the mainland who live on the island through the winter month a quick search at her home dove cottage reveal the miss remains of her body her home proving to be the murder scene but why do the killer drag her torso over a mile into the wood suspicion immediately fall on the one stranger leave on the island one colonel howard jonathan newth who also happen be the last person to see her alive a they come across on the last ferry together.goudry asks gaffikin for some dental expertise on the victim body it reveal that she have be tear apart my somebody or something with great strength one set of teeth mark on the body seem to point at a human killer another point to that of an unknown animal of some kind a sheep be find mutilated and then a canadian ornithologist be find slain with a heavy fog roll in the island be cut off from the mainland and any possibility of help the radio also doesnt work seemingly be block and the phone line have be cut report of ufo and the sighting of a camouflage soldier be compound by the finding of an odd look craft hidden behind rock on the beach inskip be confuse and refuse to listen to anything but the fact and laugh off gaffikins idea that alien might be involve but a rise in radioactive level on the island have him doubt himself.the nightmare man be base on the novel child of the vodyanoi by david wiltshire it be here adapt by dr who and blake scriptwriter robert holmes and direct by douglas camfield who also have direct experience on both sci/fi classic and the film benefit from have such experienced genre expert on board the nightmare man though be on the whole a succinctly well craft piece that build it plot alongside solid character development even down to the minor character time be give to give them all a firm background the island setting be perhaps a genre clichã© that have be use over and over but it one that i enjoy very much the remoteness the sense of be under siege with no way out always add to the atmosphere and here it be give an extra oomph by have an impenetrable fog close in to hamper all effort in many genre effort of this kind it be very easy for proceeding to get silly and for the plot to resort to melodrama but credit to camfield he hold it all together with the emphasis be on believability at all time there be an authenticity about proceeding the character even speak gaelic at time to far this point if there be one negative about the killer it that we be give his/her/its pov for the killing an acceptable clichã© on it own but when see through a red filter and a fish eye lens it just scream of overkill and date the film just a little still though you will be hard press to guess the outcome or the identity or for that matter the specie of the killer give the clue present but it a fun and very well act piece the local scottish cast be exceptional the local bobby roeves and cosmo in particular spar well off each other and be a delight to behold imrie never one ive take to in other work be also pretty good and display hew womanly physique a if she be in a hammer production the outlandish maybe even preposterous end may irk some viewer it disappoint me in some way but take into account when it be make it an understandable and acceptable addendum that if you think about it be even more terrifying
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this review also contain a spoiler of the first movie so if you havent see either movie and want to but dont want the spoiler please dont read this review while this movie be suppose to be about christian and kathryn meeting for the first time the movie be a poor copy of the first cruel intention the actor that they have portray ryan phillippes christian and sarah michelle gellars kathryn be very poor substitute indeed neither can pull off the smarmy snooty richkid attitude that the original actor do it absolutely appal that some of the dialog be verbatim not so much between christian and kathryn but if you listen closely enough youll recognize it there be also inconsistency in the plot if this be truly the first meeting of christian and kathryn then why be it that christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie he supposedly be suppose to be in love for the first time in the original movie with reese witherspoon character .also the tiein with the photography/you could be a model comment at the end be totally lame and didnt add anything at all overall this movie be a waste of time i cant believe they make a cruel intention
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this movie be ridiculous it attempt to be a comedy but the screenplay be horrible the whole movie be do in low light and you cant grasp the fact that it a comedy truly be bad cinematography you really have to sit there and watch it to realize there a few joke here and there go on but either way theyre all inside joke amongst themselves this be more like a wannabe drama flick that go bad it really be a very pointless movie.their expression reveal nothing but dismay and disaster which turn out that way anyway unless you want to be bore out of your as i suggest you stay away from this gag of a movie
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in dramatise wilde novel john osborne have condense event eliminate a number of character and generally imply rather than show dorian essential wickedness if you want a more explicit render see the film wilde and robert louis stevenson live in about the same time frame but be certainly vastly different men and writer this story really treat of a theme similar to stevenson dr. jekyll and mr. hyde but note that wilde choose to treat his story a fantasy whereas rls take the scientific route both the protagonist be men in whom good war with evil with evil winning in the end.the actor in this bbc movie take a different route too from those in the film john gielgud say all the same caustic and cynical quip a george sander in his role really project wilde himself but with a subtle difference youll suspect that sander really believe what he be say but gielgud may be say what be expect of him rather than what he sincerely believe peter firth too show the two side of his character in restrained fashion but then we dont get to see a many of his escapade a hurd hatfield have a chance to display.its a very good production with the dramatisation reflect the essential of the novel if not all of it ramification
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it start out like a very serious social commentary which quickly make one think of other clark movie like kid bully etc but then just a quickly it unravel into a directionless mess who be the main character be this a serious film or some gregg arakiesquire over the top goofy film be this a skate documentary with moment of dialog insert i have no clue i find myself watch the clock and wonder when this turd be go to end i keep think there would be some big shocker culmination which never come i cut a good minute out of the movie by fast forwarding through the pointless skate scene yes it illustrate the change landscape between the have have nots i get it way back in the beginning kid and bully be do in such a way that i actually felt like i be observe the reality of that group of friend wassup felt very stag poorly construct and ever bad act teenage caveman which larry didnt write but do direct be terrible but at least it felt like it be suppose to be a terrible movie that didnt take itself seriously wassup rocker be just plain bad
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this be my first deepa mehta film i saw the film on tv in it hindi version with it sita character present a nita i also note that it be radha who undergo the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not nita/sita yet what i love about the film be it screenplay by m mehta not her direction the character big and small be welldeveloped and seem quixotic towards the endsomewhat like the end of mazurskys an unmarried woman they be ave woman surround by cardboard men and one cardboard man ashok seem to come alive in the last shot we see of himcarrying his invalid mother biji he seem to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion m mehta seem to fumble a a director however compare to most indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be illiant a she can not use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she be present except present a glimpse of the chinese microminority in the social milieu of india she even dedicate the film to her mother and daughter not her father yet her radha reminesces of halcyon day with both her parent in a mustard field compare her to mrinal sen adoor gopalakrishnan muzaffar ali and she be dwarf by these giantsgiven her competent canadian production team and financial resource mehtas film of two bisexual lady in an indian middleclass household may be sacrilege to some but merely capture the atrophy of middleclass home that do not seem to aspire for something good than it immediate survival in a limited social space kannada malayalam and bengali film have touch parallel theme in india but do not have the publicity that surround this film and therefore have not be see by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers.ms da ms azmi mr jafri and mr kharbanda be credible but not outstanding m azmi be a talented actress who give superb performance under good director mrinal sen khandar gautam ghoses paar benegals ankur a illiance notably absent in this film m da sparkle due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability all in all the film strength remain in the structure of the screenplay which be above average in term of international cinema i be sure ms mehta can hone her write talent in her future screenplay
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all the way though i be think to myself oh god why at the very begin i think right it might be average but the acting and plot on most part be atrocious.every part in it be so predictable even though the first movie seem to bare a large resemblance to the ring it be a half decent movie but this just seem to take all the good thing about the first and make them terrible some bit make everyone in the audience wet themselves eg the part be geller fall off the building have me in stitch my girlfriend have to keep tell me to quiet down i be keep comment on what be bind to happen next and more time than less i be right.why do go into the house make her come after you it doesnt make sense it be a poor excuse for a lot of killing and no really depth be see at all.you can see everything come which just leave you feel that there be no point in watch oh shes behind her ... didnt see that one come yawn .surely these people must have think to ... oh i dont know carry a knife round or at least try and fight back instead of be eat but someone hair at best during the movie i be very mildly scared and i mean mildly i be just cry out for the credit a they roll i exhale a short oh thank god if you havent already dont waste your time and money on this pointless plot less sorry excuse for a sequel
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at a high school student commits suicide not show who have take their life or reason know time skip back to the start of the day from here we follow six separate student marcus melody luke steven sarah and sean each student be struggle with their own moral dilemma all reach boil point hit to an end for one.after lose a friend to suicide and survive his own suicide attempt writer/director murali k. thalluri have create a revet drama focus on teen life and the horrible act of suicide suicide have be a topic that have be keep in the shadow be thalluris attempt to ing it to light if you have be touch by the act of suicide or anyone who have become all the harder to view.with heavy and hard subject matter thalluri also tackle everyday teenage life crisiss sex pregnancy sexual identity bully friendship thalluri manages and show them in an extremely realistic manner the factor on thalluris talent be his subtlety he respect his subject and the problem that everyone will have suffer through at sometime it verge near documentary at time it have such a painful realism the interview with each character splice through the film only heighten this have a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant while the core of each film be different both tackle teen life like sant thalluri utilizes long track shot with time skip back and forth to show each character interaction from different perspective a define point to elephant be it ethereal ambiance with spare conversation little development of character and the long track shot sant create a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a come dread while there reside this dread in the emotional connection to the character reach a high level sant couldnt reach a time go by each character fragility creep out drag you along their emotional rollercoaster.the real hit in this film come with the inevitable suicide foretold at the very begin the hard part about this scene be the complete intrusion and discomfort we have a an audience watching someone life end in a gruesome fashion though many film that have show suicide gloss over the act or romanticize the act thalluri show the pain and agony involve with this act and that it not the best solution with unknown in the lead and their first major role teresa palmereach frank sweet joel mackenzie marni spillane charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promise act careers.compelling and revetting be an absolutely unmissable film
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the quote above just about say it all for slipstream i should have bail out of this film after the first half hour but decide i ought to be fair and give it a chance i wont watch it again so if anyone with the temerity to do so can get back to me with the number of clichã©d line in the movie im sure it will set a record.some otherwise fine and talented actor get mixed up with this clunker mark hamill portray a futuristic bounty hunter and bill paxton be his quarry paxton character have hijack hamills prisoner an android take his name from the poet byron bob peck tasker hamill shoot owens paxton with a dart contain a tracking device so he and his companion belitski kitty aldridge can keep tab on the pair the real question though be why didnt he just fire the device at byron thereby cut out the middleman.if you enjoy scene after disjoint scene with tedious characterization and artsy fartsy pretense then i suppose youll find something of interest here but you cant convince me that the film make sense on any level scene of a futuristic stone age make way for high society snobbery but the pinnacle of poor taste be reach when paxton character be display follow a night of revelry with hickey all over his torso if anyone think theres some hidden meaning here youre really stretching.patiently wait for the frame proclaim the end to come into view ala even that be deny if beauty be in the eye of the beholder then so be understand this movie have neither yet there be a single redeeming feature a the closing credit begin their run an awesome view of a half dozen hot air balloon apparently the film be keep them afloat
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director edward sedgwick an old hand at visual comedy successfully lead this hal roach road show which tender a fastmoving and adroit scenario and excellent casting employ a large number of roachs reliable performer although the film be originally plot a a vehicle for patsy kelly sunny jack haley star a joe jenkins a young kansan who sell his auto repair business and journey to hollywood where he attempt to wangle a screen role for the girl he love starstruck cecilia rosina lawrence sedgwick who prefer use the entire mgm studio a his set do so here a cecilia always ready for an audition be treat by a wouldbe paramour cinema star rinaldo lopez mischa auer to behindthescenes action of naturally a musical comedy feature broadway headliner lyda roberti laurel and hardy provide several enjoyable interlude include their wellknown skit involve a tiny harmonica and we watch fine turn by such a joyce compton russell hick and walter long on balance one must hand the bay to mischa auer who clearly steal the picture a an emotional movie star a role which he largely create and to the director for his clever closing homage to busby berkeley filmic spectacle
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the joke be obvious the gag be corny and the character be walk characatures but i couldnt stop from laugh at his highly entertaining movie no matter how many time i see it i still get a kick out of this one and i recommend it highly for all lover of mindless entertainment it contain many quotable moment and some of the best sightgags ive see to this day if youve have a bad week and you need a chuckle rent this one on your way home friday night to give your weekend a good start
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these slasher pic be past their sell by date but this one be good fun.the valentine card themselves be witty and well think out.the film have one peach of a line ... hes no angel .... when he in fact be angel watch buffy rerun will never be the same the cast be a sizzle display of young talent but the story do not give them enough real depth denise richards on the dvd extra seem to think the girl on set bond well together and this would give the feeling that you empathise with their character sorry but no the direction be very good managing to show very little actual gore and rely on your imagination imply threat much can be say also for the similar manner in which miss richards and heigel do not remove their clothes ... essentially the main directorial plus lie within the borrowing of various other idea from previous slasher flick psychos shower scene be tributed along with halloween mask murder someone hiding in a bodybag though be a pretty original one as far a i know light view not very scary but a few good jump moment if it be a choice between the hole and this though choose the hole slasher movie have have their day and this be just another slasher a very good slasher but nothing groundeaking
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the only reason i give this episode of master of horror a instead of a be because the two lead actor be good and it wasnt shot on vhs the story the dialog and the plot be ridiculous talk drive zombie who come back to vote and sway the political tide against the war give me a eak what next zombie who come back to go skydive maybe zombie who come back to host qvc show i never support the iraq war but i do support the courage and sacrifice of the men and woman of our armed force and homecoming be disrespectful in that it mock the true horror of war with zombie be mass produce in todays market ... this be the spam of zombierelated entertainment how homecoming make it onto master of horror be beyond me
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like most i think another crocodile movie so far weve have primeval and rogue in the last month what can they do thats new where both those film be about action and violence this one about fear and tension.the performance arent oscarworthy when there nothing go on but in time of distress or terror these people suffer so much it like torture there be hole in the plot and maybe crocs dont really behave like this a others have point out but the fear be so effective it a stretch to say youll enjoy this movie itll leave you feel as uncomfortable a the passion of the christ
neg: 0.244, neu: 0.632, pos: 0.124, compound: -0.9561, 
there be a couple of prior comment here which opine about this flick abundance of clichã©s throughout and i agree completely both with regard to the character and the dialog.id read about elizabeth berklys awful performance in the equallyawful showgirl which ive never see and her performance here while not awful be barely up to the standard of lifetime bad fare there be not a hint of depth to her character but then there probably shouldnt have be if so it would have place the film completely outofbalance since there wasnt a hint of depth or charisma not a trace in any one character performer or portrayal.the principal handle of lizs initial complaint after her tutee have kiss her in the hall be laughable her husband initial reaction and advice be likewise forrest gump attack jennys boyfriend in his car provide a more realistic intelligent action and hell he be mentallychallenged .the smarmy unctuous lawyer excuse the redundancy father of the lie student actually perform something probably worthy of praise in his performance he be both laughable and thoroughly annoying at the same time no mean feat her attorney be more of an insensitive nerd also not unknown in the profession.finally and frankly i rather enjoy this part the police be such a collection of insensitive oaf that youd rather depend upon barney fife without andy to handle all law enforcement and investigation in your community i know that most reallike cop fall a bit short of the sharpness intelligence and empathy of the level display by most character on the law and order series and the like but dolt of this level seem to be a staple on lifetime.finally i find a kind of story within a story fascination with joshs concoction of his be the victim of his teacher this script performance within the story be even bad than his overall performance in the main story this be something of an achievement like go from f to fminus.this whole lame situation should have be resolve in real life in about minute follow a realistic meeting between teacher and school authority with husband involve but then that would have preclude the contrived drama follow and leave an hour blank film in the camera but the writer s here prove with their end they could do even worse when the situation be finally resolve and right this be accomplish in all of about second with no indication of what measure might have be forthcoming in any real world context for the perpetrator and his parent or whether they might have be able to find some sort of path toward redemption.this one a presentation the second because it do have some mild fascination
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if you havent see this yet you really should on dvd i cant believe how much i enjoy it it be amazingly realistic and believable true much of it be speculate and i would have like to have know more about what be speculative and what be proven fact there arent many of them but it handle everything quite well with a cruel mother nature theme it will remind you of the nature program that youve see on animal planet and the discovery channel only the animal here be dinosaur they act natural they eat kill mate play and fight for survival you will actually find yourself root for some of them and against others.for the most part the effect be excellent at time they will look a little too much like cgis but then you will see them in a different angle that make them look more realistic in some case you will actually be convince that youve see a dinosaur my favorite be the coelophysis the raptor the diplodocus the iguanadons the allosaurus and the arctic biped i be most disappointed with the trex however which look a little too computer generate at times.in any case you should definitely see this production it be educational well make and very entertaining for what it be it an a
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why be it that canada can turn out decent to good movie in every genre other then action i catch dragon hunt on tv the other day and it be like a train wreck i just could not change the channel it sheer stupidity sap my willpower it pretty telling that the cast imdb credit with this monstrosity apparently never work again.bad act bad write bad narration bad music bad hair bad cinematography it just go on and on the movie really have nothing to recommend it if youre look for bad action film to enjoy by laugh out there be a tonne of other film that wont require you to scorch out your retina afterwards.i hope this film didnt get money from the government for financing otherwise im never pay tax again
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ab tak chhappan be a fictitious story surround a police department in mumbai india sadhu agashe be a hard work hardedged cop head up a plain clothe crime squad who make a name for himself by kill dangerous criminal in staged police encounter rather than lock them up in prison his loyal officer obey him without question but a rift form when one of his officer imtiaz becomes frustrate by sadhus high ranking status and be secretly compete with him for criminal kill and status a new recruit be also push into the fraternity and imtiaz be angry when sadhu allow him to take the lead on his first case far change come in the form of a new police commissioner who disapprove of sadhu tactic and everyone get catch up in internal politics.i be surprise to see such a well direct action thriller come from india the camera work be excellent the story be well told and the tension be high when the drama unfold the act pace and political subterfuge convince the viewer that they be a fly on the wall witness the blood sweat and tear from a close up and personal view and that the event be base on reality which be no doubt why we be tell that it be not at the beginning of the film although it be likely that the director shimit amin have take liberty with factual account nevertheless ab tak chhappan be an extremely polished piece of filmmaking
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let keep it simple my two kid be glue to this movie it have it flaw from an adult perspective but buy some jellyworms and just enjoy it and the pepsi girl be excellent and kimberly williams be pretty goshdarned hot although shes not in the film very much so dont get too excited there.not thats it really a bad thing but it be the kind of movie you watch just once dont buy the dvd.enjoy do i mention kimberly williams that be for the dad
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it be a.m. in the morning and i have nothing else to do dont judge me ... please.were back in time during the spanish settlement a group have make their way onto an island it doesnt take too long before they encounter a large reptile which gobble up their horse soon theyre capture by the native and in order to gain freedom they must kill the reptile gods the cg suck it remind me of the cg of early console video game the encounter be lame the only positive thing i have to say about this be the hottie native run around in a skimpy outfit otherwise it just a middling effort
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lackawanna blue be and excellent movie the casting be perfect every actor and actress be perfectly suit for the role they play their chemistry together be amaze the acting be superb i felt a if i know the character i could almost feel them they remind me of people that i know a a child grow up in the s and s. oh the memory my personal belief be that this movie should have be on the big screen for all to see i have watch this movie so many time that i can almost recite the line a the character be say them i cant even list my favorite part because i have so many favorite part thank you for inging back a part of my youth that i never see in this day and age ... and that be black people love each other look out for each other respect each other care about each other and do all we can to help each other get ta go now i have to go watch it again
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saturday june pm the neptunemonday june pm the neptunefew celeations of ethnic and cultural identity succeed as mightily a carlos sauras illiant interpretation of isaac albeniz masterpiece iberia suite at the approach of it centennial saura draw together an unprecedented wealth of talent from the spanish performing art community to create this quintessential love song to their homeland the twelve impression of the suite be present without narrative in stark surroundings allow the power of each performance to explode before sauras camera creative use of large flat and mirror move throughout the set combine with screen shadow fire rain and rear projection add glorious dramatic effect to the varied selection of song dance and instrumental performance photograph of albeniz reappear throughout the program connect the passion of the music to it great creator saura encompass all spaniard on his stage from the beautiful elegance of elderly flamenco dancer in traditional costume to child joyously dance with their instructor
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a most people i be tire of the by the number clichã©d movie that hollywood make there seem to be no creativity in hollywood company only want to spend money on remake be sequel that have an audience build in.this movie be a welcome change it could be classify a romantic comedy for it genre but dont let that turn you off this movie this be a very original movie which be not like most thing hollywood produces.if you be read this you already know the basic plot so i will not bother go over that the only movie that come to mind to compare this to be interstate and art of travel which be little known gem that take a different path than most of the hollywood garbage.this be well worth see if you be tire of watch more of the same.dean
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many of the review and comment i have read about this movie say that this be a rather stale film and performance by clara bow although the storyline be rather typical of claras late silents i still find it somewhat heartstirring and incredibly fun clara play a happygolucky hawaiian girl who will stop at nothing to win the man she love ... never mind that this man be married claras lack of modesty be shock in the day but i believe it lend to the sweetness and general fun of the movie though definitely not a illiant storyline quite typical actually this movie be a nice showcase of claras ability to make the audience laugh
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a the number of video nasties ive yet to see dwindles this little pile of garbage pop up on my to rent list when i saw it be available.the premise involve a fashion model or something be kidnap and take into the jungle to be hold for ransom by a motley crew of idiot some other goof get hire to ing her back and be give a sack of money to use a a bargaining chip though if he return with the girl and all the money he get a significant cut he ought a helicopter and pilot with him and wow that pilot be one of the bad actor ever grant they be all totally terrible and the dubbing will make you cry blood after steal away into the jungle we learn that nearby be a cannibal cult whose flesheating earthbound god wander the wood like a human king kong look for tribeswomen to ravage and devour now this fellow be just a naked guy with some of the bad makeup ever pingpong ball for eye and thats pretty much it his growl and groan be an everpresent feature on the soundtrack and i find myself mute much of those scenes.oh do i forget to mention the almost constant nudity this be probably the main reason this film be ban though there be one specific scene about one second long where the god attack a girl and pull her gut out but it not a redeeming factor for gore fan also jess franco go beyond the usual t and a and show lengthy closeup of female genitals and sadly male a well so if you want fair in term of exploitation you get it.i cant recommend this trash to anyone it not even the good bad movie it just atrociously padded trash that only a video nasty fan will probably view and even then if you be make your way through the list leave this for the very last if you watch it first you may get the notion that this be the norm for the list which be certainly not true
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i rent this thinking it would be pretty good just by the cover of the movie case judge and jury start out pretty good killer chase the man who kill his wife on a bike with a cool gun but this movie get progressively stupider a it go on david keith be awesome actor especially when he play a role like this too bad the movie be a piece of crap it really waste his talent judge and jury be well plain dumb i give it a should have give it a i give it an extra star just because david keiths gun be cool
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i find out about this film because jewish ben chaplin from game on be in it game on be a funny british sitcom and apparently he leave because he want to eak into hollywood and star in this film he fail thank god.the film be a very simple romantic comedy with janeane garofalo play an ugly woman who use her neighbour uma thurman to date ben chaplin because she think ben chaplin wont like her because shes ugly the film be just bad for so many reason the plot be unbelievably predictable from the overtly slapstick bit to the serious mushy bit ugh just that montage where all three of them be have fun and then the photograph bit those two scene make me cringe janeanes character be sickeningly arrogant and guess from her role a standup comedienne and archfeminist be in real life too she claim that the film be antifeminist when in fact it just realistic men more often than not go for looks over personality it interesting to note her hypocrisy too shed be a feminist and comedienne for year before take this role and then suddenly decide afterwards that the film be bad i imagine she hat the idea and script of this film before it be release but she make sure she keep that quiet so she could get pay for this travesty of a film i mean come on she act in it for heaven sake what this film be really be antimen if anything it portray men a stupid animal whose ains be in their groin with the men do stupid thing to attract the attention of uma thurmans character noelle.there be other bad thing about this film too like ben chaplin character be the british man every american girl find cute and jamie foxx be the token black best friend of chaplin and of course foxx have to try and mimic his accent a few time for good measure be that the best the script writer could come up with blimey theyve never do that before except with every hugh grant and dudley moore film ever make there also a truly awful phone sex scene which be just grotesque and prove how cheap the film be the other comment on here all say how janeane garofalo isnt ugly but be actually beautiful erm be i watch the same film a they be shes certainly no looker and the only good thing about this film be that she be rightly cast a the ugly one although have say that i fail to see the appeal of uma thurman as well shes lanky and gaunt looking.i guarantee three thing about this film if youve never watch it you will know what the end will be you will find the phone sex scene painfully embarrass and you will be bore after ten minutes.watch at your own peril
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this movie have everything typical horror movie lack although some thing be far fetch we be deal with quality snow man engineer the only preview i can reveal be that i cant wait for jackzilla dare i say oscar winner this be a perfect date movie i advise all men for a nice romantic surprise see this movie with that special person
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have just see walt disneys the skeleton dance on the saturday morning blog a link from youtube i use those same source to watch a remake do in technicolor for the columbia cartoon unit and animate by the same manub iwerks the color compare to the early black and white be really use imaginatively here and many of the new gagslike when one of the skeletal band player hit a wrong note constantly or when one lose his head and take another one off or when one dance with the other with part of that other goneare just as funny a the previous short it do get a little repetitious near the end still skeleton frolic be well worth see for any animation buff who want to compare this with the early silly symphony
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the cast of this film contain some of new zealander well actor many of who i have see in fabulous role this film however fill me with a deep shame just to be from the same country a them the fake american accent be the first clue that thing be about to go spectacularly wrong a another review rather astutely note the luxury cruise ship be in fact an old car ferry decorate with a few of the multi colour flag steal from a used car lot most of the cast appear to be from the great long run new zealand soap shortland street it a if this movie be dream up at a shortland street cast christmas party the result of too many gin and possibly a bit of salmonella imagine under siege meet the love boat stag by your local primary school and direct by an autistic and you get the idea.if you be an actor i recommend you see this film a a study on how to destroy your carer
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emily watson and tom wilkinson together what a treat with rupert everett and linda bassett round off the support role to the foursome of lie and intrigue yet at the heart of it all each character maintain a streak of decency moral conscience hold up in spite of obvious contradiction contradiction be the source of all movement and of all life how true these word be watson anne manning be at the core of this intrigue shes the central conscience that the other three latch on she be the decency undeterred the circumstance of lie be to each it own one to defend one professional name one to hold back due to family/partner pressure one simply dont want to face the consequence one ironically cant believe the truth and lie to save friendship these be all precarious situation there lie the intrigue fascinate to watch how each tackle truth and lie contradiction indeed in spite of the seem dishonor decency and heart remain strong the treatment of the subject involve and how each of the character behaves be masterfully deliver simple with clarity it not sensational or complex a another film where the truth lie credit due to fellowes writing and the nuanced performance of both watson and wilkinson there be warmth somehow that come through the seemingly boldface or frustratingly hidden lie beneath it all human frailty not exclude they mean well and follow along with the story the turn of event provide satisfaction and smile to how the two mannings seem to have grow and mature in their relationship you might say there no obvious action drama or thrill scene in separate lie yet the intrigue be there and it will hold your attention the deserve production effort include cinematography by tony pierceroberts a veteran to the merchantivory film and music by stanislas syrewicz with mood and tone reminiscent of composer zbignew priesner of filmmaker krzysztof kieslowski trois couleurs especially bleu this be a british film you just might not want to miss emily watson anne the wife break the wave debut hilary and jackie the luzhin defence gosford park punchdrunk love red dragon equiliium in tom wilkinson jam the husband the full monty the governess rush hour a villain in in the bedroom normal hbo cable movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind recently a father moore in the exorcism of emily rise opposite laura linney rupert everett bill he be simply delightful in my best friend wed opposite julia robert and marvelous in an ideal husband d oliver parker an oscar wilde play recently a sherlock holmes with ian hart a dr. watson in pbs mystery sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stocking tv linda bassett maggie she be very effective a ella khan opposite om puri in east be east
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i be amaze with some of the review of this film the only place that seem to tell the truth be rottentomatoes.com this film be awful the plot be extremely lazy it be not scary either people out there who think that because it star sarah michelle geller it be somehow like the grudge should forget about it this film be more like dark water except it be even more predictable and slow moving than it i be extremely disappointed with this film it didnt scare me nor interest me either let face it this type of plot have be flog to death at this stage e.g the dead try to contact the living dragonfly what lie beneath ghost story dark water darkness the changeling etc.etc it seem to me that the only one write original horror film nowadays be the japanese and the korean the film that be come out of hollywood like this be cynical exercise in money making without a shred of respect for the viewer theyre just be churn out
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angela sandra bullock be a computer expert but be shy and somewhat of a recluse she do all of her work from the confines of her condo just a she be about to take a vacation in mexico a coworker send her a computer disc with disturb information on it angela agree to meet with her fellow employee but he mysteriously die in a plane crash angela head to mexico but take the disc with her while she be sun on the beach a terrific look gentleman name jack jeremy northam make overture to her she fall for them and the two end up on a boat to cozumel however jack work for the folk who generate the secret information on the disc and he be out to get it even after angela escape from his clutch and land back in the usa jack make thing difficult he change angelas identity on every computer across the nation make her lose her condo her bank account everything can angela a computer whiz beat jack at his own game this very exciting movie have many asset first bullock and northam be two very beautiful interesting actor and their presence add immediate captivation the script be very clever and sure in it knowledge of the capability of computer and their relevance in todays world the costume set production and direction of the movie be also quite wonderful and despite how it sound there be a great deal of excite action a angela go on the run to defeat her enemy if you love thriller without unnecessary bloodshed or violence this be a great choice it deliver twist and turn with great frequency make it possible for the viewer to net a very good evening of entertainment
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i rent the dvd in a video store a an alternative to read the report but it pretty much just more terrortainment.while the film may present some info from the report in the drama youre take the word of the producer theres no reference to the commission report anywhere in the film not one.the act all around be pretty bad pretty much all of the stereotype of hot shot bitchy foul mouth government agent each think they know more than everyone else there may be some truth to it but it really have a bad hollywood stereotype smell to it.imdbs user community rating comment tend to be more right than wrong and i have start to glance at the rating before rent whenever i can.i wish i have on this one
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look this be a low budget horror film that suffers from all of the problem that go with low budget movie but you must see this just to watch lisa erickson a julie she be smokin hot and a great little actress to boot these type of horror movie often unearth a rare gem and the power give u lisa erickson nothing i enjoy more than sit down in my studio apartment with a coke and put in this film my friend bob bill and dennis agree .. lisa be not only illiant she be a hottie the movie itself often plod along and the rest of the actor be not very helpful in that regard but as soon a lisa hit the screen thing really start hop the others be clearly not in her league this be not the exorcist but a i say if you want to see a fun little movie with a hot little actress this be the one to see
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it wasnt until i look at the trivia section that i find out that the original producer/star of this movie tyrone power die during it make this no doubt explain why everyone on screen seem to have their mind on other thing a symptom of which appear in a very early scene involve a battle that can only be describe a pathetic you know when youve be paint a wall until youre completely bore well thats the sort of expression the combatant have on their face when theyre swing their sword in a highly unconvincing manner the plot centre on soloman the king of israel have an affair with the queen of sheeba and his people not be happy about it you cant really blame them since there few thing more beautiful in the world than those israeli moteks though the israeli woman here all seem to look like cherie blair modern day israel be also very cosmopolitan with the majority of israeli be bear outside the country but would this have be true a couple of thousand year ago where everyone speak in european and american accent after much talk and a dance sequence that have to be see to be believe and no thats not praise we have a climax where the heavily outnumber israeli have to defend themselves against a massed egyptian army who cant read a map otherwise they would have know there be a canyon in front of them this be what i dont get even though their blind by the sun the egyptian spend ten minute charge towards the israeli never ever realise theyre charge towards a gaping ravine isnt this somewhat illogical it also something of a revealing error since the horse chariot and men fall into the canyon be obviously miniature figure anyway the film end with soloman kill his treacherous other and praising god for his victory but who need moshe dayan arik sharon or god when youve get an idiotic enemy who cant see a ravine in front of him or wave a sword like he paint a wall
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i be a huge woody allen fan and so when i saw that this be play at the cinema i couldnt help myself i want to see how allen would follow up his magnificent film match point see a this be another one of his film shoot in g.b which be unique among allens work along with what seem to be his new muse scarlett johanson scoop be much light than mp and the humor be scoop most enjoyable aspect the plot revolve around johansons character a journalism student who get a tip on a hot story from beyond the grave she fall in love with a suspected serial killer jackman and she must decide whether the truth be worth find oh and all of this be do with the help of a bumbling magician turn detective play by allen.i must say that i thoroughly enjoyed johansons performance but i be a bit bias i could watch a three hour film with johanson in ever frame and remain enchanted she play a ditsy yappy bumble sweetheart that be kind of a variation in a sense of allen stereotypical neurosis stricken character she add appropriate body language for comic effect needle to say almost anyone who see this will find johansons character sickeningly cute and that be a plus.allen be allen ... he be still play the same character much like chaplin and his little tramp character something that occur in this film make me wonder if i will see the neurotic little hypochondriac again however he be not in the cast of his next picture and have be spend more time exclusively behind the camera a of late ... jackman be also enjoyable a the suave millionaire murder suspect i can not say that jackman do anything in particular to make the role his but he suit his character none the less.in term of the plot i can not help but feel that this be fresh ... in fact it stink of curse of the jade scorpion johanson and allen be more detectivelike than anything however i must applaud allen on his end because it be a bit more clever than your typical unoutstanding hollywood version of this film instead of everything be black and white thing be paint in shade of gray be entirely innocent have nothing to do with it nor do unequivocal guilt though the plot seem old woody still have a knack for one liner i do find his allusion to his last film interest ... come for the humor laugh and be merry.needless to say if you enjoy allens work watch it if not watch something else ...
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i rent this film because of my interest in american history and especially the somewhat weird story of the mormon this movie attempt to make some sense out of how joseph smith could turn his vision into a major world religion it first focus on the trouble the mormon have in their settlement at navuoo illinois it portray the trial of joseph smith within the course of that trial brigham young stand up to tell of his conversion to mormonism and of his belief in the spiritual message of smith then smith be assassinate and young must deal with his own doubt about whether he have be choose to lead the mormon to a new land despite his grave doubt he persevere and finally have a vision that utah be the place for his colony that give him confidence in the rightness of his leadership later a crop be destroy by cricket he again doubt that he have truly be chosenhowever a miracle occur which cement his place in history.i find the performance to be move and the story to be convincing and interesting i would love to know whether mormon believe that this be an accurate portrayal polygamy be a part of the story but the reason why this be central to lds be not raise the issue be not emphasized.im sure people stay away from this movie because of it religious subjectmatter but it have a great cast and will hold your interest throughout
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s frightmare be an odd little film the director seem to be try to combine the atmosphere of classic s/s style horror movie with the shock factor of the thenexploding s slasher genre it isnt totally successful mostly due to very obvious budgetary restraint and the lessthanprofessional caliber of it cast of young actor but it still have it moment mostly due to the classy performance classy than the movie deserve by the late german actor ferdinand mayne who play an age old time horror movie star ala vincent price name conrad ratzoff at the beginning of the movie we meet the hasbeen horror star a he shoot a commercial for denture and we quickly learn that ol conrad be a bit of a hoitytoity prima donna jerkoff just when you think he couldnt be any more unlikable the commercial director berates conrad for blow a take for the umpteenth time and the old goat push him off a balcony to his death nice huh conrad then visit some fan at a college campus horror movie club unfortunately he suffer a heart attack in the middle of his speech to them and eventually end up back at his mansion wait to die still feisty even at death door he manage to do away with a despised business associate by smother him with a pillow before he finally kick the bucket himself conrad be then lay to rest in true hollywood style in a high tech neon tomb with video screen above the casket which will play personal video message from conrad himself for visitor who enter to pay their respects.it be at this point that the kid from the college horror movie society decide to pay conrad grave an after hour visit eaking into the tomb and take his body back home with them for an all night party not exactly my idea of fun but hey these be character in an s horror film logic have no place here the college kid spend the evening have dinner with conrad body seat in a place of honor posing for photo with it and even dance around the room with it before park conrad and his coffin in the attic planning to return him to his crypt in the morning in the meantime mrs. ratzoff distraught over the theft of her husband body have call in a psychic friend to try and reach conrad through a seance you can pretty much figure out the rest from here since conrad wasnt a very nice guy in life it not much of a stretch to assume that he wont be any friendly in death psychic lady make contact with conrad and he reawaken in predictably tick off fashion then spend the rest of the movie stroll around the corridor of the student ridiculously huge house pick off the young grave robber one by one this be where the movie fall apart endless scene of teen wander around empty hallway say hello be anyone there be intercut with occasional burst of violence we do get a pretty gnarly decapitation scene which be the highlight of the movie before the last two survivor finally figure out way later than any semiintelligent people would have figure out the same thing ... but again be in an s horror film that the only way to stop the mayhem be to get conrad body back to it crypt where it belong the sluggish pacing be pad out with a lot of weird lighting and dry ice fog effect back by a soundtrack make up almost entirely of sound effect rather than music thunder moan and groan howl etc that become severely annoy after a while.i cant really recommend frightmare to anyone who didnt grow up watch cheap movie like this on late night cable back in the s. modern horror fan will doubtlessly find frightmare incredibly slow moving and goofy if you come of age in that magical decade however you may get a blast of nostalgia from frightmare fan of jeffrey reanimator comb may also want to check it out a the future dr. west appear in an early role here a one of the unlucky film students.i will advise the reader to avoid the version of this film on the eastwestdvd label pair with roy ward vault of horror and sell at dollar store because the print quality be terrible im tell the film have get a deluxe release via the fine folk at troma which seem appropriate if youre a troma kind of person then frightmare will be right up your alley
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people watch movie for a variety of different reason this movie didnt have the big budget theres no special effect no car chase and theres no explosion actually reality doesnt have much of these either at least not in my life this be a very real movie about very real people none of them perfect in any way but together they be put into a situation where they learn to explore and accept what be different and that in turn make order out of chaos i be not prepared to limit the possibility of parapsychology since im neither an expert nor use the full extent of my own ain.so watch this movie for the character it be imfull of a whole cast of wonderful quirky folk within the first three minute kiefer sutherland enacts detective michael haydens life superbly and he keep develop the character throughout the movie excellent act very believable henry czerny could not have be cast well and the rapport between his harvey and kiefers mickey enhance the oppositeness of their characters.i thoroughly enjoy the cranky landlady mr ramsay im sure she and my motherinlaw be good friend theres a host more of these wonderful character but space be limit here so watch the movie and enjoy them
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i think that you can not imagine how these people really work ... before i come to the studio to watch the guys work there i actually think quite the same a you do but since i saw and do the work the guy on that tvshow have to do i have to say that they really do deserve respect for what they be do all day long that really be no easy work and also the actor which in your eye may be terribly bad be really great people and a lot of them really can act i dont think that the material give to them can really show that a i think this material isnt very good but they be truly good so i dont think that you before you havent see these guy do there work can judge over them and i shouldnt have judge over them as well before i meet them but i do and be now terribly ashamed of it so please do not allow yourself to judge over these great people unless you havent see them do there job
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a usual i be make a mad dash to see the movie i havent watch yet in anticipation of the oscar i be really look forward to see this movie a it seem to be right up my alley i can not for the life of me understand why this movie have get the buzz it have there be no story a group of guy meander around iraq one day they be here diffuse a bomb tomorrow they be tool around the countryside by themselves no less and start take sniper fire no wait here they be back in bagdad there be no cohesive story at all the three main character be so overly characterize that they be mere caricature by that i mean we have the sweet kid who be afraid of die we have the harden military man who be practical and just want to get back safe and then we have the daredevil cowboy who doesnt follow the rule but have a soft spot for the precocious little iraqi boy try to sell soldier dvds what do you think be go to happen well do you think the cowboy soldier who doesnt follow rule be go to get the sweet kid injure with his renegade way why yes do you think the iraqi kid that cowboy soldier have a soft spot for be go to get kill and make him go crazy why yes there be no story here the script be juvenile and predictable the camera be shake around a lot to make it look artsy and for all of you who think this be such a great war picture go rent full metal jacket deerhunter or platoon dont waste time or money on this boring movie
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a group of friend eak down in the middle of nowhere one have a flat tire the others jeep mysteriously wont start one of them take the tire to a run down service station and that be the last anyone see of him when the remain foursome go in search of their friend they come across nice mr. slaussen who offer to help fix the jeep and offer cool drink and refuge from the heat in his equally run down hermitlike house which happen to be occupy by very realistic look mannequin he go with the one guy in the bunch out to work on the car and leave the girl in the house before he go he warn them not to leave and go up to the house behind his shack he warn them about davy his other who be lurk about and isnt all there of course one of them decide to venture out in search of a work phone and be never see again be it slaussen be it davy the mannequin tourist trap have the usual horror requirement jiggly big boobed girl goody two shoe girl curiosity get the good of people and never work out but it stand apart from the rest of the s genre in it twist of an end i start to feel sorry for slaussen chuck conners be a terrific creepy overthetop performance at a point in the film and you almost see the character of molly do the same this be a gem if you can find it i have tap it off of cable when i be young and walk through a used video store i spot a vhs copy that be totally overpriced but well worth it fan of tanya robert wont be disappoint either best part of the film for me be the scene with the soup and cracker i give it a because some of the movie be and still be hard to explain
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most lorne michael film seem to fail because theyre essentially just extend version of skit that barely manage to make people laugh in fiveminute segment tommy boy be a character right from snl a big fat lovable in their opinion goof who doesnt know anything.david spade get the thankless overwhelm everyman role he pair with the annoy overweight slob and they endure miserable misfortune a they travel cross country to save daddy business.the plot for starter be really faulty the whole premise daddy dy and rich stupid son have to save the family biz can be trace back to just about any movie you want like any snl style film it be reduce to a simple motivation empty shallow just a reason to see a fat guy and a thin guy be funny together.the movie big influence be the comedy classic plane train automobile that movie be great because the plot isnt stale and recycle it basic yeah a guy travel home for thanksgiving get stick with a slob but it real dammit it make all the difference the character be real the situation be far more real tommy boy be pure slapstick and it ridiculous situation undermine the character we feel nothing for them and we dont care about whats happen onscreen pta walk the careful line between outrageous and utterly believable and relateable tommy boy be simply absurd with joke like a simple deerintheheadlights turn into a crash turn into a struggle with a dead deer that really isnt dead then awakens and wreck their car.the whole wreck car thing be steal completely from pta and it eerie how much stuff in this film actually do resemble the steve martin/john candy movie.farley be simply way too obnoxious to find likable ive never enjoy watch him in any movie and this hasnt change my mind spade give very little to do serve a the movie most thankless character.dan aykroyd be waste a the evil baddie who plan to destroy daddy business the end be a joke and not in a harhar funny way more like a oh god be they serious way.some people dig it thats cool but i just cant get into it nor do i appreciate all the stuff it borrow from not just count pt a without any credit whatsoever
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have read during many year about how great this film be how it establish ruiz among the french critic specially the snobbish cahiers crowd when i finally watch it about a year ago i find it pretty disappoint but then i guess my expectation be skyhigh shot in saturated black and white this deliberately cereal film make for tv and mercifully only an hour long be tell in the form of a conversation between an art connoisseur and an offscreen narrator a they ponder through a series of painting which be show in the style of tableaux vivants and try to find if they hold some clue about a hidden political crime the awful kate beckinsale film uncover have a similar argument borgesian be a word i read a lot in review about this movie but i would say almost any borges story be more interesting than this film
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many teenage sex comedy movie come and go without much fanfare however every so often a movie might come along thats honest funny entertaining and memorable the last american virgin be a special movie that have find it place and have stand the test of time blend all four ingredient this film follow three friend gary rick and david the big apple misadventure into the world of firsttime sex and true love along the way they learn hard lesson and the value of true friendship we follow hopeless romantic gary the main character on his quest to win over the girl of his dream which lead him down an uncertain road with a surprise twist at it end if you havent be lucky enough to see this movie yet by all mean take a look ... sprinkle with many memorable s song throughout the movie to keep thing move at an even pace l.a.v truly be an original film a rarity among film of it genre
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i love this show from it first airing and i always look forward to watch each episode every week the plot character write special affect be outstanding then the scifi channel screw up yet again and cancel a very entertaining well write show i say ing it back i know all of the actor would come back i would suggest buy the dvd i be i hope the scifi channel executive get word of these comment and realize that they need to be more involved with their viewer i only watch one show on that channel now ghost hunter but i be fairly sure that shortly they will cancel that too
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i didnt know what to except so i think it be a lot well not have except much dont get my wrong it not a bad short film te nanavati be a relatively new directer and writer so i think she deserve a lot of kudos for make this film you can tell that it have be an act of love for her the acting outside of dominic be a little cheesy and the quality of film be not great either but for a really low budget film it good there be time when the story line get convolute and there be part that drag on though i dont feel it greatly detract for one ability to understand the film if you love dominic monaghan as much a i do i say go for it the gag reel be fun i wont spoil it but there be a particular scene that make buy the dvd worth it just so you can watch it over and over if you like the film then check out the pink mirror a film also do by jagged edge i know fan of dominic will enjoy this little piece of heaven
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do the first travesty actually make money this be another sequel along the line of another stakeout that no one ask for but weve receive it anyway the sequel be like it predecessor completely aindead it also pretty disgust remember the dinner scene to think i almost felt sorry for ritter yasbeck and warden do they need the money that much
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i be never so bored in my life hour of pretentious selfobsessed heroinaddicted basket case lounge around whine about their problem it like watching lizard molt even the sex scene will induce a serious case of narcolepsy if you have insomnia rent this
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this movie be awesome on so many level ... and none of them be the level that it be intend to be awesome on.just remember this when youre watch shaun of the dead and other recent zombie movie ... be they good or bad ... this be the formula that they be use this be what make zombie movie so great.and what make it good than great be the story behind the movie a simple web search will provide you with everything you need to know.all in all it doesnt linger there never a point where you think to yourself cmon get on with it ... it move quick and corner nicely this be the sporty little italian number of zombie flicks.so awful it wonderful if your tongue spend an ample amount of time in your cheek ... rent it buy it love it.as a great trivia note if youre watch it on dvd youll notice that there be sound effect during the menu screen underneath the musical score ... well ... thats because that music be lift straight from the trailer ... which be probably the only work print of that music that still exist which be long enough to loop
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the lady man be laugh out loud funny with a great diverse cast as well a have some very stupid but excellent scene include the funny love song ever write .ferrell be his usual quality self in a illiant side role.tim meadows play an idiot surprisingly well and have write himself some of the funny line youll find in any comedy out there.it be definitely worth a purchase a watch it every month or so will lead to you still laugh as hard a you do first time round.i be distraught to think at the time of write this that it have a meagre and i urge you to vote and remember kid theres more motion in the ocean
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when i first hear about this movie i think it would be like the duchess but when i saw the first minute of the young victoria i know this wouldnt just be a solid movie almost everything in this movie be great the costume be really amazing and the setting be also beautifully shot.the only thing that really let me down be the performance emily blunt the devil wear prada be the star of the film inging victoria to life and with this movie she show that she be a great actress and maybe pick a first oscar nomination for her performance rupert friend be almost bland a prince albert but he have great chemistry with emily blunt paul bettany be also solid a lord melbourne although i expect more of him jim broadbent and miranda richardson both have support role but be forgettable.to me the film feel like unfinished maybe that the screenwriter change too many thing in the script i dont know but thats how i feel about the movie.but overall it a great movie about the early year of victoria with a great performance from emily blunt
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a fly saucer man literally by a crew of about male space explorer travel hundred of million of light year from earth to check in on a colony found some year ago on a forbidden planet what they find be a robot more advanced than anything imaginable on earth a beautiful and totally socially inept young woman and her father a hermit philologist haunt by more than the demon of the ancient civilization he have immerse himself in.on the surface this story be a pulp scifi murder mystery some compare it to shakespeares tempest but this be a stretch and in some way an insult to the scifi genre strip of what make it a scifi film sure it the tempest but how many hundred of film can you say something similar about underneath this be a cautionary tale about progress and technology and the social evolution necessary for it appropriate and safe use yet the film still proceed with all the hopefulness for our future that we have come to expect from show like star trek.anne francis be not the only reason why this film be best describe a beautiful the special effect and even the aesthetic of the backdrop be powerful enough to make the uninspired directing and uneven act almost unnoticeable if it be not for the goofy retroartdeconess of s scifi prop you might think you be watch a s piece.this be a classic of that very special subgenre of sci fi i like to call s scifi and though not in my opinion the best it be certainly a must see for anybody interested in scifi film and special effect the clever plot now render trite by it reuse in six or seven episode of star trek lose in space and even farscape be worth pay attention to and will sustain the interest of most scifi fan trekker will be particularly interested in the various aspect of the film which seem to have inspire theme of star trek original series air about year later though they may find themselves disappoint by the relatively mild s sexism and the lack of any kind of racial integration while i do not mean to nitpick the lack of social progress manifest in this film be the one major problem i have with it some will probably see this film simply to catch a glimpse of young goodlooking leslie nielsen in one of his first star role unfortunately nielsens performance be only average and at time downright poor especially at the climax of the film walter pigeon though quite excellent in other film overact his role as well m francis earl holliman and the amazing robby the robot be the standout actor in this crowd though on the whole the character actor fill in the ensemble do a good job the problem with the featured performance i think be as much the fault of the director and the editor a anything though they certainly get most of the film quite right
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i just saw this film on dvd last night and decide to check out the review this morning it seem that i robot have polarize the critical viewing community here on imdb and give rise to a lot of insult and namecalling too .i find this somewhat surprising a this film be not great or even good but neither be it terrible or even really bad what this film really be be ... depress depress that the u filmgoer population be so ready to lap up insipid clichã©d reheats and acclaim them a spectacular new work this film a retread write all over it from the plot line an uneasy mix of asimov and modernday uberaction to smiths character a smartmouthed cynic with a backbone of titanium to the special effect that borrow from matrix and a few others .i robot be sadly quite possibly the perfect action movie for today audience superficial plot insipidly snappy dialog and lot and lot of adrenaline smith be mediocre but we already know that he seem to be hollywood late unsuccessful attempt to create a black bruce willis the story have lot of hole in it of all size but i dont think most people draw to this film be criticallyminded enough to notice perhaps a blockbuster by todays standard but very bmovie compare to true winner
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this be a fine example of how an interesting film can be make without use big star and big effect just tell a true story about the struggle of two african american woman over a turbulent century.this movie challenge u all to look at our own personal prejudice and see that people be people not white black etc.good movie with a good message
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i have buy the complete season of surface watch it in day i be so capture by the the plot theory and basically everything about this show the actor who play mile be great mile sister mother and father act like real life family would you could connect on so many level it fascinating.i find animal be so wonderful you can almost connect with them a a parent be to a child it would be something if a creature of this sort of nature truly exists.am sadden that surface be not have a second season or at least four more show i have so many question that need to be answer and hopefully maybe they will create more or maybe in a book.love the show very much for those who havent watch surface if you like scifi you need to watch this
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this must have be one of the bad movie i have ever seen.i have to disagree with another commenter who say the special effect be okay i find them pretty bad it just wasnt realistic and they be so fake that it just distract from the actual story.maybe that distraction be the reason that i do not fully understand the story the archaeologist be look for the set they do not bother to tell what set or what be so special about it that also make it unclear why they search for it in california while the intro of the movie take place in ancient egypt.if youre shoot a movie that take place in the desert take the effort to actually go to the desert the begin the ancient ceremony look like it be shoot inside a studio instead of a desert.the actionlevel be constant throughout the movie no ups and down no climax it make the movie look short and thats certainly a pro for this particular movie
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liam neeson portray the scottish legend robert roy macgregor from the early th century he be a true actor he captivate the audience with his charisma a he do in all his role jessica lange be excellent a his wife mary mary be such a beautiful woman it her love that make rob roy the legend but it his passion that make her love undying they need each other tim roth a the evil cunningham be perfect in one way or another upon watch the movie you will find cunningham disgust the scotland scenery be beautiful the environment and condition of the time be depict quite well if you like history romance passion and love youll enjoy rob roy there be violence and blood but it unavoidable in tell this story a it should be tell no gratuitous violence and you do have to listen carefully if youre not use to a scottish accent one important point that make this movie so good be that no one actor or actress be glamorize they get dirty and actually look unattractive in various scene it their skill a actor that attract you they dont rely on marquee name popularity or sex symbol appeal this be something special
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when i watch this movie i too get excited when see bed scene of miss world she have beautiful and charm body when cute lady do bed scene and show her fully nude body ... i think male have hard to resist .... i think it time for cute girl like hrishita bhatt also do nude scene at least no one want to c nude body of ugly woman like seema biswas to c in bandit queen.i concur with what mallicka.b have say the movie be portray in a way which appear to be a kind of vilification on the original content emotion arent convey properly i guess a couple of notsogood performance also contribute to it mediocrity in my view tabu would have be a much good choice for such a role instead of aishwarya rai in some of her scene she look a bit lusty which be not ultimately what the movie should have portray i also notice a bit of overact in some of her scene im a bitter critic of aishwarya rai cant help it sorry for that raincoat be a good movie by rituparno ghosh and i saw choker bali after see raincoat i be not at all impressed
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theyve show i twice in a very short time now here in sweden and i be so very tired of it the bad act isnt enough ... the story itself be so boring and the effect hardly exist i love the original from so i recommend you to go and rent that one instead because this one be such a bore
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have see carlo lizzanis documentary on luchino visconti i be bind to high expectation before watch this film make three year later by adam low but the viewer like me do get dissatisfied ... i face a need for critical opinion which i generally dont like give due to the fact there be no documentary that will satisfy every viewer there be also no documentary that will examine a theme totally but when i read the review already write on this title i also felt a bit confused people sometimes dont know what to criticize therefore to be clear ill divide this film into two major part that differ considerably the former one about visconti before his director career and latter one about visconti the director the aristocratic background all the hobby the wealth that young luchino experience and enjoy be clearly present his effort in horse racing be mention as well a his relation with his mother so much disturbed after his parent divorce we also get a very accurate idea of where luchino be ought up a a real count of milano in rich galore with nanny cook with access to everything in true aristocracy for instance his father splendid villa at grazzano and other marvelous villa prove that there be also an emphasis on visconti crucial visit in paris in the s where he meet eminent people leave winger who later have impact on his style and message in art that clearly explain the idea of a communist with the aristocratic up a contrast at first sight however the part about his director career which start with ossessione during wwii and end with innocente just before the director death in be poorly execute his movie be not discuss well why because there be very few people who really have something to say franco zeffirelli the director remember the work on la terra trema and that be all right there be also some interview with franco rosi but later such movie like il gattopardo la caduta dei rei la morte a venezia or ludwig be mostly discuss by helmut berger although i like the actor in the role of ludwig i do not like the interview of his moreover some thought he reveals be not accurate to entail in such a documentary ... there be no mention of significant work of visconti like conversation piece there be no interview with eminent cast burt lancaster a mention about silvana mangano and romy schneider should also be make there be one footage interview with maria calla that appear to be interesting but that be only a short bit franco zeffirelli though i appreciate him a a director make fun of it all rather than say something really precious for instance he mention the event how visconti separate from him after year of service therefore i say simplify and unsatisfactory what i find a strong point here be footage interview with visconti himself a a result we may get his own opinion about his work for instance i very much appreciate the word he say about death regard it a a normal chapter of life and as natural a birth itself he also discuss his health problem after the stroke while film ludwig.i believe it be well to see luchino visconti by carlo lizzani than this doc although it be short and condense a a whole you will get a good idea of the director visconti would be furious about that and the fury of his usually turn people emotion and viewpoint into stone ...
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time be precious this film isnt i must learn to ignore critic who rave about small film like fargo and this complete waste of time.the theater be pack and everyone leave with the same reaction be this the film the critic be rave about what a piece of crap the hook of this film be the upwardly mobile black daughter seek out and find her white trash family get it the acting be superb.the production light set edit sound be about step above a minute story the character be shallow and unintelligent i be insult by the fact that these people could not figure out about each other what be blatantly obvious to the audience the audience be murmur to the movie screen what the character should say next.i have have more fun do the laundry
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bad movie ever make ever i have no word to say about it .. other then it truly have no point no plot no ... anything sheer crap i dont know how everyone in the movie didnt shoot them shelf after watch it .... .... .... ... .. i love vampire flick and mystery and alternate abstract outside the box film and .... this be non of those i mean what the crap i cant even tell you what the film be about cuz i still dont know and i just waste an hour and ahalf of my life watch it ... bottom line .. i think the maker of this film just want everyone to do drug thats the only thing i get from this film please dont watch this ... i mean for a sultry sensual vampire flick there wasnt even the to be expect nudity youd get from a vamp flick anyway back to my point .... this movie blow go set yourself on fire instead .... .. ..
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savage island be a lame movie it more like a home video shot with very minimal lighting and horrid act not only that the storyline and script be wretched i dont know why this movie be make i have see a lot of flick in my time and the one i really hate be movie that make me angry this one make my blood boil the situation be inane at best if i make a movie like this it would have be a short really because those backwood idjits wouldnt have be in the picture.dont be fool by the cover on the d.v.d i be an avid watcher of bad cinema but this movie be virtually unwatchable i dont mind movie be shoot on d.v but if youre go to do that make the movie enjoyable not some tired retread of superior horror film sans wrong turn .i have to not recommend this waste of disk if you come across this one in the rental store pas on by.movies that make yours truly angry get an automatic
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i have to say this be my favorite movie of all time i have see it well over time actually have to buy a new copy a a result of overwatching it be what the eighty be like and what a romantic story with a few moral throw in i highly recommend to anyone want to relive the high school day again buy a copy now it be a classic
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i saw it at the legacy theater in the joseph smith memorial building in salt lake city this morning im go to assume that one level of enjoyment during this movie will largely be base on one level of acceptance of joseph story.however that aside it be very well make well acted and have a nice score if you get to salt lake city it be a must to see it in the legacy theater i have never be in a nice theater as far a picture quality sound quality and ambiance in my entire life ... i wonder if the church would let me watch batman begin there be that im lds and regard joseph a a prophet i be touch in several place and be ought to tear quite a few time ... which i presume be expect since they hand out tissue before the movie start anyway im tell that this film be available in several lds visitor center around the globe if you have minute check it out because whether you believe joseph smith or not he tell a fascinating story
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adenoid hynkel a lowly soldier in world war one rise in subsequent year to become the ruthless dictator of toumania he create an aggressive antisemitic war machine and cultivate a little toothush moustache sound like anyone you know from the safety of hollywood chaplin use this soapbox to exhort europe to take up arm and defy hitler and mussolini give that the united state in have more than a year of neutrality ahead of it and no strong desire to emoil itself in europe civil strife remember it be hitler who declare war on the usa not the other way round it be surprising that chaplin be allow to distribute this immoderate polemic.the story involves on the one hand the the vulgar and repellant hynkel and the reign of terror over which he ineptly preside and life in the jewish ghetto where every single person be friendly humane ave etc etc chaplin be hynkel and he also play the jewish barber the little hero of the ghetto the tramp in all but name needless to say chaplin write directs star compose the music and do the catering.in the full truth be not yet know about the third reich and chaplin can be forgive for have something less than perfect historical foresight but even by the standard of the day he get hitler badly wrong a comedian and a sentimentalist chaplin try to ridicule hitler by make hynkel silly and hapless all this do be to humanise him when hynkel the notverywarlike soldier fool around with the big gun and the upsidedown aeroplane he become endear rather than despicable a dictator he inspect his subordinate technical innovation which dont work the parachute hat the bulletproof uniform etc and these passage be mean to make u think that the reallife nazi be incompetent and can be sweep aside in fact hynkels regime be make cute and likeable by it bumbling bodgery.in truth chaplin day have already pass when he make this illconsidered polemic at heart he be still a dinosaur of the silent screen check out the humour with gag like stagger up and down the street semiconscious or the pantomime of the coin in the pudding the hero schultz be mean to represent a yardstick of european decency against which hynkel can be judge but schultz look more like a character from operetta than a nazi be it in any way believable that a schultz figure if such have exist would say to the fuehrers face your cause be doom to failure because it build upon the stupid ruthless persecution of innocent people and how do schultz come to be in the cellar of the jewish ghetto if he be the object of an exhaustive manhunt why do he persist in wear his ruritanian uniform chaplin do not yet know the full horror of auschwitzbirkenau or treblinka but the nazi concentration camp which he offer u be hopelessly out of kilter with the grim spirit of the age a usual chaplin think in term of silent comedy setpieces loosely peg onto the narrative clothes line there be the knockabout scrap with the stormtroopers shave a man to the accompaniment of brahms and the globe ballet watch for the segment film in reverse .paulette goddard be the unremittingly perfect hannah just a the people of the ghetto be impossibly nice and the jewish haven in osterlich be ridiculously idyllic so hannah be quite literally too good to be true brave defiant resourceful hardworking and of course beautiful she be the canary of judaism in the ghetto cage gee aint i cute she ask after the barber give her a makeover too cute by far be the answer she doesnt come close to ring true because chaplin have make her a caricature the wouldnt it be wonderful speech which chaplin put into her mouth be typical of the author too wordy too emotionally cloying.jack oakie be great a napaloni the fascist dictator of bacteria he ings a whiff of muchneeded comic io to the proceeding but the film underlie weakness remain if napaloni be silly and ineffective how can we fear him and anyway the stutter stopstart of the backprojected train be a fine chaplinesque example of a gag that be persist with far beyond it comic worth.and where do the jewish barber acquire that immaculate hynkel uniform
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milo be yet another answer to a question nobody ever asked.do we really need more slasher i for one think we already have more than enough.i guess the professional tall guy overcharge so in this one we deal with a murderous kid thats also a zombie or a ghost when he feel like it.a long time agohe drown but that didnt bother him and he still kill people friday the thwhats that .one dayhis survivor have a big reunion and a a surprise twistmilo come to pay them a visit.through some really bad shot that show everything except the murder the cast be thin out till only the final girl be leave to find out milos dulli mean dark secret.she and her friend have be die to know.once discoveredmilo go on yet another murderous rampage isnt it his bedtime yet and the girlwell she scream a lot.the acting be not even bottom of the barrelthe barrel refuse to be associate with it.milo can be one creepy bastard from time to time i give him thatbut some movie just cant be save without a great script or gratuitous nudity
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this be one of the best horror suspense film that hollywood have make in year or maybe even decades.even though in my opinion this movie be predictable in part it have everything that a good film in this genre should have chill thrill and yes a lot of gore house of wax sure delivers in part it be sort of farfetchedthe acting be not that greatbut my overhaul rating for house of wax be an eight out of ten ...... if you enjoy be at the edge of your seat this be just the right movie for youi have to admitit be sort of neat see the whole town make out of wax ...... i myself enjoy these museum but after see this film i will now look at them in a whole new different way
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never saw the original movie in the series ... i only hope it be a much good movie than this or the sequel make in the s a if it be not how be these two terrible sequel even justify this movie have a really good lead in when they be advertise it to be show on one of those old independent station that be a thing of the past now anyways it look like it would be a pretty good scary movie it be however a movie that would make some walt disney movie look dark really this movie be just a bunch of light fluff with virtually no boggy creek creature to be see the only real sighting be near the end when you see it shape during a very heavy rainstorm other than that there be virtually no sign of the creature which be really disappointing a a kid the story be basically the old evil hunter must kill anything they see and be after the boggy creek creature and kid be out to help it or just some random hairy guy in the wood that like to pull random boat through the water not really worth watch i would however like to see the original grant the maker of that would make the also bad boggy creature of the s but he also make a very good slasher movie in the s the town the dreaded sundown
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create in and originally name mortimer before walt disney change his name because his wife convince him mickey mouse have become the staple of the disney and i always think this cartoon be the first ever cartoon to feature mickey it be in fact his third but it doesnt matter for a six minute animate short it be enjoyable the story see mickey pilot a steamboat until captain pete take him off the idge stop to pick up cargo and minnie mouse miss the boat be lift on she drop her music sheet and a goat eat them mickey help her crank it tail and play the tune and get some other animal to be percussion until pete come along again to stop him make mickey peel potato mickey mouse be number on the great pop culture icon and he be number on the great cartoon very good
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highly regard at release but since rather neglect immense importance in the history of perform art a classic use of embedded plot one of my favourite film why hasnt the soundtrack be rereleased
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the perfect murder be foil when a wife play by mary ellen trainor once the wife to director robert zemeckis who helm this episode who murder her husband with a poker have the misfortune of receive a visitor a she be about to move the body outside .. an escaped insane madman dress in a santa claus suit play by a deviously hideous larry drake she fend for her life while try to find a way of hide her husband corpse she decide to use an ax once she down the santa killer who miss several chance to chop off the woman head to frame the killer for her husband murder santa killer lock her in a closet and pursue the woman daughter a she try desperate to free herself to save the child.this episode of tale from the crypt just recycles tire material involve the old santa kill theme while also add the oftused add nauseum womanmurdersherhusbandforamanshesbeencheatingwith routine it essentially trainor try to find a way to avoid be catch with a dead body she kill while also keep a safe distance from a maniac there nothing refreshing or new about this plot which pretty much go through the motion not one of the show highlight
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the imdb plot summary in no way describe the essence of this film it should have read be prepare to be catapult back to the prison of the rd pew from the back of your familys church at year old listening to the preacher drone on about god will while all you can think of be get back home to your lego.it start off well intentioned build intrigue by plant some real and surreal clue such a rennys how do the cut on my thumb heal so fast moment it then slowly morph into a christian jamboree sacrifice it plot completely in a wash of evangelisticinduced babble i believe i count the use of the word pray about time in a five minute span near the end after the st i try to twist the context of the word to it synonym prey sadly this little mind game of mine make the film at least bearable for the last minute plus it make me laugh whenever a character would say prayer preyer to me a it become totally zany indeed even my catholic wife sunk in her chair from boredom almost to the point of end up on the floor.for all the salivate christian who rank this film star i suggest stick with your theologyreinforcing safety standard like circle square the ten commandment anything from narnia jesus christ superstar and the like stay away from more cereally challenge subject matter in film such a jesus camp the god who wasnt there what would jesus buy or the soontobe release religulous.maybe robert whitlow book be well
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te of the storm country be possibly the best movie of all of mary pickford film at two hour it be quite long for a silent film yet continue to hold your interest some year after it be film mary give one of her fine performance at time the role seem like a great hit performance with bit of mary the innocent mary the little devil mary the little mother mary the spitfire mary the romantic heroine etc characteristic that often be use throughout a single film in the past the movie be surprisingly frank about one support character illegitimate child for and at one point our little mary be think the unwed mother in question if the academy award have be around in no doubt the best actress oscar for the year would have be marys
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i first saw this movie when i be about year old my mom buy it at our local kmart because it be on sale for on vhs she think that it would be a nice christmas movie for me and my others to watch this movie however scar the hell out of me you may be ask yourself how could a movie about santa clause scare anyone the plot of the movie revolve around satan send one his minion pitch to earth in an attempt to kill santa and ruin christmas thats right satan send a demon up from hell to kill santa clause pitch stalk santa throughout christmas eve in an attempt to trap him on earth when the sun rise on christmas day for if santa doesnt make it back to his home in space he turn to powder dont get me wrong the movie be funny and fairly entertaining however the image of demon and devil dance in the depth of hell which occur at the beginning of the movie be just downright creepy
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although there be some snippet in this part documentary hint at the necessity for recreational drug law reform these be not very welldeveloped in contrast to the many snippet from those who feel that the drug that happen to currently be illegal be a scourge for which the only imaginable solution be incarceration of even those who be guilty even of mere possession of such drugs.although this program a a whole leave the viewer with the impression that the drug war be largely a futile exercise and a waste of money and for that it deserve some praise almost nothing in this documentary address the very real problem that total war against those who merely possess illegal drug obviously cause and contributes tovery real problem that most drug warrior themselves would tell you if ask they think the drug war be design to solve for example while many minute be spend on the surge in violence associate with the rise popularity of crack cocaine in the s at no point do this program even hint that the very law design to suppress crack cocaine make it impossible for drug seller to enforce their contract and business arrangement in court of law force them to resort to violence to stay in business but instead of see the law a an important cause of the violence the drug themselves seem to take the unt of the blame inexplicably alcohol prohibition the violence that ensue and the subsequent reversal of prohibition be totally ignore by this program.this program will help to perpetuate ridiculous stereotype of drug user and it be these that be the primary force in drive the very expensive and very problematic drug war the possibility of incorporate drug other than alcohol into a happy and successful life be not really touch on use of any drug in excess be probably go to cause personal problem but not all user do their drug in excess just like not all alcohol user be alcoholics.if you want a point of view from someone who believe that adult have a moral right not to be incarcerate and have their life ruin by the criminal justice system just for use drug that the government for mostly very arbitrary political reason rather than reason base on sound social policy and legitimate science have decide to totally prohibit whose user it have decide to notsometaphorically wage war against just forget about it none of that be in here.on the other hand this be hardly in the category of antidrug propaganda it be mostly an interesting neutrallypresented history of drug in th century united state like marijuana lsd heroin cocaine mdma and oxycontin but there be a significant element of various people point of view with regard to drug law and most but not all of that be not very thoughtful or wellinformed and slant in favor of the drug warrior mentality especially with respect to drug other than marijuana the criminal justice system along with it often harsh liferuining penalty be obviously not the only answer or the most appropriate answer to every single social problem but unfortunately theres an epidemic in this nation of an asyet unnamed disease whose primary symptom be a lack of imagination with respect to social policy when it come to certain drug a lack of compassion for fellow human a prejudice against people who use the drug that be not governmentallyapproved perhaps a vested interest in the growth of the prison/policing industry and a horrid apathy with regard to human dignity it morally wrong to kidnap or incarcerate people unless you have a very damn good reason for do so and the mere possession of an arbitrarily select group of drug be clearly not such a reason this be really the primary issue when it come to drug yet this program ignore it.so in sum the part of this program that neutrally present history without feed stereotype of drug user that be at the heart of the drug war mentality be pretty good and interesting and entertain but when it come to present a rational nonradical point of view with regard to drug policy and give the viewer examples not only of people with drug problem but also the many people who successfully incorporate drug into happy and successful live it pretty disappointing
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consider this film be release year before i be bear i dont feel too bad for overlook it for such a long time back in january of though i attend the second annual quentin tarantino film fest hold in austintexas the particular theme of film this night be neglect s crime film and boy be her right the gravy train or the dion brother a it appear this print be an absolute gem wonderful performance quirky character smart plot hilarious comedy and just an all around great time rarely do you see a crime film that be so entertaining and fresh margot kidder in one of her early film appearance be extremely sexy a well i hope some cable network get a hold of this film and allow many more to see it in the meantime go to an indie video store and hope they have it
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the movie be actually a romantic drama base on three sister who have desire to become a famous girl group in their endeavor the old sister meet a drug dealer and street hustler call satin whom sister go after because she believe he be the big time who will give her everything she ever think she want out of life though he could be accuse of kill her he really kill only her spirit and will to live after which she become a drug addict and ultimately dy from an overdose the story isnt about the street life or the italian mobster who try to buy stix off then threaten him it about how love can overcome even the bad tragedy in life a portray in song and style and the character that be the life in the time for young woman try to be discover back then
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first i realize that a rating be suppose to be reserve for the bad of the bad this movie get that from me because a one reviewer point out it not bad in a selfaware overthetop sort of way that might allow it to have some comic or cult value it simply miss it mark on every count contain possible spoiler the dialog be completely disingenuous the continuity be so deliberate it painful daniel just finish speak of his lose love and with his final word the flamenco dancer start the mockshock of whats her name see i dont even remember her character name let alone the name of the forgettable actress when her husband the baldwin first tell her that her friend be the bad guy the car and the motorcycle chase do all the right thing vegetable cart go fly car crash into each other motorcycle go down the stairs people nearly be hit but remarkably no one be oh thats right ... except for the one guy who have be stab several time be obviously stumble along the curb with knife wound and an approaching car apparently didnt notice him there hmmm it become more and more remarkable to me that movie like this can be make there be so much pressure in the film industry to make money youd think that someone in hollywood would think of make good film worth see now theres a novel idea my suggestion dont see this film dont rent the dvd dont watch it on cable there be lot of other thing you could be do that will leave you feel more satisfied
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picture the scene where a bunch of scriptwriter sit around a table and one say let have a black woman approach an unsuspecting member of the public also black in the street and ask him if he be black then walk away the other writer fall about laugh hysterically until one suggest they repeat it in every episode more laughter now if you think the premise be funny and the show contain many such type of situation you will enjoy this show for the rest use your zapper and find something more entertaining like watch paint dry those that have write glowing report of this show should either get out more or be force to watch television comedy that be really funny another example of the humor in the show a girl try to get out of pay at a supermarket checkout by try to hypnotise the cashier marginally funny the first time but why repeat it over and over in different show with different cashier i could give other example but these just might be treat a spoiler divulge why this comedy just be not funny at all
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the year saw no few than filmed production of h. g. well great novel war of the world this be perhaps the least wellknown and very probably the best of them no other version of wotw have ever attempt not only to present the story very much a well write it but also to create the atmosphere of the time in which it be suppose to take place the last year of the th century â… use well original setting in and near woking england.imdb seem unfriendly to what they regard a spoiler that might apply with some film where the end might actually be a surprise but with regard to one of the most famous novel in the world it seem positively silly i have no sympathy for people who have neglect to read one of the seminal work in english literature so let get right to the chase the alien be destroy through catch an earth disease against which they have no immunity if thats a spoiler so be it after a book and other film include the classic you ought to know how this ends.this film which follow well plot in the main be also very cleverly present â– in a way that might put many viewer off due to their ignorance of late th/early th century photography although film in a widescreen aspect the film go to some length to give an impression of contemporaneity the general coloration of skin and clothes display a sepia tint often find in old photograph rather than black color be often reminiscent of handtinting at other time color be wash out these variation be typical of early film which didnt use standardized celluloid stock and therefore present a good many change in print quality even go from black/white to sepia/white to blue/white to reddish/white and so on â– a youll see on occasion here the special effect be deliberately retrograde of a sort see even as late a the s â– and yet the martian and their machine be very much a well describe them and have a more nearly realistic feel some of effect be really awkward â– such a the destruction of big ben the acting be often more in the style of that period than ours some aspect of victorian dress may appear odd particularly the use of pomade or illiantine on head and facial hair.this film be the only one that follow with some closeness well original narrative â– a have be note viewer may find it informative to note plot detail that appear here that be occasionally retain in other version of the story well description of the martian â– a giant head mount on numerous tentacle â– be effectively portray when the martian machine appear about an hour into the film they too give a good impression of how well describe them both well and this film do an excellent job of portray the progress of the martian from the limited perspective primarily of rural england â– plus a few scene in london involve the narrator other the director be unable to resist show the destruction of a major landmark big ben but at least doesnt dwell unduly on the devastation of london.the victory of the martian be hardly a surprise despite the destruction by cannon of some of their machine the narrator travel about to seek escape see much of what well term the rout of mankind he encounter a curate endow with the victorian affliction of a much too precious and nervous personality they eventually find themselves on the very edge of a martian nest where they discover an awful fact the martian be show to be vampire who consume their prey alive in a very effective scene well add that after eat they set up a prolonged and cheerful hoot the narrator finally be oblige to beat senseless the increasingly hysterical curate â– who revive just a the martian drag him off to the larder cheer from the gallery british curate be so often utterly insufferable .this film last almost hour go through well story in welcome detail it about time the author get his due â– in a compelling presentation that build in dramatic impact a word about the act dont expect awardwinning performance theyre not bad however the actor be earnest and they grow on you most of them however have have very abeviated film career often only in this film the narrator be play by hunky anthony piana in his nd film the curate be john kaufman â– also in his nd film a an actor but who have have more experience direct the brother henderson be play with some conviction by w. bernard bauman in his first film the artilleryman the only other sizable part be play by james lathrop in his first film.this be overall a splendid film portray for the first time the war of the world a well write it despite it slight defect it be far and away good than any of it hypedup competitor if you want to see h. g. well war of the world â– and not some wholly distorted version of it â– see this film
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of the element that make this the best at this point i have to say be christine mcintire shemps scene when poisoned and her reaction be truly magnificent i imagine that a one poster suggest christine be try to hold back laughter during that scene but it actually make her seem even more deliciously evil to be smile at shemps possibly dying.another character who help this stand out be the goon his look be a great cross between horrific and comedic goofball hardly a character i would choose to meet in a dark alley or for that matter anywhere i would have prefer a bit of true whodunit mystery in this but hey when a short be this good who go to complain not i
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okay this be stupidthey say their not make another nightmare filmthat this be the last one ... and what do they do they go on make another onenot that the next one part be badbut why do they play u anyway this movie make no sense whatso everit be extremelly dullthe character be highly one dimensionalfreddy be another jokerwhich be very stupid for such a good series.the plot be veryvery badand this be even bad than part and i didnt get the movieits a stupid tale in dpointless id say i hat this film so much i still rmember all the part i didnt like which be basically the whole film.this be so different than the prequelsit triesand triesbut this one try the hardestand get slap back on the face.again there be hadly any death scenesalthough they be differentthey suck bigtime how can they have go this far didnt they see they make the big mistake at part and yet they make this it all bout the moneydo not see this sad excuse for a nightmare series.i give a nightmare on elm street six out of .good point of movie have potential with plot.bad point of film terrible acting/lack of deaths/too funny to be classify a horror/very confusing
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everyone my name may sound weird but there be nothing else any way i havent see anything like this before so it be crazy of course thats a good thing it be a humorously interesting movie and my absolute all time favourite thing be how they intertwine other thing into one like chicken little the fish pretending to be king kong and runt the pig say twas beauty who kill the beast war of the world scene and more walt disney company have not lose his touch maybe not for this one also how they make it like they be watch a movie and it be like a home cinema however some part dont fit like in the original lion king werent timon and pumbaa with simba when he beat scar in this movie they be not they be fight the hyenas backstage thers more the reason be why pumbaa isnt so confident be because he be push away by the other animal and also it just timon timon timon anybody realise that only timonns story be tell whereas pumbaa only have flashback but apart from that it great
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finally be there release a good modesty blaise movie which not only tell a story but actually tell the real story i admit that it be a bad movie if you expect an action thriller but if you stop in your track and remove all your expectation then you will notice that it be a story that come very close to the original make by peter odonnell you have a cover story just to tell about how modesty become the magnificent person which she be it be not a movie to attract new fan but a movie to tell the real tale some thing could have be well but when you can not forget the awful movie from then be this a magnificent movie so be you a fan then sit down relax and just enjoy that the real story be there with a cover story just to make modesty tell her story
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by now the game stale right the joke have be do it all over the creative genius which drive this game for the first two game be go after all.wrong.the game be still intact the joke be here folks sure theyre all rehash but so be monkey island and for that matter.the difficulty be well place somewhere between the slightly easy and the ridiculously hard the ship fight subgame be badly innappropriate in the tradition of subgames and this game have the best joke of the whole series when ask for your membership card to an exclusive beach always select you dont need to see my identification it worth the price of the game by itself
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i decide to watch this movie because id not see carol lombard before in any movie im sorry it have to be this one because quite frankly this be a dog â– and even with jimmy stewart and charles coburn both of whom be great actors.the problem with the film be simple it try to put too much too quickly in to a story about a young lawyer john manson play by stewart who marry jane play by lombard within an hour of meet her whats that clichã© marry in haste repent at leisure ... in short the story be a series of episode that show the couple worsen financial status their trouble with john livein mother their struggle to pay the bill johns diminish status at the office the arrival of their baby son john jnr unexpected and cause additional friction at home with mother the couple angst about their marriage the baby sickness which worsen thus necessitate an heroic flight by a lone pilot in a fierce storm to ing a special serum to save the child and finally john be accept a a junior partner at the law firm.how many more clichã©d situation could the writer include maybe mother die soon after there wasnt much comedy the drama be lacklustre at best the dialog be painful to hear only the acting of the four main player be adequate.this be the period at the end of the great depression with the usa come out of it long downturn â– during which many people experience all of the event portray in the movie.so it make sense for selznick to reaffirm good ol home spun american value of family relationship heroism perseverance and initiative â– all against the backdrop of the average american family who well to use than jimmy stewart and carol lombard and it should be note that the film be release in early so it be plan in â– soon after the usa begin to get production go for the coming world war ii hence this sort of film be a great booster for the general public at that time many of who would soon have to join england in war a many here would know hollywood and washington form an uneasy alliance before during and after the war.however im glad i saw it â– a a piece of disguised sociopolitical propaganda but ill have to see other lombard film to gain a good appreciation of her act range.as another reviewer note see this one just to say that youve see all of stewart movie otherwise dont bother
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unfortunately the only spoiler in this review be that there nothing to spoil about that movie.even if b. mattei have never do any master piece he use to do his job with a bit of humor and craziness that make him a fun eurotrash director but for the last year he seem to have lose it.this film be just empty nothing at all to wake u up from the deep sleep you sink into after the first min.no sex no blood it suppose to be about snuff no actor no dialog just as bad a an t.v film.its even bad than his last cannibal and zombie epics.so rest in peace bruno you will stay in our mind forever anyway thanks to such unforgettable gem a zombi robowarrats laltro infernovirus cruel jaw and few others.so except if you want to see b mattei possess by jess franco spirit new film pas on this one.but if you dont know this nice artisan career track down his old film and have fun
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i enjoy watch this well act movie very much it be well actedparticularly by actress helen hunt and actor steven weber and jeff fahey.it be a very interesting moviefilled with drama and suspensefrom the beginning to the very end.i reccomend that everyone take the time to watch this make for television movieit be excellent and have great act
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hypothetical situation abound onetime director harry ralston give u the ultimate postapocalyptic glimpse with the world dead left in the street in the store and throughout the landscape sans in the middle of a forgotten desert one lone survivor attempt to rekindle his sanity take food from the city to his bungalow in this desert all alone he hop for more but with nobody around he be leave with white underwear and a passion for a local indian tribe â– until the discovery of a camera which open up new door and eaks the barrier of human coexistence alan a man of the book be leave on earth after an unknown disaster thinking he be alone he begin live life his way â– until jeri ryan appear like she would in any dream out of the wood dishevel and unhappy to find the final man alive to be ... well ... like alan anyway they try to coexist fail get drunk and before create the ultimate dystopia they run into redneck raphael play by newcomer â– dan montgomery jr bond be torn confusion set in a couple become a third wheel and the battle between physically inept nerd vs. ainless jock even with nobody leave on the planet it become a truth that even the dark of human nature will arise.using a variable film technique ralston give u a mediocre story base loosely on another film entitle the quiet earth which i will be view next oddly which he never give any credit towards with a borrowed story i guess he do a decent job of reinterpret it his punch seem to be lack at the begin while ralston try to find his stride borrowing yet again from other film director technique to attempt to find his own he open the film interestingly enough but fail to answer any direct answer sure the final day have arrive but could there be a concise answer a to how or good yet why these select few survive a spookier begin would have lead u strong into a comical film the juxtaposition would have be like shawn of the dead but instead leave u feel like we be watch a madefortv program listening to the audio commentary i have respect for ralston because he work diligently to get this film make and his passion nearly sell the film but you could tell from his interaction with the cast that he wasnt a happy with his overall final product there be mistake one that he point out and others that he be ashamed to point out while this do make for decent independent filmmaking it sometimes feel cheap and in ralstons case it be the latter.i must admit david arnotts portrayal of alan hook me he play that wimpy school nerd adult role very well he be funny to both watch and listen to and thus he become sympathetic to the viewer he be a key player in keep the film together ala i can not say the same for the rest this be dan montgomery first film and it be obvious â– i mean â– really really obvious there be scene in which i think the cue card be about to come out and read the line for him perhaps even give u a more realistic performance but alas it wasnt the case then there be jeri ryan she pull into her character near the end of the film which to me be the culmination of the entire piece of art she go from estrange unknown to bitter cranky insane girlfriend by the end confuse again she fell into her character by the end give u just a glimpse of what she could have probably do a her acting mature even a the commentary progress all that she contribute be a laugh giggle or ohhh look at that color moment while her beauty may sell ticket one may want to consider knowledge to be just as beautiful this be her first film so can i be too harsh overall this film felt like it be miss something i though the idea be strong â– the premise that even with only a peppering of people remain on the earth the evil of human nature still exist jealousy can not be kill by bacteria or bomb maybe because it be consume by zinc and we a a race will always want what we can not have ralston be not a surprising director his technique be flaw and preused but he do know how to make a lowbudget comedy i think our idea of funny be different so that be why i couldnt find myself laugh at many of the bit he find hysterical his actor provide the level of act need for this film which be low than average his film be loose meaning that there be element never quite explain or tackle i.e anything with wing survive which overall harm the intensity of the film this be a comedy but it could have be much darker and much much funny for those think that roger avery be a huge element to this film a we learn from their commentary all he be there for be money â– the be in essence the bank for the last man dont get your hope up for any classic avery moments.dont expect more from ralston â– and that be how i will end it.grade out of
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i must admit i be expect something quite different from my first viewing of cut last night though be delight with the unexpected australian horror gem i be a true horror fan as true a they come and find cut to not only be the best of the genre australia have ever produce but one of the great parody/comedy film of late.my only concern be that mainstream audience may not pick up on a lot of the comedic elements the film be not overly clever in it application but make me laugh at every turn try to fit in every possible cliche of the horror genre they could i be certain this be intend a humour .... hop this be intend a humour.and of course there be the gore.the use of the customise garden shear be illiance besides the expect stab and slash in short there be a huge amount of variety and creativity in the many violent death enough to please even the skeptic of this film worth.the appearance of both kylie minogue short that her appearance be and molly ringwald be just another reason to see the film both performance be fantastic as well a simon bossell the castle in a illiant role a the jokey technician.all in all i think this movie be one of the best horror product of the last couple or year as well a a beautiful satire/parody toungueincheek till the very end.loved it go see it
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i be so happy not to live in an american small town because whenever im show some small town in the state it be populate with all kind of monster among whom flesh hungry zombie evil alien and sinister ghost be most harmless in this movie a former doctor who just do time for an accidental killing of his wife in a car crash direct his step to the near small town he must have never in his life see a flick about any small town which happen to be the purgatory flat and of course as soon a he arrive there all the hell eaks loose he meet a blond chick who out of all creature most resembles a cow both in facial expression and in ain functioning and at once fall in love with her but there be a tiny handicap she be already marry to a very smalltime drug dealer who in a minute get himself shot pitifully not dead to know what have come out of all this you should watch the movie for yourself ill just tell you that it slightly reminiscent of u turn by oliver stone but be a way down in all artistic property
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like anyone else who buy this i be dupe by the piece of extreme gore and ban in country or whatever it say in the box i have to admit i be a huge gore fan and i be always amaze when film can lay it on thick and look convince do it tom savini rick baker and greg cannom be some of the best in the business the revolutionize makeup effect in the s. today you dont need them a everything be do on computer but computer can not compare to the visual wizardry that these three men could conjure up but i digress.watching fantastically gory film like fulcis gate to hell or even savinis crown achievement friday the th the final chapter you can appreciate all that go into make a terrifically gory film you cant tell the difference between reality and magic.i cant imagine another reason why anyone would see cannibal ferox but the gore that be ostensibly omnipotent in this film if that be the reason you seek this film then you be waste your money a many other reviewer in here have note most of the gore be an aftermath you dont see the torture or the bloodshed a it happen you see whatever it look like afterwords.the gore well it here but not as much a one would hope or expect a man do get castrate and a woman do get hang by her east but other then those two scene and one involve a scalping there be nothing really much else to this film the scene of gore even in these three mentioned be still pretty tame in comparison to what you be hop for maybe it just me and my sick and twisted experience in the horror and gore genre but i be expect a bit more call me sick or twisted but isnt that the only reason people be watch this film in the first place i honestly find myself bore in a lot of places.cannibal ferox be just another film that try to capitalize on a craze of a superior film while cannibal holocaust be not exactly a great film it be much good than this tripe if you go out of your way to buy this for you will feel cheated./
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i always felt that ms. merkerson have never get a role fit her skill familiar to million a the lt. on law and order she have be see in a number of theatrical release always in a supporting role hbos lackawanna blue change that and allow this talented actress to shine a nanny successful entrepreneur in a world change from segregation to integration but the story be really about the colorful array of character that she and her adopt son meet in a boarding house in lackawanna new york a suburb of buffalo.the story could be set in any major africanamerican community of the s and s from atlantas sweet auburn to new york harlem but the segregationintegration angle be only a subtle undercurrent in the colorful life of the folk at nannys boarding house the story revolve around nannys relationship with all kind of people play by some of the best actor in the business i purposely do not say black actorsthis ensemble be a stunning array of talent who happen to be black except for jimmy smits of course i recommend this film a a fun and colorful look at a bygone day
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this will not likely be vote best comedy of the year a few too many coincidence and plot hole however we be talk about a movie where a hitman and a white ead salesman become buddy so a few vagary shouldnt come a too much of a surprise brosnan be excellent in this role go be the wooden james bond a role he be waste in if he can maintain this kind of quality i hope he continue to make comedy greg kinnear be also excellent a brosnans straight man ive read a few negative comment in here about hope davis but i think she be quite good a a mousy housewife with a dark side bury deep within there be lot of good chuckle a brosnan sleazes his way through and a few scene where i nearly die laugh my father a consultant nearly lose it when julian describe himself a a facilitator much like grosse pointe blank another hitman comedy the humour can be very dark if you be in to that be prepare to enjoy yourself
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a a casual listener of the rolling stone i think this might be interest not so a this film be very of it age in the s. to me someone bear in the s this just look to me a hippy purist propaganda crap but i be sure this film be not make for me but people who be active during th s. i expect drug galore with th stone i be disappoint it actually show real life hard work in the studio so much so i felt a if i be work with them to get to a conclusion of this god awful film i have not see any of the director other film but i suspect they follow a similar style of direct sort of amatuerish which give a feeling like the tv show eurotrash badly direct tackily put together and lack in real entertainment value my only good opinion of this be that i didnt waste money on it it come free with a sunday paper
neg: 0.108, neu: 0.718, pos: 0.174, compound: 0.9288, 
watch the original with the same title from this make for tv movie be just godawful although it do use as far a i can tell almost the same dialog it just doesnt work be it the act the poor directing ok so it made for tv but why watch a bad copy when you can get your hand on the superb original especially a youll be spoil to the plot and wont enjoy the original as much a if youve watch it first there be a few thing that be different from the original it shorter for once but all be for the bad the actor play the part here just dont fit the bill you just dont believe them and who could top edward g. robinson performance from the original if you want only watch it after youve see the original and even then youll be very ave if you watch it through it almost sacrilege
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director don siegel really impressed me with this film it be starkly shot graphic without be visually graphic wellacted by all concern and cover some of the most taboo issue of any day in a workmanlike almost expect normalcy hitherto not see in any other film by this reviewer i didnt know what to expect sit down to watch this a civil war movie or some kind of s softcore peddle with eastwood descend on a school for girl in the south but really be be neither of those thing but rather and examination exploration and descent into the soul of men and woman a dark commentary on what be at the core of the civilize a one reviewer previously note none none of the character be likable by the film end and yet each one be interest complex and enigmatic eastwood play cpl mcburney a union soldier find by young pamelyn ferdin youll recognize that voice as soon a you hear it a girl at a school for manner head by geraldine page amidst the chaos that be the civil war particularly in the south soon page teacher elizabeth hartman lovely young seductress carol and even ferdin amy have emotional/sexual tie to eastwood each have their own need and secret and problem eastwood be not a nice man he play the girl off of each other always try to get the sexual advantage in the unfolding we get some real interesting thing reveal from latent lesbianism to incest the beguiled for me be a masterpiece that far exceed my expectation on every creative front this might be except for invasion of the body snatcher siegels best film it certainly be one of eastwoods best real performance page be always so very good and hartman ferdin et al excellent the gothic manse set for the school be effectively claustrophobic some of the sexuallaced scene disturb and what happen to eastwood be a leg up on much of the competition for creepy eerie demented film
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anyone who live through the age of revenge of the nerd and girlpower will appreciate this film it be one of those film that delivers everything you want in a spring eak movie plus it make fun of the college film genre it funny it get a cast to die for amy pohler rachel dratch sophie monk parker posey jane lynch amber tamblyn missi pyle and it guaranteed to make you laugh out loud writer/ actor rachel dratch be a comic genius and sophie monk be such a great villain wilson phillips omg im just repeat myself now ... it will live on with girl who like miranda july but feel like eat ice cream and pretend theyre dumb
neg: 0.107, neu: 0.769, pos: 0.124, compound: 0.09, 
arguably the fine serial ever make no argument here thus far about earthman flash gordon professor zarkov and beautiful dale arden travel in a rocket ship to another universe to save the planet along the way in spellbind spectacular and actionpacked chapter flash and his friend along with new find friend such a prince barin prince thun and the awesome king vultan pool their resource together to fight the evil and army of the merciless ming of mongo and the jealous treachery of his daughter priness aura now shes a car this serial be not just a cut above most serial in term of plot act and budget it be mile ahead in these area produce by universal studio it have many former set at it disposable like the laboratory set from the bride of frankenstein and the opera house from the phantom of the opera just to name a few the production value across the board be advance in my most humble opinion for the costume wear by many of these strange men and woman be really creative and firstrate we get hawkmen shark men lion men high priest creature like dragon octasacks orangapoids and tigrons oh my and many many other fantastic thing be all of them believable and firstrate special effect no way but for most be very impressive the musical score be awesome and the chapter beginning be wellwritten lengthy enough to revitalize viewer memory of the former chapter and expertly score director frederick stephani do a great job piece everything together wonderfully and create a worthy film for alex raymonds phenom comic strip lastly the acting be pretty good in this serial all too often serial have either no name with no talent surround one or two former talent here most everyone have some ability dont get me wrong this isnt a shakespeare troupe by any mean but buster crabbe do a workmanlike likable job a flash he be ably aid by jean arden priscella lawson and the rest of the cast in general with two performer stand out but before i get to those two let me add a another reviewer note it must have be amaze for this serial to get by the hayes office i see more flesh on flash and on jean rogers and priscella lawson than in movie decade later the short crabbe and unfortunately for all of u professor zarkov frank shannon wear be about a formfitting a pair of short guy can wear the girl be wear mid drift throughout and be absolutely beautiful jean rogers may have limit acting talent but she be a blonde bombshell lawson be also very sultry and sensuous and beautiful but for me the two actor that make the serial be charles middleton a ming officious sardonic merciless and fun middleton be a class act jack tiny lipson play king vultan boisterous rouse hilarious a symbol for pure joy in life and the every essence of hedonism lipson steal each and every scene he be in the plot meander here there and everywhere but flash gordon be the penultimate serial space opera and the basis for load of science fiction to follow excellent
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i have to say that the event of didnt hit me until i saw this documentary it take me a year to come to grip with the devastation i be the one who be change the station on the radio and channel on tv if there be any talk about the tower i be sick of hear about it when this be air on tv a year and a day later i be bawl my eye out it be the first time i have cry since the attack i highly recommend this documentary i be watch it now on tv year later and i be still cry over the tragedy the fact that this contain one of the only video shot of the first plane hit the tower be amaze it be an accident and look where it get them these two others make me want to have be there to help
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perfect movie be rare even my favorite film tend to have flaw rear window look a little stagey at time chris elliots character in groundhog day doesnt work the music score in best year of our life be too cheesy the beginning of night of cabiria be a little too slow but this film be perfectly execute from start to finish the script be illiant the acting be superb all around although reese witherspoon and sam waterston be amaze the whole cast shin the directing and the photography be inspire and the music score be touch without be intrusive like some miramax score that be too manipulative every sad moment be truly moving every light moment make me smile this truly be one of the best film i have ever see and i wish there be more film like it i be glad that reese witherspoon have go on to stardom after this film but i be sorry to see that her recent movie be so much more escapist and silly than this serious film which be about real people real feeling and real problem brilliant a mustsee
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this have to be one of the bad movie ever make the plot look intrigue like that of passenger but with the latter movie it somehow work a lot well the plot have be work out in the bad possible way just a few of the awful moment in the movie a flight attendant be stand in the opened doorway of a flying and try to close the door without be suck out by the mile per hour wind thereafter the land the aircraft from a few mile out start at foot thats impossible even for pilot with thousand of hour experience when on the runway perfectly straight of course she be instruct to pull on the flap huh come on flap be there to ensure lift at low speed when on the runway you use thrust reverse on the engine and give maximum power i can go on and on about little and mostly big mistake in the movie but then my reply would become the size of the english dictionary this be a movie you want to miss take my word for it
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regardless of what anyone say it a bmovie and the effect be poorly do .. if youre a vampire fanatic i suppose it would be ok not out of you others here cant sincerely mean that we be to view this a a movie not read it a a book so the effect and character be important as well a the story the story be good but it doesnt carry the film no wonder it have a low rating over all i write this because i choose to see this movie when i saw some good review here on imdb but get severely disappointed dont get me wrong i think the blade movie be awesome and love the underworld movie but this character arent close the make up on the vampire be poorly do and the effect be worse this suck i might not have get so disappointed if i have not read review here that tell me how great it be the reviewer must have have something to do with the production company or something seriously if you think this be awesome you dont care about act or make up this be well a a book out of for an ok story ..
neg: 0.135, neu: 0.703, pos: 0.162, compound: 0.7791, 
i want very much to believe that the above quote specifically the english subtitle translation which be actually write not speak in a rejection letter a publisher send to the protagonist be mean to be selfreferential in a tongueincheek manner but if so director leos carax apparently neglect to inform the actor of the true nature of the film they be all so dreadfully earnest in their portrayal that i have to conclude carax actually take himself seriously here or else have so much disdain for everyone especially the view audience that he cant be bother let anyone in on the joke.some auteur be able to get away with make oblique bizarre film because they do so with ã©lan and unique personal style e.g david lynch and alejandro jodorowsky others use a subtler approach while still weave surreal element into the faic of the story e.g krzysztof kieslowski and david cronenbergs later less bizarre work in pola x carax throw a disjointed mess at the viewer and then dare him to find fault with it well here it be the pacing be erratic and choppy in particular continuity be often dispense with superfluous character abound e.g the gypsy mother and child most of the performance be overwrought the lighting be often poor particularly in the oftdiscussed sex scene unconnected scene be thrust into the film for no discernible reason and the list go on.not to be completely negative it should be note that there be some uplifting exception i like the musical score even the cacophonous industrialtechno music be play in the sprawling abandon complex to which the main character retreat in the second half of the film perhaps a reference to andy warhols factory of the s much of the photography of the countryside be beautiful an obvious attempt at contrast with the grimy city setting and even well into middleage cathering deneuve show that she still have it her performance be also the only one among the major character that didnt sink into bathos.there be an early time when i would regard such film a pola x more charitably experimentation be admirable even when the experiment doesnt work but carax try nothing new here the film be a pastiche of element borrow from countless earlier film and after several decade of movieviewing and literally thousand of film later i simply no longer have the patience for this kind of unoriginal poorly craft tripe at this early moment in the st century one be leave ask with the exception of jeanpierre jeunet be there any director in france who know how to make a watchable movie anymore rating
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it hard to praise this film much the cgi for the dragon be well do but lack proper modelling for light and shadow also the same footage be use endlessly of the dragon stomp through corridor which become slightly tedious.i be amaze to see marcus aurelius in the act credit wonder what an exemperor of the roman empire be do act in this film like whoopie goldberg it must be an alias and can one blame him for use one if he appear in this stinker.the story might be interest but the acting be flat and direction be tedious if you must watch this film go around to your friend house and get drink while do so then itll be enjoyable
neg: 0.05, neu: 0.763, pos: 0.187, compound: 0.9672, 
i remember go to see the movie in the summer of with my parent and be pretty into it at the time of course i be seven at the time.right before the jackson movie come out my wife and i rent this movie since she have never see it and i be feel nostalgic.ralph bakshi run out of money about midway through the animation process for this movie and be force to drastically cut corner on this production since this movie be do primarily with rotoscoping the animation technique for people on a budget this be say something much of this movie be animation only in the very loose sense of the word there be some scene which be very obviously just people stand in front of a screen with maybe some animation effect superimpose on top of them.because of budget constraint the movie already a compression of the fellowship of the ring and part of the two tower be par down even more what you get be sort of like a filmstrip version of the cliff note of the books.its not all bad though the animation ings a warmth to it that i find lack in the jackson movie it nice to imagine what it could have be like with decent funding.this movie be also noteworthy for have the sequel which never come several year later a halfhearted halfhour long tv special be air which be mean to wrap thing up all i will say about that be that it be a musical
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just finish watch ftm the trailer intrigue me so much i actually go to see it on open weekend something i never do needless to say i be very disappointed the story have so much potential and it frustrating to see it get screw up i really feel the problem with the movie be the directing and matthew mcconaughey first off i be not a mm hater i think he be awesome in both reign of fire and lone star i enjoy his performance in those movie without have to see him with his shirt off time yes we all get it that he a goodlooking guy with a nice body but i think most people know this year ago when he come on the scene in a time to kill show him with his shirt off pump iron like a sweaty madman time in the movie be totally unnecessary i think one time would have be sufficient it wouldnt surprise me if they throw those unnecessary scene in so girlfriend and wife would be willing to tag along with their significant other no woman want to see a movie about sport gamble unless ...... enough about that let get into his role i feel his acting be very forced and he didnt seem very comfortable i know his character be suppose to be this charming southerner but his line be corny and cheesy it be almost like he be reference day and confused line a few time in short i didnt like his character even though i be suppose to the accent his shirt off corny pick up line weak sale pitch his character be just too much of a tool a brandon or jonathan pacino and assante be great but that no surprise piven be fun to watch a arie .... oooops i mean jerry i just feel this movie be very commercial and put together poorly it insulting that they could take a great story and throw in crap ingredient to try and make it a box office success cool story that appeal to the male man hunky hollywood actor for female woman make sure he have numerous scene with shirt off lift weight al pacino with great speech scene and great one liner every character shall be dress in thousand dollar suite and have an extremely dark tan jeremy piven to play the same character he do in entourage and old school throw in armand assante to seal the deal plot good writing character development and intelligent casting be unnecessarythis will be good enough for most people but not me anybody who disagree with me ask your self this would this movie be much good if a. direct by sodeberg b. decaprio or ed norton a brandon instead of mmi will probably be part of the minority in think this movie suck i realize this when the woman next to me started cry during the ridiculous end scene of pacino shed a fake tear while emacing russo the financial success of this movie will ensure one thing the movie go public get what the movie go public want big budget crapola
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i be watch the scifi channel when this steam pile of crap come on while not as bad a wynorskis curse of the komodo this still suck ... bad wynorski use the same island a in curse of the komodo as well a the same actor and house the effect be top notch suprising but thats about it ........ i dont know what else to say about this movie ....... oh yeah a in curse of the komodo the government get involve and decides to bomb the island also .... when i saw this part i laugh hysterically ... a komanbra part man komodo and coa overall this movie be utter crap even on bad movie standard just remember if jim wynorski have anything to do with a movie .... steer clear .... to avoid from fall asleep keep repeat it almost over .. it almost over .... out of
neg: 0.171, neu: 0.741, pos: 0.088, compound: -0.9429, 
i only hear about drive lesson through the itv advert and to be honest i didnt know how much i would like it i switch on the tv last night and be totally surprised driving lesson be a modest simple film which draw you in right from the start rupert grint play the part of socially awkward teenager ben illiantly hes definitely one to look out for in the future dame eve walton be play by the fabulous julie walter i love the simple plot and the way the actor portray their character with great sensitivity the highlight of the film for me be evies rather colourful poem it show how friendship can form between the most unlikely pair in my opinion watch drive lesson be a great way to spend hour the scenery be also strike especially the countryside anyone who can call this sparkling comedy forgettable i strongly disagree with
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for greta garbo first talk picture mgm wisely chose eugene oneills pultizer prize win play anna christie also wisely the producer back garbo up with not one but two member of the original broadway cast george marion a annas father chris and james t. mack a johnny the priest transmute to johnny the harp for film so a not to offend this little change be interest like too many film accuse by those who want movie to be movie and ignore their origin of be little more than film stage play the problem be not the play but the movie maker who wouldnt be more faithful to the property by dilute a great cinematic stage work so it wouldnt offend anyone or open it up because they could too many lose the very quality which make the piece worth film in the first place fortunately the respect the studio have for both oneill and garbo allow anna christie to survive the normally destructive process admirably in france marions generally sensitive screen adaptation wonder of wonder marion even allow the point of the scene where garbo anna reveal her past on the farm to the man she badly want to marry and the father who send her there in tact what the league of decency must have think of that the source play great problem have always be that chriss friend marthy tend to walk away with the first act and then disappears from the last two so that anna can take stage the two side of the genuinely good woman men dont always recognize the perfectly cast marie dressler who have cut her teeth on the broadway stage as well before go to hollywood be the perfect balance for garbos anna in this area as well and the fast moving film at only minute doesnt allow u too much time to miss her one of the few benefit from atmosphere be show rather than eloquently describe in the original and screenwriter marion be wise enough to stray from oneill to ing dressler back for a touching scene two third of the way through the film that will remind many of julie lavernes second act appearance in show boat anna and marthys early scene together on screen minute into the film take each others measure and set up all the tension of the rest of the story be among the most affecting scene in the entire piece not to be miss anna christie be great tragic play and a good film drama it hard to imagine that a latter day remake which would almost certainly lose the grit and atmosphere of this remake it be first film without sound in also with george marions original broadway chris could improve on this excellent film the internal scene hew closest to the play but the exterior shouldnt be miss by anyone with an eye to atmosphere while the background screen work be not to modern technical standard the background give a good glimpse than most film of the era of the actual world in which the screen play be set especially in the new york harbor .nearly all garbo naturalistic performance of the sound era have hold up superbly only the too often parodied death scene from camille year later will occasionally draw snicker because of the heavy hand direction and the parody but this anna christie together with the variety of her film mata hari and grand hotel and the sublime lubitsch touch on her comedy ninotchka garbo laugh surely stand a her best.oneill fan who be take with this play at the edge of his lauded sea play should track down the fine world war ii shape film release in the year before the u.s. enter the conflict the long voyage home it be almost a skillfully draw from those sea play a this one be from anna christie and feature a youngish john wayne in one of his rare nonwesterns support a fine cast of veteran actor show him the way
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let me set the scene it be the school holiday and there be absolutely nothing at the movie i be with my friend decide what to see we look for a movie that be start soon and the grinch come up we buy ticket not know what to expect what we get be a roller coaster of fun.jim carrey who may i add be my no actor in the whole world be absolutely magnificent a the grinch in this ron howards best movie next to apollo the way that this movie be make the scenery the actor the prop and the music be just amaze it really ought this childhood movie to life.the story be base upon the story of the grinch a we all know the grinch be a horrible person who just cant stand christmas he live high above whoville and have never mingle well with the townfolk but one little girl be go to change the grinchs look on life and on others in a drastic way.cindy lou who play by adorable new actress taylor momsem meet the grinch a find the kind part of him straight away she attempt to eak the barrier and to help the grinch move in and mingle with the town people.all up this movie be a barrel of laugh for the whole family both kid and parent a solid well do jim
neg: 0.027, neu: 0.827, pos: 0.146, compound: 0.9844, 
a a longtime fan of all the star trek seriesi find this a disappointing episode and i wonder if the liberal use of flashback feature will rikers exploit both positive and largely romantic and negative lot of pain and a crewmates death be a moneysaving device a be many of their bottle show episode in which all scene take place on the enterprise diana muldaur who also appear at least twice on the original series deserve a good final appearance than this for her character dr. kate pulaski loyal viewer in the star trek world be there any other kind also be shortchanged this be the last episode of second season thus the season end not with a bang but with a whimper
neg: 0.076, neu: 0.823, pos: 0.101, compound: 0.34, 
this tvseries be one of the one i love when i be a kid even though i see it now through the pinkshaded glass of nostalgia i can still tell it be a quality show very educational but still funny i have not see the original french version only the swedish i have no idea how good the dubbing be it be too long ago to remember.the premise of the show be to show you how the body work i swear school still hasnt taught me half of what i know from this show it also tie in other thing like what happen if you eat unhealthy food and dont exercise with nice example within the body who want to have another bar of chocolate when you know miniature virus tank can invade you d the cartoon look nice very kid friendly of course but do with care cell viruses electric signal in the ain antibody and everything else be represent by smile cartoon figure look pretty much how youd expect what they should look like in the animated body.this and the series about history especially the environmentally scary finale be key part of my childhood im so happy i find them here
neg: 0.076, neu: 0.743, pos: 0.181, compound: 0.9823, 
fan of the hbo series tale from the crypt be go to love this moh episode those who know the basic archetypal story that most of the classic ec comic be base on will recognize this one right off the bat.underrated indie favorite martin donovan also an excellent writer coauthor of the screenplay for apartment zero and death becomes her be the kind of guy whose everyman good look can go either way he could play a really nice if misunderstood guynextdoor or he can play the same role with a creepy undertone of corrosive sleaziness in the case of right to die he take the latter approach and it definitely works.donovan be a doctor who have recently have an affair with his slutty office receptionist robin sydney much to the displeasure of his inconsolable unforgiving spouse abbey julia anderson when the two of them get involve in a terrible car accident while return from an unsuccessful weekend of make up and shes horribly burn in a fire hes reluctant to pull the plug on her not without some enthusiastic nudging from his even sleazy lawyer and best buddy corbin bernsen look the worse for wear these day but abbey never be one to give up without a fight and thats where the ectheme of the episode come in cuckolded husband and wife have always be the genre favorite subject matter for some spooky and ooky supernatural shenanigan and this case be definitely no exception if anything the rampedup quotient of sex and gore must have bill gaines cackle with glee in his mausoleum somewhere.and thats not to mention that john espositos original script do give the adultery angle just a slight twist you dont realize a youre watch that you only know half the story until close to the end ... think what lie beneath with more gut and gazongas and youre there not a bad effort but not the best of the lot either at least rob schmidt do display touch of flair here and there with the direction especially in a scene that make cell phone picture message into a truly horrifying experience indeed a with most moh episode this one be follow a prevalent theme this season of flaying and dismemberment so the extremely squeamish need not apply
neg: 0.088, neu: 0.798, pos: 0.114, compound: 0.8914, 
dirty war be absolutely one of the best political government and well write t.v drama in the years.the acting be superb the writing be spectacular.diry war reveal the true side of why we be not ready to respond to a nuclear biological and radiological terrorist attack here on american soil.dirty war should be make into a major motion picture it that good i highly recommend this great drama to everyone who desire to know the truth.this t.v drama reveal how british intelligence mi mi attempt to expose a terrorist plot and conspiracy to destroy innocent victim because of england involvement in the iraq war.the scene of different part of london england be also spectacular.dirty war be a must see
neg: 0.254, neu: 0.558, pos: 0.188, compound: -0.9084, 
some may go for a film like this but i most assuredly do not a college professor david norwell suddenly get a yen for adoption he pretty much take the first child offer a bad choice name adam a it turn out adam doesnt have both oar in the water which almost immediately cause untold stress and turmoil for dr. norwell this sob story drolly play out with one problem after another all center around adams inability and seizure why norwell want to complicate his life with an unknown factor like an adoptive child be never explain along the way the good doctor manage to attract a wifey to share in all the hell the little one be dish out personally i think both of them be one beer short of a sixpack bypass this yawner
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this be the who at their most powerful although before the masterwork who next which would provide anthem like baba oreily and wont get fool again this film show the group in transition from mod rocker to one of the big live band of the s.daltrey show what be a frontman be all about entwistle steady a ever moon be great check out the ongoing conversation with the drum tech and see him play side saddle whilst have a bass drum head replace townsend even look like he enjoy himself occasionally consider they take to the stage at be no one in the crowd be asleep there be not many band these day could produce a set as tight a this and it be difficult to imagine any of the band of today produce a concert that in year time will be be enjoy as much a this one
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this filmmaker want to make a movie without have a story to tell and do so really awful jumble of unlikely/unexplained coincidence and unidentifiable plot line all without character or clear motivation.we get clichã© snapshot instead of character one in particular be the diminutive and beautiful crime bos who project an overdone tough guy persona and cast a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guy who have be ought in to work for her nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boy hit the road and one of them carry a tiny suitcase a in the small from a complete american tourister set in a ight sky blue without explanation or apology otherwise it standard visually one other exception be a compelling shot of a beautiful idge in ct
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they film this movie out on long island where i grow up my other and his girlfriend be extra in this movie apparently there be some party scene where they be all drink beer which they tell me be colored water taste disgusting and be very hard to keep swallowing over and over again especially in the funnel scenes yet none of u ever heard of the movie be release anywhere in any form it never come out in the theater obviously and it as far a i knew be never release on video and im sure wasnt release on dvd yet it look like it be see by some people albeit it probably very few so there must be something i would absolutely love to purchase this for my other yet there be no way i can find it anywhere do anybody know anything about when/where/how this movie could be purchase and which format that would be
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thats how burt reynolds describes this film which happen to be his best ever he play tom sharky a vice detective who on the trail of an international mobster vittorio gassman and the man hes financing to be the next governor of georgia earl holliman in the novel by william diehl the story be more complex because the guy run for president this be a very long movie that feel more like three hour instead of two the filming in downtown atlanta and the peachtree plaza hotel set the mood just right for the story reynolds doesnt do much laugh in this one compare to his comedy film he very serious here especially in the beginning of the movie because he get demote for a dope bust that go wrong at time though the movie play more like a voyeuristic drama than a crime film with burt try to get close to the mobster woman only towards the end of the film do the violence get crank up that lead to the bang bang climax just like the great jazz score in dirty harry by lalo schifrin sharkys machine feature an excellent urban jazz soundtrack with many guest star include chet baker julie london flora purim buddy de franco the manhattan transfer doc severinson sarah vaughan and joe williams al capps handle the score with magic this movie have become one of the best crime drama ever check it out.score out of star
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human traffic be a view into an average weekend for a group of friend it be a flyonthewall view into their life and mind which will show you how this group of friend relate to each other there be many moment in that every one can relate to like be out of you skull at party and talk complete rubbish to strangers the character be all people that you can relate to and they be believable in the role that they play in the movie the situation that they be in be all situation that we all have find ourselves in and that be where this film succeed the topic of sex and drug be handle superbly a to no get in the way of the character relationship with each other the story to the film be not all that but that be not a criticism this be a film about people this be a well write film with a sound track to die for d.js pete tong have put together an superb selection of track for this file which all go to make this one of the best film that i have see in after watch this film i felt like i have be out party all weekend fantastic movie jo brand a the voice of reality need i say more
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this early biograph short be so much fun to watch the second on disc one of d.w. griffith year of discovery dvd set highly recommend it feature three excellent performance by the main lead and interesting to see henry b. walthall the little colonel birth of a nation a a campy musician give a countess the eye and other thing .the countess husband go berserk at his wife betrayal and have her wall into a little room with her paramour it kind of incredible that they wouldnt hear the wall go up but hey maybe the wine have something to do with it here mr. johnson father of silent player raymond hackett gesticulates wildly and this add to the melodrama but in an unexpectedly comical way the best moment come at the end a the lady pass out from shock and fear once she realize shes doom henry pick up his instrument and fan it over her the way he do it be so unexpected and in a strange way kind of sexy and i just lose it and laugh my head off the expression on his face from that moment i be charm by henry b. walthall
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baba rajinikanth will never forget this name in his life this be the movie which cause his downfall it be release with much hype but crash badly and lay to severe financial loss for it producer and distributor rajinikanth have to personally repay them for the loss incur soon after it release he try venture into politics but fail miserably it a very bad movie with horrible act badquality makeup and pathetic screenplay throughout the movie rajinikanth look like a person suffer from some disease im one of the unfortunate soul who saw baba first day first show in theatre the audience be so bore that most of them leave the theatre before the intermission sorry ill not recommend this one to anyone
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write by oliver stone and direct by brian de palma scarface paint a picture not easily forget al pacino turn in a stunning performance a tony montana a cuban refugee than become a powerful player in the drug world a he ruthlessly run his self make kingdom of crime in florida this gangster flick be harsh violent loud gross unpleasant and must hold the record for utter the word fk the most number of time almost three hour long and yes it can get repulsive a stout hearted constitution keep you in your seat cheer for the demise of a ruthless crime lord.also play interesting character be michelle pfeiffer steven bauer robert loggia mary elizabeth mastrantonio f. murray aaham and angel salazar pacino prove to be one of the great of his generation he manage to ing reality to his character that leave a strong impression this will not be a movie for everyone for you leave think you walk away from a disaster be that powerful enough for you crime do not pay for long
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first the cgi in this movie be horrible i watch it during a marathon of bad movie on the scifi channel at the end when the owner of the park get kill it probably one of the bad example of cgi i have even see even night of the living dead have well animation.that say the movie have almost no plot why be they on that island in particular well it wasnt state in the movie and why would the people keep come into the cat area make no sense.one thing that stand out in this movie be moderately good acting in what could be call a b make for tv movie movie the acting be very good parry shen stand out in particular.if you have absolutely nothing to do on a saturday watch this movie it may be good for some memorable quote
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i enjoy it there you go i say it again i even buy this movie on dvd and enjoy it a couple of more time call me old fashion but i prefer movie like this to garbage like die hard which hold up the box office and get critical acclaim just because you have some old guy save america van damme move well for a guy of his age i think deliver kick that remind one of kickboxer if you like old school action and and explosion this be the movie to watch this be one of van dammes best works.van damme and steven seagal movie get release theatrically where i live so i never miss a chance to watch our old school action star on the big screen
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what a waste of talent a very poor semicoherent script cripple this film rather unimaginative direction too some very faint echo of _fargo_ here but it just doesnt come off
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although it stray away from the book a little you cant help but love the atmospheric music and settings.the scene in bath be just how they should be although if you have watch it a many time a i have you notice that the background people be the same in each scene but that aside i like the scene where they be in the hot bath but do the men and woman really bathe together like that you could see all the men perch around the outside leering at the woman it also seem strange that they all have their hat on but perhaps this be the style at the time the ballroom scene be very nice the dancing and the outfit look beautiful i especially like catherine dress in the first ballroom scene.northanger abbey look suitably impose but i enjoy the bath scene better.schlesinger give a good but not exceptional performance a catherine morland googie withers give the best performance a mrs allen i feel.ugh peter firth a mr tilney he just talk a load of rubbish and be not a clergyman a he should be it hard to think of him be in love with catherine but then the book never really give that impression either.general tilney be play reasonably well by hardy and stuart also give a sort of good performance a isabella ingrid lacey do not give a good performance a elinor tilney a for john thorpe well he give the impression of a seedy and lustful man perhaps not the character portray in the book but i quite like it.i can handle scene be cut from a book adaptation but when new scene and character be add it usually annoy me the marchioness i hate her she be not part of the northanger story and neither be her cartwheeling page boy.some of the script be peculiar when catherine be ask elinor tilney about her mother death she ask i suppose you saw the body how do it appear what a silly thing to say elinors calm response be stupid too.anyway please tell me if you agree or disagree with me
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mario lewis of the competitive enterprise institute have write a definitive page pointbypoint linebyline refutation of this mendacious film which should be title a convenient lie the website address where his debunk report which be title a skeptic guide to an inconvenient truth can be find at be www.cei.org a short page version can be find at www.cei.org/pdf/.pdf once you read those demolition youll realize that alleged global warming be no more real or dangerous than the yk scare of which gore also endorse a he do the pseudoscientific film the day after tomorrow which be base on a book write by alleged ufo abductee whitley strieber a james the amazing randi do to psychics and philip klass do to ufos and gerald posner do to jfk conspiridiocy theory so do mario lewis do to al gore movie and the whole global warming scam
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a lovely little film about the introduction of motion picture to china capture the amazement of film first audience pretty much a it described to have be worldwide and use actual lumiere film for most of the actuality i dont agree with other people about bad act on the british fellow part i think he be fine but the chinese lead really steal the show in any case i find myself with a smile on my face through most of the movie people who fear subtitle might note that a lot of the film be in english which for some reason be give subtitle as well a the chinese on the dvd
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sigh im baffle when i see a short like this get attention and assignment and whatnot i saw this film at a festival before the filmmaker get any attention and forget about it immediately afterwards it be mildly annoy to see it swipe the grinch who steal christmas heart gag along with the narration the set design see many time before the whole weak tim burtonish style and the story that go nowhere and we get the joke about shoot the crow with the the first time alright but i guess whats really unacceptable be that it even swipe it basic concept from a comic book circa call lenore the cute little dead girl by roman dirge a any quick internet search will reveal i mean what be this this be what they base a hollywood contract on and open door in canada for a filmmaker give your head a shake a don cherry might say
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cute idea ... salesgirl linda smith yolande donlan inherit a teeny tiny little county of lampidorra that country which wasnt even in north america be make the th state ... of course there be only state at the time since this be make in ... linda travel to the country she have inherit and we follow her along a she try to figure out what to do with this strange country and it even quirkier people at one point she sing a song that she claim be from her people the navajo and it get evermore sillier from there .... although yolande donlans heavy lipstick and omnipresent smile never get ruffle or shmeared there be other song scatter throughout a the citizen sing to welcome their new princess film in a glorious british version of technicolor or some such equivalent about the only big name here be dirk bogarde a british subject tony craig cheese vendor bogarde make a big splash in the uk film industry after serve in the war and be even knight by qe ii craig and the new princess keep bumping into each other and their adventure become more intertwined a lampidorras financial problem worsen ... fun little farce .... along the line of marx brother film also note that donlan later marry val guest the writer and director of our little project and stay marry for year guest be good know for writing and direct his scifi flick in both the uk the u
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back in a little film call make love shock audience with it frank and open depiction of a romantic love story that just happen to be about two men.i have be wait for year for a good oldfashioned romance between two men latter day be all that and more.yes it be soapy melodramatic clichã©ridden and quite corny that be what make it so wonderful there be nothing like a good romantic movie and this movie be romantic in the best sense of the word.as to the issue of religion sorry folk but these thing do happen and be happen to gay people even now it be not just the mormon church that reject it gay member gay people in every religion have face harsh judgment and rejection.i love this movie it have a perfect blend of a fantasyromance ground in the reality of the daytoday life of the character if i could give it more than ten star i would good love story never go out of style great love story like latter day be unforgettable.its about time
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the concept of have laurel hardy this time in the role of chimney sweeper work out surprisingly hilarious it guarantee some funny situation and silly antic from especially stan laurel of course a usual.the movie also have a subplot with a nutty professor who be work on a rejuvenation formula it doesnt really sound like a logical mix of story line and incoherent but both plot line blend in perfectly toward the memorable end it still a bit weird but it funny nevertheless so it work for the movie.the support cast of the movie be surprising good sam adam be great a the stereotypical butler and lucien littlefield go deliciously overthetop a the nutty professor.the movie be fill with some excellent time and hilarious construct sequence which be all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they be all execute it all help to make dirty work to be one of the good laurel hardy shorts./
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this movie come a a huge disappointment the anime series end with a relatively stupid plot twist and the rushed introduction of a pretty lame villain but i expect shamballa to tie up all the loose end unfortunately it didnt it add more plot hole than it resolve and confuse more than it clarify the animation and voice act be great but with an idiotic plot dull set most of the movie doesnt even take place in dull wwii earth rather than the alchemy world and disappointing end ed be useless for the rest of his day in a world with no alchemy and he ditch winry it be altogether pretty lackluster do yourself a favor disregard the last half of the anime as well a this movie and read the manga
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maybe i love this movie so much in part because ive be feel down in the dump and it such a lovely little fairytale whatever the reason i think it be pitch perfect great intelligent story beautiful effect excellent act especially de niro who be awesome this movie make me happy than ive be for a while.it be a very funny and clever movie the run joke of the kingdom history of prince savagery and the aftermath the way indulge in magic effect the witch and dozen of smart little touch all keep me enthral thats much of what make it so good it an elaborate specialeffectsladen movie with more story than most fairytale movie yet there be an incredible attention to small things.i feel like just go ahead and watch it all over again
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i be surprise that forgive the franklin do not generate more buzz at this year sundance film festival there be time that the laughter at the screening i saw be so loud that you could barely hear the movie the movie have some excellent acting and a story that really make one examine oader issue you know little issue like religion sex and the truth lot of comedy seem to rely on the same old corny contrive situation many leave you think i know they rip this off from some sitcom .this film take off on it own unique direction i really think that jay floyd do a fantastic job with a tight budget on this film
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they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmaker arrive at the hollywood bus station they then fill in the blank and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrive you know exactly what this movie be about from the opening shot four young boy play in grainy slow motion accompany by voice over narration next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boy play in grainy slow motion once theyre grow it easy to spot the writer/director among the four he the quiet contemplative longhaired one who be never see without his composition book tuck in his pant this mean that his superb write talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood only theres no writing or direct talent on display here and if you still cant figure out which one he be heres a hint the auteur and his character have the same middle name it take over an hour to figure out that these twentysomething men be suppose to still be in high school what look like a prison be apparently a high school the warden turn out to be the principal once more the poor misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement murder and pillage but be powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father how about hit back kid like you do everyone else numerous fist fight scene for no apparent purpose howlingly bad dialogue many scene badly out of focus cartoon character keep pop up a bit player and extra draw unintentional laugh from the premiere audience overact in the extreme and if you dont quite get the selfimportant speech or the slowmotion scenes just listen to the overbear music it will clue you in and what youre suppose to feel poor marisa ryan must be rack up lot of frequent flier mileage a she travel around the country work in these amateur regional film the big sin be that the audience be suppose to feel sympathy for kid who gun down old lady run over puppy chain to a tree rob and steal all the while complain about their sad sorry life but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college yeah thats the ticket why be it that every twentysomething filmmaker believe that his life so far be so important so interesting that the world cant wait to see it onscreen if this movie be as autobiographical a it seem then the auteur well be look over his shoulder for policeman bear fugitive warrant
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i watch this movie so that you dont have to i have great respect for kris kristofferson but what be he think he do this for scale at least the films title practice truth in advertising since people and object routinely disappear throughout the film add to the confusion kristofferson mention this in his commentary that even he wasnt sure if genevieve bujolds character really exist this do not bode well for the viewer be able to follow the story the making of feature be far more interesting than the movie itself it explore the difficulty cobble together fund for an indie even a the film be be shot.to it credit this movie be visually pleasing and doesnt in any way look like a movie make with just slightly over m. too bad the money wasnt spend on a good project
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just saw this movie on open night i read some other user comment which convince me to go see it ... i must say i be not impressed im so unimpressed that i feel the need to write this comment to spare some of you people some money.first of all the messenger be very predictable and just not much of a thriller it might be scary for someone under but it really do nothing for me the climax be laughable and most of the audience leave before the movie resolution.furthermore the acting seem a little superficial some of the emotional argument between the family be less convince than the subpar suspense scenes.if youve see preview for this movie then youve see most of the best part and have a strong understanding of the plot this movie be not worth see in the theater
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i go to see this movie actually i go to see family portrait which contain cut moment other short film by douglas buck at the mar del plata festival argentina ... i just couldnt watch it i have to cover my eye after the st half of cut moment and take a peek every once in a while by the time it be over my stomach be upside down and i felt light head i just have to leave the cinema a few minute after the nd short begin btw of course i be not the only one who leave the room it be waaaay too violent and disgust for me i be impress by the many ave people who actually love it i just dont get how you can love that kind of movie the shocking and bloody and horrible image i saw get really stick in my head for like two day i also try to analyze the story my boyfriend do see the whole thing and tell me about it and i just dont think it make any sense i mean that amount of violence and stuff make no other sense than to try to shock people and thats not a good enough reason i think there absolutely nothing in this movie that i can say well at least x thing about it be good but well i guess i will never understand that kind of film
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a wellmade runofthemill movie with a tragic end pluses the way the story move begin with soorya struggle to live follow by a long flashback about why he there the music a disinterested look at the life of policeman minuses the violence and the gore but i guess they add to the realistic effect still have people head chop off and send in box and sack could have be avoided.no complaint
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i dont understand the positive comment make about this film it be cheap and nasty on all level and i can not understand how it ever get made.cartoon character abound sue foulmouthed alcoholic layabout irish father be a prime example none of the character be remotely sympathetic except iefly for sue asian boyfriend but even he then turn out to be capable of domestic violence a desperately unattractive a they both be ive no idea why either rita and/or sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like bob but give that they do why should i be expect to care what happen to them so many review keep carp on about how realistic it be if that be true it be a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on film.i didnt like the film at all
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steven what have you do you have hit an all new low it be weird since stevens last film shadow man be direct by the same director who do this trash shadow man be good this be diabolically bad so bad it wasnt even funny steven be hardly in the movie and feel like he be in a cameo appearance and when he be in the film he be dub half the time anyway a for the action well let just say the wizard of oz have more action than this trash there be hardly any action in the film and when it do finally arrive it be bore depress badly shoot so call action scene seagal hardly kill anyone unlike his over film where he go one man army ie under siege and and exit wound the plot be so confusing with so many plot hole that it doesnt make scene sometimes flight of fury well be good what a shame i waste pound on this garbage out of ten good luck next time
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a callgirl witness a murder and become the killer next target director brian de palma be really on a pretentious roll here his camera swoop around corner in a museum after linger a long time over a painting of an ape divvies up into split screen for arty purpose practically give away his plot with a sequence again in split screen where two character be both watch a tv program about transsexual and stag his first finale during a thunderous rainstorm dress to kill be exhaust primarily because it ask u to swallow so much and give back nothing substantial much of the act with the exception of young keith gordon be mediocre and the second finale be a ripoff of de palmas own carrienot to mention psycho the explanation of the dirty deeds play like a spoof of hitchcock not an homage stylish in a steely cold way the end result be distinctly halfbaked from
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flat spoiler five med student nelson kiefer sutherland david laaccio kevin bacon rachel mannus julia roberts joe hurley william baldwin randy steckle oliver platt decide to attempt an experiment die for exactly minute it be the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before be risk of ain damage .almost everyone do this experiment randy be the lone exception but they begin to have unwelcome visitor david see a little black girl shout crude insult to him joe see all the woman he have have sex with and which he videotape ask him why from the tv screen rachel relive her father suicide and nelson face a little boy with murderous intentions.why be they here and how will they get rid of them this tense and interesting movie set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school be quite the experience both for the story and the character play by thenbudding star such a kiefer sutherland julia roberts oliver platt kevin bacon and william baldwin.the director be joel schumacher who have already work with sutherland in lose boy and this second cooperation be even good than the first.a must for psychologicalthrillerhorror bud and metaphor lover this story be about forgiveness and righting of past wrong this be one of the minor classic from the s that get respect even today like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream or the tru call episode which use the movie premise.flatliners
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one of my favorite show back in the s. a i recall it go to air on friday or possibly saturday night on the nine network here in australia darren mcgavin and simon oakland be great together.each episode usually reach a climax with kolchack have to engage in hand to hand combat with some sort of supernatural opponent to their credit the writer make a concerted effort to get away from the usual round of vampire and ghost as much a possible.i remember one episode in which the adversary be the spirit of an ancient indian chief which/who come back a a massive electrical current which start to kill people in a city hospital the final showdown saw kolchack try to short circuit the power beast amidst an explosion of spark and billow flame oh well .... you have to be there at the time but it be an interesting idea.mcgavin always pack a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his role and this be one of his best.definitely deserve a place in tvs hall of fame to quote tony vincenzo .... kolchack you be on it ... or in the case of the hall of famein it
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i think my summary say it all this mtvish answer to the classic candid camera tv show feature a gen x or be that gen y type put in false chopper and wear various hat and wig and glass and set people up in fairly outlandish although often not very interesting situation example kennedy have a guy invite his parent to his wedding kennedy be the ide do up in a full idal gown and long wig the joke be that the parent immediately understand their son be marry a man who claim to no longer have his bit and piece problem be this schtick go on way too long obviously to fill out time and kennedy be about as funny a a dead cod lie in the sun candid camera would have run three or four scenario in the time it take kennedy to get through this one run around constantly ask do i look fat i recognize the show be not make for me it be make for yearold pinhead who think jackass be the height of comedy today so let them laugh thank god the show be shortlived
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frownland be like one of those intensely embarrassing situation where you end up laugh out loud at exactly the wrong time and just at the moment you realize you shouldnt be laugh youve already reach the pinnacle of voice resoundness and a you look around you at the ghostly white face with their gaping wideopen mouth and glazen eye you feel a piercing ache begin in the pit of your stomach and suddenly rush up your throat and ... well you get the point.but for all it unpleasantness and punch in the face frownland really be a remarkable piece of work that after view the inarticulate mess of a main character and all his pathetic trouble and mishap make you want to scratch your own eye out and at the same time you feel sickenly sorry for him.it would have be a lot easy for me to simply walk out of ronald bronsteins film but for some insane reason i felt an unwavering determination to stay the course and experience all the grainy irritation the film have to offer if someone set you on fire you typically want to put it out stop drop and roll but with this film you want to watch the flame slowly engulf your entire body you endure the painperhaps out of spite or some unknown masochistic curiosity i cant even begin to attempt to explain.unfortunately mainstream cinema will never let this film come to a theater near you but if you get a chance to catch it prepare yourself ing a doggie bag
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i saw this movie while surf through infomercial and latenight s sitcom on tv one night at in the morning i must say i didnt expect much and i didnt get much although rise mcgowan be hot her performance and the performance of the rest of the cast be not oscarworthy to say the least this movie have it ups and down and do have a nice couple of twist at the end but in all honesty it be awful not even a typical slasher movie no gore no sex no nudity no real violence just bad act id give it a out of
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i first saw this film when i be about year old on tv in the uk where it be call laupta the fly island i absolutely love it and be heartoken when it be repeat a while later and i miss it i be enchant by the story and character but most of all by the haunting and beautiful music it would have be the original english dub version which i saw sometimes erroneously refer to a the streamline dub the dub be actually by ghibli themselves and only distribute by streamline which be sadly unavailable except a part of a ridiculously expensive laser disc boxset.unfortunately i feel that the release have be partly spoil by disney the voice acting be ok but the dialogue doesnt have the same raw energy that the streamline dub or the original japanese have and i think james van der beek sound too old to play the lead they have make some pointless alteration such a change the main character name from pazu to patzu and add some dialogue but bad of all i feel that they have ruin many scene with intrusive music the opening scene of the airship for example be originally silent but have be spoil thanks to disneys moronic requirement that there be music play whenever anyone be not speak which i find annoy in many disney films.this film still blow away most recent animated film and i can not recommend it highly enough the plot be simple yet captivate and the film show a flair which be sadly miss from most modern massmarket homogenize animation
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this film cant make up it mind whether it message be human be evil and bad and animal be sweet and blameless or dont ever go in the water again a fisherman nolan be out to nab a killer whale a very bad thing but when he accidentally accidentally mark you hit a pregnant cow instead of her mate the cow and i use the word in all sens who be obviously a sick psychobitch and the canonical villain of the piece throw herself against the propeller try to chew herself to bit in the most distressing and hideous not to mention ineffectual method of kill herself i doubt it be her first when her unborn fetus abort from her hideous selfinflicted wound her mate go mental with revenge and swears to hurt kill and mutilate every human who even so much a talk to nolan obviously a among human total psycho date other total psychos.the film reek of halfthought out antihuman message the poor poor whale the evil men must suffer and die and yet it do not succeed in demonize nolan at all it true that when he set out his motif be selfish and cruel but at the first squeal of the first whale he grow a heart and a the film progress he grow more and more compassionate to the whale pain until it seem he will walk out on the ice and give himself to the whale just to make it feel a little better.the film final journey in which nolan follow the whale on a bizarre journey to the north remind me of melville eerie manwhale connection and for a moment hint at a truly interesting conclusion where these two husband might connect understand even respect each other in their own grief for nolan lose his wife and unborn child also to an accident it clear nolan respect the whale and feel for it loss however it never go there the whalecharacter have no compassion or respect for anyone.the final scene lose this focus and become jawslike where the seamonster finally kill everybody and nolan and nodoubt through an oversight fail to chomp up the whalehugger tho he make a good snap for her head a little early i love animal and i detest whale and what be more i love orca whale but if this films goal be to make me feel that the whale be the victim and that people be evil and detestable it completely fail nolan show compassion and growth and feel for others and all the whale think about be kill and maiming.the only message one can walk away with be if you see an orca whale ever anywhere run the other way cause if you step on his fin the wrong way he will hunt you to the end of the earth destroy everything around you
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why o why ... do i pick this one up well ... i need a noainer in the summer heat and the cover look cool.of course i shouldve know well this be a really really bad movie and it get embarasing when the maker know it bad and try cover it up by add some sexy/beautiful woman and some sexscenes to it well folk ... it doesnt cut it do it if you would like a cool movie about a big reptile that be actually very very good wellplayed and funny go rent lake placid that be an order
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only a very small child could overlook the absurdity in this bomb the first difficulty face by the submarine seaview be what appear to be chunk ofrock fall down through the water and crash into it hull but it not rock theyre under the north poleit be ice everybody except possibly hitherto mention small child and even some of them know that ice floats.then disaster strikesthat darn van allen radiation belt around the earth catch fire no one know how this happen we be told which be understandable because it be utterly impossible for radiation to catch fire and even if it could there be no air in space for it to burn.there be literally no good reason to overlook science concept basic to nd grade school textbook when make a film however irwin allen manages to do it again and again perhaps we be mean to focus on the people instead which be pretty easy a they be cardboard.the cast try very hard not to look embarrass in this ridiculous subkiddie romp much like late episode of his lose in space tv series the concept of which be swipe outright from writer ib melchior and then rush into production.the sub look pretty good though which be why this one get a
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our teacher show u this movie in first grade i havent see it since i just watch the trailer though do this look like a first grade movie to you i dont think so i be so horrify by this movie i could barely watch it it be mainly the scene with shirley mcclain cut that little girl in half and then there be the boy with ketchup i be freak out by this film now today be i probably would not feel that way i just want to share my experience and opinion that maybe small child shouldnt see this movie even though it pg be aware of the possible outcome of show this to kid i dont even remember what it be about once be enough
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a plot that fizzle and reek of irreconcilable difference in opinion constitute a judgmental havoc with one side prolife and the other a destroyer of a demon seed the horror be leave out and replace with an overall dull effect quite possibly mean to be horrific but instead demonstrate an ill dose of belief which ridicule each other to death despite the title itself be a fan of master of horror since the beginning this ridiculous plot twist with it sordid depiction crash apart like a spindly old rock chair after be sat upon i view this episode a be throw together from the get go never really take off anywhere other than to see it through for what it worth and relieve when it finally come to the end ..
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scott menville be not casey kasem that be the first most important and most disturbing thing about this attempt at reimagining scoobydoo and company.shaggys voice be squeaky and do not sound anything like he have ever sound in any of the previous incarnation of the scooby show theyve also change the outfit and the classic mode of walk from the original.im not sure what theyre on about yet with the villain angle but it surely isnt follow the formula use in any of the previous scooby shows.and the animation style be very bizarre and distort i like it but it not real scoobydoo type animation but the weird animation use for other wb show grow on me this might too.its worth a glance at once if you can handle the lack of proper shaggy voice that right there be enough to jar one out of enjoy the show properly besides i be try not to be an inflexible nitpicking fan evolve or die a the saying go well see how it look after two more episode by then ill have form a much more solid opinion
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i often wonder how movie like this even get make and the most shocking part be that people actually pay to watch them.with aksar it appear a though the director make up the story a he go along add twist and turn when he like no matter how ludicrous they be the script be non existent with inane dialog such a jo sheena roy pehenti hai wahee fashion hota hai and yeh versace hai madam yeah right .every one of the character be shallow and underdeveloped acting be awful constumes lycra for udita and awful suit for a stocky emran locales the numerous house that be use for interior do not even vaguely resemble a victorian mansion screenplay etc etc just one word rubbish.for those people who love hashmi and his movie watch it a for me ill never get those two and a half hour back the only redeeming factor be some of the music which be decent
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this movie be an amazing comedy .. the script be too funny .. if u watch it more than once you will enjoy it more though the comedy at time be silly but it really make u laugh salman khan and aamir khan have give justice to their role after i have not come across any hindi movie which be as funny a this
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even this early in his career capra be quite accomplish with his camerawork and his timing this be a thin story and quite predictable at time but he get very good performance out of his cast and have some rather intricate camera move that involve the viewer intimately the first part look like a cinderella story though anyone with ains can see that the bottom will fall out of that the rich prince will lose his fortune.nonetheless because of his good cast and fast pace it easy to get catch up in the clichã©s then the movie do become more original a the married couple have to find a way to make a live the end be very predictable but satisfy i also want to compliment the titlewriting very witty and fun
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uwe boll slip back in his filmmaking skill once again to offer up a scifi horror tale of mercenary and reporter take on super soldier on a remote island an okay cast head by the excellent udo keir be cast adrift by boll who make the bad of script that should have work the mad scientist be investigate by a reporter have be do to death but this script be amuse enough that the plot should have work additionally the effect and super soldier design with their dead lifeless eye have some degree of creepiness however boll somehow manage to film everything in an off hand way it a if he couldnt be bother to actually figure out what would work and instead rattle off stock camera placement and walk away additionally the assembly of scene have no spark or life im guess that boll only shoot one or two take and just use what he have it really stink clearly boll be in one of his periodic retrograde film where anything hes ever learn about film get flush the last film he make that be this bad be seed a serial killer movie that be one of the bad film ive ever see this isnt that bad but it be close simply because it should have be well then again udo keir be good enough that he do make watch his scene worth the effort and make this a an almost so bad it good film id take a pas unless it late at night and youre catch it on cable
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this video be so hilariously funny it make everything elseby eddie murphy seem very disappointing even beverly hill cop and the nutty professor which just go to show you how good this really be to be honest i dont think that ive everlaughed at something as much a this include naked gun and the rarely see bargearse this show be amazing although it must be say that it be certainly fill with the word begin with f that be four letter long plus it extended version begin with m but it didnt bother me see it the funny thing ive ever see and probably the funny you ever have too
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this film be dreadful it have absolutely zero laugh heew hammer adam goldberg set out to save hannukah from evil santa andy dick perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot in actual fact the film do not progress beyond this premise while there be some far and few nice touch and the plot be relatively coherent it be labour hackneyed and ultimately mindlessly bore this despite the fact that goldberg dick and greer hammer client/love interest all have quite considerable screen presence despite be play for what might be describe a whacky overthetop gag this film be consistently middleclass middleoftheroad muck do not waste minute of your life on this note the music be good ..
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it amaze that such a clicheridden yuppie angst film actually get make in the first place the character be so weak and the act so uninspired that it impossible to care about any of them especially brooke shield the temptation to fast forward through the slow part be almost irresistible if you like this genre youd be good off rent single or body rest motion
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i never watch the next action hero show and until read the other comment here do not know that this movie be the prize from that competition i be just flipping channel and come across this and find myself watch dare eagerly all the way to the end.yes the plot be do the most dangerous game etc but i be hop for and almost receive the gotcha how the protagonist be go to beat the hunter in the end i think the hightech be overdone gps and give me coldsweat flashback of night rider but it nevertheless be not too overdone.the basic problem i have with this movie be the degree of sod suspension of disbelief that be require of the viewer do we really think that someone fly in a helicopter could lob countless incendiary grenade at a public idge and no cop show up to investigate could a limousine do countless donuts in a la vega intersection and no cop show up pleeease way too much of that type of thing fun to watch but keep it at least plausible thank you very much.the final solution be good but the end be disappoint with the after taste of a bad star trek episode at least now i understand why the acting be so cheesy except for zane who doesnt get near as much work a he deserve imho they be winner from a reality show.knock me out
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i be a big fan of old horror movie and since i be middle age old to me be a movie make before with most be make in the s to s period i be not a big fan of more modern horror movie with one exception be creepshow which i think be great i could reminisce about the story there but i really really enjoy the monster in the box story with hal holook and also the one about the really clean guy be a great end all the story be great though so why do i like them so much the character have some decent development the line be very plain about who be good and who be bad the horror bit be heighten with a close up of a face aghast with fear and the funny bit be really funny this sequel be either greatly lacking of these element or they be totally absent i be write this only have watch it partially because the movie be a complete waste of time and i turn it off to do other thing like write movie review on imdb.com lol when george kennedy and an old dorothy lamoure get top billing it tell you something ..... of also romeros expertise be hard to find here they must have tell him to tone it down to a pg standard i dont know what this be rat at but it look pg to me and thats not a good thing for a movie with nothing else go on it show on the encore cable channel if your die yuck yuck to see it
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i just want to say that i love gheorghe muresan so i automatically love this movie everything else about it be soso ... billy crystal be a good actor even if he be annoy but the thing that make this movie be at least for a basketball fan see gheorghe muresan act
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i think that this movie be incredible i absolutely love it even though my others didnt that much the special effect be outstanding and this movie be about my favorite sport golf the only thing that be disappoint about this amazing movie be that it be hard to watch two time or more in a row this movie just absolutely tops everything else i have ever see it be everything i would expect out of a movie i just love it also it be pretty kidfriendly this movie help me realize that when you put your mind to it anything be possible i would give it a pure it be well than the legend of baggar vants and the two pirate of the caribbean movie combine absolutely amaze love it
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this be a funny film and i like it a lot cary elwes play robin hood to a tee this be of course the usual good v evil with robin against the evil sheriff of nottingham the humor be sort of in your face stuff for the most part but still work well a comedy for a night when you dont want to have to think much it well worth a rent
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some here have comment that this be the bad elvis movie ever make well they be only partly right for me this be the bad movie ever make period i have never see anything so basely crude and insulting and vile and against human nature a this film a true embarrassment to the motion picture industry this isnt even so bad it good there be no campy trashy fun to be have here like in some of elvis other bad movie like clambake this one be so rotten to sit through it painful pure garbage native american should sue for their poor clichã©d and stereotypical treatment here actually perhaps all human being should sue for the crime and disservice this movie do to the specie a a whole star seriously grade f
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first of all yes im white so i try to tread lightly in the ever delicate subject of race ... anyway ... white people hat black people bad but black people hat white people ok because apparently we deserve it where do i start i wish i have something good to say about this movie aside unintended comedy scenes the infamous scene be ice cube and co. get in a fight with some really big really strong really really angry and scary look neonazis and win the neonazi where twice the size and the chase the chase be priceless ... this be not a movie about race tolerance and understand it doesnt deliver ... this be a racist movie that reaffirm all the clichã© stereotype the white wimpy guy who get manhandle by his black roommate automatically transform in a skinhead ... cmon simply awful i do regret ever see it.save your time and the dreadful experience of a poorly write poorly act dull and clearly biased picture if you be into the subject go and rent american history x now thats a movie
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donald pleasance and peter cushing unite in one horror film that always sound like a terrific plan two of the most versatile cult actor of their generation who previously already star together in terrific genre outing like the flesh and the fiend and from beyond the grave pair up in a mids satanic theme exploitation flick how can this possibly go wrong well unfortunately it can to my deepest regret land of the minotaur can hardly even be call mediocre and that in spite of the cast the exotic set the appeal title and the potentially great sound premise in a remote little area in greece more particularly near an archaeological site multiple tourist vanish because baron peter cushing and his docile follower keep feed them to a fireeathing minotaur statue cushing who never look more bored and uninterested in any role he play before own a giant medieval castle and apparently in greek this mean you also own the complementary archaeological ruin and an underground network of cavern that be of course quite handy if your hobby be the kidnapping of random camper and amateur archaeologist when three of his young friend also mysteriously disappear in the same area father roch the priest of a couple of town before decides to investigate land of the minotaur be a boring and extremely slowpaced horror effort that never really undertake any major attempt to generate a satanic atmosphere and doesnt bother to elaborate on all the potentially fascinating element and pagan trivia detail the titular minotaur for example be an intriguing creature of greek mythology with the head of a bull and the body of a person but for some inexplicable reason the script never deepen out the significance instead the film focus on tedious and overly talkative sequence and loud inappropriate music alter with experimental noise the only reason to even consider give this major disappointment of a film a chance be because of donald pleasance his portrayal of rude bossy and oldfashioned priest who criticize everything that represent modern youth be powerful and reliable a always
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the three short include on this compilation issue in be timeless chaplin classic nothing wrong with them and nothing to criticize either chaplin score for these film and the framework add a idging section between the short be also well do the problem with this compilation be a minor one yet annoy the short have be stretchprinted to fit the frame p.s speed of contemporary film whereas the short themselves where shot at frame p.s this result be jerky motion that doesnt look very attractive and yet this be an excusable solution give the limitation of optical printing technology at the time it just not excusable that the current dvd version be unrestored the film look dirty a they do in and be still stretch print there be separate restored version of these classic available even on dvd and it would not be a problem to restore the image but ala this have not be done.a minor quibble have take up a lot of space in my article but i say again a minor quibble it should not detract all that much from the experience although it detract one point from my rating the short be still worth
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s tourist trap be a clever unique b thriller that stand out a one of the best of it kind.travellers stop at a lonely wax museum where the owner mannequin be a little too lifelike for comfort.while the film have hint of the texas chainsaw massacre tourist trap be mainly a creepy psychological thriller worthy of the twilight zone director david schmoeller give this movie an atmosphere of darkness and mystery that reach nightmarish proportion also schmoelloer add the occasional touch of comic relief to the bizarre happenings.venteran actor chuck connors be the best of the film decent cast pino donaggios music score be excellent have both lyrical and solemn theme that be perfect to the movie a number of the film sequence be quite memorable.for horror and thriller fan alike tourist trap be an unforgettable mustsee film out of
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year ago i saw the godfather and it make a lasting impression on me the atmosphere of the movie be first class the act memorable and the storyline a classic recently i buy the trilogy and after watch part again i look eagerly to view part ...... i be so pleased to realize early on into part that here be a fitting follow on to the great godfather movie again everything be just about perfect and i could not wait to see godfather iii ........ wrong i wish id stop at ii the storyline be not good it seem to me like a story make up just to have a story the character be weak especially the daughter pacinos protege be a weak character that would have be eat alive in godfather or then scene such a corleone be invest with all the trapping of the catholic church with full choir the assassin on horseback rid away into the sunset the unseen helicopter machine gunning of the meeting where the goody get away and everyone else be shot daughter and st cousin roll bit of pasta across a board the pathetic shooting on the step ..... corleone stuff sweet down him with orange juice for diabetes a man of his intelligence and guile isnt ready for an emergency ... no it be not good and with the best will in the world i wont be able to watch it again but ill watch many time down the year
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this little twoperson movie be actually much big than it look it have so many layer ive watch it over and over and always pick up on something new i be amaze at the depth of the acting and i feel if this movie have get wider release that there would be no question that alan rickman be a major star
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uk newspaper review seem to have concentrate on the fact that the reviewer tend to know toby young the journalist on whose reallife experience this movie be base the key word here be base how to lose friend be a fictitious romcom.sidney young join a prestigious gossip magazine in new york where he proceed to make gaffe after gaffe before finally get it right and make it this involve him sell out and the movie have some serious point to make about journalistic integrity however they be not overdone the main substance remain a comedy which centre around sidney misadventures the script have it cake and eat it in that sidney be a stupid wellmeaning buffoon at the same time a be a smart moderately obnoxious skilled writer this contradiction be never that much of an issue because simon pegg a sidney project likability too well.jeff bridge underplay sidney editor a little too effectively and kirsten dunst be rather anonymous a the conflicted eventual object of sidneys affection and with regard to megan fox who play an airhead bimbo starlet i can say only this just say the word miss fox and i will leave my wife sell all my belonging and buy myself a plane ticket in order to take my place at your side a your consort of course give that im a fat yearold english accountant you might not find my offer too entice but it there on the table anyway give how short her career have be so far one might think it be a little too soon for megan fox to take on a role which mercilessly lampoon the sort of actress she might be think to become however she do it sweetly with some skill and extremely sexily this girl will go far.there be stalwart support from a variety of seasoned performer miriam margolyes and bill paterson from the uk gillian anderson and danny huston from the us.there be several laughoutloud moment and i smile most of the way through a ever the fword make appearance when it really doesnt need to although at least a couple of these be very funny
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alien hunter out of be it me or do every movie that start in roswell new mexico suck take alien mixed with the thing mixed with contact mixed with of all thing on the beach the andromeda strain the classroom scene from raider of the lose ark and a throw in a little stargate to boot derivative doesnt even begin to describe this movie of course with nothing original plot wise they amp up the gore and sex right nope gore be a blink and you miss it affair and sex be all tease james spader causally mention he need a shower and the delectable leslie stefanson ask to join himâ… he turn her down aggh in fact if a movie ever need a shower scene to liven thing up this be it i mean if your go to have impossibly goodlooking woman in white bathing suit wander around an antarctica research base why not go for oke.with about second of actual thrill in the entire movie alien hunter be remarkable serious and slow go for a scifi adventure need a much good plot twist to liven it up and by the way the alien itself be a horribly clichã©d artifice and have virtually no screen time for someone who share half the title i also inquire during view what be with the child of the corn in space motif note that since jason of friday the th fame pinhead from hellraiser and that leprechaun have all travel to space to slay nubile teenager why not the cornfield the character in the cornfield dress like logan run extras and i be just wait for the stalk to come alive and attack them.that however would have be excite and apparently against this movie covenant the acting be mostly fine a spader reprise his stargate role while stefanson and janine eser model the late in antarctic beachwear john lynch however read the whole script and act the like the insane bad guy well before the story would indicate it.alien hunter be a disappointing derivative slog that make me pine for a proper child of the corn in space movie
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i have a hard time put into word just how wonderful this be once in a while you see a film that just stick with you you be alone be that movie for me the film be constantly in my head and in my heart i replay the scene mentally every day and analyze them and go through the emotion all over again a if i be see it for the first time.there be nothing i do not like about the movie amazing soundtrack the end be perfect very emotionally stir it be compel and riveting.i adore jessica bohl and her performance be the great i have ever witness i admire brittanys strength what a strong woman .the tag line be when your dark moment come to life we never know what we be capable of do everyone say oh i would never do that when really we have no idea what we would do in a situation we be very capable of anything and this movie delve straight into that subject the honesty of the movie may be my absolute favorite part.thank you gorman becherd for a perfect piece of art
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i love this young people trap in a house of horror movie not just because im a huge linnea quigleyjill terashita fan but because it be a lot of fun and actually scary at times.the special effect be awesome especially linneas scene with the lipstick and towards the end when almost everyone be dead and possessed.plenty of nudity provide by linnea and jill plenty of humor cool soundtrack high body count etc ... by the way if you have never see this one try and buy/watch the unrated version which have more gore and some scene the rat version be miss
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i saw the film and i get screw because the film be foolish and boring i think ram gopal varma will justify his work but unfortunately he fail and the whole film get spoil and they spoil sholay the cast and crew be bad the whole theater slept while watch the movie some people run away in the middle amithab bachans act be poor i think this movie will be great hit of the year but this film will be the great flop of the yearsure nobody do justice to their work include ajay devagan this film dont deserve any audience i bet that this film will flop finally this movie suck
neg: 0.214, neu: 0.678, pos: 0.109, compound: -0.9062, 
lorna green janine reynaud be a performance artist for wealthy intellectual at a local club she fall prey to her fantasy a the promise of romantic interlude turn into murder a she kill those who believe that sex be on the horizon it quite possible that through a form of hypnotic suggestion someone .. a possible task master pull her string like a puppet be guide lorna into kill those she come across in secluded place just when it appear that lovemaking be about to begin after the murder within her fantasy be commit lorna awakens bewilder often clueless a to if what she be privy to within her dreams ever take place in reality.if someone ask me how to describe this particular work from franco id say it elegant difficult by now youve probably read other user comment befuddle by what this film be about since a large portion of it take place within the surreal atmosphere of a dream franco mention in an interview that he be heavily influence by godard early in his career as far a filmmaking style and so decide to abandon a clear narrative structure in favor of try to create a whole different type of view experience and a you read from the reaction of the user comment here .. some like this decision others find the style labour dull and bewildering ill be the first to admit that the film be over my head but even franco himself when quiz by critic who watch succubus admit that he didnt even understand the film and he direct it some might say that succubus be merely a precursor to his more admired work venus in fur consider his masterwork by francofaithful because it also adopt the surreal dreamlike structure where the protagonist doesnt truly know whether he/she be experience something real or imagine in a sense like the protagonist we be experience the same type of confusion .. certainly succubus be unconventional filmmaking where we arent give the key to what be exactly go on and a great deal of the elusive dialogue doesnt help matter succubus be also populate by beatnik type and poetspeak cormans film a bucket of blood poke fun at my personal favorite scene tease at a possible lesbian interlude between lorna and a woman she meet at a posh party .. quite a bizarre fantasy sequence where mannequin be use rather unusually great location and jazz score .. i like this film myself although i can understand why it do receive a negative reaction love that one scene at the posh party with lorna a wee bit drunk writhing on the floor in a gorgeous even gown a others attend the shindig .. equally waste rush her in an emace of kiss
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this outing of knotts include one of his best sidekick ever frank welker welker make the film knotts and welker compete for the laugh and both receive plenty knotts work for a small no where town where the city be be run by some of the most ignorant official when thing go wrong the city father allow knotts to take the fall frank welkers character befriends knotts and together they stumble together to clear up the mess and knotts good name this film show the usual knotts scar to death character that make him famous for year on television and film this may have be knotts last good outing when you have an extra minute get a good old fashion laugh a great icon don knotts
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emma be a horribly flaw film base on jane austen classic novel i have not read the book so i really didnt know that much about the plot and yet i still predict nearly the entire plot there be also many scene that frustrate me because of the bad writing or direct the film be though for some reason very entertaining and i love it of course there be all the scene i dislike but the majority be well act and funny gwyneth paltrow give one of her best performance a the heroine in emma the film also star toni collette who have okay but have be much well ewan mecgreger who have also be well but he be still very good here alan cumming who i have never really be impress with and be pretty much the same here and jeremy northam who performance be rather wooden at first look but actually fairly subtle even if that be not what it need there have be much good adaptation of jane austen book but this one be still very entertaining and worth watching
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why do i hate this let me list the way i have nothing against mary pickford but a year old woman play a year old be just stupid.theres a fight scene in which kid be throw icks at each other and it consider funnyand it go on for minute strange how none of the kid be even remotely hurtthe title card contain plenty of racial and ethnic slursfor a family film the fight be way too violent love it when pickford be punch it out with a little boy and the humor be just stupid seriously minute in i give up and turn it off the slur racism and little kid throw icks at each other get to me also there be no plot that i could see the only thing worth see in this film be william haines who be a top lead man in the silent era.just painful avoid
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thank god this wasnt base on a true story because what a story it be populate by despicable character whose depravity know no bound before the devil be a mesmerize jawdropping excursion into perversion which would be laughable and sometimes be even with or perhaps because of the sickeningly tragic undercurrent of human dysfunction throughout if it werent carry out with such magnificent overwhelm conviction by it star the excellent script by kelly masterson and superb direction by none other than sidney lumet doesnt hurt either.the main dysfunction here be of a family nature with the two majorly screw up others illiant portrayal from philip seymour hoffman and ethan hawke decide to rob their own parent jewelry store an attempt that go pathetically awry.the story be tell with timeshifts which be note on screen such a charlie two day before the robbery so no one should be confuse some people have say they didnt like this device but i think it work perfectly add to the skeweredness of the whole affair consider that the two others in question be hardly play with full deck between them you couldnt make a decent poker hand to save your life throw in these cheesy extra tidbits one of the others be a drug addict marry to gina marisa tomei also excellent who be have an affair with the other other toss in some monumental sibling rivalry along with the fact that say drug addict other hat his father a wrenching performance from albert finney who have apparently cause him serious past pain and youve get a shakespearean/greek tragedy on your hand proceed with caution
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if you want just about everything you want to know about wwii from multiple perspective this dvd deliver you will learn new thing guarantee so much so that you wont need any other documentary on the subject get this watch it learn from it good for school use as well a a bonus watch this with tora tora tora save private ryan patton band of others a idge too far the long day and other wwii epic along with this to make your knowledge of wwii even more complete sir laurence oliver voice add to the overall atmosphere of each episode in this part series seriously you wont find a good wwii documentary set on the subject perfect
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the movie be grip from start to finish and it b/w photography of the american heartland be stun we feel we be right there with them a they cross the big sky country and then into mexico and back to america again near the end of the movie the reflection of the rain on robert blake look like small river of sweat and tear roll down his face in the end we follow them up the stairway to their final moment the two criminal perform by robert blake and scott wilson a perry smith and dick hickock could be see on any street in any town hickock be a smile boy next door and smith the guy with star in his eye from the wrong side of town this point be make in the movie and it always surprise u that criminal be no different in appearance than anyone else evil even the most vile be part of the human condition these two delusional men kill an entire family look for a safe that isnt there once on the run they start write bad cheque carve out a trail for the authorities.there be many fine support actor i like john forsyth a the detective on the case alvin dewey also will geer shine in a ief but excellent scene a the prosecute attorney.i have often want to see this movie all the way through have only catch it in short snatch i do finally get to it after buy the dvd the result be the fine classic crime movie i have ever seen.dont miss this illiant movie to me this be what great filmmaking be all about
neg: 0.093, neu: 0.822, pos: 0.085, compound: -0.3064, 
this be a great show with total freshness and innovation that usual chair couch for a woman host that mandatory band play monotonous tune the same old joke the same pattern copy from the day of nebuchadnezzer .... probably the pattern of johnny carson copy by one and all latterman leno conan ... daly this show do not seem to have any of these.i fell in love with this show within the first minute and i be go to stick to it though it too early to say that this show seem to be devoid of any intellectual pretension most talk show try so hard to project and i hope that that be what would make this show different from all the rest i hope that this show will last long return back after month i still love this show and i love his selfdeprecating humor for example his affirmation that only pothead loner would be home to watch his show at saturday midnight and thus the joke be funny only to the stone guy which however do not involve the usual monkeying of conan obrien for example i know it a cardinal sin to be repel by obriens antic but i do really dislike his style and repetitiveness i again watch it the other night with tom arnold in it ferensens spoof of trading spouse and nanny in an early episode be hilarious idiot paparazzo be fun especially when a security guard caution them against take people picture and if i be not mistake they start take his picture shout gary coleman.added on th april come back once again i be leave confuse by the neighbor and her dog i can not decide if it be a joke or a real thing either way it be funny a hell.i do not expect spike feresten to read these page but maybe he do he be crazy than a bunch of monkey and so i would better write down my suggestion here for him i would like him to do a full minute show with crazy gideon the star of late night tv commercial i would like crazy gideon to have an interview in spike talk show sing a song and play guitar do a skit in the line of snl and also to answer question from the audience regard his potential mayorship of los angeles i know crazy gideon may not be aware of this but there be website detail why he would be the perfect candidate for the post of the mayor of la .god willing return back on th july someone write here that the people who praise spike talkshow must be ibed by spike i confess that spike really ibed me but i must also confess that rockefeller name me in his will and last night i have sex with cindy crowford
neg: 0.055, neu: 0.807, pos: 0.138, compound: 0.9914, 
it all about get what you want when you want it and the message of bluebeard eighth wife be to be careful what you wish for until what you wish for wish for you.most men have hear the story about what happen when your sexual frustration isnt relieve and a certain part of your anatomy turn blue misogynistic pirate aside cooper play a very wealthy man who be very accustomed to get what he want whenever he want it learn only too late that it wasnt what he expect and never learn his lesson until he run into the feisty claudette colbert through a twist in soul and in practice business deal he end up marring/buying her with the intent of bed her but she will have none of it literally and frustrate him at every turn and corner and room and tourist attraction.the film have definite french sensibility which mean it have strong doubleentendres and boudoir humor for the day and a sharp edge youre not accustom to and may not enjoy see in either cooper or colbert the whole reason i watch the film be because they be likable actor and the whole point of this movie be that theyre unlikable people or at least likable people who have develop unlikable trait to protect themselves they think from the world if you can accept it on it own term youll find satisfaction in this witty and sophisticated film ... and satisfaction a we say be what it all about such a movie with such a cast only come around after all once in a ... ummm ... blue moon
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now i have read some negative review for this show on this website and quite frankly im appal for anyone to even think that the soprano be not television then im afraid i dont know what the world have come to let me tell u something i start watch many t.v show like lose prison break dexter deadwood and even invasion but all of those show lose their touch after the first season especially lose and prison break which i refuse to watch because the company take genius idea and butcher them by make more than one season then we have the soprano i can honestly say that this be the only television series that i have ever watch where i have be enthral in all of it season and more importantly all of it episode there be no department that this show doesnt excel in act nothing short of superb james gandolfini be one of my favourite actor and i feel that his acting be absolutely stunning in every episode after i hear that hbo want ray liotta to play tony i felt that it wouldve be the good choice however after watch the first few episode i know that hbo have do a great job in cast james a tony the raw emotion he display be superb then we have everyone else edie falco michael imperioli lorraine bracco dominic chianese whom i remember a johnny ola in the godfather part and my personal two favourite character tony sirico and steve van zandt paulie walnuts gualtieri and silvio dante all of these actor perform to the best quality and all give an excellent performance in each episode then we have the story never have i be so suck into a t.v show before the story be nothing short of excellent each episode be direct superbly and the score of this show be just fantastic i feel that the soprano be one show that i can watch again and again and never get bore of it got everything from hilarious humour to utal violence but nonetheless it be and will always be the best thing to ever grace the television and i challenge anyone to find a real flaw in the show not just say it too violent or they feel that the character of tony be immoral i mean it be a mafia show at the end of the day i dont think that the character be go to be very honest or loyal to god i implore everyone to watch this show because believe me youll be hook from the very first episode i be and i have even get a few friend who have firstly refuse to watch the show hook on it trust me when i say that this show be a godsend compare to the crap that come on t.v after youve watch the first season youll inevitably agree with me when i once again say that this show dominate television and no t.v show current or future will ever upstage the marvel that be the soprano
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id give this a negative rating if i could i go into this movie not expect much but i have an open mind the whole thing be stupid the snake be obviously fake and the first two thing they bite be a boob and a guys johnson oh how original if i be a year old boy i might laugh at that i have no idea how this movie become so popular seriouslythe bad thing ive ever see i wasnt entertain it wasnt funnyi wasnt even bore i wasnt anything it wasnt even so bad it be good it just bad ridiculous actually please do not waste your money on this movie dont even rent this movie no clue how it get such a high rating
neg: 0.224, neu: 0.633, pos: 0.143, compound: -0.9417, 
most people be totally unaware that this movie exist fox which pay judge to make it have keep it in the can for quite awhile and then spend nothing to promote it i guess that make many people think it be one of the garbage movie be flush in late summer well i be here to tell you that this be a funny and rather frightening look at a future that be not that hard to believe basically judge put forward the notion that the stupid be outeeding the smart by a wide margin then these stupid be get more stupid by basically spend all of their time watch tv and have sex which produce more stupid people by a person of average intelligence today will appear to be a genius that talk all faggy seriously be this really that hard to believe oh sure this future be painfully funny and ridiculously stupid but still plausible luke wilson be great a the time travel army guy hopelessly try to get back to a more comfortable time where this story will gain it cult status be with the numerous funny oneliners like can we family style her and hey man im bat here this be a funny movie and a rather sharp social commentary on an american society that seem to be fatuated with self pleasure comfort and stupidity and i guarantee you that i will be buy this on dvd the first day it come out and watch it over and over
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this be a great ridiculous horror movie that capture the essence of the mid to late s obsession with how evil metal music supposedly be i can remember be freak out by metal teen when i be a kid it doesnt help that i find a desecrated grave in my hometown graveyard when i be ten turn out this weird metal kid have dig up some old body and use their bone in some weird sacrifice to satan so maybe stuff like deter me from metal for awhile but i love it now a a year old.i buy this dvd use for buck and i expect it to suck due to the lame cover but to my surprise it rule it be all about the extreme demonic power of metal and you get ta love a scene where a guitar shoots lazers and vaporize headbangers in the crowd this movie be awesome if you love s metal and bad movie this one for you
neg: 0.149, neu: 0.703, pos: 0.147, compound: 0.8208, 
while not quite as good a a murder be announce which be not only delightful but almost surpass the book this be an excellent adaptation and you know what it be a huge improvement on the geraldine mcewan version now i dont take pride in bad mouth the geraldine mcewan adaptation two or three of them be surprisingly good but others start off well but ruin by either a poor script a confusing final solution or both the geraldine mcewan version suffer from a plod pace and both of the above problem and i would consider second worst of the itv adaptation worst be sittaford mystery which even on it own merit turn out dull and confuse this adaptation of the book nemesis be a huge improvement it not only respect the book despite a few liberty but it pretty much rectify the problem the itv version have despite the added character of lionel come across a rather irritate more to do with how he be write than how he be act and one or two moment of sluggish pacing this be solid a an adaptation of a decent book it be beautifully film with nice photography and period detail and the music a always be excellent the performance be wonderful this time around and make the most of an in general welldone script with joan hickson illiant as always a miss marple and solid turn from liz fraser helen cherry joanna hole and anna cropper margaret tyzack be outstanding though in a chilling and move performance a clothilde overall well worth watch good than the recent version in pretty much all department bethany cox
neg: 0.185, neu: 0.605, pos: 0.21, compound: 0.9099, 
good lord what be they think here be your spoiler warn even though i dont think itll really matter you wont be see this piece of trash anyway.a group of handpuppets go chase after a group of really stupid people who go on a really stupid hunt for them to try and kill them and the puppet complicate thing by let them live out their really stupid fantasy in other word the whole thing be really stupid.you know it have to be bad when even mike and the bot cant save something and they didnt i know some of their line be funny like what to add to the sign hit and the hand comment but geez this be pretty dang sad.all i can say be do not watch this piece o crud it be not worth your eye
neg: 0.11, neu: 0.804, pos: 0.085, compound: -0.4416, 
i have hear and read so many good thing about weed that i be look forward to get hook on another great cable series like entourage soprano or mad men but that slowly erode away with each episode i watch from season one didnt make it past the first six episodes the writing be unoriginal contrived and the portrayal of black embarrass the dialog felt force like the writer be try way too hard to be clever and hip it be a rare moment when i actually emit an audible laugh.the character never develop enough for me to care about them they be selfish and unappealing i absolutely hat the addition of the brotherinlaw who should have be haul away on to catch a predator and the removal of the hodes daughter quinn from the cast by send her to board school in mexico be so unoriginal and clichã© i have to conclude the writer be test the viewer loyalty.episode after episode i like the character less and couldnt get past many of the technical flaw in the story line.add to that i hear that season two wasnt a good so i lose all motivation to continue to watch this play out.if youre a fan of good casting and write i suspect this show will be a challenge for you to like unless of course youre stone and then all bet be off
neg: 0.075, neu: 0.781, pos: 0.144, compound: 0.9577, 
this movie be among my favorite foreign film some of the others be amilee and my life a a dog the similarity with those movie a with so many great foreign film be that it take a mundane slice of life and transform it into a profound heartfelt lesson in japan a man who be bore with his mundane life and the rut of his married life see a beautiful japanese woman star out the window of a dance studio in the instant that it take his train to pass he be enthral by her but be it only by her beauty by her faraway glance or a connection that they will both discover that they share shall we dance have memorable wonderful character who have to deal with painful reality by transcend them through the world of dance break traditional mould and stereo type of japanese society they risk all for happiness and find that joy be not too far away it be one of those movie that be so magical and meaningful and in itself transcend the mundane by show the true magic and miracle that life can be
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a if the film be not of value in itself this be an excellent way to get an overview of the novel a a preface to read it in the summer of i saw the film in nyc that fall in graduate school i read the book for the first time some of the pleasure in read the novel be my memory of the scrupulously detailed film and for good or worseand ive now read and teach the novel for over three decadesmilo oshea be still leopold bloom
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this film be a lyrical and romantic memoir tell through the eye an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution it be an obviously genuine worthy labor of love the name cuba libre and cuban blood be merely attempt to wrongly market this a an action film dreaming of julia make much more sense it have more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution be merely an inconvenience to people daily life and pursuit that fact alone make the film more honest than most work deal with this time period in cuban history.the excessive use of the voiceover narrator do undermine the story but the film make up for it with unqualified clip from hollywood film that say so much more visually than the narrator could.the comparison to cinema paradiso and be fair game a the film do wax melancholy about movie but there be an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpass lose love the revolution like the film julie never seem to have an end
neg: 0.094, neu: 0.807, pos: 0.099, compound: 0.2609, 
i saw zp when it be first release and find it a major disappointment it script seem forced and arch and too fakey s. it politics too upfront and ridiculous and let face it i be still under a lovespell know a blowup and i still havent completely shake it now the love be twist up with all sort of nostalgia it evoke and oh well good luck to me but time march on and time have be kind to zp and time have be a teacher to me i revisit this film about every ten year and it just get well and well with age and zp be it own experienceand be only really link to blowup through it creator the lategreat mr. antonioni.twelve year ago i have the great good fortune to see an absolutely pristine print project at it correct size immense restore by an italian government cultural agency who know a good work of art when they see it and know the importance of keep such a thing of beauty in good shape to this day i remember the gasp from the audience when the first shot of death valley appear it be like a thousand volt visual shock antonioni have intentionally deliver to wake u up to a new level of awareness and indeed what follow from that point be an entirely different sort of place.what be astonish to me be how this film be come into it own.i remember the second time around see it the early s i have begin to feel affection towards the film a a whole and towards daria and mark in particular whereas before these two seem like a smartalecky shadow version of zefferellis olivia and leonard read romeo and juliet they now be engage me particularly the girl in her insistent slomotionality shetookhertime to live everything everything die around her.upon excite the theater the daylight of reality quickly begin to erase my new find enjoyment the encroaching shoulderpadded big haired s whisper but thats a hippie fantasy let it gothe force of antonionis vision have i have realise already work itself inside of me the first time around so i answer s with an uhhuh and guard my love secretly possessively and jealously.but this then be what good art do it live inside of you and if you wish it have it way and love you back secretly jealously and possessively and you get changed.was thrill to see that turner classic movie have decide to show zp in it march lineup undoubtedly zp must be see on a gigantic screen so that it can truly take you into it constructed environment but hey sometimes even a glimpse of the beloved in a newspaper photo be no good than no glimpse at all.today reality hit zp have be withdraw mysteriously and replace with the whiney antic of alices restaurant.so it be still too difficult too disturb too what maybe it that a with all good art it live while everything dy around it peace
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very strange but occasionally elegant exploitation movie with no real story but benefit from it stunningly ravish lead actress and a handful of nice gruesome makeup effect daniella be a beautiful twentysomething girl carry with her the trauma of be rap at the age of nightmare and hallucination lead her further into believe shes the reincarnation of a female ancestor who be say to be a werewolf she kill her otherinlaw during a nightly encounter and get submit in a hospital she escape again however and randomly devours more men whilst on the run for police detective doctor and relatives it all pretty to look at and listen too really great soundtrack but the absence of plot and continuity become irritate quite fast luckily enough leading lady annik borel rarely ever wear clothes and she fill up the boring moment by dance naked around a fire the film be too long too weird and too forgettable the big surprise come at the end when suddenly and out of the blue director rino di silvestro try to make u believe that his movie be base on true fact yeah right ...
neg: 0.126, neu: 0.707, pos: 0.167, compound: 0.9189, 
this be an interesting hard to find movie from the early s star jan michael vincent a a young man who doesnt make the cut a a marine dress in baby blue outfit to humiliate them a they be send home the failed recruit be sent pack vincent stop at a bar and run into a very young richard gere who have just return from a tour in the pacific a a hardcore marine raider geres character be already jade and contemplate desertion and he take advantage of vincents innocence steal his baby blue uniform after get him drunk and beat him in an alleyway vincents character whose name be marion take geres outfit and be suddenly transform into a marine raider marion hitchhike his way into wyoming and stop at a little norman rockwelllike little town in the local cafã© he meet rise hudkins who immediately catch his eye stay with hudkins parent marion attract all sort of attention from the town folks mr hudkins suspect marion and wonder how a marine raider could still be so innocent the story also ings up the japanese internment camp a the town folk go hunt escapee marion be shot accidentally during this hunt but there still a happy end which befuddle me a bit i would have prefer a little more drama anyway this capture jmv at the peak of his s performance buster and billie baby blue marine and white line fever in the mids be amazingly good jmv performance he be both an action star and a heartthrob all at the same time he make a lot of quality movie during his career and continue to do so up into the mid s with the great tv show airwolf he do a very good job in this a hedge quietly observe the way people treat him in his uniform a he travel across the country he must have perform some of the stunt work as well there be a harrow river scene at the end of the movieand it look like he the guy get toss down the river to me but really at the height of his popularity this movie could have do so much more with jmvs talent and his look innocence can only be so interesting evil a explore in buster and billie be much more dramatic anyway glynnis oconnor be delightful a rise the whole look of the movie be like a norman rockwell paint the outdoor scene be gorgeous must have be film in canada
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johnny and june carter cash finance this film which be a traditional rendering of the gospel stories the music be great you get a real feel of what the world of jesus look like ive be there too and june get into the part of mary magdalene with a passion cash narration be good too.but ..... the actor who play jesus be miscast there be no edge to the story like cash put in some of his faith base music because it be uncompelling i doubt well see this ever widely distribute again.id love to buy the cd.tom paine texas usa
neg: 0.054, neu: 0.729, pos: 0.217, compound: 0.9633, 
jã¤niksen vuosi be one of jarvas most political movie it take stance strongly against modern day societys authority status in the life of the common man and how it have estrange men from the nature completely it challenge the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare society.vatanen antti litja smother buy the concrete jungle with all it rule and regulation try to rattle the chain of the society by escape it all in to the wilderness of northern finland only to realize that the concept of a free country isnt all that unambiguous in other word the society have the common man by the balls.still the thing that make jã¤niksen vuosi so exceptional besides the visual and humouristic illiance be how it seem to illustrate the whole political atmosphere in finland in the s as well a the whole identity of finland a a nation vatanen be like an archetype of a classical finn in his solitudeness and social distantness since nature have always play such an important role in the national identity of u finns the whole idea of that be slowly take away by the modern society make jã¤niksen vuosi emotionally exceptionally move
neg: 0.013, neu: 0.865, pos: 0.122, compound: 0.9606, 
i love jamie foxx.and i enjoy of all movie i see.and i walk out of this one.now i admit it may have have something to do with the two middleaged white woman in the back of theatre who laugh at every little thing oh no jamies knock on a door hee hee hee but ... this be just so incredibly annoy there could be no sustained camera shot and no camera shot from a conventional angle ... everything have to be inyourface loud and annoying.the bad guy try to be smooth and malkovichlike but at this point it just old and tire he ought nothing new or interesting from all the character too many line you saw come too many youve hear before and too many tough guy line ... and i dont mind that sort of thing really as long a there a bit of originality to it in fact pretty much the entire supporting cast just sucked.i love jamie foxx and i think he really funny and i think he be funny in this movie ... but not nearly funny enough for me to endure everything else this movie need less shootemup less annoy camera shot more emotion more feeling and more jamie foxx i give it a
neg: 0.109, neu: 0.76, pos: 0.132, compound: 0.7775, 
after see dick tracy in the bin at future shop i decide to give it a go with no previous knowledge and be a big fan of mafia and crime movie i be very surprised to see a very fun smart entertain movie with solid performance throughout the movie move along well it have of course another solid performance from warren beatty but the real standouts of the film be al pacino and madonna i be happy to find out that pacino be nominate for his performance a an over the top gangster try to take down the city madonna be great a the damsel in distress she really impress me and add depth to her performance if you go in with the attitude of want to watch a fun smart movie with great act and a solid script then give dick tracy a try i dont think you will be disappointed and watch for the cameo from paul sorvino james caan kathy bates and dustin hoffman among others
neg: 0.09, neu: 0.687, pos: 0.223, compound: 0.9754, 
send them to the freezer this be the solution two butcher find after they discover the popularity of sell human flesh an incredible story with humor and possible allegory that make it much more than a horror film the complex character defy superficial classification and make the story intriguing and worthwhile if you can stand it definitely a dark film but also a bit redemptive
neg: 0.035, neu: 0.838, pos: 0.127, compound: 0.5346, 
wow i pick this off the rental shelf because i love robert carlyle and jonny lee miller in trainspotting this be a phenomenal movie it have action romance suspense intrigue and wit when i wasnt laugh i be at the edge of my seat this be definitely a film i would recommend to people with an appreciation for intelligent dialogue and a fresh perspective of the th century this film have everything to keep me happy
neg: 0.03, neu: 0.673, pos: 0.297, compound: 0.978, 
i dont know why some people criticise that show so much.it be a great funny show probably not the right material for mainstream primetime but still ... the family dynamic be funny and all in all the same you see in most comedy show the support character be absolutely hilarious the plot of the individual episode and the frequent siegfried roy jibe be only just above average but ever so often you have subplots or oneliners that make you roll on the floor laughing.this show be well worth the pound i pay for it.rating
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mexican werewolf in texas be set in the small border town of furlough where anna erika fay live her best friend be rosie martine hughes she have a mexican boyfriend name miguel gaiel gutierrez who be determine to track a beast down that have be terrorise the town kill livestock several resident include some of their friend local mexican legends speak of the chupacaa an evil creature from myth legend erm im struggle now because not that much else actually happen ... write direct by scott maginnis i wont beat about the bush here simply say that mexican werewolf in texas be awful period the script only ever mention the word werewolf once the rest of the time it refer to a chupacaa in fact i suspect this wasnt really conceive a a werewolf flick at all the werewolf creature look mostly hairless more like some vicious dog there be no reference to anybody change during the full moon it actually attack during the day on a couple of occasion there be no transformation scene at the end when it be kill it doesnt change back into anyone either to be honest apart from the title theres nothing here to indicate a werewolf film at all even then the title be just a ripoff of the highly popular an american werewolf in london this be the type of home make crap that i personally think be kill the horror genre how long have it be since there be a true low budget horror classic like dawn of the dead the evil dead halloween or friday the th which be all make on shoe string budget maybe the blair witch project but thats it in recent year crap like mexican werewolf in texas have absolutely no chance of ever be consider a classic the character be awful thing just happen around them the dialogue be rubbish the pacing be terrible the story suck virtually send me to sleep a a whole this film be just crap im sorry but i dont know how else to describe it.director maginnis do nothing to make this watchable theres the annoy hand hold camera type cinematography which could easily give someone a headache quick blink youll miss something edit which just annoy irritates in equal measure it not scary there no nudity theres no tension or atmosphere the special effect be awful the monster really do look poor it no wonder maginnis keep it in the shadow or cut his scene so quickly you never get a good look at it theres virtually no colour to the picture either it either almost pitch black or over saturated desert sand orange which make the thing an eye sore as well the gore consist of some fake gut blink youll miss them a few bloody wound a severed arm big deal.with a supposed budget of about i admit the budget be low but i simply refuse to accept that for make such a rubbish film there be plenty of low budget horror flick that make their meagre budget go far the whole thing have the look of a home movie it have no style be throughly bland dull to look at the act suck too although you probably already know that.mexican werewolf in texas will probably con a few people into renting/buying/watching it because they might mistakenly think it a sequel to john landis classic which it most certainly isnt it isnt even a proper werewolf flick either dont be fool this be awful im feed up of have to waste time/money on home make amateur crap like this
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i find this to be a surprisingly lighthanded touch at a s cultureclash movie john wayne would hardly be one first choice a a cultural attache be about a diplomatic with his good intention a a bullrun in harrod but this time he be leave to play a part that be far more passive than his usual bluff persona and he accomplish his task with style the duke be a guy who really could act well his facial expression and body language could be extremely subtle.despite his considerable presence both a an actor and in term of screen time he fail to dominate this movie many of his good intention come a cropper he have authority over nobody and the intermittent narrative be provide by the titular geisha to whom he be the barbarian.the story of american attempt to curry favour with an isolationist japan be one of political intrigue rather than swashbuckling or hellforleather battle i can not comment on the accuracy of it research but the strangeness of the oriental culture to western sensibility be demonstrate well there be a great deal of minutelychoreographed ceremony entail what look to this observer like authentic costume and prop the set piece be complex and detail a lot of money and thought have be apply to it.the fractured romance between wayne and his geisha add a little extra element and stop the movie become just a political or flagwaving effort script be good without be too wordy there be a great deal of japanese dialogue but the lengthy period of translation didnt interfere with the narrative it be nice to see plenty of genuine oriental on the set whether or not they be japanese i couldnt say but anyway they look the part at least the lead be not play by crossdressing caucasian unlike other effort such a blood alley yes i know they be chinese the inn of the sixth happiness or even the king and i.frankly i enjoy this more than any of those other movie the script be good for a start i never like the song in the king and i and wasnt impress by the heavyladen anticommunist subtext of blood alley i confess to never have see this work before and find it compare very favourably to many of the duke more popular outings.recommended
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i be so glad i come across this short film im always so disappointed that short film be hard to come across so when i saw this and saw that it be nominate for the live action short film at the academy award i be so pleased that i actually have a film that i be root for.the plot be pretty simple the director writer and star nacho vigalondo try come up with a reason people would suddenly eak out into a song and dance number like they do in movie musical the result be extremely entertaining and the song be actually really catchy.its a well make short film well edit and the actor all do a great job and the last shot of the film be perfect.i highly recommend this film
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i think before start with these movie that it might be a good one but when i start with it i find it really awful they say movie be be make in afghanistan but i think of the movie be shoot in india you can see indian make car you can see lars drink bisleri an indian water and hindi write on the road you can also see temple in afghanistan hahah it really funny and many more stuff which prove it not shoot in afghanistan i think one should not waste his/her time watch this movie .. pure time waste .. i would recommend to do something else instead of watch this movie or may be might heart be well idea but dont watch this waste of time
neg: 0.099, neu: 0.751, pos: 0.15, compound: 0.7831, 
truly appalling waste of space me and my friend try to watch this film to it conclusion but have to switch it off about minute from the end and i can count the film i have switch off before the end on one hand.the script and direction be leaden and deeply uninspiring i wouldnt be surprise if they find the script in a pile of cast off script from for example the irritating scroat threaten the real estate guy from his house phone i mean seriously the police would be beat his door down in minute the scene and event just wash by you like turd in a river it be difficult to understand the actual thrust of the film the narrative flick between character in a seemingly random manner eaking up the pathetic attempt at build the character oh and what character they be the protagonist play by rourke be dreadful he could have just send a cardboard cut out of himself and stay in bed after or so minute of the film i have build absolutely zero attachment to this character he be neither sympathetic nor hateful just a disfigured dummy from a shop window blunder through every single scene his motivation be impossible to discern from his generally mumble and emotionless delivery be he happy be he sad angry no idea just those same dead eye star out at you from a disfigured chunk of flesh and the native american theme be just awful and pointless.the good guy be at best unlikeable a dull white collar stereotype and a simpering neurotic exwife stereotype cue archetypal wife with shotgun face off with bad guy you arent go to shoot me that be both tiresomely unoriginal and annoying.the richie nix character seem interest at first but soon descend into an irritate one side psycho character which seem at odds with the seem intention of make the bad guy in some way sympathetic or at least realistically motivated.roasario dawson character start with some promise but soon descend into a sickening and childlike parody of the gangster chick scene from jackie brown you really want me to believe her character be so attracted to rourkes or bad she be just a floozy who sleep with anything that move realistic female character ftw in summary a complete mess of a film hopeless characterisation and performances a leaden and hackneyed script along with uninspired direction and ultimately extremely dull it not even comedy bad either laugh at rourkes haggard face get pretty old after sit through the first turgid minute of the film
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in this movie chã¡vez supporter either venezuelan and notvenezuelan just lie about a dramatic situation in our country they do not say that the conflict start because of chã¡vez announcement fire a lot of pdvsa best worker just for political issues.they do not say anything about more than tv interruption transmit by chã¡vez during only day in cadena nacional a kind of confiscation o private tv signal each one with about minute of duration.they do not tell u anything about the quiting announcement make by general en jefe lucas rincon romero inspector general of the army force who be a traditional supporter of chã¡vez even now in despite of his announcement he be the ministro de interior y justicia after chã¡vez return he occuped the charge of ministro del defensa equal to defense secretary in u .they do not say anything about chã¡vez order about shoot against a pacifical people concentration who be claim for elections.they do not say anything about the people in this concentration that be kill by chã¡vez supporter either civilian and military official force .they present some fact in a wrong order in order to lie.they do not say anything about venezuelan civilian society thats be even now claim for an election in order to solve the crisis and chã¡vez action in order to avoid the elections.thats why i tell you .... this movie be just a lot of lie or a big lie
neg: 0.092, neu: 0.856, pos: 0.053, compound: -0.9035, 
one could wish that an idea as good a the invisible man would work good and be more carefully handle in the age of fantastic special effect but this be not the case the story the character and finally the entire last minute of the film be about as fresh a a madscientist flick from the early s. there be some great moment mostly due to the amazing special effect and to the very idea of an invisible man stalk the street but ala soon be back in the cramped confinement of the underground lab which mean that the rest of the film be not only predictable but schematic.there have be a great many remake of old film or tv show over the past year and some of them have their charm but it become clearer and clearer for each film that the idea of put ol classic under the nose of eager madman like verhoeven who do have his moment be a very bad one it be obvious that the money be the key issue here the time and energy put into the script be nowhere near enough and a a result hollow man be seriously undermine with clichã©s sappy character predictability and lack of any depth whatsoever.however the one thing that actually impress me beside the special effect be the swearing when make this kind of film modern producer be very keen on allow kid to see them therefore the language and sometimes the violence and sex be very toned down when the whole world blow up the good guy go oh darn and oh my god hollow man gratefully discard that kind of hypocrisy and the character be at liberty to say what come most natural to them im not say that the most natural response to something go wrong be to swear but it make it more believable if someone actually swear i think we can thank verhoeven for that
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ok so it owe pulp fiction but in my opinion have it own voice and identity mainly because of the musicvideo direction style sketchlike narrative and great performance thomas jane delivers great the drugdealer showdown be extraordinary aaron eckhart likewise james legros have a short and effervescent appearancegreat humorthey get the wong house the porzikova interrogation and rape scene be memorable a be mickey rourkes cameo appearancetake a peak.great hollywood popcorn bproduction with strong performance of alevel aspirant and renegade rourke .well take a peak it worth
neg: 0.06, neu: 0.735, pos: 0.205, compound: 0.9413, 
as far a i know the real guy that the main actor be play saw his performance and say it be an outstanding portrayal id agree with him this be a fantastic film about a quite gifted boy/man with a special body part help him oscar and bafta winning and golden globe nominate daniel daylewis play christy browna cripple man with cereal palsy who spend most of his life on the floor in a wheelchair and carry by his family he have a special left foot though he can write with it paint with it and hold thing with it he learn to speak later in the film it be very good for a guy like him also star home alone s oscar winning and golden globe nominate brenda fricker a mrs. brown and bafta win ray mcanally a mr. brown it be nominate the oscar for best director for jim sheridan best write screenplay base on material from another medium and best picture it be nominate the baftas for best film best make up artist and best adapt screenplay daniel daylewis be number on the great movie star he be number on the great british actor he be number on britain fine actor and he be number on the world great actor and the film be number on the great british film outstanding
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all i ever heard while be raise be equality of the sex and here we have a film that not only exemplify imbalance but continue through with a whole concept that one sex be well all the while watch i be hop for that redeem quality to make the viewer feel a though there be hope for the future and there wasnt ill admit to not finish the film i have to turn it off at the part where the old man whore tell the genetic man adam that it be ok to be a whore and get and i quote more tail than any man in the past time i know not finish it be a bad review on myself but it be the responsibility of the writer and crew to develope a story that will keep a viewer interested and they fail this film betray all true female nature quality of the mother figure and the need for balance instead it exemplify what america ran by lesbian natzis would be likeand im not against lesbian thank you mr. director someone please give me a redeeming quality ... wait i have it theres no sequel
neg: 0.145, neu: 0.76, pos: 0.095, compound: -0.9438, 
i do regret that i have buy this series i expect more action more objective picture and more consistency this be just a pure propaganda series very dark without any charm or romanticism it be just boredom itself i find the actor work quite weak a well odonnell might seem charm a robin with batman but in this picture he lack any charm probably while he become old he be loose his childish charm but do not gain any charm of a grow up it come a no surprise that it be not show in a lot of country and be be sell in the uk for of the recommended price and be not even release in the netherlands
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the story have be tell before a deadly disease be spread around ... but the extra in this film be peter weller his interpretation of muller on the run be real he be indeed a desperate person just go home to see his child this person could be work next to you
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this film be very well advertised i be an avid movie goer and have see preview for this movie for month while i be somewhat skeptical of how funny this movie would actually be my friend think it be go to be great and hype me up about it then i go and saw it i be sink down in my seat almost asleep until i remember that i have pay for this movie i make myself laugh at most of the stuff in the movie just so i wouldnt feel bad and destroy the good mood i be in plus i want to get my monies worth out of the movie i always go into a movie with an open mind not try to go into them with too many expectation but this movie be not that funny now it wasnt the bad movie ive ever see but it be definitely worth wait for hbo if you havent see many preview for the movie or you like very slow and corny comedy you may enjoy it but for true comedy fan id say pas maybe even check out the king of comedy again something tell me to go see meet the parent instead
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as far a i know this be my first experience with icelandic movie it such a relief to see something else than your regular hollywood motion picture too bad that movie like this one have a small chance of succeed in the big world i can only hope that people watch this by accident by recommendation or other ... because it really worth while i leave the cinema feel really sad i couldnt get the tragic destiny of the character out of my head and it impress me even more when i thought of the complexity of the film not only be it a tragic story it have excellent comic relief and a very good soundtrack.if you have the opportunity watch it it really think provoking and make me ponder a lot
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very typical almodã³var of the time and in it own way no less funny than many of his later work and why be that there be nothing to be provoke or shock about and i guess any such effect be more coincidental than intentional no the great humor stem from an underlie almost surreal absurdity that be weave into the scenery the character nearly complete lack of taboo it the same kind of comic suspense you find in his later work though youll find it in a more rough version here hes build up for masterpiece to come but be not yet there.the sole reviewer who comment on this movie before i do claim that it have to be a very select group of people whod find this movie hilarious i do
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once again doctor who deliver the good by the bucket load it have humour youre just make it up a you go along yup but i do it illiantly action monster in this case still more kickass cybermen tragedy and scare tactic in short just what the doctor order pun intend the way that the emotion move from one to the other be do so well that there be no feeling of get on with it so chalk up out of the last episode that have make you laugh then make you cry and make you go eek.in term of character development this be clearly the clincher for noel clarkes mickey and ricky be one of the doctor companion you know that he will do the right thing and may even suspect the manner that he do it however it be still an emotional wrench when he confirm his future path.while the rise of the cybermen have more of the sinister build up to terror the age of steel be an all out blast like alien compare to alien both true classic but in different way can the series keep it up at this level let hope so
neg: 0.123, neu: 0.757, pos: 0.12, compound: -0.5973, 
a brother promise be a wonderful family film this be a biography of dan jansen a champion olympic speed skater the movie depict this athletes life from a young age through full adulthood the love and support of the family member be evident throughout how dan and the rest of his family handle winning and losing race be a life lesson for all of u the commitment and determination of dans coach and his teammate show what it take to make a real team how dan and his family deal with a devastate illness of a loved one be depict without undo sentiment or sugarcoat the faith of the family be show in basic term and be obviously a major part of their life this be a powerful family film which can be meaningful for a person of any age
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well ... now that i know where rob zombie steal the title for his house of corps crapfest i can now rest in peace nothing about the somnambulant performance or trite script would raise the dead in the house of seven corps but a groovie ghoulie come up from his plot ha anyway to kill the bloody amateurs make a lowrent horror flick in his former abode in hell house sorry i dont remember the actual name of the residence a bunch of mysterious unexplained death take place long ago some like arthritic lurch standin john carradine whose small role provide the film only worthwhile moment attribute it to the supernatural bellowing film director john ireland dismiss it a superstitious hokum the result come across like satan school for girl catchy title madefortv production value intrigue plot cross with child shouldnt play with dead thing lowrent movie about lowrent movie maker who wake the dead trouble be it nowhere near a entertaining or fun the house of seven corps be dead at frame one and spend the rest of it minute go through rigor mortis drag u along for every ache second ...
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director sidney lumet have make some masterpieceslike networkdog day afternoon or serpico.buthe be not have too much luck on his most recent works.gloria be pathetic and find me guilty be an interestingbut fail experiment.nowlumet ings his best film in decade andby my point of viewa true masterpiece before the devil know youre dead.i think this film be like a rebirth for lumet.this movie have an excellent story whichdeeplyhas many layers.alsoi think the end of the movie be perfect.the performance be illiant.philip seymour hoffman ingsas usuala magnificent performance and hesno doubtone of the best actor of our days.ethan hawke be also an excellent actor but he underrate by my point of view.his performance in here be great.the rest of the cast be also excellent speciallythe great albert finney but these two actor ing monumental performance which be sadly ignore by the pathetic oscars.the film have a good level of intensityin part thanks to the performance andin partthanks to the illiant screenplay.before the devil know youre dead be a real masterpiece with perfect directiona great screenplay and excellent performances.we need more movie like this
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i take my year old to see this movie we leave after or minute it be absolutely awful this movie should be rat r at the least i be not that strict with movie but this be just too much it be a waste of money i think it would contain some comedy and i know the comedy would probably be crude but this be way beyond crude i be sit there watch and read a certain subtitle at the beginning of the movie be what really get me and i could not believe how crudely sexual it be i could not believe that it would be ok for a year old to read and see this content i dont understand how the rating system works.
neg: 0.116, neu: 0.787, pos: 0.097, compound: -0.581, 
i love this film i think it would be easy to watch and easy to forget i run out after watch this to buy the dvd obv not easily forget the script be illiant and the casting couldnt be more perfect each character have their moment and i laugh hard throughout this film comedic timing be spoton
neg: 0.116, neu: 0.639, pos: 0.244, compound: 0.8864, 
it not easy to find judas kiss on vhs it not available on dvd but i want to add this rather obscure movie to my alan rickman movie collection.i cant understand how the talented mr. rickman get into these mediocre film judas kiss boast several wonderful actor an interesting plot and intriguing twist but it strange visual wandering and chop edit ruin what might have be a great crime drama many scene seem to be miss vital information to explain the character action why be our hero immediately suspicious of his boss why do he mistrust the detective he replace there be time when i honestly couldnt tell if the director mean judas kiss to be a legitimate crime drama or a campy spoof why else would he toss in a topless/alien/lesbian porno scene in the first two minute that little surprise certainly make me scramble for the remote since my kid be play nearby do he purposely instruct his two distinguish english actor alan rickman and emma thompson to use such awful new orleans accent a an alan freak i confess that i still think mr. rickman be sexy in a rumpled weary takehimhomeandtuckhimin sort of way.judas kiss isnt a great movie but it do have some intriguing moment but i dont recommend it unless youre try to immerse yourself in alan rickman
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first of all i should point out that i really enjoy watch this documentary not only it have great music in it but the shot and the editing be also wonderful however all these positive thing about the film do not change the fact that it play to the orientalist east meet west clichã© that bother many turk like myself okay this film tell the story of traditional and contemporary turkish music in a very stylish manner which be a good thing something that would show ignorant european and americans that this country be not just about murder armenian and kurd however the problematic of the film be that it look at what it define a east from the eye of the west i mean like one jazz musician say in the film maybe there be no east and west maybe it be just a myth a lie create by the rule leader of western country in order to keep fear and hostility alive so that they could continue rule the world and keep the cash flow why dont you think about that
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stmd be not a terrible movie but it be quite forgettable the lighting be intentionally poor in many scene and unintentionally poor in all the rest so you be likely to come out of a viewing with a headache or eyestrain special effect be imaginative but obvious the gratuitous nudity essential for teen slasher flick be there of course along with the archetypical teenager but the whole movie just doesnt gel what be need be some snappy dialogue and more tongueincheek humor.i cant really recommend that you use your time watch this movie i often give a nod to a movie base on just a scene or two that demonstrate imagination or humor but these be sadly lack in this film
neg: 0.129, neu: 0.813, pos: 0.057, compound: -0.8993, 
first off i have no idea how this movie make it to the big screen it not even the low budget scifi channel movie it just awful me and my friend who love action movie independence day jurassic park lotr etc go to see this movie expect this movie to me a transformer with dragon mindless entertainment all we get be a mindless hour and a half the cg be not as bad a i be expect but the plot be so awful along with the act it make up for it it basically a chinese legged of dragon return every year ... sound like a good remake of rain of fire no the plot try to be deep than it should be leave not only plot hole but with magic and a very small actual war between dragon rather big snake it just get ridiculous the director attempt to add a bit of humor in the movie which fail me and my friend laugh through the whole thing along with all of the audience and cant believe we spend money on this the short trailer on tv make up for most of the action while crap make up the rest ive see a lot of b movie like reptilian the cave spider and others but i have to say if you want a non stop laugh for an hour watch this.story cg act /i dont drink ... but it would have help before watch this movie
neg: 0.133, neu: 0.731, pos: 0.136, compound: -0.0033, 
i be not exactly how sure the accuracy be with this movie but i can tell you that i be thoroughly entertain by this movie the character of gustplayed perfectly by phillip seymour hoffman be one of the most unique yet entertain character in recent memory this movie informedyet manage to avoid preach to the audience it make me laugh make me sad make me feel alive and glad to be spend the time to watch the movie it take no time to understand what be go on and take you on a roller coaster ride of genuine human emotion i think i knew my history apparently i didnt know it at all i give this move out of and recommend it for all adult and young adult and the young at heart just not the young but as soon a they be allow to see r rat movie make it a priority
neg: 0.06, neu: 0.747, pos: 0.193, compound: 0.9818, 
i must have see this a dozen time over the year i be about fifteen when i first saw it in b w on the local pb station.i buy a dvd set for the child to see and be make them watch it they dont teach history in school and this explain the most critical event of the th century it expand their critical thinking.impartially with the participant on all side explain in their own word what they do and why it detail what lead up to the war and the actual war.buy it for your child along with alistair cooke america watch it with them and make them understand youll be so glad you do
neg: 0.07, neu: 0.881, pos: 0.049, compound: -0.3873, 
steven seagals film of late have not exactly be good but this be by far the bad since the patriot the plot make no sense what so ever it be never clear in what the relationship between the character be who work for who or who be double cross who the film be completely disjointed each scene seem to confuse the story far rather than carry it forward even the action sequence be uninspired and hard to follow most of the blame must lie at the director foot for not even understand the basic of film making but seagal do not get off lightly a one of the producer of this film he must also share the blame oh and i havent even mention how awful the acting be even by seagal standard even a straight to video fodder this be not worth a view even for seagal fan give it a wide berth
neg: 0.178, neu: 0.778, pos: 0.045, compound: -0.9715, 
and i for one think that be a good thing ive just never be a rosalind russell fan although the original be my favorite rr movie but i love bette and be thrill to hear she be make this.as for the rest of the production i think it be slightly less than the original movie one of my favorite minor character in the original be mazeppa with her scratchy fingernailsontheblackboard voice belt out hey it take a lot more than no talent to be a strippah and although i miss it i be glad to see the producer have the gut not to do a carbon copy.i also like the fact there be large portion of this movie which be film a if you be look at a stage it give a feeling that you be in the theatre not just at the movies.i think the other thing i like about this production be that there seem to be slightly less repetition of the song let me entertain you which become completely annoying after about the th time you hear it
neg: 0.043, neu: 0.759, pos: 0.198, compound: 0.9836, 
so real and surreal all in one i remember feel like tessa heck i remember be tessa this be a beautiful vignette of a relationship end i especially like the protester tangent it be nice to see symbolism in a movie without be smack over the head with it if you get the chance to see this take it it be well worth the minute
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.763, pos: 0.237, compound: 0.9432, 
thank god i watch this at a friends place and do not pay for it the plot be horribly transparent and the whole movie felt like an episode of a tv show if you have any knowledge of computer or electronics watch out you will feel feel like the movie be an insult to your intelligence also actress turn much music vj amanda walsh display the bad act i have ever see exclude porn shes lucky that matt lanter be actually decent hes the one that carry the movie i hate that i waste nearly two hour of my life watch this movie it a shame that they get to call it a sequel because i be a fan of the original which be actually pretty good
neg: 0.135, neu: 0.674, pos: 0.191, compound: 0.7092, 
a friend lent me this dvd which he get from the director at a festival i think i go in warn that some of the technical aspect of the movie be a bit shaky and that the writing be good but not great so maybe that color my judgment but i have to admit that i like this movie.the standouts where the actor youssef kerkor be really good a ernie the main character kind of pathetic in a likable way adam jones who also direct and justin lane be excellent a the roommate who drive ernie mad the bill character justin lane who spend a lot of the film dress like a panda be by far my favorite he seem the least onedimensional and remind me of an old college roommate so much i call the guy after watch the dvd really kind of lovable and very funny some of the other acting be good some be soso but none of it be bad i also really like the vigilante duo ridiculous and funny.im give this one high mark even though it have some issue because you can tell when you watch it that these people care and decide to make their movie their way well do to adam jones and crew
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shawshank godfather pulp fiction ... all good film great film but nothing and i mean nothing live up to the great christmas movie of all santa claus.the film be so great and have so many message i cry while watch it seriously this be one of those movie you need to watch time when we see pitch get tell he will have to eat ice cream we see the sadness in his eye and we feel the deep sorrow and then we wonder ... what be so bad about this ice cream be it imply that we a human be treat ice cream a good when all it do be make u evil think movie make you think.this movie have the best rendition of santa claus ever unlike other santa he be a normal person we see him imprison child and spy on kid dream and we wonder be the santa we believe in really that good also this santa actually mention christ the whole meaning behind christmas.you owe yourself to watch this cinematic masterpiece we should just stop make movie and air nothing but this epic whether it christmas or not this movie get a whoever say this movie be bad be an ignorant fool
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i really cant think of anything good to say about this film ... not a single thing the script be a nightmare .. the writer blur the line between chemical and biological trait and doesnt seem to understand the difference youd think they would at least get a technical advisor the performance be bad by most of the cast ... although i dont really blame them .. the material really stink the editing be equally bad .. ill just stop now .. it all bad
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cinema great period start in postwar europe with italys neorealist movement during the next or decade that follow france new waver catch everyones attention and there be always bergman up there on his desolate scandinavian island somewhere make bitter masterpiece but in luchino visconti ought the artform to full circle geographically speak with his miraculous work death in venice which might as well be call the death of europoean cinema after the sixty wind down so do the great european filmmaker who with some exception generally grow exhaust and pass the torch to a new american generation of movie brat coppola scorsese co. this movie absolutely feel like a grand summingup not just of visconti particular obsession but of the general attempt of european filmmaker to achieve the aesthetic ideal in movie and rest assure you will find no sterner taskmaster than the visconti reveal here hes not play to the crowd folk either you get behind him and follow along or you get leave behind the pacing be a challenge slow but never without emotional weight incident be few and far between but each seem load with symbolic significance in a sturmunddrang cosmos.we will probably never be in such rarefied company again in term of the movie one of the century great writer who inspire the tale thomas mann one of the great filmmaker direct it visconti one of the great actor in the lead role dirk bogarde and swell almost ceaselessly in the background gustav mahler th symphony take full advantage of mahler ability to inspire romanticism in even the most cynical east visconti change the main character aschenbach into a decrepit composer from his original persona a a writer even make bogarde up to look like mahler geeky mustache spec shaggy hair ducklike walk bogarde by the way delivers what be probably great performance of an actor in the history of movie it a largely silent performance and the actor have to deliver ream of meaning in a gesture or a glance a difficult trick without mug like chaplin or merely act like an animated corpse.cinema just doesnt get good than this ill ignore the complaint from the ritalinaddicts out there who say that it too slow but even the more legitimate gripe concern some of aschenbachs flashback with that antagonistic friend of his be misplace the flashback fit neatly within the movie thematic concern i.e which be the good path to aesthetic perfection passion or discipline and the suddenness and shrillness of these interruption serve to prevent sleepiness among the viewer of course some viewer will sleep through this movie anyway a nonstop stream of mahler and beautiful dying venice would be nothing more than a pretty picture but this movie be actually about something and what it mostly about be suffer romantic capital r suffer in particular a a suffering romantic himself visconti knew whereof he speak spoiler i guess if for nothing else see death in venice for it portentous opening credit and for it unforgettable end with bogardes jetblack hairdye drip off of his sweaty die head and onto his chalkwhite face meanwhile off in the distance young tadzio the object of bogardes die desire stand in the ocean and point toward the horizon like a michelangelo sculpture the climatic sequence sum up with agonize economy everything that the movie be about love lust beauty loss the end of a life set against the beginning of another life and cold death in the midst of warm sunny beauty death in venice be a miraculous work of art dvd tip a with the simultaneously release visconti masterpiece the damned i recommend that you turn the english subtitle on while watch this movie it ostensibly in english but the dvd sound seem muddy and theres a lot of italian spoken during the film anyway
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this be a stereotype plot a young fighter try to enter a competition when he be not ready and be not select to represent his fight school this lead to separation from the fight school and naturally he find a strange new master to teach him to fight.the fight be not of high standard they be way too simple in a way that be simple to every adult the fighter have train and enter the ring but do not do what he train and get an as kick the coach yell do this and do that with no success and after some more of this ridiculous beating he suddenly do what he be told and hit his opponent once this result in a turning point in the fight although our hero have be take a beating of his life up until that point think about the rocky movie and youll have a good point of reference of how much beating he really take the fight be also shoot poorly.there final thing that screw this film up be the stupid romance cheesy music and awkward moment be not what i call entertainment.these guy really could have make some quality entertainment but the director wasnt up to the task or the other crew in my opinion maybe they have a small budget i dont know but what matter in the end be that this movie be bad and deserve the rating of out of
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this production be quite a surprise for me i absolutely love obscure early s movie but i wasnt prepare for the last minute of this story if by any chance youre not convince in the first half hang in there for the finale of course you must look at the blatant racism a be purely topical a fascinating viewing experience but i think the cat paw be not available on video/dvd yet watch your pb listing
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it isnt too bad but ultimately it lack the quality that the australian series has.the joke be few and far between the actor be attractive they shouldnt be the film maker think far too much about the cinematography it suppose to look like a home video and it just like a serious version of kath and kim ... it stupid.its too normal to be kath and kim kath and kim be suppose to be two curvy middleaged woman who think they be hot and wear ridiculous clothes there be no look at me kimmy joke the fat friend of kim be not fat at all and shes not even slightly stupid shes a stereotypical black/latino chick.its just not a stupid or funny a the australian series it doesnt compare nothing be the same i admit this show be pretty funny at time but it be not anything like the aussie series i be look forward to an american take on a bogan family they fail it suppose to be really stupid and hilarious but the actor dont act stupid to me this be just a typical american tv show it a let down if you want it to be anything like the aussie show star because it be an okay show just nothing like what it should be
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from the decrepit rank of the already oversaturated hillybilly horror subgenre come this woeful tale of a vacation family terrorize by ined redneck sound familiar well it most definitely should to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the horror genre there be absolutely new here the film seem content to recycle all thee old wear out clichã©s deform hick a peaceful family turn guntoting killer when push come to show the rebellious daughter the one freak who good at heart etcetera ... but do even that halfheartedly enough to make this an utter waste of time this be forgettable dreck but humorously enough lead j.d hart once star in a movie call film that suck early in his career quite an ironic omen indeed.my grade d
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a a huge baseball fan my scrutiny of this film be how realistic it appear dennis quaid have all of the right move and stance of a major league pitcher it be a fantastic true story tell with just a little too much disney for my taste
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this film take you on one family impossible journey and make you feel every step of their odyssey beautifully act and photograph hearteakingly real it last line with it wistful hope be one of the more powerful in memory
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stupid stupid stupid i can not stand ben stiller anymore how this man be allow to still make movie be beyond me i cant understand how this happen if i perform at work the way he act in a movie id get fire and i own the company ..... i would have to fire myself god this movie be just a plain steam stink pile of poo that need to be vapoorized if that be possible something else i have to say the guideline about line of text in a comment be idiotic what be wrong with just say a few thing about a movie i will never understand why site will require a short novel write when sometimes a ief comment be all that be necessary
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this show be great for many reason .. the father and mother can communicate with their kid this day in age it so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overact family i watch this one time and become hooked.it so great to see a black family on tv worth watch this show leave too soon but on it way out it deal with pregnancy sexy drug bad datesdeath etc .the best thing about the show be that it deal with it in a real humorous sort of way great show for the family .. i cant tell you how many time i have sit up watched this show late at night sometimes and laugh my head off great pg rat show.i loved everybit of this show
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this film be where the batman franchise ought to have stop though i will concede that the idea behind batman forever be excellent and could have be easily realise by a competent director a it turn out this be not to be the case.apparently warner brother executive be disappoint with how dark this second batman film from tim burton turn out apart from the idiocy of expect anything else from burton and the conservative cowardice of their subsequent decision to turn the franchise into an homage to the sixty tv series i fail to understand how batman return can be consider at all disappointing.true it be not quite the equal of the first film though it repair all the minor deficiency of style find in batman a weak script that split the antagonism between not just two but three character invite unflattering comparison to the masterful pairing of keaton and jack nicholson a the joker in the first film yet for all this it remain a gorgeously dark film true to the way the batman be always mean to be and highly satisfying.michael keaton return a the batman and his alter ego bruce wayne tangle with nouveau riche tycoon max schreck christopher walken name in honour of the s german silent actor his partnerincrime oswald cobblepot the penguin danny devito in illiant makeup reminiscent of laurence olivier richard iii and selina kyle the catwoman michelle pfeiffer whom wayne romance both a himself and a the batman the four principal turn in excellent performance especially walken and devito while together keaton and pfeiffer explore the darker side of double identities.there be some intriguing concept in this film about the only weakness i can really point out be a certain limpness to the script in some place which i think be due mostly to the way this film be a fourcornered fight there simply isnt enough time to properly explore whats go on.nevertheless this be a damn good film i highly recommend watch this in conjunction with the first and then weep for how good the series could have be have it continue under burton and keaton
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the quick and the undead be finally the first movie to actually render it own storyline null and void it be essentially one gigantic plot hole.aside from that the acting be quite bad character motivation nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasnt a single character worth hang our hat on the most interesting cast member who have great potential to be a dark horse protagonist get snuffed halfway through the proceedings.what the quick and the undead do serve a be an excellent example of how to do good colortiming it look excellent when you take into account budget considerations.unfortunately it play out like a guy get his hand on a hundred grand and watch a few western most notably the good the bad and the ugly and then just throw a bunch of element haphazardly into a movie ... you know they have movie where character do this do it fit here no but who care they do it in other movie so i should do it here maybe a good view for burgeon cinematographer and colorist firstyear filmschoolers otherwise a mustmiss
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i be stun by this film afterwards i didnt even want to see any film for a long time any other film would be so unsatisfying by comparison.for many it may be the bad of antonioni very slow without an engaging conventional story line microscopic examination of human emotion and interaction and the bad of wenders verbose confused transcendentalism it be compose of short distinct episode link by wenders typical meander heros stream of consciousness so it doesnt produce the temporary oblivion of escapist cinema.but for fan the bad be the best and the disjointed story line be sketch a single poetic image that stretch across the film wenders and antonioni create a discourse between their segment that seek out the heart of thing
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be i the only person who think that the entire forensics and scene of crime community in the usa must detest this almighty slap in their face a rookie cop be first to a crime scene where her back up be so slow to respond that she have time to send the kid who find the body to the local store to buy a disposable camera by the time he return still no senior cop socos or other assistance for the lovely jolie this be new york isnt it it have start rain and she get to work photograph the evidence only after shed stood in front of an amtrak to stop it disturb the scene.i want to know the name of that camera a the photograph be so incredibly detail that no amount of zoom in distort the image the horror continue not in the film itself pretty ordinary im afraid but in the lincoln rhyme character a play by mr washington this man be a highly dedicate forensic crime scene examiner with year of experience who instead of the highly trained but invisible local crime scene examiner entrust the work to an untrained cop a rookie cop who proceed to find the very obviously place clue and move them before photograph them thus contaminate every item and make dna profile well nigh impossible now that be a ight idea eh i know one should be able to suspend disbelief to a degree but those who say this film be intelligent must have entirely disengage their ability to think in order to find this film believable.i have give this film for the superb acting of denzel washington and for miss jolies lip which be the only item require my disbelief to be suspend
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the one of the most remarkable scifi movie of the millennium not only a movie but an incredible future vision this movie establish a new standard of s/f movie hail and kill
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this be the second hitchcock film to appear on the list and the second hitchcock film ive see in full the first be rope which i really enjoy with saboteur hitchcock be more room to roam free whereas rope take place all in one room i didnt enjoy this one as much a rope but thats not say this be a bad film it just seem like an average flick that could have be something more.it seem like a film hitchcock would make a a eak in between his more serious one a a thriller i feel it fail to really get my on the edge of my seat or engage with the lead character who be run around the state the climax of the film feel like a miss opportunity to really amp up the tension the sound design be almost non existent you can hear their dialogue and a bit of the environment around them but the important thing be miss the stitch rip apart from the sleeve the need of music to amp of the tension all miss intentional no doubt yet it lack the emotional punch one would want from such a scene then it end auptly leave you empty inside.the film doesnt feel like it should either they be almost globe trot from place to place yet it feel more confine the script itself be very average and seem to go about the more obtuse way to get the plot moving.the performance be there but nothing amazing everyone play their part to script word on the page the relationship between the two lead be weak and need more work the one stand out be otto kruger who have that rich ego evil persona down pat.in the end i want more from this one i understand it one of hitchcock least exciting film but i do have a good time watch it i can recommend it just not enthusiastically
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it be always difficult to ing a page book down to a three hour film i read the book before and i find the bbc production deal with this difficulty in the best way possible the quality of the book havent be lose the dense and lively depiction of a fingersmith patchwork family in london in the s the cold and obscene cruelty in which maud be ought up the characterization of different social group by different way of speak the unexpected and surprising twist of the story the way the film make the spectator look different at the same scene when they be tell first from sue point of view then from mauds one the main actor do very good and especially the grow love between the two woman be convincingly develop with a first culmination in a very tender love scene between the two and finally forgive all the evil they be ready to do and do to each other because they still love each other.for each of her book the author sarah water have thoroughly investigate what life be like in british th century while in tip the velvet it be the world of the vaudeville theater and the beginning of social movement in affinity the dreadful reality of woman penitentiary and the fashionable evocation of spirit in fingersmith she depict the public ceremony of hang people in london and the inhuman treatment of person suppose or declare disturbed in asylum base on the reading of source and scientific research this be very well transfer to the film so that the corresponding scene show a high grade of historic truth i highly recommend this film production because it offer three hour of colorful victorian atmosphere vivid emotion and suspense
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this be one of my all time favorite cheap corny vampire b movie calvin klein underwear model ... oh i mean stefan the good vampire return to transylvania to ascend the throne of vampiric royalty but manicureimpaired and eternally drool half other radu have other plan have kill their father the vampire king radu now set his sight on stefan stefans new mortal girlfriend michelle and her two pretty friend and the allpowerful bloodstone.okay the scenery be beautiful and it should be a it be shoot on location in transylfrickenvania for gosh sakes the actress be no great shake and stefan the heroic vampire be about as charming a a refrigerated fireplace poker but who care theres only one reason to watch this movie and his name be radu he a physical homage to nosferatu and he have the best line in the movie all speak in the raspy voice of a man who smoke ten pack of cigarette a day the cemetery festival scene be one of the best scene in the film a radu slowly approach the camera and reveal his grin slobber face for the world to see i find myself cheer him on a he collect victim and taunt his perfect other but maybe im just a sicko questionable taste in men aside i highly recommend this film to vampire enthusiast it original it fun and radu be one of the best vampire ive see in a long time ... much more fun than the stiff tragic whine undead at that endlessly grace the horror screen these day radu enjoy his sadism and never apologize he what a vampire should be
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let me first off say that i be a believer of ghost and i do indeed know they exist i have have enough experience with them to know they be there.what i hate be the people who ing the bible and religion into all of this people forget there be more than one bible thousand of religion and belief and different way to interpret what be say in the bible not everyone believe in god and not everyone believe in stereotypical religion religion do not make everything fact one of the thing i should mention in the bible that many do not know be that even the most rampant bible thumper be eaking the very rule write within .... you be suppose to never wear more than one faic at one time slavery be ok and you may murder your neighbor under certain circumstance none of this oh that be the old testament and now we have the new testament if the bible be the word of god and can not be change .. there should be no change or version religion be full of misinterpretation mixed fact and people who so blindly follow it that there be no other way the excuse these say blind follower use be either pathetic or they themselves can not explain the discrepancy properly and instead use excuse hand down to them from either their pastor or teacher but anyhow onto the review i be a decent fan of ghost hunter and when i hear this show be come soon i be pretty excited and think it have some potential as much a i like watch ghost hunter i do not like some of their member and i do not like the way they can dismiss a place a be haunt yet can not explain anything that be go on just because your investigation equipment do not pick it up do not mean the camera film the show do not i be glad they be skeptical but it like they do not understand that just because you do not get anything on your recorder and film do not make the place haunt or not if ghost be that easy to capture it would be know a a fact not a belief it more of a right place at the right time kind of thing as well a if there be something there what make you think it go to perform for you this show be kind of silly it usually boring and there be lot of talk lot of psychic yet hardly anything happen the main guy filter narration be usually either bore to listen to or be basically not needed.also the reliance on psychic be too abundant a i believe very few of them be actually gift silvia brown be one i definitely believe in but most be sometimes hard to believe.i really want to like this show but of the few i have see i have yet to be terribly impressed
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for a long time the menagerie be my favorite star trek episode though in recent year it have be eclipse by city on the edge of forever what i use to prefer about menagerie be that it more hardcore star trek with this fascinate backstory to the thencurrent trek storyline i still think it fairly ingenious the way gene roddenberry incorporate the original pilot into a twopart episode though the new part of the story be largely an excuse for kirk and a few others and u to watch the pilot the idea of spock be courtmartialed be a clever one you can poke hole in the plot if you want for instance give the talosians mindcontrol ability and captain pike condition why be it even necessary to physically ing pike back to their planet and there be other confusing question about pike and commodore mendez ... best to not think too hard about the detail and just enjoy sts only twoparter
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coen brotherswannabe from writerdirector paul chart rely far too much on idea lift from other good movie yet do manage to create a creepy atmosphere that keep one watching robert forster cut loose a never before play a psychopathic psychiatrist ha ha who go on a kill spree in the desert the film be unusual but in it attempt to keep one step ahead of the audience it become alienate and offputting with a role for amanda plummer that be downright humiliate an admittedly avura finale many quirky bit of businessand forster look great in the nudemake this a curiosity item nothing more veteran moviedirector irvin kershner produce and maybe should direct a well could paul chart be a pseudonym from
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when it be release this film cause a sensation i watch it and be thrill beautiful usually young naked woman film in the classy style we know so well from director hamilton photography his photograph never become porn and the same be true for this movie today i saw it again and be bitterly disappoint the soft core in extremely slow pace scene all film with some vaseline on the lens actually be all there be there be no real story the character remain beautiful and beautifully filmed body but they be not real creature with a soul actually nothing happen it be like hamilton be photograph use move picture rather than still and this get so boring after a while i even didnt watch the whole thing the second time for i fell vast asleep that be all that remain of this masterpiece it be a very good sleeping pill and you will never become addicted to it back then out of now out of
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largely forgettable tale in which mercenary kerman employer agren travel into the jungle in search of agrens miss sister.despite it connection to the cannibal movie family this film be more of an extreme version of rene cardonas guyana crime of the century lenzi clearly aim to exploit the at that time topical jonestown massacre by depict a rogue self righteous zealot with a penchant for bigamy and just a hint of megalomania play with ruthless intensity by ivan rassimov lead his motley crew flock into self inflict oblivion with sister in toe kerman agren attempt to stop the rot but after several fail coup they end up flee into the green inferno only to run afoul the local and their notorious appetites.one in a string of excessive gore fests that emerge in the late seventies/early eighty where every new addition seem to engage in a oneupmanship contest with it predecessor by attempt to contrive the most gory and graphic display ever ought to motion picture this inferior instalment employ all the motif and gimmick of the others but with much less success.was it the so called amazonian native who look like they be bollywood reject this film be make on location in sri lanka or the inept decapitation and castration scene that seriously diminish the authenticity that be apparent in cannibal holocaust you can decide without spoil the conclusion it appear a though lenzi put more emphasis in his shock and awe climax than in the basic requirement for a cohesive end where all loose end be resolve most unsatisfying.as with the others where the extent of the graphic depiction of violence toward human be limit thankfully the filmmaker have spar no extreme in inflict the bad possible cruelty on hapless animal in their pursuit of the most sadistic shock unfortunately the only thing shock about this film be that it rate a mention among others of the ilk that deal with the subject matter more convincingly.if there be any redeemable feature at all kerman be an affable if somewhat onedimensional lead man and his bevy of scantily clad costars agren lai and senatore provide some visual respite from the relentless slaying
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get smart should be title get stupid there be not one funny line or gag in the entire film this film be so bad it make the austin power film look shakespearean a few more film like this and steve carell can kiss his career goodbye a for anne hathaway what be she do in this film shes a good actress but be just plain terrible.the writing be pathetically lame there be not one funny clever or witty line there be not one good sight gag.the directing be terrible comedy relies on time someone should tell the director that every line that be suppose to be funny and isnt be deliver with absolutely the bad sense of comic timing ive ever see star
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herculis puaro be in general a well establish hero we know well from book and movie this movie or this story dont work and i felt it not agathas mistake the cast isnt good the actor be over exaggerate and make foolish gesture the costume be so clean and tidy that everything even arab clothes look fake and for the serious spectator who think twice this movie can be see a a comedy instead of mystery drama the actor playing herculis puaro be do a nice job but nothing fantastic the scene be a say before perfect and look fake the story be not very enchant although a mystery of murder but who care about the death of a loony and vicious blond woman in the iraqi desert the victim be not likable
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how can so many blunder decision can be make all that waste of resource it an idiotic story to begin with but theres no need to make it worse.a loose interpretation be you kid it diminish my regard for voight and coburn.i hope they be pay well
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this be by far the bad movie ive ever see and thats compare to alexander fortress and the new world.i should go back to blockbuster and ask for my money back along with compensation a it be a truly traumatic experience for the first ten minute i be change the zoom on my widescreen tv because the actor seem to be out of screen i didnt think it be possible to make such a bad film in this day and age i be wrong while type this message ive thought of a good reason to buy this movie a joke present at xmas im blame the mr for this one a she pick it thank babe.be warn ....... a true shocker all round
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if youve read mother night and enjoy it so much a i do that you just have to see the movie understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of vonnguts write that beyond his story lie vonnegut himself and that you cant put a human mind on the screen his whit and humor just can not be transcribe by a screenplay or even the best acting performance i believe that this movie exceed in ask the key question that vonnegut pose in his book but those frequent cynical moment of satire find on the page be not find on the screen do this mean that the movie miss the mark of course not in my opinion the movie succeed because it do not try to recreate the experience of read the book this be not a medium for those too lazy to turn a page it succeed because it take the fundamental element of a story create by one of america true artistic treasure and present it in a a framework without pretense ive see other movie version of vonnegut book where the director obviously try to channel vonnegut genius and lose grip on his own craft i would not place this movie a one of the best ive see but it stand on it own leg a one well worth watch by take vonneguts voice out of the movie narration or try to insert it however it can mother night tell his story illiantly and preserve the storys fundamental lesson without confusion distraction or disappointment
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this be one of the bad movie ive ever see not only that it be a comedy which isnt funny but it also very badly make with an over the top direction full of unnecessary split screen and other effects.the two hero with their fantasy language be just annoy and it confuse me quite a lot that they touch each others genitals all the time but the bad of all that nonsense be the cheap attempt to give that movie some appeal by refer to german history and to show sensitive aspect of the hero which find it climax in show how erkan and stefan cure a mentally ill woman with their joyful lifestyle but i hadnt expect anything good by director michael bully herbig who also make two not funny tvshows a not funny western movie and a nearly not funny sfcomedy movie but erkan and stefan have be just a little well in some of their standup program for me the only good thing about the movie be alexandra neldel who be very beautiful to me
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i sit through this on tv hoping because of the name in it that it would be worth the time ... but dear gussie whoever think this script be worth produce the basic idea be excellent but the execution be appallingly bad with a constantly illogical sequence of scene an end that be almost laughably melodramatic and poor rock hudson wanders through this with an understandably confused look on his slightly sag face look like a bad b movie from the s ...
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a number of contributor have mention the age difference between stewart and novak she be and he be when this movie be release i think that the difference didnt matter for a suspense drama like vertigo but it do matter for a romantic comedy we can easily understand that be why his character would be attract to hers but it less clear why hers would be attract to his.still the movie work a a light romantic fantasy the scene where she star at him across the cat head with her dark paintedon eyeows flare and the sound of her humming and the cat purring be true magic it a little jarring therefore when the scene shift to the top of the flatiron building and we see the age difference very sharply a he emaces her she reach up to run her finger through his hair but stop that motion and just ushes her fingertip lightly against his toupee
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family problem abound in real life and that be what this movie be about love can hold the member together through out the ordeal and trial and that be what this movie be about one man daddy have the maturity and fortitude to sustain the family in the face of adversity the kid grow upone all be it in the hard way to realize that no matter how old they or a parent be the parent still love their child and be willing to provide them a cushion when they fall all the actor portray their character do outstanding performance yes i shed a tear along the way know i have have similar experience both a a young adult and later a a parent this true to life be one which every young adult and parent would do well to see although some will not realize it until they too be parent a must see for those who care about their family
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the only conceivable flaw of this film be it title please stop compare it to the first i do in my previous review only to separate it from the first if you havent see the movie and be curious totally forget about the first and invent a different name for this there be nothing alike and have a mood all it own this be a great exponent of screwy mids comedy i seriously doubt such big name in this cast do the movie because they be oke or even want to remake the first anybody who ever want to give a kick to the snobbish aristocracy should love this little opus i maintain the only reason this be in the imdb bottom be because of it title i usually hate movie like these i.e adam sandler will farrell farrelly os .... but this movie just keep me laugh hysterically i dunno maybe it like a bad relationship i cant get out of or just a ridiculous guilty pleasure either way this be the single most underrated movie of the s behind the stunt man.robert stack we love you
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salva and his pal bigardo have be at the margin of the law during most of their life we see them panhandle in a car of the underground where their pitch to get donation be so lame no one give them anything salva who be a hardened petty criminal doesnt even have any redeeming quality that be until he discover a reality show on television that give him the idea of what to do next religion and show business prove to be a win combination something that salva capitalize on.he and bigardo have be in jail after the accidental death of a priest that be critical of the duo salva show he be a natural for the reality show he transform himself into a christlike figure who be an instant success in the program espe who be a nononsense woman who be show producer cant escape from the way salva pay her unusual attention ultimately salva be the victim of his own success in the end.jordi molla whose first directorial job this movie be have some success in the way the film satirize the role of television spain which be vulnerable to these type of program have see it share of the bizarre which be what the director felt be an assault on the view public and want to set his story from the point of view of the people that be make a fortune out of the naive audience.the ensemble cast have some good moment in the film mr. molla like any actor who decide to direct his first feature would have be more effective concentrating on the picture in front of the camera candela pena a good actress be one of the best reason for watch the movie juan carlos villedo david gimenez cacho franco francescoantonio florinda chico and the rest respond well to the new director
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these kinda movie just dont get the credit they deserve this be my nd all time favorite movie stand by me be st. the reason i watch this movie be because wil wheaton be in it and he be my most favorite person in the whole world and i think he do an amazing job in this movie and so do sean astin i just watch it last night actually and it just amaze me everything in the movie be very exceptional the script the act the screenplay i be on the edge of my seat of the time and if my mom wasnt in the room i would have absolutely ball whenever joey trotta wil wheaton die i do not see that come at all i be real surprised when i hear that it wasnt real popular back in the s. i be bear a few year after it come out so of course i didnt go see it in the theater but im sure i would have if i would have be alive if any of my friend watch this they would be like uhh okay but thats just cause their not cool enough to appreciate work like this if you havent see this movie or be want to watch something that be the bomb this be the movie for you to watch
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a a bigtime prince fan of the last three to four year i really cant believe ive only just get round to watch purple rain the and new disc anniversary special edition lead me to buy it wow i be really look forward to watch it but i wasnt prepare for just how electric it actually be princes musical performance throughout the movie be nothing short of astound he really have the move in this one i be very familiar from repeat listens with the classic purple rain album and all it song but to see them in the context of the movie completely alter your perception of the tune and lyric like computer blue the beautiful one when dove cry and purple rain itself there be something indescribably hypnotise about the scene where prince and the revolution perform the closing song baby im a star and i would die for u show how much energy and sheer talent prince be imming with in his mids he overflow it blow me away it even make michael jackson seem inanimate even in his peak years.prince show you how to win the girl of your dream drive her to a lake make her jump in then drive off absolutely hilarious stuff in hindsight.some of the scene be very s and unintentionally hilarious but this add to the film overall charm morris day be the cool cat on the block and hilarious and when his group the time perform the bird you get to see morris day and jerome benton light up the stage minneapolis funk style i love their dancing in this bit and how benton provide morris with a mirror midperformance.i already cant wait to watch it again i really cant extra be terrific particularly see a young eddie murphy prebeverly hill cop admit he be a prince groupie
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a good ol boy film be almost require to have moonshine car chase a storyline that have a vague resemblance to plot and at least one very pretty country gal barefoot with short short and a low top the pretty gal be here dress in designer jean but the redneck prerequisites stop there jimmy dean be a natural a a sausage spokesman but a a tough guy former sheriff he come up way short big john be big but he isnt convince with the bad part of his moniker bugeyed jack elam be a hoot a always and bo hopkins have be play this same part for decade ned beatty also do his part in a small role ... but there be no story it smell more like an episode of in the heat of the night than a feature film cornball cornpone with easily predictable sentiment perhaps the most glaring problem with this movie be charlie daniel sing the theme you know the one it be make famous by ... jimmy dean
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after several extremely well rating to the point of superb i be extremely pleased with the film the film be dark move the anger the pain the guilt and a very extremely convince demon.i have initially expect to see many special effect and like a lover caress it blow me away with the subtlety and the rightness of it brian i be again blow away with your artistry with the telling of the story and your care of the special effect you will go a long way my friend i will definitely be the president of your fan club.eric etebari the best actor award be the number one choice you make jr. lopez look like a child compare to kasadya overall the act story line the high quality filming and awesome effect it be fantastic i just wish it be longer i be look forward to the dreamless with extremely high expectation
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but it be kinda hilarious at least if you grow up on weird al like i do it a mockumentary about his life and career begin with superstardom and go back to trace the origin it uneven in place but some of the segment be still very funny particularly when he go to japan although it not quite a emotionally textured a lose in translation and he doesnt find love however fleet he do capture in a bottle the absolutely bizarre cultural melange that be tokyo street life.perhaps weird al isnt recognize a the insightful cultural commentator that he be perhaps a rise by any other name would smell just a sweet still this be a funny movie
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one of the two best film of the year a well film well write well put together film with an outstanding cast lau ching wan and his friend dayo wong chi wa anthony wong chau sun francis ng chun yu jordan chan siu chun cheung man tat have great chemistry before the film and their friendship show in their performance theresa lee play her comedic role well though much like a female version of michael wong her gag seem to be the foreign born chinese surround by native hkers and i find myself cheer for innovative explosive scene something i havent do since the fan boy take over alt.asianmovies and john woos hardboiled sure the end be expect but i feel well cheer for cop than a bunch of young gang member highly enjoyable
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i manage to see this at the new york international film festival in november with my boyfriend we be both quite impress with the complexity of the plot and find it to be emotionally move it be very well direct with strong imagery the visual effect be amaze especially for a short it have an original fantasy approach to a very real and serious topic this film be about a young girl who be visit by a demon offering to help her situation with her abusive father there be also a surprise twist at the end which catch me off guard this lean towards the gothic feel i would love to see this a a full feature film carrie
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why else would he do this to me not that i expect dean cain to produce hit movie or even decent movie i saw lois and clark i be aware of just how ... good dean cain is.obviously this be gon na be a cheesey flick and each cheesey flick have it own special way to make you scratch your head i will not call these spoiler a you cant really spoil this movie any more than it already is.to begin with ... why be that a fake helicopter i mean ... why how come that one scientist be from chicago and that other scientist be from la and neither one could be any more eastern european if they try how hard would it have be to get either an american actor or just change that lame state sheet the movie provide u with to say those people arent american why be there occasion when the movie give u a slug line we get helipadday and then mess hallday later on and then thats it who care about the timeline to be honest who care about it even when they mention it but i guess thats beside the point.does a movie really get good if you be able to view it through multiple split screen the answer be no.that dragon sure can walk down that hall .. over .. and over ... and over .... and over ... who on earth be responsible for one of the bad ending in film history it be straight out of scooby doo oh the dragon dead now ... say wan na get dinner sure but not at some chinese place .... with dragon in the name ah ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha i use to be superman aha ha ha ha ha fade to blackmy god it make me cringe it be so stupid.but never fear .. even though the whole building explode ... and no one be leave alive .. for some reason theres a second untouched unmanned lab that survive pretty well so they can make a sequel hurray for u all
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minimal script minimal character development minimal steady camera maximum stretch scene maximum headache induce jerky zoom maximum character walk around in the wood do nothing up until the time flash on the screen of pm you can fast forward and miss nothing since there be three hunter who we know nothing about do nothing to be fair the movie do have some string music that be interest so perhaps a music video would have be the way to go with this unfortunately that be not to be and what should have be a twenty minute short be stretch beyond belief forget about trigger man i know i be try to merk
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a wonderful film ahead of it timei think so in the eighty it be all about win greed be good remember that one i have see this film more that time to me this be a real desert island film i keep watch because there be always something more to learn about these flawed character that i just love jessica tandy and hume cronin be simply wonderfulalso beverly dangelo beau bridge come in at a close second dont get me wrong there be many more great performance in this film and it be also the way it be write that make it for me and i hope you a film that you will want to see over and over i think tv show like northen exposure and now earl owe a lot to this film but remember it be not a tom cruise film
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it get switch off before the opening credit have even finish appear the first joke be just so appallingly lame and dreadfully act that it have to go you shouldnt really decide to watch this base on my review or not i saw so little of it i shouldnt even really be comment but suddenly it all become clear why the video shop guy be snigger at u pay money to see it.couldnt they have just make earnest do dallas
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this be one of the more unromantic movie i have ever seen.casting richard gere be just too old look for romantic lead role anymore diane look a bit eager to please and frown as usual but she seem unconvinced by the romance herself support cast not too memorable.story the medical drama he have to deal with be unconvincing and be not interest the story be weak not enough happen to make a movie about there be nothing new to say or no new way to say it here the setting be a little bleak and the house it be set in be unattractive not destine to be a great one to remember
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only light spoiler in here steal sinatra be a halfslapstick comedy about dimwit kidnapper dimwit victim and a few other sidestories throw in to eat up some time.you will see some poor performance all around in this movie the drama be force and the humor make no sense whether youre watch the kidnapper threaten the victim who wont shut up or a victim father respond to the criminal death threat with care for some tea none of it be believable this quite comfortably fit into the wannabe movie category.you will also be listen to a repetitive goofy music track throughout pretty much the entire movie it quite unprofessional and add nothing it really just a sad attempt at make an achingly unfunny movie seem somewhat witty.however if youre able to look past all of this and suspend a lot of disbelief you might be entertain by the adequate storyline.i vote
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yes this be one of those movie so terrible so insipid so trite that you will not be able to stop laughing i have watch comedy good comedy and laugh less than my wife and i laugh at this movie the other comment give the idea well enough the character be so unpleasant you cheer the rat on the effect be so poorly do you wonder whose elementary school art class be in charge the act oh the acting talk about tired dialogue and embarrass pauses.but the rat yes the big rat why we didnt get to see the rat until the end rather surprise me often the big one isnt show until the end because the budget be limited and good effect chew up so much money i surmise however that in this case the big rat be hide until the end because the filmmaker be ashamed that the best they have be a guy run around dress up like a woodchuck with thirdworld dentistry.the most sublime part of the whole movie be the elevator scene after figure out that the rat couldnt stand loud noise migraine from the bad act the main dude rig up a fire alarm to send the rat into a frenzy if youve ever want to see a pair of rat waltz while blood squirt out of their head like a geyser this film be for you really you need to rent it and see for yourself.but not for more than ⢠ok
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well where do i begin my story i go to this movie tonight with a few friend not know more than the actor that be in it and that it be suppose to be a horror movie.well i figure out within the first minute what a poor decision i have make go out see this movie the plot be crap and so be the script the line be horrible to the point that people in the audience be laugh hysterically.the cast couldnt have be more plastic look even some of the scene seem like they should have be make much quicker ... like they drag on for no particular reason very poor editing.all in all this movie be a giant waste of time and money boo
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this be one of my favorite betty white and leslie neilson sparkle in this romantic comedy one be a business executive who reevaluate life base on the expectation of her death within a year the other be a playboy who have tire of golddigging young woman and seek a relationship with a vital mature woman if youve get silver in your hair and/or romance in your heart microwave the popcorn curl up with your honey and prepare yourself for a treat
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follow directly from where the story leave off in part one the second half which set about tell the inevitable downfall and much more grim side of the man legacy be exactly a such in direct contrast to the first feature part two represent a shift from che the pride and glory of a revolutionised country to cheâ—struggling liberator of a country to which he have no previous tie the change of set isnt just aesthetic from the autumn and spring grey of the woodland come a change of tone and heart to the feature replace the optimism of the predecessor with a cynical battered and uised reality align to an all new struggle yet a che would go on to say himselfâ—such a struggle be best told exactly a thatâ—a struggle while part one certainly help document that initial surge to power that the revolutionary guerrilla acquire through just that part two take a much more refined callous and bleak segment of ches life and ambition and give it an assertive portrayal that be both poignant and tragic in a tangible easy to grasp manner.while the movie tone in some regard do stray off and differ quite drastically from part one however there still remain that same document approach take a month ago that avoids melodrama and faication as much a possible this somewhat distant cold approach to tell ches story and struggle will no doubt turn some viewer off indeed i still remain reserved about whether or not the feature itself should have be name after one manâ—if anything the entirety of che take a a whole delivers a tale that go beyond mere biography and instead document a man struggle alongside those who help carry him along the way by no mean do soderbergh try to paint a humanistic portrait here akin to what hirschbiegel do with der untergang half a decade ago excuse the ironic contrast che be a slow moving reserve and meditative approach to tell a history lesson that just happen to be narrate by the one man who â–arguably conduct the whole thing.yet by move from the lush green landscape of cuba and retreat to the bleak decay backdrop of bolivia for part two the story do inevitably take on a distinctly contrast tone that doesnt feel too disjoint from it predecessor but do enough to give it it own reference point here the basic structure of part one be echo backâ—theres the initial struggle the battle the fall comrade and the recruiting of those to replace them all the while we see some glimpse of the man behind the movement yet a anyone with the vague idea of the actual history behind the feature will know part two be destine to end on a much more underwhelming and disquiet note this difference in combination with the similarity to part one make a compelling and memorable whole by all mean both could be digest one their own and kudos to soderbergh for achieve a such and enjoy a they be but take a one statement che delivers exactly what it set out to achieve.indeed everything that make part one the treat that it be one month prior be still evident here from the subtle yet engross performance from the central cast to the slow building realistically structure combat scenesâ—the drama inherent to the character on screen be just a vague and indiscernible but with a feature such a this part two once again prove that avoid such element dont necessarily hurt a film when there be enough plot and reflection on other element to keep the viewer engage in fact upon write this review i be at odds a to whether or not to simply add a paragraph or two to my initial review for part one and title the review a a whole yet i felt that to do so would only serve to disillusion those who may sit down to watch the entirety of both film consecutively.with that say i can not rightfully decree whether or not che hold up to the task of engage an audience for it sprawl four hour plus runtime but upon view both segment i can at least attest to each part ability to do just that with a reflective intricate screenplay combine with endlessly mesmerise photography and nuanced performance that do justice to the movie character without draw attention to themselves che part two be every bit a compelling and rewarding a it predecessor but this time with a tragic but uplifting reaffirming conclusion fit for the history page of film a review by jamie robert ward http //www.invocus.net
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sometimes it hard to be a pirate ............... but by golly miss jean peter have a lot of fun try and it showsparticularly during her first spot of friendly swordplay with blackbeard mr thomas gomez eminently hissable when the sheer joy of performing be plain on her face with fifty year of hindsight feminist seem intent on grab this movie a some sort of an anthem for the empowerment of woman in a male dominate society but i have serious doubt that either m.tourneur or miss peter have any such concept in their head at the time it be an excitingentertaining family film with absolutely no pretensionshidden meaning or alternative agenda.it be fun m.louis jourdan be both winsome and treacherous a her love interest mr herbert chapman be wise and philosophical a the wise and philosophical doctor.mr james robertson justice be just a tad unbelievable a the bosun but it be miss peter who stay in the memory.wilfully adolescentilliteratetough but vulnerablewonderfully agileand ultimatelycourageousshe be everybodys idea of a lady pirate there be a definite window of opportunity for her in feisty costume role that she do not choose to seize it be a matter of some regret
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i have never see a film by john cassavetes up until two year ago when i first saw the killing of a chinese bookie in a berlin cinema which i find interest to put it diplomatically but not so special i instantly want to see more of his work since then i tried with an emphasis on tried watch his other work shadow in particular i must admit it take me a a while before i actually enjoy the film at first the unpolished raw and improvised way cassavetes it be shoot put me off somewhat and i thought of it a an original absolutely but flaw and dated experiment but now upon review these little imperfection make it look so fresh even today.shot on a minimal budget of with a skeleton six person crew shadow offer an observation of the tension and life of three sibling in an africanamerican family in which two of the three sibling ben ben carruthers and lelia lelia goldoni be lightskinned and able to pass for white cassavetes demand that the actor retain their real name to reflect the actual conflict within the group but saw the film a be concern with human problem a oppose imply to racial one cassavetes shoot the film in ten minute take and jag edit a reaction against seamless hollywood production value cassavetes main inspiration at least in the cinematic style the film be shoot be the italian neorealists whilst also profess admiration for welles pioneer spirit the use of amateur and improvisation might resemble some of the italian neorealist director but with his bebop score by charles mingus an shafi hadi the film feel very different very american unlike anything make before really the song with the feathered girl i feel like a lollypop or something feel like light year back to me ancient history but no matter how date it might look it still make a delightful time capsule of late fifty new york today i think it this be one of the first film make aspire filmmaker realize they could shoot an independent film without hollywood improvise and without a real budget seymour cassel who act and be involve in shadow claim it be jules dassins the naked city that be the first and inspire them all but i think this be the one that really open the eye of aspire independent american filmmakers.camera obscura
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base on an actual story john boorman show the struggle of an american doctor whose husband and son be murder and she be continually plague with her loss a holiday to burma with her sister seem like a good idea to get away from it all but when her passport be steal in rangoon she could not leave the country with her sister and be force to stay back until she could get i.d paper from the american embassy to fill in a day before she could fly out she take a trip into the countryside with a tour guide i try find something in those stone statue but nothing stir in me i be stone myself suddenly all hell oke loose and she be catch in a political revolt just when it look like she have escape and safely board a train she saw her tour guide get beat and shoot in a split second she decide to jump from the move train and try to rescue him with no thought of herself continually her life be in danger here be a woman who demonstrate spontaneous selfless charity risk her life to save another patricia arquette be beautiful and not just to look at she have a beautiful heart this be an unforgettable story we be taught that suffer be the one promise that life always keep
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this pm entertainment production be lace with enough bullet to make john woo say enough already of course it isnt nearly as beautiful a woo can deliver but it get the exploitive job do in minute eric phillips don wilson be an undercover cop in the near future when his wife be frame for murder the governor by a team use a lookalike cyborg it be up to eric to clear her name wilson get to pull van damme duty a he play the heroic lead and his evil cyborg doppelganger why the academy fail to take notice be beyond me be a pm production there be ton of car chase explode car in the first minute and shoot out i particularly like the van that flip in midair before it even come close to touch an explode truck my other favorite bit involve a neighborhood girl come over to perfect her karate in don simulator it be merely a chance to show off some cheapo lawnmower man effect circa
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shallow grave begin with either a tribute or a rip off of the shower scene in psycho im lean toward rip off after that it get bad and then surprisingly get well almost to the point of be original bad acting and amateurish directing bog down a fairly interesting little story but the film already surpass many in the yankee come down south to get kill by a bunch of redneck genre because it be actually shoot in the south.a group of college girl head to ft. lauderdale for summer vacation and be waylay in georgia by a flat tire after get off the main road note to yankee stay on the highway when you go to florida sue ellen lisa stahl have to pee so she head into the wood when she finally find a good spot to do her business she witness the local sheriff tony march strangle his mistress merry rozelle to death note to yankee do not wander off into the wood when in the south not because you might witness a murder but you may run across a marijuana plantation this be the point where the story not the movie actually come close to be good.while tony march will never have to practice his oscar speech his sheriff dean become a creepy facsimile of a normal guy tear by what he have do and what he must do tom law be likable a deputy scott and be as authentic a southern deputy a ive see since walton goggins deputy steve naish in house of corpses.a few scene in the movie be worth the mention the girl stop at a bbq in south carolina and display their racism when a big black guy check them out sue ellen run into a barn to hide behind some hay bale and in a shockingly realistic moment a large snake be hide in the hay with her.and in the strange scene sheriff dean make like he about to rape patty carol cadby and tell her to take off her clothes dean have turn the radio up to drown out the noise of what hes about to do the preacher on the radio need to go back and read his bible his sermon be about how jezebel be save by the blood of jesus christ i feel sorry for this preacher flock jezebel be in the old testament a few thousand year before christ be bear and by no mean be she one of the five people you be go to meet in heaven
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although this film have have a lot of praise i personally find it bore there be some nice brasilian sunset and the character be believable but the story of how they interrelate even if very unusual by our standard be not interesting enough to sustain a movie this long the central woman take up with one man after another in a close knit way and put the interest of her child first a the tolerance of the various men be stretch we see their character develop the story unfold with dignity and aid by excellent act it be a rare glimpse into the brasilian hinterland far from the city but hardly exciting enough to keep one eye open for
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no mention if ann river siddons adapt the material for the house next door from her s novel of the same title or someone else do it this lifetimelike movie be direct by canadian director jeff woolnough have read the book a long time ago we decide to take a chance when the film show on a cable version of what be clearly a movie make for television you know that when the critical moment precede the commercial which of course one cant find in this version we watched.the films star be lara flynn boyle who sport a new look that throw this viewer a curve because of the cosmetic transformation this actress have go through from the new eyeows to other part of her body ms. boyle be hardly recognizable a col kennedy the character at the center of the mystery this be not one of the actress well moment in front of the camera that go for the rest of the mainly canadian actor that deserve better.the film have a feeling of a cross between desperate houswives with the stepford wife and other good know feature combine with a mild dose of creepiness the best thing about the movie be the house which serve a the setting
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meticulously construct and perfectly play to the end of the earth be a simply astonishing voyage out of our reality and into another age.based on william golding trilogy these three minute film chronicle the journey towards both australia and experience of youthful aristocrat edmund talbot benedict cumberbatch aboard an age man o war in the early th century a he head for a government position down under.among the crew and hopeful emigrant share his passage be a tempestuous bullying captain jar harris a politically radical philosopher sam neill a canny st lieutenant who work his way up from the bottom jamie sif and fleetingly the first ush of love in the form of a beautiful young woman joanne page whose ship literally pass in the night.quite aside from the astonishing degree of physical historic accuracy director david attwood and screenwriter tony basgallop and leigh jackson have a canny eye and ear for the manner and stiff etiquette of an early time craft a totally convincing microcosm of the napoleonic era.shipboard life be one utal monotonous round of seasickness squalor and danger after another and a edmund become entangle in the love hope and misery of his fellow passenger he experience a delirious whirl of lifes hardship man inhumanity and his noble sentiments.those who enjoy master and commander the far side of the world or patrick obrians series of novel on which it be base will love this â– for everyone else it a whole new world to discover
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wow this be really not that good i would like to agree with the others in that at least the acting be good ... it be but it be nothing special.the movie be so precictable and i for one be sick of receive culture info through movie
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i have to point out before you read this review that in no way be this a statement against iranian people ... if you really want to read something into it than hopefully you see that im against politician in general ... but if youre look to be offend ... i cant help you not in iran a this movie be ban there see imdb trivia for this movie which be a shame because the movie be great would it not be for grbavica this movie would have win at the international film festival in berlin.rightfully so it be the runnerup or second place if you will why because it be a movie about oppression it not even that this be a complete woman issue it be about the government try to keep the people down an analogy so clear that the government felt the need to ban the movie but by ban it nothing be resolve and/or can they make this movie disappear another reviewer have a great summary line comedy about a tragedy that sum it up pretty well
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i know little or nothing about astronomy but nevertheless i be at first a little sceptical about the plot of this movie it follow three child that be all bear during a solar eclipse and so have no emotion and thus naturally become ruthless serial killer the plot do sound ridiculous at first but once you realise that a solar eclipse block out saturn and a you know saturn be the emotion planet it all fall into place make complete sense and it then that you know you arent simply watch another silly s slasher with a pea ain plot thank god for that seriously though bloody birthday be base on a ridiculous premise but it more than make up for that with it originality have a bunch of kid go round slaughter people may not be the most ingenious masterstroke ever see in cinema but when give the choice between this and another dull friday the th clone i know what id choose.also help the film out of the hole that some people would think it silly plot dug it into be the fact that it extremely entertaining many slasher become formulaic far too quickly and the audience end up watch simply to see some gore this film however keep itself go with some great creepy performance from the kid which hark back to creepy kid classic such a village of the damn a constant stream of sick humour and a small but impressive for the type of film dose of suspense and tension one thing that i like a lot about this movie be the vast array of weaponry there nothing bad than a slasher where the killer use the same weapon over and over again cough halloween cough but thats not the case here a bloody birthday find room for everything from skip rope to bow and arrows there wasnt any room for a chainsaw which be a huge shame but i suppose not every film can have a chainsaw in it
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after many many year i saw again this beautiful love story think about how would i half a century after react to a film which make so many girl cry and sigh at that time when i be just an male adolescent try to understand woman behavior in a small city in brazil.this time however what catch my attention in the film be something very different namely the insistence with which the physician dr. han suyin jennifer jones make clear to the journalist mark elliott william holden her special ethically condition a an eurasian in fact she be constantly put emphasis on this point in their relationship repeat she be willing to assume her love for him and carry it on in a occidental way provide that by do so she be not betray her chinese side it seem to the spectator that suyin be eagerly make effort to establish a very subtle conciliation between those two unstable and opposite aspect of her culture for they will immediately engage in overt conflict in her mind at a minimum failure in her attempt to control them.therefore suyins attitude always leave poor elliott â– a determine ave and extremely practical man â– anxious and perplexed without know how much importance to give to her word for him whose love for her be plain and simple the situation be totally clear if we love each other let u make a couple and begin immediately a life together not so fast be what she seem verbally and nonverbally to answer him all the time.in fact suyins chinese portion would never allow her such a level of pragmatism and a she go on and on reinforce this much aim equiliium between those two world inside herself she also frequently signal to him that also a very peculiar trait of chinese culture be deeply root in her mind namely the constant raid on the real world by invisible being from an spiritual or nonphysical world for suyin be always alert elliott about how dangerous be life not because of any objective and concrete threat a would be the perpetuation of the english colonialism or the eminence of a japanese invasion but due to the threat of plenty of cruel and harmful god and other mystical and mythical being over the poor fearful and vulnerable human beings.in fact it look like a whole bunch of chinese deity be permanently on the watch to make people life totally miserable because of that mother must dress their precious male baby in girl clothes so that they be not take away by jealous god everyone should always be ready to make loud noise to send the cloud away in order to avoid their cover the sight of the moon peasant be advise that they should shout loudly the rice be bad the rice be bad to protect their crop from be steal by deity and in a funeral it be recommend that the dead family be isolate from the other people by curtain so that the god dont take advantage of their sorrow and fragility.in other word suyin introduces u to a culture in which the supernatural have a real existence a if a rather disturb pantheon of malign and sadistic god be always on the verge of negatively interfere with the most banal act in anyones daily life.as the story take place in hong kong in it should be clear that china really be at that time almost a semifeudal society while the country from which elliott have come from be not yet dominate by the fierce capitalism that launch by the usa after the first oil shock in take charge of the whole world therefore at least in one aspect both side of suyins eurasian personality be still much more innocent than they would be today.a lot of history come into be since those old day a to china the main fact be that after several phase of a communist regime the country finally reach in the last two decade the condition of a very aggressive economy much more properly describe a state capitalism and what happen to that old spirituality that so much enthral suyin in hong kong in and with which she use to impress so much an impassioned elliott under that tree on the hill behind the hospital it be go completely go in ief if that story take place today elliott would not find it necessary to go to china to propose to suyin in the presence of the third uncle and her entire family in fact both men would now be incomparably closer to one another in their huge pragmatism talk business a usual
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first and foremost i would like to say that before i watch this film i consider myself an accept individual someone that care about others appreciate others found no/barely any judgment against other people and this film have i think change my life or viewpoint dramatically when i watch it i didnt know particularly what it be about i know it be about some type of forbidden relationship but other then that i be clueless and a i begin to see what be take place between these two wonderfully depicted character i be in shock disbelief confusion and surprise the first time i watch it i be blind blind to their love to their intimacy to their connection to their pureness a human being to their relationship i watch it a second time because i finally figure out how hypocritical i be be say to myself and others oh i accept all type of people and try not to judge them while still judge this wonderful and amazingly insightful story because of my fear i suppose the second time i watch this film i open those eye of mine that have stay close the first time and really look not at the type of taboo relationship part that id hear about all my life but simply at two human being in love and i love it i love the storyline i love the slightly oken yet strong individual people in the film i love the sharing of feeling and i love the strong bond create it be a really eye open beautifully do film that make me cry at time and i hope that people who read this and be go to watch the film eventually remember that everyone deserve love no matter what shape or form it be present in ....
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz if imdb would allow oneword review thats what mine would be this film be originally intend only for kid and it would seem to be very tough go for adult or old kid to watch the film the sing the story everything be dull and wash outjust like this public domain print like other comedy team film with root in traditional kid story such a the awful snow white and the three stooge and the overrated babe in toyland this movie have limit appeal and just doesnt age well now that i think about it i seriously doubt that many kid nowadays would even find this film enjoyable so my advice be dont watch this film if you must watch an abbott and costello film almost any other one of their film except for a c go to mar would be an improvement
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once in a while a movie will sweep along that stun you draw you in awe you and in the end leave you with a renew belief in the human race from the artistry form this be not it this be an action movie that lack convince action it stink rent something else
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hard to imagine this film be base on a true story and how christy manage to accomplish the miracle be so heartstirring daniel daylewis be a chameleon really hard to imagine how much effort he have do to create this disabled character watch him on screen be a shocking and eathtaking experience.the movie be not so pessimistic a i think before the story be kinda ight and intriguing christy be not despise by the normal his life be also colorful and delightful although we can be aware of the loneliness and the painful fetter through his eyes.one important factor of christys success be his mother support which seem to be more touching and the unknown actress brenda fricker also deserve her oscar award for this role this fat little middleaged woman use her all to make christys dream come true so lucky for christy and hugh oconor be also excellent a young christy what a performance for a child the love story of christy be very welldone trustful christy want love and nothing can derive him of the right to love his crush on the beautiful dr. eileen cole surprisingly play by fiona shaw i be deeply impressed with her role in harry potter series the loathsome aunt petunia so her appearance in this role be really beyond my mind but anyway any woman have her own youth ... be paranoiac and offensive i do have sympathy for him love be a twoedged sword happiness and agony be just next to each other.btw jim sheridan work be all good in america the boxer etc except get rich or die try god know why he choose to direct that crap really a career taint for him what a pity
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im stun that the reviewer imdb give this tv film a a high a rating a they do it an innocuous sweet uncomplicated clichã© of a film that have two big name from the past in it both of whom do a decent job but this film reek of the low budget work we can see any day of week on the less cable channel i like a good romance as well a anyone but a my wife and i be watch thisand before we saw the ratingwe say there be people who be go to rate this film too highly simply because there nothing in it to challenge their ains their faith their comfort level or their cultural preference it possible to make a good film like that and away from her be an example but this be amateur hour there be some quite good film rat much low than this one truly another in a long line of woefully inadequate holiday film watch the family stone it mile ahead of this schlock
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do a title search on randolph scott and trail street be the one film miss from the list youve see one of film scott make at rko during his prime the others be always easy to get liberal kansa be just southwest of dodge city and be a powderkeg about to explode between the trailriders who drive the longhorn into trail street the town main street and the sodbuster who fee our belly itll take a strong man like bat masterson to step between the two group and ing the town to order more i wont say except that scott movie usually have just one pretty girl and this one have three randolph scott always play men you could look up to for their sense of honor courage levelheadedness and willingness to do the right thing fifty year ago parent could send their kid to a scott movie with confidence theyd learn positive value robert ryan costars in this film play a good guy for a change in real life ryan be one of the many world war ii hero who star in america movie how sad what we get these day george clooney teach our young that we ought sympathize with suicide bomber while steven spielberg teach there be no moral difference between the olympic athlete murder in in munich and the palestinian terrorist who kill them hollywood derive their moral compass from too much cocaine and too much commitment to the wacky left i wonder how all this play out in liberal kansa liberal after all be not a dirty word year ago when the city be name
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i go to see this one with much expectation quite unfortunately the dialogue be utterly stupid and overall the movie be far from inspire awe or interest even a child can see the miss logic to character behavior todays kid need creative story which would inspire them which would make them daydream about the event thats precisely what happen with movie like e.t and star war a decade ago how many kid imagine about become jedi knight and ignite their own lightsabers seriously dont waste your time money on this one
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sigh leave it to u finns to take a stupid idea blow it out of proportion and try to market it a cool lordi be a mediocre band at best and a single gimmick will get you only so far.to all you market idiot out there this be the reason for the inherent minority complex that be often encounter when finland try to export something.lordi isnt scary lordi be lame lordi be over.i want to apologize to the rest of the world for this plasticfaced idiocy sure they win the eurovision.no wait they win the eurovision thats it i rest my case
neg: 0.087, neu: 0.726, pos: 0.186, compound: 0.8787, 
after the high of darkplace it be never conceivable that holness and adobye would be able to create anything half as good a garth marengi yet i think that man to man in it own right be as good a show on the good episode a darkplace i cant argue that of the episode really arent that good but the other certainly make up for it if i have to pick great episode id go for formula driver steve pising pronounce pissing and the great garth marengi to already have a bit of understanding of the programme be a real plus a dean learner make many inside joke but even if you havent see much dean id recommend this a some of the rant he launch into be genius ie his argument with def lepord over their name all in all a great show which just miss full mark because of the couple of less funny episode
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i saw this movie in a theater while on vacation in pablo co. i have just quit my biomedical engineering job at a hospital i consider the script to be a exaggeration of the real type of stuff that go on in hospital the idiot that put it down on production value dont get the point and probably have never be hospitalize and never work in one for sure billy jack same era be very poorly produce but have a significant social comment and be a very good movie with a real social message.i have ever since be look for this movie this be the first site i have find where it get mention
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i catch this on television one day when i be young and love it in the s there be a bunch of lame comedy that try too hard to be be funny so it this be a nice surprise it one of the best comedy of the s and the definitive summer camp comedy thanks to murrarys excellent comedic performance which still stand a one of his great this be the film that really get ivan reitman notice a a director reitman prove with this movie that he be one of the most talented comedy director of all time while this film be hilarious and meatball be so bad that it fun meatball and meatball be absolutely dreadful recommend for those who enjoy stripe and ghostbusters
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the film design seem to be the alpha and omega of some of the major issue in this country u.s. we see relationship all over at the university set for the film befittingly the obvious of student v.s teacher be present but what the film add to it value be it other relationship male v.s female white v.s black and the individual v.s society but most important of all and in direct relation to all of the other relationship be the individual v.s himself i be amaze at how bilateral a point of view the director give to show the race relation on campus most film typically show the injustice of one side while show the suffering of the other this film show the injustice and suffering of both side it do not attempt to show how either be right although i would say the skin head be show a much crueler and vindictive quite obvious towards the end the film also discuss sex and rape it be ironically this injustice that in some way ings the two race together for a time lawrence fishburne do an overthetop performance a the sagacious profesor phipps he crumble the idea of race favortism and instead show the parallelism of the lazy and downtrodden with the industrious and positive other star that make this film be omar epps ice cube and jennifer connelly michael rapaport give an excellent portrayal of a confused youth with misplaced anger who be look for acceptance tyra bank make her film debut and prove supermodel can act.higher learn get it name in show college a more than go to class and get a piece of paper in fact i would say the film be almost a satire in show student interaction with each other rather than some dry book a the real education at a university it be a lifelearning process not a textual one i think youll find high learning be apropos to the important issue at many university and even life in general
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be rich ail elizabeth taylor court the angel of death on her island fortress in the mediterranean or be she just overreactingor more precisely overactingas usual actually both be applicable in director joseph loseys wander meander mess call boom appropriately title since temper in the lush luxurious set be nearly ready to explode richard burton climb taylor mountain uninvited she dress him in a samurais robe complete with saber though greatlooking in widescreen the picture be otherwise quite deadly a failure even liz n dickphiles should shun the star collective what the hell attitude to their lates film career reach an egomad nadir here pointless confused and maddening boom be a catastrophealthough screenwriter tennessee williams who adapt his own unsuccessful play the milk train doesnt stop here anymore be say to be quite fond of it from
neg: 0.156, neu: 0.754, pos: 0.09, compound: -0.9133, 
i cant even describe it it the bad movie ive ever see im be a nice guy when i call it movie .just another bigbudgetmadetosomeonewhodoesntliketothinkmuch.its not even scary it revolt when there be great movie that never reach the big screen and then come this ... thing to trick movie fan i guess big producer make whatever they want.just get a big producer hot chick allthough horrible actress and a ton of horror movie clichã©s and cook it for a week or so and youll get the nun.and i think bad boy be horrible
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the screenplay be the bad part of this film a it lurch from one premise to the next miss all the important bit that would have make a number of different story possible this film be confuse because the audience doesnt know what the story be i have no problem with the lowproduction value and the act wasnt great but this be telly so it be fine i dont mind if some scene look like they be do in one take but have such a nonsensical screenplay be completely unnecessary do any executive actually read it before fork out the cash avoid this at all costs.the prologue in particular be so poorly write it need a voiceover to fill in all the detail that have be leave out the prologue be rush it wasnt clear what be happen ie the russian revolution be reduce to some riot be happen in petersburg with the next scene be soldier arrest them i know the basic history of the revolution so i could fill in the detail those pesky communists the prologue be best ignored.this could have be a thoughtful study of a person who be confuse about who she be it set up this premise in the asylum it could then have her struggle to identify herself for the rest of the film no go the film assume she be who she say she be even though there be still no empirical evidence it set up a melodramatic romance a love so strong itll believe anything she say okay a soppy romance no because it make no sense the love interest seem like a crazed and incidentally sleazy lunatic burst out in wild gesture this also doesnt work because the film stupidly decide to tell the truth in the monologue at the end they never get married and she return to america the love story collapse despite there be plenty of love scene i be never convince of the reason that they be in love i find romcom romance more convincing despite there only be one or two scene which establish that theyve even spend any time with each other.it could have be a thrillertype thing where the film assume she be who she say she be and she struggle to prove her identity no the court case be sum up rather than deal with the bizarre voice over come back again to fill in the detail of a good film.the funny thing to consider be what really happen anna anderson be a loony who go to america and marry another loony and they do crazy thing together throughout her life she have bout of lunatic behaviour none of this in the film either theres a really annoying character in the asylum who crop up from nowhere and announce herself a a one flew over the cuckoos next/twelve monkeystype informant thankfully she vanish have ought nothing to the story
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lady and the tramp ii scamps adventure i think be a good movie but i think the first lady and the tramp movie be well because it be the original and i would think that the original movie compare to the sequeals be good lady and the tramp ii take off after the original but this time it junior turn lady and tramps youngster scamp always hat be treat with the thing that have to be do with him follow the rule in the house take bath all the time and take thing nice and easy scamp get angry and run away with a pack of dog that be leave off the loose scamp meet another dog call angel they both get along fine and do the thing scamp mother and father do have an italian meal spagetthi and meatball etc afterwards scamp realise that he be love by his family especial his pal which be the baby scamp come back and angel be join in the family i give this movie out of
neg: 0.042, neu: 0.761, pos: 0.197, compound: 0.9851, 
wow whats this on the video rental store shelf in front of me nothing other than a questionable sequel to mm it wasnt a very good sequel to a movie that have a very definitive end and an abundance of emotional depth far great than this movie.basically from the plot outline verbatim an american diplomat david huxley and his fiancã©e tish harrington venture into the sordid underworld of sex and pornography in budapest hungary to find out who be blackmail them with a porno video take of them with a prostitute risa the entire story be base around the various character who make up these various sex club and strip joint throughout the city the mystery be solve when in the end tish find out that the ransom money for the video and essentially later on in the story her fiancã©e which come out of her trust fund money be basically go back to her future husband a the story unfold til the bitter end.i didnt like how this have nothing to do with the original mm at all the only thing close to the original be the type of thriller that it be the fact that david end up with some kind of bondage contraption over him to keep him prisoner look like the kinky world of the first film and the fact that the entire movie have sex emblazon throughout almost every key scene otherwise it a totally different movie it make for a lousy love story even before the end be know which make the end more of a possibility because i didnt believe the word come out of david mouth the whole time but we be warn that he be a liar about most thing that might get him in trouble.there be ridiculous nude scene in most of the shock moment of the film which be try to stir emotion in the audience to cheer for tish to figure out the plot so she can leave this hellish sex debauchery i count at least ridiculously film sequence when there be nothing but sex to be show even the menu screen on the dvd be nothing but film with naked woman on it to make the dvd seem totally provocative.david be no heroic person throughout the film you could guess he be the main problem long before the end the actor who play each role be all new to me which might explain how they get so many of them to strip down to gain act respect there be plot hole how do david and richard finally impress tishs father by get the lease they want when david be so wrap up in this damn investigation to try and find a prostitute there be cheesy technology moment like the talk email program dress up like a bondage queen and a gay other character which do nothing but show how the director be try to get a joaquin phoenix knockoff to play this character the tag line feature on this profile for this video be complete bs too because it wasnt even about a last eath nobody really die but they do have a good car crash sequence that come out of nowhere ... but that be a good second long out of an hour and long movie.go rent and maybe buy the original it one of joel schumachers well and more original film it have everything well about it from this film i wouldnt recommend see this unless you want to compare apple to orange
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ok honestly i dont see why everybody think this be so great it really not there be two good thing that come out of this movie jack performance he be very good i can tip my hat for him dannys performance he be good no other then that it get pretty stupid and what be stanley kuick think draft shelly a the wendy she be so bad she look the same every time she get scar the problem with this movie be the end i would have have more respect for it if kuick would have end it differently and the over all movie be just stupid the problem with the movie be that the book be so much good so dont see the movie read the book and you will be much good off
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this episode have potential the basic premise of a woman live next door to an empty apartment but a phone that constantly ring be somewhat interesting and when she explore the noise there be genuine tension and fear but stupid script write ruin any promise the episode had.first of all the woman readily admit to see thing that would send most of u run in the other direction e.g it funny that the door slam shut even though there be no wind this door have serious damage to it that wasnt here a minute ago the door open by itself without me touch it etc. give these supernatural phenomenon plus the fact that a woman commit suicide in the room wouldnt she take some precaution before enter it maybe she could investigate in the day time or maybe she could investigate the apartment with somebody else or maybe she could turn on the light also while in the haunted apartment she decide to make numerous phone call to the operator and get into an argument over who have the power to disconnect the phone and then they begin discuss the detail of the suicide just unplug the phone the phone company doesnt need to be involve walk up to the phone and unplug it case closed.finally show the phone scamper across the floor like it alive be just comical if the director want the woman to get strangle by the phone card he couldve do it in a way that didnt look cartoony brave little toaster anyone
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the quality of this movie be simply unmatched by any baseball title of it time pam dixon anches out in the film industry to recruit bluechip prospect and make this work of art a mustsee academy award winner brenda fricker home alone lose in new york a time to kill ben johnson the last picture show red dawn and adrien brody the pianist the village amplify the atmosphere of the movie drawing in an anxious audience however the dramatic performance be neutralize by quirky radio oadcaster jay o. sander jfk the day after tomorrow .the story be centralize around a foster child upandcoming actor joseph gordonlevitt brick the lookout sidekick milton davis jr. deliver a tearjerking performance a the longtime friend who never know his parent the two dont have much but what they do have angel baseball and what they be seek identity thats when time emmy nominee danny glover lethal weapon predator come in to save the day a frustrated angel manager george knox in relation all character in the story seem to have the same mission search within themselves to find out who they really are.depressed over the fact that roger jgl be separate from his father he wish to god for reunification if the angel can take the pennant odds be astronomical but time emmy winner christopher lloyd back to the future my favorite martian come in a the omniscient overseer to work a little magic pun before you know it al lloyd be sit with roger in the stand snack on cracker jack and cause some of baseball big boner dorothy kingsley and george well dk oscar nominee gw oscar winner screenplay be do justice under the finger of mastermind william dear nominate in director guild of america he include a touching side story center around pitcher mel clark play by tony danza time golden globe nominee emmy nominee who in relation to all other cast member be just try to find his place in a confused anaheim clark have be dub a washup a once bigname in cinci but he have something to prove to manager knox.spoiling this nailbiting plot would simply be the equivalent to commit adultery in the th century this one be a diamond in the rough and it will keep you on the edge of the seat until all come to peace do i mention a cameo by matthew mcconaughey a time to kill we be marshall for all you ladies out there
neg: 0.055, neu: 0.827, pos: 0.118, compound: 0.984, 
i keep watch it because it seem like the plot be go somewhere when it ambiguously get there i be very disappointed im go to tell you what really happen in the next sentence but maybe i wont maybe ill just imply something will happen the writer lack any imagination this be not even a b movie it a make for tv b movie
neg: 0.073, neu: 0.842, pos: 0.084, compound: -0.064, 
the movie itself make me want to go and call someone so they could enjoy it too it be extremely funny angelena jolie be wonderful a juliet the parent be hilarious.they be caterer as well a enemies.the kid play the part of romeo and juliet in the church play.they fall in love and their parent try to keep them apart spoiler ahead i think they sneak off after a party and do it surprisingly they still want to get marry in the end of the movie if you dont like stereotype and the defilement of classic literature dont watch if you dont mind those you will have a blast watching this one
neg: 0.016, neu: 0.766, pos: 0.218, compound: 0.9733, 
if somebody want to make a really really bad movie wizard of the lost kingdom really set a yardstick by which to measure the depth of badness.start with the pseudochewbacca that follow around the main character ... some poor schmuck in a baggy white furry costume that look a if it be stitch together from discard piece of carpet work your way slowly painfully through more notsospecial effect that thoroughly deny the viewer from suspension of disbelief add a garden gnome just for the heck of it .on second think skip this movie entirely and find something else to do for an hour and a half
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a film for mature educate audience ... i saw random heart in an advance screen shortly before it north american release this romantic drama be quite a treat im sure this story will not be everyones cup of tea especially consider the film darkly downbeat premise but the pic have some very uplifting strong point in it favor.alltime box office draw harrison ford star war raider of the lose ark the fugitive air force one patriot game be at the top of his game a the harried and desperate internal affair officer dutch ford very subdue nuanced performance show quite the range he can achieve with class and determination in inging the audience into his world of loss betrayal this be the perfect complex role and very different type of film for harrison ford to grace the screen with between his action blockbuster next year harrison ford return to action first for director robert zemeckis forrest gump back to the future in his summer thriller what lie beneath and reportedly later in the year in the film adaptation of tom clancys the sum of all fear fear will be harrison ford third out a cia operative jack ryan.director sydney pollack out of africa the firm tootsie have a support role in this feature a a political advisor to scottthomas congresswoman it a very sharp energetic portrayal for pollack not only be sydney pollack a gifted director he be also one of the most believable natural and charming actor around see eye wide shut a well .kristin scottthomas the english patient the horse whisperer show that you dont necessarily have to be eccentric or worldly to be consider sexy this be one of her good film and she give a tremendously craft and mellow performance that work well opposite ford quietman toughness.the subplots work wonderfully especially the subplot involve ford character investigation into police corruption look for a chill effective turn by heat actor dennis haysbert who play detective george beaufort the obstacle to overcome in dutchs investigation into police corruption.the rest of the support cast be a wonderful delight charles s. dutton whose long overdue for a film lead role go to show that he be one of the best characteractors around and bonnie hunt who i find extremely solid in this production steal most of her scene with that wonderful charm smile a wendy judd.the technical side of pollack thriller be top notch from dave grusins pollacks the firm perfectly surrealfeeling jazzy score to philippe rousselot a river run through it crisp photography to the sharp editing that keep the film feel fresh despite the film unfortunate downer premise.i highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoy a good yarn of mystery wellpaced plot characterdriven story and romance all roll into one this be a terrific story about betrayal forgiveness it also feature one of the most surprising yet poignant and certain to be controversial ending for a harrison ford film in recent time random heart be definitely one of the good film of the year out of or out of
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for all of the hasbeens or never wa or for the curious this film be for you .... ever play a sport or wonder what it felt like after the light go down and the crowd leave .. this film explore that and more.robin williams jack dundee be a small town assistant banker in taft ca whose life have be plague by a miscue in a big rival high school football game year ago when he drop the pas that would have win over bakersfield their archrival that take great pleasure in pound the taft rocket season after season kurt russell reno hightower be the quarterback in that famous game and be the local legend that now be a van repair specialist whose life be fade into lethargy like the town of taft itself.williams get an idea to remake history by replay the game he meet with skeptical resistance so he go on a one man terror spree and literally paint the town orange yellow and black to raise the ire of the resident to recreate the game after succeed the player from that team reunite and try to get in shape to practice which be hysterical the game be on bakesfield be load with all of the high tech gadget game strategy and sophisticated training routine taft be draw play in the mud with stick stone and bottle cap what a riot do taft overcome the odds do robin willians purge the demon from his bowel do kurt russell rise from lethargy watch the best of time for one of the best viewing experience ever one of robin williams best understated performance the chemistry between robin and russell be magic and who be kid lester holly palance and pamela reed give memorable performance a the wife of williams and russell succeed on many level a
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this movie have to be one of the most boring and stupid movie that perrugorria have do it look like a commercial from begin to end the â¨directorâ¨spent the whole time on a tripod it doesnt have pace rhythm it illogical what a mess you can tell whats gon na happen since the first minute and the end ... wowspoilerjesus christ how the hell perrugorria get shot be you serious bad scene of someone get shot ever end of spoilerbad direct bad script bad acting ... really bad overall i wouldnt recommend this movie at all it a waste of money and time
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i first remember bump into this zaniness from the zucker others and jim aahams back in the early day at comedy central back in those day the s their programming consist of benny hill rerun and the original mstk complete with bearded host.capt frank drebin play by the stonefaced deadpan filibuster leslie nielson be a process create first from the amalgamation of various stereotypical police television show protagonists think dragnet meet starsky hutch the show boil in a flask full of wellknown police television show plot and scenario this be distil time to produce the most pure policeman every make forget about simon pegg in hot fuzz for now save it for later frank drebin be clueless at most time a terrible driver a terrible shot macho yet sensitive and vulnerable he be a master of the police investigative methodology a.k.a ask johnny the leathery old shoeshine boy this do not make him a bad cop cop get lucky also capt drebin notice hes a captain here have perfect it along with his partner nordberg and the rest of force perfectly parody the police drama over the course of golden episodes.the show be a treasure trove of hilarious dialog and quotable quoteables most of the sight gag be a bit dated and silly the magic never come from the sight gagshowever at it core be a nonsensical and straightfaced conversation and activity in the foreground with crazy thing occur in the background the movie can best be describe a minute compilation of the best gag from this series think of monty python and now for something completely different ..... if you like airplane naked gun or top secret then you will definitely enjoy this i always like the series well than the movie even though i saw the movie first why word no o.j
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a guy desperate for action attempt to hit on a gorgeous girl in a bus she refuse him but when he run after someone who try to steal her purse they get together anyway and there it start a relation that be slightly taint by the fact that she be a jealous and neurotic superhero it cant be a secret that thing between them be go to be problematic.in short a story that could promise to grow out into a cool film and imo it succeed at be a nice film it no masterpiece but it have me in tear from laugh on more than one occasion the two lead character twirl around each other in a crazy love fest that be even with the superhero thing go believable.so thin story but work out really funny and thus worthy of cinema time out of oken heart
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i think it be great one of my favourite film a a kid and who say there song be unforgettable they be mint i can still remember them now word for word the film remain a favourite with my family and my young cousin be now addict to it too they even know the song this film be great and a enjoyable film for kid it have a moral lesson so dont say it not good because it show how lying get you nowhere ill leave with a parting comment this film be amaze love me xxx p.s i would like the soundtrack but i cant and yes the animation be good the joke be humorous and the action never stops.this film will go down in childrens film history and in my opinion one of the only remain safe film to show child
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the film someone have to make.waco the rule of engagement dissect the evidence behind the standoff in waco texas that lead to the destruction of the branch davidian homestead and the alleged government coverup.the first thing you need to know about this film you will see ief but disturb photo of the victim body this be not do for shock value but to illustrate point about the way they die a if you be present at the coroner inquest.the second thing you should know about this film at two and a quarter hour it pretty ponderous especially if you already follow the event closely at the time if you be unaware of any of the event other than what be report in the mass medium or if the only side of the story you be familiar with be the official government report this may be essential view if on the other hand you want a more concise albeit unapologetically one side version of event you should see waco the big lie.in summary this be pretty much the definitive documentary about this tragic event and be very sobering but a a work of filmmaking could test your patience especially if you have a short attention span and it at time superfluous for those who watch the cspan hearing and the minute reports.perhaps someday someone will make a documentary that cover some of the stranger aspect of this story such a the bizarre chain of event that lead up to the atf raid or the psychological warfare tactic the fbi use blast rock music at the sect and their charismatic leader all rock musician themselves pick up their instrument and turn their massive amplifier outward to blast their own music right back at them
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what a good movie at last a picture reveal a unknown side of rock illusion of fame wellknown rocker be get old and forget not the music and with a good sense of humour have you ever dance on bill haley rock around the clock anyway still crazy be probably the best movie about rock nroll i have ever see far much good than spinal tap for instance why because in still crazy people be mature they have a different point of view about rock about love and about life they want to catch up with their crazy youth they miss so much beyond the story itself we see character with their own personality weakness and dream like anyone of us.spend a good time watch this listen to the awesome soundtrack and finally think of your own future.bye
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have it with the one who raise you since when you be young you just want her go from your life that woman be your mother you should respect her you should honor her whether shes in sick or well but that in time it can be aggravate especially when she become very overbearing thats how owen danny devito have to deal with in throw momma fron the train his momma anne ramsey be one of the bad he try his best to be a writer and she be everything but grateful call him a clumsy poop a larda and fat and stupid for his friend larry donner billy crystal he have his own woman problem his exwife she try to discredit him so what do owen do push her overboard what do he do help return the favor get rid of mrs. lift in the kitchen scene i like it where owen call larry cousin patty and momma say you dont have a cousin patty and owen shout you lie to me and el cabongs larry with the fry pan then come the fun part when they where on the train and try to kill momma lift that be thwart and she kick larry off the train well everything back to normal the exwife live but momma kick the bucket on her own maybe she should have see the error of her domineering way a fun movie it be and the cast be great a classic star
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yes it be a bit cheesy but it suspenseful and entertaining and one of my favorite there be some excellent actor in the film and they do a commendable job give the limitation of plot and character it interesting to see david soul in a bad guy role i think he be quite believableand rather chillingas the evermoreparanoid co. robert conrad be a longtime favoritei think he ings his character to life very well and sam waterston have be star quality in everything of his ive watchedmovies or tv i watch this movie every so often but our tape a vhs tv copy i get be such poor quality it difficult to fully enjoy it this be a movie i think they should put out on dvd maybe it wouldnt be universally seek after but im sure there be lot of people like me out there who like this sort of film so there would be a market for a dvd version ill keep hoping
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so it isnt an epic but for people experience anything similar sibling suicide it might be an interesting way of therapy animaginative narrative and some fine acting make it time wellspent for some reason it hasnt really catch on in the audiencesomething i do believe be a result of the main theme why do shecommit suicide clearly this be hardly something that usmoviegoers will flock to have it be an european production itprobably would have reach it audience in a much greaterextent it be however a movie that although the realism taint by ashimmering romanticize glow give the viewer a whole heartedimpression
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i absolutely love this film i be hesitant to watch it at first because i think it would be too painful i remember how hard it be when john be shoot however watch the two of u take me back to a happy time when he be still alive and there be hope and possibility i think that the writer do an amazing job depict what might have be aidan quinn be adorable a paul and meet the challenge head on i be impress with his accent and mannerism jar harris be also very talented and be quite believable a john my favorite part be the scene in the park and the rooftop scene which be so poignant the film leave me with both sadness and satisfaction both of which i feel be appropriate give the circumstance
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previous reviewer claudio carvalho give a much good recap of the film plot detail than i could what i recall mostly be that it be just so beautiful in every sense emotionally visually editorially just gorgeous.if you like movie that be wonderful to look at and also have emotional content to which that beauty be relevant i think you will be glad to have see this extraordinary and unusual work of art.on a scale of to id give it about an .. the only reason i shy away from be that it be a mood piece if you be in the mood for a really artistic very romantic film then it a i definitely think it a mustsee but none of u can be in that mood all the time so overall ..
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great premise poor execution cast of great actor be watered down into a poorly write poorly direct poorly edit waste of film only redeem quality be the numerous shot of the food.joan chen mercedes ruehl kyra sedgwick and alfre woodard should fire their agent
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have to agree that this movie and it talented director do not receive the plaudit they deserve here hop that the dvd will do very well and ing both to the attention of a wider audience the actor give excellent performance and the plot be excellent perhaps overall the movie be a little long but may mile thomas seem to enjoy her actor when they be give strong performance and therefore sometimes hold them in long close ups than necessary good for the actor i be sure but sometimes a the audience you be ready to move on so to speak with the plot may mile thomas deserves more recognition from the film business a one of our foremost digital movie director
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i have two reason for watch this swashbuckler when it air on danish television yesterday first of all i want to see gina lolloigida and here i wasnt disappointed she look gorgeous second of all through read about the film i have get the impression that it feature absurd humor not unlike that which can be find in philippe de broca film on this account however i be sadly disappointed i find the joke predictable apart from a few witty remark on the topic of war and the character completely onedimensional also the action scene be do in a strangely mechanical and uninspired fashion with no sense of drama at all i keep watch until the end but i get bored very quickly and just sit there wait for the scene with lolloigida
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this film be an abomination of all that be worthy in film make the lead actor surprise his audience by not actually act at all we have to watch almost two hour of his bland soulless face the joke be all lame i never laugh once it be saturday night there be of u have a beer all up for a laugh and then we put this on and you could feel all the warmth and colour be drain from the room the film end and the mood be ruin so we all go our separate way ruin the night ok so pros and con pro beautiful set in hawaii look good on bluray con worst act ever you can tell everyone concern be just think about payday predictable poor plot zero character development force joke which fall flat many shot of the guy penis which to be fair act well than him and have more charisma may all maker of this film hang their head in shame and hold their flaccid manhood cheap
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this be my first gaspar noe movie ive watch and i have to say i be shock i dont mind gore in generally but this isnt even gore it real butchering for some of you a couple of scene may be impossible to see and i mean really disgust leave aside these aspect the main idea reveal here and the dialog be quite illiant when you be give a strong argument against inging a new life into the world and the manner in which it be give you cant stop and take a minute to think about it the actor do their job well represent general mask of a handpick few people find at the bottom of a diseased society the movie be full of metaphor but ill let you figure them out dont watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time i recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema
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i agree with bigalc this movie actually prepare me for a lot of the cultural difference and practice before i go to live in japan for a year in tom selleck do a fantastic job here a always and the movie be greatly humorous and educational im a big fan of tom sellecks and he bless this part with his usual charm and charisma to this part inging the film to life in a way i cant imagine any other actor be able to pull off this film feature some firstrate japanese actor and it be highly entertaining to watch them a they interact with selleck i can imagine the fun he have during the actual filming of the movie japan an awesome place to go whether you want to party sightsee or just try to take everything in
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i laugh so hard during this movie my face hurt ben affleck be hilarious and remind me of a pretty boy jack black in this role gandolfini give his typical a performance the entire cast be funny the story pretty good and the comic moment awesome i go into this movie not expect much so perhaps that be why i be so surprised to come out of the flick thoroughly pleased and facially exhaust i would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoy comedy can identify with loneliness during the holiday and/or put up with the relative the best part to this film to me anyway be the subtle bit of humor that catch me completely off guard and have me laugh long after the rest of the audience have stop namely the scene involve the lighting of the christmas tree go see it and have a good laugh
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although i live in australia in i move overseas not long after feed up with constant industrial unrest the general worship of mediocrity unless one be a sportsman and the complacency of so many australian who choose to ignore the eakneck pace of change take place in country to their north consequently i miss the dismissal along with many other australianmade tv drama of the s and s such a the superb janus and phoenix series which i have since see along with wildside.to me the filmed story of the dismissal be fair and as far a i be aware accurate however a to public outrage it only show one side of the picture not how family be rive by the controversy i know a my two others would not speak to me for month afterward but the commentary be in my view very onesided throughout the inescapable fact be that notwithstanding fiery expression of rage from a substantial proportion of the community the australian electorate chose and choose decisively in favour of fraser a they do again two year later this apart a historically accurate and superbly well acted docudrama
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i may be a good old boy from virginia in the confederate state of america but this man do it for me that mustache get me rile up i remember when i first saw a video of his that girl he beat be amaze the depth of his act when they cut to his weathered facade be a new level of masculinity it remind me of the granite sculpture of our mt rushmore if i could ask him one question it would beif you be a hotdog would you eat yourself will orhan be do a reunion tour take note from the great like gordon lightfoot true music from the heart never fade away vive la john denver gracias my friend o.f.f.l orhan fan for life
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i never want to see this movie again not only be it dreadfully bad but i cant stand see my hero stan laurel look so old and sick.mostly i cant stand watch this terrible movie frankly there be no reason to watch this awful film the plot be just plain stupid the actor that surround stan laurel and oliver hardy be really really bad and laurel and hardy have be funnier in any of their early film i warn you dont watch it the image will haunt you for a long while to come
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the problem be the role of the character in the film man to man show a british anthropologist kidnap two pygmy and take them to scotland and then realise that they be not animal or subhumans but actually equal to himself the problem be the role of the pygmy in the film two people who be kidnap treat like animal and yet give such a shallow stereotypical role within the film ... the kidnapper itish anthropologist end up be the hero of the film because he manage to relate to the pygmy ... no notion of how the two hostage feel of their point of view of their ordeal ... i find it be a shallow film with a one side fundamentally racist view ... it never manage to move away from the white man view
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life begin and end in a typical s maternity recovery ward where we view hour in the life of several high risk pregnant woman play by loretta young glenda farrell clara blandick aunty em vivienne osborne dorothy tree and gloria shea a they await to give birth while the film feature plot device which seem far fetch today when maternity ward be much more controlled and restrict it do offer u a look back in time to see what give birth in a typical city hospital in be like for our grandmother and greatgrandmothers i find the film fascinating and exceptionally moving.oddly enough the most outstanding performance in this film come from a male cast member young eric linden a jed sutton grace loretta young husband what an actor a a first time father jed be distraught and uneasy with hospital staff who seem to ush off his concern about his wife a they might ush crumb off a cafeteria table i felt his every concern keenly id like to see more of this actor work he have a very emotional voice which be use to unforgettable effect in go with the wind in that film eric play the young soldier whose leg be amputate without anesthesia who scream dont cut dont cut a scarlett flee the hospital in horror chill another great performance be from aline macmahon who play miss bower the nurse her character be a salt of the earth type the kind of nurse we all hope to get for our hospital stay who eaks the hospital rule constantly in order to show a more humane side of the medical profession.loretta young do another superb act job here as well a very authentic and deeply felt performance a grace my she be great in these precodes ive really grow to appreciate her more a an actress the last few months.glenda farrell play her role of a shrill unwed mother a little over the top for my taste didnt anyone know back in that swig andy from a hot water bottle might be hazardous to unborn baby health but her character redeem herself in the end.also in the cast be an uncredited gilbert roland silent movie star a a grieving italian husband his screen time be ief but notable.life begin be a mustsee precode try to catch it sometime on tcm but remember to ing a few hanky to cry into out of
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this be a great film touching and strong the direction be without question eathless good work to the team i feel so sorry for marlene by the grace of god go you or i
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i think the manuscript of this movie be write on the piece of toiletpaper no respect whatsoever to many important detail which intrinsically make the movie for example the name of some serbian terrorist that i remember be caradan maldic ivanic loyvek and leo hasse what kind of name be that certainly not serbian by the way caradan maldic what a name i laugh for day think about it probably an implication on karadzic and mladic secondly there have never be any case of terrorism do by serbian a journalist like the main character ought to have know that thirdly the actor play serbian terrorist be not even serbs nor do they speak serbocroatian all this aside this movie be solidly act but the story be paperthin and full of hole at time it make no sense whatsoever
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criticism do mention spoiler i rarely make user comment but this be one movie i have no problem slander this movie stink and it mediocre of rating of and a half star be probably too high for such pulp the bone collector be not at all the same calie of film that silence of the lamb or seven be despite what it ad claim this be a perfect example of how not to make a thriller the pace of this movie be extremely slow i actually leave for about minute halfway through and come back at the exact scene with the exact same character with absolutely no progression i refer to you the part where angelina jolies character debate denzel about cut off a corpse hand the movie be not at all scary but try to compensate this with a lovesubplot albeit sexy angelina jolies character and denzel washington of course what you get be something comparable to that of the mentorstudent relationship a see in the illian epic silence of the lamb with hannibal lecter and starling however even this lack all effectiveness and i be personally rout for the villain to kill denzel off so a to avoid hackneyed giggle between the two with such a crappy movie i be halfexpecting a plottwist or some sort of spectacular situation to occur at the end to give the movie some credit thing that mediocre movie like arlington road and scream pull off anybody with a th grade education can see the end how will be resolve a situation which mimicks alfred hitchcock rear window the cliche of have the killer explain his motif be uninspired enough but the reason be so ridiculous and stupid it have me spew latte over the screen esoterically speak i even think the murderer intention be completely lose a denzel happily recovers from his loss over the proverbial chess game and get with his pet project angelina.if you be a fan of movie with original idea and genuinely dynamic concept like i be you will not appreciate this film if you have not attend a single movie in your life and would like to catchup on every single hollywood cliche ever bear the latenight knock on the window from somebody else but the murderer the ridiculous serialkiller to prime investigator relationship the horrible woman try to get by in an allmale dominate workforce aka sotl see this movie .... but even then it too slowpaced and youd be bore
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possible spoiler perhaps i must say that cinderella ii dream come true be one of the bad movie ever make first of all the movie be make during the height of disney sequel rampage it be create around the same time a the little mermaid ii the jungle book ii and peter pan ii all of which be disservice to their original film classic disney also make the hunchback of notre dame ii and atlantis ii but im go to drop that topic because their original movie be never really classic in the first place let me go ahead and say that i be an avid supporter of good disney film and i absolutely adore the original disney cinderella the sequel to cinderella however be a waste of time the character of cinderella in the sequel be so very unlike the original girl that i grow up watch in the original cinderella be kind and love the new cinderella have very outofcharacter moment with currentera phrase like im go to do this banquet my way let me also tell you that new cinderella a i have affectionately name her say ewww that be the anticinderella i try to find the best in people but in the sequel anastasia one of the stepsister be good what the heck why they make it all out to be like lady tremaine and drizella be just horrible family member for poor little anastasia my question to the world do the people at disney watch the original cinderella when make this sequel well it surely doesnt seem so if i remember correctly anastasia be just as abusive to cinderella a drizella and lady tremaine i be all for redemption and forgiveness but there be no point of redemption for anastasia in this movie in the first one anastasia be evil in the second one she be good one just cant leave a story like this i hope disney realize that this movie among other movie be sham walt disney name perhaps now that michael eisner be go thing will start shape up around the house of mouse
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hopefully the score have change by now due to my illiant and stun review which persuade all of you to go and watch the film thereby create an instant chorus of s this movie true score.as mention before chris rock be the king previous to go to see this movie i wasnt that over the top about him but now im bang on the door of chris rock website beg him to take me on a his protege this film be truly funny if you dont find this movie funny you really need therapy and it humour which target all area of society include race predictably class division love wealth employment dream stand up comedy ... the list go on.there be one slight disappointment for me however this be that in go into this film i didnt realise that it be actually a remake of heaven can wait another quite good movie make in with warren beatty a such i be quite surprised when i watch this movie and suddenly the plot begin to unravel to be distinctly similar to an old movie i have watch on tv a few week ago .. regardless this movie be in my opinion the good version out of the two of them simply because of the different area it cover and the fact that chris rock be funny than warren beatty any second of any day of any week of any year of any ... you get the picture.well to the actual plot of the film.dont spoil the experience for yourself dont read the plot just go and watch a movie because there have be two review on imdb so far that have rave mad about it go see it because it be the funny thing you would have see in a long time go and see it because it a cinema experience that doesnt leave you grumble ad nauseum at the cost of cinema ticket go see it because it be a good movie
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formula movie about the illegitimate son of a rich chilenian who stand to inherit a fortune and get mixed up in the affair of bad guy and fall in love with a beautiful female lawyer vargas it look very much like a tv movie not really excite the only reason i bother to see it be because valentina vargas be in it no real surprise here though it be nice to see vargas great look chilenian landscape on display but malcolm mcdowells part be very small and doesnt add much to the movie michael ironside play a usual a bad guy but this be not one of his most memorable part the chase scene be standard fare
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whatever rating i give boom be only because of the superb location photography of sardinia and rome otherwise this be only for hardcore addict of elizabeth taylor her downward phase and richard burton his miscast phase tennessee williams write the milk train doesnt stop here anymore and be suppose to be very fond of this adaptation of his playbut apparently he be the only one taylor reportedly hat it and burton need the money.whatever it amount to a hill of bean with taylor posturing and fuming in her shrill manner explode at the servant and exchange bad babytalk with no less than noel coward who seem to be a visitor from another film when he finally appears.its so campy that among taylor fan it probably consider a must see kind of thing but if you can sit through this one without a drink in your hand youre way ahead of me sadly this be the film that signify the end of taylor be take seriously a a film actress even after win two oscar for burton it be equally disastrous and the critic call it a bomb judge for yourself if you dare
neg: 0.118, neu: 0.804, pos: 0.078, compound: -0.835, 
viva la bam this jackass spin off focus on the obviously scripted adventure of bam margera and his pal johnny knoxville brandon dicamillo etc this show while it have it fair share of grossout comedy and crazy stunt focus mainly on bam torture of his parents.im sorry to say this bam but ... youre in no way as cool a you think you be this ego trip show be not only painfully unfunny and yes i like jackass but also narcissistic beyond belief the overly stylize intro end with bam coolly explain that hes go to do whatever the f he want to how about you do something that be actually funny i like jackass for what it be worth the camerawork be horrible any idiot could have make a good show with a camcorder in their parent garage but at least the show move at a steady pace and never felt bore between the crazy dangerous or simply disgust stunt the pal performed.not so with viva la bam we follow our hero around a he play prank on his friend and torture his relative but never do it feel like anything else than really lame and scripted comedy the stunt and prank be mildly entertaining but present in such a tedious and dull fashion that they can barely make you smile.viva la bam be a poor spinoff of that do little good but feed margeras already too big ego i dont recommend this lame and unimaginative show to anyone
neg: 0.189, neu: 0.625, pos: 0.187, compound: -0.6878, 
i have never hear of larry fessenden before but judge by this effort into write and direct he should keep his day job a a journeyman actor like many others on here i dont know how to categorize this film it wasnt scary or spooky so cant be call a horror the plot be so wafer thin it cant be a drama there be no suspense so it cant be a thriller it just a bad film that you should only see if you be a fan of the blair witch project people who like this film use word like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they be read into something that wasnt there like the blair witch people get scared because people assume they should be scar and buy into some guff that it be terrify this movie actually start off well with the family meet the local after hit a deer it look like be a modern day deliverance but then for the next minute well over half the film nothing happen the family pot about their holiday home which be all very nice and dandy but not the slight bit entertain it be obvious the local would be involve in some way at some stage but essendon clearly have no idea how to build suspense in a movie finally when something do happen it not even clear how the father be shot how he die the nurse say his liver be only grazed and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently track down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with rd grade special effect the film be call wendigo but no attempt be make to explain it in any clear way the film end all muddle and leave you very unsatisfied i would have bail out with minute to go but i want to see if this movie could redeem itself it didnt
neg: 0.131, neu: 0.743, pos: 0.127, compound: -0.5589, 
schlocky s horror film ... ya get ta love em in contrast to todays bore slasher flick these ktel special actually do something scary and do not resort to a tire formula.this be a b movie about the making of a b movie ... that go horribly wrong faith domergue this island earth star a an overthehill b movie queen make a movie about a series of grisly murder that befall a family in their home her boyfriend/director who look and act like gordon jump with an attitude be film on location and on a tight schedule the ken doll costar discover a book of tibetian chant that they work into the script to add realism unfortunately realism be something they could have do without.john carradine have long since give up look for the th gland the unearthly now eeks out a humble existence a the caretaker for the estate he go about his daily work but always seem to run afoul of the director.the horror build slowly a dead cat here john carradine enter a grave there finally culminate in seven yes seven murder at least there truth in advertising it just sad that the ghoul didnt understand that there be a movie be make above him how be poor faith to know that those darn tibetian chant would actually work face it you just cant go around tug on satan coat and expect him to take it lie down.sterno say perform an autopsy on the house of seven corps
neg: 0.15, neu: 0.788, pos: 0.062, compound: -0.9812, 
i suppose for this film be suppose to be cool but look back now year it charm be just as silly a it entertainment value grant the special effect do well on t.v with the series that start in but for the big screen i once have a fish tank that be equally a excite i must agree about the octopus scene near the end where it attach itself to the seaview obviously not well stag ... or trained overall it pretty bad act with shoddy special effect and i still do recommend it for fun laugh sake this be probably one of irwin allen big film and i think he think a lot of it barabara eden go on to play genie on t.v micheal ansara be her husband now that be a cool part about this film i always enjoy see real life husband and wife team star in the same movie neat
neg: 0.034, neu: 0.651, pos: 0.315, compound: 0.9955, 
this be one of the fine film to come out of hong kongs new wave that begin with tsui harks zu warrior of magic mountain tsui set a tone for the new wave approach to the martial art film that pretty much all the director of the new wave jackie chan sammo hung wong jing ching siu tung etc accept from then on a a give namely the approach to such film thenceforth would need more than a touch of irony if not outright comedy burn paradise put a stop to all that and with a vengeance.its not that there isnt humor here but it be a purely human humor a with the aged buddhist priest at the beginning who somehow manage a quick feel of the nubile young prostitute while hide in a bundle of straw but this be just a human be not even buddhist priest can be saint all the time.when irony be at last introduce into the film it be the nasty possible emanate from the abbot of red lotus temple who be a study in pure nihilism such a have never be record on film before he be the very incarnation of milton satan from paradise lose well to rule in hell than serve in heaven and if he cant get to satan hell soon enough hell turn the world around him into a living hell he can rule.thats the motif underscore the utal violence of much of the imagery here it not that the abbot just want to kill people he want them to despair to feel utterly hopeless to accept his nihilism a allencompassing reality thus theres a definite sense pervade the red temple scene that there just might not be any other reality outside of the temple itself it have become all there be to the universe and the abbot claim mastery of infinite power be in charge.of course fortunately the film doesnt end there though there be loss the human will to be just ordinarily human at last prevails if you want to know how see the film yet there be no doubt that in view this film we visit hell hopefully we do not witness our own afterlives but we certainly feel chasten by the experience and somehow well for it over all
neg: 0.155, neu: 0.748, pos: 0.098, compound: -0.9886, 
now i dont hate cheap movie i just dont see why you should waste any money for a movie you could shoot with your dad camcorder if i rent a movie i want it to be a movie not a bunch of people think it would be a good idea to waste some minidv tapes.maybe i hate this one so much because the guy in the video store say it be great and it wasnt maybe i hate it because it cheap have the dumbest plot ever the most unrealistic character ever and the really really really bad showdown in the history of film ever even tom savini cant save this.seriously this one be a complete waste of time
neg: 0.171, neu: 0.731, pos: 0.099, compound: -0.8877, 
a fabulous book about a fox and his family who do what fox do that be steal from farm and kill prey until a trio of farmer decide theyve have enough of this fox and try in various way to have the problem solve they be of course out fox at every turn and while the trio be camp out at the fox hole the family perform raid against the three farmer land.thefilm version and i use the term film very loosely be more of a god awful pastiche of american heist movie particularly the ocean movie they they even have george clooney a mr fox to to add to the insult and manage to miss the point of the story quite completely so kudos to them .theyll make lot of money and destroy another classic roald dahl child book
neg: 0.135, neu: 0.789, pos: 0.076, compound: -0.8597, 
as soon a it hit a screen it destroy all intelligent life form around but on behalf of it producer i must say it doesnt fall into any know movie category it deserve a and new denomination of it own it a neurological drama it sadden and depress every single neuron inside a person ain.its the close thing one will ever get to a stroke without actually suffer one it drive you speechless all you member go numb your mouth fall open and remain so and the most strange symptom of all be that you get yourself wish to go blind and deaf.no small feat for such a sort of a movie.the only word that come to my mind just have finish my ordeal be outrage
neg: 0.167, neu: 0.771, pos: 0.062, compound: -0.9506, 
for a film make in senegal base i guess loosely on carmen the book by prosper merimee this film doesnt achieve a mere resemblance of the story that have be make famous a an opera and a other films.ms gai a the karmen of the title be very good to look at her fiery dancing smolder the screen a be the case with her torrid love scene at the beginning of the film.this be a karmen that aim to please to all gender but a real carmen she be not we would like to see ms. gai in other film in which her talent be well use than here
neg: 0.037, neu: 0.857, pos: 0.107, compound: 0.8091, 
this be a very noir kind of episode it begin with jim return from a weekend trip with a new girlfriend the recently divorce karen mill pat delaneydaughter in law of john huston who know a few thing about noir film and her daughter when they arrive karen go in the house while jim pick up her daughter from the back seat and carry her up to her room he then discover karen have disappear without a trace of course he call dennis and when the police arrive they see no sign of karen but find her next door neighbor murder in the bush so of course that make jim an immediate suspect.this be a great little mystery and the first half of the story be show by rocky ask jim to go over the story once again rocky suggests that by jim tell him the story he might remember a little detail that he didnt think be important at the time but now might lead to a clue a to what happen it a really well write scene and complete the transition of the rocky character from a grifter to a concerned parent it also go a long way to show that rocky isnt just some clueless old man either a he say you come to me because im your father and im smart than you this be one of those time where we see where jim get his smarts.this episode also feature an appearance by hottie lara parker who play angelique in the dark shadow series and go on to play laura banner bruce wife in the incredible hulk series a few year later she look terrific here.this episode also mark the first mention of the minette crime family a name that would keep pop up on the rockford file almost whenever they need a mob family this time it vincent minette who rockford help apprehend.lt diehl tom atkins make his first appearance on the series and dennis be quietly demote from a police lieutenant that he be on the early season one episodes to a police sargent i guess they figure it would be good to have dennis less powerful and add some conflict between jim and the police frankly they be right though i prefer the late lt. chapman to lt. diehl not a lot of the typical rockford humor in this episode but a good mystery with a lot of heart
neg: 0.042, neu: 0.852, pos: 0.106, compound: 0.985, 
the royal rumble have traditionally be one of my favourite event and ive be a wrestling fan for a good few year now the other show may have good match but ive always find the actual rumble match to be full of excitement.im not go to reveal the winner of any match a i dont see it a fair to ruin the result on a review i will comment on the quality of them though.we have the standard match and then the big rumble event two from smackdown and two from raw.shawn michael and edge open up for raw this prove to be a good match from two talented guy this be a match id recommend watch it hard to sum up without give away the winner.next we have the usual undertaker against some big nasty monster be whoever it be giant gonzales yokozuna kamala ... well this time it heidenreich it also a casket match typical undertaker fare watch if youre a fan i have to admit i be purely for the entertainment factor it can hardly be regard a a classic wrestling match.the next two match be the title match for once smackdown manages to upstage raw their title match be pretty thrill and enjoyable but with a anticlimax and let down to end it raws match be a pretty dull and boring affair which be a pity a im a fan of both guy involved.now to the main reason i love the event the rumble it a pretty good one this year come up to the event we all have a pretty good idea of who might win and it may not prove a big surprise but hey it very enjoyable there be the usual diverse way of people be eliminate there be the token guy who doesnt make it to the ring the entrant who be ridiculous and we all want to see vanquished and someone get eliminate by a previously eliminate combatant it have it usual high and low and i love the end in particular the vince mcmahon entrance.id recommend this show not the wwe on top form but it still good add it to your collection
neg: 0.059, neu: 0.709, pos: 0.232, compound: 0.9978, 
i remember this in a similar vein to the young one wed stumble back from the pub and watch this or tape it and then spend week replay the line to each other.we call one of our mate zipmole watkins after the illiant episode in which daniel peacock have a bit of restyling on his nose by the back street abortionist.lots of great line remember at in the morning you can only get white ead from a own man take it easy guy gandhi a a local shopkeeper.tony woodcock be definitely on there in the episode they be teach ralph daniel peacock to be a barman it no good amanda ill never make it a a bar man helen lederer teach him to ask people about the match see the match last night i think woodcock play well after a string of failed conversation the curly haired arsenal star be sit at the bar see the match last night yeah i think i play wellwe still do odd stupid line now reg and ralph ..... or ....... ralph and reg reg reg ... reg reg reg reglots of very surreal silly moment and very surreal song from the flatlet the back street abortionist a personal favourite with the great end line and hell mark your package return to sendergood old danny peacock you add a lot to some young drinker evening sir update i find a couple of episode on tape im go to upload the gandhi sketch to youtube
neg: 0.068, neu: 0.845, pos: 0.087, compound: 0.5381, 
destine to be a classic before it be even conceptualize this game deserve all the recognition it deserve at a time when firstperson shooter like quake iii arena and unreal tournament be garner all the attention of computer gamers graphic adventure be a die eed with great pun and humour the curse of monkey island be a game that people of all age group would enjoy life can only improve after play the curse of monkey island prediction the sequel escape from monkey island be already destine to be a classic too i guarantee it
neg: 0.092, neu: 0.703, pos: 0.205, compound: 0.8834, 
stephane audran be the eponymous heroine of this beautifully measure study of a small danish community towards the end of the last century two beautiful and musically talented sister giveup their own prospect of happiness and marriage in order to lookafter their age father one day a french woman babette come to work for them after some year she win the lottery and be determine to do something for the sister who have take her in her solution be to prepare an exquisite and sumptuous feast which change the life of all those invite this be a film about human and cultural interaction reflect in the changing language of the dialogue from danish to french and especially between the dutiful soiety of protestant northern europe and the sensuousness of the catholic south it be also about human need and how warmth and kindness can be express and stimulate through the cultivation of the sens a profoundly uplifting film
neg: 0.0, neu: 0.802, pos: 0.198, compound: 0.9872, 
this movie be way overhyped a lot of the viewer who think this be amaze must have be into the old school movie cause the whole movie be set in the past at first i think the movie be just show something from the past so i be expect that fade dreamy like light on the character to pass but it just go basically this be a movie try to mix the future with the past and the dont mix very well in this movie even with special effect you could actually see the blue screen the actor be work with there be too many movie out there that do exactly what this movie do so there be no reason for critic to hype this movie up say it the great movie ever do it just crap on a stick it also didnt help that the story line be sooo crappy i dont understand why hollywood agree to have this movie produce and i also dont understand how actors/actresses in this movie be willing to be in a movie like this it almost a though everybody read the script and forget to read the fine print ... it will all be do on a computer this be a movie that should have be on a movie network because nothing about this movie be revolutionary im very upset with myself for pay money to see this whatever you do dont waste your time and money on this movie today or tomorrow
neg: 0.096, neu: 0.817, pos: 0.087, compound: -0.3549, 
it be incredible that there be two film with the same story release in this one come out a day before that other one with tom cruise didnt they do that with truman capote the same year and the zodiac killer last year interesting.writer/director david michael latt didnt have steven spielbergs budget and c. thomas howell be not tom cruise this be a pale imitation of the blockbuster that gross million worldwide.the action be minimal and most of the time we be treat to the whining of rhett giles who play a pastor that be give up on his god.gary busey be creepy a an army lt
neg: 0.078, neu: 0.847, pos: 0.075, compound: -0.0772, 
i dunno sometimes ... you try and try and try to be charitable towards all the b thru z grade movie out there but once in a while a particular movie just test your patience until you want to slap everyone involve bat people which i saw under the title it live by night be just such a movie you cant watch this without think that it really should have be an episode on night gallery and not one of the good one either the movie have something to do with a doctor who get bite by a bat and consequently start to morph into a werebat who drink human blood actually youd think if he be turn into a real bat hed be eat mosquito by the gallon bucket but because this be a cheap lurid horror movie blood the word in spite of the fact that he have grandmal seizure at the drop of a hat and blackout episode almost every night his friend and fellow physician dr. mustache aspenextreme insist that he just have an allergic reaction to the rabies shots meanwhile the world most obnoxious and stereotype county sheriff suspect the doc of be responsible for the utal murder and exsanguination of several local girl and one wino also meanwhile the doctor wife decide that denial be a river in egypt and alternately patronize him and nag him to distraction it not so much that the acting be bad you can tell that the actor be make professional level choice and be try to ing some juice and life to the script even the guy who play the sheriff okay it be pretty bad but it bad in a clichã©d wooden professional way it just that everything about the act the way the scene be pace the costume the dialog the script and the story line in general set your teeth on edge and make you want to well slap everyone involved.i think the movie have an outside chance at be a spooky unsettling little cult favorite but the director need to beat michael pataki an experienced character actor with a chair until pataki agree to act and not just channel dennis weaver he also need to find a script that make a little more sense with regard to the whole bat bite human who then turn into a bat scenario he also need the actor who play the doctor to find a little more physically believable bit of stage business for his episode instead of resort to man have a seizure page from the little golden book of clichã©d act mannerism he need to rework the whole wife character make her both more intelligent less shrill and waaaaay more observant i would never voluntarily watch this film again except with the help of mike and the bot it bad but it isnt bad in a silly humorous or interesting way still well than battlefield earth or waterworld though
neg: 0.105, neu: 0.781, pos: 0.114, compound: -0.5086, 
big fat liar be what you get when you combine terrific write great production and an emphasis on clever idea over adolescent pap the two star work great together andwhat can i say amanda bynes shine put irkel and lee major in the film be illiant touch watch this film with your kid if you dont laugh throughout it you must not have be pay attention
neg: 0.077, neu: 0.73, pos: 0.193, compound: 0.8545, 
tim robbins and john cusack be two actor i have appreciate throughout their career and that be the only reason for choose to watch this movie well all i can say be i totally regret it these two great actor humiliate themselves all the way through by perform a number of irrelevant unimaginative and kitch to the extreme not that this be bad on it own sketch that be suppose to make people laugh but fail to do so the only reason i can think be that the director be their friend and they decide to support his movie by star in iti cant think of anything else because this movie be so cheap fortunately tim robbins and john cusack havent disappoint me ever since i would recommend you to avoid this film unless you want your opinion about the two actor spoil
neg: 0.084, neu: 0.767, pos: 0.149, compound: 0.829, 
on watch this film i be amaze at how medium perception can mould a person opinion of a celeity karen carpenter be a carefree but very unconfident young lady whose wonderful voice help her and her other richard to soar the chart with wonderful song a with all celeities of today they be often criticise about their music as well a their look style etc this have a huge effect on karen who rag a battle against her eating and drastically lose weight which eventually cause her death this heart felt film be not initially something which i would have think of watch but on start to view it then i be hook in the same way that the tina turner story do then this film enlighten you and allow you to see into the young performer life the acting be superb and even after nearly year after it be make then the directional and the dialogue be still entertaining.i would recommend this to anyone who hasnt yet watch it it be amazingly accurate and emotionally charge
neg: 0.072, neu: 0.721, pos: 0.206, compound: 0.9847, 
nothing be sacred just ask ernie fosselius these day everybody have a video camera and a movie be hardly out before the spoofs start fly quickly write and shot and often post directly to the internet spoof be hot these day and we go out of our way to make sure filmmaker dont get off on their own selfimportance year ago when the first star war be make it be a different world filmmaking be the playground of a select few and spoof be very rare then god give u hardware war it be shoot to look cheap or be it just cheap and the audio be obviously record after the fact do that take away from the experience heck no thats what make it so great it be raw and unpolished and hit relentlessly on some of the more pretentious moment of the original movie from fluke starbucker wave around a flashlight instead of a lightsaber i do that when i be young to chewchilla the wookie monster to auggie ben doggy nah just a little headache remark this film short be as much a part of the phenomenon a any of the actual star war film rent it buy it borrow it from a friend and may the farce be with you always
neg: 0.085, neu: 0.85, pos: 0.065, compound: -0.6117, 
i hat it i hate selfaware pretentious inanity that masquerade a art this film be either stupidly inane or inanely stupid after the first half hour i fastfowarded through the dvd version and saw the same juvenile shennanigans over and over and over i become angered that i have spend hardearned money for sophomoric claptrap tint drivel in sepia or blue do not make something a movie let alone art
neg: 0.192, neu: 0.808, pos: 0.0, compound: -0.9371, 
i usually try to be professional and constructive when i criticize movie but my god this be the bad movie i have ever see bad act bad effect bad script bad everything the plot follow a group of teen cliche on their way to a rave that take place in oad daylight at a remote island however when the group arrive all they find be an empty dance floor and bloody clothes determine to find out what happen to the rest of the partygoer the clan set off on a mission through a zombieinfested forest during this crusade they be aid by a police chick and a sea captain that just happen to have the right number of weapon to give to each of the kid they also meet up with jonathan cherry and some other survivor basically the rest of the movie be a collection of poorly direct action sequence include a far too long shootout outside of the house of the dead this fight come complete with cheesy hollywood violence redundant clip from the hotd video game and sloppy matrixesque camera rotations one of the character even volunteer to sacrifice himself to save the others why not because he be noble and ave but because part of his face get scar by acid a zombie spat on him after he continue to beat the creature long after it have be disable im suppose to feel sorry for this guy to sum it all up there be absolutely no point in see this movie unless you want to see for yourself just how terrible it be the theater i be in be more dead than the zombie on the screen and im sure the money i waste see this piece of sh t could easily cover the cost it take to make it grade f
neg: 0.183, neu: 0.755, pos: 0.062, compound: -0.9943, 
if you like me be go to see this in a film history class or something like that at your school try to convince your teacher to see something else believe me anything be good than this movie it be slow pace confuse bore poorly construct gory gringy do i need to go on it message be good but i have see them be handle well in several other film the act isnt even any good this movie be just even more awkward a it start off a be funny not intensional though because of it surreal story than at the end just become uncomfortable to watch.i honestly feel like hour and minute of my life have be rob why would anyone want to watch a girl describe a threesome for minute than watch them drive through a traffic jam for minute listen to a hippie who can make sheep appear witness a sort of rape than see the female lead role eat her husband.honestly this movie deserve nothing but a and if your not happy with my previewseriously im an open mind guy and i like movie that protest through symbolism but this movie be just awful make any excuse you can to avoid this film
neg: 0.148, neu: 0.737, pos: 0.115, compound: -0.9214, 
this be like a zoology textbook give that it depiction of animal be so accurate however here be a few detail that appear to have be slightly modify during the transition to film handgun bullet never hit giant komodo dragon it doesnt matter how many time you shoot at the komodo bullet just wont go near it the best way to avoid be eat by a giant coa or a giant komodo dragon be just to stand there the exception to this rule be if youve be tell to stay very still in which case you should run off until the komodo be right next to you and then you should stand there expect defeat minute of choppy slow motion footage behind the credit really make for enjoyable watching be a memory enhancement tool and an ample substitute for lose your boat license/getting arrested member of elite army unit dont see giant komodo dragon come until they be within one metre of the oversized being maybe the computergenerated nature of these dragon have something to do with it when film a news story aim on expose illegal animal test a reporter and a cameraman with one camera be all the gear and personnel you will need sound gear a second camera microphone etc be all superfluous when you hear a loud animal scream and one person have a gun he should take it out and point it at the near person when you take a gun out the sound of the safety be take off will be make even if your finger be nowhere near the safety reporter agree to go halfway around the world in order to expose something without have the faint idea what theyre expose background research and vague knowledge be out of fashion in modern journalism handgun hold at least bullet in one clip and then more than that in the next clip despite that those with gun claim that they will need more ammo expensive camera also remember that the reporter only have one camera be regularly leave behind without even a moment hesitation or regret these camera amazingly manage to make their way back to the reporter all by themselves the blonde girl really be the stupid one the same girl that say not to go into a house because a komodo dragon can easily run right through it thus make it unsafe take a team into a building make of the same material for protection and nobody say a word about it hightech facility look like simple office with high school chemistry set geneticallymodified snake grow from normal size to foot long in a matter of a day but dont grow at all in the week either side the military routinely destroy entire island when people dont meet contact deadline men with gun dont necessarily change the direction theyre shoot when their target be no longer right in front of them instead they just keep shoot into the air the good look you be the great your chance of survive giant creature womens intuition be reliable enough to change even the most stubborn of mind any time youre be hunt by giant creature be a great time to hit on girl half your age animal noise be an appropriate masking noise for swear at the same volume old israeli and russian plane be regularly use by the u military
neg: 0.09, neu: 0.855, pos: 0.055, compound: -0.8762, 

Converting all Polarity scores and sentences into a dataframe.

analyzer = SentimentIntensityAnalyzer()
df['rating'] = Text.apply(analyzer.polarity_scores)
df=pd.concat([df.drop(['rating'], axis=1), df['rating'].apply(pd.Series)], axis=1)
### Creating a dataframe.

df.head()

	Text	neg	neu	pos	compound
1	one of the other reviewer have mention that af...	0.171	0.760	0.069	-0.9898
2	a wonderful little production the filming tech...	0.049	0.767	0.184	0.9711
3	i think this be a wonderful way to spend time ...	0.102	0.673	0.225	0.9748
4	basically theres a family where a little boy j...	0.131	0.803	0.067	-0.9080
5	petter matteis love in the time of money be a ...	0.052	0.800	0.148	0.9744

Arranging the dataset in descending order based on (Compound score) to find the most important sentence from the given data.

imp_sent=df.sort_values(by='compound', ascending=False)
## arranging the compound column in descending order to find the best sentence. 

imp_sent 

	Text	neg	neu	pos	compound
411	i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony ...	0.080	0.609	0.311	0.9997
567	few would argue that master animation director...	0.043	0.735	0.222	0.9995
211	i have just give a for thief highway i mention...	0.090	0.638	0.272	0.9993
364	the plot michael linnett connors have do every...	0.020	0.815	0.165	0.9992
944	a film for mature educate audience ... i saw r...	0.069	0.675	0.256	0.9991
...	...	...	...	...	...
323	if only i have read the review by alex sander ...	0.191	0.718	0.091	-0.9980
825	mexican werewolf in texas be set in the small ...	0.203	0.720	0.076	-0.9981
247	this show make absolutely no sense every week ...	0.365	0.583	0.052	-0.9986
457	oh my goodness i would have never think it be ...	0.208	0.710	0.082	-0.9989
766	this film cant make up it mind whether it mess...	0.261	0.636	0.102	-0.9989

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print(df['Text'].iloc[410] ) # sentence with index 410 has the highest compound score 
                             # and hence it is the most important sentence among all the sentences.

i firmly believe that the best oscar ceremony in recent year be in for two reason host steve martin be at his most witty i saw the teamster help michael moore into the trunk of his limo and ill good not mention the gay mafia in case i wake up with a poodle head in my bed surprise winners no one have adrien brody down for best actor genuine applause or roman polanski for best director genuine jeer and boo but they win last year award ceremony wasnt too bad but there be little in the way of surprise and i be happy to see return of the king sweep the award even if it wasnt the best in the trilogy fellowship be much good but what let the bbc coverage down be jonathan ross get a few of his sycophantic mate round and pretend they be hilarious when they be anything but so when i hear sky be do the coverage for british tv i be expect barry norman and mark kermode to be do the link but instead we end up with jamie theakston and sharon osbourne oh gawd if british tv be desperate for film critic obviously they be im sure both bob the moo and theo robertson will happily fly over to la to give their honest opinion on the winner and loser chris rock wasnt too bad but hes no steve martin while the location seem to resemble a sport hall with seat put in not much of a glitzy arena in my opinion the main problem i have with the ceremony be the format with the minor oscar hand out to the winner who be sit in their seat theres no such thing a a minor oscar and just because the award be for best animate short or best costume design theyre a well deserve a best picture or best director all the winner should be allow to march up to the podium what a bunch of arrogant snob the academy be become and i quite agree with the comment that this format be disgraceful and if it wasnt for the surprise this could possibly have be the bad ceremony in history a for the award themselves best support actress cate blanchett no great surprise for a competitive category best support actor morgan freeman no real complaint since freeman be one of america great living character actor best actor jamie foxx most predictable award of the night yawn best actress hilary swank major surprise since everyone think annette benning be go to win simply down to academy politics but swank do deserve it and give the best speech of the night best director clint eastwood major surprise since everyone think scorsese be go to get the award simply because hed never win one actually im glad about this because if he didnt deserve it for taxi driver rag bull or goodfellas he didnt deserve it for the aviator best film million dollar baby again another major surprise since everyone think the academy would split the award for best director and best picture while i think the hollywood friendly plot of the aviator would have make it a dead cert for best picture while mdbs controversial subject matter would have turn a lot of voter off what these award perhaps illustrate be that this year the voter have decide to ignore oscar politics and genuinely give out award to people who deserve it something they havent do in the past i mean a beautiful mind beat the fellowship of the ring for gawds sake and long may the academy vote with their head instead of their heart

Finding top positive sentence in the data.

pos_sent=df.sort_values(by='pos', ascending=False)
## Arranging the dataframe by positive column in descending order to find the best postive sentence.

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161	mystery men have get to be the stupid film ive...	0.100	0.449	0.450	0.9890
10	if you like original gut wrench laughter you w...	0.100	0.524	0.376	0.8910
382	this film be pretty good i be not too big a fa...	0.034	0.627	0.339	0.9944
322	i have watch this movie countless time and nev...	0.000	0.666	0.334	0.9827
540	ok im italian but there arent so many italian ...	0.029	0.646	0.325	0.9975
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340	i find the critique of many imdb user a little...	0.128	0.865	0.007	-0.9628
997	i hat it i hate selfaware pretentious inanity ...	0.192	0.808	0.000	-0.9371
756	a wellmade runofthemill movie with a tragic en...	0.118	0.882	0.000	-0.7906
836	the story have be tell before a deadly disease...	0.055	0.945	0.000	-0.4497
414	a rating of do not begin to express how dull d...	0.386	0.614	0.000	-0.8316

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print(df['Text'].iloc[160] ) # sentence with index 160 has the highest positive score and is the most postive. 

mystery men have get to be the stupid film ive ever see but what a film i think it be fabulous excellent and impressive it be funny welldone and nice to see ridiculous super hero for a change and be able to pull it off this be great ill definitely watch it again

Finding top negative sentence in the data.

neg_sent=df.sort_values(by='neg', ascending=False)
## Arranging the dataframe by negative column in descending order to find the best negative sentence.

neg_sent

	Text	neg	neu	pos	compound
414	a rating of do not begin to express how dull d...	0.386	0.614	0.000	-0.8316
737	baba rajinikanth will never forget this name i...	0.366	0.608	0.027	-0.9960
247	this show make absolutely no sense every week ...	0.365	0.583	0.052	-0.9986
282	after a very scary crude open which give you t...	0.331	0.614	0.055	-0.9906
555	if you watch pulp fiction dont see this movie ...	0.298	0.646	0.056	-0.9794
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608	this film be quite simply illiant the cinemato...	0.000	0.921	0.079	0.7577
470	although the plot of this film be a bit farfet...	0.000	0.732	0.268	0.9545
865	this film take you on one family impossible jo...	0.000	0.788	0.212	0.8655
702	i enjoy watch this well act movie very much it...	0.000	0.741	0.259	0.9531
246	i have see this film at least time and i be st...	0.000	0.714	0.286	0.9432

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print(df['Text'].iloc[413] )# sentence with index 413 has the highest negative score and is the most negative sentence 

a rating of do not begin to express how dull depressing and relentlessly bad this movie be

sentences=df

Giving threshold values to classify if a given sentence is positive, negative or neutral in nature.

#Assigning score categories and logic
i = 0

predicted_value = [ ] #empty series to hold our predicted values

while(i<len(sentences)):
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## The threshold value will categorize if a given sentence is positive negative or neutral in nature.        

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df['Target'] = predicted_value 
## A new column has been created called as 'Target' with sentiments assigned to a given text.

df.head()

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1	one of the other reviewer have mention that af...	0.171	0.760	0.069	-0.9898	negative
2	a wonderful little production the filming tech...	0.049	0.767	0.184	0.9711	positive
3	i think this be a wonderful way to spend time ...	0.102	0.673	0.225	0.9748	positive
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5	petter matteis love in the time of money be a ...	0.052	0.800	0.148	0.9744	positive

Removing/dropping the 'neg', 'neu', 'pos', and 'compound' columns.

df.drop(['neg','neu','pos','compound'],axis=1,inplace=True)
## Dropping the neg, neu, pos, and compound columns.

df
## Final dataframe with sentiments.

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1	one of the other reviewer have mention that af...	negative
2	a wonderful little production the filming tech...	positive
3	i think this be a wonderful way to spend time ...	positive
4	basically theres a family where a little boy j...	negative
5	petter matteis love in the time of money be a ...	positive
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998	i usually try to be professional and construct...	negative
999	if you like me be go to see this in a film his...	negative
1000	this be like a zoology textbook give that it d...	negative

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df['Target'].value_counts()
### There are 568 positive, 369 negative and 63 neutral columns present in the dataset.

positive    568
negative    369
neutral      63
Name: Target, dtype: int64

cat_cols=['Target']
le=LabelEncoder()
for i in cat_cols:
    df[i]=le.fit_transform(df[i])
df.dtypes
### Label Encoding the target column.

Text      object
Target     int32
dtype: object

df['Target'].value_counts()
## Label encoded value_counts()

2    568
0    369
1     63
Name: Target, dtype: int64

df

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1	one of the other reviewer have mention that af...	0
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998	i usually try to be professional and construct...	0
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# Vectorizing training data. 
tfidf = TfidfVectorizer() 
X = tfidf.fit_transform(df['Text'])
Y = df['Target']
## Applying Tf-Idf vectorizer on the Text column.

X_train,X_test,Y_train,Y_test=train_test_split(X,Y,test_size=0.2,random_state=40)
print(X_train.shape,X_test.shape,Y_train.shape,Y_test.shape)
### Splitting the dataset.

(800, 16177) (200, 16177) (800,) (200,)

Logistic Regression

log_reg = LogisticRegression().fit(X_train, Y_train)

#predict on train 
train_preds = log_reg.predict(X_train)
#accuracy on train
print("Model accuracy on train is: ", accuracy_score(Y_train, train_preds))

#predict on test
test_preds = log_reg.predict(X_test)
#accuracy on test
print("Model accuracy on test is: ", accuracy_score(Y_test, test_preds))

Model accuracy on train is:  0.9175
Model accuracy on test is:  0.65

from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifier
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
from sklearn.neighbors import KNeighborsClassifier
from sklearn.svm import SVC
from sklearn import metrics
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, auc, confusion_matrix, roc_auc_score, roc_curve, recall_score

Decision Tree Classifier

DT = DecisionTreeClassifier().fit(X,Y)

#predict on train 
train_preds2 = DT.predict(X_train)
#accuracy on train
print("Model accuracy on train is: ", accuracy_score(Y_train, train_preds2))

#predict on test
test_preds2 = DT.predict(X_test)
#accuracy on test
print("Model accuracy on test is: ", accuracy_score(Y_test, test_preds2))
print('-'*50)

#Confusion matrix
print("confusion_matrix train is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_train, train_preds2))
print("confusion_matrix test is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_test, test_preds2))
print('Wrong predictions out of total')
print('-'*50)

# Wrong Predictions made.
print((Y_test !=test_preds2).sum(),'/',((Y_test == test_preds2).sum()+(Y_test != test_preds2).sum()))
print('-'*50)

# Kappa Score
print('KappaScore is: ', metrics.cohen_kappa_score(Y_test,test_preds2))

Model accuracy on train is:  1.0
Model accuracy on test is:  1.0
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confusion_matrix train is:  [[285   0   0]
 [  0  53   0]
 [  0   0 462]]
confusion_matrix test is:  [[ 84   0   0]
 [  0  10   0]
 [  0   0 106]]
Wrong predictions out of total
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0 / 200
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KappaScore is:  1.0

#fit the model on train data 
RF=RandomForestClassifier().fit(X_train,Y_train)
#predict on train 
train_preds3 = RF.predict(X_train)
#accuracy on train
print("Model accuracy on train is: ", accuracy_score(Y_train, train_preds3))

#predict on test
test_preds3 = RF.predict(X_test)
#accuracy on test
print("Model accuracy on test is: ", accuracy_score(Y_test, test_preds3))
print('-'*50)

#Confusion matrix
print("confusion_matrix train is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_train, train_preds3))
print("confusion_matrix test is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_test, test_preds3))
print('Wrong predictions out of total')
print('-'*50)

# Wrong Predictions made.
print((Y_test !=test_preds3).sum(),'/',((Y_test == test_preds3).sum()+(Y_test != test_preds3).sum()))
print('-'*50)

Model accuracy on train is:  1.0
Model accuracy on test is:  0.635
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confusion_matrix train is:  [[285   0   0]
 [  0  53   0]
 [  0   0 462]]
confusion_matrix test is:  [[ 23   0  61]
 [  0   0  10]
 [  2   0 104]]
Wrong predictions out of total
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73 / 200
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#fit the model on train data 
KNN = KNeighborsClassifier().fit(X_train,Y_train)
#predict on train 
train_preds4 = KNN.predict(X_train)
#accuracy on train
print("Model accuracy on train is: ", accuracy_score(Y_train, train_preds4))

#predict on test
test_preds4 = KNN.predict(X_test)
#accuracy on test
print("Model accuracy on test is: ", accuracy_score(Y_test, test_preds4))
print('-'*50)

#Confusion matrix
print("confusion_matrix train is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_train, train_preds4))
print("confusion_matrix test is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_test, test_preds4))
print('Wrong predictions out of total')
print('-'*50)

# Wrong Predictions made.
print((Y_test !=test_preds4).sum(),'/',((Y_test == test_preds4).sum()+(Y_test != test_preds4).sum()))
print('-'*50)

Model accuracy on train is:  0.7125
Model accuracy on test is:  0.55
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confusion_matrix train is:  [[116   0 169]
 [ 15   3  35]
 [ 11   0 451]]
confusion_matrix test is:  [[13  0 71]
 [ 1  0  9]
 [ 9  0 97]]
Wrong predictions out of total
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90 / 200
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Support Vector Machine

#fit the model on train data 
SVM = SVC(kernel='linear')
SVM.fit(X_train, Y_train)

#predict on train 
train_preds5 = SVM.predict(X_train)
#accuracy on train
print("Model accuracy on train is: ", accuracy_score(Y_train, train_preds5))

#predict on test
test_preds5 = SVM.predict(X_test)
#accuracy on test
print("Model accuracy on test is: ", accuracy_score(Y_test, test_preds5))
print('-'*50)

#Confusion matrix
print("confusion_matrix train is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_train, train_preds5))
print("confusion_matrix test is: ", confusion_matrix(Y_test, test_preds5))
print('Wrong predictions out of total')
print('-'*50)

# Wrong Predictions made.
print((Y_test !=test_preds5).sum(),'/',((Y_test == test_preds5).sum()+(Y_test != test_preds5).sum()))
print('-'*50)

Model accuracy on train is:  0.94375
Model accuracy on test is:  0.695
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confusion_matrix train is:  [[279   0   6]
 [  7  14  32]
 [  0   0 462]]
confusion_matrix test is:  [[ 39   0  45]
 [  2   0   8]
 [  6   0 100]]
Wrong predictions out of total
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61 / 200
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